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Speaker 1: in the Fantasy Sports in your Network, I am Greg Suspen.
Speaker 1: Frank Stamfle has the day off today, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: a good show. It's Frank's not here for our number
Speaker 1: one outfield sleepers for years. Are at the end of
Speaker 1: the outfield week Tomorrow we're gonna starting pictures. Frank will
Speaker 1: be back in the Costello. Um, we will be here.
Speaker 1: But for our number one outfield sleepers. We got our man,
Speaker 1: Chris Venture in the house. Chris, what's going on? What's up?
Speaker 1: What's up. It's your boy. I'm back again. Outfield Part three,
Speaker 1: Mark Trace Part three. We're here. We've done like the
Speaker 1: forty Outfielders or show. We're figured why not just any
Speaker 1: one likes and yeah, exactly Dry will be here as
Speaker 1: he always is about twenty minutes into the program, so
Speaker 1: that'll be fun. Our number two today football. I think
Speaker 1: that you're sticking around. Yeah, that you're sticking around our
Speaker 1: number two. We talk football. Jim Day's gonna be on here,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna basically kind of your rough the frenzy, uh,
Speaker 1: and play traffic Cop a little bit. We're talking with
Speaker 1: the combine, the news and notes that are just coming
Speaker 1: out of the combine. Of course, Kyler Murray the big
Speaker 1: story in sports today. I'll ask Jim how important he
Speaker 1: thinks that is. Uh, and a whole lot more. Chris,
Speaker 1: I just sleep last night. I slept well. I slept
Speaker 1: well for the first time in a couple of days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good. The weekend's almost, Tia, and I gotta
Speaker 1: do some really heavy research. I think this weekend to
Speaker 1: start like the real deep stuff. When is your holy draft,
Speaker 1: my homely draft? Is we set it for the I
Speaker 1: think the seventeenth, or it's a Sunday of March. Yes,
Speaker 1: so that is uh some probably seventeen seventeen, Sunday, March seventeen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's on a Sunday. We're doing it on Sunday?
Speaker 1: Is that selection Sunday? All right, Well, that's cool. There's
Speaker 1: a couple of things to look forward to. Then. Um,
Speaker 1: usually we do it live, but we're doing it online.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Everybody asked if we should we do
Speaker 1: it online. It's always a problem to get everybody live.
Speaker 1: One of the kids moved to Sandy Um, Seattle, so
Speaker 1: he lives in Seattle, so we have to get him
Speaker 1: on Skype anyway, so we said, you know what, let's
Speaker 1: just do it online. Plus, I feel like baseball is
Speaker 1: longer and more dragging. It's about the same as football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a little a little longer probably. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think we enjoy the football live more. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I get that. But as I said yesterday or a
Speaker 1: couple days ago, do you guys like we do it
Speaker 1: all in the in the Google drive, in a Google doc.
Speaker 1: So we always do it live together, sitting together. Um,
Speaker 1: and people that are there, they are there, they're just
Speaker 1: getting they're getting the document, big deal. But the rest
Speaker 1: of us can hang out, have a couple of beers
Speaker 1: and do the thing. And yeah, I like that. I
Speaker 1: enjoy it, you know, and we make our lives. We're
Speaker 1: constantly trading picks and stuff. I told you that it's
Speaker 1: well if you've got things like that going down, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you definitely need to do that a lot. It's awesome
Speaker 1: when you're just texting that, you're texting back and forth
Speaker 1: trying to make it work. I love it, man, Like
Speaker 1: it is funny, exactly. You haven't actually seen this, Frank
Speaker 1: saw this, but like I can show you our draft
Speaker 1: boards and there's just colors everywhere because people are trading
Speaker 1: up and down the board. It's awesome. Well, who's the commissioner,
Speaker 1: because that's tough, you know, the commissioner on the commission
Speaker 1: Do you manage that? Uh So, I'm not the best
Speaker 1: that Excel one of my I have a lot of
Speaker 1: accountant friends who are I gonna make a joke here
Speaker 1: at this point, But I have a lot of accountant
Speaker 1: friends that are very good at Excel. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: actually turn my computer towards you, and I'll turn to
Speaker 1: with the camera too. So here's last year's Fantasy baseball
Speaker 1: draft board. And if you can see, you just color
Speaker 1: because you mean, although there's different colors, each each person
Speaker 1: is represented by a color, right, so as you think,
Speaker 1: Jean Martino, So every person up there at the top
Speaker 1: is represented by a color. And if the box is
Speaker 1: different color, that means is that person's pick. So it
Speaker 1: says Russ in green right there, right, it says Russ
Speaker 1: and green. And there's that blue square in his box.
Speaker 1: That means it's comp pick in that spot. And it's
Speaker 1: all around. There's different a lot of trades. It seems
Speaker 1: like a lot of purple on the board. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was all around as if you if you scroll down,
Speaker 1: because everyone has you trade picks, you gotta make sure
Speaker 1: you have the same amount of picks. I'm gonna turn
Speaker 1: it around again, Martino, Um towards the bottom. Yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: lot of colors. Turn around again. I know he's doing
Speaker 1: it right now. There's a lot of colors there. Um.
Speaker 1: Right there shows you all the all the trains that
Speaker 1: you make. So you do you you and put this
Speaker 1: drift manually into excel. That's how you do it, right,
Speaker 1: No clock, Well, I keep the I actually keep the
Speaker 1: clock at the draft as well. Yeah, so you do
Speaker 1: a lot, you do a lot, and I'm entering into
Speaker 1: Yahoo as we go. See I used Clickie draft, Sure
Speaker 1: we did. We used his interest. We used clicki for football.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should do the Excel thing, but I feel
Speaker 1: like that's more work. Maybe Clickie. It's definitely more work.
Speaker 1: But Clickie. The problem is, so we're still doing the
Speaker 1: trades and stuff, and our commissioner for football is uh
Speaker 1: is Jet fan Jeff Um. He has to anytime we
Speaker 1: have a trade, goes have happens back all these guys
Speaker 1: out of the out of Clickie put the right guys
Speaker 1: in the right spots. So just speacial teasers. It's colors,
Speaker 1: you know. The colors kind of make it a little
Speaker 1: bit easier. And I've actually learned over the past couple
Speaker 1: of years it's really good when I'm on the end
Speaker 1: of the draft. So this I have to have first.
Speaker 1: I picked it out of the duck. Remember I have first.
Speaker 1: I can enter the players in as we go into
Speaker 1: Yahoo as well. Everyone enters their own picks in here.
Speaker 1: I just entered as we go because on the end
Speaker 1: it's very easy for me to be able to do that,
Speaker 1: so they enter on Excel for you. So yeah, everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody has access to the the Google print sheet, so
Speaker 1: they entered them themselves. And then as we go, I
Speaker 1: entered in the Yahoos. Some of the time we're going
Speaker 1: with the draft. Everybody has their team in Yaho. All set,
Speaker 1: make your pickups, do whatever you gotta do. That's beautiful,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen. Uh. The thing is, though, I would
Speaker 1: think that you'd fall behind on some picks later on
Speaker 1: at some point. No, I do a pretty good job,
Speaker 1: pretty good keep it up because like I when I'm
Speaker 1: entering picks, sometimes I feel like, oh I missed a bunch,
Speaker 1: and then I you know, I'm not looking at who
Speaker 1: I want next and stuff. So of course, and that's
Speaker 1: why I was just saying, like, it's good to be
Speaker 1: on the end when you have to do that, right,
Speaker 1: Like I'm on an end, so I have plenty of
Speaker 1: time to do my research wrapper and anyone. A lot
Speaker 1: of the research comes, um, A lot of research comes beforehand,
Speaker 1: like we do so many of these shows together. We
Speaker 1: have an idea of who he wants. You have an
Speaker 1: idea of who's gonna be there. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: who you know We're going over these guys over and over,
Speaker 1: and we you know, we pretty much know them, you know,
Speaker 1: almost inside out. Obviously we don't know every stat by
Speaker 1: you know, by memory, but we know almost of what
Speaker 1: they're doing. You know what I'm saying. It's it's more
Speaker 1: so you just have an idea who he wants, I think,
Speaker 1: And is that how you like to? Like do you
Speaker 1: make projections? I find that to be a yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean Frank does, does, Jake Doesnando that it, Florio has done.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, but I feel like it's a lot of work,
Speaker 1: and it's like to work. It's a ton of work.
