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Speaker 1: This he's in the FX. He's Frank Staff. I am
Speaker 1: Greg Sauceman right out. I was having a month, Greggy,
Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you. We're back and we've got face
Speaker 1: Ball to talk about later on in the show because
Speaker 1: we gotta get to some XFL. How is your weekend?
Speaker 1: Had you sleep last night? But I didn't sleep great, Frank,
Speaker 1: of my work, My weekend felt like a lot of work,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. Yeah, I was here on
Speaker 1: Sunday Greg, I didn't see I didn't see any Greg
Speaker 1: Susterman aroun on on a Sunday, right, don't worry. I
Speaker 1: was on the phone with your producers on Sunday and
Speaker 1: on Saturday. And here we are today, Frank, so feeling great,
Speaker 1: feeling great, feeling great. How did How did you sleep, Frank?
Speaker 1: I slept very well. Probably stayed up too late like
Speaker 1: I always do, but I slept very well at a
Speaker 1: had a solid weekend. Did you watch the Oscars? I
Speaker 1: watched a little bit of the oscars? True story. I
Speaker 1: only turned the Oscars on because I saw that Eminem
Speaker 1: was performing. By the time I turned the Oscars on,
Speaker 1: he was already done performing. And then I just left
Speaker 1: it on in the background and heard Parasite pretty much
Speaker 1: win everything. Yes, spoiler alert. For those didn't watch the Oscars, well,
Speaker 1: you should have watched it by now, or if you haven't,
Speaker 1: you probably heard. For an update on everything that's not
Speaker 1: the Oscars, here's Alex Fasana Sports grade news update. I
Speaker 1: am Alex Fassana with your sports grid news update here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy b f FS, It's finally official in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Mooky Bets and David Price are finally
Speaker 1: headed to Los Angeles. Source has told ESPN's Jeff Passing
Speaker 1: that a deal had been agreed upon to send the
Speaker 1: players to the l A Dodgers for a package that
Speaker 1: includes Alex Verdugo, shortstop Jeeter Downs, and catcher Connor Wong,
Speaker 1: all of which will go to Boston. A blockbuster three
Speaker 1: team deal was agreed upon almost a week ago. However,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox were nervous about grad Role. Bruce dal
Speaker 1: grad Role, a prospect from the Twins who had Tommy's
Speaker 1: john surgery missed time in two thousand and nineteen. The
Speaker 1: rework deal still has Bets and Price going to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and the Red Sox have agreed to pay half of
Speaker 1: the ninety six million dollars left on prices deal. In
Speaker 1: also Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers are sending
Speaker 1: right hander Kenta Maeda and cash to the Minnesota Twins
Speaker 1: for right hander Bruce dal Grad, roll off, outfield prospect
Speaker 1: Luke Rayley, and the sixties seven pick in draft. A
Speaker 1: different version of the deal was originally reported to be
Speaker 1: as part of a three team deal with the Red
Speaker 1: Sox and Mookie Bets. However, the Red Sox again had
Speaker 1: issues with the prospects medical reviews. The Athletic was the
Speaker 1: first to report this new Twins Dodgers deal, and in
Speaker 1: the end f L Philip Rivers will officially enter free
Speaker 1: agency this offseason. He ends his sixteen year run with
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers and Rivers jointly announced
Speaker 1: the veterans quarterback's decision on Monday, with general manager Tom
Speaker 1: Talsco saying that the timing of the announcement will allow
Speaker 1: everybody to put themselves in the best position for success
Speaker 1: in Philip Rivers turns thirty eight this year. He is
Speaker 1: the most prolific passer in the Chargers history. He finished
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen season with four thousand, six hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen yards, twenty three touchdowns, and twenty interceptions. The Chargers
Speaker 1: finished five and eleven and last place in the a
Speaker 1: f C West. All right, that doesn't for me, Gonna
Speaker 1: send it back to the BFFs. This was your sportscrid
Speaker 1: news update. I'm Alex Fasano. There you go, that's Fasano's news.
Speaker 1: Oh day, fantastic job breaking down the trades. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do that in a little bit, breakdown both of the
Speaker 1: trades actually happened this weekend, including Mookie bats, including Maddie
Speaker 1: Margo finally no longer a padre, but to a situation
Speaker 1: that somehow is worse than the padre. Uh, it's remarkable.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do that. We're gonna have some fun a
Speaker 1: little bit later on, but we're gonna start. There's this
Speaker 1: is the XFL. Frankie, did you watch I saw you
Speaker 1: tweeting how set you were that you couldn't play. I
Speaker 1: was sad. I was said that I could not play
Speaker 1: XFL dfs. I had to get my football fixed in
Speaker 1: over the weekend. I caught some action here and there.
Speaker 1: I was out at brunch on a double date, and
Speaker 1: I did have my phone playing XFL on YouTube TV
Speaker 1: enrager fiance, No, no, no no, I mean it's two couples.
Speaker 1: The girls were talking, the guys were talking, and you
Speaker 1: weren't talking. Had it in the back of it. Got
Speaker 1: to the point it was on your phone looking at
Speaker 1: the XFL. This is what we're doing, Like we have
Speaker 1: the stream of the XFL on our phones. Now, you
Speaker 1: don't need the money on the game. Let me know
Speaker 1: when it's my turn to talk, right, because I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: It was my turn to talk, and you rudely interrupted
Speaker 1: turns on this show. It's a conversation. Here's what I'll say.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like Ronald UNA's debut. And I was with
Speaker 1: you at Yankee Stadium also watching Ronald da Cuna on
Speaker 1: my phone at the same time. I had it on
Speaker 1: in the background. I just wanted to see if any
Speaker 1: big plays were happening, if anything crazy was going on,
Speaker 1: So I caught some xfl action this weekend. Probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: have watched as much as I could have, but I
Speaker 1: did see some highlights as well, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting. We have football all year round. Let's go Guardians,
Speaker 1: New York's football team. The best football team in New York, Craig,
Speaker 1: it's not hard, it's not hard, but the best team
Speaker 1: that plays in MetLife. There you go. The Guardians defeated
Speaker 1: the Vipers three for a little bit. Well man, Aaron
Speaker 1: Murray on the Vipers got benched. Uh Matt mcgloy fifty
Speaker 1: nine two through for a touchdown, which was wonderful, right you, Oh,
Speaker 1: Matt mcgloyd and Kevin gilbrid an apology based on what
Speaker 1: you said. I don't like put it right in your eye. Though.
Speaker 1: I'll say this. My doorman when I left this morning,
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, did you watched the Guardians? Like, Frank,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? What do we And just to clarify,
Speaker 1: your doorman's name is Frank, because I'm not Gregg's doorman,
Speaker 1: right right, So Frank the doorman, not Frank Staffle. But
Speaker 1: the fight. The doorman was like, oh, I'm pretty excited.
