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Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie standfle I am Greg.
Speaker 1: What's talking about? Gregg? Happy Friday here? The long short
Speaker 1: week is coming to a conclusion. Feels like right, feels
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, And hopefully we actually do get some
Speaker 1: spring training baseball today. We're supposed to get Yesterday we
Speaker 1: got about an ending and then it was postponed with
Speaker 1: like rain hail. I think it's like snowing in Arizona today.
Speaker 1: I mean, wild is going on. But we are supposed
Speaker 1: to have two games today, Philly and Tampa at one
Speaker 1: Oakland and Seattle at three A right to man. I
Speaker 1: was actually really excited to see medals in a bet.
Speaker 1: And then then that's when a cop postponed very sad
Speaker 1: sight fring training Yankee start tomorrow. How you feeling, Greg,
Speaker 1: How did you sleep last night? You're not gonna believe this.
Speaker 1: It's great, it's so fun. Yeah, that's a lie. I
Speaker 1: was like, not high. We wake up at three? I
Speaker 1: woke up with two thirty and I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: like a week. I went back to bed. Whatever, he's
Speaker 1: why a wig? I gotta tell you do a funny story. Actually, um,
Speaker 1: I woke up with my My alarm went off six thirty.
Speaker 1: I woke up right, had a notification from American Express.
Speaker 1: I was charged from Chewy dot com. No, dude, I
Speaker 1: lost it on American Express. This Morner. The saga continues,
Speaker 1: I lost it on this morning. This one was Henry,
Speaker 1: Henry exist Greg my Mary Express card that was canceled
Speaker 1: in January. I lost my mind. So they go, is
Speaker 1: this gonna end up affecting your credit? I hope not.
Speaker 1: Why should it will it? I don't like if there's
Speaker 1: transactions that are being paid for and you're not paying
Speaker 1: them off well, they're not paid for. I can't immediately
Speaker 1: get them off the card. I hope. So I tell's
Speaker 1: credit Undo. So I tell him Mary Expressed and their sponsor.
Speaker 1: He was all right, So we'll make sure that there's
Speaker 1: no charges on that car and going forward. You canceled
Speaker 1: the card a month ago. Why would there be charging?
Speaker 1: Why would I want charges on that card going forward? Well,
Speaker 1: sometimes like people don't change them, Like you receive a
Speaker 1: notification from like Amazon, Uber or something like that, and
Speaker 1: you charge the card. I go, what, I won't charge
Speaker 1: that car because I don't have it anymore. It was
Speaker 1: canceled for fraud. I'm sorry, Greg. I was so angry.
Speaker 1: And so then the end of the conversation Friday morning
Speaker 1: here for Greg Susmania. So we ended the conversation with
Speaker 1: h we try to file a complaints, sir, I go, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I want to file a complaint. This is a joke.
Speaker 1: American Express. Man, American Express, you know what is it
Speaker 1: their fault? Though, it's their fault that my canceled credit
Speaker 1: card for fraud is still getting charged, Like that should
Speaker 1: not be able to be used anymore. But what if
Speaker 1: the people who are hacking your card and your identity,
Speaker 1: Greg or like jumping through like all these loopholes and
Speaker 1: it's not American Express as fault, keep charging Chewy dot com.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I love that it's a place, Sue,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous dot com check it out. Yeah, um, I
Speaker 1: will say this, Frank, My morning definitely had supplies looking
Speaker 1: at it right now. Um my morning is still going
Speaker 1: better than Bob Craft's Morning Guy is going too soon? Greg?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it? I don't know what's the latest?
Speaker 1: What do you got? Greg's named in the prostitution ring
Speaker 1: to the surprise of who though I know that these
Speaker 1: guys are held to a high standard, but he's like
Speaker 1: seventy he might even be older than that. He's like
Speaker 1: seventy years old, something that I think every time he
Speaker 1: accepts the Lombardi Trophy he's hammered. He he has a
Speaker 1: care at this point, I mean, like, yea, you you
Speaker 1: obviously he had his wife passed away, has had a
Speaker 1: girlfriend for a while at thirty nine, does at eleven
Speaker 1: or twelve? So since then, since then he's been dating
Speaker 1: an actress who's like thirty nine years younger than him
Speaker 1: or something like that. I'm not advocating prostitution by any means.
Speaker 1: But he's eighty years old, so he needs that. He
Speaker 1: has a girl his wife. He needed a girlfriend just
Speaker 1: like a not given what he needs? What happened the
Speaker 1: girl friend? How oldes? His girlfriend's probably thirty years just
Speaker 1: said thirty nine years younger than him. He's seventy nine.
Speaker 1: That makes her forty, right, Yeah, I mean this should
Speaker 1: surprise nobody. That's basically all say it. I mean, but
Speaker 1: what if like Gronk was in a prostitution really wouldn't
Speaker 1: be like a huge deal, Like he's the owner of
Speaker 1: the team. Yeah, but he's also like almost eighty years
Speaker 1: make it right, understand he broke the law. I mean,
Speaker 1: whatever is he really gonna like do time? I don't know,
Speaker 1: of course not probably not now. And he can get
Speaker 1: he can get me Bronc. I mean, would it really
Speaker 1: it would surprise me if Gronk because he doesn't if
Speaker 1: he could get really need prostitution. If he can get
Speaker 1: Meek free, he probably can himself free. It'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure Robert Craft will be just fine.
Speaker 1: Greg what a worse morning, Robert Craft or Gregg Robert Craft?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I wasn't arrested. You know who
Speaker 1: really had a worse morning than me? Um, that would
Speaker 1: be Rob at American Express or Samuel's. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: would be Samuel an American Expressed. Was the person you're
Speaker 1: Samuel was the supervisor who I was yelling at, whose
Speaker 1: phone kept dropping out and just moing more in range.
Speaker 1: That's how I started as soon as I connected. They
Speaker 1: can I help you? Yeah, I'll talk You're supervisor. Please,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I can help you, sir, I go. You cannot, damn,
Speaker 1: there would be so mean about it. Greg, my credit
Speaker 1: card which was canceled for fraud a month ago. It's
Speaker 1: still being charged. Yeah, but is it's Samuel's fault. No,
Speaker 1: but it's his company's fault and he represents the company.
Speaker 1: I guess, sorry, Sammy. What it is Today? On the program,
Speaker 1: we're going over short stops here and well Chris Mention
Speaker 1: joint program our number two to break down the position
Speaker 1: with us. And this is a really interesting one, very interesting.
Speaker 1: Lots of wild cards here, that's a good word for it.
Speaker 1: This is the wild card position. The wild card position.
Speaker 1: Everyone talks about the shortstop position like it's so deep.
Speaker 1: That's what you hear a lot of people talk about
Speaker 1: the short stop position is deep. You know, there's got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys you can find in the middle
Speaker 1: rounds and stuff. Yeah, but there's a lot of risk
Speaker 1: involved with these guys too. Like I'm I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the list. Lindor calls Korea, Corey Seekers just three names
Speaker 1: off the bat right right. Huge injury risks, all have
Speaker 1: huge upside, especially Lindor nine runs scored last year for
Speaker 1: first with Mookie debts when I you know, look a
Speaker 1: lot of the times when we play fantasy baseball, towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season, we start looking at the
Speaker 1: fantasy football, I mean it happens to everybody, right. I
Speaker 1: really did not know what Francisco Lindoor's final line was
Speaker 1: until I looked at up recently. He's incredible, He's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of worried about this. So the thing
Speaker 1: is knowing where, knowing where I draft. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who my shortstop will be. I was looking
Speaker 1: at the list this morning. I have no idea. I
Speaker 1: have no idea who my shorts that will end up
Speaker 1: being this year. Yeah, I mean I have a few.
