Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It is me Joey P joe P
Speaker 1: Zapia with me today for our final That's right. If
Speaker 1: you can believe it, it's very emotional. It's a sad time.
Speaker 1: Our final mock draft of this season though elsh The
Speaker 1: Joe al Rico and from the of course very famous
Speaker 1: tool Shed podcast also works for rotaballer. Chris Cleig, one
Speaker 1: of the best in the business when it comes to
Speaker 1: the minor leaguers, is going to join us today. We've
Speaker 1: got a head to head a Roto Category twelve team MANK.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be using our mock draft simulator. As always,
Speaker 1: if you want to get your last second mocks in,
Speaker 1: this is the time to do it. So make sure
Speaker 1: you download Draft Wizard run those draft simulations right now,
Speaker 1: because before you know it, the season's gonna be upon us. Now, Cleig,
Speaker 1: just so you know, this isn't a dynasty draft. I
Speaker 1: just want you to make sure you know I don't
Speaker 1: want you to go too young.
Speaker 2: With some of these players today. I got it. We'll
Speaker 2: be all right.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be tempted to take Connor Griffin, but we're
Speaker 3: not gonna want to take Connor.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I just saw Connor Griffin four times last week.
Speaker 4: He looks awesome, by the way.
Speaker 3: I just talked to Jeff Ponce about it. But you know, Joe,
Speaker 3: I do want to tell you when we do these
Speaker 3: final mock draft, you're supposed to go.
Speaker 2: It's fun mocks draft.
Speaker 1: I did miss that up again, and they're all so
Speaker 1: lucky that you picked it up. Just so so lucky,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico. This is the last one for you as well.
Speaker 3: You're welcome.
Speaker 1: We get the real season going on, so that is
Speaker 1: very exciting. Uh. Do you think Welsh is excited that
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to watch Jordan Montgomery pitch for his
Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondbacks now this year?
Speaker 5: That's a brutal one. Like I don't even know what
Speaker 5: to make of it. I mean, I haven't been a
Speaker 5: big Ryan Nelson fan. Maybe it makes it a little
Speaker 5: bit easier for Ryan Nelson to slip in there at
Speaker 5: some point, But I feel bad for him on a
Speaker 5: kind of a human level, you know, like Lates start
Speaker 5: last year and then he gets dragged by the team
Speaker 5: and the media and then Tommy John It's it's been
Speaker 5: a tough year. So for Jordan Montgomery, I.
Speaker 3: Hear twenty two million dollars when you rub it on
Speaker 3: your arm over the year. It really does help. When
Speaker 3: you can sit there bathing diamonds and rub one hundred
Speaker 3: dollars bills on your arm. Tommy John goes a little
Speaker 3: bit quicker, He'll be he'll.
Speaker 1: Be all right. So we're gonna do one catcher, all
Speaker 1: the infielders. We've got a bunch of outfield spots to today.
Speaker 1: How many we got here, we got one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four outfield spots one U till we've got two RP
Speaker 1: spots and seven pitcher spots today we're gonna do. So
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Speaker 1: all about you because we're the show of the people,
Speaker 1: all right. Today we were tempted to kind of all
Speaker 1: draft right next to each other, but that was gonna
Speaker 1: make for a long day at the office for me.
Speaker 1: So Joe Rico, he's such a menshew, and all the
Speaker 1: way to the one one wait to take one for
Speaker 1: the team. Joe, Chris Clegg is gonna be over at
Speaker 1: one oh six. I'm gonna be at the turn at twelve.
Speaker 1: Welsh in between me and Cleig at one oh nine,
Speaker 1: so we'll see that goes. So it is Shoe Otani
Speaker 1: off the board, number one, Bobby Witt Junior, Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez and then Elie de Lacruz Clegg is on
Speaker 1: the clock, Joe Rico, when do you suspect Shoe Otani
Speaker 1: will be pitching? Give me the date in your mind
Speaker 1: we see show hey on the mound.
Speaker 5: I'd say probably late eight, late May. Late May sound
Speaker 5: about right. Maybe early Sune. But I'm not drafting him
Speaker 5: for pitching stats. I'm taking him for his hitting stats.
Speaker 5: But I think the pitchers like I've seen, just as
Speaker 5: a side note, like there are some leagues where he's
Speaker 5: just O Tani pitcher, only he's going way too high
Speaker 5: just because of that name brand value. I don't expect
Speaker 5: a lot from him on the mound this year, but
Speaker 5: I still expect him to do great things at the
Speaker 5: dish like he always does.
Speaker 1: All Right, I am up here on the clock at twelve,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I think I'm gonna do something
Speaker 1: fun here. Why not? It's the last one. Let's see
Speaker 1: how it goes. All right, Let's go with the next
Speaker 1: pick here, because Juan Soto to Chris Clegg at one
Speaker 1: oh six, Cleig, this is an OBP format we're playing
Speaker 1: in today, So Sodo certainly a guy that you absolutely
Speaker 1: want to be drafting. Here. The OBP off the charts
Speaker 1: for him what kind of pressure you think he's gonna
Speaker 1: put on himself though, because we've seen the guys behind
Speaker 1: the monster contracts, sometimes they get off the slow starts
Speaker 1: because of all that pressure. You think that affects Sodo?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: He handled the New York media pretty well last year
Speaker 4: with the Yankees, and yeah, the first year of big contracts,
Speaker 4: you know, it is something that I think we have
Speaker 4: to be weary. We've seen guys kind of struggle in
Speaker 4: that first year, but I don't think we see much
Speaker 4: struggle from Sodo. He's been as consistent as they come.
Speaker 4: His entire career basically feels like a lock to give
Speaker 4: a four hundred plus OBP or better, you know, and
Speaker 4: thirty plus homers sneaking a few steals and yeah, the
Speaker 4: high floor in a head to head roto MAK with OBP. Yeah,
Speaker 4: sign me up, because thing's gonna be highly consistent week
Speaker 4: over week and it can be extremely valuable.
Speaker 1: All right, you're back on the clock. I'll let you
Speaker 1: make your pick. Kyle Tucker at one oh seven, Mookie
Speaker 1: Bets at one o eight. While we're getting a little
Speaker 1: antsy about Mookie Bets, I hope he's okay. He doesn't
Speaker 1: look good. I don't like the interview yesterday where he
Speaker 1: can't keep any food down. This is troubling. I hope
Speaker 1: just forget fantasy. I hope Mookie Bets is okay. Corbyn
Speaker 1: Carroll went on nine.
Speaker 3: It looked like Christian Bale from the Oh my god,
Speaker 3: the problem.
Speaker 1: It's not good. I'm really concerned about him. So shout
Speaker 1: out to Mookie. One of the best guys in sports periods.
Speaker 1: So you took Corbyn Carroll at one oh nine. On
Speaker 1: the way back, you took Alvarez at two oh four,
Speaker 1: and that's how you're starting your team. So pretty good
Speaker 1: start here for you. How do you feel about these
Speaker 1: two outfielders as you're building from the outside in.
Speaker 3: I feel pretty good, especially because I one hundred percent, totally,
Speaker 3: without question, knew we were doing OBP before we started this.
Speaker 3: And I did not just find out we were.
Speaker 1: Doing and quality starts too three seconds ago.
Speaker 3: Yep, No, I knew all these things, and that's why
Speaker 3: I'm very prepared. Corby Carroll. No matter what great pick
Speaker 3: jan So does, the steal of the draft going at
Speaker 3: six and an OBP league just going to point that out.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Corbyn Carroll is a smash here. Very exciting me.
Speaker 3: Mookie Betts went right before him in this, very excited
Speaker 3: to get him. I passed on Julio Rodriguez because this
Speaker 3: is an OBP format for Jordan Alvarez, a little bit
Speaker 3: of risk, huge power. I'm not trying to chase stolen
Speaker 3: bases quite as much. And I got Corbyn Carroll, so
Speaker 3: I think this is like an ideal start of Alvarez
Speaker 3: in him. But you know, also pointing out two outfielders
Speaker 3: in a four outfield didn't necessarily need to happen. But
Speaker 3: Carolyn Alvarez, I'm happy and.
Speaker 1: Obi I already immediately want to undo all my picks.
Speaker 1: I just want to say this a draft wizard, you
Speaker 1: could do that. Look, it would be fun, right, I said,
Speaker 1: it's the last time I don't. Mayor wanted to do this.
Speaker 1: It didn't work out for him. Gunnar Henderson won at
Speaker 1: one ten Francisco Lindoor at one eleven. I took Paul
Speaker 1: Skins and Terce Google with my two pick. Hit the
Speaker 1: turn just for S's and g's. Let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can make it work. I already
Speaker 1: skeptical about it. We'll see how it goes. Fernando Tatista
Speaker 1: two two, vlad to two three, alvas to Welsh at
Speaker 1: two o four, then Julia Rodriguez at two o five,
Speaker 1: Jackson Churio, then Cleig. You took Bryce Harper at two
Speaker 1: oh seven. Let's talk about Harper and your expectations for
Speaker 1: him this season.
Speaker 4: That's another kind of high floor player that it's going
Speaker 4: to give you a major boost and OBP, it was
Speaker 4: an interesting year last year for Harper. The home runs
Speaker 4: were obviously like he's been in consistent year of the
Speaker 4: year we've seen him.
Speaker 2: He had thirty last year.
Speaker 4: He had twenty one and eighteen the previous years. I'll
Speaker 4: be a smaller sample size, but yeah, I feel like
Speaker 4: he's pretty much another lock for for thirty bombs a year,
Speaker 4: four hundred OVP, you know last year, three seventy three,
Speaker 4: but consistently going to take his walks. He's going to
Speaker 4: get on base at a high clip, and he's going
Speaker 4: to it for power, not going to be a zero
Speaker 4: and stolen bases. Kind of regretted it because I had
Speaker 4: Matt Olson come back around to my next pick, so
Speaker 4: I was like, eeah, like I could have gotten Olson
Speaker 4: in probably been happy could have taken an arm, but
Speaker 4: I do like Harper is just another kind of safe
Speaker 4: floor with a lot of consistency that that plays pretty well.
Speaker 2: And head ahead and OBP format all.
