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Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna try. And welcome to the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Best Friends Forever. I am Frank Standfeld. Greg Sussman out
Speaker 1: doing activities. Sorry, he'll be here soon. It is Thursday,
Speaker 1: March seven. Shout out to my dad, my birthday Dad.
Speaker 1: I know your home watch. So there you go, Thursday
Speaker 1: March seventh. Uh, you're gonna have fun show here, can
Speaker 1: have fun show obviously h talking. We're gonna wrap up
Speaker 1: the relief picture position. I know some people last week
Speaker 1: we're asking us about holds, categories and some relief pictures
Speaker 1: that you can target there, so we'll do some of that.
Speaker 1: We'll also talk to Virginia zakas of inside injuries, get
Speaker 1: some updates on Luis Savarino, obviously the latest there, and
Speaker 1: then the rest of the show, we're really gonna talk
Speaker 1: about some of those injured players and how they're being
Speaker 1: valued thus far through I mean, we have a lot
Speaker 1: of ADP data, so we'll see where a lot of
Speaker 1: those injured players are going, what we expect from them
Speaker 1: this year, when they're gonna return, how they're gonna return,
Speaker 1: what they're gonna contribute, a whole bunch of stuff going on,
Speaker 1: and with that I will come in. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: the Fantasy best Friends Forever Here the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Frank's Happy Birthday, to the Dawn, to your father, appreciate
Speaker 1: you watching. Did he make the Fantasy basketball playoffs? He's
Speaker 1: gonna make it. We're in two leagues together. He finishes
Speaker 1: one of the top seeds and one of them and
Speaker 1: finished last place in the other one. So listen, he
Speaker 1: went to championship. Well worth it, you know it will be.
Speaker 1: And that is the more expensive league anyway, So all right,
Speaker 1: it's one of that. That's that's the one that matters
Speaker 1: more of course. Uh so, yeah, So on the show
Speaker 1: that I Frank mentioned it, we'll talk to between Zaka
Speaker 1: is inside injuries. We're actually gonna do a whole hour
Speaker 1: on guys that are injured and where do you draft
Speaker 1: them because we always are so hesitant, right like, we
Speaker 1: stay away because we don't know how to deal with
Speaker 1: this and a lot of the times makes sense, I
Speaker 1: get it, but some of the times you're getting a
Speaker 1: nazed discounts on these guys. So we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: look at some where some of these injured guys are
Speaker 1: going and see what we can do. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of the injured guys, um. But I wanted to start
Speaker 1: almost where we left off yesterday, frankief you didn't mind
Speaker 1: and relievers, Like we did a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: that get saves and the quantity, and we made it
Speaker 1: through all the ones we wanted to. Shockingly like, we
Speaker 1: did a really nice job over the two hours going
Speaker 1: over all the relievers. But we also got some breaking news.
Speaker 1: It is rosel To injured, removed from the lineup today
Speaker 1: dealing with side soreness. General left side soreness. Removed from
Speaker 1: the line of today. Alex Bregman, another one removed from
Speaker 1: the line up yesterday, was dealing with a back injury.
Speaker 1: So the Houston Astros here we go. I think it's
Speaker 1: a it's a great day to talk about injuries because
Speaker 1: now we're getting even more Greg so mosel To already
Speaker 1: a guy that I was kind of avoiding. I don't
Speaker 1: know about you. I did this little right up for
Speaker 1: Fantasy Pros where they asked a bunch of experts. That
Speaker 1: would be me. I'm an expert. Um ask you know who,
Speaker 1: who's a player going in a hitter going inside the
Speaker 1: top third hitters? Oh, you were avoiding and why? And
Speaker 1: my pick was and my reason was, I don't think
Speaker 1: that he's going to run as much as he has
Speaker 1: before last year, basis in each of his last six seasons.
Speaker 1: I just if he's not gonna give you thirty store
Speaker 1: basis or even close at thirty store basis, if he's
Speaker 1: not even given twenty stolen basis, is he returning that
Speaker 1: you know, early second round value. And now we're already
Speaker 1: dealing with a with a left side injury for for
Speaker 1: Josale two Bay two, So I just thought I'd keep
Speaker 1: keep the injury news going. Greg sprinkle that on top
Speaker 1: here a little. I don't know what is that Injury Bay,
Speaker 1: Salt Bay? No, you don't like that Salt Bay school.
Speaker 1: I've never did. I've never been there. I kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to, I've never done. Is he still a thing?
Speaker 1: I think so. I know a lot of like famous athletes.
Speaker 1: Go visit his restaurant wherever it is. I don't know
Speaker 1: where it is. I've looked him on Instagram. He first
Speaker 1: of all, he's hilarious. He owns the Salt Bay thing
Speaker 1: and owns it. Every single post that he puts on Instagram,
Speaker 1: there's like hashtag salt, hashtag salt. But like ease, he
Speaker 1: embraces the brand. Maybe you should embrace like sasamania. Morow
Speaker 1: not gonna start yelling about stuffing. No, no no, it says,
Speaker 1: everyone yells me. Just stop yelling. I'm just like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's true. The happy medium. There is no happy medium
Speaker 1: for great, there's not either. He's you know today, Greg's
Speaker 1: a little like lax. He's like maybe a little tired.
Speaker 1: Have you sleep us now? You're right better than I happen? Alright,
Speaker 1: because you seem a little like down. I mean today
Speaker 1: I think I'm getting this right, Murphy's law. Anything that
Speaker 1: can go wrong will go wrong. Pretty much. The theme
Speaker 1: of today so far hasn't been a great day, hasn't
Speaker 1: been a great day, has been a great week. Hopefully
Speaker 1: that turns around because you know, we got some drafts
Speaker 1: coming up that we need to uh study up on together.
Speaker 1: We have an auction next Thursday. I think tomorrow tomorrow
Speaker 1: after work, I think things will turn around for me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to a brewery in Brooklyn. You know you
Speaker 1: have plans tomorrow. Um but and this is a pity invite,
Speaker 1: by the way, just real wise that, oh, Frank, you
Speaker 1: live close to bok. I actually was not hearing about
Speaker 1: it right now. I was actually going tom So yesterday
Speaker 1: as we were leaving, you said, hey, we really got
Speaker 1: to come up with the time to go over the
Speaker 1: draft so to do some research and sit and talk.
Speaker 1: And I'm at that moment occurred to me, was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna frank out if you want to doing Friday
Speaker 1: night because it's gonna be well relatively close to where
Speaker 1: he lives. We like drinking beer. This is a perfect
Speaker 1: opportunity to do this. What are you doing this? Grim Brewery?
Speaker 1: Grim Brewery? I never heard of it. It's like a
Speaker 1: half hour from here. M yeah, Metropolitan not it's not
Speaker 1: too far, not far from me at all. You wanna come,
Speaker 1: uh before you go wherever you do whatever you're doing, No,
Speaker 1: because that wouldn't really make sense because of what I
Speaker 1: have to do is the city. So yeah, I go
Speaker 1: back to Brooklyn. Are you going straight from here? Opens
Speaker 1: at five o'clock. I'm hoping to leave here around then
Speaker 1: this is this is right and Williamsburg. It's close to
Speaker 1: where I live. So yeah, so I'm doing that, and
Speaker 1: then evidently it's close to like another one. You're taking
Speaker 1: the L train there, I'd imagine. Really, I thought I
Speaker 1: did take the A C E there. The Google map
Speaker 1: stole there close to the close to the L train though,
Speaker 1: I'll figure out tomorrow. I'm excited to do that. I
Speaker 1: also had an Inner Borrow Breweries right around there as well.
