WEBVTT - Top 50 Rankings + New Year's Resolutions (Ep. 608) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.199 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:07.520 Baseball Podcast. It is me, Joey Pa Joe Pisapia and 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.640 with me back again as my boy, the Welsh, Chris 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.520 Welsh returning. It's January. You know what that means. It's 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.600 time to turn the page. We're talking baseball now. We're 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:19.680 gonna talk about the top fifty guys and the ranks 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.200 over Fantasy pros in the ECR. Welsh has done his ranks. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.400 I've done mine. It's very early. Guys are still signing. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.560 Carlos Carea could have three or more teams you could 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.120 try to sign with before the end of the show. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.440 But no, he's actually gonna be a twin. It looks 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.240 like as we're recording this, so Welsh. It's great to 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.040 see her face. It's great to be back talking baseball 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.320 with you. Are you ready for twenty twenty three? Baby? 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:42.280 Oh? 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:42.760 Am? 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:44.440 I ready? Are you ready? 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:44.720 Buddy? 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.840 I mean I've got the transition, you got the crazy 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.360 football transition. I've been doing football obviously, but it is 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.000 full time fantasy fantasy. Joe's on the football side, but 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.720 now you're coming. You're comeing too, baseball with me. Which 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.760 I'm excited about, which you were just talking about ranks, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.920 and my only anxiety is like, oh my god, I'm 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.319 already gonna have to go and change Carlos Korea. And 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.399 then we just got news broke about Trevor's story as well, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.840 having a UCLA ucl surgery UCLA u SEL surgery that's 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.000 gonna leave him out four to six months, which might 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.600 push him post All Star breaks. This is another player 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.720 at also a really garbage position that we're gonna take 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:22.839 off the board, really glad. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.119 I updated the Black Book for Carl's Korea a couple 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.240 hours ago before this I saw now I did. I 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:29.800 was like, well, I gotta go do it again, so 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.319 I'll update this, rewrite some things there, and then this happens. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:34.679 So now I'm gonna have to go back tomorrow and 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.319 do some more. But I'm gonna I'm just got talk 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.880 baseball now. Enough of that. More injuries I'm sure to come. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.440 But we've got a fresh slate, a new start, and 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.080 we're gonna talk about the top fifty. We're gonna break 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.360 down these tiers. Let's start at the top one through ten, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.240 and we're gonna talk about these guys. Give you our 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.960 opinions here maybe who's too high, who's too low, who 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:53.760 should be in the top ten, who's not. Before we 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.960 do just reminder not only his baseball season open for 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.080 business here, but it's also open for business and Fantasy 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.000 pros because the Draft Wizard is now open for business. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.520 That's right. You can go there and start doing mock drafts. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.440 I got a B plus online yesterday. I did my 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.560 first one of the year. I'll take the B plus. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.720 It was pretty good. Got a lot of Joe guys. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.920 And now you know, i'd say, do we have it 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.560 yet where the analysts are on did you love your 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:17.080 own draft? 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:18.919 Or you know what? I didn't even see if I'm 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.440 sure I did. If anybody loves my own drafts, it's me. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.040 You're right, I should go back and see who graded 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.000 me how. But look, you can spend five minutes, ten minutes, 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.240 three hours go to fantasypros dot com slash draft Wizard. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.480 Check it out right now. You can have all the 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.320 settings you want, and obviously you have more settings available 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:36.920 to you when you're a premium member of Fantasy pro 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.720 So you can go do that. Fantasybros dot Com slash offers. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.400 Go take one of our offers there upgrade six three 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.440 months of Fantasy Pro. You could do that, but I'm 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.519 telling you, I love the Draft Wizard. Welsh loves the 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.799 Draft Wizard. It's a great way to start getting prepared 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.040 for the season. To go check that out. Let's also 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.320 check out these top dogs. The consensus number one, it's 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.120 Trey Turner of the now Philadelphia Phillies. So he has 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.040 come to Philadelphia. Bryce Harper, we'll see sometime this season. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.560 We'll see Aaron Judge is at the two spot. Julio 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.920 Rodriguez is at three, Jose Ramirez at four, Ron Laconi 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.040 at five, Kyle Tucker at six, Juan Soto at seven, 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.120 Jordan Alvarez or Jordan Alvarez, I have to call him 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.320 by his name now his number eight, Mookie Betts is nine, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.120 and Vlad Guerrero at ten. Welsh, you and I have 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.240 a different number one. You have Ronald Acunia. So do 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.720 I let's talk about it, because Trey Turner is up 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.920 at the top. Why is not Ronald Acunia that guy? 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.639 Why is the consensus early on Trey Turner instead? 