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Speaker 1: winners because I believe there's some guys we've identified and
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Speaker 1: drafts left, we're gonna go through twenty names for you.
Speaker 1: We each made a list of ten. Maybe there's some overlap,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about league winners. But first, real quick,
Speaker 1: I want to hammer out some of these headlines Welsh,
Speaker 1: because a lot of stuff happened this weekend. When the
Speaker 1: last week left, uh de gram was, well we're gonna
Speaker 1: get it a Marion. See well now we see he's
Speaker 1: gonna be out for a quote significant amount of time
Speaker 1: end quote. This stinks. It's terrible, it's horrible. I hate everything.
Speaker 1: So Welsh, where did you have to knock him down
Speaker 1: in your ranking? So if anyone's drafted or tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh, I plummeted him. I mean I put him down
Speaker 3: into the I'm probably not far enough to be honest
Speaker 3: with you. I put him down into the one fifties.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like a clump where I put Lancelain.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about Flirty had kind of been over there,
Speaker 3: Sale had kind of been over there. I kind of
Speaker 3: found this happy spot after the one fifties if you
Speaker 3: wanted to take an opportunity to take him, but it's brutal.
Speaker 3: I lost him in God, where did I take him?
Speaker 3: I know I took him in tout done, and I
Speaker 3: think I might have gotten him in one other spot.
Speaker 3: I mean I was obviously people were doing a wellness
Speaker 3: check on me when he got hurt, because I was
Speaker 3: defending the whole time. Ads. Screw the injury stuff. He's
Speaker 3: the best pitcher, he's electric. All of a sudden, he's
Speaker 3: going two overall in main events over an NFBC, and
Speaker 3: then exactly the problem with him came up, and I'm
Speaker 3: well aware, like I'm holding my breath because it's the
Speaker 3: same stuff I do with Byron Buxton. I'm like, don't
Speaker 3: even worry about it. Go with the talent. And these
Speaker 3: guys continuously get hurt.
Speaker 1: It's brutal.
Speaker 3: He's I'm not interested. I'll tell you one thing. Back
Speaker 3: in the day, I really really was interested in buying
Speaker 3: these injured guys for a playoff run. In head to
Speaker 3: head the only format I'm really interested in reaching for.
Speaker 3: I'll say, all these guys the Tatis, and I'm saying
Speaker 3: reaching and having a pay significant price, right Tatis Junior
Speaker 3: or de gram is in head to head simply because
Speaker 3: I can get them full strength for the back half
Speaker 3: of the year in a playoff run, and that gives
Speaker 3: me an advantage. And that is a strategy. But I
Speaker 3: know some can make excuses in rodo.
Speaker 1: I still just.
Speaker 3: Don't want to do it. And points it's an it's
Speaker 3: it's a no go. It's an absolute no go. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna eat no points for a significant price for
Speaker 3: you know, a month or six weeks or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: So I pushed him down. He's going post one twenty five.
Speaker 3: I had like three drafts. I did four drafts this weekend,
Speaker 3: and he never went above I think one twenty five
Speaker 3: in deeper leagues, So once you get into that one
Speaker 3: twenty ish range, you could start considering, but I wouldn't
Speaker 3: do it before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lance Lynn, who was gonna miss a month with
Speaker 1: a knee surgery. He's going, Look, I'm still I'm more
Speaker 1: apt to take lance Lynn than I am to Grom.
Speaker 3: I drafted him as he got hurt. I literally drafted
Speaker 3: him as he got hurt in a really big I
Speaker 3: think it was our Roto league or in this league,
Speaker 3: Roto league, with like my fourth pick. It's it was
Speaker 3: a sixteen team league, and I took him, and then
Speaker 3: minutes later I saw the injury and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god. But to your point, it's not in
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck retired a couple of hours.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I didn't that. Yeah, I think I remember
Speaker 3: that happened.
Speaker 1: I remember that, and I lost my mind on Twitter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you still like win that league that year?
Speaker 3: Wasn't the one you won? Yeah, that was a crazy one.
Speaker 3: What was the quarter I mean, I'll say, well, continue
Speaker 3: you get like a great quarterback you picked up off
Speaker 3: the wire.
Speaker 1: I believe. So, yeah, I think I magical. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember who that was. I have to go back,
Speaker 1: but this is the Baseball Show, so nobody cares.
Speaker 3: Yay. Yeah, but to the same point though, that you
Speaker 3: can come by.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's like lance Lynn, it's Bassett, it's Rodin.
Speaker 1: Like that to me is kind of where I live.
Speaker 3: I know I'd rather have them hands down, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: have Lynn lower.
Speaker 1: It's in that it's in that universe at least for
Speaker 1: me right now, like Zach Gallen or Lance Lynn. I
Speaker 1: kind of want the guy in the White Sox.
Speaker 3: I'll I probably I probably go Gallon still, but it's close.
Speaker 3: It's in that range. Again. It comes back to what
Speaker 3: are you like? What league format? Okay, so here's one.
Speaker 3: Let me add this. I was thinking in a bigger
Speaker 3: league format of fifteen, I've been doing sixteen league drafts.
Speaker 3: If I'm in a ten team league, I'm actually more
Speaker 3: likely to take these guys. I'm more likely to reach
Speaker 3: and take Tatis, Lynn and to Gram because the pool
Speaker 3: to replace them with is so much better and the
Speaker 3: advantage you get, because that's a hard part about ten
Speaker 3: sometimes is getting an advantage over other players. I actually
Speaker 3: would bump them up to try to get them, assuming
Speaker 3: you got il spots. Maybe not all of them, but
Speaker 3: I would draft those guys higher than what the consensus
Speaker 3: thought process is right now, which to gram post one
Speaker 3: twenty lynn maybe around one hundred, and I've seen tattoos
Speaker 3: floating around like ninety to one hundred. I'd reach up
Speaker 3: for them in a ten man league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually took Tatis in the Black Book Challenge
Speaker 1: that we're running on fan tracks. I took him the
Speaker 1: ninth round. And it's only shortstop, so that also makes
Speaker 1: it easier. It's a twelve team league and you only
Speaker 1: have a shortstop. So I'm like, look, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: give me tattos and let me put him with Sodo
Speaker 1: and all these pictures I drafted, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and do that until yeah.
Speaker 3: Risk and no middle. So this so shortstop was probably
Speaker 3: you probably were able to get your boy Willie Domains
Speaker 3: or something to replace him.
Speaker 1: I didn't get him. Uh, I've tried to get who
Speaker 1: I ended up getting in that one. I'll have to
Speaker 1: go look at the roster real quick. But oh there's
Speaker 1: that little noise. Oh it's a magical noise. I've just
Speaker 1: opened up my team.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The other shorts up I ended up getting was Claybor Taurus.
