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Speaker 1: Greg Souman. What's happening, Frankie? Greggy? Happy Tuesday to your bud.
Speaker 1: Lots to talk about a lot of injuries already taking place,
Speaker 1: Like what does what do these guys do in the
Speaker 1: off season? If they show up to spring training and
Speaker 1: they can't even walk around without hurting themselves, Greg, what
Speaker 1: do they do? Honestly, I don't even have an answer
Speaker 1: for you, man. I I'm scared to figure out what
Speaker 1: you do on the weekends. What what I do on
Speaker 1: the weekends. It's just basically been watching movies. I haven't
Speaker 1: really done much, just like lounged around doing nothing, eating terribly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if that's what we're doing and we don't get injured
Speaker 1: just walking around, Greg, what the hell are baseball players
Speaker 1: doing in the off season. I feel like if we
Speaker 1: like try to work out like do like the work
Speaker 1: acts they're doing, we would be injured like immediately. That's
Speaker 1: probably true. We're also not professional athletes now we're not. No,
Speaker 1: we're not. Wait, don't hear your bodies like professional athletes either.
Speaker 1: In January you did? Yeah, in January you did. I
Speaker 1: didn't eat any avocado ice cream, a lot of the
Speaker 1: TV twelve diet, but everything pretty close to that, pretty close,
Speaker 1: pretty close. Did you just leave last night? How did
Speaker 1: I sleep pretty well? Nice? I haven't had an issue sleeping.
Speaker 1: He's gone very well. How about you sleeping well? I
Speaker 1: slept poorly, but not my phone. You probably probably dreaming
Speaker 1: about like Alex Sano calling you on the phone. Now,
Speaker 1: Judy was up all night, like what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to sleep and She's like, I'm stressed out
Speaker 1: on what work? Like, Hey, you wake up and be
Speaker 1: over come on you go out out there, read your
Speaker 1: book like love like that you like this date. Sports
Speaker 1: Grade news update. I'm Sean Gloss. No, I'm Alex Facano
Speaker 1: with your sports Grid news update here on the Fantasy BFFs.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that intro, Greg new Year, another Denny
Speaker 1: Hamlin win in the Daytona five hundred, and Joe Gibs
Speaker 1: still has the team to beat In NASCAR. Hamlin won
Speaker 1: his third day to five hundred on Monday, becoming the
Speaker 1: first driver since Sterling Marlin to win the Great American
Speaker 1: Race in consecutive seasons. His margin of victory of point
Speaker 1: zero one four seconds over Ryan Blaney was the second
Speaker 1: closest in race history, after only Hamlin's win over Martin
Speaker 1: True Junr in two thousand and sixteen. Monday's triumph is
Speaker 1: the third four Toyota all one by Hamlin. On the
Speaker 1: other side of the track, Ryan Newman has barrel rolled
Speaker 1: and slid across the finish line in a crumpled heap
Speaker 1: of metal, sparks flying as his car skipped to a halt,
Speaker 1: and fuel pouring onto the track. Frightening lye close to
Speaker 1: the flames. Fans gasped as track workers placed large black
Speaker 1: screens around Newman's car and worked to get him out.
Speaker 1: They had two hours until they got the chance to exhale.
Speaker 1: NASCAR's officials announced that Newman had non life threatening injuries
Speaker 1: and was in serious condition at the Halifax Medical Center.
Speaker 1: Reports will follow with more updates and in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: sports books are expecting the Astros hitters to be targeted
Speaker 1: often this off season. Some sports books set the over
Speaker 1: under on number of Astro's players to get targeted and
Speaker 1: hit at eighty three and a half. In the past
Speaker 1: five seasons, only nine teams have been hit by pitches
Speaker 1: more than eighty three and a half times, But with
Speaker 1: anger over the science stealing scandal glooming, there is plenty
Speaker 1: of reason to believe the Astros will be targeted frequently.
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred said that Sunday, independent
Speaker 1: of the Houston situation, he has been planning to increase
Speaker 1: the disciplinary ramifications for intentionally throwing at batters, and we'll
Speaker 1: meet with managers this week to discuss the issue and
Speaker 1: really quickly. In the NFL, drew Brees will play in
Speaker 1: the two thousand and twenty NFL season. The New Orleans
Speaker 1: Saints quarterback in the NFL's career passing leader will return
Speaker 1: and say, quote, make another run out of it. Breeze,
Speaker 1: who turned forty one in January, or scheduled to become
Speaker 1: a free agent in March, but he is ready to
Speaker 1: play with the Saints yet again. He holds the records
Speaker 1: for career passing touchdowns, passing yards, and completion percentage. I
Speaker 1: am Alex Passano and this has been your sports grid
Speaker 1: news update. Now back to the fantasy b f f's
Speaker 1: issues on that particular off date. Frank, I don't know
Speaker 1: you called it, but number one first issues by me,
Speaker 1: all right. I threw it to Shawn, not Alex. It
Speaker 1: was Seawan Guasta, Alex Pasana was my fault. A lot
Speaker 1: of NASCAR in there. A Nascar. Someone argued a top
Speaker 1: three most popular fantasy sport in the nation grade. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's arguable, you know, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can make that case. Well, the King used
Speaker 1: to make that case. I'm sure Angle would disagree with
Speaker 1: the Angles might but the BFFs don't. So if we
Speaker 1: could leave NASCAR out of the updates. My NASCAR knowledge
Speaker 1: goes as far as me as me when I was
Speaker 1: with Serious XM is like, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: heck you call it highlights in turn, Yeah, I used
Speaker 1: to log highlights for NASCAR. Imagine that logging highlights for NASCAR.
Speaker 1: I can't think of any things worse. Actually, in the
Speaker 1: south Park episode, you ever seen a Craig You're not
Speaker 1: a South Park guy. Right when I was younger, I
Speaker 1: was they have they have a NASCAR episode, tell us
Speaker 1: about your strategy about today's race. Well, drive straight making, lift,
Speaker 1: drive straight making? Are gotta be too poor to drive
Speaker 1: NASCAR as well? And all that? Anyway, point being, we
Speaker 1: don't need any NASCAR updates. Yeah, I mean there was
Speaker 1: you know, some eron Judge news that came out that
Speaker 1: might have been out definitely shouldn't be part of the
Speaker 1: fantasy BFF news uptake. Greig, we're the NASCAR and that's
Speaker 1: a crush, your crush, your hopes and dreams, they're out,
Speaker 1: my hoologies. They were the top stories. It was a
Speaker 1: pretty big they were. They were the top stories for
Speaker 1: a sports program that cares about NASCAR. There was something
Speaker 1: that he got that Ryan knew and is okay. There
Speaker 1: was something that he did mention in there that I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about real quick, Not Martin Trurex Jr.
Speaker 1: It was the Astros hit by pitch. This prop is
Speaker 1: probably the easiest money you'll ever make in your life.