Speaker 1: And like thankfully I'm friends with Frank and FLORIAO and
Speaker 1: I just take their yeah literally. I texted Florio who
Speaker 1: just points. He does points leads rankings, which is good
Speaker 1: for you, right, So Frank does Rodal league rankings, and
Speaker 1: I consider my lead points least every year Florio sends
Speaker 1: me he's spreadsheet rather than like the fantasy prose version,
Speaker 1: he sends me a spreadsheet and then I reorganized it
Speaker 1: like the way I want to. But like at least
Speaker 1: I have like a baseline. I have it, and I
Speaker 1: have it like I don't need like because that's not Rhodo,
Speaker 1: Like I don't need to get a certain amount of
Speaker 1: home runs or a certain around, just get the best players.
Speaker 1: I love that. And there's certain guys that we talked
Speaker 1: about the last two weeks that you know who you want,
Speaker 1: Like you go in here having an idea who you want.
Speaker 1: There's certain guys like I'm never gonna take that guy,
Speaker 1: so I and I know that, and you know that.
Speaker 1: Now it is tougher later into the draft because we
Speaker 1: want to pull you and I people like us whole
Speaker 1: guys up with the board, like we really like somebody,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put them off. And the people in the room,
Speaker 1: why are you taking this guy right here? And it
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter because that's that's who you want.
Speaker 1: But that that's something that by using app why I
Speaker 1: think projections are like, uh, like it's a lot of
Speaker 1: work for really not that much of a benefit. So
Speaker 1: I can't predict exact projections. I agree with that, and
Speaker 1: I think in Rhodo it makes a lot more sense
Speaker 1: because you need to get to a certain number, but
Speaker 1: you need to reach this plateau in order to have
Speaker 1: a chance to win in points. You don't have to
Speaker 1: do that you're taking the best player based on how
Speaker 1: your points scored. Yeah, yeah, so speak of later in drafts.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the outfielders, all right, Let's get in
Speaker 1: some of these deep league outfielders. And we stopped, I
Speaker 1: believe yesterday we stopped at about number forty. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they're n c r D according to the NFBC. Okay,
Speaker 1: So a guy that we had didn't have a chance
Speaker 1: to speak about yet and I and I wanted to
Speaker 1: how you feel because he's a younger guy waving to
Speaker 1: breakout hasn't exactly happened. He's no more Zara, He's no Murmisara.
Speaker 1: Is one of these dudes that came up. Was pretty
Speaker 1: good when he first came up, and then we ket
Speaker 1: waiting and waiting for a bigger breakout. Hasn't really happened.
Speaker 1: But for three full years in the MLB, exactly twenty
Speaker 1: runs in all three seasons. Now last year at the
Speaker 1: least about of games he has his entire career at
Speaker 1: hundred twenty eight. Had some injury issues. The batting average
Speaker 1: has been pretty similar for the last three years to
Speaker 1: sixty six, two fifty three to fifty eight. He's about
Speaker 1: a two fifty five to sixty hit like, that's the
Speaker 1: guy we're looking at with No arm Zara, and he
Speaker 1: wasn't hurt last year, you would have gotten more home
Speaker 1: run rely, so I think it's fair to say. But
Speaker 1: the crazy he is, and he'll be twenty four in April,
Speaker 1: so he's still still pretty young. The the hard hit
Speaker 1: percentage last year career high thirty seven and a half percent.
Speaker 1: That's obviously over the league average. The biggest problem I
Speaker 1: see with No. One Rozara is he had so many
Speaker 1: damn ground balls fifty five percent of his balls in
Speaker 1: play or ground balls. That's an issue. Although we project,
Speaker 1: like we just said, twenty five whole runs or so,
Speaker 1: he's home five ball ratio twenty percent last year, very high,
Speaker 1: especially considering his first two season as MLB it was
Speaker 1: around thirteen six thirteen sixteen and a half percent or so.
Speaker 1: No One Zara, you'd like to think there's more when
Speaker 1: you're here. You'd like to think there's there's a jump coming.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if that's true. What do you
Speaker 1: think about Noon Rosara, Chris, I really like Normamzara because
Speaker 1: you're talking about in this part of the draft, right, so,
Speaker 1: like obviously I don't like him compared to the established,
Speaker 1: proven guys and things like that, but he's becoming kind
Speaker 1: of established in three years. We know it pretty much
Speaker 1: what his floor is. It looks like yep at least. Uh.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's still more of a ceiling that
Speaker 1: could be had here. You know what I'm saying. If
Speaker 1: he changes those groundball to fly ball ratio is a
Speaker 1: little bit, maybe he could pop thirty homers, so he
Speaker 1: could give you a boost their Um. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking the average I think could still go up. He
Speaker 1: hit two sixty six his rookie season, so you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he hits two seventy one year. Uh, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like the walk rate I think could go
Speaker 1: up as he gets older. He had fifty five walks
Speaker 1: in forty last year and in a shortened season. Um.
Speaker 1: I like what he does kind of everywhere. But there's
Speaker 1: nothing great here yet, you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: just like the fact that where he's going he has
Speaker 1: more potential and a nice floor compared to the guys
Speaker 1: around him. You know what I mean, He's a little
Speaker 1: bit more proven with the ceiling compared to these other
Speaker 1: guys that that's why I like him. And he's young. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I think where he's going, which according to the
Speaker 1: NFBC right here is one. I think there is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a room for improvement. I don't want
Speaker 1: to just forget these twenty four years old I don't
Speaker 1: want to forget that. And like a lot of these
Speaker 1: numbers or grades, particularly that groundball percentage, it's not oh,
Speaker 1: here's room for that. I think he can still grow. Now,
Speaker 1: how does he compare with guy like Stephen Piscotti, who
Speaker 1: another four top prospect a little bit older, plays in
Speaker 1: that vaunted A's lineup. As Frank Stamford would say, around
Speaker 1: Chris Davis, around Matt Chapman, around Matt Olsen. He's around
Speaker 1: all those dudes, and I took a shot of Ben
Speaker 1: behind them. I think right is six, and I took
Speaker 1: a shot up Scotty last year. But as a forward
Speaker 1: top prospect, he was a late Bloomery's twenty eight years
Speaker 1: old already. You probably didn't realize last year over the
Speaker 1: A's he played a full season, a hundred and fifty games,
Speaker 1: seven homers, seven more homers than Mazzara, there et Ribby,
Speaker 1: seventy eight runs scored, struck outless, the Massara walked around
Speaker 1: the same amount bet our average than Mazara, Babbitt was
Speaker 1: around the same, and the hard hit percentage of Steven
Speaker 1: Piscotti better. All these things better for Steven Biscotte nor Massari.
Speaker 1: You gotta like him better. I mean you based on
Speaker 1: last year stats, you have to like him better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do. But see, the thing is, I might end
Speaker 1: up in a certain situation take Mazzara of a Piscotti. Um.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that first of all, Massar's batt
Speaker 1: and third in his lineup. I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of count extants to be had there. I think he
Speaker 1: could end up scoring uh more runs than Piscotti. Where
Speaker 1: he's batting six in the lineup, he doesn't have too
Speaker 1: much protection behind him. Uh, he has protection in front
Speaker 1: of him. He has guys great in front of him.