Speaker 1: So that's fine, that's a good knowledge that. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do. But once again I was able
Speaker 1: to get at Verlander, Wainwright, Musgrove, Peralta Giolito as a
Speaker 1: pitching staff, and basically, by the time it's all done,
Speaker 1: I still got Austin Riley. I've got Fernando Tatis and
Speaker 1: Jan Soto to anchor that offense. So that would be
Speaker 1: that would be the ideal situation there if Tatis comes
Speaker 1: back healthy. But you're right, you know the format you're
Speaker 1: playing in, know the structure you're playing in, and know
Speaker 1: how aggressive you can be or how much risk you
Speaker 1: can take on. Because I agree with you, some guys
Speaker 1: are not worth the risk. And the deeper the format,
Speaker 1: the more challenging that risk becomes, because the replacement value sucks.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about something positive? Sure, Bobby with Junior
Speaker 1: is gonna play opening day, Julio Rodriguez is gonna play
Speaker 1: opening day. Welsh, I'm as giddy as a little school
Speaker 1: girl about this. I love it. I'm so excited we're
Speaker 1: actually gonna get great prospects starting opening day. Hooray for
Speaker 1: the new cbact.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you so. I mean, I've been calling
Speaker 3: the Bobby wit one forever, so this wasn't a big
Speaker 3: surprise to me. I'm just happy it happened. You know,
Speaker 3: go listen to betting pros if you want to hear
Speaker 3: what our Rookie of the Year bet picks are. But
Speaker 3: the Julio one had a really weird ride. So follow
Speaker 3: me here on what was this? I guess Sunday I
Speaker 3: had done a show with James Anderson the day before,
Speaker 3: roto Wire, who's a big Julio guy, and he had
Speaker 3: draftedly w insanely high I think in the main event.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, I get this text
Speaker 3: of a kind of what I'm trying to think of.
Speaker 3: What the word is one of those Instagram posts that's
Speaker 3: like it's like an inspirational Instagram post. It's like a
Speaker 3: lady looking off into the distance and it's like things
Speaker 3: happen for a reason and they make us better. And
Speaker 3: that Instagram post came from Julio Rodriguez, like it was
Speaker 3: like an adversity makes us better. And we were like,
Speaker 3: uh oh. And then a friend of mine was at
Speaker 3: Mariners camp at the same time and said Julio visibly
Speaker 3: did not seem in a very great mood this tweet
Speaker 3: or this Instagram posts, and we all were like, oh no,
Speaker 3: the Mariners are going to send him down, Like there
Speaker 3: was this big thought process. People were tweeting about it,
Speaker 3: this is a gonna happen, and then beautiful magical news
Speaker 3: on Monday they did not. Scott Service did the right thing.
Speaker 3: The team did the right thing, and Julio Rodriguez breaking
Speaker 3: camp with a sick outfield of count A Coulio and
Speaker 3: Winker with Mitch Haniger as at eh, that team is sick.
Speaker 3: Juli Rodriguez is exciting, and I if there's anything I
Speaker 3: could tune in for, I hope the Mariners and Royals
Speaker 3: are not playing at the exact same time, so I
Speaker 3: go watch the debuts of both. I as a prospect
Speaker 3: person am elated, and both really important fantasy assets for
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very important, guys. Also, we have the Shamanya trade too,
Speaker 1: so Oakland continues the jettison. Guys. The impact of the
Speaker 1: Mania trade for you moving to the Padres, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that certainly helps with win potential, you
Speaker 1: would imagine, right, Yeah, I mean putting out the rotation.
Speaker 3: I also think it's kind of a death blow to
Speaker 3: everybody that was trying to make Mackenzie gore thing this
Speaker 3: year and the starting rotation yeah, well, I mean I
Speaker 3: just not I never was. They got a lot of
Speaker 3: armed If they wanted to go six man rotation, I
Speaker 3: think they could do that. I think we're still waiting
Speaker 3: in the wings for another trade. You know, there's been
Speaker 3: this rumored Dominic Smith Hosmer trade that's out there. Paddock
Speaker 3: has been floated around. I think they've given themselves more flexibility.
Speaker 3: Seam and I are a great starter. Bat Projections absolutely
Speaker 3: loved him this year, very sneaky. I think from a
Speaker 3: depth perspective, it's the best rotation maybe all five, you know,
Speaker 3: because like the Dodgers are ridiculous, and there's a couple
Speaker 3: of other teams that have absolutely ridiculous. But to all five,
Speaker 3: it's really good depth and they can go further. But
Speaker 3: the fantasy application is Manaiah up Mackenziegre down right now.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's the latest news and notes also
Speaker 1: had a good start from Noah Cindergard by the way,
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts at five innings. So Halla, that's good. Kalaah haala.
Speaker 1: I think I did. And we just talked about we
Speaker 1: just did a betting pro show together. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking to make some wagers. Go over to and listen
Speaker 1: to the Betting Pros podcast or go to YouTube channel
Speaker 1: for Betting Pros. Welsh and I just went through all
Speaker 1: the you know, win totals. We like the futures and
Speaker 1: all these things. And one of the teams I thought
Speaker 1: had a shot at a division really is the Angels.
Speaker 1: If they get Cyindergart right, if Otani stays healthy, Sandobal
Speaker 1: pitches up to his you know abilities, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Angels could be interesting. So this
Speaker 1: is good news that for that investment. So go check
Speaker 1: that out on our Betting pro sides and really good
Speaker 1: stuff there. So, Welsh, we've each made a list here
Speaker 1: of ten league winners this year twice. Let's start with yours.
Speaker 1: I've picked guys from eighty two to three ten right now.
Speaker 1: In terms of ADP, I've tried to stick outside of
Speaker 1: the top seventy five. You have a couple of guys
Speaker 1: inside of the seventy five. So, Welsh, why don't you
Speaker 1: kick things off here with guys who could be potential
Speaker 1: league winners in twenty twenty two fantasy baseball leagues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got guys that are outside the top two hundred.
Speaker 3: I've got some inside the top one hundred because I
Speaker 3: think league winners are not relegated to final last picks.
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of the assumption. There are league
Speaker 3: winners in the fourth round, there are league winners in
Speaker 3: the eighth round. There's absolutely league winners in the fifteenth round.
Speaker 3: And I've talked about this guy at nauseam. The reason
Speaker 3: that a top fifty guy can be a league winner
Speaker 3: is when they can go from you getting them in
Speaker 3: the fourth round and then producing first round talent. And
Speaker 3: that is why Byron Buxton is a league winner this year.
Speaker 3: I know you have him as a bust. I do not.
Speaker 3: He looks phenomenal in the spring forty seven on the consensus.
Speaker 3: I hope I do too. And if I am, he's
Speaker 3: a league winner, that you got first round talent in
Speaker 3: the fourth or fifth round, and top it off that
Speaker 3: there's all these like kind of injured guys spattered around.
Speaker 3: Not that you want to take the risk, but you know,
Speaker 3: what if you got Buckston and what if you got
Speaker 3: like Tatis way later a ten man league, you could
Speaker 3: you know, you could run ramp shot there where you
Speaker 3: get Buckston, you could have Tatis you just did.
Speaker 1: I I haven't had a Welsh in a time where
Speaker 1: you make Welsh has a thing, and I've been doing
Speaker 1: shows a Welsh for like ten years.
Speaker 3: I'm congested and I was trying to hold myself there
Speaker 3: and then I was like, I'm gonna say that.
