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Speaker 1: your BFFs. You're Fress Nevil, I'm Grangs Sauce. And what
Speaker 1: is that? Greg? Why are you starting the show so confused?
Speaker 1: I did the open. You shook your head and then
Speaker 1: looked at me. What what was that? Greg? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and guess that you have not watched back
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the BFS for the past two months.
Speaker 1: Why why is that I do that every day? You know? No, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, I do. I look at you, like, what
Speaker 1: is what is Greg doing? Now? What is Greg? No?
Speaker 1: I do? It's more of it. It's more of a
Speaker 1: than today. It was like a headshake today. Today it
Speaker 1: was different. I've watched a lot of BFFs. Have you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd say so over the last few years. I don't
Speaker 1: like that one. I'm sorry, Budd. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: get a start off on the wrong foot. Today. That's
Speaker 1: where we are previewing second base. We are you know,
Speaker 1: what is the most fun position of all? It's not.
Speaker 1: I've realized that the positions I like the least this year,
Speaker 1: Frank or first and second basis, which we're talking about
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow. That's correct. They're sorry, and Catcher obviously
Speaker 1: the next three days terrible programming. Oh you're a you're
Speaker 1: a great advocate, selling the show, selling the network. If
Speaker 1: you hate terrible positions, come back for the next three
Speaker 1: week here, first Base, second Base, Catcher. We got it
Speaker 1: all cover and they all suck. I just sleep last night, Greig,
Speaker 1: Greg Frank not great. Judy was at the event with
Speaker 1: her friends and sister. Yeah, I was watching. I was
Speaker 1: at a bar watching Maryland. They lost terribly again. Are
Speaker 1: on a weeknight? Horrible turn a note, two beers watching
Speaker 1: the game? Whatever? Got home. She was at her event
Speaker 1: with her friends. I get a text, Hey, my sisters
Speaker 1: sleeping over. She has her own apartment, and I'm like, why,
Speaker 1: why is this So of course this picture angry Greg
Speaker 1: in a bar getting a text about sisters. So then
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sleeping, like well thirty, they come in, you know,
Speaker 1: they're quiet, and did Junie get into bed and she's
Speaker 1: just like asking all these questions. Yeah, and it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is not gossip, Susan family turning, This
Speaker 1: is not gossip time. This is sleep Timepy. This guy's
Speaker 1: fifty years was Matthew. It'll make me happier. This update
Speaker 1: from Alexasana. I am Alex Josana with your sports grid
Speaker 1: news update here on the fantasy BFFs guys in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. Yourd on Alvarez Well manager Dusty Baker said
Speaker 1: he will be withheld from baseball activities for three to
Speaker 1: four days while the slugger manages knee soreness. Alvarez His
Speaker 1: shutdown seems to be precautionary more than anything, but until
Speaker 1: he re enters the Houston Grapefruit League lineup, his status
Speaker 1: will be one worth tracking. He has expected to occupy
Speaker 1: a spot in the heart of the lineup this year
Speaker 1: in after an exceptional rookie campaign where he posted eight
Speaker 1: point four twelve on base percentage last season. Sticking with
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, Red Sox are still waiting for a
Speaker 1: third opinion on Chris sales elbow after they make the
Speaker 1: decision on his status. Red Sox inter manager Ron Rennicky
Speaker 1: told reporters on Wednesday that the team is still waiting
Speaker 1: to hear from renowned surgeon Dr. Neil l atras A.
Speaker 1: Rennicky stresses that the Red Sox need to get this
Speaker 1: right before determining how to proceed with sale. Sale underwent
Speaker 1: the m r I on Tuesday after experiencing elbow store
Speaker 1: in this following his first live batting practice session. Guys
Speaker 1: in the NFL, The Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to trade
Speaker 1: quarterback A. J. Buoyer to the Denver Broncos for a
Speaker 1: fourth round selection in this year's NFL draft. Trade cannot
Speaker 1: be processed until the New York League begins in March.
Speaker 1: H of March eighteenth, to be specific, buoy A told
Speaker 1: ESPN S Josina Anderson that he was informed of the
Speaker 1: pending trade both from Jaguars GM Dave cal Caldwell and
Speaker 1: Broncos president and GM John Elway. Everyone remembers Buyer. He
Speaker 1: was one of the key members of the two thousand
Speaker 1: and seventeen free agent class for the Jaguars that was
Speaker 1: regarded as one of the best enfranchise history. You got
Speaker 1: a full slate of NBA, NHL, and college hoops tonight.
Speaker 1: Nine NBA games on tap for tonight. The Boston Celtics
Speaker 1: visit the Cleveland Cavalier. Celtics three and a half point favorites.
Speaker 1: The total is to seventeen. You also got the Utah
Speaker 1: Jazz going to Madison Square Garden to take on the Knicks.
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz your eight point favorites to the totals to
Speaker 1: eighteen and a half. Also, the New Orleans Pelicans visit
Speaker 1: that Alice Mavericks. Mavericks are your six point favorites of
Speaker 1: the total to forty in this one. All right, I'm
Speaker 1: Alex Possano. When this has been your sports grid news update.
Speaker 1: Now back to the Fantasy BFFs. All right, we're back
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy BFS checking on Greg currently yelling
Speaker 1: on the phone at Judy because he didn't get enough
Speaker 1: sleep last night, So I'll keep you updated on that.
Speaker 1: We're going to go through our entire second base ranks today.
Speaker 1: Talk about sleepers, talk about bust but like we like
Speaker 1: to do every day here on the Fantasy BFS, we
Speaker 1: give you a little snippet of our NBA tip trill
Speaker 1: and earlier today, Greg Soussman spoke with Drew dick Meyer
Speaker 1: of Daily Rodor dot com about Carris Lavert. Last night
Speaker 1: posted a career high fifty one point. We're going back
Speaker 1: to the well, let's find out why at the shooting
Speaker 1: guard spot. Last night was the game of his careers.
Speaker 1: Purty seven points in the fourth quarter in overtime for cares,
Speaker 1: fifty one total story every point in oc as a
Speaker 1: nets defeat of the Boston Celtics, like none of them
Speaker 1: back to back. You're still going back to LeVert? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It's hard, you know, you usually don't want to kind
Speaker 1: of hit the home run two days in a row.
Speaker 1: You know, it's unlikely for him to kind of repeat
Speaker 1: that performance from last night and playing into overtime, playing
Speaker 1: heavy minutes on second night of back to back is
Speaker 1: always a concern. But pray second is still really affordable
Speaker 1: at six thousand dollars here, and a match up with Memphis,
Speaker 1: another team that plays at a pretty fast pace, is
Speaker 1: a pretty good one for Lavert on the whole so
Speaker 1: we think he's gonna be one of the better shooting
Speaker 1: guards to play now, if Marcus Smart is not suspended,
Speaker 1: which we're still waiting for that news, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: another premier shooting guard option with no Kemba Walker, probably
Speaker 1: on mcgrdon Hayward, probably no Jayson Tatum, probably no Jalen Brown,
Speaker 1: so Marcus Smart would kind of be the last man
Speaker 1: standing there. Those two are kind of the top shooting
Speaker 1: guard options, but with the unknown on Marcus Smart whether
Speaker 1: he'll be available tonight, careful birth hard guy. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go. That is Drew dinck Meyer of Daily
Speaker 1: Rhodo dot com speaking with Greg Sussman about tonight's NBA
Speaker 1: DFS slate. And I have to agree with Drew. Normally,
Speaker 1: when you see someone put up a career night, you
Speaker 1: don't want to go back the next day because then
Speaker 1: you just feel like, oh, well, I missed out on
Speaker 1: the career night already. But I think things set up
Speaker 1: pretty well for cars LeVert, who was just ridiculous last night.
