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Speaker 1: Network alongside Frankie Stample. I am Greg Sousman. Greg. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Bud? Greggy? More like, what's going on with you?
Speaker 1: Hass Brown? Known as Greg Stuff? And look at this guy,
Speaker 1: Golden Brown enjoying the sun as we all got to
Speaker 1: see last week via pictures that you sent me, having
Speaker 1: some fun in the sun down to Florida, lounging in
Speaker 1: the pool. You had your pool noodle. Happy fifty birthday.
Speaker 1: Thank you. How's everything going, man? How how was Leslie?
Speaker 1: Leslie's good man, Leslie. Leslie's doing well. She was happy
Speaker 1: to have us there. Um, it was it was good.
Speaker 1: It was a very stressful vacation, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, okay, it was never been more excited to
Speaker 1: see you if it makes you feel better. Did until
Speaker 1: I went in today and he was like, hey, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about God, and it was just it's been a
Speaker 1: whirlwin man, it's been a war one a few days. Um.
Speaker 1: I listened to the show all week long. You thought
Speaker 1: you did a phentomenal job. I tried to text you
Speaker 1: whatever I was listening. Thank you. I appreciate that. Bud
Speaker 1: and I went down man, Um obviously without me here,
Speaker 1: and I felt I feel like I probably should at
Speaker 1: least mention it, right. That's cool? Yeah, yeah, I mean look,
Speaker 1: UH would like to be transparent with everyone who's listening
Speaker 1: and watching. I addressed everything that was going on to
Speaker 1: the best of my abilities. Give a shout out to
Speaker 1: my guys. So, yeah, this is the first time you've
Speaker 1: been around since everything has happened. Greg, you know you
Speaker 1: want to give you a shout outs. You wanna your
Speaker 1: thoughts whatever? Feel free? Man? You know or is yours?
Speaker 1: You know? I I've I've talked to Corey and Scott
Speaker 1: a bunch um since last week, and you know, I
Speaker 1: want nothing the best of them. I I missed them,
Speaker 1: I support them, and I worked the il Corey since
Speaker 1: I was in college. Scott obviously got all of us
Speaker 1: story in this place and it's not gonna be the
Speaker 1: say without him, So we certainly support them wherever they
Speaker 1: will go. And nothing for the best for them, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it resulted in us having an extra hour here, but
Speaker 1: not this way, you know, not that way. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't disagree. That's that's all I got. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: that's the brunt of it. That. That's I have nothing
Speaker 1: really to add or say. It just it is, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, you know if I mean, I talked to
Speaker 1: you a lot last week, more than we should have
Speaker 1: been talking. Um, I talk to you a lot last week.
Speaker 1: I talked to you, um everybody. So it is what
Speaker 1: is um And yeah, that's that's that. A vacation was
Speaker 1: not as relaxing as it should have been, unfortunately given
Speaker 1: the circumstances. But what I've had has happened. Um, well,
Speaker 1: nothing but the best for them, nothing for the best
Speaker 1: for us. We appreciate your support each and every day. Yeah, definitely, man,
Speaker 1: look uh and for anyone out there who you know
Speaker 1: it's angry about it, like rightfully, so we understand where
Speaker 1: you're coming from. You know, we're friends with Scott and
Speaker 1: Corey first and foremost as well, UM Dress a little
Speaker 1: bit last week. I've spoken to them UM during Good Spirits.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, absolutely show goes on the show. Indeed
Speaker 1: goes on. UM. I also has given a pretty appreciational
Speaker 1: honestly by listening to the podcast, UM to be better,
Speaker 1: to work harder, and to be better for you, uh,
Speaker 1: the listener. And we do a lot of high jinks
Speaker 1: and a lot of games, and I probably can't stop
Speaker 1: doing that realistically. I enjoyed when Frank asked me how
Speaker 1: I slept? Um, how did you sleep on vacation? Greg?
Speaker 1: Not as well as I thought. I was sorry neither.
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep all last night either, it was it
Speaker 1: was a bad night. I slept fine last night. Well
Speaker 1: you don't have a quick story. Why why I'm pack
Speaker 1: your quick story from last night? So I got a
Speaker 1: weird charge of my credit card, my am X card
Speaker 1: for eleven dollars and ninety three cents. I think this
Speaker 1: is like it was one of my eleven boxes. I
Speaker 1: didn't buy anything on Amazon. Nobody has like access to
Speaker 1: my Amazon account but me. So I called m X
Speaker 1: and again a month ago, if you remember, my AMEX
Speaker 1: card was charged to Chewy dot com, which is like
Speaker 1: dog food and that's not really So I got a
Speaker 1: new card. No dogs for Sasmania. I love dogs. I
Speaker 1: don't have a dog near future. Please don't ever get
Speaker 1: a dog. Well, I mean, I don't ever go to
Speaker 1: your house anyway, because well, first of all, you don't
Speaker 1: invite me over. But second of all, I I can't
Speaker 1: do any animals with hair, and it sucks because outlook,
Speaker 1: I want to be able to enjoy dogs. I love cats,
Speaker 1: but allergies, man, they're brutal. I can't. It's tough. I
Speaker 1: can't be around dogs. Please don't get one and then
Speaker 1: invite me over. Sure we haven't had pasta night get
Speaker 1: this year. I owe you a lot, Frank. That's all right, man.
Speaker 1: Another time I realized that you lunch, we'll do pasta
Speaker 1: night when we prep for the draft. That makes sense,
Speaker 1: I got well. I got a bunch of ideas swirling too.
Speaker 1: For auction we're gonna it's gonna be fun. Anyway, what
Speaker 1: was the rest of your story. I don't even know
Speaker 1: where you're going. Basically, charge for dog food last month.
Speaker 1: So I got a new card, the whole deal. So
Speaker 1: then last night I saw an Amazon charge. I called
Speaker 1: a max and this is called Amazon First, It's like,
Speaker 1: it's good charge of my am X for an Amazon
Speaker 1: or just didn't buy anything. I went through my account like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't see that, Like, you probably change your bad sword.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, it's weird. Call you call your credit
Speaker 1: card company and do that. I called Amex. They poured
Speaker 1: the fraud of getting another new card. So that overnight
Speaker 1: I wake up and I knew it was gonna be
Speaker 1: a very busy and stressful day for me. Today. I
Speaker 1: woke up to a charge of my AMEX from Chewy
Speaker 1: dot com and I'm just like what, I don't know?
Speaker 1: So then I got angry the dog food bandit. So
Speaker 1: then so then I got angry frank because I had
Speaker 1: canceled my card. I did not understand how somebody could
Speaker 1: be using my old card that was canceled last night
Speaker 1: to buy stuff overnight. It didn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1: So I called, I'm actually I got a woman I
Speaker 1: was not I got a moment in seven fifteen this morning,
Speaker 1: and she was not ready for me. She was just like, well,
Speaker 1: I've told people before too, if you ever have a
Speaker 1: problem with anything corporate, you need to send an email,
Speaker 1: you need to make a phone call. Greg is the
Speaker 1: one to consult with. So so she was just like, well,
Speaker 1: if you have it saved an Amazon or something like Chewy,
Speaker 1: that you could just use the same information. I go,
Speaker 1: how could you usually saved the information if the card
Speaker 1: is not active anymore? The card was reported for fraud?