Speaker 1: I almost let you go on it. But then you Yeah,
Speaker 1: you did it twice and you made two different ones.
Speaker 1: It's run rough shot. What was he likes to, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you run rough shot. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Carl Ramrod, Carl Rahmro. I think I was Carmen Ramrock Ramrod.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. But she likes to
Speaker 1: create new sayings.
Speaker 3: That don't I do.
Speaker 1: It's called the Welshisms, and he puts them together and
Speaker 1: creates a new one, like instead of what I've turned
Speaker 1: remember one of the classic ones?
Speaker 3: No, I know there's some good ones. Someone. We should
Speaker 3: have a we should have a we really should do
Speaker 3: is we should have like a journal of them? We
Speaker 3: should have Yeah, we should have the Welshism book. It's
Speaker 3: like baseball Ism but Welshism. And we should be tabbing
Speaker 3: out all the fake words that I say and then
Speaker 3: we'll just put them together like a dictionary. You know,
Speaker 3: and we could put those together at the end of
Speaker 3: the year. But regardless of the point Buxton in a
Speaker 3: ten man league, that is the league winner that you
Speaker 3: could add on to other pieces, doesn't matter what format
Speaker 3: it is. Bucks into forty seven, probably no chakra buy
Speaker 3: it for anybody that I said that first run talent
Speaker 3: almost at fifty.
Speaker 1: Well, it's no shocker for people to hear me talk
Speaker 1: about Justin Verlander eighty two. Overall, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of guys you got a draft around eighty two that
Speaker 1: could be the best picture you draft in your league,
Speaker 1: and he could absolutely contend for a cy Young. We
Speaker 1: just talked about it. I think it was like what
Speaker 1: twenty two to one or something like that. I've already
Speaker 1: made the investment in him at cy Young because I
Speaker 1: like him as a long shot. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a guy striking out three hundred guys,
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety guys. We're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: who's era was ridiculously good, the whip was ridiculously good.
Speaker 1: He's always limited the walks. He is very far removed
Speaker 1: from Tommy John. I understand he's been away a little bit,
Speaker 1: but have we not learned that the layoffs sometimes for guys,
Speaker 1: especially the older ones, are good. Adam Wainwright, Buster Posey,
Speaker 1: have we watched some of these older guys have a
Speaker 1: bigger break and all of a sudden I know some
Speaker 1: of those guys had injuries too, Posey did, but still like,
Speaker 1: let's realize that this break, this longer layoff, might be
Speaker 1: a good thing for Justin Furlander. And if he gets
Speaker 1: back to that form at eighty two, this guy be
Speaker 1: a fancy ace this year and at an absolute league winner.
Speaker 1: So I would be very aggressive. And he started what
Speaker 1: at like one fifty I think we started doing shows
Speaker 1: that was at eighty two. Yeah, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day he might finish as the top ten.
Speaker 3: Arm I love this one.
Speaker 1: It's very possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got a lot of one I really like
Speaker 3: on here.
Speaker 1: Well, it's okay, we can we can agree. And I
Speaker 1: want I want Byron Buckston to be good now. I
Speaker 1: want nothing more than to sit here at the end
Speaker 1: of the year and go look at Byron bucks and go,
Speaker 1: finally it was what it was supposed to be. I
Speaker 1: just I can't do it anymore. If you can't, well,
Speaker 1: listen to many times.
Speaker 3: I've got I will tell you I think the concept
Speaker 3: of league winner. Also, I want to explain some guys
Speaker 3: that could be league winners, even if I am big
Speaker 3: or not big on them necessarily because you know everyone's
Speaker 3: going to have different opinions and you guys may sit
Speaker 3: and there's context to team construction. Perfect example is my
Speaker 3: number two otibert Amandasi is the definition of a league
Speaker 3: winner and can be a league loser. He is maybe
Speaker 3: the most volatile player in the top one hundred, but
Speaker 3: from volatility it's from bottom to top. If you are
Speaker 3: playing in a format where you can get an advantage
Speaker 3: on steels, you know, not points. But let's say it's
Speaker 3: a bigger a bigger roto league adwart Demondesse and the
Speaker 3: steals that he can have can set you completely apart.
Speaker 3: I mean he can single handedly win you that category.
Speaker 3: In a head to head perspective, he can win you
Speaker 3: weeks alone. His volatility makes him tough. But if he
Speaker 3: were to be consistent on a team that looks pretty
Speaker 3: consistent now, if he could stay healthy and consistent, Mondacy
Speaker 3: would be a league winner. Do I believe he will be?
Speaker 3: I don't know what I target him. I actually would
Speaker 3: in deeper leagues. I've been trying to target him in
Speaker 3: smaller leagues. I'm not because I think I can make
Speaker 3: up the stolen bases in other spots, and frankly, I
Speaker 3: take his teammate Wit Mayfield a little bit more. But
Speaker 3: he's the definition of a league winner. Not sure if
Speaker 3: he will be, but I think of all the guys
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about, every single player on your list,
Speaker 3: in my list, he could be the number one league
Speaker 3: winner because you are all cooled on him. He will
Speaker 3: have third and shortstop eligibility this year, which is an advantage,
Speaker 3: and he could lead the league in stolen bases. He
Speaker 3: could put up twenty homers, he could have big, big runs,
Speaker 3: and then batting average and RBI if they come into play,
Speaker 3: he would be He might be the most valuable player
Speaker 3: in fantasy. It's a possibility, but it's the big marvel
Speaker 3: what if moment of fantasy this year. So he's a
Speaker 3: league winner.
Speaker 1: He's definitely a what if. But you're right, I mean
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Speaker 1: find your Easter eggs once again. Happy spring, and now
Speaker 1: back to the action for me the second time. My
Speaker 1: list is Trevor Rodgers. Trevor Rodgers to me, it might
Speaker 1: be the next best left handed pitcher in baseball. I
Speaker 1: think he's got that kind of upside. He is at
Speaker 1: eighty eight right now, right around that Verlander times. So
Speaker 1: if you miss out on Verlander, Rodgers is a great
Speaker 1: one to get. One hundred and thirty three innings last year.
Speaker 1: I think people forgot how dominant this guy was in
Speaker 1: the first half. One hundred and fifty seven strikeouts, forty
Speaker 1: six walks, so a three to one k walk ratio
Speaker 1: something I always look for. The whip is at one
Speaker 1: point one six, the era is two to seven to one.
Speaker 1: I get it. I understand that it's a tough division,
Speaker 1: but this is the kind of left handed arm that
Speaker 1: left handed hitters want no piece of, and that tells
Speaker 1: you everything you need to know about him. They're like, nope,
Speaker 1: I'm off today. Trevor Rodgers is pitching. I'm good. I
Speaker 1: think he should be good for probably around one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five innings this year too, So that I
Speaker 1: like a lot about Rogers. So Rogers another league winner.
Speaker 1: I like these aces that you can draft after getting
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of offense early on and then looking
Speaker 1: for guys like Verlander Trevor Rodgers, maybe double tap those
Speaker 1: two guys and start a rotation that way. To me,
Speaker 1: that's the approach this season. Welsh, Who's number three on
Speaker 1: your list? Of league winners.
