Speaker 1: Bounce Back Central, let's talk to the pros. Welcome in
Speaker 1: everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast.
Speaker 1: It is me Joey p Joe Pizzapia, and today we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a look at ten bounce back candidates for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three season. That's right, last year is
Speaker 1: not the end all, be all for these guys. We're
Speaker 1: gonna tell you which names you want on your team
Speaker 1: to give a second chance, and we're also gonna talk
Speaker 1: about some of the projection gems some guys that it
Speaker 1: might be a little undervalued when it comes to projections
Speaker 1: that we think have a bigger twenty twenty three in
Speaker 1: store for them. And to help me do it, of course,
Speaker 1: is my partner the Welsh Chris Welsh, following on the
Speaker 1: Twitter machine at is it the Welsh and Welsh? I
Speaker 1: like second chances? How about you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, third, fourth, whatever, Yeah, give me all the chances
Speaker 2: you can get. Yeah. No, in baseball, I'm definitely with it.
Speaker 2: Also think, you know, you can look at it a
Speaker 2: couple different ways, as we look at sleepers different ways.
Speaker 2: You know, the term sleeper can mean a lot of
Speaker 2: different things, even bounce back candidates are not only second chances,
Speaker 2: but you know, you're looking at weird opportunities maybe lost
Speaker 2: by injury and stuff like that that can necessitate the
Speaker 2: bounce back, if you will. So there's a lot of
Speaker 2: different ways to look at this, and I am here
Speaker 2: for it. It's actually probably my biggest struggle Joe. Like
Speaker 2: I'm I'm a sucker for a guy that has performed
Speaker 2: really well, especially when they've done it, maybe even like
Speaker 2: two seasons, and then just something weird or odd takes
Speaker 2: them off the table. I got a hard time quitting them,
Speaker 2: whether it's prospects or major leaguers. And there are definitely
Speaker 2: quite a few on this list and your list, I
Speaker 2: think I pretty much take a little glance a glance
Speaker 2: at the Joe list here. Yeah, pretty much agree with
Speaker 2: almost top ten. There's actually one I don't, But there's
Speaker 2: a couple on there that I would have picked had
Speaker 2: you not. But Joe got to the sheet first, folks.
Speaker 1: Well, the advantage of making the sheet is that you
Speaker 1: get to put all your stuff in the sheet first.
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, you know, it's always different reasons too.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's injuries, sometimes it's you know, guy, you know
Speaker 1: signs a big contract, puts that onus upon themselves. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's just circumstances beyond their control, or the team starts
Speaker 1: jettising players around them, they lose line of protection. There's
Speaker 1: so many reasons why guys sometimes have down years. I mean,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just personal things. They're actually people, everybody, believe
Speaker 1: it or not. Let's jump into some of these names.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about him. Let's start here with my number
Speaker 1: one guy, which is Nick Castilianos. To me, Casianos is
Speaker 1: the perfect suitor of what I just mentioned, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, first spot in the new city. We've seen
Speaker 1: this happen plenty of times in the past, where I
Speaker 1: think when a player like Nick Casiganos, he's got such
Speaker 1: a good track record behind him that you're not really
Speaker 1: concerned about the kind of player he is. I think
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of now that you know, you
Speaker 1: can relax into this setting in Philadelphia. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why. With Albryce Harper for the first three plus
Speaker 1: months of the season, they're gonna need Casianos. They're gonna
Speaker 1: need him to really kind of bounce back and be
Speaker 1: the guy he was. And if you look at some
Speaker 1: of the deeper numbers, they're still pretty good. I know
Speaker 1: last year was a huge disappointment in the power department,
Speaker 1: only thirteen home runs. He did steal seven bags, which
Speaker 1: is not you know, normally what you get out of him.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you go back to the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one numbers where thirty four home runs and drove
Speaker 1: in one hundred, I don't necessarily expect that, but I
Speaker 1: think you can get somebody closer to that twenty six
Speaker 1: to one hundred, that twenty seven to ninety kind of
Speaker 1: a player in Nick Castiano's it's a favorable home run ballpark.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a matter of first year in
Speaker 1: a new place, pressing a lot. He's a very personality wise.
Speaker 1: I think Casiana's a little wound up kind of a dude.
Speaker 1: I think we've seen that in the past of the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati days, so I think it was hard for him
Speaker 1: to kind of relax and settle in this year. I
Speaker 1: expect him to do that, and like I said, I
Speaker 1: think they're going to really need him, and he's looking
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, the ECRs won twenty one, the
Speaker 1: ADP is one thirty overall, He's coming at a pretty
Speaker 1: good price. Where outfield is rough and a guy like
Speaker 1: Casiano's going as the thirty third outfielder overall, I think
Speaker 1: you could do a lot worse than.
Speaker 2: That Welsh Yeah, you know, and in taking a look
Speaker 2: at him too, there's a lot of things that don't
Speaker 2: feel crazy off. It was a lot about hard hit.
Speaker 2: It was a lot about that. I mean, he was
Speaker 2: striking the ball at quite a lower rate as far
Speaker 2: as career wise, and usually is. Hard hit percentage was
Speaker 2: thirty four point six percent, which was the second lowest
Speaker 2: of his career. And my point is like that's an anomaly.
Speaker 2: You know, he's been in the forty percent five straight
Speaker 2: seasons in there. X slug was actually a little bit
Speaker 2: higher than his slug as far as expected goes, and
Speaker 2: most everything else kind of in line sat there. You know,
Speaker 2: launch angle, barrel percentage is a little bit lower, but
Speaker 2: you talk about pressing, that's kind of it. He's going
Speaker 2: to be really really counted on this year, is going
Speaker 2: to be locked into that team a little bit more.