Speaker 1: Right, Trey Turner two await, Zach Wheeler two nine, Jaron
Speaker 1: Durana to ten than at two eleven, Jass Chisholm, then
Speaker 1: Joe Rico at the two three turn here in rounds
Speaker 1: two into three, Garrett Crochet and Freddy Freeman Freeman before Crochet.
Speaker 1: Just if you're keeping score at home on the YouTube channel,
Speaker 1: I love this. I just got Crochet in our Fantasy
Speaker 1: Pro's team league there for our our employee league. Very
Speaker 1: excited about him.
Speaker 3: As did you want to point out also in the
Speaker 3: Fantasy prize.
Speaker 1: I got that league just for you, Welsh. I got
Speaker 1: him for two bucks to get into the draft because
Speaker 1: it was only ten team league supply and demand. You
Speaker 1: gotta love it, so Crochet, Joe A. Rico, you gotta
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about this. Look at you with your
Speaker 1: Dodger stack. How's that feel right now?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm doing a little best ball here mixing though not.
Speaker 5: I think that those two are just so fantastic and
Speaker 5: I don't set out to have players that are on
Speaker 5: the same teams in rodeo or head to have or
Speaker 5: any of those things. Not necessarily, but it'll still help out.
Speaker 5: Those guys are going to be banking a lot of
Speaker 5: each other's stats in terms of the runs and RBI.
Speaker 5: One guy hits a home er on the other guy's score,
Speaker 5: So I'll take it. Freddie Freeman for his career. The
Speaker 5: OBP is pushing four hundred. I love those two. I
Speaker 5: don't love the reports that he might have to miss
Speaker 5: some time, but he's looked fantastic in spring. He was
Speaker 5: a little bit hurt at the end of last year,
Speaker 5: and we saw it didn't really bother him in the
Speaker 5: postseason at all. And then Garrett Crochet. I've been a
Speaker 5: big fan of his, but also because it's the last
Speaker 5: mock draft, I have to make sure that Chris Welsh
Speaker 5: does not end up with Garrett Crochet and ended up
Speaker 5: with the.
Speaker 1: Other hand in there.
Speaker 3: Well you did that, yeah, I know. I looked. I
Speaker 3: was like, where is the oat? We went the first
Speaker 3: pick in the third round, Austin can.
Speaker 1: Tell Marte at three to OHO two, Jackson Meryl at
Speaker 1: three TOZHO three, Austin Riley at three to Ozho four.
Speaker 1: I got both of those guys in that draft as well.
Speaker 1: I was just mentioning it was salary caps. A little
Speaker 1: different scenario there, Raphaeld Devers, Kyle Schwarber to Chris Clegg. Now,
Speaker 1: Schwarber a guy, look at you, We're Philly Stack, Harper
Speaker 1: and Schwarber. So Schwarber obviously going to continue to kill
Speaker 1: your batting average. How do you feel about that? Because
Speaker 1: you always want to try to offset those things. But
Speaker 1: I get, Actually, what am I saying? Batting average doesn't matter?
Speaker 1: It's OEP league.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, you're good?
Speaker 1: So how does that make you feel?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber's let's talk about his value because we're so
Speaker 1: used to those batting average leagues. I got trapped there
Speaker 1: between Schwarber in batting average leagues, Schwarber and OBP leagues. Cleig,
Speaker 1: how much does that change the ADP for you?
Speaker 4: I think it's pretty significant. I mean the OBPS are substantial.
Speaker 4: Year over year points league plays well, OBEP league, he
Speaker 4: plays very very well. You know last year, three sixty
Speaker 4: six OVP despite a forty eight batting average. You absolutely
Speaker 4: take that and the OBP floor. Now on the team
Speaker 4: is extremely high with Sodo, Harper and Swarber, so I
Speaker 4: can kind of build. However, I want to move them
Speaker 4: forward and have a pretty good base there to potentially
Speaker 4: win that category week over week. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: Schwarber one hundred and one hundred runs in RBI each
Speaker 4: of the last two years. He's gonna be potentially leading
Speaker 4: off for them again. That would be huge for his value.
Speaker 4: Forty home runs. He's really really good value and obp
Speaker 4: in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen at three oh seven, At three zero eight,
Speaker 1: Manny Machado, Logan Gilbert to the Welsh, we'll get to
Speaker 1: your picks of the second here. Roald Acunia goes at
Speaker 1: three ten, so mad. I was hoping he would make
Speaker 1: it to me because I would absolutely pull the trigger there,
Speaker 1: but instead he goes before me. Corbyn burns. Then I
Speaker 1: took Pete, Alonzo and Corey Seger, just the BPA guys
Speaker 1: on the board. I like Alonzo here playing for basically
Speaker 1: a contract again, and then Corey Seger, you know, always
Speaker 1: holding your breath when it comes to the health of
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger. But the best player on the board, Premium
Speaker 1: short stop. Let's go Contreras next, then Jose Al Twovey.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Chris Sale, Logan, Gilbert Welsh. You've gone
Speaker 1: back to back pictures here, so back to back outfield
Speaker 1: with Corbyn, Carrol Alvarez and then Gilbert and Sale up next.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good looking team he got going here, Bubba.
Speaker 3: Well, quality starts too, I mean, Logan, Gilbert, give me
Speaker 3: a break. We talked about Derek Carty saying liked him
Speaker 3: to be number one lead the league in wins. I
Speaker 3: love the quality star potential. I thought about Chris Sale.
Speaker 3: Chrissel made it back to me. I can get big
Speaker 3: strikeouts when he's out there. He's going to go deep
Speaker 3: into games, So why the hell not. These are two
Speaker 3: really great pitching staff that I've got going here. The
Speaker 3: only problem I'm facing here, Joe, is there are just
Speaker 3: outfielders I like left and right, and I am really
Speaker 3: bad on I'm gonna take another outfielder. I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: with James Wood because I'm on the clock. I had
Speaker 3: a three point fifty so far career minor league OBP
Speaker 3: stolen bases. It's hard to pass on him. There's too
Speaker 3: many good outfields and regretting just like a tad bit
Speaker 3: of taking Alvarez because I had thought about Harper. I
Speaker 3: feel like Harper instead of Alvarez would look kind of
Speaker 3: good on this team based on where some of these
Speaker 3: outfielders are out there that I kind of want to
Speaker 3: take right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really wanted him to get to me. He
Speaker 1: did not, So you're officially your big your big, huge jerk. Well,
Speaker 1: I just want you to know.
Speaker 3: I got two words for you, Joe, Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, let's move on here to the
Speaker 1: next couple of picks here. I've made mine. Continuing on,
Speaker 1: after you took Chris sale O'Neal Cruz at four five,
Speaker 1: Brent Rooker at four o six, then Cole Reagan's to
Speaker 1: Chris Klay, so Reagan's your ace. Gotta feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about that. I am somebody who typically does wait till
Speaker 1: the fourth round to pull triggers on pitchers, but I
Speaker 1: just couldn't pass up having some fun here on this
Speaker 1: last draft. So for you, you w and Cole Reagan's
Speaker 1: a four oh seven, and then in the next round
Speaker 1: you took Ran for Valdez Chris, So that feels like
Speaker 1: a pretty good front of this rotation. You feel like
Speaker 1: Reagans and Valdez is enough there to compete with my
Speaker 1: Tarik Schooble and Paul Skins. Are you ready for it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I don't know about that, but you know, I do
Speaker 4: think that this is a solid top two. Valdez gives
Speaker 4: you a pretty high floor and Reagan's has the upside.
Speaker 4: You know, I think that Reagan's has now shown that
Speaker 4: he can handle the workload to give you a good
Speaker 4: amount of innings year every year and strike out totals
Speaker 4: ratios are there. And with Franbur it's just the high floor.
Speaker 4: You know what you're getting from him, good ratios. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it may not be Skins and scooball, but pretty good
Speaker 4: top two. I'm happy with considering the the bats that started.
Speaker 1: With nothing is my friend, Nothing is Manuel. Class A
Speaker 1: goes next to four to eight, then Whitet, Langford, Dylan Cees,
Speaker 1: Blake Snail back to Joel Rico, Ozzie Albi's and Devin Williams.
Speaker 1: So instead of taking another uh, I'm just curious here
Speaker 1: in staid to take another starting pitcher. You've gone closer.
Speaker 1: I know Class A went off the board there. Uh,
Speaker 1: you missed one. Your chance to take Jacob de Gram Joe.
Speaker 5: So, I'm a big de Grom guy, of course, but
Speaker 5: I am not a liar.
Speaker 1: A liar, that's that's what you are.
Speaker 5: I'll post my player shares the day before opening. You're
Speaker 5: gonna see how much of a liar I am on
Speaker 5: Jacob a Gram. But quality starts make the difference. I
Speaker 5: think that de Gram is going to be limited to
Speaker 5: five innings a lot of the time, which in regular
Speaker 5: roto I think at five innings with de Grom could
Speaker 5: still be nine strikeouts, shut out ball. But we're looking
Speaker 5: at quality starts, and I think that's where he might
Speaker 5: fall behind a little bit. So I opted to go
Speaker 5: with a lockdown closer I usually take at least one
Speaker 5: of those top five or seven names, and then also
Speaker 5: took care of a kind of a scarce position with
Speaker 5: second base in Assie Albi's. His on base percentage isn't fantastic,
Speaker 5: but I'm kind of buying into a bounce back year
Speaker 5: for him, and I'm hoping he can kind of get
Speaker 5: back to what he's done in each of the last
Speaker 5: two ODDS season since twenty twenty three and twenty twenty one,
Speaker 5: when he played the whole year. He was fantastic, and
Speaker 5: I think the OBP can kind of work itself out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great analysis there too. The head to head de
Speaker 1: Grom should take a hit. You're absolutely right, Michael Harris
Speaker 1: at five oh two, c J. Abrams at five oh three.
Speaker 1: De Grom did go at five oh four, then ti
Speaker 1: Oscar Hernandez Frambert of Clegg as we mentioned before, Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman at five oh seven, Marcelo Zun at five oh eight.