Speaker 1: Eighty three and a half three teams got plunked eighty
Speaker 1: four or more times last year. The Astros themselves got
Speaker 1: hit with sixty six pitches last year. You're telling me
Speaker 1: they're not going to get hit by pitches eighteen more
Speaker 1: times this upcoming season. Also, I know that friend of
Speaker 1: the program spitting speeds, Dave Martinez friend has been trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what do you do with the twenty
Speaker 1: six man? Did you have a specific skill set designated
Speaker 1: to the twenty six man, maybe a really fast runner
Speaker 1: and athletic type runner who could come in and steal bases.
Speaker 1: I say no, no no, no, no, no, no no no
Speaker 1: no no, no, no no. There's gonna be harsh penalties
Speaker 1: for people who are throwing at the Astros twenty six man.
Speaker 1: You designate that player to plunking the Houston Astros. Whenever
Speaker 1: you play the player isn't isn't a picture? As we
Speaker 1: hit her. Oh well, then that doesn't make sense. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a great idea, but I was like,
Speaker 1: come on, you could just use that person to get
Speaker 1: suspended all the time, and they'll just continuously hit the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros. Everybody wants to do it anyway. I think
Speaker 1: it was Ross Stripling who already came out and said,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, we're gonna hit him. Oh yeah, there,
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna do. They're going to be hit once a series.
Speaker 1: That's a lock. Yeah. I like the over there over
Speaker 1: eighty three and a half. We'll see. We'll see what
Speaker 1: kind of penalties Uh these guys ultimately yet, um, all right.
Speaker 1: The big news that Alex did not mention that was
Speaker 1: the fact that Aaron Judge is not swinging or fielding.
Speaker 1: We're hitting, or or doing much of anything Yankees can't
Speaker 1: right now? Whish I could be Aaron Judge. You want
Speaker 1: to be George car Stanton, Just hurt all the time, nothing,
Speaker 1: get paid a bunch of money seems nice, right anyway.
Speaker 1: So Aaron Judge is hurt with shoulder soreness and an
Speaker 1: m R I recently. Shoulder has been sore for weeks
Speaker 1: and MRI recently no changes it's still sore. As a
Speaker 1: Yankee fan, Frank, I can tell you here we go again.
Speaker 1: This is what happened previously and it went terribly Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: this is this has been an issue for both Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge and Jehan Carlos Stanton, and we have spoke to
Speaker 1: Virginia Zaki's many times about this of inside injuries, that
Speaker 1: these guys are almost too big for their own good
Speaker 1: when it comes to being a baseball player. Yes, it's great.
Speaker 1: You can put out all these hype videos of you
Speaker 1: flipping tires and swinging hammers and whatever kind of crazy
Speaker 1: workout video you want to do, but when it comes
Speaker 1: down to it, they're almost too jack for their own good.
Speaker 1: Like you need to have flexibility, and you hear a
Speaker 1: lot of players talk about that nowadays, that they've done
Speaker 1: more yoga and they're trying to improve their flexibility so
Speaker 1: that you know, when they're swinging the bat, they're not
Speaker 1: developing any core ishes core injuries and no oblique injuries
Speaker 1: and trying to avoid back injuries. And you know, Judge
Speaker 1: has now dealt with shoulder injuries to both of his shoulders.
Speaker 1: He had left shoulder surgery after the seventeen season, and
Speaker 1: now he's dealing with an injury to his right should
Speaker 1: there last year he missed fifty games with an oblique injury.
Speaker 1: So look this, this is why I wasn't targeting Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge outside of a head to head points league. If
Speaker 1: you were drafting with the first overall pick. I hope
Speaker 1: you watched the white board series yesterday, but I wasn't
Speaker 1: targeting Aaron Judge mostly because he has not shown the
Speaker 1: ability to stay healthy greg and there are other players
Speaker 1: going in that range who have shown us that who
Speaker 1: can also do a little bit of everything. Whether you
Speaker 1: play in a rod A league, when you're playing a
Speaker 1: head to head points league, I just can't depend on
Speaker 1: either one of Judge or staying to stay healthy at
Speaker 1: this point. You know what it reminds me in football
Speaker 1: where we talking about points per target a lot, right,
Speaker 1: where that's not a thing. It's not a category. You
Speaker 1: don't get a point or target. And I made fun
Speaker 1: of you in regards to players like Mike Asecky right
Speaker 1: or um loved Mike. Who's the dude on the Bills
Speaker 1: that everyone was hot for Duke Johnson, not Duke Williams.
Speaker 1: I was like this guy sucks. What's the guy ever done?
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna go with Dawson knock you with
Speaker 1: Duke Williams. Ye spoke about Williams like one week, well,
Speaker 1: there's always kind of our CFL star, by the way,
Speaker 1: is always guys like this people talk up and Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge is obviously better than those types of players. Well,
Speaker 1: when he was being taken and even by me, like
Speaker 1: I'll call myself out on this, when he's called out
Speaker 1: for we're sorry being drafted in the first round, and
Speaker 1: I make the case like Aaron Judge is better than
Speaker 1: these players. I'm right he is. But now he's been
Speaker 1: a hundred and what twelve games, two games twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: he has his shoulder store in his now these things linger,
Speaker 1: and the biggest question mark was his durability. It's not
Speaker 1: even February nine. He's already hurt. This is why you
Speaker 1: don't avoid Aaron Judge. The guys that are going ahead
Speaker 1: of him, along ahead of him. But then you're talking baseball.
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Speaker 1: in judge eminently uh spooky a camp today and he
Speaker 1: said it's something he can do. Greg Nice. He said
Speaker 1: that the Astros should vacate their title, players should be punished,
Speaker 1: and the players on that team will never be looked
Speaker 1: at the same again and doubts that they were clean
Speaker 1: in Well, he's not wrong about that last part for sure,
Speaker 1: and if you ask Rob Manfred, he would agree. Apparently
Speaker 1: that is enough punishment for the Houston Astros, Greg, that
Speaker 1: they have to live with this embarrassment for the rest
Speaker 1: of their lives, that they shouldn't have to be punished.
Speaker 1: M hmm. I love the comments from Nick mar Kegis
Speaker 1: earlier today. Did you see that I did not see
Speaker 1: your tweet from comments? Yes? I didn't see if you
Speaker 1: No, No No, I didn't tweet anything about sad he wants
Speaker 1: to beat all of their acts. Yes they did see
Speaker 1: those comments yesterday. Yes, that's great. I love it. Let's
Speaker 1: go Nick Markegs. I gotta draft him in one of
Speaker 1: these draft chain being draft. I love you, Nick Marcuse.
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's make it happen. How many that's what
Speaker 1: we gotta said? Over under. How many brawls happened with
Speaker 1: the Ashrows this year? A bunch man, it's gonna be sick.
Speaker 1: I got more. I got more. This baseball season is
Speaker 1: basically slug fest. I love it, so I got more
Speaker 1: on Aaron Iroon Judge quotes if you don't mind, may
Speaker 1: read them quickly. Aaron Judge, he was pretty man, pretty
Speaker 1: upset about the Astros cheating and being prevented from playing
Speaker 1: the seen World Series of Cody Bellinger. I agree with
Speaker 1: a lot of things, he said. Says he believes the
Speaker 1: punishment of players was weak for a player driven scheme.
