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Speaker 1: here by Frank Stample Chris Venture of course for our
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Speaker 1: on all these outfielders. That's all in this tier, Frankie.
Speaker 1: The tier is the tier. I mean, it's so obvious
Speaker 1: that there all these guys are very very similar, and
Speaker 1: I have ranked personal preference. It's massive, man, you know,
Speaker 1: and it goes, it goes further than the names that
Speaker 1: we've mentioned so far too. But I mean we'll get
Speaker 1: into a few more of these guys. I think this
Speaker 1: is a pretty long tier of like round five through eight,
Speaker 1: mid round outfielders that have pretty solid upside. And again
Speaker 1: this is the range where you know, I want to
Speaker 1: have three outfielders by you know, for me, it's my
Speaker 1: top thirty five outfielders. I want to have three by
Speaker 1: this point. I really don't. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: looking at you know, David Peralta, and and and and
Speaker 1: Meadows as my outfielder three. I want those guys. It's
Speaker 1: like my four venture rank ranked these guys in your
Speaker 1: order for us? All right, ready, well not really, but
Speaker 1: David Doll, Marzello, Zuna, Dick Castianos, Eddie Rosario, and Mitch
Speaker 1: Hanneger a lot of guys two favorite. All right, that's fair.
Speaker 1: Ozuna is up there is a favorite, probably least favorite
Speaker 1: of these guys. Is he at least favorite personally? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I like Doll. I haven't reaked the lowest.
Speaker 1: It's probably my least favorite. Uh so, wait, you said Doll, Ozuna, Castianos, Rosario, Hannager,
Speaker 1: and Twig. Okay, so Hanager is probably we did seven.
Speaker 1: We did do second did seven? To us? I think
Speaker 1: I like Hanager the most uh, and then Cofordo is definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, ahead of most of those guys. For me,
Speaker 1: puiguig Puig, I don't know how to say his, can't
Speaker 1: say say. I'm not good at saying that Pig is
Speaker 1: up there for me, those three probably ben O Zuna,
Speaker 1: then I would say Rosario and Castiano. Castiano is kind
Speaker 1: of full behind them, you know. But you know what
Speaker 1: it sounds like to me, Ventral likes a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys. It does sound like that we all, like you,
Speaker 1: like a lot of them. We all like a lot
Speaker 1: of We like this tier. We like this tier in general.
Speaker 1: I'm cool with the tea and I think the tears
Speaker 1: over now, that is that where I should end my tear?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Oh, That's what I'm asking you.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that tier ends here? Well? There
Speaker 1: were there are a few other guys where I don't
Speaker 1: really mind if these players end up beating my Outfitler three.
Speaker 1: I know where you're going on with that, And but
Speaker 1: I don't think those guys are on this tier. I
Speaker 1: don't think Justin Upton and Michael Brantley are in this team.
Speaker 1: What about Pollock? That's another name I want to get
Speaker 1: to that is really interesting. Let me you don't let
Speaker 1: me start with A J. Pollock. That's a good one, Chris,
Speaker 1: because AJ Pollock gets Jeff and every year because he
Speaker 1: has the upside to do seemingly everything. Last year, before
Speaker 1: A J. Pollock got hurt, he was running absolutely wild,
Speaker 1: right like, he was just running everywhere and stopped and
Speaker 1: he was the first he had tenne runs and ten
Speaker 1: or ten still amazing before anybody in baseball last year.
Speaker 1: And then he stopped, he got hurt and came back
Speaker 1: and he's just at no point was the same player.
Speaker 1: You could make the case and I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: the status all in moment here that through April he
Speaker 1: was your m v P to ninety one nine homers
Speaker 1: and six stolen bases. He didn't steal more than three
Speaker 1: stolen bases in any other month the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: He didn't more hit more than five home runs in
Speaker 1: any month the rest of the season. Why. Probably because
Speaker 1: he was never healthy again the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: That's the problem when it comes to A. J. Pollock,
Speaker 1: and has always been the problem with A J. Pollock.
Speaker 1: The upside is tantalizing it. He had twenty stolen bases,
Speaker 1: and we saw that he already has twenty home run power.
Speaker 1: He's done it twice. But he's never ever healthy. And
Speaker 1: now he's not in Arizona anymore at Chase Field, He's
Speaker 1: in Dodger Stadium. He's not a spring chicken anymore either.