Speaker 2: You got Trey Turner who might be hitting at the
Speaker 2: top of the lineup, which is probably going to also
Speaker 2: create some problems as far as defenses go, and maybe
Speaker 2: more RBI opportunities. I really like the bounce back on
Speaker 2: Castianis because he feels like I like, he gets lost
Speaker 2: in the shuffle of outfielders, Like you don't think about him,
Speaker 2: you don't look, and then all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 2: like one hundred and fifteen and you're like, all right,
Speaker 2: I need a third outfielder or second outfielder, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: Castianos is still there. He's a good buyback, all right.
Speaker 1: So who is the first guy you want to talk about?
Speaker 1: And the bounce back candidates for twenty three.
Speaker 2: So the bounce back really has to do with the injury.
Speaker 2: When I was thinking about this, like I said, I thought,
Speaker 2: you actually encapsulated on the majority of these really good
Speaker 2: bounce back guys that struggled maybe out of weird performance things.
Speaker 2: This is one that this player was lining up to
Speaker 2: be what I think would have been one of the
Speaker 2: bigger statistical seasons, and the time taken away has kind
Speaker 2: of pushed him back at his position. And it's jazz chisseum.
Speaker 2: And I know that might feel weird. You like bounce back, Well,
Speaker 2: he's not. Imagine had he played the season, the guy
Speaker 2: was lining up to be a thirty twenty player, and
Speaker 2: what a thirty twenty players do They go in the
Speaker 2: first round. Well, right, Jazz is not going in the
Speaker 2: first round, and he's not going in the second or third,
Speaker 2: and he's going off as about the fourth second baseman
Speaker 2: if you will across the board. And you know, Jazz
Speaker 2: was really he's always been like this big, crazy poll hitter.
Speaker 2: He was really starting to establish himself. Walk percentage went
Speaker 2: up by two percent, strikeout percentage went down, batting average
Speaker 2: was kind of like stabilizing if he could be a
Speaker 2: two to fifty guy. Projections still really like him, and
Speaker 2: the batex has him as almost that twenty thirty guy
Speaker 2: to anyone Homer's twenty nine stolen bases. So this is
Speaker 2: a little bit of a different situation where it's not
Speaker 2: necessarily about like one off year of performance, but that
Speaker 2: off time miss. Plus he's moving positions, which I think
Speaker 2: just has people weirded out about him going to center field.
Speaker 2: I think Jazz is prime for a bounce back off
Speaker 2: of the injury and it's going to put up some
Speaker 2: big stats. And like I said, if he's a twenty
Speaker 2: thirty guy that is first round, like that's just what
Speaker 2: it did, and let's tell you guys, that's first round talent.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm so high on Jazz.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I think you drafted him yesterday, didn't you.
Speaker 1: Do you have Chishem on your team?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. I mean I try you. I
Speaker 2: think you did it.
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Speaker 1: the next guy on my list, it's Eddie Rosario of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Now, Rosario is going pretty late. He
Speaker 1: is like in the nineties in the outfield range, and
Speaker 1: I understand, you know, he'll probably play mostly against right
Speaker 1: handed pitching, but in those deeper leagues, we're really looking
Speaker 1: for some help. If the vision is right, I'm not
Speaker 1: chasing the thirty two to one oh nine season from
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I'm not doing that when it comes to
Speaker 1: Eddi Rosario. But what I am gonna do with Eddie
Speaker 1: Rosario and say to myself, all right, is this guy
Speaker 1: healthy enough to give me one hundred and thirty games
Speaker 1: or somewhere in that range, Because if he does, and
Speaker 1: if you look at some of those years that he
Speaker 1: posted with the Twins, he had a twenty five home
Speaker 1: run guy. And I think we're all searching for some
Speaker 1: late power and Eddie Rosario could be one of these
Speaker 1: guys that I think that if you look at spring training,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean a whole lot for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but for guys like Eddie Rosario, it does. You want
Speaker 1: to see that he's healthy. You want to see that
Speaker 1: he's seeing the ball well, but you also want to
Speaker 1: see him have some early success because I think he does.
Speaker 1: There's a really good omen for the twenty twenty three season,
Speaker 1: and he's basically a free player.
Speaker 2: Welsh, Yeah, Okay, he is free. So this is the
Speaker 2: one that I don't like. I'm not with of your
Speaker 2: list or the other four. I buy three of them.
Speaker 2: I'm very, very staunching at Castianos. Is one actually your
Speaker 2: last two? Like one hundred percent. When I knew the
Speaker 2: topic I was going to put on here and you'd
Speaker 2: already got to them. This is the one that I'm
Speaker 2: just not with, though he's free, And I try to
Speaker 2: make this case a whole lot, because I feel like
Speaker 2: sometimes in fantasy baseball, we all just get stuck in
Speaker 2: this circle where it's like everybody's got to talk about
Speaker 2: the furthest down players, and there's a problem with everybody
Speaker 2: and dah dah da da da, And then people will
Speaker 2: pick on a guy that's like two sixty and they're like, well,
Speaker 2: this guy is really going to be a bus, and
Speaker 2: it's like it's hard to be a bus at that level.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna acknowledge that that Eddy wasor is free,
Speaker 2: which is nice. But the problem is, yeah, he's absolutely free.
Speaker 2: The problem is strikeout rate went way up, contact rate
Speaker 2: way down. He looks like he's in a platoon right
Speaker 2: now with Marcello Zoon. I know Zunu can play DH,
Speaker 2: but they also want Travis Darnault, something they kind of
Speaker 2: promised when they brought in Sean Murphy. I just don't
Speaker 2: know if the playing time is consistent, and I'm worried
Speaker 2: about a player like this being able to have the
Speaker 2: opportunity to get hot, and I don't think that's there
Speaker 2: for him. But he's free, so the bounce back is
Speaker 2: really guess what I want to.
Speaker 1: Remind you remember a couple of years ago when Mitch
Speaker 1: Hanneger was free. He was a free player with the power.
