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Speaker 1: Grand Sauceman. He is Frank Stamford. What's happening, Franky Gregg?
Speaker 1: A happy Tuesday to you, budd. Here to talk a
Speaker 1: little baseball. But it's not just baseball all in today's
Speaker 1: program because the Knicks fired Steve Mills today. We'll get
Speaker 1: more of that from Alex in a few moments. We
Speaker 1: do have some baseball, including our first edition of Caucus
Speaker 1: the What the Caucus? Frank, Well, you know I have
Speaker 1: no clue what that means. We'll explain to Frank exactly
Speaker 1: what caucus means. Caucus craziness. Last night, caucus craziness. Today
Speaker 1: here on the BFS, we talked to Dan Shaughnessy of
Speaker 1: the Boston Globe about what's going on with Mookie Bets
Speaker 1: in Boston what's called the Red Sox in general. They
Speaker 1: still have no manager. Pigeon catches report next week, so
Speaker 1: you know, anytime sounds good to me to have a manager.
Speaker 1: We'll figure out why they're slashing payroll and why Mookie
Speaker 1: is the bad guy in all this. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: him coming up in about a half hour from now,
Speaker 1: and then we got a whole lot of caucus thing
Speaker 1: to do, Frank, But first, I just sleep. I slept
Speaker 1: very well last night. Yeah, I've slept well recently, just
Speaker 1: in general since the start of the new year. Base.
Speaker 1: How is the stomach doing? Somebody's doing much better? Salad
Speaker 1: Today I had to get myself salad, salad to eat cars.
Speaker 1: You're eating salad? Gosh. Yeah. I had an apple for breakfast,
Speaker 1: some almonds. Greg, I had to Uh, I had to
Speaker 1: take it back a little bit after the monstrosity that
Speaker 1: was this past weekend. Greg. I just sleep, Buddy back
Speaker 1: a little bit, right. Covers are stolen a bit. No nightmares, nightmares,
Speaker 1: no nightmares. But I had a lot of good ideas
Speaker 1: pouring him into the show before into any of that.
Speaker 1: The first idea to update that starts right out Sports
Speaker 1: grade news update. I am Alex Bassano with your sports
Speaker 1: grid news update here on the Fantasy f f f's
Speaker 1: that the New York Knicks have parted ways with team
Speaker 1: president Steve Mills. General manager Scott Perry will oversee the
Speaker 1: team's basketball operations for the time being. Knicks president James Doan,
Speaker 1: in a prepared statement, said, Steve and I have come
Speaker 1: to the decision that it would be best for him
Speaker 1: to leave his role as president. We thank Steve for
Speaker 1: as many years of service to our organization and look
Speaker 1: forward to continuing our relationship with him as part of
Speaker 1: our board. This front office shake up comes two days
Speaker 1: before the NBA trade deadline. The Knicks are fifteen and
Speaker 1: thirty six, the third worst rhetoric in the East in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. The Loan baseball writer who did not
Speaker 1: vote for Derek Jeter for the Hall of Fame chose
Speaker 1: to keep the ballot private. The Baseball Writers Association of
Speaker 1: America released three hundred and fifteen ballots, all of which
Speaker 1: included Jeter's name. He was on three hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: six of three hundred and ninety seven ballots announced on
Speaker 1: January one. Since two thousand and twelve, each voter can
Speaker 1: check a box on the ballot to have it made
Speaker 1: public two weeks after the vote. Totals. The percentage of
Speaker 1: public ballots was about the same this year as last
Speaker 1: seventy nine point one percent and seventy nine point five percent, respectively.
Speaker 1: And in the NFL that Jacksonville Jaguars are moving a
Speaker 1: second home game in to London's Wembley Stadium in an
Speaker 1: attempt to increase their local revenue. Another game in London,
Speaker 1: which generates twice the money of a home game in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: was the best way to offset the boost teams like Raiders, Chargers,
Speaker 1: and the Rams will get when they all relocate to
Speaker 1: new stadiums. The Jacks are spearheading a proposed seven hundred
Speaker 1: million dollar entertainment district development around the stadium that would
Speaker 1: result in additional revenue. Until that happens, Jack's president Mark
Speaker 1: Lamping said adding another home in home game in London
Speaker 1: is the right move for the team to make. The
Speaker 1: games will be held on back to back Sundays, and
Speaker 1: the opponents will come from a list of the Texans, Cults, Titans, Browns, Lions,
Speaker 1: and Dolphins. I'm Alex Passano and this has been your
Speaker 1: sports grid news update on the fantasy b f f's
Speaker 1: they have it. There's Fossando's update today. Fantastic job by Alex.
Speaker 1: Covered everything going on in baseball. The strategy to nonsense
Speaker 1: is exactly what it is. Nonsense. The guy couldn't even
Speaker 1: show himself because he is a word I cannot say
Speaker 1: on the airwaves. Frank, what are you talking about? Show
Speaker 1: your face, reveal yourself. Woe is what he is? You
Speaker 1: know what, here's not a whoosy today would be James. James,
Speaker 1: he did it. The acts peace. Steve mills Is second
Speaker 1: run with the New York Knicks finally ends today as
Speaker 1: he was relieved as president of basketball operations. Of course,
Speaker 1: why not do it two days before the NBA's raide deadline.
Speaker 1: You know this is absurd, of course, because it's a
Speaker 1: typical Knicks fashion and it has to be absurd. But
Speaker 1: at least they like, let Steve Mills make more mistakes
Speaker 1: this time or just do nothing, which is what it
Speaker 1: was rending towards happening here. Apparently he didn't want to
Speaker 1: trade away Marcus Morris. He was so proud of himself
Speaker 1: for signing Marcus Morris, like, hey, signed this guy, he
Speaker 1: played well, I'm not going to trade him. What we
Speaker 1: find like the guys on a one year contract. Why
Speaker 1: don't you pull enrolled this chapman with the New York
Speaker 1: him away, sign him back in the off season. I
Speaker 1: like Marcus Morris. I like what he brings to the team,
Speaker 1: the toughness. He likes to defend the guard, and that's fine.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's possible, Frank, that maybe James Nolan's like,
Speaker 1: hey man, you signed seven power forwards. We don't have
Speaker 1: any point guards. Maybe he should have balanced that. Maybe
Speaker 1: he should have wanted to bet with an all star.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe yeah, maybe instead of trading draft assets and
Speaker 1: young players to get someone like D'Angelo Russell, you just
Speaker 1: meet with him in the off season and signed him
Speaker 1: to an offer sheet and try to lure him to
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks. He didn't have to move, he
Speaker 1: was in Brooklyn already. How about this? Greg Steve Mills
Speaker 1: has been the general manager ish president from twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: and then was named the team president in seventeen during
Speaker 1: this span since season, the Knicks are one seventy eight
Speaker 1: and three sixty five. That is the worst record in
Speaker 1: the NBA. That's right, and it's gotten the number they've
Speaker 1: got a number one over. I'll pick how many times,
Speaker 1: Frank zero. All right. Scott Ferry is now running things
Speaker 1: as the GM Nicks of course looking to Assiujerry, who
Speaker 1: James Dolan has been after ever since he got fleeced
Speaker 1: on the Andrea Bargnani trade, so he's been obsessed with
Speaker 1: it ever since then. His contract rules until next year.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, it looks like James Dolan is looking
Speaker 1: into the agent route like Rob Polinka and Bob Meyers,
Speaker 1: and so we'll see what happens. In terms of the
Speaker 1: team president for the New York Knicks, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the interim GM will be Scott Perry with the trade
Speaker 1: deadline m GM, he's just the GM had all the power.
