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Speaker 1: looks like the pitchers are ramping up, they continue to
Speaker 1: step backwards.
Speaker 3: I did a draft Tuesday night and I took Jerry
Speaker 3: Jones as my SP four. So I need the season
Speaker 3: to start and I need another draft here to kind
Speaker 3: of cleanse my palatee after that, because I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: dropping my SP four on the first FAB run this Sunday,
Speaker 3: so I definitely need another draft to clear mind.
Speaker 4: I need to know where have the The big talk
Speaker 4: of the town here around Fantasy Pros was your Roki
Speaker 4: Sazaki rank. Absolutely shocked at the show that we did,
Speaker 4: so I got to hear we did this on discord.
Speaker 4: I told Piece of p about it. Where have you
Speaker 4: settled on Roki Sazaki?
Speaker 5: Twenty seven?
Speaker 4: Still pretty high?
Speaker 5: Too high for your program? Pretty high.
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Speaker 1: morons around here. Let's talk about the draft today. It's
Speaker 1: short drafts, the same thing. Uh, they're just very clean.
Speaker 1: They use that oxy clean. They're incredibly clean morons. We've
Speaker 1: got ten teams here joining us today. We've got Michael,
Speaker 1: We've got one player, We've got show May, We've got
Speaker 1: the Welsh, we've got Frankie, Chewbacca's back again, Bogman is
Speaker 1: here at one oh eight, Venom is back again at
Speaker 1: one oh nine, and Joel Rico in the ten spot.
Speaker 1: Head to head categories is what we're doing. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna start this bad boy up. And yes, I did
Speaker 1: take the one spot today because well, frankly, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: hosting as well, so it's a lot easier for me
Speaker 1: to just pick on the turn and I just did
Speaker 1: one where I was at the bottom. So now we're
Speaker 1: gonna go to the top. I've done them in the
Speaker 1: middle too. I think it was five last time, Welsh,
Speaker 1: wasn't I last time we did this. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear anybody complaining that I'm in the one you
Speaker 1: want to complain, I think it's somewhere else. Care all right?
Speaker 1: Uh for this one pick. It is interesting because in
Speaker 1: the ten team league, the supply and demand a little
Speaker 1: bit different in terms of what's available for you. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have more pictures available supplying demand wise. Outfield, we
Speaker 1: are playing four outfielders. We're doing corner infield, we're doing
Speaker 1: two util spots. No bench today either. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: things off with my boy Bobby Witt Junior at the
Speaker 1: shortstop position. See how this one goes. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna pass an Otani for somebody else. Let them do
Speaker 1: it and see if I can still win the draft.
Speaker 1: That's my challenge. Michael's up next. Our next guest here,
Speaker 1: Chris Welsh, is at one oh five. So Welsh, you've
Speaker 1: been loving this one o five spot. So tell me
Speaker 1: what are are you looking for? You're looking for the
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez fall, the Wan Soto fall. What do you
Speaker 1: need to call in guest.
Speaker 4: By the way, thanks, Hey, thanks for having me on
Speaker 4: your show, Joe. I'm really happy. This is a great show.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Joe and Friends here, everybody, Joe, He's a
Speaker 1: p and Friends never.
Speaker 4: Lets you know Ward nominated show that you only solely
Speaker 4: put together. So thanks for having me just be a little,
Speaker 4: tiny baby part of it. I pick five because it
Speaker 4: was the best pick that had some separation between you guys.
Speaker 4: Not that I'm necessarily in love with it, but I
Speaker 4: have talked about loving this area because in a perfect world,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get Ellie de la Cruz. This is not
Speaker 4: a perfect world, so I won't get Ellie dey la Cruz,
Speaker 4: but I get a choice between Judge, Jusi Ramirez and Ellie.
Speaker 4: So an a ten team in any league format, this
Speaker 4: is an incredible spot in a ten team. That five,
Speaker 4: I'm also going to wrap around into an incredible place.
Speaker 4: So five is like absolutely ideal here and I'm going
Speaker 4: to get my dream. Dreams do come true. And it's
Speaker 4: only because you invited me on your show, Joe, So
Speaker 4: thank you so much of a live take Ellie de
Speaker 4: la Cruz on your program.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's nice to be treated as a guest.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like I mean, it means
Speaker 1: I treat you better than I would normally treat you,
Speaker 1: I would think. So Bobby Wood goes one show, he
Speaker 1: goes to Aaron Judge goes three, Jose Ramirez at four,
Speaker 1: Ellie de Lacruz to the Welsh at five. So Bogman,
Speaker 1: you're at eight. So when you're drafted from the eight
Speaker 1: spot in a ten team league, again, calculus changes a
Speaker 1: little bit. When they're in these shallower leagues. You really
Speaker 1: got to load up on that star power. Are you
Speaker 1: somebody that because there might be a little bit more
Speaker 1: supplying amount of hitting, Or willing to go pitching early
Speaker 1: or are you willing to go prefer maybe pitching later.
Speaker 4: Say his name, just say his name. Who you're gonna take,
Speaker 4: You're gonna beat around the bush, Just say who you're taking.
Speaker 4: We know who you're taking.
Speaker 2: I'm taking corporate Carol. Everybody knows. But I answer the question,
Speaker 2: but also, uh, I'm not I'll take pitching at the
Speaker 2: end of the round, not in not even at eight,
Speaker 2: So end of the round I'll do it. I won't
Speaker 2: do it here. I like a pitcher to fall back
Speaker 2: to me in this spot. They never do, so I
Speaker 2: just this this part, this part of the draft to me,
Speaker 2: has been the most challenging. So since it's a mock,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to see what I put together. I
Speaker 2: was drafted from eight yesterday when Welsh and I did
Speaker 2: a mock for i TL and I actually put together
Speaker 2: the best team that I feel like I put together yet.
Speaker 2: So it was positive yesterday. So we'll see if I
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 4: You have a really you have a really good shot
Speaker 4: at a picture. We saw pocket Aces go in a
Speaker 4: twelve team mock draft we did. I don't think Rico
Speaker 4: is going to be a crazy person like that, as
Speaker 4: he's not, So you are going to actually you are
Speaker 4: officially going to get one of those pictures if you
Speaker 4: want it, Boggs.
Speaker 1: If you want them. So Ellie goes to Welsh at
Speaker 1: one O five, one O six to one Soto, then
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker at win O seven, Corbyn Carroll at one
Speaker 1: O eight to bog bogmin Why Carol over Gunnar Henderson
Speaker 1: just had a curiosity because.
Speaker 2: Gunner Henderson has the oblique going into the season and
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll doesn't. I mean that's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: Matt Okay Fernando Tattis Junior at the turn to Joe
Speaker 1: Rico along with hometown hero of Vlad Guerrero Junior, Joey.
Speaker 1: When you heard yesterday the you know, the GM talking
Speaker 1: about we're hopeful we get an extension done. Did did
Speaker 1: you buy that at all? On the Vlatty News.
Speaker 3: He's totally full of it. I don't believe a word
Speaker 3: he says. I hope he's right, but I'm not taking
Speaker 3: him at face value anymore. They do not serve the
Speaker 3: benefit of the doubt. But I think Vladdie going into
Speaker 3: a contract year, I think he's I think he's going
Speaker 3: to have a massive season, like I have him predicted
Speaker 3: for American League MVP. I think he's going to just
Speaker 3: go for forty bombs hit three twenty and just blow
Speaker 3: up and then get a massive contract.
Speaker 5: Probably from Uncle Steve. Joe.
Speaker 3: You guys are probably gonna kind of me, But I'll
Speaker 3: take him this year in the contract here when he's
Speaker 3: got all these people talking about him, and he's doing
Speaker 3: interviews talking about maybe going to the Yankees, and I
Speaker 3: feel like this is a year for him to just
Speaker 3: blow up.
Speaker 5: And then Tatis is the other pick. He's been a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 3: Disappointing the last couple of years, but I feel like
Speaker 3: there's still a thirty thirty bat there potentially.
Speaker 5: Oh I do too.
Speaker 1: I mean, yesterday did strike out on three pitchers against
Speaker 1: Adrian Houser. I watch that happen in real time. Mooki
Speaker 1: Betts goes at two two Bogman, You took Paul Skeens
Speaker 1: instead of school Bawl. So what made you do that?
Speaker 1: Just out of curiosity?
Speaker 2: I mean they're both, They're both kind of a coin
Speaker 2: flip here. I feel like Skeens just has more upside
Speaker 2: than any pitcher in baseball. So with all of them
Speaker 2: being so volatile, give me the guy with the most upside.
Speaker 1: Okay, So after that upside of Skiens, Lindor goes next
Speaker 1: to Juwbaka, Frankie takes Julio Welsh, you ended up taking
Speaker 1: to Reschooble. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 4: Should? Pretty solid about it. I don't do this often.
Speaker 4: I do tend to take a third round pitcher in
Speaker 4: Garrett Croche a lot. But you know, in the ten team,
Speaker 4: the player pool is it's a lot more accessible having elite,
Speaker 4: elite players at certain positions to sacrifice getting high end
Speaker 4: hitters is okay to me. So to be able to
Speaker 4: get like a theoretical number one overall pitcher at two,
Speaker 4: there's just still a great playerpool that's about to come
Speaker 4: back to me. So I'm pretty I'm pretty confident with
Speaker 4: I passed up some good players, but I think this
Speaker 4: build and a ten team, I just like, we're all
Speaker 4: gonna have good pictures. But if you can have a
Speaker 4: separator of having eliteness in certain spots, I think it's
Speaker 4: a It's a really solid advantage. So I'm happy about it,
Speaker 4: and I'm a Joe Rico.
