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Speaker 1: Frank stamfle I'm Greg sauceman. Frank, Greg, I was taking
Speaker 1: ahead of you, I noticed, right alright, like an exaggerated
Speaker 1: one after yesterday's bottle. What's going on? Man? Happy Thursday?
Speaker 1: Here to talk about the first base position for fantasy baseball,
Speaker 1: not nearly the position that it once was. Greg. But
Speaker 1: before we do all of that, I do sleep last night,
Speaker 1: but I sleep very very well, very well. Greg's getting
Speaker 1: a good night of sleep outside of obviously the Judy debacle. Um,
Speaker 1: but last night it's love great. I really like making up,
Speaker 1: feeling refreshed. It's awesome. Nice. No trouble in paradise, huh,
Speaker 1: No trouble in paradise, sleeping well. Things are good. Feeling good,
Speaker 1: feeling strong might not be too good if you're Garrett cold. Greg,
Speaker 1: that guy stinks. I feel like we shouldn't draft him.
Speaker 1: Now that's it, we're out. How do you give up
Speaker 1: six runs to the Detroit Tigers four home runs players?
Speaker 1: Travis Demerit. Who's that guy? Who? I don't know who?
Speaker 1: This guy? Guy looks a little slim down to see you, Greg,
Speaker 1: we're talking first base today? Uh huh? Where is he
Speaker 1: ranks for you? Little little corner infield? Where's he ranks?
Speaker 1: I don't know that I have him ranked for me. Cabrera,
Speaker 1: I don't have him rank on rank, so he's never
Speaker 1: thirty four. Oh, I have a thirty four. So they
Speaker 1: moved ahead of a Dan Vogel Box, I can move
Speaker 1: on ahead of Michael Javis, who qualifies the first base
Speaker 1: in young Yeah. I think we'll probably leave Miguel Cabrera
Speaker 1: where he is. Yeah, seems that seems fair on the
Speaker 1: program that I more first baseman talk about the problem
Speaker 1: is I said this to you while making the rankings
Speaker 1: for first base in second base. There aren't many good
Speaker 1: players that play these two positions, and it's very hard
Speaker 1: to feel. Well, a first based spot and then a
Speaker 1: corner in field spot. I mean third base is deepen off,
Speaker 1: I guess, but absolutely at first base this is bad. Oh,
Speaker 1: I just gotta text that, um there are calls fever,
Speaker 1: which means he probably a coronavirus, which is why, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, is it in Florida, it's everywhere. That's bad. Queen.
Speaker 1: We have five first baseman that we like, a lot
Speaker 1: of first basion we don't like. Hopefully that they find
Speaker 1: the first basemen we like. We also could learn a
Speaker 1: lot more. Thank you, Greg. I'mstokia with your PFF Sports
Speaker 1: graded News update. College basketball Mountain West quarter Finals. We
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Speaker 1: let's move over to Major League Baseball and spring training.
Speaker 1: One note, Garrett Cole started for the New York Yankees
Speaker 1: against Detroit Tigers. Lasted just two innings, giving up six
Speaker 1: earned runs, including two home runs. Too. Mcguil cobra. All
Speaker 1: thirty MLB teams are in action on the spring training slate.
Speaker 1: Some off the field news the Red Sox they have
Speaker 1: signed right hander Colin mghu to a one year deal.
Speaker 1: The designated right hander Hector VLAs guest for assignment. Mgu
Speaker 1: thirty two spent the previous six seasons with the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1: Was four and five with a four point seven zero
Speaker 1: e r A in seventy four innings last year. As
Speaker 1: for the Red Sox, Ace Chris Sale and m r
Speaker 1: I has revealed Sale has a flex flex or strain
Speaker 1: sorry flex or strain. It is pitching arm will be
Speaker 1: shut down for another week. Interim manager Ron rennicky Up
Speaker 1: added Sales status on Thursday morning. Talent reporters at the
Speaker 1: m r I revealed no notable damage to the left
Speaker 1: handers elbow. Other Baseball news a and Judge hopes to
Speaker 1: be ready to go for opening Day, but he has
Speaker 1: quote frustrated that the doctors haven't determined to cause a
Speaker 1: soreness in his pectoral area near his right shoulder. Judge
Speaker 1: told reporters that he will undergo more tests. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: on that one. And in the NBA, Steph Curry returns
Speaker 1: to action. Is played in just four games this season
Speaker 1: for the Golden State Warriors. He's recovery from a broken
Speaker 1: left hand. He will be on a minute restriction, expected
Speaker 1: to play between twenty four and twenty eight minutes when
Speaker 1: the Warriors take on the Raptors tonight. That is your
Speaker 1: BFF Sports good News update. Now back to Frank Guys.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna get into the first based position
Speaker 1: here on the show from a fantasy baseball perspective. But
Speaker 1: like we do every day here on the Fantasy BFS,
Speaker 1: we give you a little snippet of tonight's NBA DFS preview.
Speaker 1: And Greg Sausman was with Davis Maddock earlier today from
Speaker 1: Daily Rohada dot Com as they did the NBA tip drill,
Speaker 1: telling you why you should have Andrew Wiggins in your
Speaker 1: lineup tonight, moving on to the small forward position Alec
Speaker 1: Marks's former team, Andrew Wiggins is on there now and
Speaker 1: doing well enough you consider to put in your line out.
Speaker 1: I thin everyone will be looking at Steph Curry and
Speaker 1: his return tonight, which makes Andrew Wiggins potentially undervalued. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it definitely makes him undervalued. So just actually,
Speaker 1: right before you and I got on air, Steve Kurt
Speaker 1: Talk the media said that Steph Curry is gonna play
Speaker 1: at most in six minute verse for sure, less than
Speaker 1: thirty minutes and probably closer to twenty five minutes in
Speaker 1: his return. So that leaves, you know, a big portion
Speaker 1: of this game for Andrew Wiggins to just continue doing
Speaker 1: what he's been doing, which is playing with a bunch
Speaker 1: of you know, to to put it kindly, a bunch
Speaker 1: of U G League players right like, these guys on
Speaker 1: the Warriors roster right now, these guys are are mostly scrubs.
Speaker 1: You know, it would be very surprising to me if
Speaker 1: Juan Toscano Anderson is the Warriors roster next year. So
Speaker 1: it's given. It just gives Wiggins a lot of usage,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna play you know a ton of minutes
Speaker 1: without step tonight. And that was Davis Maddick from Jailey
Speaker 1: Rhodo dot Com earlier today on the NBA tip Trill.
