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Speaker 2: b Joe Piezapia, and today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, man, thanks for having me on. And yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: gonna run a little five by five. We're gonna go back.
Speaker 1: We did Points League last week. We've done six by six,
Speaker 1: We've we've run all these different simulations. But now it's
Speaker 1: time to get back to basics for everybody one last time.
Speaker 1: And just as you are approaching these real drafts coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend, I'm sure you've had a bunch of
Speaker 1: drafts already. What's the big thing that you've noticed in
Speaker 1: terms of either guys climbing up drafts or guys falling
Speaker 1: in terms of value. What's the biggest trend that you've
Speaker 1: noticed over the last week or two.
Speaker 3: I think the biggest trend I've noticed is, you know,
Speaker 3: some of these guys I got signed late really started
Speaker 3: getting boosted up. So we've seen Chris Bryant really climbing drafts.
Speaker 3: You know, we've seen some of these guys also that
Speaker 3: have gotten injured lately, like Louis Castillo, that are probably
Speaker 3: gonna fall. Chris Sale plummeted like a rock, obviously for
Speaker 3: good reason. And then you're gonna notice some of these
Speaker 3: guys who are getting a little bit of helium late.
Speaker 3: Mitch Keller the shortstop from Houston, Blake and on a
Speaker 3: thing right now. But excuse me. You know these guys
Speaker 3: would get some helium and getting drafted earlier and earlier,
Speaker 3: because you know, as the talk gets there, people get
Speaker 3: more excited. Right, You're like, have to get him, right,
Speaker 3: and so it's like I gotta go beat everybody else
Speaker 3: in my draft, and they're just gonna get snatched up.
Speaker 3: Earlier and earlier. I've been lucky enough to to get
Speaker 3: you know, at least some of these guys like Alejandro
Speaker 3: Kirk and things like that near the end rounds of
Speaker 3: some best balls lately, but I had not had the
Speaker 3: chance to take them in any of the kind of
Speaker 3: standard five by fives. Yet I've been I've been outreached.
Speaker 1: While we've noticed that Joe Adele stock going up, we've
Speaker 1: noticed we were talking about just the other day, well
Speaker 1: should I were talking about that one. We talked about
Speaker 1: the Bobby Wood junior stock soaring. It was already at
Speaker 1: a good price to start. Now it's like, yo, you
Speaker 1: got to pay the premium now to get him. And
Speaker 1: we've seen guys have great springs and then kind of
Speaker 1: follow their face in April. So we'll see if some
Speaker 1: of those hot springs carry over, and hopefully they do
Speaker 1: for some of this young talent in the major leagues today.
Speaker 1: Once again, five by five that's what we're gonna be doing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go from the one spot and you're gonna
Speaker 1: go from the twelve spot here and just to you know,
Speaker 1: kind of map it out for everybody, it's the standard
Speaker 1: five by five. So we've got batting average in there,
Speaker 1: saves wins, you know, your typical five y five which
Speaker 1: you got here. And also we're gonna have the corner
Speaker 1: spots back, so we're gonna bring that back today. With
Speaker 1: the middle infield spots, we're gonna have five active outfielders.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do some nine open pitcher spots, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna leave things open in philosophy here. If people want
Speaker 1: to go heavy closers, they can. If people want to
Speaker 1: go heavy starting pitching, they can. So we're gonna leave
Speaker 1: that open. No mandatory RP spots today for this draft.
Speaker 1: And we're not gonna do bench either. You guys know
Speaker 1: what to do with the bench. You take your shots.
Speaker 1: And the guys that we've been recommending now, I've been
Speaker 1: going Juan Soto at the top whenever I can, but
Speaker 1: for today, just for today, I'm gonna go ahead. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna listen to the Draft Wizard, and I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: Trey Turner and We're gonna see how things go here.
Speaker 1: So I'm officially on the clock starting things off. So
Speaker 1: I will take Turner at the one. I took the
Speaker 1: top player. I got the big check out the guns
Speaker 1: from the draft Wizard, which is always a good sign,
Speaker 1: I think, And we continue on Black Guaro Junior go
Speaker 1: second than Juan Soto, Jose Ramirez, Garrett Cole, Boba Schett,
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman, Corbyn Burns, Shoheo Atani
Speaker 1: and then Joe Bond is up with a twelfth pick
Speaker 1: and the turn at two. So Joe, what are you
Speaker 1: looking at here?
Speaker 3: So I really like some Kyle Talker here. Get a
Speaker 3: little bit of speed. The batting average is going to
Speaker 3: be pretty nice. Home runs. You know you're gonna be
Speaker 3: there too, good good, uh good, good all around player here.
Speaker 3: And I really like Trout too. But I still am
Speaker 3: super worried that you can stay healthy of.
Speaker 1: Andkudi is still there too, Joe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, with him, with him not probably playing
Speaker 3: the whole first month, I'm gonna hold off on that one.
Speaker 3: And I know I'm not going to get him back,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to take him. And then on the
Speaker 3: backside here, I really want one of these elite pictures
Speaker 3: here because I know they're just not coming back to me.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking at the pictures here and to where
Speaker 3: you know, it's both guys that are that are pretty
Speaker 3: you know, they can be injury risks here, but I'm
Speaker 3: going to go with Jake de Gram. You know, he's
Speaker 3: really showed this spring, and you know he's just one
Speaker 3: of the elite, So I like starting off that way.
Speaker 1: So you're willing to take the shot on de Gram
Speaker 1: here despite last year's struggles over Scherzer, who a little
Speaker 1: bit of durability issue last year, but overall much better
Speaker 1: durability the last few years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Schuzers has some you know, some neck
Speaker 3: issues here off and on too, so he's not totally
Speaker 3: out of the woods. You know, he's he's an older
Speaker 3: pitcher also, so not I for one know as as
Speaker 3: somebody's got neck issues, right, they they can come and
Speaker 3: ruin you pretty quick.
Speaker 1: So us old guys know, they know what happened all right.
Speaker 1: Going through the rest of the draft here after de Gram,
Speaker 1: we got Mike trout En Devor's at two four Acuna
Speaker 1: goes than two five Max Scherzer, Walker, Buehler, Woodroff. The
Speaker 1: pitching run happened, Louis Robert didn't make it to me,
Speaker 1: but Chiato Albi's tatis I wanted Albe's that did not happen.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead with the five active outfielders.
Speaker 1: Make sure I grab at least one one I like
Speaker 1: right here. So Jordan Alvarez is gonna make it to
Speaker 1: my team. So starting off with the power guy and
Speaker 1: then the speed guy with Trey Turner. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: shift gears to the pitching market here. This is tricky.
