WEBVTT - Feb. 25th, Hour 1:Third Base preview with Matt Modica 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.640 Hey, thanks for downloading the podcast, and remember, if you 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.160 want to listen live, download the I Heart Radio app, 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.080 download the tune and app and just search for Fantasy 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.760 Sports Radio Network and you could listen to this program live. Also, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.360 if you want to watch the video of this podcast, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.000 check us out on YouTube, on Twitch, or on Periscope 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.079 and type in you guess Fantasy Sports Network. You'll find 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:30.480 us there. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. You're 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:39.440 listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy Best Friends Forever. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:52.880 M Do to Do Do Do Do Do Do Do 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.560 Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do doo 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:04.480 yeoh is as the Fantasy best Friends Forever. Here are 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.039 the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie Stamfele and I 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.280 am so excited to say alongside my buddy Maddie mo 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.679 Ma moca the first time and way too long. I 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:25.320 am Greg sug It's a Modica Monday here, very excited 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.480 to have him on. I I do you understand like 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.319 how far behind I am in baseball because I don't 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.080 talk to that every day now. He talked very often 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.440 lost and I need to be found today, Malodeca, how 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.320 are you, sir I'm doing good. Great to be talking. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.240 And are you surprised that Mexico is not paid for 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:55.240 our wall yet? Oh? Man? Uh, Maddie writing for the 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.320 Athletic of course, and uh, totally awesome. He wrote the 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.640 third base pretty you for thirdays, fresks and whatnot for 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.360 the Athletic and we're talking at our basement today. So 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.000 it really worked out well Automodica Monday to have madiemo 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.919 um in studio where he guess on Skype with us, 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.040 and uh, to really break it down, Um, Frank, how's 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.239 your reeking money? My weekend was was very fun, Greg, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.000 A lot of a lot of wedding venue searching. I 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.800 went to I went to one Saturday and Sunday, So 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.400 I mean that's obviously not a lot of fun, um, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.160 but yeah, I mean that was it. Baseball, man. The 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.919 fact that we have baseball every single day now again 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.359 is uh, it's pretty awesome. So I spent a lot 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.400 of time yesterday basically from you know, one until I 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.680 had to leave the house like four o'clock, just watching 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.080 a ton of baseball. So that that's great, that's great, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.320 and it's yeah, that's fantastic. I did not I also 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.360 did wedding stuff. Yesterday we were I was in um 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.000 Hoboken at a restaurant trying to book a rehearsal to 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.639 her place. That was a free food so wasn't enjoyable. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.600 That's good. Modiquez like, yeah, I'm already married. Like he's 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.040 just so far because like, I'm just gonna take pictures 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:06.600 of my food and tweet it out, and you know, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.160 that's that's pretty much where I'm at. There's nothing wrong 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.640 with that. Yeah, he's nothing wrong with that. That's what 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.480 I hear. Man, you gotta eat. We I ate so 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.640 much food off right, and I came it was disgusting 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.000 how much I'm gonna like. But even my friends who 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.359 were like fat, we're just like like Jeff, who was like, dude, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.680 that's disgusting. Wow, Jeff, it's because you're the Jeff fan. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.959 It's not fair, Jeff. And Jeff like, he's never gonna 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.600 say that. He's like a felt guy. I don't mean 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.520 that he's fat. He's like a humongous dude. But he 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.960 loves to eat. We all do. And Jeff was like, 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.600 you ate too much, dude. I'm like, oh god, this 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.600 is bad. Picking out it was we we both were 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.920 all right, let's start a third base guys, and it's 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.000 really perfect person to start with, and that's Jose Ramirez. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.240 He's number one guy, number one third basement off the 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.920 board according the NFBC in them of February, going around 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.960 pick three or four. And it's really good to start 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.320 here because Frank h the Great Fans Baseball Invitational started 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.080 over the weekend and you grab Tosie Ramirez. And the 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.880 crazy thing was you didn't grab him in the first 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.920 three or four picks. You grabbed him in eight and 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.320 had to look all around the internet to make sure 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.719 he wasn't dead. He's not dead. He's very much alive. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.200 And he's the first third baseman off the board in 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.360 most leagues. Why the drop? Why are people scared of 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.719 this guy who you looked at his numbers is really 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.320 breaking awesome. I think people are scared about the second half. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.360 I think that's really what it comes down to. I mean, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.760 the past couple of years, Look, Jose Ramirez, Uh, you know, 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.280 he's kind of sacrificed some of his batting average and 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.760 in order to try and hit for more power. Um, 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.840 he's done so quite successfully. Look, you know, he's one 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.320 of these guys in the first round that you know, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:46.920 even if he doesn't get back to his days of 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.440 hitting three hundred, he could still give you thirty home 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.240 runs and you know, twenty five stolen bases. You know, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.440 there's a few select guys that can do that. It's 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.320 you know, Christian Yellots can do that, Mike Trout, Mookie 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:01.280 Betts and you know, Rondal Lacuna. After that, it's like 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.880 all right, like you know, you're gonna try and find 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.400 that as best as you could. But you know, he's 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.640 actually one of these guys that still does have that upside. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.599 I do have some concerns about the Cleveland Indians lineup 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.599 and the fact that Lindore is dealing with this injury. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.039 So you know, I'm expecting the counting stats to come 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:17.880 back a little bit last year a hundred and ten runs, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.480 a hundred and five RBIs. But look, he's still a super, 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.520 super talented player, and you know, I was pleased to 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.960 get him at at pick eight yesterday, especially in Rodo. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.240 Like I told you, Greg, I want to start, you know, 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:30.600 I want to get my outfield. I want to get 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.880 my starting pitching early. I took outfield and round two 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.680 I took starting pitching rounds three and four. It's not 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.200 my ideal starting pitching, you know, you know what I 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.000 would have expected coming into the draft. But again, this 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.640 is what I told you, Like, if there are players 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.159 on the board that you can't pass up on in 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.200 the first or second round, and their hitters, and that's 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.480 kind of like where you have to adjust. So I 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.760 end up with Jose Ramirez and Bryce Harper as my 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.679 first two picks, and from pick eight in the fifteen 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.599 team league, I'll do that every single time that you're 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.880 really good at this way. I asked you here, like 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.400 what happened and when you were real to figuring it out, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.440 and what happened in between the first and second half 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.840 that Josie Ramier. Josie Ramirez struggled so mightily, had three 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.479 and first half had thirty twenty basically homers and still amazes. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.000 And then in the second half of the year he 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.640 only bad to eight team down from twenty nine homers 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.200 to ten. Uh the steels twenty to fourteen. And that's 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.760 not a huge job, but half the amount of r 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.000 b i s, not even close to the amount of 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.240 run scored. What happened through the first half of the 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.160 second half. That changed for Josie Ramirez, Well, yeah, I 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.200 mean the obvious is the bad, but I think it 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.359 was like two oh eight net second half. The plate 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.920 skills actually improved, So you know, That's why I'm not worried. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.600 The only thing I can think of was maybe there 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.760 was an undisclosed injury. Was the only negative I saw 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.760 in that second half as far as when you do 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.400 a deep dive, was the hard hit percentage came down 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:57.600 from you know, the other The counter argument would be, h, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.280 maybe he got you know, he faced a gay huge 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.760 of breaking balls and couldn't square them up and stuff. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.159 But look, the guy's got Joey Vado's plate skills. He 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.320 trade Turner's Ackerman on the base pads. I mean, and 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.440 even if you're gonna go Wolf of last year, which 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.040 being a career year, and you regress him like I 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.440 will do it Yellow as well, they're both gonna be 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.120 really good. I mean, I'm gonna put Ramirez at at 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.280 least two eighty for the batting average. You could do 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.760 better than that, but at least that. And even if 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:35.080 he's twenty seven homers and uh stolen bases, Look, he's 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.840 gonna score runs, he's gonna drive an abist even if 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.160 this lineup is an ideal, which I agree with on that, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.760 And I think the best part about Lindor's injury is 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.040 that it happened so early and hopefully he's not rushed, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.960 and even if he misses a week or two, you 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:55.040 know he's going to produce good is just producing bad 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.280 lineups all the time? I mean, I've heard that argument 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.240 in the past, and I think that's kind of a 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.840 foolish one. How about you know, Freddie Freeman, it was 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.720 like three or four years ago in any way, every 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.200 part in the Braids lineup was brutal. They can out here, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.200 you know, just firing away. You know, everyone wanted to, 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:09.840 you know, write him off because the Braids line up 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.840 look terrible. But you know, the best players can you know, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.560 This is what we kind of say about fantasy football, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.640 right is like you draft the best players because they're 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.080 gonna perform even in bad match. It's kind of similar here, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.560 where even the best players in baseball are going to 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.280 perform because they're the best players in baseball. So I 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.679 think that that, you know, is in line with Jose Ramirez. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.960 You know, since the start of p S over the 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.280 past few years fourth best in baseball. That would make 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.240 you one of the best hitters in baseball w r 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.559 C plus sixth best in baseball. Uh, the ops dropped 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.240 off huge in the second half last year. Modica mentioned 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:44.960 the hard hit ray dropped the home run the flyball 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.760 ratio dropped ten too in the second half, So you 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.760 know that those things kind of coinside you're not hitting. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.680 He's still hitting a lot of flyballs, but you know, 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.400 if you're not hitting them at as hard, you know, 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.600 maybe those are just lazy flyballs or you know, balls 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.960 that are dying on the warning track rather than going out. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.040 So he's not really a big do you don't like 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.720 he doesn't have the stature. He's not some one that 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.840 you would expect to hit thirty five home runs. But 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.400 I agree with that man, Like, even if he comes 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.840 back to you know, I have its projection for two 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.720 eighty thirty home runs, ninety five runs r BIS, twenty 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.920 two stone bases, that's still a top five six player 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:20.079 in fantasy baseball. Absolutely, Absolutely, he's fantastic. What separates him 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.240 from the second, second, third basement off the board, Nolan 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.120 Aranado is that speed, right, he just has more speed 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.120 than Eronado, who will give you the forty home runs 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.040 it plays in cours like I get it could lead 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:33.000 the league in RBI watch every year. He just doesn't 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.400 have the speed. And that's one of the reasons that 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.960 Ramirez goes before Nolan Arronado, who right now, according to 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.280 the NFBC in the month February is going pretty much 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.120 about pick eight. Still see him in the middle of 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.880 the first round. But Break, I do say this to you, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.000 whenever Nolan Aronado seems to be the top guy on 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.200 the board, you're always kind of hesitant, like I know 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.760 you've gone like Jacob deGrom Chris Sell direction when it 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.480 seemed like Eronado was the best hitter off the board. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.160 Is that a roster construction thing or do you have 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.520 something gets the Seronado? It's something that pulls you away 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.679 from him. Now, you know, I think there's a clear 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.080 top eight players right now that I'm looking at, and 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.320 you know, I got Joser mirrors at eight. But I 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.280 think between Trout Bets Trey Turner. Now with this stolen 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.160 base upside, a lot of people are getting excited about, 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.640 you know this, this possibility of seventy eighties stolen base attempts. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.080 He went third in my great fantasy based momentation, So 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.719 people are buying into it. A Kuna yell at j 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.800 D Martinez, Erzer and then Jose are mirrors and then 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.440 the next man up. I mean I would say it 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.320 is Eronado. I would take him over those starting pitchers. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.520 I know, you know, third base overall this year, I 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.160 think it's a little bit deeper than it normally, as 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.160 I think it's one of the deepest positions this year 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:41.320 in fantasy baseball. But again, it's like being able to 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.080 set your watch to two eighty five thirty five home runs, 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.160 a hundred runs, a hundred RBIs. Even if he doesn't 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.280 give you stolen bases, that's great. That's something great to 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.559 get there. And you know, Matt, I'll kind of get 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:53.960 your take on this. We did the we did the 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.880 second base in shortstop previews last week, and I said, 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.000 I think there are two players that if you've taken 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.680 the first round, they make sense as the players that 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.840 you can pair with. Adalberto Mondescy. Adelberto Mondessey one of 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.760 the most polarizing players this year for fantasy baseball. He's 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.439 going to like the third fourth round of fifteen team drafts, 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.040 And I said j D. Martinez and Eronado because those 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.120 guys are four category contributors who are gonna give you 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.680 the safe batting average where you can kind of afford 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.240 to take that risk with Adalberto Mondacy because you know 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.640 he has that big stolen base upside and won't necessarily 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.959 kill you in the power department. So Eronado and me 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.880 Eronado and j. D. Martinez to me, are the two 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.560 guys that you can kind of pair Adalberto Mondescy with. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.880 What do you think about Ernado? Would would you take 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.600 him if you had like the ninth pick and those 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:41.640 top eight players are gone? Uh? You know, I can't 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.439 say it's it's a bad move. Like you said, he's automatic. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.760 He's a fantastic four player him and j D. Martini, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.760 as you made the as you laid it out, they 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.040 are gonna leave you without stolen bases. But what they 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.679 give you in your other four categories is you know, 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.640 such stout numbers that you can go that. I mean, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.240 I'm not going to but a guy like Trade Turner 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.160 to me is somebody that's up there too. So it's 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:10.480 all about how you go into your draft. Whenever if 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.080 you know your selection prior, you should be able to 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.200 set up aboard. So if you're gonna go to the 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.640 Arnado route, okay, where am I gonna get my first picture? 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.480 Where am I gonna get speed? At what point do 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.600 I invest in a closure? I mean, these are things 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.240 that should be prerequisites before you walk in the draft room, 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.439 not when you're in the draft room. So you can 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.760 set it up anyway you like. I mean, Arronado to 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.360 me can be as high as you know, in the 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.640 top five if that's how you want to go, and 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.120 I wouldn't have a problem with that. It's basically, how 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.160 do you feel comfortable and where are you getting these 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.960 guys and how how is your team gonna be constructed 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.760 at most imperative the first five and if you can 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.400 even go to the first ten rounds, it makes a 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.079 lot of I think it makes a lot of sense. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.600 You can't, yeah, see it's wrong because it's not wrong, 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.120 but there's you know, you have to worry about getting 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.959 getting that speed, and it's hard. Um, it is hard 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.240 when everyone's kind of chasing after that same thing. Go 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.400 to the next guy's Frank inside the top five NFBC 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.320 d P we talked about the employment other spots, right, 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.160 have your bias? And Alex Bregman, two guys that I 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.360 do want to get Matt's opinion on what we have 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.640 them here we did in second base and shortstop previous 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.040 shows last week Modica where are you this year? And 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.840 Alex Bregman and have your bias? Look, I think Bregman 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.520 is you know, everything we saw in college and we've 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:36.679 seen in his early MLB career this kid can hit. Uh, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:41.560 the promise is there. I'm not thinking he steals twenty basis. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.040 I know some people get really excited about that. I 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.920 would ever more towards ten we saw last season. I 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.760 think from my June on he only stole like five. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.320 I don't think this is a team that really runs. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.880 I don't think they need him to run. Uh. With 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.920 the injury, he's kind of slid down a little. I've 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.200 think he's maybe a little high where he's going. But 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.720 like I said, I think he's gonna give you a 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.719 very solid base. I can't argue it. My problem with 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.800 hobby biases. And he's a guy that returned a huge 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.960 prophet for me last year, and if you look where 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:18.320 he was going in that seventh eighth round, and you 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.720 know the season that he delivered on. I mean, the 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.120 obviously is the batting average. Even if the batting average 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.960 regresses to say to seventy, I'm more worried about the 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.280 stolen basis. I think last year was an outlier. I 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.640 think you should be looking more towards twelve. If you 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.600 look at the second half of the season, his base 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.400 running skills was horrid. I mean he got thrown out 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.520 like almost like ten times or something. So I don't 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.440 think he's a lock to steal twenty or the high teams. 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.240 This something we were talking about last year. He looked 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.120 at the second half, I think I think in the 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.680 second half, so still three got caught stealing seven times. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.520 Uh yeah. Look, you know when it comes down to Modica. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.320 For me with Xavier Bias is the plate discipline obviously 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.760 scares me a ton, But I think we have enough 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.360 of a sample size here where we trust it. Like, 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.120 I know, his swinging strike rate is up there with 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.480 guys like Joey gallow and like he's gonna chase them, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.440 like he's gonna chase pitches. He's gonna strike out a 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.920 decent amount. But in his four year career, like, we 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.360 have a big enough sample size now where his lowest 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.840 batting average every to seventy three. So I don't know 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.840 that he's like, I don't know that he's a legitimate 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.000 like hit or like last season, but I think, like, 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:31.840 you know what his floor is, I think he's gonna 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.440 live in that. You know, you're seventy to eighty range. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.600 You know what I'm saying. If you put to seventy 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:42.440 and say twelve stolen bases as opposed to you know, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:47.120 above two eighties closer to two nine bases, I think, 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.280 you know, he would be further down draft boards. You 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.840 don't think that he could still return second round value 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.520 because I have his projection here he could he could 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.640 return it. Here's my biggest grade. He could do it. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.040 I'm not paying for it this year, you know. You 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.000 know that's what you got. Look at where was the 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.880 last year? Can he do it? Absolutely? You know he 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.160 can hit, He's got the power and stuff. But I 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.240 have to pay for him to do it, and he 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.360 has to deliver those numbers. Yeah, it's true. You know, 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.480 I think it's to me, it's somewhat similar to you know, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.320 some of these other guys where even if yellow and 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.680 Jose Miraz take a step back a little bit, they 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.560 regress a little bit, They're still gonna be worth their 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.240 first round value. I kind of feel the same way 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.680 about Bias, where even if he comes back and you know, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.240 I had his projection at like two seventy homers, fifteen 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.080 stolen bases, Uh, you know, counting stats are solid, like 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.920 eight ninety runs scored, Uh, you know, nine y r 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:38.440 bis in that range, I STI still think that he 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.800 could be a second round player. But I don't disagree 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.560 with Matt where. You know, last week I told you 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.320 I have tremp for Story ranked ahead of him, Greg, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.840 I have Manny Machado still ranked ahead of him. I 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.920 have to you know, I would take Stanton over him. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.520 I would take Aaron Judge like, because that's more of 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.280 like position scarcity. I like that Bias has the multi 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.880 position eligibility, but I do like, you know, getting one 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.200 of those outfielders there earlier in the second rounds too 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.600 real a pick I mean, probab I think is one 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.920 of the most exciting players to watch an m O 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.040 big So I don't I don't like poking negative in 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.800 that range. I'm gonna be a little Bitterer. Okay, let's 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.000 take a break here. When we come back, I'm really 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.840 excited to talk about the next player off board with 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.960 the NFBC, and that's Chris Bryant. That's a first rounder 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.320 last year. Is that draft to the second or third 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.439 one of these guys think about Chris Bryant. We'll let 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.520 you know when we come back. Fantasy best Friends Forever, 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:30.800 the Fantasy sports radio network from the NFL to the NBA. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.240 Daily Rohodo dot Com is the place to win millions 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.840 in daily Fantasy. You can get the best DFS NFL 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.480 coverage all season long for a price of one, or 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.440 dominate the entire Daily Fantasy Sports Realm. Put the Elite 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.800 package at month. 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Okay, guys. 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.200 Third basement, as I said when we headed headed into 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.680 the break was Chris Bryant's a really interesting name to 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.560 me this year because I feel like he's a bit 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:43.800 of a forgototten mad. Everybody loves the top four guys 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.840 that we mentioned. Everybody loves those guys, But last year 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:48.960 Chris probably was one of those guys that everyone who's 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.200 in love with it so much so that he was 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.360 pretty universally a first or a second round pick. Now, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.159 after a down year, he's going off the board in 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.600 the NFBC over the last month out a round pick 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.639 number thirty three or thirty four. That puts him in 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.440 a fifteen team league right in the early part of 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.880 the second third round, and in the twelfth team league 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.160 you're looking at closure to the end of the third round. Frank, 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.520 why have people fallen out of love with Chris Bryant, 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.680 and was last year kind of injury related and do 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.200 you expect him about his back? Yeah, it was definitely 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:20.920 injury related last year. Uh. I read it awesome article 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.640 about you know how his stat cast bad ball data 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:28.359 completely just tanked like pre injury verse pro injury, uh 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.359 verse post injury, and it was. Look, his average eg 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.359 velocity dipped to eighty four point five miles per hour 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.600 in June, down from eighty eight point four miles per 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:38.959 hour in April, eighty eight point six miles per hour 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:40.639 in May, so pretty consistent, like he was hitting the 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.919 ball hard in in April and May month and then 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.480 it just completely tanked in June. Once you know, he 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.240 suffered from that that shoulder injury in July, two weeks 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.240 after he was returned from the injured list no longer 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.879 the disabled list, which I mean, we could probably do 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.399 a whole segment just talking about that. His exit velocity 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.040 went down to seventy eight point five miles per hour greg. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.399 So there's no doubt in my mind that, you know, 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:05.960 like his launch angle fell like he was hitting a 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:07.840 lot of groundballs, He wasn't hitting the ball hard, like 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:12.119 he was completely tanked by this shoulder injury last year. Uh, 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.680 you know, on from the beginning of the season to 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.880 MA he was batting three oh three with an ops 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.560 over one thousand, and then from fromente on he was 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.480 two fifty two. You know, he was slucking three eighty 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.240 after that in two d and sixty seven plate appearances. 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.159 So there's no doubt, there's no doubt that he was 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:32.879 completely hampered by this injury. But I think I'm kind 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.760 of similar to Carlos Correa. I'm kind of airing on 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:37.760 the side of caution here. And look, you know a 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.480 lot of people are where can I find that that 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:43.879 third fourth round player that can return first round value? Like, okay, 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.000 if you trust that Chris Bryant is going to be healthy, 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.680 like he's probably one of the main culprits like Chris 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.080 Bryant there and in Carlos Correa in the fourth round. 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.440 But you know, as I've continuously said, the first really 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.680 four rounds, I want to build my foundation, So I 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.879 don't really know how much risk I can take on. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.440 It's like it's roster construction. If you trust your first 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:05.040 round pick enough, someone that's been healthy, someone who's done it, 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.359 maybe like no one Arronado. Uh, you know, maybe you 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.840 can't afford to take this risk me personally. You know, 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:12.040 these are the rounds, you know, the third round. Yeah, 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:14.720 a lot of times I'm taking starting pitching. So I 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:16.240 don't think I'm gonna end up with any shares with 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.800 Chris Bryant. Like I was worried about the injury. You know, 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:20.600 I wasn't even worried about Hi last year. It didn't 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:22.639 get end up with any shares last year. I think 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:24.240 over the past couple of seasons he's kind of been 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:26.680 sacrificing some of the power in order to hit for 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.080 more contact and hit from more batting average, which is 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:31.800 great from like a real life perspective, but you know, 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.199 I'd rather the Chris Bryant that used to strike out 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.760 more and you know whatever still hit two seventy with 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.080 thirty thirty five home runs. Like that's the Chris Bryan 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.120 I won. So, you know, I didn't get any shares 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.239 last year. I was kind of out, and I think 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:45.160 it's kind of just carrying over this year. I'm worried 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.439 about the injuries, I was worried about the performance already 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.200 home in spring training over the weekend. So I mean, yeah, 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:52.160 He's one of those names to follow during spring training 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.639 where if he performs, then I would be more likely 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:57.840 to go in on him to just making sure he's 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.159 healthy during the spring. But as of right now, I 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:01.800 don't think I can pull the trigger in the third round. 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:03.840 That harder percentage going down two years in a row, 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:06.840 as Frank mentioned, because he changed his approach at the 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:12.600 plate from in It was a left shoulder injury that 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:15.040 bothered Chris Bryant all throughout the year last year, so 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:17.040 much so that he changed his approach at the plate 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:19.560 to a two handed swing because he he was in 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:21.760 so much pain. Frank talked about how he did hit 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:24.480 that home run in spring training over the weekend he 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:27.480 was back to his momental approach. Matt Chris Bryan is 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:29.200 one of these guys. As Frank he said that you 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:31.640 could draft in the third round and give you back 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:35.719 first round of value. Are you interested? And I'm definitely interested. 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.320 I think how played a major role last year. I 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.480 don't have any bright shares right now, and it's pretty 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:43.280 much gonna come down to the fact where if I 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:45.960 haven't taken a picture, I really have to hone on 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:49.879 hone in on uh. The aces that are left on 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:52.920 the board in the third round. There's also the other 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:55.880 third baseman that going that round or so with him, 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.240 uh with for me even and even all over you, 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:02.199 even all over one of him. Yeah, hey, d ndone 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:05.240 is that is the guy for me. He's going more 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.840 later in the third, early fourth, dependent upon league size 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:13.280 and stuff like that. Everybody loves Vlad. I'd rather just 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:16.639 take Rendone. I think you know you're hoping Lad season 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:20.680 is what Anthony Rendone can do, and uh so, I 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:23.520 think you have to see it. How you started your 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:27.359 first two rounds makes really an impact here be which 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:30.399 for me, Brian is a thirty home run guy and 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:32.919 in a perfect world and in a perfect season for him, 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:36.200 you can hit forty, but I would shoot it more 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:39.920 towards that to seventy five average, and I don't trust 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:42.640 the base running skills in it. I think you're gonna 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:45.520 see him go double this again. I think it's more 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:49.399 in that final the seven range being the hut. So 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:53.399 we're gonna get into Vlad and Anthony Rendone in just 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:57.000 a moment, frank Um, But what does Brian have to 0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:59.920 do this spring to get more on your radar? Because 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:03.080 you look at the numbers, like he's obviously really really good. 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:05.760 I know that's right. Oh about roster construction, that's like 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:09.200 where he's drafting, Like yeah, sure he's interested, but he 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.120 always winds up with his first picture potentially an outfielder. 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:13.840 Way you need five of them. I know you're kind 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:16.440 of in the same boat as well. But what does 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:17.840 he have to show you in the spring? Because you 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:19.720 said he wants of the guys you're gonna watch, What 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:21.480 does he have to show you in the spring to 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:24.320 make you pull the trigger? Ultimately? Health, that's what it 0:25:24.359 --> 0:25:27.160 comes down to. Health. Yeah, he's got he's gotta stay 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:30.040 healthy throughout spring, and you don't want to see him 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:32.280 can like go back to lifting the ball a little bit? 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:34.879 Like again, you know he played over the weekend. He 0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:36.560 hit a home run already, so I mean, yeah, that's 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:38.480 already an encouraging sign. But you know, I want to 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:40.880 see him, you know as spring goes on, play deep, 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:42.800 prefented games and you know see that he's you know, 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:44.720 he's throwing the ball fine and you know there's no 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:48.080 solder issues and you know, lifting the ball a little bit, 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:49.639 you know, pop a couple of home runs out here 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:51.080 in the spring, like those are things that I'm paying 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:53.800 attention to, paying attention to, and I want to see 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:56.760 because like again, I've already had my concerns with Chris Bryant. 