Speaker 1: You can catch that every single day here on the
Speaker 1: sports cod YouTube channel over at NBA Fantasy as well
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Greg. Since Andrew Wiggins has joined the
Speaker 1: Golden State Wheres, we've seen a lot more defensive statistics
Speaker 1: out of him. He's getting a bunch of steals, a
Speaker 1: bunch of blocks, which obviously if you play on fandel
Speaker 1: you get three Fantasy points per defensive numbers. So Andrew
Speaker 1: Wiggins a name to look at tonight in NBA dfest
Speaker 1: a little and harold it out there in Golden State
Speaker 1: with Steph Curry back tonight. And that's what davi Us
Speaker 1: and I obviously chatted about a little bit earlier on
Speaker 1: lets we want a first Basement, Frank, where again we
Speaker 1: were just trying to name some names of players that
Speaker 1: we wanted to draft to play at first base, uh
Speaker 1: in our auction which is one week from today, and
Speaker 1: we lead it on Nobody Frank. Yeah, Greg, we got
Speaker 1: a little trouble in paradise here in terms of because
Speaker 1: I want figuring out Franky gregs fun players. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all that fun zero fun, sir, that's you. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see you just said, why don't we drive? Luke
Speaker 1: Void is their starting first basement. The guy might not
Speaker 1: have a job halfway through the season. You haven't been
Speaker 1: able to stay healthy either. By the way, you're a
Speaker 1: downgrade Clayton Kershaw. Ye got a downgrade Luke Void injuries.
Speaker 1: He's not like an injury prone guy. Luke Void. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's coming off a major course surgery. He's all right,
Speaker 1: but how long will it last season? I hope you're right. Well,
Speaker 1: they don't worry. Then I named a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: other options at first base, right then like any of them? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what Frank says, and he says every day,
Speaker 1: jes Jose b is always the answer at first base,
Speaker 1: and I like Jose right. I didn't know she's expensive, man,
Speaker 1: But what worth it all? Where do you want to
Speaker 1: start Greg at the first base? Because do you want
Speaker 1: to just dive into Jose bray was at the first
Speaker 1: player you want to talk about? You manna tell you
Speaker 1: why he's the best first baseman of all time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's actually the ideal. Yeah, alright, well, I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's the best. This would be one of them
Speaker 1: all time, you know how like we really struggled to
Speaker 1: get to our top twenty lists here. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those days. There's just not enough first page.
Speaker 1: All right, do you want to start with Jose? Alright?
Speaker 1: Take it look after a time through a banged of eighteen. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'll give you your time to talk about Luke Voyd
Speaker 1: Greg later on the show. Uh, he bounced back major
Speaker 1: last year, and I was all over Break last year.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand why people were downgrading him. Obviously dealt
Speaker 1: with a very unfortunate situation back in eighteen, if you
Speaker 1: remember correctly, Greg, that involved testicular torsion. I'll just leave
Speaker 1: it at that. When it comes to Jose, a Break
Speaker 1: bounced back last year. Did you know he led the
Speaker 1: American League in RBIs did with a hundred and twenty three.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed this, Greig, but the
Speaker 1: line up for the White Sox got even, so he
Speaker 1: had a hundred and twenty three RBI last year. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to project him for that, but I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be well over a hundred. They add
Speaker 1: Edwin and Cornacion. Luis Robert is tearing up the spring
Speaker 1: right now, Eloy Hemenez. A lot of people expect him
Speaker 1: to take the next step. And at the top of
Speaker 1: the line up we haven't even mentioned yet Yoan Moncata,
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson. Obviously, if you're playing an O B P
Speaker 1: or in a head to head points league, Jose Brew
Speaker 1: gets to devalued a little bit there, Greg, right around
Speaker 1: a six percent walk great, He's not gonna walk very much,
Speaker 1: but consistently hits for a two eight plus batting average,
Speaker 1: thirty plus home runs. He's just solid man. And I
Speaker 1: understand the auction price fifteen team leagues over at the NFBC.
Speaker 1: His A A V right now is around I understand
Speaker 1: that's a big price to pay, but I think for
Speaker 1: the consistency and the safe floor out of jose Briew,
Speaker 1: I don't mind paying that price. I've already have a
Speaker 1: few shares of jose Brew taking him in the fifth round. Greig,
Speaker 1: I like it. Where you in a better line of
Speaker 1: than even last year, isn't a good spot. The only
Speaker 1: thing is I feel that people are coming on in
Speaker 1: an auction. He's twenty one dollars, which is not nothing
Speaker 1: rank it's expressive. Yeah, So to put that in perspective,
Speaker 1: some other names right around that range pulled ultimate over
Speaker 1: the past week, twenty Anthony Rizzo twenty dollars. People are
Speaker 1: finally starting to realize. Yeah, yeah, like the I think
Speaker 1: it's actually going a little bit too far the other
Speaker 1: way now in Rizzo, because I've said for years, Greg,
Speaker 1: I didn't understand why Rizzo was going to three rounds
Speaker 1: ahead of Jose A. Brew sometimes five ten dollars more
Speaker 1: than Jose Brew in an auction. Now it feels like
Speaker 1: it might be going a little bit too far the
Speaker 1: other way with Anthony Rizzo. And you know, if you
Speaker 1: can get him in the fifth, sixth round, obviously plays
Speaker 1: much better in ob P formance the day you get him.
Speaker 1: I don't mind. Actually, I don't mind Anthony Rizzo at
Speaker 1: this point. Like, if we can get Rizzo at twenty bucks, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. Oh my god, Now he doesn't
Speaker 1: want Anthony. I will say this, Anthony Rizzo is not
Speaker 1: a fun player, so I will agree with you on
Speaker 1: that he's rocks. No, he's rock solid. We did that
Speaker 1: in the GD already. Jose Brew is my fourth rank,
Speaker 1: first basement, my fifth rank. All right, I have what
Speaker 1: do you don't test me, I'll put him ahead of
Speaker 1: Peter Alonzo tested dr I have that old set up
Speaker 1: Matt Olson's fun other frightenings about mat Olson. We got
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Speaker 1: break and eyes doing a ton of rasears. This is great,
Speaker 1: and this is so it's all gonna Davis Madtic today,
Speaker 1: before the tip trail, I was asking you about fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball and if you das or not. He's like, I've
Speaker 1: been watching you and Frankly, you guys really love fantasy baseball,
Speaker 1: as I think frank does. I'm just kidding, like I
Speaker 1: do just kidding but not really. It was like, I
Speaker 1: know you love fantasy baseball. I really love fantasy baseball
Speaker 1: as I love fantasy basketball lot too. Um both every
Speaker 1: day it just never end. And you know me, I
Speaker 1: mean like you're crazy with it. You don't name all
Speaker 1: these guys I've never heard of, like Rico Dubon. We
Speaker 1: didn't even get to him yesterday. And I actually know
Speaker 1: who that guy is. I don't remember struck out on
Speaker 1: a nasty slider from Kershaw as he sucks. But like
Speaker 1: these conversations will have a dream of the break like
Speaker 1: I love it, I really do. Is that the stuff
Speaker 1: we should be broadcasting, Greg? If maybe it's basically just
Speaker 1: me introducing a player that I want in our auction
Speaker 1: and Greg being like I don't know about that player,
Speaker 1: and then him going to another player, and then me
Speaker 1: me being like I don't know about that player, Greg,
Speaker 1: that's basically it. Oh, we agree on a certain players.
Speaker 1: That's not true. Like there's been a lot of guys
Speaker 1: we have talked about this sprang Winter, we're rolled it on.
Speaker 1: I will reveal it right now. I won't say who,
Speaker 1: but we have our catcher position filled out. Both of
Speaker 1: them shortstop. He doesn't even remember. I remember the bad
Speaker 1: catching shortstop in third base. Our outfielder one you probably
Speaker 1: don't remember that one is the one? Is it? The one?
