WEBVTT - The Ultimate Infield Guide (EP. 759) 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.400 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.920 Baseball Podcast. Its met Joey b Joe Pusia, and today 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.799 it's time for the Ultimate Infield Guy. That's right, there's 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.040 no other guide as ultimate as this one. The Welsh 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.600 and I are gonna take you through all the infield 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.279 positions first base, second base, third base, shortstop, and even 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.880 some catchers. We're gonna talk about the top twenty guys 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.760 or so at each position, talk about the tiers, talk 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.919 about our favorite values, our favorite premium guys. Well, you're 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.839 always my favorite premium guy. I just want you to 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.800 know that. 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So is our mock draft 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.839 draft Wizard Fantasy bros dot Com slash mock. Go ahead 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.240 and run a million simulations in about what like I 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:19.760 don't know, I mean, how many drafts have can you 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.360 do in an hour? I think I mean only do 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:22.800 thirty in an hour? 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:24.800 A million would be a lot. Oh, I don't know. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:25.760 You know we should do that. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.280 How many drafts can we do in an hour? 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.400 But like, actually you have to do our picks. We 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.160 should do shul almost like simultaneously. Be like, I like that, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:34.479 we could go I like that. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.240 What I mean cheat sheets? 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.720 I mean if it was five minutes in theory, would 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:39.399 be twelve drafts? 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.800 Too much? I guess though, that's that's too much. Well 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.320 not if I had multiple devices. Ah see what I did? Loan, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.280 All right, let's get to the infield. Let's start at 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.040 first base here and obviously a place we're looking for power, 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.680 we're looking for run potential. RBIs all of the above. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.080 Let's start here with the expert consensus rankings. Freddie Freeman 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.600 is at the top of the first base board, follow 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.440 by Matt Olsen, Bryce Harper, who last year came off 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.240 the injury obviously maybe a little too soon, as we 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.600 were saying back in the summertime, but he's such a gamer, 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.880 that dude, Vlad Guerrero Junior looking for a bounce back, 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.480 and Pete Alonzo at number five Welsh to me, this 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.880 is the definitive tier of the top first baseman, because 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.320 after this we dropped to Cody Bell and Drew West 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.200 to repeat a very strong season Chicago, where still as 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.280 a recording is don't know where he is going to 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.040 play in twenty twenty four and Goldschmid and some others. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.440 I think it's Freeman, Olsen, Harper, Vlad pe Alonzo. Your 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.880 thoughts on this upper tier. Somebody want to move in, 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.720 somebody want to move out of the top tier first basement. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.400 Okay, so for our well, I am going to argue it. Yes, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.120 you're right, except I do think we can split these 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.520 and I think you could look at this if you 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.560 want to like be a little bit more you know, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.000 uh analytical or find tooth fine cone. 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:55.639 What's the what's the jack? 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.480 I can't sass him at the top of the show, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:58.120 a fun. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.200 Is it the fine fine tooth comb. 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:02.920 What did you say a tooth fine comb? 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.840 I don't, but what does that even mean? What is 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:05.200 a tooth? 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.280 It means, well, you're asking the bald guy about the 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.200 fine tooth comb. What it is is you know when 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.399 you're kind of looking for something, you know, like when 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.480 the kid gets lice in the class and they're trying 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.280 to pull it like the little tiny. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.000 No, no, I know the analogy, but like the fine 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:17.400 tooth comb. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:17.959 I don't know if you do. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.000 But if you, I know a version of it. There's 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.119 something in my brain. It's called the Welshism. So this, yes, 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:25.760 it is like a five tier, but I think you 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.680 can break it apart. And the top three are almost 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:30.080 in there. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.760 And this is how I view tears. This is how 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.440 I've always took tears. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.560 Is like there's no way I would move the guy 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:42.880 below above. So I agree that, like definitively, these five 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.320 are the core first basemen that you want bogin. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.400 And I did this. Look at you take like Roto. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.440 And you take what championship teams look like and what 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.000 starters and we took that. What did all the starters 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:57.320 at first base cumulatively get? And the common first baseman. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:58.880 The type of first baseman you want is a guy 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:00.960 that hits I think around twenty eight stolen bases, around 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.120 two seventy basis, I'm sorry, twenty eight home runs, really 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.360 no stolen bases, and then high RBI and high run. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.119 So who are the guys that do that? All these 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:09.720 guys do that. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.440 But there isn't a scenario where I'm gonna put Vlad 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.480 Guerrero as much as I'm into him this year above 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.800 Bryce Harper right now, so I would break the Freeman 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:21.440 Olsen Harper as probably one A, Vlad and Alonzo one B. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.000 And then here's the big thing, though it's a pretty 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.200 stark drop off on all these guys, but these are 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.400 the core guys, all giving you big homers everything you need. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.040 The only difference is number one who actually can get 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.800 you great out of position stolen bases in Freddie Freeman. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.440 But I agree with this tier by the way, this is. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:41.560 How I tier them out. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.520 Not everybody has it, because some like Harper over Olsen, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.599 some like Alonzo over Vlad Guerrero. But this is actually 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.160 my definitive first base. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.440 Run Matt Olsen coming off a year with fifty four 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.640 bombs by the way. I mean, come on, now, I'm 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.240 with you. I would even argue, I mean further because 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.240 I'm Italian, because I like to argue Freeman Olsen their 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.960 own tier. Harper probably in that grouping as well, but 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.680 maybe he's his own little you know, maybe there's one A, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.520 one B and then one C being Alonzo Guerrero. Again, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.680 I just want to see Harper kind of bounce back completely, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.000 although you know, end of the year he certainly looked 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.400 more like himself. They hit two ninety three last year, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.719 twenty one bombs. But I mean, I do agree with 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.599 what you're saying. There's an elite tier where there's a 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.680 super elite tier within there. So if you want to 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.599 call them the A tier and then the S tier, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.279 the S tier is freedom A team. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.440 Can we call them the A team? 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.400 We can be a baracas, mister t all of those 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.039 guys I love, who doesn't draft mat For those of 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.839 you who are too young for the A Team. The 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.640 end of every episode, they basically had a van or 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.600 some sort of you know, vehicle that they found and 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.000 turned it into a tank and then took on bad guys. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:45.040 Was that much the show? 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.520 That's like a great day, just like every day, just 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:48.560 turning something into a tank. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.000 I will tell you that turned something into a tank. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.200 Well, these two are tanks. Vlad and Pede Alonso the 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:59.080 one B tier. What's interesting about them is they are 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.440 the positive side. Like Alonzo put up huge, massive homers 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.480 last year with bad batting average. Vlad really had a 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.200 mediocre year. They are both big boosted players. I think 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.279 it's the expected batting average to come back up for 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.240 Alonzo with forty plus homers. And if you're looking at 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.000 Vlad Carrero, he is probably the biggest projection monster because 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.719 big all like everything was like relatively sustainable across the board. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.440 He just had poor results, better launch angle. He's projected 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.800 to have almost ten more homers this year, big run 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.280 in RBI, So that one BE tier. Maybe there's some 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.080 queasiness that's a little bit involved, and that's why they're 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:39.080 one be But they are heavily projected because projections are 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.320 waiting over the last three years. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.560 But they're great. But then we're about to take a 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.640 big old step off of the first base ladder. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.440 Yeah, Cody Bellinger again, great season last year, twenty twenty season. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.040 Can he repeat it? We'll see the batting average bounced 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.960 way back from where it had been in previous seasons. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:54.800 Paul gold Schmidt, I know the power dipped a little 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.000 bit so of the average, but I think the Cardinals 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.960 just overall were just a team that just struggled last see, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.960 and so I think gold Schmid has another thirty home 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.400 run season in him. Christian Walker in this grouping as well, 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.400 back to back thirty home run seasons for him. I 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.760 feel good about him. Tristan Cassis comes in at number 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.240 ten on this list, twenty four bombs for him last year. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.160 I know a lot of people are very high on him. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.080 I'm very high on Nolan Jones also in this tier, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.160 and then Spencer Torklssen in this grouping as well, who 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.160 was one of our favorite bilos last year. If you recall, 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.560 there were videos we did about Spencer Togletzen leading off 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.240 episodes we did about hey, now's the time in Dynasty 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.480 and redrafted by this guy because it hit rock bottom 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.880 and then the second half was great thirty one home runs, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.200 ninety five rubies. Last year he hit just two thirty four. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.560 But for me, it's gold Schmidt ahead of Bellinger. I 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.240 would even take Christian Walker possibly ahead of Bellinger. To 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.680 be honest with you, Nolan Jones and Bellinger, we could 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.880 have that conversation than Cassis and Torkosen, I think are 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.360 close to each other. What are your thoughts here in 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.320 this grouping? Do you think you would move the tier 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:52.400 or adjust it slightly? 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.840 Yeah, so I'm not super big into Bellinger, but I'm 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.680 open to the possibility whatever he changed is the new thing. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.520 But he changed was completely lowered to strikeouts, but he 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.640 stopped hitting the ball hard barely everything that went down 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.760 hard hit percentage like absolutely plummeted. Those aren't great things 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.880 for like long term sustainable power, But it doesn't mean 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.360 he's just not going to just be a really good 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.080 contact hitter with pure raw power that doesn't strike out. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.080 But I think there's more variance with him, and he's 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.240 shown it, so I'm not super excited about him. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:20.960 I love Goldie. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.480 This year, you look at Goldie's profile, He's another one 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:24.880 of those guys underperforming. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.560 But to what degree? 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.560 It just looked like he had a little bit less 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.400 exit velocity, launch angle kind of dropped across all pitches 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:31.800 as well. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:33.120 I put that up to. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.360 Bat speed and guess what drive line this year he 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.760 spent the offseason, specifically working on bat speed a drive line. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.160 So I really like Goldie in this front. Nolan Jones, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.760 you and I have gone back and forth with I 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.600 think this is I think it's some version of Bellinger, Goldie, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.760 Nolan Jones, Christian Walker, and I would say Cassis Cossus 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.480 is the one I would jump in here because I 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.520 think I just did a social short talking about players 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.960 that are going to boost their power. Cosis is one 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.840 of those guys. I think that is going to do that. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.640 He's going to take a big step up this year. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.280 Big hard hit numbers, good barreling, he does everything right, 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.360 it's just more games and he's projected at almost thirty 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:10.840 home runs. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.440 So I think that is kind of a rough tier. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.360 So I did Bellie, I said, Bellinger, Goldie, Nolan Jones, Walker, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.640 and Cossas's kind of I guess that's two, right, Yeah, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.280 we're doing one A, one B and then two. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.120 That's fairly something to that effect. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:27.840 Number all three. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.959 Spencer Steer another guy who's hovering around this grouping. In fact, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.440 if you look over fantasypros dot com for the MOB 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.320 rankings right now, you can see that Steer is put 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.400 himself into this number twelve overall conversation right now, do 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.240 you think of him in the same group of like, Okay, 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.040 if you're in a twelve te mixed league, that's about 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.520 where you're starting first basement? Are I know Josh Nail 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.400 or Yondi Diaz are also kind of on that bubble. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.240 Do you have a preference of Steer Diaz a Nailor 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:53.160 in terms of ranking? 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.679 So I'm actually like a really big Josh Naylor guy 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.840 this year, Josh Naylor, We're okay, we're starting to get 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.520 in to the territory in my eyes where boy, these 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:09.480 are high plus r P fee corner infielders like corner, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.319 Like if you get these guys in the corner infield, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.120 you're doing awesome. But in fifteen team, it's not what 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.800 you can do. So if you missed out on first base. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.600 Josh Naylor specifically is somebody that I love because it's 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.200 really high batting average, great hard hit numbers. Power is 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.719 a little bit in question, But big RBIs he put 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.120 up because he hits in the middle of the order. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.920 Steer is kind of in this same range. But I 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.920 have a hard time and maybe it's just more clerical 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.560 about it, Like I have a hard time viewing him 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.360 as the first baseman. He's gonna play in the outfield. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.520 There's a lot of potential tuning in this roster still, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.400 but he still puts up stats. He's kind of a 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.240 twenty twenty guy. So I like Josh Naylor a lot. 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.079 I would then go to Spencer Steer for the stolen bases, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.240 and Yandy Diaz is kind of a little bit of 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.319 the grown up version of Naylor, but I think Naylor's 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.240 upside is higher. So those guys do belong in a tier. 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.160 But YONDI and Naylor a little bit closer, Steer is 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.000 a different animal. Love him as a corner infielder though. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.199 All right, so we've got basically our top twelve ish, 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.600 maybe even at fifteen. Again, if you're in those deeper leagues, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.360 I agree with one hundred percent on Nailor, by the way, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.360 looking at the fancy pros projections to twenty two homers, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.640 eighty five rbi, eight steals, two eighty batting average. That's 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.600 pretty solid numbers wise. After that grouping, we're gonna get 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.600 into this next group here, which involves guys like Santander 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.200 coming off another season. Again, you know, we could talk 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.559 about who gets squeezed out maybe in Baltimore at some point, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.320 but he had twenty eight homers last year ninety five RBI. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.080 You got guys like Vinnie Pascuentino, Christian Strand, who qualifies there, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:39.160 Reee Hoskins coming off the injury signing with Milwaukee, Alec Bohm, 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.280 Nathaniel Lowe, Like, there's a lot of guys here that 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.040 kind of are in this mix in the corner infield 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.800 from the first base perspective spot, is there one guy 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.800 or two guys that stand out to you as players 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.280 that you feel like, yeah, this is a really good 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.680 value or a guy that could really outperform as adp 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:55.960 Reece Hoskins. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:00.320 Reee Hoskins is absolutely that guy going to Milwaukee. You 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.600 do worry if they like completely deplete the team. But 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.760 you know, the last big run we saw with him, 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.240 it was still good hard hit numbers. It was still 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.040 solid double digit barrel percentage. I think he's going to 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.280 just kind of jump right back into the fold of 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.599 who he was before, and who he was before was 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.360 a dude that put up twenty seven homers in twenty 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.080 twenty one, thirty homers in twenty twenty two. I think 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.160 we can get back to that spot in Milwaukee's a good, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.960 good hitting environment. He would be one of my choices 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.200 if I was chasing batting average. Pasquentino probably. 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All right, let's move on 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.040 to the second base grouping here, and no surprise at 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.360 the top, you're gonna find Mookie Betts, as you should. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.439 Ozzie Albi's our favorite guy last year, who we just said, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.440 I mean, it was just crazy. The value on Albi's 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.280 last year was so good. And you know what, I'm 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.160 willing to pay the premium this year because I don't 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.400 love second base this year at all, coming off a 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.400 year where he had thirty three bombs one hundred and nine. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.480 Ribi's ninety six runs, score hit two eighty also stole 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.480 thirteen bases. So if you can't get Moogie Betts in 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.719 the top five picks a year, draft Alice Albi's is 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.000 a really nice consolation prize. After that, we move on 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.240 to Marcus Simeon. I think this is where the tier 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.679 stops because after this we're jumping to al Tuove and 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.080 just too many injuries at this point. For Altuove, the 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.720 last few years, the missing, the amount of time. I 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.440 still think he is a great player, but he does 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:24.960 have a lot of tread on the tire. So for 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.440 me personally, I'm gonna knock him down. Maybe it's another 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.680 like one a scenario for people. But Bets Albis Simeon 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.920 to me is the elite tier. Do you agree or disagree? 