Speaker 1: He had that huge power spike season. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's gonna do that, but I think the Braves really
Speaker 1: need some more help in the middle of that lineup
Speaker 1: right now, and I think he could be that kind
Speaker 1: of guy if he gets off to a good start
Speaker 1: in the spring. Like I said, spring is very important
Speaker 1: for his rio. I wanted to prove that the vision
Speaker 1: problems are correct, and I wanted to prove that he's healthy.
Speaker 1: And look I brought it up. He's not gonna play
Speaker 1: every single day. The fact they have the DH of
Speaker 1: the National League now helps his case to being, you know,
Speaker 1: getting more at bats than you realize.
Speaker 2: But to your point, and my breaking news is it's
Speaker 2: not hard to bounce back off of five homers in
Speaker 2: three stolen bases in eighty games. It's actually pretty easy
Speaker 2: for him. Guy had thirty two homers just a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago. Though he has not had more than
Speaker 2: fourteen homers since twenty twenty, it's still a pretty easy
Speaker 2: bounce back for a free player. Not my favorite of
Speaker 2: your picks here, but I really don't understand the logic.
Speaker 1: That's fine, twenty twenty, it's only fifty seven games to
Speaker 1: be played because of COVID. So thirteen homers of fifty
Speaker 1: seven games. That ain't so bad, baby, that's you're right,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good extrapolation. Nation. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to your number two. Who is the one guy I
Speaker 1: should have put on my list but I didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was actually surprised about this because you're stealing
Speaker 2: all the good names here. This is one that really
Speaker 2: kind of qualifies more on the list of what you
Speaker 2: put together. There's only just so many that you can have.
Speaker 2: It's Ilo, Jim and az Aloe, who has only played
Speaker 2: over one hundred games once, that was his rookie year.
Speaker 2: That's been a big problem in the short sample sizes.
Speaker 2: He's always putting up big stats. He's had double digit
Speaker 2: homers three straight years, where two of them he played
Speaker 2: fifty five games apiece. Health is always a big issue.
Speaker 2: I saw him at camp about a five days ago
Speaker 2: or so. Looked a little bit skinnier, like maybe a
Speaker 2: little bit of weight loss, which is probably a good thing.
Speaker 2: Strikeout percentage was down this past year. It's really about
Speaker 2: health because last year he still had a career high
Speaker 2: average exit velocity. He was up in the top ten
Speaker 2: percent of max EV. He had a x slug which
Speaker 2: was over five hundred, so that's still maintaining in a
Speaker 2: three sixty five x WOE but with a three seventy one.
Speaker 2: But all that stuff is just telling you with a
Speaker 2: fifty four percent hard hit rate, he makes a lot
Speaker 2: of contact and he's gonna barrel up the ball a
Speaker 2: bunch and he's got great rob Howard Guy hit two
Speaker 2: ninety five last year, and two of his four seasons
Speaker 2: he has hit two ninety five or better. And I
Speaker 2: think we could all see a situation where Eloy Jimenez
Speaker 2: can get going. We just all know that the team
Speaker 2: really needs to make a commitment to keeping him at DH,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if they are going to be
Speaker 2: fully committed to that. Plus the other that's a little
Speaker 2: bit worrisome with them is they're just all their guys
Speaker 2: are injured. Like even if they were like, okay, guys,
Speaker 2: they sit around a table, they're like, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 2: We are going to get Eloy at DH. Robert, Ben
Speaker 2: and Tendee and then co Los, we're gonna put you
Speaker 2: in the outfield. Robert's not the pillar of health. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if you necessarily say that about Ben
Speaker 2: and Tendee as well, that they might be put into
Speaker 2: situations where they feel they need to get him out there.
Speaker 2: If we can get him to DH and we can
Speaker 2: keep him healthy, Eloy Jimenez will get back. Projections over
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty games vary from twenty five essentially
Speaker 2: to thirty home runs. I think he's going to put
Speaker 2: up thirty homers this year, if he plays one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five games, make a ton of contact, and
Speaker 2: those running RBI totals to be great. He's a good, good, good,
Speaker 2: five category player. He just comes with some risk and
Speaker 2: that's why we can get a bounce back because he's teetered.
Speaker 2: Joe teetered. And by the way, did you know this
Speaker 2: is a fascinating fact. I had no idea. Do you
Speaker 2: know Elo Jimenez has zero career steals. I had no
Speaker 2: idea about that. He has never stolen a base in
Speaker 2: his career. He is becoming I think, the outfield version
Speaker 2: of Carlos Korea, where it's just like he never actually
Speaker 2: lives up to the potential that we're putting on him.
Speaker 1: And it makes me sad. I don't want to put
Speaker 1: bad on him yet, but you're you're might not be off. Look,
Speaker 1: I think him is going to play more games than
Speaker 1: that this year. I think the White Socks arena need
Speaker 1: him to to justify their investment in him as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's he's one of these guys that they
Speaker 1: made their early investment in along with Robert, and I
Speaker 1: think when you do that, you guys are looking at
Speaker 1: these guys and saying, Hey, you know, Jose Brady's not
Speaker 1: here anymore. You guys have to carry this offense and
Speaker 1: be the guy. So, whether it be a rotation in
Speaker 1: the outfielders, you're saying, you don't want to get these
Speaker 1: guys in the outfield too much, But an attendee's a
Speaker 1: much better defender obviously co loss as well. So look,
Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent right. DH is where he should be,
Speaker 1: and if he just has a healthy enough season to
Speaker 1: even get to one hundred and forty something games, that
Speaker 1: would be I think very eye opening, and I think
Speaker 1: he comes at a grid enough value to do that.
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Speaker 1: the action. Next on my list is Jesse Winker and
Speaker 1: that's right, Jesse Winker season last year.