Speaker 3: All right, so we're going to continue. I've got this
Speaker 3: and one more. These are my volatility guys. My top
Speaker 3: four are volatility league winners, insane upside, huge downside, and
Speaker 3: number three is pretty obvious. Dantasy Pro's consensus right now
Speaker 3: is at ninety nine. It is Fernando Tatis Junior. Just
Speaker 3: like we talked about, I don't need to get much
Speaker 3: more into it because I think we've hit a lot
Speaker 3: of the stuff. This is a guy that if you
Speaker 3: play in a head to head format, could win you
Speaker 3: the second half. This is a guy on the rodo
Speaker 3: stats I could still put up elite numbers that are
Speaker 3: better than two or three outside of two or three
Speaker 3: at his position alone. He heals quickly. Then the rest
Speaker 3: of these guys, I'd be interested to see positionally if
Speaker 3: they do anything with him coming back. But Tatis Junior
Speaker 3: is a league winner, but he takes a lot of
Speaker 3: strategy and a lot of paying attention in your draft
Speaker 3: to make him work on your roster construction. Because I
Speaker 3: think you can get you can get a little ahead
Speaker 3: of yourself. Just be like, ooh, I'm gonna go take
Speaker 3: Tatis and I'm gonna just take him and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you've really kind of screwed yourself as
Speaker 3: far as a roster construction on what you're playing, but
Speaker 3: your league format, you know, know your targets and really
Speaker 3: pay attention and you can make it work and he
Speaker 3: can win your league.
Speaker 1: Agreed to one hundred percent. I'm glad we had that
Speaker 1: conversation at the top of the show too, because I
Speaker 1: think people needed to hear that. I think that's important
Speaker 1: to understand. Yeah, you can do this. You can draft tattoos.
Speaker 1: You's gotta be smart about how you do it. Bobby
Speaker 1: Wood Junior, the next player TATIS is ninety nine ADP.
Speaker 1: Bobby with A Junior is one hundred and to me,
Speaker 1: it's all that guys out there that offer the power,
Speaker 1: speed combination, the high batting average. This guy throttled the
Speaker 1: minor leagues last year.
Speaker 3: I would have picked this one by the chance. You
Speaker 3: picked it. You're just so smart. You picked it ahead
Speaker 3: of time, and I couldn't do this. But I could
Speaker 3: not agree with this one anymore.
Speaker 1: And I have to sometimes drink a second time to
Speaker 1: get back into focus. Here on the YouTube channel, that
Speaker 1: happens is this is the beauty of live podcasting.
Speaker 3: So I wish that was a mug by the way.
Speaker 3: I wish that was like a hot tea mug and
Speaker 3: you were just like mm hmmm, Bobby Wit.
Speaker 1: Well, there might be some moments with the tea, I think,
Speaker 1: because you know we had that conversation, I switched from
Speaker 1: the coffee to the tea. So we'll see. We'll see
Speaker 1: how that goes. And leading off just spoiler alert, there
Speaker 1: might be some segments built around off, seeing off on,
Speaker 1: leading off or spilling tea. Who knows, but thanks for
Speaker 1: the heads up there. Bobby Wood Junior to me is
Speaker 1: a guy that I think is gonna just the way
Speaker 1: throttle the minor league pictures. He's gonna throw all the
Speaker 1: major league pictures. I think he's the real deal. I
Speaker 1: don't like they can't miss label because it's too much pressure.
Speaker 1: But this guys that we've seen come up and just rake,
Speaker 1: whether it be the Sodos, the Wonder Francos of the world,
Speaker 1: I think Bobby Witt's gonna come up and he's just
Speaker 1: gonna be Bobby Witt, and he might not reach the incredible,
Speaker 1: oh my god, superstar level in You're One. I don't
Speaker 1: expect that play at that return on investment Tatiste did,
Speaker 1: and he might be closed. I think he's more in
Speaker 1: that ILK than he is in the guys that come
Speaker 1: up and struggle right away. That's my that's my inkling.
Speaker 3: At least, this is not Dylan Carlson, this is not
Speaker 3: alexje He's built different, different dude. Yeah, and also the
Speaker 3: team construction really works well for him. I think the
Speaker 3: guys that are surrounded with him are really really good.
Speaker 3: He can handle the pressure. He's been doing it for
Speaker 3: a long time. He's looked fantastic out here. I was
Speaker 3: just at what I was at Royals Camp on Sunday.
Speaker 3: I stopped over there and he was doing BP with
Speaker 3: Salvey out there, and he was just crushing balls, and
Speaker 3: you know, he did get I was also at Friday night.
Speaker 3: I was at Royals and Padres and you Darvis definitely
Speaker 3: got him bundled up a couple times. And I do
Speaker 3: expect some little hurdles, but I think push comes to
Speaker 3: shove at the end of the year. This is a
Speaker 3: major Fantasy impact guy. My only problem with this one,
Speaker 3: there's literally one problem. The consensus is not caught up
Speaker 3: to what people are doing in drafts. We say one hundred.
Speaker 3: I see him going in the fifties right now. So
Speaker 3: there's a battle in there where, yeah, he went in
Speaker 3: the fifties in multiple drafts that I did.
Speaker 1: You're going to say seventies or something like that. I
Speaker 1: think he did fifties.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's fifties. So that's the battle of this one.
Speaker 3: But it is a great one, all right.
Speaker 1: So that's another one on the list here. Let's go
Speaker 1: to number four on your list. Well, should he have.
Speaker 3: Right last of my volatility, guys, Cody Bellinger. It's the
Speaker 3: most ridiculous one I could say. I have nothing else
Speaker 3: to give you, guys, because he has struggled mightily in
Speaker 3: spring training. He strikes out, he's not making great contact,
Speaker 3: He's messed around with his swing, which, by the way,
Speaker 3: is something if you're going to do it, you should
Speaker 3: do it. In spring training he's altered that a couple times.
Speaker 3: He made some I think some big changes in the
Speaker 3: off season, maybe just some routine type of stuff that
Speaker 3: I could throw out there, say behind the scenes sources.
Speaker 3: But I still believe in Cody Bellinger. I believe in
Speaker 3: the team context as well. Incredible hitters that he gets
Speaker 3: to work with, you know, you're looking for slumpbusters with
Speaker 3: these type of guys being around Mookie Bets, Trey Turner
Speaker 3: and Freddy Freeman. To me can speak wonders, and if
Speaker 3: he can't get that back together, then he is officially cooked.
Speaker 3: Maybe other people have already thrown him out. I haven't.
Speaker 3: He's risky, but it's post one hundred, post one hundred
Speaker 3: cost on Bellinger right now. And this is a guy
Speaker 3: that I still believe there's thirty five plus homers, and
Speaker 3: I believe there's a major impact bat that can be
Speaker 3: hitting between the Freddy Freeman's and the Mookie Bets. So
Speaker 3: I think again, is he a league winner? I'll make
Speaker 3: the bet. I don't know, but he checks the box
Speaker 3: of a potential league winner, Cody Bellinger outside the top
Speaker 3: one hundred.