Speaker 1: So he'll drive in more runs probably, But I don't
Speaker 1: think I'll have the same run scored, so that'll kind
Speaker 1: of balance out. I think he has the potential to
Speaker 1: do with Piscotty is doing here uh, And I think
Speaker 1: he also has the potential to do maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit more in the walk category. I think he could
Speaker 1: do uh, just as good in the doubles category. I
Speaker 1: just like the fact that there's still a little bit
Speaker 1: more so I think we're seeing Piscotti is seiling here.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna do much better than what
Speaker 1: we're seeing here. I think this is his top performance.
Speaker 1: Maybe he does hit a little bit more homes, maybe
Speaker 1: he reaches a thirty homer plateau, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just I don't trust Piscotti as much as as
Speaker 1: I do Missouri. I just feel like Missoura has a
Speaker 1: nice floor. The year before, Piscotty played a hundred seven
Speaker 1: games only and had nine homers. Uh hit two thirty five,
Speaker 1: had kind of a really a big down year, like
Speaker 1: even in Missours down years, which there's only been three
Speaker 1: years of his career. But they're pretty much the same
Speaker 1: as the as every single year of his career, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Everything is pretty much pretty standard
Speaker 1: and pretty solid. I think he can move up from
Speaker 1: there and won't go any low from where he is where.
Speaker 1: I think Piscotty could go through a too much stretch
Speaker 1: where he's super cold, and that could really kill a team.
Speaker 1: Nor Massara is ranked about ten spots higher in Mike
Speaker 1: Florio's points leagus rankings than Steven Piscottis. Martino texted me
Speaker 1: and notes like, hey, Piscotty obviously went to Oakland, wanted
Speaker 1: to be closed to the Bay Area in order to
Speaker 1: be by his mother, who was unfortunately synic passed away
Speaker 1: last year. I believe in may Um, but now he's not.
Speaker 1: But now, you know, hopefully that's kind of behind him
Speaker 1: in a way, and have to not to be so
Speaker 1: callous like that, but just focus on baseball in a way.
Speaker 1: I guess now we can focus on baseballs. Were saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, he still had a pretty really good year.
Speaker 1: I think you can't really complain about what he did,
Speaker 1: you know what, I mean, a little boring, but but
Speaker 1: better across the board than he is. But he was
Speaker 1: better across the border. You obviously didn't play more games,
Speaker 1: Yes he did. Yes, he did quite a few more games,
Speaker 1: you know, like twenty something. Uh. So, I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: I would draft the guy at at a good value,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't take him over guys like Massara. I
Speaker 1: really I'm high on Massara. So that's just me. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Floria obviously high on him. Points leads as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: but there's other guys, you know, like if the Missoura
Speaker 1: and maybe like I like Chris Taylor, I like Buxton,
Speaker 1: I might take a Buxton. I want to start exactly
Speaker 1: where he wanted to go next. I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up Byron Buxton here because we keep talking about some
Speaker 1: of these top prospects. He's really sketchy, A lot more
Speaker 1: sketchy than Biscotti is, you know, because of the injuries
Speaker 1: and the poor performance. I mean, at what point do
Speaker 1: we call Byron Buxton a bust? What he is? A bust?
Speaker 1: Byron Buston, Byron Buston. Yeah, but seriously, right, like, at
Speaker 1: what point do we just say that? Because I understand
Speaker 1: what some of these metrics say. I understand why people
Speaker 1: get really excited about him. You look at spring training
Speaker 1: five or five to baby, I'm back, baby. You see
Speaker 1: what he did in the final month of seasons. I
Speaker 1: get it. I understand why people are so excited by him.
Speaker 1: But every time he's got an opportunity, he's failed. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna take the shout of Bucks? And you just said, hey,
Speaker 1: you're interested? How come I am interested? I've had him
Speaker 1: a couple of times, and I know exactly what happens.
Speaker 1: It's like he'll he'll either be completely off mechanically strike
Speaker 1: out every single time, then he'll get hot and just
Speaker 1: start ripping bombs acause but you just see that talent
Speaker 1: potential in short glimpses, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: think he just hasn't put it all together yet. He
Speaker 1: also got hit by injuries, so that kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: hurt him as far as trying to progress and grow.
Speaker 1: I think, listen, you don't give up on a guy
Speaker 1: that's twenty five, especially a guy who was a number
Speaker 1: one prospect or top five prospect coming up for a
Speaker 1: few years. Um, with the talent that this kid has
Speaker 1: and you could do something, he could be a five
Speaker 1: category type player. UM, I just don't. I wouldn't give
Speaker 1: up on just yet. I'm I would give him. I
Speaker 1: would even give him two more years even if he
Speaker 1: you know, you saw more glimpses then he got injured
Speaker 1: or he failed here and there. I would give him
Speaker 1: more chances until you know, he finally just completely falls off.
Speaker 1: He hasn't completely fall off, because you're still seeing spurts
Speaker 1: of talent even in spring training. So this is the guy,
Speaker 1: you know, high upside, high risk, high reward. I take
Speaker 1: the chance, break those three Buxton, Oh, Buxton, Mazzara, mscot
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Speaker 1: down for it's going on, Doc. How are you? How
Speaker 1: are you today? Everything going well? Yeah, no problem with man.
Speaker 1: We haven't an armageddon yet. Some things are right. That's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. It's good to not have armageddon. I think so.
Speaker 1: It's too but kind of feels like it's armageddon. Dobs.
Speaker 1: You can't right right now where Clayton Kershaw has tried
Speaker 1: throwing a whole bunch of times and every time he starts,
Speaker 1: he stops because he's not feeling great in that left shoulder.
Speaker 1: That's an issue. We have seen Clayton Kershaw go drafted
Speaker 1: as an ace and then in other leagues seen him
Speaker 1: drafted around pick fifty, around pick eighty. You were very
Speaker 1: scared Clayton Kershaw. Should they be yes? Next? So? Um, no,
Speaker 1: So Clayton Kershaw. You know he's gotten multiple throwing injuries
Speaker 1: in this past. You know, the throwing extremity has been
Speaker 1: a chronic, repetitive issue. Uh, he's great two shoulder right now.
Speaker 1: The very fact that the team right now has decided
Speaker 1: not to send him for an m r I is
Speaker 1: the fact that they're sort of used to the fact
Speaker 1: that he has so many throwing shoulder issue shoes and
Speaker 1: so you know, every year that goes by, he gets
Speaker 1: older a lot more wear and tear. Um. This is
Speaker 1: a huge red flag. I know he's a big name,
Speaker 1: but a throwing shoulder grade two UH injury right now
Speaker 1: before the season starts, starting to already rest him uncertain
Speaker 1: of his future in terms of his UH length into
Speaker 1: the you know, into the game, and how many innings
Speaker 1: he's actually going to pitch. Um. This is not good news.
Speaker 1: And this is a huge red flag. Uh. Right now
Speaker 1: he will you know, from a prediction standpoint, is I
Speaker 1: r C right now? Is it's it's very high. It's fifty.
Speaker 1: I mean I've never I've never seen it that high
Speaker 1: in a picture before. Uh. And so I think by
Speaker 1: the time the season starts, if he rests, he'll still
Speaker 1: be up into range just think about a hundred. You know,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna he's protect you know, if he wants
Speaker 1: if you want to start a picture to make twenty
Speaker 1: starts starts, um, you know he'll he'll make twelve of them.