Speaker 1: Is elite is a word?
Speaker 5: Elite neis?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: I think it's the word. Yeah, I should know this.
Speaker 3: I went to journalism school. I should know this.
Speaker 1: I was good. That's why I asked you. I figured, well,
Speaker 1: I asked the journalism school guy. If eliteis is a word,
Speaker 1: you should be right on that, yes or no.
Speaker 4: Elateness miss elitnistniss.
Speaker 5: That's where you might be pushing it a little bit
Speaker 5: with the elite.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, that might be a little too much elite.
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper goes at two oh seven to show May
Speaker 1: then we have Alvarez going next at two eight Jackson
Speaker 1: Tiro to a nine. At the turn, I was contemplating,
Speaker 1: you know, the Freddie Freeman health I feel like, just
Speaker 1: really worried, like the end of last year at the
Speaker 1: beginning of this year too. I'm sure he'll be fine.
Speaker 1: This was a point that he got, take Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1: But it's not it's head to head roto category. So
Speaker 1: I want guys to do everything.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: And Zach Wheeler was very tempting. He did go right
Speaker 1: after I made my two selections, but instead I went
Speaker 1: when Jared Duran and Jackson Merrill two outfielders. They give
Speaker 1: you power, give you speed, give you everything, give me fuel,
Speaker 1: give me fire, give me that which I desire, and
Speaker 1: I'm very happy. There you go. So I love these
Speaker 1: first three picks. To me, this is a super annoying
Speaker 1: team to deal with in a shallow rodo head to
Speaker 1: head format. Zach Wheeler goes at three oh two, Trey
Speaker 1: Turner three oh three. Austin Riiley was the other guy
Speaker 1: was contemplating. He goes at three oh four. The Welsh
Speaker 1: cad tell Marte, Yeah, Homer, nice pick here at three
Speaker 1: oh five.
Speaker 4: Now what a horrible pick, cold, tell Marte with thirty
Speaker 4: five home and high batting average and runs and RBI.
Speaker 4: Now I think this is what we're talking about, Like
Speaker 4: it's there's a great third round value. I've never gotten
Speaker 4: to tell Marte before, so you know, I can kind
Speaker 4: of bounce around between hitting and pitching. Speaking of Homer,
Speaker 4: just real quick. Looking at the chat, Laker had asked
Speaker 4: about a lot of Corbyn Carroll stuff. He I dont
Speaker 4: know why Corbyn Carroll got everybody all excited. Maybe it's
Speaker 4: because Bagman and I are there, But he said, how's
Speaker 4: Corbyn's shoulder? From all intentsive purposes, it looks like it
Speaker 4: is in a great spot. He's had a killer spring.
Speaker 4: That's the other thing with Gunner, Like Gunner has had
Speaker 4: this injury, he's amazing. But Corbyn Carroll, it looks like
Speaker 4: he's back on his rookie level stuff. He's hitting the
Speaker 4: ball well and his shoulder looks great. So I think
Speaker 4: that's why it makes a lot of sense to take
Speaker 4: him at eight, and you know, no injury like Gunner Henderson.
Speaker 1: Right now, Frankie takes Jess Chisman three six, Garrett Crochet
Speaker 1: off the board of three seven. I was wondering if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go scooball crochet and try to like, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a show off there.
Speaker 4: I might have, well, not now, but I doubt now.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about it.
Speaker 1: Well, I knew it wasn't making it back to you,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman to Scott Bogman. So where I was afraid,
Speaker 1: Scott bog is courageous. So Freddy Freeman. Look, first base
Speaker 1: in any depth of league isn't as deep as it
Speaker 1: used to be. Box, I know you're on the clock.
Speaker 1: I'll let you pick. Then we'll come back to here.
Speaker 1: Two trusted Venom at Jose Ao two A three h
Speaker 1: nine and then Joe Rico at the turnold and Gilbert three
Speaker 1: ten and four a one man in Machado. So you
Speaker 1: got Vlad at first, Machado at third. You got your
Speaker 1: starting pitcher, you got your outfielder, Joe. This is pretty
Speaker 1: good looking build so far.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I like the bass.
Speaker 3: I've got a little bit of speed, although that's probably
Speaker 3: something I need a little bit later on. But I've
Speaker 3: got a nice base of power and batting average, which
Speaker 3: I think is very hard to come across later in
Speaker 3: the draft. I also got an ace that I can
Speaker 3: rely on for probably close to two hundred innings again,
Speaker 3: so very much liking the start. But I'm worried a
Speaker 3: little bit about the speed. But in a ten team league,
Speaker 3: I don't really need to worry so much.
Speaker 1: That's right. We do have two RP spots to fill
Speaker 1: as well in this one, So Michael Harris to trusted Vendom,
Speaker 1: who's autogantically get an F for me. Raphael Deveres to
Speaker 1: Scott Bogman, So Bogman for a guy who's worried, you know,
Speaker 1: worries about injury. Guys, Devor is not exactly one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Also having some you know, be some unhappiness settling in
Speaker 1: there too. You maybe, you know, Papa gummy into his
Speaker 1: breakfast to see if maybe he starts feeling better about.
Speaker 2: This move to DH eventually listen, uh, if I'm sitting
Speaker 2: here in the fourth round and Devers is available to me,
Speaker 2: And by the way, he played one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: eight games last year, so it's not like you missed
Speaker 2: a big chunk of the season or anything. And you know,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, I think he's gonna be fine by the
Speaker 2: time real opening day rolls around. So let's let's go.
Speaker 2: I love these guys falling. This is a perfect draft
Speaker 2: for me. So far, I am loving it. The only
Speaker 2: thing that I didn't like was when Welsh too Ketel
Speaker 2: Marte two picks or three picks or whatever in front
Speaker 2: of me, because that's who I That's who I wanted
Speaker 2: really with that Freddie spot. But I love these guys dropping.
Speaker 2: And you were asking about Carol before. Carol's hitting three
Speaker 2: ninety four with four bombs this spring so good. Shoulder
Speaker 2: looks fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's pretty good, all right, Matt Olsen at
Speaker 1: four oh four, Pete Alonzo four oh five. Welsh, you
Speaker 1: took Ronald of Cooney at four h six. You absolute
Speaker 1: hit you all these shows we keep doing, you freaking hypocrite.
Speaker 1: How dare you take giving me crap on all these shows?
Speaker 1: Or has my good logic finally seeped into your dense
Speaker 1: brain finally that Ronda Cooney is a good pick here.
Speaker 4: Hah, your logic has not seeped in whatsoever. But we're
Speaker 4: a team. I'm on the clock, though, so let me
Speaker 4: all right, So gohead you pick.
Speaker 1: I'll come back to you and let you find an
Speaker 1: excuse for a while. You took Rondakutia and you can
Speaker 1: get me crap about why I do made I made no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Now now you have to wait. The guests to have
Speaker 1: to wait. If you were really the host of the show,
Speaker 1: you can talk Ozzy Alby's at four oh seven, Corey
Speaker 1: Seeger four o waight, Chris Sale at four o nine.
Speaker 1: I was gonna go Sale Reagan's instead, I had to
Speaker 1: settle for Reagans and Blake Snell. I'll do that in
Speaker 1: the pitching run has begun, folks after Snell. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good duo right there, got them big
Speaker 1: lefty strikeout guys. Oh Man, rotation man, Blake snell Man,
Speaker 1: Corbyn Burns. The number two starter apparently on the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: is by all that money is that gallon? Starting opening day,
Speaker 1: Dylan Ceas goes at five zho three. This is the
Speaker 1: sweet spot and I'm glad I grabbed the two because
Speaker 1: obviously there it goes Albi's at four oh seven grade value.
Speaker 1: By the way, the showmate who then takes William Contreras
Speaker 1: at five to four, and then well she took whitet
Speaker 1: langforst so get doubled up on outfield. Ellie Marte Acunya
Speaker 1: Langford and schoobll as the ace. So let's talk about Acunia.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Langford.
Speaker 4: So, like I've I've been kind of anti ronald'cunya in
Speaker 4: a lot of spots, but we're playing in a ten
Speaker 4: team and that was my whole thing with Rea School
Speaker 4: earlier is in a ten team, we've got the ability
Speaker 4: to just rebalance out this roster more than any other thing.
Speaker 4: And that's also why you know, you've heard a lot
Speaker 4: of people say like, well in a ten team, this
Speaker 4: is this in a you know, a twelve or fifteen,
Speaker 4: the values are different. Man, I can I can redo this?
Speaker 4: Like I just got White Langford. Is I have to
Speaker 4: put a little bit more focus on outfield taking Acunya,
Speaker 4: but like his talent, that I'm going to be able
Speaker 4: to baseline it with four outfielders is a no brainer
Speaker 4: in the fourth round here. So like as much as
Speaker 4: I've been turning against it, ten team kind of opens
Speaker 4: things up. So ronald'cunya with Ellie Da la Cruze could
Speaker 4: tell Marte White Langford, we might they might make this
Speaker 4: my show. After this show, might you might be kicking
Speaker 4: rocks and this will be my show.