Speaker 1: They were pretty good and they want to watch them
Speaker 1: this season. People are actually into the XFL. Three point
Speaker 1: three million people watch the XFL this weekend. Look, there
Speaker 1: is a desire for football year round, and the XFL
Speaker 1: are doing things a little bit differently. They're interviewing kickers
Speaker 1: as soon as they miss kicks. They're interviewing yeah the
Speaker 1: interview that there, I didn't. I'm pretty sure they interviewed
Speaker 1: a quarterback as soon as you throw an interception, like
Speaker 1: what do you say in that moment? So they're doing
Speaker 1: some interesting things obviously. And yes, the Guardians won three
Speaker 1: to three. Matt mcloyn did enough. He also had a
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown. Greg, come well, man, let's go Guardians. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you were talking to Smack about Matt mcgloyne
Speaker 1: on on Friday and you were backing Aaron Murray. How
Speaker 1: did that work out? Six for thirty four with two
Speaker 1: interceptions against that elite Guardians. He didn't look good a lot,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. He looked very, very bad.
Speaker 1: You know, also look bad. I was excited to get
Speaker 1: into this with you, with the Renegades and the battle Hawks,
Speaker 1: the St. Louis battle Hawks to be the Renegades fift nine.
Speaker 1: I really like Dallas on this one. But these running
Speaker 1: backs that you were so high on because you knew
Speaker 1: their names, Cameron Artist, Pain the Cap and Kristen Michael.
Speaker 1: Don't you read there stats, Frank, I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Greg. I can't find them all of
Speaker 1: a sudden. It's crazy, but I'll be happy to read him.
Speaker 1: I have him off here. Kristin Michael carry the ball
Speaker 1: seven times? The battle Hawks with a Christen Michael like
Speaker 1: zero yards? Whoa Greg? Can you talk about the rushing
Speaker 1: leader of the St. Louis battle Hawks who was also
Speaker 1: a former NFL player. While we're at it, No, Matt
Speaker 1: Jones had twenty one attempts for eighty five rushing yards.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good game. Christie Michael not so much.
Speaker 1: But Cameron artists Pain did not too much on the
Speaker 1: ground either. Two rushes for six yards. He did have
Speaker 1: four receptions for thirteen yards. So if you played on
Speaker 1: Draft Kings the PPR format, that helped you out. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the one big takeaway I think from this weekend.
Speaker 1: Greg and I heard Gabe talking about this on Twitter
Speaker 1: over the weekend. The offensive line play was not great,
Speaker 1: and it's not surprising because the offensive line play is
Speaker 1: not great in the NFL either, Like it's hard to
Speaker 1: find quality offensive line play and it takes time for
Speaker 1: these guys to play together. Before you know, maybe they'll
Speaker 1: start to gel a little bit. But the biggest takeaway
Speaker 1: for me was that there was not a lot of
Speaker 1: great rushing performances any running backs this weekend. That show
Speaker 1: is the only one. Matt Jones performed very well for
Speaker 1: Matt Jones. If you look at like the Redding Gads,
Speaker 1: they they're leading Russia. I had five carries. It was
Speaker 1: Lansdown bar so NFL player as well, but again didn't
Speaker 1: do much with it. No, there's just not that much rushing.
Speaker 1: You go to the Wildcasts who felt at the US
Speaker 1: Roughnecks thirty seven and seventeen. Leading rusher was a lot
Speaker 1: of Hood twelve carries for forty three yards. Right then,
Speaker 1: they're not really rushing the ball. I think teams obviously
Speaker 1: still trying to figure it out. But your guyd J Walker,
Speaker 1: whereas yesterday p J Walker, Man, he was awesome and
Speaker 1: he rushed a little bit as well. He added twenty
Speaker 1: six rushing yards. This was the guy that I did
Speaker 1: have in my fake DFS lineup, which I tried to
Speaker 1: submit and then found out that you can't play New
Speaker 1: York dfs on XFL dfs in New York. I still
Speaker 1: got to kind of clarify that because I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on there Greg, but apparently you can in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, so I think we're gonna have to do
Speaker 1: that this upcoming week. But p J Walker was great
Speaker 1: four touchdowns as well. Sammy Coats, Alex Passano non Sarah's
Speaker 1: big Steelers fan. You're reminded of why Sammy Coats is
Speaker 1: no longer a Pittsburgh Steeler. Nine targets, just two receptions,
Speaker 1: dropping the ball everywhere as well. Uh did not get
Speaker 1: much done this weekend, but p J Walker was someone
Speaker 1: who certainly did. Nelson Spruce was great for the Wildcats,
Speaker 1: eleven for one oh three franc and fifteen targets. What
Speaker 1: there's your PPR beast Eli Rogers to Eli Rogers had
Speaker 1: like six or seven catches. Defenders defeated the Dragons. Not
Speaker 1: much rushing there either. Rickey Pearl's kid five eight and
Speaker 1: two touched as looked pretty good. That Cardello Jones goes
Speaker 1: for two, five and two, and as we mentioned before,
Speaker 1: Eli Rogers goes six for seventy three. So that's someone
Speaker 1: you want to target in DFS this upcoming weekend. That
Speaker 1: was the as out. When we come back, Mookie bats
Speaker 1: straight at Jack Peterson. Not let's tell you what happened
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Speaker 1: Oh by Game Marcy in Game Live all night long
Speaker 1: on NBA All Star Break coming to the weekend, which
Speaker 1: is maybe they all star like picks um later in
Speaker 1: the week I'm down. He still owe me a player? Sure,
Speaker 1: I just have to pick a player in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I just haven't picked a player yet, right, Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1: I mean I'll just tell e why he has to
Speaker 1: pay for it, because he has a lot more money
Speaker 1: than I do, so that seems fair. I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: You'll get your shirt somehow, some way from Eric Young.
Speaker 1: You do your thing, man, Yeah, yeah, probably. Did you
Speaker 1: win any fantasy football league this year? Greg, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess did you come close? Yeah? Gave me a second. Alright,
Speaker 1: So who who was like the best player on that
Speaker 1: team or like a few of your favorite players from
Speaker 1: that team. The best player on that team was Nick Chubb,
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. I mean those are cool player shirts to have, No,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't like the nice brown and orange
Speaker 1: all over your body, Greg trant to see who the
Speaker 1: best player of that team was. Do that during the break?
