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With that, 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.200 we don't be inside of Studio thirty four. This is 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.840 the b f S. He is Frank Snample, I am 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:43.199 Greg Souman. What's happening, Frankie? Greggy? Happy Tuesday to your bud. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.080 Lots to talk about a lot of injuries already taking place, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.120 Like what does what do these guys do in the 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.120 off season? If they show up to spring training and 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.760 they can't even walk around without hurting themselves, Greg, what 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.960 do they do? Honestly, I don't even have an answer 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.800 for you, man. I I'm scared to figure out what 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.240 you do on the weekends. What what I do on 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.160 the weekends. It's just basically been watching movies. I haven't 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:08.720 really done much, just like lounged around doing nothing, eating terribly. Yeah, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.000 if that's what we're doing and we don't get injured 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.519 just walking around, Greg, what the hell are baseball players 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:14.840 doing in the off season. I feel like if we 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.240 like try to work out like do like the work 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.760 acts they're doing, we would be injured like immediately. That's 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.239 probably true. We're also not professional athletes now we're not. No, 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.960 we're not. Wait, don't hear your bodies like professional athletes either. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.960 In January you did? Yeah, in January you did. I 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.200 didn't eat any avocado ice cream, a lot of the 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.359 TV twelve diet, but everything pretty close to that, pretty close, 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.079 pretty close. Did you just leave last night? How did 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.560 I sleep pretty well? Nice? I haven't had an issue sleeping. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:44.799 He's gone very well. How about you sleeping well? I 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.239 slept poorly, but not my phone. You probably probably dreaming 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.200 about like Alex Sano calling you on the phone. Now, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.680 Judy was up all night, like what are you doing? 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.960 I'm trying to sleep and She's like, I'm stressed out 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.519 on what work? Like, Hey, you wake up and be 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.840 over come on you go out out there, read your 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:12.840 book like love like that you like this date. Sports 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:20.480 Grade news update. I'm Sean Gloss. No, I'm Alex Facano 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.320 with your sports Grid news update here on the Fantasy BFFs. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.000 Thank you for that intro, Greg new Year, another Denny 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.800 Hamlin win in the Daytona five hundred, and Joe Gibs 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.800 still has the team to beat In NASCAR. Hamlin won 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:36.880 his third day to five hundred on Monday, becoming the 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:41.160 first driver since Sterling Marlin to win the Great American 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.000 Race in consecutive seasons. His margin of victory of point 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.480 zero one four seconds over Ryan Blaney was the second 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.160 closest in race history, after only Hamlin's win over Martin 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.960 True Junr in two thousand and sixteen. Monday's triumph is 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.560 the third four Toyota all one by Hamlin. On the 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.280 other side of the track, Ryan Newman has barrel rolled 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.840 and slid across the finish line in a crumpled heap 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.880 of metal, sparks flying as his car skipped to a halt, 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.560 and fuel pouring onto the track. Frightening lye close to 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.920 the flames. Fans gasped as track workers placed large black 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.560 screens around Newman's car and worked to get him out. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.040 They had two hours until they got the chance to exhale. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.120 NASCAR's officials announced that Newman had non life threatening injuries 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.839 and was in serious condition at the Halifax Medical Center. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.040 Reports will follow with more updates and in Major League Baseball, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.840 sports books are expecting the Astros hitters to be targeted 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.279 often this off season. Some sports books set the over 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.719 under on number of Astro's players to get targeted and 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.480 hit at eighty three and a half. In the past 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.760 five seasons, only nine teams have been hit by pitches 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.560 more than eighty three and a half times, But with 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.080 anger over the science stealing scandal glooming, there is plenty 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.880 of reason to believe the Astros will be targeted frequently. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.520 Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred said that Sunday, independent 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.680 of the Houston situation, he has been planning to increase 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.640 the disciplinary ramifications for intentionally throwing at batters, and we'll 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.240 meet with managers this week to discuss the issue and 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.240 really quickly. In the NFL, drew Brees will play in 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.520 the two thousand and twenty NFL season. The New Orleans 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.480 Saints quarterback in the NFL's career passing leader will return 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.719 and say, quote, make another run out of it. Breeze, 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.920 who turned forty one in January, or scheduled to become 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.080 a free agent in March, but he is ready to 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.599 play with the Saints yet again. He holds the records 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.000 for career passing touchdowns, passing yards, and completion percentage. I 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.160 am Alex Passano and this has been your sports grid 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.120 news update. Now back