Speaker 1: It's funny you mentioned about Bobby wits ADP being a
Speaker 1: little you know, not quite what it is in reality, right,
Speaker 1: I see the same thing, but the inverse of Cody Bellinger.
Speaker 1: I've seen him totally you know, ranked around here one hundred,
Speaker 1: and I've seen him go way later.
Speaker 3: Dude, that's so funny you said that they're the complete
Speaker 3: opposite ends, where it's just rank on fantasy pros, they're
Speaker 3: within like six of each other, five ech other four me.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: But they are probably in actual drafts right now going
Speaker 3: maybe eighty to ninety picks separation between the two, and
Speaker 3: that's what can separate Bobby Witt from being really high
Speaker 3: cost to like, is it going to return production to
Speaker 3: a Cody Bellinger? Of like? Is it really worth not
Speaker 3: risking to take Cody Bellinger at one thirty at this
Speaker 3: point when he absolutely has top thirty upside, he has
Speaker 3: first round potential upside. It's just how far gone are
Speaker 3: we from that spring training gave us nothing, But I'm
Speaker 3: willing to make that bet.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's see what Michael Kopek can give us
Speaker 1: at one sixty one. He qualifies at RP and SP
Speaker 1: for those leagues where we have those mandatory RP spots.
Speaker 1: Electric fastball. We all know this, easy heat. It's the
Speaker 1: thing I love when I watch Kopec. The effort level
Speaker 1: doesn't look like a max effort kind of guy. This
Speaker 1: is the time to get in on him. This is
Speaker 1: the time to be bold at one sixty one. This
Speaker 1: is another picture where some of these other pictures already
Speaker 1: dropping like flies, right de grom Lynn. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: other guys are gonna fall suit. But Kopec's that one
Speaker 1: where the eight arrow is going up for me, and
Speaker 1: he pitches for a great team. They're a good defensive team,
Speaker 1: they're good offensive team. It's a soft division for the
Speaker 1: most part. You's gonna get some really good matchups there
Speaker 1: against young offenses like the Tigers. You know, the Royals
Speaker 1: have a good offense, like Welsh pointed out. But still
Speaker 1: there's some strikeouts in there that live for sure. And
Speaker 1: I think Cope's gonna be one of these guys that
Speaker 1: is really gonna, I think, emerge onto the scene as
Speaker 1: like a star pitcher this year. I think this is
Speaker 1: the year where it happens. I think we've been teased
Speaker 1: with it last year and then this year's in the
Speaker 1: full time breakout. So give me Kopek at four. Who
Speaker 1: is your number five league winner? Welsh on your list?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, quicker list here a little bit more stunch on guys.
Speaker 3: We're going outside the top two hundred of consensus. And
Speaker 3: I've said this guy many times. I'm Ed Rosario two
Speaker 3: oh four on the consensus rank. Here give me Amed
Speaker 3: Rosario power speed five tool hitting. I think they've got
Speaker 3: him sloted at two in that lineup, and I think
Speaker 3: that he's a potential league winner in some formats. He
Speaker 3: qualifies it outfield in shortstop. So he's a guy tried
Speaker 3: to get everywhere, couldn't get every single spot, but I
Speaker 3: do want him everywhere. Amenders reo league winner.
Speaker 1: Well, Justin Upton got dfaid, which means Joe Adell skyrocket, baby,
Speaker 1: let's go. Maybe he has just figured it out. Sure,
Speaker 1: Brandon marsh is there too, but at one ninety four,
Speaker 1: Joe Adell is another player. If you're in roto formats
Speaker 1: of any kind, head to head categories or season long roto,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't want to be more aggressive.
Speaker 1: And this is probably another player, Welsh. I bet that
Speaker 1: it might say one ninety four, but you're probably going
Speaker 1: at what.
Speaker 3: Like he went much higher in the drafts. Yeah, especially
Speaker 3: with the successful spring, he went much much higher. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is another one of those all the rookies. I mean,
Speaker 3: that was the thing is people were I mean, I'd
Speaker 3: admit I chastised people in this league on our early
Speaker 3: early mock drafts of taking Julio Rodriguez cause it was
Speaker 3: like what are we doing guys like they just traded
Speaker 3: for Winker, Like he's got a lot to work through.
Speaker 3: There's been no signs that they would really be this aggressive.
Speaker 3: Then collective bargaining agreement can it's fixed, you get rookie incentives,
Speaker 3: then you see him out there, then it kind of
Speaker 3: changed the whole game. But it was all speculation, same
Speaker 3: thing with Tor all these guys, and then now that
Speaker 3: you have confirmed jobs, rock it up well and jo
Speaker 3: Adell is a little different from that, but he did
Speaker 3: get confirmation though I think people were worried. There was
Speaker 3: a legit time where people were like Brandon Marsh might
Speaker 3: unseat Joe Adell because they can't get They would say
Speaker 3: they can't get out from Justin Upton. They've got no
Speaker 3: DH spot and what if Adele got sent back down.
Speaker 3: Well that's gone now and Adele has crushed in spring training,
Speaker 3: so it's been great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing that helped who Adriguez is Jared Kellnick
Speaker 1: not being able to square up a baseball very well,
Speaker 1: that's that's a problem. He's got to fix it.
Speaker 3: But it's not at the don't it's not at the expense. No,
Speaker 3: Odio's not up at the expense.
Speaker 1: Of no, no, but still it's it's it. Certainly want
Speaker 1: to pay attention, But Joe Adele, you want to be aggressive.
Speaker 1: That's fine. If people still aren't aggressive and shallower leagues
Speaker 1: be aggressive. Joe Adell has that opportunity and it fail.
Speaker 1: But if he reaches the potential of what this prospect was.
Speaker 1: I mean two years ago, this was one of the
Speaker 1: top five prospects in baseball. Everyone was talking about. We
Speaker 1: couldn't get enough Joe Adell. So let's not lose sight
Speaker 1: of that. Let's try to have a longer memory because
Speaker 1: that's the kind of impact he might be able to make.
Speaker 1: And again, I keep driving this home. The power speed
Speaker 1: combination rotal leagues is something to be very excited about.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to your number six on your
Speaker 1: list here, Well, should we.
Speaker 3: Have a league winner is actually going to stick with
Speaker 3: the exact same team with the Guardians and a league
Speaker 3: winner Miles Straw. I know it's crazy. I've never been
Speaker 3: the biggest empty category chaser. And what I mean by
Speaker 3: that is a guy that gets a lot of one
Speaker 3: thing and then kind of sinks you in a couple
Speaker 3: other spots. But Miles Straw is one of the few
Speaker 3: players that could lead baseball in stolen bases this year,
Speaker 3: a very high likelihood I think from a projection standpoint,
Speaker 3: to finish top five. And he's going post two hundred.
Speaker 3: He's also theoretically going to lead off for the Guardians.
Speaker 3: Not a big power guy can make contact. He would
Speaker 3: be a batting average run stolen bases guy post two hundred.
Speaker 3: You missed out, unwit, you missed out on mind to see.