Speaker 1: I have a few targets. Like to me, there's there's
Speaker 1: a top twelve shortstops right right, and then the tier
Speaker 1: right after that, like my thirteen fourteen, fifteen or Jose Peraza,
Speaker 1: Paul DeJong, de Young and Tim Anderson. Process was my
Speaker 1: guy last year. But do you really want any of
Speaker 1: those guys that you're starting shorts now? So actually want
Speaker 1: those guys in your middle, and so I started process
Speaker 1: by starting short stop all season for the I don't
Speaker 1: think this position is as deep as everyone once Corey
Speaker 1: Seeger went down last year. It's deep with middle infield options,
Speaker 1: and that's what people are talking about when when they
Speaker 1: see deep. I don't think it's deep with like starting talent.
Speaker 1: You guy with Elvis Ingers and well, I've kind of backtracked.
Speaker 1: You're gonna you can be all over as Jubil, aren't you.
Speaker 1: Let's give you a guy I really like his just
Speaker 1: because of the reposition eligibility Hit two seventy five with
Speaker 1: twenty homers. They'll tell you what one. Basically, they tell
Speaker 1: you are one in our middle and fielder viet it's
Speaker 1: what Kettle Marte, I ked Marte, I like Wilver Floras.
Speaker 1: You know we're taking over Flora Oh yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: who you decided that we're gonna take. Yes, I do
Speaker 1: like over Flora's let's fine hit like to seventy homers. Right, great,
Speaker 1: that's all she was going. Later rule Combert is going
Speaker 1: to twenty six five high beautiful or twenty great perfect
Speaker 1: like it causes a damn thing love it? Okay, So
Speaker 1: it's a buck bash if I ever heard one in auction?
Speaker 1: My man ian Con hopefully not listening. So I got
Speaker 1: I got a nice text about ian Con today. My
Speaker 1: buddies listened to the podcast. I mean Ian's great show.
Speaker 1: He said, did you just get my text? Like a
Speaker 1: week ago? Ian Con has a fan in me? Great,
Speaker 1: he said, like you know you get him on next week? Definitely?
Speaker 1: What do you want the sooner the better, bad venture? Monday, Monday,
Speaker 1: I'll ask I'll texting after the show and asked him,
Speaker 1: like one day next week he's available, make make make
Speaker 1: him make the decision. Oh Modico mon day No, So
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just going to be a
Speaker 1: segment or if Modico wants to come on for a
Speaker 1: whole hour. I mean he's more than welcome to do
Speaker 1: whatever he wants. Yeah, Well, We'll try and get more
Speaker 1: do any day, but not Monday free and cone perfect.
Speaker 1: So my goal today is to find a starting shortstop,
Speaker 1: is to figure out who I'm going to draft as
Speaker 1: my as my short stop target. That's hard Get, that's
Speaker 1: Haard gets whatever. And let's start at the top, which
Speaker 1: is where the intrigue begins. And I know who started
Speaker 1: at the top each and every day and tried to compare,
Speaker 1: all right, who should go first? This guy or this guy? Well,
Speaker 1: theoretically like Francisco Lindor is the best shortstop on the board.
Speaker 1: The problem is he may not be out there on
Speaker 1: opening day and this injury may recur. And then you're thinking,
Speaker 1: now what do I do, Frank, What is Francisco Lindor's injury?
Speaker 1: And why don't you remind all of us listening and
Speaker 1: watching exactly how long Dr A said this could linger? YEA,
Speaker 1: So Francisco Lindora's dealing with a cash strain. He was
Speaker 1: diagnosed early February. The initial timetable with seven to nine weeks,
Speaker 1: and you know that timetable right off the bat tells
Speaker 1: me that you know this was not just some kind
Speaker 1: of slight routine cash strain. This was a pretty legitimate
Speaker 1: cash strain here. So seven to nine weeks puts him
Speaker 1: at you know, right around the end of March early April.
Speaker 1: You know, you could miss the first you know, week
Speaker 1: or two of the season and he can come back
Speaker 1: and be awesome or based on what Dr A said,
Speaker 1: and you know, pretty much what I thought Dr would
Speaker 1: say is, you know, cash strains, especially if you've ever
Speaker 1: had one, you know, if your home listening or watching it,
Speaker 1: if you've ever had a cash strain, they suck like
Speaker 1: they make it hard to walk of course, let alone
Speaker 1: run a professional sport. That's a fine steal basis. And
Speaker 1: that was really something that Doc hit on was you
Speaker 1: know when he talks about wide receivers in the NFL
Speaker 1: and he talks about hamstring, right, Like hamstring is the
Speaker 1: initial muscle that you need to get off the line
Speaker 1: a scrimmage that gives you that acceleration and burst. He
Speaker 1: said with Francisco Lindor when you're trying to steal bases,
Speaker 1: you know that lateral kind of quickness that you need,
Speaker 1: that initial jump that you need to steal bases. A
Speaker 1: lot of that comes from your calves. So especially a
Speaker 1: guy that you know you want to steal basis for you.
Speaker 1: Not only is he gonna be at risk not to
Speaker 1: come close to that again, but he's going to be
Speaker 1: at a higher injury risks because he is a guy
Speaker 1: who likes to run and that he is going to
Speaker 1: need that you know, kind of jump, that acceleration and
Speaker 1: you know, something that he's gonna need from his calf
Speaker 1: muscles there. So it worries me, you know, much of
Speaker 1: much of his value I'm projecting him. I wouldn't protect
Speaker 1: him for more than fifteen stolen basis. Much of his
Speaker 1: value comes from those legs, that ability to run. And
Speaker 1: even when he's back in April, hopefully he's just not
Speaker 1: gonna start running. It's just not gonna happen. He's gotta
Speaker 1: get his legs under him. He's gotta get ready and
Speaker 1: he's available to go to in the nine weeks. That's
Speaker 1: without a spring training. So before he really kicks in
Speaker 1: his high gear, wow, you've already lost couple of months.
Speaker 1: And at that point the question becomes, man, if I
Speaker 1: wanted speed at the shortstop position, should I have just
Speaker 1: taken trade turner at my spot? And those are the
Speaker 1: top two short stops off the board this year. Trade
Speaker 1: Turner and Francisco Lindor. Lindor was a top five pick
Speaker 1: before this injury. Now he probably goes towards the end
Speaker 1: of the first round. Are you probably still in the
Speaker 1: first round though a lot of the expert drafts that
Speaker 1: I've seen, Francisco Lindor has been going in the second
Speaker 1: round really after trade Turner definitely okay. Trade Turners a
Speaker 1: rock solid top ten, top twelve pick right now. Um
Speaker 1: and Lindor know, for example, in the tout Wars draft
Speaker 1: in whole league this is O b P. Francisco Lindor
Speaker 1: went in the middle of the second round in a
Speaker 1: fifteen team league. That seems a little it seems a
Speaker 1: little outrageous to me. Should not happen. I'm doing a
Speaker 1: best ball draft right now over on fan tracks, and
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor went pick sixteen. So that's I have to turn.