Speaker 1: I was hoping for him or James Wood instead Welsh
Speaker 1: snipe me on both of them, then, ya, I'm a motive.
Speaker 1: At five ten, Junior Kemenaro is also hoping for my cue,
Speaker 1: got obliterated.
Speaker 3: So I pivoted to Lawrence Butler. We're just you got
Speaker 3: me back. I wanted Butler coming back around.
Speaker 5: That was the guy.
Speaker 3: So you got me back?
Speaker 1: Serves you right, serves you right, Like I need. I
Speaker 1: need all the offense I can get. This is the
Speaker 1: interesting thing. It's like, all right, you take those two
Speaker 1: pictures of the turn, what does it look like offensively?
Speaker 1: So Alonso Seger Butler and then Marcus Simeon. So I've
Speaker 1: gone full Texas Rangers here. All the American League West
Speaker 1: I can handle Edwin Diaz at six oh two, then
Speaker 1: Hater at six oh three. Welsh, you got your closer
Speaker 1: at six oh four again to our peace spots. Pretty
Speaker 1: great value here on Mason Miller.
Speaker 3: I think it was a pretty good vite. I didn't
Speaker 3: love what was around. That's kind of what happened because
Speaker 3: I was going to take Butler, and that's kind of
Speaker 3: what I was alluding to, and I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna fill out my outfield. That's just what I'm going
Speaker 3: to do. But I think it ended up being a
Speaker 3: pretty pretty good value. And I think there's a lot
Speaker 3: of value on the board right now as well that
Speaker 3: I am battling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree, definitely a fair amount of value
Speaker 1: continuing on here after Mason Miller, Tyler Glass. Now Williadamas Clegg,
Speaker 1: you went in the closer mark with Ryan Helsley. So
Speaker 1: did you have any pressure after Welsh took Miller to
Speaker 1: keep grabbing closers.
Speaker 4: A little bit and just didn't love the other values
Speaker 4: on the board. It was outfield in first base, which
Speaker 4: I already have, and so like kind of the Welsh
Speaker 4: conundrum of the outfield situation of taking the two outfielders
Speaker 4: in the first three rounds kind of was in a
Speaker 4: weird spot. Yeah, I didn't love what was there. I was, okay, well,
Speaker 4: I'll just I'll take my closer and be happy with it.
Speaker 1: That's right, You'll take it and you'll be happy with it.
Speaker 5: You don't be.
Speaker 3: Happy with it, sir.
Speaker 1: I am furious at Team five right now. Taking Louise
Speaker 1: Robert I was another one I thought sure I would
Speaker 1: get back there. Michael King, Brenton Doyle, Pablo Lopez, then
Speaker 1: Joe Rico. Two more starters for you, Logan Web and
Speaker 1: showed to Emanaga. That's a pretty good look for you,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did pass up to gram earlier, but like
Speaker 5: looking at Web with the innings projections, he's gonna go
Speaker 5: six or seven innings pretty much every single time out there,
Speaker 5: one hundred and ninety plus innings very much at play,
Speaker 5: and I think the projections are very high on Logan
Speaker 5: Web specifically ATC loves him. That's what I put into
Speaker 5: my obp auction calculator for this draft. And he's coming
Speaker 5: in as like the SP thirteen overall. So I'm gonna
Speaker 5: rely on aerials projections there and hope that I got
Speaker 5: a bargain in Logan Web.
Speaker 1: Okay bargain potentially in logan Web. After Emanaga goes at
Speaker 1: seven oh two, jan Here Diaz and Adlie Rutchman, Aaronola,
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor, Kyle Rawley to Clegg's on the clock, so
Speaker 1: I'll let him pick his next pick. In eighth round,
Speaker 1: George Kirby at seven oh seven, still worried about his health.
Speaker 1: Matt McClain. Then Christian Walker to the Welsh. Look at that,
Speaker 1: your old friend, Christian Walker.
Speaker 3: My buddy, Well. I had a plan and the next
Speaker 3: pick is much more exciting. And also the OBP format
Speaker 3: this guy thrives in. He just you know, doesn't play
Speaker 3: enough games for everyone to get super excited. But give
Speaker 3: me OBP. I decided Anthony Santander was on the board
Speaker 3: and was top boost would have been my fourth outfielder.
Speaker 3: I want to get some infield. Josh Naylor had gone.
Speaker 3: Christian Walker is gonna make opening Day. I like him
Speaker 3: more than Josh Naylor this year, so I think he's
Speaker 3: a value. But he had dropped, and then Joey I
Speaker 3: came back around on the next round. We're having fun
Speaker 3: with our last draft. I want to make sure I
Speaker 3: get him. I took Mike Trout. Mike Trott was my
Speaker 3: fourth outfielder. It's an OBP format where he's gonna come
Speaker 3: up even a little bit more. I've mitigated the risk.
Speaker 3: I don't have a ton of infield, but I had
Speaker 3: to have him and no chance he was coming back
Speaker 3: to me because he had been pushing into the nineties.
Speaker 3: So I locked up my Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: You sure did what could go wrong? Ryce so Iglesias
Speaker 1: at seven to ten, Bellinger at seven to eleven. I
Speaker 1: took Munos and then Santander. As aforementioned, I almost went
Speaker 1: Batista and Munio's. I was just gonna completely just non
Speaker 1: Joe this draft, just because I could. It's the last one.
Speaker 1: Just as se what it would look like.
Speaker 3: Just to get yourself to hate your own draft.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look, as long as I beat you,
Speaker 1: that's all that matters. Felix Bautista, Westburg, Mike Trout, sal Perez, Wilson, Gutraz.
Speaker 1: Thank Cleig. You took my boy, Mark Viento's. Look, I
Speaker 1: think Vento's is a thirty ninety ninety guy as a
Speaker 1: floor this year. You think I'm overestimating that in that lineup? Oh?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's certainly fair.
Speaker 4: He gave you twenty seven homers last year and four
Speaker 4: nund and fifty four plate appearances, so hard to imagine
Speaker 4: I'm not getting thirty this year. As long as he
Speaker 4: stays healthy all year, it's you know, he's not a
Speaker 4: huge boost in VP or anything of that nature, doesn't
Speaker 4: walk a ton, but you know, like I said, I've
Speaker 4: got a pretty good OVP floor, so it helps out
Speaker 4: and I really do believe in that power.
Speaker 2: For sure. Lineup's going to be good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like vent Too's value a lot there, Especially
Speaker 4: third base feels shallow, so you know, getting Vento's before
Speaker 4: kind of a do a fall off later.
Speaker 2: I'm happy with.
Speaker 1: Okay, so happy with Vento's. Luis Gestio ao A. Brian
Speaker 1: Reynolds at eight on nine, Say as Uzuki at eight ten,
Speaker 1: Rice Miller at eight eleven, Joe Rico, you took ian
Speaker 1: happen Spencer Strider. I was gonna pull the trigger on
Speaker 1: Strider and be a real jerk here me too, all right,
Speaker 1: so we know wouldn't have happened there. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about Strider. What are your concerns with his restrictions potentially
Speaker 1: this year? If Eddie, Well, I.
Speaker 5: Guess I took him in the right spot, considering you
Speaker 5: guys are going to take him there, I think that
Speaker 5: he's we could probably just count him out for April,
Speaker 5: if you want to just take like six starts or
Speaker 5: so off of his total and say he's probably gonna
Speaker 5: pitch twenty two to twenty five times this year. I
Speaker 5: think that's about what we should expect. Now, with pitch
Speaker 5: your injuries, you always got to be a little bit
Speaker 5: more wary, so maybe you can take even a couple
Speaker 5: more starts off of that. But I think at this
Speaker 5: range the per ding production I'm going to get out
Speaker 5: of him as my SP four, and even if he
Speaker 5: does have to miss a little bit more time than
Speaker 5: expect it, I think that the replacement level value is
Speaker 5: so high, even in a twelve team league, that I
Speaker 5: can kind of make up for that.
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Speaker 1: to the action. The Braves are on Strider at nine
Speaker 1: oh one, Max Freed x Brave at nine oh two.
Speaker 1: Then Spencer Schwelenbach, Oh, Welsh's just just miserable.
Speaker 3: It hurt. I knew when I took trout I was
Speaker 3: costing myself at least one of Striider Schwellenbach. I didn't
Speaker 3: know I was costing myself both, but I knew I
Speaker 3: was in for it.
Speaker 1: I wanted one of these pictures this round. Strider didn't
Speaker 1: get him, Hunter Green didn't get him, Chris Cleig took
Speaker 1: ten or Byby didn't get him. Then Bailey over, Freddy
Speaker 1: Peralter and Hunter Brown all went. So Cleg, let's talk
Speaker 1: about your tenor Byby selection another player I literally just
Speaker 1: drafted before I came here in our work league. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta love that extension. That means that
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Guardians feel pretty good about him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. I mean I think they're confident in him.
Speaker 4: He's been pretty good year over year in his two
Speaker 4: years since debuting. You know what you're getting out of him?
Speaker 4: Good ratios, solid strikeout numbers, low walk numbers, so good
Speaker 4: k mis BB, good ratios consistently. I think people kind
Speaker 4: of under rate Byby. He just not the flashiest arm,
Speaker 4: but I think he's very solid. You gave you one
Speaker 4: seventy three innings last year. I don't see why he
Speaker 4: shouldn't give you more this year. So head ahead, league,
Speaker 4: I think you can expect him to get six innings
Speaker 4: pretty regularly, which is good for quality starts. And yeah,
Speaker 4: kind of a boring pitching staff so far outside of Reagan's,
Speaker 4: but I think there's some good value in.
Speaker 1: Between all those pitchers. Welsh, you select interesting concess will
Speaker 1: come back to you in just a moment. Hunter Brown goes,
Speaker 1: Bobashek goes. Then I took Riley Green and Matt Chapman.
Speaker 1: I'll continue to trying to build out that offense. I
Speaker 1: gotta take some pitching soon though, because it's flying off
Speaker 1: the board. Christian Yellwich at TENNHO two, Bryce Terraang at
Speaker 1: TENO three. Welsh, you took my dude, Sandy Alcontra. Good
Speaker 1: on you, my friend. You feel the compression in that
Speaker 1: pitching market, right. You had a couple more injuries, you know,
Speaker 1: Shane McClanahan off the board, next thing, you know, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden an a'l contra adp really kind of soaring.