Speaker 1: Let that come back for the Brooklyn Nets. They were
Speaker 1: down to twenty one points against the Boston Celtics. He
Speaker 1: scores thirty seven points in the fourth quarter in overtime
Speaker 1: to help the Brooklyn Nets get that big win over
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. Greg going back to the well with
Speaker 1: Caros LeVert tonight, Well, that's cash LeVert understanding the show.
Speaker 1: He was awesome last night. See if we can win
Speaker 1: some money over in DFS. Also gonna win your money
Speaker 1: by drafting you the second basement. That matter, Frank, Let's
Speaker 1: get right into it. Let's start. Let's not to the top.
Speaker 1: Are there any No, this position is bad, Gregg, It's
Speaker 1: not good, Frank. At least I would say almost every
Speaker 1: position outside of catcher has like a first round pick,
Speaker 1: a second round pick, not second base. No, driving your
Speaker 1: second basick. You know it's interesting my top there's ten
Speaker 1: second bas me. You have my listening aboard right now.
Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of surprised you have AUSI number one
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in on Azzie al
Speaker 1: base for me. I got ten guys alike nobody else. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you get one of those top ten, greg Orlse,
Speaker 1: you're screwed right, correct, I don't like anybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's start on the top here with Ozzy Albis number one, old, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do yeah, I'm not. I've number one as well.
Speaker 1: I'm just surprised that you know I have about two
Speaker 1: bad four and I'll tell you reasons why I'm not
Speaker 1: in ours two. To be fair, I didn't rank Kettle Martins.
Speaker 1: We talked seven days now, so he's just not ranked.
Speaker 1: Talk about him again. No, Greg's hatred for Kettle Marte,
Speaker 1: It's unwarranted. Greg super consistent first two seasons here out
Speaker 1: of Azzi, I'll be back to back. Twenty four home runs,
Speaker 1: over a hundred runs scored, eight six RBIs, fifteen solen
Speaker 1: bases with a two batting average in last year, improved
Speaker 1: his walk rade, lowered his strikeout rate, improved his battle
Speaker 1: ball across the board, started hitting more line drives, started
Speaker 1: hitting more hard contact. Greg. The barrel rate, average egg
Speaker 1: of velocity, the expected slugging percentage, everything you want to
Speaker 1: see out of a young hitter has been improving for Azzi. Albis.
Speaker 1: He's still only twenty three years old. He's gonna bad second.
Speaker 1: Think about this, He's gonna bad second. Between Ronald Dacuna
Speaker 1: and Freddie Freeman. There might not be a better spot
Speaker 1: to bat in in all of baseball than to be
Speaker 1: Azzy Albi's this upcoming season. Greg, the one thing that
Speaker 1: I will bring up, and I'm surprised you haven't mentioned
Speaker 1: this to me yet, is that he has struggled against
Speaker 1: left handed pitching in his against right handed pitching in
Speaker 1: his career. He's a switch hitter. He crushes lefties, and
Speaker 1: all throughout the owners it's been the same thing. He
Speaker 1: absolutely crushes left handed pitching, but it is not as
Speaker 1: good against right handed pitching, even as a switch hitter
Speaker 1: last year against leftist three eight nine with an OPS
Speaker 1: over a thousand against lefties to sixty seven with an
Speaker 1: OPUS around seven eighty against right handed pitching last year
Speaker 1: for Ozzy Albi's, So hopefully he can improve there. He
Speaker 1: hasn't really shown any signs. He has a long track
Speaker 1: record of being the same player in the minor leagues.
Speaker 1: But even if he's not, Greg, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty home runs, I think there's still another level in
Speaker 1: terms of soulen basis. It wouldn't surprise me if he
Speaker 1: can get probably going to approach one runs scored once again,
Speaker 1: a really good line up there at the top of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Um. I think he's just an as
Speaker 1: sending player and I don't mind snagging him in that
Speaker 1: third fourth ront range. I agree in what you just
Speaker 1: said is right because he's still young. And I think
Speaker 1: that given that he's twenty three years old right now
Speaker 1: and playing he's what third full season in the major
Speaker 1: leagues ready, it's a player that's prime to go this season.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take much to get there. He's he showed
Speaker 1: more speed in the minors two right, I think I
Speaker 1: can get the steals, right. I think everything else that
Speaker 1: we're seeing, he's realistic, Like you'd like to improve against righties,
Speaker 1: but first half of the second half, why not being
Speaker 1: relatively even the power runs in second days, getting steals
Speaker 1: over all, the runs scored in the middle of a
Speaker 1: great or top of a great lineup. It's a guy
Speaker 1: that's only going to get better. This is an ascending
Speaker 1: player that's clear that you want, Like, you know, how,
Speaker 1: what does Ozzie Albies have to do? I guess it's
Speaker 1: more power or more speed? What does he have to
Speaker 1: do to get in that first second round range? Next
Speaker 1: year he's like in the third round, Like it's where
Speaker 1: he's going, that's where you should be going. What does
Speaker 1: he have to do this year to ascend. I think
Speaker 1: if he remains where the batting averages right, if he
Speaker 1: approaches three and he goes, he's probably a first round
Speaker 1: player next year. Outside of that, if he if he
Speaker 1: does something similar to what he's done the past couple
Speaker 1: of seasons, he's probably just gonna stay status quo and
Speaker 1: this might be the player he is. That's perfectly fine,
Speaker 1: but there's also that chance that he takes the next
Speaker 1: step because he's still so young. He's only years old.
Speaker 1: So would you rather have a Sting Marte? I would
Speaker 1: rather have Starling Marte just because you basically want Ozzy
Speaker 1: Albis to do what Stalo Marte does every single year.
Speaker 1: But he is a sendame. But there is a little
Speaker 1: bit more injury risk as well. I'll take Staring Marte,
Speaker 1: but it's a fair question. It's close. What's look more
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Speaker 1: You know I was telling you that was it a
Speaker 1: day or two ago where I was like, your hatreds
Speaker 1: just gone to Chris Bryan, Chris Bryant, that all I
Speaker 1: needed to do was hear hatred. Hatred. But Frank means
Speaker 1: either Trevor Bauer or Chris Bryan this year? Does Who
Speaker 1: was it last year that you just like despiesed Umm,
Speaker 1: I remember who it was. You can look at my
Speaker 1: rankings and find out. Yeah, I remember it, like I
Speaker 1: know you. He comes to mind right away. I knew you,
Speaker 1: the astio tweet guy. You didn't like George Springer. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't like I minded George. It wasn't like this
Speaker 1: hatred level on George Springer. You just preferred. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was like the first thing game in min I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I'll go back on my rankings and trying to remember Rizzo.