Speaker 1: I think that makes sense. I think like in a
Speaker 1: fifteen team league at the turn somewhere around there, I
Speaker 1: don't want him as my first hitter. Now, that's what
Speaker 1: it comes down to. Can I go lindwar starting picture?
Speaker 1: It's risky, man, can you? But I feel like your
Speaker 1: style of drafting everything I've learned about you this year,
Speaker 1: and obviously I know of course for a while down
Speaker 1: try Tender is not exactly your guy either. In the
Speaker 1: first round. Yeah, it's just so hard to take a
Speaker 1: guy and he doesn't kill your power. It's just so
Speaker 1: hard to invest your first round pick. And you know
Speaker 1: you hear Adamonis of Scout Fantasy talk about this a
Speaker 1: lot hereim at two PM today. He talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot where he likes to get that base of
Speaker 1: power with his first you know, hitter, first two round picks,
Speaker 1: maybe even his first three hitters, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: He wants to get that base of power and obviously
Speaker 1: batting average. But you know, everyone's saying power has gone
Speaker 1: up over the past couple of seasons. So in order
Speaker 1: to compete in power, it's not like, oh I can
Speaker 1: just find it anywhere. You need more of it. So
Speaker 1: you need those home runs, You need those RBIs gonna
Speaker 1: need one of these sluggers in the first round. They're
Speaker 1: gonna give you thirty five to forty home runs. That's why,
Speaker 1: you know, if you ask me as of right now,
Speaker 1: I hope no one is listening. Uh. That's in the
Speaker 1: Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational. But I have eighth pick, and
Speaker 1: I've kind of been debating between, you know, going outfielder
Speaker 1: or going trade Turner because I think, you know, those
Speaker 1: are gonna be the best players available for me. I
Speaker 1: think that's of right now. I like a Kuna or
Speaker 1: Yellow if those guys are available, or even j D
Speaker 1: Martinez over a guy like Trade Turner, because all right,
Speaker 1: j D's not gonna give me the stolen basis, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you a leap batting average and elite power.
Speaker 1: Ronald Lacuna and Chris Yells are gonna give me a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything, you know, a lot of bit
Speaker 1: of everything. So trade Turner, Yeah, I'll give you eighteen
Speaker 1: home runs somewhere around there. They're talking about now the
Speaker 1: Nationals want them to attempt seventy five to eighty stolen basis.
Speaker 1: I believe it, want to see it. He has had
Speaker 1: a very good conversion rate in his MLB career in
Speaker 1: terms of you know, stolen basis verse called stealing. That's
Speaker 1: very fast. He's you know, I think one of the
Speaker 1: five fastest players in the MLB. They want him to
Speaker 1: steal more. Okay me, you know, personally, I can't project
Speaker 1: him for more than forty five steals. He's gonna give
Speaker 1: you runs. He's gonna give you a solid batting average
Speaker 1: to eighty. It's not like he's three thirty or anything.
Speaker 1: So a hundred runs to e d batting average adequate RBIs.
Speaker 1: You know, if he's batting second, he'll give you seventy
Speaker 1: eighty maybe, so you're really looking at a three category player.
Speaker 1: Two and a half doesn't kill you in home runs
Speaker 1: in RBIs. I'd rather go with a guy like Ronald
Speaker 1: Lacuna or Christian Yellis or J. D. Martinez around that area.
Speaker 1: But if I am just choosing between the door a
Speaker 1: straight turner, I will take trade turn trades Charner, as
Speaker 1: Frank said, didn't he kill you in a category? But
Speaker 1: you don't want to say that for a first round pick,
Speaker 1: right Like he doesn't kill you, I can't. I'm with
Speaker 1: you specifically on ind door, I don't try. I don't
Speaker 1: want to do it as my first hit because I'm
Speaker 1: scared of being killed. But I'm scared of just not
Speaker 1: getting the full Francisco indoor season. That's what will kill me.
Speaker 1: Late when it comes to trades, to your owner about
Speaker 1: a home runs over forty steals two eight average. It's good,
Speaker 1: It's real good, well like Ronald Lacunia could do, maybe
Speaker 1: not for steals a little bit of everything, Christian Yelloch
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything, and J. D. Martinez in
Speaker 1: that power is obviously another level more shortstops when we
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Speaker 1: of videotaping that gets the pass in trouble. Oh God,
Speaker 1: spy Gate baby, Oh no, Spy eight. People are gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun with this one, No doubt
Speaker 1: they should. They should, Okay, Lindor Turner. Anything else you
Speaker 1: want to get on those two? Or should we move one? What? Then?
Speaker 1: I'm doing a draft. I wanted Zach Wheeler as m
Speaker 1: SP threes. Sorry, yeah, trade Turner. Look, I will say
Speaker 1: this about Trade Turner. I think why he goes so
Speaker 1: high in draft is people are still holding onto that
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen when he hit thirteen home runs and
Speaker 1: thirty three stolen bases in just seventy three games. So
Speaker 1: I think people got a little bit of a taste
Speaker 1: of what the upside could be from trade Turner. He
Speaker 1: hasn't lived up to that for various reasons. I believe
Speaker 1: seen the next year he was he was a little
Speaker 1: bit injury, he got off to a slow start. I
Speaker 1: believe I owned him that year in the league, and
Speaker 1: then he had like a really really big second half.
Speaker 1: Last year he was fine, like he still returned value
Speaker 1: what you wanted. But he hasn't really had that big
Speaker 1: monster year since over the course of a full season
Speaker 1: that everyone's kind of hoping for. And I think that's
Speaker 1: part of why he still goes where he does. People
Speaker 1: think that he has like this home run sixties stolen
Speaker 1: base upside based on where he did that year. I
Speaker 1: can't really dispute that he might have that upside. He
Speaker 1: just hasn't really showed us yet. So look, there are certainly,
Speaker 1: you know, there's certainly downsides the drafting guys like Ronald Lacuna,
Speaker 1: who you know, it's only his second year in the league,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe he hits a sophomore slump and
Speaker 1: then you know, Christian Yellows had a monster second half.
Speaker 1: Is he is he gonna be able to you know,
Speaker 1: repeat or come anything close to that? Like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're concerns with kind of everybody outside of Mookie Bets
Speaker 1: and and Mike Trout. Um. Well, you know, I do
Speaker 1: think that where trade Turners going is warranted. Top ten,
Speaker 1: top twelve. I don't have a problem with it. But again,
Speaker 1: just him versus lind Door because trade Turner is healthy
Speaker 1: right now for me, that just that makes him number
Speaker 1: one of my shortstop rankings. All right, continuing on, as
Speaker 1: we get through the shortstops today, you want to talk
Speaker 1: about Alex Bregman. Is a shortstop or a third baseman?