Speaker 2: Today I saw him.
Speaker 1: It was pretty awful. Did you say hello to inform me?
Speaker 2: I said, for you, I said hey, Joe says hello,
Speaker 2: and he was like, man, thank you so much, Joe.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm so glad he likes me. Now,
Speaker 1: last year I didn't like him, so he's probably pissed
Speaker 1: off of me. Still. It was just the ADP was
Speaker 1: way too high. And the reason why you know, he's
Speaker 1: a career You know, if you look at his career
Speaker 1: batting average against left handed pitching, okay, and not even
Speaker 1: like the breakout ye because a breakout, he was still
Speaker 1: bad against lefties okay, he was just monumentally good against
Speaker 1: right handed pitching. He's still a two to five career
Speaker 1: hitter against left handed pitching for his career with a
Speaker 1: six to sixty one. Ohps, he's terrible. He is practically
Speaker 1: a platoon player, but he is coming in a discount
Speaker 1: this year. He is on the good side here, being
Speaker 1: the left handed bat where he's going to face a
Speaker 1: lot more right handed pitching. He's going to be out
Speaker 1: there in good spots, and because he's in a favorable
Speaker 1: home run ballpark, I think this is a player that
Speaker 1: you can look for some sort of moderate bounce back.
Speaker 1: I have zero expectations for him to get to the
Speaker 1: guy who you know, hit three zero five with those
Speaker 1: kind of splits in your career is not something you're
Speaker 1: likely going to do. But can you get to that
Speaker 1: two to eighty mark. Can you give me twenty home
Speaker 1: runs or even eighteen home runs? I think there will
Speaker 1: be a pretty good situation there for Jesse Winker. I
Speaker 1: like the Brewers this year. I have money on them
Speaker 1: already to win the Division. I think the Jesse Winker
Speaker 1: this year is a much better let's invest in find
Speaker 1: out player because last year you were paying for what
Speaker 1: you got, which was an all star caliber player going
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty two, and I just did not think
Speaker 1: he was that. So to me, it's just now all
Speaker 1: about the guy is at the right price point and
Speaker 1: at two thirty one. Overall, it's a decent investment once again,
Speaker 1: not gonna cost me much to be wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said this is like a totally weird anecdotal thing,
Speaker 2: but seemed in really good spirits. Today, actually couldn't find him,
Speaker 2: so all the other players at Brewer's camp and was
Speaker 2: focused on William Contreras and Willia Damas and Rowdy Talez.
Speaker 2: I got a little bit of video of and then
Speaker 2: Winker just popped out. And I've never and I was
Speaker 2: around him with the Mariners last year, and brooding would
Speaker 2: be a description I would give to you his mentality.
Speaker 1: It's tough, you know, player spends his whole life with
Speaker 1: an organization and yet trade. I think sometimes guys take
Speaker 1: it personally with a chip on their shoulder, and some
Speaker 1: guys maybe powder you don't have issues with it, And
Speaker 1: I'll go there are issues.
Speaker 2: With the Mariners, the Mariners in general that this has
Speaker 2: been off discussed where I think, you know, our friend
Speaker 2: in Osaris had talked about it, that he talked to
Speaker 2: Winker and like there was a very close knit group
Speaker 2: with the Mariner's, a lot of guys that came up together,
Speaker 2: and Winker was a little bit on the outside looking in. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: and then he comes over here. He was in great
Speaker 2: spirits today working with I believe it's Pat Murphy, former
Speaker 2: ASU baseball coach that was out here and the happiest
Speaker 2: I've seen him. Not that that necessarily means anything, but
Speaker 2: what I would say is a comfortability level is something
Speaker 2: that you really can't consider.
Speaker 1: This with their tam is sneaky. They're sneaky. I don't
Speaker 1: even think they're sneak. They're stacked. It's all about the
Speaker 1: pitching staff health. If they can get that pitching healthy,
Speaker 1: they're in really good spot. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the next on your list for a bounce back, candidate Welsh.
Speaker 2: We got Well, if you guys, get on your internet,
Speaker 2: your phone and click on over to Amazon and you
Speaker 2: typed in the Fantasy Black Book twenty twenty three by
Speaker 2: Joe Buzapia, you could pick that up and you would
Speaker 2: know that I wrote quite a bit of infield profiles,
Speaker 2: all of them first base, second. So I'm gonna read
Speaker 2: you a couple of things that I had put about
Speaker 2: Jose Bray, because I think the obvious thing here is
Speaker 2: you're going into what is essentially hitting environment with incredible
Speaker 2: players around you. Jose Brio coming off fifteen homers, eighty
Speaker 2: five runs, seventy five RBIs not good. Those are not
Speaker 2: good first base stats whatsoever. In the Fantasy Black Book,
Speaker 2: which I had wrote about him, and this is a
Speaker 2: lot of like kind of anecdotal stuff for you to
Speaker 2: kind of understand the player that he was. Last year,
Speaker 2: io hit dropped from three hundred and twenty twenty down
Speaker 2: to one forty one. That's a dramatic drop, almost not believable.
Speaker 2: That power decrease was also highlighted by a career low
Speaker 2: launch angle and the first time he had a home
Speaker 2: run a flyball ratio that was under ten percent, it
Speaker 2: was nine point six. What's interesting, though, is he registered
Speaker 2: as a top ten percentile in exit velocity and x
Speaker 2: LUG based on oh I'm sorry. He'd also finished in
Speaker 2: the top five percentile and XBA x woe, but in
Speaker 2: hard hit percentage all of those at the position. A fun,
Speaker 2: fun little thing was based on expected home runs in
Speaker 2: different ballparks. A radio would have hit twenty homers with
Speaker 2: eight different teams compared to his fifteen, and if he
Speaker 2: was a Cincinnati ready, who would have went twenty eight.