Speaker 1: I'm out on Rizzo everywhere too. I guess I just
Speaker 1: don't like the Cubs except for Jabier Bias So Chris
Speaker 1: Bryant one and I really thought that you just like
Speaker 1: went too far. We discussed that on our Outfielder Program
Speaker 1: or a third Mad Show. I feel the same way
Speaker 1: about Who's al to you? Guy? Like, listen, I'm you
Speaker 1: see my rankings. I got Ozzie Albie's at number one.
Speaker 1: We're an agreement his ability to go five you catapult
Speaker 1: as a twenty three year old player. It makes a
Speaker 1: ton of sense, Like I'm all in there, But Who's
Speaker 1: al today is number two? And I think that that combination.
Speaker 1: He doesn't run like he used to. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: have power. He doesn't run at all. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: have power like a Labor torres Is. I understand that
Speaker 1: it seems like you're going down the route of your
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer defense once again, really telling me a bunch
Speaker 1: of reasons why Joe two Bay is not good in
Speaker 1: order to defend why you have him ranked second. He
Speaker 1: doesn't run as much, the average will be better than Labor.
Speaker 1: I think I think he has a good shot to
Speaker 1: score more runs than Labor potentially maybe really ah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have one of the six steals this year, isn't he?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, if you ask Alex Bregman, he is.
Speaker 1: We had Alex Bregman's interview on Fantasy Sports today and
Speaker 1: he said, Jose how two is gonna steal thirty bases
Speaker 1: this year. I for one will be taking the under
Speaker 1: on that. The guys just dealt with a ton of
Speaker 1: injuries the past couple of seasons. Greg he had a
Speaker 1: knee surgery two years ago, he dealt with hamstring injury
Speaker 1: last year, and those have hampered his ability to run,
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't surprise me if he miss his time
Speaker 1: again This upcoming season. Kind of reminds me of where
Speaker 1: Paul Goldschmidt has kind of been trending the past couple
Speaker 1: of years, where next year Jose L two is going
Speaker 1: to be more of a mid round pick, like a
Speaker 1: fifth the sixth round picks. Still a solid player, but
Speaker 1: I just see him trending down and his plate discipline
Speaker 1: has gotten worse. Mind you, it's still really good compared
Speaker 1: to like league average and like most other players in baseball,
Speaker 1: but career high fifteen percent strike out rate last year
Speaker 1: seven and a half percent walk great was his lowest
Speaker 1: since to eighty two. Expected batting average was his lowest
Speaker 1: over the past four seasons. I just think the combination
Speaker 1: of injury risk knee, hamstring, he's not gonna run as
Speaker 1: a result of that. Last year he went six for
Speaker 1: eleven on the base paths um if he continues to
Speaker 1: get cost stealing early on in the season, do they
Speaker 1: just give him the red light. I've said that about
Speaker 1: a lot of players this year. I'm gonna remain Yeah, Dusty,
Speaker 1: don't care, don't care. All right, Well, we will find out.
Speaker 1: I still think that there's a chance that he does
Speaker 1: miss time. He has missed sixty three games over the
Speaker 1: last two seasons. Greg and last year's power breakout was
Speaker 1: obviously an anomaly. Thirty one home runs. His home run
Speaker 1: to flyball rate in the second half last year Greg
Speaker 1: was twenty. His previous season high for a whole season
Speaker 1: was fourteen and a half percent home run the fly
Speaker 1: ball ratio. I think he's probably more like a twenty
Speaker 1: four home run hitter. Good batting average probably gonna hit
Speaker 1: you to ninety runs. RBIs will be there handful of
Speaker 1: stolen bases, and if he misses time, I think the
Speaker 1: counting stats will even take a hit. So if you
Speaker 1: ask me between Jose two and Labor Torres, I will
Speaker 1: take Labor Tourists right with mary Field above him as well. No,
Speaker 1: I don't I have he's another one. I'm not draft
Speaker 1: him anywhere with mary Field that nine? God? Why because
Speaker 1: he's old and he's boring in the starting basis. Stolen
Speaker 1: basis are turning down, Greg, and D nine, I think
Speaker 1: you'd be a little agreed. Just now, Gregg, are you
Speaker 1: gonna argue with the top ten fantasy ranks? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the amazing they're trending down. He still a twenty last year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he cut it in half? So what he cuts it
Speaker 1: in half again? Greg? He won't. This is his game.
Speaker 1: He's a three hitter. Yeah, Greg. How much did the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals run when Mike Matheny was their manager? Let
Speaker 1: it run much? Rank? And then the saying I understand,
Speaker 1: just saying like this is what mary Field does, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Maryfield is fine. I just don't think there is a stretch.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's much upside that that's what I'll
Speaker 1: said maybe I should have him over Maxi Monc because
Speaker 1: I don't really like Maxi Mounsey either as well. So
Speaker 1: once you get past um d La Mayhew, eight and
Speaker 1: nine for me Max Monsey and with mary Field, this
Speaker 1: is like a respect ranking. I like Michael I have
Speaker 1: met ten, but I'm not actually going to draft him
Speaker 1: over those guys like in a vacuum. If you're both
Speaker 1: available in like the seventh round, sure, I'll still take
Speaker 1: Wit Maryfield over Michael Stockers. The problem is Merryfield goals
Speaker 1: in like the fourth round. That's too early for me. Greg,
Speaker 1: I just don't like the price on Whit Maryfield. I
Speaker 1: understand that you shouldn't have it right that you like
Speaker 1: this guy's better. Then no, I don't. I haven't met nine.
Speaker 1: You you said you're gonna take Maryfield over Monthda moving
Speaker 1: up on spot. There you go. I will say this,
Speaker 1: if they're both on the board at the same time
Speaker 1: and I want a second Baseman, I will take DJ
Speaker 1: Lemayhew over Wit Maryfield. Then you're then it's right for you. Yes,
Speaker 1: So there you go. He fits in at number eight.
Speaker 1: For a guy that wants speed, you keep eliminating all
Speaker 1: the sea you gotta pick and choose where you want
Speaker 1: the speed, Greg, this is where you wanted Frank. But
Speaker 1: all right, so look he's gonna give you speed. He'll
Speaker 1: probably give you like eight plus run score. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Royals lineup is a great one to eight
Speaker 1: batting average. I'm just saying, like he's getting older. What
Speaker 1: number one? What if the numbers continue to trend down
Speaker 1: like they have been the past couple of seasons. Of
Speaker 1: those seasons, what does just last? What did the stolen
Speaker 1: basis go from twenty to fifteen? Is that getting it
Speaker 1: done for you? It wouldn't surprise me if that happens.
Speaker 1: He just went from like forty to twenty. But like
Speaker 1: the year before, we had thirty five? Right, so what
Speaker 1: up and down? It wasn't like it's been trending down.
Speaker 1: It was in half of what it was last season.