Speaker 1: He's just the GM for now, so he can do
Speaker 1: whatever he wants. And now we're hearing that Marcus Moores
Speaker 1: is on the trading block. We'll see what happens there
Speaker 1: if they can wind up a landing in about first
Speaker 1: round pick for Marcus Sports Scott Perry is not an idiot, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He did work with with Steve Mills,
Speaker 1: and yeah he was I'm sure. I'm sure he didn't
Speaker 1: have any uh he didn't not have say in bringing
Speaker 1: four power forwards in the off season, Greg, So I'm
Speaker 1: sure if there was a little bit more pushed back there,
Speaker 1: we potentially would not have Bottle part as TODJ. Gibson,
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris, you know, anyone else that you can name.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of the Giants, right, because
Speaker 1: Steve Mills's thought was like, Hey, we're gonna win this
Speaker 1: old school with toughness, defense and long two pointers, and
Speaker 1: the Giants are just like, oh well, it was running
Speaker 1: the football, you know what I mean, Old school philosophies
Speaker 1: provides old school losing. Yeah, so that wasn't a profitable
Speaker 1: strategy here for Steve Mills. He is now out of
Speaker 1: a job, no longer the president of the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, Greg, we've gotten this entire time. We've
Speaker 1: gone around nine minutes into the show here without mentioning
Speaker 1: that this same with Steve Mills at the Helm traded away.
Speaker 1: Christops porzingis who has put up over thirty five points
Speaker 1: in back to back games. In order to sign big
Speaker 1: name free agents and lore max free agents here in
Speaker 1: the off season again they wound up with Julius Randall,
Speaker 1: Todd Gibson, Alfred Payton, Reggie Bullock, and Wayne Ellington and
Speaker 1: Bobby Portis by the way, yea, and this was why
Speaker 1: design they did not want to But at the time
Speaker 1: when they traded Christops Porzingis away, it was because they
Speaker 1: were clearing space for two too, Max Freed. I mean,
Speaker 1: did they get again zero that's the name of the
Speaker 1: New York Nicks. That's the cherry on top. That's the
Speaker 1: New York That's the New York Knicks. Indeed, you heard
Speaker 1: it from Alex Pisano. As we said, Derek Jeter not
Speaker 1: unanimous because one guy said, nope, reveal yourself. He said, nope.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, Greig, did you think dark Jeter is
Speaker 1: gonna be a unanimous Hall family? Did not? I did
Speaker 1: not either, So Actuly's one guy bothers. You know what
Speaker 1: I think. Even more than that is the fact that
Speaker 1: he will not reveal himself, right, like we all didn't expect.
Speaker 1: I would say most of the people that I spoke
Speaker 1: to did not expect Derik Deeter to be a nantis
Speaker 1: unanimous Hall of Famer anyway, myself included in that. So
Speaker 1: I wasn't really upset at that, just the fact that
Speaker 1: there was just one person who thought that he was
Speaker 1: not worthy of being in the Hall of Fame uh
Speaker 1: the first year that he was on the ballot. And
Speaker 1: again that person will not reveal themselves. This whole process
Speaker 1: of Hall of Fame voting, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Baseball Hall of Fame, GREG is archaic. It's and
Speaker 1: what end The b b w A said, listen more
Speaker 1: vealer ballots. You're either a Hall of Famer or you're not. Greg.
Speaker 1: How can how can somebody like Larry Walker go nine
Speaker 1: years on the ballot, never finishing with more than fifty
Speaker 1: four percent of the vote, randomly get a twenty percent
Speaker 1: increase in vote the final year that he's on the ballot.
Speaker 1: So to be fair, you could be like, listen to
Speaker 1: the last night of vote for this guy, and you
Speaker 1: know what, I think he's a Hall of Famer. I
Speaker 1: don't mind that doesn't bother men? Isn't it your hall
Speaker 1: of Fame or you're not? Though things change You don't
Speaker 1: have to be a first ballot Hall of Famer. But
Speaker 1: if he was going to be a Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: do anything, the percentages would have been climbing more throughout
Speaker 1: the years. Please me to jump from fifty four to
Speaker 1: sev in the final year, You just jump, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, all right. So that's our start of baseball.
Speaker 1: Last night was the IO Caucus. You know what that is? Right? What? Right? OK?
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Speaker 1: Iowa Caucus. We don't have a winner in the IA Caucus.
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Speaker 1: the Fantasy BFFs. I am Greg Susman. Freis stampl here
Speaker 1: as well. Last night was the ile call because is
Speaker 1: that it is the first primary of the presidential election
Speaker 1: and normally's like any other primary, where you go through
Speaker 1: the night, you have winners, you have losers. Last night
Speaker 1: we had nothing because of an error with an app
Speaker 1: So given that today it was our true first day
Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl, after the recap of discussing baseball,
Speaker 1: we wanted to have our own caucus where hopefully we
Speaker 1: would find a winner. So welcome everyone the first edition
Speaker 1: of the BFFs Caucus. That's right, Caucus Craziness is here.
Speaker 1: It is live on the BFF today. Frank, we'll go
Speaker 1: through the first round. Done the first half of first round,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna go to the second half of the
Speaker 1: first round where when I started doing my research, It's true,
Speaker 1: I started I noticed, Hey, there's a lot of short
Speaker 1: stops here in the second half of the first round.
