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Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie Stanford. I am
Speaker 1: Greg Souman joined today as we are when he feels
Speaker 1: like being here. It's Mike Gloria. What's going on? Mike?
Speaker 1: I missed one week. One week, that's it and great.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for the shadows. I bought some lights. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make it better. But I was in like
Speaker 1: an hour of l A traffic before coming on the show,
Speaker 1: so I got home with like five minutes before, so
Speaker 1: I couldn't really get rid of the shadows too much.
Speaker 1: Here uh here, like traffic is very terrible, dude. I
Speaker 1: had to go like ten miles. It took me over
Speaker 1: an hour. Oh my god's harriful, Frank, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't you lose it, man, I would listen to
Speaker 1: a lot of podcasts. I guess that's that's the best
Speaker 1: way to look at it. But Mikey, how does it
Speaker 1: compare to you know, do you really miss the R
Speaker 1: train here? Do you really miss public transportation? I do
Speaker 1: not miss the train at all, um I do. I
Speaker 1: don't know. New York traffic is pretty bad itself, but
Speaker 1: it's just l A is the worst I've ever experienced.
Speaker 1: But luckily for me, and I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of people out here, like you try your best to
Speaker 1: not have to get on the highway, so I typically
Speaker 1: do a good job of avoiding it, but today it
Speaker 1: was just inevitable. I've been on that highway to when
Speaker 1: I was in l A. It's like it's like six
Speaker 1: or eight lanes wide right, Like it's it's absolutely insane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the four oh five. Luckily I wasn't on that today.
Speaker 1: I was. I was coming back from downtown l A.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the four oh five is is atrocious. Wild
Speaker 1: are you doing, but had you sleep? It's great, man,
Speaker 1: sounds really good. It's not pretty good, toothing. What it was.
Speaker 1: I was watching Curry versus Curry, which is tons of fun,
Speaker 1: tons of fun, and the game ended and I was
Speaker 1: just really choked that one away and went to bed.
Speaker 1: Woke up to some panic text messages about six fourteen,
Speaker 1: sorry six so nine this morning? What panic text messages?
Speaker 1: I didn't even know what happened here? What? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you don't fill me in on anything anymore. I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be Greg's right hand man. The guy didn't tell
Speaker 1: me anything, right, you don't want to know anything. You
Speaker 1: don't want you don't want to deal with You don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with anything. Sometimes I gotta know, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just leave me in the darks. So today there's
Speaker 1: a miscommunication. So Bavona is gone. Floria is getting married
Speaker 1: on Sunday. So yeah, he's not here. You can't hear you.
Speaker 1: So we'll send that to him. So the person that
Speaker 1: was replacing him, he had told us we I thought
Speaker 1: he'd be here today and not Monday and Tuesday. So
Speaker 1: I had a contingency for Monday and Tuesday. How you
Speaker 1: would fill it in but we had misread the email.
Speaker 1: He will be here Monday. He was not here today
Speaker 1: or Tuesday, so there was no here. There was nobody here,
Speaker 1: So thankfully Bryan steff Dutt was able to handle things
Speaker 1: a little bit late. But there's nobody here early this
Speaker 1: morning and things were a bit of a crap show
Speaker 1: early this morning. Here. We should have had Florida. He
Speaker 1: still knows how to do some things right. It was
Speaker 1: like three am Florida time. Oh gosh, I was not awake,
Speaker 1: but I do not miss Greggy. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember Thanksgiving like I think it was. I do.
Speaker 1: I do Everythingksgiving Floria. So yeah, I remember, I got
Speaker 1: the show started. I think it's seven am. I will
Speaker 1: get it like six. They were out. They were that,
Speaker 1: that's a fact. This weekends about to get crazy. It's
Speaker 1: about to get crazy. Whatever you want it. So fabigedd Fabinado.
Speaker 1: I like Fabinado podcast yesterday, fabric gedding. Yeah, so all
Speaker 1: those very dumb right, so very very dumb because we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's you're never the world faber like all right, enough
Speaker 1: fabric gedd in, enough Fabinado, enough, wait till you hear
Speaker 1: what this guy came up with, Mike, do you realize
Speaker 1: what today's show is going to be? Florio? What is it?
Speaker 1: Tune this in Alex here we go. This is a
Speaker 1: fab you Looso show is what this is? This show
Speaker 1: is fave you low soo. Did you go this morning
Speaker 1: and buy that? No, we had it as a fabuloso show.
Speaker 1: There's people looking inside the studio like, why the hell
Speaker 1: is this guy holding up a bottle of fabuloso? Actually,
Speaker 1: I actually know that person. Really look at you, Mr Popular?
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Speaker 1: That's what it says on the bottle, Lavender, fresco lavanda.
Speaker 1: It is long last thing that's going to help your
Speaker 1: fantasy team in a long lasting way. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: waste your money on a carner Keyboon who didn't help
Speaker 1: your fantasy team with our fab you know, But we're
Speaker 1: gonna help fantasy owners with their fabue Loso weekends. Big.
Speaker 1: Here's what I will say. I'm really excited about this
Speaker 1: weekend because I'm very confident that at least three or
Speaker 1: four other teams are going to get down to my
Speaker 1: love fab and that makes me happy, Like there's gonna
Speaker 1: be there's gonna be three or four teams that's been
Speaker 1: like over three dollars this weekend in the main Event
Speaker 1: or in the Great Fantasy Based Limitational, and it will
Speaker 1: all be under two hundred dollars FAB for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season together. And that will make me feel
Speaker 1: a little bit better, although I will not have any
Speaker 1: of these prospects on my team, which makes me a
Speaker 1: little sad. But I have you what's up, Mike? So
Speaker 1: you said you're under two d and FAB right in
Speaker 1: those leagues? Are you going to put every dollar you
Speaker 1: have on these players and hope that you get one?
Speaker 1: I can't because in the main event there are no
Speaker 1: zero dollar bids, So I kind of like I have
Speaker 1: to be prudent here. I gotta I gotta figure out
Speaker 1: what to do. I have one seventy nine in the
Speaker 1: main Event, and I have too twenty one and the
Speaker 1: Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, and there are no zero zero
Speaker 1: dollar bids a loot in each of these, so ills
Speaker 1: in let me look, it's more than likely that I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna end up. These guys are that we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about, are gonna go for more money than I
Speaker 1: even have left so I realized that I'm gonna still
Speaker 1: have bids in on like Nicky Lopez, Oscar Mercado, probably
Speaker 1: nothing to you, which means that I'm probably just not
Speaker 1: gonna get any of these guys. And it's all right,
Speaker 1: Like my team is performing now knock on wood, so
Speaker 1: even without Aaron Judge. So we'll see if we can
Speaker 1: keep it up. But overall, I'm not really expecting to
Speaker 1: win a lot of these prospects here. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: everyone else can't go out there and win them. And
Speaker 1: that's basically what we're here today to do. Greggy absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: And so last night in my league, not enough people
Speaker 1: paying attention. So the people that I thought would get
Speaker 1: here and get Riley get people that we're not paying
Speaker 1: attention did it. So my league not helpful for you
Speaker 1: when it comes to fab, but we want to be
Speaker 1: more helpful. So we heard yesterday from you, Frank and
Speaker 1: how much you were going to bid all these guys
Speaker 1: here and Riley Um and Nicky Lopez and more and
Speaker 1: Brendan Rodgers potentially. But Flora, I want to get your
Speaker 1: Ranki's I know they're inside your Patreon page, but you
Speaker 1: can help us out. What are your rankings on these
Speaker 1: guys are like fabulous of Friday. So to me, I
Speaker 1: think Mercado was last. I think that's an easy one.
Speaker 1: I think Nicky Lopez is next. I just don't I
Speaker 1: like Nicky Lopez. I think he's the safest of all
Speaker 1: these prospects, but I don't think he has the upside
Speaker 1: of the other four. So I couldn't I actually couldn't
Speaker 1: agree more like he's playing time security. He was brought
Speaker 1: up for the Royals though for any injury. He was
Speaker 1: brought up because it's time to bring him up, time
Speaker 1: to let him play, and time to just get better.