Speaker 1: I understand that Maryfield is a fine player. I just
Speaker 1: don't like the price on him. That's fine, But I
Speaker 1: think the fourth round you're gonna take whit Maryfield over Many,
Speaker 1: Machado or Moncada. There's no no, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do that, absolutely not. But again I still think there
Speaker 1: was back at you where are you finding speed? Every
Speaker 1: time we do this, we have this conversation. Albi's seals
Speaker 1: number one, right, a little bit more power than whit Maryfield,
Speaker 1: more run scored. Is the number one second basement? Yes,
Speaker 1: you're not, are you Kestinghira I have ahead of him,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna give you probably ten to fifteen seal
Speaker 1: chat about Kesting here? Doesn't here is an interesting one?
Speaker 1: Doesn't here is interesting? He's no my number five second
Speaker 1: basement here this year, right behind whip Maryfield, right behind
Speaker 1: Glabra torres kesn't Eira a a top prospect the Brewers.
Speaker 1: He burst onto the scene, went back to the miners
Speaker 1: that called back up. But how the playoffs rolled around.
Speaker 1: He was the starting second baseman four in the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit in the middle of the lineup. He's very,
Speaker 1: very talented. He's just twenty three years old. Ninth stolen
Speaker 1: basis for him last year he had also seven in
Speaker 1: triple A, so you combine that's like sixteen. Obviously the
Speaker 1: power is there. Average was good overall o b P
Speaker 1: was good overall strikes out of bunch. But Frank, there
Speaker 1: is downside of Kesting here, greg I am sad that
Speaker 1: I have done probably four or five drafts by now
Speaker 1: and I have I have zero shares of Kess and Hera.
Speaker 1: I've got to get a few shares of him this
Speaker 1: upcoming season. The prospect pedigree is there, and Greg, your
Speaker 1: homework for either tonight or during the break, if you
Speaker 1: want to look side by side at the swing of
Speaker 1: Mike Trout and Kess and Heira, it is very similar.
Speaker 1: It is like eerily similar. The downside to Kessanhira is
Speaker 1: his plate discipline. He's a lot like Javier Bias. He
Speaker 1: strikes out a lot. He's gonna be near a thirty
Speaker 1: percent strike out rate this upcoming season. He has a
Speaker 1: high swinging strike rate, he chases pitches outside the zone.
Speaker 1: I realized all of those things. But Greg, when he
Speaker 1: makes contact, he makes really really good contact at the
Speaker 1: second base position. Last year, he was first in barrels
Speaker 1: per plate appearance. He was third in average exit velocity.
Speaker 1: He was fourth in average exit velocity specifically on fly
Speaker 1: balls and line drives last season. And what I like
Speaker 1: most Greg is he's someone that was battle tested in
Speaker 1: year one as a rookie. His first two weeks he
Speaker 1: came up hit two eighty one, four percent walk grade,
Speaker 1: thirty three percent strike out rate, hard contact. Fine, he
Speaker 1: was all right. He was sent back down, came back
Speaker 1: up later on. What do you do? He got better?
Speaker 1: Batting average went from two eighty one to three oh
Speaker 1: eight the rest of the season, hit fourteen home runs. Uh.
Speaker 1: He doubled his walk grade to eight percent when he
Speaker 1: got called back up from the minor From the minor leagues,
Speaker 1: he cut his strikeout rate by three percent. His hard
Speaker 1: contact when up to forty six percent. We're talking about
Speaker 1: a second baseman. Middle endfielders don't normally hit the ball
Speaker 1: this hard as hard as Keston Hira does. The Swingey
Speaker 1: striker at the chase rate they decreased a little bit, Greg,
Speaker 1: But I understand why people would be worried about him.
Speaker 1: Second year pitchers are gonna make adjustments to him. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna be able to adjust back? I just trust
Speaker 1: the pedigree and the fact that when he makes contact, Greg,
Speaker 1: it is really really good contact. We're talking about amongst
Speaker 1: the best at the second base position, except not against lefties,
Speaker 1: except not against left So all right, I'm happy you
Speaker 1: bring this stuff because I do have a note on this.
Speaker 1: He struggled against left handed pitching last year in the majors,
Speaker 1: but if you look at his minor league numbers, his
Speaker 1: minor league splits, he performed against left handed pitching very
Speaker 1: well at every single level. It really struggled last year.
Speaker 1: He had eight nineteen total one and he's a right
Speaker 1: handed battery. Doesn't that make you feel even better about
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna, you know that he's going to
Speaker 1: improve against left handed pitching. It's weird, it's weird, but
Speaker 1: the minor league numbers say that he should get better
Speaker 1: against left east so it'll probably normalize a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe won't you know, mash against right eas
Speaker 1: as well. How many steals do you think he winds
Speaker 1: up with? I think tend to twelve is a fair projection.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna give you nothing for sure. What it
Speaker 1: likes a great athlete. What I like about kessing hera
Speaker 1: is those minor league numbers are all pretty much the same.
Speaker 1: Right like you look at like the average in the
Speaker 1: O b P. He's always been a good hitter. You
Speaker 1: look at the power, it's pretty much always been around thirteen.
Speaker 1: Last year a nineteen driplens nineteen more with the Brewers.
Speaker 1: That's a juice ball run thing for sure. I like
Speaker 1: casting Hera. Alright, have you the casting Hera? Where's he
Speaker 1: going that? You're not taking him right now? So he's
Speaker 1: going I like the three four turn right now in
Speaker 1: fifteen team leagues, so cast and Hera has an a
Speaker 1: DP of forty two, so the back end of the
Speaker 1: third round in the fifteen team league, the middle of
Speaker 1: the fourth round in a twelve team league. So he's
Speaker 1: going around players like those name hitters for fun. Kettle,
Speaker 1: Marte your boy. I'll take Marte over him. Jake Jonathan,
Speaker 1: we are over him. I have Jonathan VR one spot higher.
Speaker 1: I have Kesting here on one spot higher. I think
Speaker 1: VR is a little bit safer. And obviously you talk
Speaker 1: about where do you get that speed from thirty five
Speaker 1: plus deals? I think that's pretty safe. From Jonathan VR,
Speaker 1: it's not nearly as fun. It's not as fun. No,
Speaker 1: the upside is tantalizing, like he could hit thirty bombs
Speaker 1: with fifteen stolen bases. I'm still gonna have VR ranked
Speaker 1: ahead of it. I want to see you actually take
Speaker 1: VR O. I guess here. I want to see Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's one of those where if I was
Speaker 1: on the clock, would I actually do it exact and
Speaker 1: then when I don't do it, I go back and
Speaker 1: change my rankings. It's one of those. But I do
Speaker 1: like Kesting Hero using here Charlie Blackman. I will take
Speaker 1: Charlie black Men missing hero George, I will take Kessing.
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Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up?
Speaker 1: Reminds me of night at the Roxbury Greg. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this list you mentioned, and I want to
Speaker 1: get into the next ten. Like the second ten guys
Speaker 1: because I don't like any of them. Um like, I'm
Speaker 1: really good with any of my first tem players. We're
Speaker 1: gonna cont Cavin Vision in a second. But you said
Speaker 1: you don't like Maximums, and he's a guy that I
Speaker 1: gotta asked you about for a while because I like him.
