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Speaker 1: now that we're here talk a little Fantasy Baseball pulled
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Speaker 1: be here with you. Greg. Continuing our starting picture preview
Speaker 1: Part two, Part Part nose you go? What's going on
Speaker 1: with you? Hi? To sleep last night? I slept pretty
Speaker 1: well last night. Now issues great? I feel I almost
Speaker 1: started my um my next position ranks, and we're doing
Speaker 1: the outfielders the next two days. It's like almost started that.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that too, but then I did. It's
Speaker 1: only like a hundred and fifty of them to rank,
Speaker 1: you know, I always find a way. There's so many
Speaker 1: starting pitchers, there's just so many outfielders. And I got
Speaker 1: the starting pictures done. I saw it. It's true, so
Speaker 1: all the colors, this guy, it's real. What's the content
Speaker 1: that you need doing my job? So tonight I'll have
Speaker 1: to work on the outfields. I could have done it
Speaker 1: last night instead of I had a debate to watch,
Speaker 1: so I couldn't do it one of those. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, we can just how about you, uh tell
Speaker 1: us about your Trevor Bauer rankings, Greg, and then we
Speaker 1: can just have a debate right here on this. As
Speaker 1: you'll find out in just a few moments, Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: number twenty two on my rankings. Unbelievable. Let's unbelievable that
Speaker 1: there's Trevor Bauer the best Red's picture question we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to answer. Learned anything last year? Greg? We owned him.
Speaker 1: We owned him, that we lived through it. Find that
Speaker 1: in much much cheaper, much cheaper for this year. Many back.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to hear more in Sunny Gray.
Speaker 1: The hey guys will get into you. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about It's honey as well as and a sleepers
Speaker 1: as well. First as wells update. Thank you Greg Susman.
Speaker 1: I have song Bostocky and we their bff sportscred news updates.
Speaker 1: All right, let's head over to the NBA breaking news.
Speaker 1: Hornets gardener Leak Monk has been suspended indefinitely for violating
Speaker 1: the NBA's antique drug program. Note word on how many
Speaker 1: games Malik Monk will miss at this point, but he
Speaker 1: has suspended indefinitely, so he will be off the roster
Speaker 1: tonight when the Hornets host the Knicks seven ten pm
Speaker 1: Eastern Times. Hornets are getting two points in that matchup,
Speaker 1: two of seven your total. A couple of great games
Speaker 1: later on tonight you have the Memphis Grizzlies at the
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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot there, sewn. Maria Sharapova to quote book
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Speaker 1: the racket? Is that what they call it? I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into our starting pitcher preview Part two,
Speaker 1: the rest of the show here on the Fantasy BFS,
Speaker 1: specifically getting out our top forty seven starting pitchers, and
Speaker 1: we'll give you some sleepers as well as well. You do,
Speaker 1: Greg something like to say as well, But what we
Speaker 1: also have is a snippet of the NBA tip trill
Speaker 1: from earlier today, Greg Susman with Daily Rhodo dot COM's
Speaker 1: Drew dink Meyer to talk about one of the players
Speaker 1: that they're focusing on tonight in the NBA b F slate.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to shooting guard here, Drew, and that Raises.
Speaker 1: Now do well Marta Rosen, which makes sense because La
Speaker 1: Marcus Aldres is not in there tonight, like end, A
Speaker 1: lot more of that coming your way. But in these
Speaker 1: games between San Antonio and Dallas, you gotta like Tmarta Rosen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tmarta Rosen. In the games without LaMarcus Alders this year,
Speaker 1: his usage rate a shot up to over thirty. The
Speaker 1: rebounding and the assist rates have have bounced up as well,
Speaker 1: and so he's just got a huge opportunity set whenever
Speaker 1: LaMarcus Aldridge is off the floor. And that's consistent when
Speaker 1: you look at on a game level basis, or just
Speaker 1: in the regular season when they both played in the
Speaker 1: same game and Aldred just been off the floor, the
Speaker 1: use of right really skyrockets. So you know, thirty five
Speaker 1: plus minutes of that tonight against Dallas, a team that
Speaker 1: you know plays fast and is a little bit loose
Speaker 1: around the defensive side of the ball, a really good
Speaker 1: price tag on to Marta Rosen. It doesn't look like
Speaker 1: it's been adjusted for the assumption that Aldridges out price
Speaker 1: below seven thousand. You should really take advantage of that tonight.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like the c j MC Collumns
Speaker 1: situation from the last few nights, where without Damian Lillard,
Speaker 1: c j MC Collins rates explode without LaMarcus soldiers to
Speaker 1: Marta Rosen's rates explode. I don't know if we'll quite
Speaker 1: get the performances from tomorrow that we've been getting from
Speaker 1: c J, but I think it's very likely to pay
Speaker 1: off the six price tag and shout out to Daily
Speaker 1: Rhodo Andrew dick Meyer. The guys have been absolutely crushing
Speaker 1: it all season long. From an NFL NBA Dfest perspective,
Speaker 1: also from an NFL Dfest perspective, But right now we're
Speaker 1: in NBA season. We're prepping for Fantasy baseball as well.
Speaker 1: But these guys have done a phenomenal job. They gave
Speaker 1: out Joel Embid the other day, Greg, and he dropped
Speaker 1: a career high forty nine points tonight to Marta Rosen.
Speaker 1: With La Marcus Aldridge out, the usage rate goes up,
Speaker 1: the points per game go up for Demarta Rosen. I
Speaker 1: think it makes a ton of sense de mar de
Speaker 1: Rosian with a Lamargus Aldridge, He's gotta be a lock
Speaker 1: for your lot up. I know Drew also likes Luka
Speaker 1: doantech Here to night givebout joellan vehicle days ago, as
Speaker 1: you said, Dwelling Bead was your NBA Fantasy Player of
Speaker 1: the night. Thanks for those forty nine points. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get a new starting pitching Part du Part two,
Speaker 1: Part dose, and we begin with Claire. I have two, Frank,
Speaker 1: because we did one twenty one yesterday Claire twenty two.
Speaker 1: It's power power, let's go. There's no way that you
Speaker 1: actually want Trevor Bauer and he is a target of yours.
Speaker 1: Why not? All right, So tell me why, Greg, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why you're wrong. The Trevor Bauer obviously two
Speaker 1: years ago. It was awesome last year he was drafted
Speaker 1: as an ace like pitcher. He's just twenty nine years old.
Speaker 1: And listen, he had to set back last year. Didn't
Speaker 1: really feel right in Cleveland. Warily work out that well. Um,
Speaker 1: but while all the numbers were much worse last year
Speaker 1: than they were the year prior, you're doing a great job,
Speaker 1: doing a great job of selling Trevor Bauer. You can
Speaker 1: bounce back. You've got nothing, dude, Why do you have
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer? Reg Number twenty two at starting pitcher? Here's
Speaker 1: to here's what you need to know. He had one
Speaker 1: phenomenal season. Can't take anything away from him. Back at
Speaker 1: two eighteen, a two point to one e r A
Speaker 1: great If you had him that year, probably helped to
Speaker 1: win a Fantasy Baseball championship. If you own him last year,
Speaker 1: he did not help you. In fact, he hurt you.