Speaker 3: Also a couple of days quality starts, Like I'm well,
Speaker 3: it's one of the things we're holding back on him
Speaker 3: with the Marlins wins. Well, guess what quality starts he's
Speaker 3: built to go seven I obviously they could pare that
Speaker 3: down a little bit, but I love getting him in
Speaker 3: the quality start market. And yeah, I did feel the
Speaker 3: that's a good way you put it, like the compression
Speaker 3: of the pitching market, because there was this big bevy
Speaker 3: of dudes that I kind of lost out on. Usually
Speaker 3: Schwellenbach is like a number three for me, but I
Speaker 3: like getting Sandy there, especially in this format.
Speaker 1: Well, a bevy of dudes. Isn't that the club used
Speaker 1: to work out when you were in college?
Speaker 3: M hm, yes, one hundred percent. I think you can dance.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was a bounce.
Speaker 1: Oh you were a dancer. You were a dancer. But
Speaker 1: I've seen your moves. It's very good. Sandy Alcondra goes
Speaker 1: at ten oh four, then ten o five, Roki Sazaki,
Speaker 1: Vinie Pascuentino, Clegg Zach Gallon. This pitching staff is starting
Speaker 1: to look pretty good here, Reagan's Valdez and then you've
Speaker 1: got Byby Gallon and Justin Steele on the way back
Speaker 1: in the eleventh. This is not a boring pitching staff,
Speaker 1: my friend, I think this looks pretty damn deep to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it worked out pretty good, just how it shook out,
Speaker 4: you know, I think that there is it just shows
Speaker 4: that you can wait. Especially in a twelve team league,
Speaker 4: you get bats early, and you can get some pretty
Speaker 4: good arms with some good value, and even a head
Speaker 4: to head league where pitching is very valuable. Like, I
Speaker 4: feel pretty good with the top five that I have
Speaker 4: so far. So yeah, I'm certainly happy with how the
Speaker 4: staff's shaken out. You know, Gallon last year he had
Speaker 4: a bit of a down year, but also he had
Speaker 4: a bid of the World Series hangover, Like he threw
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty innings in twenty twenty three, Like
Speaker 4: what did we expect? So I think that Gallon's back
Speaker 4: this year to his old self and provides plenty of value.
Speaker 1: I agree, my friend, I'm all in a great value
Speaker 1: this year. In fact, I think he can be a
Speaker 1: league winner this year because of that value. If he
Speaker 1: performs like a one or two and you're drafting him
Speaker 1: as a four, I mean, come on, Doran goes next,
Speaker 1: then ten oh nine, Jake Berger, Joe Ryan, Dylan Cruz,
Speaker 1: Randy Rose Rain, it's Joe Rico who then takes Esach
Speaker 1: Paradis in eleven oh one. Will Smith will get to you, Joe.
Speaker 1: I know you're making your picks there. Jack Flaherty, Sunny Gray,
Speaker 1: questions about him, Grayson Rodriguez, Justin Steele, Ryan Walker, than
Speaker 1: Spencer Steeer, the Welsh ten or Scott, So look at you.
Speaker 1: Continuing on that closer run Ezekiel Tovar, Seae McClanahan, and
Speaker 1: then I took Brian Wu and Carlos Rodan, building out
Speaker 1: my rotation. Stephen Kwan goes next at twelve oh two,
Speaker 1: code I Senga Xavier Edwards. So Welsh, let's talk about
Speaker 1: Scott and Edwards and then we'll get to Joe Rico's
Speaker 1: picks here in a moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, one thing I want to throw out is I'm
Speaker 3: really feeling the pressure. I've never I can't believe this
Speaker 3: last draft of the season, I haven't had this. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's OBP. I can't believe how much I'm regretting going
Speaker 3: high outfield in this. I've never had that happen before,
Speaker 3: because there are guys, dude, there are guys left and right.
Speaker 3: Stephen Kwan, Stephen Kwan absolutely fell in this in this format.
Speaker 3: I would have loved to have taken him, but I
Speaker 3: have all four. So I'm really kind of feeling the
Speaker 3: pressure of that. Back to my picks. Though I wanted
Speaker 3: onto this, Munios didn't get him. Tanner Scott is my
Speaker 3: number two with the Dodgers. I'm absolutely in love with that.
Speaker 3: And who the hell is my other pick?
Speaker 1: Who the hell is my other pick?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Exavier Edwards? So you took wu. That was what I wanted.
Speaker 3: I'd been looking at Edwards because he's a huge obp boost.
Speaker 3: He's a great stolen base chase. He's kind of a
Speaker 3: nothing burger as far as power goes. But I've already
Speaker 3: taken Walker and Cossas and Alvarez and Wood and Trout.
Speaker 3: I can, I can afford to do this, and I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna throw this out there. There's an outfielder too.
Speaker 3: I really like to chase stolen bases. They're kind of
Speaker 3: off the table for me because I did this with
Speaker 3: outfield so Edwards became more important to the bill to
Speaker 3: get some stolen bases. So I'm happy with where we're at.
Speaker 3: But I'm feeling the pressure. I just it's so weird.
Speaker 3: I haven't had this in quite some time where a
Speaker 3: position has locked me out of my strategy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you're feeling triggered. Do you want your blankie?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: You want want, I want, I want, I want a
Speaker 3: severance I need from my my fantasy drafting life versus
Speaker 3: this life.
Speaker 1: I need to go make your pick. You got eight seconds,
Speaker 1: all right, Joe Urico. Last couple of picks A Rosa,
Speaker 1: Raina Paritis, two great values there, especially if Rosa Raina
Speaker 1: bounce is back, then Christopher Sanchez a Welsh favorite, and
Speaker 1: Dansby Swanson. So how do you feel about these last
Speaker 1: few picks? Break them down for me.
Speaker 5: I feel really good, like they're all guys that get
Speaker 5: boosts in on base percentage formats a Rose Raina. I
Speaker 5: think even if this was just a standard batting average league,
Speaker 5: I got him around. We'll pick one twenty. I think
Speaker 5: that's about where he should be going. But the on
Speaker 5: base percentage really negates that kind of negative that he
Speaker 5: would give you. The negates the negative, a little bit
Speaker 5: of a double negative there. And then he's talked for
Speaker 5: a little a little bit, quite a lot of it.
Speaker 5: And then Esauk Prades is another guy who's walking a
Speaker 5: ton in spring training. He's been walking a lot, twenty
Speaker 5: percent walk right through fifteen spring games. He hit a
Speaker 5: home run yesterday that he's gonna be doing a lot
Speaker 5: of this year, pulling it into the Crawford boxes. So
Speaker 5: I like those two picks a lot. And then Christopher Sanchez,
Speaker 5: I think that this is a really good place for
Speaker 5: him to go. He probably should be going even a
Speaker 5: little bit earlier. At the end of the twelve round
Speaker 5: and Dansby, I needed to shortstop another guy who's going
Speaker 5: to give me a good on base percentage. So I
Speaker 5: think I've leaned maybe a little bit too heavily into
Speaker 5: the OBP and I need to start filling out some
Speaker 5: of the other categories. But I have a really strong
Speaker 5: base there.
Speaker 1: So danz Bey Swanson at thirteen oh one, Jared Jones
Speaker 1: who knows if and when? Jeff Hoffman at thirteen oh three,
Speaker 1: Brandon Nimo at thirteen oh four, Logan o Hoppy at
Speaker 1: thirteen oh five, Chris Cleig, you took Xander Bogarts. You
Speaker 1: are on the clock for your next pick. Nick Pavetta
Speaker 1: at thirteen oh seven. Then we had Pete crowl Armstrong.
Speaker 1: Go Gavin Williams. You took him from me wlsh I
Speaker 1: had him in the queue. You snipe me, you dirty bastard.
Speaker 1: Great pick there. I love this. How many things does
Speaker 1: Gavin Williams give you this year you think.
Speaker 3: I think, I mean, I guess I was about to
Speaker 3: say barring injury, that's what you were asking.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think like one hundred and sixty, Like one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty would be like the fair marker. Does that
Speaker 3: sound clik? What does that sound about?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: With Gavi Williams?
Speaker 2: You think, yeah, one hundred percent I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. I'd always Garcia at thirteen ten, Real
Speaker 1: Muto at thirteen eleven. I took Profar and Ryan Pepio
Speaker 1: at the turn fourteen oh two. Chris, excuse me, Nick Cassianos,
Speaker 1: than Josh low Uhenio Suarez to the Welsh and other
Speaker 1: diamondback So what swarre is are you getting this year? Welsh?
Speaker 1: You getting the one from the first half or the
Speaker 1: second half?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm banking on the second. If I get
Speaker 3: the second half one, that's a huge value that I
Speaker 3: just got. If I get the first half one, then
Speaker 3: I'm going to be looking for replacements. But you know,
Speaker 3: this is a weird This is a weird constructed draft
Speaker 3: that I did because I went heavy outfield with heavy pitching,
Speaker 3: so I'm kind of playing from behind a little bit
Speaker 3: on the infield, so I'm looking for value. Swarez better
Speaker 3: probably OBP play big power potential. I was really behind
Speaker 3: looking on on the draft Wizard. I've been behind on
Speaker 3: RBI runs and homers. I'm doing pretty well in some
Speaker 3: other spots, but I've got to play catch up. So
Speaker 3: Swarez was just a big bat that's gonna hopefully push
Speaker 3: me a little bit more in line with that.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, see if it's true or not. So
Speaker 1: after Suarez, Trevor McGill, then you've got Seth Lugo, Chris Klegg.
Speaker 1: Every time I come to you, you're on the clock,
Speaker 1: so do the best you can here. Bogarts Taylor Ward
Speaker 1: the last two picks for you, So you're filling out
Speaker 1: that offense. Colton Kowser before that, what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Kowser, Bogarts and Taylor Ward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Cowser fell pretty far.
Speaker 4: I like the value there provides go ovp some power speed.