Speaker 1: Is the expensive one? Or not? Banging on a trash
Speaker 1: can are fourth and fifth outfielders. And we have over
Speaker 1: pictures filled out already. Great, come on, we're doing great.
Speaker 1: I love our pitching staffs on sunny grains on it.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. The thing is our pitching staff is
Speaker 1: like a hundred and fifty dollars of our budget. What
Speaker 1: are we doing, saff We're going the other way. Everyone
Speaker 1: tells you sixty your budget. We're going agree with that.
Speaker 1: I want all pitching. Well, Greg, you do start more
Speaker 1: hitters than you do pictures, so let's still fall in
Speaker 1: five categories. Only five categories. Is not thirteen hitters compared
Speaker 1: to nine pictures. It's only five categories right right within
Speaker 1: all the pitching categories. Is there training in this league? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I believe there is. Well, we'll get all pitching. People
Speaker 1: always need pitching, true, always need it all right, Greg,
Speaker 1: first place, it's back to the the first place. I mentioned
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen before the break. That is a different difference
Speaker 1: that you and I have. I have matt Olsen as
Speaker 1: my number four first basement. You have matt Olsen as
Speaker 1: your number five first basement without actually looking down at
Speaker 1: your sheet, Um, I have been six? Actually you have?
Speaker 1: Who do you have? I have Anthony Rizzo. I don't
Speaker 1: know how I became the Anthony Rizzo guy. Now I
Speaker 1: actually dropped Anthony Rizzo. Um, after the graph, after years
Speaker 1: of me bashing him, you finally bought in. I feel
Speaker 1: much better at this. I have Olson at four, a
Speaker 1: rad at five, Rizzo at six. You have the same
Speaker 1: players as a little bit of a different order. Um,
Speaker 1: and I know what this says. You ignore that. Um,
Speaker 1: why do you have? Why do you like mat Olson? Way?
Speaker 1: You just like Matt Olson? No, I like Matt Olson
Speaker 1: a lot. And maybe this is like a slippery slope
Speaker 1: fallacy of mine so far in the draft season, Greg,
Speaker 1: But whenever I mind early to mid round players that
Speaker 1: do not contribute in batting average and only give you
Speaker 1: power and nothing else, I am pivoting away from those
Speaker 1: players more often than not, because I've convinced myself that, well,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna take Matt Olsen in round five, or
Speaker 1: if you're gonna spend twenty in an auction on Matt Olsen.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just wait and get Reese Hoskins five
Speaker 1: rounds later and he's you know, look, the batting average
Speaker 1: might be lower than madd Olson to forty hitter, but
Speaker 1: what are you expecting how hoskinst home runs, good County stats,
Speaker 1: obviously gets on base, good ballparks to hidden So maybe
Speaker 1: this is a fallacy of mine, and only time will tell.
Speaker 1: But I've basically been pivoting away from any hitters in
Speaker 1: the early rounds that only give you power and nothing else.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the bus that I've called out
Speaker 1: so far, Aaron Judge, I'm not on Peter Alonso. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why I'm not on him, for basically the
Speaker 1: same reasons I'm telling you probably not gonna draft Matt Olson.
Speaker 1: I just want to get batting average at least or
Speaker 1: stolen bases in those early rounds. And I think that
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizle is probably gonna hit two AD plus. I
Speaker 1: think that Jose Bray is probably gonna hit two ad
Speaker 1: plus ad. Olson is great. He might hit fifty home
Speaker 1: runs this season, but he's probably not gonna hit more
Speaker 1: than two fifty. If we're just being honest. So guy
Speaker 1: has struggled against left handed pitching. He has struggled to
Speaker 1: hit in oco as well. What I will say about
Speaker 1: about Matt Olson greg is that his stack cast page
Speaker 1: is just ridiculous. It's like Cody Balinger. It's like Cody
Speaker 1: Balinger light. It's there's red everywhere, which is a good thing.
Speaker 1: He was percentile or better in barrel percentage, average, eggs velocity,
Speaker 1: expected slugging percentage last year and hard contact right and
Speaker 1: that was coming back from a hammate bone injury, which
Speaker 1: just crazy, like you don't normally see stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen has ridiculous power, awesome batting stance as well,
Speaker 1: where he just like holds the bat out here like crazy,
Speaker 1: good mine up to hit him. Obviously not a great ballpark, Craig.
Speaker 1: I think he hits between two fifty and two sixty
Speaker 1: conservatively project forty home runs. It wouldn't surprise me if
Speaker 1: he approaches fifty. He has that type of power. So
Speaker 1: this doesn't contribute batting average, which is why have him six.
Speaker 1: And I understand that, but I have to ask for
Speaker 1: anyone who wants Peter Alonzo out there, just take Matt
Speaker 1: Olson three rounds later. That was literally the question I
Speaker 1: was about to ask you. It's not three rounds so
Speaker 1: much anymore though. So that Olson is fifty two in
Speaker 1: the NFBC O the past two weeks, um Peter Alons
Speaker 1: is thirty one. So it's around and a half or
Speaker 1: two questions will just take Matt Olsen two rounds later.
Speaker 1: The stack has numbers, the power. The power numbers are
Speaker 1: actually better for Matt Olson in than they are for
Speaker 1: and if he can get the average out, you're talking
Speaker 1: about Reese Hoskins five rounds later in a lonest thing,
Speaker 1: the same kind of thing. Yes, So the thing is Greg,
Speaker 1: am I doing that too much? Am I taking that
Speaker 1: too far? Because what happens? All right? You say, all right,
Speaker 1: well I wanted Peter Alonso, but you're right, Frank, I
Speaker 1: can wait. I can get medalson Oh crap, someone took
Speaker 1: medalson out from under me. Next thing, you know, I
Speaker 1: missed out and Reese Hoskins. If you just keep thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can wait and get someone that's similar, haven't, eventually
Speaker 1: you might not get that player. I haven't answered that
Speaker 1: one to what happened to be missed out on him? Greg? Way,
Speaker 1: So when the first basin you missed out on that
Speaker 1: you probably won't miss then then it's your fault. That's
Speaker 1: probably Christian Walker. But I do like I Met, I
Speaker 1: like Madelson, but probably more so and and uh points
Speaker 1: leeg just because you don't have to worry about the batting.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go back to the same question that
Speaker 1: we keep going when we keep trying to tackle and
Speaker 1: you you name some of the players that we kind
Speaker 1: of have in our heads of this auction, and they're
Speaker 1: all really very solid guys. I like where heads are at.
Speaker 1: Where are you finding speed? Like the guys that we
Speaker 1: have have oh speed. So last year in the NFBC
Speaker 1: main event, I wound up drafting de Gordon for speed
Speaker 1: and that didn't work out. He had a terrible season.
Speaker 1: And you've heard people kind of caution you about this
Speaker 1: in the past, and I basically had to live through
Speaker 1: it myself to learn my lesson. I don't like taking
Speaker 1: the players that you expect outside of a trade turner.
Speaker 1: I don't mind taking trade turner that you expect to
Speaker 1: give you thirty five plus stolen basis. I like taking
Speaker 1: the guys that just chip away. Greg felve to fifteen
Speaker 1: here twelve to fifteen. There, maybe get a guy who
Speaker 1: gives you a twenty to twenty five, someone like an
Speaker 1: Oscar Mercado or a Victor Roblos who can give you thirty.