Speaker 1: We'll have the eligibility for both. Same with Javier Bias
Speaker 1: of course, spoke you know a lot about him, yes
Speaker 1: yesterday on the second b A show. Um, what do
Speaker 1: you wanna do about them? Yeah? So Javier Bias, I
Speaker 1: don't think we really need to go much more in
Speaker 1: depth on here. That's a good question right on. Manny
Speaker 1: Matado too. Should he be part of the shortstop episode
Speaker 1: or the or the third basement episode? Great? Do you
Speaker 1: think third base is a little bit, deepeper, you'd think,
Speaker 1: let's do it now. Alright, No, you guys the other way.
Speaker 1: Are you doing now? And then we'll do a little
Speaker 1: bit of we'll do a little bit. Now, we'll do
Speaker 1: a little bit then probably won't all right, Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I just think that when you drafted the guy like
Speaker 1: what do you there's probably more third baseman the shortstops.
Speaker 1: Let's consider Alex Bregman a sho or stopped. Alex Bergman
Speaker 1: had a ridiculous year last year. But another one of
Speaker 1: these guys like Francisco Lindor a l right now, it's
Speaker 1: training now he if you drafted Brigman or Machan, you'd
Speaker 1: probably used him at shortstop. Of course, absolutely, So let's
Speaker 1: get both of those guys, uh, Bregman, Machadow both going
Speaker 1: around the same spot a little bit after trade turner,
Speaker 1: would you rather have Bregman or Francisco lindor Alex Bregman, whatever?
Speaker 1: You have Bregman ahead of Lindor as well? How come? No?
Speaker 1: Actually I have Lindor Evlyn Door one spot ahead of
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman. As he's done every day, he's going to
Speaker 1: change the rank. He's on the spot Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: like Lindora's upside. Obviously hired Alex Bregman's but again, Bregman,
Speaker 1: it has a bit of an injury risk himself with
Speaker 1: the elbow thing that's going on. But when we spoke
Speaker 1: to dr about it, he was, you know, he thought
Speaker 1: this was more of a proactive procedure with the getting
Speaker 1: the elbow, you know, the bone chips removed from his elbow.
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman, that is um and he kind of you know,
Speaker 1: he told us he thinks that the power could actually
Speaker 1: ump with Alex Bregman because he had a procedure like
Speaker 1: this done already. He contributed an all five categories last season,
Speaker 1: and that was with the Astro's lineup not being healthy.
Speaker 1: I mean that was with josel tub missing time, Carlos
Speaker 1: Korea missing time, George s Bringman midtime last year, and
Speaker 1: Alex Bergman was still as good as he was. All right,
Speaker 1: I did it aman ahead of Francis. Yeah. I have
Speaker 1: concerns about the Cleveland Indians lineup as well. It's not
Speaker 1: a good line up. We spoke about this with Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez the other day. You know, outside of Francisco, Lindor
Speaker 1: and Jose. There are question marks like Leonie's Martin gonna
Speaker 1: lead off for this team as of right now, Carlos
Speaker 1: Santana the cleanup hitter. They get Jake Bowers. I mean,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna get out of Jake Hours this year?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of question marks with the Cleveland Indians lineup.
Speaker 1: So you have that to deal with, you have the
Speaker 1: injury to deal with. I just think Alex Bregman, if
Speaker 1: you look at his year, his years, he's been a
Speaker 1: slow starter. Well, he's progressed every single year. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's done everything that you can ask him to do
Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, getting better and seeing that
Speaker 1: progression as much contact as he makes. Remember a few
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, we kind of did a Houston
Speaker 1: Astros episode. We talked a lot about the the injured,
Speaker 1: the injured players on that team and their new additions
Speaker 1: in Michael Brantley, And you asked me, what was the
Speaker 1: one word that I would used to describe how I
Speaker 1: feel about Alex Bregman. Do you remember that word? That
Speaker 1: was very good? It was that I have for Alex Bregman.
Speaker 1: He's getting better every single year. You know, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be around thirty home runs. The runs and
Speaker 1: RBIs are gonna be there in the Houston Nastrolls lineup.
Speaker 1: It's a great lineup. I wouldn't project more than hen
Speaker 1: stolen basis, but his quality of contact is great. He
Speaker 1: doesn't strike out much. He's great for points leagues and
Speaker 1: roto because again he doesn't strike out and he walks
Speaker 1: a decent amount as well. Batting average is gonna be there.
Speaker 1: What's not till about Alex Bregman. I think the only
Speaker 1: concerned people might have for Bregman Gregg is the fact
Speaker 1: that he's only done it for one full season. They
Speaker 1: don't really have the track record. With Lindor, you kind
Speaker 1: of have, you know, the past two years he's been
Speaker 1: really damn good. But with Lindora you now have the
Speaker 1: question mark of the injury concerns. I'm not as worried
Speaker 1: about Alex Bregman not having the track record because he's
Speaker 1: been he's been good the past couple of years. Last
Speaker 1: years took a step up. Of course, this is kind
Speaker 1: of like the natural progression that we're expecting from. What
Speaker 1: if he gets better again this year? Who's to say
Speaker 1: it can't happen? Runs something like that. Why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: know he's only gotten better a year. Why wouldn't he
Speaker 1: continue to get better? I don't disagreed, and he's got
Speaker 1: better as the season went on for the most part
Speaker 1: last year. Would it surprise you one bit if Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman is one of these guys that's going in the
Speaker 1: top five picks next year, I wouldn't surprise me. Mhm alright,
Speaker 1: So a lot of love Alex Bregman here. Would you
Speaker 1: rather have Alex Bregman and the outfielders that you're taking
Speaker 1: around there? And then he did some outfit research last night,
Speaker 1: the off field guy in the first second round, and
Speaker 1: look your pitture. Would you take Alex? It's the position scarcity.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely taking. You are giving a slave to that, dude?
Speaker 1: You mean five outfielders in a lot of leagues. I understand.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely taking a Kunya. I'm definitely taking yellow J D.
Speaker 1: Martinez all ahead of Alex Bury. This is going to
Speaker 1: be such an argument when we draft together, when you
Speaker 1: get so annoyed, I'm not I'm not taking. I'm not taking.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pull like jud Rice Harper up the
Speaker 1: board just because of the outfield position. If anything, I'll
Speaker 1: take Bregman and then I'll take one of those guys too,
Speaker 1: And I hope I got a solid sp one there
Speaker 1: in the third round. That's probably more likely something I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do. Okay, Okay with that? All right? Um, continuing on,
Speaker 1: we did a lot of how are bias yesterday? Would
Speaker 1: you rather have Bias or bregmanan right? Definitely too, lindor
Speaker 1: Bias lindor Chrischer isna like that is not gonna like.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm pretty sure Ventre's knows how good Francis
Speaker 1: Scoo Lindoor is. I hope so, but I woulday Lindoor
Speaker 1: as well. Okay, Then we get put to put the
Speaker 1: second base position in perspective of your bibes. Is my
Speaker 1: number one second basement, he's my number six short stuff.
Speaker 1: How about that? That just tells you hope top heavily
Speaker 1: short stop is and how Barren second base probably is? Okay,
Speaker 1: who was based number one second basement? By the way,
Speaker 1: then we get the two more guys that are going
Speaker 1: right next to each other in that second round before
Speaker 1: you get the big drop off? Is that fair? Yes?