Speaker 1: Judge that it bothers him that the Astros didn't show
Speaker 1: enough remorse. People lost jobs, people lost money. As far
Speaker 1: as driving the Ashes of the World Series title, he
Speaker 1: said a quote, it wasn't earned. I couldn't sit up
Speaker 1: here in lie but it's always gonna be the back
Speaker 1: of your mind. Josh said he doesn't think access the
Speaker 1: replay review room should be restricted in the future because
Speaker 1: it's helpful for his own swing and defense during games.
Speaker 1: Joke they should add more officials just in the ongoing
Speaker 1: revelations where the Astros continue to make him stick to
Speaker 1: his stomach because it reflects poorly on baseball. He even
Speaker 1: called the most recent Jose to Bay incident tattoo gate. Judge,
Speaker 1: you finished second m VP voting. Deleted Instagram post is
Speaker 1: all season congratulating out to Bay on his award because
Speaker 1: they cheated. That didn't sit well with me. That post
Speaker 1: doesn't mean the same anymore. He's not wrong about anything
Speaker 1: that he said. It was just a matter of time
Speaker 1: until to tattoo gate became a thing here. Greg, And
Speaker 1: what I will add to that, and I've heard other
Speaker 1: people mentioned this before, for everybody who's out there making comments,
Speaker 1: and you should look if you're clean, if you're Cody Balinger,
Speaker 1: if you're Aaron Judge, and you guys are clean as well,
Speaker 1: say whatever you want. I'm just saying nothing better ever
Speaker 1: come out about the New York Yankees or the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers, because if that's the case, you are going
Speaker 1: to get crucified ten times worse than what's happening with
Speaker 1: the Houston Astros right now. So I have no problem
Speaker 1: people players speaking their mind, Greg and and roasting the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros right now. But if it ever comes out
Speaker 1: that the Yankees, Dodgers, anybody else was doing something similar
Speaker 1: to this, which other people have already speculated, that this
Speaker 1: is not the only team in baseball that's doing this,
Speaker 1: then those players are going to be absolutely roasted as well,
Speaker 1: and they would deserve that. So, look, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: point fingers and you're gonna call people names and say
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff, just make sure that you're
Speaker 1: clean as well. That's all I've got to say on
Speaker 1: that matter, Absolutely, no question, no question about it. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me um get into what we're talking about on
Speaker 1: today's program, where we were trying to figure out we
Speaker 1: do this every year and we get it right sometimes
Speaker 1: not like perfectly right. If I feel like we've done
Speaker 1: better in football and base but it's perfect, Greg. That's
Speaker 1: what's the ratio. They usually say. If you're sixty to
Speaker 1: sixty as a fantasy analyst, that means you're doing your job.
Speaker 1: You know, you give me like five percent. I feel
Speaker 1: good you have. Greg. Let's let's set the bar a
Speaker 1: little bit lower here, right. Nobodyould listen to me if
Speaker 1: you're not wrong anyway. So the idea of day show
Speaker 1: was to try to figure out who is this year's Blake, meaning,
Speaker 1: who is this year's freak out? Kennedy, it's your hitter,
Speaker 1: who's the guy that you can rely on? Like, that's
Speaker 1: the point of Today Show, Tomorrow Show. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: it from a more negative perspective. We're like, all right, positive,
Speaker 1: drafted this guy, he sucked last year, We're not gonna
Speaker 1: get caught again on you, Joey Voto, right, things like that,
Speaker 1: but today much more positive. Right, So let's start with
Speaker 1: a guy that we were very upset with last year, Frank,
Speaker 1: and that was Raffael Nevers. In fact, I think we
Speaker 1: did a whole show last year on who is this
Speaker 1: year's Raffael Devers? Because he really made us very angry
Speaker 1: two years ago. We're both in on him, we both
Speaker 1: loved him. We made sure we drafted him everywhere, and
Speaker 1: he was very very bad last year, very very good.
Speaker 1: Robail Levers was amazing last year. Before we move on
Speaker 1: and find out who is this year's Rafael Nevers, Frank,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask how good could Raphael Never's be
Speaker 1: this year's I think that he can come close to
Speaker 1: what he did last year as well. I mean three
Speaker 1: eleven batting average might seem a little bit optimistic, but
Speaker 1: you look at this guy's minor league track record, the
Speaker 1: prospect pedigree that he came with, his electric backs, bat
Speaker 1: speed as well, no mookie bets in that lineup, might,
Speaker 1: you know, bring the counting stats down a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I think coming close to thirty home runs, hitting
Speaker 1: to three hundred with hundred runs and RBIs is all
Speaker 1: well within the range of possibilities. He also stole eight
Speaker 1: bases last year. I believe all eight of those came
Speaker 1: in like the first three months, and then he was
Speaker 1: like caught eight sealing the rest of the way. So
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect much in that department. Maybe he gives
Speaker 1: you a five stolen bases, but this is an electric player,
Speaker 1: greg who was being drafted in the second round right now,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to argue with anything that he did
Speaker 1: last year. So I don't really have a problem with
Speaker 1: where he's going. If you wanted to take an Anthony
Speaker 1: Rendon just because you felt he was a little bit safer,
Speaker 1: I think that you can make that argument. But on
Speaker 1: the other side of the coin, I think you can
Speaker 1: also argue that Raphael Devers is upside is probably still
Speaker 1: higher than Anthony Rendon's as well. Yeah, I think it is,
Speaker 1: and I'm back in as you have to be a
Speaker 1: Rafael Devers. It was a crazy thing for him. Is
Speaker 1: he's twenty three years old. Like when we were upset
Speaker 1: what we were set by him two years ago, he's
Speaker 1: twenty one. It was a twenty one year old season
Speaker 1: and we crushed this kid last year. He came in
Speaker 1: and you're twenty two and just put up mystical, more
Speaker 1: mythical numbers in all honesty, with over thirty runs, almost
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty runs, scored a hundred and fifteen ribbies,
Speaker 1: eight stolen bases, and he got caught eight more times,
Speaker 1: which means you have a good chance of getting those
Speaker 1: double digit um there's double digit steals this year. Sure,
Speaker 1: the babbitt was way higher last year than it was
Speaker 1: a year before, but if you go back two years
Speaker 1: ago what we thought were three years ago when we
Speaker 1: thought he could break out, it was even high that right,
Speaker 1: So you look at rathfaeld Evers this year and this
Speaker 1: is a guy that I think you can make a
Speaker 1: case is a first round pick that next year he
Speaker 1: will definitely be a first round pick. He has all
Speaker 1: the tools that he could do everything, and he has
Speaker 1: la Rofie Devers. Yeah, and there's a chance that he
Speaker 1: just gets better than where he was a year ago,
Speaker 1: which up seems crazy, but yeah, like he did this,
Speaker 1: He did everything that you just said, Greg thirty seven
Speaker 1: thirty two. Him runs over a hundred and twenty runs,
Speaker 1: scored a hundred and fifteen RBIs with a thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent hard contact right. The biggest thing for him Greg contact,
Speaker 1: that keyword. He lowered his strikeout rate by seven percent
Speaker 1: last year. His plate discipline is not great. He swings
Speaker 1: in a lot of pitches outside the zone. And I've
Speaker 1: learned to kind of give players the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt because if this is who they are, this is
Speaker 1: who they are. I tried to doubt Javier bia Is
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and boy, that guy made
Speaker 1: me look foolish. And now I've done a complete one eighty.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have him on basically all of my teams.