Speaker 1: How is that card still able to be used? She
Speaker 1: as well, if it's saved, you know, they they they
Speaker 1: can still like that. It doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1: Hung up on her called called Chewi. I'm like, listen,
Speaker 1: this is the second time in two months there's someone
Speaker 1: who ordered Chewy, Like, can you tell me what credit
Speaker 1: card they use? And of course they can. It was
Speaker 1: my one from January which ended in you know four numbers.
Speaker 1: Like that card was reported for fraud. How is that used?
Speaker 1: Because yeah, you know it didn't actually go through, but
Speaker 1: it was pending and we marked, like you get the
Speaker 1: money back right at wag. Obviously I just don't understand.
Speaker 1: So I found out it went to some person in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: I have provided them my email like my who I am,
Speaker 1: my name on my email address. Yeah, I know this
Speaker 1: went to Suzanne in Pennsylvania. Like what So they went
Speaker 1: to two dot com. Somehow I got my am X
Speaker 1: and then logged it in there. So then I called
Speaker 1: am X back talk to some supervisors like this was
Speaker 1: your morning today. This is my walk to work this morning.
Speaker 1: This is when I got out of the second I
Speaker 1: got out of the shower at seven o'clock this morning,
Speaker 1: and then my walk to work this morning. Was on
Speaker 1: the phone with a Max their account services supervisor, saying
Speaker 1: how is it? How is somebody using my card that
Speaker 1: I called in as fraud two months ago and still
Speaker 1: working that? You know what? Thank you to Apple Pay
Speaker 1: for having a pop up on my phone every time
Speaker 1: every time I charge goes through. I thought about using
Speaker 1: Apple Pay, but it was like stuff like this that
Speaker 1: kind of makes me not want to And I don't
Speaker 1: think it's Apple pays fault. This is good, this is helpful.
Speaker 1: Learn what charge you put all your cards on? Apple Pack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I knew it was the second addex was charge
Speaker 1: I get a notification? Do you recommend it? I look
Speaker 1: into it. Do you like check your credit you don't
Speaker 1: have you have a credit card? I feel like you
Speaker 1: don't do it. Took you a while to get a
Speaker 1: credit card, right, No, I mean I've had it for
Speaker 1: like at least three years. It wasn't you know? It
Speaker 1: was Ian Haliberd the Democratic card. But did you like
Speaker 1: check your statement? They line my line every month? Uh no,
Speaker 1: I text, I check it like every couple of days
Speaker 1: to make sure that the things that I bought with
Speaker 1: that credit card are correcting. Else is on it. I
Speaker 1: don't go through like statements, but I chok it like
Speaker 1: every couple of days. So I was someone that similar
Speaker 1: checks every cool of days. And then at the end
Speaker 1: of month, I'll just like browse through it to make
Speaker 1: sure if I would have just browsed through it and
Speaker 1: so on Amazon, right, make sense? I probably bought some
Speaker 1: of the Amazon for twelve bucks. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: But thanks to this notification on my phone, I was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't buy anything Amazon. My last purchase was batteries
Speaker 1: for downstairs. So that Suzanne depends Vania, Susanna, We're coming
Speaker 1: for you, Susannah, if you're watching man, stop and maybe
Speaker 1: she's stalking you, just stop. Me said, no, everything she
Speaker 1: does about the person she's gonna So anyway, like I
Speaker 1: was saying, I learned a lot when I was on
Speaker 1: vacation about about our show in general. You know what
Speaker 1: what I think a listener would like and a listener
Speaker 1: would not like. So I'd say you that it was
Speaker 1: the weather in Florida and one had one dad day.
Speaker 1: So the rest was with the rest, Like eight plus eighty.
Speaker 1: You saw pictures like thirty degrees in New York. You
Speaker 1: presented pictures of me. I noticed. I also used an
Speaker 1: older picture of you with like your blowout, you like
Speaker 1: a fruity drink. It's fair enough, all enough. Some of
Speaker 1: about my friend acting, he's like a picture Greg just
Speaker 1: laying on a lounge chair with a with a Sam
Speaker 1: summer was actually was eliminated vodka. And then we found
Speaker 1: out dig wire Big was Yeah, that was me and
Speaker 1: my VA saw the gimlets. Yeah, the I p A.
Speaker 1: Did you know what it was? I did, who It's
Speaker 1: like a boogie thing. I get it, dude, the I
Speaker 1: p A. I was pumped sod So after listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast on Thursday. I had a Cigar City I
Speaker 1: p a on Saturday night for Junia Admire. Which one's this?
Speaker 1: That's me like it's to be sleeping, having a great
Speaker 1: time sleeping. Yeah, where's the blowout one? We get the
Speaker 1: blow out down there? Still with the I gotta find
Speaker 1: fruity drink somewhere, alright, makes sense? Would you like fretty drinks? So?
Speaker 1: But I learned a lot about our show, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, as someone that was really pumped about
Speaker 1: some of your guests. And here, let me see this one.
Speaker 1: What is this? Let me look at this one that
Speaker 1: doesn't really blow out? Frank, I can still do that.
Speaker 1: Just have jell in my air like that's like my
Speaker 1: same hair like length. Right, that is a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Fatter face is not fair to say, no, okay back
Speaker 1: then or now then? No, No, I mean the same
Speaker 1: face that great teeth, Greg, Yeah, I look young. I
Speaker 1: look young. I got a filling yesterday. Greg. My mouth
Speaker 1: was numb. It was terrible. You know, Martino, do I
Speaker 1: look young there? Would you say I looked young there?
Speaker 1: I think it's the hair that makes you look useful.
Speaker 1: It's my hair that different. I think you look, U,
Speaker 1: I think that's a young forty. That's a young forty
Speaker 1: right there. You think my hair looks that different? Greg
Speaker 1: just turned fifty, So because I think that was a
Speaker 1: little bit dude, I think that was like a good
Speaker 1: nine years ago. Yeah, we think yeah, yeah, young. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow we'll see. I want jails sometimes, but not here.
Speaker 1: You're not you don't even you don't even flowering party,
Speaker 1: My hair sounds good. Party. Will that be St. Patrick's Day? Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Speaker 1: and they'll be opening day baseball. Greg, you want to
Speaker 1: get into any baseball, it's not probably save it at
Speaker 1: this point. So the point was I was listening. I
Speaker 1: was really interested about your guest with Drew dig Meyer
Speaker 1: and um Mat Modica and we're all over the place.
Speaker 1: Last week we had Ian Connor Paul after the show
Speaker 1: for a call in any Singleton posted our show any
Speaker 1: single base and one of your cousins commented on it. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: that's my cousin who wants a job very badly. All right,
Speaker 1: and by else I mean Greg. But anyway, the point was,
Speaker 1: I was like, I really want to get the baseball stuff,
Speaker 1: like this is great, Like the gimlet stuff is great.
Speaker 1: I was like, kind of want to hear about baseball.
Speaker 1: And I feel like a lot of our listeners like
Speaker 1: bitch at us for like doing exactly what we just
Speaker 1: did it least sixteen minutes. They're like, oh, you're the
Speaker 1: host of the show, Greg, I kind of get it.
Speaker 1: I gotta get it, you know what I mean everything
Speaker 1: Like you're watching us live like you're kind of enjoying
Speaker 1: the batter or you're listening live with the radio, like
Speaker 1: I get it. You're you're enjoying what we're doing right now.