Speaker 2: So coming back to it, it's just a better hitter
Speaker 2: friendly environment for a contact hitter that's gonna be hitting around.
Speaker 2: Tucker Alvarez al Tuve. I think the homers are going
Speaker 2: to tick back up. I think projections kind of agree
Speaker 2: with that. I think the batting average is going to
Speaker 2: be up there. I think the RBI opportunities are going
Speaker 2: to be phenomenal. I think we're getting back to him
Speaker 2: being a three and a half to maybe high four
Speaker 2: category player, and he was being way under sold early on.
Speaker 2: He's coming back up. I just took him in tout.
Speaker 2: I'm prioritizing a guy like him, and I think he's
Speaker 2: going to have a big bounce back at that position
Speaker 2: where he just didn't. You can't have fifteen homers full
Speaker 2: time starting as a first baseman. I don't care what
Speaker 2: other numbers you put up. Unless you put up one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty runs and one hundred and twenty RBI,
Speaker 2: that won't work. And this is a great opportunity for
Speaker 2: him to bounce back. And I've also talked about how
Speaker 2: I kind of want him over a Vine pas Quentino
Speaker 2: right now, So Jose Brey, that's my guy.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I want him over a
Speaker 1: pass Quentino too. The track record is just way longer
Speaker 1: for Jose Brewing you mentioned the lineup is great too,
Speaker 1: Although well concerned about Alvarez with that hand thing. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it's not a handmapone or something like that. I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of holding my breath on the hand issue he's
Speaker 1: been dealing with in the last day or so. So
Speaker 1: hopefully everything will be fine, and hopefully everything is fine
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Speaker 1: two guys second base Slash Outfield it's Katel Marte. Now
Speaker 1: last year to forty batting average, things kind of really
Speaker 1: fell apart. But I also think this team around him
Speaker 1: was just not very good last year. I think when
Speaker 1: you're looking this year, you're seeing some signs of life
Speaker 1: when it comes to the d Backs a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm a you know, Welsh has really been the guy
Speaker 1: pushing for Corbyn Carroll and I am one hundred percent
Speaker 1: on board with him. I am very aggressive. I got
Speaker 1: a whole TV segment on Sunday on Sports Grid lined
Speaker 1: up about him because I really think he's going to
Speaker 1: be a huge draft value. This year, and I'm looking
Speaker 1: at Marte and I'm looking at this team. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a little bit better. And I
Speaker 1: think if you look at the historic Kateel Marte batting average,
Speaker 1: two forty is not where he's going to be. That's
Speaker 1: going to come back up. Even if he just gets
Speaker 1: back to the fifteen to sixteen home run range, that's fine.
Speaker 1: But if the team is better around him, the counting
Speaker 1: stats get better, the RBI total, the run totals, all
Speaker 1: that is better when the offense improves around him. Forget
Speaker 1: them twenty nineteen incredible, Oh my god, thirty two home
Speaker 1: run campaign, forget that. Stop chasing that. But if you're
Speaker 1: looking at a player right around the two hundred and
Speaker 1: ADP mark with multiple eligibility at a position that frankly
Speaker 1: is kind of rough. I mean, he's going after Jonathan India,
Speaker 1: and India has never had a season quite like Marte.
Speaker 1: He's going after Brennan Drury, he was coming off a
Speaker 1: one year wonder season. You know, he's going after Jeff McNeil,
Speaker 1: who has never come close to the power that Katel
Speaker 1: Marte has shown in a full season. So I'm not
Speaker 1: chasing the high point of Marte. But I definitely think
Speaker 1: there's a bounce back in him, and I think it's
Speaker 1: also a tuned to the Diamondbacks starting to make some
Speaker 1: improvements around him. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. Actually, it was at Diamondbacks camp two
Speaker 2: days ago and I got to see Kittel. Actually freaked
Speaker 2: me out. Kultell hit a ball off of his foot
Speaker 2: and limped off and sat in the dugout and then
Speaker 2: shook it off and got back out there. One thing
Speaker 2: that was super noticeable was he has thinned out. He
Speaker 2: looked He's looked very big in years past. I'm just speculating,
Speaker 2: and maybe I hadn't seen him in a long time.
Speaker 2: He looked noticeably thinner, maybe by around ten pounds. And
Speaker 2: something I wonder was had he built up a lot
Speaker 2: of bulk because he was trying to be more of
Speaker 2: a power hitter. I kind of think that's gone. I
Speaker 2: think he might have scrapped that because, like I said,
Speaker 2: it is noticeably thinner in person, and I feel like
Speaker 2: that is going to be back to maybe more of
Speaker 2: a contact approach, which is what he needs. He has
Speaker 2: to stop that guy swings through his shoes when he
Speaker 2: is just trying to make good contact. He'll run into
Speaker 2: some homers, but we'll take all day long if we
Speaker 2: can get back to three hundred hitter Ktel with only
Speaker 2: fifteen homers, because the run and RBI totals are there,
Speaker 2: and you said it best having better players around to
Speaker 2: put not only like in better scoring opportunities for runs
Speaker 2: in RBI, but also put pressure on the other team
Speaker 2: to maybe have to approach Katel a little bit different.
Speaker 2: So I'm very much with this. I try not to
Speaker 2: be a homer and be like ooh all the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: but like if I'm buying back on guys like I'm
Speaker 2: buying hard on Corbyn Carrol, and I really do like
Speaker 2: the idea of just the dirt cheap ka tell Marte
Speaker 2: right now, this is one that I would have picked,
Speaker 2: and it is. I was just encouraged by him kind
Speaker 2: of physically changing a little bit because I'm assuming and
Speaker 2: I'm projecting a little bit. I saw a tiny bit
Speaker 2: of it in his batting practice. I'm assuming that body
Speaker 2: change is maybe going to be also coming with a
Speaker 2: stylistic change which hopefully is not trying to hit.