Speaker 1: He made him right the twos at second base and
Speaker 1: moves with Maryfield for him. Put him at second base,
Speaker 1: that middle infield combo with Albert Jomond to see Nicky Lopez,
Speaker 1: I mean that is the combo for the future, ideally
Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Royals. So I could not agree
Speaker 1: anymore with you thus far, Floria that he's driving safe.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's upside both power and speed. I
Speaker 1: think he could be a good average hitter, and I
Speaker 1: think he'll healthier fantasy teams, but he won't light the
Speaker 1: world out of fire. Yeah, I agree with that, and
Speaker 1: also like the Royals aren't competing. That's another thing I
Speaker 1: always I like to factor in UH. And after that,
Speaker 1: I think the next four, depending on who you ask,
Speaker 1: you might get different answers. To me, my personal favorite
Speaker 1: of them is Brendan Rodgers. Uh. He plays a premium position,
Speaker 1: He's gonna have short stup and second base eligibility, He's
Speaker 1: going to be in the Rockies lineup, get half his
Speaker 1: games at course field. Plus. To me, I think there's
Speaker 1: really no threat at stealing his job, at least initially.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think he's gonna get Carter Key Boom, Like,
Speaker 1: all right, he had a bad three weeks, let's send
Speaker 1: him down. Because Garrett Hampson has done nothing to warrant,
Speaker 1: you know, taking that job away. Neither has Ryan McMahon,
Speaker 1: and they both have had McMann has had shots in
Speaker 1: the past as well. So I think Brendan Rodgers is
Speaker 1: my favorite just because the premium position and the course field.
Speaker 1: I would put Austin Riley I think a second, But man,
Speaker 1: it's it's close between all of these guys, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of it when you're I spoke about
Speaker 1: this on my podcast when you're deciding on which order
Speaker 1: you want to put these guys in. To me, a
Speaker 1: lot of it comes down to what positions you need.
Speaker 1: Because if you need a middle infielder, all right, and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll go with Brandon Rodgers over Austin Riley. But
Speaker 1: if I really need, say a third baseman or an outfielder,
Speaker 1: then I'm boosting up Willie Calhoun and Austin Riley. So
Speaker 1: to me, I think those four guys are all very close.
Speaker 1: I have Brendan Rodgers is my personal favorite, then with
Speaker 1: the with the Riley second, but I think all and
Speaker 1: I think Calhoun doesn't have the ceiling of the other guys,
Speaker 1: but he's not off by much. I just think the
Speaker 1: other guys there's a little bit more hype around them
Speaker 1: because we haven't seen them fail at the major league
Speaker 1: level yet. But I think all four of them deserve
Speaker 1: to go in the same range. And I think in
Speaker 1: in leagues like the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational and the
Speaker 1: and like NBC Main Events or anything any league with
Speaker 1: an overall fift team league, I think is what these
Speaker 1: guys are gonna cost. Yeah, I think that makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense, and I'll actually take it one step further.
Speaker 1: Based on what Mike said, it's not just positional need
Speaker 1: what you need, I think you look at statistical need too.
Speaker 1: So if you need power, I think Austin Riley is
Speaker 1: probably your guy. If you need a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything on the offensive side, then you're probably looking at
Speaker 1: a guy like Kess and Hero or even Brendan Rodgers,
Speaker 1: who I think might be able to hit for decent
Speaker 1: batting average, a little bit of pop. Obviously playing in
Speaker 1: Coors Field in Colorado, he sold twelve basses last year,
Speaker 1: so gives you a little bit of everything. So I
Speaker 1: think statistical need is another factor into this. Greg. If
Speaker 1: you just need speed, then maybe you're a little bit
Speaker 1: more aggressive on Oscar Mercado. So I think not only
Speaker 1: is the positional need, I do agree with that that
Speaker 1: is obviously going to play a big factor into who
Speaker 1: you're bidding on this weekend, but I think what stats
Speaker 1: you need also factored into which players you're bidding on here, Greg, yes,
Speaker 1: if you need pictures. Last week and NFBC Corbyn Martin
Speaker 1: wasn't available yet because he has to at least play
Speaker 1: in one game before he's available, so he was available
Speaker 1: the next day on Monday because he made his start
Speaker 1: on Sunday, but he wasn't available that night. So that's
Speaker 1: another factor into this. If you need pitching, then maybe
Speaker 1: you're really really aggressive on Corbyn Martin even ahead of
Speaker 1: some of these hitters. It really comes down to what
Speaker 1: you need for your team, Greg. Of course, it is
Speaker 1: do you need do you need power? Do you need speed?
Speaker 1: Do you need middle in field? Do you need outfield?
Speaker 1: You need a corner in field? That those are the
Speaker 1: questions you have to ask yourselves. Oh, almost like a
Speaker 1: draft rank. And I know you put a lot going
Speaker 1: into the draft on position scarcity. Position eligibility doesn't matter, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if you believe Austin Riley is the best is the
Speaker 1: best hitter out of any of these guys, don't you
Speaker 1: just grow out and grab him and then worry about
Speaker 1: the rest of it later, not necessarily think Okay, I
Speaker 1: think if you truly believe he is head and shoulders
Speaker 1: above the I don't I think all four of these
Speaker 1: guys are very close. And those four again, Flora, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's Willie Calhoun, Austin Riley, Brendan Rodgers and Keston Ira.
Speaker 1: I always struggle to say his I listened to the
Speaker 1: audio from the minor leagues and they were saying the
Speaker 1: eye before it, So I that's that's how I've been
Speaker 1: saying it. I could be wrong. I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 1: I'm right. I struggle with that guy's name. But to me,
Speaker 1: those four are all very very close together. They're they're
Speaker 1: very similar. They have sky high upside. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of them, outside of Willie Calhoun do have to
Speaker 1: worry because they're they're on teams that are looking to
Speaker 1: compete this year. That's why I think Brendon Rogers though,
Speaker 1: because the position competition is less, Like I'm not, let's
Speaker 1: not fully discount Travis Shaw and Enter and c RT
Speaker 1: being somewhat of competition for those other guys. So that's
Speaker 1: why I have Brendan Rodgers one. But if you truly
Speaker 1: believe Greg that Austin Riley he's the can't miss guy here,
Speaker 1: then yes, I think you do need to pay up
Speaker 1: to get your guy. When Mike breaks it down like that,
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense. But I think from my
Speaker 1: perspective and just looking into all these prospects, I don't
Speaker 1: think that they're all that dissimilar. If you think that
Speaker 1: Austin Riley is the best and sure, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, he's obviously performed really well thus far. But
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of hype around all these guys,
Speaker 1: Kess and Hira, Brendan Rodgers, so I think that they're
Speaker 1: all close. I don't think that there's one prospect here
Speaker 1: that's head and shoulders better than the rest. But if
Speaker 1: you were to say think that, then I understand why
Speaker 1: you would be aggressive on that one player more than others.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, based on everything that I've read,
Speaker 1: everything that I've seen, the way that I feel about
Speaker 1: these prospects, I think that they're pretty close. And I'm
Speaker 1: actually kind of surprised that you have Brendan Rodgers first here, Mike,
Speaker 1: because to me, I would have it, and I said
Speaker 1: this all week, I would have a Kessing here first,
Speaker 1: also Higley second, then maybe a little bit of a gap,
Speaker 1: I would have Brendan Rodgers and then maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a gap, and then Willie Calhoun. I
Speaker 1: do think that all four of those guys are probably
Speaker 1: in their own tier together, but I think that the
Speaker 1: offensive upside, the output that Hera and Austin Riley can
Speaker 1: give you outweighs what Brendan Rodgers can give you. So
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit surprised you have them first on
Speaker 1: that list. The reason being is because I am I
Speaker 1: think we do need to learn some lessons from past mistakes.
Speaker 1: And Carter keybu the big mistake was, Yeah, he sucked,
Speaker 1: But this team was competing, and they have other players
Speaker 1: who could play those positions when they're at least healthy.