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.520 Well, you know, it's really interesting, and to throw this 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.640 out as well, just to give some perspective. I know 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.960 this isn't everything. There's also NFBC Drafts out there, which 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.920 has really probably created all of the ADP, but it's 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.240 a different game. It's a little bit of a different 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:47.960 game than a lot of the consumer stuff we're going 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.480 to be playing. I did a sorting of Draft Champions, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.720 which is probably a better way to look Draft Champions 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.560 twenty one drafts have happened so far since December first, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.240 and check this out. Trey Turner is the number one 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.760 overall player again, so that if you really want to 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.920 find the consensus, I think we're kind of on the 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.520 consensus at Fantasy Pros with what's going on over there. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:11.480 But the next four are not the same. Ronald Dacunya 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.360 is number two over on NFBC on the Draft Champions, 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.440 Julio's three, Jose Ramirez is four, and Aaron Judge is five. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.040 So I'm bringing that all in to say that I 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.760 think what you've got with Ronald 'cuoney right now is 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.600 you've got a little bit of depressed power from last year, 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.919 and you've also got an injury, and then you're gonna 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.760 pair that with some crazy performances, and you've got Jose Ramirez, 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.479 who I think justified to be in this conversation because 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.440 you're getting elite stolen bases and really consistent production four 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.480 straight years I think of twenty twenty or even twenty 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.680 five to twenty five, and it's at a position that 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.560 kind of stinks, and you get the stolen bases. Aaron 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.920 Judge lop off twenty percent of his production and he's 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.240 still probably one of the number one Fantasy overall players, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.320 and he steals, and then Julio Rodriguez with his elite steals, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.400 So like, what's the common denominator here? It steals. It's 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.159 all the steals. So why is Zacunya coming back down 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.000 when his savant page is as red as red? It's 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.240 the red scene. It's still everything it was before. And 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.880 what did he do in the meantime when the power 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.039 was a little bit suppressed coming off of injury? Is 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:14.920 he just stolen the lead amount of basis? I think 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:15.840 he was still fourth in. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:20.880 Baseball nineteen games, and while that was supposed to be, 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.440 like he's coming off knee surgery, so maybe this sole 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.360 base will be down. Literally we talked about everybody thought 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:28.880 would be the case, and it wasn't the case. At 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.440 all Acuni is my one turner two and then I've 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.160 got Julio three too. So it's funny how we see 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.920 things in a different light necessarily than the early consensus. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.400 But I mean with a more time removed from that injury. Look, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.640 you know, obviously, Coul you have played in the postseason two, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.320 so a little bit more tread on the tires, and 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.159 then you know, maybe some other players coming off injury. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.680 But regardless, I'm kind of where you are, Like, I 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.280 think he is that combination of those things and not 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.680 a knock on tray turner if you are in a 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.799 three active outfielder league and the supposed to five. Sure, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.840 I can understand that because you get the flexibility of 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.840 that too. Plus I like the ballpark factor too, a 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.200 little bit easier place to hit home runs a Dodger Stadium. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.400 Yeah, And I just want to I want to add 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.559 like outfield is kind of a big key here as well, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:10.640 and I just want to. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.000 Throw out here, by the way, can we just. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.040 It's one of my big issues that I'm going to 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.599 be dealing with, but you know, just the thing to 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.000 add lastly, when we're looking at it, you still had 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.239 top percent markers even though the power was down fifteen homers, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:23.760 a lot less than you would have wanted to see 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.400 in normal years. I'm not looking at where his ISO was, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.080 I don't have it, but I think his slugging was down. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.800 But you've got a top two percent max ev top 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.279 eight percent in x slug and expected slugging top five 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.720 percent and expected wOBA wobacan top five percent. Hard hit 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:39.599 was top eight percent. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.920 So like some of them going Wolbacon by the way, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.640 great and it's going to be right. I'm dressing up 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.200 as a swinging strike rate, you. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.520 Dressed up as a baseball, you drive as a baseball drift. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.080 It's a big min that's exactly right. But my whole 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.920 point is is like the the stats weren't exactly there, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.479 but all the underlying stuff is still there. With a 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.159 great team in a great ballpark, the factors are there. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.039 I'm still with Ronald Lacunya, and you get him at 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:06.560 a deal. And it's actually kind of why I really 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.040 love that fourth pick in drafts right now, because it 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.120 allows you one of elite, these elite players to kind 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.480 of drop and then you get to make the decision 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.560 a little bit like maybe you're getting Judge, maybe're getting Hulio, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.160 maybe you're getting Acuna. Any of those work Turner and 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.840 Ramirez obviously makes sense. But yeah, I think the guy 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.680 to focus on here is Akunya because you and I 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.440 have met one and he shows up at five on 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.720 the consensus rank, and I one one hundred percent believe 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.040 that will change over the next two or three months 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:31.920 and at least two months, and you're going to see 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.680 him jump up to maybe at three on consensus, but 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:35.840 he might not push one. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:37.760 Real quick too. Kyle Tucker, I think one of the 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.760 guys is going to benefit some of the most from 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.240 the shift banning or changing modification whenever you want to 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.840 call it. Corey Seger another guy too, probably the most 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.840 guy to be helped from that shift change concept. I 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.160 look one, so to what seven is a great value? 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.440 Love this? Jose Ramirez is my early guy for MVP 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.080 this year. We're go to talk more about that as 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.800 we go. Lots to talk about there, because I do 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.880 think go Tani does get traded this year, so that's 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.080 going to make things really real lacky and wonky when 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.160 we get to that point. But look, I don't have 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:08.680 much of a problem with the top ten Actually, this 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.000 is a really solid top ten. I love that my 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.040 boy Alvarez is in there. I think Glad should be 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.040 in there. The only question is we get to that 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.560 next year, the eleventh or twenty. We start with Otani 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.760 at eleven. If you're in a league where you get 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.120 the two players in one, especially in a points league, 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.440 head to head, oh, Tani's a number one player, period, 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.320 end of story. Like it's not close, so's. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.360 And that's my pretty adjustment, and that's my problem with it, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.960 and that's why my focal point on this group of 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:38.000 ten is Showho Tani that we have to talk about 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.559 him in like four different ways. You got to talk 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.400 about his hitter only as pitcher, only as dual weekly 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.280 and dual daily, So dual daily, he's the number one 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:54.400 player in every format, points, head to head, roto dynasty, keeper, redraft. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.000 It doesn't matter. He's the number one player. You and 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.280 I famously last year were obnoxious about Otani and how 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.840 he didn't win the titles and everything, but it is 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.600 what it is. He's a number one player in there. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.200 Now you take away and he's a dual eligible player 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.480 in weekly leagues, that's tougher because he's probably primarily a hitter. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.319 He's almost just a straight up hitter in that format. 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.640 And this is where I still think he's inside the 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.200 top ten. Though I still think even in that format 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.040 he's in the top ten. You can make adjustments, you 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.720 get the pitching edge. As a hitter, he's still an 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.720 insanely crazy high performer of thirty plus homers, double digitsole 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.960 and bases. The team is definitely looking to be better. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.600 You're gonna have Anthony Rayn dooneback. They brought in Hunter Renfro. Yeah, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.200 they just brought some more pieces into maybe offensively help. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.960 And then when he's a sole eligible player, which at 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.719 this point I think is just like Yahoo, maybe there's 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.720 another one. This is where that's tough because Otani is 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.160 probably like between fifteen and twenty at SP at best, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.320 and then hitter he's probably you know, he's util lonely. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.640 That's the thing that holds him back. If he was 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.360 like an outfielder, if he was outfield and sp eligible, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.320 the weekly would even move up. But only does drop 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:02.920 you just a tiny bit. But still as a hitter, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.280 he's a top two round player. I just think that 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.720 you got to focus here because this is the one 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.480 player that is not traded equal. And I know like 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.319 points and head to head changes, but this is a 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.560 player that can go from number one overall down to 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.679 even in the late twenties if he's just a pitcher 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:16.439 or something like that. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.480 But yeplayer variance depending on you know what where he is. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.600 And again, the push I'm making is looking at the division, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.800 seeing what the Texas Rangers did this offseason, seeing what 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.200 the Astros still are, seeing what the Mariners, I still 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.720 believe are and I think they're the fourth best team 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.320 in this division at best. And I just don't think 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:35.560 that's gonna be good enough at the end of the day. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.360 And I think that's why the early market for Oton's 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.240 gonna be fastening, because you're gonna looking at teams who 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.120 can afford to make that kind of move, who have 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.719 the prospects to get it done, because you could get 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.840 the most enormous haul for prospects maybe we've ever seen 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.280 for a guy like shoey Otani, because it's one thing 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:53.880 to add a big picture of the deadline. It's a 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.640 nothing to add a big hitter, it's nothing to add 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.360 both with one player. It's something we've never seen in 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.680 our lifetimes. Happen, and I think it's gonna happen this 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.640 year because I think the Angels once again are going 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.440 to be irrelevant when push comes to show. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.480 The interesting thing about that, though, I think there's a 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.160 lot of different sides to it. Like they've they've made 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:12.920 their push, this is the best thing Angels can do 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.080 with the money that they've spent and screwed up. Also, 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.239 by the way, well, and that's that's. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:18.520 What it comes to. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.960 Like they brought in, they traded for renfro and then 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.400 they bring in Tyler Anderson, and they get rin doone 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.320 back and they get to trying to put the pieces together. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.680 If they don't win, I actually kind of agree if 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.959 they've done all of that, they really do need to 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.240 look at themselves and say, can we bring him back? 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.040 And do we just need to retool this. Here's my 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.400 only problem. I don't even know if the Mets. I mean, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.880 there are other organizations that could have better Hall Mets happened. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.440 I don't know if the Mets, well, I just don't 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.560 know if they do. I mean, Francisco Alvarez would be 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.440 the key piece, one of the biggest guys to it, 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.400 But where else are they going to go, they don't 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:49.360 treat well. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.720 Do you think it's a Do you think it's a 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.480 surprise that they went out and got another catcher, had 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:55.439 more catcher depth. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.520 This year with no, I don't mean yeah, well, I 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.680 mean Alvarez was in the rumored stuff with with one 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:01.840 Soto and that never ended up. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.800 Well, well, I mean it is. But I think at 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.960 the end of the day, the Angels, more than any team, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.640 need to restock the organization and they can't let Atani walk. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.000 But let me, this is gonna be a topic. I'm 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.439 sure for many many shows to come, we're gonna talk 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.080 about this. Let's talk about the rest of the guys 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.040 eleven through twenty. In the next tier, we've got after 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.480 Otani eleven, Freddie Freeman at twelve, Bobby Wood Junior, What 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.640 a great season he had. We were right to be 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.880 as bullish as we were. Did it get off to 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.760 a dubious start? Yes? Did my boy close? You sure? Did? 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:32.120 You? 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:36.120 Sure? Did? Bobby Wood Junior looking fantastic. Corbyn Burns at fourteen, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.480 great spot there, followed by Garrett Cole at fifteen, by 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.200 Trout at sixteen. Bobash had seventeen many Mischado at eighteen, 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.560 Raphaeld Devers staying put in Boston. That's at nineteen, at 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.960 Pete a Lonzo at twenty. Again love this. I liked 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.800 that Burns is ahead. I think that's all the guy 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.640 that could possibly be on the move this year Burns 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.440 and Cole makes sense to me? Is top fifteen? You 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.000 know me, I don't love these top pitchers going early 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.920 for them. That's not where I am with well Fantasy 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.280 baseball right now. But what are your thoughts on those 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.760 guys there? And what are your thoughts also about Bobby 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.439 Witt being a top fifteen player this year already in 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:08.920 the ranks. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.719 Well, here's a couple things I want to point out. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.560 First off, how insane is it that this is maybe 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.160 one of the first years we've ever seen that you 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:16.880 don't see in the consistent rank there's not a pitcher 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.079 inside the top ten or for twelve. Well, but it's 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.920 always the thing that happens. I think Roto is going 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:23.760 to push these guys up. I have that same order. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.880 I've got Burns and Cole, and I've got them not 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.439 inside the top twelve. I might have. I mean, I 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.719 guess technically in a fifteen team, Roto both of them 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.960 do touch the first round if you're not looking at twelve. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.440 But I think that's the general range. I will probably 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.600 have zero point zero shares of those guys at that cost. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.720 I'm going to be predominantly hit or hitter in my drafts, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.760 and Bobby Witt at this cost would be someone I'm 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.160 one hundred percent taking a look at. The funny thing 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.720 about it is Wit is going at an insanely different 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.640 costs than NFBC drafts in the Draft Champions seven, So 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.760 draft and rank is going to be something really interesting 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.960 to follow. NFBC drafts also are a lot more upside 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.959 you're chasing stolen bases, so I'm not I'm not a 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.800 surprised to see him there, but I got a hard 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.319 time looking at like Bobby Witt over you know some 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.439 really key veterans. So seven is way too high over 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:11.400 right now? 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.240 Do you think that's wrong? 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.160 See don't. I don't know if I agree with that 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.760 right now. Like I'm into Bobby WIT's progression, but I 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.080 think Bobaschett is underrated right now, and I think that's 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.880 a really tough pill to swallow, taking Wit over Boshett. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.240 If you're looking for consistency, but you got to take 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.680 your shots in some places either way. Man, I think 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.520 this is a great spot for when you're looking for 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.160 twenty five plus stolen bases with an uptick in power, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.520 which Bobby Witt can do. It's just a team context 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.760 sucks and if you look at where can I get 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.840 more runs in RBI, if you compare Baschett and Bobby Witt, 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.440 maybe you get more stolen bases with Bobby. You could 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.560 easily get more homers with Bishett. But you also have 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.160 a better run and RBI opportunity with the Blue Jays 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.400 than you do with the Royals. So I think they're 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.640 really close. But I'm in with Bobby Witt. No would 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.000 one hundred percent taken? Would you say it was seventeen sixteen? 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:56.680 He is at thirteen right now? 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:57.680 Or at thirteen okay? 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.960 Yes, which I think there's a chance that he might 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.320 crack top ten at some point because I do think 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.960 they're gonna look at the stone bases and look at 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.120 the deficit in that category, and people like you said 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.080 was gonna push And I don't know if it's wrong, 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.960 but I love him right where he is right now. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.520 I think that's perfect. I'm concerned it's gonna move up. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:14.920 We'll see, we'll see what happened. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.280 Well in the NFBC drafts. His his high pick was 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.080 five and his low pick was ten, so he never 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.040 went below ten. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.480 And that's why I believe when people start seeing that 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.400 that will push up because of the stone bases. And 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.360 I think that early indicator is one that look, if 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.880 you're doing early best ball drafts right now, you're getting 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.040 a value on Bobby wid do it take it now 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.440 because it ain't gonna be there in six weeks. It's 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.720 is not going to be there the rest of these guys. 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.800 Like I said, another no problems here. I think he 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.880 did a tremendous value here with these corner guys, with Machado, Devers, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.480 and Alonzo at the end of this tier and the 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.400 tops one in eighteen nineteen to twenty Mike Trout at sixteen. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:52.360 Does that feel right to you? 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.160 I mean it feels right in that like I'm gonna 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.840 take him. I'm going to think in general range one 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.280 hundred percent. So yeah, I think it's about the general spot. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.800 I actually think the like mid second round is pretty sweet. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.760 You said those three corner in I mean I think 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.920 you said Machado Endeavors, but you gotta throw Austin Riley 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.520 in there as well. You throw him those guys in there. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.520 You have Mike Trout, you've got some of those pitchers. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.360 I think the mid second round is really nice. That's 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.120 also why remember I said I like that fourth pick, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.120 maybe even if you want to go five, because then 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.480 that turnaround, you've got a legit shot at one of 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.280 those pitchers. You've got a legit shot at one of 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.840 those corner infielders. Third base is not deep this year. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.680 You could theoretically get a Kune at five and then 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.240 Rafael Devers in the second round. That's a bonker start. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.240 That's a bonker start to your draft. And then you 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.560 can touch pitching a little bit later. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.800 Well, I think in the season long formats, look, you 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.320 take whatever one hundred games you can get out of 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.520 Mike Trout. It's great. You know, you had forty bombs 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.840 last year and one hundred and eighteen games whatever it was. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.560 But at the same time, those head to head formats, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.160 you got to really think long and hard about that 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.920 because one hundred and eighteen games, thirty six games, fifty 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.720 three games, one hundred and thirty four games, one hundred 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.240 and forty games, one hundred and fourteen game, Like I'm 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.120 literally giving just going backwards here, like those head to 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.920