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber is kind of that top lift here. I
Speaker 1: prefer Bieber over Wheeler over Urius. I don't love the
Speaker 1: win totals here, so I could go there, or I
Speaker 1: could continue to build the offense, which is also something
Speaker 1: that I'm strongly considering. I don't love first base. I
Speaker 1: love the power of Matt Olsen there. He is very
Speaker 1: appealing to me in this spot. So what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do is, I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna draft Matt Olsen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait on pitching and see if I can
Speaker 1: make this pitching work for me. Because it was a
Speaker 1: huge run there in the second round. Rather than buy
Speaker 1: into it, I'm gonna wait and see if I can
Speaker 1: double up in the next two We'll see if that
Speaker 1: strategy pays off. We'll find out. Stay tuned for what
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Speaker 1: So after Matt Olson goes to me, you have Tioscarrnandez,
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber, Zach Wheeler, Aaron Judge, Aaron Nola, everyone named Aaron,
Speaker 1: then Starling Marte Julio. You're Robbie Ray at the three
Speaker 1: h nine, three tens, Ander Bogart's three eleven South Perez
Speaker 1: Joe Bond with the three twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so a guy that I'm looking at here, and
Speaker 3: it's more positional depth here. I kinda I kind of
Speaker 3: want to grab a short and a third basement here.
Speaker 3: I know it's a little early, but I tend to
Speaker 3: not like the drop off at those two positions. You know,
Speaker 3: I I my my rankings have Tim Anderson higher. I
Speaker 3: think because of batting average, but I think overall, with
Speaker 3: the stats and stuff, I'm gonna go Trevor Story and
Speaker 3: then over on third base side here. You know, I
Speaker 3: really like Chris Bryan's landing spot. But I can't. I
Speaker 3: can't do it over Austin Riley.
Speaker 1: Well, he does have that position flexibility, you know. I
Speaker 1: just took him in the last draft we had, and
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, when when you have that
Speaker 1: flexibility with Bryant, you really are allowing the draft to
Speaker 1: come to you after that. So I don't hate this
Speaker 1: pick here.
Speaker 3: That that is, that is a good point. I was not.
Speaker 1: Trying to talk in. I don't want to coerce you, Joe,
Speaker 1: but I do believe that there's merit to that, and
Speaker 1: I was able to see it play out firsthand last time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what, I have done it in
Speaker 3: drafts already. I have taken him over over Riley. But
Speaker 3: uh here, I think I'm just gonna take Riley and
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. Right, We'll see what the tools suggest.
Speaker 3: So let's let's see.
Speaker 1: I like Austin Riley pick. I would take Austin Riley
Speaker 1: over him.
Speaker 3: Currently he's got first eligibility.
Speaker 1: Well, you know it depends on the league format.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm gonna move him to third just for
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 1: Would be a very smart move. Austin Riley selected a
Speaker 1: four ones. The rest of the fourth round Cedric Mullens,
Speaker 1: Lindor Marcus Ime and Tim Anderson, Liam Hendrix Castillanos. Nice
Speaker 1: pick up there for seven for eight Wander Franco Whitt, Murrayfield,
Speaker 1: Josh Hater. So the closers go Byron Buxton goes four eleven.
Speaker 1: So my evil plan worked somehow. I ended up with
Speaker 1: Lucas Giolito. I like you, Joe Happy right here, just
Speaker 1: exactly who I wanted to come back to me. It did.
Speaker 1: Now I could take his batter, his rotation made here,
Speaker 1: lance Lynn, I could take Max Freed, Sandy al Contra,
Speaker 1: Freddy Parolta. I got lots of choices here on the
Speaker 1: pitching side, I've already got the first base situation handled there.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna pass on gold Schmidt. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna take the guy that I believe in the most,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get a ton of wins this year.
Speaker 1: It's my dude. It's Freddy p Freddy Peralta, So Gilido
Speaker 1: and Peralta. I'm good with this man. I will go
Speaker 1: to war with these two. I got lucky, perhaps, but
Speaker 1: I'm very happy with how this worked out. I took
Speaker 1: the chance, and sometimes you're good getting in on the run,
Speaker 1: and sometimes when you see everybody take a picture in
Speaker 1: that second round, it's good to wait because chances are
Speaker 1: there not gonna double up again as you go through.
Speaker 1: After Sandy al Contra, Pete A, Lonzo Goldschmidt, Nolan Aronato
Speaker 1: at five to five, five to six, Eloja Men is
Speaker 1: great pick up there, Corey Seeger, Kevin Gossman could tell Marte,
Speaker 1: George Springer, Alex Bregman eight value at five eleven. That
Speaker 1: was a guy was going in the early second round
Speaker 1: last year, Joe Bond for five twelve and six to one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you know what, I really want one of
Speaker 3: these top closers this year, and I'm gonna go with
Speaker 3: Oh where do you go? I'm gonna run out of time,
Speaker 3: go with Iglesias. And I know I want one safe
Speaker 3: guy in a saves only format for sure. So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take my stab there. And then I know it's
Speaker 3: suggesting a bunch of pictures for me here, but I
Speaker 3: also like, I also like taking Tyler O'Neill also got
Speaker 3: some speed, got some pop, So I'm gonna go Tyler O'Neill.
Speaker 1: All right, Tyler O'Neal is somebody I was considering there,
Speaker 1: but I was like, you know, I gotta get my
Speaker 1: two pictures.
Speaker 3: Well it gets me.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Now I've got three guys. They're not like elite steel guys,
Speaker 3: but story Tucker and O'Neill like I'm gonna sprinkle in
Speaker 3: the saves because I missed on obviously, the Jay Ram
Speaker 3: and the Turner like you got this makes it so
Speaker 3: I don't have to go maybe possibly draft like a
Speaker 3: like a Miles straw Later who kind of is a
Speaker 3: negative and a ton of other categories. But we'll see
Speaker 3: I've also done that too. Even getting a bunch of
Speaker 3: these guys just to pay over.
Speaker 1: The top, there's lots of different approaches. That's why we're
Speaker 1: doing this to show everybody. A Rosa Reina Altuve, Jore Polanco,
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant doesn't make it to me than Jose Abrau,
Speaker 1: j Trol Muto, Charlie Morton, Lance Lynn will Smith, not
Speaker 1: the one who's doing the slap and the one who's
Speaker 1: doing the pitching the catching. Rather excuse me for the
Speaker 1: Dodgers six to eleven Jose Barrios, which brings me up
Speaker 1: to six twelve looking around here at the board. Max
Speaker 1: Fried another really good pitcher still out there. He is
Speaker 1: very intriguing to me right now. I do think I
Speaker 1: want a little bit more power. That's what I'm looking
Speaker 1: for right now. So I'm gonna tak J. D. Martinez
Speaker 1: with one of these picks. Again, this is five active outfielders,
Speaker 1: so outfielders go pretty crazy here. Brian Reynolds another one
Speaker 1: that I really want to take here. But do I
Speaker 1: want to wait on more pitching?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Max Fried has been so good. This is tough here.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to continue just to just dominating
Speaker 1: the hold. So give me another one here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and take Brian Reynolds. I just can't say
Speaker 1: no to Brian Reynolds. I'll make up. I got a plan.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happened, very very good. No, I'm with you, mane.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm all for kind of hanging back on pitching.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of guys in the middle who are
Speaker 3: gonna who are gonna hit, and especially with in middle infield,
Speaker 3: you know, for me, like, that's where I want to
Speaker 3: go and get some of these guys shot. And what
Speaker 3: pick are we on? We're on pick eighty four.