Speaker 1: You know that. I think that there's still concern with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers in terms of playing time. I think Max
Speaker 1: Month is going to play the majority of the time.
Speaker 1: But they have a great luxury right now after not
Speaker 1: trading away Jack Peterson. He's still out there in the outfield.
Speaker 1: They have a j Pollock, they can opt to move
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger to first base if they want, And of
Speaker 1: course they have Gavin lux who we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about on today's show as well. Uh that one of
Speaker 1: the top prospects in all of baseball, who people are
Speaker 1: very excited about this upcoming season. So I worry a
Speaker 1: little bit about that. And when it comes to Max Month, Greg,
Speaker 1: I understand the position versatility is fun. Second base, first base,
Speaker 1: third base. You can move him all around. I think
Speaker 1: the obvious answer is that you're going to use him
Speaker 1: at second base. The thing is what he provides Greg
Speaker 1: is not really hard to find. He's gonna hit your
Speaker 1: home runs. He's gonna score a ton of runs, There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Like if the guy plays a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty plus games in that Dodger's lineup, he's
Speaker 1: probably going to score over a hundred runs, which is
Speaker 1: very valuable. I don't want to downplay that. He's much
Speaker 1: better in ob P leagues. He strikes out a ton,
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna hit around to fifty. He just reminds
Speaker 1: me a lot of Michael Musakis, who you can get,
Speaker 1: you know, like thirty picks later. And Max mons is
Speaker 1: probably going to score more runs than Mustakis. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to dispute that, but I could see them having
Speaker 1: a similar home run output. Mike Lustakis is hitting thirty
Speaker 1: five to forty home runs. Mustaki is going to have
Speaker 1: more r b I s as well, potentially five to
Speaker 1: ten more points on the batting average. I just don't
Speaker 1: really see the difference between Max Moncy and Michael Mustakis,
Speaker 1: Greg and they difference in price right now is over
Speaker 1: the past week. At the n of BC, Max Monsey's
Speaker 1: going to pick sixty eight. Micha Musakis is going to
Speaker 1: pick ninety, so you're getting him twenty two picks later.
Speaker 1: So I have Max Munsey and back eight nine of
Speaker 1: my rankings, that is, I have them nine tens. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So because you don't have Kenll Marte in your second
Speaker 1: base Franks, so we have them in the same spot,
Speaker 1: in the same spot. Totally. We've got to get somebody
Speaker 1: on the show who loves Max Mounsey to explain the
Speaker 1: love for him. I like Xmuncy. It's like an ob
Speaker 1: P format, you playing O. I should probably like him
Speaker 1: a lot more, I know. Do you like him like
Speaker 1: twenty two spots? I don't, But if you do play
Speaker 1: in an ob P league, he's gonna walk, He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna double up. Sure, but what you described over the
Speaker 1: power like, I can get that other places, especially likes
Speaker 1: not thirty picks later. It's right there. Do you worry
Speaker 1: about the playing time as well? Yes, that's the other
Speaker 1: thing with the Dodgers. They have so many guys and
Speaker 1: it's worked in my Max Muncy's favor and I find
Speaker 1: myself every year kind of falling for these bit Dodger players,
Speaker 1: Max Muncy, Chris Taylor, Key Hernandez. I've followed for all
Speaker 1: of them, in the past because I think I always
Speaker 1: think if you extrac late their playing time like they're
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty good, it doesn't really work like that.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts doesn't care about your fantasy team. Now he doesn't.
Speaker 1: That's one on the negatives of my guy, Justin Turner,
Speaker 1: and he just doesn't play enough games like he's really
Speaker 1: good when he plays, he battles injuries. The difference is
Speaker 1: Justin Turner, you get it like pick one sixty, Max Munzy,
Speaker 1: you get at Pick seventy exactly, and that's a much
Speaker 1: different price to pay. If you're talking about Habia, well, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think I could just take the segment off and
Speaker 1: I go walk around somewhere and you can just wax poetic.
Speaker 1: You wanna do you want to call her? Call Judy
Speaker 1: as well, and let her know you even't sleep home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I am. I'm gonna call you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna have some of your number because I
Speaker 1: don't have it. Maybe I can, like Facebook caller like
Speaker 1: Messenger's friends with Judy on Facebook. But yes, I will
Speaker 1: call her and say you ruin Greg's day. You just
Speaker 1: grouchy because you you just talked about o b P
Speaker 1: and Max Munsey having bis O p P was a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty points higher than his average a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty a three sixty four op that's fantastic. We
Speaker 1: talked about speed. Fourteen stolen bases in the major leagues
Speaker 1: last year, zero caught stealings. Talk about that ratio of
Speaker 1: the red light. There is given the right light because
Speaker 1: he was perfect last year. Fourteen or fourteen in just
Speaker 1: a hundred games. This is a guy that legitimately has
Speaker 1: the ability to steal the twenty bases. This is the guy,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, that legitimately has the ability to hit
Speaker 1: twenty home runs. He's sixteen again in a hundred games
Speaker 1: last year, twenty six in Double A. He has legit power,
Speaker 1: he has legit speed. He will be twenty five years old,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit older than the top prospects,
Speaker 1: but entering the prime of his career. The problem with
Speaker 1: Cavin Bigio is he's very selective. He walks sixteen and
Speaker 1: a half percent of the time. That's obviously why the
Speaker 1: opp is so high. Strikes out too much, close to
Speaker 1: thirty percent of the time, not egregious. It is under
Speaker 1: thirty percent, so it's not an egregious is not egregious.
Speaker 1: It's pretty bad greg not egregious. Look at this up
Speaker 1: in a second. Yeah, what have you said about Frand
Speaker 1: mil Reius in the past who strikes out? They was
Speaker 1: much higher than it's not. I feel he's over. You
Speaker 1: see when it's Cavin Bigio, it's all right. When it's Frands,
Speaker 1: not feel like it's over thirty I'm telling I don't
Speaker 1: believe it, alright. Why would allow to my best friend?
Speaker 1: What the other thing I like about Cavin Bisia more
Speaker 1: than anything, and this is what he actually doesn't like.
Speaker 1: He gets the ball really hard thirty nine and a
Speaker 1: half percent that's supposed to hit rate. For a second basement,
Speaker 1: that also has to be that also has power. We're
Speaker 1: talking about guys before John E. V r um as
Speaker 1: albis to it to an extent. Who's l two guys
Speaker 1: that run and guys a different power. Cavin Bio is
Speaker 1: the next guy like that. And he's going way later
Speaker 1: than these players, and in ob P format, he's going
Speaker 1: way too late. Other than to wards last night, you're
Speaker 1: getting this guy. Traditionally in the NFBC over the past
Speaker 1: two weeks or so, he is number one. All the
Speaker 1: other guys are just way earlier, and he's somebody that's rising.
Speaker 1: But you're talking me in a twelve team league. We're
Speaker 1: talking about the eleventh rounders. So and simmy up, Simmy
Speaker 1: for Cavin Bia. Cavin Bigio for me is an interesting
Speaker 1: one because if you do play in a standard roado
Speaker 1: or in a head tad categories league with batting average,
Speaker 1: he's probably going eight and a half percent. Why would
Speaker 1: I lie Havin Gio is gonna probably hit between two
Speaker 1: thirty and two forty. And we had the projections up
Speaker 1: on the screen and Steamer hasn't projected for two thirty five.