Speaker 1: How do I know which one to take? So welcome
Speaker 1: to themist edition of the Caucus Craziness, where we're going
Speaker 1: to go over for short stops going the second half
Speaker 1: of the first round, and Frank will try and well,
Speaker 1: all the delegates here will try to convince me to
Speaker 1: join their caucus and vote for their short stop. So
Speaker 1: we begin with our own Frank Stamfle who is here
Speaker 1: to caucus Trevor's story. Well, thanks for welcoming me and
Speaker 1: here Greg Susman on behalf of Trevor's Story. I would
Speaker 1: like to remind you that Trevor's Story is the one
Speaker 1: true five category player of all these short stops. If
Speaker 1: you look at what he's done over the past two seasons,
Speaker 1: his average season during this band to batting average thirty
Speaker 1: six home runs, one runs scored, nineties seven r b
Speaker 1: i s, twenty five stolen bases. That's a damn good
Speaker 1: season and that has been his average season over the
Speaker 1: past two years. During this span. Over the past two seasons,
Speaker 1: Trevor Story joins only Christian Yellowish as the two players
Speaker 1: who have seventy plus home runs and fifty plus stolen
Speaker 1: bases during this span. He has been a member of
Speaker 1: the forty forty club dubbed by our own Michael Floorio
Speaker 1: forty percent hard hit rate fly ball rate in every
Speaker 1: season that he has been in the majors since he
Speaker 1: struck out thirty four percent of the time back in
Speaker 1: his sophomore season, he's lowered that to twenty five point
Speaker 1: six percent back and twenty six point five percent just
Speaker 1: last season. He's in the prime of his career, twenty
Speaker 1: seven years old, hitting in one of, if not the
Speaker 1: best environments in base ball in course Field. And again,
Speaker 1: while all these other shortstops are good, they do have
Speaker 1: the deficiencies error Story has none. He is a Legit
Speaker 1: five category contributor. Please vote for Trevor Story, right if
Speaker 1: you want me to join your caucus and go with
Speaker 1: Trevor's story. Well, I have to ask you. I have
Speaker 1: to ask you some follow up questions, right, I just
Speaker 1: have to know, you know, follow questions to mind. He
Speaker 1: talked about no deficiencies. What are the whole road splits
Speaker 1: here with Trevor Story. Well, gret when you play in
Speaker 1: the road Tissory League, home road spilds don't matter because
Speaker 1: it's the production that they give you at the end
Speaker 1: of your right, Well, then you know, look, then you
Speaker 1: shouldn't consider playing in a road Tisstory League. That's what
Speaker 1: you should do. If you're not playing the rod Tister relegue,
Speaker 1: what are you actually doing? Of course they're going to
Speaker 1: be home road splits for Trevor story. We've heard it
Speaker 1: before when it comes to corps Field, right, But those
Speaker 1: home numbers are so so good, so dominant, that they
Speaker 1: will be able to outweigh the woes that we will
Speaker 1: see on the road. And they're not even really woes.
Speaker 1: He's still one of the best hitters in baseball, So
Speaker 1: we're not worried about home road splits here, Greg. And
Speaker 1: while we're on that, just maybe consider playing in the
Speaker 1: Roads History League. Fair enough, Frank, I appreciate your time
Speaker 1: and let you know if I caucus with you a
Speaker 1: little later on on our program. All right, coming up
Speaker 1: next here on our caucus craziness, we had another delegate
Speaker 1: here that's gonna try to convince me to caucus and
Speaker 1: join and vote for Francisco Lindoor. So with that we've
Speaker 1: turned it over. We're on Frank Stample. Well, thank you, Gregs.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a look at Francisco linden Or. For
Speaker 1: three straight seasons, Lindor has posted thirty two plus home
Speaker 1: runs and fifteen plus stolen bases. Everyone is looking for
Speaker 1: power speed combinations in fantasy baseball this season. Look no
Speaker 1: further than Francisco Lindor, even with being limited by a
Speaker 1: cash strain to start twenty nine and Greg, he finished
Speaker 1: with thirty two home runs, a hundred and one runs scored,
Speaker 1: twenty two stolen bases, and a two eighty four batting
Speaker 1: average with a two with an eight fifty four ops
Speaker 1: like Alex Bregman, who somebody will talk about later on
Speaker 1: on in this show, uh, he makes a ton of contact.
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor. He has just a fourteen percent strike out
Speaker 1: rate in his career. Trevor Story strikes out way more
Speaker 1: than that, so you know the batting average is going
Speaker 1: to be there for Francisco Lindor makes a ton of
Speaker 1: contact back to back seasons where his hard contact has
Speaker 1: been up over forty one per cent. Speaking of that
Speaker 1: hard contact, he posted the highest average exit velocity of
Speaker 1: his career at ninety point six miles per hour last
Speaker 1: season and the highest of all the short stops that
Speaker 1: will be talking about today, also in the prime of
Speaker 1: his career at twenty six years old, is Francisco Lindor. Greig.
Speaker 1: You want a power speed combination in the first round,
Speaker 1: look no further than Francisco Lindor. I do have to
Speaker 1: ask you a follow up question. I heard the person
Speaker 1: on the delegate for Mr Trevor's story. He was trying
Speaker 1: to push Trevor story as a power speed combination. Why
Speaker 1: do you think Francisco Lindor is better for those categories
Speaker 1: than the story? Well, Greg, it's a fair question, but
Speaker 1: when it comes to Francisco Lindor, we think that he
Speaker 1: still has higher upside than a ever story. We could
Speaker 1: see him getting into that thirty five home run plateau
Speaker 1: twenty five stolen bases. Putting those two things together is
Speaker 1: not something that that Trevor Story has been able to
Speaker 1: do again. And you don't have to worry about the
Speaker 1: home road splits. Greg, you asked the question. They didn't
Speaker 1: even know what to say when you brought up home
Speaker 1: road splits. Francisco Lindor he has some of the best
Speaker 1: splits in baseball. Look at his home road splits. He
Speaker 1: was nearly the same player on the road as he
Speaker 1: was at home last year. And the fact that we've
Speaker 1: seen him for do it for longer than Trevor Story.
Speaker 1: He's now done it for three seasons, where Trevor Story
Speaker 1: has only done it for two, which means he's safer.
Speaker 1: You want safety in the first round. That's Francisco Lindor,
Speaker 1: and you do, in fact want safety in the first round.
Speaker 1: Mr Delegan, I appreciate your time. Francisco Lindoor. I will
Speaker 1: certainly consider taking a shot on him as we move
Speaker 1: forward in tonight's caucus. Caucus crazy is continuous because there's
Speaker 1: other shortstops that are out there. There's other short stops
Speaker 1: for me to consider. So let me go with another
Speaker 1: dual threat. It's hard man this first round. It is tough.