Speaker 1: We're in the seventh. Yeah, so uh, Max Freed, Logan Webb, Hove, Bayez,
Speaker 1: Brandon lou at seven five, then Frandamil Reyes, uh the
Speaker 1: for Animal, Luis Castillo at seven, then eight Chris Sale.
Speaker 1: Then we have Manda sy Muskgrove, Musgrove and Mantass back
Speaker 1: to back. That's gotta hurt. Musgrove was another guy was
Speaker 1: strongly considering there. So Joe Bond, you're on the clock
Speaker 1: for seven to twelve and then the first pick in
Speaker 1: eight oh one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so again, I kinda wanna I kind of want
Speaker 3: to shure up that infield here. I'm not so worried
Speaker 3: about first base once you get past those first couple
Speaker 3: of guys are all kind of the same in my opinion,
Speaker 3: for like super deep in So I'm already to pass
Speaker 3: all those guys. So I'm gonna take Jonathan India and
Speaker 3: sure up my infield here. You know, I've got everything
Speaker 3: but first base, So I'm happy there. And then let's
Speaker 3: see here, it recommends dal and sees justin Verlander. Where
Speaker 3: do I got Lander?
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Lander, I.
Speaker 3: Do I am, But you know I've already taken the grum.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could do both of those
Speaker 1: guys well, in for a penny, in for a pound, baby,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 3: I'm all in. I'm all in with the with the
Speaker 3: old injured guys now, yeah, because I'm out loving the
Speaker 3: outfielders right now. I mean it's recommending Cody Bell took
Speaker 3: the ball. Let's yeah, you know what, Let's do it, man,
Speaker 3: let's go, let's go Lander. I like it all right.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 3: Let's get crazy.
Speaker 1: Did you get a little emoji on that one from
Speaker 1: the Draft Wizard? I feel like that's an emoji worthy pick.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I.
Speaker 3: Didn't see anything, but I do have it on like
Speaker 3: a kind of split screen. So I don't know if I'll.
Speaker 1: Talk to the development team because that serves some kind
Speaker 1: of emoji. Stanton on your crew, he was at eight
Speaker 1: oh three Max Moncto four classe A Presley. So my
Speaker 1: two closers I was looking at are gone. Dylan C's gone,
Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz gone, like you is empty, eight nine, Carlos
Speaker 1: Correa gone. Then Rendon Chapman back up to me. Let's
Speaker 1: see what I got my bag of tricks? Uh, definitely
Speaker 1: a couple of pictures here I still like, so I
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about this one looking at some of
Speaker 1: the available hitters though. That's the thing right now. It's
Speaker 1: a little trickier in that infield as I've got twenty
Speaker 1: something seconds here, So I think what I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: first is take the picture. This is really tough. Trevor Rodgers,
Speaker 1: you Darvish, and Alec Manola. I like all these guys.
Speaker 1: I just I'm a little worried about the age of you. Darvish.
Speaker 1: I know he had the injury last year. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Trevor Rodgers because I'm just a huge fan
Speaker 1: of him, and I'm gonna go ahead and consider doubling
Speaker 1: up here. I just want to look at who else
Speaker 1: is available in that middle infield, because, as Joe alluded earlier,
Speaker 1: that can kind of get oo oh. I know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna be super trendy. Here we go.
Speaker 1: You're ready for this. At the nine to oh one,
Speaker 1: you ready, Bobby Witch Junior, Let's go.
Speaker 3: He did it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it nine to one. Let's go all right,
Speaker 1: Let's see how this goes. Christian Yelich goes right after me.
Speaker 1: I can tell your disdain for me, and it's it's
Speaker 1: making my heart smile. Yelich, then you Darvish at nine
Speaker 1: oh three, Jazz Chisholm nine oh four, Kenley Jansen nine
Speaker 1: oh five, Blake Trining his hardest nine oh six, Carlos
Speaker 1: rodon at nine oh seven, McClanahan Manoa, who's the other
Speaker 1: guy was strongly considering there? Uh then Mitch Hanneger, Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 1: Those are two outfielders you could have lived with. Joe Bond,
Speaker 1: it's back to you for nine twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now I feel it's kind of where I'm
Speaker 3: looking right now, Bellinger sitting on top. I still can't
Speaker 3: do it, man. I've seen clips and just heard a
Speaker 3: lot of analysis from people that he just looks lost
Speaker 3: up there. Still he can't hit. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: with Jesse Winker, who's now in Seattle, and you know,
Speaker 3: hopefully he can can still produce out there away from
Speaker 3: from Cincinnati to give me my third out, and then
Speaker 3: let's just see what's kind of out there. Let's just
Speaker 3: take a game value pick I got I got something.
Speaker 3: There we go, There we go.
Speaker 1: That's a good value. I think people were down on
Speaker 1: him with the move to Seattle, maybe the power goes
Speaker 1: down a little bit, but I think Winkers a very
Speaker 1: good hitter regardless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm kind of looking at first base here.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get too far done to listen,
Speaker 3: I am a huge fan of Jared Walsh this year,
Speaker 3: so you hold a trigger on that one.
Speaker 1: I love that pick, dude. I'm a huge Yared Walsh
Speaker 1: guy was last year also, so very nice work. I've
Speaker 1: definitely got some addressing to do with the third base
Speaker 1: side myself. It's on point here trying to get some
Speaker 1: corner help. Bellinger does go in this round, though, So
Speaker 1: right after you took Walsh, there's a little run for
Speaker 1: you Crone Mountcastle, Bellinger, Lemayhew. So there goes first base.
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmund goes at ten oh six, Blake Snell ten
Speaker 1: O seven, Reese Hoskins ten o eight, Grondal Romano, Framber
Speaker 1: Valdez and then meet at the ten twelve, eleven to
Speaker 1: one turn. So right now, looking at my team, got Olsen,
Speaker 1: Turner with Alvarez, Martinez Reynolds. That pitching is Rogers, Peralta
Speaker 1: and Giolito. So what do I want to draft next?
Speaker 1: This is tricky here. The draft wizard right now is
Speaker 1: telling me Clayton Kershaw is the top lift. I don't
Speaker 1: know how comfortable I am with Clayton Kershaw. I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest with you, this is kind of a tricky one.
Speaker 1: But that Dodger team is so damn good, Joe. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I gotta take the shot here, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and do it. I don't love it.