Speaker 1: He was terrible. He had an ear a over four
Speaker 1: a four point four eight ear a like he has
Speaker 1: had for most of his career. Actually, in fact, outside
Speaker 1: of that two thousand eighteen season, Trevor Bauer has had
Speaker 1: an ear a of at least four point one nine
Speaker 1: in every single season as a starting pitcher in Major
Speaker 1: League baseball. He's not good. He's Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray
Speaker 1: and Trevor Bauer have the basically same career numbers, and
Speaker 1: I will illustrate that to you right now. Robbie Ray
Speaker 1: four eleven career e r A one three five whip
Speaker 1: career eleven case per nine. Trevor Bauer four point zero
Speaker 1: four ear a. Alright, he's point zero seven better, one
Speaker 1: point three zero whip point zero five better. There nine
Speaker 1: and a half case per nine in his career. I
Speaker 1: will give you this. Over the past three seasons, his
Speaker 1: caper nine has been up over ten. Still not as
Speaker 1: good as Robbie Ray. Why are we drafting Trevor Bower two, three,
Speaker 1: four rounds ahead of Robbie Ray. If you want someone
Speaker 1: who's gonna suck at everything except give you strikeouts, why
Speaker 1: don't you just take Robbie Ray? Greg Okay, you think
Speaker 1: that sherevor Bower can still improve, Like I feel Robbie
Speaker 1: Ray is Robbie Robbie Ray is can't you ever? I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna say, but isn't eighteen like the aberration?
Speaker 1: Isn't that just the outliers? Obviously? But I think that
Speaker 1: not these both of these guys didn't have that top
Speaker 1: prospect pedigree, And I like, I don't like Robbie Robbie right,
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray ragged. I'll tell you the time that you
Speaker 1: draft Robbie Ray, greg is you pair him with Kyle
Speaker 1: Hendricks And I don't. And I believe it was I
Speaker 1: believe it was Alex Chamberlain, who was a Baseball Writer
Speaker 1: of the Year last year, Fantasy Baseball Writer of the
Speaker 1: Year with Fan Grafs still the phenomenal job. He kind
Speaker 1: of brought about the idea of pairing together Robbie Ray
Speaker 1: and Kyle Hendricks and making one super picture because it
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Hendricks is gonna give you
Speaker 1: ear a, He's gonna give you whip. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: give you strikeouts. I'll be Ray. I'm gonna give you strikeouts,
Speaker 1: gonna give you nothing else. Maybe he'll give you wins.
Speaker 1: Because that division outside of the Dodgers is lackluster and
Speaker 1: should have good run support behind him. But outside of Batman.
Speaker 1: But I get it on Trevor Bauer, the swinging strike percentage,
Speaker 1: the strikeout ability, I understand it. But you can get
Speaker 1: strikeouts later on in the draft. We'll talk about to
Speaker 1: Nelson limit, We'll talk about Robbie Ray, Canton, Mayata. You
Speaker 1: can get strikeouts anywhere. All he's gonna do is hurt
Speaker 1: your ear and whip as well, unless he doesn't sally
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Speaker 1: Tompson had done it, and just like into the ground,
Speaker 1: rock and Roll was being born. Marijuana. We with scorn
Speaker 1: all your here on the show. Game you wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about Trevor Bauer, You got it now. All I
Speaker 1: want to do is talking right back here. B f
Speaker 1: F's Frank, I'm Greg. We we talked about Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: and we talked about well. Frank mentioned during the break
Speaker 1: to me they maybe the pigeon coach Larry Johnson in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati the work his magic, because he's worked his magic before,
Speaker 1: specifically with his old pupil, Sonny Gray. Sunny Gray. Last
Speaker 1: year you had a really nice bow back yere from
Speaker 1: his couple of tough years in New York. Sonny Gray
Speaker 1: is my number? Where is he? My number? Twenty five
Speaker 1: pitcher off the board right? Where is he for you?
Speaker 1: Sonny Gray is my number right, So we both have
Speaker 1: He's at our top twenty five there. I know you
Speaker 1: really like Sonny Gray. This year a great bashback year.
Speaker 1: Why do you think, uh, he's twenty twenty, more like
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Then says seen, Well, I think that they
Speaker 1: figured some things out last year, and you mentioned that
Speaker 1: he was reunited with his former pitching coach Derek Johnson,
Speaker 1: and Derrek Johnson came over from the Brewers and obviously
Speaker 1: did a phenomenal job with players while he was with
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, and then last year wound up helping Sonny
Speaker 1: Gray and Luis Castillo get to the next level. And
Speaker 1: he was just phenomenal last year. UH sub three e
Speaker 1: r A one oh eight whip the x fit was
Speaker 1: a little bit higher three six five. But even if
Speaker 1: he gave you, you know, a mid three's e r
Speaker 1: A this year, based on where he's going at top
Speaker 1: twenty five starting pitcher, I think that you would be
Speaker 1: all right with that the strikeouts were up. He does
Speaker 1: exactly what you want. He gets strikeouts, He gets a
Speaker 1: lot of groundballs, nearly a percent groundball rate. Still struggles
Speaker 1: a little bit too much with the walks. But last year, Greg,
Speaker 1: and we've always said this about Sonny grade is that
Speaker 1: he didn't get enough strikeouts to mitigate the walks. Last
Speaker 1: year was the year that he actually finally did that.
Speaker 1: Posted a career high eleven percent swinging strike rate pent
Speaker 1: K rate was by far the highest of his career
Speaker 1: and fourteenth highest among qualified starting pitchers last year. The
Speaker 1: biggest difference for him was that he started using his
Speaker 1: breaking pitches more, and we hear that a lot in
Speaker 1: baseball is get away from the bast the fastball, use
Speaker 1: your breaking pitches more. That's exactly what he did. Use
Speaker 1: the slider more, used the curveball more. Uh and the
Speaker 1: slider rated as a top twelve pitch according to fan
Speaker 1: Graphs pitch Values. His curveball was top five among curveballs
Speaker 1: last year as well. So there's some people that speculate
Speaker 1: that his breaking pitches won't be as good. And I
Speaker 1: believe when we had Nick Pollock on a pitcher list,
Speaker 1: that was his hesitancy when it comes to Sonny Gray.
Speaker 1: But you know, if he can come anywhere close to
Speaker 1: replicating what he did with his breaking pitches last year, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think that he can give you a you know,
Speaker 1: three five to three seven e r A with you
Speaker 1: know one one five, two to one two oh whip
Speaker 1: with you know, really good strike outs, add eighty innings.