Speaker 1: I don't know where to give my votes to. I
Speaker 1: don't know where to pledge. So I needed to hear
Speaker 1: more about trade turn or. So we bring in the
Speaker 1: delegate a trade turner, and that trade is not for example, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Greg Susman. I'm here a representative of trade
Speaker 1: Turner today. And you heard these guys talk about speed
Speaker 1: when it comes to Francisco Lindoor and Trevor Story, but
Speaker 1: they don't have speed like trade Turner has speed. And
Speaker 1: everybody is trying to find speed in fantasy baseball leagues
Speaker 1: this year. It's so hard to find someone that could
Speaker 1: provide that at an elite level. Might I add is
Speaker 1: Trevor Story thirty five stolen bases last year in just
Speaker 1: one and twenty two games over a one D sixty
Speaker 1: two game paste that is forty six stolen bases. The
Speaker 1: difference between Trevor Story and other people that have stolen
Speaker 1: bases in the past, like a D. Gordon, he doesn't
Speaker 1: hurt you in the power department. He's going to hit
Speaker 1: you right around nineteen twenty home runs. He's at nineteen
Speaker 1: home runs exactly each of the past two seasons. Again,
Speaker 1: he did that in only a hundred and twenty two
Speaker 1: games last year, so there was upside for him to
Speaker 1: get to potentially twenty five home runs last year with
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. And this is somebody who is gonna
Speaker 1: have the green light. We've seen that with Davy Martinez.
Speaker 1: He's going to allow Trade Turner to run as well.
Speaker 1: He makes a ton of contact, just an eighteen point
Speaker 1: six percent strike out rate in his career, much better
Speaker 1: than league average, career high thirty seven point eight percent
Speaker 1: hard contact rate last year, a career high ninety point
Speaker 1: three mile per hour average exit velocity for Trade Turner
Speaker 1: as well. This is someone that's trending in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Greg He will not turn until June this season. You
Speaker 1: want speed, especially earlier on in your draft. He's not
Speaker 1: going to kill you in the power department. Trade Turner
Speaker 1: is the answer for you. He does have all the speed.
Speaker 1: He's got more speed than Trevor Story. He's got more
Speaker 1: speed Francisco Indoor. But the power is significantly worse for
Speaker 1: these other categories, significantly worse. I can get both power
Speaker 1: and speed the other two players I've heard from Frank, Yes,
Speaker 1: but you can also get power at any point in
Speaker 1: your draft. It's the easiest category to find his home
Speaker 1: runs and r B I s later on in your drafts,
Speaker 1: So you can pair someone h like a Friend Mill
Speaker 1: Rays later on in your draft with a with a
Speaker 1: UH with a trade Turner. Friend Mills, he's ground ball percentage, yes,
Speaker 1: but that hasn't affected his ability to hit home runs
Speaker 1: the past couple of years. Greg, you can get a
Speaker 1: Chris Davis who's going outside the top one. Chris Davis
Speaker 1: with a k's gonna give you forty plus home runs.
Speaker 1: You could pair him with a trade Turner. Look, these
Speaker 1: other guys are gonna give you speed, but not the
Speaker 1: way that Trade Turner's gonna give you speed. Give me
Speaker 1: twenty plus home runs, give me forty five plus theme basis.
Speaker 1: These other candidates are not going to do just that. Greg,
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. All three candidies seem like good choices,
Speaker 1: and of course there's still a fourth. He doesn't even
Speaker 1: play short stop for his team. In fact, he really
Speaker 1: plays third base, but in most leagues he's going to
Speaker 1: be eligible at shorts stop because he filled in for
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa last year. I don't know what to do
Speaker 1: because now I hear about Alex Bregman from the delegate
Speaker 1: representing Alex Bregman, and that's Frank Stafle. Well, thank you,
Speaker 1: Greg Susman. So happy to be here today and represent
Speaker 1: our Lex Bregman, someone who just continues to get better
Speaker 1: and better as he ages in the MLB to eight
Speaker 1: six batting average, thirty one home runs, a hundred and
Speaker 1: five runs scored, a hundred and three RBIs, ten stolen
Speaker 1: bases with a p S back in eighteen, that was
Speaker 1: his first full season with the Astros. He followed that
Speaker 1: up with what a two nine six batting average, forty
Speaker 1: one home runs, a hundred and twenty two runs scored,
Speaker 1: a hundred and twelve RBIs sure the stolen basis, came
Speaker 1: back a little bit five stolen basis. But you know what,
Speaker 1: He's gonna run more this year. You know why because
Speaker 1: he has an old school manager in Dusty Baker, Who's
Speaker 1: going to let Alex Bregman run. He posted, you know,
Speaker 1: a fine one thousand and fifteen ops for the entirety
Speaker 1: of the season last year. His plate discipline is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Uh he led He was the only qualified hitter with
Speaker 1: more walks than strikeouts last year. He does not strikeout.
Speaker 1: He makes a ton of contact, and when he makes
Speaker 1: contact he posts a career high forty four point seven
Speaker 1: percent hard contact rate a career high forty five point
Speaker 1: nine percent fly ball rate. So you're giving me somebody, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: who doesn't strike out. When he makes contact, makes really
Speaker 1: hard contact, puts the ball in the air. In one
Speaker 1: of the best ballparks in baseball and one of the
Speaker 1: best lineups in baseball, one of the best cheating lineups
Speaker 1: in baseball. Hitting right in the middle of all of
Speaker 1: that is Alex Bregman. He's only getting better. But that's
Speaker 1: that's the reason you should take Alex three. I just
Speaker 1: heard from all the other playing all these other people
Speaker 1: that their guys steals bases. Alex Pregman does do that. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what you need to know about Alex Bregman Gregg.
Speaker 1: He's going to outperform these other three players in basically
Speaker 1: every other category aside from stolen basis. He's going to
Speaker 1: be the best one of all these guys in four categories.
Speaker 1: So outside of stolen bases this season, you look at
Speaker 1: your stolen basis, you'll you'll get your pose now two vas,
Speaker 1: your Austin Meadows, whoever it might be. You get legit
Speaker 1: elite four category production from Alex Bregman gress Where should
Speaker 1: I go? I need some time to think about this,
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Speaker 1: to do, for sure, that's coming off in a little bit.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break and we'll talk Boston Red Sox
Speaker 1: and what's going on with Mooky bats and we'll do
Speaker 1: that with Dan Shawnessy at the Boston Globe. Dan, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining us, My pleasure. How you guys doing.