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Speaker 1: Ronald Acunya fielding questions from reporters, and my goodness, he
Speaker 1: looked happy and lighthearted. He didn't seem like a guy
Speaker 1: who was in pain, didn't seem like a guy who
Speaker 1: had any issues. He said, he was basically ninety nine
Speaker 1: five percent already. That to me is a very positive sign.
Speaker 1: I think the language is important. I think the demeter
Speaker 1: is important when a guy's coming back for an injury.
Speaker 1: And the word he used when they asked him how
Speaker 1: do you feel? He said, I feel strong And guess
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Speaker 1: let's get this mock draft going again. Uh we have
Speaker 1: Wyatt Langford, then O'Neal cruz at five oh six, Chewy
Speaker 1: takes James Wood of five oh seven. Here we go,
Speaker 1: Jacob de Gram, Scott Bogman. I don't even what have
Speaker 1: you done? What's Scott Pogin? What have you done? Well?
Speaker 2: They already said.
Speaker 1: He's gonna spend time on the iel, and you're taking
Speaker 1: You're taking Jacob de Gram. I know he's your two,
Speaker 1: but come.
Speaker 2: On, yes, he's my two to Paul Schemes. By the way,
Speaker 2: and you didn't get to see a Rico squirm like
Speaker 2: I did right when I did pick Jacob. You know
Speaker 2: what to pick, Sjo Rico is.
Speaker 1: The best thing that could happen to you in this
Speaker 1: draft is that he takes Jacob to Graham.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm on an island with de Gram. I I
Speaker 3: think he's fine. Like, I don't even care if they're
Speaker 3: gonna limit him, Like if they're gonna go five or
Speaker 3: six innings starts, Let's say he makes twenty five starts.
Speaker 3: That's factoring in like even a month off. That's one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty innings twenty five by five. I think
Speaker 3: he's so potentially a PSIM.
Speaker 1: Would value those innings just out of curious. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look at see.
Speaker 2: What, So that's better than taking on the last time
Speaker 2: he pitched, Joe.
Speaker 1: I know the last time he pitched with twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: So that's the last time he pitched. And you know what,
Speaker 1: Look it is now twenty twenty five. I've had it
Speaker 1: with all this Jacob de Grom apologist nonsense. It's crazy
Speaker 1: to me. It's a penman league. He's my second picture.
Speaker 1: You're telling me that Michael King, Pablo Lopez goes out there,
Speaker 1: there's one hundred and eighty innings every year, uh imnauga,
Speaker 1: considering how good he looked on a really good Cub team,
Speaker 1: like you're you'd rather take da Gram obviously than all
Speaker 1: franber Valdez's steady Eddie every year. All those guys more
Speaker 1: comfortable than d Grom.
Speaker 2: Every picture has injury risk, Joe, every single one.
Speaker 1: D Grom has every single injury risk. He is the
Speaker 1: worst about this.
Speaker 4: But everybody hurts.
Speaker 2: He's my number two. I just want to reiterate that
Speaker 2: he is my my number two pitcher, and I will
Speaker 2: take one hundred and twenty Jacob de gram innings over
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty of all of those guys that
Speaker 2: you just mentioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it probably is. You'll have to get three seasons.
Speaker 1: Jacob Grama gets one hundred and twenty. Maybe a risk
Speaker 1: I'm willing to take in it. I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: breaking your chops. But it's again a point counterpoint you
Speaker 1: decide in your dress would you like better a manual?
Speaker 1: Class A five h nine. Devin Williams did, Joe Alrico
Speaker 1: so Eurico. Your your pivot was just to not take
Speaker 1: a starting picture at all. You took a reliever in
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber. Are those spike picks here? Did you just
Speaker 1: get mad about the de Grom thing or what?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 3: I wanted Clausay and Lawrence Butler and then when you
Speaker 3: pause the draft, something got messed up and it gave
Speaker 3: me Shoorber instead of Lawrence Butler.
Speaker 5: But I'll take it like that's my fault.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, I'm blaming it on you. It's your fault,
Speaker 3: but I'm I'm taking it like that.
Speaker 2: And then I took Lawrence Butler also, but.
Speaker 5: It's honestly like Schoreber.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Bogwin just has the team that I want
Speaker 3: here essentially, but Sharber is still gonna give me forty
Speaker 3: plus homers like I didn't really need the power considering
Speaker 3: the bill I have. But now I just can sit
Speaker 3: back and kind of relax. In terms of home runs,
Speaker 3: I'm tied for first and projected home runs, so I'm
Speaker 3: pretty fine with that, and then getting a lockdown closer,
Speaker 3: like there's gonna be a run here at some point.
Speaker 3: I have Williams as my number two closer, so I
Speaker 3: don't mind it pivoting off at de Grom, but I
Speaker 3: always want to Groam.
Speaker 5: I want him time.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. So Lawrence Butler Bogwin. Now I
Speaker 1: love Lawrence Butler. So now we're friends again. I think
Speaker 1: he's got upside for a thirty thirty season. What do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean it was ever since the All Star
Speaker 2: break last year. Right he went into the Ulcar break,
Speaker 2: he hit three bombs and coming out of that just
Speaker 2: started mashing. And hopefully that can continue into this season
Speaker 2: and he can be an All Star again. He was
Speaker 2: absolutely outstanding last year.
Speaker 1: Okay, after Butler, Michael King goes to Chewi, Frankie takes
Speaker 1: to Oscar. Welsh is on the clonk with Brent Rooker,
Speaker 1: So I'll let him take his seventh round pick. Mason
Speaker 1: Miller at six h seven, cj Abrams six oh eight,
Speaker 1: Yamamoto at six point nine, and then I went ahead
Speaker 1: and took my corners. This is this is the perfect storm.
Speaker 1: This is my tear drop off. There were two third basemen.
Speaker 1: I still liked Ken and Arrow and Vientos, and then
Speaker 1: there was one first baseman. I still love this, Josh Nailer.
Speaker 1: So I got Nailor and kem and Arow. This could
Speaker 1: not be better because I fear the drop off at
Speaker 1: the corners. I don't like it even at ten team leagues.
Speaker 1: This is exactly what I wanted. I got two starters,
Speaker 1: two outfielders of Superstar and Bobby Witt, and I got
Speaker 1: my corners done there. Fran Bar Valdos goes next at
Speaker 1: seven oh two, seven oh three, hater iman Aga Welsh,
Speaker 1: Logan Web, very steady pick there. I love the Brent
Speaker 1: Rooker selection. So you've got some real power here building
Speaker 1: which is terrific, really good offense, and now you've dipped
Speaker 1: back into the pitching well. As Logan Web is your two,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about him as your number two
Speaker 1: and Rooker's power.
Speaker 4: I'm okay, well, Rooker, I'm very happy about it. I'm
Speaker 4: trying to take Rooker everywhere I can. I want to
Speaker 4: go for massive power. I was thinking about double down,
Speaker 4: doubling down on more really really big power, but I
Speaker 4: pivoted just because I only have Schooble. I like logan
Speaker 4: Web to get a bunch of innings. He's not exactly
Speaker 4: I don't I think the biggest upside play. But I
Speaker 4: also think taking logan Web is my number two, even
Speaker 4: though it's a tiny bit higher, enables me to take
Speaker 4: some shots because we are we're about to enter this
Speaker 4: pitching It's not a dead zone. It's this weird pitching zone.
Speaker 4: It's a twilight pitching zone where there's all these pitchers
Speaker 4: with like different injuries and potential upsides and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And I feel like logan Web kind of enables me
Speaker 4: on that a tiny bit more. But Rooker I'm very
Speaker 4: very happy with.
Speaker 1: So the one thing Welsh likes, it's a good enabler.
Speaker 1: That's what he wants. He wants to get enabled there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue on here with the rest of
Speaker 1: the picks. After Welsh, a selection of Logan Web. Marcus
Speaker 1: Simeon at seven oh six, I gotta tell you, I
Speaker 1: thought that was a lock there, Welsh, I'm surprised. Another
Speaker 1: other shock. Oh that's right, you aread a Marte. That's right.
Speaker 1: Who cares you play him at the middle infield spot?
Speaker 1: You just be a jerk.
Speaker 4: I want to find Joe Rico is a bad person. Yeah,
Speaker 4: not a good person, And I don't think he should
Speaker 4: be on this show anymore because he's purposely trying to
Speaker 4: hurt me and I don't think it's great.
Speaker 2: No more guests.
Speaker 1: Here's one from Watkins. Here I have Naylor and Walker.
Speaker 1: Hope Walker stays healthy with a rooker on top. Well,
Speaker 1: that's your private life, so you tell me whatever that's
Speaker 1: all about. All right, Let's go to Bogman's pick. Marcelo
Speaker 1: Zuna at seven eight, very good one. There he's on
Speaker 1: the clock from the eighth round. George Kirby at seven
Speaker 1: o nine, and then the afore mentioned hated Joe Alrico,
Speaker 1: Spencer Schwellenbach, and Tyler Glass. Now that this is how
Speaker 1: you build upside right here, third starter Tyler Glass. Now
Speaker 1: again we'll get to one hundred and fifty innings. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but he does pitch on the Dodgers, So
Speaker 1: I'm willing to find out. So let's talk about Schwellenbach
Speaker 1: and Glass now here. Give me your thoughts on these
Speaker 1: two picks here, Joe, I've grown, I've.