Speaker 3: You missed out on the big stolen base guys. You
Speaker 3: should make sure you get Miles Straw. I did it
Speaker 3: this weekend in this giant eighteen team league we do
Speaker 3: our ITL Champs League, and I didn't have great stolen bases.
Speaker 3: I reached up for Miles Straw because he's gonna put
Speaker 3: me over on stolen bases. And a post two hundred
Speaker 3: guy with thirty plus stolens and leading off, that might
Speaker 3: be a guy that can be a league winner.
Speaker 1: And I would agree. Now I had an Angel's picture
Speaker 1: on this list, I think I'm gonna change it after
Speaker 1: some of the weekend news, which is I gotta go
Speaker 1: from Patrick Sandoval, who's the guy we've talked about a lot.
Speaker 1: Let's go at Noasindegar, and let's go with a guy
Speaker 1: on a one year show me deal and if he
Speaker 1: regains the velocity of old, let's not forget when you're
Speaker 1: looking at high end velocity in the major leagues. Noah's
Speaker 1: inderguard was it for like a two to three year window.
Speaker 1: He was the dude. He was so good and he's
Speaker 1: had a lot of injuries, and maybe getting out of
Speaker 1: New York is good, maybe a fresh start is good,
Speaker 1: but it's that one year contract. I love those guys
Speaker 1: in those one year deals. I remember when Adrian Belcher
Speaker 1: was on that one year deal. I wasn't in Boston
Speaker 1: that one year. I was like, oh, let's go, let's
Speaker 1: get all in on that. Like there were just some
Speaker 1: guys where you know, when you know that they're in
Speaker 1: that spot where they have to kind of rebuild some value,
Speaker 1: you want to get in on that, especially when you've
Speaker 1: seen it can be good. And he's another picture that's
Speaker 1: you know, I want to say he's free. He does
Speaker 1: have a big name still, but in terms of ADP,
Speaker 1: he's free ish. And where is he right now ADP wise,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure because after this weekend, I'm sure it's changed.
Speaker 1: After that start. But basically what I'm got.
Speaker 3: Him at fifty in a draft by the way earlier,
Speaker 3: but like he fell fell, but I think it was
Speaker 3: before that performance. He go he's post two hundred. That's
Speaker 3: where he sits pretty firmly right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think he's worth a shot because the
Speaker 1: rotation spot is his how many things can he throw?
Speaker 1: Look realistically, I think if you draft him even post
Speaker 1: two hundred and you get one hundred and forty innings
Speaker 1: out of him, that's cool and you say, well, how
Speaker 1: is that a league winner? It is because what if
Speaker 1: you were the same team that drafted Lynn or Jacob
Speaker 1: deGrom and you don't have those guys in April and
Speaker 1: may potentially what if Cindergard can be that bridge to
Speaker 1: getting those guys potentially back healthy and then you run
Speaker 1: from there. So yeah, Cinderguard to me can be a
Speaker 1: league winner because of that, because he might be there
Speaker 1: early and dominant, and that gives you time to play
Speaker 1: the waiver wire. That gives you time to oh, look
Speaker 1: there's Nick Lodolo on the waiver wire or somebody else
Speaker 1: who's gonna get called up and make some starts with
Speaker 1: the big league club. That's what you're gonna look for
Speaker 1: all right, So those are the number six guys for me, Well,
Speaker 1: she's next on your list.
Speaker 3: Number seven. I mean, I might be getting a little
Speaker 3: nuts here with some of the young guys, but the
Speaker 3: cost Spencer Torkelsen. So here's the interesting thing about Tork.
Speaker 3: He's got a two thirty two. He isn't following the
Speaker 3: same trajectory as like Julio or a Dell or Bobby
Speaker 3: Witt to the same degree. Now he doesn't steal bases,
Speaker 3: which is part of that. But Tork was more prolific
Speaker 3: power guy that I think is being given credit for.
Speaker 3: And he's made a real concerted effort I've personally seen
Speaker 3: in person over the last six months from the AFL
Speaker 3: to now where you can see him stop trying to
Speaker 3: destroy baseballs as much as he knows he can, and
Speaker 3: he was hitting for more contact. He was really singles
Speaker 3: heavy in the AFL, and I think there was there
Speaker 3: was a purposefulness to that, and I think that's a
Speaker 3: good thing, especially for a guy like him, who you know,
Speaker 3: he understands the own book that's on him, which is
Speaker 3: you know, low breaking balls low or even fastballs really low,
Speaker 3: because he's aggressive lower in the zone he can attack.
Speaker 3: Baseball's high that I worry about some of the growing pains.
Speaker 3: But post two hundred, a first baseman that can hit
Speaker 3: thirty plus homers and be at the middle of an
Speaker 3: order that's got Hovey, Baias and Meggi in there and
Speaker 3: some fast guys in Badou and Grossman, I really like that.
Speaker 3: You know, this might be a stretch as far as
Speaker 3: like league winner, but first base can get really ugly
Speaker 3: really quick if people hoard it. And guess what breaking
Speaker 3: news they do. They do like as much as I've
Speaker 3: preached Joey Vado, CJ Crown later, people aren't comfortable with
Speaker 3: just the first basement. They want those guys as a
Speaker 3: corner infield so it can get away from you, and
Speaker 3: it can get away really quick. And Spencer Torklesen could
Speaker 3: be one of those guys that kind of brings you
Speaker 3: back and saves you. So again, I might be in
Speaker 3: a bit dramatic because I'm super excited about the rookies,
Speaker 3: but two thirty two, Spencer Torklesen, give me.
Speaker 1: Gimme, how many games do you think Torkleson places this
Speaker 1: year at the big league level?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't I mean if he gets hurt
Speaker 3: or something like that. I mean, I I just like you.
Speaker 3: I don't think he comes out of the lineup. Let's
Speaker 3: say one thirty five, Okay, I mean I would say one.
Speaker 3: I think I'd be comfortable with one fifty as well.
Speaker 3: But somewhere in that range between one thirty and one fifty.
Speaker 1: I think the thirty or the forty I feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about. I think that's kind of where I would
Speaker 1: live with him personally.
Speaker 3: But I want to.
Speaker 1: Talk about another guy, another big time prospect a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago that people sort of soured on and
Speaker 1: forgot about. And oh, let's say he's got nine to
Speaker 1: seventy one ops so far in the spring. I like
Speaker 1: that he qualifies at second and short stop. I like
Speaker 1: that he plays in Colorado. I love that that's the best.
Speaker 1: And last year he hit left handed pitching, he hit
Speaker 1: right handed pitching. And if you look at the splits too,
Speaker 1: which everybody always wants to kill these guys in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Guess what if you look at Brendan Rodgers splits last
Speaker 1: year at home two eighty with a seven to twenty
Speaker 1: three ops, well that's not so great in Colorado. You
Speaker 1: think oh, this should be better away two eighty nine,
Speaker 1: eight seventy three. A guy can hit on the road. Eventually,
Speaker 1: the Colorado numbers are gonna propped up. It's gonna happen
Speaker 1: for Brendan Rodgers. So, Brennan Rodgers is a guy right
Speaker 1: now that if you look at the splits and you're
Speaker 1: worried about him, he say, oh, he's a Colorado guy.