Speaker 1: But Raphael Devers is similar to a Javier Bias, where
Speaker 1: you know, he chases a lot of pitches outside the zone.
Speaker 1: But look at his oh contact percentage from sixty three
Speaker 1: point six percent up to seventy one point nine percent.
Speaker 1: That's how often did he make contact on pitches outside
Speaker 1: of the zone. He raised that eight percentage points last
Speaker 1: year and that was a big part for him cutting
Speaker 1: down those strikeouts and improving that batting average. So now
Speaker 1: it's trying to play a game we like to call
Speaker 1: who is this year's Raphael Devers? Uh huh? All right,
Speaker 1: so that's I love the animation. We some music under
Speaker 1: it would have been great. Awesome job by Sandro here
Speaker 1: who is this year's dot dot dot? And then a
Speaker 1: great picture of Rafael Devers mug right there. Greg. Maybe
Speaker 1: we get some music for for next segment, Seawan if
Speaker 1: we can make that happen. But great, do you want
Speaker 1: to start with? Who is your? Who is this year's
Speaker 1: version of Rafael? So I'm not gonna listen, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna lie to the people. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm an honest guy and I love why don't lie
Speaker 1: to them? You this is one of the second ninetews
Speaker 1: that you came up with, and you know, listen, I
Speaker 1: want to figure out who this year is Rafael Nevers is?
Speaker 1: And to me, like, I think that guy's Corey Seeker,
Speaker 1: and I was like, damn, Like, Corey Seeger is one
Speaker 1: of my guys. I've been very high on Seeger ever
Speaker 1: since he came in the league, Like I owned him
Speaker 1: that first year um in one of my leagues, and
Speaker 1: when he got hurt, like I stuck with him, And
Speaker 1: obviously it was very, very frustrating. He's very frustrating to own.
Speaker 1: Last year. You never really got healthy, it seemed, and
Speaker 1: he was a player you wanted to bring up. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take the credit for that. Obviously it
Speaker 1: was your guy. But why are we both back in
Speaker 1: on Corey Seger this year? What positive size do you
Speaker 1: see from him that he could have a massive breakout
Speaker 1: potentially like Devers. So let's kind of preface this with
Speaker 1: what we were thinking on who is this year's Raphael Devers?
Speaker 1: It was a former prospect that is being underappreciated in
Speaker 1: fantasy drafts this season, who can break out maybe becomes
Speaker 1: a top three four round pick in next year's draft drafts.
Speaker 1: And I think Corey Seeger fits that mold. He's dealt
Speaker 1: with a lot of injuries. He had hip and elbow
Speaker 1: surgery in the off season last offseason, going into the
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season, and I think you saw that early
Speaker 1: on in the season here, Greg, he got off to
Speaker 1: a really slow start through the month of April two
Speaker 1: thirty six, three thirty three three sixty four triple slash
Speaker 1: with an eighty nine waited runs creative plus just two
Speaker 1: home runs, nine r b i s percent strikeout rate
Speaker 1: with a thirty seven percent hard contact rate. From May
Speaker 1: one on two eighty two, three thirty five, five seventeen
Speaker 1: slug a one twenty waited runs created plus seventeen home runs,
Speaker 1: sixty four runs scored, seventy eight ribbies, a seven percent
Speaker 1: walk rate, so that actually came down a little bit,
Speaker 1: but a seventeen percent k percentage. That dropped four percent
Speaker 1: as well from the first month of the season and
Speaker 1: then raises hard contact from thirty seven percent in April
Speaker 1: to forty three point six percent the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: So when looking at Corey Seeger, he is someone to me,
Speaker 1: Greg that can hit two eighty plus this year, hit
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty home runs, and I think that
Speaker 1: he can approach or even exceed one hundred and one
Speaker 1: hundred in the runs scored in one hundred RBIs. Look
Speaker 1: at the lineup that he's in. They have two m
Speaker 1: VP candidates in Mookie Betts and Cody Bellinger. They still
Speaker 1: have Justin Turner, they still have Max Moncy. All these
Speaker 1: guys are gonna get on base. Corey Seeger projected to
Speaker 1: bet fifth six, right in the middle of that lineup,
Speaker 1: maybe even move up a little bit there. I think
Speaker 1: that Corey Seger can get back to the player we
Speaker 1: were expecting him to be the one not on him Greg,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't really matter because where you're getting him, Uh,
Speaker 1: you don't have to depend on stolen bases in that
Speaker 1: range of the draft. Really, you want to draft stolen
Speaker 1: basis early on if you can. Is he gives you
Speaker 1: nothing on the base pats, what can he be? A
Speaker 1: four category contributor good batting average, home runs r BIS,
Speaker 1: run scored. I think the answer is unequivocally yes, we
Speaker 1: lot more on Corey Seeger in a moment. Another player
Speaker 1: as well coming up who Frank thinks could be the
Speaker 1: next Rafie Devers. We have other players we want to
Speaker 1: get into as well, including a break up picture and
Speaker 1: even a steady closer. You know it's not sexy, but
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that too. It was really in the
Speaker 1: closing tears at some point, Frank, because I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: there yet and I'd like to know who the good
Speaker 1: closes are this year, So we'll do that at some point.
Speaker 1: But alright, going up the BFFs, roll on more Corey,
Speaker 1: Seeger and who else could be this? Use Roff Devers,
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Speaker 1: and I currently arguing whose King Tomas? When this comes?
Speaker 1: I don't know that we would call it arguing, Greg,
Speaker 1: And you know it's crazy. You get to bring up
Speaker 1: Jose Kintana, right, who's outside the top three b C
Speaker 1: A DP When I bring up some obscure player that's
Speaker 1: going super late in draft ah ah, I believe, I
Speaker 1: believe I did that with just Justin Upton. It's exactly
Speaker 1: Andrew McCutcheon. But you're allowed to bring up Jose. You're
Speaker 1: allowed to bring who you want. You can, but like
Speaker 1: you could react however you want to player, you said
Speaker 1: when I wrote up, I would say Katana is not
Speaker 1: dissimilar from Justin Upton and Andrew mccutche. In fact, both
Speaker 1: of those hitters are going to be better than Jose Katana.