Speaker 3: Grown to love dwell and Bach Well. It's just part
Speaker 3: of the reason why probably doing shows with him all
Speaker 3: draft season. I love him. I love Schwellenbach. I think
Speaker 3: he's a top twenty pitch of this season. And this
Speaker 3: is the kind of format where you take a chance
Speaker 3: on a Glass now when it's a ten team league,
Speaker 3: when their replacement values high in deeper formats, he's probably
Speaker 3: your SP two, maybe even some people have MSP one,
Speaker 3: but SP three. Even if he does miss some time,
Speaker 3: there's lots of options on the waiver wire in a
Speaker 3: ten team league.
Speaker 5: So gimme Glass now all day.
Speaker 1: Giving him Glass now, boys and girls, all right, So
Speaker 1: after Glass now goes, you have Stephen Kwan off the board,
Speaker 1: who improved his power last year. So the whole segment
Speaker 1: on that, it was very interesting how he did that.
Speaker 1: Scott Bogman, you got a closer here, Russell Iglesias, So
Speaker 1: Ozuna and Iglesias go into Atlanta for two.
Speaker 2: Picks here, Box, Yeah, I mean the big Bear just
Speaker 2: gives you such a boost, right, with all the power
Speaker 2: numbers and the batting average was high last year, so
Speaker 2: Uhlkozuna where I got him there? And then I just
Speaker 2: you know, the closers are gonna start going even in
Speaker 2: a ten man league, They're gonna fly off the board
Speaker 2: pretty quick here. So I wanted to get one of
Speaker 2: the elite ones. And I think the Braves are gonna
Speaker 2: win a bunch of games this year, so Iglesias should
Speaker 2: have a ton of saves.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on here to some of the
Speaker 1: other picks here. Welsh is a good one here, love
Speaker 1: this one. Alex Bregman goes eight o four to eight
Speaker 1: oh five Santander, and then Luis Robert to the Welsh
Speaker 1: at eighth six. Robert could be a league winner. I've
Speaker 1: been talking about this for a while. I know we
Speaker 1: all have healthy in the beginning of the year. What
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for him to get moved somewhere else
Speaker 1: and what that could possibly do for his draft stock
Speaker 1: and obviously his fantasy value here he's only one year
Speaker 1: removed from a brilliant thirty plus homer twenty plus homer season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I need to make sure I'm back up outfield,
Speaker 4: just a tiny bit more with a kunya, and I
Speaker 4: got a lot aboutting average. I've got Kotel, I've got
Speaker 4: a Kunya. I've got Langford Rooker. If he can, you know,
Speaker 4: get into a similar range of where he was last year,
Speaker 4: Ellie could maybe go either way so I can boost
Speaker 4: up a tiny bit of the batting average. Concerns that
Speaker 4: might go with Luis Robert. But he fits my bill
Speaker 4: absolutely perfectly, So that's why I jumped down it.
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds eight oh seven to show may one player
Speaker 1: takes hells Ley than Brenton Doyle goes to Michael. I
Speaker 1: took Riley Greed at eight oh ten. I love me
Speaker 1: some Riley green Man. I think he is on the
Speaker 1: precipice of really having a different level season. But last year,
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty seven games, twenty four homers scored
Speaker 1: eighty plus runs, drove in seventy four at four steals,
Speaker 1: two sixty patting average. I think there's another level in
Speaker 1: his game. And then Aaron Nola steady as it goes,
Speaker 1: third starter, love this great team, good situation, prove bullpen
Speaker 1: Adley Rutchman at nine oh two. Then at nine oh three,
Speaker 1: Willia damas Seya Suzuki at nine oh four. The Welsh
Speaker 1: goes closer at nine oh five with Andre's Munioz. I
Speaker 1: almost took him just to see how irritated I could
Speaker 1: get you el then I decided to just back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know I would have been I had actually
Speaker 4: been thinking about him a tiny bit earlier. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I've said I think Andris Munios has got the potential
Speaker 4: to be a top five closer this year, especially if
Speaker 4: that kick change up starts to play any little extra
Speaker 4: role into his arsenal. But you got pitchers that are
Speaker 4: gonna put him in the spot. You just need an
Speaker 4: offense that's going to score some runs. But I love
Speaker 4: the upside of Andres Munos, and he was the last
Speaker 4: of like a tier, you know, unless you feel like
Speaker 4: really positive about Felix Batista, and you know he's going
Speaker 4: to maybe miss some back to backs and stuff. But
Speaker 4: I love Andres Munios. I'm happy to have got a
Speaker 4: closer since we are locking closers down with two rpace spots.
Speaker 1: Well, look, Batista one hundred and ten strikeouts in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, just sixty one innings. That's a very exciting prospect,
Speaker 1: you know, opening Day's data is still uncertain for him,
Speaker 1: and we'll see how that goes. So do you think
Speaker 1: that Welsh Batista is a guy that you will see
Speaker 1: in April?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it already looks like that's going to
Speaker 4: be the case. But they're not going to like let
Speaker 4: him pitch back to backs. He's not going to get
Speaker 4: every save opportunity, and I kind of think that could
Speaker 4: continue for a little while. So yeah, no, I think
Speaker 4: they're going to throw him out in April, but I
Speaker 4: just am not sure about the you know, the I
Speaker 4: don't know if he hits thirty saves this year, so
Speaker 4: I think he comes at a little bit high of
Speaker 4: a cost.
Speaker 1: Okay, next on the draft board, after Welsh's selection of
Speaker 1: Andres Munio's Bryce Miller ten or Biby Bob mean, you
Speaker 1: take Jordan Westburg as the you know, year's gone on
Speaker 1: here so far in spring you see Kobe Meyo sent down.
Speaker 1: That's good for Westburg's value and coming off of a
Speaker 1: productive season, do you think he can repeat what he
Speaker 1: did last year in one hundred and seven games over
Speaker 1: a full one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: Something, I hope, So, you know, and he is hitting
Speaker 2: very well in spring. He's not driving in a bunch,
Speaker 2: but he is hitting three oh eight. So I think
Speaker 2: that's a pretty strong start, looking good, and I really
Speaker 2: need a second basement, and it really starts to fall
Speaker 2: off here, so wanted to get one in Westbrook. Was
Speaker 2: still available to me.
Speaker 1: Christian Walker at nine o nine, and then at the
Speaker 1: turn another closer to Joe Rico, Joan Duran and then
Speaker 1: we have Boba Schett here on the bounce back another
Speaker 1: one too. It's just on the the big Instagram account
Speaker 1: of the Blue Jays chatting with the buddy of mine
Speaker 1: over there. He's a big fan of our show, by
Speaker 1: the way, So Dan, if you're listening, shout out to Dan.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about this lineup, and I'm very
Speaker 1: positive about Bobachet's bounce back potential. I think last year
Speaker 1: just injuries and just never got going. When you got
Speaker 1: guys playing for money like Vladdie and Bobaschet, it's a
Speaker 1: good scenario and Bobachet's in a good spot here to
Speaker 1: bounce back. Look at this value you're getting year over
Speaker 1: year a tenth round pick. I know it's a ten
Speaker 1: team league, but still tenth round is huge value for
Speaker 1: a guy you know just a year ago, very different
Speaker 1: draft stock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not beating the Homer allegations having Guerrero and
Speaker 3: Bashett on this team.
Speaker 1: No, not at all. But I'm waiting for you to
Speaker 1: take Dave Steve with your nuts.
Speaker 5: Yet.
Speaker 3: The thing that I really like early trend in Spring
Speaker 3: is that he's pulling the ball quite a bit more
Speaker 3: than he has throughout his career. For this career, he's
Speaker 3: been about thirty percent in Spring, forty five percent of
Speaker 3: the time he's pulling the ball. Definitely a good sign
Speaker 3: for his power. And I don't like to pay for
Speaker 3: saves on the way, so I took you on to
Speaker 3: ram with the other pick. I have both my reliever
Speaker 3: spots locked down and then I don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about it anymore.
Speaker 5: But yeah, Boba Shad, I love Bowl this year.
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Speaker 5: Who's the host? Now?
Speaker 1: Good at this? Maybe they should make you a host someday. Joe,
Speaker 1: do you see Julio Driguez bouncing back of the season? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it was a pretty decent season. Just slow
Speaker 1: start again. And can Roy s Lewis ever stay healthy?
Speaker 1: I'll take that one for you. The answer is no, No,
Speaker 1: we can't. But Joe Rico, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Julio this year?
Speaker 5: I like Julio a lot.
Speaker 3: I like him more as like an early second rounder
Speaker 3: as opposed to a first round pick. But there's so
Speaker 3: many nice pairings you can make at the end of
Speaker 3: the first round. He gives you like a twenty five
Speaker 3: twenty five floor. You can take him with a Vladdie
Speaker 3: or an Alvarez or any really anybody at that end
Speaker 3: of the first round. And I really like the pairings
Speaker 3: you can get out of him when he is going
Speaker 3: in the first round. I think it's a little bit
Speaker 3: too rich. There's some drafts re ends up at eight
Speaker 3: or nine. I prefer him at thirteen to fifteen. But
Speaker 3: I think he's still in for a good season.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get another question in here too. This is
Speaker 1: from the Big Dance. Thoughts of the Brave signing for
Speaker 1: Dugo that just went down recently. We're just talking about that,
Speaker 1: right Welsh the Verdugo signing. Profar Kealen Egg, Brian Dela Cruz,
Speaker 1: A cou youa coming back sooner than later? Outfield getting crowded, well,
Speaker 1: Big Dance, I mean it depends on your idea of crowded.