Speaker 1: Get back to contact, get back to driving the baseball
Speaker 1: good things happen. Then now the next guy on your list.
Speaker 1: Four out of year five are four of my favorite
Speaker 1: guys this year. But this next one, this is the
Speaker 1: one ryany convincing because I am not there when it
Speaker 1: comes to Max Moncy. So go ahead and make the
Speaker 1: case because last year was rough, and I'm just a
Speaker 1: little concerned that maybe we've seen the best of him,
Speaker 1: because he is a player that sort of crept up
Speaker 1: and came out of nowhere. And when those guys sort
Speaker 1: of fall off a map, I get a little kind
Speaker 1: of wishy washy when it comes to their value of
Speaker 1: the previous year. Year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can understand that, and I shy away probably
Speaker 2: more than anything from like these these like really low content,
Speaker 2: like even Kyle Schwarber kind of bothers me a little bit,
Speaker 2: like really low.
Speaker 1: Batting allarge guys and not chasing KYLEE. Schwarber's twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: There's a weird thing that goes on with Maximunths. You've
Speaker 2: noticed where like he has an on off year, it's
Speaker 2: almost it's almost clockwork. But if you look over the
Speaker 2: last five years, three of those he's hit essentially two
Speaker 2: fifty or better. The home run totals have been out there.
Speaker 2: The ISO sticks. He's he's struck out a little bit
Speaker 2: more this year, but that's not necessarily his norm. Baseball
Speaker 2: Savant page is pretty red outside of XBA. The discouraging
Speaker 2: thing was he didn't have like a expected batting average
Speaker 2: that improved, you know, it was it was barely improved.
Speaker 2: It was like actually in the bottom five percent of
Speaker 2: the league. But his batting average was so stinky. It
Speaker 2: was a little bit better. His walk percentage though near
Speaker 2: the top of the league. I think, based on what
Speaker 2: we've seen in the past, he kind of bounces back
Speaker 2: off of batting average. It was also the third lowest
Speaker 2: babbot of his career. Guy doesn't have a highabbat at all.
Speaker 2: It's usually around like two fifty. I think it's a
Speaker 2: crew two fifty six. It was two twenty seven. That's
Speaker 2: not necessarily sustainable. I also believe the approach of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers might be a little bit different this year. A
Speaker 2: lot of guys trying to get on base. You got
Speaker 2: Migil Vargas, and I think I don't want to call
Speaker 2: it manufacturing runs because you still got Freddy Freeman and
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts. So that doesn't necessarily change, but Maxi Munsey
Speaker 2: has shown this before. The Babbitt was a tiny bit
Speaker 2: too low to believe. There's tons and tons of hard
Speaker 2: hit overall in his game, and he technically did improve
Speaker 2: in the second half. First half he hit one sixty four,
Speaker 2: second half he hit two thirty A two thirty. Max
Speaker 2: Monci is worth inside the top one hundred easy because
Speaker 2: he's probably going to push thirty homers, RBI totals are
Speaker 2: going to be better, and he qualifies at a couple positions.
Speaker 2: I think this is an opportunity for Maximuntzy to bounce
Speaker 2: back because he's also done this like kind of time
Speaker 2: in and time out. This is what he does. This
Speaker 2: is this is his other year right now.
Speaker 1: I hope so. But the injury is he had going
Speaker 1: into last year scares me a bit. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, Welsh. I want to take Max Munsey because
Speaker 1: if you look at third base, it's rough, like the
Speaker 1: spots where he qualifies, the corner spots where you want him.
Speaker 1: I mean it is rough out there right now, and
Speaker 1: you want to him in one of those spots. But
Speaker 1: I just can't take the leap. I even took Matt
Speaker 1: Chapman over him yesterday, just because I just can't get
Speaker 1: there now. The one guy I shouldn't get there with.
Speaker 1: My last guy on the list is Wander Franco. Wander Franco,
Speaker 1: everybody knows listen to the show. Last year was a
Speaker 1: big Wander Franco guy. He was going what like second round,
Speaker 1: late second round last year, you know, early third, somewhere
Speaker 1: in that range. He is just twenty two years old. Guys,
Speaker 1: last year was an injury plague season. It wasn't good.
Speaker 1: Forget it, wrap it up, throw it away, forget it happened.
Speaker 1: Because Wander Franco in his minor league career two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty four games a three thirty five batting average
Speaker 1: with a four h two OBP and a five thirty
Speaker 1: seven slug nine thirty nine ops. This is an elite
Speaker 1: bat Okay, guess I said elite. When you get guys
Speaker 1: in that three four five slash, that's an elite player.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of guys that can hit for
Speaker 1: a high average with a high on base and also
Speaker 1: give you the power. And I think the power is
Speaker 1: going to come. I keep saying that about Wander Franco.
Speaker 1: Frame Wise, he's a strong guy. The lower half is strong.
Speaker 1: Power is going to come. Just like when people told
Speaker 1: me the franciscol Indoor is never gonna hit for power,
Speaker 1: and I said, you're crazy. Let me tell you, this
Speaker 1: guy's gonna hit for power. It's not the greatest ballpark, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I understand. But also having some health around him, Brandon
Speaker 1: Low being back healthy, that also helps. I like to
Speaker 1: see them surround them with a little bit more. But
Speaker 1: Wander Franco is just too good, too young to give
Speaker 1: up on, and I just absolutely love I mean, he
Speaker 1: is in the eighty sixth spot. He was a top
Speaker 1: twenty five player last year. He is an eighty six
Speaker 1: overall ADP. That's nuts to me.