Speaker 1: It sounds a little more familiar. It's more a bit
Speaker 1: more popular inter Borrow. Yes, like Inner Burrows, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got it, Greg, but not Burrows for that just b
Speaker 1: or b o r oh. I think that's right there
Speaker 1: as well, inter Borrow Spirits and ales that at the
Speaker 1: place that kind of just sounds like a liquor store.
Speaker 1: I'm not making this brewery somewhere close to that, never less,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing tomorrow, Frank, So you're really welcome
Speaker 1: to come, of course. I actually passed this every day
Speaker 1: on the bus. Really. Yeah, well I never even noticed
Speaker 1: that it was the brewery. Is just look, uh, it
Speaker 1: might be. It kind of just when I passed it, it
Speaker 1: it just kind of just looks like a warehouse, so
Speaker 1: it definitely could be. Yeah, that's pretty cool. So I'm
Speaker 1: really hoping my day turns around like then, you're just
Speaker 1: gonna drink yourself to oblivion and that everybing gets better.
Speaker 1: All I want to do, man, that's all I want
Speaker 1: to do. All right, let's start. Um, let's start with
Speaker 1: these relievers before we get the injury guys. Virginia z
Speaker 1: is coming up at the bottom of the hour. We
Speaker 1: don't have necessarily the like b I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think recommends on here is he? Like, I don't think
Speaker 1: I have a breaken on here. I put almost all
Speaker 1: starting pictures on here for the most part late yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's mostly all starting pictures this week because we did
Speaker 1: a lot of that. Um, A couple of other guys,
Speaker 1: these Astrois guys are still ingering by next week, then
Speaker 1: we'll definitely, yes, absolutely, but let's start with the relievers.
Speaker 1: Brank we talked really, the only guy we talked about
Speaker 1: really was Josh Had. Out of the guys that are
Speaker 1: gonna get you holds for the most part um because
Speaker 1: Hayter is amazing and Frankasm I believe is his nights
Speaker 1: rank reliever. Give her take. It might have changed since then. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm ever going to own him. It
Speaker 1: just seems like that's where you should be, right because
Speaker 1: he's so I'm gonna yeah, But we've seen guys be
Speaker 1: down in the past and then not as downar the
Speaker 1: next year, you know, So you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I don't think that's gonna be the case for him.
Speaker 1: I think he's still gonna be really, really good. I mean,
Speaker 1: his his delivery and stuff. It's just like the way
Speaker 1: he pitches, it's so hard to pick up and his
Speaker 1: stuff is absolutely filthy. I think it's gonna translate. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, I mean, from year to year,
Speaker 1: it's pretty hard to project relief pictures. I mean, these
Speaker 1: guys some sometimes they'll just they'll emerge out of nowhere
Speaker 1: and then the next the next year, you know, they
Speaker 1: take a back seat. I don't necessarily think that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the case for Josh had I still think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be really, really good. I don't know that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna own him. He's just I rank him this highly
Speaker 1: because he's really dominant, and I still think they can
Speaker 1: pick up like ten of fifteen saves along the way.
Speaker 1: So let me let me ask this, outside of Josh Hayter,
Speaker 1: who are you looking to next? If you want holes,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a dominant reliever that's gonna give
Speaker 1: you holes and really help you in the e R
Speaker 1: A wit and strikeout category, where do you head to next?
Speaker 1: And how early do you do it? So, I mean
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna sound like a Homer here, but
Speaker 1: I think Dylan Patances, right, I think Dylan Patances has
Speaker 1: to be up there as one of the top guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just been so dominant for so long
Speaker 1: and he gets so many strikeouts. He's a legit three
Speaker 1: category contributor in RHODO. Not gonna help and saves unless
Speaker 1: something happens with Chapman I do think that he would
Speaker 1: be the direct replacement the next man up in the
Speaker 1: Yankees bullpen if anything were to happen to Chapman. We
Speaker 1: saw that last year as well. But with Patances, you
Speaker 1: do get legitimate like e. R A whip numbers, and
Speaker 1: you get a lot of strikeouts too, So I don't
Speaker 1: think that's just like, uh, I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: homwer thing, Greg, what do you think? I think both.
Speaker 1: I think both Telebatances and Zach Brittan are both on
Speaker 1: this list for guys that are gonna I mean Britain
Speaker 1: not gonna get as many strikeouts, definitely gonna get hold
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean like holes are tricky, right, Like
Speaker 1: I was trying to look this up yesterday. Do you
Speaker 1: even know what the definition of a hole is? Greg?
Speaker 1: It's just like protecting a three run lead in a
Speaker 1: safe situation. I thought it was. That's what I thought
Speaker 1: it was too. I don't really, to be perfectly honest,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of experience playing with holds,
Speaker 1: but I would never do it. I just imagine that
Speaker 1: they're really good set up men, and you want to
Speaker 1: target players target He set up pictures on teams that
Speaker 1: are gonna win a lot of games because obviously you'll
Speaker 1: get more opportunities for for holds that way. So I think,
Speaker 1: I guess just targeting relievers on winning teams that are
Speaker 1: really dominant. Ryan Pressley is another one that comes to mind.
Speaker 1: We mentioned him yesterday. You know, I think he could
Speaker 1: be in the conversation if something would have to a
Speaker 1: Sono or if if it'll soon have faltered. I know
Speaker 1: Hector Rondon is there and he has closing experience as well,
Speaker 1: but Ryan Pressley once he joined the Astros last year,
Speaker 1: you know these Astros, everything they touched turns to gold.
Speaker 1: He develops this, you know, a new breaking pitch that
Speaker 1: he's using, and he throws a to a zero point
Speaker 1: seven seven e R eight with his Astro stint last year.
Speaker 1: So I would put Ryan Pressley in that conversation as well.
Speaker 1: Even Adam Outavino, right, all the Yankees guys, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think all that. But like I agree with you, You're
Speaker 1: you're picking really good teams and you're saying, hey, I
Speaker 1: want their dominant relievers. I think the same toil be
Speaker 1: said for even the Red Sox, right, Like we don't
Speaker 1: know who the closer is there. It's a closure by
Speaker 1: a committee, and the Cubs said yesterday they're a closer
Speaker 1: recommittee too. But the point being, like the Cubs really
Speaker 1: said that. Joe Maddens, I believe he came out and
Speaker 1: said that yesterday. Yeah, there goes pedro Strope. I guess,
Speaker 1: but I mean I think pedro Strope will still get
Speaker 1: the majority of them. But doesn't Well what I'm saying
Speaker 1: he's like, doesn't there go pedro Strop because maybe those
Speaker 1: are the situations that are even better than the Yankees,
Speaker 1: because you're getting a guy that in a holds league,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of options. To remember, they signed
Speaker 1: Brad Brock, Carl Edwards is an amazing reliever. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of options there with the Cubs too, and then
Speaker 1: last year they signed Brandon Morrow and he's always hurt
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna be ready to start the seat.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at holds leaders from last year. Greg and
Speaker 1: Adam Montavino was number one with thirty four. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know what, holes go a lot similar to saves here.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was only seven guys that had thirty
Speaker 1: plus holds last year. Last yesterday, when I mentioned saves,
Speaker 1: there was only eleven players who had thirty plus saves
Speaker 1: last year. But you know, I think the high of
Speaker 1: the high for saves and closers are, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: Edwin d haz with fifty seven saves. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no one here that has like fifty seven holds. It's
Speaker 1: really between thirty and thirty four. And you're looking at
Speaker 1: Adam Davino, Archie Bradley, Tony Watson, Yoshihisa Harno from the
Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondbacks, Chas Row with Tampa Bays, Alvarado Emma Bay
Speaker 1: have good relievers. Is just you don't know who's gonna
Speaker 1: be the closer. I would still put my money on Alvarado.