Speaker 4: Bogarts is boring, but second base gets boring too, so
Speaker 4: it's like I needed somebody there. And yeah, the next
Speaker 4: pick Taylor Ward another one where like he just continually
Speaker 4: undervalued year every year and provides good value and you
Speaker 4: can wind up getting a pretty good return for him,
Speaker 4: as long as he stays healthy, that is. But I
Speaker 4: do think Ward fits this format pretty well.
Speaker 1: Alec Bohm at fourteen oh eight, Lewis a Rise at
Speaker 1: fourteen oh nine, Ronaldo Lopez, Kevin Gosman, that Joe Rico,
Speaker 1: you took Jonathan India and Tyler O'Neil on India. Now
Speaker 1: that he is in KC, yeah, he gets a big boost.
Speaker 5: And on base percentage formats, he's usually outside of the
Speaker 5: top two hundred and most of these mocks we've been doing,
Speaker 5: but I love him this year. He's one of my
Speaker 5: most rostered players. I think my favorite second basement considering
Speaker 5: the costs to draft. He's not my number one second basement,
Speaker 5: but just considering where he's going the situation leading off
Speaker 5: ahead of Bobby Witt, sal Perez, Vinip. I think we'll
Speaker 5: see about VNP with this whole injury thing, but he
Speaker 5: looks pretty good, so I don't think he's gonna miss
Speaker 5: too much time. I think that Johnathan India is one
Speaker 5: of my favorite picks, one of the best values on
Speaker 5: the board this season, and then the other pick was
Speaker 5: who was the other one? That I took. It was
Speaker 5: India and it was Tyler Team I'm just kidding and
Speaker 5: Tyler O'Neal, and that was simply just needing a little
Speaker 5: bit of power. The projections have me eighth in the
Speaker 5: power department, not my favorite, but we're gonna try and
Speaker 5: make up for some of that cause I got a
Speaker 5: pretty pretty solid on base percentage base on ranked third
Speaker 5: there behind the two Chrisses, and then I think I
Speaker 5: need to just make up some power the rest of
Speaker 5: the way.
Speaker 1: All right, So see if you can make up that power,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and take my selections here. Let's
Speaker 1: go through. I got a value pick, so before draft
Speaker 1: Wizard wasn't happy with me. Now a little bit better,
Speaker 1: so that's nice to see it's moving in the other
Speaker 1: direction there. All right, let's continue on here. After the
Speaker 1: selections from Joe, Rico, Tyler on you got use Kokuchi
Speaker 1: at fifteen oh two, Jeremy Penny at fifteen oh three,
Speaker 1: Rangifo at fifteen oh four, Kerry Carpenter, then Bryce and Stott.
Speaker 1: Stop lasted a long time, but if you're looking for
Speaker 1: stolen bases later in that middle infield spot, you could
Speaker 1: do worse than stop right Craig.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so, and you know, waiting on both
Speaker 4: my middle and field, it kind of left limited options.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, I think that Stott. You know, we've
Speaker 4: seen him go fifteen thirty and I don't see a
Speaker 4: reason why he can't get back to who he was
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three. A lot of the metrics last
Speaker 4: year in the hood were very similar twenty did in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. So kind of think we see a
Speaker 4: bounce back for him this year. And yeah, like you said,
Speaker 4: he feel kind of far and stone bases are there.
Speaker 1: Stuff Spencer Arraghetti than Ryan Presley, Welsh you took Nadyavaldi
Speaker 1: again sniping me. You're killing me Welsh quality starts, Man,
Speaker 1: I have coming back to you in a second, Paul
Speaker 1: gold Schmidt, then Jose Burrios, Pete Fairbanks to me, I'm
Speaker 1: getting the other closer. And then I have got Jackson Holiday,
Speaker 1: so profar Pepio Fairbanks Holiday my last couple of picks. Cleig,
Speaker 1: you're a prospect guy. Let's talk about Jackson Holiday second
Speaker 1: time around. What are we going to get from Jackson Holiday?
Speaker 4: I think he's definitely going to be better this year.
Speaker 4: It's hard to imagine that he's not. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: kind of funny that he's almost the opposite profile that
Speaker 4: he was billed to be as a prospect, and you know,
Speaker 4: all the big aulets through seventy grades on the hit tool,
Speaker 4: I was never there because the contact rates were never
Speaker 4: there from his pro debut, like in the miners at
Speaker 4: any point. But he's kind of become a power over
Speaker 4: hit guy, which is weird to say. His exit velocities
Speaker 4: are really good on pulled fly balls. He ran an
Speaker 4: exit velocity average TV north of one hundred miles an
Speaker 4: hour last year.
Speaker 2: He gets the ball in the.
Speaker 4: Air often and he hits it hard in the air,
Speaker 4: So holiday may not run the batting averages people think,
Speaker 4: but I do think there's going to be more juice
Speaker 4: and the LBP is going to be solid. Like he's
Speaker 4: got a really good approach. I think that's been cleaned up.
Speaker 4: It didn't look great last year in his debut, but
Speaker 4: again important to remember he just turned twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: Guys aren't going to be great. Most prospects come up
Speaker 2: and are going to struggle. It's just the nature of
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 4: I think everybody expects these guys to come up and
Speaker 4: light the world on fire like a Sodo or a
Speaker 4: Coonie or a Tatis did. But yeah, I think that
Speaker 4: he was rushed. I think the talent's there for sure,
Speaker 4: But I think that it all comes down to expectations,
Speaker 4: like what do you expect from Jackson holiday? I think
Speaker 4: he can give you an eighteen home run season this year.
Speaker 4: He can steal a few bags and be productive across
Speaker 4: the board. So yeah, I certainly think a bigger year
Speaker 4: is in order for him.
Speaker 1: I'll take that in the sixteenth round. Give me eighteen eighteen,
Speaker 1: maybe more. Who knows, Michael Tolia goes next to sixty
Speaker 1: to two than Alec Burlson, than Welsh to glabor to
Speaker 1: so Welsh. You know. I keep saying that although the
Speaker 1: ballpark factor is going to be worse than Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 1: I think him getting out of New York. Continue to
Speaker 1: say I think is the best medicine for him, and
Speaker 1: that Tiger's lineup is much better than people realize. What
Speaker 1: do you think you're in store for with Torres in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree with you that I think a
Speaker 3: change of scenery is going to be really important. There's
Speaker 3: an aggressiveness. He's going to get to hit in the
Speaker 3: middle of the lineup. Never been a huge OBP guy,
Speaker 3: but three point thirty last year, three forty seven the
Speaker 3: year before that, I've got a high OBP team. So
Speaker 3: I'm kind of banking on that bounce back to him
Speaker 3: to get to those mid twenty homers late in the draft.
Speaker 3: He seems really revived on that team. So it's a
Speaker 3: little speculative. But again, I have to play a little
Speaker 3: bit more speculative with this draft strategy that I've implemented,
Speaker 3: which is.
Speaker 1: Just riskier, just a little bit riskier, a little bit
Speaker 1: a little bit riskier there. All right, let's continue on
Speaker 1: with the picks here. So after you took Labor Torres
Speaker 1: and Cornassillos, Strand goes, then Tyler Stevenson Clegg took Max Munsey.
Speaker 1: He's back up on the clock Byron In at sixteen
Speaker 1: oh eight, Nico Horner Andres Amenez, Lane Thomas, then Lars Newpara,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico at sixteen twelve, and seventeen oh one Brandon
Speaker 1: Lau Lars newtbar Now that's a name that Welsh talked
Speaker 1: about a lot the last couple of years. Hasn't really
Speaker 1: come to fruition, so he still loves him. How do
Speaker 1: you feel about Lars Newpar You made this selection here,
Speaker 1: so you must have some faith in him as well.
Speaker 5: I do, And this is somebody that I've also liked
Speaker 5: for a long time. But the big thing is that
Speaker 5: we've seen it over the last couple of days that
Speaker 5: he looks like he might be leading off in Saint
Speaker 5: Louis Mason Winn the most recent spring training lineups that
Speaker 5: Mason Wins had a terrible spring, as much as I
Speaker 5: love him, and it looks like he might be batting
Speaker 5: towards the bottom of the order, if not even ninth,
Speaker 5: with Lars Newbar occupying one of those top two spots.
Speaker 5: Given his on base skills, that makes sense. He's a solid,
Speaker 5: well rounded five category contributor and I needed one more outfielder.
Speaker 5: So I love getting new Bar there and Brandon Low
Speaker 5: like I mentioned earlier, I need a little bit of
Speaker 5: power here. I can put him in as a corner infielder,
Speaker 5: first and second base eligibility on some format. So that's
Speaker 5: really about just making up some of the power loop
Speaker 5: Bar is the real prize there though.
Speaker 1: That's right, The real prize is the newt Bar. That's
Speaker 1: what it is, all right, Let's continue on here. After
Speaker 1: you have Brandon Loud, Mason win goes right after Brandon fought,
Speaker 1: then Victor Roblis, Zach Eflyn, Chris Kleig. You took ken
Speaker 1: Lee Jansen though he is now your next second closer.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. So when you have Jansen here, obviously an
Speaker 1: older closer, you got Joyce in that bullpen. Do you
Speaker 1: think Jansen ends up playing the whole year with the
Speaker 1: Angel You think same team might come knocking for a
Speaker 1: veteran closer at some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely possible they move him. I don't I've
Speaker 4: never been a Ben Joyce fan. He just doesn't miss
Speaker 4: bats like you'd expect from the Velocity. So I do
Speaker 4: think that Jansen keeps the role as long as he's
Speaker 4: in LA. I didn't want to say Kenley Jansen. I
Speaker 4: really wanted Pete Fairbanks a couple of rounds ago, and
Speaker 4: you took him, so I needed a closer, and I
Speaker 4: was like, well, I think he gets saved, so it's
Speaker 4: it was boring, but yeah, that's kind of where I went,
Speaker 4: even though I didn't love the pick there a bit.