Speaker 1: Nobody on fan graphs has Kevin Bizio projected for higher
Speaker 1: than a two thirty five batting average, Greg. And what's
Speaker 1: so crazy about his strikeout? Right? It's twenty eight point
Speaker 1: six percent, right, Greg? His swingy strike rate is eight
Speaker 1: point seven percent. So it just doesn't add up. Why
Speaker 1: does he strike out so much of his sweny strike
Speaker 1: rate is so low? And it's the reason you mentioned
Speaker 1: he is too selective. He's too passive. He gets deep
Speaker 1: into counts, which is good from a baseball perspective because
Speaker 1: you work pitch counts you get a picture's pitch count up,
Speaker 1: and obviously that helps you get to an opposing team's
Speaker 1: bullpen faster. But for Cavin Bigio, he almost takes too
Speaker 1: many pitches the pitches. Maybe he should be aggressive on
Speaker 1: early in the count. Uh, And that's why you see
Speaker 1: the swingy strike rate is low when he does swing
Speaker 1: and miss. It's when there's two strikes in the count,
Speaker 1: which often leads to his eight point six percent strikeout rate.
Speaker 1: What he needs to do the next step for Bigio,
Speaker 1: and maybe he won't do it because this is just
Speaker 1: a player he is. He needs to go down a
Speaker 1: similar route as you on Moncada. Chase a few more
Speaker 1: pitches outside the strike zone, be more aggressive, don't walk
Speaker 1: as much, don't be as passive. And if he does that, Greg,
Speaker 1: considering how hard he hits the ball and how often
Speaker 1: he hits the ball in the air, he probably would
Speaker 1: raise that batting average to around two sixty. If you're
Speaker 1: telling me we're getting a two sixty hitter with twenty
Speaker 1: home runs and twenty stolen bases, that's probably a fifth
Speaker 1: or sixth round pick. He'd be going, you know twice. Uh.
Speaker 1: The adp that he is right now, so that that's
Speaker 1: the maturation process for Kevin Bigio. But if you look
Speaker 1: at the minor league numbers, this is basically who he is.
Speaker 1: He walks it on. He strikes out a lot because
Speaker 1: he goes deep into these counts and he hits a
Speaker 1: lot of fly balls. He hits for a low batting average,
Speaker 1: uh and is going to give you some pop. Greg's right,
Speaker 1: much better in an O b P league, much better
Speaker 1: in a points league. But if you do play in
Speaker 1: a rodo league, you really can't project him for anything
Speaker 1: higher than a to forty batting average. And that's fair.
Speaker 1: He's ever done it right in Triple A last year,
Speaker 1: just forty three games he batted three twelve, which was nice.
Speaker 1: But the rest of his minor early career you're looking
Speaker 1: at the guy that basically hit two foody on aperage,
Speaker 1: Like that's who he is. The OVP is really really good.
Speaker 1: So you play in an OVP league, I think you
Speaker 1: have every right to really be in on Gavin Bigia. Greg.
Speaker 1: Of all the young kids on the Blue Jays, who
Speaker 1: do you think it is most likely to see another
Speaker 1: minor league stant this year? Can I say, like, no,
Speaker 1: top four batters, you can't say, lord, I can for bat.
Speaker 1: I think him and Visio are the most likely to
Speaker 1: Like they have high ceilings, but they also have lower floors.
Speaker 1: I would say, then both Bischette and Vladimir Guerrero don't
Speaker 1: lially either of them. I don't. I don't think any
Speaker 1: of them go down. It's probably not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, you know, in a worst case scenario,
Speaker 1: if one, you know, if one needed to go down
Speaker 1: to minor leagues to work on their swing or tweak
Speaker 1: something because they're performing that badly, I would say, but
Speaker 1: here's probably. But in a real major league situation, if
Speaker 1: your guy is giving you a three fifty o b P,
Speaker 1: you don't care. You're getting on base. It's your job.
Speaker 1: But what happens if he's hitting one eight with like
Speaker 1: a three, I don't still stay up. No, probably not
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, it can create her like that,
Speaker 1: it strikes out that much and just only hits fly
Speaker 1: balls and they're not going out of the park and
Speaker 1: they're just like lazy flyballs, kind of Red Gardner, right,
Speaker 1: Just she's so many pitches. Right, Um, let me go
Speaker 1: to the second part of the ten or tend to
Speaker 1: twenty second baseman. Like again, I don't like any of that,
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna point out, like the ones, what
Speaker 1: do you have Jeff McNeil Levin, you don't like him?
Speaker 1: I told you I'm not Jeff mgeil and g D
Speaker 1: Davis Ian there were talking about these guys. I'm still
Speaker 1: out on there, Okay. I don't know that they're playing time.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's real with them. I don't know
Speaker 1: that mag Meial is gonna play every day us him.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. You don't know. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I feel safer about Jeff McNeil. You're cool with
Speaker 1: techail La Mayhew Light, so you're cool with Jeff Agel. Yes,
Speaker 1: he has second base and outfield eligibilities, so that helps us.
Speaker 1: What is the two hardest position to fill? First and
Speaker 1: second of the first base stinks soon, just terrible. I
Speaker 1: want to get in on you talking about jumping Gil
Speaker 1: if you want. He's d you Light and I think
Speaker 1: you know his minor league numbers show some potential growth
Speaker 1: for power. I'm not saying he's going to hit twenty
Speaker 1: five home runs. I think it's within his range of
Speaker 1: outcomes that he can hit twenty five home runs, gonna
Speaker 1: bat near the top of the lineup for the Mets,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna score runs. I think safe for to
Speaker 1: eighty maybe even two nine plus batting average, hits, a
Speaker 1: ton of line drives, can hit both lefties and right e's.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't mind Jeff big deal those like
Speaker 1: in that seventh eighth round range someone that again he
Speaker 1: allows you the opportunity to take another slugger because he
Speaker 1: helps out your batting average. So I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's DJ let you like, probably gonna gave
Speaker 1: five to ten stile and basis he does a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything's fine. Yeah, he's not a target of yours.
Speaker 1: He's not like an active target of mind. But if
Speaker 1: he falls to the right point, then I will take
Speaker 1: him too the draft. Al right, break where they come back.
Speaker 1: We're talking about some players that I interested in rapid
Speaker 1: fire a little bit more about Gavin Lucks. You have
Speaker 1: the playing time concerns there, but obviously a top prospect
Speaker 1: with Dodgers we had Tommy Edmonds is a little bit
Speaker 1: because we talked about him earlier today that Carpenter's injury
Speaker 1: could open up some time for him. We'll get into
Speaker 1: some of our sleepers bringing that Odor says, are hernand
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Speaker 1: more same basement to get to you. Not much time
Speaker 1: to do it, Frank, Let's just dive right in once again,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start with Gavin Lux for a top
Speaker 1: prospect or current top prospect. Really um with Dodgers. We've
Speaker 1: heard his name a lot. You do wonder, as you
Speaker 1: mentioned the Maximus about the playing time and how much
Speaker 1: he's going to see. How confident are you that was he?