Speaker 1: I mean you wrote it up now, so Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: I don't like you. Probably don't want to Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: shirt on your back, Gregan. They don't. I want to
Speaker 1: get like an uncool shirt like Jack Doyle. Don't please
Speaker 1: don't do that. All right, let's get back into baseball, Frank,
Speaker 1: Because the long awaited Mookie Bets trade was finally completed
Speaker 1: over the weekend with some alterations. Basically, it seems like
Speaker 1: it seems like what happened was the prospect that was
Speaker 1: going from Minnesota to Boston. The Medicals then kind of
Speaker 1: add up and the Red Sox exactly, the Red Sox
Speaker 1: thought of him as a reliever when he was valued
Speaker 1: as a starter because the Medicals it's called bs basically,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and all this backlash, they didn't get
Speaker 1: it enough for Wiki bats and demanded more exactly, and
Speaker 1: because the Dodgers, um, I didn't want to lose on
Speaker 1: the Mookie bats and have a very plentiful system, like
Speaker 1: you know what, f you guys, We'll give you Jeter
Speaker 1: downs will make this happen. If that makes you feel better,
Speaker 1: and now it's done. Movie Vets and David Price are
Speaker 1: bold members of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jeter Downs and
Speaker 1: Alex Verdugo are now members of the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 1: and Kenda Mariana and now a member over the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 1: Those the primary pieces of where everybody has gone. But
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to understand is why the Dodgers decided
Speaker 1: they need they did not need the trade Jock Peterson anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't know it was the Angels that says, screw this,
Speaker 1: we're walking away, um, But that trade wind up not happening.
Speaker 1: So a lot to kind of uncover here, Frank, we
Speaker 1: now know it's official. Let me start from the Red
Speaker 1: Sock side of things. I know we did a whole
Speaker 1: um segment previously on Alex Verdugo. Um we really talking
Speaker 1: about Jeter Downs because it wasn't in the trade. People
Speaker 1: have kind of speculator of the Jeter Downs at some
Speaker 1: point in the near future. Could replace be the replacement
Speaker 1: for Dustin for Joy at second base? Obviously Michael Javis
Speaker 1: played there last year, But what do you think of
Speaker 1: the Jeter Downs addition to the Boston Red Sox. I
Speaker 1: thought it was great that they were able to add
Speaker 1: another prospect. I agree with you completely. It's like someone
Speaker 1: in a fantasy baseball leagu getting fleeced for a trade,
Speaker 1: and then when they hear the backlash from everyone else,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, can you please veto my trade so
Speaker 1: that I can try and get more out of someone else.
Speaker 1: That's basically what happened here. The Red Sox got absolutely fleeced,
Speaker 1: and even with adding Jeter Downs, I still don't agree
Speaker 1: that they should have traded Mooky Betts, but it does
Speaker 1: look better on paper now that they get a prospect
Speaker 1: with the pedigree of Jeter. It was really interesting that
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think Verdugo is going to be
Speaker 1: a stunt. I really do believe that. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what the agenda is here. I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure it out. But multiple times this weekend, John Hayman
Speaker 1: tweeted out Alex for duto has like Clint Fraser like problems.
Speaker 1: I don't know that means it's just like Cravy Fielder
Speaker 1: or some personality issues that I think it's personality stuff
Speaker 1: because I've heard I've heard things like that before as
Speaker 1: well above her Dugo, so I had not heard that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe under the leadership of like A J. D. Martinez.
Speaker 1: And I always like young players being surrounded by, you know,
Speaker 1: veterans who have been around a while. The same thing
Speaker 1: that happened last year with Miguel Snow with Nelson Cruz
Speaker 1: coming in, I thought that would have a positive impact
Speaker 1: on him. I'm not sure if that's the direct correlation
Speaker 1: that made Miguel Snow be awesome last year, but I
Speaker 1: do like when these older players are on teams and
Speaker 1: they can take youngsters under their wings. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens when it comes to Alex Verdugo. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play every day. I think he's either gonna
Speaker 1: lead off for bad fifth for the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 1: And I tweeted this out Roster resources. I tweeted this
Speaker 1: out on Friday, Greg. The pre trade NFBC cost for
Speaker 1: Alex Verdugo was twenty seven and since the trade happens,
Speaker 1: so from Wednesday on, his ADP was and if you
Speaker 1: remember what I told you, I said he was going
Speaker 1: to move up about fifty spots and he might move
Speaker 1: up even more than that. I think Verdugo has Michael
Speaker 1: Brantley type upside, maybe not like his first full season,
Speaker 1: but eventually I think that that's what his upside can be.
Speaker 1: Verdugo is still twenty three years old, and according to
Speaker 1: roster resource right now for the Boston Red Sox, Verdugo
Speaker 1: is projected to that seventh in this lineup. So what
Speaker 1: do they have leading off attendee followed by Dever's, Bogart's J. D. Martinez,
Speaker 1: Mitch Moreland, Michael Javis, Verdugo, Christian Vaska is j B
Speaker 1: J Right, So they might put it might leave Verdugo
Speaker 1: a little bit lower in the line up to start.
Speaker 1: They don't want to put too much pressure on him.
Speaker 1: But he's he's gonna make his way up there. Like
Speaker 1: I think he's better than Mitch Moreland. Now, Jeter Downs,
Speaker 1: I know to cut you off, but he was a
Speaker 1: good prospect. Could get you said, why is that he's
Speaker 1: like a top fifty prospect in baseball, one of the
Speaker 1: better prospects in the Dodgers organization. You look at what
Speaker 1: he just did this past year at power speed combination.
Speaker 1: Twenty one years old at between double A and high
Speaker 1: A ball of this past year twenty four home runs,
Speaker 1: twenty four stolen bases. He hit to seventy six with
Speaker 1: eight o ps, so there's upside there. It's just very
Speaker 1: weird that there's a person named Jeter in the Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox organization now, but you're right. I think his
Speaker 1: long term future is he probably takes over at second
Speaker 1: base Greg they still have Bogarts locked up at shortstop,
Speaker 1: and then they'll eventually probably move Michael Javis back to
Speaker 1: his original position, which is first base. I think Mitch
Speaker 1: Moreland is just kind of a place holder for maybe
Speaker 1: this year. I don't think we're gonna see Jeter downs
Speaker 1: this year, but maybe like a September ish call up.