Speaker 1: Probably really bad year objected from Dr A just saying
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be able to be healthy. Supposedly, this
Speaker 1: is the latest that Kershall play cash for five minutes
Speaker 1: at sixty ft. I don't know if it was just
Speaker 1: cut short or he's hurt again like something Kershaw Chris
Speaker 1: huge red flags. I don't think, I mean, there's not
Speaker 1: doing this. I mean it depends on how far he falls,
Speaker 1: I guess is there, but like, at what point do
Speaker 1: you just pull the trigger? Pull the trigger because eventually
Speaker 1: you got to pull the trigger, are you, I mean,
Speaker 1: if he falls to the fifteenth round, are we not
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger on him because you'd get him for
Speaker 1: free basically fifteen round? All right, you know it's late
Speaker 1: fifteenth round. I'm fine, but not in top ten, top
Speaker 1: ten rounds, maybe the maybe the ninth of ten. That's
Speaker 1: crazy that he that he's got a fold after dr A.
Speaker 1: You already just said he's not gonna have it starts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's scary. Yeah, it is for sure. And Doc, there's
Speaker 1: another picture we asked you about last week, but there's
Speaker 1: even more here, right, and that's Carlos Martinez who shown
Speaker 1: over to sling. Just showed up in a sling, like
Speaker 1: I can't you have like a sling? M Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a's it's a it's a bad omen when you see
Speaker 1: that the visual is amazing, isn't it so? But now
Speaker 1: the same it's you know, sort of the same type
Speaker 1: of injury grade two shoulder um. You know, a throwing
Speaker 1: arm um. You know, uh, you know when you hear
Speaker 1: a picture saying that his shoulder has been bothering him.
Speaker 1: You know, bothering is a key thing that our algorithm
Speaker 1: picks up. It's not every you know, if you go
Speaker 1: back in time and you hear the word bothering on
Speaker 1: a picture and then you see how his sort of
Speaker 1: trajectory has been, it's not good. And so you know,
Speaker 1: bothering is just not a good word. Um. And you know,
Speaker 1: even though the m R I showed that is you know,
Speaker 1: there's no tears or in structurally sound, it does not.
Speaker 1: That still means that he could have inflammation and tendonitis
Speaker 1: in the rotator cuff and four uh you know starting
Speaker 1: picture that is definitely a shutdown. You have to get
Speaker 1: completely healed. If you have any calcification, um, you know,
Speaker 1: like a little bit of calcification on that tendon it
Speaker 1: makes it a little bit more friable and more delicate.
Speaker 1: And that that you know, and you know, when you
Speaker 1: have repeated sort of chronic repetitive, repetitive tears. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: an inflammation of the rotator cuff. It makes it much
Speaker 1: more at risk to tear. So um, you know d
Speaker 1: L three times last year. It just says it with shoulder,
Speaker 1: oblique and lateral strains. I R c Uh. He'll be
Speaker 1: probably at thirty by April, so you know, third of
Speaker 1: his starts. Again, he's not as bad as Clayton, but
Speaker 1: you know, definitely up there. Oh, Sportsine is not nearly
Speaker 1: as bad as Clayton Kershaw here at this point. But
Speaker 1: you know, another one of these guys, Chrise, I gotta
Speaker 1: stay away from right now. Yeah, injured pretty much for
Speaker 1: most of the last season. When he came back, he
Speaker 1: was a mess, went into the bullpen and stuff like.
Speaker 1: It's just and this was a guy like you know,
Speaker 1: we're talking top fifteen twenty starting picture in fantasy and
Speaker 1: baseball like like, I mean, this guy was dominant. So
Speaker 1: it's sad to see. This is how fast pictures can
Speaker 1: full like the picture, injuries come fast and heavy. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know, you fall off the map. That's why it's
Speaker 1: scared to draft pictures early on. Uh. Sometimes I shot
Speaker 1: away from that and I'd rather take my chances on
Speaker 1: values later, but especially throwing extremities on pictures Like they
Speaker 1: can suffer from other stuff, but when you start, the
Speaker 1: first throwing extremity injury that they have is the beginning
Speaker 1: of a long road of multiple injuries and an eventually
Speaker 1: misstarts and an eventually you know, end of career type
Speaker 1: of stuff and surgery. Yeah, not great. There. We're talking
Speaker 1: to Dr A from Inside Injuries here. Uh and doc Uh,
Speaker 1: Frank's not here if you want to make sure we
Speaker 1: asked you about just an update and what's going on
Speaker 1: with that patella. Uh. He heard some words that he
Speaker 1: didn't know and wanted you to clarify them. So the
Speaker 1: teller tenant in connects to your kneecap, to your tibia,
Speaker 1: you know, the bottom part of your knee. It's the
Speaker 1: main thing that extends the knee essentially creates that stability.
Speaker 1: You know, as an outfielder, the biggest thing is is
Speaker 1: running and catching up to you know, uh, flyballs and
Speaker 1: line drives, etcetera. And the patellar tendon is really really
Speaker 1: impactful and so when it does that tendonitis, it will
Speaker 1: slow that outfielder down. Now it's a Grade one, so
Speaker 1: it's the lowest grade, you know, minor inflammation, Uh, two
Speaker 1: weeks optimal recovery time, you know, and you know, so
Speaker 1: he and you know, from from healing from that injury,
Speaker 1: and then he'll just need to rehab it a little
Speaker 1: bit and he should be ready for opening day right now.
Speaker 1: He fell, he fell back into below average because of this,
Speaker 1: but then you know, if you rest appropriately, he'll be
Speaker 1: back up to above average, close to peak health. He
Speaker 1: is a little injury prone. Um, he will still have
Speaker 1: like a fifteen uh you know, uh, injury risks. So
Speaker 1: if you just take you know, out of a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two games, uh, you know, he'll probably play
Speaker 1: in a thirty of them this year. Okay, so only
Speaker 1: thirty games. But at least it's only a grade one
Speaker 1: at this hotel, A tendant injury shouldn't Keehm out for
Speaker 1: a while. Chris, Yeah, that's good news, I guess. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just it's worried somewhat a guy like
Speaker 1: Upton because you're spending a decent draft pick on him. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he is already a risky option in terms of
Speaker 1: being a streaky hitter. You really hope that the injury
Speaker 1: doesn't affect his whole season, you know, and then then
Speaker 1: you're really talking about losing major value on a guy
Speaker 1: that you're taking with a high draft pick. So it's
Speaker 1: something to look out for, especially in the spring training.
Speaker 1: Right now. Absolutely, we're talking to dr Ay from Inside Injuries, Chris.
Speaker 1: Anything you want to ask, doc, Um, did you got hi? Doc?
Speaker 1: This is Chris Fncher. Pleasure to your video a whole timelf. Now,
Speaker 1: I haven't asked him a question yet, so I figured
Speaker 1: I introduced myself now. So my question was about did
Speaker 1: you already ask about Will Meres? And Frank already ask
Speaker 1: him about Willmers? About all those different injuries calf, shoulder,
Speaker 1: Yeah we should we We asked him. We asked him
Speaker 1: about Will Myers a couple of weeks ago, and and
Speaker 1: basically Doc is just like this dude is basically dead.
Speaker 1: So instead, you know, I'll tell I'll take it back.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to ask about another one
Speaker 1: of those outfielders inside the nl West here, Doc, And
Speaker 1: that's about a J. Pollock, Because Alwa was looking at
Speaker 1: a J. Pollock right that's thirty one years old and
Speaker 1: he never can stay healthy. We were talking about him
Speaker 1: yesterday Chris, and Pollock is just a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: we can keep waiting, and we can keep waiting in
Speaker 1: a full season. He's gonna do this. He's never gonna
Speaker 1: play a full season. Talking may be healthy now, but
Speaker 1: is all of a sudden A J. Pollock's time winding down?