Speaker 1: He's over thirty years old. He's thirty one years old. A. J.
Speaker 1: Pollock isn't the same guy. And you know, Chris, he's
Speaker 1: going to be hurt. He has played over a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty games twice in his entire career. Really only
Speaker 1: have one full season, yeah, which was a monster monster
Speaker 1: was close to a full season as well, undred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven games. That's close as he's been. That's it.
Speaker 1: There is nothing to suggest that he can stay healthy
Speaker 1: for a hundred and fifty games. Again, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's possible. I don't think that's reasonable. And that's why
Speaker 1: I don't think he's in that tier, because you you're
Speaker 1: get pretty much guaranteed team he's getting hurt, right, almost
Speaker 1: guarantee he's and it's forty games. I think it's more
Speaker 1: the upside, like when he plays, he's gonna play at
Speaker 1: a higher level than most of these guys. I don't
Speaker 1: agree with that. That's what's I think you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a similar level, maybe a similar level, which is why
Speaker 1: I like the guys who are gonna play more. GA
Speaker 1: game is better than him. Rank right. He had one
Speaker 1: home runs in thirteen bases only thirteen games last year.
Speaker 1: Nine of those home runs came in April. Six of
Speaker 1: the stolen basis came in April before he got hurt.
Speaker 1: The thing is, how how do you project him for
Speaker 1: much more than that? The past three years? He's played
Speaker 1: a hundred thirteen, hundred and twelve and twelve correct game.
Speaker 1: You can't each of the past three years. You can't
Speaker 1: played a hundred and fifty seven games once that was in.
Speaker 1: He is now thirty one years old his eight thirty
Speaker 1: one season. He does not turn thirty two until December.
Speaker 1: I think when he plays like he's gonna be really
Speaker 1: good because the Dodger's lineup is he's gonna lead off
Speaker 1: for a lineup that take a lot of stock in
Speaker 1: the lineup. So yeah, I've heard that a lot today.
Speaker 1: It means a lot because it determines how many runs,
Speaker 1: your score, how many played appearances you're getting. Um, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it affects her county stats obviously. Look, he's
Speaker 1: leading off for a lineup that has core Corey Seker,
Speaker 1: Justin Turner, and Cody Bellinger behind a and oh wait,
Speaker 1: oh wait, they might get Bryce Harper because now the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are the betting favorites to land Rice Harper. So
Speaker 1: Dodgers line up is pretty good. I mean they also
Speaker 1: have Max Monty too, Like I think when he plays,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be really good. It's just how can you
Speaker 1: project him for more than likely the fan Graphs projection
Speaker 1: projections having between a hundred and twenty s and a
Speaker 1: hundred forty two games. Man, I mean, if that would
Speaker 1: have happened, that would it seems very very optimistic. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been over to sixty six batting average each of
Speaker 1: the past three Like, he's not gonna be on my team.
Speaker 1: Polic is not gonna be on my team, you know,
Speaker 1: as as hantalizing is the word that Greg has been
Speaker 1: using today, as tantalizing as he is with the ability
Speaker 1: to maybe be a player and score a lot of runs,
Speaker 1: it's just like the batting average hasn't been great the
Speaker 1: past couple of years. He misses a lot of games.
Speaker 1: He's older now, thirty one years old. I guess the
Speaker 1: Dodgers line up. I'd just don't. I just don't really
Speaker 1: want anything to do with him, man, I understand. I
Speaker 1: think on a per game basis, though it is tantalizing,
Speaker 1: like when he plays last year to like career high
Speaker 1: twenty one point seven percent k rate, he's never been
Speaker 1: over like you're starting to see like some decline to
Speaker 1: which is crazy to say because this April was awesome,
Speaker 1: but then like his season in a hole was not
Speaker 1: because of the injuries. You know, Um, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's declined. I think he's just you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta burn in the fact that he's not gonna probably
Speaker 1: score a hundred runs because he's probably not gonna play
Speaker 1: enough games to so. But but when he's playing, he's
Speaker 1: gonna give you numbers. I mean, he's going to produce
Speaker 1: I think on a consistent basis. So that's my issue.