Speaker 1: We're listening to the podcast, and Frank listens to more
Speaker 1: podcasts than I do. Like I enjoy the banter in
Speaker 1: the podcast that I listened to, but the more battery show.
Speaker 1: If I'm listening, if I'm listening to learn information like
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball, fantasy football, you want to get the information.
Speaker 1: I get it. And that's why you always come off,
Speaker 1: come in so piste off. Well, I do want to
Speaker 1: just do it last seventeen minutes. I get it now.
Speaker 1: I look, I try man. We spoke about this on
Speaker 1: the phone as well. We are we have an interesting
Speaker 1: opportunity here, Greg. It's an interesting medium because we do
Speaker 1: live radio. We do live TV, live digital video, but
Speaker 1: then it also goes on demand in podcast forms, So
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta mix everything together and kind of
Speaker 1: find the best formula that works. And you know, we're
Speaker 1: mixing things here and there. You know, if we're talking
Speaker 1: about baseball players that you like and that maybe I
Speaker 1: don't like, and we'll maybe we'll go back and forth
Speaker 1: on a certain player and we'll we'll get at each
Speaker 1: other and make fun of each other for liking said
Speaker 1: player or you know, getting a call wrong. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: always gonna do that. That's that's fun. But um, it's
Speaker 1: not even like I'm X cards not gonna bring in
Speaker 1: the listenership, and I don't think so you mean puppy
Speaker 1: Chow or whatever you're talking about about dot Com? Get
Speaker 1: it done, Mike mustak Is one year deal with the
Speaker 1: b yours playing second base. Maybe that gets it done.
Speaker 1: Maybe that gets it done. Greg, I'm really interested. She
Speaker 1: might lose stock is with second base eligibility really interesting
Speaker 1: because you were helping that second basis disgusting. It's it's
Speaker 1: not great, um, mob, It's it's not that deep of
Speaker 1: a position you're looking at it. I mean the tier
Speaker 1: that you really want to be in on is Uh.
Speaker 1: It's probably this mid round of you know, Glaver, Torres,
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy, Scooter's neet rugenetto Doors. When we've talked about
Speaker 1: Jonathan VR, We'll talk about the tout Wars draft and
Speaker 1: hold in the next hour when out at the end
Speaker 1: of the fifth round. Everyone's trying to find stolen basis
Speaker 1: right now, But after that, I mean after really the
Speaker 1: top ten or eleven twelve up until like Robinson Cano
Speaker 1: he's my twelve rank second base and Greg. After that
Speaker 1: you get into the Jed Lowries of the world, Cabrera,
Speaker 1: Jan Moncata who has upside, but like Dozer, maybe a
Speaker 1: bounce back candidates scope, it's really like top twelve. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you're playing a fifteen team rot a league,
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna need a starting second basement and people are
Speaker 1: also going to dip into the second basement pool for
Speaker 1: their middle infielder. So it's really not that deep of
Speaker 1: a position, and I would argue that I don't really
Speaker 1: love the elite talent up top either. Mosiel Tua has
Speaker 1: the injury concerns. We talked to dr a of Inside
Speaker 1: Injuries about, you know, his knee injury, how that might
Speaker 1: limit his stolen bases this year. Javier Bayas. I've seen
Speaker 1: more people who were kind of worried about Javier Bias
Speaker 1: based on the price you have to pay because he's
Speaker 1: going in like the late first round right now. Last year,
Speaker 1: you know you were getting him in the middle rounds
Speaker 1: and he paid. He was super profitable, maybe the most
Speaker 1: profitable player last year in Fantasy baseball because he gave
Speaker 1: you a first round value. Now you have to pay
Speaker 1: that first round price tag for Javier Bias, something I
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Speaker 1: Friends Forever Fantasy Sports Radio Heatwork, that is Frank Stanford.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna exau, but I'm back. Frank. You did a
Speaker 1: wonderful job holding the fort down. Sir. I gotta call
Speaker 1: Ian Con after this, get him in your more awesome
Speaker 1: He was not was my don't honestly nothing against Modica,
Speaker 1: who will have every Monday? Um, nothing against and Modica
Speaker 1: was texting me like, dude, am I coming on the show?
Speaker 1: I woke up at like eleven thirty, slept in and
Speaker 1: um yeah. The first thing I had to do when
Speaker 1: I woke up was like, dude, I'm so sorry. I
Speaker 1: forgot to tell you no programming today. We'll get you back.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, Modica. Monday's so I have all the guests
Speaker 1: I love, like the Modica. I was fascinated by the
Speaker 1: consta fascinated by it. What I've learned last week and
Speaker 1: what I I want to try and do more of.
Speaker 1: Greg is we can't base our analysis solely on statistical evidence,
Speaker 1: you Know's what I'm saying, Like we have to work
Speaker 1: in like some of like the mental side of things too.
Speaker 1: Any Singleton spoke a lot about that on Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 1: the mental side of you know, analysis for especially some
Speaker 1: of these younger players, like guys who um maybe fail
Speaker 1: a little bit or didn't live up to expectations. UM
Speaker 1: just kind of like working that into our analysis a
Speaker 1: little bit more. Because I know Ian Cohn, you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you heard him talking about his analysis
Speaker 1: of Michael Kopec last year, it was like he had
Speaker 1: a crazy girlfriend, crazy fiance. I traded him away to dining.
Speaker 1: So you know, these they're humans too. Baseball players are
Speaker 1: humans too, So I do want to try and like
Speaker 1: work some of some of the off the field stuff
Speaker 1: into our analysis as well. Definitely, you know what you know,
Speaker 1: what are we talking about? Of it's coordinators lot in
Speaker 1: football said every year we want to the mental stuff.
Speaker 1: Like I remember last year going into year, we had
Speaker 1: a huge Gane Cigura conversation. Well we underwent was it
Speaker 1: rotus that was telling us about I think it was
Speaker 1: Rotus that was telling us about all of his family
Speaker 1: problems and how that contributed to his bad down here
Speaker 1: that like, he really is really awesome. Travis Shaw was
Speaker 1: someone that we spoke about last year who the year
Speaker 1: before he had struggled so much at home in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: because his his newborn daughter was like dealing with serious health.
Speaker 1: But whenever he was home in milwaukee's my watch. Oh
Speaker 1: you broke your watch? We found something on the floor here.
Speaker 1: It looked like a monitor. Just assumed it was Greg's,
Speaker 1: but it was It was the front of his watch. Right,
Speaker 1: You're off to a riveting start here on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and I just put gum on it. Oh man, you're right, man,
Speaker 1: you got gum on your watch. Go to Fresh Shop
Speaker 1: for a second, bring bring it over here. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna try to work more of that into our analysis.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Mike Wastalkins a little bit before the break
Speaker 1: signs a one year deal over with the Milwaukee Brewers
Speaker 1: ten million dollar deal. This is super interesting because he
Speaker 1: actually turned down a I think it was like sixteen
Speaker 1: or seventeen million dollar qualifying offered two years ago, and
Speaker 1: in the two seasons combined, think me like six or
Speaker 1: six and a half million. Last year on one year
Speaker 1: deal and then uh, this year he's making ten million dollars,
Speaker 1: so combined, he's like just about what he would have
Speaker 1: gone to you would have gotten two years ago if
Speaker 1: he had accepted the qualifying offer. Obviously both michaelm Stockins
Speaker 1: and his agent were underwhelmed or you know, didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't read the market correctly. All right, I'm getting something
Speaker 1: in my ear that we have breaking many Machado news here,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna try and pull that up On Twitter,
Speaker 1: Jeff Mason says that Manny Machado has agreed to a
Speaker 1: deal with the San Diego Padres. Diego, he wanted to
Speaker 1: play on the East Coast. He will not be playing.