0:25:57.000 --> 0:25:58.119 Uh you know, he went in the middle of the 0:25:58.200 --> 0:26:01.760 third round in the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational. But I 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:03.560 think the way that he went in the third round 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:07.200 here is kind of a template as to how I 0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:09.000 would do it. Like if you take Max Scherzer in 0:26:09.080 --> 0:26:11.280 the first round and like you already have that that 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:13.840 sp anchor, you come back in the second round and 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:16.040 get like a Freddy Freeman and then couple that with 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:19.000 Chris Bryant in the third round. I think that's kind 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:21.560 of like the template, like to me, that would yeah, 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:24.240 like that would be I could see that being away 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:27.320 that that it would work out where I can maybe 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:29.040 get it on Chris Bryant. But you know, as of now, 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:31.240 I mean again, like I started two hitters, so I 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:32.920 was looking at starting pitching in the third round, and 0:26:32.920 --> 0:26:35.120 I don't know that was something that Modica was talking about. 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:38.679 I ended up taking Walker, butle little Chris Bryan wouldn't 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:40.440 have even been on my radar, Like he's just not 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:42.639 someone I was targeting Chris Bryant is third base and 0:26:42.800 --> 0:26:45.920 outfield eligible as well, which which certainly helps in leaves. 0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:48.120 Where do you need those five our fielders? Franky Matt 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:51.080 also mentioned that a couple of picks later, it depending 0:26:51.080 --> 0:26:53.600 on where he picked around, Like Anthony round doings his 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:55.639 guy this year. And I'm really excited to talk about 0:26:55.640 --> 0:26:58.320 a second about why Anthony rend dolins this guy. But 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:04.159 Rendon and vlad are going a little bit later on 0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:06.480 in the third and fifteen team leagues, uh, closer to 0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:09.680 the middle of the fourth in twelve teen leagues. Which 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:13.840 of these guys do you prefer? And why? Yeah, I 0:27:13.880 --> 0:27:16.800 have Anthony Rendona ranked higher than Vladimir Gero Junior. I 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:19.000 can't really argue with what with what Modiquez said in 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:21.880 terms of you know what what Vladimir garera, what people 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.520 want Vladimir Guerrero Junior to do is basically what uh 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:28.760 is basically what Anthony Rendon has done. Like the past 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:30.480 few years, He's been at least at three oh one 0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:33.440 hitter in each of the past two seasons. Uh, you 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:35.720 know the power, he's gonna be right around twenty five runs, 0:27:35.760 --> 0:27:38.800 you know, even with Bryce Harper potentially leaving the Nationals lineup. 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:40.360 At this point, I don't expect them to be back 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:42.440 with the Nationals. I don't think that their lineup is 0:27:42.480 --> 0:27:45.040 all is bad, right, Like they're gonna have Toredy Turner, 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:46.600 like Juan Soto is gonna be at the top of 0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:49.000 that lineup. If those are the first two hitters, you know, 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:52.680 I think there's gonna be a lot of uh, you know, 0:27:53.560 --> 0:27:57.560 RBI opportunities here for Anthony Rendon't. So you know the 0:27:58.160 --> 0:28:00.719 past few years, ninety two rbs last year, hundred RBIs 0:28:00.760 --> 0:28:02.840 the year before. I don't know that he has huge 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:06.359 power upside, but you know he did play a hundred 0:28:06.359 --> 0:28:08.920 and thirty six games last year, So if he plays 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:10.960 a hundred fifties, he closer to the thirty home runs, 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:14.320 he's home run hitter. You know me, just projecting, I 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:16.600 would say he's gonna be around three hundred hitter. He's 0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:18.920 gonna give you runs. He's gonna give you, you know, 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:22.280 eighty five runs scored, and he's gonna give you bis. 0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:25.600 What more do you want at of Vladimir Guerrero junor 0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:28.320 there that Anthony Rendon't isn't giving you. You know what 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:31.920 I'm saying well, right, Like, what can you expect as 0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:35.119 much fun as it will be? I think can hit 0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:37.840 like three twenty with like thirty home runs. Like, he's 0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:39.600 not gonna be up till the middle of April the 0:28:39.680 --> 0:28:41.680 earliest anyway, So he's gonna you know, he's gonna miss 0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.440 some time. And it's possible, like Ronald Lacuna definitely is 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:47.120 going in the first round this year. Definitely. Is it impossible? No, 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:50.760 But again it's you know, it's the safety of Anthony 0:28:50.840 --> 0:28:53.120 Rendon versus you know, really, what is the upside of 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:55.560 Vladimir Guaro Junior. Like if you think he can hit 0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:58.280 three thirty with thirty home runs, then yeah, you're probably 0:28:58.320 --> 0:28:59.600 one of the people that's taking him. I mean you 0:28:59.680 --> 0:29:02.120 gotta kind of temper expectations a little bit here when 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:04.200 it comes to lad Yeah, I mean real quick though, 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:09.440 like a lad He's ninety percentile projection would be three 0:29:09.520 --> 0:29:14.560 twenty thirty plus home runs and that's great. Could that happen? Yes, 0:29:14.680 --> 0:29:18.239 there's to me, it's a small percentage of that happening. Uh. 0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:20.840 As far as Rendon goes, I do think there is 0:29:20.960 --> 0:29:23.720 some more power upside. As you said, he played a 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:27.400 hundred thirty six he's been healthy for the most parties 0:29:27.480 --> 0:29:29.800 last three seasons. If he gets too closer to that 0:29:29.960 --> 0:29:32.960 one fifty range, I think he could hit thirty. He's 0:29:32.960 --> 0:29:36.840 got the battotball profile to do that. The flyballs are 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:39.560 the hard hits getting better and better. He's you know, 0:29:39.760 --> 0:29:41.720 he's in that prime stage. I hate to use the 0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:44.880 twenty seven age, but he's right there. So, you know, 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:47.480 I think there's just a lot, like there's a lot 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:50.080 to like about both of these guys. Obviously, like vladis 0:29:50.160 --> 0:29:52.400 tantalizing thing, and I think that's a perfect word for 0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:55.920 him and what he could give Anthony Anthony Rizzo in 0:29:56.040 --> 0:30:02.280 that any Rendon in the age twenty nine season has 0:30:03.120 --> 0:30:05.680 finally found that consistency, which I think is really cool. 0:30:05.680 --> 0:30:07.480 I think early in the early in his career, he 0:30:07.480 --> 0:30:09.040 saw him put up the twenty old runs and they 0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:10.680 followed that up with five and he was hurt for 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:12.920 the entire year, came back with twenty and now it's 0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:15.880 pretty consistently been around twenty five. He also, for the 0:30:16.000 --> 0:30:18.760 most part, he's a little banged up every year, which 0:30:18.760 --> 0:30:20.000 I think is kind of a concern, Like, yeah, he 0:30:20.040 --> 0:30:21.640 paid one with the six pack. It's twenty sixteen and 0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:24.600 twenty four He's missed an average of about sixteen games 0:30:24.640 --> 0:30:26.840 per season over the last three years. So so I 0:30:26.880 --> 0:30:28.640 do you're in a factor in like one de Elston, 0:30:28.760 --> 0:30:32.040 But if you do it, but if you take that 0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:35.000 in him and Ladder probably close to the same amount 0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:38.880 of games, then theoretically right Yeah, yeah, and uh, you know, 0:30:39.240 --> 0:30:42.080 shout out to uh, shout out to Alex Fast on 0:30:42.160 --> 0:30:44.520 Twitter Alex Fast eight D. You know, he's part of 0:30:44.640 --> 0:30:46.640 the pitcher List and he tweets out some of some 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:49.280 great stats. He actually tweeted out earlier in the All 0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:53.840 season that expected home runs from last year Anthony Rendon's 0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:56.520 expected home runs were actually was supposed to be twenty nine. 0:30:56.720 --> 0:30:59.160 So I mean these are probably like ones like home 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:00.640 runs that hit like all the top of the wall 0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:02.760 that ended up being doubles or whatever. So he's expected 0:31:02.800 --> 0:31:04.400 home runs for twenty nine and only a hundred and 0:31:04.440 --> 0:31:06.880 thirty six games. So yeah, I understand what Mordiq is 0:31:06.880 --> 0:31:08.640 saying about. Okay, maybe there's a little bit more power 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:11.720 upside here than we're actually kind of uh, we're actually 0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:14.440 kind of believing. You know, he's always always placed his 0:31:14.520 --> 0:31:17.280 top fifty in average exit velocity. So the battle ball 0:31:17.400 --> 0:31:20.040 data is there, Maddie mom with Like, since the start 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:23.800 of twenty seventeen, Andy Rondoon has ps that's thirteen best 0:31:23.840 --> 0:31:26.720 in baseball. He's one of theteen best hitters in baseball. 0:31:27.200 --> 0:31:28.920 And if you look at shares, you're like, over the 0:31:28.960 --> 0:31:32.400 four of the last five years, you're throwing five nineties seven. 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:34.280 As far as playing appearance, and we will make that 0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:36.920 six hundred. I mean, he's pretty much you know, had 0:31:37.000 --> 0:31:41.720 six hundred plate appearances and five hundred playing appearances. You know, uh, 0:31:42.040 --> 0:31:45.200 he can get didn't for that, but look at the 0:31:45.240 --> 0:31:50.520 games the last three years. Six you know, that's that's 0:31:50.560 --> 0:31:53.400 pretty good. That's pretty solid. And he's great regardless of 0:31:53.480 --> 0:31:56.120 format too. Right, Look, look he's a four category contributor. 0:31:56.120 --> 0:31:59.120 He's not gonna run whatever. But you know he's kind 0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:01.400 of like in that center he's like a Nolan Arronado 0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:03.280 light that you're getting in the third round. But you know, 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:05.400 even for points leads, he hits a lot of doubles. 0:32:05.680 --> 0:32:07.200 He makes a lot of contact, so you're not getting 0:32:07.240 --> 0:32:09.720 penalized for strikeouts. He has a five point five percent 0:32:09.760 --> 0:32:13.440 swinging strike rate in his career near contact rate, so 0:32:13.840 --> 0:32:16.840 if you get you get dinged for for strikeouts. He 0:32:16.960 --> 0:32:18.959 doesn't strike out. He's gonna make a lot of contact. 