Speaker 2: I would have picked him. I would have picked him
Speaker 2: probably just my top guy here, with a caveat that, like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's going to become Francisco Indoor
Speaker 2: or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But the caveat is, I know he's not the Rodo
Speaker 1: Darling player because he doesn't. He's not a high power,
Speaker 1: high speed combination necessary guy, at least not now in
Speaker 1: his career. But if you're in points leagues, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, this guy is just a pure oh yeah,
Speaker 1: just go be aggressive on him.
Speaker 2: But I still think in category leagues he can bounce back.
Speaker 2: I think this is just a prime this is this
Speaker 2: is one of the bet on the skill set guys,
Speaker 2: and the skill set.
Speaker 1: Is so high for Ony two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean this is the same thing where
Speaker 2: people call their shots on a twenty one year old
Speaker 2: and being like he's done or he's the greatest player.
Speaker 2: The developmental process is not linear. Wander Franco has not.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if he's really had enough of
Speaker 2: a sample size to truly understand who he was. And
Speaker 2: I've kind of come back to what we talked about
Speaker 2: earlier in some episodes, they're like that first month he
Speaker 2: was lining up to be like a twenty five to
Speaker 2: twenty guy, and then the injury took him back. He's
Speaker 2: got some contact issues where he can hit it on
Speaker 2: the ground and hit across his body. He's got the
Speaker 2: windmill kind of swing that I think it stabilizes him.
Speaker 2: But like, I just don't think it's crazy to think
Speaker 2: that he could be twenty fifteen or eighteen, you know,
Speaker 2: eighteen fifteen or eighteen ten, even with a really high
Speaker 2: batting average, really good runs. I don't know about the
Speaker 2: RBIs with the Rays overall, but I don't think he
Speaker 2: bounces back to elite. But I really do think he
Speaker 2: bounces back because he's becoming a major afterthought after being
Speaker 2: one of the most hyped prospects in the game, and
Speaker 2: I really think he's gonna find himself this year.
Speaker 1: All right, well, ssh, give us the last guy on
Speaker 1: your list, and this is the guy that I've been
Speaker 1: taking a lot of shares of as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're probably gonna talk about him here in a
Speaker 2: little bit. I was actually surprised when I was looking
Speaker 2: at this list. I was like, are we doing all
Speaker 2: hitters because we didn't have a pictures and I thought
Speaker 2: a pitcher came in here.
Speaker 1: That's okay. In my undervalued gems. I got a bunch
Speaker 1: of pictures I made up for loss.
Speaker 2: You do, Yeah, I think you have all pictures.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I went with Lucas Giolito and I'm not going to
Speaker 2: side off like a gazillion things because we've talked about
Speaker 2: it multiple times, but it's it's a lost year for
Speaker 2: me with him injuries. He bulked up crazy last season.
Speaker 1: Did you see the side by side picture? I think
Speaker 1: it was to remember who tweeted it out as the
Speaker 1: guy from the White Sox.
Speaker 2: It was, I know what you're talking about. It's like
Speaker 2: he'd lost forty five pounds. I think it was because
Speaker 2: he had bulked up last year around two eighty, because
Speaker 2: he's a large human being six foot seven.
Speaker 1: To be tweeted.
Speaker 2: And with that weight gain he had last year, the
Speaker 2: positive weight gain, he was pitching inside his body and
Speaker 2: he's moved that off and he lost a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of weight. And he's also went to drive line and
Speaker 2: re kind of developed the way he throws. And I
Speaker 2: think that's enough for me to go back on what
Speaker 2: was I think a perennial, cy young type of guy.
Speaker 2: I'm willing to buy back in on it. So really
Speaker 2: my argument for this is he was so bad last
Speaker 2: year with so many oddities of the weight and the
Speaker 2: way he pitched that he changed in injuries and all
Speaker 2: of that is kind of beside him. I think this
Speaker 2: is a great opportunity to buy back on the historical
Speaker 2: data of Lucas Giolito, who is trending in a great direction.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to do that, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: draft him pretty much wherever I can.
Speaker 1: And on that note, one of my undervalue projected gems
Speaker 1: is Lucas Giolito, So right off the bat, that's one
Speaker 1: of my guys, and that's because I think people have
Speaker 1: been way too harsh on the down year. Look at
Speaker 1: the previous two seasons of this guy. It's it's crazy
Speaker 1: to think that a player could be so good, so
Speaker 1: consistently for two to three years and he has a
Speaker 1: down year where he whatever, maybe he was out of shape,
Speaker 1: maybe he just came in heavier, whatever that is. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I'm not going to live in that bad
Speaker 1: season because you have a situation where he has been
Speaker 1: good before. He's going at pitcher forty six right now.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. If you look back a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: we're looking at guy striking out two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight guys in the shortened season. In twenty twenty he
Speaker 1: struck got ninety seven guys in seventy two winnings with
Speaker 1: a three to four ERA to three and a half
Speaker 1: ERA in twenty twenty one, struck out two hundred guys.
Speaker 1: Enough is enough, everybody, So Lucas Giolito is definitely one
Speaker 1: of my three pitchers. The other one that I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Code Senga again. I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: projections on him, and I'm looking at the buzz early
Speaker 1: from camp. What is just Do you have it read
Speaker 1: at the Bat right now? I do have it Welsh
Speaker 1: The Bat has him at a four to six two
Speaker 1: ERA over twenty five starts and a one forty strikeout.