Speaker 1: Like one of those guys down what Oscar Mercado Victor Robis?
Speaker 1: I mean, I have mental notes in my mind down
Speaker 1: because you really follow the notes in the draft. All right,
Speaker 1: I will, I will write down the names. But a
Speaker 1: lot of my draft so far, Greg, have been just
Speaker 1: chipping away, a lot of Haavier Bios shares Manny Machado
Speaker 1: eight to ten stolen bases, maybe like a Tim Anderson
Speaker 1: close to twenty stolen basis, someone like that. I'm just
Speaker 1: chipping away. I don't want the Malix Smith's I don't want.
Speaker 1: I don't mind a Jonathan VR, but he's not really
Speaker 1: a target of mine. I we went over our second
Speaker 1: basis in shortstop ranks, Greg, I would rather have Asilbi's
Speaker 1: chipping away fifteen and twenty stolen basis, Kessen Heira twelve
Speaker 1: to fifteen stolen bases. Just get a bunch of these guys,
Speaker 1: and then at the end of your draft you look
Speaker 1: up and you realize, oh, well, I got six or
Speaker 1: seven of these guys, I'm projected for a hundred stolen
Speaker 1: basis and that's perfectly fine. You can compete with that,
Speaker 1: all right. I just wanna remember, like we need that
Speaker 1: category at some point. No, you're right, because all the
Speaker 1: players so far that I'm looking at the list right now,
Speaker 1: we don't have much speed on This is usually, like
Speaker 1: you know your side of things. It's a fair question,
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna get it at the first base
Speaker 1: position unless you draft like Danny Santana or Julie Gurrel,
Speaker 1: who will give you like maybe five to eight. So well,
Speaker 1: you mentioned stolen basis at first base. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good time to talk about Paul Goldsman because for
Speaker 1: years Paul Goldschmidt was a crazy thirty stolen base threat
Speaker 1: at the first base spot. You're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that literally go thirty thirty at
Speaker 1: first base. That was crazy. Now you expect that a
Speaker 1: really big year in his first year in St. Louis.
Speaker 1: You don't really get it. Although the second half way
Speaker 1: better than this first half. I have Paul Goldmate rank
Speaker 1: is my eighth ranth first baseman. Are you backing on
Speaker 1: Goldie or you like, I think he's on the wrong
Speaker 1: side of his career here on out. Yeah, so Paul
Speaker 1: Goldschmith falls into the Chris Bryant and Josel two Bay category.
Speaker 1: For me, Greg, I'm not gonna have any shares of
Speaker 1: Paul Goldschmith this season. I have him down at my
Speaker 1: as my tenth first baseman as anah, it's not no,
Speaker 1: it's nothing egregious by any means. But it was a
Speaker 1: solid season with St. Louis. We saw the batting average
Speaker 1: dip all the way down to two sixty Was he
Speaker 1: expecting average? What I don't like It was only two
Speaker 1: sixty two, So it's not really like you know, he
Speaker 1: was on lucky last year. We could expect some positive
Speaker 1: regression in the batting average department. What I really don't like, Greg,
Speaker 1: is it's two years in a row now that we've
Speaker 1: seen the plate discipline start to slit or Paul gold Schmidt. Uh.
Speaker 1: The K percentage up over two years in a row
Speaker 1: is eleven percent walk rate, which is still really good.
Speaker 1: I understand that if you play an O B P
Speaker 1: or in a point's league, I think Paul Goldschman is
Speaker 1: still a fine, viable first baseman. There's nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 1: But his eleven percent walk rate is the lowest it's
Speaker 1: been since His thirty one percent chase rate last year
Speaker 1: was the highest of his career. Eleven percent swinging strike
Speaker 1: rate the highest since his rookie season. So to see
Speaker 1: the plate discipline starting to slip a little bit, Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Cardinals have a great lineup.
Speaker 1: And I look into his op yes by month, Greg,
Speaker 1: I do league average ops. It's like seven fifty eight
Speaker 1: is ops by month last year seven fifty three, eight
Speaker 1: three one thousand eight five, seven oh five and nine three.
Speaker 1: There were four months last year out of a six
Speaker 1: month season where Paul Goldschmidt was worse than a league
Speaker 1: average player. I'm not in in a road league. Though
Speaker 1: he did have over thirty runs for the thirty consecutive year,
Speaker 1: four out of five years. He did have closal hundred
Speaker 1: run scored close to the hundred RBI. When it was
Speaker 1: all said and done, Yeah, he's he's not gonna steal anymore.
Speaker 1: He's just no, no, no, I mean the soul and
Speaker 1: basis just continue to decline. Thy een to seven to three,
Speaker 1: maybe he gives you three to five, but I mean
Speaker 1: it's anymore. Can we see the county stats starts to
Speaker 1: come back even a little bit more In that line
Speaker 1: of Greg, I don't think that the Cardinals have a
Speaker 1: very good line up. They lost Marcelo Zuna, remember, so
Speaker 1: I think it was really it was really interesting. Is
Speaker 1: the two years nineteen, they're the same. The only difference
Speaker 1: is the average went down, and that points the play
Speaker 1: discipline that you pointed out a few moments ago. I
Speaker 1: think what you're seeing is what you get from Paul
Speaker 1: gold Trade at most. I don't think you see anything increase.
Speaker 1: I think it's only what if the average continues a
Speaker 1: little bit more, if it goes down to fifth and
Speaker 1: will say his babvit was around three hundreds. Traditionally it's
Speaker 1: been around three forty. Like he's a career three forty
Speaker 1: eight Gavitt, So it was he was unlucky last year
Speaker 1: in that regard. But I don't think you're gonna see
Speaker 1: the two three hundred player anymore. You're gonna be closer
Speaker 1: to three sixty. And again, this type of the numbers
Speaker 1: are fine. From the first page. He's fine. He's a
Speaker 1: fine option at first, that's what he is. But he
Speaker 1: just don't expect upside exactly. We just talked about Matt
Speaker 1: Olson and missing out on him and missing out Peter
Speaker 1: Alonzo all was fine in that regard with Reese Hoskins
Speaker 1: and those types of players. He's not a superstar anymore.
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Speaker 1: Peter Alonzo. You can go this way. And Peter Alonzo
Speaker 1: is not an active target of hours get all those
Speaker 1: over runs. Last year. He was an amazing last year
Speaker 1: in his rookie season for the Mats, and maybe he
Speaker 1: is just as goodness second year. But we didn't expect
Speaker 1: some regression here, Um, Frank, why don't take a few
Speaker 1: minutes to spend on Peter Alonzo. Yeah. Look, it's very
Speaker 1: similar to the what we said about Matt Olson. Now
Speaker 1: you can just get him a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: And look, if you expect Pete Alonso to come close
Speaker 1: to hitting fifty home runs again this upcoming season, then
Speaker 1: you should be drafting him. But I think anyone who
Speaker 1: realistically does projections probably has him in the forty the
Speaker 1: low forties range this upcoming season, which is still really good.