Speaker 1: Manny Machado and Trevor Story. Machado playing third base for
Speaker 1: the Padres, but naturally short stuff eligible given all the
Speaker 1: short stop he played last season. Many Machado was a
Speaker 1: first round pick the last couple of years. He's now
Speaker 1: dropped in the second round. He's one of these guys
Speaker 1: like Judge, like Stanton, like black Men, like Freeman, like
Speaker 1: gold Schmidt, all these guys in the second round that
Speaker 1: you're used to seeing in the middle to late first round.
Speaker 1: That's there for you in the second round. Why the
Speaker 1: drop off from Manny Machado? Why the hate? And I
Speaker 1: remember we were talking in your draft. He was like
Speaker 1: there in the third round. I think, what's going on
Speaker 1: Manna with Chado? Yeah, I think I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear anything about he doesn't run things out. I don't
Speaker 1: care in fantasy, you know what I mean. Whatever, Here's
Speaker 1: the thing, he was already going in the early second
Speaker 1: round even before he signed in San Diego, right, So
Speaker 1: I think that that just kind of tells you, like
Speaker 1: people trust his skills obviously, And I think I think
Speaker 1: we should. We have enough of a track record with
Speaker 1: ma name Machado, where you now you can project this
Speaker 1: guy for a two eight batting average close to thirty
Speaker 1: five home runs, and if he does that, the runs
Speaker 1: and RBIs should be there. I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: people talking over the past couple of days on Twitter,
Speaker 1: on Fantasy Baseball Twitter here about how the lineup for
Speaker 1: the Padres it's really not all that great in terms
Speaker 1: of like on base percentage, like guys who are gonna
Speaker 1: get on base ahead of him, So you know, they
Speaker 1: worry a little bit about the runs in the RBBI totals,
Speaker 1: where you know, maybe even if he hits thirty two
Speaker 1: to thirty five home runs, maybe the runs and our
Speaker 1: back guys are kind of closer to ninety. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw it with Eric Hosmer last year. I mean
Speaker 1: Hosmer was bad for his own reasons, like he more
Speaker 1: groundballs as usual. You know, he took a huge step back.
Speaker 1: He was kind of adjusting to the National League last year.
Speaker 1: But the runs in rb I totals, that's kind of
Speaker 1: something you always would get with Hosmer when he was
Speaker 1: in Kansas City's lineup. Those a huge step back in
Speaker 1: San Diego, so I know, Baltimore wasn't great last year,
Speaker 1: but still a good hitting environment. The lineup was still
Speaker 1: all right, and then he moved over to the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: where obviously that's a great line up too. So I
Speaker 1: do worry a little bit about the counting stats for
Speaker 1: Manny Machado, but I mean you draw a line for everybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna have dual eligibility, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: short stop in third base eligibility. I still think that
Speaker 1: he's worthy of a second round pick, but I do
Speaker 1: have Trevor Story ranked ada him really after all that,
Speaker 1: I like Machado. Wow, I'm really interested to hear this.
Speaker 1: But it's it's core. It's coors Field, Greg, It's Coors Field,
Speaker 1: it's the stolen bases going up. Last year with Trevor's story,
Speaker 1: he made legitimate in progress and a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, worry about the strikeouts for him. He's severely
Speaker 1: cut down his strikeouts. I mean he was he wasn't
Speaker 1: below thirty one percent each of his first two seasons
Speaker 1: and that was, you know, a huge damper on his
Speaker 1: batting average. Last year, I got an all the way
Speaker 1: down to twenty five point six percent. I mean that
Speaker 1: is huge progress from Trevor Story, and a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, they might counter that by saying you know, well,
Speaker 1: what if he kind of you know, normalizes back to
Speaker 1: his you know, thirty. I'll tell you this, He's a
Speaker 1: young kid, kind of similar to Alex Bregman, who's making improvements.
Speaker 1: He's getting better, he's learning on the job here. So
Speaker 1: I really liked the fact that he cut down his
Speaker 1: strikeout percentage as much as he did last year five
Speaker 1: point six percent, twenty seven stolen bases last year as well,
Speaker 1: to go with everything else that he did. I mean,
Speaker 1: he most other worldly. Understand he was a legitimate five
Speaker 1: tool player last year. Greg, and he look, he's still
Speaker 1: gonna have his his splits, you know, at home in
Speaker 1: course field a one in forty three o p s.
Speaker 1: On the road it's seven eighties. So maybe if you're
Speaker 1: playing a head to head points or a head to
Speaker 1: head categories league where you know the week to week production,
Speaker 1: you need a little bit more consistency there, you probably
Speaker 1: go Manny Machado. But in Rhoto, where it's really more
Speaker 1: just all right, what does his numbers look like at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. I have the end of
Speaker 1: the season numbers Gregg looking like this to seventy five,
Speaker 1: thirty three home runs, ninety runs ninety five r B
Speaker 1: I S eighteen stolen bases county stats are not going
Speaker 1: to be far off from a guy like Manny Machado.
Speaker 1: The home runs are going to be close. You can
Speaker 1: argue that Trevor's story actually has more home run upside Colorado.
Speaker 1: I'd give the batting average lean a little bit to
Speaker 1: Manny Machado. Machado is probably too eighty five. Trevor story
Speaker 1: is probably more to seventy two seventy five? What do
Speaker 1: you hit last year two? So he has the upside,
Speaker 1: but you bake some strike out, you know, maybe regression
Speaker 1: into it next this upcoming season, and you get Trevor
Speaker 1: story about two seventy two seventy five. He makes elite contact.
Speaker 1: When he does make contact greg Ores Field, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be thirty three to thirty five on runs. The stolen
Speaker 1: base edge goes to Trevor story. That's what everyone's trying
Speaker 1: to find right now. I think it's really close. I
Speaker 1: give a slight edge to Trevor story. And I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, respected people in the
Speaker 1: fantasy industry. I think that Trevor story should be a
Speaker 1: first round. Did you know that name? Machadow? Was six
Speaker 1: months younger than Trevor Story. Yeah, judging by my reaction,
Speaker 1: I had not thought that you would find that interesting.
Speaker 1: And the lineup is a lot better too. In Colorado
Speaker 1: sign close. I mean you have a guy like Nolan Ronado.
Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of people expecting a lot from Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy this year, and David Dahl better hitter's environment, better
Speaker 1: lineup as well. It's close. I give white edge to
Speaker 1: Trevor Story. Would your answer change in roto league versus
Speaker 1: points leagus, Yeah? Yeah, in head to head I would
Speaker 1: go with Machado. I think he's probably gonna be more consistent.
Speaker 1: Home road splits are still very drastic. I can boo.
Speaker 1: Everyone's trying to find stolen basis the twenty stole basis
Speaker 1: last year, which Trevor Story, I think you get twenty again.
Speaker 1: I don't. You know. It's really interesting because in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen we've played only nineties seven games. He had eight
Speaker 1: stone bases, played five games only seven stolen bases. But
Speaker 1: throughout the minors, in two levels he had across two
Speaker 1: levels he had twenty three twenty three, so he's always
Speaker 1: been around a twenty steel guy throughout his minor league career,
Speaker 1: and we've never seen that reach the Major's until last year.