Speaker 1: That seems false. That's fine. Listen, you can Why do
Speaker 1: you like Jose Kantana? Gregg tell us, I just think
Speaker 1: he's currently undervalue his u His A was very high
Speaker 1: last year. Want was right hi last year because all
Speaker 1: of its high. He stinks it's been bad for like
Speaker 1: three seasons. I tried to do the Josecontana thing like
Speaker 1: it was way lower. All right, what was it? It
Speaker 1: was probably still four and a half. The picture that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk basically the breakout picture I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you later on may or may not have had a
Speaker 1: four xfit last year. It's bad. Let you decide fair enough, alright,
Speaker 1: what else you got mean? Of course you're here? Uh look,
Speaker 1: I think we hit on most of it. He did
Speaker 1: raise his launch angle last year as well. It was
Speaker 1: the highest of his career with a fourteen degree launch angle,
Speaker 1: So he started to lift the ball a little bit more,
Speaker 1: started hitting more flyballs. He did struggle against left handed pitching,
Speaker 1: which I didn't like when I looked into the profile.
Speaker 1: But every other year he actually had been better than
Speaker 1: he was last year against lefty, So I would expect
Speaker 1: him to regress a little bit back to where he
Speaker 1: has been against left handed pitching recently. And I just
Speaker 1: think everything about him from where he's being drafted to
Speaker 1: team context just makes a ton of sense. He's going
Speaker 1: pick one in the month of February in NFBC, A
Speaker 1: d P which is right around Kyle Tucker has a
Speaker 1: men's upside. Don't know if he has a job or not.
Speaker 1: David dal another one who might actually fit this description
Speaker 1: of a raffie Devers but can't stay healthy either. He's
Speaker 1: working right around Hector Nerris, who should be the closer
Speaker 1: for the Phillies. Gavin Lux. Gavin Lux has im mense
Speaker 1: upside as well. That's the You know, Corey Seeker is
Speaker 1: going to be in the lineup every single day, So
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up, because I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's true, right Corey seeger in his I guess
Speaker 1: one of his breakout campaigns A hundred and fifty seven
Speaker 1: games since then, sixty four last year, but he finally
Speaker 1: had a healthy offseason. Greig, he didn't hold any surgeries.
Speaker 1: Just totally totally get it. But we know the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and we know how they want to rest people to
Speaker 1: move people around. Is Corey Seeker now in that kind
Speaker 1: of rest rotation? Like I get, he's only twenty five
Speaker 1: years old, twenty six and April. He shouldn't be He
Speaker 1: should play single day. I just don't know that he will.
Speaker 1: I hope he does. But like Chris Tayler, Glas Short
Speaker 1: stopped for this team now Gavin looks. That's what's nuts
Speaker 1: to me. They're going back to back a DP wise
Speaker 1: because Gavin looks isn't gonna guarantee the starting job. That's
Speaker 1: the annoying anything. But this is this is the motto
Speaker 1: man Randy Savage right here, Greg, the cream always rises
Speaker 1: to the top. And a lot of people are excited
Speaker 1: about Gavin Lak. I just can't justify it. I spoke
Speaker 1: James Anderson of Rotal Wire on FFC and he said
Speaker 1: he had a hot take that Gavin looks out produces
Speaker 1: Louis Robert this upcoming season. I don't think at least
Speaker 1: Robert is going like the fifth sixth round in NFBC Draft. Well,
Speaker 1: when we wrote up Louise Robert going there, I asked you,
Speaker 1: if he does that, he has to be Ronald Acuna.
Speaker 1: Is Louise Robert Ronald d Cunia? He said no, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think he is either. So I think there's
Speaker 1: more holes in the swing than I'm not gonna own
Speaker 1: any Louise Robert this year. Yeah, okays, based on where
Speaker 1: he's going, move on course here because there's other places
Speaker 1: we want to get you on today's program. Um and
Speaker 1: that leads us next to another player even high and
Speaker 1: you talked about him a lot that you think could
Speaker 1: be this year is Robail Devis and he is. That
Speaker 1: would be Miguelson O Greg to the surprise of no nobody.
Speaker 1: I love Miguelson. This is one of my guys that
Speaker 1: I just can't quit. Similar to Justin Upton. I saw
Speaker 1: Miguelson O come up through the minors and it felt
Speaker 1: like he was someone I was stashing everywhere that year
Speaker 1: where he first kind of burst onto the scene and
Speaker 1: kind of took the league by storm and ended up
Speaker 1: hitting eighteen home runs and eighty games back in and
Speaker 1: ever since then, he's just been my guy and look
Speaker 1: at what he did last year. It's hard to argue
Speaker 1: with the production. It's just a matter of health, right, Like,
Speaker 1: how healthy is Miguelson no gonna be? How many games
Speaker 1: is he gonna play this upcoming season? The guy had
Speaker 1: thirty four home runs and seventy nine ribbies. Who you
Speaker 1: know for most players if you asked him, that's a
Speaker 1: great full season in a hundred and five games. That's
Speaker 1: just insane. And I really like the fact that Nelson
Speaker 1: Cruz joined the Minnesota Twins last year. I thought that
Speaker 1: he could actually have an effect like this on Miguelson. Know,
Speaker 1: to have that veteran leadership at a presence in the
Speaker 1: locker room, someone that frankly is similar to to mcgilson, know,
Speaker 1: a bigger body type, a master, someone who hits it
Speaker 1: for a lot of power as well, And ultimately I
Speaker 1: thought that it ended up helping mcgils snow. And if
Speaker 1: you look at his stat cast page, Greg, if you
Speaker 1: pull up his baseball savant, it's just a sea of red.
Speaker 1: It's just red everywhere. The guy just matches when he
Speaker 1: makes contact. One percent barrel rate that was percentile in
Speaker 1: baseball last year four point four mile per hour average
Speaker 1: exit velocity percentile. When he makes contact, he makes really
Speaker 1: good contact. Greg. So everyone's looking at Pete Alonso in
Speaker 1: the third round range and they're looking at Matt Olsen
Speaker 1: in the fifth round range. Who's to say that if
Speaker 1: mcgillson know plays a hundred, just give him a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty games, Greg, a hundred and thirty games that
Speaker 1: he can't hit two fifty with forty to forty five
Speaker 1: home runs. I think it's definitely doable. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of him staying on the field. We'll see has
Speaker 1: the ability to stay on the field this year. He
Speaker 1: has not shown that capability yet, has never played more
Speaker 1: than a hundred and sixteen games. We'll see if they
Speaker 1: can do it. He strikes out a lot too, now, Man,
Speaker 1: he strikes out a lot. Like we talked about Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge striking out thirty two percent of the time, and
Speaker 1: that's a lot. Miguelson no career thirty six percent strikeout rate.
Speaker 1: The batting average is not going to be good. He's
Speaker 1: a career to forty five hitter. I would expect between
Speaker 1: a two forty and two fifty batting average, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that that's that far off from guys like
Speaker 1: Petter Alonso, guys like Matt Olsen. And if you ask
Speaker 1: me to name the players who have the potential to
Speaker 1: hit fifty home runs this year, Greg, you could probably
Speaker 1: count them on one hand, maybe two hands. Miguelson Know
Speaker 1: is one of those players. I think. I think that's
Speaker 1: completely reasonably when Gilson Know has the abilities potentially because
Speaker 1: this he's Robbie Deverage. Let me move on, Frank to
Speaker 1: the picture here. I want to move on to this
Speaker 1: year's Lucas Gilito, where last year's a four top prospect
Speaker 1: who people really kind of broke down right. They told
Speaker 1: you all the reasons why Lucas Gilto wouldn't be good
Speaker 1: and that he wasn't as great as National has made
Speaker 1: him out to be. When the White Sox acquired him
Speaker 1: as a crown jewel, um, you know, big trade with Washington.