Speaker 1: But what I had to say about what he did
Speaker 1: last year, Greg is that his nine point six mile
Speaker 1: per hour average exit velocity was in the seventy eight
Speaker 1: percentile in baseball That ranked fifty third among qualified hitters
Speaker 1: last year. So he doesn't hit the ball nearly as
Speaker 1: hard as some of the other big name sluggers in
Speaker 1: the league. Guys like Aaron Judge mcguilson, No Nelson Cruz,
Speaker 1: frand Milrays. All those guys hit the ball way harder
Speaker 1: than Pete Alonso consistently. Uh And his slugging percentage in
Speaker 1: the second half last year, Greg dropped from six thirty
Speaker 1: four to five two. Obviously, it was his rookie season, right, like,
Speaker 1: we couldn't expect him to keep up at six thirty
Speaker 1: four slugging percentage for the entirety of the season. I
Speaker 1: get that, but I just think that you could get
Speaker 1: similar production out of players later on in the draft
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't even surprise me if Madelson outproduces Pete
Speaker 1: Alonso this year, Greg, and you're getting him two rounds later.
Speaker 1: So just realize, if you take Pete Alonso in that
Speaker 1: second third round range, you were passing up on some
Speaker 1: serious talent guys like Llwing, Marte Javier Bias, who we've
Speaker 1: just seen do it for longer. Um position scarcity, second
Speaker 1: base category scarcity, you know, Soulen Basis batting average early
Speaker 1: on in your draft as well. You're passing up on
Speaker 1: all that to get a great three category player, own runs,
Speaker 1: runs in RBIs. But realize he's gonna give you nothing
Speaker 1: in batting average and nothing in stolen bases, and it's
Speaker 1: really hard to make up those categories in the mid
Speaker 1: rounds Craig, Yeah, it's it's hard. As you said, it's
Speaker 1: been an early round pick and not get the categories
Speaker 1: that you need and make up for what Peter Pete
Speaker 1: Alonso gives you. I think at the home run home runs,
Speaker 1: are you gonna find ultimately with all the players we
Speaker 1: have named throughout today's show, you're going to find it.
Speaker 1: Peter Allows as amazing as he is, Frankie as his
Speaker 1: deficiencies being of home runs, your boy, there's venture. You
Speaker 1: could say nothing, a lot of things about him, but
Speaker 1: he nowled Josh Bell. Last year. He absolutely destroyed this
Speaker 1: one with Josh Bell. He's my number nine ranks, third
Speaker 1: first baseman because the only other good player in his
Speaker 1: lineup is not Kevin Newman, It's Brian Reynolds Safari Planet.
Speaker 1: Josh Bell had an awesome year last year. I know
Speaker 1: he struggled, uh towards the second half. He's not active
Speaker 1: target yours this year despite the breakout last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think he is a fallback option that
Speaker 1: you can actually get later than Paul gold Schmidt. Right,
Speaker 1: So we called Paul gold Schmidt a fallback option and
Speaker 1: he goes in the fifth, sixth round, and you know,
Speaker 1: Josh Bell, you can get a round or two even
Speaker 1: later than Paul gold Schmidt. You know, I think he
Speaker 1: is kind of the cliff right where the tear ends
Speaker 1: for with Josh Bell and then the next tear starts
Speaker 1: with Reese Hoskins, and he's fine, but obviously gonna hurt
Speaker 1: your batting average a lot more than someone like Josh Bell,
Speaker 1: who I think can hit, you know, around two seventy
Speaker 1: two seventy five. Last year, Greg was the tale of
Speaker 1: three seasons. Obviously, he got off to that phenomenal start
Speaker 1: from March through May he hit three forty three with
Speaker 1: eighteen home runs and ops over eleven hundred. June and July,
Speaker 1: Greg two months been hit two thirds team with nine
Speaker 1: home runs and a seven s S O p S.
Speaker 1: So really struggled there in the middle part of the season,
Speaker 1: and then August and September kind of turned it back
Speaker 1: on to batting average not great, but fine. Ten home
Speaker 1: runs with an OPS of eight, which that is pretty good.
Speaker 1: He claims that throughout the course of the season he
Speaker 1: went from sinking up fastballs Greg to sinking up breaking balls.
Speaker 1: And here's a quote from Josh Bell, I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you're not sinking up to the fastballs, you can't
Speaker 1: hit either. Well, once I started focusing more and more
Speaker 1: on all speed pitches, it just went down hill for
Speaker 1: me for a stretch of time. So it seems like
Speaker 1: he was focusing so much on trying to hit breaking
Speaker 1: pitches that he was then late on fastballs and vice versa,
Speaker 1: and he was just getting completely messed up. So obviously
Speaker 1: Pictures made an adjustment to him. Will Josh Bell be
Speaker 1: able to make the adjustment back? That's why I do
Speaker 1: have some pause. He did some really nice things last year.
Speaker 1: He hit the ball extremely hard, average eggs of LOSSI
Speaker 1: percentile in baseball last year. And he's someone who he
Speaker 1: said for years Greg that if he would lift the ball,
Speaker 1: he would hit more home runs, like we said about
Speaker 1: Christian Yellish and a lot of players. He's obviously very
Speaker 1: strong human being. He's a big boy um and he
Speaker 1: started lifting the ball last year. So he has to
Speaker 1: maintain just a lot of the strides that he made
Speaker 1: last year, and I'm just a little skeptical that he'll
Speaker 1: be able to maintain all of them. I still think
Speaker 1: he can be solid to seventy thirty home runs, eight runs,
Speaker 1: nine d R B I s. It's not a great
Speaker 1: line up. The Pittsburgh Pirates do not have a great lineup.
Speaker 1: It's not a great um ballparks hit and either he's
Speaker 1: actually much better in O BP and head to head points.
Speaker 1: He's Greg he has a great eye at the plate,
Speaker 1: great walk great. Maybe I'm wrong about Josh Bell. Maybe
Speaker 1: he just picks up exactly where he left off last
Speaker 1: year and you know, continues to get even better. But
Speaker 1: he made so many strides last year, I'm just a
Speaker 1: little skeptical that he'll be able to pick up all
Speaker 1: of those once again. I think he'll be solid, but
Speaker 1: again just not an active target of mine. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's fair. I think he's part of this first based
Speaker 1: crew that I feel comfortable drafting. I think he said
Speaker 1: he's gonna be solid. Maybe he doesn't give you what
Speaker 1: he gave you for a lot of the year last year.
Speaker 1: Even if he does kind of bounce back in the
Speaker 1: performance that we saw, I'm fine with him. And it's
Speaker 1: only like I said, that's the word right for him
Speaker 1: and Goldsmith? Fine, Yeah, you're fine, Yeah, I am. I am.
Speaker 1: Are you finally a boomoo Mancini? Well, he's another one too. Man.
Speaker 1: Is he going to be able to keep up the
Speaker 1: career year that he had last year? Obviously, great ballparks
Speaker 1: hidden in came to yards and great division to hidden
Speaker 1: You're Austin has will be there at some point. Frank
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes is gonna be their opening day gress. That's right, gratulations.
Speaker 1: I love Austin Hays too. Reserve rounds fifth olfielder, young
Speaker 1: guy on the fifth halfialder all right, he's a backup
Speaker 1: to our other fifth outfielder, which remains to be named
Speaker 1: right now, we will not reveal that information. Who is it?