Speaker 1: And you know, if he does that, he's likely going
Speaker 1: to be a top five, top thirty starting pitcher once again.
Speaker 1: Sony is obviously not sexy. Um, like you said, the
Speaker 1: washer down strike guys, we're up. Um. I feel like
Speaker 1: you just have fatigue on Sonny Greg, Greg, is that
Speaker 1: I do? I I think that he's a really good
Speaker 1: word for it. What do you want him as? So
Speaker 1: that's a good question, and I was going to bring
Speaker 1: this up as well. I think if you play in
Speaker 1: a fifteen team league, and that's more so for deep
Speaker 1: performance NFBC formats, I don't mind him as my SP two.
Speaker 1: I don't love it, but ideally I would want him
Speaker 1: as my SP three. And I think there's something we
Speaker 1: should break down as well, and I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: this is that we went over our top twenty one
Speaker 1: pitchers yesterday. Greg. When I'm doing my drafts, I want
Speaker 1: to come away with at least two of my top
Speaker 1: twenty one, right, and that's when that's what Garrit Cohler
Speaker 1: to Graham in the first round. If not, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a Patrick Corbin or a Geldo in the third.
Speaker 1: But I do want to grab a Morton or a
Speaker 1: Paddock or a Synder Guard. I know you like Syndergraard
Speaker 1: a lot in that fourth round range. Give me two
Speaker 1: of my top twenty one starting pitchers, and then I
Speaker 1: also want to extend that to give me three of
Speaker 1: my top thirty Sunny Grays inside of that top thirty.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't mind him as my SP three ideally
Speaker 1: fair enough, Sunny great for me. I haven't met twenty five.
Speaker 1: Like I said, he's an SP three here A draft
Speaker 1: Sunny Gray, you're not in. I can only see me
Speaker 1: drafting Sunny Grey Wight team with you, like I can
Speaker 1: be talkings anywhere, like, hey, this is how the team
Speaker 1: is kind of shaped. Me up. I want Sunny Gray here,
Speaker 1: but like, okay, I can see that. I don't see
Speaker 1: myself really drafting him. The thing is, the price isn't
Speaker 1: anywhere near what he did last year, because it's because
Speaker 1: it's not just me that has getting in like a
Speaker 1: you know, the six eight rounds in the seventh round. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not just me that has that. It's he goes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who are skeptical of what
Speaker 1: he did last year. Right, So that's why you know,
Speaker 1: if you like him, you'll get him at at a
Speaker 1: solid value. If not, I mean, just keep letting them
Speaker 1: fall down the board. So I have a tier that
Speaker 1: goes from two to twenty seven. I mention Trevor Bauer,
Speaker 1: I mentioned Sonny Grace. You only have six guys in
Speaker 1: that tire. I only have six guys in that's here
Speaker 1: because my mind is similar. I have it from thirty one.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit bigger. Okay, that's interesting. One. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read you, my guys, and then you can get
Speaker 1: into years. You can put it, and you guys should
Speaker 1: put it up so everybody can see what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: So I got Trevor Bauer here at two, followed by
Speaker 1: Jose Burrios, Corey Kluber, Sonny Gray or Less Carrasco and
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass. Now, and that's really when my tear ends,
Speaker 1: and I have Wheeler starting my next year. What I know,
Speaker 1: you hate Bauer and that's fine. What do you think
Speaker 1: about the rest of it, Frank Corey Cluber? I I'm
Speaker 1: not in on either this year because at the point
Speaker 1: you were. We did the starting picture preview on FC
Speaker 1: earlier today. My two bus were Trevor Bauer and Corey Cluber. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just not buying that. Clue were always a terrible
Speaker 1: apron onnoight, are you just not buying that, Corey Cluber
Speaker 1: and bounce back in anyway? I mean, I'm not ruling
Speaker 1: it out. There's definitely maybe having some a year off
Speaker 1: from that shoulder like that could be helpful. It might
Speaker 1: it might actually help him, right, and he's older now,
Speaker 1: But I think what we saw last year, we just
Speaker 1: can't completely dispute that. And I understand much last year.
Speaker 1: He normally gets off to slow starts, Greg, But I
Speaker 1: mean what he did last year was really bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he meets seven starts. It's not like insignificant. That's
Speaker 1: almost a quarter of the season. Well, fine, Star Wars,
Speaker 1: but like you know, if the slow start, those seven
Speaker 1: starts at eight fil nay, it wasn't warm yet, it's
Speaker 1: cold in Cleveland. You're making the case for Clover here, Greg,
Speaker 1: And look, he he might make me look stupid here
Speaker 1: if he bounces back with Texas. He's not in the
Speaker 1: r angeen. Yeah, that's why it looks. It's hard to be.
Speaker 1: He's one year removed from a two eight nine e
Speaker 1: r A was zero point nine nine. Like he was great,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. But I think late in
Speaker 1: twenty eight teen we started to see the skills a
Speaker 1: road a little bit, definitely, and then early last year,
Speaker 1: so that's all we have to go on. It's like
Speaker 1: the first month of last year and the last month
Speaker 1: or two of eighteen and those last three months have
Speaker 1: not been good and he's getting up there in age
Speaker 1: as well. Over here, here's what lander and granky. There's
Speaker 1: no signs right with Cluber. There is a bad months,
Speaker 1: three months was a bad month, five eight e r
Speaker 1: A and seven starts last year the walks three point
Speaker 1: seven nine bad. That's not something you normally see out
Speaker 1: of Klueber. His twenty two percent hey rate was his
Speaker 1: lowest and twenty thirteen in those first seven starts. And
Speaker 1: here's another thing, Greg three seventy babbitt for the record.
Speaker 1: But here's what I get to on the babbitt last
Speaker 1: over the past two seasons is hard contact rate is
Speaker 1: thirty six point seven percent. From two thousand and eleven
Speaker 1: through seventeen, his hard contact was twenty seven percent over
Speaker 1: the past two seasons now and again this is going
Speaker 1: back to eighteen where we're starting to see a trend
Speaker 1: of him giving up hard contact. The past two seasons
Speaker 1: up over thirty six percent hard contact, which is nowhere
Speaker 1: what it has been in years past. For Corey Klueber.
Speaker 1: There is a range of outcomes, um where he completely
Speaker 1: makes me look foolish and he goes back to being
Speaker 1: the Corey Cluober of old. I I recognize that, but
Speaker 1: I'm not willing to take that gamble. Give me someone
Speaker 1: like Sonny Gray, who I still think is young enough
Speaker 1: and you know, showed us what his upside was last year.