Speaker 1: They it was for not like the Nationals news something
Speaker 1: when training Giulia Gilidu away and he debuted, it wasn't good.
Speaker 1: And last year well it was all great. He blossomed
Speaker 1: before our eyes. Can this year be as good as
Speaker 1: last year for Lucas well? First of all, he has
Speaker 1: to get healthy because he's someone who's also dealing with
Speaker 1: an injury. Last week it came out I had some
Speaker 1: uh sore rib cage. I think he had a muscle
Speaker 1: strain in his chest as well. So Lucas Gilio first
Speaker 1: and foremost has to get healthy. But I absolutely think
Speaker 1: that he can repeat what he did last year Greg,
Speaker 1: and potentially even build off of it and get better.
Speaker 1: He changed his mechanics up. He has a new pitch
Speaker 1: mix that he uses. His fastball change up combination is
Speaker 1: deadly fifteen percent swinging shrike rate last year. That was
Speaker 1: a career high. That was sixth among starting pitchers last year.
Speaker 1: And I really like what we saw in the second half, Greg,
Speaker 1: where he started to give you length go deep into games.
Speaker 1: In twelve second half starts, Greg, he went at least
Speaker 1: six endings pitched and eleven of those. So I really
Speaker 1: like that aspect of Gildo and grand Dolla joining this
Speaker 1: team is going to help their entire Petre staff. He's
Speaker 1: one of the best pitch framers in all of baseball,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna help Lucas Gilto someone who has struggled
Speaker 1: with command at times in his career. Steal strikes because
Speaker 1: of pitch framing. Sign me up, man. I love where
Speaker 1: Gilto is going this year. I like getting him as
Speaker 1: an as an SP two ideally if you can in
Speaker 1: that third fourth round range, or potentially SP one if
Speaker 1: you wait a little bit. But I do like Gilto.
Speaker 1: I just want to see him get healthy here for
Speaker 1: spring training. Greg, I like Gilo as well. I think
Speaker 1: the breakout was real last year. It was double digit strikeouts,
Speaker 1: freaking awesome all season long, and obviously going deep into
Speaker 1: the game a second half of the year makes you
Speaker 1: feel like he's in a good spot. This year. I
Speaker 1: think Lucashilo can certainly build on what he did last season.
Speaker 1: And I'm in on Gilto here in twenties. But question
Speaker 1: isn't about Lucas Gilto. It's about who can be this
Speaker 1: year's Lucas Gilto. So let's not to play a game
Speaker 1: we like to call who will be this year's Lucas Gilda.
Speaker 1: Who can it be? Now? Who will be this year's
Speaker 1: Lucas Gilo? Frank, we turn it over to you. Who's
Speaker 1: your guy? All right? So stick with me here, Greg,
Speaker 1: You're you're ready to give us Jose Kintana and I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you a Tyler Beaty of the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants within Greg, this guess is the NFBC a
Speaker 1: DP please in the month of February. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: with four. But think about where Lucas Gilto was being
Speaker 1: drafted last year. He I don't actually if you want to,
Speaker 1: if you want to google, you could. If you google
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen fantasy basically you'll probably find somewhere. But I
Speaker 1: know in fifteen team leagues, Greg, where I was playing
Speaker 1: last year, he was undrafted in those twenty nineteen still
Speaker 1: just gives you alright, So maybe it's not as easy
Speaker 1: as I thought. But I played in fifteen team leagues
Speaker 1: last year, mixed leagues where Lucas Gilto was not drafted anywhere,
Speaker 1: and he was a waiver wire pickup and ended up
Speaker 1: emerging and he was great, and most people had basically
Speaker 1: written Lucas Gilto off. Tyler Beatty kind of fits that
Speaker 1: mold as somebody who is a former top prospect of
Speaker 1: the San just Go Giants. People have basically written him off.
Speaker 1: And I want to give a shout out to Michael
Speaker 1: Ayato of Picture List because he did a fantastic breakdown
Speaker 1: of Tyler Beatty, and he wrote about it at picture
Speaker 1: list dot com. Going Deep Tyler Beatty has flashed some
Speaker 1: promise is the name of the article if you want
Speaker 1: to check it out. Mikey Ayato p L on Twitter
Speaker 1: is the author of this article as well. Great Tyler
Speaker 1: Beatty was one of five pitchers last year who had
Speaker 1: three different pitches with a fifteen plus percent swinging strike
Speaker 1: create on three different pitches. The pictures that he joined
Speaker 1: Ritt Cole, Noahs, synder Guard, Zach Gallen, and who you
Speaker 1: guessed it, Joe must Grove. Of course he joined that group.
Speaker 1: That's some pretty good company to be a part of
Speaker 1: their UH and last year he made a pitch mix,
Speaker 1: a change to his pitch mix. He started using a
Speaker 1: slider and from July second on, with that slider incorporated,
Speaker 1: he has a fastball, a curve and a change up
Speaker 1: he uses as well for FO two year a not
Speaker 1: great four to six x fit over eight case nine
Speaker 1: right around two walks for nine. So vastly improved command
Speaker 1: from Tyler Beaty UH and he improved his first pitch
Speaker 1: strike percentage up to sixty five percent. He has a
Speaker 1: spot in the rotation. Gabe Kapler's raving about him right now. Greg,
Speaker 1: we could talk about him more when we come back,
Speaker 1: But I think that Tyler Beaty is someone who fits
Speaker 1: the mold of a Lucas Gilito as a former top
Speaker 1: prospect who people are forgetting about to the t. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll have more on Tyler Bride. I'll get an other
Speaker 1: name you don't want to forget about on Draft Day.
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Speaker 1: to discuss who the next Luguslo is. Frankie, you're you know,
Speaker 1: Tyler Beatty Santrancis, good giants and your boy Gave Kathler,
Speaker 1: Gabe Kathler, not my guy. Definitely your boy, not my guy.
Speaker 1: Because here we go again with the closer carousel, with
Speaker 1: the go here we go, Here we go again. You're done?
Speaker 1: Is that the latest Jonas Brothers song? Like ten years ago.
Speaker 1: All right, well close enough. No, I like Tyler Beaty
Speaker 1: are also awesome. I think he fits the mold of
Speaker 1: a former top prospect who people are forgetting about he
Speaker 1: and rightfully saw. I mean, he hasn't been good at
Speaker 1: the major league level. He hasn't been good in the minors.