Speaker 1: Because Jared Kelnick is not good at baseball, and I'm
Speaker 1: tired of constantly hearing how this is the year where
Speaker 1: it turns around. I am salty. It's Friday. You think
Speaker 1: i'd be in a good mood. I'm miserable for some reason.
Speaker 4: Today he kind of forgot a key player. Michael Harris.
Speaker 4: I know, Joe, you won't think any point in your life.
Speaker 1: So far, looked Profar looked terrific. Yesterday had a great hit.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the wrist at all. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about Michael Harris. He's fine and Akuni will
Speaker 1: be back. I think this is just definitely because I
Speaker 1: think they realize that Kellennick is no good Welsh. What
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 4: Uh say that that? Yeah, No, I don't think kell
Speaker 4: Nick is any good I don't. I don't think whatsoever
Speaker 4: that he's that good of a player. Alex Radugo, they
Speaker 4: gave him minor it was actually this weird thing where
Speaker 4: they gave him like this minor league one option. It's
Speaker 4: a major league deal, but he can go down to
Speaker 4: the minors so he can kind of do his spring training.
Speaker 4: He can come up and he's going to be able
Speaker 4: to be the fourth outfielder for them long term or
Speaker 4: if kun is going to miss some time. I don't
Speaker 4: think kel Nick is heavy into the consideration. Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: not that great of a player, unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: need a snack. I actually just ate. So you think
Speaker 1: it was the blood sugar situation, it's not. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm I've had it with certain players. I'm over the
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis's, I'm over the Jacob de Grams. I'm just
Speaker 1: over it. And I feel like it's because I've hung
Speaker 1: out with Scott Bogmin so much. Why he's like, stop
Speaker 1: taking injured guys, and you know what, He's right, and
Speaker 1: then he think guy takes playing. Yeah, so that's why
Speaker 1: IM all right. After let's go through here. Where do
Speaker 1: we leave off? We left off with Boba shit, Mark
Speaker 1: Viento's goes to ten o two. Bogman, you took Luis
Speaker 1: Cassillo tenno three. I know you're on the clock. We'll
Speaker 1: come back to Cody Bellinger at tennoh four, Freddy Pearol
Speaker 1: to teno five, Welsh look at you, yes, sexy Beast,
Speaker 1: Spencer Streider at ten oh six, then Hunter Green at
Speaker 1: ten oh seven, Max Free to ten o eight, Matt
Speaker 1: McClain at ten nine. I took Batista at ten ten,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a shot here. And he was
Speaker 1: the highest guy on the board suggested by draft Wizard,
Speaker 1: and I listened to draft Wizard Luis Garcia. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: a favorite of mine second base, So infield done now
Speaker 1: is just about bpa rested draft for me, Hunter Brown,
Speaker 1: Bailey Ober, Joe Ryan and then back to Welsh Welsh
Speaker 1: stryder McClanahan. Ooh wee, that is some sexy back and
Speaker 1: starting pitching. You're building there, if of course they can
Speaker 1: stay healthy.
Speaker 4: Remember what I said earlier, I said taking logan web
Speaker 4: enables me to get a little wow. It'd be a
Speaker 4: wild and crazy guy, and that's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 4: Get Strider McLanahan. I want massive, massive upside, and you
Speaker 4: know what, We're gonna go one more round Cuz suck
Speaker 4: at Bogman Zach Gallon for my nice sp and I'm
Speaker 4: building core big innings eaters with some huge upside for
Speaker 4: maybe the greatest rotation of any ten team Fantasy Baseball
Speaker 4: league ever created.
Speaker 1: And not a bad offense like I haven't done it
Speaker 1: despite offense, because you've got the value of akunya. I
Speaker 1: mean to be honest, I don't love going as heavy
Speaker 1: starting pitching, but this is the sweet spot. You've definitely
Speaker 1: hit it there After McClanahan goes Sonny Xavier Edwards Boggan,
Speaker 1: you took Tovar. Let's talk about Castillo and Tovar your
Speaker 1: last two picks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Castillo. I just I had to back
Speaker 2: up my Jacob de Grom pick right, and even a
Speaker 2: little bit with Paul Skeins pick. So Castillo fell. He
Speaker 2: came in a great value. I thought that one was very,
Speaker 2: very good, so loved backing him up there.
Speaker 5: And then was.
Speaker 2: Who's the other pick we're talking about here? Sorry? It
Speaker 2: was Castillo and the next Tovar. Tovar was another guy
Speaker 2: that just kept falling and falling and falling and falling.
Speaker 2: In the eleventh round, I don't have a starting shortstop.
Speaker 2: I thought he just represented kind of a tear break
Speaker 2: and value, so I went ahead and snapped him up right.
Speaker 4: There's an interesting question in here, Joe, whenever you wanted
Speaker 4: to get to Todd's question, whenever you're ready for it,
Speaker 4: because this is a really good question to tackle as
Speaker 4: far as a de Gram versus Strider thing.
Speaker 1: Does it coon you have that negative a cl this
Speaker 1: one from Todd.
Speaker 4: No, no, he does have negative as one.
Speaker 1: At what point would we rank Strider ahead of de Gram?
Speaker 1: Now that's my answer right now.
Speaker 4: Have you done it right now? Have you done that
Speaker 4: in your ranks?
Speaker 1: I did update my ranks yesterday. I want to say
Speaker 1: that is true. I will double check them right now,
Speaker 1: but I want to say that is true for me anyway.
Speaker 4: Now, you put Strider over to Grom?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 4: I love it? No, I mean I necessarily just Strider
Speaker 4: might have more innings at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: It's just a gram is healthy, more innings younger one's
Speaker 1: thirty six. The other is you know one s Pitcher
Speaker 1: for the Braves, another strong organization that.
Speaker 2: You you better hope that Jacob de Grom does not
Speaker 2: make it two one hundred innings.
Speaker 1: Here's the question of being concerned about it.
Speaker 4: Ready, Okay, Joel Rico, do you have Roki Sazaki over
Speaker 4: Jacob de Grom. That's what we need to know. No,
Speaker 4: you guys give over Strider.
Speaker 5: No, Strider's ahead of Rochy good Man?
Speaker 4: Good Man?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: De Gram? I have at thirty four and I spend
Speaker 1: it so yea dang it. I love it like as
Speaker 1: if I'm not a met fan who has constantly watched
Speaker 1: the saga of Jacob de Gram's in a ability to
Speaker 1: get on a mound for more than two times at
Speaker 1: a clip in the last five years before he left.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man, I love him. He's great.
Speaker 1: He is one of the great pitchers to ever grace
Speaker 1: our presence. But as a fantasy investment, as a number
Speaker 1: two starter, I just can't get there in any league.
Speaker 1: I get it in the you know, on the ten
Speaker 1: team you want to you want to throw something against
Speaker 1: the wall again, you could back it up easier because
Speaker 1: the replacement value is better. So I totally get that.
Speaker 1: So Xavier Edwards to Vard, to Bogman, Roki Sazaki right
Speaker 1: before you a Rico that's got a sting justin Steel
Speaker 1: at eleven ten and then Christopher Sanchez Steele and Sanchez
Speaker 1: two Welsh favorites there for you, Joe A Rico. So
Speaker 1: you continue to kind of, you know, drive the knife
Speaker 1: in a little bit here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, That's what I'm trying to do at this point.
Speaker 5: That's the main goal.
Speaker 3: When I hop on a mock draft, take well for players,
Speaker 3: just get way it's well and bock. Just take all
Speaker 3: of Welch's guys. But I love Justin Steele. I did
Speaker 3: a short video on the channel the other day.
Speaker 5: Check it out.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about why he is a great middle round
Speaker 3: stabilizer in rotations. It's undervalued, you just super undervalue. And
Speaker 3: Chris Sanchez, he has been maybe the most impressive pitch
Speaker 3: or throat spring training this year. So I love that
Speaker 3: pairing on the turn. They're not going to come back
Speaker 3: to me most likely, so lock them down there, and
Speaker 3: my pitching is nearly complete, nearly.
Speaker 1: Complete my pitching, all right. So after Sanchez, Royce Lewis
Speaker 1: at twelve oh two, so Venom really just does not care.
Speaker 1: Tristan Cassis to Bogman. Then we have Sandy al Contra
Speaker 1: at twelve oh four to Chewy. Nice pick there, Ryan Walker,
Speaker 1: Zach Gallon to the Welsh Mason Winn sal Perez, Vini Pesquentino.
Speaker 1: Then I took Brian wu at twelve ten and Randy
Speaker 1: Rose rain on the bounce back, another guy with twenty
Speaker 1: twenty situation there, and hopefully the batting average gets back
Speaker 1: to the two fifty two to sixty range. I think
Speaker 1: last year was the anomaly. I think this year we're
Speaker 1: in a much better spot with Randy rose Arena. Jeaner
Speaker 1: Diez goes at thirteen oh two cal Rawley than Dylan
Speaker 1: Cruz right before Welsh. That's got to hurt Matt Chapman
Speaker 1: instead the consolation price for you, Welsh at thirteen oh five.