Speaker 1: He wants stop. He wanted to be on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: Want to play short stop, Manny Machado, Here we go,
Speaker 1: Jefson star. Mani Chado has agreed to a deal. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get into Michael stocks as well. I also want
Speaker 1: to get into catchers. Are we gonna get Are we
Speaker 1: gonna do anything today? Gregg? It's all right, we still
Speaker 1: have a lot to talk about. Um. Manni Michado has
Speaker 1: agreed to a deal with the San Diego Padres now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. I was watching MLB Network
Speaker 1: yesterday and they were talking about why it would be
Speaker 1: a little bit risky for from a baseball perspective, for
Speaker 1: Manni Michado to go to the San Diego Padres, because
Speaker 1: their reasoning was, you don't make big signings like this
Speaker 1: until all your pieces are in place, and this is
Speaker 1: kind of like the last piece to the puzzle. They
Speaker 1: have young prospects coming in Luis Arias and Fernando Tatis Jr.
Speaker 1: And have all these young outfielders, but again they're just
Speaker 1: going based on potential. A lot of these guys who
Speaker 1: get called up, they flop. So no doubt as much
Speaker 1: as we think Fernando Tatis is going to be a
Speaker 1: can't miss prospect, no one really knows. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we see him up in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season this year. I think Luis Ariasa
Speaker 1: will be up for most of the season this year.
Speaker 1: I know this signed. Ian Kins are to play second base,
Speaker 1: but Rias can play short. They can move things around. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they were basically saying, you know, this is
Speaker 1: a move that you make if you're the San Diego Potties.
Speaker 1: In a few years when you feel like you're just
Speaker 1: that one marquee free agent signing away, I will say,
Speaker 1: you know, Mani Machado is only twenty six years old,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be in the prime of his career
Speaker 1: for the next five seasons. Um. So you know those
Speaker 1: players do come on up and they perform well, the
Speaker 1: Patres are going to be in position, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of years from now where they are gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: be able to make some noise in the National League
Speaker 1: and specifically in the in the NL West. Because now
Speaker 1: you have Machado and you have Rick Cosmer. Eric Cosmer, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, not the offensive juggernaut that we thought he
Speaker 1: was gonna be when he came over to the San
Speaker 1: Diego Potteries. At least he wasn't last year. But they
Speaker 1: have some pieces in place now. They still need to
Speaker 1: get pitching. The pitching is not good. But you have
Speaker 1: Rick Cosmer, you have Manni Michado, you have Eric Cosmer
Speaker 1: has already won a World Series with the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 1: He knows what it takes to kind of turn a
Speaker 1: young team around. He was there when it happened with
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Royals. They have a ton of young outfielers.
Speaker 1: They have depth there. They have Will Myers, who was
Speaker 1: another great offensive piece. He needs to stay healthy. They
Speaker 1: have Hunter Renfro and they have frand Murrayus. They have
Speaker 1: two guys that they think can be legitimate you know,
Speaker 1: power hitters, sluggers, uh in the corner outfitlers there. They
Speaker 1: have Manuel Marco. They have Francie Cordero Luis marias a
Speaker 1: young middle infield. They have Ian Kinsler to kind of
Speaker 1: hold down the fort until, you know, whenever Fernando Tatis
Speaker 1: is ready. They also traded for Francisco Mahea last year.
Speaker 1: This is a team that has a great farm system
Speaker 1: and already has really great young pieces. And now you're
Speaker 1: adding Manny Mattado to this lineup where I assume I
Speaker 1: know all reports on he wanted to play shortstop. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play third base because they had a
Speaker 1: huge glaring need and a hole there. I'll be interested
Speaker 1: to see what the numbers look like here if they
Speaker 1: had to overpay to get a guy like Manny and
Speaker 1: Childo to go to the West coast, because all in cations,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned Greg that he wanted to play on
Speaker 1: the East coast here, but not a not a great ballpark.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it really matters. I think Many Machado's
Speaker 1: power kind of plays anywhere. We saw that last year
Speaker 1: when he was with the Dodgers. But I think this
Speaker 1: lineup is gonna be pretty good. Maybe not right away,
Speaker 1: but um second half of the season or for years
Speaker 1: to come. Many Machado where he's going in the fifteen
Speaker 1: team league, late first, early second round. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: he really moves all that much, but from a shortstop,
Speaker 1: and and he's gonna have third base eligibility now for
Speaker 1: fantasy as well, that dual eligibility to use the middle infield,
Speaker 1: corner infield. It's not bad. I kind of like it.
Speaker 1: It's it's not a great hitting park like you would
Speaker 1: have put him in Citizens Bank. It's gotten better over
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, though they moved the walls
Speaker 1: in a couple of years ago. Definitely, definitely it's not
Speaker 1: Citizens Bank well, and it's also not like America obviously either.
Speaker 1: At this point, I think that Manny Machado in San Diego,
Speaker 1: you were, is it weird that with him there us
Speaker 1: worry about what does he have to play for motivations
Speaker 1: where I was like, yeah, motivation when it comes to
Speaker 1: Manny Machado, like he got a big contract, what was
Speaker 1: his motivation in Baltimore? Though, you know, get paid, You're
Speaker 1: still you're doing to get paid, and I worry about
Speaker 1: that san Diego Like, yeah, you can get all the
Speaker 1: promises in the world, Like, but San Diego still a
Speaker 1: last place team. The much out of signing with I
Speaker 1: know that the future is very, very bright, but it
Speaker 1: kind of reeks to me of of a Rod twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. We're signed the last place team. You give
Speaker 1: gobs of money to this dude. What pitching? They have?
Speaker 1: No pitching? We lu case the opening day starter. I
Speaker 1: have a few guys in the farm system that are
Speaker 1: coming up, but probably won't see him this year, those
Speaker 1: those top prospects that they have. So yeah, I'm according
Speaker 1: to the league source, ten years, three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: He got the number he wanted. That's from Mark fine
Speaker 1: sand right. Is that what you're saying of three hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars? And this is also what they said yesterday
Speaker 1: on MLB Network when referring to him going to the
Speaker 1: Padres is it's risky because say, over the next couple
Speaker 1: of years, things are not going well for the Miami.
Speaker 1: For the San Diego Potters, they likened it to the
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins, who they signed John Carlos Stanton, and they
Speaker 1: thought they were gonna have that young nucleus outfield that
Speaker 1: was gonna grow together. And then the next thing thing,
Speaker 1: you know, you figure out you have to blow up
Speaker 1: this scene, and you know you have to trade away
Speaker 1: a player with that many years in that much contract,
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna get anything in return. So remember,
Speaker 1: look they traded away Um, the Marlins trade away Joan
Speaker 1: Carlo stand for nothing, you know, the Castro, a few
Speaker 1: lower level prospects. It's Philip Smith. It's kind of amazing
Speaker 1: how things quickly changed. Like San Diego, it was a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. They trade everybody. I mean they
Speaker 1: tried to trade everybody. They had a way, they tried
Speaker 1: to They tried to go for it for one one
Speaker 1: store thing. They took everybody, everybody from the Braves, the
Speaker 1: Upton Brothers, Craig Kimbroll had that Kemp right like. They
Speaker 1: took everybody and they trained everybody away, and that included
Speaker 1: brad Hand. Last year, the brad Hand wasn't costing all
Speaker 1: that much and traded him away last year because weren't
Speaker 1: doing anything. And now they go out and they got
Speaker 1: a move from Manny Machado, which surprised. You know, you
Speaker 1: really worry about the motivation here for him and say
Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, I couldn't see it because
Speaker 1: you know, people had their concerns about not hustling down
Speaker 1: the stretch last year, all the antics he had during
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so you can question it. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe his motivation will be he wants to put those
Speaker 1: things to rest. Maybe that's his motivation. He went to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers last year, he had to sevente runs. It's
Speaker 1: in sixty six games, so hard hit right by the
Speaker 1: by the way back in um November. The odds, there
Speaker 1: are odds, of course set for where Machado would end up.