Speaker 1: He struggled with command for most of his career until
Speaker 1: last year. Again, from July two on, we saw him
Speaker 1: up over eight case per nine, right around two walks
Speaker 1: per nine. The first pitch strike percentage was improved. The
Speaker 1: swinging strike rate, as I mentioned earlier, on three different pitches,
Speaker 1: was very good. Started incorporating a slider, changed up his
Speaker 1: mechanics last year as well. That all sounds a lot
Speaker 1: like Lucas Gilto Gilio changed the mechanics last year, started
Speaker 1: using fastball, change up combination more. He did see increased
Speaker 1: velocity on the fastball. Did you lead a last season?
Speaker 1: So that's something I'll pay attention to throughout the spring
Speaker 1: with Tyler beats he uh, you know if he is
Speaker 1: improving in terms of velocity, greg But I think that
Speaker 1: he fits this mold, and especially pitching in San Francisco
Speaker 1: in the Oracle Park it's a good pitchers park to
Speaker 1: pitch in. Uh, if you're playing an and only league
Speaker 1: or in one of these deeper fifteen team mixed rural leagues,
Speaker 1: I think you take a shot at the end of
Speaker 1: your bench one of your last round picks on Tyler Beatty.
Speaker 1: For me, I'm not gonna go far in looking at
Speaker 1: the replacement for Lugas g lead On the replacement, but
Speaker 1: the next Lucas de lead up I looked kind of deep.
Speaker 1: I've had some older guys, I kind of like Garrett Richards,
Speaker 1: with San Diego being one of them. Dylan Bundy in
Speaker 1: Atlanta kind of or at right, and I'm kind of
Speaker 1: like that. I like Dylan sees a lot too for
Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox and very similar right, the Lucas de
Speaker 1: lead On, top prospect for this team gets called up
Speaker 1: for the Struggles, his first taste of the majors and
Speaker 1: the biggest bug of who when Dylan cease last year
Speaker 1: and really his entire minorly career. From being honest with you,
Speaker 1: it was the walks. He constantly walks batters. He's walks
Speaker 1: for nine last year was ungodly four point three two.
Speaker 1: But if he can get the walks down. Always saw
Speaker 1: the control issues with Giulio two years ago. If he
Speaker 1: could get the walks down, I think Julie dylan't cease.
Speaker 1: I think he can find some success with the White Sox.
Speaker 1: I know, Frank, you were already counting him out. Think
Speaker 1: he might go kopec I will come back and just
Speaker 1: take his rotation spot. We're likely going to take Geo
Speaker 1: Gonzalez his rotations, but he signed Zalis. I can't promise
Speaker 1: you that, but he stinks. But Dylan sees in his
Speaker 1: last three starts allowed a grand total of reruns last
Speaker 1: year reruns in his last three starts. Now one of
Speaker 1: those stars. He only went three and third innings because
Speaker 1: he walked five guys. That's an issue. Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: The deer as he went into a game was seven
Speaker 1: innings last year. That's a bit frustrating. But the strikeouts
Speaker 1: can either his cape or nine last season was nine
Speaker 1: point nine nine basically at ten game or nine. If
Speaker 1: the walks should come down a little bit, Frank, and
Speaker 1: again we haven't really seen that as minor lead profile
Speaker 1: that the waltks are you going to come down? But
Speaker 1: if they do, I think you're looking at somebody that
Speaker 1: could be a really nice fine that doesn't cost you anything,
Speaker 1: that has a top prospect pedigree. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I like this call a lot when it comes to
Speaker 1: Dylan Seas and basically free in draft right now. His
Speaker 1: a DP and NFBC in the month of February is
Speaker 1: two eighty nine, so it seems like people are writing
Speaker 1: him off a little bit too early. He fits that mold,
Speaker 1: Greg of like a Mitch Keller as well, someone who
Speaker 1: people are writing off way too early as a former
Speaker 1: top prospects who struggled with his first taste in the major.
Speaker 1: Same thing with someone like Griffin Canning as well, although
Speaker 1: there are some injury concerns when it comes to Canning.
Speaker 1: I think Dylan Seas this call makes a lot of sense, Greg.
Speaker 1: He has four different pitches that he uses. It throws
Speaker 1: like nineties seven miles per hour. Oh and by the way,
Speaker 1: Yasmani Grandal, someone who struggles with command and you know,
Speaker 1: walking too many batters, you know, being able to steal
Speaker 1: strikes with a pitch framer like yas Monty Grandal is
Speaker 1: going to help all the White Sox uh And specifically
Speaker 1: I think it's really going to help someone like Dylan
Speaker 1: sees a veteran catcher who's in there to help one
Speaker 1: of these young starting pitchers. I like this call. I
Speaker 1: think you know at the end of your drafts, Dylan
Speaker 1: sees Tyler Beaty. I think these are two names that
Speaker 1: do have a decent amount of upside. Just be somewhere
Speaker 1: they're going, Greg, They're free, They're absolutely free. And the
Speaker 1: problem is for me, Frank, there's a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys that I like. You just need a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of them. We went through the break. We need to
Speaker 1: slow up your whole bench on like all these guys
Speaker 1: do that. Yes, and I think it's something that people
Speaker 1: should be doing. Is a g S team move for us? Yes?
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Michael Florio is not going to dispute that.
Speaker 1: Problems loves taking quality over quantity. Here's a problem. You're
Speaker 1: gonna want all these like old veteran hitters. Well, look,
Speaker 1: you have to you have to counteract the median age
Speaker 1: on your team. Greg. So if you're gonna have all
Speaker 1: these young starting pitchers, you gotta have a few just
Speaker 1: enough and Andrew Cutchins on your team as well. Greg,
Speaker 1: all right, we only have about five minutes ago in
Speaker 1: the show. So we wanted to go and figure out
Speaker 1: who is going to be this year Shane Green. I
Speaker 1: don't need Shane Green rejections for this year because he's
Speaker 1: not the closer in Atlantic stinks and he stinks, but
Speaker 1: he instinct for Team BFF. Over the last two years,
Speaker 1: he was my guy. Frank, I always try to find
Speaker 1: one of these, like crappy closers. You're the closer, whispered.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about with the crafty guys. With the
Speaker 1: crappy guys, I don't care who they are as long
Speaker 1: as they get a saved. Shane Green has been our guy,
Speaker 1: but no longer. He's not the closes anymore. So we
Speaker 1: need to figure out who this year's version is going
Speaker 1: to be. So let's do that in a game. We
Speaker 1: like to call who is this year's Shane Green? Who
Speaker 1: is this year's Shane Green? That's a question, Frank, I
Speaker 1: don't have my answer. What's your answer. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Kona Kella of the Pittsburgh Pirates. And when we're
Speaker 1: asking who is this year Shane Green, it's a later
Speaker 1: round closer who has the potential to be traded by
Speaker 1: mid season. Maybe they give you a fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: saves before they get traded around the MLB trade deadline.