Speaker 1: We're doing all right, and in all honesty, we're doing
Speaker 1: kind of fantastically being in New York and being Yankee
Speaker 1: fans and trying to figure out what's going on with
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox, specifically in regards to Mookie Batts,
Speaker 1: who the more you hear, the more you read, it
Speaker 1: certainly seems like that's is a gonner. How soon is
Speaker 1: that going to happen? Is it gonna happen? Well? I
Speaker 1: think it's going to happen. I mean, no one knows,
Speaker 1: but it feels like it's it's going to happen, and
Speaker 1: could happen while we're talking here, or or early next
Speaker 1: week or who. I would just think they would want
Speaker 1: to get it done before spring training, and you know,
Speaker 1: their truck equipment truck left yesterday and the first pitchers
Speaker 1: and catchers workout is next Wednesday in Fort Myers. They
Speaker 1: don't have a manager. They're waiting for the cheating allegations
Speaker 1: to be adjudicated by the Commissioner's office. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot going on here, but it's been mostly a waiting
Speaker 1: game the last couple of weeks, Dan, how did we
Speaker 1: get to this point, right with someone like Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: who came up within the organization and wins a World
Speaker 1: Series with the team and wins an MVP Award with
Speaker 1: the team as well. You know, how do we get
Speaker 1: to this point where it seems like, all right, well
Speaker 1: baseball has changed normally, you know, one player does not
Speaker 1: stick with the team the entirety of his career. It
Speaker 1: seemed like if there was anybody you could see doing
Speaker 1: it with the Boston Red Sox, it would be Mookie Bets.
Speaker 1: I know, obviously we've heard some reports about numbers, and
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets wants more than four hundred million. The Red
Speaker 1: Sox offered him three hundred million. But how did we
Speaker 1: get to this point where they cannot retain one of
Speaker 1: the best players in their franchise, maybe even in their
Speaker 1: franchise history. We're being honest, Well, we don't know what
Speaker 1: the numbers are or have been, or or what the
Speaker 1: reality is there, but certainly, uh, there's been no public
Speaker 1: demonstration on on the players part here that he's pledged
Speaker 1: to give him a hometown discount or wants to stay
Speaker 1: Red Sox forever. And I understand that he presents the
Speaker 1: guy who wants to find out what's out there, and
Speaker 1: we understand that. So if that's going to be the case,
Speaker 1: then they roll the dice to have them play here
Speaker 1: this year and and then they the fifth round pick
Speaker 1: for him, and that's it. Um, So probably trading, you know,
Speaker 1: fifty cents in the dollar appears to be what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do now and cut their losses and replenish
Speaker 1: the farm system and and go without a player who's
Speaker 1: going to leave them after next year. Anyway, that's how
Speaker 1: it feels right now. Um it's it's it's learning on
Speaker 1: the on the job by him Bloom, the GM they've
Speaker 1: brought in from Tampa, and Uh, it's it's quite a
Speaker 1: quite a charge to start off the season and the
Speaker 1: career of the new GM with with these kind of responsibilities,
Speaker 1: because like you say this guy was m VP two
Speaker 1: years ago. He's kind of the face of the franchise.
Speaker 1: Now since David o'tis left and very very popular player,
Speaker 1: it's going to be not pleasant to deal him. So
Speaker 1: and just again, we're just trying to figure out why
Speaker 1: we're talking to Dan Chawnessy here and book best like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, MVP of the franchise, well liked by everybody
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of the Red Sox. To me,
Speaker 1: you read it as all right, they don't want to
Speaker 1: pay him, and I just John Henry's got bloody money.
Speaker 1: Why would they just pay him? I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: I think that for them to they're gonna hope that
Speaker 1: the narrative that takes hold is what he wasn't going
Speaker 1: to stay here, no matter what kind of thing. And
Speaker 1: to me that the way to test that is to
Speaker 1: have him play here next year and you know better
Speaker 1: than himself and have a hell of a year, and
Speaker 1: then when the year's up, he goes into the market
Speaker 1: and you compete with him, and you you match the
Speaker 1: top bid, and then if he still goes then then
Speaker 1: all that's true. He really didn't want to be here
Speaker 1: and he wasn't going to stay no matter what she did.
Speaker 1: Absent that, I think your your storyline works, and that's
Speaker 1: what fans are going to react to and say, you know,
Speaker 1: they chiefed out. They didn't they didn't actively try to
Speaker 1: compete for their best player, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: they're going to be stuck with. I will I will
Speaker 1: say though, that teams are that are really wonderful job
Speaker 1: of convincing fans that a player is greedy. Again, you know,
Speaker 1: being in New York when they needed to get under
Speaker 1: the luxury tax. Why do they get need to under
Speaker 1: the luxury tax because they renders that want to pay
Speaker 1: more money, and that that narrative, Oh we can only
Speaker 1: afford ex player or why player. It's not sure there
Speaker 1: there's a salary to have capture, there's a luxury tax,
Speaker 1: but it's just money and that for I think a
Speaker 1: smart baseball fan will be like, well this is ridiculous,
Speaker 1: and others will be like, all right, well we gotta
Speaker 1: save money so we can pay this guy or that guy.
Speaker 1: And I just think I just find it so crazy
Speaker 1: when we're talking about billionaires. You know, Yeah, I've always
Speaker 1: found it interesting that you can bring fans around to
Speaker 1: that kind of rational ownership kind of thinking where so, well,
Speaker 1: we don't want to overdo it here like that, Well
Speaker 1: Talks charge the highest prices in baseball for their seats,
Speaker 1: and they sell out every game and they have great
Speaker 1: local revenues. Not quite like the Yanks, but they they
Speaker 1: do really really well and um and they've they've backed
Speaker 1: it up. They've had the highest payroll in baseball last year,
Speaker 1: so it's not like they they've not been willing to
Speaker 1: spend money. But this is sort of a critical mass
Speaker 1: here with this particular player, because he is so popular,
Speaker 1: has done nothing two in any way diminish his his
Speaker 1: legacy here or how fans feel about him. So the
Speaker 1: team is really on the spot here and this is
Speaker 1: going to be quite a showdown. Then you mentioned this
Speaker 1: earlier that we're just about a week both here ahead
Speaker 1: of spring training. Pitchers and catchers start up next week.