0:32:19.040 --> 0:32:21.280 I mentioned the bad ball data. You know, each of 0:32:21.320 --> 0:32:23.680 the past three seasons he's been top fifty and average 0:32:23.680 --> 0:32:27.520 eggs velocity, so you know he's he's making contact, he's 0:32:27.520 --> 0:32:30.320 making optimal contact. And you know even if he's not 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:32.040 heating home runs, he's hitting double So helps you out 0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:35.120 in points lease. I think he's a fine player regardless 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:37.400 of format. He's not one of the sexy picks, but 0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:43.040 he gets it done. Would you weird? Would you rather 0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:52.400 have Chris Bryan r anthony're Endon? I think grand don't 0:32:52.440 --> 0:32:57.560 has I think Brian has more upside. I would I 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:00.040 would take Grandon. You would say him you gonna that 0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:03.840 your rankings currently pulling them up. I might ever known 0:33:03.960 --> 0:33:05.880 even ranked higher than already because I wasn't a christ 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:07.520 I wasn't in a big Chris Bryan fan. I actually 0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:08.720 don't have them up, so I don't know I was 0:33:08.800 --> 0:33:11.480 making that up. Have them back to back? You doing 0:33:11.520 --> 0:33:15.400 them back to back every day We've done this, by 0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:18.800 the way, that changes rankings every single time. We've done 0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:22.280 this show every day. How do you really test the 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:26.800 rankings just by doing you know, drafts right now, absolutely stuff. 0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:29.160 And when you see that guy that you just kind 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:32.200 of have your next and you're picking the other guy instead, 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:34.480 you know you're gonna pull that up. And that's just 0:33:34.720 --> 0:33:37.440 why that's why I believe in drafting early, and I 0:33:37.560 --> 0:33:39.680 think it can be a useful thing. There is risk 0:33:41.400 --> 0:33:43.280 when you walk out the door. Well, I mean, and 0:33:43.320 --> 0:33:45.160 then that's the fact. Like to be able to do 0:33:45.320 --> 0:33:49.400 drafts from January or early February through draft season in 0:33:49.440 --> 0:33:51.680 the middle to end of March, it only made it 0:33:51.800 --> 0:33:53.959 totally makes sense because you just learn more, You learn 0:33:54.000 --> 0:33:56.200 more about players values, where you're going, like you're doing 0:33:56.240 --> 0:33:59.360 this is great Fantasy Baseball invitational in a champions league 0:33:59.360 --> 0:34:02.120 because you're one year last year and you're you're very 0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:04.280 surprised by what you're seeing here, and I think that 0:34:04.480 --> 0:34:07.120 could be what is new piece certain guys being pulled 0:34:07.200 --> 0:34:09.440 up the board and it's a bit of a surprise. Yeah, 0:34:09.480 --> 0:34:11.920 I mean, look, you see this a lot in industry, 0:34:12.080 --> 0:34:16.240 right industry expert drafts, and you know, people want their players, 0:34:16.360 --> 0:34:19.520 like the value of everyone is being sucked out in 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:21.640 this draft right now, Like y'all Ceque went with the 0:34:21.719 --> 0:34:24.239 second pick right fourth round, Like there's just no value. 0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:26.879 Like people who want their players right now are taking 0:34:26.880 --> 0:34:29.480 their place. Like Rohnas just took Jose Pros in the 0:34:29.520 --> 0:34:31.960 fifth round. You want to stolen basis. If Jose Pros 0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:33.759 is one of his guys, you gotta get your guys 0:34:35.600 --> 0:34:37.600 to Jonathan R went in the fifth round as well. 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:39.520 I mean, well that's because you know, you see these 0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:41.160 two guys go in the fifth round, people are freaking 0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:43.040 out about stolen basis. That's what it comes down to. 0:34:43.120 --> 0:34:46.080 Two is still on the board, ozzielb is still on 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:48.640 the board. How can you justify taking you know, Jonathan 0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:51.399 VR and Jose Pros over Ozzie Albi's the only way 0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:53.279 is you want stolen basis. That's the only way you 0:34:53.320 --> 0:34:58.719 can justify Greg. Yeah, I'm not gonna make that seed. Uh. 0:34:59.200 --> 0:35:01.640 One of the reasons w I've been saying this for 0:35:01.680 --> 0:35:03.759 a while. I've been in the belief well before the 0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:08.000 stole base attempts, which I'm not buying that. But like 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:11.000 a guy like Trade Territor is just so safe. All 0:35:11.040 --> 0:35:13.360 you have to do is stay healthy. He'll still forty bases, 0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:16.320 score a hundred runs and then you have that speed 0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:20.000 there and you're getting you know, possibly fifty home runs 0:35:20.320 --> 0:35:22.759 chipped in with with a good average. But I'm not 0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:26.919 going to you know, pull guys up where there's better 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:31.880 guys based on speed, for like a Paraza or Jonathan Valar. 0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:35.759 Jonathan Vallar should play every day, but there's also we've 0:35:35.800 --> 0:35:38.560 seen Jonathan Vollar fail as well, and that has to 0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:42.440 be a counter absolutely, and that's why I'm not exactly 0:35:42.480 --> 0:35:44.920 the big John n v R fan this year. All Right, 0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:47.879 we come back. We'll get into uh the second half 0:35:47.960 --> 0:35:51.480 of the top twelve third basements with Maddie Moe here 0:35:51.520 --> 0:35:55.399 on the Fantasy Sports Radio network, that Carpenter, and we're 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:58.120 nine the NFC, despite the alsome year, we're back or 0:35:58.120 --> 0:36:01.120 after this from the NFL to the NBA. 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One of the 0:36:45.440 --> 0:36:47.319 first things I gotta ask you here. I know we're 0:36:47.360 --> 0:36:49.239 doing the third base ranks, but I was talking to 0:36:49.280 --> 0:36:51.160 Greg about this during the break, right and you know, 0:36:51.200 --> 0:36:53.720 obviously everyone's kind of freaking out about the Clayton Kershaw 0:36:53.800 --> 0:36:57.680 thing right now. He's being shut down. No definitive timetable 0:36:57.760 --> 0:37:00.920 as of right now, but I mean this has superted people, 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:02.799 and I think we're already kind of seeing it right 0:37:03.080 --> 0:37:05.480 A lot of these great Fantasy Baseball Invitational drafts are 0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:08.279 going on right now. Clayton Kershaw is a DP in 0:37:08.360 --> 0:37:11.600 the NFBC. Before all this was thirty seven. We are 0:37:11.680 --> 0:37:14.520 at pick seventy three. He has not been drafted yet. 0:37:14.800 --> 0:37:16.719 Is the end of the fifth round, the beginning of 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:20.160 the sixth round in a fifteen team draft. I mean, 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:22.880 at what point do you just kind of say screw it? 0:37:23.360 --> 0:37:25.920 I gotta take the risk with Clayton Kershaw because I'm 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:27.520 trying to figure it out myself. Like I'm trying to 0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:29.000 figure it out on the fly, right, Like, at what 0:37:29.120 --> 0:37:32.000 point do you just say, like he's Clayton Kershaw. Yes, 0:37:32.040 --> 0:37:34.879 I'm worried about the shoulder injuries already He's been dealing 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:38.279 with the back injuries. But like at some point the 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:42.600 risks kind of, you know, it out, the value outweighs 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:44.560 the risk is what I'm trying to stay here, Matt. So, 0:37:44.640 --> 0:37:47.400 I mean, at what point does that become apparent for 0:37:47.480 --> 0:37:49.920 you with Clayton Kershall right now? I mean he's pretty 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:52.640 much been off my board from where he's been going, 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:56.520 But as you stated, the free fall here, I think 0:37:56.560 --> 0:38:00.680 it's somewhere. Suit. Look, my biggest gripe about curse your 0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:03.319 entering the season wasn't the back. I didn't know there's 0:38:03.320 --> 0:38:06.319 gonna be a I I guess I should say now 0:38:06.840 --> 0:38:11.200 for that back injury, it's the decreased velocity and the 0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:15.720 plummeating strikeout rate, you know, creating kersher If even throwse 0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:20.680 dred and sixty eting with you know, a strikeout rate, 0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:24.080 that's not the picture I thought I was getting. But 0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:26.239 when you start getting into the sixth round or the 0:38:26.400 --> 0:38:30.040 seventh round, I think then you say, what the hell, 0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:32.640 and you know, you you let it right and maybe 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.279 if you get a hundred and fifty hundred sixty and 0:38:35.360 --> 0:38:37.799 the velocity does stick up a little bit, you're gonna 0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:42.359 get a hell of a picture for that many innings. Yeah, 0:38:42.480 --> 0:38:44.640 I look, the velocity is concerning, Like the skills have 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:47.400 conclined over the past couple of years for Kershaw, So 0:38:47.440 --> 0:38:50.719 you worry about those things. A strikeout rate obviously, you know. Look, 0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:53.160 he's just he's pitched a lot. He's pitched a lot 0:38:53.160 --> 0:38:54.680 of endings, right, Like I think it's you know that, 0:38:54.840 --> 0:38:56.680 and injuries are kind of catching up to him. So 0:38:57.239 --> 0:38:59.799 like it sucks, but like you know, other time has 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:03.160 never lost here Greggy, So uh yeah, I just wanted 0:39:03.200 --> 0:39:05.920 to shock the Dodgers gave him an extra thirty million dollars, 0:39:05.920 --> 0:39:08.040 so I thought that was a little nuts. But I 0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:13.279 understand you're paying him for for his past achievements. I guess. Yeah. 0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:14.800 You know, someone laid that out to me too, like 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:18.799 somebody in in college that I went that I went 0:39:18.880 --> 0:39:21.640 school with, said, you know, when you kind of think 0:39:21.680 --> 0:39:23.880 about it when you get players that kind of perform 0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:26.080 as awesome as they do on like their rookie deals 0:39:26.239 --> 0:39:28.840 or like during their arbitration eligible years, and then you 0:39:28.960 --> 0:39:31.520 end up like paying them this church like some of money. 0:39:31.680 --> 0:39:33.600 It's like you're kind of paying for the production that 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:35.200 they gave you in the past, which is a weird 0:39:35.280 --> 0:39:37.080 way to think about it, but like you're ultimately you're 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:39.400 looking out for your players. It doesn't happen as often 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:42.000 as you know, maybe we would like it to happen 0:39:42.160 --> 0:39:44.719 or what it should be, because you know, and that's 0:39:44.760 --> 0:39:48.840 why the Patriots whatever you mean, absolutely, that's exactly right. 