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.880 Betts is the elite tier. He is his own oh tier. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.480 Sometimes these guys like O Kunya kun We'll do an 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.440 episode we're talking about overall, Kunya gets his own tier. Bets, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.320 in my mind, gets his own tier, then Albi's and Simeon, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.240 they occupy that next tier, that second round pick. I 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.560 love Albi's, love the stolen bases. I love Atlanta's offense, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.000 I love the power. There's no doubt about it. Marcus 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.840 Simeon is consistent. Of course, secret misses some time we'll 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.120 see and he can get into some bad slumps. Here's 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.120 the only thing that happens with me because I disagree 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.440 with you. I actually like second base. I think there's 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.600 a lot of good later second base values. And here's 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.560 what has happened to me multiple times in drafts. I 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.960 pull the trigger Albi's or Mookie bets I've done and 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.520 then I get this like, ooh, what's going on in 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.240 the sixth round. I'm like, Glabor Torres is still here, 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.720 could tell Marte ends up falling, and get I get 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.600 this sense of like, ah, man, I screwed up. I 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.920 should have taken another position, or with Mooki Bets, I 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.240 move them to the outfield, and I still draft draft 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.360 Labor Torres. So I actually think there are quite a 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:36.320 few second base options in general. It shouldn't necessarily take 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.640 away from the good value of those top guys. But 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.840 what I will say is those are the elite, and 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.080 I think the tier differences the gap isn't as big 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.920 as some other positions. That gap in my mind between 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.280 who the Alonso and Bellinger, that's like that's a huge gap. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.280 My gap between Simeon to like Altuve Maclain it's not 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.880 that big. And then the tier difference going down to 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.280 Glaber and like could tell Mary from those guys, it's 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.840 not massive. So I actually kind of like the position, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.920 but it is Mooki, and then it is Albi's and Simeon, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.520 and then you know you're not having these big tear 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.640 drops when we start moving to who I have Matt 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.360 McClain and al tuv and I think the ranks also 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:15.880 show that. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.560 All right. So after Albi's and Simeon, Altuove comes in 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.680 at four on Fantasy Pros, the Matt McLain, Nico Horner, Glaber, Torres, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.840 hass Young, Kim Mikhtel Marte. So let's talk about this 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.960 grouping here as we get from five to ten at 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.320 Bryson Stoppi and guy number ten is they're a favorite 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.320 of yours in this grouping. I know, Nico Horner you've 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.440 expressed to me, you know when you're doing the Black 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.920 Book write ups for Infield, which Welch wrote all those 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.600 up there. You can go check it out on Amazon 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.840 right now. When you were doing those, you had some 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.360 concerns about Nico Horner being able to repeat his season. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.440 Kim was a guy who stole a lot of basses 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.360 last year. So who do you like to target here? 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.440 As we get to more of that next tier, that 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:52.880 next grouping at second base. 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:53.520 Yeah, you nailed that. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.720 I'm I'm not into Nico Horner, like that's not I'm 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.160 also I kind of want to be into has Sun Kim, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.760 but there's a couple guys like they felt like they 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.480 just did everything right and they just got the right 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.520 bounce in some spots, And all I'm saying is like, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.600 I'm not sure has Sun Kim is a high teens 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.840 to twenty home run hitter. He might be a lower 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.160 and if the stolen bases ticked down a little bit. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.840 Same thing with Nikohrner. Niicohner is not a double digit 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.760 power guy. He is lifted up by what we should 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.960 acknowledge elite runs and batting average. But I'm just not sure. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.280 I'm sorry stolen base and uh, batting average and runs 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.200 kind of, but I just don't think the stolen bases 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.840 are going to be completely repeatable and it's a dip 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.480 and I don't like paying that price for those stolen bases. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:34.680 There. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.399 I love Glabor Torres. Glaber Torres expected numbers across the 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.840 board up, he stole more bases, he was closing in 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.280 on thirty homers. I think we can get there this year. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.720 Glabor Torres is a major target for me, and I 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.800