Speaker 1: I don't know it's but black. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's confidence, but something has changed with Trevor Story. If
Speaker 1: you're just looking at stolen bases, I trust Trevor Story
Speaker 1: more than just Manie Machada who who stole twenty bases
Speaker 1: back in but didn't have more uh than twenty for
Speaker 1: the fourteen that he had last year any other year
Speaker 1: of his career. So if you're looking at that homeward
Speaker 1: upside as you said, Frank is probably similar. But the
Speaker 1: point in points leagues where that that strike out, He's
Speaker 1: a much bigger factor. I think that tips the scale
Speaker 1: of me. Right, the cap or nine for many a
Speaker 1: child was fourteen point seven percent or cap percented rather ascent.
Speaker 1: Trevor Story is gonna be double that, you know, so
Speaker 1: you look at the average. I trust my Chaddo more
Speaker 1: in points things. I'm going with shadow in rotal leagues.
Speaker 1: I understand the discussion more for Trevor Story. Is that cool? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take Trevor Story in and um if
Speaker 1: I asked you, where would Trevor Stories sprint speed on
Speaker 1: stat Cast ranked last year in terms of percentile? What
Speaker 1: would you say, Well, we talked a lot about these
Speaker 1: guys are the eighty nine percent time? Maybe yesterday? Right,
Speaker 1: But they were very they were very surprising. And who
Speaker 1: wasn't It was really prised it was eating nine yesterday?
Speaker 1: Who was the guy? It was? Um yours? I don't
Speaker 1: think it was biased, and it was like somebody a
Speaker 1: little bit A little bit later, I thought maybe Johnny
Speaker 1: v Army and something like that. Whatever they were, I
Speaker 1: wasn't glad. I don't know. So I discussed a couple
Speaker 1: of times. Nine where would I put Trevor Story two
Speaker 1: eighty three? Really seven percentile in terms of sprint speed,
Speaker 1: which is so it's one of the fastest guys in
Speaker 1: the majors. Then is stat cast sprint speed, which is
Speaker 1: its feet traveled per second while you're on the base
Speaker 1: pass It was seven percentile. He was thirty seventh among
Speaker 1: all base runners last year in the MLB. Who's number one?
Speaker 1: Tight Jarner? I need a second to pull that up.
Speaker 1: He's like top five or six? Yeah, sure, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's that's it's unbelievable, man, That's that's sellar okay. Trevor
Speaker 1: Story speeds real all right, Frank looked that up during
Speaker 1: the break. When we come back, even more short stops.
Speaker 1: We're going to nice pace today, Frank, I feel I
Speaker 1: like it. We'll get back. We get a really interesting
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Speaker 1: People are one iron buckson shut that. People in this
Speaker 1: industry love Albert la on the same does it make sense?
Speaker 1: Will break him down? Prolos Correa and Xander Bogart's as well.
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Speaker 1: I saying Friday by Rebecca Black. One of the hottest
Speaker 1: players um in the NFBC here this season is Adalbert Almond.
Speaker 1: Say Mondescy is going off the board at the n
Speaker 1: FBC pick them at forty one. That is in the
Speaker 1: middle of the third round in fifteam leagues, the middle
Speaker 1: of the fourth round m twelve team leagues. Everybody likes pedigree,
Speaker 1: everybody likes guys that are in the minors, and adlberts
Speaker 1: Almond to say, but is this price justifiable? Somewhat yes,
Speaker 1: because look, he's gonna give you stolen bases. We spoke
Speaker 1: a little bit about the Royals yesterday and how they're
Speaker 1: going to run and be terrible. They are going to
Speaker 1: be terrible, but the only way that they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to generate offense is throw running the ball
Speaker 1: like they have to play small ball, So like they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna steal a lot of bases. They're gonna
Speaker 1: give these guys the green light in Adalberto Mondessey. He's
Speaker 1: one of the fastest guys in the league too. You know,
Speaker 1: we were just talking about sprint speed Byron Buckston. Number one.
Speaker 1: Adalbert's home Monessey was eleventh best in all of baseball
Speaker 1: last year. So he's a very he's a very uh,
Speaker 1: he's very quick, speedy guy as well. And I thought
Speaker 1: this was a great point made by Scott White on
Speaker 1: the on the CBS Sports Fantasy Baseball Today podcast. Was
Speaker 1: gonna be a gret point, no uh with Adalberto Mondessey, Right,
Speaker 1: if you just look at his numbers from last year,
Speaker 1: A lot of what people would do is like they
Speaker 1: pro rate the numbers. Right. Oh, he had fourteen home
Speaker 1: runs and thirty two steels only seventy five games. So
Speaker 1: if you double that, he's gonna be home runs and
Speaker 1: and in sixty four stolen bases, right right, Because because
Speaker 1: this is how it works, and that's what we did
Speaker 1: for Trey Turner. Right. The year after, you know, he
Speaker 1: was going in the first round when he kind of
Speaker 1: broke out. Why isn't Adalberto Mondessey going in the first
Speaker 1: round now, if you think about it, you're actually getting
Speaker 1: him at a discount based on players which have kind
Speaker 1: of popped up like this in years past. I know
Speaker 1: he has strikeout issues, that's his plate discipline is leaves
Speaker 1: a lot to be desired. Let's just let's just put
Speaker 1: it that way. Four point eight percent walk right last
Speaker 1: year six point five percent k rate. This guy is
Speaker 1: not going to be a target of mine in any
Speaker 1: type of OVP format or head to head points league,
Speaker 1: but in Rhodo you can argue that he should be
Speaker 1: going even higher than where he is right now, because
Speaker 1: you know, he was also a guy who early on
Speaker 1: in his career he got called up. He didn't really
Speaker 1: get a fair shake with the Royals because when he
Speaker 1: originally got called up, they were a competitive team, so
Speaker 1: he got sent back down. He's had to work on
Speaker 1: a few things over the past couple of years, but
Speaker 1: last year, he when he got called back up, he
Speaker 1: was giving an opportunity to play every day, and he
Speaker 1: took advantage of that. Solely keep in mind this is
Speaker 1: a short stop. His heart hit rate last he was forty,
Speaker 1: and he also made concertant justments to hit the ball
Speaker 1: in the air more thirty seven percent five all rate,
Speaker 1: twenty one percent line drive rate. Coupled with that hard
Speaker 1: hit rate is nineteen percent. Home run to fly ball
Speaker 1: ratio does not seem all that crazy. No, the first
Speaker 1: thing when you look at is all you see that
Speaker 1: nine pcent home run the fly ball ratio higher than
Speaker 1: anything he's ever really done in the minor leagues. You know,
Speaker 1: he's kind of a smaller guy. You know, you'd expect
Speaker 1: him to hit for uh, you know you you want
Speaker 1: stolen bases out of him, you don't necessarily expect power.
Speaker 1: When you couple oftent hard hit rate with the with
Speaker 1: the seven percent fly ball rate, you can kind of
Speaker 1: maintain a fifteen plus percentage of home run a flyball ratio.