0:39:48.880 --> 0:39:50.920 You're absolutely right. Speaking of contracts, I think it's some 0:39:51.040 --> 0:39:53.280 time to ask you get third basement for a second 0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:57.240 about our Hicks's contracts seven years, seventy million dollars extension 0:39:57.360 --> 0:40:03.560 with the Yankees, which clapp get clapping. Yeah, look, I'm 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:07.120 the guy deserves that. The Yankees were smart to do it. 0:40:07.840 --> 0:40:09.680 And you know, he's a hell of a defender, he's 0:40:09.719 --> 0:40:12.520 a better he's a very good hitter that doesn't get 0:40:12.640 --> 0:40:15.759 the claim that he should. And you know, if he 0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:19.920 can stay you know, relatively healthy all season long this year, 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:22.640 I think he can be even better than lationship. Yeah, 0:40:22.680 --> 0:40:24.759 that's that's absolutely right, And you're getting in, you know 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:27.799 right now is what sometimes your outfield four. I mean, 0:40:28.160 --> 0:40:29.239 you know, I don't know if I want him as 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:31.239 one of my top three outfielders. You could probably live 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:33.000 with it based on like the way that your rest 0:40:33.040 --> 0:40:35.160 of the rest of your roster is constructed. But you're 0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:37.040 getting this guy's your outfield four. He has you know, 0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:39.279 twenty five home run upside and you steal a couple 0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:41.800 of bases, you know, ten to twelve bases. Like, he 0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:43.600 has a good O b P, a good eye at 0:40:43.640 --> 0:40:46.800 the plate. He's a good fielder as not even a 0:40:46.800 --> 0:40:50.120 good great fielder of an arm too, like you've seen 0:40:50.160 --> 0:40:51.680 some of the stat cast data in terms of like 0:40:51.920 --> 0:40:54.000 him throwing the ball, like throwing people out at the plate, 0:40:54.040 --> 0:40:55.719 throwing the ball like a hundred miles per hour. So 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:57.840 he has a rocket for an arm. Uh, you know, 0:40:58.080 --> 0:41:01.239 seven years, it's a long deal. He's in the prime 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:02.719 of his career. Well, I think we looked this up. 0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:05.040 He's twenty nine, turning thirty at the end of the 0:41:05.080 --> 0:41:07.600 season this year, so you basically lock him up for 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:11.239 the prime years of his career. This hope he stays healthy. 0:41:11.320 --> 0:41:13.759 That's always kind of be in the bugaboo with Aaron Hicks. 0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:16.560 I think what's cool is um seven years, seventy million dollars, 0:41:16.600 --> 0:41:18.799 so he gets obviously gets paid, which is cool. Uh, 0:41:18.840 --> 0:41:21.359 And the Yankees have a very affordable contract on their hands. 0:41:21.560 --> 0:41:24.319 I think that ten million or so. It's about ten 0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:26.120 and a half million every year. The way it structure 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:27.440 is this Serason only getting like six and a half. 0:41:27.480 --> 0:41:29.120 It's was ten and a half million almost every year 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:30.800 the nine and a half of the end of the contract. 0:41:31.400 --> 0:41:33.640 It's very reasonable. It's like a very reasonable amount for 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:36.400 a starting out fielder, especially a center fielder that projected 0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:39.440 one of the best center fielder defensively in all baseball. 0:41:39.480 --> 0:41:41.040 So I think of that perspective, it's good. I think 0:41:41.080 --> 0:41:43.280 seven years a long time. It commnce Aaron Hicks, who 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:45.920 seems to be always not always injured, but like always 0:41:46.000 --> 0:41:47.600 kind of banged up when he's out there. He's got 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:49.319 a great eye. I think of the press release they 0:41:49.320 --> 0:41:51.040 talked about that, I and his ability to not to 0:41:51.080 --> 0:41:55.040 strike out. And you know, the Yankees got killed a 0:41:55.080 --> 0:41:57.719 lot after the playoffs for just being a team of 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:00.680 strikeout guys and home run guys. Aaron Nix does not 0:42:00.719 --> 0:42:03.400 strike out, and I think having more guys like that 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:06.239 it was very interesting to them. And they clearly want 0:42:06.239 --> 0:42:08.440 to keep this cord together. I'm sure they're they've already, 0:42:08.960 --> 0:42:12.360 um it made a couple of signings, no doubt. They've 0:42:12.400 --> 0:42:14.880 extended Sevorino, and you have to imagine Aaron Judge and 0:42:14.920 --> 0:42:17.280 Did Gregorius or two the next guys that they'll probably 0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:21.400 want to extend. We'll see if and when that happens. 0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:23.400 Let's get back to third baseman, and I think the 0:42:23.480 --> 0:42:26.160 natural transition here is a guy that is it the 0:42:26.280 --> 0:42:29.359 next tier of guys. I'd say that's Miguel and you Are. 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:32.600 I know, NFBC, he's in the top ten. Um A 0:42:32.840 --> 0:42:35.520 handing a Sparez carpenter company for him. But we're talking 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:37.000 about the A, so I think it's a good time 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:39.279 to bring up Miguel and you Are, who had over 0:42:39.360 --> 0:42:42.360 forty doubles last year as a rookie. The biggest concerns 0:42:42.400 --> 0:42:44.360 with him as a baseball player is his fielding. We 0:42:44.480 --> 0:42:46.640 do not care about his fielding when it comes to 0:42:46.719 --> 0:42:49.560 fantasy baseball, not necessarily. I mean it could it could 0:42:49.600 --> 0:42:51.239 impact his playing time. You know if he if he's 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:53.480 a dreadful fielder. I mean, you know, they signed d 0:42:53.600 --> 0:42:55.480 Jail and make Hugh because he has the ability to 0:42:55.560 --> 0:42:58.759 be a utility, utility kind of player. You know, they 0:42:58.800 --> 0:43:00.239 say he could play second and can play third, he 0:43:00.280 --> 0:43:02.320 could play first base a little bit. So you know, 0:43:02.480 --> 0:43:06.279 if if Andrew Hart is really that bad at third base, 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:07.920 and I mean he could lose some playing time, is 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:10.640 it a huge concern of mine. No, But I you know, 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:13.360 I will say I don't think that there's necessarily no 0:43:13.920 --> 0:43:16.160 effect that his defense has on his fantasy value, because 0:43:16.160 --> 0:43:19.279 I do at least think that there's there's some effects here. Um, 0:43:19.719 --> 0:43:22.279 look twenty seven home runs. I think the power really 0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:24.360 kind of jumped off the page last year, more so 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:25.800 than we thought he would. If you look at his 0:43:25.840 --> 0:43:28.000 minor league profile, he really hit a lot of doubles. 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:31.919 He hit for a high batting average, pretty solid contact raids. 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.360 Doesn't strike out all that much either, you know, just 0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:37.200 sixteen percent strikeout rate last season in major league. So 0:43:37.440 --> 0:43:39.920 makes a lot of contact, a lot of line drive contact. 0:43:39.960 --> 0:43:41.920 But you know, playing Yankee Stadium and some of those 0:43:41.960 --> 0:43:44.080 other ballparks in the A L East, you know, the 0:43:44.160 --> 0:43:46.919 doubles are turning into home runs even sooner than we thought. 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:49.120 You know, he's kind of he's a bigger stature dude. 0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:51.680 So seven home runs, all right, I don't know. I'm 0:43:51.680 --> 0:43:53.400 not sure that he gets back there, but I think 0:43:53.440 --> 0:43:57.400 he's safe for at least in that range. He's one 0:43:57.400 --> 0:44:00.520 of these interesting cases, Greg, where he paces a lot 0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:03.400 of pitches. He's very aggressive, but he makes a lot 0:44:03.480 --> 0:44:06.239 of contact on those pitches. You know, shout out to 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:08.400 uh to Garry and Thrown. I heard him talking about this. 0:44:08.719 --> 0:44:11.680 He kind of likened it to UH to VLADIMC. Guerrero senior, 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:13.800 where you know this that was one of like the 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:16.120 last players that we saw chase a lot of pitches 0:44:16.280 --> 0:44:18.319 but still make a lot of contact and pretty good 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:21.719 contact on those pitches outside the strike zone. So, you know, 0:44:21.760 --> 0:44:23.880 I thought that was a pretty cool comp But you know, 0:44:24.000 --> 0:44:26.839 I think to eight home runs, you know he's gonna 0:44:26.840 --> 0:44:28.520 be in the Yankees lineup, so the county stats will 0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:30.560 be there too. Is another guy where you know, he's 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:33.680 a four category player, doesn't really doesn't give you anything 0:44:33.719 --> 0:44:36.480 in the speed department, but you know, if he does 0:44:36.560 --> 0:44:39.160 play every single day, you might have the upside for 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:41.000 even more I mean he had nine d RBIs last year. 0:44:41.000 --> 0:44:42.720 He plays every single day in the middle of this lineup. 0:44:42.840 --> 0:44:44.759 It's not outside the remo possibility that he drives in 0:44:44.800 --> 0:44:47.879 a hundred runs. That's still just twenty three years old. 0:44:48.000 --> 0:44:50.200 He'll he'll turn it'll turn to my four next week, 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:51.799 So it's a twenty four year old player. I think 0:44:51.840 --> 0:44:53.800 he does have room to grill, like I don't know that. 0:44:53.880 --> 0:44:56.680 We saw the ceiling last year Miguel and har which 0:44:56.719 --> 0:45:00.360 is kind of scintillating. Saything bad about in Hard. It 0:45:00.480 --> 0:45:02.480 was very good to be last year. And I think 0:45:02.520 --> 0:45:06.960 French right, we're about that batting average, not the three 0:45:07.560 --> 0:45:10.000 to think that will come down. I think you could 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:13.200 go either way here. He's either really gonna, you know, 0:45:13.680 --> 0:45:16.960 turn it on and break that thirty Harmer and Barrier 0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:22.160 or hanging around. I think he's a solid player. I 0:45:22.280 --> 0:45:25.520 just think the position is so deep that I don't 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:29.120 need to grab Andrew Hard where he's going. Uh, you know, 0:45:29.239 --> 0:45:32.080 there's just other guys there that can give me similar 0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:36.879 skills or different skills at that position if I so choose. Yeah, 0:45:37.040 --> 0:45:39.200 and and no doubt that's fair. There's two guys go 0:45:39.239 --> 0:45:41.239 ahead of the NFEC that will mention and do Horr 0:45:41.280 --> 0:45:45.040 is going around pick in the NFBC, which puts him 0:45:45.080 --> 0:45:49.239 where frank than four him in the sixth round of 0:45:49.320 --> 0:45:53.680 fifteen team draft, early six team going so early early six, 0:45:54.120 --> 0:45:56.439 and he was going harder, so he's actually he's dropped 0:45:56.440 --> 0:45:58.560 a little bit. He's dropped a little bit. So it's 0:45:58.600 --> 0:46:00.520 really him and like a hand O squarre Suarez going 0:46:00.520 --> 0:46:03.160 a little bit higher, like very firmly, you know, in 0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:06.439 that early early fifth round range. He's going a little 0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:08.520 bit higher than Andrew Harror. But when I look when 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:10.480 I look at Miguel and Harror, as I mentioned, like, 0:46:10.520 --> 0:46:12.360 I see a player that I believes looking girl like, 0:46:12.400 --> 0:46:14.799 I think he gets over third and maybe a little 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:17.359 ni even and Yankee bias or whatever, but I think 0:46:17.440 --> 0:46:20.000 definitely a Yankee bias for sure. I think he gets 0:46:20.000 --> 0:46:22.919 over thirty home runs. I think that, Like the strike 0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:26.400 rate is the crazy thing to me, because he he 0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:28.480 has such great context that you look at his entire 0:46:28.520 --> 0:46:30.800 minor leage profile. He doesn't strike out because he swings 0:46:30.840 --> 0:46:34.320 in everything. This is a guy everything. Yeah, he doesn't 0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:37.440 walk at all, he never had. He's another one of these. 