Speaker 1: What what round do you want to take him in? Chris?
Speaker 1: Then I'll back into this and I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it. So Chris says the twelfth, he's going on
Speaker 1: the board at one thirteen overall. Okay, Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: he's a thirteen rounder. I think that he's um hpf is.
Speaker 1: He'll be at it's in peak category by opening day.
Speaker 1: He's he's recovered, he has no current injuries. Here's the problem,
Speaker 1: thirty six percent injury risks. So he played a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen games in eighteen, he played a hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve games in seventeen. He's gonna play a hundred and
Speaker 1: five hundred hundred, five hundred ten games in nineteen. So
Speaker 1: just you know, thirty six percent, you know it's a
Speaker 1: very he'll miss forty to fifty games this in nineteen. Yeah, absolutely, Doc,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. J twelve Okay, So he's You
Speaker 1: guys are more optimistic on a j than I am,
Speaker 1: which is shocking. He's do you usually pessimistic? One? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know when a guy doesn't have any current
Speaker 1: injuries and he's actually rested for what seven months, you know,
Speaker 1: and so I mean he should be you know, he's healthy.
Speaker 1: He should be recovered from all of the injuries that
Speaker 1: he was suffering from. But his age and his wear
Speaker 1: and tear and everything and all the other stuff we
Speaker 1: take into the I r C calculation. Uh, he'll miss
Speaker 1: thirty percent of the uh not not maybe twenty five
Speaker 1: percent by the time opening season, So quarter of the season.
Speaker 1: Quarter of the season is probably around forty games. So great,
Speaker 1: that's a lot that is. I mean, he's playing well now,
Speaker 1: he's got on base all three times in his lique
Speaker 1: game in singles, trumpy. Good, tell me when he starts running. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see dr Ay here. I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: another guy who's not really hurt but had some injury
Speaker 1: issues going down the stretch last year. I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure he's a hundred percent. He just signed for
Speaker 1: like a billion dollar contract the stension with the Rockies,
Speaker 1: and that's Nolan Arnado. Is he totally one percent healthy? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: he has a grade one shoulder okay now, and you
Speaker 1: know it's grade one so you know if he rests
Speaker 1: and it'll be you know, it'll be completely healed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's good to go. He's at ranny with this injury.
Speaker 1: He was at nineties six percent before he'll get he'll
Speaker 1: be back up there, so he should be good to go. Okay,
Speaker 1: So nothing to worry about. Eronada. The shoulder does have
Speaker 1: the power a little bit. Uh So you're worried about that,
Speaker 1: but it looks like we're the dr A. There's nothing
Speaker 1: to worry about when it comes to Nolan Aaronado. Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk Jock about some of these guys that we
Speaker 1: you we know ore injured and we're kind of waiting
Speaker 1: for them to, you know, start moving. And Matt Chapman,
Speaker 1: who spoke a lot about earlier this week. And Matt
Speaker 1: Chapman is one of Frank's favorites. He said, if he's healthy,
Speaker 1: one of ventures favorites as well, people like Matt Chapman.
Speaker 1: But I'm still concerned he's not swinging yet. It's that
Speaker 1: gonna happen soon. Yeah, this is the remember we spent
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes talking about the owner side at sesamoid
Speaker 1: bone decision, and I was trying to explain to you
Speaker 1: guys what that is. But yeah, yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: he's at above average at seventy seven our peak health
Speaker 1: category start at and so he's very close. And so
Speaker 1: he's he he'll be from you know, from an injury
Speaker 1: impact standpoint, he won't really have that much uh significant
Speaker 1: impact from the injuries, however, he's he will he's at
Speaker 1: racy right now. He'll be down to probably about eighteen
Speaker 1: seventeen percent by opening day. So out of you know,
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty two games, he'll play about a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty of them. That's good. So all in all,
Speaker 1: with everything going on, that's pretty good for Chapman. It's
Speaker 1: very good for match having. Okay, so again, not really
Speaker 1: a worried. There's a lot of optimism from from not there.
Speaker 1: I'm not used to that. Good. It's very good. Do
Speaker 1: you have optimism when it comes to Marcello Zuna as well? Um,
Speaker 1: Marcela as you know, let me quickly look him up
Speaker 1: on this list here here he is Okay, yeah, great,
Speaker 1: throwing shoulder surgery. This was you know, miss much of
Speaker 1: the two thousand and eight Uh you know, uh, the
Speaker 1: shoulder injury, played through it the two eighteen. Still was
Speaker 1: able to play in a hundred and forty eight games
Speaker 1: last year, which was shocking, but uh, you know underwent
Speaker 1: uh you know, sort of the scope and all of
Speaker 1: that stuff. He's at sixty eight percent right now. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll get up to seventy close to he'll
Speaker 1: be above average peak. But again, this whole throwing shoulder, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, left fielder needs to have power, he needs
Speaker 1: to throw out people, He needs to get the ball
Speaker 1: back into the end field very very fast. That's going
Speaker 1: to hamper him a little bit. That's eyes injury risk
Speaker 1: right now is that it'll be down to probably in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. But if you can take
Speaker 1: him playing about, you know, a hundred and twenty games
Speaker 1: through the season, then I think then he's your guy
Speaker 1: because I'll be close to peak. How possible is it
Speaker 1: for that shoulder injury to just get worse? He has
Speaker 1: to have surgery on it, Like, is that something that
Speaker 1: he can come back that's gonna recur? Or is he fine?
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's he's fine. From it. I mean he's
Speaker 1: recovered from that injury. He had a scope, probably a
Speaker 1: clean out procedure. Um, there wasn't really in any tear
Speaker 1: that we can scrape and and and crawl for. I
Speaker 1: mean all of the data that we have, so basically, um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like sort of a chronic, repetitive type injury.
Speaker 1: So yes, this will come up. That will be the
Speaker 1: forty games that he misses because of this type of injury. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go, d a from inside injuries here. That
Speaker 1: injury is going to cost him and potentially cost him
Speaker 1: and fantasy owners dearly doc. Yesterday Josh James got hurt.
Speaker 1: Fantasy owners love themselves some Josh James potentially in that
Speaker 1: astro's rotation. It looks like this injury is gonna knock
Speaker 1: him out of rotation contention to start off the year.
Speaker 1: How serious is the injury and how long will it last? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I feel for Josh James, you know, being competing as
Speaker 1: the fifth starter and then getting a quad strain that
Speaker 1: which is responsible for a lot of your power as
Speaker 1: the starting pitcher. You know, I kind of feel for
Speaker 1: him because you know that that kind of is the
Speaker 1: Achilles heel and he needs power and so, um it's
Speaker 1: a grade one. Great news, but not not great timing. Um,
Speaker 1: So he'll recover from this nicely. From from an injury standpoint,
Speaker 1: if you rest two weeks by March thirteenth, he should
Speaker 1: be good to go and he'll be back up to
Speaker 1: peak health and low injury risk. Okay, so there you
Speaker 1: go to Josh James. Soon enough will be good to
Speaker 1: go back to low injury risk, back to peak health,
Speaker 1: just not yet unfortunately, going to cost him an opportunity.
Speaker 1: But we'll see how early the season the astros oultately
Speaker 1: do call love Chris. Yeah, I think I think that's
Speaker 1: actually really good news because now the value in drafts
Speaker 1: is great because he'll be falling down the wall. People
Speaker 1: canna be worried he's not in the rotation to start
Speaker 1: the season. That's gonna be a big h you know,
Speaker 1: basically bad your rafters. Uh. And I think if you
Speaker 1: get him, you know, like late as a flyer, that's
Speaker 1: one of the highest episode flyers you can get in
Speaker 1: the draft. And if he's coming back as dr he said,
Speaker 1: you know, March, early March, mid March, that's that's great.