Speaker 1: Another one out of my que Clay Holmes at seventeen
Speaker 1: oh seven that Sean Manaya. I'm getting brushed here. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is why I like the turn every now and
Speaker 1: then you get one of these rafts where it just
Speaker 1: does not work for you, where you're just getting obliterated,
Speaker 1: and that's what's happened to me. So Lair out of
Speaker 1: my Q two, that was my go to dh Thanks Welsh,
Speaker 1: way to go, Shane Bose, then rafaela Io take Brandon Woodrooff,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take a shot there on Woodroff, who
Speaker 1: velocity wise was up in the mid nineties. That's where
Speaker 1: you want him to be if he starts by the
Speaker 1: end of April, we were looking at a guy who
Speaker 1: was a front rotation guy, and then I took Matt
Speaker 1: Shaw because I still believe in Matt Shaw. Got some pop,
Speaker 1: got some speed, great hit tool position, flexibility as well.
Speaker 1: Ronel Blanco goes next than Austin Wells right before Welsh.
Speaker 1: That's got a sting. But so Laire and Tanner, how
Speaker 1: that's what you ended up with the last two rounds.
Speaker 3: Welsh, Yeah, I did. I pivoted to so Lair because
Speaker 3: I wanted Victor Robliss. It's the three DBP last two
Speaker 3: years high OBP, massive stolen bases. I would have, you know,
Speaker 3: utilized him as a U two or Movealva as it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. I got sniped, so I went with the
Speaker 3: heavier power and so layer not as good of an OBP,
Speaker 3: but I'm still near the top tenor hawk again, just
Speaker 3: like guys that are gonna push innings. I felt really
Speaker 3: comfortable about that. There's still some pretty good solid SP
Speaker 3: values out there, but how ends up being like my
Speaker 3: he's like my SP five or six, and it's my
Speaker 3: SP six right now, so really good value. Looking for
Speaker 3: guys to push innings. You know, I passed on like
Speaker 3: Brandon fought for Evaldi because I want guys to go
Speaker 3: a little bit deeper in. So, yeah, not everything is
Speaker 3: working out one hundred percent here, but I'm relatively happy
Speaker 3: with this construction and dying to know, just to let
Speaker 3: everybody know, I am top five in every pitching category,
Speaker 3: but I am like nine or lower in four of
Speaker 3: the five hitting categories. So we're gonna have to see
Speaker 3: how the system is going to put me out here.
Speaker 3: Because I'm number one OBP, I'm the top, but we're
Speaker 3: gonna have to see.
Speaker 1: I'm predicting I'm going to be lasting this because I
Speaker 1: went pitcher pitcher. But we'll find out in a second.
Speaker 1: I just went off the board. Try something new. Hey,
Speaker 1: the last one, you know, at least, all I did was.
Speaker 3: I meant it's like college.
Speaker 1: You know what I did. I drove home the concept.
Speaker 1: I'm right wait on pitching, and that's good. It's sometimes
Speaker 1: you need to just get it out of your system
Speaker 1: one time, and I did.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: Hope all of you can learn from this. Tannerhow Goes
Speaker 1: and Carlos, Garrea, Zachneto, Cleig. You took Tommy Edmond th
Speaker 1: and todj Bradley, Alec, Alexis Diaz, Yondi, Diaz Actebec Diaz Boys,
Speaker 1: Jordan Romanald then Reese Olsen and jo Rico and Gabriel Moreno.
Speaker 1: So catch her off the board for you. Gabriel Moreno
Speaker 1: another one that I think offensive. We've been waiting to
Speaker 1: see this other gear in him, but we just haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet. Is this the season we do for Moreno?
Speaker 5: I'm hoping so. I think if he plays a whole
Speaker 5: season or a whole catcher season. One hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: five hundred and thirty games. We could maybe see him
Speaker 5: get to double digit homers, chipping a couple of steals.
Speaker 5: The on base percentage is going to be good, and
Speaker 5: the lineup is very good. Arizona scored the most runs
Speaker 5: in the major leagues last season. So for a punt
Speaker 5: at the position, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Punting at the position. There you have it, everybody, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see I need I am done with util there.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it's telling me to take this guy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take that guy. I'm going to
Speaker 1: take this guy instead because I'm worried about the rest
Speaker 1: of these Jabbroni's in this draft. So Gabriel Moreno goes,
Speaker 1: David Bedner goes, Nicko Lodolo goes, then he'll gore Craig Claige.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, you took Bowden Francis. Francis had a terrific season,
Speaker 1: about one hundred innings or so. So now we're talking
Speaker 1: about league adjustments, him adjusting back. How do you see
Speaker 1: that shaking out? And here's a fun one for you.
Speaker 1: Who throws more innings this year? Bowden Francis or Max
Speaker 1: Schurzer for the Blue Jays Joe Rico earmuffs.
Speaker 2: I debated both of those picks there.
Speaker 4: So I was looking at Scherger and Francis, and I
Speaker 4: would bet that Francis throws more innings. I just don't
Speaker 4: trust Schurzer to stay healthy. Unfortunately, get that age and
Speaker 4: you got all kind of injuries popping up. I've seen
Speaker 4: it with Scherger and Erlander the last few years. Still
Speaker 4: very talented, but also the question like what does Francis
Speaker 4: get to threw one hundred and three last year? What's
Speaker 4: the jump? I think you can get to one fifty.
Speaker 4: I think that's pretty reasonable, But is it a slow
Speaker 4: build up? Like is he getting six innings early in
Speaker 4: the year? And the answer is probably not, So it
Speaker 4: could be a case where he is building up through
Speaker 4: the year to get to those six innings regularly. But
Speaker 4: I do buy some of the changes he made last
Speaker 4: year with the pitch mix change, and we got the
Speaker 4: results with it. Now, is he going to be that
Speaker 4: good for a whole season? No, Like, I don't expect
Speaker 4: him to have a three thirty arras sub one whip,
Speaker 4: but if I get a high three ZRA and a
Speaker 4: whip below one twenty, I think it's pretty good value
Speaker 4: in that spot is one of my finals P to
Speaker 4: fill out the roster.
Speaker 1: I agree in a lot of leagues. He qualifies at
Speaker 1: RP too. Guriel goes next, Clark Schmidt, Hazus Lozardo to
Speaker 1: the Welsh again. Thanks Welsh, rask me, said Nester Cortez.
Speaker 1: I took JJ Blede and Ivan Herrera, so I got
Speaker 1: my catcher there, Walker Bueller in twenty oh two, then
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller, Trevor Story, Welsh Trevor Story, and Hazus Lozardo.
Speaker 1: Once upon a time, you know, Trevor Story was a
Speaker 1: good fantasy player. That has not been the case for
Speaker 1: some time. I'm curious, why take Trevor's story and not
Speaker 1: Christian Campbell just for the upside, for the youth. I'm curious,
Speaker 1: why'd you do that.
Speaker 3: It's so funny that you say that, because I do
Speaker 3: think I think.
Speaker 1: I know how you think I know the brain of
Speaker 1: the Welsh.
Speaker 3: I spent I was staring at them. I probably, like
Speaker 3: Christian Campbell, probably should have been the play. I didn't
Speaker 3: think it would help me in the projection here a ton,
Speaker 3: because the projections are kind of wonky, and I think
Speaker 3: you could slow start probably the better choice with Christian Campbell.
Speaker 3: I just, I just I do believe if Trevor Story
Speaker 3: plays a season, he's a twenty twenty guy. He's just
Speaker 3: not a big push on OBP. But yeah, I know
Speaker 3: it's a fair point, and it's a thousand percent. I
Speaker 3: was staring at both of them and be like, do
Speaker 3: I just take Campbell or do I risk maybe potentially
Speaker 3: trying to win this draft. Campbell was probably the better choice.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's move on here. After Trevor's story,
Speaker 1: you have Max Scherzer, than Ajpuck, Nathaniel Low to Chris Klegg,
Speaker 1: who's back on the clock, Jackson job erseg Aronado Alvarez,
Speaker 1: who I like, you're getting value single catcher leagues man,
Speaker 1: you can wait get wells Herrera Alvarez is gonna start
Speaker 1: the year hurt. The handmapone can be tricky, but you'll
Speaker 1: probably plug and play a ten or twelve team league
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, or even a month or
Speaker 1: and a half if you needed that long. Justin Martinez
Speaker 1: to Joe Rico and Jeffrey Springs. Springs the guy that
Speaker 1: I've been talking about a lot recently. He was just
Speaker 1: in our League Winner show. If you miss that, you
Speaker 1: can go back and watch on our YouTube channel that
Speaker 1: if he regains any sort of form before the injury.
Speaker 1: And look last year he did come back some mixed results,
Speaker 1: but the strikeout to walk ratio was there, the k's
Speaker 1: were there in spring. I think Springs is really tempting,
Speaker 1: especially because he's basically free.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was one of my last pitchers. I'm kind
Speaker 5: of hoping exactly what you're saying, that he can bounce
Speaker 5: back to where he was before. He's throwing three hundred
Speaker 5: and thirteen innings in his career, three point thirty nine
Speaker 5: ERA one twenty five whip with almost a twenty percent
Speaker 5: strikeout minus walk rate. If I can get that in
Speaker 5: the later rounds essentially as like a bench piece, I'll
Speaker 5: I'll take that every day from Springs, it's all upside
Speaker 5: And Justin Martinez, they just paid the man, so I'm
Speaker 5: kind of banking on him being the closer. Well, shear
Speaker 5: the Diamondbacks guy. What do you think? Does that sound
Speaker 5: about right?
Speaker 3: I think they're going to just implement both of the
Speaker 3: guys like they just signed Justin Martinez. I think he's
Speaker 3: the future. I think Puck is the best of them,
Speaker 3: and I think they will fire man it between them.
Speaker 3: I've been pretty adamant that Puck is my guy, but
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it could be Justin
Speaker 3: Martinez saves fifteen games, Puck saves twenty, or it could
Speaker 3: be around the other side. So I think either one plays.
Speaker 1: I like the fall of the money strategy, though that
Speaker 1: typically does work out, although the Diamondbacks have had trouble
Speaker 1: sometimes pending the money in weird choices they make. Josh Young,
Speaker 1: John Yeah, Andrew Vaughn, Kumar Rocker, Garcia, Michael Waka to Clegg. Now, Clegg,
Speaker 1: I know you took Michael Waka. I know you're on
Speaker 1: the clock again here every time I come to Clegg
Speaker 1: because he's in the middle of the draft. Somehow he's
Speaker 1: out there. But he made his pick. It was Jake McCarthy.