Speaker 1: And so do the Brewers and so do the Braves,
Speaker 1: And those are two teams that are very much so
Speaker 1: competing hoping to win a division this year. They're in
Speaker 1: a dog fight, each of them. So I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: think like if either one of those two guys were
Speaker 1: to start to struggle, I wouldn't be surprised if we
Speaker 1: see them either lose playing time to the veteran that
Speaker 1: is going to return from injury, Whereas I don't think
Speaker 1: that is an issue. For Brandon Rodgers, that's the old
Speaker 1: To me, it's like the the upside and the safety combined.
Speaker 1: To me, it's just a little bit. It puts him
Speaker 1: a little bit higher than the other guys. For me,
Speaker 1: I just have some concerns when it comes to the
Speaker 1: Rockies because it feels like when whenever they've had prospects
Speaker 1: or young players, and I realized that Brendan Rodgers is
Speaker 1: their top prospect, Like he is a higher ranked prospect
Speaker 1: than guys like Garrett Hampson and Ryan McMahon the past,
Speaker 1: and even even Ryan mel Tappy. But it seems like
Speaker 1: they've had prospects forever and they've been so hesitant to
Speaker 1: give these guys an opportunity. Now Brendan Rodgers is going
Speaker 1: to be up today, should be in the line up.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that's what we're expecting. But it just seems like
Speaker 1: they are a team more so than even other teams.
Speaker 1: Greg were like, if a prospect is struggling, that they're
Speaker 1: gonna find a way to like get a veteran in there,
Speaker 1: or find a way to mess this stuff like Pat
Speaker 1: Vlaika or like Mark Rennolds. We wanted Ryan McMahon or
Speaker 1: Garrett have should be a thing, and they gave these
Speaker 1: guys opportunities this year and they haven't capitalized. So I
Speaker 1: understand that. And I like brend Rodgers. I don't want
Speaker 1: to sound like I'm poop pooing him. I like him
Speaker 1: as well, and having exposure to coors Field is a
Speaker 1: is a very big factor for fantasy baseball, But it
Speaker 1: just seems like organizationally, Greg their philosophy has been that
Speaker 1: they just don't trust the players all that much totally,
Speaker 1: and and Atlanta are going just going back. Atlanta has
Speaker 1: been the opposite, right, like they've kind of let their
Speaker 1: young players run with it in a way. With Albie's
Speaker 1: and Swanson and Alcuna, of course, I think those guys
Speaker 1: though they came up at a different time. They came
Speaker 1: up when the break like last year. I know the
Speaker 1: Baper is one the division. They did not have expectations
Speaker 1: of that. Their their plan was to let the young
Speaker 1: kids play and they ended up completely outperforming what everyone
Speaker 1: thought and running away with it, which is awesome to see.
Speaker 1: But they they're competing now and there they need to win.
Speaker 1: And the Brewers, we know they like to mix and match.
Speaker 1: Was it a break? When we come back. I want
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Speaker 1: joked about it with you, Frank yesterday, and I want
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Speaker 1: the Fantasy PFS. We're gonna give you out the prices
Speaker 1: that we think you should spend on these guys. I
Speaker 1: promise you will go in nice in order and make
Speaker 1: it easy for you. But before we do, I wanted
Speaker 1: to speak about Willie Calhoun a little bit more in
Speaker 1: depth for a moment. Now. Last year, all three of
Speaker 1: us were all in a Willie Calhoun floria, probably third
Speaker 1: out of the three of us, obviously the most frank.
Speaker 1: It didn't work out. He finally got called up, he
Speaker 1: didn't hit, he got sent back down, finally came back
Speaker 1: like literally the last two weeks of September, was never
Speaker 1: given consistent playing time. He's been up for two days
Speaker 1: to home runs for Texas, batty out of the two hole,
Speaker 1: one day at d H, one day in left field.
Speaker 1: New managers Chris Woodward in Texas, so holy new regime,
Speaker 1: totally new opportunity for Calhoun. And I think some of
Speaker 1: the prospect luster Mike. He's gone from Willie Calhoun because
Speaker 1: of what happened last year. We haven't seen Austin Riley yet.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen um here A yet. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: Brandon Rogers yet. We haven't seen Nicki Lopez yet. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen Oscar Mercado yet. We have seen Calhoun. And
Speaker 1: because of that, I think in forget the expert league,
Speaker 1: but I think people's home leagues, they're gonna se Willie Calhoun.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be like, all right, been there, done that,
Speaker 1: it didn't work. So I think he could actually get
Speaker 1: him a little cheaper. Why is he in your top
Speaker 1: four with Riley, Hera and Rogers. So I thought the
Speaker 1: same thing Greggy, And when he first got the call up,
Speaker 1: I wrote on Patreon, I would spend five to ten
Speaker 1: percent in my fab because my thinking was everyone else
Speaker 1: is going to want these other prospects. Willie Calhoun, like
Speaker 1: you said, has lost that luster. We've seen him fail before.
Speaker 1: I thought people were gonna kind of be like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll get Willie Calhoun has a backup bid, and I
Speaker 1: was dead wrong. Like Franken attested this, he went for
Speaker 1: over twenty dollars in both of our home leagues, and
Speaker 1: that's a league where I thought people were gonna think
Speaker 1: the same way. He went for more than Nicky Lopez,
Speaker 1: he went for more than Mercado. So I don't think
Speaker 1: people are are reacting the way we thought. Greggy and
Speaker 1: I fully admitted on my podcast yesterday, like I read
Speaker 1: this situation wrong with Willie Calhoun. I hope you didn't
Speaker 1: live into the five or your fab didn't run yet,
Speaker 1: because I think he is going to be in a
Speaker 1: similar range as those other guys. To me, he's fourth,
Speaker 1: just because I do think that that luster is a
Speaker 1: little bit worn off with him, where the other guys
Speaker 1: everyone is really excited, but still Willie Calhoun was mashing
Speaker 1: at the Triple A level this year, hitting three or
Speaker 1: four eight home runs UH twenty two r b I
Speaker 1: and then he had over four ov p and then
Speaker 1: the fact that he's come up and played this well.
Speaker 1: I think everyone is excited and I don't see reason
Speaker 1: why they shouldn't be. The Texas Rangers are not competing
Speaker 1: this year. We know that. I don't think Hunter Pence
Speaker 1: or since You Chew are really gonna stand in his way. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: I think both of those guys, Pence being the big loser,
Speaker 1: but I think both loses sometimes. Woodward does not seem
Speaker 1: to trust Choo against lefties for some reason, so so
Speaker 1: I think both of those guys kind of step aside.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to let Willie Calhoun continue to play.
Speaker 1: He's gonna bat in the two hole, and yesterday it
Speaker 1: was great to see the only player in that game,
Speaker 1: and the Texas Rangers put up a lot of runs.
Speaker 1: At least when I looked, the only player who who
Speaker 1: had a higher a ball harder hit than Willy Calhoun's
Speaker 1: multiple hits yesterday was Joey Gallows. So that's really good
Speaker 1: company to be in. He's hitting the ball hard, he's
Speaker 1: doing everything you wanted to see so far. He's red
Speaker 1: hot right now. I think because of that hot start
Speaker 1: and because of what he's been doing in Triple A.
Speaker 1: He is going to be right up there with those
Speaker 1: other guys. Yeah, and I've read the situation wrong as well, Mike.
Speaker 1: I had I think a six or seven dollar bid
Speaker 1: in our home league, and he goes for twenty two
Speaker 1: and twenty one dollars respectively in our two home leagues,
Speaker 1: both twelve team head to head points keeper leagues. So
Speaker 1: I understand why he would go for a little bit more,
Speaker 1: especially in the keeper league, if you think that he
Speaker 1: has some staying power and obviously for years to come
Speaker 1: the upside that he has. But professional hitter man, this
Speaker 1: is what I really like about Willie Calhoun. Say what
Speaker 1: you will about his defense, He's a horrible defender. He
Speaker 1: might honestly work out as a as a full time
Speaker 1: d H. It's crazy to say as young as he is,
Speaker 1: he's still only twenty four years old, but he is
Speaker 1: that bad of a fielder. But if you look at
Speaker 1: his minor league numbers, there's a guy who's never struck
Speaker 1: out more than fifteen point nine percent at any level
Speaker 1: of the miners. This season, Mike spoke about his EP
Speaker 1: had four sixteen fifteen point nine percent walk great for
Speaker 1: Willie Calhoun, A thirteen point eight percent strike already. This
Speaker 1: guy is a professional hitter. He hits line drives um.