0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:39.000 You know, there are a lot of hitters like that 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:41.640 in the game. They're specific really don't walk a lot, 0:46:41.680 --> 0:46:43.919 but aggressive swingers they swing had a lot of pitches 0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:46.640 outside the strike zone, you know, like Starling Marte comes 0:46:46.680 --> 0:46:48.319 to mind as well, another guy who makes a lot 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:50.640 of contact, doesn't really walk all that much. But that 0:46:50.680 --> 0:46:53.000 doesn't mean that they can't be valuable for fantasy purposes, 0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:55.000 like it could definitely work. And they will say this 0:46:55.320 --> 0:46:57.560 the second half for Andrew Hard, he did make a 0:46:57.600 --> 0:46:59.600 conscious effort to try and lift the ball a little 0:46:59.640 --> 0:47:01.560 bit more. Uh. You know, first half he was you 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:04.759 know to seventy nine eighteen percent line drive rate, uh, 0:47:04.920 --> 0:47:07.320 thirty three percent flyball rate. In the second half, you know, 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:10.920 three nineteen batting average, five seventy five slugging. You know, 0:47:10.960 --> 0:47:12.560 he had fifteen on runs in the second half to 0:47:12.719 --> 0:47:16.040 fifty six isolated power line drive right, so that goes 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:18.840 up four percent. His fly ball rate goes up six percent, 0:47:18.960 --> 0:47:22.160 up to thirty nine percent in the second half year. Uh, 0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:24.320 and you know, the hard hit percentage right around the 0:47:24.360 --> 0:47:27.040 same the home run flyball ratio goes up a little bit. 0:47:27.120 --> 0:47:30.000 So based on that second half, if those kind of 0:47:30.040 --> 0:47:33.360 battle ball numbers carry over, this year. It's not necessarily 0:47:33.400 --> 0:47:35.359 gonna happen. A lot of people like to use second 0:47:35.400 --> 0:47:38.239 half as indicators. It doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna happen, 0:47:38.560 --> 0:47:40.520 but if it does, then that's where you kind of 0:47:40.520 --> 0:47:42.640 see like the thirty maybe even thirty plus home run 0:47:42.760 --> 0:47:44.879 upside come into play. If he carries over that second 0:47:44.920 --> 0:47:46.600 half bad in ball data, it's just as long as 0:47:46.600 --> 0:47:48.799 you continue to make contact at the obviously the rate 0:47:48.840 --> 0:47:51.560 that he was in that second half, he's gonna be 0:47:51.560 --> 0:47:53.480 really good. I think he could be Like I know, Matts, 0:47:53.520 --> 0:47:55.279 it's a little rich for his blood. And there's a 0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:59.040 lot of guys. Yeah, here's war though at the end 0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:02.759 of that six the early seventh you do have other 0:48:02.840 --> 0:48:05.000 guys too, like saying you needed to feel something else, 0:48:05.040 --> 0:48:08.120 you needed to get that closer. There's a Josh Donaldson, 0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:11.840 There's a Will Myers. There's Justin Turner, who's one of 0:48:11.920 --> 0:48:14.440 the best hitters in all the baseball We know he's 0:48:14.800 --> 0:48:17.600 getting up there and getting older. Or even if I wait, 0:48:18.280 --> 0:48:20.960 one guy who this is a bad help, like Frank said, 0:48:21.080 --> 0:48:24.200 you got gotta watch in preseason, is Matt Chapman. You 0:48:24.280 --> 0:48:28.200 look at Matt Chapman's road numbers, and you put Nolan 0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:32.680 Arronado's home numbers and Matt Chapman's away numbers side by side, 0:48:33.080 --> 0:48:36.280 you're looking at it pretty much the same player. Chapman 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:40.239 was ridiculous last year. He was, so I was looking 0:48:40.280 --> 0:48:41.600 at his numbers, and you know what I really found 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:44.240 surprising if you won't even realize this, but Matt Chapmans 0:48:44.239 --> 0:48:46.799 scored a hundred runs last year. Scored a hundred runs, 0:48:47.280 --> 0:48:49.840 Like I wouldn't have even guessed that, But you know, 0:48:49.920 --> 0:48:51.879 he was the Oakland A's lineup like the first half 0:48:51.880 --> 0:48:54.160 of it last year, like was was very potent, like 0:48:54.440 --> 0:48:57.200 Chris Davis. Davis obviously one on that tear. I expect 0:48:57.239 --> 0:48:59.480 Matt Olsen to take another step as well. The one 0:48:59.640 --> 0:49:02.040 the big his issue right now with Chapman is the injuries. 0:49:02.160 --> 0:49:04.239 So Matt, right, you gotta pay attention during spring, like 0:49:04.520 --> 0:49:06.200 if you're drafting right now, I don't know if I 0:49:06.239 --> 0:49:08.080 could pull the trigger like I think he's falling down 0:49:08.160 --> 0:49:09.960 draft boards a little bit because of it. But it 0:49:10.160 --> 0:49:12.520 is what they're like, they got worry some injuries. You know, 0:49:12.640 --> 0:49:15.040 it's the thumb, so that's ability to hold the bat 0:49:15.120 --> 0:49:17.239 and grip the bat and then it's shoulder to which 0:49:17.239 --> 0:49:19.800 could affect his power. So as great as match Happman was, 0:49:19.920 --> 0:49:22.239 I thought he made huge tries last season. If he 0:49:22.320 --> 0:49:24.640 was healthy, you know, I think he might even be 0:49:24.719 --> 0:49:26.800 going around this and her range, to be honest with 0:49:27.040 --> 0:49:29.480 which is crazy to say, but he made that many 0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:32.640 improvements last year throughout the course of the season. But 0:49:32.760 --> 0:49:35.080 I'm I'm really worried about these injuries, I mean, shoulder 0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:38.560 and thumbs together, especially now that like you know, he's 0:49:38.560 --> 0:49:41.360 still dealing with him like he's getting a later start 0:49:41.440 --> 0:49:44.160 in spring training than everyone else. It's it's not a little, 0:49:44.200 --> 0:49:45.719 it's a lot annoying, fair enough, because this is a 0:49:45.760 --> 0:49:47.080 guy that you know, we could have been all over 0:49:47.200 --> 0:49:48.960 like he would have been an active target of mine. 0:49:49.040 --> 0:49:52.279 We talked about um meal and horror, and you said, 0:49:52.360 --> 0:49:55.400 Frank that the person that you see him closely compared 0:49:55.440 --> 0:49:57.279 to that, compared to you, but it's similar, but he's 0:49:57.280 --> 0:50:00.160 pretty much higher than him is Hauarez, who's going off 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:02.839 the board like picks ahead of him in the early 0:50:02.960 --> 0:50:10.239 fifth round in those fifteen team leagues. What's up? Man? 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:13.600 This is not gonna be a popular take, and some people, uh, 0:50:13.840 --> 0:50:15.759 some people might want to attack me for it. But 0:50:16.800 --> 0:50:19.240 I'm a little worried about au Henningo Suarez just because 0:50:19.280 --> 0:50:20.759 the price that you have to pay right now. Look, 0:50:20.800 --> 0:50:23.200 I love the Reds lineup, you know, I want exposure 0:50:23.239 --> 0:50:24.960 to ya c l P League, And you know, Joey 0:50:25.040 --> 0:50:27.279 Vado should bounce back as well, and Scooter Jeanette and 0:50:27.280 --> 0:50:28.960 all these guys, and I think I think it could 0:50:28.960 --> 0:50:30.800 be a great lineup. It's a great ballpark. And he 0:50:30.960 --> 0:50:33.120 was otherworldly in the first half last season. You know, 0:50:33.239 --> 0:50:35.719 he three o ps. You know, he was one of 0:50:35.800 --> 0:50:38.040 the ten best hitters in baseball. Like he missed time 0:50:38.080 --> 0:50:40.719 last year and he's still drop runs. He was awesome. Uh, 0:50:40.800 --> 0:50:42.600 you know, fifty one percent hard hit rate in the 0:50:42.640 --> 0:50:45.279 first half last season. Second half last year, I mean 0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:46.719 he took a step back. I mean he you know, 0:50:46.880 --> 0:50:49.480 the strikeout percentage goes up by nine percent. It went 0:50:49.520 --> 0:50:51.640 from nineteen and a half percent in the first half 0:50:51.680 --> 0:50:54.680 to eight percent. He was a seven eight five ops, 0:50:54.760 --> 0:50:58.400 so nearly lowers by two hundred points. Uh. You hit 0:50:58.440 --> 0:51:00.960 rates still at the ball extremely hard. So oh, I 0:51:01.280 --> 0:51:04.120 just worry. You know, people are kind of paying the 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:06.239 premium right now, like based on what he did last 0:51:06.280 --> 0:51:08.160 year and he had an awesome first half, and you know, 0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:10.480 maybe this is just his natural progression as a player 0:51:10.520 --> 0:51:12.640 and a hitter at the major league level. So you know, 0:51:12.760 --> 0:51:14.440 maybe you can kind of take what he did in 0:51:14.480 --> 0:51:15.840 the first half and do that over the course of 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:18.560 a full season. Maybe that's like his next step in progression. 0:51:19.239 --> 0:51:20.880 I'm a little bit more worried. I'm a little bit 0:51:20.920 --> 0:51:22.680 more worried about the second half. I think you're kind 0:51:22.680 --> 0:51:25.600 of paying up in that fifth round range for what 0:51:25.920 --> 0:51:28.560 might be close to his ceiling this season. Um, and 0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:30.120 I know a lot of people might not like to 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:33.480 hear that. Yeah, I'm I'm always frank here. I think, Look, 0:51:33.520 --> 0:51:35.960 I think the power is real. I'm not doubting that. 0:51:36.600 --> 0:51:38.640 I think the average is more than that two fifty 0:51:38.680 --> 0:51:43.600 to sixty range for Matt I'd probably be more comfortable 0:51:43.680 --> 0:51:47.680 with Andrew Hard now and just saying Suarez is actually 0:51:47.880 --> 0:51:51.439 dropping down. He was going in certain spots third, fourth 0:51:51.600 --> 0:51:53.640 round a couple of months back. So I think his 0:51:54.200 --> 0:51:59.480 price is at least coming back to uh something that's 0:51:59.600 --> 0:52:03.279 more I don't know, more agreeable, though I'm not paying 0:52:03.360 --> 0:52:05.920 that right now. The one takeaway I think you should 0:52:05.960 --> 0:52:08.920 get from third base is that the quarter at the 0:52:09.000 --> 0:52:12.400 quarter position. In most cases not at all, but in 0:52:12.480 --> 0:52:15.560 most cases this season, you're gonna be filling that corner 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:18.040 with a third basement over a first basement. I think 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:20.640 that's pretty obvious. Yeah, I think it's a really good takeaway, Matt. 0:52:20.840 --> 0:52:23.319 That third base is just is really plentiful. Like, we've 0:52:23.400 --> 0:52:26.239 gone through, um, what eight or n nine guys now 0:52:26.320 --> 0:52:27.880 with you, Matt, I'll do the rest of the venture 0:52:27.960 --> 0:52:30.600 coming in in the next hour. I'm having like all 0:52:30.640 --> 0:52:32.160 of them. If there's none of these guys that stand 0:52:32.200 --> 0:52:34.000 out like I don't want this guy. And we've done 0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:36.160 a lot of these previews. Now, Frank, we got Suarez 0:52:36.200 --> 0:52:37.520 in a Best Ball draft, like I think I got 0:52:37.600 --> 0:52:39.440 him in the fifth, sixth round where you know, to 0:52:39.560 --> 0:52:41.239 me he was the best player left on the whole time. 0:52:41.239 --> 0:52:44.160 I'm not necessarily opposed to taking him, but it kind 0:52:44.160 --> 0:52:45.560 of feels a little b high if he continues to 0:52:45.640 --> 0:52:46.960 drop a little bit, like if you start to get 0:52:47.000 --> 0:52:48.680 him in the sixth round, like I'd be more I'd 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:50.120 be more apt to do something like I have no 0:52:50.239 --> 0:52:52.239 issue with any of these guys, Matt, before we let 0:52:52.280 --> 0:52:54.480 you go, because I know you gotta you gotta run um. 0:52:54.560 --> 0:52:56.600 We talked about Matt Carpenter during our First Base show. 0:52:57.000 --> 0:52:58.759 What are your thoughts on Matt Carpenter? We got under 0:52:58.760 --> 0:53:02.080 a minute. I think it's more of the same. I 0:53:02.239 --> 0:53:05.279 love the Goldsmith a dish you that really helps him 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:07.560 out in the tot On was drafted hold, which is 0:53:07.640 --> 0:53:10.160 o b P. I took him in the fourth round 0:53:10.480 --> 0:53:13.719 in a regular average league. I'm gonna wait longer. I 0:53:13.800 --> 0:53:17.279 do like the dual eligibility for the corners, but he's 0:53:17.320 --> 0:53:19.640 not a guy that I have to have. It sounds 0:53:19.680 --> 0:53:21.120 like it sounds like there's a lot of those guys 0:53:21.200 --> 0:53:23.560 like other than Anthony Rendon, But like, like I think 0:53:23.600 --> 0:53:25.440 the way to phrase it is, I'm not enamored with it. 0:53:25.560 --> 0:53:27.560 Like you know, I don't love Matt Carpenter. If I 0:53:27.640 --> 0:53:29.879 end up with him, like, it's fine, Maddie, real quick 0:53:29.920 --> 0:53:32.200 before we let you go. Who has been your most 0:53:32.360 --> 0:53:34.600 uh I guess outside of Anthony Rendon because that's been 0:53:34.680 --> 0:53:36.640 I think like one of your most avid targets this 0:53:36.719 --> 0:53:39.480 season outside of him. Who who's the next third basement 0:53:39.520 --> 0:53:43.120 up that you're targeting most? Bits between Justin Turner and 0:53:43.280 --> 0:53:45.879 Will Mariles depending upon what I need you know that's 0:53:45.920 --> 0:53:48.320 one of these guys that will never quit. Anybody is 0:53:48.360 --> 0:53:51.719 one of those guys. I mean, especially with the ad 0:53:51.800 --> 0:53:55.520 as well. Just called Wilmers, Sammy Watkins from Atladka. That's what. 0:53:55.880 --> 0:53:59.000 That's a good coming, alright, Mattie. Well we'll tell him 0:53:59.080 --> 0:54:02.320 next Monday on this very show follow us CCN Baseball. 0:54:02.400 --> 0:54:07.440 We're back with venta Ray after this very m