Speaker 1: I really don't the day what's happening? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: but I get it. I totally get I gotta take
Speaker 1: one closer here too, so I'll go ahead and take
Speaker 1: gayegos and just get some saves. Also right now I'm
Speaker 1: not happy. Well, well you know what, dude, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the board right now, and none of these hitters
Speaker 1: for me move the needle. So it's like what is
Speaker 1: And whenever you get I always say, build roster strength,
Speaker 1: then worry about what you need. If I can't build
Speaker 1: roster strength with anybody, I want to pivot to something
Speaker 1: that's gonna help me, that's gonna, you know, help me
Speaker 1: across and contribute. So after eleven O two cruise, the
Speaker 1: Nelson Cruise, of course, uh Torres var Show Joey Vado, Tyler,
Speaker 1: Molly Nadiavaldi, Jack Flaherty at eleven o eight other Will
Speaker 1: Smith from Atlanta, the pitcher also not the slapper eleven
Speaker 1: oh nine, than Chris Bassett eleven ten, Josh Belled eleven eleven,
Speaker 1: Joe Bonn make a wish it's eleven twelve.
Speaker 3: Uh so I actually do want to get another closer.
Speaker 3: I want to build a strength there could go between
Speaker 3: a couple of different guys here, I, like Malayan said,
Speaker 3: is getting a bunch of bunch of chances there, like
Speaker 3: Rogers from Minnesota. But I'm gonna go uh Corey Nivel.
Speaker 3: I don't ever know how to pronounce it. I like him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what I always say. I don't even know if
Speaker 3: that's actually how you say it, but I do it. It
Speaker 3: is how I that was a renal apparently, but right,
Speaker 3: it's not a reach, guys, it's not a reach. You
Speaker 3: gotta build a relief pitching. Is this a reach for
Speaker 3: for the draft software, which which I understand, go in
Speaker 3: here I could build another uh starter, But I'm gonna
Speaker 3: pass here, So I'm gonna go click on Oh can
Speaker 3: I just click on hitters? Here is the awesome meadows.
Speaker 3: So no, that's not the right list. Let's see, Joey Gallop,
Speaker 3: I can't do it in an average leaves. Guryel is
Speaker 3: not not powerful enough all over the board here. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's given me a really crummy list of just.
Speaker 1: You got fifteen seconds, buddy, Yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, let's see here, you know what, let's let's
Speaker 3: let's go catch her. I'm gonna do Wilson Contrerez.
Speaker 1: I kind of like it, ah, I kind of like
Speaker 1: that again outside the box.
Speaker 3: I like I wasn't I wasn't expecting him to sit
Speaker 3: there in round what it's twelve twelve, yest, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: The first pick of the twelfth round was controllers. Then
Speaker 1: after that you've got Dansby Swanson, you and Mancatta, Mark
Speaker 1: Mullans and Willia doms Uh. Then Pablo Lopez who was
Speaker 1: on MI you there, Corona Worth Meadows, Gresham, Chris Taylor,
Speaker 1: Joey Gallo and then to me, all right, could certainly
Speaker 1: use some more outfield, can use more pitching. I think
Speaker 1: that's what we could all use.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: We can't get enough of either of those things, all right.
Speaker 1: I think here, looking at the starting pitchers going there,
Speaker 1: I think this guy's gonna get traded, and I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get traded to a better team. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and take Sean and I here continue
Speaker 1: to build that rotation a little bit because I do
Speaker 1: think I got a thumbs up value pick. Thanks draft Wizard.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your approval of my life. Then we have
Speaker 1: looking at catchers. I'm not a fan of the catchers here.
Speaker 1: There is a power guy in the outfield I do like.
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's too soon. I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and take Justin Turner coming off a really good season.
Speaker 1: I know he's a huge risk too, but I need
Speaker 1: a third baseman. So let's go ahead and just take
Speaker 1: this and try to up the power. Oh, I got
Speaker 1: another thumbs up, Draft Wizard. Stop it. Draft Wizards totally
Speaker 1: slide into my DMS after this draft, trying to ask
Speaker 1: me the drinks. All right, let's go to the next one.
Speaker 1: After Justin Turner goes Miles Straw we were talking about
Speaker 1: before thirteen oh two. Then we have I have a
Speaker 1: sale Garcia, Ian Anderson, Matt Chapman, Marcelozho, Michael Confordo who
Speaker 1: doesn't have a team, but he's on a team here.
Speaker 1: Poor Michael Confordo, Sonny Great thirteen oh eight, Shane Boz,
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, Jerry Kellenick. Michael Confordo's becoming the Baker Mayfield here.
Speaker 1: He's just the guy without a place. I feel like,
Speaker 1: let's go to you, Joe Bond for the pick in
Speaker 1: the thirteenth to close it out and to start out
Speaker 1: the fourteenth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm looking at the top of the board
Speaker 3: here and I totally agree with it. Edwardro Rodriguez. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, he came off that that he came off
Speaker 3: that bad year where you know, he took the year
Speaker 3: off with COVID and just couldn't really get things rolling
Speaker 3: that next last year. But I think he's going to
Speaker 3: really bounce back this year. Wins maybe not there, but
Speaker 3: I like the cave potential. So I'm doing that one,
Speaker 3: and then I probably want to attack either corner, middle,
Speaker 3: infielder or outfielder. I'm looking at like a Verdrugo, I got.
Speaker 1: A steal, right, nice, Johnny Wards.
Speaker 3: Is Yeah, Lotus Gariella, I mean just kind of safe
Speaker 3: a batting average, you know, I know I have taken
Speaker 3: some hit on batting average here. So he could be
Speaker 3: a pretty a pretty safe pick for me. Uh, I
Speaker 3: just kind of want to take a quick glance at
Speaker 3: the rest of the outfielders. I got Renfro, which is
Speaker 3: a big power bat, but drain on batting average. Verdrigo
Speaker 3: is kind of meant to me. So Laire is a
Speaker 3: big power bat, but I'm not sure I'm ready for
Speaker 3: that yet. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go Gurriel and
Speaker 3: let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: See what happened. I love THEEZ pick, yet I got another.
Speaker 1: All right, Oh my goodness, look at us. The Draft
Speaker 1: Wizard finally has come to come to love and respect
Speaker 1: us after all of these years of mocking me. After
Speaker 1: you go ahead and take your guys. Zach Gallon goes
Speaker 1: at fourteen oh two. It's a nice value there. Ranger
Speaker 1: Swore is at fourteen oh three. Oh, Michael Kopek, screw you.
Speaker 1: Draft Wizard fourteen oh four takes my dude, takes my
Speaker 1: other dude. Two after Garcia, Clevenger goes and Stevenson the
Speaker 1: other Garcia from Houston goes. Bory Solaire Saya Suzuki, Ryan McMahon,
Speaker 1: I'm pissed off right now, Trap Wizard and I are
Speaker 1: totally breaking up. I'm just not gonna hang out anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and take another closer here with
Speaker 1: Taylor Rogers because i just need one here looking around
Speaker 1: like fou I know, I'm like, he's still there. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead and do it because I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna lock in one more now it's looking do I
Speaker 1: want to keep going corner stuff? I could do that.