Speaker 1: That's great news. I think I think that's a guy
Speaker 1: that you you should be targeting in the light rounds
Speaker 1: alright around flyer on Josh James Here, just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes left, Doc, and we we get to Malex Smith,
Speaker 1: who Frank wants to love. And I'm saying, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you're taking this guy who hasn't Isn't there anything? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How serious is injury to Malex Smith? Will be ready
Speaker 1: to go? Yeah? I mean elbow sore no grade one.
Speaker 1: I mean that could be a multitude of different things,
Speaker 1: but most commonly in a in a baseball player, it's
Speaker 1: going to be some sort of triceps uh, or some
Speaker 1: sort of um uh, ligament sprain grade one ligament sprain
Speaker 1: within the elbow. Uh. It's a minor injury. It's one
Speaker 1: one week actually recovery time. The htr was already healthy
Speaker 1: to return, was already reached. He just has to not
Speaker 1: get back into throwing shape. Um. You know the problem
Speaker 1: with Alex Smith is the fact that you know he's
Speaker 1: had multiple multiple injuries in sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen, specifically
Speaker 1: hamstring injuries. UM, so I'm not so much worried about
Speaker 1: the elbow. He'll recover from this it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1: But the hamstring injuries, He's virtually guaranteed to get a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury in nineteen because he's you know, it's just
Speaker 1: that's what he does. He gets hamstring injuries, and so
Speaker 1: his injury risk is at thirty pc. It's going to
Speaker 1: knock him out, um, you know for probably again fifty
Speaker 1: fifty five games this season. He'll be, you know, one
Speaker 1: of these guys that you should not take, you know,
Speaker 1: early on in these rounds. I mean this, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to miss a third of the season.
Speaker 1: A third of the season, Frank Staff, I hope you're listening.
Speaker 1: Alex Smith's one of those guys is going to miss
Speaker 1: a third of the season. What are you doing, Frank,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: He's gonna pivot to end fair dr right, eat sign injuries. Man.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on with us, and
Speaker 1: we appreciate at the time. And let's do it all
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Speaker 1: want to contell you on with some of these outfielders
Speaker 1: here and Billy Hamilton's name. He mentioned about what aga
Speaker 1: you draft Billie Hamilton's this year? Me, No, I will
Speaker 1: not in a points league. Uh, in the in the
Speaker 1: way I play. Uh. We don't like Hamilton's could have
Speaker 1: a great year. He needs to hit for average otherwise
Speaker 1: the stolen bases are not gonna be enough. Um, because
Speaker 1: he doesn't walk. He walks at a decent clip, but
Speaker 1: not a great clip, okay, And he needs to get
Speaker 1: on base in order to be a productive player. That's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. He's not gonna hit for
Speaker 1: any sort of power whatsoever. Uh. And he's only gonna
Speaker 1: score runs if he gets on bass, so he needs
Speaker 1: to walk more, and he needs to for a high
Speaker 1: erg to thirty six last year, to forty seven the
Speaker 1: year before. This is kind of a dead fish to me. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know you're looking for fifty plus stolen bases
Speaker 1: out of this guy, and he's only gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Like I said, if he gets on base, it's too risky. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you're now, if you're in the Roto league, I
Speaker 1: could see the value. Obviously there's major value in the
Speaker 1: stolen base category. Uh, so you know you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to target him if if you need that. But in
Speaker 1: points league, he is on the bottom of the ring
Speaker 1: for me, all right, bottom of the ring. I'm not
Speaker 1: he's draftable, but he's not. Never draft Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: never gonna do it. I never do it either. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, ultimately, I just I feel you can't win
Speaker 1: with him. That's the problem. I ultimately feel that I
Speaker 1: have I disadvantage. Um. Well, Billy Hamilton, Billy Hamilton, right
Speaker 1: talking about right, Yeah, he hit two eighty, that'd be
Speaker 1: a different story. He's not hitting two eight. He hit
Speaker 1: to sixty one year. I was surprised Florio actually has
Speaker 1: Byron bucks and behind Billy Hamilts, which is surprised. And
Speaker 1: I understand the speed. I get it. I'm never doing that,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, Buckston could hit Homers though, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Rankings are interesting, man, he has I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to even say any of this, but he's
Speaker 1: like even doubt way behind all of these guys. Is
Speaker 1: it interesting that is well? I could see that because
Speaker 1: David Doll hasn't really done anything. What has he done? Nothing?
Speaker 1: It's just round places in Colorado. That's the big thing.
Speaker 1: It's a bit, it's a big thing. But his health
Speaker 1: risk and just the fact that we don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what he's gonna give us is like really scary. So
Speaker 1: I could see, I could understand it. You know, I
Speaker 1: can see where he's coming from. You want to play
Speaker 1: it safe, you go away from Doll. And name you
Speaker 1: mentioned before Chris was Chris Taylor and last year Max Months,
Speaker 1: this year's Max Monsey was Chris Taylor. Right came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. I had a monster year for the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: had very good position eligibility and really struggled. Um shrug
Speaker 1: out a lot last year. I know you don't care
Speaker 1: about the strike ats, but a lot of fantasy that's important. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's important. A lot of a lot of fantasy owners
Speaker 1: do in points least because more um taller. Taylor last year,
Speaker 1: playing a hundred fifty five games a playing time wasn't
Speaker 1: conncerned had over six hundred at bats, but went down
Speaker 1: in home runs of the same amount of runs down
Speaker 1: in verbis down and steel struck out more almost thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the time did walk a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Average dropped by thirty five points or so. Chris Taylor
Speaker 1: also saw the hard hit rate go up a lot,
Speaker 1: which is interesting, up six percent, and the hard hit
Speaker 1: rate ground balls went way down. He was just hitting,
Speaker 1: you know, making good contact, I would say, yet a
Speaker 1: little bit unlucky as his babbit certainly fell from the
Speaker 1: excellent three one to really still extra five. But it
Speaker 1: felt a little bit but he wasn't making as good
Speaker 1: of contact. What do you make Chris Taylor in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I'm still on him. Actually I drafted him at at
Speaker 1: a place where it wasn't the greatest value. But I
Speaker 1: was very high on Chris Taylor last year. Um so
Speaker 1: I understand he played more games. He he went down
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think this is more of like
Speaker 1: a growing pains thing in the MLB because he played
Speaker 1: his first full year in twenty seventeen, and I think
Speaker 1: he kind of need to adjust. I think people adjusted
Speaker 1: to him. Pitchers adjusted to him. They got a scouting
Speaker 1: report on him, they knew how to pitch him. He
Speaker 1: had to us, and I think he did a decent
Speaker 1: job of it, because he still had a pretty decent
Speaker 1: season considering the thirty point, uh, you know, drop an average. Honestly,
Speaker 1: he does everything pretty well. I think the average will
Speaker 1: go up. Like you said, the babbittie, he it should
Speaker 1: start heading more in that direction. Uh cl closer to
Speaker 1: to seventy. Trying to figure out why he got unlucky,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, he just probably got unlucky. I mean,
Speaker 1: but that many he strugg out a lot more, a
Speaker 1: lot more here. He struggled, struggled against lefties last year
Speaker 1: betting two thirty two, which is a bit of it,
Speaker 1: which is obviously, um a bit of an issue. His August.
Speaker 1: His August was like horrific. He meant eighty five before.