Speaker 1: I don't think that he's going he's telling like twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty picks later than all the guys we just
Speaker 1: talked about, right, So, Hanneger, that's what he was saying.
Speaker 1: He was saying that he considers him maybe, and that's here,
Speaker 1: that's why I brought him up. Ennegar was the last
Speaker 1: one of of that here that we were just talking about.
Speaker 1: He goes to pick a po over the past two weeks,
Speaker 1: is going pick one thirteen, so he's going twenty two
Speaker 1: picks later. If I like that value about a round
Speaker 1: and a half later. But also going in this range,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of injury risks in this range,
Speaker 1: really just a lot of risk overall. Will Myers is
Speaker 1: going in this range injury risk as well, Michael Brantley
Speaker 1: injury risk is like, there's a lot of injury risk
Speaker 1: in this range. Here's but he's my fields shallow to me,
Speaker 1: I don't really like. Here's my issue with where do
Speaker 1: you feel comfortable with Pollock as in your team? Sorry? Greg,
Speaker 1: uh fourth fourth outfielder. If he's my third, you're gonna
Speaker 1: take your fourth outfielder and round I don't know wherever
Speaker 1: he's going nine, because you're gonna wanta gonna want to
Speaker 1: get a start in that range. You're gonna potentially, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's might see feel I feel comfortable was about fourth outthider.
Speaker 1: I agree with that, but I'm not gonna take it
Speaker 1: where he is. You have him ranked. I don't have
Speaker 1: him wall on a te or these guys. I don't
Speaker 1: have him ranked yet because I deep Chris. He keeps
Speaker 1: saying that when he's out there, he produces. He came
Speaker 1: back last five, and I don't really want he came
Speaker 1: back in Jil. I'm at at two eighty six right,
Speaker 1: four homers, fourteen RBI. He produced right in all he's
Speaker 1: been twenty five games, so he played the entire month.
Speaker 1: One eight nine was his batting average, with one home
Speaker 1: run and ten rivies. He struck out twenty eight times
Speaker 1: in twenty five games. One month later in September slash
Speaker 1: October for the one game they played in October whatever
Speaker 1: to thirty six get five old runs. Give him that,
Speaker 1: but that's terrible. I think there's more in the decline
Speaker 1: and play last year and the decline in him. He's
Speaker 1: just the same guy. The cons outweigh the pros when
Speaker 1: it comes to a j part. I think that you're
Speaker 1: probably right. I mean, listen, when did he get injured
Speaker 1: exactly in the season May May? So, why did he
Speaker 1: do well about two eighty six in? Was it? And
Speaker 1: then what happened that he all of a sudden bad
Speaker 1: one eight. Maybe he was battling an injury, you know,
Speaker 1: through injury, but he's also be playing through injury, you know.
Speaker 1: But like at this point, you kind of gotta bake
Speaker 1: that into his rejection. Again, he hasn't been higher than
Speaker 1: two sixty six batting average each of the past three years.
Speaker 1: Everyone remembers that where he was awesome with twenty home
Speaker 1: runs and thirty nine stolen basis he had three fifteen
Speaker 1: that year. Since then, he's never been over to sixty six.
Speaker 1: So where does the batting average even lie when it
Speaker 1: comes to A. J. Pollock? So you need a backup plane.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna take Pollock. If you take Pollock is
Speaker 1: like a third outfielder as a starting outfader, then you
Speaker 1: need a backup plane. Then you gotta take some Betta,
Speaker 1: take some pretty safe guys after that, Guys that you
Speaker 1: know that are gonna at least but I'll agree with
Speaker 1: you guys that you know doll Comford O, Castiano's Hannager.