Speaker 1: If not, then the following year he'll probably be like
Speaker 1: a mid season all up. I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 1: So then let me kind of follow that up with
Speaker 1: the player that played second based last year for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox, with Michael Chavis and just told you he's
Speaker 1: betting six in this lineup. What do you think of
Speaker 1: Michael Javis this season? I'm interested, obviously batting in the
Speaker 1: middle of a really good ballpark, a ballpark that plays
Speaker 1: for right handed power, and that's exactly what Javis has
Speaker 1: and you know, he was their top prospect for a while.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really a great farm system obviously, but I
Speaker 1: think he proved something last year. Greg. I mean, the
Speaker 1: power is legit. You watched the batspeed, Like the kid
Speaker 1: has bat speed. I think his power is gonna play,
Speaker 1: especially in Fenway. The problem is he's got to cut
Speaker 1: down the strikeouts. Plate discipline was a dreadful from Michael
Speaker 1: Javis last year, and he struggled a little bit in
Speaker 1: the minors with strike out. With strikeouts, you know, he's
Speaker 1: normally in like that mid twenty percentage. So even if
Speaker 1: he was, you know, around thirty percent, you can live
Speaker 1: with that. Like Fernando Tatis jr. Ist ideally you wanted
Speaker 1: to be better, but thirty three is a lot, Greg,
Speaker 1: So Michael Javis has to be better in terms of
Speaker 1: plate discipline and cutting down on those strikeouts. But I
Speaker 1: liked what I saw this year. Eighteen home runs in
Speaker 1: ninety five games a full season with Boston. I think
Speaker 1: you should be able to hit home runs from the
Speaker 1: middle endfield. There's value. Their hard hit percentage last year
Speaker 1: for Michael Javis thirty three point six. It's no, it's
Speaker 1: not great, you know, strike evercentage ulversentage at I'm not
Speaker 1: a Michael Javis. You're out Michael Jas. But the thing
Speaker 1: is he's young enough where like he's years old right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like he can he can easily you know, improve his
Speaker 1: launch angle, cut down the strikeouts, and in before you
Speaker 1: know it, he's like a two seventy hitter who's hitting
Speaker 1: twenty five home runs. You can pump the brakes. But
Speaker 1: the thing is he's not He's like not going early
Speaker 1: in drafts right now. Who in the NFBC in the
Speaker 1: month of February six, that's nothing. I'm not pretty much
Speaker 1: out on him though, because like, give me Cole Hamiles
Speaker 1: two spots before him. I agree with you know, I
Speaker 1: love col Hamiles, right, give me Mitch Kella going just
Speaker 1: ahead of him as well. But look at some of
Speaker 1: the hitters in this range, like Eric cosmer Man fine
Speaker 1: to seventy home runs. It is what it is, Geo Orshella,
Speaker 1: you don't really know how the play time is gonna
Speaker 1: shake out there with the Yankees at least what Chavis.
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna play every day. Someone who's going
Speaker 1: a little bit later on though that I do love
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes is here last year too. Love Austin Hayes
Speaker 1: every year. Greg, alright, fair enough, let me go to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Let me have the Dodgers side of things. Obviously,
Speaker 1: no Mookie Betts. He has really solidified being in the
Speaker 1: top five. I think he's I personally find him to
Speaker 1: be like the clear fourth hitter off the board. With
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger his teammate being five. I think your first
Speaker 1: five doesn't include Garrett Cole or um Jacob Degraham. I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of six seven for me. But your
Speaker 1: top five, I think it's set Mookie Bets, Cody Bellinger
Speaker 1: both in it. Yeah, I mean it may personally in
Speaker 1: the deeper leagues, I would make the argument for getting
Speaker 1: the ace starting pitcher, just giving yourself that base of
Speaker 1: picture list does not agree. Pitcher list does not agree.
Speaker 1: But you know, look they kind of cater more to
Speaker 1: twelve team category, which is fine in that format. Look,
Speaker 1: I would say that the hitter, what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: from the hitter is safer than what you can expect
Speaker 1: from any picture. Because I'll ask you for a friend here, Frank,
Speaker 1: if all five of those guys are gone and the
Speaker 1: next hitter happens to be Alex Bregman or Francisco Lindore.
Speaker 1: Would you take one of the pictures? No, yes, I
Speaker 1: would definitely take the picture. You are cool, Jacob dem
Speaker 1: I have Jacob Graham as my sp one switch I
Speaker 1: said that, Oh along, I switched. I think you did.
Speaker 1: Surprise surprise. Greg can't get away from the pin stripes
Speaker 1: fair enough. We'll see what happens. I was originally Garrett Cole.
Speaker 1: I think a come more and Jacob de Gram, but
Speaker 1: we'll say, yeah, look, Betts is gonna go inside the
Speaker 1: top five picks in most strafts, and I think it
Speaker 1: makes sense still a five category player. You worry, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit about the sixteen stolen basses last year.
Speaker 1: I think that's his floor. I think he probably gives
Speaker 1: you between fifteen and twenty stolen basses and he's gonna
Speaker 1: contribute everywhere else. His expected batting average last year was
Speaker 1: actually like fifteen twenty points higher than his actual batting average,
Speaker 1: so I think there's actually some positive regression coming from
Speaker 1: mookie beats as well. What will we ask you this one?
Speaker 1: Also abouting this trade currently going at one A three
Speaker 1: in the NFBC in the month of February. Is David
Speaker 1: Price going at two? That's Kenza Maana. We refer to
Speaker 1: this uh last We referred to this um last week
Speaker 1: on the show that they were going very very close together.
Speaker 1: But I'll ask you again that trades official, Frank, would
Speaker 1: you rather have in Fantasy Baseball this year Kenza Mayanna
Speaker 1: or David Price? Yeah? I think they're both risky. I
Speaker 1: think at some point, like Kenta Maita is probably gonna
Speaker 1: be slowed down. I don't know that you could defend
Speaker 1: depend on him for more than a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty endings this year, even with the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins. That's just not the picture that Kenta may
Speaker 1: has been. Same thing with David Price. You know, he's
Speaker 1: almost certainly gonna miss some time throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this season. But I will take David Price. I think
Speaker 1: that both teams are gonna get tremendous run support. But
Speaker 1: there's just something about the Dodgers, right. It's like every
Speaker 1: starting picture that winds up with the Dodgers, it's a
Speaker 1: lot like the Houston Astros. These guys are just phenomenal
Speaker 1: and if you look at David Price from last year.
Speaker 1: The strikeouts actually bounced back in a big way. A
Speaker 1: twenty eight percent strikeout rate for David Price last year
Speaker 1: was the highest of his career, so he actually was
Speaker 1: pitching well. I think he had. He was unlucky last
Speaker 1: year as well. Four to eight e ar a, Greg,
Speaker 1: you see the X fit down at three seven three.
Speaker 1: I think the whip was a little bit unlucky as well.
Speaker 1: The strike outs the highest of his career. I think
Speaker 1: these guys are close. But give me David Price over
Speaker 1: kent to Maada. I think both guys are players that
Speaker 1: I want on my team's kids in MYDA. Pitching a
Speaker 1: full season as a starting pitcher, if he holds up,
Speaker 1: I think he's in a good spot. I to rely
Speaker 1: before well, David Price, first time pitching in the National
Speaker 1: League's gonna be helpful. Some pieces value go. I'm in
Speaker 1: on both of these guys. He gets to face the
Speaker 1: Giants like five times a year. Greg, it's awesome. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break, we'll come back one another. Trea,
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Speaker 1: a lot about the Red Sox Dodgers Twins trade here, Frank,
Speaker 1: before we move on, any idea from your perspective why
Speaker 1: the Dodgers didn't consummate the trade with the Angels. I
Speaker 1: think it was related from to the Angels, like just
Speaker 1: just kind of backing out of it and that it
Speaker 1: was taking too long. I don't know exactly the details.