Speaker 1: Give me one of these you know hype guys starting
Speaker 1: pitchers with Mantas and Max Freed and Gallen all players
Speaker 1: who we think could take that next step. Corey Cloober
Speaker 1: Greg at age thirty four, is someone that I am
Speaker 1: worried about this season. We'll say this, Corey Clubers fastball,
Speaker 1: Uh was the slowest that has ever been ninety one
Speaker 1: point in a six miles per hour in those seven
Speaker 1: starts last year. Uh he usually around ninety three and
Speaker 1: ninety one. If he's losing juicual the fastball, that's not
Speaker 1: so good. Who do you have closing out this whole
Speaker 1: tier or is making up this whole tier for you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I have a twenty two through thirty one. For me,
Speaker 1: this is my tier three, and I really want one
Speaker 1: of these guys as my SP three if at all possible.
Speaker 1: I have Tyler Glass now at SP twenty two, followed
Speaker 1: by Brandon Woodruff, Jose Barrios, Sonny Gray, Carlos Carrasco Max
Speaker 1: Freed to seven, Zack Gallon at, Frankie Mantas at nine,
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler at thirty, and Mike Saroka at thirty one.
Speaker 1: That rounds out that tier for me. And as you
Speaker 1: can see up on the screen, Uh, the start of
Speaker 1: thirty two is the beginning of the next year. So
Speaker 1: for me, you're hiring than Brandon would you have which
Speaker 1: we which we knew already that you literally leave that
Speaker 1: up Alt Saw. I want to be able to compare.
Speaker 1: So Brandon, would you if you have higher than than
Speaker 1: I do, which we which we knew about. He's your
Speaker 1: number twenty three overall? What makes you so high? I
Speaker 1: would your I get Glass note right, like, I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit worried about the health with Glass now after
Speaker 1: you come back last year. But it was tough for him.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to buy in a little bit all this
Speaker 1: talk about using like a split change up to even
Speaker 1: if he uses that like ten, it's it's literally it's
Speaker 1: a matter of staying healthy. But if Glass now stays
Speaker 1: healthy for like one fifth year, one sixty, it's like
Speaker 1: the steel the draft. Totally agree with that. I was
Speaker 1: totally all on the glass now you can stay healthy. Um,
Speaker 1: there is risk, Bob. But Brandon, would you you have
Speaker 1: a twenty three, I have him down at thirty and
Speaker 1: then you have all the hype guys back to back
Speaker 1: to back year twenty nine. The Lazardo is a little
Speaker 1: bit lower here for you at thirty four and a
Speaker 1: different tier. Um, we're getting those guys in a few moments.
Speaker 1: But why are you showing brand Wood this year? So
Speaker 1: he is very fastball and sinker reliant, which normally I
Speaker 1: would like a starting pitcher to have, you know, a
Speaker 1: breaking pitch that he really can rely on. He used
Speaker 1: the slider about twenty percent. Uh, and it's a solid slider.
Speaker 1: But he's really really reliant on his four steamer and
Speaker 1: his sinker ball. And last year, Greg, I mean it
Speaker 1: was a breakout. You remember, throughout spring training he was
Speaker 1: someone that you know, a lot of people were touting
Speaker 1: as a sleeper and it came to fruition A three
Speaker 1: six t e r A last year a three point
Speaker 1: three six x Fips says that maybe he should have
Speaker 1: been even better than he was last season. Greg a
Speaker 1: one one four whip. I think the strikeouts might take
Speaker 1: a little bit of a step back. He was at
Speaker 1: ten and a half case per nine. Yet his uh,
Speaker 1: his strikeout rate was it seems a little deceptive based
Speaker 1: on the eleven point nine percent swinging strike rate. Actually
Speaker 1: wrote next with swinging strike crate Matt. So maybe the
Speaker 1: strikeout has come down a little bit for Woodruff. But
Speaker 1: he's someone that could get groundballs. He has good command.
Speaker 1: He didn't walk too many batters two point two two
Speaker 1: walks for nine last year, and there were always kind
Speaker 1: of signs of him being good. He was just never
Speaker 1: used solely as a starting pitcher. He's been using relief,
Speaker 1: bouncing back and forth a little bit. But in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues he was very good. Um, I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot to like. He relies on his fastball. He
Speaker 1: throws it like miles per hour. I saw his first
Speaker 1: start the other day in spring training. He was hitting
Speaker 1: like ninety nine regularly. So I mean he throws extremely
Speaker 1: hard and as one of the best fastballs in the game. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm buying in. I don't mind him as an SP
Speaker 1: three or again, if you play in one of these
Speaker 1: deeper leagues in the great fantasy based presentations, I not ideally,
Speaker 1: but I wound up with him as my SP two
Speaker 1: with Patrick Corbin. So I'm gonna continue to hammer out
Speaker 1: starting pitching in that draft, but I do not mind
Speaker 1: him whatsoever as an SP three. Greg and the numbers
Speaker 1: all going up for Brandon wouldr Off. Of course, he's
Speaker 1: gotta get you on the Brandon would Off training. Come on,
Speaker 1: it's funny. Look at the stats last year. I was like, sure,
Speaker 1: we're talking to Brandon would More. He's good and all
Speaker 1: over him last year and I was like missing something here,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Yes, you get back in on them
Speaker 1: this year. All right, let's get the hype guys here
Speaker 1: a little bit and go further down in our top forty.
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Speaker 1: Frank standfor let's get to the hype guys here a
Speaker 1: little bit, Frank and you had your boy Max Freed
Speaker 1: kind of leading this tier off, Max Free, Zach Allen,
Speaker 1: Frankie Mullintos all in that pack for you. These are Lozardo.
Speaker 1: A little bit later on, I Lozardo as the head
Speaker 1: of my hype guys. You mentioned it on Twitter last night.
Speaker 1: You mentioned as you walked in the Haris Lozardo now
Speaker 1: has a new high pick in the NFBC going in
Speaker 1: the sixth round. People are buying the hype once again
Speaker 1: on Hazar's Lizardo. Yeah, and I like Lozardo. The reason
Speaker 1: why I have him ranked a little bit lower than
Speaker 1: some of those other guys is, as you can see
Speaker 1: the projection below, they have him projected over on Fangraphs
Speaker 1: for a hundred and forty nine endings pitch. That to
Speaker 1: me is extreme best case scenario, because this is somebody
Speaker 1: who only pitched fifty five innings last year, pitched three
Speaker 1: more in the postseason. The year before that, he threw
Speaker 1: a hundred and nine innings only through forty three. This
Speaker 1: guy has never really thrown that many endings. And I
Speaker 1: know that the reports that have come out of Oakland
Speaker 1: are there's gonna be no ending's limit for Lozardo and A. J. Puck.
Speaker 1: I'm not buying that, because they want to play in
Speaker 1: the postseason, they want to go deep. They need Lozardo
Speaker 1: and Puck to yes, help them get there, but they're
Speaker 1: also gonna need them once they get to the postseason.