Speaker 1: There's Donaldson, There's Cabrian Hayes. Those kind of guys are available.
Speaker 1: I'm just pissed off. I wanted one of those other
Speaker 1: guys to make it back to me with the starting
Speaker 1: pitcher RP guys. I'm just pissed off right now. I
Speaker 1: like Logan Gilbert quite a bit. Patrick Sandoval is another
Speaker 1: one that's really interesting. Everybody I've had on the show
Speaker 1: seems to absolutely love Patrick Sandoval. So I think that
Speaker 1: Angels team is gonna do pretty well. So I want
Speaker 1: to take that whip, you know what, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: at the all. I'm gonna go one more time and
Speaker 1: just see what the suggested are. Because suggesting a doulas
Speaker 1: Garcia to me, which scares the heck out of me,
Speaker 1: because of the batting average. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: could do that, Joe, I really don't. I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to pass on that. I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and I'm gonna take Sandoval, and it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna give me a reach alert, would be my guess.
Speaker 1: But oh no, no, reach alert. No.
Speaker 3: I think that's I think that's pretty spot on. I
Speaker 3: think I think he's in range for this, for this
Speaker 3: territory here that we're in.
Speaker 1: There's a couple other hitters that I'm entertaining, but again,
Speaker 1: none of them really to me think game changing kind
Speaker 1: of guys. I think that's where I'm at. So, after
Speaker 1: I took Sandoval at fifteen oh one, the rest of
Speaker 1: the fifteenth round is Waynwright, Donaldson, who I was considering, Carlson,
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert, who I was strongly considering, Jake McGee, Cabrian Hayes,
Speaker 1: ty Franz Stroman Verdugo, who you were just talking about
Speaker 1: two rounds ago, Herman Marquez A fifteen eleven. Now, Joe,
Speaker 1: you're up for fifteen twelve and six oh one.
Speaker 3: I am super mad that France got taken. That was
Speaker 3: not part of the plan. Okay, time to pivot. So
Speaker 3: let's do let's do the next best thing. I guess
Speaker 3: I suppose in there, and I'm gonna go Trey Mancini
Speaker 3: to get me my corner infielder. And I also think
Speaker 3: he's gonna get some outfield I mean, yeah, you know
Speaker 3: all the ool stuff back here. That's cool. I also
Speaker 3: got another steal. Let's be in a row, guys. Just
Speaker 3: let you know I'm not bragging at all. No, And
Speaker 3: then and then at starting pitching, starting to get a
Speaker 3: little you know, getting that territory where they're all just
Speaker 3: kind of like they're just guys in They're gonna have
Speaker 3: good days, bad days. It's just sort of what you
Speaker 3: like and what you need. I actually think I'm gonna
Speaker 3: pass and let's see what outfielder has here. We still
Speaker 3: got a dorles guy. Is I cannot do it. I
Speaker 3: just cannot tried.
Speaker 1: I tried to consider it, man, it really does you
Speaker 1: know what?
Speaker 3: I actually want to get a little bit more speed
Speaker 3: here because I have passed on a bunch, and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go Bobby Grossman to kind of give me a
Speaker 3: power speak guy to fill it out here. Value pick
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: I think Robert Grossman's a great pick. Scott Bogman would
Speaker 1: love that pick. I can tell you right now. He's
Speaker 1: been a big Grossman supporter. All right, I'm glad I
Speaker 1: are locking that closer. When I did too, I feel
Speaker 1: much better about it because now Deval went off the
Speaker 1: board too. So Barlow went off the board at sixteen
Speaker 1: oh two Guriel, then Eddie Rosario Renfro again, super pissed
Speaker 1: about that, Super pissed about Luis Evreno. Also, Mike, you
Speaker 1: gone Ben Attendi at sixteen oh seven Rogers Reu Adolas Garcia,
Speaker 1: thank you. I don't have to make that choice, and
Speaker 1: Camillo Deval. So this is what I love using the
Speaker 1: draft whizzard because it's a challenge, and this is what
Speaker 1: you need to have when you're trying to prepare yourself
Speaker 1: for your drafts. You want to be challenged. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and take some cheap steals here with a
Speaker 1: keel bado.
Speaker 3: I'm getna, but do it up.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna go ahead and uh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Oh, I got a value pick. Oh look I'm
Speaker 1: sliding up the board here, catching up to the value
Speaker 1: pick master. Here see what I could do I want
Speaker 1: to take one of Welsh's dudes. I think I do.
Speaker 1: I think I could use a little bit more stolen
Speaker 1: bases perhaps, So I'm gonna take the mid Rosario also,
Speaker 1: So give me Rosario. Maybe I get that twenty upside.
Speaker 1: Maybe I just end up with twelve to fifteen. I'll
Speaker 1: take that shot there. So in terms of the roster
Speaker 1: right now, now, I just need to fill that corner spot,
Speaker 1: the outfield and utility. I'm so mad that Hunter Renfro
Speaker 1: was gone, so mad because I couldn't believe he was
Speaker 1: still on that board. Tybert Ruiz goes at seventeen to
Speaker 1: two to Reschooble seventeen oh three Cinderguard. Kirolova was the
Speaker 1: other guy I really wanted to take there, but I
Speaker 1: went Steals. I sold out to the man, and I'm
Speaker 1: so upset. Michael Brantley, Dominic Smith, Luke Boyite, Craig Kimbrol,
Speaker 1: Lance McCullers, Jose Yourcuidi and then seventeen twelve and eighteen
Speaker 1: oh one is up to you. Joe.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll tell you what, man, middle infield and middle
Speaker 3: infield has has really thinned out here. I just realized
Speaker 3: you might have to reach just slightly on some guys here,
Speaker 3: but there is one at the very top who I
Speaker 3: who I still really like. The power is not really there,
Speaker 3: but the run potential is there, and the batting average
Speaker 3: is gonna be there too, and is Jeans Sigura gonna
Speaker 3: give me my middle infield and then go ahead do
Speaker 3: it again. You're gonna call me a homer, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna pick John means, look.
Speaker 1: Strikeouts, really, eighteen you gotta take.
Speaker 3: The strikeouts aren't there, but man, the ratio is gonna
Speaker 3: be there. You know, they push out those fences. I
Speaker 3: think it's gonna limit its home runs, just make him
Speaker 3: even better.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think that's an excellent pick there. So
Speaker 1: nice work there, buddy, Nice work. All right, Let's see
Speaker 1: what the draft board looks like as we continue on here.