Speaker 1: I'll text check e chat. But tree Mancini last year,
Speaker 1: much like Josh Bell, someone who started to lift the
Speaker 1: ball us here Greg for a long time. He hits
Speaker 1: the ball hard, but always hit the ball in the ground,
Speaker 1: started hitting more line drives. Last year. The fly ball
Speaker 1: rate went up to thirty one percent, which is still
Speaker 1: not great, but it's great compared to where he was
Speaker 1: at uh in in past years. So he's a lot
Speaker 1: like Josh Bell. I have him ranked in the tier
Speaker 1: below him. I have Trey Mancini at fourteen, so I
Speaker 1: have him just behind Reese Hoskins, Miguel Sino, and Julie Guriel.
Speaker 1: I just think a lot went right for tray Mancini
Speaker 1: last year. I think the home runs take a little
Speaker 1: bit of a step back. I don't think he comes
Speaker 1: close to thirty five again. I think he's probably. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he's you know, late twenties and home runs, solid,
Speaker 1: batting average like at two seventy to eighty hitter and
Speaker 1: however you want to project the counting stats for him,
Speaker 1: it's the Baltimore Orioles. It's not a great lineup. Look
Speaker 1: around him. Austin Hayes, Bernado nun Yez, Anthony Santander crushed Davis,
Speaker 1: the wrong crush Davis by the way, maybe you get
Speaker 1: eight runs a d r b S. I just worry
Speaker 1: about the line up around him. Greg, He's fine. He's
Speaker 1: also like Josh Bell and Paul Voltchman, just a tier lower.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a little bit really a target of mine.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a little bit higher on train than
Speaker 1: than you are. Actually it's just context, you know, I
Speaker 1: understand the team context. But I think if you look
Speaker 1: what he's literally done in the last three years. Yes,
Speaker 1: the home runs arout thirty five, that's too high. He's
Speaker 1: probably closer in between twenty five and thirty. But he
Speaker 1: gave you those home runs every n I think the
Speaker 1: I think the average is closer to what you saw
Speaker 1: two in the last three years, around that to ninety number.
Speaker 1: I think that what you saw Adam train Mancini outside
Speaker 1: of all of the all of those home runs, I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty legitimate. Man. What I will say about
Speaker 1: Trey Mancini is if you are somebody who buys into
Speaker 1: what he did last year, then he is an absolute
Speaker 1: bargain for you, and you should be in on him
Speaker 1: and on him, you know, either a late first baseman
Speaker 1: or a corner infielder, or utility about whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: If you buy what he did last year and you
Speaker 1: think he hits around to nine once again, and you know,
Speaker 1: approaches thirty home runs, and if he does all that,
Speaker 1: you know maybe the counting stats are actually all right
Speaker 1: in that ballpark, then he is a value for you.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I don't think that he gets to
Speaker 1: those numbers specifically, Greg No, man. I think it's closer
Speaker 1: than than you might realize or you might believe. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say realize. You might believe Andre Mazzine a little
Speaker 1: bit higher on him, which is why I have him
Speaker 1: at number ten. For me. We're talking about Max Monsey
Speaker 1: a lot on the show I Want to Move Faster, Dad.
Speaker 1: We talking about the girls. You know, I didn't even
Speaker 1: rank it as the first basement. We talked about him
Speaker 1: a lot. You will have first based eligibility early in
Speaker 1: the season, so we talked about him a lot. When
Speaker 1: we move over with some guys, he's the best. Think
Speaker 1: he's just tough to um. Even though Carlo Santana he
Speaker 1: was awesome last year. He's another one like Trey Mancini,
Speaker 1: right coming off the career year, and carl Santana is
Speaker 1: a little bit older as well, so you know he
Speaker 1: has the breakout year. How old is he Greg if
Speaker 1: you have that information, he's like thirty two thirty three
Speaker 1: years old. So it's just a weird time to be
Speaker 1: coming off a career year for Carlos Santana last year,
Speaker 1: which included him hitting two eight one, thirty four home runs,
Speaker 1: a hundred and ten runs scores, and eight and ninety
Speaker 1: three RB. I s he is he will be thirty
Speaker 1: four years old. Thirty four years old, much better in
Speaker 1: points leagues. Look if you can get this guy in
Speaker 1: a points league at a discount, because people see the
Speaker 1: name and they're reacting exactly how I'm reacting right now, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't want Carlos Santana. He is so great and
Speaker 1: points league put this in perspective, he was the seventh
Speaker 1: ranked first baseman in ROTO still really good. Last year
Speaker 1: number four, he was the fourth best first baseman in
Speaker 1: head to head points leagues, and he basically does that consistently. Greg.
Speaker 1: He walks a ton, he has great play discipline. He's
Speaker 1: awesome for O B P leagues as well. His second
Speaker 1: half came back to a little bit. In the second half, Greg,
Speaker 1: we saw the batting average drop a little bit. Two
Speaker 1: sixty two eight fifty five ops. Still really good um
Speaker 1: to sixty eight expected batting average last year behind the
Speaker 1: entire career to fifty career hitter expected. That's awesome. I
Speaker 1: will say, like, where are he's going. It's fine, it's
Speaker 1: awesome in a points league, But Greg, do you them
Speaker 1: as your starting first basement in a ROTO league? Ideally not.
Speaker 1: But it really excels nowhere, at least when you talk
Speaker 1: about Peter Anso and those guys, like they're gonna excel
Speaker 1: in path uns. Ye, it wouldn't surprise you if Carl
Speaker 1: Santana hits two fifty six home runs, eighty five runs
Speaker 1: and eighty five r b i's and nothing else, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: he doesn't do anything else. It would because if he
Speaker 1: does that, the average is be lowers should be close.
Speaker 1: It's true, right, he's great and points leaves. I'm not drafting.
Speaker 1: I love you, Carlos Santana. I always will man other
Speaker 1: first basement, I have we look like Julie Guriel before.
Speaker 1: I like Julie Guriel. I think he's I think he's
Speaker 1: a good player. How much do you buy into the
Speaker 1: power of Greg just Ball? Where would you set the
Speaker 1: over under for home runs? Last year he had thirty one,
Speaker 1: which was by far career high runs. Have a projection
Speaker 1: written down here with twenty two you can be under,
Speaker 1: but also with to nine batting average and eighty five
Speaker 1: ribies look at for average? Are we not very good?
Speaker 1: Do you find power? He is a fallback option at
Speaker 1: first base who gives you batting average, which you cannot
Speaker 1: say about a lot of players in this range. Great
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Speaker 1: a few minutes your program. First Base Preview. He's frank
Speaker 1: I'm Greg. Thanks for joining us year today. Craggy Reese Hoskins.