Speaker 1: He's hitting for power already at the major league level.
Speaker 1: He has a thirty one homer season under his belt
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when he came over from
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers, and between the Dodgers and Rangers
Speaker 1: farm sist from that year, he had thirty one home
Speaker 1: runs in the minors. He was performing well this year.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be in the lineup. I don't
Speaker 1: really worry about splits with him either, unless that's something
Speaker 1: that Chris Woodward worries about, because when I looked into
Speaker 1: his minor league numbers, he didn't struggle against lefties at
Speaker 1: any level. So again, professional hitter and a guy that
Speaker 1: can hit for power in a really good spot in
Speaker 1: a really good lineup like we gotta. I think we
Speaker 1: underestimated the Rangers line up coming into this year. It's
Speaker 1: still a really, really good ballpark to hit in and
Speaker 1: for him to hit second in that lineup, behind Shinsu
Speaker 1: Chu and ahead of guys like Elvis Andrews when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: and Joey Gallo and all these other matters behind him
Speaker 1: He's in a really, really good spot. So I do
Speaker 1: agree that if you if you need power and you
Speaker 1: need batting average, specifically those two categories, and you're playing
Speaker 1: a five outfielder league, you're gonna have to be really aggressive.
Speaker 1: You're looking at now. One of the I really like
Speaker 1: about Calhoun, outside of the statistics that you guys both gave,
Speaker 1: is what I also liked about Heilopez. He wasn't called Like, yes,
Speaker 1: Elvis Andrews got hurt, but I don't know that that
Speaker 1: had anything to do with whom being called up, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, it's not like Willie Calhoun's
Speaker 1: playing the infields all any of their outfielders are coming inside.
Speaker 1: They just called him up because he's ready. They called
Speaker 1: him up because he's ready, and they batted him right
Speaker 1: there in the top of the order, and he's obviously
Speaker 1: produced for the first two games. Much like Lopez this year,
Speaker 1: unlike last year, Calhoun seems safe and if you're looking
Speaker 1: for a little bit of safety, Calhoun's your guy. When
Speaker 1: they changed the ball in the minor leagues, he went
Speaker 1: from not having any power last year, if you remember
Speaker 1: Frank that was a huge issue. He had eight home
Speaker 1: runs thus far this year he had eight home runs
Speaker 1: in like thirty games. He had nine and over a
Speaker 1: hundred last year. Is I don't know how many times
Speaker 1: this week for these prospects, I've had to write career
Speaker 1: high eyes. So this year the juice ball is real,
Speaker 1: like and the power that you're seeing in Triple A
Speaker 1: from these guys is going to translate over my opinion, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally totally agree with that. Um So that's why
Speaker 1: Calhoun gets in Florio's top four and gets people like
Speaker 1: Frank really excited. Uh And that makes sense to me. Okay,
Speaker 1: before we give the prices, I just want to hit
Speaker 1: one more thing. You just retweeted Aaron Glenman Florio and
Speaker 1: you talked about Luis Ariah is getting called up for Minnesota.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about him and where does
Speaker 1: he belong in all of us? Yeah, he's an afterthought,
Speaker 1: I think. Uh. I don't even know if he's going
Speaker 1: to play every day for the Twins. I don't know
Speaker 1: too much about his like prospect pedigree, but what I
Speaker 1: read during the break was no power, a little bit
Speaker 1: of speed, really good bad on ball. Uh So to me,
Speaker 1: and what even like the beat writers are are speculating
Speaker 1: right now, is like he is a f piece. He's
Speaker 1: going to play some games here and there, But for fantasy,
Speaker 1: I think he's more of just an afterthought. Florio, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Frankie. I know you don't have much on Aria.
Speaker 1: So I want to go to you about another prospect
Speaker 1: that was called up kind of under the radar. You
Speaker 1: pointed that out to me. It was Sean Anderson for
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Giants. What should we know about him
Speaker 1: and should we should we invest here or is it
Speaker 1: not worth of this point? Wait and see? I think
Speaker 1: in twelve team leagues or shallower than that, it's it's
Speaker 1: a wait and see. You put him on your scout team.
Speaker 1: He is the top picteing prospect for the Giants. Doesn't
Speaker 1: really say much, I don't have a great farm system.
Speaker 1: Probably projects out more of like a mid to late
Speaker 1: rotation piece at the major league level, like SP three
Speaker 1: or SP four. But I think it's worth noting just
Speaker 1: because he's gonna play half of his home games, half
Speaker 1: of his games in Oracle Park, obviously in that big ballpark,
Speaker 1: doesn't really have doesn't really flash anywhere, like, doesn't have
Speaker 1: like a plus fastball, but he's solid across the board. Um,
Speaker 1: more of like a fifteen teamer maybe obviously and now
Speaker 1: only Uh, the Giants don't have you know, great pitching
Speaker 1: outside of like Madison Bumgardner, who's performed, you know, all
Speaker 1: right this year. But I think that they're going to
Speaker 1: leave this guy in the rotation. They want to see
Speaker 1: what they have in him. Uh, and the fact that
Speaker 1: he pitches his home games in Oracle Park. I think
Speaker 1: he's worth a look in deeper leagues like fifteen team
Speaker 1: makes if you're really desperate for pitching. And obviously and
Speaker 1: only just because he has a spot in the rotation
Speaker 1: right now, all right, So let's give out then what
Speaker 1: you are spending. So I was gonna just real quick
Speaker 1: before we go over these guys, because these are the
Speaker 1: six that everyone like cares about and we know that
Speaker 1: like someone in Frank's position this week, do you think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to sneak one by the goal
Speaker 1: and get these guys for cheaper than they are, Because
Speaker 1: I do think that's gonna happen this week. I think
Speaker 1: everyone is bracing to spend big fab on these six
Speaker 1: guys that the other guys are gonna be even cheaper
Speaker 1: like non prospects. I agree, Yeah, like any of these,
Speaker 1: even like Corbyn Martin, I think is getting overlooked right now,
Speaker 1: So I'd be loved. I'd be happy to get him.
Speaker 1: I very much agree with you Florida that the guys
Speaker 1: were gonna talk about in a moment, the veterans that
Speaker 1: Tommy Lostella. I picked up Macgilson and her homely for
Speaker 1: four bucks. Yeah, that's like one of those where like
Speaker 1: he gets overlooked top prospect because everybody's putting the people down.
Speaker 1: Everyone's just so focused on the young guys. These veterans
Speaker 1: are gonna go for a lot less. And I know
Speaker 1: Frankie were working this morning on guys are out there
Speaker 1: in GST outside of the young players. Guys are out
Speaker 1: there in g d D for us that are not
Speaker 1: these young players, guys that people whore go going to
Speaker 1: forget about because so much money is going to be
Speaker 1: spent on these young players. But that's what you care about.
Speaker 1: And we understand that. We get it's fabulous of Friday.
Speaker 1: So how much this weekend of their budget should players
Speaker 1: spend on Austin Riley. Let's start there, um, all right?
Speaker 1: So if I was just saying twenty on Willie Calhoun.
Speaker 1: I think Austin Riley is in that range. I can
Speaker 1: see him getting a little bit more hype. Look, I
Speaker 1: spent over thirty pcent of my fab on Carter Key Boom,
Speaker 1: So if this is your guy, you need to find
Speaker 1: the one that's your guy. You need to find your guy.
Speaker 1: You need a third baseman, you need a quarter infielder
Speaker 1: or alfielder. Goes back to what we were saying earlier,
Speaker 1: positional needs, statistical needs. You have to figure out about
Speaker 1: what you really need for your for your team, and
Speaker 1: you're going to be really aggressive for that player. And
Speaker 1: it's not to say like you're obviously gonna set backup
Speaker 1: bids for the other prospects as well, but you have
Speaker 1: to decipher which one is the one for you. So
Speaker 1: if it's if it turned out to be Willie Calhoun,
Speaker 1: then I could see approaching thirty percent. You gotta get
Speaker 1: that guy on your team. I understand that. Again, I
Speaker 1: spent over thirty percent on Carter Key Boom, and I'm
Speaker 1: hating myself right now for it, but it's in the past.