Speaker 1: And so it's probably gonna come back a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't know that i'd expect close to. But again,
Speaker 1: if he's hitting the ball of that hard like, he's
Speaker 1: gonna come close to hitting twenty home runs again. And
Speaker 1: he's sold thirty two bases in games, and we know
Speaker 1: the springport speed is there we know he's gonna have
Speaker 1: the green light. Anytime he gets on base, he's gonna
Speaker 1: try and steal, So it wouldn't surprise me if he
Speaker 1: steals forty already five maybe come close to fifty stolen basis, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think that you can argue that Alberto Modessey and
Speaker 1: rodal leagues with batting average, which isn't gonna be great,
Speaker 1: He's probably gonna be like a two fifty hitter. He
Speaker 1: should be going harder than where he is right now.
Speaker 1: So I don't know about that. Um the speed, Yes,
Speaker 1: in this lineup, on this team, he could be a
Speaker 1: fifty still guy. No argument from me. He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be batting around to fifty, No argument from me. As
Speaker 1: hard as he hit the ball last year, fourteen home
Speaker 1: runs in just seventy five games. You extrapolate that and
Speaker 1: you know what you have. Like you said, the home
Speaker 1: run fly ball ratio has ever been close to and
Speaker 1: I understand why you think it could go up. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true. We've never seen him have
Speaker 1: that kind of power outside of runs in the minors.
Speaker 1: Maybe he developed it as he came along. He's twenty
Speaker 1: three years old, for sure. Profile says otherwise, last year,
Speaker 1: his batt ball profile rivals something that you would get
Speaker 1: from a thirty plus home run hitter in terms of
Speaker 1: thirty seven percent fly ball rate and hard hit rights.
Speaker 1: But is it possible that comes back down? Right like
Speaker 1: hard hit rate the other two major league seasons, Again,
Speaker 1: he was much younger. I understand that he could clearly
Speaker 1: went down to the minors and worked on things like
Speaker 1: this is something he was consciously trying to do, is
Speaker 1: hit the ball harder, hit the ball in the airt
Speaker 1: seven percent. Again, I recognize he's gotten older. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's grown. Nope, that there's no argument you could do that.
Speaker 1: Don't you don't you don't think there's a chance of
Speaker 1: that is not repeated this season? Yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 1: definitely a chance. But again, if we were just projecting
Speaker 1: for a hundred and fifty games for him, even if
Speaker 1: you regrets that down to let's say thirty seven thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent, you're still gonna get twenty home runs out
Speaker 1: of him. No fifty year thinking potentially, Yeah, with a
Speaker 1: two fifty batting average, and look, it's not a good lineup,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna play every single day. An argument that
Speaker 1: I made for Jonathan VR yesterday, is the Royals are
Speaker 1: not in a position where, you know, if he sucks,
Speaker 1: they have to send him down. You know, Mattodika made
Speaker 1: the comp with Byron bucks and look, I see a
Speaker 1: lot of parallels because they both strike out a lot,
Speaker 1: the plate discipline is questionable, They're both great athletes, they
Speaker 1: both have huge upside. Last year, Byron Buckson was going
Speaker 1: around the same time he's going, you know, third fourth
Speaker 1: round in some Roto drafts. People were expecting him to have,
Speaker 1: you know, one of these creators. You know what we're
Speaker 1: expecting out of modesty this year runs forty plus loan basis.
Speaker 1: That's what people thought they were gonna get from bucks
Speaker 1: and last year. So I understand some of the parallels
Speaker 1: the differences. The twins kind of thought that they were
Speaker 1: going to be somewhat relevant, that they were going to
Speaker 1: compete for like a wild card spot, and they have
Speaker 1: other options. You know, if he struggles, the Royals they're
Speaker 1: projected to be one of the what three worst teams
Speaker 1: in baseball this year. I don't know that they have
Speaker 1: the luxury of saying, all right, Mondestee, you suck, you
Speaker 1: gotta send you down. Now and we're gonna see what
Speaker 1: else we get from this. You know, Joe Schmo, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen. I think even if he struggles,
Speaker 1: they're gonna try and let him work through it. Again.
Speaker 1: I don't want him in any kind of like head
Speaker 1: to head format where it's even if it's categories, because
Speaker 1: I do think he's gonna be a streaky player. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be very streaky, which lends itself better
Speaker 1: in the roto format. And he's a guy you know
Speaker 1: you have to. I was trying to come up with
Speaker 1: what's the perfect scenario to draft Adalberto mondacy if you
Speaker 1: do in a rhoto draft, right, and there were two
Speaker 1: names that if I get these guys in the first round,
Speaker 1: Adalberto Mondessey would end up being a conscious target of
Speaker 1: mine like round three or four, and that would be
Speaker 1: Jati Martinez or Nolan Ardando because I think I think
Speaker 1: they're perfect. I think they're perfect commiments to each other.
Speaker 1: Because Jadie Martinez, look, Jade teams Is in Nolan Aronado
Speaker 1: are both four category players. We're gonna give you batting average,
Speaker 1: they're gonna give you power runs and RBIs there're gonnave
Speaker 1: you no stolen basis. They are perfect players that you
Speaker 1: can pare with the guy like Adelberto Mondessey, where you
Speaker 1: can kind of take the hit at batting average, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you a little bit of pop and
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you a lot of stolen basis. Let
Speaker 1: me give you two names going around, Albert, I want
Speaker 1: to know who you'd rather have, Adelberg Alondessey or Anthony Rendon.
Speaker 1: It's a lineup construction question because look if I took
Speaker 1: if I took in a Kuna or I took a
Speaker 1: yellow in the first round, and I already have kind
Speaker 1: of a base of stolen bases. Anthony Rea is another
Speaker 1: one of these four category players. He doesn't have as
Speaker 1: much pop as a guy like Ronado, and that's why
Speaker 1: he goes in the third, fourth round. He's gonna give
Speaker 1: you good batting average, gonna give you runs in RBIs.
Speaker 1: So that's a lineup construction question to me, Greg, If
Speaker 1: I have a first round pick who already gave me
Speaker 1: some stolen bases, and I would take I would take
Speaker 1: Anthemy Brando. If I ended up getting one of these
Speaker 1: four category players, it gives me nothing in stolen basis,
Speaker 1: and I would I would, I would go with the
Speaker 1: Adalbert modesty, would really have Adalberto Mondescy or Vladimir Garra,
Speaker 1: Vladim mcguaro. I'm not gonna own him. It's just it's
Speaker 1: too high of a price tag. I'd rather wait five
Speaker 1: rounds and take Eloy Jimenez. I know that, you know
Speaker 1: vladimgarrals I can't miss prospect and I made this comparison right.
Speaker 1: It reminds me a lot of rookie running backs coming
Speaker 1: into the NFL, like Ezeki Elliott, Sea Kwon Barkley, who
Speaker 1: we've never seen them taking a take a snap in
Speaker 1: the NFL, but their generational talents right, and those guys
Speaker 1: have kind of proved anyone who has said that wrong.
Speaker 1: So Vladim mcguarol might be able to do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Can't just directly compare because of different sports, But that's
Speaker 1: what everyone's saying about Vladim mcgarraeol, you can't miss. I'd
Speaker 1: rather wait five or six rounds and take another supposed
Speaker 1: to miss prospect in Eloy Amenaz. Like why is why
Speaker 1: is the difference between those guys that far? How much?