Speaker 4: I messed up, though, because I one hundred percent should
Speaker 4: have taken Mike Trout and I didn't cue him up.
Speaker 4: And I know we could have rant two point zero
Speaker 4: from you about Mike Trout. I one thousand percent would
Speaker 4: have taken him, should have taken him. So I was
Speaker 4: kicking myself there. But Matt Chapman, I need you know,
Speaker 4: I need a third baseman. It's really solid power. I've
Speaker 4: got stolen bases. I do want to say coming back though,
Speaker 4: literally just buried Mike Cue, just bullets, three bullets straight
Speaker 4: before my next pick of Mike Cue just being demolished
Speaker 4: by both Bogman and a Rico. It was pretty brutal.
Speaker 4: But Mike Trout, that one's gonna haunt me. That was
Speaker 4: a big, big mistake of mine because I have him
Speaker 4: twenty something spots higher. I just I screwed that up.
Speaker 1: There you go. Let's say I took a blue Jay.
Speaker 1: Just so you know, Joe Rico, just I want you
Speaker 1: to I want you to know ahead of time, you know,
Speaker 1: before you start looking firm in the queue. All right.
Speaker 1: So after Randy Rosa, Rainer Diaz, Rawleig Cruiz, Matt Chapman
Speaker 1: and Welsh Mike Trout to Frankie Luis Arise to Chewy
Speaker 1: and then Bogmin, you took Ian half. Pretty good value there,
Speaker 1: hitting towards the top of this Cubs lineup yet again.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I me Ian Hap had been at the top
Speaker 2: of this suggested board for like four rounds. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: you see the percentage going up from like eleven percent,
Speaker 2: twenty two percent, fifty six percent, and when I took
Speaker 2: him it was at ninety nine percent, Like you can't
Speaker 2: pass his value up. And I agreed. So I thought
Speaker 2: that was a good deal for Ian Hat, not a
Speaker 2: guy generally take. And Tristan Cossas I just thought was
Speaker 2: a very good ci to pair with Freddie Freeman. You know,
Speaker 2: I know Costas missed some time last year and Freddie
Speaker 2: is old, but I think Cossas is nice and healthy
Speaker 2: this year, so I'm all about taking.
Speaker 1: Him nice and healthy. Wilson Contreras goes next, and then
Speaker 1: at thirteen tens Ander Bowguards Bryce Terrang to Joe Rico,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, you're on the clock here, so I'll let
Speaker 1: you make your pick. Bogs coming back to you after
Speaker 1: Spencer Steer goes at fourteen oh two to ten Or
Speaker 1: Scott off the board for you. So the alleged closer
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers. That's pretty good opportunity to have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think you have to say alleged.
Speaker 2: He got the first save, so I think he's their closer.
Speaker 2: So I think we're all good there. And you didn't
Speaker 2: you definitely you know you're too busy hosting. You missed
Speaker 2: the exasperated look on the Welsh's face when I took
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott. He was very unha.
Speaker 4: That was one hundred percent where I was going with
Speaker 4: that pick. That one, that one hurt. I had to
Speaker 4: pivot to Robert Suarez, who I'm not that big on,
Speaker 4: but last of the closers.
Speaker 1: Last of the closers. There you go, all right, after
Speaker 1: you have Tenor Scott, Joe, let's go back to your
Speaker 1: picks here. Bogarts and Bryce Terrang at the turn, so
Speaker 1: filling in that middle infield right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bogarts is a steady categories player. He's going to
Speaker 3: give you fifteen seventeen homers, double digit steals, a decent
Speaker 3: batting average, good lineup.
Speaker 5: Bryce Terrang. I don't usually take Bryce Terrang.
Speaker 3: I don't particularly like him very much, but he fit
Speaker 3: the build I needed speed. I took too many power bats.
Speaker 3: I needed to kind of compensate for that and the
Speaker 3: projected stolen bases. I went from tenth to fifth with
Speaker 3: just that one pick, so I did compensate for some
Speaker 3: of the early power with Bryce Terrang.
Speaker 1: I don't field the need to overcompensate. Joe, You're plenty,
Speaker 1: You're enough. I want you to know you're enough. Christian
Speaker 1: such A fourteen oh four, than Jake Berger fourteen oh five.
Speaker 1: The Welsh took Robert Swarez at fourteen oh six, then
Speaker 1: Alec Bohm, Jack Flaherty, Will Smith. I took Jeff Hoffman
Speaker 1: and CODEI Senga at my turn, and then at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the fifteenth round, after Senga Atoly Scarcia, Carls
Speaker 1: Rodan Jeremy pania Is hoping he would make it back
Speaker 1: to me. He did not. Welsh takes Pete Crow Armstrong
Speaker 1: at fifteen oh five. I know you're on the clock, Welsh.
Speaker 1: Let's talk you just major pick, so let's talk about
Speaker 1: Swarez and Pete Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 4: Suarez again was a pivot. I'm not the biggest Robert
Speaker 4: Swarez fan. I think the job could be a little
Speaker 4: bit in question. I wanted Tanner Scott, but I wanted
Speaker 4: to get one more of those closers, and he was
Speaker 4: kind of a tear drop off. Pete Crow again with
Speaker 4: the outfield, like I kind of screwed up with the
Speaker 4: trout side. I just liked the idea of high batting average,
Speaker 4: big stolen bases with Pete Crow, he's a fourth outfielder here.
Speaker 4: If we were playing on Yahoo Briton, Rooker would qualify
Speaker 4: at outfield, so he'd be like a five. I just
Speaker 4: think there's just a lot of value put together. And
Speaker 4: then just my last pick, Kevin Gossman just getting another
Speaker 4: pitch for innings. I'm balancing these crazy high upside guys
Speaker 4: with maybe some little risky injuries, with just big innings eaters.
Speaker 4: And that's what I did with Gossman.
Speaker 1: Just now Anthony Volpia fifteen oh six. Then Jason Dominguez.
Speaker 1: At fifteen oh seven, Brandon fought the Scott Bogman loving
Speaker 1: the font Josh Lowe. At fifteen oh nine, Joor Rico
Speaker 1: takes Lloyd Mosby and Kelly Gruber. That comes back around
Speaker 1: to Ronaldo Lopez and Andre Semenez. No, Joe Rico took
Speaker 1: Loris Guriel and Jerks and Profar. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: Guriel and Profar here again. I looked healthy to me yesterday,
Speaker 1: so I'm back in Joe.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're killing me. That was fantastic.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy you're you're I thought you'd be too
Speaker 1: young for the Kelly Gruber reference.
Speaker 3: But no, I'm a Toronto story in here. I'm a
Speaker 3: Blue okay, sorry story in there, but I needed a
Speaker 3: couple of outfielders. Guriel you get the Toronto Arizona connection.
Speaker 3: He's just very solid, like he's just a steady Eddy
Speaker 3: kind of guy. Good batting, average, decent power, great lineup,
Speaker 3: and same thing with Profar. I mean, I'm not as
Speaker 3: optimistic as I am with Guryel because I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's a little bit one year wonder stuff with Profar,
Speaker 3: but I trust him at the top of that Braves lineup.
Speaker 5: Maybe the risk complicates things a little bit, but like.
Speaker 3: You said earlier, he was back yesterday, he had a
Speaker 3: good game, so I'm not as worried about that as
Speaker 3: I would have been, although I do wonder with the
Speaker 3: Verdugo signing to touch back on that, like, do you
Speaker 3: think that part of the signing of Verdugo is that
Speaker 3: they're a little bit worried about the health of profaru.
Speaker 4: Be got Kuna to be Frank, I think I think
Speaker 4: the thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's more of an indictment on Kelnick. I
Speaker 1: just I can't get past that.
Speaker 4: Sorry, well, I think that that indictment then is built
Speaker 4: around having depth for a team that has had traditionally
Speaker 4: had like injuries in the outfield, and that Jared Keelnick
Speaker 4: after they got Brian Da la Cruz is just not enough.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I guess you could circle it back around
Speaker 4: to be like, yeah, it is, it's some something about Kelnick.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite Disney movies, Injuries in the Outfield.
Speaker 1: Love that one. This is from the geek missed out
Speaker 1: on Cam Smith, like any of these options second base
Speaker 1: and outfield, biggest need Horwitz, curse Dad Rice Drury Men's Ardo.
Speaker 1: I have utility filled with Rooker. Manzardo is the most
Speaker 1: intriguing of any of these bats. To me, Joe Rico,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts here Manzardo? I would probably go
Speaker 1: with Manzardo. I don't know if he's going to get
Speaker 1: first base eligibility, which I've been kind of hoping for,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that it's going to necessarily happen.
Speaker 3: But I do really like Manzardo. I think in September
Speaker 3: he seemed to figure things out. Went through some personal
Speaker 3: stuff the year before that I think kind of hampered
Speaker 3: his performance. So I don't think I'm alone there, Joe.
Speaker 3: I think you're also a pretty big manzart Okay, right, I.
Speaker 1: Am the manchild I think is finally ready. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: there you go. Welsh, you're in on Manzarto too.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, I interviewed him and I've spent time with
Speaker 4: him in two different occasions. We're very good friends as
Speaker 4: a matter of about his life. But yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 4: not really into him.