Speaker 1: After Joe takes John means, you got David Bedner going next,
Speaker 1: Mitch Garver. Nice pick there at eighteen oh three, Loroman Leriano,
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman, Louis Urias Descalfani, Escobar, Trevor Bauer. Gotta love
Speaker 1: the Trevor Bower pick, ge Gerrinendez, Colton Wong, and then
Speaker 1: it's back up to me. So I want to pile
Speaker 1: on here with Saves. I think I might. I'm one
Speaker 1: of these guys who somehow, for some reason buying into Soto,
Speaker 1: Like I just feel like, yeah, like, I think that's
Speaker 1: just the dude. It's gonna give me some strikeouts there,
Speaker 1: probably gonna be the greatest selection for some of my
Speaker 1: whippin era. I got the reach alert. That's fine. I
Speaker 1: just want to save. So just selling out there, all right,
Speaker 1: Let's take a look aj Pollock. Am I ready to
Speaker 1: do that to myself? I don't know about that. Looking
Speaker 1: at what I need on my roster right now, I
Speaker 1: do have a corner spot open. All the guys I
Speaker 1: had were pitchers. So now I'm really up against it.
Speaker 1: I'm really up against it here, Joe. I think once again,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I could get a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything here with Ian Happ. Maybe he gets me eight steals,
Speaker 1: maybe he gets me twenty five bombs. I'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and take him with the other pick that works for me.
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and do that. Oh I got the steal,
Speaker 1: not one, not two, but three claps. Thank you, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Draft Wizard. Now we're friends again. Let's
Speaker 1: continue on and see what's going on. Here with the Wizard.
Speaker 1: After I took Ian happ At nineteen oh one, nineteen
Speaker 1: oh two, Carlos Carrasco, then Brandon Belt. I just can't
Speaker 1: take Brandon Belt. I can't do it. Tanner, how Jordan Montgomery,
Speaker 1: nice pick up there, Uhanneo Suarez nineteen oh six, Berndon Crawford.
Speaker 1: I just didn't really have the space. I didn't like
Speaker 1: him as utility Randall Gritchick, Adley Rutchman, Adam Duval, Joe Barlow,
Speaker 1: Joe bond up At nineteen twelve and twenty oh one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think I'm at a double top some
Speaker 3: picture here, save my utility player. There's not a ton
Speaker 3: of guys here that I like in the hitting department
Speaker 3: right now. I like Alex Wood. He's a good, good, safe,
Speaker 3: safe guy there, good ballpark. You know, not a high
Speaker 3: strikeout guy, but you know he's right there averaging nine
Speaker 3: nine per nine. So I'll take Alex Wood and then
Speaker 3: just to kind of see what's out there. I'm just
Speaker 3: curious with the relievers. No, there's no closers I want.
Speaker 3: I'll pass on that. I've got too decent on. So
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just go just hey, just just.
Speaker 1: Gotta look, gotta look.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking at my board here and it might
Speaker 3: be it's not a reach according to the draft the
Speaker 3: draft program here, but I thought it would have been.
Speaker 3: But Joe Ryan is a guy who I'm really excited
Speaker 3: about this year, and I'm going to take him as
Speaker 3: my eighth overall pitcher.
Speaker 1: That was the one guy left that I was really considering.
Speaker 1: But I was like, you know what, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the third closer. It's something I rarely do here. I
Speaker 1: don't have the elite guy. So I went ahead and
Speaker 1: I took the guy who I just think the job
Speaker 1: is safe.
Speaker 3: Yeah at the end of the.
Speaker 1: Day, And that's that's what I'm looking at all right.
Speaker 1: So it made it all the way back to me
Speaker 1: before it did Tristan McKenzie at twenty oh two, John Gray,
Speaker 1: you Knowah Schwindell right out from under me. Joe Adele, Oh,
Speaker 1: how did I miss that one? Bad? Joe bad? Joe
Speaker 1: Scopes Ofvally Kendricks, Barnes dawback. Now I'm just miserable because
Speaker 1: Joe Adele was still on the board and I didn't
Speaker 1: take him. How did I miss that before? So hard?
Speaker 1: So hard? Sometimes another power speed guy is still available there.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play, I assume every day in Cincinnati. Tommy Fam.
Speaker 1: That's kind of an interesting one there. That might not
Speaker 1: be the worst pick actually, tell you the truth, strangling
Speaker 1: considering that one. Let's look at the the draft wizard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: little cheap steals, little cheap power. I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and take Tommy Fam. And then again, just like Joe said,
Speaker 1: you know, you could build steals with a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything. And as much as I can't stand this
Speaker 1: guy from a baseball point of view, look he's a catcher.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit home runs. I could use some more
Speaker 1: home runs. Go ahead, I'm gonna draft Gary Sanchez. Yeah
Speaker 1: for some just low ass power at catcher. So whatever,
Speaker 1: Gary Sanchez, hit some home runs. Try to catch the
Speaker 1: ball once in a while, all right. So after Gary
Speaker 1: Sanchez goes, uh, you then have Garrett Woodlock at twenty
Speaker 1: one oh two, Tyler Glass now, which again that's a
Speaker 1: waste of a pick this year. He's not gonna pitch.
Speaker 1: Anthony Santander, Alex com Heimerchandelario. Nice pick up there, Austin Hayes,
Speaker 1: Harrison Bader, Andrew Vaughan, cal Quantrill, Nicky Lopez Joe Bond
Speaker 1: up for his last two picks at twenty one twelve
Speaker 1: and twenty two oh one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh, I mean, look, nobody's gonna give me a
Speaker 3: good batting average right now. So I'm just gonna go
Speaker 3: with the most, the most pop potential here, and that
Speaker 3: is gonna be MIGUELSONO as my utility guy. It's gonna
Speaker 3: boost me in in runs, in RB, I in home runs,
Speaker 3: which I which I needed pretty bad. And then it's
Speaker 3: hanging on me here. I can't filter what's going on?
Speaker 1: Oh filter filter?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, there it goes. I see what it did.
Speaker 3: Oh man pitching.
Speaker 1: Uh it's hard in the middle there, I really did.
Speaker 3: I mean obviously I only have one left. I mean,
Speaker 3: you got Steven Mattz, who's this kind of a guy.
Speaker 3: Casey is looking pretty good in spring so far. I
Speaker 3: mean I might go him. See I need I need,
Speaker 3: I know, I need K's let's see a Vetta Gibson
Speaker 3: Corbyn Koochie. Uh yeah, to try my eyes and just
Speaker 3: hope it works out for me.
Speaker 1: You might as well just take a shot on the.
Speaker 3: You know what. He disappeared, So I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: take Cacucci. I refiltered and he was gone, Cacucci.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Cacucci. It is well, we could say it's
Speaker 1: my I mean, honestly, at the end of the day, statistical.
Speaker 3: Probably not gonna matter.
Speaker 1: You hope, you hope Myce takes a step forward, but
Speaker 1: you never know. Rojas Bailey over another young Twins pitcher
Speaker 1: twenty two O four Zanino, Eliza Diaz A five Darnault.