Speaker 1: If you need Austin Riley, you need some pop, you
Speaker 1: need some power. Uh, you need batting average. Everything that
Speaker 1: he's done thus far, everything he's done in the minors,
Speaker 1: fifteen home runs in the minors his first two games.
Speaker 1: He looks the part. All the quotes that I've seen
Speaker 1: about him. I retweeted something from Bryan Snedeker last night
Speaker 1: as well, Brian McMahon talking about how legit this kid is. Um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna takecent and if you really need that power,
Speaker 1: you really need that batting average. I could see going
Speaker 1: over thirty percent from Greg the Oh no, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, I agree on that. I've been saying a
Speaker 1: week twenty and in fifteen team leagues leads with an
Speaker 1: overall anything like that with go even willing to go
Speaker 1: a little bit higher if you really want him. I
Speaker 1: will say, though, I've been telling people, if you play
Speaker 1: in a you know, a twelve team home league, I
Speaker 1: think you devalue it a little bit. You can make
Speaker 1: it twenty percent there just because I don't. I feel
Speaker 1: like players are less aggressive in those leagues. And that
Speaker 1: makes sense. I've seen even in like twelve team NFBC
Speaker 1: leagues when people are talking about fab traditionally the players
Speaker 1: go for much more in fifteen teams just because you
Speaker 1: don't get this level of talent all coming up at once, um,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's obviously harder to find players that
Speaker 1: can contribute in fifteen team leagues is compared to twelve teamers.
Speaker 1: So I agree we see a week in a week
Speaker 1: out that in fifteen teamers in those deeper leagues. Uh,
Speaker 1: these prospects and just players overall go for more money
Speaker 1: than than in the twelve teams. Prospects in general are
Speaker 1: always to go for more money, whether it's expert lease
Speaker 1: or twelve team least or in one league. Alston Riley
Speaker 1: went for twenty dollars in our twelve. Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: a fourteen dollar bit on him. But you weren't surprised
Speaker 1: by this, so I wasn't. I wasn't surprised. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you said cal who you have said now Austin Riley
Speaker 1: as well, Flora, let me start with you with Hira
Speaker 1: here or whatever. To me, they're all these big guys,
Speaker 1: these big four, and it's gonna sound kind of boring.
Speaker 1: I've got like to me, I agree with Frank said,
Speaker 1: you find the one that you really want and you'd
Speaker 1: be most aggressive on him. But for if you know
Speaker 1: I'm telling people, what's the bid. I'm telling on this too,
Speaker 1: unless you're in like a shallower league, which then I've
Speaker 1: been saying twenty to because I think all of these
Speaker 1: guys are going to go in a very very similar range.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of two hundred dollar bids,
Speaker 1: probably even a little bit more on some of them.
Speaker 1: Socent is what I've been saying. But if this is
Speaker 1: the guy that you want, I'm okay going up to
Speaker 1: thirty on any of these guys. Yeah, and I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and ah Along I had here as my
Speaker 1: higher rank prospect, just in a vacuum, if you don't
Speaker 1: have any positional need, if you just who's the best
Speaker 1: prospect of the Barns. I think kess and Hira has
Speaker 1: consistently been ranked as a higher rated prospect in Austin Riley.
Speaker 1: It doesn't always work out that way, but three thirty
Speaker 1: three in the minors this year, eleven home runs, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of speed as well, just hitting in
Speaker 1: a really good ballpark, obviously in Milwaukee, in a really
Speaker 1: good lineup. It's just I think the ballpark and the
Speaker 1: lineup give him a little bit more of an edge
Speaker 1: over Austin Riley. And it's not like Atlanta is a
Speaker 1: bad place to hit, but overall Miller Park is just
Speaker 1: better and and the Brewers lineup is better overall. So
Speaker 1: that's why if you're just saying in a vacuum, I
Speaker 1: would give a slight edge of questing here, Greg, And
Speaker 1: that's what you said yesterday. I believe as well, good
Speaker 1: whatever whatever was okay, that least just Brendan Rodgers. Right,
Speaker 1: So Brenda Rogers and we grouping these four guys Floria.
Speaker 1: I'll be with you again with Brenda Rodgers. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say the same thing again. Go higher if this
Speaker 1: is your guy home league. But another reason why I
Speaker 1: love Rogers so much is I looked at yesterday the
Speaker 1: production the Rockies have gotten out of the second base
Speaker 1: position this year. You guys ready for this. It's absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 1: A ninety nine average, which was uh the third lowest
Speaker 1: amongst all teams from second base position this year. One
Speaker 1: of which lower than them was the Gnats uh to
Speaker 1: seventy o b P that was the lowest in the league,
Speaker 1: and a two nineties slugging, the second lowest in the league.
Speaker 1: They play half their games in coors Field and they
Speaker 1: can't even get a three hundred slugging percentage out of
Speaker 1: the position. I think Brandon Rodgers has a long leash.
Speaker 1: I think this is a team looking to make another
Speaker 1: push like they did last year after a slow start,
Speaker 1: and I think they realized, hey, we need to get
Speaker 1: some production out of the second base position. So I
Speaker 1: ultimately do believe his leash is like he's safe. I
Speaker 1: think he as long as he doesn't, you know, completely
Speaker 1: bottom out like hey boom, I think he will continue
Speaker 1: to be up in the major League. So to me,
Speaker 1: he that's the reason I feel a little bit safer
Speaker 1: about him. That's why I keep saying I'm willing to
Speaker 1: go over thirty percent for him. But again, these four
Speaker 1: guys acent go upwards, go towards thirty five for whichever
Speaker 1: one he feels strongest about. Yeah, Greg, We've got the
Speaker 1: question a lot so far that well, is he just
Speaker 1: filling in for Trevor stories Tevor stories heard or is
Speaker 1: he here to play second base? I all along have
Speaker 1: said I think it's the latter. I mean, Ryan mcmanhn
Speaker 1: has been given an opportunity and he has not taken
Speaker 1: advantage of it for most of the year he said
Speaker 1: to thirty to forty. He has three home runs. Two
Speaker 1: of those came in the same game, so he hasn't performed.
Speaker 1: Garrett Hampson hasn't performed as well. Also. I do think
Speaker 1: that Brendan Rodgers maybe if Trevor Story is still banged up,
Speaker 1: he'll play shortstop a few games here, but I think
Speaker 1: overall they want this kid up to play second base
Speaker 1: full time for them. I don't have a problem with
Speaker 1: that number. Me personally, I do rank him a little
Speaker 1: bit lower than some of these other guys. I understand
Speaker 1: it's coors Field. I just feel like Austin Riley and
Speaker 1: Kesson here, and I might be wrong about this. I'm
Speaker 1: not like a prospect guru by any means, but I
Speaker 1: feel like those guys were more regarded as being better
Speaker 1: offensive players and Brendan Rodgers. I feel like Rodgers is
Speaker 1: better all around, like really good defender as well, and
Speaker 1: that's why he gets hyped up in prospect circles or
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective. I feel like Heira and Austin
Speaker 1: Riley might have a little bit more upside, so that's
Speaker 1: why I would rank those guys a little bit higher.
Speaker 1: But if you want that exposure to course field, I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with going as high as
Speaker 1: Florio saying does the defense factor into you guys at all?
Speaker 1: That Austin Riley is playing an outfield position that he
Speaker 1: just started to learn, and they have a guy a
Speaker 1: gold Glover like Enteran Crt who they could ultimately fill
Speaker 1: in his spot if he was to struggle or with
Speaker 1: with Hiora. We hear all the time his defense is
Speaker 1: far from what is why he is up here? Does
Speaker 1: that question of factor into you at all? Because I
Speaker 1: know Carter Key Boom's defense struggled and that was part
Speaker 1: of why he got sent back down. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good question, and I think it's a fair point,
Speaker 1: and I feel like we we address this a little
Speaker 1: bit the other day Greg and we were talking about it.