Speaker 1: I tend to agree with you, and his stuff seems
Speaker 1: to be the best. But what what it was getting
Speaker 1: at is when you look at these dominant relievers, even
Speaker 1: separately from the Yankees, like like, yes, we can talk
Speaker 1: about it just holds. But to me, I would go
Speaker 1: after situations where you're going to get holds and you
Speaker 1: also have the possibility of potentially getting saves, right, so
Speaker 1: you think of a weird closer situation. And I don't
Speaker 1: know why this comes to mind, Frankie, but the White
Speaker 1: Sox with Kelvin Herrera and Alex Colinet, like we assume
Speaker 1: it's Colone right now. That could change. And I think
Speaker 1: your Red Sox example was even better though, because the
Speaker 1: Red Sox are just gonna win more games us, right,
Speaker 1: But Herrera and or column A are probably the better reliever.
Speaker 1: I would think then Matt Barnes or what's his name,
Speaker 1: Ryan Brasier, Right, So I think Matt Barnes is pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna get more. I think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: more strikeouts in both of those guys. So maybe Matt
Speaker 1: Barnes is the guy. Maybe that's really way that saves
Speaker 1: plus hold league or even just like have a hold category,
Speaker 1: like maybe sorry, both friends. I think it's really interesting
Speaker 1: both of them changes and save plus holds leagues, Like
Speaker 1: how much of this would change ranking wise? Like when
Speaker 1: and we talked about that history, Like is that the
Speaker 1: way that fantasy baseball and just baseball in general is
Speaker 1: going towards its trending towards? Is we need to just
Speaker 1: eliminate the saves category and make it saves plus holds
Speaker 1: or if you play in a home league, h you know,
Speaker 1: a points league should hold be worth the same as
Speaker 1: much as savings, because that then we're looking at just
Speaker 1: drafting the best relie possible reliever, which is how it
Speaker 1: should be. Well again, well, my follow up question is,
Speaker 1: you know how a lot of a lot of leagues
Speaker 1: or people and not really basically but advanced leagues or
Speaker 1: just eliminating wins right, because it's just arbitrary, but arbitrary
Speaker 1: to an extent, they're they're replacing it with quality starts, right,
Speaker 1: which is also arbitrary in its own right. Um, should
Speaker 1: the seething happen to saves like a save, like a
Speaker 1: win like you have because there's times you just have
Speaker 1: the tie runs on deck and you have a reliever
Speaker 1: come in and pitch one pitch and get a save,
Speaker 1: and that's like ridiculous. Obviously, Um, every save is not
Speaker 1: created equal, like every one is not created equally. You
Speaker 1: pitched ninety but eight shut out endings, you deserve a win.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't get it. You pitch five inutings of
Speaker 1: six run ball on your team's up thirteen six, Like,
Speaker 1: you don't deserve that one either, So it's very hard.
Speaker 1: I I think saves plus holds on and we said
Speaker 1: this yesterday on the show. I think saves plus holds
Speaker 1: is probably where it should go because you're gonna draft
Speaker 1: the best reliever. It's gonna take a long time, though,
Speaker 1: is it for people. I just don't think it will
Speaker 1: be an industry standard for home leagues. I mean, people
Speaker 1: could do it now whatever they want. Yeah, definitely. I'm
Speaker 1: still I'm still pushing for errors. What Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you what do you mean? I think error should be
Speaker 1: a category? Why Why is feeling that counted? It's like
Speaker 1: that's like the same reason why most people don't play
Speaker 1: I d P. You know, I don't think like too
Speaker 1: much going on, Like I don't think why you draft
Speaker 1: I play hitter, play hit play hitter case. Well, it's
Speaker 1: all about the play, right you. If you're a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: they fumble, you lose point. People like offense. I don't
Speaker 1: really care about defense. I mean, I'm just kidding in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Yeah, you know, what I always thought is,
Speaker 1: you know, if you play in a point because if
Speaker 1: you get penalized for strikeouts, why don't you get penoize
Speaker 1: for hitting into a double play? It's much worse, worse
Speaker 1: than striking out. I was looking at a few names
Speaker 1: here that are coming to mind from from last year.
Speaker 1: If you're just looking for some holds, I think Craig
Speaker 1: Stammon is another one with the San Diego Padres. He's
Speaker 1: dominant last year obviously. Jeremy Jeffers, you got hurt yesterday,
Speaker 1: Joaquin Storia, Fernando Rodney, it was Oakland, but well, Joe Himenez,
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Speaker 1: are joined by our good buddy, Virginia Zackets of Inside Injuries.
Speaker 1: What's going on, Virginia? Hey guys, it's good to be back.
Speaker 1: It has been a long timetime, a lot of dr A.
Speaker 1: He's in better color now, which is great. Uh, a
Speaker 1: new camera. We feel updated and it's good to have
Speaker 1: you back on the show today. Unfortunately, it wasn't a
Speaker 1: great day for us yesterday, or I guess two days ago,
Speaker 1: where I was very much on tilt where the giants
Speaker 1: are making all these dumb NFL decisions, and then Louis
Speaker 1: Savarino went down with inflammation in the right rotator cuff.
Speaker 1: Now I've done a lot of research on my own
Speaker 1: about this particular injury, and I was very nervous because, yes,
Speaker 1: there's inflammation in the right rottator. Coffee, takes some pain killers,
Speaker 1: you take a cord zone shot, it'll get rid of
Speaker 1: the inflammation. He'll start throwing again. But the big question
Speaker 1: is what is causing said inflammation, which is what scares
Speaker 1: the heck out of me, and which is what I'm
Speaker 1: hoping you have the answer for. So right now, the
Speaker 1: plan is to shut him down for two weeks, receive
Speaker 1: a cortisone shot, and see how he responds. UM. A
Speaker 1: lot of the time, this is enough to calm down
Speaker 1: that inflammation if there isn't an underlying cause for it. UM.
Speaker 1: In this case, it sounded like the m R I
Speaker 1: was clean. But if there's a smaller problem, maybe you
Speaker 1: know a very slight tear or some slight cartilage damage.
Speaker 1: There's a chance that wouldn't show up on the m
Speaker 1: r I. UM. Right now, it's not clear exactly what's
Speaker 1: causing the inflammation, but hopefully it's just Um. You know,
Speaker 1: he put his shoulder through a lot in the first
Speaker 1: few weeks of spring training and it wasn't really ready
Speaker 1: for it, and there isn't something more serious going on.