Speaker 1: I realized talk a lot about him this spring, because well,
Speaker 1: I like Reese Hoskins a lot. So Franklin, why are
Speaker 1: you now backing off oh Man a little bit? I
Speaker 1: don't want to worry too much about spring training, but
Speaker 1: based on how he end of the year, Greg second
Speaker 1: half hit one eight, which was the lowest qualified batting
Speaker 1: average for any hitter last year. In the second half
Speaker 1: of the season, it was not good bad. A lot
Speaker 1: of strikeouts and Reese Hoskins trying to hit the ball
Speaker 1: in the air too much. Seems like he's kind of
Speaker 1: selling out for home runs. And so far here in
Speaker 1: the spring he has a swing adjustment. Greg he has
Speaker 1: a new swing, and he is three for seventeen with
Speaker 1: nine strikeouts. So I don't want to put too much
Speaker 1: stock into spring training, but based on the second half
Speaker 1: that he had last year, I would have liked to
Speaker 1: see something out of Reese Hoskins here throughout spring. But Greg,
Speaker 1: if he can come anywhere close to the first half
Speaker 1: that he had last year, if he can repeat that
Speaker 1: for a full season, then he's absolutely a seal right now,
Speaker 1: because everyone's looking at the second half and I get it.
Speaker 1: But in the first half of the season, Greg, he
Speaker 1: hit to sixty three with a four oh one on
Speaker 1: base percentage and a five thirty slug with twenty home
Speaker 1: runs and fifty nine r b i s in the
Speaker 1: first half of the season, obviously mentioned. The second half,
Speaker 1: his fly ball rate balloon to fifty two percent. Greg,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was basically it wasn't even three true outcomes.
Speaker 1: It was walk, strike out, or flyout. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: home runs because he was just you know, the launch
Speaker 1: angle was too high. He was trying too hard to
Speaker 1: hit home runs. So he just has to go back
Speaker 1: to doing what he does best, try to hit more
Speaker 1: line drives again, lower that launch angle. A little bit
Speaker 1: because he's trying too hard to lift the ball. His
Speaker 1: launch angle last year was number one in all of baseball,
Speaker 1: so again just trying too hard to lift there. And
Speaker 1: if he does that, I think he hit two to
Speaker 1: fifty thirty five home runs. Really good counting stats because
Speaker 1: obviously gets on base a lot. Greg a fifteen percent
Speaker 1: walk right over the past three seasons. That is sixth
Speaker 1: best in baseball. He's better in ov P leagues, better
Speaker 1: in points leagues because of the on base per centage
Speaker 1: UH and the walks obviously, but I think you know,
Speaker 1: comparable numbers once again to him Matt Olsen, not the
Speaker 1: same type of upside, but runs eighty five plus runs
Speaker 1: close to a hundred ribbies, really good lineup, really good ballpark.
Speaker 1: All that is true, he plays every day. The vatting
Speaker 1: average has to bounce back a little bit here, man.
Speaker 1: I think it has to. He's not hitter, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he continues to strike out as much as he
Speaker 1: does and only hit five balls, Greg, then is and
Speaker 1: it might, right, it might stay at around to twenty.
Speaker 1: That's the risk of riees Hoskins. You're absolutely right, going
Speaker 1: down a little bit further a lot further. In this case,
Speaker 1: we get to Edwin and Carnassium, who is in the
Speaker 1: same guy for the last decade. Right, He's a guy
Speaker 1: that average is not going to be great, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna hit a ton of power. Last year for the
Speaker 1: Yankees and for the Marriage bed at four thirty four bombs,
Speaker 1: eight sixbies, eighty one runs scored, played in just a
Speaker 1: hundred and nine games and still giving thirty four on runs.
Speaker 1: He's hit thirty home runs at least every years twelve
Speaker 1: rank pretty good. I get it, he's like forty. He's
Speaker 1: thirty seven years old. But much like Nelson Cruise are
Speaker 1: we spoken about there's really no sign up slowing down
Speaker 1: here in the juice ball. Yeah, helping at thirty four
Speaker 1: and just a hundred and nine games. This is a
Speaker 1: guy that has legitimate forty home run power that's going
Speaker 1: way later. So I have to ask why are we
Speaker 1: wasting and not wasting? But why are we having a
Speaker 1: draft pick on Matt Olson when way later and when
Speaker 1: at Carnacion he gets similar numbers. It's a fair question,
Speaker 1: and there's obviously more downside to Encarnacion at his age
Speaker 1: of thirty seven years old. There's obviously injury risk as well.
Speaker 1: He hasn't played much here in spring training and only
Speaker 1: played a hundred and nine games last year. So the
Speaker 1: obvious answer, Greg is there's more downside than someone like
Speaker 1: Matt Olson, who is much younger and you know obviously
Speaker 1: could be due for a career year this upcoming season.
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, I think another fallback option at
Speaker 1: first base. If you want power and someone who is
Speaker 1: obviously going hurt your batting average, then why not just
Speaker 1: wait on someone like Incarnacion, who I think is gonna
Speaker 1: hit around thirty five home runs, He's gonna drive in
Speaker 1: probably close to a hundred. Because that White Sox lineup again,
Speaker 1: Jose A brave Mankada, Tim Anderson, Eloy Jimenez, Incarnacion is
Speaker 1: going to be in the middle of all of that.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of how healthy can he be.
Speaker 1: And for anyone who thinks that, you know, it was
Speaker 1: just all aided by Yankee Stadium last year. He was
Speaker 1: actually better with the Mariners than he was with the Yankees.
Speaker 1: He hit twenty one home runs in sixty five games
Speaker 1: with the Seattle Mariners last year, uh and actually had
Speaker 1: a higher home run to fly ball ratio with them.
Speaker 1: A higher isolated power with the Mariners last year, and
Speaker 1: he still walks a ton as well. So even if
Speaker 1: you're playing O B P or in a points league,
Speaker 1: I don't mind Incarnacion. You just have to bake in
Speaker 1: that he's probably gonna miss at least thirty games, Greig.
Speaker 1: And that's the downside to Incarnacio. Okay, but where you're
Speaker 1: getting him, he was fine. He's going later than anyone
Speaker 1: we've talked about yet. And there's so much And where
Speaker 1: do you have him? Because I have him at I
Speaker 1: haven't met sixteen fourteen. But there's just a few players
Speaker 1: that you don't include in the ranks, right like well Mayhew, Okay,
Speaker 1: we probably haven't been a similar spot. Yeah, we probably
Speaker 1: probably Ultimately you have him behind Mancinia Julie gae Um.
Speaker 1: I mentioned a couple of times on the show Christian
Speaker 1: Walker and Luke Voit, which one of those two players
Speaker 1: you'd rather have? So I actually have these guys back
Speaker 1: to back and they start off the next here for me,
Speaker 1: really guys that I'd rather have as corner infielders than
Speaker 1: starting first baseman. And I do have Christian Walker one
Speaker 1: spot higher. Christan Walker is someone who last year Greg
Speaker 1: look at the stat cast numbers, I mean, everything just
Speaker 1: pops off the page for Christian Walker last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he is somebody that for years we didn't know
Speaker 1: if he was just like a Quad A players. He's
Speaker 1: someone that just dominates Triple A. But he had twenty
Speaker 1: nine home runs in a hundred and fifty two games,
Speaker 1: ninety one mile per hour average eggs of velocity eighty
Speaker 1: five percentile, thirteen point one percent, barrel rate ninety percentile
Speaker 1: last year in his career in the minors, hit ter
Speaker 1: eight thirty nine o p s. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that there's a lot to like about Christian Walker, and
Speaker 1: I think, frankly, greg he's just a little bit safer
Speaker 1: in terms of injuries than someone like Luke Voit. Luke
Speaker 1: Void might have higher upside because obviously Yankee Stadium and
Speaker 1: hitting in that lineup, but remember Luke Voit is coming
Speaker 1: off of core surgery. Christian Walker did stay healthy four
Speaker 1: and fifty two games last year, and it's a solid
Speaker 1: lineup out there in Arizona, and he projects a hit
Speaker 1: right in the middle of it as well. So I
Speaker 1: think someone who can hit to fifty home runs, I
Speaker 1: think that's fair from Christian Walker. I think everything you're saying,
Speaker 1: and it also described Luke Voit like every like literally
Speaker 1: that entire stat lit we just saw for Christian Walker.