Speaker 1: Here's the catcher run then Luke Trevino, Vasquez matts, Devin Williams.
Speaker 1: Hazer's Aguilar goes right before me. Oh, I just dug,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, all right, that's to me. Uh so,
Speaker 1: what do you think here? I could take Connor Joe
Speaker 1: or Alec Baum or aj Pollock. What would you do?
Speaker 1: You know those guys is cheap out and take the
Speaker 1: Colorado guy. You hope that Alec Bohm starts.
Speaker 3: I mean, I might take the risk and taken Joe
Speaker 3: and hope that Colorado actually plays the guys they should,
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, they did deal Tapio, so I think that's helpful.
Speaker 1: That's the way I was leaning. Well, I got a
Speaker 1: B plus I didn't win this draft. Once again this morning,
Speaker 1: eighty seven out of one hundred. I'm a disappointment to
Speaker 1: myself and others, but well done there. Let's look at
Speaker 1: the projected standings here again I'm always the second shoe.
Speaker 1: Let's look and take a look at Joe Bond's draft.
Speaker 1: So Joe Bond is number one overall with that ninety five,
Speaker 1: well done, slow clap for you. I am at number
Speaker 1: five and eighty seven and then not bad. So let's
Speaker 1: take a look at this main page here. When you
Speaker 1: see on the right, you have the draft insights, you
Speaker 1: have your steals, the things you did well. It says
Speaker 1: that Scott Youngson, a fantasy mutant, likes my draft. I
Speaker 1: am a big X Man fan, so that's good. The
Speaker 1: steals for me were Ian happened the nineteenth round and
Speaker 1: Tommy fam in the twentieth, so that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: I reached on Sodo I did. Joe Ryan would probably
Speaker 1: be the other guy that I would have taken there.
Speaker 1: My top players are Trey Turner metals and JD. Martinez.
Speaker 1: It says if you had drafted Starling Marte in a
Speaker 1: first basement later, I'd be significantly higher. Perhaps, but again
Speaker 1: I don't know what Marte is health wise slash ability
Speaker 1: to steal forty bags. Again, I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen with the Mets. We shall find out. So
Speaker 1: when you look at the front page here, what does
Speaker 1: it say for you? Who liked your draft the most?
Speaker 3: It says the site projections for a Rodo Champ. Apparently
Speaker 3: my own rankings don't like my own drafts, So that's interesting.
Speaker 3: You think it would, but no. I then said my
Speaker 3: top player Jacob de Gram. Shocker. If I had drafted
Speaker 3: Mike Trout at two dot one and drafted a pitcher later,
Speaker 3: your score would have been significantly higher.
Speaker 1: Oh how much higher could it get? It?
Speaker 3: And although I liked Jacob de Gram, so that's kind
Speaker 3: of strange. Steals were Erod, Guriel and Mancini, which were
Speaker 3: those three in a row that I had? It makes
Speaker 3: perfect sense that I'm seeing that the reach was Cannebel,
Speaker 3: which is what I saw. So that's that's there. And
Speaker 3: it said category categorically good. Your team projected to be
Speaker 3: top four and runs home runs, rbiks and whip So yeah.
Speaker 1: All right. If you click on the expert opinions, it'll
Speaker 1: tell you who else in terms of experts liked your draft,
Speaker 1: give you a thumbs up or thumbs down. Guess who
Speaker 1: gave me a thumbs up? Some guy from Fantasy six
Speaker 1: Pack name Joe Bond. All right, pready for Alta Shu Manila,
Speaker 1: Quio Bidou. He likes all those guys. So this, Joe
Speaker 1: Bond says, And I don't know what happened here. This
Speaker 1: is the first draft I've ever done where Scott Bogman
Speaker 1: doesn't like it. So Scott Bogman is like every single
Speaker 1: one of my drafts. Not only has he turned on me,
Speaker 1: but my colleague Pat fitz Morris has also turned on me.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to have a meeting after this
Speaker 1: show with everybody. When it comes to expert opinions, who
Speaker 1: liked your draft and who gave it a thumbs down?
Speaker 3: So obviously the roto Champ guys, Fred Zinky, Nick Mariano,
Speaker 3: Ariel Cohen. That's a good one thumbs down, Joe, Come on, man,
Speaker 3: I gave you a thumbs down.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm just jealous. It's just my jealousy because.
Speaker 3: You beat Chris Clegg Corn Young Chris Ris for US, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Lucas Spence in sports Line. So I mean, some good
Speaker 3: names on both sides like and don't like me.
Speaker 1: So you can't pay attention to mine, Joe, it's just
Speaker 1: because I was I'm just jealous the fact you beat me.
Speaker 3: You just you just did, so you're in the back end.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. I mean, let's let's go through
Speaker 1: the teams now. Because you had Wilson Contreras a catcher,
Speaker 1: Miguelson know at first, Jonathan India second, Trevor Story at shortstop,
Speaker 1: Austin Riley at the corner. Then you have Jared Walsh,
Speaker 1: Jean Sigura. In the outfield, you have uh, Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neill, Jesse Winker, Loris Curiel, Robbie Grossman, Trey Mancini.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the offense you've built here
Speaker 1: in this draft, Joe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it's pretty balanced. I'm not
Speaker 3: like top of the top of the board of anything.
Speaker 3: I actually, uh, when I was looking at it during
Speaker 3: the draft, at one point I was like second in average,
Speaker 3: and then I guess I took Miguelson oh and and dropped. Shock.
Speaker 1: What a shock.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm right in the middle of stolen basis,
Speaker 3: which is something I kind of strive for you know,
Speaker 3: I don't I really don't ever see myself winning that
Speaker 3: category because what you're gonna see is right. So Team
Speaker 3: four is supposed to be the ones winning that category. Well,
Speaker 3: let's look at the where he is normally in all
Speaker 3: the other categories. RBI is in the middle, home runs
Speaker 3: in the middle, and then runs, which you kind of
Speaker 3: expect with stolen bases guy, he's up top, but he's
Speaker 3: like bottom for batting average, So like I would bet
Speaker 3: that his overall hitting categories isn't great. But I you know,
Speaker 3: I'm top three for runs, top four for home runs,
Speaker 3: top four for RBI, and then I'm middle for average
Speaker 3: and stone basis, so it balance is a little bit
Speaker 3: better for me. Uh So I like I like the
Speaker 3: I like the offense, the way that I built it,
Speaker 3: the control. This one was kind of a panic pick
Speaker 3: because of the time it was running down and but
Speaker 3: uh I think it works out.