Speaker 1: He's already proven he can hit outside of Colorado. I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about that. And you know, the Colorado a
Speaker 1: factor over a longer period than fifty one games is
Speaker 1: going to rear its head. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: positive one. So to me, you have that dual eligibility.
Speaker 1: I think he's got a path to the everyday job there.
Speaker 1: I like Brenan Rodgers. I got him on all my
Speaker 1: teams this year. I'm a fan. So let's go to
Speaker 1: another guy on Welsh's list. Let's go to number eight
Speaker 1: on your list, Welsh, who do you.
Speaker 3: Have uptick in the rotation for the Marlins. He saw
Speaker 3: a two to three uptick in his fastball usage. Looks back.
Speaker 3: He's a command guy. I've talked about him. Don't mean
Speaker 3: to be boring. Hazus Lozardo. I literally, I don't usually
Speaker 3: do the like. I don't say like, oh I got
Speaker 3: them all my teams or anything like that, but I
Speaker 3: literally might have him on all my teams. I might
Speaker 3: have late Lozado and every single team that I could
Speaker 3: possibly have him on. He's been a major target because
Speaker 3: he's free on the back end. He has got probably
Speaker 3: top thirty sp upside, maybe more. Maybe I'm just being like,
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit dramatic, or I'm like bringing
Speaker 3: him down a little bit, but major strakeouts command is
Speaker 3: where he used to be. I think he's a smart
Speaker 3: pitcher and it's a great rotation of really smart guys.
Speaker 3: And look at what the Marlins have done, look at
Speaker 3: what they have done with their pitchers. Hazus Lozardo is
Speaker 3: already showing some of those signs. So he might be
Speaker 3: the retread of Trevor Rodgers and could be next year
Speaker 3: a top one hundred overall player. So Lozardo could be
Speaker 3: one of the linchpins of your rotation and could be
Speaker 3: a league winner.
Speaker 1: All right for me. Another guy's Joe Ryan, a guy
Speaker 1: from the Tampa system, is now in the Minnesota system.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a rotation spot. In fact, he's the
Speaker 1: opening day start, right, Did I read that correctly? I
Speaker 1: believe yes, that is the case. Sure, yeah, yeah, So
Speaker 1: that means he's gonna make a fair amount of starts.
Speaker 1: And not every league winner is a superstar player. Not
Speaker 1: every league winner has a career year. Sometimes league winners
Speaker 1: are guys that you can plug in there, you can
Speaker 1: draft really late in terms of ADP. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that's going at two ten right now. To me, this
Speaker 1: is a guy that you can feel pretty good about
Speaker 1: that rotation. The Twins might be better than people realize.
Speaker 1: I think they might be one of the sneaky teams.
Speaker 1: If Buxton comes true and you get Kira Love healthy
Speaker 1: and you get Korea playing well, the Twins might be
Speaker 1: spunky like they might be this year's team that people say, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't really see that coming. It would be also
Speaker 1: on guys like Bailly over pitching well, guys like Joe Ryan.
Speaker 1: So Joe Ryan's another one of those dudes for me
Speaker 1: at number eight, let's go to number nine on your
Speaker 1: list of league winners. Well should you have?
Speaker 3: All Right, so this is cheating. I'm gonna cheat on
Speaker 3: this one because I think there's a multitude of these
Speaker 3: guys and I'm going to just call it the late closer.
Speaker 3: So I've been adamant about taking you know, at least
Speaker 3: one of the top guys. Frankly, I'd like it if
Speaker 3: you had two guys that you can feel consistent with
Speaker 3: and you don't have to mess around. I think there's
Speaker 3: gonna be tons of money that's going to be spent
Speaker 3: fab wise and waiver claims on closers in the first
Speaker 3: month or so. Not saying you don't want to be
Speaker 3: involved in it, but if you don't have to get there, great,
Speaker 3: But pay attention to the closer market, especially this week,
Speaker 3: because we've had situations that have worked themselves out, like
Speaker 3: it looks like the Nationals with Rainy might be a guy,
Speaker 3: So Rainy might be a player that you pick up.
Speaker 3: Alex Colome closing, that might be a guy that you
Speaker 3: want to pick up. Watch the late closer market and
Speaker 3: pay attention to There are post two point fifty to
Speaker 3: three hundred guys that are going to be out there.
Speaker 3: I don't know for your own leagues, Paul Sewald, Rainy
Speaker 3: Cola MA pay attention to those. Pick up those guys
Speaker 3: because we can't not say a c because there's always
Speaker 3: a late closer. There's always a guy that comes off
Speaker 3: the wire that you get and as a league winner.
Speaker 3: So jump ahead if you possibly can, if you got
Speaker 3: a draft in the next couple of days, and take
Speaker 3: one of those guys, and don't be afraid. This is
Speaker 3: another thing I would do. I would use bench spots
Speaker 3: because those last couple is where you take some shots
Speaker 3: and then you fix it waiver wires before the season,
Speaker 3: take some speculative save spots. Even if you've got two
Speaker 3: great guys. Let's say you got class in Kimberl Let's
Speaker 3: say which would be really high investment, take two more.
Speaker 3: Take a rainy and take a Colamet, or take a
Speaker 3: Pierce Johnson or Danellis in Lamet. You know we're gonna
Speaker 3: all speculate who's gonna close with the potters until they
Speaker 3: announce it. Take a couple of those guys and see
Speaker 3: if you hit, Because then what you've done is you've
Speaker 3: taken that away from the waiverwear market. You might be
Speaker 3: able to make a trade. You might have just boosted
Speaker 3: your closers, and if it doesn't work, you just throw
Speaker 3: them back and go pick up a starting pitcher or
Speaker 3: a hitter that's out there. So I'm cheating, but I'm
Speaker 3: saying the late closer is always a league winner. I
Speaker 3: just don't know who it's going to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they become fodder and trades too. People desperate
Speaker 1: for saves. You can flip them. You got them for nothing,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden you could sell them
Speaker 1: off for something that's waspially higher in terms of ADP.
Speaker 3: Like here's an example, what was it TGFBI. The waivers
Speaker 3: just ran this past weekend and one of the top
Speaker 3: guys I saw every and this isn't the closers, by
Speaker 3: the way, but I'm just throwing it out there. To
Speaker 3: the same example, I saw one of the top like
Speaker 3: two players that was on everybody's list. One of them
Speaker 3: was Stephen Kuan with the Guardians, who is another guy
Speaker 3: that could potentially lead off and hit there. Everyone was
Speaker 3: spending money on him. Guess what in my league wasn't
Speaker 3: available because I speculated and I drafted him for that
Speaker 3: potential high lead and leadoff spot. So the same idea
Speaker 3: can be had with the closers. Take those guys off
Speaker 3: so waivers can't run and people can't have the opportunity
Speaker 3: to pick up that guy, and then what happens is
Speaker 3: you get Fomo. Everybody is tweeting about picking up this guy.