Speaker 1: Gavin Lux out there every day. I think that the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are going to try to get him out there.
Speaker 1: You know, if they play six or seven games, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he plays five or six of those throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the week. And you won't like to hear this, Greg,
Speaker 1: you know, cover your ears, But I have Gavin Looks
Speaker 1: one spot higher than Kevin Busier for this upcoming season.
Speaker 1: I heard that. I think that the upside is higher, uh,
Speaker 1: for Gavin Looks. Look at what he did in the
Speaker 1: minors last year, Greg, and he hit three forty seven
Speaker 1: with an opus over a thousands and second base runs
Speaker 1: ten stone bases across two different levels in the minors
Speaker 1: last year, double A and triple A. And actually had
Speaker 1: James Anderson of Rhoda Wire on Fantasy Sports Today a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago to ask him about some of
Speaker 1: the top prospects this year, and he said one of
Speaker 1: his hot takes early on in fantasy draft season was
Speaker 1: that Avin Looks will outproduce Luis Robert this upcoming season
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective. So just hearing that from someone
Speaker 1: who obviously analyzes prospects for a living, let's call it
Speaker 1: for what it is. He knows more about prospects than
Speaker 1: I do. You know, he is bullish on Gavin Lux
Speaker 1: and I'm really trusting that. I hope that the playing
Speaker 1: time is there. Obviously, they're a team that's competing Greg.
Speaker 1: If he struggles early on, then they could look to
Speaker 1: go in another direction. To have so many options, have
Speaker 1: a lot of options. But let's just say he performs well,
Speaker 1: starts moving up in that order. One of the best
Speaker 1: lineups in old baseball, probably the best in the National League,
Speaker 1: has a little bit of a power speed combination. The
Speaker 1: hit tool is there for Gavin Looks. There's a lot
Speaker 1: to like. The upside is very high. I realized the
Speaker 1: downside is very low as well. Which has better chance
Speaker 1: of going to the miners this year Kevin Bigio Gavin looks.
Speaker 1: That is a fair question. Uh, it's probably looks just
Speaker 1: just being honest, But I think the upside for Looks
Speaker 1: if everything clicks, is higher than Kevin Bigio. All right,
Speaker 1: let me continue on and move on to Tommy Edmund,
Speaker 1: the guy that he picked up in the second half
Speaker 1: of last year. He helped it out. He's able to
Speaker 1: have eligibility really all around the diamond in many leagues,
Speaker 1: and he was not promisingly starting job coming in the
Speaker 1: strame with Matt Carpenters still battling injuries, which could leave
Speaker 1: third days open for Tommy Edmond. You start this year
Speaker 1: depending on how things wind up working out. You know,
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmund. I haven't drafted him anywhere yet, and I
Speaker 1: think he's a hard hard name to figure out here, Greg,
Speaker 1: because I think the hit tool is there. He had
Speaker 1: three or four last year, he had three or five
Speaker 1: in the miners at Triple A. The year before that
Speaker 1: he had three eighteen in the minors. The year before
Speaker 1: that he hit two nine hind in the miners. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy can hit. There's no doubt about that when
Speaker 1: it comes to Tommy Edmond and the St. Louis Cardinals
Speaker 1: just find players like this all the time, Guys that
Speaker 1: just fire under the radar in their minor league system.
Speaker 1: They get called up. They can do a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything, and we saw that last year, only two
Speaker 1: games played, Tommy Edmond had eleven home runs with fifteen
Speaker 1: stolen basis. I think the power might have been a
Speaker 1: little bit juice ball related. Personally, I think he's probably
Speaker 1: more of like a twelve thirteen home run guy this
Speaker 1: upcoming season, but the speed is going to play. I
Speaker 1: think if you know he plays regularly in a super
Speaker 1: utility role, whether it's in the infield, third base for
Speaker 1: carpenter Um. If he plays in the outfield, he's currently
Speaker 1: penciled in as the starting left fielder over at roster resource,
Speaker 1: then I think he's someone that can steal you fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty basses. Greg I just haven't drafted him yet
Speaker 1: because I do have slight concern over the playing time
Speaker 1: if he struggles early on. Like the Dodgers, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: have a lot of different players they can use in
Speaker 1: the outfield. In the infield, Dylan Carlson is coming very
Speaker 1: soon for the Cardinals, Tyler O'Neil is still out there,
Speaker 1: Lson Bader is having a nice spring as well. So
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of names that can pick up
Speaker 1: the slack if Tommy Edmund gets off to a slow start,
Speaker 1: but if he gets over to a hot start, he's
Speaker 1: going to play every day. Because if you look at
Speaker 1: the names both in the infield the outfield, and they
Speaker 1: can do all of it right. Emmy can play pretty
Speaker 1: much any position on the field outside of picture and catcher.
Speaker 1: And you look at who these starters are are, Paul
Speaker 1: the Young at short stop. I think's undervalue this year.
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit of that yesterday. His job is safe.
Speaker 1: Cold one gets benched every year. It's like it's at
Speaker 1: least very good year every year. At some point, Greg,
Speaker 1: it happens. You know, don't downplay Colton longer. You know
Speaker 1: you stolen bases last year. You don't think you got
Speaker 1: bench in some point last sleep on Colton Wong Gay
Speaker 1: sleeping games. He's got bench for fifteen games? How many
Speaker 1: games of Kevin Bisio played? Greg? Who he starting to manners?
Speaker 1: He didn't games? Uh? Dexter Fowler sucks, Harrison Mader kind
Speaker 1: of sucks, and Tyler O'Neill doesn't. Is a name that
Speaker 1: I'm actually taking late everywhere? Then that's fine, Like he's
Speaker 1: a lot of you taking I get it. But all
Speaker 1: three spots in their outfield han to be replaced. And
Speaker 1: do you think Dylan Carson will be there at some point?
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neill, if he hits, he'll be there. Dexter Fowler again,
Speaker 1: who knows? Harrison Bader slumps. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: moving parts. But let's say for what it is, Greg,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of moving parts. I think Edmund
Speaker 1: probably does have a regular role as like a super
Speaker 1: utility player, and expecably liked Manu last year we didn't
Speaker 1: know the role and whatever that and maybe he just
Speaker 1: makes me look stupid. Maybe HiT's five teno runs, twenty
Speaker 1: stolen bases with you know, good counting stats. Great. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Cardinals line up is very good, but
Speaker 1: if he hits near the top of it, he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna score runs. Right in May. He has good minor
Speaker 1: league numbers. I mean, he has a season with thirty
Speaker 1: stolen bases right now, Tommy Edvan in the NFBC is
Speaker 1: going to one thirty one. That's four spots after Calvin
Speaker 1: Bigia and I'm sure you'd rather have Visio in a
Speaker 1: in a vacuum. That's two spots after Frean Mills. Frank,
Speaker 1: that tells you why I'm not getting any Tommy Tommy
Speaker 1: Edmonds here. It's great Tommy Edmund or a Mead Rosaria.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh. Death is not an option. That's not a death.