Speaker 1: On the Red Sox are still without a manager. What
Speaker 1: have you heard revolving you know, the potential manager of
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox, because it seems like, honestly, we've
Speaker 1: heard nothing, Dan, It's this is the most bizarre offseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been around a long time, but really
Speaker 1: you're a week away top payroll in baseball. You know,
Speaker 1: World Champions Hunter nine team wins two years ago, and
Speaker 1: they have no manager. They're going to trade their best
Speaker 1: player evidently, and uh, and they're waiting to find out
Speaker 1: what the sanctions are for the alleged cheating episode of
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen. So it is, uh, it is
Speaker 1: nutty around here. And the manager thing, it's it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to imagine that maybe they'll maybe they should
Speaker 1: just put an interim tag on somebody and have someone
Speaker 1: sitt in the chair for a little bit. I think
Speaker 1: there's a reluctance to stay in the house because of
Speaker 1: the cheating penalties that might be imposed, and they might
Speaker 1: have to take out another guy. I mean, they lost
Speaker 1: their favorite guy, Alex Cora, who was really loved here
Speaker 1: and did a great job here, but he's gone. And uh,
Speaker 1: they're they're digging out from underneath. But you know, out
Speaker 1: of all the baseball they're the only team without a manager.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's a it's a you know, this is
Speaker 1: a big, big brand name team in MLB. It's again
Speaker 1: another crazy thing of a crazy offseason dn um And
Speaker 1: it's almost like that almost like it's true they didn't
Speaker 1: want to fire Alex Cora, they felt like they were
Speaker 1: forced to. And it almost seems like the same thing
Speaker 1: with the medicine Beltron. I'm sure they didn't want to
Speaker 1: fire and they just hired him. And I think there's
Speaker 1: all this they want to kind of let time go
Speaker 1: away that maybe you know, you know, year from now,
Speaker 1: and Dan's mentioning it, you bring an interim manager and
Speaker 1: hopefully you can bring Alex core back. That's almost what
Speaker 1: it feels like, and they don't want to get it
Speaker 1: wrong because you can't bring in a guy like Jason
Speaker 1: Barrettack on an interim tag. He's your guy also, So
Speaker 1: it's almost like trying to Dan find the perfect candidate
Speaker 1: that is willing to just kind of step in and
Speaker 1: hold the fort down until they can bring Alex core
Speaker 1: back without you know, getting looked down upon by the
Speaker 1: rest of the MLB. Who can that guy be? Like,
Speaker 1: who are some names that you've been hearing that could
Speaker 1: be the manager at some point? Because spring training starts
Speaker 1: next week, Well, we believe that, you know, Mark Cutsay
Speaker 1: came through and interviewed and has has not been offered
Speaker 1: the job. And there's a there's a coach in Arizona
Speaker 1: whose name eludes me. He's Colombians. He's not been a
Speaker 1: big presence in the big leagues, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: the typical um early forties, analytics driven, you know guy,
Speaker 1: which I think is is probably the path that they'll take.
Speaker 1: They've got internal candidates with you know, Carlos Fables and
Speaker 1: and Ron Rennicky who's been a manager, but they're part
Speaker 1: of the eighteen team and if the if the cheating
Speaker 1: sanctions come down and they're not favorable, those guys could
Speaker 1: be tainted too by that. The core thing. We don't
Speaker 1: know what he's going to get from MLB. I mean,
Speaker 1: he never got anything in Houston because they were kind
Speaker 1: of waiting on the Red Sox thing. So maybe could
Speaker 1: slap him with a year or two. No one knows
Speaker 1: what that number is gonna be. And he'll probably work
Speaker 1: in the media and do really great at it in
Speaker 1: the mean time. But so yeah, and you know, I
Speaker 1: mean the safe thing like Houston, you know, you go
Speaker 1: for the grizzled old guy and Dusty, and I'd love
Speaker 1: it if they did that here with you know, Buck
Speaker 1: show Walter or Bruce Bochi or somebody. But I don't
Speaker 1: feel that that those guys are are of a mind
Speaker 1: to work for sort of this new age ownership and
Speaker 1: analytics guys that they have here. So it's uh. The
Speaker 1: answer is, I have no idea, and maybe we'll know
Speaker 1: in a week. And the name of the show here
Speaker 1: is the Fantasy best Friends Forever, and we do focus
Speaker 1: the on fantasy baseball here. And I was somebody who
Speaker 1: actually invested heavily in Chris Sale last season, So I
Speaker 1: wanted to get your thoughts on Chris Sale. You know
Speaker 1: what happened last year with him? Because aside from the velocity, right,
Speaker 1: we saw the velocity down for a lot of last year.
Speaker 1: Was he pitching hurt? Because a lot of the underlying
Speaker 1: metrics say that Chris Sale was still really good. He
Speaker 1: was getting a ton of strikeouts, He wasn't walking batters
Speaker 1: like he used to, like he ever did, really So
Speaker 1: I wanted to get your thoughts on what happened with
Speaker 1: Chris Sale, what went wrong last year? And what should
Speaker 1: we expect coming into this year. Is he gonna have
Speaker 1: a normal spring training? Is he gonna be expected to
Speaker 1: have a similar workload to when he was the workhorse
Speaker 1: in years past? What are we expecting for Chris Sale
Speaker 1: this year and what went wrong last year. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: out of the gate, no one saw that coming. And
Speaker 1: you know, he got the big money before the season,
Speaker 1: which was a mistake. They didn't need to do that
Speaker 1: when they did, um and uh. And then he earlier
Speaker 1: in the year, his velocity was down significantly the first
Speaker 1: in April, and that that kind of came back, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, he strikes people out and that's what they
Speaker 1: teach around here. They don't want any balls in play,
Speaker 1: which is incredibly boring, but that's that's what they do,
Speaker 1: and he's good at it. But the numbers that he
Speaker 1: put up were astoundingly bad given the weaponry that he has.
Speaker 1: So where it goes now, I mean, we thought he
Speaker 1: was he was destined for surgery when we got into
Speaker 1: July August and that didn't happen. And the reports we're
Speaker 1: getting a good but I don't think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of truth telling going on there, and I understand that.
Speaker 1: I just I don't trust anything that they say because
Speaker 1: what they were saying and what we were seeing we're
Speaker 1: two different things. And I'm just I mean, when he's
Speaker 1: at the top of his game, he's as good as
Speaker 1: as they get. We all know that, and maybe that
Speaker 1: will return, but I have no idea. Maybe he does.
Speaker 1: A lot of questions still surrounding the balls of red stuffs.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time ton trying to figure it out
Speaker 1: with us, and let's talk to you against you and
Speaker 1: all about it. Take care of all right, We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: When we come back we rive up, today's call this craziness.
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Speaker 1: for joining us here on the program. Talking about Mookie Bets,
Speaker 1: and I want to pull this back to you, Frank
Speaker 1: before we continue our caucus. Mookie Bets, you're in the
Speaker 1: Draft Champions Draft. You just had that. You just drafted
Speaker 1: first in the first round, seventh pick overall. You took
Speaker 1: Mookie Bats. I was shocked to see him there at seven.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a guy that should go in the
Speaker 1: top five and just fall in a seven man. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Yeah, I'm with you. I like getting the
Speaker 1: value of Mookie Bets right now. Had picked seven in
Speaker 1: this Draft Champions League. It's a fifteen team Rhoto draft,
Speaker 1: and I ended up taking Mookie Bets. At that point,
Speaker 1: the first six picks were Mike Trout, Ronald da Cuna,
Speaker 1: Christian Yellows, Cody Bellinger at four, Garrett Cole, and then
Speaker 1: Jacob Degram. If de Gram and Bets were both available,
Speaker 1: would have made that decision a little bit tougher, because
Speaker 1: I do like grabbing that ace in the first round
Speaker 1: uh this season personally. But even if Bets were traded
Speaker 1: right if he goes to the Dodgers or the Padres,
Speaker 1: they both still have really really good lineups. Maybe not
Speaker 1: as good of a hitter's ballpark as Fenway is. I
Speaker 1: pose this question earlier today, asking why is he slipping
Speaker 1: down draft boards, and I had a few responses that
Speaker 1: people expect if he's traded, the run production will come
Speaker 1: down a little bit. Uh. And the fact that if
Speaker 1: he does go to the padres, Jay's Tingler is a
Speaker 1: first time manager. You don't know how much he's gonna
Speaker 1: let these guys run. So the stolen basis could potentially
Speaker 1: come back even further than where they already came back
Speaker 1: last year for Mookie Bets. So I think those are
Speaker 1: some of the concerns that people have right now. Greg
Speaker 1: would you take would you consider Mookie Bets over a
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger? I would consider Mookie Bets over Cody Bellinger.