Speaker 3: Spend three, you know, thirty percent of your fab on
Speaker 3: this closer and all this, and he's not available in
Speaker 3: that league because you got him and you either have
Speaker 3: him to roll with or you've got extra trade bait
Speaker 3: to put out there, because he's got a whole big
Speaker 3: push from that week from everybody talking about him simply
Speaker 3: because he's available in getting safe, even if he's not
Speaker 3: that good. So it's just a good strategy. Bench spot's
Speaker 3: getting some of the if there are any late speculative
Speaker 3: closers to do it all right.
Speaker 1: Number nine on my list is Christian Xavier at two
Speaker 1: ninety six. Again he's free, he's got electric arm, great fastball,
Speaker 1: showed you last year. He gets strike out everybody in
Speaker 1: their mother. You're looking at this rotation here in Houston
Speaker 1: and vranber Valdez is there, and you got your koweedie
Speaker 1: there in Garcia and Verlander. That's good. I don't know
Speaker 1: what we're gonna get out of mc coulors, of anything.
Speaker 1: There's certainly a narrative you could right that maybe Verlander
Speaker 1: does struggle coming back, maybe the age has caught up
Speaker 1: with him. Maybe I'm completely wrong. It's possible it's happened
Speaker 1: once or twice. Maybe that many times, that's it twice.
Speaker 1: But Jacob Derrezi, another guy is not special. Another guy's
Speaker 1: a little older too. I think there's opportunity here for
Speaker 1: whether it be some slop wins in early April or
Speaker 1: transitioning into making some starts. Eventually, somebody's going to get hurt.
Speaker 1: And I think Christian Javier is going to get another
Speaker 1: opportunity at the starting gig, and when he does start,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be worth having. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a guy, especially that again sp RP eligibility. I
Speaker 1: love those deeds because they play in those kind of formats.
Speaker 1: I love that. And the last guy on our list
Speaker 1: happens to be the same guy. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: give up the floor. It's a group, it's a group
Speaker 1: effort here at Fantasy pros MLB, and the last guy
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about, who's our league winner number
Speaker 1: ten for both of us, Julia Rodriguez, I'm gonna yield
Speaker 1: the floor to the Welsh. Take it away.
Speaker 3: I mean, I talk about it all the time. This
Speaker 3: is a showover we just say hully only just in
Speaker 3: the show. Frankly, people probably want to hear your take
Speaker 3: on it because I talk about him so much. But
Speaker 3: just you know, my only thing to tell you is
Speaker 3: he is a superstar and I've held firm I find.
Speaker 3: Here's what I will give some people insight on whatever
Speaker 3: you think I am. I don't want to say expert.
Speaker 3: Whatever you think I am a talking head of anything
Speaker 3: of fantasy. I find it very hard to stay with
Speaker 3: someone for a long time when times are tough, and
Speaker 3: I think most people do as well. I think some
Speaker 3: people won't admit it. It's very especially when you talk
Speaker 3: about prospects. It's very hard to stay locked into something
Speaker 3: when everybody else feels a different way. And sometimes that
Speaker 3: can be the case. I can be affected by Sometimes
Speaker 3: just negative results can move me away. But if there's
Speaker 3: one thing I stayed consistent with for four years, maybe five,
Speaker 3: I don't remember now, it is Julio Rodriguez whenevery human
Speaker 3: being loved Jared Kelnick because he was in the majors.
Speaker 3: Over Julio Rodriguez prospect people had him number one. I
Speaker 3: had Julio over him. I've always been a Julio guy.
Speaker 3: I think he's a superstar. I think he has got
Speaker 3: immense raw power. He told me in the AFL. I
Speaker 3: I'm very proud of that moment. An interview I had
Speaker 3: on field with him where that AFL in twenty nineteen
Speaker 3: or eighteen, he wanted to steal more bases. He told
Speaker 3: me that he's like, I want to steal more bases.
Speaker 3: He was pissed that he got caught thrown out in
Speaker 3: the AFL in a game, and that he was like,
Speaker 3: I didn't get thrown out. And he had two stolen
Speaker 3: bases already in the AFL. He proceeded to have three
Speaker 3: or four more, and now he's become a stolen base threat.
Speaker 3: That's part of his game. He physically looks like one
Speaker 3: of the most impressive baseball players in all of baseball.
Speaker 3: He's taller than me, six foot five, sixty six rock.
Speaker 3: He's an absolute right. He looks like the rock. He's
Speaker 3: going to hit big power, He's going to steal bases.
Speaker 3: He's a five to a player. He's gonna have some
Speaker 3: bumps and bruises along the way, which I'm a little
Speaker 3: bit worried about and why I didn't think he would
Speaker 3: be called up. But if they believe he's ready to go,
Speaker 3: I've seen the bat live all offseason, and I gotta
Speaker 3: tell you might try to even hit them today before
Speaker 3: I you know, before it's all done. Julia Rodriguez is
Speaker 3: a league winner because he can do it all. I
Speaker 3: hope he doesn't go to the kill Nick route, but
Speaker 3: I'm willing to make the bet he doesn't cost post
Speaker 3: three hundred right now. After this, He's gonna cost it,
Speaker 3: probably inside the top two hundred. But Joe, you put
Speaker 3: him on this list. I kind of stole this because
Speaker 3: I agree with you. So is there any last things
Speaker 3: you have on Julio.
Speaker 1: Well, the only thing is the caveat is I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some strikeouts, So in those head to
Speaker 1: head points leagues, I think you have to take that
Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. I do think there will
Speaker 1: be some of those ups and downs, as you're saying,
Speaker 1: but I think the opportunity there, and I might even
Speaker 1: say that he's a player in redraft leagues. If he
Speaker 1: gets off to a hot start, I would absolutely consider
Speaker 1: selling for the moon. Like if you could turn him
Speaker 1: into a player. I agree with that, Like if I
Speaker 1: could turn Julio Rodriguez after an incredible six first six
Speaker 1: weeks into Fernando Tatis Junior in a redraft league, I
Speaker 1: make that trade every day of the week. So I
Speaker 1: think that's something to think about, is if he gets
Speaker 1: off to a hot start, as more tape gets out
Speaker 1: on it, you get figured out a little bit, things happen,
Speaker 1: and I do worry about that, So I'll just caution
Speaker 1: that there is a downside, but once again makes you
Speaker 1: a league winner, because if you get off to that
Speaker 1: heart start and you are incredible to begin with, that's great.
Speaker 1: If I flip you for an asset that's more tried
Speaker 1: and true that ends up carrying me into and through
Speaker 1: the playoffs, that's awesome. Julio Rodriguez just helped me win
Speaker 1: my league. So on that note, there's lots of different
Speaker 1: ways to win a league, and I think we gave
Speaker 1: you a lot of different names with a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways. So my names were Verlander, Trevor Rodgers, Bobby
Speaker 1: Wit Junior, Michael Kopek, Noah Sindegard, Joe Adell, Brendan Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan, Christian Xavier and of course, Julio Rodriguez, Welsh
Speaker 1: had Julio Rodriguez, Byron Buxton, Adolbert Delmandici, Fernando Tetis Junior,
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger, Ahmed Rosario, Miles Straws, Spencer Torkelsen, Hayes, Lusiszardo,
Speaker 1: and the elusive Late Closer. So there you have it.
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