Speaker 1: How much do you think Vladim Guerrero goes for the
Speaker 1: auction and should we now nate him first? I I
Speaker 1: could see him going like Bucks, is that warranted? I
Speaker 1: got some auction values. Let me see how MNA say
Speaker 1: have him down. I'm just wondering. What I'm looking at
Speaker 1: is twenty five is what he should go for in
Speaker 1: a teams This is probably all right. I said twenty two.
Speaker 1: He's probably twenty. So do you I don't know. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna be on him? Would you rather have VLADIMC.
Speaker 1: Guerrero or Edelbert Homondessey. It sounds like you don't really
Speaker 1: want anything to do with Edelbert Tomondessey. I think I'd
Speaker 1: rather have lad and it's more fun. It's more fun.
Speaker 1: Just you know, I just spent like ten minutes kind
Speaker 1: of like talking up ed Albert Homondessey. He's not really
Speaker 1: an act of target of mine. I do think in
Speaker 1: the right situation it makes sense. We've got like if
Speaker 1: you draft An Erronado or J D. Martinez. I haven't
Speaker 1: really been in that situation yet, but you know, maybe
Speaker 1: in the future if I am, He's a player that
Speaker 1: I would look at. But there are other short stops
Speaker 1: that me personally, I could get later on or you know,
Speaker 1: I would use my I would rather use my second
Speaker 1: round pick on Trevor Story than use my third or
Speaker 1: forth round pick on Monescy like I'd rather that's a
Speaker 1: that's a target of mine. I'd rather target Story or
Speaker 1: even a little bit later on. We'll get into some
Speaker 1: of these guys. I'd rather target guy like Jean Sigura
Speaker 1: maybe too, you know, a round or two later, and
Speaker 1: a guy like Modesty just because I've seen him do
Speaker 1: it before. Would that targeted guy like Carlos Correa. But
Speaker 1: I don't dislike where modesty is going. I think it's well,
Speaker 1: it's fair. You think it's fair. I do. Two other
Speaker 1: guys that are around Mondessey or Carlos Correa and Xander
Speaker 1: Bogart's think of those guys, I would take modesty over
Speaker 1: both without and I haven't ranked that way as well,
Speaker 1: and I have is my seventh ranked short stop. You
Speaker 1: actually check out Frankie's right over on his Patreon page. Wrong,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't reveal my shortstop ring. You will
Speaker 1: be able to check out. I'm trying to hype you
Speaker 1: and your call. Come on, well, I want to be factual.
Speaker 1: I want to be transparent with you, and you will
Speaker 1: be able to You will be able to check out
Speaker 1: Frank's shortstop rankings over on his Patreon page. It's free.
Speaker 1: It's Frank Stample's Patreon page. Get it into right now.
Speaker 1: I know it's posting a lot of stuff for free.
Speaker 1: Will shortstops to be free? Good question, Greg, You were
Speaker 1: supposed to come up with a time frame of when
Speaker 1: I make my Patreon not free. I think that should
Speaker 1: be free, all right, and my shortstop rankings will be free,
Speaker 1: and then shortstot ranking should be shortstop ranking should be free.
Speaker 1: About all the infield will be free once we get
Speaker 1: to outfield and starting pitching. I was gonna take that
Speaker 1: off the air well we're talking about right now. That's
Speaker 1: exactly exactly what you're gonna do. Yeah, So there you got.
Speaker 1: Shortstops are gonna be free. You can get him. You
Speaker 1: can check it out as students. Frank put some live
Speaker 1: or third base live at him now, No, okay, shorts
Speaker 1: live at third base as your first base second live
Speaker 1: on Patreon. Writing about like some targets I always I
Speaker 1: like to write about a few targets, maybe a sleeper
Speaker 1: and a bust at each position and then I'll kind
Speaker 1: of move on to the next. Got it. So that's
Speaker 1: what Frankie's patreon. Get it right now? He will not
Speaker 1: be running over at road too, experts. It's all exclusively
Speaker 1: on Patreon and Frank some awesome stuff last year, from
Speaker 1: Patrick Corbyn's into Castiano's. Uh. He was awesome last year
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Speaker 1: Crols correct, you said undoubtedly you would take aut Alberto
Speaker 1: Mondescy earlier than Bogarts and Corea. Are you out on
Speaker 1: both those guys? Are you not targeting those guys? You're
Speaker 1: just having a like your boy. Well, I'll give you
Speaker 1: my analysis of Bogart's first. I don't want anything to
Speaker 1: do with Carl's Corea. I haven't ranked with my twelve
Speaker 1: Frank shorts. Oh my god, people are probably gonna freak out.
Speaker 1: I was just going over by NFPC. I don't want
Speaker 1: anything to do with him. But then we'll get that
Speaker 1: after the break with with Chris a Venture, but with
Speaker 1: the with Xander Bogarts. I'll give you my analysis and
Speaker 1: then you can kind of tell me what you think
Speaker 1: about him. To me, he's been a little bit too
Speaker 1: much all over the map in terms of career. Definitely,
Speaker 1: I don't want to doubt the talent, because I think
Speaker 1: you can use a talented player, and I think we
Speaker 1: saw that last year. But I think that there's just
Speaker 1: too much volatility and a guy like Xander Bogart's where
Speaker 1: he's going, you know, you gotta use like a fourth
Speaker 1: fifth round price tag on him. And look at one
Speaker 1: year it's been last year. Twenty three home runs a
Speaker 1: hundred and three RBIs great year before ten homers sixty
Speaker 1: two RBIs to seventy three year before that home runs
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty runs great year before that seven homers
Speaker 1: one RBIs so an average of three three twenty batting average.
Speaker 1: I do think that he's a legitimate hitter. Look, he's
Speaker 1: a two eighty four career hitter, so you know I
Speaker 1: trust that. Um last year we saw the flyball percentage
Speaker 1: second highest of his career. He started to uh, raise
Speaker 1: his unch hang a little bit. Last year thirty five
Speaker 1: point six pent flive all rate. He hit twenty three
Speaker 1: home runs and only a hundred and thirty six games.
Speaker 1: Remember he missed some time last year, but his ice
Speaker 1: was two thirty four, much higher than anything else that
Speaker 1: we've ever seen in his career. His next closest mark
Speaker 1: was one is so so, and he keep that up again.
Speaker 1: You know, Xander Bogarts is still pretty young. He's only
Speaker 1: six years old, so maybe he's another one of these
Speaker 1: guys that's just kind of like making his natural progression here.
Speaker 1: Thirties seven point nine percent hard hit rate. Okay, I
Speaker 1: like it. I mean it's not like Trevor's story. It's
Speaker 1: it's good for forty it's good. It's a lovely average.
Speaker 1: It's it's fine. I like it. Um, I don't dislike
Speaker 1: Xander Bogart's I think it's fine where he's going. I
Speaker 1: think that there's just a little bit too much volatilty
Speaker 1: year to year for him to be a target of
Speaker 1: mine in the fourth, fifth round. That makes sense. I
Speaker 1: like Xander Bogarts. I like them more in head to
Speaker 1: head points. He makes a lot of contact. You know,
Speaker 1: I like them more points than I do in proto's
Speaker 1: gonna stand that anywhere. Yeah, we'll talk all about Bollgards
Speaker 1: with Ventrau coming up next, as well as Carlos career
Speaker 1: jeans Agord More Our number two, the BFS is up
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