Speaker 1: Billinger is not a nothing in stolen bases either, by
Speaker 1: the way, you know he's gonna give you double digit
Speaker 1: stolen bases as well. I think they're very similar players.
Speaker 1: And look, if you want to make the argument that
Speaker 1: Bellinger has dual position eligibility and the fact that first
Speaker 1: base is not a very deep position, you know, I
Speaker 1: could be talked into taking Bellinger over Bets, but I
Speaker 1: do think that you know, you have to split hairs
Speaker 1: when it comes down to those two hitters, because I
Speaker 1: do think that they should be going in this very
Speaker 1: similar range right now. But if I'm on the clock
Speaker 1: at four, I'm probably taking one of the starting pitchers,
Speaker 1: just personally right going after one of those aces. But
Speaker 1: let's say both aces are off the board. Let's say
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets and Cody Bellinger are gone your first seven picks.
Speaker 1: They're through pro'bab the leading toward a short stop at
Speaker 1: that point, which means it's time to continue our cauc
Speaker 1: Is craziness. We're back here, cauc has craziness continues, and
Speaker 1: I simply don't know what to do. We have four
Speaker 1: fantastic candidates here, But which one would I take first?
Speaker 1: Trevor's story, Francisco leandor Alex Bregman or Trey Turner. I
Speaker 1: don't know which of the four players to go for.
Speaker 1: All of the representatives trying to convince me to vote
Speaker 1: with them, they were great, they were really really selling me.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one to eliminate. So let's go
Speaker 1: back around the horn here very quickly. We'll get the
Speaker 1: final arguments, and I'll eliminate one from my draft considerations.
Speaker 1: We first, we go with Alex Bregman. So, just to
Speaker 1: wrap up our thoughts on Alex Bregman, Yes, he's not
Speaker 1: going to give you stone base. You can find your
Speaker 1: stone basis somewhere else. But he is a legit four
Speaker 1: Gregory contributor, an elite contributor in the batting average, in
Speaker 1: the home runs, the runs, and the RBI categories as well.
Speaker 1: Uh makes a ton of contact, great plate discipline, doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out. Those are reasons why I think the batting
Speaker 1: average can continue to even get better for Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: this upcoming season. What do you say, sir, he's a cheater.
Speaker 1: They're all cheaters, greg that's your that's all They're all cheaters.
Speaker 1: They're all cheaters. Then let me go hear more about
Speaker 1: trade turner. Trade turners no cheater. So look with trade turner.
Speaker 1: Speed kills Gregg. You want the speed. He's the complete
Speaker 1: opposite of Alex Bregman. He he's going to give you
Speaker 1: a forty plus stolen basis and he doesn't kill you
Speaker 1: in the power department. Yes, he's not gonna give you
Speaker 1: thirty home runs like these other guys, but give me
Speaker 1: the trade off of you know, those guys are only
Speaker 1: gonna give you twenty two stolen bases. Give me that
Speaker 1: trade off where he's going to double that stolen based
Speaker 1: production and he's still going to give you twenty to
Speaker 1: twenty five home runs this year elite run production as well.
Speaker 1: That won't complete. Letately kill you in r B I,
Speaker 1: so he'll give you seventy five to r B eight
Speaker 1: d r B I s as well. With a solid
Speaker 1: batting average. I'd say someone in the two range. You
Speaker 1: want to speed. Everyone wants speed. Greg the way to
Speaker 1: do that, Trade Turner, here's my issue rank representative, Franco.
Speaker 1: Trade Turner, here's what I'm gonna do. It's time you'll
Speaker 1: eliminate somebody. So, Mr trade Turner, You've been eliminated. Goodbye,
Speaker 1: and I'll explain why the average is gonna be worse
Speaker 1: than the other three guys. The power to be worse
Speaker 1: than the other three guys. R bies worse than the
Speaker 1: other three guys. Stole a basis without question, that will
Speaker 1: be better. The runs will be similar. I think I
Speaker 1: get more from the other three players. We'll eliminate Trade Turner.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you for Somethingbye. We'll screw you,
Speaker 1: Greg Susman. That trade Turner talk T Turner, this guy talking.
Speaker 1: Let you figure it out. Fair enough, Let's move back on.
Speaker 1: I want to hear more about Francisco Lindor. He missed time,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, with a calf injury last year. I
Speaker 1: don't free agency's coming soon for Francisco Lindor. Are you
Speaker 1: one of these contracts on the mine? Guys, M your delegate. Look,
Speaker 1: we've seen what players of Francisco Lindor's caliber can do
Speaker 1: in that contract year, So I'm happy you bring that up. Greg,
Speaker 1: And again, a five category contributor, someone who's gonna give
Speaker 1: you a little bit of everything. He's still stole twenty
Speaker 1: two basses last year, even with a calf strain to
Speaker 1: start the year. The guy is in the prime of
Speaker 1: his career. He does not strike out either. Look, you
Speaker 1: want five category production, someone who's not gonna hurt you
Speaker 1: anywhere at all, someone who's done it for three straight years,
Speaker 1: has returned first round value. You want Francisco Lindor. The consistency,
Speaker 1: the consistency. I love it. Right, even with a calf strain,
Speaker 1: he was able to do it. I go with Francisco Lindoor,
Speaker 1: but I do have to hear more about Trevor's story.
Speaker 1: I felt like Mr Delegate, I had stumped with that
Speaker 1: splits you know the road, the whole road. Splits are bad.
Speaker 1: You've used it against me in regards to Nolan Arnado
Speaker 1: when as they're doing some research, I realized, fine Alice
Speaker 1: bragging to someone I'd rather have than No One Arnado
Speaker 1: twenty five years with Trevor's story, that power speed combination
Speaker 1: eats deadly. He can run on the road. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have to just stop. I don't know what to do, fright,
Speaker 1: Let me hear more about Trevor story. Trevor story again,
Speaker 1: this is what you need to hear. Over the past
Speaker 1: two seasons, there's been just two players to give a
Speaker 1: seventy plus home runs and fifty plus stolen bases. Christian Yellott,
Speaker 1: who is going into top three picks and Trevor story.