Speaker 1: But it always comes down to what they I think
Speaker 1: it comes down to what they do offensively, what the
Speaker 1: leash is for them defensively totally. So if Austin Riley hits,
Speaker 1: I think that they're going to kind of suck it
Speaker 1: up whatever he does in left field, like they'll pull
Speaker 1: him late in games. We saw that the other day.
Speaker 1: Charlie Colverson came in for him, and even once Enteran
Speaker 1: Crt is back. This is just me speculating. I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone knows right now. I saw, you know, a
Speaker 1: few Atlanta Beat reporters have already been asked this question
Speaker 1: and they're trying to answer to the us of their ability,
Speaker 1: and they're saying like, I don't even think anyone really knows,
Speaker 1: but my guests would be you know, they'll give mar
Speaker 1: Cacis a day off here and there, They'll get Entering
Speaker 1: Crt in the lineup. They'll give Josh Donaldson a day
Speaker 1: off here and there because he's a little bit older,
Speaker 1: and they'll play Austin Riley at third base for those games.
Speaker 1: And I think he'll play most of the time as
Speaker 1: long as he performs. And when it comes to Kess
Speaker 1: and Hira, look, Mike, I don't know how good he
Speaker 1: is defensively or how bad he is, but he's got
Speaker 1: to be better than Mike lu Stock second base. So
Speaker 1: I think that obviously helps his cause as well. So
Speaker 1: it sounds like hera safer potentially than Auston Riley and
Speaker 1: Brandon Rodgers, just given the Colorado Rockies theories and not
Speaker 1: playing young players. Yeah, I mean, and that's why I've
Speaker 1: ranked from the highs. Enough, Okay, where do they break?
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Speaker 1: Sports radio network. Frank brought up a fantastic point during
Speaker 1: the break. He's like, Okay, we have all these prospects
Speaker 1: are out there. Everybody wants him and understandably sell, but
Speaker 1: in order to do so, you gotta drop him. You
Speaker 1: gotta drop somebody to go out and get him. So
Speaker 1: at what level? Where are we about dropping certain players? Right?
Speaker 1: He wrote up Jason Hayward during the break, Mike, would
Speaker 1: you drop Jason Hayward for any of these guys? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Jason Hayward was fun while he lasted, but he's batting
Speaker 1: below two hundred in the month of May at least,
Speaker 1: though as of yesterday he was So I have no
Speaker 1: problem dropping Jason Hayward. Yeah, I agree with that. He's
Speaker 1: over his last six team batting average down to two
Speaker 1: thirty five. Overall, it was fun while it last. Mike,
Speaker 1: You're right, and I have him in the main event,
Speaker 1: so I'm probably looking to replace him this weekend. Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. It's you. Jason Hayward. I got hot,
Speaker 1: but it's no longer a thing. Would you drop for
Speaker 1: these guys? Frankandy Diaz is battling a bit of an
Speaker 1: ankle injury. I believe we're an injury of some sort.
Speaker 1: Oh man, this is tough one too, because Andy Daz
Speaker 1: has He's been a little inconsistent recently, but overall, I
Speaker 1: mean the numbers have still been pretty good. Nine home runs,
Speaker 1: twenty five runs, twenty two r b I s UM
Speaker 1: two seventy three batting average. I don't think that I
Speaker 1: would Greg, and I understand wanted to get these guys
Speaker 1: on my team, but he's been good. What do you think, Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not dropping Andy. I own Yandy in multiple spots.
Speaker 1: He has been a little up and down this year there,
Speaker 1: but man, he's he's playing every day, he's hitting clean
Speaker 1: up for the race. You want to get, you know,
Speaker 1: some exposure in that line up. I cannot drop the
Speaker 1: andy Ds right now. There. There have to be someone
Speaker 1: else on my team. I would want to drop first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that as well. Are you One of
Speaker 1: the questions we were getting into chat and I said,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't drop this player. It's tough. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't have any exposure. You know, I was off this guy.
Speaker 1: But Joey Vodo, Joey Votto's he's having a term of year,
Speaker 1: he's it seems like he's he's not Joey Vatdo anymore,
Speaker 1: you know, even going back to last year, at LEAs
Speaker 1: last year he hit two eighty four, the power was
Speaker 1: down tremendously, only hit twelve home runs. But this year
Speaker 1: it's kind of like we're getting both of those things together.
Speaker 1: It's not much power and the batting averages to fifteen.
Speaker 1: It's May seventeen. This guy has a strikeout rate that's
Speaker 1: not like Joey Votto. Mike I said, I wouldn't drop him.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just thinking too much about like the draft
Speaker 1: capital and understand, you know, a month and a half
Speaker 1: into the season, you can't really think about that much anymore.
Speaker 1: But this is a tough one. I don't think that
Speaker 1: I would drop Joey Vatdo. Would you? No? I wrote
Speaker 1: about Joey Vado this week. I understand how frustrating he's been,
Speaker 1: but I expect the power to increase. Like his heart
Speaker 1: hit rate is thirty nine percent, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: lower than what it was last year, but the fly
Speaker 1: ball rate is a career high forty four point four percent.
Speaker 1: Like those balls should be leaving the park. So his
Speaker 1: home run from flyball ratio right now is even lower
Speaker 1: than it was last year, which was half less than
Speaker 1: half of what it was the year before. I expect
Speaker 1: improvement there, But I get it if you're if you're
Speaker 1: frustrated and you want to put him on your bench shirt.
Speaker 1: But I'm still not ready to drop him just yet.
Speaker 1: I think I'm more likely to trade him. And I
Speaker 1: know this doesn't necessarily like fit the philosophy of what
Speaker 1: we can do, like normally tell people to do sell
Speaker 1: high and and by low, but I still would imagine
Speaker 1: if there's someone in a league somewhere that still has
Speaker 1: faith in Joey Vado based on his name value, So
Speaker 1: I think it'd be more likely to trade him before
Speaker 1: I dropped him, Greg, I agree, who else here is?
Speaker 1: I've been getting questions about Clint Frasier too, but you know,
Speaker 1: my question back to other people is Clint Fraser was
Speaker 1: a highly regarded prospect as well, and he and he
Speaker 1: hits in the Yankee Stadium. I understand this month has
Speaker 1: not been good for him, and kind of spoke about
Speaker 1: this yesterday, Greg that potentially the injury that he suffered
Speaker 1: derailed some of that momentum that he had, and he
Speaker 1: was performing so well in the month of April. Just
Speaker 1: sucks that he got hurt and now he's come back
Speaker 1: in May, and basically since he's come back, he hasn't
Speaker 1: been himself. But he himself is also a prospect, and
Speaker 1: he hits in the middle of a good lineup and
Speaker 1: a good ballpark. So it's like, what are you really
Speaker 1: expecting out of these prospects That's different than what you're
Speaker 1: expecting from Clint Frasier. So I'll throw that one your
Speaker 1: way as well. Mike, would you drop Clint Frasier? That
Speaker 1: one is close. Again, I feel like there's probably would
Speaker 1: be someone on my team I would want to drop more,
Speaker 1: but if not, I would drop him. Not for Nicky
Speaker 1: Lopez or Mercado, but for the other four. I think
Speaker 1: I would. I would take that upside shot. I'm more
Speaker 1: on your side with that point, right, Like Clint Fraser
Speaker 1: was that top prospect earlier, but much like Willie Calhoun,
Speaker 1: that the shine was off and I understand that home
Speaker 1: back to back games, the Fraser was really hot until
Speaker 1: he got hurt. To me let him kind of run
Speaker 1: back into form prospects, you're gonna Evan Flow and you
Speaker 1: have Clint Fraser. You're not hoping that those guys become
Speaker 1: Fraser because he struggled and you probably spent a lot
Speaker 1: of money to get him to Fraser. To me, I'm
Speaker 1: Leasha is longer for me on Clint Frasier. I'm not
Speaker 1: dropping Frasier for these guys. Yeah, I'm closer to you
Speaker 1: on that one as well. Greg, I've surprised. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to drop him at all. So for me, though,
Speaker 1: I did pick up Nikki Lopez and Mercado each in
Speaker 1: a different home league players, I dropped him. I dropped
Speaker 1: Chevor Richards sadly in one tier, and then another player
Speaker 1: I've been supporting. I've dropped Pablo Lopez in another, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to drop I'm sorry for cutting you off.