Speaker 1: They spent a lot of time at the Phoenix Chilies together.
Speaker 1: It was really fun. All right, let's get to more
Speaker 1: of the draftis I'm on the clock, So Welsh, why
Speaker 1: don't you take some of these some of these other
Speaker 1: picks that are going on. Where we left off at
Speaker 1: Joe Rico at pick. See, if you were a host,
Speaker 1: you'd know Jerrickson Profar is where we left off with
Speaker 1: the regions.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, we're so far okay, so Jerson Profar,
Speaker 4: Rainaldo Lopez, Andre Jimenez. We had Robbie Ray, Tyla, Trevor McGill,
Speaker 4: not Tyler mcguill. And then it just moved up on me.
Speaker 4: Kevin Gossman, I took set Lugo, Casiana's Shane she Lengealiers,
Speaker 4: Joe Pisapia, You took Ryan Pepio and Esach Parades. Would
Speaker 4: you like to break down why you love Ryan Pepio
Speaker 4: so much and you take him in every single draft?
Speaker 1: Well, three to one strikeout walk ratio. That that makes
Speaker 1: me feel pretty good. I like that one. I like
Speaker 1: when smart people like Youosaras have good things to say
Speaker 1: about a young pitcher, and I think he's locked into
Speaker 1: this rotation five man, six men. I don't care. I
Speaker 1: want Pepio this year. It's gonna help me with my ratios,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna get double digit wins.
Speaker 5: So to me.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good value. And right now he is
Speaker 1: my Was he my last start? Yes, he was my
Speaker 1: second to last start, because I end up taking Ivaldi
Speaker 1: too to kind of make that rotation. So all I
Speaker 1: got left is the U till as well. But thanks there,
Speaker 1: and he's our paridi Is look man, Parrett is steady
Speaker 1: corner guy Astros. I expect more power this year. Colton
Speaker 1: Kowser goes next than Enio swore as Lane Thomas, the
Speaker 1: Welsh Tooks, Paul Goldschmidt. If you can't have a current diamondback,
Speaker 1: then damn it, you gotta get an old one. Zach Eflin,
Speaker 1: what's that?
Speaker 4: That's what you always said, That's what it's. It's actually
Speaker 4: my motto. I have a tattooed Hey, look at that.
Speaker 4: Shout out to Frozen Animated Emoji for the follow appreciative brother.
Speaker 1: There you go, Zach Eflin at seventeen oh six, Michael
Speaker 1: Tolli at seventeen oh seven, Taylor Ward to Scott Bogman,
Speaker 1: then carry Carpenter Yondi Diaz to Joe Rico and then
Speaker 1: the catcher breakdown. Austin Well is another one of Welsh
Speaker 1: his favorites. So Welsh out of the catcher market here
Speaker 1: on Austin Wells. Unfortunately, Joe Rico strikes again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I got Jjo Romuto, So Ramuto Austin Well's
Speaker 4: went before j t Romuto, which is a little surprising.
Speaker 4: So I just snapped him up actually with just a pick.
Speaker 4: But I do love that Austin Wells.
Speaker 1: See, I'm concerned about real Muto's agent drop off like
Speaker 1: the bog but I feel like there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of decline to real Muto. What are your thoughts on him?
Speaker 2: Bring Yeah, I mean, I I don't know that there's
Speaker 2: been so much decline in skill. It's just been the
Speaker 2: playing time has gone a little bit, and they've talked
Speaker 2: about Yeah, I mean it gets everybody, and they've talked
Speaker 2: about resting him a little bit more so. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: not my favorite pick, but I.
Speaker 4: Got him around two hundred. That's the only thing. Their
Speaker 4: evolution shout out evolution. But I got him at all,
Speaker 4: like one eighties. That's the latest I've ever gotten him,
Speaker 4: and it was between like him and Gabrielle Moreno, so that.
Speaker 2: That's probably a tear break. Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 2: you got you got inside that tier and the rest
Speaker 2: of these catchers are kind of the same at this point,
Speaker 2: so I will be waiting till the last round for Mike.
Speaker 1: Ki, Okay Lozardo. I'm sorry, Austin Wells. Then erseg Kakuchi
Speaker 1: to Scott bogmin so Taylor Ward, and you say, Kakuchi
Speaker 1: left to Cacuchi coming off a fantastic you know season
Speaker 1: two hundred and six strikeouts career high for him, the
Speaker 1: ERA was above four. Obviously, they moved to the Angels
Speaker 1: as an ideal. But you know what, I look at
Speaker 1: the Angels lineup and I think if they stay healthy,
Speaker 1: they actually, uh could be better than people realized with
Speaker 1: Netto and Renifo and and who knows whatever we get
Speaker 1: from Mike Trout. I think this is actually a sneaky
Speaker 1: good late pitching selection of Kakuchi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not gonna call them good, right.
Speaker 1: No, competitive, they could be competitive.
Speaker 2: Sure, that's exactly. And uh, you know, I do have
Speaker 2: risk in Jacob de Gram. That's so getting some innings
Speaker 2: guys like Castillo, Kakucci and Brandon Fott, I think is
Speaker 2: a good strategy after taking that risk a little bit early.
Speaker 2: But I'm really liking the way my pitching staff is
Speaker 2: shaping up.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's a good looking pitchings that we're gonna review
Speaker 1: the rosters in just a second here, because we're almost home,
Speaker 1: if you can believe it already. So after Kakuchi, Jordan Romano,
Speaker 1: Frankie takes Logan a hoppy, Chris Welsh takes Gavin Williams. Ooh,
Speaker 1: you savvy, savvy man. You Bednar goes, then Brendon Nemo
Speaker 1: at eighteen oh eight Dansby Swanson. Then I took Jackson
Speaker 1: Holiday as my middle infield guy, Nadie Evaldunvaldo Eovaldi, Nathan
Speaker 1: Eovaldu Nathan Valde as my last pitcher here, Bryson Stott,
Speaker 1: then Jerry Jones finally off the board, followed by Grayson Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: So there you go. It's the time you just throwing darts.
Speaker 1: See what happens here? Rio Muto, as well said, goes
Speaker 1: to him, and Spencer Arraghedty junghu Lee to Chewbaca. Boggs
Speaker 1: takes Nick Pavetta at nineteen oh eight. Pavetta, I got ye.
Speaker 2: Super sniped on that jung hoolee pick.
Speaker 1: By the way, are you not worried about the jung
Speaker 1: hoo lee back situation.
Speaker 2: No, he's already been cleared. Mri was fine, he'll be.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. Pavetta looked sharp yesterday too. I was watching
Speaker 1: some of that start last night. Temmy Edmund at nineteen
Speaker 1: oh nine leading the league at home runs, Tommy Edman
Speaker 1: just want to point that out, HAZs Lozardo at nineteen
Speaker 1: ten to Joe Rico and Jonathan India Arico. Look last
Speaker 1: couple of picks here for you, Lizardo India, then Rasmussen
Speaker 1: Matt shaw here in the twenty second round. Lozardo and
Speaker 1: Shawl like, those are two picks that could end up
Speaker 1: winning you a league, and if they don't work out,
Speaker 1: it's easy enough to cut him and move on.
Speaker 3: I like a lot of these picks, but honestly, my
Speaker 3: favorite pick might be Drew Rasmussen in the bunch. I've
Speaker 3: been looking at him a lot recently. I don't really
Speaker 3: care if he starts in the rotation because I think
Speaker 3: he'll get there at some point eventually. And I think
Speaker 3: there's also a chance that he ends up closing games
Speaker 3: in Tampa this year, Considering his stuff, considering the worries
Speaker 3: about injuries, considering Pete Fairbanks has always heard like I think,
Speaker 3: one way or another, Drew Rasmussen is going to return
Speaker 3: a serious profit on this pick.
Speaker 1: Okay, next up here after let's run through these picks
Speaker 1: because we're almost home. After India, Shane Boz and then
Speaker 1: Bagman took Tyler O'Neil, Tyler Stevenson, zach Neto Roblesz to
Speaker 1: Welsh Showm takes Brandon Woodriff love that pick there, Nico
Speaker 1: Horner at twenty oho eight. Then Pete Fairbanks goes, I
Speaker 1: took Nathaniel Low and Helio Ramos high on those guys,
Speaker 1: Young Aeronado Springs, Christianing Carnacion a strand that we have
Speaker 1: Taj Bradley, Mackenzie, Gore, ten Or Hawk shawm and Iya
Speaker 1: Drew Rasmussen as before pointing out Matt Shaw, Clark Schmidt,
Speaker 1: Gabriel Moreno. Twenty two oh four, Clay Holmes, Lodolo Glaber
Speaker 1: Touris to Welsh Blede Blanco Jansen, and I take mister
Speaker 1: irrelevant Ivan Herrera as my catcher. I'll settle for that
Speaker 1: every day. Plus Boo boo, Jeff Wizard, I love this team.
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, what's your grade?
Speaker 5: Eighty five out of one? Hundred B solid B, solid B.
Speaker 1: Scott Bogman, you must have gotten a good grade because
Speaker 1: you're number two.
Speaker 2: A minus ninety two. Yeah, a minus.