Speaker 1: My pick is going to be Keyona Kella, who has
Speaker 1: flashed some strikeout upside in his career, averaging over eleven
Speaker 1: case per nine. Also has a career three two three
Speaker 1: e r a a one eleven whip. It looks like
Speaker 1: he's going to be the closer for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Speaker 1: to start the season. How about this Greg Last year,
Speaker 1: everybody is mashing the ball, hitting the ball extremely hard,
Speaker 1: raising the average exit velocity. Kiona Kella just a twenty
Speaker 1: seven percent hard contact rate, so did a great job
Speaker 1: in terms of limiting hard contact, even for a pitcher
Speaker 1: who throws nine seven miles per hour. I like Kiona
Speaker 1: Keller this year as someone who maybe gives you fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty saves before he gets traded, and if he
Speaker 1: doesn't get traded, you might even give you a thirty
Speaker 1: saves this year. Why not. Kiona Kela has has closing
Speaker 1: experience with people. Lolling in to that in a second.
Speaker 1: With Pittsburgh, we'll see what Kella can be for me.
Speaker 1: My guy, Frandon Kinsler with the Miami Moleans this is
Speaker 1: a team that doesn't like to spend that that much money.
Speaker 1: Bruce Sherman whatever went out, said that we're all the
Speaker 1: right things yesterday, and a lot of people really like
Speaker 1: what Sherman had to say. But one of the things
Speaker 1: that Don Mattingly has made clear is when they signed
Speaker 1: Brandon Kinseler, he's our closer. He's our guy, and just
Speaker 1: having knowing that even if you're on a bad team,
Speaker 1: bad teams win games too, right, Even the worst teams
Speaker 1: in baseball win sixty games, give or take, and most
Speaker 1: of those games are pretty close. If you have a
Speaker 1: guy that could be the closer all year long, there
Speaker 1: we'll see if kids gets traded again. But if you
Speaker 1: have a guy that can be the closer, has the experience,
Speaker 1: actually performed well in the in uh the previous opportunities
Speaker 1: he's gotten that role, that could be a real fine
Speaker 1: for you. My guy is Brandon Kinseler the Miami Marlins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't have a problem with Brandon Kinsler. I
Speaker 1: think the Miami Marlins might surprise people a little bit
Speaker 1: this upcoming season. I'm not saying that they're going to
Speaker 1: compete in the National League East. It is a stacked division,
Speaker 1: But I think that they do have some talent on
Speaker 1: this team, and he has closing experience. He has forty
Speaker 1: nine career saves, a two six eight e r A
Speaker 1: last year with a one oh four whip and Craig Miss,
Speaker 1: co host of Fantasy Sports Today, spoke with Brandon Kinseler
Speaker 1: and kids are kind of joked what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say forty games this yere. He knows that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be that. It's not a joke. I hope
Speaker 1: that you're correct, Greg, and I have no problem taking
Speaker 1: Brandon Kinseler as my third closer in a Rhodo draft.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you like to break it down, Greg,
Speaker 1: but in a Rhodo draft, you take nine pictures. Um,
Speaker 1: there's no designated titles. You don't have to take like
Speaker 1: a set amount of starting pictures, set amount of relievers.
Speaker 1: But I like to go with six starting pictures in
Speaker 1: my lineup and usually three closers, two closes that I
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about, and then maybe someone who you
Speaker 1: don't know if they have the role for sure, but
Speaker 1: you just kind of plug in there and hope. I
Speaker 1: think Brandon Kincler fits that mold as the third closer
Speaker 1: that you just kind of throw in there. You hope
Speaker 1: that he gets you. However, twenty saves in your case
Speaker 1: forty saves, Greg And I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the guy for the Marlins. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Brandon Kinseler. I don't say trust him. You don't
Speaker 1: trust that third closer or the like Marlin's closer ever
Speaker 1: so strongly. But I think Hella fits the bill too.
Speaker 1: You just want to find a guy on a bad
Speaker 1: team that's gonna hold on to his job. And it's
Speaker 1: a great point that you bring up about closers on
Speaker 1: bad teams. Look at Curby Yates last year, forty one saves.
Speaker 1: He led baseball and saves last year. So the Padres,
Speaker 1: who won like seventy seven games to think about it
Speaker 1: before that, right, so Curby Rates, we all vote into
Speaker 1: Curby Yates. Before that San Diego, it was Brad Hand.
Speaker 1: He was the best closure in baseball for a little while.
Speaker 1: Now that's Curby's playing for a terrible Padre's teams. Felippe,
Speaker 1: a vascas terrible person, got a bunch of saves with
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates. They stunk last year too, reliable was
Speaker 1: really big baskets. Kella could be that reliable this year.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, So I think both of these guys fit
Speaker 1: the mold of what we're looking for. Who's who has
Speaker 1: replaced Shane Green in Detroit's still Joe him and he
Speaker 1: was viewed to be the closer of the future. That's
Speaker 1: a blast in the past. Love the beard, the beard
Speaker 1: on jewels in mind, that was a good one. Everyone's
Speaker 1: very good. Joe Menez is probably part of this mix
Speaker 1: as well. I would say he's probably less likely to
Speaker 1: be traded away though he's probably going to remain with
Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers. He's young, he's controllable, so does that
Speaker 1: Nealy should bank on him rather than our guys. The
Speaker 1: problem is he's probably he's just not gonna be as
Speaker 1: good like his the r A and with is going
Speaker 1: to be worse than than players like Keona Keller and
Speaker 1: likely Brandon Kinseler as well. But he was someone who
Speaker 1: was thought to have upside to be the closure of
Speaker 1: the future out there in Detroit, and as of now
Speaker 1: it looks like he has that role getting back to
Speaker 1: Brandon Kinseler, who is really going to push him for
Speaker 1: that Closer's job. You know, they brought up Jose Urania,
Speaker 1: who has been in and out of the rotation in
Speaker 1: his career, hasn't really lived up to his expectations. To
Speaker 1: have Ryan Stannic, who they traded for with the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Raised last year, who was used as an opener
Speaker 1: at times. He's shown us a little bit. But Brandon
Speaker 1: Kinseler has that experience. I believe they brought in Brad
Speaker 1: Boxberger recently out on, but he hasn't been good. So
Speaker 1: I think Brandon Kinsler's job and his role is pretty safe.
Speaker 1: I feel good about it. I think about Kinceler, I
Speaker 1: feel god about Koona Keller because the manager is both
Speaker 1: Don natingly Uh and his manager Derek Shelton, first year manager.
Speaker 1: Usually the manager guy too well. Derek Shelton and I
Speaker 1: Manning will come out and said, these are our closers.
Speaker 1: When you're getting that in February, you feel really really good. Now,
Speaker 1: if only we can get that with the St. Louis Cardinals, Greg,
Speaker 1: because your guess is as good as mine, I think
Speaker 1: if you could give me Diegos, if you can give
Speaker 1: me like the rotation in St. Louis, that would also
Speaker 1: be helpful. Speaking of the Cardinals, Yeah, they're bad. Not
Speaker 1: the team is not good. I looked at that roster.
Speaker 1: The lineup is outside of Goldschmidth not great. Pitching, very bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah any Wayne Rights like your third starting pitchers have
Speaker 1: no good players. I'll tell you about more players that
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