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What's happening, Franky Gregg? 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.040 A happy Tuesday to you, budd. Here to talk a 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.679 little baseball. But it's not just baseball all in today's 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:41.640 program because the Knicks fired Steve Mills today. We'll get 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.760 more of that from Alex in a few moments. We 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.880 do have some baseball, including our first edition of Caucus 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.040 the What the Caucus? Frank, Well, you know I have 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.560 no clue what that means. We'll explain to Frank exactly 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.080 what caucus means. Caucus craziness. Last night, caucus craziness. Today 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.160 here on the BFS, we talked to Dan Shaughnessy of 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.480 the Boston Globe about what's going on with Mookie Bets 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.040 in Boston what's called the Red Sox in general. They 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.400 still have no manager. Pigeon catches report next week, so 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.760 you know, anytime sounds good to me to have a manager. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.480 We'll figure out why they're slashing payroll and why Mookie 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.200 is the bad guy in all this. We'll talk to 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.280 him coming up in about a half hour from now, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.200 and then we got a whole lot of caucus thing 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.480 to do, Frank, But first, I just sleep. I slept 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.560 very well last night. Yeah, I've slept well recently, just 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.720 in general since the start of the new year. Base. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.880 How is the stomach doing? Somebody's doing much better? Salad 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.440 Today I had to get myself salad, salad to eat cars. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.600 You're eating salad? Gosh. Yeah. I had an apple for breakfast, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.480 some almonds. Greg, I had to Uh, I had to 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.720 take it back a little bit after the monstrosity that 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.120 was this past weekend. Greg. I just sleep, Buddy back 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:56.280 a little bit, right. Covers are stolen a bit. No nightmares, nightmares, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.520 no nightmares. But I had a lot of good ideas 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.880 pouring him into the show before into any of that. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:09.240 The first idea to update that starts right out Sports 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:15.480 grade news update. I am Alex Bassano with your sports 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.560 grid news update here on the Fantasy f f f's 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.079 that the New York Knicks have parted ways with team 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.239 president Steve Mills. General manager Scott Perry will oversee the 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.880 team's basketball operations for the time being. Knicks president James Doan, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.240 in a prepared statement, said, Steve and I have come 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:31.920 to the decision that it would be best for him 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.720 to leave his role as president. We thank Steve for 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.120 as many years of service to our organization and look 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.720 forward to continuing our relationship with him as part of 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.119 our board. This front office shake up comes two days 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.120 before the NBA trade deadline. The Knicks are fifteen and 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.120 thirty six, the third worst rhetoric in the East in 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.760 Major League Baseball. The Loan baseball writer who did not 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.000 vote for Derek Jeter for the Hall of Fame chose 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.840 to keep the ballot private. The Baseball Writers Association of 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.480 America released three hundred and fifteen ballots, all of which 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.720 included Jeter's name. He was on three hundred and ninety 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.800 six of three hundred and ninety seven ballots announced on 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.560 January one. Since two thousand and twelve, each voter can 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.600 check a box on the ballot to have it made 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.800 public two weeks after the vote. Totals. The percentage of 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.840 public ballots was about the same this year as last 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.919 seventy nine point one percent and seventy nine point five percent, respectively. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.880 And in the NFL that Jacksonville Jaguars are moving a 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.680 second home game in to London's Wembley Stadium in an 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.919 attempt to increase their local revenue. Another game in London, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.480 which generates twice the money of a home game in Jacksonville, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.840 was the best way to offset the boost teams like Raiders, Chargers, 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.760 and the Rams will get when they all relocate to 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.080 new stadiums. The Jacks are spearheading a proposed seven hundred 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.000 million dollar entertainment district development around the stadium that would 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.320 result in additional revenue. Until that happens, Jack's president Mark 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.480 Lamping said adding another home in home game in London 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.600 is the right move for the team to make. The 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.280 games will be held on back to back Sundays, and 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.799 the opponents will come from a list of the Texans, Cults, Titans, Browns, Lions, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.360 and Dolphins. I'm Alex Passano and this has been your 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.840 sports grid news update on the fantasy b f f's 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.200 they have it. There's Fossando's update today. Fantastic job by Alex. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:15.000 Covered everything going on in baseball. The strategy to nonsense 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.240 is exactly what it is. Nonsense. The guy couldn't even 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.280 show himself because he is a word I cannot say 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:25.560 on the airwaves. Frank, what are you talking about? Show 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.800 your face, reveal yourself. Woe is what he is? You 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.000 know what, here's not a whoosy today would be James. James, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:38.760 he did it. The acts peace. Steve mills Is second 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.520 run with the New York Knicks finally ends today as 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.680 he was relieved as president of basketball operations. Of course, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.679 why not do it two days before the NBA's raide deadline. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.400 You know this is absurd, of course, because it's a 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.880 typical Knicks fashion and it has to be absurd. But 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.240 at least they like, let Steve Mills make more mistakes 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.560 this time or just do nothing, which is what it 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.640 was rending towards happening here. Apparently he didn't want to 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.120 trade away Marcus Morris. He was so proud of himself 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.800 for signing Marcus Morris, like, hey, signed this guy, he 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.320 played well, I'm not going to trade him. What we 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.480 find like the guys on a one year contract. Why 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.880 don't you pull enrolled this chapman with the New York 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.120 him away, sign him back in the off season. I 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.760 like Marcus Morris. I like what he brings to the team, 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.280 the toughness. He likes to defend the guard, and that's fine. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.840 Do you think it's possible, Frank, that maybe James Nolan's like, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.480 hey man, you signed seven power forwards. We don't have 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.760 any point guards. Maybe he should have balanced that. Maybe 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.360 he should have wanted to bet with an all star. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:43.400 Maybe maybe yeah, maybe instead of trading draft assets and 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.000 young players to get someone like D'Angelo Russell, you just 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.760 meet with him in the off season and signed him 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.040 to an offer sheet and try to lure him to 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.800 the New York Knicks. He didn't have to move, he 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.040 was in Brooklyn already. How about this? Greg Steve Mills 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:02.839 has been the general manager ish president from twenty seventeen 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.760 and then was named the team president in seventeen during 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:10.440 this span since season, the Knicks are one seventy eight 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.400 and three sixty five. That is the worst record in 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.080 the NBA. That's right, and it's gotten the number they've 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.600 got a number one over. I'll pick how many times, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:23.320 Frank zero. All right. Scott Ferry is now running things 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.280 as the GM Nicks of course looking to Assiujerry, who 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.000 James Dolan has been after ever since he got fleeced 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.560 on the Andrea Bargnani trade, so he's been obsessed with 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.960 it ever since then. His contract rules until next year. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.240 In the meantime, it looks like James Dolan is looking 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.360 into the agent route like Rob Polinka and Bob Meyers, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.120 and so we'll see what happens. In terms of the 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.240 team president for the New York Knicks, as you mentioned, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.400 the interim GM will be Scott Perry with the trade 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.560 deadline m GM, he's just the GM had all the power. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.000 He's just the GM for now, so he can do 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.160 whatever he wants. And now we're hearing that Marcus Moores 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.080 is on the trading block. We'll see what happens there 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.160 if they can wind up a landing in about first 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:05.640 round pick for Marcus Sports Scott Perry is not an idiot, right, Okay, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.720 I don't know. He did work with with Steve Mills, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.040 and yeah he was I'm sure. I'm sure he didn't 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.960 have any uh he didn't not have say in bringing 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.160 four power forwards in the off season, Greg, So I'm 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.000 sure if there was a little bit more pushed back there, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.960 we potentially would not have Bottle part as TODJ. Gibson, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.480 Marcus Morris, you know, anyone else that you can name. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.640 It kind of reminds me of the Giants, right, because 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.959 Steve Mills's thought was like, Hey, we're gonna win this 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.160 old school with toughness, defense and long two pointers, and 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.040 the Giants are just like, oh well, it was running 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.440 the football, you know what I mean, Old school philosophies 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.960 provides old school losing. Yeah, so that wasn't a profitable 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.120 strategy here for Steve Mills. He is now out of 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.440 a job, no longer the president of the New York Knicks. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.520 Not to mention, Greg, we've gotten this entire time. We've 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.080 gone around nine minutes into the show here without mentioning 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.560 that this same with Steve Mills at the Helm traded away. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.520 Christops porzingis who has put up over thirty five points 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.240 in back to back games. In order to sign big 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.400 name free agents and lore max free agents here in 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.280 the off season again they wound up with Julius Randall, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:19.880 Todd Gibson, Alfred Payton, Reggie Bullock, and Wayne Ellington and 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.400 Bobby Portis by the way, yea, and this was why 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.320 design they did not want to But at the time 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.080 when they traded Christops Porzingis away, it was because they 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:32.920 were clearing space for two too, Max Freed. I mean, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:38.559 did they get again zero that's the name of the 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.559 New York Nicks. That's the cherry on top. That's the 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.520 New York That's the New York Knicks. Indeed, you heard 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.160 it from Alex Pisano. As we said, Derek Jeter not 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:52.800 unanimous because one guy said, nope, reveal yourself. He said, nope. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.839 Let's be honest, Greig, did you think dark Jeter is 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.520 gonna be a unanimous Hall family? Did not? I did 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.280 not either, So Actuly's one guy bothers. You know what 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.199 I think. Even more than that is the fact that 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.440 he will not reveal himself, right, like we all didn't expect. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.480 I would say most of the people that I spoke 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.720 to did not expect Derik Deeter to be a nantis 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:17.160 unanimous Hall of Famer anyway, myself included in that. So 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.679 I wasn't really upset at that, just the fact that 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.000 there was just one person who thought that he was 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.360 not worthy of being in the Hall of Fame uh 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.280 the first year that he was on the ballot. And 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.480 again that person will not reveal themselves. This whole process 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.120 of Hall of Fame voting, especially when it comes to 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.920 the Baseball Hall of Fame, GREG is archaic. It's and 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.079 what end The b b w A said, listen more 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.880 vealer ballots. You're either a Hall of Famer or you're not. Greg. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.559 How can how can somebody like Larry Walker go nine 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.360 years on the ballot, never finishing with more than fifty 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.080 four percent of the vote, randomly get a twenty percent 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.200 increase in vote the final year that he's on the ballot. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.240 So to be fair, you could be like, listen to 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:57.760 the last night of vote for this guy, and you 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.920 know what, I think he's a Hall of Famer. I 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.199 don't mind that doesn't bother men? Isn't it your hall 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.000 of Fame or you're not? Though things change You don't 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.679 have to be a first ballot Hall of Famer. But 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.000 if he was going to be a Hall of Famer, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.720 do anything, the percentages would have been climbing more throughout 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.480 the years. Please me to jump from fifty four to 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.000 sev in the final year, You just jump, no doubt 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.400 about it, all right. So that's our start of baseball. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.679 Last night was the IO Caucus. You know what that is? Right? What? Right? OK? 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.880 I know the state of Iowa. Last night was the 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.439 Iowa Caucus. We don't have a winner in the IA Caucus. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:33.200 Because de macracy, We're gonna have our own caucus. As 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:38.920 we get Fantasy Baseball talk here on the FFS. Want 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.600 to be the next daily Fantasy Millionaire. Dunk on your 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.240 NBA DFS competition with Daily Rodal dot Com and dominate 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.480 on fandel and DraftKings this season. Compete with the pros 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.520 with Daily rodal dot Com optimizer and the most accurate 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.440 projections in NBA DFS, plus line up alerts, breaking news, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.720 lake swap support, and much more. Save ten on winning 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.080 NBA DFS at It's what promo code dunk. Visit daily 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:15.360 dot Com backslash do to learn more. Welcome back, to 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.719 the Fantasy BFFs. I am Greg Susman. Freis stampl here 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.800 as well. Last night was the ile call because is 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.160 that it is the first primary of the presidential election 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.640 and normally's like any other primary, where you go through 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.280 the night, you have winners, you have losers. Last night 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.880 we had nothing because of an error with an app 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.199 So given that today it was our true first day 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.280 after the Super Bowl, after the recap of discussing baseball, 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.040 we wanted to have our own caucus where hopefully we 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.959 would find a winner. So welcome everyone the first edition 0:12:53.320 --> 0:13:08.679 of the BFFs Caucus. That's right, Caucus Craziness is here. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.599 It is live on the BFF today. Frank, we'll go 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.960 through the first round. Done the first half of first round, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.480 but we're gonna go to the second half of the 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.560 first round where when I started doing my research, It's true, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.880 I started I noticed, Hey, there's a lot of short 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.040 stops here in the second half of the first round. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.880 How do I know which one to take? So welcome 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.200 to themist edition of the Caucus Craziness, where we're going 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.160 to go over for short stops going the second half 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.719 of the first round, and Frank will try and well, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.760 all the delegates here will try to convince me to 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.959 join their caucus and vote for their short stop. So 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.360 we begin with our own Frank Stamfle who is here 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:52.920 to caucus Trevor's story. Well, thanks for welcoming me and 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.240 here Greg Susman on behalf of Trevor's Story. I would 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.680 like to remind you that Trevor's Story is the one 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.640 true five category player of all these short stops. If 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.640 you look at what he's done over the past two seasons, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:10.400 his average season during this band to batting average thirty 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:14.439 six home runs, one runs scored, nineties seven r b 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.559 