Speaker 1: San Diego isn't even on the list. Wasn't he could
Speaker 1: have gotten You bet the field, You could have bet
Speaker 1: the field and done very very well. Would you rather
Speaker 1: have hotel to many Machado in fantasy? They're going back
Speaker 1: to back right now. We have we have the L
Speaker 1: two discussion before I left, and dr was very non complimentary,
Speaker 1: really not all that close for me, Machado power, I
Speaker 1: understand power. I mean, look, question, you don't know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. You don't know what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: out of him speed wise, because the past three years
Speaker 1: he's been fourteen, nine and zero and was twenty so
Speaker 1: he's kind of all over the map. But you know,
Speaker 1: when I was doing I was kind of looking into
Speaker 1: my third base preview and also looking at many Machado,
Speaker 1: just lumping him into that mix. Manie Machado is about
Speaker 1: as close to no Eronado as you could possibly get.
Speaker 1: He now has dual eligibility, and he's also going to
Speaker 1: give you at least ten to twelve sole basis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's close to nol Eronado. Like Eronado. You set
Speaker 1: your watch too, eight five thirty five home runs on
Speaker 1: during a hundred. All right, maybe maybe he set the
Speaker 1: runs in RBS at Machado, but he's gonna hit, you know,
Speaker 1: close to thirty five home runs. He's gonna kill ten
Speaker 1: to twelve bases. He basically gives you of what of
Speaker 1: what Arnado gives you, and also gives you ten to
Speaker 1: twelve sole basis on top of that. And you get
Speaker 1: him by two seven picks later do you doesn't make
Speaker 1: a lot of sense to me. Just do anything for
Speaker 1: anybody else in San Diego, like it helps their lineup
Speaker 1: every time I just say san Diego like no, I
Speaker 1: mean Los Angeles, um, but San Diego, like for Eric
Speaker 1: hosmer Is you gotta bumped down. And this is there.
Speaker 1: This is the opportunity for for the Padres to kind
Speaker 1: of win over the city of San Diego, right because
Speaker 1: there's nothing else there. The charges they can basically, you know,
Speaker 1: they can make some noise here. Look, it's not an
Speaker 1: easy division. I do think that Diamondbacks take a step back.
Speaker 1: They traded away some of their guys, trade away Paul
Speaker 1: gold Schmidt. They didn't they didn't bring back a J. Pollock.
Speaker 1: They're they're kind of weird. They're like heating while we're
Speaker 1: rebuilding kind of things. But the Rockies are still very good.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are still very good. Um, the Potteries are
Speaker 1: going to get better. Here. Let's let's see how quick
Speaker 1: quick roster resources and the giant stage roster resource as
Speaker 1: Mannie Machado in the lineup batting nine. So they clearly
Speaker 1: haven't they haven't had everything yet, but they do have
Speaker 1: him playing third base for the team here. Look as
Speaker 1: of right now, they have Ian Kinsler, Luise Arias, Eric Cosmer,
Speaker 1: Will Myers, Hunter, Renfro, Francie Cordero. That's a power. I
Speaker 1: still kind of wish that they made some plays training
Speaker 1: with some outfielers here to get pitching, whether it was
Speaker 1: Corey Kluber or Trevor Bauer. I know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big price tag, but you get kind of an
Speaker 1: ace to anchor your staff. It's something that they need you.
Speaker 1: They have legitimately five outfields Greig. They have Will Myers, Hunter, Renfrow,
Speaker 1: Francie Cordero, Manuel Argo, if six Travis Sankowski, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's probably more of a fourth outfielder anyway. And they
Speaker 1: have fran Malays, who has of right now is not
Speaker 1: even on the roster. The haven't projected to start in
Speaker 1: Triple A. I don't know if that's going to be
Speaker 1: the case. But letters have a glot of outfielders here.
Speaker 1: I say, you know you're packing some of those guys,
Speaker 1: maybe a prospect you try and get back like a
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer or Glory Cooper. Because the Indians desperately, desperately
Speaker 1: need outfield. Have you looked at the Indians outfield the
Speaker 1: season started today, Martin. It's Greg Allends, so they need
Speaker 1: help there. They need helping the outfield. I still think
Speaker 1: that that could be a match there. This this helps
Speaker 1: the line up a lot. Someone that they were trying
Speaker 1: to sign who they didn't. Is there anything else who
Speaker 1: want to do on Machado right now? Greg Machado or
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. Rather Tharon Judge. It's close Judge. I think
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Aaron Judge as well, especially in Rhodo
Speaker 1: because he needs a five outfielders. I'll take Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, look, having that dual eligibility for Machado help,
Speaker 1: it's huge third base and shortstop huge. I I'd rather
Speaker 1: have Machado than Javier Bayaz definitely. Javier Baya's NFBC ADP
Speaker 1: right now is fourteen point four. It is fifteen point nine.
Speaker 1: He's going a few picks later. I think we were
Speaker 1: waiting for these guys to sign and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: see their ADP jack up a little bit. Obviously, if
Speaker 1: you want to went to a park like in Chicago
Speaker 1: with the White Sox, I think that would have helped
Speaker 1: him even a little bit more. I only people like
Speaker 1: the park for the pod with the Padres as much,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so. Manny Machado or Alex Bregman both have
Speaker 1: third base and short stuff eligibility. I think this one's
Speaker 1: very close as possible. That because I think Alex Bregman's
Speaker 1: kind of becoming Manni Michado inns of the fantasy is
Speaker 1: the batting average could be even better. Though Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: could be a three hundred plus hitter with thirty and
Speaker 1: thirty five home runs. The thing it's Mani Michado we've
Speaker 1: seen doing a little bit more. You know, he has
Speaker 1: more of a tracker. Probably take Alex Bregman's close, Probably
Speaker 1: take Machado very close. Astro's lineup is better. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's possible in their hitting environment in Houston? It's close.
Speaker 1: I think I leaned Bregman, but that's where that's where
Speaker 1: Machado I think he's going to move to and should be.
Speaker 1: He should be in that end to thirteen range, that's
Speaker 1: where you should go. Do you think there's a chance
Speaker 1: Padres go out and spend more money inside like a
Speaker 1: Dallas Kiko? I mean, at this point go all side
Speaker 1: are right, Corey and Tim Brown of Yahoo. There's an
Speaker 1: opt out. There's an opt out from a shadow after
Speaker 1: the fifth year of the deal halfway through, okay, so
Speaker 1: would be thirty one. So if he's forming very well
Speaker 1: up to that point, maybe he could cash in another,
Speaker 1: you know, seven or eight year deal at that point,
Speaker 1: give himself a little bit more financial security. But he's
Speaker 1: gonna be with the Potteries at least five years, according
Speaker 1: to Jack Harry. By the way, well, the Yankees met
Speaker 1: with Machado in December, they hardly engage with him after that.