Speaker 1: So and if I'm projecting Lozardo, I'm not giving him
Speaker 1: much more than a hundred and thirty or a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty endings pitch greg And for that reason, that's
Speaker 1: why I have him ranked below names like Freed and
Speaker 1: Gallon and Montage, just because I think that those guys
Speaker 1: are gonna give you more endings. Maybe Lozardo is better
Speaker 1: on a per ending basis, but the thing is you're
Speaker 1: probably going to get thirty to forty more endings pitch
Speaker 1: out of those other pictures. Yeah, you exactly what I
Speaker 1: was going to say that I think he's just better
Speaker 1: than all the guys that you mentioned, Gallen Freed, It's
Speaker 1: hard to argue with that. I mean, the guy is
Speaker 1: ridiculous to five three r A in the minors. Sure,
Speaker 1: last year, Montas pitch h nineties six citings around a
Speaker 1: major suspension that wiped him out for most of the year.
Speaker 1: He was phenomenal last year. I remember you, Floria and
Speaker 1: I were hanging out, uh and dancing around Frankie Montas.
Speaker 1: We all bought in and it worked out. I remember
Speaker 1: Florio at first did not like Frankie mont hitting and
Speaker 1: I had to try and talk him into it. But
Speaker 1: you know, Frankie Mantas what he did last year, and
Speaker 1: it was not p D related. He finally just put
Speaker 1: it all together. Look at his career, his career log
Speaker 1: year by year. There was one year where he got
Speaker 1: a ton of strikeouts but would walk too many batters,
Speaker 1: and in the next year he limited the walks and
Speaker 1: then didn't get any strikeouts. And last year he finally
Speaker 1: figured it all out. Has prospect pedigree always through hard,
Speaker 1: so it's not pe D related. What he did last
Speaker 1: year was related to the fact that he introduced a splitter.
Speaker 1: He introduced a new pitch, and last year thirty five
Speaker 1: percent chase rate that would have ranked twelve among starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: Fortcent groundball rate has solid command, gives you groundballs, solid strikeouts,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe around a strikeout for any like nine
Speaker 1: per nine kind of guy. Not gonna wow you there.
Speaker 1: But I think someone who can pitch to a you
Speaker 1: know again, three five to three seven e R. I
Speaker 1: think someone similar to like a Sonny Gray. That's why
Speaker 1: I have these guys ranked similarly. Some people might be
Speaker 1: skeptical because it was the only season he's ever done
Speaker 1: it Greg, but I'm not one of those people. Raymondas
Speaker 1: is twenty six years older Jurdge wenty seven at the
Speaker 1: end of March, and I agree, finally put it all together.
Speaker 1: He was a guy that once it started going right
Speaker 1: last year, we all kind of notice because what he
Speaker 1: was doing seemed legitimate. And when he came back from
Speaker 1: the suspension, I picked up where he left off. I
Speaker 1: think his final start, he only made one start after suspensions,
Speaker 1: good six innings of one run ball with six strikeouts
Speaker 1: against the of the Anahi Mangels Los Angeles Angels. Whatever, Well,
Speaker 1: this is good and if he could just continue on
Speaker 1: this path, You're got a nice value here. With Frankie Mantaz,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I'm with you. I like Frankie Mantas,
Speaker 1: not as much as I like Freed and Zach Gallen.
Speaker 1: We spoke about these guys a lot, but we'll just
Speaker 1: kind of reiterated real quick. I mean with Zach Gallen,
Speaker 1: traded over from the Miami Marlins last year, and what
Speaker 1: he did in the PCL, the Pacific Coach League, mind
Speaker 1: you wear, the average e r A was like five
Speaker 1: in this league last year. That's how bad pitching was.
Speaker 1: He had a one seven seven e ar A, a
Speaker 1: zero point seven whip and and twelve strikeouts and a
Speaker 1: third endings pitch. When he came up last year, did
Speaker 1: struggle with command a little bit. I didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: think he had enough confidence in his stuff from the
Speaker 1: get go. But as the season went along, once he
Speaker 1: got traded to the dimeback, stills walks started to come
Speaker 1: down a little bit, the strikeouts remained all along. He
Speaker 1: has four different pitches that he can rely on, four seam, curve, cutter,
Speaker 1: change up, and he threw a hundred and seventy one
Speaker 1: and a third endings pitch between the Miners and the
Speaker 1: Major's last year. So I don't think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: on any type of endings limit. I think He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna give you a hundred seventy five hundred endings of
Speaker 1: really really good baseball. That is Zack zac Gallen and
Speaker 1: then Max Freed. Greg, just look at the numbers, man,
Speaker 1: it's the strikeouts were phenomenal. He really took a step
Speaker 1: forward in terms of command the spring, not the spring. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: but that's good. Look, if you're scared off of Max Freed,
Speaker 1: continue to let him fall because I will take him
Speaker 1: in all of my drafts. He did get blown up
Speaker 1: in his first start here in the springcent groundball rate, Greg,
Speaker 1: how about this in the second half for Max Freed
Speaker 1: ten point two case for nine three point six r
Speaker 1: A with a three point one to x fit. We're
Speaker 1: all in on Max Freed. And let's go over to
Speaker 1: Greg Suspen with I don't know a sports screed news update.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna believe this, Bam, bam, bamy. You are
Speaker 1: going to believe everything about Tell you Edwin Diaz shut
Speaker 1: down for the season because he stinks. Wrong team, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Try again? Uh, what team and what
Speaker 1: player do you think we get hurt it spring training
Speaker 1: in February? Um, do you any spice very close in
Speaker 1: right City. Oh is it a Brandon Nemo? I saw
Speaker 1: it was hurt early. Oh no, no, right he was
Speaker 1: on again, Right City. Don't say Garrett colegreg right team.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no no, you expect this player to
Speaker 1: get Judge, Chuck. Carlos Stanton heard his right calf during
Speaker 1: outfield work and an m R I revealed the grade
Speaker 1: one calf stream. This is insane. This is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: I would like you to please stand up right now
Speaker 1: and pat me on the back. Come over here and
Speaker 1: just give me a pat on the back. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Greg Susan here on the BFS Live, give me a
Speaker 1: pat on the back. For anyone who watched Fantasy Sports
Speaker 1: today the other day, believe it was tuesday. We had
Speaker 1: our outfield preview. I said my bus at the position
Speaker 1: we're gian Carlos Stanton and Aaron Judge, These gentlemen cannot
Speaker 1: stay healthy. You need to stop buying in oh, fifty
Speaker 1: home runs one year in Marlins Park. He has one
Speaker 1: season over forty home runs in his career. He closes
Speaker 1: his eyes when he swings, he can't hit a breaking pitch,
Speaker 1: he's overrated, and now he's hurt once again. How much
Speaker 1: time is he gonna miss? Unlikely to be ready to go?
Speaker 1: There you go, perfect, Clint Frasier, Welcome to the team. Sockman,
Speaker 1: Mike Tuckman, Oh no, I know who it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: Miguel and dude, dude, the do The first batted ball
Speaker 1: in today's Yankee game went to who Mike in left field?