i s, twenty five stolen bases. That's a damn good 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.800 season and that has been his average season over the 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.040 past two years. During this span. Over the past two seasons, 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:27.000 Trevor Story joins only Christian Yellowish as the two players 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.200 who have seventy plus home runs and fifty plus stolen 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.160 bases during this span. He has been a member of 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.520 the forty forty club dubbed by our own Michael Floorio 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.160 forty percent hard hit rate fly ball rate in every 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.320 season that he has been in the majors since he 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.480 struck out thirty four percent of the time back in 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.800 his sophomore season, he's lowered that to twenty five point 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:53.560 six percent back and twenty six point five percent just 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.480 last season. He's in the prime of his career, twenty 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.560 seven years old, hitting in one of, if not the 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.880 best environments in base ball in course Field. And again, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.000 while all these other shortstops are good, they do have 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:09.080 the deficiencies error Story has none. He is a Legit 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.400 five category contributor. Please vote for Trevor Story, right if 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.360 you want me to join your caucus and go with 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.440 Trevor's story. Well, I have to ask you. I have 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.640 to ask you some follow up questions, right, I just 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.920 have to know, you know, follow questions to mind. He 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.680 talked about no deficiencies. What are the whole road splits 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.320 here with Trevor Story. Well, gret when you play in 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.760 the road Tissory League, home road spilds don't matter because 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.520 it's the production that they give you at the end 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:37.960 of your right, Well, then you know, look, then you 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.000 shouldn't consider playing in a road Tisstory League. That's what 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.080 you should do. If you're not playing the rod Tister relegue, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.280 what are you actually doing? Of course they're going to 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.840 be home road splits for Trevor story. We've heard it 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.800 before when it comes to corps Field, right, But those 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.720 home numbers are so so good, so dominant, that they 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.360 will be able to outweigh the woes that we will 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.400 see on the road. And they're not even really woes. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.320 He's still one of the best hitters in baseball, So 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.280 we're not worried about home road splits here, Greg. And 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.720 while we're on that, just maybe consider playing in the 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.280 Roads History League. Fair enough, Frank, I appreciate your time 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.080 and let you know if I caucus with you a 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.080 little later on on our program. All right, coming up 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.600 next here on our caucus craziness, we had another delegate 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.040 here that's gonna try to convince me to caucus and 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:23.160 join and vote for Francisco Lindoor. So with that we've 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.880 turned it over. We're on Frank Stample. Well, thank you, Gregs. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.240 We're gonna take a look at Francisco linden Or. For 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.520 three straight seasons, Lindor has posted thirty two plus home 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.600 runs and fifteen plus stolen bases. Everyone is looking for 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.400 power speed combinations in fantasy baseball this season. Look no 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.960 further than Francisco Lindor, even with being limited by a 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.680 cash strain to start twenty nine and Greg, he finished 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.400 with thirty two home runs, a hundred and one runs scored, 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.240 twenty two stolen bases, and a two eighty four batting 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.000 average with a two with an eight fifty four ops 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.920 like Alex Bregman, who somebody will talk about later on 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.360 on in this show, uh, he makes a ton of contact. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.320 Francisco Lindor. He has just a fourteen percent strike out 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.920 rate in his career. Trevor Story strikes out way more 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:09.840 than that, so you know the batting average is going 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.200 to be there for Francisco Lindor makes a ton of 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.080 contact back to back seasons where his hard contact has 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.760 been up over forty one per cent. Speaking of that 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.600 hard contact, he posted the highest average exit velocity of 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.560 his career at ninety point six miles per hour last 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.920 season and the highest of all the short stops that 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.000 will be talking about today, also in the prime of 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.000 his career at twenty six years old, is Francisco Lindor. Greig. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.160 You want a power speed combination in the first round, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.760 look no further than Francisco Lindor. I do have to 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.040 ask you a follow up question. I heard the person 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.800 on the delegate for Mr Trevor's story. He was trying 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.880 to push Trevor story as a power speed combination. Why 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.920 do you think Francisco Lindor is better for those categories 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.440 than the story? Well, Greg, it's a fair question, but 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.840 when it comes to Francisco Lindor, we think that he 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.640 still has higher upside than a ever story. We could 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.040 see him getting into that thirty five home run plateau 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.920 twenty five stolen bases. Putting those two things together is 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.159 not something that that Trevor Story has been able to 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:10.960 do again. And you don't have to worry about the 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.359 home road splits. Greg, you asked the question. They didn't 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:14.879 even know what to say when you brought up home 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.920 road splits. Francisco Lindor he has some of the best 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.080 splits in baseball. Look at his home road splits. He 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.040 was nearly the same player on the road as he 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.360 was at home last year. And the fact that we've 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.080 seen him for do it for longer than Trevor Story. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.120 He's now done it for three seasons, where Trevor Story 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.040 has only done it for two, which means he's safer. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.600 You want safety in the first round. That's Francisco Lindor, 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.840 and you do, in fact want safety in the first round. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.560 Mr Delegan, I appreciate your time. Francisco Lindoor. I will 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.560 certainly consider taking a shot on him as we move 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.320 forward in tonight's caucus. Caucus crazy is continuous because there's 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.280 other shortstops that are out there. There's other short stops 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.919 for me to consider. So let me go with another 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.840 dual threat. It's hard man this first round. It is tough. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:56.720 I don't know where to give my votes to. I 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.840 don't know where to pledge. So I needed to hear 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.800 more about trade turn or. So we bring in the 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.280 delegate a trade turner, and that trade is not for example, Well, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.879 thank you, Greg Susman. I'm here a representative of trade 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.119 Turner today. And you heard these guys talk about speed 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:15.200 when it comes to Francisco Lindoor and Trevor Story, but 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.320 they don't have speed like trade Turner has speed. And 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.480 everybody is trying to find speed in fantasy baseball leagues 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.080 this year. It's so hard to find someone that could 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.399 provide that at an elite level. Might I add is 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.119 Trevor Story thirty five stolen bases last year in just 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.480 one and twenty two games over a one D sixty 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.800 two game paste that is forty six stolen bases. The 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.160 difference between Trevor Story and other people that have stolen 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.399 bases in the past, like a D. Gordon, he doesn't 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.359 hurt you in the power department. He's going to hit 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.080 you right around nineteen twenty home runs. He's at nineteen 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.560 home runs exactly each of the past two seasons. Again, 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:52.199 he did that in only a hundred and twenty two 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.159 games last year, so there was upside for him to 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.920 get to potentially twenty five home runs last year with 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.880 the Washington Nationals. And this is somebody who is gonna 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:03.720 have the green light. We've seen that with Davy Martinez. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.680 He's going to allow Trade Turner to run as well. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.240 He makes a ton of contact, just an eighteen point 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.920 six percent strike out rate in his career, much better 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.320 than league average, career high thirty seven point eight percent 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.320 hard contact rate last year, a career high ninety point 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:23.040 three mile per hour average exit velocity for Trade Turner 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.680 as well. This is someone that's trending in the right direction. 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:30.320 Greg He will not turn until June this season. You 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.600 want speed, especially earlier on in your draft. He's not 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.159 going to kill you in the power department. Trade Turner 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.320 is the answer for you. He does have all the speed. 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.280 He's got more speed than Trevor Story. He's got more 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.960 speed Francisco Indoor. But the power is significantly worse for 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.879 these other categories, significantly worse. I can get both power 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.600 and speed the other two players I've heard from Frank, Yes, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.480 but you can also get power at any point in 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.959 your draft. It's the easiest category to find his home 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.439 runs and r B I s later on in your drafts, 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.040 So you can pair someone h like a Friend Mill 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:03.520 Rays later on in your draft with a with a 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:09.880 UH with a trade Turner. Friend Mills, he's ground ball percentage, yes, 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.040 but that hasn't affected his ability to hit home runs 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:13.520 the past couple of years. Greg, you can get a 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:19.800 Chris Davis who's going outside the top one. Chris Davis 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:22.760 with a k's gonna give you forty plus home runs. 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.000 You could pair him with a trade Turner. Look, these 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:26.879 other guys are gonna give you speed, but not the 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:28.720 way that Trade Turner's gonna give you speed. Give me 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.280 twenty plus home runs, give me forty five plus theme basis. 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.720 These other candidates are not going to do just that. Greg, 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.480 Oh my goodness. All three candidies seem like good choices, 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:38.640 and of course there's still a fourth. He doesn't even 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.240 play short stop for his team. In fact, he really 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.320 plays third base, but in most leagues he's going to 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.680 be eligible at shorts stop because he filled in for 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.200