Speaker 1: For them, their first internal conversations Yankees had with the
Speaker 1: possibility of any Machado there are strong voices in the
Speaker 1: room advocating against it. This is the Yankees team, this
Speaker 1: is their lineup. It's not changing. They're not getting it
Speaker 1: on Bright's Harper, that's not happening. He's either going to
Speaker 1: the Phillies unless the White Sox throw like a part
Speaker 1: of money, he's on the way. It's like it's I
Speaker 1: would say it's chance Philly Washington. Why he offered him
Speaker 1: apparently ten for three million after the season ended, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people speculate he's gonna get more than
Speaker 1: that with the Phillies, so maybe it goes up to
Speaker 1: three twenty five. Everyone was saying that it's almost a
Speaker 1: done deal with Philly, and I saw that she was close.
Speaker 1: John Hayman was reporting that on Sunday Sunday, all right,
Speaker 1: there you got a name a shadow. Now a number
Speaker 1: of the San Diego padres will certainly talking about that.
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Speaker 1: over to San Diego ten years, three hundred million dollars,
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Speaker 1: of San Diego Padres. Value doesn't change all that much.
Speaker 1: But you know he'll be in camp he signed. Do
Speaker 1: you think the fact that it's him and Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: are signing now they're gonna move up draft boards. Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper was going into the late second round, and that's
Speaker 1: only because he doesn't have a home, especially if he
Speaker 1: goes to Philadelphia, he should be a first round pick.
Speaker 1: Jake Seeley in the Labor Draft last week started his draft.
Speaker 1: He at the fourth pick. He started yell at Harper,
Speaker 1: that should not happen. Jus, that should not happen. We're
Speaker 1: talking about the uh it's out wars draft. In whole
Speaker 1: draft as well. In the second hour with Lad Settler
Speaker 1: and Bryce, Harper went at pick eighteen and May Machado actually, smart,
Speaker 1: you went at pick ten, pick ten. That's fair. There
Speaker 1: you go, I think that's fair. Um. Yeah, the values
Speaker 1: will absolutely go up. And I think the good news
Speaker 1: is they've signed early enough. Here oddly enough saying that
Speaker 1: in February nineteen, they signed early enough. They did right.
Speaker 1: This isn't like one of those Cans Morales things or
Speaker 1: Stephen Drew things that you're signing so late they don't
Speaker 1: have enough time to work out. Like I think they'll
Speaker 1: be in camp for a month with their team, so
Speaker 1: that should be plenty of time. I went to get
Speaker 1: ready and I'm moving. They worked that also. I know
Speaker 1: Eric Cosmers signed like around this time last year. I
Speaker 1: saw it was like three of the biggest contracts last
Speaker 1: MLB off season weren't signed until after February, which is
Speaker 1: kind of where we're at right now. Yeah, pretty much,
Speaker 1: but February. Mike mustaka Is signed yesterday for one year
Speaker 1: ten mill with an option for Padres actually wanted him
Speaker 1: to backup plan too. You think that that's what it was.
Speaker 1: You think he chose to go back to Milwaukee or
Speaker 1: do you think that is like, you know what, We're
Speaker 1: not gonna sign you until we find out the deal
Speaker 1: on the name with Jada, Okay, be that all right? So?
Speaker 1: Um anyway, signs with the Brewers and all educations out
Speaker 1: of brew Crew Camp. He's going to be He's going
Speaker 1: to be given every opportunity to be the starting second
Speaker 1: baseman for Milwaukee with Travis Shaw starting at third. If
Speaker 1: that's the case, Frank, where would Musta fall in your
Speaker 1: second base rankings? Yeah? I think it's a good question. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there's some there's some lofty expectations for Mike
Speaker 1: mustock Is now that he's in Milwaukee for a full season, right.
Speaker 1: I know, some of the numbers kind of dipped off
Speaker 1: last year when he went there, which was odd because
Speaker 1: he and he was in Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: which is known for being, um not great hitters ballpark.
Speaker 1: Uh and in thirty eight home runs there. And then
Speaker 1: last year he was performing pretty well and then we
Speaker 1: went over to Milwaukee, actually regressed a little bit. I
Speaker 1: think it was, you know, him moving over to a
Speaker 1: new league, new city. I think he you know, got
Speaker 1: adjusted to it a little bit here. Um So I
Speaker 1: think a full season in Milwaukee in that lineup in
Speaker 1: that ballpark. Here are some projections that I've seen Derek Carty,
Speaker 1: who who does who does the bat projections which you
Speaker 1: can find over on fan graphs he has. Mike Musaki said,
Speaker 1: two sixty thirty five home runs, ninety two r B
Speaker 1: i s seventy nine runs scored as a second base
Speaker 1: eligible player. Where would that rank? I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's got to be right there in the mix with
Speaker 1: with the Daniel Murphy, labor Torret, Scooter Jenette. That's high.
Speaker 1: That's high. But you just said Derrick Carty, I mean,
Speaker 1: he does projections for a living. Two sixty home runs,
Speaker 1: even if you scale that back a little bit. I
Speaker 1: think I had my projection for him at to thirty
Speaker 1: home runs. I didn't he's safe for thirty home runs.
Speaker 1: You're not getting the same batting average with with Michael
Speaker 1: Stocka says, you are with a guy like Daniel Murphy. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Danie Murphy's gonna hit over three hundred in Colorado. Scooter Jeannette,
Speaker 1: I think pretty safe for two seventy eight plus. You've
Speaker 1: been over that the past two seasons. Labor Torre is
Speaker 1: kind of the wild card here. Does it matter how
Speaker 1: you normally build your team right, because it's second base,
Speaker 1: you're not exactly expecting probably thirty home run power for
Speaker 1: most second basement, and he won't have the eligibility against
Speaker 1: to start the season. He's gonna have to play the
Speaker 1: ten games or five games or whatever it is. It's
Speaker 1: usually five or ten. Travis Shaw, this was interesting because
Speaker 1: last year he actually played a little bit at second peace,
Speaker 1: and they when they asked him about it, he said,
Speaker 1: now I'm playing third base. They've told me I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the third baseman this year. So it's weird that
Speaker 1: the guy that they tried out at second base. I
Speaker 1: guess they really didn't like it, plase they didn't really
Speaker 1: like Travis Shaw at second base. But now it's just
Speaker 1: so unnatural it seems like a weird fit. Greig because
Speaker 1: Michael Mustock is he's a great third baseman. Michae Lusakis
Speaker 1: is already like a pretty good defensive third baseman, and
Speaker 1: now you move them over to second. He's by all
Speaker 1: in occasions. I don't think he's ever played second base.
Speaker 1: He doesn't really have like the body, like the body
Speaker 1: type to be a second baseman too. And on top
Speaker 1: of all of this, Greg the Brewers top prospect who
Speaker 1: just won the Arizona Fall League All Star. The m
Speaker 1: v P of of the Arizona Fall League is Kessing
Speaker 1: Hero and he's a second baseman. So now he's blocked
Speaker 1: to It's just where wherever you know Shaw or Mosakas
Speaker 1: was gonna play. It seemed like a weird fit. It
Speaker 1: seemed like a weird fit last year. It seems weird
Speaker 1: to me now that they signed him. Um, what I've
Speaker 1: heard is that they don't want any holes in the
Speaker 1: lineup at all, But you kind of limit yourself defensively.