Speaker 1: It's not an option one. I think they're just not
Speaker 1: targets of mine. Like friend mill Rais is a guy
Speaker 1: I'm taking. I don't think death is not an option one.
Speaker 1: That that's like a little harsh on these guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know they do give you a little bit of power,
Speaker 1: a little bit speak. I'll take a Meadros area at
Speaker 1: least it's a more prospect pedigree and probably say for
Speaker 1: at least fifteen fifteen, I'll take calls over both of
Speaker 1: them as well. Okay, moving on here. That's an our
Speaker 1: guy or my guy, says Hernandez. We talked about like
Speaker 1: you want a little bit of speed late. He hit
Speaker 1: a shot yesterday too great. I'm talking it was like
Speaker 1: it was like a four foot moon rocket. You don't
Speaker 1: expect that out of Caesar. You want like fifteen wasn't
Speaker 1: so crazy. He just needs to play every day and
Speaker 1: he's on a team that's gonna let him run. He
Speaker 1: needs to be in the lineup. He needs to hit
Speaker 1: at the top of the line up. When he's given
Speaker 1: those opportunities, he's good. Philadelphia didn't give him the opportunity
Speaker 1: last year. They go away from him, Greg he played
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty one games, Yeah, but they dropped
Speaker 1: him in the lineup. Frank, they did. That was my issue.
Speaker 1: Fourteen home runs with nine stolen bases last year to
Speaker 1: seventy nine, just solid across the board, seventy seven runs,
Speaker 1: seventy one r BIS does a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, man, like the guy has a good
Speaker 1: eye at the place. Last year he did drop from
Speaker 1: a thirteen percent walkrate eighteen to a six point seven
Speaker 1: percent walk great, So you don't like to see that
Speaker 1: from an o VP perspective or in a head to
Speaker 1: head points league. But if you do play in a
Speaker 1: head to head points league, I don't mind him as
Speaker 1: a fallback option in second base if you play with
Speaker 1: the middle infielder, I think he's a fine option there.
Speaker 1: Even in rotal leagues. I think he's a fine middle infielder.
Speaker 1: He's just going so late. Greg and plays on a
Speaker 1: team where they're gonna let him run. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: the green light. The Indians typically always let guys like
Speaker 1: Lindoor run. The guy came back from my calf injury
Speaker 1: last year, Francisco Lindoor, and they still let him run.
Speaker 1: So with him and Jose Ramirez Mercado, they let all
Speaker 1: these guys run. Who knows, maybe if they let he's here,
Speaker 1: an end is loose. If you can steal fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: base exactly. I think it's you know, it's within the
Speaker 1: range of outcomes. I like he's are. I think he's
Speaker 1: a solid player, atter better middle, easier than an actual
Speaker 1: starting second. He might number eight teen staring. He's like
Speaker 1: a basements that's like a middle infield prospect. Man, I
Speaker 1: gotta move him out. I have him way too. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: they moved him. I don't know. It's tough because I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to move him against ahead
Speaker 1: of Nick Madrigal, Greg had Nick Madrigal? Do you uh,
Speaker 1: do you know who Nick Madrigal is, by don't know
Speaker 1: where one of the top prospects for the White Side.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give you anything in the power department,
Speaker 1: but his NI thirty one, his plate discipline, Nick Madrigal. Well,
Speaker 1: that's because these are probably more so for Rhodo, and
Speaker 1: Madrigal has the upside Greg to come up and just
Speaker 1: feel like thirty basses once he gets called up in
Speaker 1: like may so being able to find that speed later
Speaker 1: on in your draft. But I do have them back
Speaker 1: to back right now. I like Sea Hernandez. I've met
Speaker 1: twenty four. Sorry man, yeah, that's all right, man. Each
Speaker 1: other reading that Odor earlier this week, you're you're backing
Speaker 1: on odor. Oh no, oh no, oh no no, yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks thanks for that great impersonation. That was pretty good.
Speaker 1: I haven't been let down that that much since uh
Speaker 1: since the end of Game of throwing expression. Oh no no, alright,
Speaker 1: so hit two oh five last year, to fifty three
Speaker 1: the year before that too, oh four and seventeen and
Speaker 1: two in Greg, he's an even year player. It's man,
Speaker 1: You know that means we're getting a two fifty plus
Speaker 1: batting average at a rugenetto O door. You know, honestly, Greg,
Speaker 1: the projection systems have him projected four twenty eight home
Speaker 1: runs and thirteen stolen basis if you want to find
Speaker 1: go to speed last he's gonna if he's gonna hurt
Speaker 1: your batting average. You're taking Kevin Busio at what's the
Speaker 1: ADP on Busio seven? What is door? Oh dot all? Uh?
Speaker 1: Hundred picks later? I mean, come on, Greg, A hundred
Speaker 1: picks later, he's projected for twenty eight home runs and
Speaker 1: thirteen seals. How much better is Busio going to be
Speaker 1: than that? A hundred picks later? I mean, O door?
Speaker 1: Look that. I just think the hate has gone too
Speaker 1: far and out door I understand like the batting average
Speaker 1: is gonna be bad, There's no doubt about it. He
Speaker 1: has the potential to completely sink your batting average. He
Speaker 1: hit around two hundred last year, but he expected batting
Speaker 1: average was better. He's been unlucky in terms of the
Speaker 1: batting average department. I would say he probably hits two
Speaker 1: twenty or two thirty, which is probably gonna be worse
Speaker 1: than Kevin Biggio. But is it going to be a
Speaker 1: hundred spots in adp lower? I think the hate has
Speaker 1: gone too far on a door, Greg Should we talking
Speaker 1: about that mother effort Kevin Newman? That first of all,
Speaker 1: explain to people why you just called him that that?
Speaker 1: I literally only off they are called him that f
Speaker 1: Kevin Newman I never referred to refer to. In fact,
Speaker 1: I was watching the Pittsburgh Pirates game on the way
Speaker 1: over to the You know who was in the booth,
Speaker 1: Damison Tyo. How about that broadcast for the first three innings,
Speaker 1: So forget about him. They should have showing that, um,
Speaker 1: he's not coming back. Oh, keep relea type of players
Speaker 1: you want to drive the end of the draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna stash him on your I l
Speaker 1: all year long. That doesn't work out. Yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 1: need those io spots. Greg, Everyone look at just like
Speaker 1: eighteen page years heard already just saying, do you wonder
Speaker 1: I forgot about Jameson Town. Um so anyway, where I
Speaker 1: was watching gay jameson ti On I played Equality starts
Speaker 1: league Jameson time, mowing them down, mowing them down, umpire
Speaker 1: killing him with a walk. Kevin Newman has not one,
Speaker 1: not two, but three errors in the inning causing time up.
Speaker 1: There are a thousand pitches, let up runs and never
Speaker 1: come back out and loses the quality start losing the game.
Speaker 1: What a disaster, gregg By sleepers at the second base
Speaker 1: position are shed Long and Mauricio Dubon. In case you
Speaker 1: were wondering, we didn't. We didn't even get toward sleepers.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Former Yankee Green Coast Coast for
Speaker 1: all is up next like the shan anx now Snares,
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