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, he looked good. Pretty damn
Speaker 1: shaky cat good ball look better than Stanton did. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not hard to look better than sating, Greg. All
Speaker 1: you gotta do is be on the field. This is ridiculous. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm more so angry just from like a Yankee fan perspective.
Speaker 1: I'm obviously, look, I don't want anyone to get hurt,
Speaker 1: but it's just like it's obvious to me, why do
Speaker 1: we keep drafting these guys that are built like Adonis's.
Speaker 1: That's it's just doesn't work in baseball. It doesn't. George
Speaker 1: always hurt, Stanton always hurt. Joey Gallo last year, Oblique,
Speaker 1: he's built like a mammoth human being as well. Greg.
Speaker 1: It's just it's frustrating all around from a baseball perspective,
Speaker 1: fantasy perspective, It's it never ends, man, It never ends.
Speaker 1: Stanton felt the CAF injury yesterday at the end of
Speaker 1: his workout, Yankee sent him for an m RI. I today,
Speaker 1: all right, Greg, are you gonna draft Max for you
Speaker 1: this year? What? Yeah? Alright? Cool? Max? Straight? Um, I
Speaker 1: noticed that one hype guy is a little bit oh right,
Speaker 1: he's actually hiring your rankings and most people, but he's
Speaker 1: a little bit lower than I have them. That's the
Speaker 1: Nelson Lamette. Um, how come you're a little bit lower
Speaker 1: hinds with the other guys. Yeah, it just comes back
Speaker 1: to the projection. How many endings are you projecting for
Speaker 1: to Nelson Lamette this upcoming season? The strikeouts are gonna
Speaker 1: be great, There's no doubt about that. And last year
Speaker 1: he was unlucky pitched to an ear a over four
Speaker 1: a three point four for Xfit, but the whip was high.
Speaker 1: It's always gonna be high because he walks a lot
Speaker 1: of guys. He's very similar to this mold of like
Speaker 1: a Trevor Bauer or a Robbie Ray type, except I
Speaker 1: think the ear A can be a little bit better.
Speaker 1: He had a thirty three point six percent strikeout rate
Speaker 1: last year that would have ranked fourth among starting pitchers
Speaker 1: if he qualified. But you know, over three and a
Speaker 1: half walks per nine last season, over four walks per
Speaker 1: nine for his career. Uh, the swinging strike rate was
Speaker 1: great fourteen percent. That would have been tied with Chaine
Speaker 1: Bieber for ninth among starting pitchers last year. Uh. Kind
Speaker 1: of worry about him being just a two pitch Picture Greg.
Speaker 1: He used like a four seams sinker and he uses
Speaker 1: a slider. It's like it's like a or it's like
Speaker 1: a slider curve type pitch of the time, and it's
Speaker 1: a great pitch. But I worry about him just being
Speaker 1: a two pitch pitcher. I'm probably not going to own
Speaker 1: him just because there's always someone in the draft that
Speaker 1: likes him more than I. But I do acknowledge that
Speaker 1: the talent is there and the strikeout upside is there.
Speaker 1: But I do worry about the projected endings as well.
Speaker 1: He's probably giving you like one fifty if we're being
Speaker 1: on I think innings are a fair question mark. Control
Speaker 1: obviously also a fair question mark when it comes to limit.
Speaker 1: I'm high on him. I have no issue drafting him
Speaker 1: pretty much where he's going, Like I want one of
Speaker 1: these guys you know it's fun. You wanted to get
Speaker 1: it right, I won't one in every single one. I
Speaker 1: don't want to leave a draft without one of Franks Freed,
Speaker 1: Zach Gallen, Frankie Mantas, Lizardo or even if you want
Speaker 1: to put into this mix as well, who you your
Speaker 1: eyes with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Well, so your eyes
Speaker 1: isn't inside my top forty seven. I think he's very similar,
Speaker 1: Like he's forty really good. So here's my thing, with
Speaker 1: how many innings, how many things you set it with Lizardo,
Speaker 1: he's in the rotation you set it with the Nelson Limt.
Speaker 1: You've already said he's in. Really he's in, He's already
Speaker 1: you know he's he's the sp four. They're basically saying
Speaker 1: that their rotation is set with Alex Wood rounding it out.
Speaker 1: And you know that mind, that's what it really get
Speaker 1: scerning about him. You still have to worry about it
Speaker 1: because the Dodgers have a lot of really really good
Speaker 1: depth greg they have rows tripling if if Urias is struggling, obviously,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have aspirations of I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: ever gonna do it winning a World Series and going
Speaker 1: deep into the postseason once again. I mean, if there's
Speaker 1: any year they can do it, it's this year. But
Speaker 1: last year only seventy nine and two thirds endings pitched
Speaker 1: in the Major and in the major's two endings in
Speaker 1: the minors, so you know, slightly over eighty. And look,
Speaker 1: I've I've got to be fair in my analysis. If
Speaker 1: I'm criticizing someone like Lazardo for not getting much more
Speaker 1: than a hundred and thirty hundred forty endings pitched, I
Speaker 1: have to be consistent with Urias, and I think that
Speaker 1: some of those concerns remain. Uh fan graphs they have
Speaker 1: him projected for, you know, right around between a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty and a hundred forty. I think that's a
Speaker 1: fair projection. But he's probably gonna be really good in
Speaker 1: those one nings. You're talking like a sub three point
Speaker 1: five e r A a good whip and over a
Speaker 1: strikeout for any I really think that's attainable. For who
Speaker 1: we are, Your rights rights in the rotation because cantatas
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Speaker 1: maybe you can. Uh, I don't know. It tice me me,
Speaker 1: I don't know, take me out for dinner and well
Speaker 1: and then we'll do the Fantasy Hour together. No, we
Speaker 1: do what the plan aren't auction. We also have to
Speaker 1: plan a date for you to make me some buttermilk
Speaker 1: fried chicken. It look pretty good, dude, It was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of work, admittedly, yeh. Was it
Speaker 1: worth it? Yes? Yes? Speaking of which, Greg, will you
Speaker 1: be trying the new KFC fried chicken on a doughnut sandwich.
Speaker 1: I understand a lot of people are going to be
Speaker 1: grossed out by it, and I get it. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things, Greig, where I have to try it.
Speaker 1: I had to try it. At least you're going to
Speaker 1: have a heart attack. I think I am so plan
Speaker 1: for a new coast. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I mentioned going to break about Julia. You said it's
Speaker 1: in the rotations, the number four starting picture announced by
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I'm gonna do my research to make sure
Speaker 1: you're not lying at it. I hope I'm not lying either.
Speaker 1: You just take him, No, I didn't take him. We
Speaker 1: took res Hoskins in the ninth round. It's my guy. Um.