Speaker 1: I feel like, so, look from a fantasy perspective, it's
Speaker 1: great to get another bat in that lineup. It just
Speaker 1: you know, it makes that that lineup even deeper. But
Speaker 1: I mean, where would you would you rather have? So
Speaker 1: I have Daniel Murphy, Labor Torres, Scooter Ganett as my five,
Speaker 1: six and seven at second base, and then right behind them,
Speaker 1: I have rugnetto Door and Jonathan VR and and de
Speaker 1: Gordon and those are the guys you drift for stolen basis.
Speaker 1: That's eight nine with with Robinson Canoe at eleven and
Speaker 1: Travis Shaw I have right now at twelve. Should Mike
Speaker 1: Mussakas be in that tier ahead of those, you know,
Speaker 1: those those Odor and VR types who are gonna help
Speaker 1: you out with stolen bases a little bit? Should he be?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe he's behind no door because the
Speaker 1: door I think you know too, sixty batting average, close
Speaker 1: to thirty home runs, but also gonna give you stolen bass.
Speaker 1: My initial impression he's he's in the Murphy tire. To me, man,
Speaker 1: he's ahead of though he's ahead of all those guys's
Speaker 1: projections are very long. I told you during the break,
Speaker 1: I have I rather have him than Scooter Jeannette, I said,
Speaker 1: that's you. I think you could. I think I'd rather
Speaker 1: have them them. Labor Torres, he's with, he's with Daniel Murphy.
Speaker 1: To me, if you look at the Labor is the
Speaker 1: wild card because he was so great last year before
Speaker 1: we got her, and then post injury kind of fell ter.
Speaker 1: But he showed you what his his upside could be
Speaker 1: before you get hurt last year. But yes, absolutely, But
Speaker 1: to me, you know, to hit with thirty home runs,
Speaker 1: that could bear if a full season with Mike mustakas
Speaker 1: you know, you know exactly what you're getting. I think
Speaker 1: there's something to be said for that. Like I know,
Speaker 1: he seems old. He's only thirty years old though, will
Speaker 1: be thirty one in September. You're getting a hundred fifty games,
Speaker 1: You're getting thirty home runs. You're getting between this line
Speaker 1: up a bunch of runs scored and a bunch of
Speaker 1: rev Here's the difference though with Scooters doesn't strike out
Speaker 1: all that much, hasn't been below two batting average each
Speaker 1: of the past ten. So it's different lineup construction, it's
Speaker 1: different roster construction. Gonna Janette versus Mustak is right. I
Speaker 1: think I lean Jeannette because also a great lineup, also
Speaker 1: a great hitters ballpark in Cincinnati. He's gonna beat second,
Speaker 1: He's gonna beat right ahead of you know, Joey Vado
Speaker 1: and Ya C. L. Pleague and all these other guys.
Speaker 1: It's a great lineup. It's a great line up in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: And you know, the power came back a little bit
Speaker 1: last year. But I think he's fast. Two years, it's
Speaker 1: two years for Scott three. That's good. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think he's still I mean, he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: n range. The runs have been at least eighty, the
Speaker 1: RBIs have been at least. You're gonna be a lot better.
Speaker 1: Batting average average matters here, Greg, I'm still taking scooters.
Speaker 1: You ahead of microm Stockers. Okay, all right, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna argue with it. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna argue with it. But he's next one up
Speaker 1: to me is who I'm excited about. And I'm excited
Speaker 1: about o'door also. But o'dor actually gives you a few
Speaker 1: stolen basis to which Michael Stockers will give you zero
Speaker 1: give me nothing there. But I think he's gonna give
Speaker 1: you more. He's gonna any more of your eis mustas
Speaker 1: definitely probably strikes out last. Door's gonna back second in
Speaker 1: the Rangers line up. Greg. It's terrible line up, though,
Speaker 1: is it? Though? I think so since so two was
Speaker 1: pretty good last year resurgence, He's gonna lead off, have
Speaker 1: Joey Gallo, who's gonna bat in the middle of there
Speaker 1: can just I don't love this lineup person, but if
Speaker 1: it's still hitters, Wallpark's hidden, especially to right field with
Speaker 1: Rugnando Door, what do they like to do her so much? Again?
Speaker 1: He made He made drastic improvements to his approach at
Speaker 1: the plate in terms of plate discipline. Walked more than
Speaker 1: ever last year. He was basically a Z you're a
Speaker 1: walking Last year I worked a lot with Shintu Chu
Speaker 1: to actually improve his plate discipline. Didn't strike out as
Speaker 1: much in his numbers. I believe it was by May.
Speaker 1: By like the middle of May, he was betting one.
Speaker 1: For the rest of the year. It was like a
Speaker 1: two seventy hitter with you know, an eight percent walk rate.
Speaker 1: Hard a percentage was at forty five point two percent,
Speaker 1: his career high. His career high before that was I
Speaker 1: have it through through May. Last year with Rugnando Door
Speaker 1: hit one sixty nine with a four sixty seven ops
Speaker 1: terrible and oh sixty two isolated power to thirty nine bad.
Speaker 1: He was got off. Still had at hard hit rate
Speaker 1: fly ball rate percent swinging strike rate from five one
Speaker 1: on to the end of the season to sixty seven
Speaker 1: hit or seven p s from the second base position,
Speaker 1: eight percent walk great k rate. So he cut down
Speaker 1: his strikeouts immensely. He lowered his swinging strike rate by
Speaker 1: three percent, didn't chase pitches as much. Forty five point
Speaker 1: six percent hard hit rate from one to the end
Speaker 1: of the season from ruge netto door. That is a
Speaker 1: second baseman with a forty five hard hit rate and
Speaker 1: hits the ball in the air thirty nine percent of
Speaker 1: the time in that ballpark in Texas, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: steal bases on top of that. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: I think it could be a two sixty hitter this
Speaker 1: year with twenty five runs and fifteen stone bases with
Speaker 1: let's go with eight plus runs, maybe eighty five plus
Speaker 1: runs and seventies seventy five RBI run fifteen bases to
Speaker 1: sixty average grade. Do you like that more than stock
Speaker 1: is gonna be when we're batting average gonna give you
Speaker 1: more power, gonna give you more RBIs and give you
Speaker 1: a few more runs, or give you no stone basis.
Speaker 1: That's a difference. You're paying for fifteen stone basis, but
Speaker 1: I think they should go in a similar range probably still,
Speaker 1: it depends on what you need, how things changing sto
Speaker 1: around such a long time. Odors adp is at one
Speaker 1: Thirtystakis is one of those guys for a while, Stocks
Speaker 1: was at one that's undoubtedly going to rise. Stack is
Speaker 1: one of those guys for a while that they hated
Speaker 1: with such passion because he always let me down, and
Speaker 1: now my back in on him. What I like about
Speaker 1: who stock is is he makes a lot of contact.