to the fantasy b f f's 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.320 issues on that particular off date. Frank, I don't know 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.600 you called it, but number one first issues by me, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.839 all right. I threw it to Shawn, not Alex. It 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:49.640 was Seawan Guasta, Alex Pasana was my fault. A lot 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:54.000 of NASCAR in there. A Nascar. Someone argued a top 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.640 three most popular fantasy sport in the nation grade. I 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.880 don't think that's arguable, you know, I don't. I don't 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:01.360 think you can make that case. Well, the King used 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.000 to make that case. I'm sure Angle would disagree with 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.279 the Angles might but the BFFs don't. So if we 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.360 could leave NASCAR out of the updates. My NASCAR knowledge 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.680 goes as far as me as me when I was 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.200 with Serious XM is like, I don't know what the 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.440 heck you call it highlights in turn, Yeah, I used 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.280 to log highlights for NASCAR. Imagine that logging highlights for NASCAR. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.839 I can't think of any things worse. Actually, in the 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.600 south Park episode, you ever seen a Craig You're not 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.680 a South Park guy. Right when I was younger, I 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.760 was they have they have a NASCAR episode, tell us 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.800 about your strategy about today's race. Well, drive straight making, lift, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.320 drive straight making? Are gotta be too poor to drive 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.520 NASCAR as well? And all that? Anyway, point being, we 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.200 don't need any NASCAR updates. Yeah, I mean there was 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.440 you know, some eron Judge news that came out that 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.560 might have been out definitely shouldn't be part of the 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:57.760 fantasy BFF news uptake. Greig, we're the NASCAR and that's 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.520 a crush, your crush, your hopes and dreams, they're out, 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.520 my hoologies. They were the top stories. It was a 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.440 pretty big they were. They were the top stories for 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.440 a sports program that cares about NASCAR. There was something 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.920 that he got that Ryan knew and is okay. There 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.520 was something that he did mention in there that I 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.840 wanted to talk about real quick, Not Martin Trurex Jr. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.160 It was the Astros hit by pitch. This prop is 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.400 probably the easiest money you'll ever make in your life. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.120 Eighty three and a half three teams got plunked eighty 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.200 four or more times last year. The Astros themselves got 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.000 hit with sixty six pitches last year. You're telling me 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.640 they're not going to get hit by pitches eighteen more 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.520 times this upcoming season. Also, I know that friend of 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.760 the program spitting speeds, Dave Martinez friend has been trying 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.440 to figure out what do you do with the twenty 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.640 six man? Did you have a specific skill set designated 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.520 to the twenty six man, maybe a really fast runner 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.040 and athletic type runner who could come in and steal bases. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.400 I say no, no no, no, no, no, no no no 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.720 no no, no, no no. There's gonna be harsh penalties 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.600 for people who are throwing at the Astros twenty six man. 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.760 You designate that player to plunking the Houston Astros. Whenever 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.120 you play the player isn't isn't a picture? As we 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:06.160 hit her. Oh well, then that doesn't make sense. I 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.360 thought it was a great idea, but I was like, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.200 come on, you could just use that person to get 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.120 suspended all the time, and they'll just continuously hit the 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.880 Houston Astros. Everybody wants to do it anyway. I think 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.720 it was Ross Stripling who already came out and said, 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.360 oh yeah, yeah, we're gonna hit him. Oh yeah, there, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.040 everyone's gonna do. They're going to be hit once a series. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.480 That's a lock. Yeah. I like the over there over 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.480 eighty three and a half. We'll see. We'll see what 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.880 kind of penalties Uh these guys ultimately yet, um, all right. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.440 The big news that Alex did not mention that was 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.480 the fact that Aaron Judge is not swinging or fielding. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.320 We're hitting, or or doing much of anything Yankees can't 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.160 right now? Whish I could be Aaron Judge. You want 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.080 to be George car Stanton, Just hurt all the time, nothing, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.760 get paid a bunch of money seems nice, right anyway. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.080 So Aaron Judge is hurt with shoulder soreness and an 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.640 m R I recently. Shoulder has been sore for weeks 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.920 and MRI recently no changes it's still sore. As a 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.520 Yankee fan, Frank, I can tell you here we go again. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:08.040 This is what happened previously and it went terribly Yeah. Look, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.400 this is this has been an issue for both Aaron 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.000 Judge and Jehan Carlos Stanton, and we have spoke to 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.480 Virginia Zaki's many times about this of inside injuries, that 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.800 these guys are almost too big for their own good 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.320 when it comes to being a baseball player. Yes, it's great. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.040 You can put out all these hype videos of you 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:29.960 flipping tires and swinging hammers and whatever kind of crazy 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.280 workout video you want to do, but when it comes 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.000 down to it, they're almost too jack for their own good. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.560 Like you need to have flexibility, and you hear a 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.720 lot of players talk about that nowadays, that they've done 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.520 more yoga and they're trying to improve their flexibility so 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.360 that you know, when they're swinging the bat, they're not 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.080 developing any core ishes core injuries and no oblique injuries 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.600 and trying to avoid back injuries. And you know, Judge 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.160 has now dealt with shoulder injuries to both of his shoulders. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.800 He had left shoulder surgery after the seventeen season, and 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.959 now he's dealing with an injury to his right should 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.199 there last year he missed fifty games with an oblique injury. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.600 So look this, this is why I wasn't targeting Aaron 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.240 Judge outside of a head to head points league. If 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.319 you were drafting with the first overall pick. I hope 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.320 you watched the white board series yesterday, but I wasn't 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.880 targeting Aaron Judge mostly because he has not shown the 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.640 ability to stay healthy greg and there are other players 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.320 going in that range who have shown us that who 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.559 can also do a little bit of everything. Whether you 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.000 play in a rod A league, when you're playing a 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.480 head to head points league, I just can't depend on 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.480 either one of Judge or staying to stay healthy at 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.880 this point. You know what it reminds me in football 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.080 where we talking about points per target a lot, right, 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:37.840 where that's not a thing. It's not a category. You 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.160 don't get a point or target. And I made fun 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.160 of you in regards to players like Mike Asecky right 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.120 or um loved Mike. Who's the dude on the Bills 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.800 that everyone was hot for Duke Johnson, not Duke Williams. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.400 I was like this guy sucks. What's the guy ever done? 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.600 I think you're gonna go with Dawson knock you with 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.160 Duke Williams. Ye spoke about Williams like one week, well, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.000 there's always kind of our CFL star, by the way, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.680 is always guys like this people talk up and Aaron 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.400 Judge is obviously better than those types of players. Well, 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.720 when he was being taken and even by me, like 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.640 I'll call myself out on this, when he's called out 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.800 for we're sorry being drafted in the first round, and 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.080 I make the case like Aaron Judge is better than 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.480 these players. I'm right he is. But now he's been 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.880 a hundred and what twelve games, two games twenty nineteen, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.720 he has his shoulder store in his now these things linger, 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.760 and the biggest question mark was his durability. It's not 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.959 even February nine. He's already hurt. This is why you 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.360 don't avoid Aaron Judge. The guys that are going ahead 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.160 of him, along ahead of him. But then you're talking baseball. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:48.800 When we come back sports grid dot Com Betting insights 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.720 and Entertainment at your fingertips as our team covers the 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.079 most important topics in sports wagering. Real time, odds, predictive 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.800 betting models, expert picks, and more want the edge than 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:10.400 get on the grid. Sports grid dot Com speaking about 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.840 in judge eminently uh spooky a camp today and he 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.640 said it's something he can do. Greg Nice. He said 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.200 that the Astros should vacate their title, players should be punished, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.480 and the players on that team will never be looked 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.520 at the same again and doubts that they were clean 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.800 in Well, he's not wrong about that last part for sure, 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.280 and if you ask Rob Manfred, he would agree. Apparently 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.680 that is enough punishment for the Houston Astros, Greg, that 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.800 they have to live with this embarrassment for the rest 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.640 of their lives, that they shouldn't have to be punished. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.160 M hmm. I love the comments from Nick mar Kegis 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.840 earlier today. Did you see that I did not see 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.080 your tweet from comments? Yes? I didn't see if you 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.880 No, No No, I didn't tweet anything about sad he wants 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.440 to beat all of their acts. Yes they did see 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.400 those comments yesterday. Yes, that's great. I love it. Let's 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.360 go Nick Markegs. I gotta draft him in one of 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.679 these draft chain being draft. I love you, Nick Marcuse. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.680 Let's go, let's make it happen. How many that's what 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.640 we gotta said? Over under. How many brawls happened with 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.280 the Ashrows this year? A bunch man, it's gonna be sick. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.000 I got more. I got more. This baseball season is 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.000 basically slug fest. I love it, so I got more 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:18.920 on Aaron Iroon Judge quotes if you don't mind, may 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.760 read them quickly. Aaron Judge, he was pretty man, pretty 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.000 upset about the Astros cheating and being prevented from playing 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.240 the seen World Series of Cody Bellinger. I agree with 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.120 a lot of things, he said. Says he believes the 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.559 punishment of players was weak for a player driven scheme. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.760 Judge that it bothers him that the Astros didn't show 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.520 enough remorse. People lost jobs, people lost money. As far 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.760 as driving the Ashes of the World Series title, he 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.880 said a quote, it wasn't earned. I couldn't sit up 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.920 here in lie but it's always gonna be the back 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.120 of your mind. Josh said he doesn't think access the 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.240 replay review room should be restricted in the future because 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.640 it's helpful for his own swing and defense during games. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.360 Joke they should add more officials just in the ongoing 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.240 revelations where the Astros continue to make him stick to 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.640 his stomach because it reflects poorly on baseball. He even 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.400 called the most recent Jose to Bay incident tattoo gate. Judge, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.720 you finished second m VP voting. Deleted Instagram post is 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.360 all season congratulating out to Bay on his award because 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.000 they cheated. That didn't sit well with me. That post 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.120 doesn't mean the same anymore. He's not wrong about anything 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:18.600 that he said. It was just a matter of time 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.160 until to tattoo gate became a thing here. Greg, And 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:24.720 what I will add to that, and I've heard other 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.720 people mentioned this before, for everybody who's out there making comments, 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.360 and you should look if you're clean, if you're Cody Balinger, 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.080 if you're Aaron Judge, and you guys are clean as well, 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.920 say whatever you want. I'm just saying nothing better ever 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.240 come out about the New York Yankees or the Los 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.120 Angeles Dodgers, because if that's the case, you are going 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.480 to get crucified ten times worse than what's happening with 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.040 the Houston Astros right now. So I have no problem 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.000 people players speaking their mind, Greg and and roasting the 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.160 Houston Astros right now. But if it ever comes out 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.680 that the Yankees, Dodgers, anybody else was doing something similar 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.560 to this, which other people have already speculated, that this 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.240 is not the only team in baseball that's doing this, 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.800 then those players are going to be absolutely roasted as well, 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.800 and they would deserve that. So, look, if you're gonna 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.720 point fingers and you're gonna call people names and say 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.600 all this kind of stuff, just make sure that you're 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.160 clean as well. That's all I've got to say on 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.200 that matter, Absolutely, no question, no question about it. Okay, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.640 let me um get into what we're talking about on 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.680 today's program, where we were trying to figure out we 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.320 do this every year and we get it right sometimes 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.800 not like perfectly right. If I feel like we've done 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.760 better in football and base but it's perfect, Greg. That's 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:33.800 what's the ratio. They usually say. If you're sixty to 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.920 sixty as a fantasy analyst, that means you're doing your job. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.040 You know, you give me like five percent. I feel 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.800 good you have. Greg. Let's let's set the bar a 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.520 little bit lower here, right. Nobodyould listen to me if 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.800 you're not wrong anyway. So the idea of day show 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.480 was to try to figure out who is this year's Blake, meaning, 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.680 who is this year's freak out? Kennedy, it's your hitter, 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.360 who's the guy that you can rely on? Like, that's 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.240 the point of Today Show, Tomorrow Show. We're gonna do 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.000 it from a more negative perspective. We're like, all right, positive, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.360 drafted this guy, he sucked last year, We're not gonna 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.360 get caught again on you, Joey Voto, right, things like that, 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.640 but today much more positive. Right, So let's start with 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.920 a guy that we were very upset with last year, Frank, 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.320 and that was Raffael Nevers. In fact, I think we 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.280 did a whole show last year on who is this 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.280 year's Raffael Devers? Because he really made us very angry 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.240 two years ago. We're both in on him, we both 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.160 loved him. We made sure we drafted him everywhere, and 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.960 he was very very bad last year, very very good. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.760 Robail Levers was amazing last year. Before we move on 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.080 and find out who is this year's Rafael Nevers, Frank, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.000 I wanted to ask how good could Raphael Never's be 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.960 this year's I think that he can come close to 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.280 what he did last year as well. I mean three 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.080 eleven batting average might seem a little bit optimistic, but 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.120 you look at this guy's minor league track record, the 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.320 prospect pedigree that he came with, his electric backs, bat 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.240 speed as well, no mookie bets in that lineup, might, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.800 you know, bring the counting stats down a little bit. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.720 But I think coming close to thirty home runs, hitting 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:17.400 to three hundred with hundred runs and RBIs is all 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.520 well within the range of possibilities. He also stole eight 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.840 bases last year. I believe all eight of those came 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:24.520 in like the first three months, and then he was 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.440 like caught eight sealing the rest of the way. So 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.040 I wouldn't expect much in that department. Maybe he gives 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.600 you a five stolen bases, but this is an electric player, 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.280 greg who was being drafted in the second round right now, 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.640 and it's hard to argue with anything that he did 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.879 last year. So I don't really have a problem with 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.200 where he's going. If you wanted to take an Anthony 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.520 Rendon just because you felt he was a little bit safer, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.679 I think that you can make that argument. But on 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.280 the other side of the coin, I think you can 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.520 also argue that Raphael Devers is upside is probably still 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.920 higher than Anthony Rendon's as well. Yeah, I think it is, 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.399 and I'm back in as you have to be a 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.119 Rafael Devers. It was a crazy thing for him. Is 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.879 he's twenty three years old. Like when we were upset 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:03.880 what we were set by him two years ago, he's 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:05.879 twenty one. It was a twenty one year old season 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.520 and we crushed this kid last year. He came in 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.280 and you're twenty two and just put up mystical, more 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.240 mythical numbers in all honesty, with over thirty runs, almost 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.960 a hundred and thirty runs, scored a hundred and fifteen ribbies, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.160 eight stolen bases, and he got caught eight more times, 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.240 which means you have a good chance of getting those 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.200 double digit um there's double digit steals this year. Sure, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.720 the babbitt was way higher last year than it was 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.160 a year before, but if you go back two years 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:29.840 ago what we thought were three years ago when we 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.240 thought he could break out, it was even high that right, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.959 So you look at rathfaeld Evers this year and this 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.040 is a guy that I think you can make a 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.359 case is a first round pick that next year he 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.640 will definitely be a first round pick. He has all 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.439 the tools that he could do everything, and he has 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.679 la Rofie Devers. Yeah, and there's a chance that he 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.800 just gets better than where he was a year ago, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.679 which up seems crazy, but yeah, like he did this, 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.560 He did everything that you just said, Greg thirty seven 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.120 thirty two. Him runs over a hundred and twenty runs, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.320 scored a hundred and fifteen RBIs with a thirty seven 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.879 percent hard contact right. The biggest thing for him Greg contact, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.440 that keyword. He lowered his strikeout rate by seven percent 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.040 last year. His plate discipline is not great. He swings 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:16.680 in a lot of pitches outside the zone. And I've 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.840 learned to kind of give players the benefit of the 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.639 doubt because if this is who they are, this is 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:22.960 who they are. I tried to doubt Javier bia Is 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.000 a couple of years ago, and boy, that guy made 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:29.040 me look foolish. And now I've done a complete one eighty. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:30.960 I'm gonna have him on basically all of my teams. 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.359 But Raphael Devers is similar to a Javier Bias, where 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.640 you know, he chases a lot of pitches outside the zone. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:41.080 But look at his oh contact percentage from sixty three 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.600 point six percent up to seventy one point nine percent. 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.320 That's how often did he make contact on pitches outside 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.800 of the zone. He raised that eight percentage points last 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.720 year and that was a big part for him cutting 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.800 down those strikeouts and improving that batting average. So now 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.680 it's trying to play a game we like to call 0:19:55.960 --> 0:20:06.560 who is this year's Raphael Devers? Uh huh? All right, 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:12.960 so that's I love the animation. We some music under 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.440 it would have been great. Awesome job by Sandro here 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.520 who is this year's dot dot dot? And then a 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.200 great picture of Rafael Devers mug right there. Greg. Maybe 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.919 we get some music for for next segment, Seawan if 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.959 we can make that happen. But great, do you want 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.080 to start with? Who is your? Who is this year's 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.080 version of Rafael? So I'm not gonna listen, I'm not 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.920 gonna I'm not gonna lie to the people. You know, 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.280 I'm an honest guy and I love why don't lie 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.720 to them? You this is one of the second ninetews 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:40.800 that you came up with, and you know, listen, I 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:42.800 want to figure out who this year is Rafael Nevers is? 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.040 And to me, like, I think that guy's Corey Seeker, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:46.600 and I was like, damn, Like, Corey Seeger is one 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:48.600