Speaker 1: It could happen, and the upside is higher for Luke Void. Agree.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to dispute that his swing is built
Speaker 1: for Yankee Stadius. He can go the opposite way. He
Speaker 1: hits a ton of line drives. I just think that
Speaker 1: there's more downside there because of the injury risk, all right,
Speaker 1: that I'd rather just take the upside, especially at this
Speaker 1: corner infield spot, especially at this price. Give me the
Speaker 1: higher upside with Lukevoi than Christian Walker. He's a good person. Nah,
Speaker 1: I trust Christian Walker more. You shouldn't. All right, let's
Speaker 1: move on. There's nobody else I really like to be
Speaker 1: with you. There's no other first patients that I like
Speaker 1: at all Right, tell us about Danny Santana none is
Speaker 1: eligibility everywhere starting center fielder for the Texas Rangers, and asked,
Speaker 1: I know that's it should be utility guy Sanna's every
Speaker 1: day center fielders. We want to talk about Eric Cosmer.
Speaker 1: Greig was actually up because he stinks and don't draft him.
Speaker 1: All right? Moving on, I got him as my corner
Speaker 1: infielder in the Great Fantasy Base Team League. Why he's fine, Greg,
Speaker 1: What does he do that is the key word here?
Speaker 1: What does he do well? Fine? R B I last year,
Speaker 1: everybody's like these days, right, do they? He's hitting in
Speaker 1: the middle of the lineup that a lot of people
Speaker 1: like stinks. He's just fine. It's twenty two homers of
Speaker 1: the juice ball. He's been playing every day because it's
Speaker 1: too many groundballs. He's the next one man. I will
Speaker 1: say this about Hosmer. If he's six percent groundholen the
Speaker 1: six percent. We've seen other guys that have that were
Speaker 1: stubborn about this in the past. Change He's like, if
Speaker 1: he lowers it, if he lowers it the fiftent. If
Speaker 1: he just lowers it the fifty percent, and he's a
Speaker 1: twenty five home run hitter with likely to seventy batting average,
Speaker 1: you know the last you're the last time his granda
Speaker 1: probably never never, fifty six percent was down from the
Speaker 1: year prior. Hit a lot of groundball Team League. No,
Speaker 1: he is fine as a corner He's not. I just
Speaker 1: agree he's bad. We're not drafting him. Cut him off.
Speaker 1: You don't have to thought, Sep, do you realize how
Speaker 1: the auction between Greg Sausman and myself has clearly become
Speaker 1: a dictatorship? I disagree. Why did you all of a
Speaker 1: sudden cross him off the list? We don't we only
Speaker 1: need fun players. Greg's idea. You know what was a
Speaker 1: fun player last year? Ramo Loriano? Greg? What happened there?
Speaker 1: You didn't want Romo Loriana Ramono Lorianna didn't say who's
Speaker 1: the same one? Who I'm gonna say? You know he's
Speaker 1: this year's Mauriceo Dubon Watch Dubons gonna have a great year.
Speaker 1: Who's very I don't even know what team he plays for?
Speaker 1: They don't. I still don't remember San Francisco Giants, Gregg,
Speaker 1: I don't think you want many giants, Greg, Who would
Speaker 1: you rather take? Last question regarding Eric Cosmer Osmer or
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy? I don't have Daniel Murphys in Colorado. Hey
Speaker 1: doesn't play against left handed pitching. I'd rather than Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy in Colorado. You would who'd rather have Eric Hosmer
Speaker 1: or Will Myers? Greg would rather have Daniel Murphy than
Speaker 1: Eric Cosmos. Yes, and he says no to every other
Speaker 1: boring player that I bring up here on you know,
Speaker 1: I have Daniel Murphy at like thirteen home runs. I
Speaker 1: do have Eric Cosmy. You said Eric Cosmer was bad
Speaker 1: and the Juice Ball year because he had twenty two runs.
Speaker 1: Murphy in Colorado twelve home runs. So you know, I
Speaker 1: answered that with Eric Cosmers my eighteenth rank first baseman,
Speaker 1: and Daniel Murphy it's twenty two. So I would rather
Speaker 1: Erica have Erick Cosmer reg higher than I do. Well,
Speaker 1: let's be fair, I don't have cree guys in you.
Speaker 1: So in the Great Fantasy Basic Mo Invitational, I was
Speaker 1: debating between Eric Hosmer and Dania Murphy. What what about
Speaker 1: the other guys like has Aguilar Justin No, I like
Speaker 1: Justin Smoke, I'm not I'm not doing the haz Justin
Speaker 1: Smoke in Milwaukee said he gonna play every day or
Speaker 1: they might he might play every day. It seems like
Speaker 1: he's gonna play every day with the Milwaukee Brewers that
Speaker 1: they're going to kind of split time in the outfield
Speaker 1: with Ryan Braun and Visa Garcia your boy, which doesn't
Speaker 1: bode well for Evil Garcia obviously, but you know, look
Speaker 1: that's what they're saying now, there's still a chance, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe against left handed pitching. They use Ryan Brown at
Speaker 1: first base and they use Garcia in the outfield. But
Speaker 1: I think Justin Smoke obviously going over to Miller Park,
Speaker 1: a ballpark that is so conducive to power for left
Speaker 1: handed batters. And yes, Justin Smoke is a switch hitter,
Speaker 1: but most of his power comes from the left hand side. Um, look,
Speaker 1: we're just talking about Christian Walker hitting two fifty with
Speaker 1: thirty home runs. Justin Smoke might be able to do
Speaker 1: that and you get them like a hundred picks later.
Speaker 1: So as a fallback corner infielder, Greg, if you want
Speaker 1: to put him on the list for auction, I have
Speaker 1: no problems with Justin Smoke, no issue with Justin I'd
Speaker 1: rather have c J. Crown over both. But I like C. C.
Speaker 1: Moore as well. I just changed rings because I had
Speaker 1: Smoke once spy higher. Now I have c J. Crown
Speaker 1: at twenty three and Justin Smoke at twenty four, and
Speaker 1: let move Justin Smoke up. C J. Cron By the way,
Speaker 1: before we on the show, fifty five one runs over
Speaker 1: the last two seasons, hit twenty five last year and
Speaker 1: only twenty five games and was six in baseball in
Speaker 1: barrel percentage. He's gonna play every day with the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 1: As long as he's with the Detroit Tigers, We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with c. J. Crow. Tomorrow, we wrap up
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