Speaker 1: It's an underrated part of his game. Greg. If you
Speaker 1: look at Mustakis absolutely doesn't strike out all that much,
Speaker 1: and he hits the ball in the air. So the
Speaker 1: hard hit rate came back last year. But he hits
Speaker 1: the ball in the air alot. He makes a lot
Speaker 1: of contact. That's gonna lead to home runs. Hitting in
Speaker 1: Miller Park in Milwaukee, and if you hit home runs there,
Speaker 1: the RBIs are gonna be there because you're in a
Speaker 1: great lineup. Now, look is Mike mustak is gonna hit
Speaker 1: clean up in this line Um? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think he might be a little bit lower. I think
Speaker 1: he might. I think he might bet six in this
Speaker 1: lineup with the Brewers. I have a lot of talent, definitely,
Speaker 1: so he might be a little bit lower in the lineup. Dude,
Speaker 1: more research, I do more Tommy Fam. Just keep showing
Speaker 1: Tommy Fam, even for the outfield preview, Gad, I will man,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Um. Other than other Mike Mustock
Speaker 1: is and of course other than Mannie Machado. Another big
Speaker 1: piece of information just came out for our show, and
Speaker 1: that's Carlos Smartine is not throwing the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: And we had discussed a little bit about Carlo Spartinez
Speaker 1: and you did a little bit last week as well.
Speaker 1: But I'm very scared all of this, dude, right now,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's Roles secure. I think they may
Speaker 1: determine that he's just not healthy enough too be a starter.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll be the favorite to be the closer there,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what you do when you're drafting
Speaker 1: Carlos Partine us. Yeah, I'm pretty out here as well. Greg.
Speaker 1: I thought you were getting him at a good price.
Speaker 1: You know, he's going around the SP thirty s P
Speaker 1: thirty five range, you know, thirty thirty five, you're getting
Speaker 1: him there So this was a guy the past couple
Speaker 1: of years who was, you know, a top fifteen, top
Speaker 1: twenty starting pitcher quite consistently, so you were getting him
Speaker 1: at the discount. But now with the news coming out
Speaker 1: that you know he's been shut down, he will be
Speaker 1: on a no throw program for the next two weeks
Speaker 1: in order to strength in his shoulder. Strained in his
Speaker 1: shoulder on on February nine. This is a long season.
Speaker 1: You mentioned his role is not going to be secure
Speaker 1: here if anything else happens with the shoulder. Last year
Speaker 1: he was dealing with with a lot issue. Who's to
Speaker 1: say he won't end up in the bullpen again? Greg, Sure,
Speaker 1: So I just said so, yeah, I'm I'm worried as well,
Speaker 1: especially around some of the names that he's going around
Speaker 1: right now. Carlos Martinez, He's he's going around pick and NFBC,
Speaker 1: a DP, a couple of starting pitchers that are going
Speaker 1: right after him. Kyle Hendre too. Okay, I don't really
Speaker 1: want to do the Kyle Hendricks experiment anymore. Helendricks is
Speaker 1: a good guy to all right, He'll stabilize your ratios,
Speaker 1: but he's not gonna give you any strikeouts. He throws
Speaker 1: like eighty six miles per hour. I don't think I
Speaker 1: really want to do the Kyle Hendrickson any I think
Speaker 1: he's better for I think he's better for head to
Speaker 1: head points leagues, and he is for for Rhodo. Robbie
Speaker 1: Ray gonna give you a ton of strikeouts, but again,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to pair him with someone else in
Speaker 1: order to help stabilize. I spoke with you a little
Speaker 1: bit about this. You know, pairing Robbie Ray with a
Speaker 1: guy like Miles michaelis makes a lot of sense because
Speaker 1: Michael is gonna give you the ear a, He's gonna
Speaker 1: give you the whip, but he's not gonna give you
Speaker 1: the strikeouts. Robbie Ray will, We'll give you the strikeouts,
Speaker 1: and and kind of where are you in terms of
Speaker 1: all those other categories with the era and the whip
Speaker 1: Chris Archer, I'm still gonna do some more research because, like,
Speaker 1: I want to buy in him going to Pittsburgh, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't good there last year. I think it's been
Speaker 1: three straight seasons with an ear a over four. He
Speaker 1: could still strike people out, but the whip hasn't been
Speaker 1: great either. He's gonna be in that you know one
Speaker 1: point to one point two five whip range with archer Um,
Speaker 1: so I got I gotta do a little bit more
Speaker 1: research on him. But as of now, if I were
Speaker 1: drafting day, I would take him over Carlos Martinez as well,
Speaker 1: and then getting a little bit lower like Tanaka. I'd
Speaker 1: rather have Tanaka. The skills are still there. People really
Speaker 1: don't like Tanaka. Huh. Our guy, Maddie Mode still he
Speaker 1: still loves Sanaka. Laid it out beautifully in his his
Speaker 1: starting picture breakdown for the Athletics. So Massiro Tanaka, I'll
Speaker 1: wait a little bit. I'll take him over Carlos Martinez. You, Darvish,
Speaker 1: good luck trying to figure out you. Darvish, Greg What
Speaker 1: do you do with you? Darvish is here, He's going
Speaker 1: to pick one fifty and we know he has the
Speaker 1: upside to return fifteen value. We could be talking about you,
Speaker 1: Darvis as the third fourth round pick this time next year,
Speaker 1: you're getting in the tenth round range. Not only is
Speaker 1: he not healthy, he wasn't good last year even when
Speaker 1: he was healthy. I don't even know what his injuries were.
Speaker 1: What were his injuries? Body? I think I think he
Speaker 1: was every time you tried to look up you, darbish.
Speaker 1: Last year he was like, I don't feel right. What
Speaker 1: does that mean? He was dealing with elbow injuries. You
Speaker 1: gotta ask doctorate a little bit more about you, Darvish.
Speaker 1: But there there's a lot of pictures that are going
Speaker 1: basically right after this range, that are going, you know,
Speaker 1: around SP forty or a little bit after that that
Speaker 1: I'll wait. I'm not gonna take a Carls Martinez and
Speaker 1: just load up on a bunch of those guys. Greg
Speaker 1: you heard Matt Modiga kind of uh, pour out of
Speaker 1: heart for some of these guys, Shane Bieber, Andrew Heeney,
Speaker 1: and Wardo Rodriguez, Tyler Glass, now Nathan Vivaldi and even
Speaker 1: later on the mat Joe Musgrove. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: take Carls Martinez where he's going. I'm gonna wait a
Speaker 1: couple of rounds and then just kinda load up on
Speaker 1: a bunch of those starting pitchers. Those are the starting
Speaker 1: pitchers that we need to identify this season. Last year
Speaker 1: it was Jameson tie On, it was Drew Corbin, it
Speaker 1: was Blake Now they were going outside the top thirty
Speaker 1: five starting pitcher. They were going in that you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe not as thirty five. They were going that
Speaker 1: Spirt spp four range last year, and those were the
Speaker 1: guys that returned the most value for starting pitchers. Those
Speaker 1: are the guys being drafted inside the top twenty. Even
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty, who was going much later on, who we
Speaker 1: found out closer to the start of the season was
Speaker 1: going to be in the rotation for the St. Louis
Speaker 1: Cardinals and then he was kind of in and out,
Speaker 1: but he's going, you know, top twenty starting pitchers. Now,
Speaker 1: those are the guys that we have to identify. Definitely.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try our best to do so. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys that Modica likes, you might
Speaker 1: not want to hear it. Craig Nathan of Baldi, He's
Speaker 1: going to be a guy that I'm all over this season.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be all over. I didn't ate it when
Speaker 1: you were you kind of sold me last week. I
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