Speaker 1: It's kind of turning it on um Sintember and October,
Speaker 1: So you know, Chris Taylor a streaky guy. I think
Speaker 1: that's fair to say. You think that's like gonna be
Speaker 1: a career trends, maybe bet a roto player. Potentially, well,
Speaker 1: where he's going in drafts now as opposed to where
Speaker 1: he was going last is a much better value play.
Speaker 1: And I think we can see numbers more similar to seventeen.
Speaker 1: I don't think about two eight eight. I'm thinking more
Speaker 1: like two seventy to seventy five. UM, maybe give you
Speaker 1: a twelve to fifteen bags uh and hopefully you know
Speaker 1: around fifty to sixty walks uh. The RBIs and run scored.
Speaker 1: He hasn't really had the RBIs, but the run scores
Speaker 1: are there, it's what you want to see. And scored
Speaker 1: less two years and row eighty five in a row,
Speaker 1: so that's good. Doubles are there, thirty four and thirty five,
Speaker 1: and I think he could be a twenty to twenty
Speaker 1: five home er guy. I think this is pretty much
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get, except more of the twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: version of him than this version of I think you
Speaker 1: just had a little bit of a down year and
Speaker 1: had to adjust. I think he's a solid guy to draft,
Speaker 1: especially at the shortstop position, shortstop and outfield eligible. Going
Speaker 1: off the board. Picked two nineteen is Chris Teller. I
Speaker 1: do like him better than a guy like Adam Eaton,
Speaker 1: a guy like I'm kind of shore like Chris Teller
Speaker 1: better than that he measured Harrison Bader. Has there anything
Speaker 1: to know about Harrison Bader? Chris Bader does almost everything well, uh,
Speaker 1: he's said he kind of reminds me of But I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have more power than this guy Andrew
Speaker 1: benn in Tendi. Okay, interesting with the stolen bab He's
Speaker 1: not gonna have the average. Okay, I don't think I'll
Speaker 1: have the average like benn Intendie, but he'll have the
Speaker 1: He'll have more power, so it's kind of gonna wash
Speaker 1: that out. Is he going to play? And are you
Speaker 1: sure he doesn't have more power? It's twelve home runs
Speaker 1: a hundred thirty games last year. I'm thinking I'm looking
Speaker 1: more at his minor league career at twenty homers and
Speaker 1: nineteen homers two years in the miners, a hundred thirty undred,
Speaker 1: twenty games. It's a lot of homers and miners um.
Speaker 1: You know, I thinks a lot strikes out a lot,
Speaker 1: so That's that's how you know he's definitely going for
Speaker 1: the power of power shot. He's only twenty four. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be twenty five in June. Uh so, like there's
Speaker 1: still time for development here. It was only really his
Speaker 1: first full season, so I think, and not even really
Speaker 1: a full season. So I think the you know, the
Speaker 1: average could to sixty four in bad for a first year.
Speaker 1: He could be even bumped that up to two seventy
Speaker 1: to seventy five. I think the homers go up. I
Speaker 1: think the doubles, all that stuff will go up. The walks.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be a guy that walks
Speaker 1: a ton, but he'll walk you know, maybe forty to
Speaker 1: fifty times like a Chris Taylor um and strikes out
Speaker 1: a ton. That's gonna happen. But if you could get
Speaker 1: the average up to t eight, I think this is
Speaker 1: not a bad player to have any stills basis he's
Speaker 1: kind of teen. Is there a spot for him in
Speaker 1: that outfield? Though, Well, what do we have right now?
Speaker 1: We have our zoo Zuna, we have him him. I
Speaker 1: think he should definitely start in that outfiel who else
Speaker 1: is really there pulling it up? Hang on one second,
Speaker 1: cause I'm I'm having a brain. I'm having a brain
Speaker 1: far in here. Um in the outfield for the Cardinals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously Marcello Juna, he's out there. Dexter Fowler is still
Speaker 1: going to play because he makes a ton of money. Um,
Speaker 1: and the other one I'm missing, and Harrison Bader is
Speaker 1: protected about eighth place center field for this team. Center field.
Speaker 1: I mean, Fouler isn't really much of a threat though,
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, Like that's their third outfield.
Speaker 1: There's Fouler, Like I would think that somebody else even
Speaker 1: takes foul stuff. Eventually, I mean, they may want to
Speaker 1: get Josie Martinez in the lineup. Figure out a way
Speaker 1: to do that. People need to like Yramunos, as I said,
Speaker 1: as Freight pointed out to me, Martinez, I don't see
Speaker 1: because they I don't think he's just not a good hitter.
Speaker 1: He's just not that he's a good hitter. He's not
Speaker 1: a good fielding's terrible fielder. But I don't see, like
Speaker 1: what numbers those Josie Martinez ever. Really he's got some power,
Speaker 1: I think, to be honest, with this little power, and
Speaker 1: then that's about it right. Yeah. Tyler O'Neil is another
Speaker 1: outfielder that certainly that fantasy owners love. He's got a
Speaker 1: ton of power if he learned are interested about him. Um,
Speaker 1: he's the main guy that I think people would be
Speaker 1: concerned about when it comes to Harrison Bater. I would
Speaker 1: think people love Tyler O'Neill. Tyler O'Neil, Okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of these guys really are gonna
Speaker 1: threaten much. Uh and listen, you're right I was wrong
Speaker 1: about that. Ido Jose Martinez was a lot less of
Speaker 1: an averager. He'd throw a five, throw nine in the
Speaker 1: past two. He's good hitter, that's pretty good. Um, But
Speaker 1: I just I don't see, if anything, I think Martinez
Speaker 1: might take Fowler time away. I don't see it taking
Speaker 1: Baters somewhere. He's a young guy, he's got potential. He's
Speaker 1: playing center field, so obviously he's probably one of the
Speaker 1: better outfielders Defensively. I think you know he's gonna get
Speaker 1: a shot. I wouldn't worry about playing time. I'd worry
Speaker 1: more about you know, I hope he climbs up in
Speaker 1: that lineup. Eight isn't isn't really a good spot to be.
Speaker 1: But if he hits and he you know, he's hitting consistently, well,
Speaker 1: he'll move up in that line of because that line
Speaker 1: up isn't like, you know, stacked by any means. Um.
Speaker 1: I like the guy. I think it's not a bad
Speaker 1: value pick later. I wouldn't reach on him or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Like I still like um, you know, like
Speaker 1: a Chris Taller and not Winker though I think you're
Speaker 1: like Winker. I like Winker, and I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Winker because somebody pot that up to me. Winker
Speaker 1: is an interesting guy. I think there's a guy, there's
Speaker 1: a guy with value here right right, right spot for him,
Speaker 1: right spot for him. We're right in the right in
Speaker 1: the right area. I think that bad has just proven
Speaker 1: more already in the MLBU. Winker hasn't really you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't. He played barely you know, half a seat
Speaker 1: little one a half a season, uh, and hasn't really
Speaker 1: shown too much. But he did hit nine. That's something
Speaker 1: you really like to see in ninety games. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: almost fifty walks in ninety games. That's really good to
Speaker 1: play disciplines day. The averages there doesn't strike out, he
Speaker 1: walked more than he struck out. I think that's what
Speaker 1: stands out the most to me about Winker, and that's
Speaker 1: why I really like him. But he didn't see any power. Really,
Speaker 1: seven homers in ninety games isn't really that great if
Speaker 1: you can get till. So that's the thing with Jesse Winker.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. He's interesting because as a young hitter, I mean,
Speaker 1: what is twenty five years old, twenty six and August
Speaker 1: twenty five years old in the last two years of
Speaker 1: small sample sizes, he sees the ball really really well
Speaker 1: because he doesn't strike out, He walks an s ton
Speaker 1: as you as you just mentioned, the power hasn't been
Speaker 1: there in the Great American Ball Park. If he couldn't
Speaker 1: guarantee me that Jesse Winkers is gonna play every day,
Speaker 1: And we have this conversation yesterday when he came to
Speaker 1: yas L Peak. There's a lot of names there, from
Speaker 1: Scotti Cheler yas L Pweak to Matt Kemp to Jesse Winker.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of names there. Nix sends Nix sends,
Speaker 1: so potentially he comes out plays the outfield. If you
Speaker 1: can tell me Jesse Winker would play every day, I
Speaker 1: am really interested man. Really, it's just a good player,
Speaker 1: especially where you're you know, I think people start hard.