Speaker 1: That's what I saw on Twitter a little bit people
Speaker 1: talking about, but it kind of it seems weird to
Speaker 1: me that the Angels wouldn't still go through with it, because, yes,
Speaker 1: while they have more rotation arms now, it seems like
Speaker 1: they can never have enough depth because that Andrewheney has
Speaker 1: always hurt Hyotani. You don't really know what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get out of him. So I think they should have
Speaker 1: went through with it. And you get an outfielder like
Speaker 1: Jack Peterson who already knows the area he plays with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and probably could have hit your thirty home
Speaker 1: runs playing every day and in right field there. I
Speaker 1: think that made a lot of sense for the Angels.
Speaker 1: And then you know, getting a picture like Ross Striplinger,
Speaker 1: I think, look, we've seen upside out of Ross Stripling.
Speaker 1: He was an All Star in ten, like he had
Speaker 1: a stretch where he was phenomenal as a starting pitcher
Speaker 1: and really good curveball as well. The strikeout numbers are solid,
Speaker 1: but has this really good command, doesn't walk all that
Speaker 1: many guys. So I thought that getting Ross Stripling for
Speaker 1: the Angels would have been great for their rotation, and
Speaker 1: it would have been great for fantasy right because we
Speaker 1: would have unleashed Kent to my Ada, we would have
Speaker 1: unleashed Ross Stripling at the same time. Now we still
Speaker 1: kind of have these question marks. We have like five
Speaker 1: six players for the Dodgers, Greg to fill two rotation
Speaker 1: spots with Julio Eurias and with Jimmy Nelson, Dustin May,
Speaker 1: Alex Wood, Alex Wood, Ross strippling, so you still have
Speaker 1: five guys to fill two rotation spots and it's frustrating
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective. Now that glut reminds me of
Speaker 1: what we also know in Tampa Bay, where the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Raised that a lot this offseason, but it feels
Speaker 1: like none of its made it our jobs any clearer
Speaker 1: by any means. Over the weekend, the Raised round up
Speaker 1: training away Emilio Pagan. They're closer this past season for
Speaker 1: Manny Margot and those other pieces that are involved in that.
Speaker 1: But more go and put on the two big pieces
Speaker 1: traded away, right, yes, okay, so those are the two
Speaker 1: major pieces. It's Plagan that goes over to San Diego
Speaker 1: that he's gonna help their bullpen in front of Kurby
Speaker 1: Yates or place Kurby Ights who is a free agent
Speaker 1: to be if he gets traded away, and you have
Speaker 1: Manuel Margo, so they will play the outfield for Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: much like his old teammate Hunter renefro being traded away
Speaker 1: from San Diego to Tampa. But Tama has had a
Speaker 1: lot of players in the mix including Renafro in including
Speaker 1: um Kevin Kermeyer. For instance, Kevin Kiermyer, Yoshi Suitsugo, you
Speaker 1: have Nate Low, you have Jose Martinez. You have basically
Speaker 1: six or seven guys greg that are trying to fill
Speaker 1: you know, right field, d H and first base. And
Speaker 1: again this reminds me of the Dodgers, where it's frustrating
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, but it's a great problem to
Speaker 1: have if you're the Tampa Bay Rays, You're just going
Speaker 1: to continue to play the matchups, right, So Austin Meadows
Speaker 1: is gonna play every single day in left field, and
Speaker 1: then you're gonna have a combination of Kevin Kermeyer and
Speaker 1: Manny Margot in center field, you know, maybe just a
Speaker 1: straight up platoon with ker Meyer playing against right handed
Speaker 1: pitching and Margot playing against left handed pitching. And then
Speaker 1: again in right field, you have if Margot is not
Speaker 1: playing that day, you could put him in right field,
Speaker 1: or you can get one of Jose Martinez out there,
Speaker 1: or Uhunter Renfro or a Yoshi Sasugo, and then whoever
Speaker 1: isn't playing there you can use as your d H
Speaker 1: and in your first base. And all the while we
Speaker 1: have Nate Low, who you know, has all this prospect
Speaker 1: pedigree and he's been mashing in the minor leagues, doesn't
Speaker 1: have a spot to play, doesn't have an opportunity here
Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Rays. So uh, it's definitely a
Speaker 1: frustrating situation from a fantasy perspective, Greg with the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Rays offense, and we haven't even gotten to their bullpen,
Speaker 1: so I can. Man, it's a complete mess. It's a
Speaker 1: complete utter mess. And you look at the bullpen and
Speaker 1: I'll try to figure it out. Um, who will be
Speaker 1: the closer when it's all said and done. I don't
Speaker 1: know the problem with the raises. The closer on day
Speaker 1: one could be the starter on day two. I mean
Speaker 1: that quite literally. And the same goes for the outfield.
Speaker 1: The entire starting outfield can be replaced on day from
Speaker 1: day one to day two. That's how many pieces they
Speaker 1: have here. And Margot, is he going to be a starter?
Speaker 1: Like you trade away your closer for someone's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fourth or fifth outfielder for you. I wouldn't think so. No,
Speaker 1: this is was like making money. No, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a buy low opportunity for the Tampa Bay Rays. They're
Speaker 1: looking at a player that you know was once regarded
Speaker 1: as one of the top outfield prospects in baseball, and
Speaker 1: he went over to the San Diego Potters in the
Speaker 1: trade from the Red Sox years ago. He hasn't panned
Speaker 1: out with the San Diego Padres, and now the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Rays are buying low on him and potentially selling high.
Speaker 1: I guess on Pagan. I don't know why they wouldn't
Speaker 1: like Pagan because, as you mentioned, Greg, and he was
Speaker 1: damn good last year over twelve strikeouts per nine, under
Speaker 1: two walks per nine, two point three one e r
Speaker 1: a a three point one five exit, a zero point
Speaker 1: eight three whip Miliel. Pagan was great last year, So
Speaker 1: I don't really know why the Rays would want to
Speaker 1: give up on him. Maybe there's something they know that
Speaker 1: we don't. But he led this team last year with
Speaker 1: twenty saves, and then of course we had Diego Castillo
Speaker 1: in the mix who had a few saves, and we
Speaker 1: also had Jose Alvarado, so it was Diego Castillo with
Speaker 1: eight and it was Jose Alvarado with seven saves, and
Speaker 1: Alvarado took a huge step back the year before he
Speaker 1: had over thirty saves. Greg and we know that he
Speaker 1: has filthy stuff. His his swing and miss stuff is
Speaker 1: is phenomenal, but his walks per nine were up over eight.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Robbie Ray territory out here, Greg with
Speaker 1: those types of walks. I think Diego Castio is really good,
Speaker 1: but oftentimes they use him as an opener, so you
Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna expect there from Castillo. I
Speaker 1: think Nick Anderson is gonna get the first shot, and
Speaker 1: even if they kind of play matchups, I think you
Speaker 1: can expect him to get two thirds of the save
Speaker 1: opportunities this upcoming season, something similar to what we saw
Speaker 1: from Pagan last year when he had twenty saves and
Speaker 1: these other two guys had seven each. Um, I think
Speaker 1: Nick Anderson is legit. Greg had a forty one percent
Speaker 1: strikeout rate last year that was second among relievers behind
Speaker 1: only Josh Hayder, so he's really damn good. The strikeouts
Speaker 1: are legit when it comes to Nick Anderson, I get.