Speaker 1: But you know, right now it's kind of too soon
Speaker 1: to tell. UM. We're showing an optimal recovery time of
Speaker 1: three weeks, so it actually looks like, according to our algorithm,
Speaker 1: that he should shut things down for more than the
Speaker 1: two weeks that he has planned right now. UM, But
Speaker 1: my best guess is they'll sort of see how he's
Speaker 1: feeling two weeks from now, and then if he's if
Speaker 1: he's paying free, he'll slowly start to work his way back.
Speaker 1: Do there a positive or negative Frank, I, I think
Speaker 1: it's still kind of up in the air. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that's what we're looking at here with with Luis
Speaker 1: Severio and you know, Greg, since since the news, right
Speaker 1: so the news came out two days ago. For Luis Severio,
Speaker 1: over the past two days is NFBC a DP, tell
Speaker 1: me what you think about this. For the past two
Speaker 1: days of NFBC a DP is sixty three. So he's
Speaker 1: going right behind hi Own and Paxton and ahead of
Speaker 1: Flaherty and Strasburg. And when I told you I moved
Speaker 1: him down to SP eighteen, you looked at me and
Speaker 1: said it might be a little bit too low. The
Speaker 1: market kind of agrees with me, Greg, it does. But
Speaker 1: if he comes back and starts throwing it in two weeks,
Speaker 1: he's back by the end of April. We have seen
Speaker 1: players come back and some big deal. It's just a
Speaker 1: little scarier when it comes to throwing shoulder. Took another
Speaker 1: guy who's dealing with the with an injury to his
Speaker 1: throwing arm, not necessarily his shoulder is Mike Fultonevitch, who's
Speaker 1: dealing with right elbow sore and its now there was
Speaker 1: an update that said that he feels better and that
Speaker 1: if this were the regular season, he actually wouldn't miss
Speaker 1: a star quote wouldn't miss a start because us of
Speaker 1: this injury. I'm not really buying that one here. What
Speaker 1: do you have on mikeful to Knevitch, do you expecting
Speaker 1: to be ready for the start of the season. How
Speaker 1: severe is this elbow injury? So thankfully this one sounds
Speaker 1: pretty minor. Um. He was clear to resume throwing three
Speaker 1: days later. He threw on Tuesday, and from out everything
Speaker 1: I can tell it, it went pretty well. Um. So
Speaker 1: it's always a good sign when it pictures back out
Speaker 1: there just a few days later, because if they were
Speaker 1: concerned it was anything more at this point in the season,
Speaker 1: they'd shut him down for at least a week. So
Speaker 1: I think that's actually relatively positive. Um. Now, he still
Speaker 1: has an elevated injury risk and his HPF is below average,
Speaker 1: so right now, of course we don't expect him to
Speaker 1: play very well, but I don't think he'll be ready
Speaker 1: for opening day. But I do think it's realistic for
Speaker 1: him to make a start in the first week or
Speaker 1: two of the season, as long as he avoids another
Speaker 1: step back. So that's pretty positive if you're if you're
Speaker 1: a Mike ful Tovit fan, sure it's great. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were already reasons that I was off him. I mean,
Speaker 1: walk too many guys. The swinging strike Ray wasn't really
Speaker 1: in line with his strikeout right last year, so I
Speaker 1: was kind of out on him already, so I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna end up on any of my teams.
Speaker 1: But hey, if you're a Braves fan, or if you're
Speaker 1: related to Mike Folton Evitch and you still want to
Speaker 1: draft him, good news. Listen. It's not as bad as
Speaker 1: you're making him out. No, he's not terrible. He's not
Speaker 1: one of those guys. But alright, he was at his price,
Speaker 1: where like when we first started drafting, he wasn't really
Speaker 1: a guy I was targeting. What about his teammate Virginia
Speaker 1: A J Minter who I thought should be the should
Speaker 1: have been the closer last year. He did a nice
Speaker 1: job during the summer for our all. Thisis Guyanny who
Speaker 1: came back, gave him the job back for the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and there was a bit of a debate who would
Speaker 1: be the closure going into the season for the Braves
Speaker 1: this year if they didn't sign Craig Kimberle Minter Yatt
Speaker 1: hurt and it looks like this guy who has the
Speaker 1: job for now, how soon do we expect a j
Speaker 1: Minter back? So we're actually only showing a one week
Speaker 1: optimal recovery time for mentor Um. He was dealing with
Speaker 1: shoulder tightness. Left his appearance on Friday, but he was
Speaker 1: supposed to start during again on Tuesday, so sort of
Speaker 1: a similar timeline to fault navic Um. He was also
Speaker 1: involved in a car accident two days before he left
Speaker 1: his appearance, so I think it hopefully has more to
Speaker 1: do with just kind of being a little sore and
Speaker 1: banged up from the car accident and not a true injury.
Speaker 1: So right now, this doesn't seem like it's something too concerning,
Speaker 1: but we'll definitely want to keep a close eye on
Speaker 1: him over the next few weeks. A J mentor if
Speaker 1: we're talking about relievers who could potentially get you holds,
Speaker 1: or if you just want to kind of lock up
Speaker 1: both players in a bullpen, Arrodi's dis guy, you know,
Speaker 1: in a J mentor unless Craig Kimbrell signs with with
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Those are two relief pictures that you
Speaker 1: can look at Virginia. Another picture starting pitchers specifically dealing
Speaker 1: with an elbow injury is Andrew Heeny. And Andrewhini was
Speaker 1: you know, he was kind of getting some hype here
Speaker 1: in the in the draft season by multiple analysts, and
Speaker 1: you know he's dealing with this elbow injury. Now, he
Speaker 1: did have a bullpen session on Tuesday. He's always kind
Speaker 1: of been a guy who's dealt with injuries. Um, what
Speaker 1: do you have on Andrewhini. Yeah, things aren't looking great
Speaker 1: for him. Um, he's still very high injury risks. Um,
Speaker 1: and he's his HPF is currently poor. It doesn't look
Speaker 1: like it's going to improve. Uh, it might get back
Speaker 1: to below average by the time the season starts, but
Speaker 1: it's not going to get into that above average or
Speaker 1: peak category anytime in April or May. Um, he's making
Speaker 1: a little progress, but you know he like he said,
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys he's dealt with a few injuries. Um,
Speaker 1: and things just aren't looking looking great for him as
Speaker 1: he deals with inflammation in his elbema. So not a
Speaker 1: great report there about Andrew Heeny with the Angels, and
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's been hurt a lot throughout his career. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: hoping for a better report. Maybe you'll give us one
Speaker 1: when it comes to his teammates Gangs. So currently not
Speaker 1: dealing with anything serious, but he has a very very
Speaker 1: concerning injury history. Um, he's one of those players that
Speaker 1: still falls into the high risk category, and he's up there.
Speaker 1: He's in you know, the forties something percentile right now
Speaker 1: in terms of his injury risk, which is really high
Speaker 1: for a guy who's technically been healthy for you know,
Speaker 1: six months or so. Um. Last year, he had problems
Speaker 1: with both his left and right groin. Um, He's had
Speaker 1: hamstring issues. He had a series of blique injury in
Speaker 1: seventeen that forced him to miss three months. So all
Speaker 1: of these muscular strains are somewhat related, you know, the
Speaker 1: groin area. UM. Honestly, I'd be really surprised if he
Speaker 1: doesn't have some sort of a problem um with one
Speaker 1: of those injuries again this year. So I definitely think
Speaker 1: he's something someone that you stay away from, even though
Speaker 1: it seems like he's okay right now. Were you've ever
Speaker 1: seen a movie Bubble Boy. Yes, it's a great movie,
Speaker 1: pretty good. I think with all the angels starting pictures,
Speaker 1: like after they pitch, they should just enter a bubble,
Speaker 1: just try and learn to pitch while. It's because I
Speaker 1: think they're talented, right. I want to like Andrew Heine.