Speaker 1: But it's a strong power team, and I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, if you're gonna sacrifice stolen bases,
Speaker 1: sacrifice it for power. That's what I mean. That's because
Speaker 1: you know, if you get those power guys, it's gonna
Speaker 1: track for runs. And track for RBI. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: if you're gonna pass on the big steal guys, just
Speaker 1: make sure you are crushing the power categories. That's that's
Speaker 1: my take on all this From the pitching staff, Jacob
Speaker 1: de Gram, Rysoglecias, Justin Verlander, Dwardo Rodriguez, John Meads, Corey Kniebel,
Speaker 1: Alex would Joe Ryan and use Kakuchi slash Casey Maes
Speaker 1: will give him a slash theory. So what are your
Speaker 1: feelings about this pitching staff? I mean, clearly d Gram
Speaker 1: and Verlander if they look like they did you know,
Speaker 1: when they're healthy, certain a pretty good staff. But how
Speaker 1: do you feel about the pitching when you're looking back
Speaker 1: at it now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think, you know, if we were
Speaker 3: drafting some bench guys, I probably would have gone after
Speaker 3: one more late, closer to kind of give me a
Speaker 3: little bump in saves. So so that's something where I
Speaker 3: think I would have actually improved a little bit on
Speaker 3: because I only took two. But you know, I tried
Speaker 3: to go after guys where, especially early on, I go
Speaker 3: after guys where ratios won't kill me. And that's another
Speaker 3: reason why I've gone after two early early ish save
Speaker 3: guys because later on, like, no matter who you get
Speaker 3: later on in the draft, you know, yes, we're going
Speaker 3: to find the Kevin Gosman's in round eighteen nineteen again
Speaker 3: this year somewhere. But to rely on that is hard.
Speaker 3: So those guys, just like you do in hitting, where
Speaker 3: you take those later guys, they're going to kill you
Speaker 3: in batting average. The later guys for pitching are going
Speaker 3: to kill you in ratios. So I try to build
Speaker 3: that up and get a safe floor for that, which
Speaker 3: is what I did. So I'm fifth in era and
Speaker 3: second in whip, and you know, I always try to
Speaker 3: go after high strikeout guys as much as possible without
Speaker 3: killing the ratios early on. Wins are so unpredictable, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I never pay.
Speaker 1: Attention if I'm behind on wins. That's the one where
Speaker 1: I roll my eyes. I just want to be middle
Speaker 1: of the pack and win. Yeah, that's all I can
Speaker 1: I mean, because it's so arbitrary.
Speaker 3: Maybe if I'm looking at two guys and it's like
Speaker 3: a flip of the coin and one plays for the
Speaker 3: Yankees and one plays for the Orioles, fine, maybe I'll
Speaker 3: take the guy for the Yankees because he's probably gonna
Speaker 3: win a couple of YE games. You know, It's that
Speaker 3: kind of thing. But in the long run, I mean
Speaker 3: that's why I took John Means where I did, because
Speaker 3: his ratios I think are gonna be very good.
Speaker 1: So I agree that certainly can only help him the
Speaker 1: ballpark adjustment. All right, let's run through my team again,
Speaker 1: Joe's thoughts. Since Joe clearly is my daddy in this draft,
Speaker 1: it's more important what he thinks. When I think Gary
Speaker 1: Sanchez a catcher, Matt Olson at first base, Trade Turner
Speaker 1: at second shortstop, Bobby Wit third base, justin Turner, I'm
Speaker 1: investing in good offensive ecosystems, the Braves, the Dodgers. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do. Then, Connor, Joe Amid Rosario,
Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez, JD Martinez, Brian Reynolds, Ian Hapakielbado and Tommy
Speaker 1: fam What do you think of the offense here?
Speaker 4: Joe?
Speaker 3: Uh So, I like, I like your speed with Witt
Speaker 3: and Turner. If if Wit really uh you know, shows
Speaker 3: up like I think a lot of people expect, uh,
Speaker 3: You've got some power. I mean, Turner's a power bat.
Speaker 3: Matt Olsen obviously is a power bat. You know you
Speaker 3: took that late late catcher. Sanchez is gonna be a
Speaker 3: batting average game most likely, but yeah, I mean he
Speaker 3: could hit thirty bombs pretty easily. You know, Alvarez, I
Speaker 3: love him. Jad Martinez, my opinion, is a guy who
Speaker 3: I not really sure why he keeps falling to where
Speaker 3: he doesn't I seem to I seem to be, and
Speaker 3: I was like.
Speaker 1: I gotta take him just to price and force.
Speaker 3: Basically I seem to be taking him a lot earlier
Speaker 3: than most. I've got him on a lot of teams,
Speaker 3: so hopefully he works out the back end of your
Speaker 3: your outfield is Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a little sauce, you could say and hammer my outfield.
Speaker 3: But you know, again, you took them for positional or
Speaker 3: not positional, for categorical need. You know, you got them
Speaker 3: for a little bit of speed, a little bit of
Speaker 3: power or so. I think that's they're they're good picks.
Speaker 3: They're not sexy picks by any means, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's why you took them for a reason,
Speaker 3: and their team fits and sometimes you gotta do.
Speaker 1: They can all be Lord of is Guriel's like every
Speaker 1: pick can be sexy like that, or Robbie Grossman. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's get your take on the pitching staff here,
Speaker 1: Lucas Gilito, Freddie Peralta, Trevor Rodgers, Kershaw, Manaya, then Patrick Sandoval,
Speaker 1: and I've got three closers theoretically, Diego's, Rogers and Sodo.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on this staff.
Speaker 3: I I like your let me where did it go?
Speaker 1: There? We go?
Speaker 3: I like your staff. Actually I was really mad you
Speaker 3: took Peralta. That's kinda come back to me. Rogers. I
Speaker 3: think it's gonna it's gonna be really good there as well.
Speaker 3: I like him. Kershaw is the one sort of I'm
Speaker 3: not sure. Oh yeah, I don't know what we think,
Speaker 3: but you know, Manaiya, I agree with you. I think
Speaker 3: Oakland will end up trading him. And then yeah, Diego's
Speaker 3: I was eyeing him, is my second, my second closer.
Speaker 3: You got him as your first, but you know, I
Speaker 3: like him a lot. And then getting you know, Trevor
Speaker 3: Taylor Rogers there as your second closer as well, and
Speaker 3: then Sodo could be if he actually gets all the
Speaker 3: work in Detroit as I kind of think you should
Speaker 3: you know your safe potential there is great with three
Speaker 3: fairly fairly cheap guys.
Speaker 1: Fairly cheap, and again, I don't see the competition coming
Speaker 1: for them, really. I just I feel like that's always
Speaker 1: been my thing. I'm like you the Welsh. All those
Speaker 1: people will say, you know, if you get one of
Speaker 1: those elite closers or two of them, early awesome, and
Speaker 1: if you don't, just let the market come to you.
Speaker 1: Because the worst thing you could do, I feel like,
Speaker 1: is reaching that middle tier of closer where there's some
Speaker 1: uncertainty and then you end up missing on really solid
Speaker 1: outfield bats or really solid corner bats or things like
Speaker 1: that because those guys are harder to find. You can
Speaker 1: always find guys off the waiver wire for saves because
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