Speaker 1: I think he gets the first opportunity, but I also
Speaker 1: think Diego Castillo and Jose Alvarado are going to be
Speaker 1: in that mix depending on matchups. Fair enough, I think
Speaker 1: it's like I said, a mess there and we can
Speaker 1: speculate as much as we want. It's just not going
Speaker 1: to be clear. But you're gonna want the closer ideally
Speaker 1: because the race he's like, they're good, They're good exactly.
Speaker 1: Craig set the over under for Nick Anderson's saves this
Speaker 1: year for eleven and a half on F s T
Speaker 1: number That seems low to me if he's the closure.
Speaker 1: If he's Poggan had twenty last year, and I think
Speaker 1: Nick Anderson could step into that role. Plegon could wind
Speaker 1: up getting some saves this year, as I mentioned. If
Speaker 1: Kirby yet it gets traded. But Nanuel Largo traded away
Speaker 1: from the outfield, how does that outfield in San Diego
Speaker 1: now shape up? Yeah, so we're looking at Francie Cordero
Speaker 1: on the strong side of a platoon. He struggled big
Speaker 1: time against left handed pitching in his major league career,
Speaker 1: but it looks like Francie Cordero is going to be
Speaker 1: the uh strong side of a platoon in center field,
Speaker 1: playing against right handed pitching regularly. And they're obviously you know,
Speaker 1: they traded for Trent Grisham as well, and it seems
Speaker 1: like they like him a lot because they gave up
Speaker 1: Luis Urias to get Grisham, and Urias was once regarded
Speaker 1: as one of the top prospects in baseball. Uh And
Speaker 1: of course they traded for Tommy fam with Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Ray's earlier in the off season. So their outfield team
Speaker 1: set you have Famine left field, Grisham, and right field.
Speaker 1: I think Cordero plays against right handed pitching in center field,
Speaker 1: and then against lefties. They'll get Will Myers in center field,
Speaker 1: and perhaps Will Myers fills in a little bit against
Speaker 1: left handed pitching to give Trent Christian a day off
Speaker 1: because he is a left handed batter as well. But
Speaker 1: I'm kind of a trade them for Chie Cordero. Greg
Speaker 1: Remember a couple of years ago, Matt Modica was all
Speaker 1: over Francie Cordero, and he's someone that does have a
Speaker 1: little bit of a power speed combination. Back ineen in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues, he had three six with seventeen home
Speaker 1: runs and fifteen stolen bases. The year before that eleven
Speaker 1: home runs and twenty three steals for Francie Cordero. He's
Speaker 1: still just twenty five years old, and in fact, I
Speaker 1: just took him in an NFBC Draft Champions League that
Speaker 1: I'm in right now, Greg. I took him in the
Speaker 1: twenty sixth round as my sixth outfielder, so at that
Speaker 1: point a little bit of a power speed combination. I
Speaker 1: think he plays most of the time in center field.
Speaker 1: If he struggles, we could see Taylor Trammel, the prospect
Speaker 1: that the Padres traded for last year, get an opportunity
Speaker 1: later on in the season. Yeah, he was the former
Speaker 1: top prospect for the Cincinnati Reds, I believe, and that's correct.
Speaker 1: I remember what he was traded. We were all like,
Speaker 1: what what are you doing? And he's gonna have a spot.
Speaker 1: I was reading the article he tweeted out, UM from
Speaker 1: and will be dot com and regards to San Diego
Speaker 1: Padre listen, Jamelle. Obviously, um his closers would offer to
Speaker 1: you to need than he was. But he hasn't really
Speaker 1: hasn't playing Triple A yet, so we had a lot
Speaker 1: of time before. We're gonna lots of strikeouts for tailors exactly,
Speaker 1: so we have some time. I think this opens up
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of opportunity for Will Myers, who
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to get rid of. So Will
Speaker 1: Meyer's is still gonna get a chance to play here
Speaker 1: Myers and Um Cordero clearly the biggest beneficiaries. Yere, you
Speaker 1: like Trent Grisham, where is Grishaman? Gun Risham is going
Speaker 1: in the month of February four thirty four, so he's
Speaker 1: basically free as well. And in the draft that I'm
Speaker 1: doing right now, he went in the nineteenth round, so
Speaker 1: he Trent Grishmaan goes in the nineteenth round, and I
Speaker 1: got franch to Cordero seven rounds later in a fifteen
Speaker 1: team draft. It was good and turned Christmaan broke out
Speaker 1: last year in the minor leagues. But the thing with
Speaker 1: him was how much of that is legit? Because that
Speaker 1: was far and away the best minor league season he
Speaker 1: ever had. Again, last year with the Milwaukee Brewers, between
Speaker 1: Double A and Triple A, he had twenty six home
Speaker 1: runs with twelve stolen bases and a three batting average
Speaker 1: when an opius over a thousand. So Grisham has some
Speaker 1: upside here, Greg, But that was really the first season
Speaker 1: that he broke out like that. I believe he did
Speaker 1: something different to his swing, Like he changed his swing
Speaker 1: up mechanically, and uh that's why he was able to
Speaker 1: uh kind of make this adjustment and make this jump
Speaker 1: in the minors. Uh, and then the Padres go out
Speaker 1: and trade for him, Greg, Yeah, fair enough? All right.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Frank, let's get in the first
Speaker 1: a DP desk of the season. I pick a number.
Speaker 1: Frank is then going to talk about said player at
Speaker 1: the number. Does he like him? Does he hate him?
Speaker 1: Does he want nothing to do with him? Or is
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Speaker 1: a D D the season. Are you y excited? I'm
Speaker 1: very excited. Using the NNBC a DP in the month
Speaker 1: of February. Greg Susman is gonna give me a number,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about said players. Even a number
Speaker 1: phrase let it come from my head. Oh yeah, You're
Speaker 1: not just gonna think of a random number. So how
Speaker 1: are you gonna do this? Greg Susman's reaching under the
Speaker 1: table and he gets the trustee. Let's spin the wheel,
Speaker 1: Rubbert Duck. Let's spend the wheel of ducks the number
Speaker 1: on each duck. Let's go and away we go. Before
Speaker 1: I do this, we have no idea what numbers are. Well,
Speaker 1: you wrote the numbers. We don't know which players. They
Speaker 1: are not completely random. All right, I'm gonna start before
Speaker 1: I go to the ducks. I'm gonna go a number
Speaker 1: two eight Kobe Bryant, number two forty eight, Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: NFC in the mother February. Who is number? That would
Speaker 1: be Dan's by Swanson? All right, of the Atlanta Brave
Speaker 1: talking hands be Swanson. Uh kind of broke out a
Speaker 1: little bit last year. I remember he was a popular
Speaker 1: waiver wire pick up. Was Dan's by Swanson? Again? Former
Speaker 1: first round picks still just twenty You know what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say twenty years old. He turned twenty six
Speaker 1: years old tomorrow actually, so happy birthday to Dan's be Swanson.