Speaker 1: But the reason that there are spots in the rotations
Speaker 1: just hundred, Ryou and Kenta Mayata are no longer in
Speaker 1: the rotation with the Dodgers because they're no longer on
Speaker 1: the Dodger My he's in Minnesota and Ryou heads over
Speaker 1: to Toronto. I have these players both inside of my
Speaker 1: top forty seven, with Rye being at forty three, my
Speaker 1: hand at forty seven. But I think it very similar, Um,
Speaker 1: similar pictures obviously right. He was amazing last year. Where
Speaker 1: are these guys for you? So I have re you
Speaker 1: at thirty nine. I have David Price at forty three.
Speaker 1: You didn't bring up David Price. Well, he's joining the rotation.
Speaker 1: I have him at thirty seven. Okay, so we all
Speaker 1: have We have these guys in pretty much similar ranges,
Speaker 1: and I have my Ada at forty six. We're very
Speaker 1: close there. So here's the three guys inside our top
Speaker 1: forty seven. Yeah, and here's what I'll say if we
Speaker 1: could throw the rankings back up again, my basically thirty
Speaker 1: two through forty seven, and you see thirty two through
Speaker 1: forty here, I'll let you know just not listed here, uh,
Speaker 1: forty one through forty seven. I have a Rod, Kyle Hendricks,
Speaker 1: David Price, Robbie Ray, Matthew Boyd Quentamida, and of course
Speaker 1: Joe must grow like I got it mcget him inside
Speaker 1: the top forty seven year. But unless it was Greg,
Speaker 1: it's a good mix of this area of the draft
Speaker 1: is you have pictures who are going to be really
Speaker 1: really good on a per ending basis. Guys like your Ryots,
Speaker 1: guys like you, Guys like Quentomata, guys like David Price.
Speaker 1: They're going to be really good when they're on the mound.
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, whether it's due to injury risk
Speaker 1: or the fact that they've never pitched that many endings before,
Speaker 1: you can't really project them for much more than a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty maybe a hundred and sixty endings. But
Speaker 1: you do have some good balancing acts with Kyle Hendricks,
Speaker 1: someone like a Madison bum Garner, somebody like and Eduardo Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: or someone like a Joe must Grow. These are all
Speaker 1: pictures who I think are going to give you ennings,
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna be as good of endings. They're
Speaker 1: probably gonna be you know, high three's e r A
Speaker 1: if we're being honest. But they're also going to, you know,
Speaker 1: give you close to tings and they're gonna give you
Speaker 1: solid strikeout. It's not great, you know, between seven and
Speaker 1: eight case per nine, and a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: are gonna give you good whip. Greg. If there's one
Speaker 1: thing Kyle Hendricks is going to give you, it's a
Speaker 1: good whip. Over the last four seasons, he has a
Speaker 1: one point one one whip that is twelve best. I'm
Speaker 1: unqualified starting pitchers last year. I think I believe Bumgunner
Speaker 1: had around like a one zero whip and he did
Speaker 1: that for two d endings. Getting two hundred endings of
Speaker 1: a whip is awesome, and those are that that's an
Speaker 1: elite whip specialist everything else that Bum'm gonna give you. Personally,
Speaker 1: I don't really like Bummy because the underlying numbers were
Speaker 1: not great. It's probably gonna give you close to a
Speaker 1: four ear right, maybe even more than that. The guys
Speaker 1: out here, you know, Rodeo in and and doing all
Speaker 1: this other stuff. Mason Saunders nickname whatever he is. Uh,
Speaker 1: he is an injury risk as well, but it's two
Speaker 1: last year. Uh gives you that volume and gives you
Speaker 1: a good whip as well. So I think this range
Speaker 1: of starting pitchers greg is really good in terms of
Speaker 1: giving you endings but also giving you players who are
Speaker 1: really good on a per ending basis. And you can
Speaker 1: kind of pair some of those pictures together. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I think I like all of them. The current Dodger picture,
Speaker 1: the X Dodgers pictures. I think I'm in on all
Speaker 1: of them because I think they're been undervalued. I know
Speaker 1: there is there's injury risk specifically, right, you always missed
Speaker 1: his time when you kind of just leave him alone
Speaker 1: and let him beat in the starting rotation. Frank, he's
Speaker 1: pretty good, man. I think he just in the a
Speaker 1: L probably pitched around a four E r A, maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit less than that. It's a great division
Speaker 1: to pitching. He has to face the tigers and oils
Speaker 1: in the Indians. Yeah, Indian strike out a lot. The
Speaker 1: strikeout numbers have always been good. Four. He has a
Speaker 1: fourteen percent swinging strike right and backed back seasons, Greig,
Speaker 1: some of that comes out of the pen. I realized
Speaker 1: that well last year made twenty six starts like thirty
Speaker 1: seven appearances, undred and fifty three endings. Pitch. I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with him. Question is does he separate
Speaker 1: himself from the other pictures in this tier? You know, Greg,
Speaker 1: it seems like a lot of them are similar. How
Speaker 1: do you differentiate Kenta Maeda from like a David Price,
Speaker 1: for example, because David Price last year had his highest
Speaker 1: strikeout race like the past five years. I think so
Speaker 1: I actually like Price. I have Price. Price is gonna
Speaker 1: get you wins too, and Priced ten spots higher that
Speaker 1: I have kids in my hand. He'll get you wins.
Speaker 1: But I have priced ten spots higher because out of
Speaker 1: Boston and in the NL, those are two really good
Speaker 1: factors for David Price. I think so for David Price.
Speaker 1: I looked into this last night, his career versus the Yankees.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all know it's bad. An e r
Speaker 1: A over five horrible, a one four three whip in
Speaker 1: head of in two hundred and fifty two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty nine ning sample that's like to David Price seasons
Speaker 1: and he has an e r A overre five against
Speaker 1: the Yankees. He doesn't have to face the Yankees anymore.
Speaker 1: He gets to face the Giants four or five times
Speaker 1: a season, the Padres, who Okay, yeah, we're kind of
Speaker 1: excited about Tatis and Machado, but I think there's still
Speaker 1: some question mark. Yeah, I don't have to go to Colorado.
Speaker 1: That's true, all right? So those are top Are there
Speaker 1: anybody else inside your top seven? That's when my tear ends.
Speaker 1: But there anybody in this section of guys that are
Speaker 1: on your list or right outside your list that you
Speaker 1: have not mentioned that you wanted to at least get
Speaker 1: on getting on before we want to some of our
Speaker 1: late round sleepers just quickly mentioned Matthew Boyd. I think
Speaker 1: Matthew Boyd is basically the American League version of Robbie Ray.