Speaker 1: Pabolope was actually the next name I was gonn ask
Speaker 1: you about, Um, Yeah, I don't. I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: ideally drop him, but I had a lot of pictures
Speaker 1: in depth, and he was just, unfortunately the last picture
Speaker 1: on my roster. So I said, you know what, I
Speaker 1: didn't have any bench beats in this league. I wanted
Speaker 1: to get in on one of these prospects. I had
Speaker 1: to do what I had to do. What about hundred
Speaker 1: pence we just picked up Frank is gone? Well, we
Speaker 1: didn't spend much to gain him. I think we got
Speaker 1: a four dollar bid out of a hundred, so I
Speaker 1: would I would think that in a fifteen team or
Speaker 1: you might be able to find someone else that you
Speaker 1: could drop before Hunter Pence. I mean, he still was
Speaker 1: doing a lot of good things. I don't want to
Speaker 1: pooh pooh him. I know, you know, of course, the
Speaker 1: week that we pick him up seems to be like
Speaker 1: the week that he's gone cold. He hit a home
Speaker 1: run yesterday, but overall this week he hasn't been great.
Speaker 1: But he was still doing a lot of really good things,
Speaker 1: So I don't want to downplay that all too much.
Speaker 1: Is the worst player on your rosters, then yes, I
Speaker 1: could see dropping him for these prospects. Anybody else come
Speaker 1: to mind, gentleman, that's worth discussing. I mean, it's hard
Speaker 1: to obviously do it this way. I'll throw a few
Speaker 1: names out here, guys that got off to starts that
Speaker 1: are kind of cooling down now, three names, Michael franco Um.
Speaker 1: I will also say who else was I looking at here?
Speaker 1: Ki her Nandez I'll throw out, and then Dan's by Swanson,
Speaker 1: three names that have that got off the odd starts
Speaker 1: and are kind of cooling down here. And I think
Speaker 1: especially for these top four, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would drop all three of them for these other like
Speaker 1: lower prospects that we're that we talked about, but for
Speaker 1: the top four, I think I would be alright dropping
Speaker 1: all three of those guys. So the only one or
Speaker 1: a headstat actually is Michael Franco because he was so
Speaker 1: good and he's in that lab and in that ballpark
Speaker 1: where I really has you have him in a league
Speaker 1: man like he's he's we have them together. He's like
Speaker 1: the batting averages all the way down to thirty eight.
Speaker 1: It looks at bat ball day like he's not hitting
Speaker 1: the ball hard to It's like, I think that first
Speaker 1: month might have just been a little bit flukey. What
Speaker 1: do you think about those three players? Mike, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: okay to me. The one I had the most pause
Speaker 1: about is is Dan's by Swanson actually because he plays
Speaker 1: that premium position. I picked him up in a league
Speaker 1: and I've been happy with the production I've got, and
Speaker 1: I know it's up and down with him as well,
Speaker 1: but again former top prospect, high pedigree. But for those
Speaker 1: top four, I would drop all three of them. I
Speaker 1: wanted to throw two names to you guys, because these
Speaker 1: are two names that I've gotten a lot this week.
Speaker 1: Uh it's Craig Kimbrell and Dallas Kiko. So I think
Speaker 1: it depends on where you're at in the standings, Greg,
Speaker 1: Like if you're at the top and you're gonna need
Speaker 1: a closer, like we know Craig Kimberll is gonna be signed,
Speaker 1: Someone's gonna sign, Someone's gonna sign Kiko. Also, there's no
Speaker 1: way I could drop them because they have trade value.
Speaker 1: I'd be more likely to drop Kaiko than I would
Speaker 1: I can't drop I'm not droping Kimber. Like when he
Speaker 1: comes back in June, he could go back to be
Speaker 1: in the top five top ten closes. So I would
Speaker 1: be more likely to drop Kaiko than I would Kimber.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna drop either. And I think it also
Speaker 1: depends on where you're at in the standings, Like if
Speaker 1: you're falling behind Greg, you can only have so many
Speaker 1: players that your stash, stash prospects. You're trying to stash
Speaker 1: these guys signed, yet you're waiting for players to come
Speaker 1: back from injury. It's tough. I just totally get it.
Speaker 1: But that's that's the position you're in. You how one
Speaker 1: or both of these guys training with somebody that can
Speaker 1: afford to wait. That's what I've been saying, Like we've
Speaker 1: held out this long, we have like two or three
Speaker 1: more weeks to go. I think Kimbrella, once he signs,
Speaker 1: he's on a major league roster like I would be
Speaker 1: surprised to see him need rehab like a like a
Speaker 1: minor league stint at all, and the Dallas Kiko might
Speaker 1: be the same thing. One other name though, just just
Speaker 1: because I've been thinking about the names that I've been
Speaker 1: getting questions about a lot, and this one is a
Speaker 1: player who I liked a lot heading into the year.
Speaker 1: It's Jesse Winker. Getting a lot of questions should I
Speaker 1: drop Winker? Mainly for Riley and Calhoun. I love Jesse Winker,
Speaker 1: He's my guy. We spoke about this the other day
Speaker 1: to Greg, and initially my response was, well, what are
Speaker 1: you expecting these prospects to do that we're that we're
Speaker 1: not expecting from Jesse Winker? Right, So kind of similar
Speaker 1: to Clint Fraser, where he's a former top prospect himself.
Speaker 1: He hits in a good ballpark, and I think as
Speaker 1: a weather starts to heat up more and more in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: the ball is gonna start to fly out there. And
Speaker 1: while the batting average is to twenty one, obviously that's
Speaker 1: not ideal. This was a guy that at every level,
Speaker 1: the one thing you could depend on him to do
Speaker 1: was hit for batting every so I would kind of
Speaker 1: hang my head off Matt when it comes to Jesse
Speaker 1: Winker and still hitting the ball extremely hard, hard hit rate,
Speaker 1: hits too many groundballs from my liking overall, but again,
Speaker 1: good ballpark, he hits in the middle of a good lineup.
Speaker 1: My question is, what are you expecting these prospects to
Speaker 1: do that we're not expecting Jesse Winker to do. You
Speaker 1: do have the nine home runs from Winker. Obviously r
Speaker 1: b I s aren't there, but it's not really his fault.
Speaker 1: He's got fifteen runs most of the season he was
Speaker 1: leading off. Yeah, I know, I know. Um. I think
Speaker 1: you can expect more power out of Riley, potentially Calhoun.
Speaker 1: I think the power for Winker is going like I
Speaker 1: think his average is gonna skyrocket and he's gonna not
Speaker 1: gonna hit two fourteen babbit. But he's also he hits
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground a ton, Frank, So he's
Speaker 1: really reliant, like you said, So he's relying on that
Speaker 1: high home run and fly ball rate. To me, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't bank on this power pace keeping up, but I
Speaker 1: think the average is gonna get a lot. Do you
Speaker 1: remember those minor league numbers where he didn't have all
Speaker 1: those home runs came before the juice balls in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues, and that even though I'm even this year,
Speaker 1: the nine runs so far this year, like home run
Speaker 1: a fly ball rate is pretty high. Like, can he
Speaker 1: is it sustainable? Could he sustain it? I mean over
Speaker 1: the course of the season, shirt, But I don't know
Speaker 1: if I want to pank on that is rather high
Speaker 1: for what it's worth. All the other projection systems on
Speaker 1: fan Graphs have him for between eleven and seventeen home runs,
Speaker 1: the rest of the in between two sixty six and
Speaker 1: to seventy three batting average, so pretty good batting average
Speaker 1: the rest away from him, and you know, the power
Speaker 1: is all over the place, but the bat Derrick Cardi's
Speaker 1: projections I mean pretty smart. Dude knows a lot more
Speaker 1: than me and you do. Greg. He has him for
Speaker 1: seventeen home runs the rest of the way. That would
Speaker 1: give him overall, you're gonna drop a twenty six home
Speaker 1: run hitter, not to seventy three the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you one last one time. I don't
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to drop him, Frank. Before we get
Speaker 1: to the veterans here these ark Daniel Murphy. Oh, this
Speaker 1: is a very relevant question right now, Greg, I would
Speaker 1: not Okay, I think I think you're just giving up
Speaker 1: a little bit too early, and we what his upside
Speaker 1: could be. Floria, would you drop Hayes's aguilar. That's a
Speaker 1: good one. Uh, he's a regular. That's a really tough one.