Speaker 1: I want to like Tyler's gags. We went over Tyler's
Speaker 1: gags the other day. His numbers before we get hurt
Speaker 1: last year. But surprise, surprise, he always gets hurt. He
Speaker 1: was great last year before he got hurt. But it's
Speaker 1: just this is always the case with these two guys.
Speaker 1: So I think that they're talented pictures, but it just
Speaker 1: seems like they're always dealing with something. Here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: move over to another hyped starting pitcher earlier on in
Speaker 1: the draft season, not so hype now, which might actually
Speaker 1: create a buying opportunity for fantasy owners right now, and
Speaker 1: that's Josh James of the Houston Astros, who has been
Speaker 1: dealing with a quad issue that has kind of delayed
Speaker 1: him here in Astro's camp um as of right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a lot of guys that they
Speaker 1: can fill in the rotation without Josh James. But I think,
Speaker 1: you know, for the long run, I mean, especially in
Speaker 1: like keeper Kynasy leagues, this guy has legitimate upside. How
Speaker 1: long do you think this squad as shoe is going
Speaker 1: to affect him? Is going to start the year on
Speaker 1: the d L or I L Rather, what do you
Speaker 1: have on Josh James? Yeah, things are actually looking pretty
Speaker 1: good for Josh James. Um he's actually already back in
Speaker 1: the low injury risk category. Um. He threw a bullpen
Speaker 1: session today, which is, you know, a very good sign
Speaker 1: for him. Ram pain free yesterday, so he's definitely trending
Speaker 1: in the right direction. When he originally heard his quad,
Speaker 1: we gave him a Grade one strain, which is relatively
Speaker 1: minor UM and you know, based on how he's progressed
Speaker 1: so far, it looks like that's pretty accurate. So may
Speaker 1: not be ready by you know, the first week of
Speaker 1: the season, but I don't think he's gonna miss more
Speaker 1: than a couple starts if he does end up back
Speaker 1: as a starter, um, and could be available within the
Speaker 1: first few weeks of the season however they want to
Speaker 1: use him. That's Josh James. This is Virginia August from
Speaker 1: Inside Injuries. Good news on Josh James, which is obviously encouraging.
Speaker 1: But what about another young pitcher, and that's Alex Reyes
Speaker 1: who missed a lot of last year and the year before.
Speaker 1: He's working his way back. Uh, he seems to be
Speaker 1: pretty in pretty good shape. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: Cardinals are ultimately thinking, but what's the health side of
Speaker 1: Alex rays. Yeah, so I actually watched a few of
Speaker 1: his pitches. From his appearance on Tuesday, he looked pretty
Speaker 1: good basketball touch ninety eight miles per hour UM. He
Speaker 1: even threw a few curveballs, so he's mixing up his
Speaker 1: pitches already, which is usually a sign that he's feeling
Speaker 1: pretty comfortable unhealthy. Um. He does remain a high injury
Speaker 1: risk though, just these are two very serious surgeries. He's
Speaker 1: come back from the torn loop muscle and Tommy John's surgery.
Speaker 1: So his HPF right now is above average, which tells
Speaker 1: me that he actually started pitch pretty well, but he's
Speaker 1: he's at a high risk of re injury, and I
Speaker 1: just it's I have a hard time seeing him not
Speaker 1: suffering some sort of a slight setback throughout the year,
Speaker 1: whether it's inflammation, some ten nitis and his shoulder, elbow, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a little core muscle strain, something like that.
Speaker 1: But you know, right now should pitch pretty well. But
Speaker 1: he's going to be someone we need to watch really
Speaker 1: closely throughout the entire season. Yeah. I couldn't agree more
Speaker 1: on Alex Reyes and I think he has a lot
Speaker 1: of talent, but I do think the Cardinals are gonna
Speaker 1: baby him somewhat. I'd be surprised if he throws more
Speaker 1: than a hundred und twenty endings this year. But you know,
Speaker 1: those hundred endings could be really good. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of, all, right, well, when is he gonna pitch?
Speaker 1: When can I actually depend on Alex Reyes. So you know,
Speaker 1: if you have him as as the end of your
Speaker 1: fantasy rotation, Greg, I think that's fine, but he's not
Speaker 1: really someone that I want to depend on all that much.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Jimmy Nelson, who has
Speaker 1: yet to make his debut in spring training, but he's
Speaker 1: inching closer to it. He's thrown, he's thrown some some
Speaker 1: batting practice, some bullpens here. Um, he's coming missed the
Speaker 1: entire season. He's coming off this shoulder injury. But the
Speaker 1: last time we saw him was and he was lights out.
Speaker 1: He was amazing. So you know, one are the chances
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Nelson could get back to that forum? I mean,
Speaker 1: how how much of a workload can we expect him
Speaker 1: to have his first season back? And what's his injury
Speaker 1: risk looking like? Yeah, so right now he falls into
Speaker 1: that elevated injury risk category. Um, definitely an improvement. He
Speaker 1: was high risk all of last year, um, which of
Speaker 1: course isn't a surprise considering he never pitched, but so
Speaker 1: there's still some risk there. Um. That's going to be
Speaker 1: the case any time when players missed an entire season
Speaker 1: and is working their way back, just because you don't
Speaker 1: quite know how their body is going to respond once
Speaker 1: they start, um pitching, you know, as often as it
Speaker 1: takes throughout the season. So um, we actually do expect
Speaker 1: him to pitch pretty well though, as long as he
Speaker 1: can stay healthy. He's already back in the peak category.
Speaker 1: So I think things are looking pretty good for him
Speaker 1: at the start of the season, but there's always going
Speaker 1: to be some risk. Um. It's actually when I look
Speaker 1: at our future projections, that looks like the entire season
Speaker 1: he'll likely stay an elevated injury risked just because of
Speaker 1: the severity of the surgery he went through. All right, greggy,
Speaker 1: little high risk, high reward was actually more positive than
Speaker 1: I expected from the crew and inside injuries. In regards
Speaker 1: to Jimmy Nelson, I thought they'd be can all off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was a lot more prepositive than I expected,
Speaker 1: to be profectly honest with you. For Szaka's inside injuries.
Speaker 1: We've asked you a lot about starting pitchers. Let me
Speaker 1: go off the starting pitchers for a moment, and let
Speaker 1: me go to a guy that we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: later on today, and that's Gregory Polanco, who had um
Speaker 1: a really nice year last year for Pittsburgh. I know
Speaker 1: he had a slump in June. You dropped him, Frank,
Speaker 1: I held on because my waiver claim didn't go through.
Speaker 1: And when I was dropping him and he really turned around.