Speaker 1: I think they're very similar. They give up a lot
Speaker 1: of hard contact, a lot of home runs. That was
Speaker 1: an issue for Boyd last year, but he's going to
Speaker 1: give you strike out. So again, if you can marry
Speaker 1: a Matthew Boyd with a Kyle Hendricks who's gonna help
Speaker 1: your ratios, or you know, someone similar to that, I
Speaker 1: think it makes a lot of sense as well. Joe
Speaker 1: must Grove, I'll just say it quickly, Greg, I know
Speaker 1: that you're out on must Grove finally. For years we're
Speaker 1: pounding the table on Joe must Grove. But Ray Series
Speaker 1: is no longer. The Pitching Coach Series puts an emphasis
Speaker 1: on fastballs and sinkers. Joe must Grows fastball was not
Speaker 1: a good one. The final month of the season, he
Speaker 1: saw an uptick in velocity, started using his slider more,
Speaker 1: started using his breaking pitches more, and he does have
Speaker 1: very good command. He's going to be a plus whip contributor.
Speaker 1: I still believe in the skills of Musgrove. I think
Speaker 1: one of these years he's going to put it together,
Speaker 1: and frankly, a lot of people were burned by him
Speaker 1: last year, and he's following down draft boards and you
Speaker 1: can get him as like your SP five or your
Speaker 1: SP six. So at that point, why not My next
Speaker 1: crew is numbers forty ninety eight that included Joe Muscrow,
Speaker 1: also includes Joe Muscrow's ex teammate Lance mc colors. He's
Speaker 1: like a lot today, frank about some of these younger
Speaker 1: pictures that will be limited and how many Anis are
Speaker 1: going to give you. You look kind of jumping back
Speaker 1: in a Lasma Colors who hasn't started a game yet
Speaker 1: in screen training. You know, he's working his way up
Speaker 1: towards that. Hopefully we'll get there next week. Here's someone
Speaker 1: the drafting. Probably not because he's going into similar range
Speaker 1: as you're riots and not going much later than a
Speaker 1: lot of the names that we just mentioned, and he
Speaker 1: might be as good as those guys on a per
Speaker 1: enning basis. Career three six seven e ar a from
Speaker 1: the Colors, but he's never pitched more than a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight endings, and coming off the injury, he
Speaker 1: has struggled with command in the past. He has a
Speaker 1: career three point five three walks per nine. I feel
Speaker 1: like the first season Backgreg, it's you know, that's something
Speaker 1: that someone struggles with right coming off of a major
Speaker 1: injury like this, is they can struggle with command early on.
Speaker 1: Lansom Color strikes me as someone who, you know, if
Speaker 1: he's shaky this year, I'll be in on heading into
Speaker 1: next year, assuming that he's healthy, because you'll get him
Speaker 1: at a discount. Lansom Colors not really someone that I'm
Speaker 1: targeting this upcoming season. I think we could see some
Speaker 1: rough patches early on Greg. Also in this crew of
Speaker 1: guys around Lansmer Colors for me, or some names that
Speaker 1: we talked about in the past that we like, Frank
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver, he's in there, Marcus Stroman is in there,
Speaker 1: Rivn Canny and Caleb Smith as well. Yeah. Look, when
Speaker 1: it comes to Luke Weaver, he was great last year.
Speaker 1: He just got hurt and I understand it's scary like
Speaker 1: he's he was dealing with a forearm injury. It seems
Speaker 1: like at any point his elbow could just fall off
Speaker 1: this upcoming year, but he was finally starting to figure
Speaker 1: it out. And we know that Luke Weaver has that
Speaker 1: prospect pedigree came over in the Paul Goldsmith trade, devastating
Speaker 1: fastball changeup combination. The difference was last year Greg, he
Speaker 1: started using a cutter about fift the time and it
Speaker 1: was a really really good cutter. So having that third
Speaker 1: pitch that he can go to. H you saw it
Speaker 1: pitching too, you know, uh a sub three five e
Speaker 1: ar a um gets groundballs as well. Luke Leaver is
Speaker 1: someone that I like. I realized there is risk with him,
Speaker 1: but if he can stay healthy, he's one of these
Speaker 1: guys that can return potentially top thirty starting pitcher value
Speaker 1: and the other names you mentioned. Caleb Smith first eleven
Speaker 1: starts last year was lights out. That really really struggled
Speaker 1: in the second half. I believe he was pitching through
Speaker 1: injury and that's what ultimately affected him. Stroman started using
Speaker 1: his slider more in the final months of the season.
Speaker 1: When we went over to the New York Mets, Greg,
Speaker 1: the strikeouts went up for him. He's always someone who's
Speaker 1: gonna give you a lot of groundballs. If he can
Speaker 1: maintain some of those some of those swinging miss numbers
Speaker 1: that we saw what the Mets, then this could potentially
Speaker 1: be the best season that we see out of Marcus Stroman,
Speaker 1: and he's been good for long time. In his initial
Speaker 1: adding with Mets this spring, all right, I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: we have two minutes left, Zill Ferrell, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: throw names at you. You give me like a one
Speaker 1: sentence response. Sure, I mean he is a football. Um,
Speaker 1: well do they get baseball last year? All right, ready,
Speaker 1: let's go her mom Marquez No, Jake Odoriesi, No, not really.
Speaker 1: Mike foltonevitch I was originally in on Faulty. I don't
Speaker 1: mind him as a back end rotation piece. But last
Speaker 1: year the swinging miss still wasn't Their strikeouts weren't great.
Speaker 1: So the walks a lot of guys. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of players in this range that I like more
Speaker 1: like Caleb Smith, I like more Andrew Heeny, Andrewhani. I like.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of staying healthy. We know that
Speaker 1: he's a really really good pitcher. Interesting pitch mix, but
Speaker 1: gets a lot of strikeouts as well, and solid command,
Speaker 1: not not bad command for the strikeouts that he gives you.
Speaker 1: Just needs to stay healthy. I think he's really good
Speaker 1: when he's on the mount. Adrian Houser Adrian Houser is
Speaker 1: a name that I'm targeting, and you can get him
Speaker 1: as you know, a bench piece um in your league's
Speaker 1: And he's someone who got a lot of groundballs last year. Greg,
Speaker 1: I think in your fifty crown ball rate over nine
Speaker 1: case for nine last year had solid come in. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was just a blip and and aberration, but you
Speaker 1: look pretty damn good last year. The brewers randomly find
Speaker 1: starting pictures like this. I like Adrian Houser alright. Finally
Speaker 1: John Gray. Uh, maybe he'll be in a Yankee uniform soon, Greg,
Speaker 1: and then I could buy in there. But I'm someone
Speaker 1: that's just never going to own pictures in Colorado. You
Speaker 1: can tell me about the swinging strike Rade, the strikeouts
Speaker 1: all you want with Marquez and John Gray and what
Speaker 1: will you can stream them on the road. It's too
Speaker 1: much of a headache. I want a player that I
Speaker 1: can use all the time. John Gray is not one
Speaker 1: of those guys. All right, there you have those are
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Speaker 1: Seawan and Alex down stairs. For Frank, I'm Gregg all
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