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's going to be way more
Speaker 1: than that. Atees he's got one hundred and fifty eight
Speaker 1: k's over one hundred and forty eight innings. Some other
Speaker 1: ones like Steamer a little bit more aggressive. Steamers got
Speaker 1: him at three seven two ERA, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six innings, one hundred and seventy seven strikeouts. To me,
Speaker 1: I think you're looking at a guy much closer to
Speaker 1: this one eighty threshold and probably closer to this twenty
Speaker 1: seven starts. Kind of, I think they're gonna push him
Speaker 1: because it seems like that's where the Mets are, and
Speaker 1: when you have the age and the rotation the Mets do,
Speaker 1: you might not have a choice. Unfortunately, so for better
Speaker 1: or worse, maybe it hurts his era on the back
Speaker 1: end a little bit, but I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you're gonna get more win potential out
Speaker 1: of him. The bullpen's very good. I mean most of
Speaker 1: the projection sites have him for somewhere around ten to
Speaker 1: eleven wins. Welsh, I think, especially if he gets off
Speaker 1: to a hot start, I could see him being one
Speaker 1: of these guys it's like six and one out of
Speaker 1: the gate because he is just so fresh and new
Speaker 1: and the arsenal pitches he has where it's kind of
Speaker 1: like when you Darvish came in the league. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's you Darvish, but when you Darvis came in
Speaker 1: the league, he was just people like I can't even
Speaker 1: pick up the ball, no idea, what's going on. It
Speaker 1: took a while to adjust. So Senga Gildo and the
Speaker 1: other guy. For me, Welsh, it's undervalued in projections right
Speaker 1: now is Hunter Brown and the Houston Astros. And it's
Speaker 1: the same reasoning I had last year with Christian Xavier.
Speaker 2: Really like this one.
Speaker 1: I think the dude's just going to get more starts.
Speaker 1: He's just going to get more opportunities. He's already got
Speaker 1: the goods, he just needs the opportunity. And with Lance
Speaker 1: McCullers already dealing with an elbow issue, there's a chance
Speaker 1: not only does he break camp as the starter, but
Speaker 1: even if they go out and they get a veteran.
Speaker 1: I mean last year they got Otteezi and everybody dropped
Speaker 1: a Christian Javier everywhere. Do you remember that? You remember
Speaker 1: what that happened? And we said on the show, go
Speaker 1: pick him up. If he got dropped, go pick up
Speaker 1: Christian Xavier. It doesn't matter. Eventually, the better arms went out,
Speaker 1: Brown qualifies at SP and RP. I think Brown, Gledo,
Speaker 1: and Senga. Right now, the all the projections are not
Speaker 1: savvy enough to I think what the high end for
Speaker 1: these guys are in terms of innings and in terms
Speaker 1: of talent, and I think right now they're they're underperforming
Speaker 1: in ADP because of it. Well, so, who are the
Speaker 1: three guys for you that you're looking at that are
Speaker 1: undervalue when it comes to projections so far this year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think it's actually kind of all of them.
Speaker 2: You can check out if you guys, go over to
Speaker 2: fantasypros dot com. You can check out projections that are
Speaker 2: on the site if you want to peruse all of that.
Speaker 2: And I was kind of going through there and a
Speaker 2: couple stood out to me, and it wasn't even necessarily
Speaker 2: like Fantasy Pros versus let's say the bat X. It
Speaker 2: was just kind of all of them. The first one
Speaker 2: was Christian Walker, who Christian Walker's coming off a thirty
Speaker 2: six home run season, worst babup in baseball in the
Speaker 2: first half, had a phenomenal second half where he hit
Speaker 2: two eighty. So come back to the median line where
Speaker 2: he hits two fifty. And what I don't understand is
Speaker 2: all of the projection sites on the lower home run
Speaker 2: totals significant home run total decreases do not make sense
Speaker 2: to me whatsoever, especially if he's going to be a
Speaker 2: better contact hitter. Fantasy Pros projections got him at twenty
Speaker 2: seven homers. The bat X only at twenty four. If
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, if Christian Walker hits two fifty,
Speaker 2: he's hitting thirty plus. This isn't an argument, So I
Speaker 2: don't know what we're doing here. Number two on it,
Speaker 2: the Fantasy Pro's projection stood out to me like a
Speaker 2: sore thumb was Jose Miranda. Jose Miranda was projected at
Speaker 2: eighteen homers on Fantasy Pros. So really, if you're going
Speaker 2: through there. This is a guy that moves through as
Speaker 2: far as projections go too, sixty six batting average with
Speaker 2: eighteen homers. If you come over and look at the others,
Speaker 2: the bat x only fifteen homers. What are we talking
Speaker 2: about here? I think this is a twenty home run
Speaker 2: plus guy. I've talked about the amount of contact he
Speaker 2: makes in general. He steals bases as well. No projection system.
Speaker 2: They haven't met one stolen base two. I mean he
Speaker 2: steals a little bit. He's stole in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: I think I always make that into a big thing.
Speaker 2: I think he can steal a little bit more. I
Speaker 2: know the power can be there, and none of the
Speaker 2: projection sites have anything on him. And the other one
Speaker 2: was George Kirby. George Kirby was another one of those
Speaker 2: that stood out. Let me see if I can remember this.
Speaker 2: I was looking at Kirby's numbers, and Kirby's numbers, as
Speaker 2: far as projections go on, here were actually relative to
Speaker 2: some guys that were God dang, they were. They were
Speaker 2: a little bit higher because you only had one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty. Now I should have written this down, and
Speaker 2: I didn't write it down. So this is killing me
Speaker 2: because I had a really good one. But George Kirby's
Speaker 2: projected had one hundred and forty seven innings this coming
Speaker 2: season with.
Speaker 1: He's triking numbers last year, that id an injury for
Speaker 1: him to get to that number.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it. With nine wins, nine wins, seven
Speaker 2: losses in Seattle in one hundred and forty seven innings
Speaker 2: here and you know, for perspective, like Tyler Glass now
Speaker 2: is projected for one hundred and thirty three. That's going
Speaker 2: to kill me first of my life.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you how you're either George total On
Speaker 1: Kirby is way too low. It's it's crazy, It's way
Speaker 1: too low. It should not be the case. So Walker,
Speaker 1: Miranda Kirby, Senga Giolito Brown, those are guys right now.
Speaker 1: The projections haven't quite caught up to our expectations for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. And of course, if you've got more expectations,
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