Speaker 1: It was a really nice season. Like I said, for Polanco,
Speaker 1: who before uh September, before what happened September, he was
Speaker 1: going really really great. Actually, he bangs his shoulder in
Speaker 1: September and as major shoulder surgery and is expected to
Speaker 1: miss at least the first month of the season. How
Speaker 1: healthy will he be when he comes back? Is he
Speaker 1: worth drafting it all? What do you think about Gregory Polanco? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So his surgery was to stabilize an acute left shoulder
Speaker 1: dislocation and repair the labor min his shoulder. This is
Speaker 1: a very serious surgery. UM. The initial timeline for his
Speaker 1: recovery was around seven to nine months UM, which would
Speaker 1: put a return hopefully sometime around June Um, but this
Speaker 1: is one of those injuries it really takes closer to
Speaker 1: nine to twelve months to really get healthy and feel
Speaker 1: back to normal. So I don't think he's going to
Speaker 1: be out nine to twelve months, but he's not going
Speaker 1: to be anywhere near one percent. His injury risk is
Speaker 1: still very, very high. His HPF is kind of hovering
Speaker 1: on the border of below average and a bug average
Speaker 1: right now. So he could play fairly well once he's
Speaker 1: cleared to return, but he still has a long way
Speaker 1: to go. Um. He's been throwing from a hundred twenty
Speaker 1: feet but hasn't taken any throws from the outfield yet. UM.
Speaker 1: I guess at this point, we probably just need to
Speaker 1: hope that he can get some at bats in late
Speaker 1: at spring training so his start to the season isn't
Speaker 1: delayed too much. But he's someone I would I would
Speaker 1: stay away from this year just because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of risk coming back from the surgery. I know it's
Speaker 1: not exactly the same thing, Greg, but this reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of Michael Confordo from last year. But even like,
Speaker 1: the timeline is even longer, right, so they rushed back
Speaker 1: and forth the last year struggled in the first half
Speaker 1: because obviously he was still kind of like playing through
Speaker 1: this shoulder injury. It kind of seems like it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be a wash year for Gregory Polanco. Like maybe
Speaker 1: he contributes something late in the season, you pick him up,
Speaker 1: you know, around then, maybe around the All Star breaks,
Speaker 1: something like that, but it seems like it might be
Speaker 1: a wash here, maybe you know, by low in the
Speaker 1: dynasty or something like that. But for for re draft
Speaker 1: season long, I just don't know that he's going to
Speaker 1: contribute much this season. We'll be over to another outfielder,
Speaker 1: one that we hold very near and due to our
Speaker 1: hearts greg Aaron Hicks dealing with a back injury. Fun
Speaker 1: fact about Aaron Hicks. Every single year he's been in
Speaker 1: the major leagues, he has been on the injured list.
Speaker 1: So why would it be any different now We're already
Speaker 1: in spring training. He just got a seven year contract extension.
Speaker 1: But dealing with a back injury. Now, this has my attention,
Speaker 1: Virginia because specifically the next man up for the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees, which presumably would be Clint Frasier. That's why
Speaker 1: it has attention because he's, you know, one of their
Speaker 1: top outfield hitting prospects. What's the latest on Aaron Higgs?
Speaker 1: Do we expect him to start the season? Uh? Is
Speaker 1: this going to be something that lingers throughout the year.
Speaker 1: What do we have on Aaron Higgs? Yeah, so a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago we actually talked about him and we
Speaker 1: warned that he was one of those guys that's a
Speaker 1: high injury risk but in the peak HPF so hopefully
Speaker 1: he plays well, but very head chance he gets reinjured. UM.
Speaker 1: Of course a few days later, he now is dealing
Speaker 1: with this back injury and it's been almost a week
Speaker 1: now that he's been out. Um, they're not making it
Speaker 1: sound like a very big deal and it really might
Speaker 1: not be. But like you said, you look at his
Speaker 1: injury history and it makes this a huge red flag. UM.
Speaker 1: Last year he dealt dealt with an intercostal strain and
Speaker 1: hamstring and ankle injuries. UM. Seventeen it was multiple of
Speaker 1: a week strains, and then it was hamstring strings. So
Speaker 1: all of these muscular injuries are very, very easily aggravated.
Speaker 1: So even if he recovers from his back injury in
Speaker 1: the next week or two, UM, he's going to deal
Speaker 1: with something throughout the season in and these core injuries
Speaker 1: are very very very likely to recur, especially back issues,
Speaker 1: So this is a major red flag. Um and I
Speaker 1: think he's probably gonna miss a lot of games this season, right.
Speaker 1: This is a classic case of there might be one
Speaker 1: year in Aaron Higgs's career where he stays healthy to
Speaker 1: seventy five thirty home runs and fifteen stolen bases, and
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna say I told you so, I told you
Speaker 1: Aaron Higgs. But it's only gonna be like one year
Speaker 1: out of like these next seven that the Yankees have
Speaker 1: signed him. I think he's gonna be really good, like
Speaker 1: Virginia said, when he plays. It's just it's more likely
Speaker 1: than not that he's gonna miss at least twenty or
Speaker 1: thirty games every single season. That's just how I view
Speaker 1: Aaron Higgs. If you have a good replacement, then sure
Speaker 1: own him. But it's harder to replace guys when you
Speaker 1: play in these deeper leads, especially fifteen teams or a
Speaker 1: only it's tough. Absolutely, Virginia Zakis from Inside Injuries, we
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Speaker 1: relievers we have not spoken about. Yeah, I want to
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Speaker 1: last year at a two point nine to ear a
Speaker 1: had the one point one four whip if you try
Speaker 1: god as well over a strikeout or any He's someone
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at. I mentioned Craig Stalmon a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier on with the with with the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 1: He had a sub three e r A last year
Speaker 1: as well, he had you know, over ten strikeouts per nine.
Speaker 1: He had. His walks per nine were under two last year.
Speaker 1: Greg so, Craig Stammons another one, Eurius familiar. I think
Speaker 1: familiar makes a lot of sense to especially, you know,
Speaker 1: a handcuff situation. We know he has closing experience. I
Speaker 1: do think that you know, when he's on the mount,
Speaker 1: he's still gonna get a decent amount of strikeouts. You know,
Speaker 1: last year he was you know, ten strikeouts per nine.
Speaker 1: He had a three point one three e r A.
Speaker 1: I mean, i'd expect an ear a better than that
Speaker 1: out of out of Eurus Familia. Really, all the Yankees guys,
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't want to sound like a Homer,
Speaker 1: but they're Bullpen's amazing. Greg Tances to Adam Outavino to
Speaker 1: uh what am I forgetting here? Child Green, Adam Zack
Speaker 1: Britton forgotten Lefty forgot a nice less large contract. If
Speaker 1: you had to place a wager on who's going to
Speaker 1: leave the San Francisco Giants and Saves this year, who
Speaker 1: would you say? Will Smith may think he's gonna trade it.
Speaker 1: That's true. I think that they're a prime team to
Speaker 1: just blow everything up, just like trade Bump under trade
Speaker 1: away Will Smith and the one person that they're not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to trade grade contract, Mark Lanson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see that's your answer. I think so. I don't think
Speaker 1: he has the best stuff by any means. I guess
Speaker 1: he's Sam nice leading and saves. He was random to
Speaker 1: last year he popped up how many saves? The end
Speaker 1: up with last was the last year they had the station.
Speaker 1: Two years ago he was really good for I think
Speaker 1: two years ago was he still with Texas years trade?
Speaker 1: Last year? Uh, it's camp here right, Sam Nicon is
Speaker 1: very not good. All right, here we go the whole saves.