Speaker 1: So Rocker another prospect I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't your pick, but Kumar Rocker another guy,
Speaker 1: big strikeout potential, But the question is about the innings
Speaker 1: and what he can sustain this year. I could coming
Speaker 1: back to the fact that I think he would be
Speaker 1: an electric least Smith type closer do you think that
Speaker 1: at some point you might see him in the bullpen
Speaker 1: this year or you think he stays a starter and
Speaker 1: they just manage those innings.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing he probably has innings managed as a starter.
Speaker 4: They need starters, is the problem in Texas, and they've
Speaker 4: had some injuries. Cody Bradford went down John Gray, they
Speaker 4: had talked about him and the bullpen. Also, he's out,
Speaker 4: So I think that Rocker's the guy in that rotation now.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think Jack Lyder is that good.
Speaker 4: Like everybody's talked about Jack Lder spring, he still has
Speaker 4: zero fiel for.
Speaker 2: Command at all.
Speaker 4: I agree, and I think that Rocker is the better
Speaker 4: suited starter there. Lighter could go to the bullpen and
Speaker 4: potentially play up, but no, I'm certainly on Rocker.
Speaker 2: The fastball is really good.
Speaker 4: He has that bullet slider that missus bats, and he's
Speaker 4: kind of tinkered with a change up at times where
Speaker 4: I think that that could be the pitch that kind
Speaker 4: of pushes him over the edge as a starter.
Speaker 2: And the innings are the question.
Speaker 4: You know, you mentioned that last year he threw thirty
Speaker 4: six innings in the minors and I'm twelve in the majors,
Speaker 4: so not a lot of intings at all. So how
Speaker 4: do they push him? Like how many does he get
Speaker 4: this year? Does he even get one hundred? You know
Speaker 4: that's that is a question mark. But I think if
Speaker 4: healthy like they are going to push and see where
Speaker 4: it goes.
Speaker 1: That's why I like the closer role because the same
Speaker 1: with Mason Miller is like, well, okay, how do you
Speaker 1: get the best out of this guy? The way you
Speaker 1: do it is by giving him cleaning things, making sure
Speaker 1: he's only pitching so many days a week, and letting
Speaker 1: go out there and just let all hang out. And
Speaker 1: the work with Mason Miller, I think I think Rocker,
Speaker 1: they would serve this team very well if they were
Speaker 1: to do that. But we'll see. Michael Walker goes that
Speaker 1: Willie cashro you, Darvis, well, she look at that. You
Speaker 1: had your cake and you ate it too. I knew
Speaker 1: you're gonna tay Christian Campbell the way back if it
Speaker 1: made it too. I was hoping Cleig would snipe you
Speaker 1: there the worst.
Speaker 3: You guys let me have him. I got my balance.
Speaker 3: I got Christian Campbell, who's the better pick. But I
Speaker 3: also got story to bat. I just should have flipped it. So, Hey,
Speaker 3: you know what, good things happen to good people, Joe,
Speaker 3: So what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: If you say so? All right, Granger Swarez, then Merril Kelly.
Speaker 1: I took Luis s Everino, and then Reese Hoskins, Carlos
Speaker 1: Estefez goes next, Cedric Mullins. Well, she took a role
Speaker 1: as Chapman who gets more saves this year? Chapman or
Speaker 1: Hendrix for the Red Sox.
Speaker 3: As you continued to stack it, I think it's going
Speaker 3: to be Chapman. I know that they've kind of gone
Speaker 3: back and forth. Liam Hendrick said Chapman is a better
Speaker 3: reliever right now, but they have said that Hendricks has
Speaker 3: not done with it. I don't think Chapman's going to
Speaker 3: let it go. I think Boston's going to be a
Speaker 3: powerhouse this year. I think we might look back and
Speaker 3: we might just laugh at ourselves for how late e
Speaker 3: world as Chapman went could be wrong, but guess what,
Speaker 3: he is a bench reliever for me. He's my third reliever,
Speaker 3: So I'm feeling pretty good about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, man, forget about it. I think that you know,
Speaker 1: you can get those guys late. That's why I like
Speaker 1: to wait on closers. Typically it's what I do. Chapman
Speaker 1: goes and Kirby Yates, Zach Gelof, Clegg takes, Jake McCarthy,
Speaker 1: Helio Ramos. Nice value there, Kyle Finnegan, Connor Norby who's
Speaker 1: actually starting now on the IL. We just found that
Speaker 1: out today. Ben Joyce favorite of Chris Clegg. Jock Peterson
Speaker 1: to Joe Rico Grant Holmes. So nice picks here, Joe Rico.
Speaker 1: He got some more power in Texas with Jock Peterson
Speaker 1: coming off a really solid power season and Grant Holmes
Speaker 1: a really solid year in that rotation for the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love Peterson. I've talked a couple of times
Speaker 5: now that I needed a little bit more power. I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna take one bench bat and he'll be the
Speaker 5: one in the head to head league. I think that
Speaker 5: you can slot him in there and he's probably only
Speaker 5: going to play against right handed pitching, but I'll definitely
Speaker 5: take that production. And then Grant Holmes. I really like
Speaker 5: his potential this season. I don't know what to expect
Speaker 5: from a volume standpoint, but I think while he's out there,
Speaker 5: he's going to be very, very good. And I think
Speaker 5: that you're probably looking at a mid to high three
Speaker 5: Zra with a one twenty whip or something like that.
Speaker 5: Does that sound about right? Chris Clegg, Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 5: think so.
Speaker 2: I like Holmes a lot. He's sneaky.
Speaker 1: Ryan Malcassel at twenty three to zero two, Jason Foley,
Speaker 1: that Michael conford O Tario Estrada, who's also going to
Speaker 1: miss a significant start to the season. Matthew Boyd to
Speaker 1: Chris Cleig, who guess what he's on the clock. We'll
Speaker 1: come back to you in a second, Chris Bassett, Brendan Donovan, No,
Speaker 1: you made your pick, great, Matthew Boyd. Your last pick
Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell. That's a favorite sleeper that's been on the
Speaker 1: show for quite some time. So let's talk about Garrett Mitchell.
Speaker 4: I think Garrett Mitchell says to say healthy and he's
Speaker 4: not proved to do that at any point in his career,
Speaker 4: and that's an issue. But your last picking, your draft
Speaker 4: is made to kind of churn. If it works out great,
Speaker 4: like there's power, there's speed. Yes, he has to lift
Speaker 4: the ball more to get to that power. We know
Speaker 4: that he has too many ground balls, but he does
Speaker 4: hit the ball incredibly hard, he's got a lead sprint speed,
Speaker 4: he's gonna steal bases, and there's obep skills as well.
Speaker 4: Like you look at the THELP last year three forty
Speaker 4: two in two and twenty four played appearances. It's just
Speaker 4: the factor of can Garrett Mitchell actually play a full season.
Speaker 4: He's got to prove it to us. But I'll take
Speaker 4: my chances with the last pick there that he can
Speaker 4: give you a twenty twenty season. I don't think that's
Speaker 4: crazy to say if he plays and gets five hundred
Speaker 4: plus played appearances.
Speaker 1: Okay, last picks here, just recapping as we go. So
Speaker 1: after Boyd and Bassett, Donovan, Dustin May, Holton McMahon, I
Speaker 1: took Cole Keith and David Peterson. I was tempted to
Speaker 1: take Max Meyer two, but I ty to go. Peterson's
Speaker 1: having a great spring and he's got a spot in
Speaker 1: that Mets rotation. They're gonna score a ton of runs,
Speaker 1: morel than Verlander, Kybert Ruiz, Ryan Weathers, Brady Singer, Garrett Mitchell, Festa, sorry,
Speaker 1: Joel Rico, Tyler, Fitzgerald, James as Ion, excuse me, Jake
Speaker 1: Croninworth and Eric Fetti. So it was much better if
Speaker 1: Draft Wizard liked me more than I thought. I got
Speaker 1: a B plus it was not the best of us.
Speaker 1: Chris Clegg was better than me. He finished at number
Speaker 1: two overall. I finished at number four. Joe Elrico at
Speaker 1: the number one spot with Shoe Aotan. He took one
Speaker 1: for the team and took home the gold. So gold
Speaker 1: to you, bron excuse me, silver to Chris Clegg. Team
Speaker 1: three gets the bronze. I'm on the outside looking in,
Speaker 1: but at least I beat the Welsh, who is in
Speaker 1: fifth place. That's all that matters Welsh.
Speaker 3: That's all the good guys always finished last. That's what
Speaker 3: I've always said, bad thing, bad things happening to great people.
Speaker 3: Is really sad to see that I finished. I gotta
Speaker 3: be but I was behind Joe. So it's a pretty
Speaker 3: pretty demoralizing way to end the season, to be behind
Speaker 3: a piece of.
Speaker 1: Pay first time for everything, the first time all draft
Speaker 1: season that Ariel Cohen is actually like my draft. I
Speaker 1: love this. This makes me very happy. There. Chris Towers
Speaker 1: hated it, Andy Barons hated it. Chris Cleig. When you
Speaker 1: look at the expert opinions, did you get any any
Speaker 1: positive or negative for any experts that we might know
Speaker 1: and love.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 4: Actually I didn't any from anybody. But what if said,
Speaker 4: if you drafted Matt Olsen at three point six in
Speaker 4: the outfield later, you would have scored higher. That's exactly
Speaker 4: what I say. When it happened, and when he came
Speaker 4: back in the round, I was like, yeah, I wish
Speaker 4: I had taken Olsen over Harper. So yeah, it agreed
Speaker 4: with me, but.
Speaker 3: You actually did. And I'll read it off for you
Speaker 3: if you gotta click on after summary expert.
Speaker 2: I did not do that well.