Speaker 1: But he did break out a little bit last year
Speaker 1: seventeen home runs, ten stolen bases, two fifty one batting average.
Speaker 1: I don't think that the offense is ever going to
Speaker 1: get to the point that maybe people expected it too.
Speaker 1: I know he was more so regarded as a complete prospect,
Speaker 1: someone who is a great defender as well, but he
Speaker 1: does offer a little bit of a power to speed
Speaker 1: ish combination. I don't know that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: upside with a dance by Swanson. I love the lineup
Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Braves, but I think a fair projection, Well,
Speaker 1: you had seventeen on runs in a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven games, so if he could stay healthy, maybe there's
Speaker 1: a chance we started to see him mature and get
Speaker 1: to that twenty home run plateau greg with ten to
Speaker 1: twelve stolen bases and no not a great batting average.
Speaker 1: I think that's what you can expect, right, He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna give you between the two forty and two. Swatson
Speaker 1: did have, as you mentioned, a little bit of a breakout.
Speaker 1: There's a time in the middle of the season, You're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's happening right then? It didn't you know?
Speaker 1: He was ringing endorsement very similar speed last year. Ten
Speaker 1: steels in each year caught four or five times. You know,
Speaker 1: I think at twenties, what six years old? Now he's
Speaker 1: going to be who is And I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's that's good enough. There's a lot of guys doing
Speaker 1: swantson Does I do like the hard percentage two and
Speaker 1: a half percent currently projected to bad eighth for the
Speaker 1: Atlanta bra Thats another issue. So are you interruted dances? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm probably going to be out and just looking at
Speaker 1: other players in this range to kind of compare the
Speaker 1: middle infield position. Not a lot of middle infielders in
Speaker 1: this range. Luisa Riya's is going ahead of him. I
Speaker 1: don't really like Luisa Riya's either, but Austin Hayes is
Speaker 1: in this ring. Come just it all comes back to
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes. Shinto Chow is going after him as well.
Speaker 1: Sintu Chu undervalued every season, Greg Great, Frank tomorrow, you
Speaker 1: mentioned Nancy sass birthday, that is to eleven. Let go
Speaker 1: to number two eleven oh, number two eleven. What do
Speaker 1: we have here? Hell, yeah, that would be Oh, this
Speaker 1: is an interesting one. Marcus Stroman the New York Mets.
Speaker 1: So I looked into Marcus Stroman last week. I'm happy
Speaker 1: you did because he changed things up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Like I like Marcus Stroman. Yeah, I was talking about
Speaker 1: I was talking about Stroman with Matt Modica on Twitter
Speaker 1: because I didn't understand the disparity between Stroman and Kiko,
Speaker 1: because they don't really seem that dissimilar. They both get
Speaker 1: a lot of groundballs, not enough strikeouts, and they walk
Speaker 1: too many guys. I will say, Stroman is younger and
Speaker 1: the Swingen strike rade is like two percent higher. So
Speaker 1: does that mean that there should be a sixty pick
Speaker 1: difference between those guys? No, probably not in my opinion.
Speaker 1: But then Matt Moodika brought up how Stroman kind of
Speaker 1: changed his pitch mix a little bit in UH in
Speaker 1: September and he started getting more Swingen strikes, started getting
Speaker 1: more strikeouts. So maybe there's perceived more upside for Stroman,
Speaker 1: But I still don't think that there should be that
Speaker 1: big of a gap between him and Dallas k I
Speaker 1: think that's fine. I like Stroman in the National League.
Speaker 1: He he didn't have a semblance of good luck last year.
Speaker 1: He came home baby back to New York. I like Stroman,
Speaker 1: he could get traded a end midseason obviously. UM, I
Speaker 1: like Marcus Stroman, I can get You know, Marcus Stroman
Speaker 1: at two eleven who the players just going around, going
Speaker 1: right around Marcus Stroman. We have lost the first second. Sorry, Greggy.
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman at two fifteen, six spots earlier draft, No, Musgrove.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Joe Musgrove over Marcus Stroman. Just behind Marcus Stroman,
Speaker 1: we have Griffin Canning, who was a popular breakout stide
Speaker 1: of picture this year as well, Massa Hero tanaka Joey Luke,
Speaker 1: Casey Jose or Queedy, Haleb Smith, Dustin May. Those are
Speaker 1: like the six seven starting pictures that are going after
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman. Just ahead of him, you have Joe Musgrove.
Speaker 1: You have a closer in Ian Kennedy, correct, Mike Fultonevitch
Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Brave, someone who we are slightly interested
Speaker 1: in as well. And then Andrew Heeney. Great can I
Speaker 1: interested in Andrew heiny He's going about fifteen spots ahead.
Speaker 1: Of Marcus Stroman's the whole round. Really wait round Stroman,
Speaker 1: I agree with that, that's fay. But Stroman I did
Speaker 1: want to just bring this up. In the month of
Speaker 1: September saw his k per nine go to the highest
Speaker 1: it wasn't any month, nine point to five k per nine,
Speaker 1: and it's walks per nine dropped to two point nine
Speaker 1: walks for nine. So if he can get that command down,
Speaker 1: lower the walks a little bit, continue to this recent
Speaker 1: surge of strikeouts that he had. Once he came over
Speaker 1: to the New York Mets, they probably figured something out
Speaker 1: with him a little bit, and there's probably a decent
Speaker 1: amount of upside here for Marcus Strumman being drafted in
Speaker 1: the spot. All right, there you go. Hello here, we're
Speaker 1: hearing that all is so, uh, make sure guys downstairs
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Speaker 1: All right, whatever, So we'll go back at the ADPSK.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Let's go number one thirty eight, Frankie,
Speaker 1: number one thirty eight in the month of February. What
Speaker 1: we're getting some good ones today. It is our boy,
Speaker 1: Max Freed, Max Free. Everyone loves Max Free. We're talking
Speaker 1: about Free. Last week, Matt Modica has Max Freed ranked
Speaker 1: is his s he twenty four the Top Stars, and
Speaker 1: we spoke about, you know, some of the hype guys
Speaker 1: this upcoming season. Frankie Montoss I think is in this mix.