Speaker 1: Here we go. So last year he had three. The
Speaker 1: year before he had fourteen. That was with San Francisco.
Speaker 1: So that was all fourteen coming of San Francisco. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was two years. Yeah, that's what I thought. Last year.
Speaker 1: Last year is much Yeah. Yeah, But the thing is
Speaker 1: he just doesn't strike out a lot of peace eight
Speaker 1: whip all right, So I mean he's a two category
Speaker 1: contributor to give you a good ear, a good whip.
Speaker 1: Not really love it to be Pet van Needy, but
Speaker 1: it will never be pet. I feel like Mark Moranson
Speaker 1: is going so late. And again I don't think he's
Speaker 1: good his ear A and NFBC. I mean his his
Speaker 1: a DP. It's twenty acronyms. Man like, too many three
Speaker 1: letter acronyms that I'm dealing with. Here is a d
Speaker 1: P in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, Mark Lanson, it's
Speaker 1: five a D two. Would you be surprised one bit
Speaker 1: if he saved twenty games this year? I mean that's
Speaker 1: like I would. I wouldn't surprised. Because of his contract,
Speaker 1: They're gonna do everything they can to allow him to
Speaker 1: be to be the closer. They're gonna give him every
Speaker 1: opportunity today, I don't disagree with you. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Greg who's kind of picking up some steam
Speaker 1: here in the spring training all No, definitely not Richard
Speaker 1: Baier guest. Well, you know, speaking of Richard Bayer leads
Speaker 1: me into Michael Gibbons got blown up the other day,
Speaker 1: you know, got blown up yesterday, Gregor another guy that
Speaker 1: I drafted on my Great Fantasy Basic Invitational team, Second
Speaker 1: Rider six and runs. What are we doing? Man? What
Speaker 1: we what do we do? Like? What do the Marlins do?
Speaker 1: I don't know? What's your guests? Who's the closer? You
Speaker 1: know who wouldn't surprise me? I think dark Horse in Miami,
Speaker 1: Teyron Guerrero. This guy's like six ft eight until it's
Speaker 1: like a hundred and five miles per hour, but he
Speaker 1: just doesn't know where the ball is going. Sounds like
Speaker 1: a pretty good closer, Like your guess is as good
Speaker 1: as mine. They begin Sergio Romo, I guess he has
Speaker 1: the closing experience, but he throws eighty five miles per hour.
Speaker 1: So alright, nice little twenty difference from Tehran Guerrero. Drew.
Speaker 1: Second Rider was the one who picked up some saves
Speaker 1: down the stretch last year once they traded Kyle bear
Speaker 1: Claw away. What does surprise me if Guerrero ends up
Speaker 1: being the guy? So yesterday second Rounder gives up sixer
Speaker 1: and runs, and I think Sergio Romo also gave up
Speaker 1: like a two run bomb yesterday. Or you give up
Speaker 1: a couple of runs for sure, Caska, random questions, the reliever,
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, what's up? Who you got? I
Speaker 1: gotta check this out in the FBC, Like I feel
Speaker 1: like Domingo Santas just climbing. Oh yeah, shooting of draft
Speaker 1: forwards right, four home runs, ready to spring. He's a
Speaker 1: guy out a video. He hit home run yesterday. Bomb.
Speaker 1: He's just and he makes it look so easy too,
Speaker 1: which makes me think that his power is going to translate.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where he is, like back that he's
Speaker 1: like Chris Davis. Then you know, I'm gonna look hang
Speaker 1: on over the over the last week when I'm tossing
Speaker 1: and turning in bed. These are the things I think
Speaker 1: about Outfielers. You know what's the very good values like that?
Speaker 1: The other day Ronans took him in the thirteenth round though,
Speaker 1: which is the earliest I've seen. That's early, yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's it's good. It's a good idea. How much Domingo
Speaker 1: Santana in the thirteenth and then he got Austin Medals
Speaker 1: in the sixteen Like take my money, take my money
Speaker 1: at Austin Meadows is actually going Johnny spots higher than
Speaker 1: him in the NFP. Can we do that? This is
Speaker 1: what I talk like, we do that next Thurs Night.
Speaker 1: I respect everyone who's in the tout ward draft obviously,
Speaker 1: but I feel like when obvious, you don't have to
Speaker 1: know I do. I mean, these are these are proven
Speaker 1: fititsy baseball. Michael Florio is a War League pretty good.
Speaker 1: He's one of our teammates for turns forever. I feel
Speaker 1: like when people draft with Ronus, they just forget how
Speaker 1: to draft. You always say that where you no. No,
Speaker 1: I mean he's really good too, Like he's good at
Speaker 1: what he does, But like, how does Austin Meadows go
Speaker 1: in the sixteenth round? Greg? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Would you ever have aust Meadows Santana.
Speaker 1: I have Austin Meadows higher, but Domingo Santana's closing the gap.
Speaker 1: I wrote a little I wrote a little piece on
Speaker 1: my Patreon when you can check out about about Austin Meadows,
Speaker 1: which is in my outfielder rankings. And I'm actually gonna
Speaker 1: do this for outfields who are getting hyped up in
Speaker 1: the spring. I'm actually gonna write about Mingo Santana as well.
Speaker 1: I want to write about these outfielders who are kind
Speaker 1: of getting hyped up throughout spring, whether or not you
Speaker 1: can trust it. And Austin Meadows, I think he's a
Speaker 1: guy that could come close to going this year. Am
Speaker 1: I crazy? Great? Got a change? I mean, I'm crazy.
Speaker 1: I have him forty one in my outfield. He's a
Speaker 1: foward top prospect of a good reason, right. I also
Speaker 1: wrote about Byron Buckston. He's in that group. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a group of Meadows. Byron Buxton, do mingo santag
Speaker 1: Jackie Bradley is getting hyped up in the spring. Why
Speaker 1: why is that? Well? He actually he made off season adjustments,
Speaker 1: like Jenny Martinez is uh hitting coach, and he's like
Speaker 1: trying to lift the ball more and so far it's
Speaker 1: been paying off. And I also think that he had
Speaker 1: like a strong second half as well. Did you see
Speaker 1: the video of him miked up the other day during
Speaker 1: the game? It was actually really cool. So and I
Speaker 1: wonder if they're going to start doing this more during
Speaker 1: like regular season games. They probably won't, but they make
Speaker 1: up outfielders and they talk to them through other players.
Speaker 1: So they did it with Jackie. He was talking about
Speaker 1: how you know the second half, everything started clicking for
Speaker 1: him a little bit more of that last year. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that's had upside before, and he's in a
Speaker 1: really good Red Sox lineup. So he's another guy that
Speaker 1: I'm I'm paying it tenn during the spring. But with
Speaker 1: Domingo said Titana, what I was thinking about right was
Speaker 1: two years he agoing he was amazing. He hit you
Speaker 1: know to seventy eight, all right, you don't really want
Speaker 1: it for batting average? Is everything else that he could do?