Speaker 1: Hit percentage going up for last year, that's really good.
Speaker 1: It's really hard. The thing is the home in the
Speaker 1: five ball ratio under ten percent, and that's why that
Speaker 1: you're not that's right there. Percentage was almost twenty five percent,
Speaker 1: So I get it right. He's in a lot of
Speaker 1: line drives aren't going out, but some of those how
Speaker 1: many doubles do you have last year? You're the doubles guy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he only had sixteen he played, but that's like, that's
Speaker 1: roughly thirty, so that's not bad. That's okay. Closing the
Speaker 1: home runs with this average. I like Jesse Winker man.
Speaker 1: I like it. As a left he's going I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play today. He's playing right and right as
Speaker 1: of right now, he's supposed to be leading off theoretically
Speaker 1: electic big but platooning verse lefties. What was batting average
Speaker 1: against lefties lest year? Last year against lefties, Jesse Winker
Speaker 1: bad at two eleven, which is the massive problem. I
Speaker 1: was going to hide that, uh to eleven. I feel
Speaker 1: like every lefty just bat's bad versus lefties. There's only
Speaker 1: like a handful a handful of guys that actually back
Speaker 1: well versus lefties. But um, you know, he's a left
Speaker 1: handed hitter. I mean, he's got to do better than
Speaker 1: two eleven. If he hits two thirty versus lefties, that
Speaker 1: might even suffice if he's king. Isn't that crazy? So
Speaker 1: the thing is, I don't like the platoon thing. That
Speaker 1: scares me. He doesn't. I mean, he just doesn't play
Speaker 1: against left the Ultimately, he's not gonna play. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play a pinch hitter. That's it. Because
Speaker 1: you've had three against last year. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: that's why you bet nine. But in the daily Transaction league,
Speaker 1: can't you just movement it out in the daily transactionally, Yes,
Speaker 1: great guy to have I played. You know, most people play.
Speaker 1: I feel like weeklyly play daily. I kind of want
Speaker 1: to move to daily, but nobody will do it. Love it.
Speaker 1: They won't do it. It's too much work, is what
Speaker 1: they'd say. But to me, weekly change you can't do anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's staring at your team for a week
Speaker 1: and you can't do anything. I know, And what if
Speaker 1: a guy gets hurt right before the game is on
Speaker 1: Monday sucks that guy's out the whole week. But if
Speaker 1: a guy gets hurt right after a lot of Monday,
Speaker 1: yeah it sucks. It's terrible. Yeah, no, I agree, but
Speaker 1: they're not gonna do that. And if you a lot
Speaker 1: of people, I'm sure I play that weekly head to
Speaker 1: head format like a fantasy trip ball. So it's scary.
Speaker 1: But I think this guy has just so much potential.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, if you walk more than you strike out,
Speaker 1: that's like pools. You know what I'm talking about. That's
Speaker 1: pools type of bad. Don't you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Don't you lay Ryan Braun Also, I do like bron
Speaker 1: but he doesn't play. He did last year. He's just
Speaker 1: always hurt. How much? How many games did he play
Speaker 1: last year? Last year Ryan bron for the Brew Crew
Speaker 1: played in a hundred twenty five games, So like, is
Speaker 1: that what we're hoping for? Twenty and ten and twenty
Speaker 1: five game and a hundred twenty five games average. Obviously
Speaker 1: is never coming back, but he's still even at this
Speaker 1: point in his career. He's twenty and guy, man, I
Speaker 1: love that Guy's whole career was really Ryan Brod was
Speaker 1: rerather Ryan Broner Andrea Cutching. I'd rather have him a
Speaker 1: Cutching right now, just because I know he'll probably play
Speaker 1: a full season. The last three seasons he played pretty
Speaker 1: much full seasons, absolutely bowlketball parks. The problem with like
Speaker 1: he's played a hundred He hasn't played more than a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty games since two thousand, twelve hundred fifteen,
Speaker 1: but before that was two thousand, hundred fifty four, So
Speaker 1: he hasn't really played a full season forever. That's a
Speaker 1: scary thing, like always getting hurt. Older guy now too,
Speaker 1: he's older then McCutcheon. He's he's thirty five years old.
Speaker 1: McCutcheon is thirty two, I believe. So that thirty five age,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's where the decline starts for most
Speaker 1: players six you know, in the stertor is more like
Speaker 1: thirty thirty nine. But it's not start there anymore. People
Speaker 1: start declining at thirty five now, So I'm scared. I'm
Speaker 1: scared of Braun, to be honest, But you're getting him
Speaker 1: at cheap value, So I do like I know you
Speaker 1: have you have at the baseball and I have some
Speaker 1: breaking football news if you don't mind nice. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: have announced that Jason Witten is returning the nineteen season.
Speaker 1: Ah wait what yeah he got did he get cans
Speaker 1: from the I don't know. That is the perfect segue
Speaker 1: to talk to Jim Day about today. How about that news?
Speaker 1: He definitely he was like I don't He's like, I
Speaker 1: suck it. Yeah, I'm not doing this anymore, but I
Speaker 1: want to play football game. I guess you got a
Speaker 1: year ar rest. Maybe that'll help him. And he was
Speaker 1: really bad at another job. I mean some say a
Speaker 1: lot of people are saying he was doing much better.
Speaker 1: I didn't. That was just Corey only Corey was saying.
Speaker 1: I heard one of the person to say that I
Speaker 1: forgot what it was, but I didn't see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't really see the a little bit of improvement.
Speaker 1: Of course, you're gonna improve as you do something more.
Speaker 1: But like he was still bored, Like he just wasn't
Speaker 1: entertaining to me. You know, he's very monotone, and you know,
Speaker 1: I guess that's the plan for him. He wants to
Speaker 1: make money still, you know, he he's note you know what,
Speaker 1: And I bet he was getting cans from his job
Speaker 1: and the let's face, the Cowboys need a tight end.
Speaker 1: Now buys could use the veteran, use anything. He's a
Speaker 1: veteran in there for sure. How much money they're giving
Speaker 1: him's see if it's here, Um, it doesn't how much money.
Speaker 1: Quote the fire and Simon to compete and play this
Speaker 1: game is just burning too strong. It's he was a
Speaker 1: great group of rising young stars. I want to help
Speaker 1: them make a run in the championship. This is completly
Speaker 1: my decision, and I'm very comfortable with it. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to getting back in the dirt. Wow, it looks
Speaker 1: like ESPN is gonna go find another commentator. That's how
Speaker 1: much they can pay Greg Olson? That's the question, right,
Speaker 1: how much could they Payson? Do you think that will
Speaker 1: be the replacement? That's the idea, Although will they do
Speaker 1: it with another tight end? That's the question, right. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of candidates. There will be.
Speaker 1: There will be again and maybe they're just like Bogger
Speaker 1: do it. Maybe they're just be Bogger Tessa bugs in
Speaker 1: in the actual studio of course. All right. We ended
Speaker 1: with football, back to Bageholl starting pitchers tomorrow. When we
Speaker 1: come back, Jim Day joins us to break down the
Speaker 1: count by stick around more after this