Speaker 1: I think Zach Gallen is in this whole segment on
Speaker 1: this last week. Yeah, I like Max Freed a lot
Speaker 1: as well. I probably still would prefer to take Zac
Speaker 1: Gallant ahead of him, although there was a report over
Speaker 1: the weekend that Zack Gallan has to earn the fifth
Speaker 1: starting pitcher job for the Arizona Diamondbacks. But I like
Speaker 1: Max Freed a lotman and I had Modica on FSC
Speaker 1: last week, Greg on Friday, and he said Max Freed
Speaker 1: kind of reminds him of Shane Bieber from last year.
Speaker 1: So not saying that that same thing is going to
Speaker 1: happen kind of get it. You can you can kind
Speaker 1: of see the parallels there. I kind of get it.
Speaker 1: I kind of get like. I like I like Freed
Speaker 1: as a breakout this year as well. Uh, let's continue
Speaker 1: on WEEKA, which Zack Gallan has moved ahead of Max
Speaker 1: Freed and ADP. You think I'm the one fueling that Greg.
Speaker 1: People must be watching the BFFs up next number three
Speaker 1: fourteen we have so when we just spoke about during
Speaker 1: the break, Travis Shaw now with the Toronto Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: So again, I brought up Travis Shaw last week to
Speaker 1: Craig Mission on a seat and he said, what's the
Speaker 1: floor with this guy? Like there's a chance that he's
Speaker 1: cut from the Blue Jays like mid season. He was
Speaker 1: dreadful last year with the Milwaukee Brewers, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to defend that he's been really bad against left handed
Speaker 1: pitching the past couple of years with the Brewers. But
Speaker 1: I think we also can't forget that he had two
Speaker 1: seasons in a row where he was thirty plus home runs.
Speaker 1: Greg really good ballpark in Toronto, good division to hit
Speaker 1: in with other really good ballparks. He's projected to hit
Speaker 1: fifth in a lineup with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. With West,
Speaker 1: with Laura's Gariel Jr. We're all excited about those guys.
Speaker 1: If Travis Saw is heading in the middle of this
Speaker 1: line of Greg. I think there's some upside, especially at
Speaker 1: what three or fourteen pretty good spots Again him, it's okay,
Speaker 1: you know, so for all the reasons we lay Travis
Speaker 1: Shaw over the last couple of years, that's why you're
Speaker 1: buying Mackie and like figure out something went wrong maybe
Speaker 1: in his personal life this past year and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: like we love you and I love the Travis Shaw season.
Speaker 1: Him and Mike Muss we were you know, both of them.
Speaker 1: I know you're still in on Moose. But the Travis
Speaker 1: Shaw thing, the value is there. He's in a good
Speaker 1: line of it. He can just find that stroke again
Speaker 1: and play every day. He might get platooned against left
Speaker 1: hand but again, like going this late, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: find a war with every hitter or pitcher that's being
Speaker 1: drafted outside the top three hundred, right, So there's a
Speaker 1: reason why they're going this late. And again he is
Speaker 1: projected to be a platoon player according to Roster Resource
Speaker 1: with who former Yankee great Brandon Drury. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happened them. But I do like Travis Shaw as
Speaker 1: a corner infielder in a deeper league, maybe an a
Speaker 1: l only as your third Baseman. I think he's someone
Speaker 1: that can bounce back and there's gonna be RBI opportunities
Speaker 1: in the middle of that Blue Jay's line up. Greg
Speaker 1: right up next, Bragan number one sive, number one, sixty
Speaker 1: five in NFBC a DP in the month of Februar. Right,
Speaker 1: he's so excited. I don't know it is so excited.
Speaker 1: It's actually someone on my team, in my current track champion.
Speaker 1: It is not. It might be after that injury. Right. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's Edwin Incarnacion with the Chicago White Sox. Very interesting.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing with Edwin Incarnacion, and this will
Speaker 1: kind of tell you about how I feel about Pete
Speaker 1: Alonso too. I'm gonna try and intertwine these two guys.
Speaker 1: Pete Alonso, based on his profile, is going to strike
Speaker 1: out a lot this year. It's probably gonna hit you
Speaker 1: around to fifty I think, similar to what he did
Speaker 1: last year. He makes great contact when he makes contact,
Speaker 1: but he still strikes out a lot. And I'm here
Speaker 1: to tell you that if you want a profile of
Speaker 1: someone who's gonna hit you to fifty in thirty five
Speaker 1: plus home runs with a hundred plus r B, I
Speaker 1: why are you taking Pete Alonso in the third round
Speaker 1: of an NFBC draft when you can get Edwin and
Speaker 1: Carnacion in the tenth or eleventh, I understand. Pete Alonso
Speaker 1: is way younger, the upside is way higher, and he's
Speaker 1: coming off the season where just hit fifty three home runs,
Speaker 1: albeit in a season with the juice ball. We don't
Speaker 1: know what type of ball is going to be used
Speaker 1: this season in baseball, but one thing we do know
Speaker 1: for sure is the consistency that we've gotten from Edwin
Speaker 1: and Carnassion for the past decade plus. So I think
Speaker 1: he's another lock for thirty plus home runs and in
Speaker 1: that White Sox lineup, Greig, you could argue is one
Speaker 1: of the best, maybe the best line up in baseball
Speaker 1: right now, one of the most exciting. I think that
Speaker 1: these guys have similar profiles. Give me Edwin and Cornassion
Speaker 1: in the tenth or eleventh versus Peterlanso in the third. Listen,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, because Edwin Cornassion when he
Speaker 1: is healthy, he's the same guy that he has been
Speaker 1: his entire career. Playing a good White Flux lineup right
Speaker 1: in the middle of the order, I think you have
Speaker 1: to like Edwin and Carnassio in that spot. I give it.
Speaker 1: I'm down at that number. Here, give it to me, Um,
Speaker 1: I have as my starting first baseman, which it might
Speaker 1: not be ideal. You might like him more as a corner.
Speaker 1: But again to forty plus plus home run, Yes, this
Speaker 1: would you Cornascio in that spot or the guy we
Speaker 1: really like five rounds earlier. So that's the thing. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have a similar profile as well. Right, So I
Speaker 1: kept looking at Reese Hoskins, and I asked myself, why
Speaker 1: don't I just wait a couple of rounds and take Edwin?
Speaker 1: And I don't think that Edwin and Carnacion is dissimilar
Speaker 1: from a Reese Hoskins. Greg, let's hit one more before
Speaker 1: the break? One more. It's eight DP end of the show.
Speaker 1: That's correct. That one is I'm trying to get. For
Speaker 1: some reason, it's not Jose Barrios of the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 1: Greig doesn't like that one. He's just like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about Jose Brias. Why not? Greg? I
Speaker 1: don't mind him, I don't. I think that he kind
Speaker 1: of just is who he is. When Frank says that
Speaker 1: he's not he's not a target, that's for sure. He's
Speaker 1: not a target. But he's not like an a void either.
Speaker 1: If you need an s P three, s P two
Speaker 1: and he Rios Brand Woodruff. But they're close in my rankings,
Speaker 1: very close. Gon FBC two for all goes it goes
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