Speaker 1: Thirty home runs, eighty eight run scored, eighty five RBIs,
Speaker 1: fifteen stolen bases. And what I thought to myself, Greg
Speaker 1: was he's obviously very talented. If you give this guy
Speaker 1: the chance to play every single day, Let's say he
Speaker 1: just gives you seventy five per cent of the production
Speaker 1: he did two years ago, he's by far and away
Speaker 1: worth being drafted where he is right now. If he
Speaker 1: gives you, you know, to fifty five batting average with
Speaker 1: twenty three to five home runs, seventy five runs, seventy
Speaker 1: five r bis and twelve stolen bases, ten stolen bases,
Speaker 1: he's a great value. Where he's going, he's still a
Speaker 1: great value Jesse Winker, let me take the ring because
Speaker 1: he's closing the gap. I know. I think the Mingos
Speaker 1: Santana's playing time is more, although new Reds manager David
Speaker 1: Bell has said he wants Jesse Winker to get at
Speaker 1: least five season, so he wants him to be near
Speaker 1: everyday player. So you know what, this is really funny, Greg,
Speaker 1: I have Domingo Santana fifty first, I have Winker, have
Speaker 1: them really close. I have Awesome Medals thirty nine. Action
Speaker 1: very excited about Awesome. The prospect pedigree is there's a
Speaker 1: guy that makes a lot of contact. I don't care
Speaker 1: that he's a lefty and no roster resource has him
Speaker 1: as a platoon player, but actually fared better against lefties
Speaker 1: last years than he did against right He's geta It
Speaker 1: was it was a small sample size, but I think
Speaker 1: Austin Meadows is a guy that comes in here and
Speaker 1: hit at the top of a very sneaky, underrated lineup.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't surprise you at all. If they're the to their
Speaker 1: lineuples like Austin Meadows, Tommy Famine and like insert whatever
Speaker 1: the rest. That's a pretty good top of the lineup.
Speaker 1: I like Austin Meadows. He come close, dude. How have
Speaker 1: you not bet on the Rays over under yet? Well?
Speaker 1: They play in a tough division. Greg love them, but
Speaker 1: they against the Red Sox. They play against You know what,
Speaker 1: I understand that there is a lot of As much
Speaker 1: as I love Tommy Fame, I'm realistic. I could tell
Speaker 1: you he's an injury risk. Yeah, I think what. He
Speaker 1: hasn't played more than a hundred thirty seven games. I
Speaker 1: love Tommy, al be realistic. Got to be realistic, Believe me.
Speaker 1: I'm realistic. Moved Mingo Santanna up? How high should I
Speaker 1: move him? Give me some name, I'll tell you just
Speaker 1: ahead of him? All right, Well, he's definitely going ahead
Speaker 1: of Ryan Brown. Yes, I haven't had he Ryan Bron
Speaker 1: you should go ahead of Brandon Demo. I have very
Speaker 1: close to Brandon mut Yes, but you play in O BP,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit different. These are just like
Speaker 1: standard five by five Rod. What about Ian Desmond? Hes
Speaker 1: been plays in Colorado and should he be? They think
Speaker 1: the batting average is going to bounce back for Ian
Speaker 1: Desmond too. He had to twenty last year and the
Speaker 1: bad bit was unlucky, even though he picked in corps
Speaker 1: Field you know, he hits a lot of groundballs, very frustrating.
Speaker 1: Still last year is gonna be like a six hitter.
Speaker 1: The opportunity probably should have him over and if I
Speaker 1: if I wrote it, he's probably have him over Atana. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just because I think he's gonna steal I'm not going to,
Speaker 1: but you should have him. What about Harrison Bader? I
Speaker 1: have him very close as well. He's a little overrated.
Speaker 1: I agree, I have sent Tanna over Beader. I think
Speaker 1: I think bad is wanted like the stat cast hero
Speaker 1: kind of guys that I looked at and like a
Speaker 1: sprint speed was really good. So I kind of got
Speaker 1: sucked into like the possibility of him stealing a ton
Speaker 1: of bases. I think that was my thinking with ranking
Speaker 1: Harrison being or forty seven right now? Corie Dickerson, did
Speaker 1: he be in this mix? Are you still I'm never
Speaker 1: going to draft court never? Are you still sweating Malex Smith?
Speaker 1: By the way, you're still doing that? What you're still
Speaker 1: sweating Alex Smith? You mean sweating Smith? I don't. I
Speaker 1: never loved Alex Smith. Greg He's a very good ball play.
Speaker 1: I think in the second half is o BP was
Speaker 1: over four dred I know it's not like Malex Smith,
Speaker 1: but I'm worried about this injury that of course you
Speaker 1: are definitely worried. And what was that you had dr
Speaker 1: A on last week? Right? I spoke about Malex Smith
Speaker 1: and said he's probably gonna miss like a third of
Speaker 1: the season. I mean that worries me out. So I've
Speaker 1: lowered him a little bit. I still have him in
Speaker 1: this mix. He's he's forty three for me. Who would
Speaker 1: you rather draft today, Greg, Alex Smith or Billy Hamilton's
Speaker 1: I'd rather Malex Smith. He's a better hitter, definitely a
Speaker 1: better here, no question. So well, Billy Hamilton's healthier, faster
Speaker 1: and is he faster though I don't think so. Really
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. I think, well, how much stock do
Speaker 1: you put into sprint speed? Greg? Which is the new
Speaker 1: metric tons? I don't really think I MESSR speed while
Speaker 1: you're running on the basis it's pretty much the truest
Speaker 1: test of how Yes, So let me pull up Malex
Speaker 1: Smith for you, and then I'll pull up Billy Hamilton.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Malex Smith was top five in sprint
Speaker 1: speed last year. Iron Bucks was number one again. Iron
Speaker 1: buckson man, he's very fast as well. Alex Smith was
Speaker 1: percentile and sprint speed which made him in all of
Speaker 1: baseball eighth the year before. He hasn't been lower than
Speaker 1: seventeenth the past three years. That's Malex Smith. Now we're
Speaker 1: gonna pull up Billy Hamilton's who I mean, hopefully the
Speaker 1: Royals taught about a hit because you know the old adage, Greggy,
Speaker 1: you can't steal first base sprint speed or Billy hamilton'scenti
Speaker 1: which would make him faster. And Malex Smith, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's topping. He hasn't been lower than nine in each
Speaker 1: of the past four years. Billy Hamilton's sprint speed still
Speaker 1: very fast, still doesn't know it hit or walk for
Speaker 1: that matter, Why would you ever walk? Billy Hamilton's that's
Speaker 1: never m So did this help you figure out how
Speaker 1: to value Domingo Santana? Yeah? I moved them up? How
Speaker 1: how did you move them? Because I gotta figure out
Speaker 1: how how high I should move? And I don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't remember there's keepers in here and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: you know, he's in somebody. He's like, how do you
Speaker 1: feel about Ramon Loriano? He's not really a guy that
Speaker 1: we've talked about but a lot of people in the
Speaker 1: fantasy industry like it. He will like him a lot.
Speaker 1: I read something I might have been on batting average
Speaker 1: in the minors when I looked him up. I don't
Speaker 1: know where did I read that. I read some about
Speaker 1: Ramon Loriano that hit near the top of the They
Speaker 1: think that the legal catch up to him now, and
Speaker 1: that was that an article in the Athletic. Is that
Speaker 1: where it was might have been, Yeah, it might have been,
Speaker 1: but I think there was a counter to that. Like
Speaker 1: he responded to it and said like, no, I know
Speaker 1: it's coming and I'm getting ready for it. Oh say right,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. We're gonna jump around a lot this hour.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the injured players and we're to
Speaker 1: draft them. We'll tell you that next