Speaker 1: He's cut the strikeout rate. The batting average has been
Speaker 1: up each of the past two seasons. He's averaged a
Speaker 1: two nine three batting average over the past two seasons
Speaker 1: as well. Sure he's gonna have some splits, but if
Speaker 1: you look at it from last year, he's still hit
Speaker 1: eleven of his home runs on the road. Last season,
Speaker 1: twelve of his stolen bases, twelve of his twenty three
Speaker 1: stolen bases, as you mentioned, came on the road. So
Speaker 1: perhaps we can see him run a little bit more
Speaker 1: on the road where he's not gonna be hitting all
Speaker 1: those home runs. Well, he'll just get on base, He'll
Speaker 1: walk a little bit, he'll hit some singles on the road.
Speaker 1: He'll be allowed to run a little bit more as well.
Speaker 1: There Greg, much like Francisco Lindor, a five category contributor
Speaker 1: for Trevor's Story, but the upside seems higher. I think
Speaker 1: that we can get legitimately a forty thirty season out
Speaker 1: of Trevor Story. Or concerned about injuries when it comes
Speaker 1: to Trevor Story, No, earlier in his career he did
Speaker 1: have those injury issues, how is he has in this
Speaker 1: time recently. So if you look at what Trevor Story
Speaker 1: has done each of the past two seasons, the past
Speaker 1: three seasons, he has played hundred and forty five plus
Speaker 1: games in each of those three seasons. So maybe we're
Speaker 1: looking at one short eyel stint per year. But you
Speaker 1: can see the same thing about Francisco Lindor, who heard
Speaker 1: his calf last year. The same thing about Tred Turner,
Speaker 1: who's often been been injured. He's been in his career
Speaker 1: as well. Trevor Story one plus in today's day and
Speaker 1: age of baseball, that is not a bad amount to
Speaker 1: get from your first round pick here in twenty again,
Speaker 1: that is Trevor Story of the Colorado Rockies. I don't
Speaker 1: care about him. That's fine. Screw you, Greg Susan, who's
Speaker 1: that talking again? I'll let you figure it out, all right,
Speaker 1: fair enough, right, I'm so sorry, but it's time for
Speaker 1: you to eliminate somebody. I've got to eliminate somebody. Well,
Speaker 1: that's quite the curveball. I wish, I wish I had
Speaker 1: a trash can to alert me of that curve ball
Speaker 1: that was coming. And with that we will eliminate Alex.
Speaker 1: But why the host? But why speed he kills? And
Speaker 1: now we are down to two, So follow me, come
Speaker 1: along with me. We are down to just two players,
Speaker 1: two players that will decide everything for us. Will it
Speaker 1: be right here? Will it be Tever's story Colorado predicted
Speaker 1: by his delegate? Will that be the guy that we
Speaker 1: go with as our first pick, or will it be
Speaker 1: over here? Will we go with Francisco lind or who's
Speaker 1: in that contract here? Who does a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything as well, but doesn't play in Colorado? Where right here?
Speaker 1: Mr Alex regmand delegate? Where are you gliding up? Screw
Speaker 1: you Greg? All right? So now there's two people telling
Speaker 1: me to screw myself. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Where should we end up? Where should we go? Right here?
Speaker 1: All right here? I feel like I want to split
Speaker 1: the delegates, Frank, I feel like I want to split
Speaker 1: it by the type of league? Is that possible rotistory
Speaker 1: league in Trevor's story, head to head league points for
Speaker 1: Francisco landor is that something we can do well? Considering
Speaker 1: you're the person in charge here, I will let you
Speaker 1: make that decison. Well, we can split the delegates. But
Speaker 1: I think it's time we come to a solution, is
Speaker 1: it not? I think we should you know what? Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the app is not working. We don't have an answer.
Speaker 1: We do not have an answer. The app is not working.
Speaker 1: We don't have an answer. To the caucus. On to
Speaker 1: New Hampshire we go. And would that be a new position?
Speaker 1: It would be a new position. Everybody wins. You can't
Speaker 1: go wrong with whoever you take. How's that is that
Speaker 1: you as a delegate for both of these candidates, I
Speaker 1: am a winner no matter what. Great you know what
Speaker 1: here in the VFS, we don't do that. We we
Speaker 1: want to satisfy everybody. We want to make sure, we
Speaker 1: want to make it right. We don't want to make
Speaker 1: give you all the information that you need in order
Speaker 1: to win. So for me, if I had a pick
Speaker 1: between Francisco Lindor and Trevor Story, I'm going with Lindor
Speaker 1: in a contract year, not having to worry about Colorado.
Speaker 1: The streakiness of Colorado players just really destroys me. I
Speaker 1: think both of these guys are gonna run, and if
Speaker 1: no Vorado is traded, that could be more pressure potentially
Speaker 1: on a guy like Trevor's Story, not having the protection
Speaker 1: of an Arnado. For me, I'm going with Francisco Inndoor.
Speaker 1: That's who I'm taking first, right, I'm also going to
Speaker 1: take Francisco Lindoor. But I think it is damn close
Speaker 1: between Lindor and Trevor Story. I think that you eliminated
Speaker 1: the right candidates in this one. Greg Sussman, you look
Speaker 1: at the batting average for a Story, it has been
Speaker 1: better than Lindoor. The past couple of years, but he
Speaker 1: also strikes out more so there's more volatility when it
Speaker 1: comes to Trevor Story, and outside of last year, Lindoor
Speaker 1: has been able to stay healthier. Before last season, he
Speaker 1: had three straight years of a hundred and fifty eight
Speaker 1: plus games played. I think you can it's a little
Speaker 1: bit closer in Rohdeo. I think you can make a
Speaker 1: closer argument for Story over lind Or in Rodeo because
Speaker 1: it's the end of the season accumulative numbers there. But
Speaker 1: you're right. If you do play in head to head,
Speaker 1: it's a no brainner. You gotta take Lindoor because of
Speaker 1: that consistency over one Trevor Story. I'll take Lindor in
Speaker 1: both Gray subst come over here, Frank, you did your
Speaker 1: singing Indoor. Thank you so much. I appreciate all of
Speaker 1: your time, all of your hard work work. I am
Speaker 1: caucausey now for Francisco Lindoor. Tomorrow, Nick Fole is going
Speaker 1: to join us a picture list. We're gonna get you
Speaker 1: the state of the Union regards pitch, Frank Staffole, I'm
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Speaker 1: and Dan Shaughnessy were joining us. Great night dot Farrell
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