Speaker 1: I would say no to Murphy for sure, although I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's healthy. Frank, that's why I had
Speaker 1: I can't decide if I want to trade for him
Speaker 1: to trade with Floria. We keep going back and forth, Florida. Frank,
Speaker 1: tell me about your proposal. I thought it was real.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fairly offered it to him. I
Speaker 1: just threw it out there. I was like, Hey, Joe
Speaker 1: must Grove, I think. I. I don't think it's unfair.
Speaker 1: My fear is Daniel Murphy's rushed back, and if he's
Speaker 1: going to land on the I l again because that
Speaker 1: would do me no good then, because I'd be in
Speaker 1: the same position I am now. Um, that's the only
Speaker 1: reason I have a little hesitation. Haze sagular for the
Speaker 1: top guys. Yes, for Lopez and Mercado, No, I agree
Speaker 1: with that. We can follow your rid of him. We
Speaker 1: get rid of them, all right, Hey, Floria, who's gonna
Speaker 1: play first base for us? Anyway? We'll figure it out?
Speaker 1: Is it Ronnie Rodriguez is eligible at first? Miss run?
Speaker 1: Ronnie's crushing it? Man? Actually short stop eligibility? Who has
Speaker 1: every everything? Everything? Um, Floria counts at first? I know
Speaker 1: this is a no. I just want to throw it out.
Speaker 1: Would you drop Alex Wood for them? Yes? Wow? What
Speaker 1: would changed? Once he had a set back? That's when
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, we could drop him. But
Speaker 1: before that, it was like he's gonna be back first
Speaker 1: week of May. It's like the week before May, and
Speaker 1: Greg's like, yo, let's cut him. Yeah, And I was right,
Speaker 1: you were right. After back, I was, man, I stand
Speaker 1: by the fact that we didn't need to drop him.
Speaker 1: You know what, You're wrong because we have to drop
Speaker 1: Zack Fflyn and then spend money to get him back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we didn't spend that much, so I didn't want
Speaker 1: to drop back. I did not want to drop Zach Eflyn.
Speaker 1: So you guys are basically blaming me. I was sleeping.
Speaker 1: It wasn't my fault, well, I asked Mike. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, what do you want to drop? It
Speaker 1: was he could have an axe? Would I think we had?
Speaker 1: So we had another bid on Alex. Would I think
Speaker 1: we needed like a middle infield of that week? Pomping
Speaker 1: Alex would and we didn't get any. Oh the trials
Speaker 1: and tribulations of teaming the two people, Mike, why does
Speaker 1: Zach Miller suck? Suck? Zach Wheeler just can't. It's against
Speaker 1: the Nationals, that's it. Like I tweeted before this last
Speaker 1: start his numbers from that blow up start against the
Speaker 1: Nats before this last week start, and he was pitching
Speaker 1: like an ace man below three e r A, below
Speaker 1: three eight in the r A indicators. Oh well over
Speaker 1: a strikeout for in giving ten like in three of
Speaker 1: his last four outings. So it's just for some reason
Speaker 1: when he faces the Nationals, you have mind permission to
Speaker 1: sit him, other than that he's been pitching well this year. Well, Mike,
Speaker 1: would you like to know who was next started against?
Speaker 1: It's against the national Let's go. You got a two
Speaker 1: start week next week, Nationals and Tigers. So basically you're
Speaker 1: gonna get one five inning, six earned run performance and
Speaker 1: probably one seven enning let's say two earned run performance.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be your Zach Wheeler double start next week, right, fantastic?
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. Why does Patrick Corbyn Frank who you
Speaker 1: select the Zack Wheeler over Frank? Did? She gets the
Speaker 1: Mets every time? Dominate them because the Mets suck the Nationals? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Zach Wheeler probably wishes that he could face
Speaker 1: the Mets too. It's not his fault. That's a fair point.
Speaker 1: You see. I don't want to do I don't want
Speaker 1: to do this, Floria. I really don't. What do you
Speaker 1: care anyway? Like I have main event with Greg Binen,
Speaker 1: not with you, so you shouldn't care. The guys are
Speaker 1: three geese will stick together. But um, I don't want
Speaker 1: to do this to Flora. But I just feel like
Speaker 1: you're at that point, like remember that first week April,
Speaker 1: whether than that, every Mets Fani was like, now we're
Speaker 1: in May, where we always are, and they're all just
Speaker 1: like we suck. Ye. Yes, it is just therustrating part.
Speaker 1: It's it's like clockwork. The Mets, for some reason, are
Speaker 1: always awesome in April. They always are going to win
Speaker 1: an opening day. We know that, but from May on
Speaker 1: they just can't figure it out. I do think they're
Speaker 1: going to be better this year than they were last,
Speaker 1: but to think that they were going to win the
Speaker 1: division if coming into the year I did not think
Speaker 1: they were making the playoffs, well, you know it is
Speaker 1: a dog fight though. If you look at the NL
Speaker 1: East right now, the Phillies are leading in A nineteen,
Speaker 1: so there's only five games over five hundred and like
Speaker 1: the Braves are close. The Mats as like up and
Speaker 1: down as they've been there, only three and a half
Speaker 1: games out, and you know it could be worse. Mikey
Speaker 1: Greg and I both chose the Washington Nationals to win
Speaker 1: the n EL easis here and we both had Anthony
Speaker 1: Randon as our National League MVP, so it would be worse.
Speaker 1: He looked like it until he got hurt. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we we we discounted some player named Christian Yelloch that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people. My dad actually chose
Speaker 1: Yellows to be the MVP two years in a row
Speaker 1: when he was on the show that he did. I
Speaker 1: shout out of my mom too. By the way, happy birthday,
Speaker 1: Mom's birthday tonight, Happy birthday Frank's mom. Mom. I'm going
Speaker 1: by their house tonight a little, a little party. Hard.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Your father selected. He did not. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: he's like the no one ran all right, not a
Speaker 1: bad not a bad no I got. I got Christian
Speaker 1: Yellow ten overall in our home league. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say that, that's great. I don't know why I was
Speaker 1: planning on taking Chris Sale and I got him. I
Speaker 1: was so happy. So I had I had third overall,
Speaker 1: and I took Max Scherzer because it's I wanted pitching.
Speaker 1: You know, my top three picks in that leak where
Speaker 1: Max Scherzer, Freddie Freeman, and Jehan Carlos stand, all three
Speaker 1: have been quite underwhelming. That's why I'm two and four.
Speaker 1: He had a home run last night, But overall, it
Speaker 1: just feels like he hasn't done enough this year, at
Speaker 1: least not what I was expecting from And then John
Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton, that's just a dumpster fire flor to this weekend. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is more like a chill weekend. I have a
Speaker 1: bunch of trips coming up in June and July, so
Speaker 1: I'm really looking at York. Yes, I haven't booked New
Speaker 1: York yet, but it's either going to be the middle
Speaker 1: week of June or the middle week of July. I'm
Speaker 1: going back and forth on that. But I'm going to
Speaker 1: Florida the weekend next I won't be able to do
Speaker 1: BFFs that week. Sorry, guys. I'm going to Mexico one
Speaker 1: week soon. I'm going to San fran It's gonna gonna
Speaker 1: be exacting for Mexico. That's cool. And certainly Florida, Florida, Florida, Mexico.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I can. Yeah, they don't let
Speaker 1: you have WiFi. That all right for Mike, Florida. We
Speaker 1: appreciate it, talent. Talk to you next week, but sounds good.
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