Speaker 3: Lake Meyer loved you the most. Scott Pianowski, Kelly Kirby,
Speaker 3: Andy Barons, and Chase Davis all big things up. Frank
Speaker 3: Amerant hated you, thanks for garbage. keV hated you. Greg
Speaker 3: Smith it was number one in projections for the season
Speaker 3: last year. Hated you and Riol Cohen not a bit, Sorry, Ariol.
Speaker 1: What's okay? Here's my draft every single time. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Clegg's team, cal Rawley, Bryce Harper, Ander Bolgar's, Bryson Stock,
Speaker 1: Viento's Nathaniel Lowe, Edmund Juan Soto, Schwarber, Cowser, Ward McCarthy.
Speaker 1: The pitching staff phenomenal, Reagan's Valdez, Biby, Zach Gallon, Steele,
Speaker 1: you'll go to war with that in the headhead than Bowden,
Speaker 1: Francis Waka, Hellsley Jensen. The bench is Munsey, Mitchell and Boyd.
Speaker 1: So what would you grade this, Chris Clegg?
Speaker 4: I think it's a solid Bee. I think I waited
Speaker 4: too long in the middle endfield.
Speaker 2: That hurt.
Speaker 4: I mean, having to roll with Stotton Bogart's like I
Speaker 4: don't love. And then certainly the middle endfield spot ye
Speaker 4: not great, but I think I think as well Sho
Speaker 4: kind of refer to in the draft waiting an outfield
Speaker 4: certainly would have been the play, just because there were
Speaker 4: so many good outfield values.
Speaker 2: I like the pitching staff, though.
Speaker 4: I think the pitching turned out really good considering and
Speaker 4: I waited a bit and so I'm happy on that end.
Speaker 4: Don't love Kenley Jansen, probably could have had a better
Speaker 4: value there. Kind of panicked after I lost Peter Fairbanks,
Speaker 4: so I really wanted and just grab Jansen.
Speaker 2: But it's it's a solid Bee.
Speaker 4: I think it could have been better from several different aspects,
Speaker 4: but I don't hate it.
Speaker 1: Just got the tweet of the year two. I just
Speaker 1: saw on Twitter someone listener to the show said, subtweeted
Speaker 1: our fp MLB news tweet about Evan Carter getting sent
Speaker 1: down and said, if only everyone listened to Joe Pizzapia More.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, that was just breaking news.
Speaker 3: There found.
Speaker 1: All right, Joe Rico, you're the best of us. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about your drafter, Gabriel Moreno uh At Catcher,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman, Ozzie Albi's, Dansby Swanson. He saw paradis really
Speaker 1: solid here uh Low in India in the middle and
Speaker 1: corner spots than Ian Hap, Randy Rose, Arena, O'Neil, Lars
Speaker 1: new Bar, joey Otani the difference maker right there in
Speaker 1: the util spot. Then the pitching staff Crochet, Emonaga, web
Speaker 1: Strider Man that is solid, Sanchez, Reese, Olsen, Springs, Devin Williams, Martinez,
Speaker 1: and then Peterson Holmesnfetti on the bench. I agree. I
Speaker 1: think this is an A minus. Did you get an
Speaker 1: A or a minus? What was it? Or is a plus?
Speaker 5: I got a legit A. There's no Canadian a's on
Speaker 5: this episode. This is a Did you know this?
Speaker 1: Chris Clegg, did you know, go ahead, Rico, tell them
Speaker 1: about how they great stuff up in Canada.
Speaker 5: All right, So here we go, gonna get myself in
Speaker 5: more trouble in the comments, but let's let's have it.
Speaker 5: So in the way that the grading system works is
Speaker 5: that ninety two one hundred counts as a plus, eighty
Speaker 5: six through eighty nine is an A, eighty one to
Speaker 5: eighty five is a minus, and then seventy through seventy
Speaker 5: nine is B, sixty through sixty nine is C, Fifty
Speaker 5: through fifty nine is D.
Speaker 2: It's like impossible to fail pretty much.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the crazy it is.
Speaker 1: Then you get extra credit and just say you're sorry
Speaker 1: for getting a bad grade. That that you get right about.
Speaker 3: That conversion is the wildest of all.
Speaker 1: It's so good, right, and this blew our mind last time,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to share it with somebody New Welsh.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at your squad here and see
Speaker 1: what you think. Fifth place, that's what a good enough
Speaker 1: for Kybert Ruiz, Christian Walker, Glaber Torres, Xavier Edwards, Heno
Speaker 1: Sarez Cosas, Story Corbyn, Carrol Alvarez, James Wood, Mike trout Hore, Hilaire,
Speaker 1: than the pitching staff, Gilbert Sale, I'll contra of Aldi,
Speaker 1: how Gavin Williams, Lazaro fantastic, Mason Miller, Scott, and then
Speaker 1: Christian Campbell, world as Chapman and Dustin May on the bench. Boy,
Speaker 1: I bet the Red Sox are ready to win that division.
Speaker 1: Uh if they do, you're gonna be a happy boy
Speaker 1: with this.
Speaker 5: Ross.
Speaker 3: Go over to betting pros and listen to uh Seth Wilcock,
Speaker 3: Rico and myself did a preseason betting show and I'm
Speaker 3: definitely in on a lot of different Red Sox things.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, you're usually the host on that
Speaker 3: you you were excluded, Sorry, buddy.
Speaker 1: And I got a short coming out with my favorite bet.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why, Maybe that's why.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe you know, don't want to didn't want to
Speaker 3: do Otani plus another person for MV.
Speaker 1: It's just good. That's just good practice, Bro, that's just
Speaker 1: good practice. Actually MVP, whether we like it or so.
Speaker 3: On this team, I think this is like this is
Speaker 3: I do think I'm getting undercut on a couple things.
Speaker 3: I'm I think it's undercutting me a little bit on
Speaker 3: quality starts. Maybe a tiny bit of offense. But at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, it's probably right, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, technically I got an A in Canada, but
Speaker 3: I think this is like a bee. I think this
Speaker 3: is like a B type of team. There's a couple
Speaker 3: things like Glaberg Kybert. I don't know. Edwards will have
Speaker 3: to see. I just I think it's a tad bit better,
Speaker 3: but I understand it on my insights. By the way, categorically,
Speaker 3: I was top four in five categories, which is wild.
Speaker 3: I was top four and four pitching categories strikeouts, eer
Speaker 3: a whip and quality starts, and top four in obp
Speaker 3: yet I still was fifth in here it thought I
Speaker 3: reached on Gavin Williams and Christian Campbell, which is incorrect
Speaker 3: one hundred percent, and it did give me a what
Speaker 3: if I drafted Gunner over Corbyn Carroll expert opinions. Luke
Speaker 3: Glockner from Mister cheat Sheet loved my team the most.
Speaker 3: Mike McGregor, Daltondale, Don Scott White, and little Old Chris
Speaker 3: Welsh loved this team. keV from Rasball did not like it.
Speaker 3: Also from here, Brandon Myers always hates me, Pere Kmu
Speaker 3: just permartally hates me. Brad Kamara and Kelly Kirby did
Speaker 3: not like myraft.
Speaker 5: Joepy's a pea. I actually liked my draft. I just realized, Ah, that's.
Speaker 1: Why you got an a. People have been cracking the
Speaker 1: code lately. I've been getting a lot of tweets about
Speaker 1: that too, where it's like, hey, look I actually got
Speaker 1: a good grade from you, So now I'm ready. I'm tough.
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna cand it out to you. This
Speaker 1: is in Canada. I'm from Brooklyn. Okay, you know how
Speaker 1: hard it is to get a good grade in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: You ever hear us talk? All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: my team. Tell me if pocket aces worked or did
Speaker 1: not work for this roster. Ivan Herrera, Catcher, Pete Alonso,
Speaker 1: Marcus Simeon, Corey Seger, Matt Chapman, Matt Shaw, Jackson, Holiday,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Butler, Santandeo, Riley Green, Jeorgson, Profarrhyese Hoskins. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: pretty decent offense. I think Pitchers, Skiing, Scooble, Woo, ro
Speaker 1: Don Pepio Woodruff, Severino, then Munno's Fairbanks and Benches, Bladet, Cole,
Speaker 1: Keith and David Peterson. Welsh did the pocket Aces work
Speaker 1: for you on this roster.
Speaker 3: There's some stuff I don't love, Like on the Office,
Speaker 3: you took a lot of upside though you know, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna like pair that back like Ivan Herrera's my starter.
Speaker 3: You have two rookies on the corner and the middle,
Speaker 3: which is a little bit risk, and then you've got
Speaker 3: Reese Hoskins at you till but the rest is like
Speaker 3: a really core offense. You were able to I think
Speaker 3: put across the board. I'm not sure if like you've
Speaker 3: got elite power, but then you got Santander and Alonzo Alonzo, Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I understand that, and and you kind of played at
Speaker 3: how you need to play it with pocket Ace's you
Speaker 3: waited a bit, but waiting got you Brian Wu and
Speaker 3: Radon and Peppio. I might have wanted like one more
Speaker 3: solid I did that there, but.
Speaker 1: I think there were two runs that killed me there
Speaker 1: in the bag where I just ever buy a que
Speaker 1: got obliterated by you by Clegg. It was just the worst, like.
Speaker 3: If you had gotten al Contra And yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, I think faith Clegg pocket Ace is at twelve.
Speaker 1: What do you think of this build? And you can
Speaker 1: be honest here you won't hurt my feelings.
Speaker 4: I mean, think it works, and if there's a format
Speaker 4: to do it, it's probably a head to head format
Speaker 4: for sure, just to kind of secure pitching. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that just with the pitching pool and how
Speaker 4: ADP is kind of shaped up this year, yeah, I
Speaker 4: probably wouldn't go that route. I think the early bats
Speaker 4: are kind of where I want to attack, and then
Speaker 4: I think getting one as early and then you can
Speaker 4: kind of build out from there with some solid arms.
Speaker 4: It's just it's interesting the way the board's fallen this year,
Speaker 4: in my opinion, the way ADP's shaken out, and there's
Speaker 4: just so many good pitching values up and down the board,
Speaker 4: at least at least in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Oh it's my opinion too. I just saw it and
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, it's the last show. Let's
Speaker 1: give everybody you know some different strategies here to go
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