Speaker 1: Look at you? And where's the Welsh? Oh, Welsh is
Speaker 1: below me? Welsh? What'd you get for a grade?
Speaker 4: I got a seventy six. It somehow hated my hitting.
Speaker 4: Ronald Acuna, Elie de la Cruz, Coutel Marte. I've I'm
Speaker 4: projected the worst hitter somehow, but number two in pitching
Speaker 4: I believe, top three in winds Era, number one in
Speaker 4: stolen bases. I believe I was top five in all
Speaker 4: the pitching categories. Yet I got a pretty pretty crappy score.
Speaker 1: Joey, Yeah, I'm looking Mike Mayer hates my draft, So
Speaker 1: what else is new? The summary, though, I want to
Speaker 1: shout out to Michael Cerna from our discord. A hundred.
Speaker 1: That's right, an A plus for Michael. Congratulations. You're the
Speaker 1: best of the best, but the best of us according
Speaker 1: to the Draft Wizard was Scott Bogman. So Bogman, who
Speaker 1: liked your draft? Who hated it?
Speaker 5: And?
Speaker 1: Uh? What were some of the insights from Draft Wizard
Speaker 1: on the post draft analysis? You want to take away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the the insights here were top players ranked
Speaker 2: in top three were Skeens Freeman and Raphael Devers. What
Speaker 2: if I had taken Gunner Henderson, which happened to me
Speaker 2: last night as well. My steal the drafts was til
Speaker 2: On Neil. My reach was Brandon Fott, and I was
Speaker 2: categorically good top three in saves and whips, doubles, triples,
Speaker 2: all that good stuff as well. And then the experts
Speaker 2: that liked me, Mike McGregor, keV Mashershan, Frank A Morante,
Speaker 2: Brad Kamara, and Scott Bogman the number three, and I
Speaker 2: liked my Luis Casillo, Tanner, Scott and Brandon Fopp picks
Speaker 2: thumbs down from of course, Joe Eric Joe Pis.
Speaker 1: That's right. Don't you dare give my thumb to him.
Speaker 2: You thought my team every time I draft did.
Speaker 1: Well, Keep taking to where you are.
Speaker 2: Liked his team last time? Brandon Beaton Myers did not
Speaker 2: like my team. Chase Davis, Greg Smith and my boy
Speaker 2: Jesse Severe. Come on, Jesse, then like Freddie Freeman, Jacob
Speaker 2: de gram or rice yel Iglesias.
Speaker 1: All right, let's look at the Scott Bogman squad here
Speaker 1: and just kind of recap it for you. And as
Speaker 1: you can see here on the YouTube channel, you could
Speaker 1: see all the breakdown, all the analysis. It's such an
Speaker 1: incredible tool and you can use it for salary cap
Speaker 1: leagues too. It doesn't matter whatever league you're in, it
Speaker 1: will sync up, it will work if you're an ESPN, CBS, Yahoo,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter all the places fan tracks, it's all there.
Speaker 1: Scott Bogman at catcher actually no, Gabriel Moreno a catcher,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman, Jordan Westberg, Tovar, Rafael Devers, Cassus Jimenez, and
Speaker 1: then the outfield Carol Marcelo, Zuna, Butler, Ian Happ, Taylor Ward,
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neil. I mean, that's a pretty good offense for
Speaker 1: a ten team league. I don't know if it's an
Speaker 1: elite level offense. But then you look at the pitching,
Speaker 1: Paul Skens, Luis Castillo, Jacob deGrom. You do not even
Speaker 1: list them. Second, I won't even do it, Kakuchi, Brandon Fott,
Speaker 1: Nick Paveta, ten Or, and then Rice Oglesias and Tanner Scott. So,
Speaker 1: if you like Bogman's draft the most, vote for Scott
Speaker 1: Bogman here in the comments below on YouTube or here
Speaker 1: on Twitch, Joe Alrico, Austin Wells, Vlad Guerrero, Xander Bogard's
Speaker 1: Boba schet Manny Machado, Yondi, Diaz, Bryce Terrang outfield tatist
Speaker 1: Junior Schwarberg, Profar Guriol, and then India and Shaw. The
Speaker 1: pitching staff here Logan, Gilbert Tyler, Glassnow Schwellenbach, Justin Steele,
Speaker 1: Christopher Sanchez, Jesus Lozardo and then relievers Deron Williams and
Speaker 1: Rasmeisen There. So, Joe, how do you feel about this roster?
Speaker 3: I feel pretty damn good about it. I think this
Speaker 3: is one of the best box I've had. You know,
Speaker 3: the last one we did was a twelve teamer and
Speaker 3: I was also at the turn and I hated it.
Speaker 3: But with the ten team league, ah man, I got
Speaker 3: my home league. Fun up, I got my home league
Speaker 3: on Sunday. It's a ten team, head to head categories
Speaker 3: exactly like this.
Speaker 5: I hope I get the turn because.
Speaker 4: Never nothing build your confidence more than drafting a ten team.
Speaker 4: I actually I used to be very anti ten team
Speaker 4: because you know what, I think everybody should play in
Speaker 4: a ten team and you should mock some Uh, well,
Speaker 4: you can do the opposite. If you're in a ten team,
Speaker 4: you can mock a twelve and then you'll just feel
Speaker 4: really great about a ten. I think ten really helps
Speaker 4: boost the confidence of where your picks are.
Speaker 1: Well, here's one from Todd. How would you rank Araghetti, Lodolo,
Speaker 1: Lozarto and Job. What's that ranking there?
Speaker 4: I would rank it for assuming this is redraft, I
Speaker 4: would probably go Lozarto, Lodolo, Job, Arraghedti.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you have it. All right, Let's get to
Speaker 1: Welsh's team and do the breakdown. Here the Welsh j
Speaker 1: t rol Muto a catcher, Paul Golchman at first base.
Speaker 1: Two old farts. There you go. That's a good way
Speaker 1: to start. Can tell Marte Elie de la Cruz all world,
Speaker 1: Ellie God a big day yesterday. Matt Chapman and Carnassillon
Speaker 1: strand labor tourres then Ronald Acunya whyat lane for Brent Rooker,
Speaker 1: Luis Robert Pike or Armstrong and Robust?
Speaker 5: What an hour?
Speaker 4: Worst offense?
Speaker 2: My ass?
Speaker 4: Give me a break?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I can't roll with that look in Carnossion,
Speaker 1: I get like the projections are going to hurt him.
Speaker 1: Goldschmid Rail Mute. I get that, But when you get
Speaker 1: to that outfield, I think it makes up for any
Speaker 1: ground every Toik Schoobol, Logan, web Zach Gallan, Spencer, Schreider, Mcclanahn,
Speaker 1: Gospin Williams. This is like the best pitching staff ever.
Speaker 4: Moon, greatest, greatest pitching staff in history. Closers and a
Speaker 4: good outfield offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you give this draft?
Speaker 4: I give this one hundred and thirty five?
Speaker 1: Bobby? What would you give your draft grade? Honest, honest draft.
Speaker 2: Grade, one hundred and thirty six out of a.
Speaker 4: Thank you very Joe, Rico, how about you?
Speaker 1: What's your honest Joe? On like these two morons?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I would say the score is pretty reflective of
Speaker 3: how I feel. It's like an eighty five. When I
Speaker 3: got an eighty five on a test as a kid.
Speaker 3: By the way, it was an A, not a B.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna call it an A.
Speaker 1: But I like the Caladian conversion? Is that what happens there?
Speaker 4: Now? Are you converting? I got a seventy six.
Speaker 5: Joe, when you guys got eighty fives on your tests?
Speaker 5: In school though. That wasn't a bee, right, Yeah it was? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Eighty nine is a B bro Yeah, Winch Trumpelo ninety,
Speaker 1: it's a bee. I don't know what that conversion rate
Speaker 1: of Canada here we.
Speaker 5: Got eighty to eighty five fahrenheit.
Speaker 4: The metric is this the metric grading system? This is
Speaker 4: the metric grading system.
Speaker 5: I was eighty five, am, It's a B plus.
Speaker 4: RICO real quick. Frank Amerant loved mine the most. I
Speaker 4: was number three. Dalton Dell Don and Scott Bogman all
Speaker 4: loved me. Chase Davis blake Meyer both hated me. Pierre
Speaker 4: Camu just always hates me, Chris Towers and of course
Speaker 4: Joe Piezapia.
Speaker 1: Well, let's be consistent. Are Here's my team, which I
Speaker 1: honestly I give this a B minus at least I
Speaker 1: think is a pretty good squad. I'vean Herrera catcher, Josh
Speaker 1: Naylor first, Garcia second, Bobby Wood Junior at short, Junior,
Speaker 1: camin Era at third, Parts at corner, Jackson Holiday at
Speaker 1: middle indfield. Then I've got Jared Durand, Jackson Merrill, Riley Green,
Speaker 1: Randy Rose, Raine On, Helio Ramos, Nathaniel Lowe in the
Speaker 1: other util Spot, then Cole Reagan's, Blake's now Aaron Nola. Well, boy,
Speaker 1: look at them lefties over there, Brian Wu, Code I Sanga,
Speaker 1: Ryan Pepio, Eavaldi, Batista in Hoffin. That's a pretty good team.
Speaker 1: That is not a C plus team. I'm sorry, Draft
Speaker 1: Wizard and I are going to have words after the show.
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