Speaker 1: All these guys should be ahead of him. Another guy
Speaker 1: that's injured, as you said, are injury prone, Frank, in
Speaker 1: this tier is Michael Brantley, who you seemingly been high
Speaker 1: on um during this draft process, somebody that you would
Speaker 1: consider as a back end third outfielder. What makes you
Speaker 1: think Michael Brandon's stay healthy. There's really nothing. Again at
Speaker 1: this point in the draft. He's one of the only
Speaker 1: guys that's gonna provide batting average, you know, in round
Speaker 1: eight nine or later range. He's gonna give you a
Speaker 1: three hundred plus batting average and he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the Astros lineup. Now, again, I wouldn't project him for
Speaker 1: you know, more than like a hundred thirty games maybe,
Speaker 1: which is gonna affect his counting stats. But he played
Speaker 1: a hundred forty three list and that was the most
Speaker 1: he's played. So and he's a little bit older too
Speaker 1: now with Michael Brandley. So again, me personally, I can't
Speaker 1: really project it for much more than like a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty games. But it was a hundred thirty games.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit three hundred and he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the Astro's lineup. So he's gonna be you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: sixteen home runs in that range. He's gonna still give
Speaker 1: you twelve stolen basis, like, he does a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything, and he gives you a three hundred batting average,
Speaker 1: but I think the injury risk kind of baked into
Speaker 1: his his his draft price to like you don't have
Speaker 1: to you know, you know, you don't have to spend
Speaker 1: like a huge draft price to get Michael Brantley on
Speaker 1: your team. It's really like a roster construction thing. So
Speaker 1: you get like, um, I was thinking Adalberto Mondescy. But again,
Speaker 1: like if you get a stolen base guy or you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's a good player to pair with. You know,
Speaker 1: one of these stolen base guys who give you low
Speaker 1: batting average, right like Billie Hamiltomils something like that. It
Speaker 1: comes into roster Construction'll give you a little bit of everything,
Speaker 1: but he gives you batting average, which is it's not
Speaker 1: easy to find in the round nine, round ten range
Speaker 1: in the middle of a roto draft. And for points leagues,
Speaker 1: when he plays, he's gonna be awesome because he doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out. He makes a ton of contact. Is the
Speaker 1: lowest swing strike in the league last year and then too,
Speaker 1: so in a point he's gonna be great. Three points
Speaker 1: and fantasy points is really good. He was great last year.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way to dispute that he
Speaker 1: was awesome last year three games played. I actually I
Speaker 1: have a few spots behind Pollock, though two I haven't met.
Speaker 1: I haven't met. I'll field thirty seven. It's yeah, I
Speaker 1: like him ahead of Pollock. Like, look, they're both injury risks, right,
Speaker 1: but you can get more stolen based upside out of Pollock.
Speaker 1: And it's I'm looking at it. I just line up
Speaker 1: is very good too. M hmm. Yeah, the average. One
Speaker 1: more guy that I think is in here, Frank, and
Speaker 1: it's and you have he's a rotic player and I
Speaker 1: hate him because I'm not a ROTO player. I will
Speaker 1: never draft him. You should never draft him in points
Speaker 1: leg ever ever. Oh Justin Upton, hmm, I had him
Speaker 1: last You had that good for you at times great,
Speaker 1: at times bad. That is Justin Upton in a nutshell
Speaker 1: man at times great, at times bad. Really effing bad
Speaker 1: is what it is. He gets so cold in a
Speaker 1: ROTO league. You look at the stat lines, they're always there,
Speaker 1: they're always watching. Where's just enough to go in this car?
Speaker 1: So I have Justin Upton um at as my twenty
Speaker 1: ninth outfielder. And again this is just strictly for Roto.
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want him in head to
Speaker 1: head points because he's extremely su he strikes out a lot.
Speaker 1: But the bat of ball data is still really good
Speaker 1: for Justin Upton. He's thirty one years old, still hits
Speaker 1: the ball extremely hard, hits the hits a lot of
Speaker 1: line drives. You know, twenty two percent last year was
Speaker 1: the highest of his career, even you know at the
Speaker 1: age that he's at hard hit rate also the highest
Speaker 1: of his career. You can just set your watch to
Speaker 1: thirty plus home runs. He's been thirty plus home runs
Speaker 1: each for the last three seasons. He's been at least
Speaker 1: eighty runs, at least eighty five r V. I's uh,
Speaker 1: he's been at least eight stolen bases and seemingly every
Speaker 1: year of his career. Look at it's two, four, six, eight, ten,
Speaker 1: ten seasons in a row, he's been at least eight
Speaker 1: stolen bases. So canybe eight to ten stolen bases? You know,
Speaker 1: at two fifty to two sixty batting average, dirty home
Speaker 1: runs eighty eight. What I want to know is if
Speaker 1: he's healthy because and you guys have to ask dr
Speaker 1: Ad that tomorrow. But he has like a teller tendonitis,
Speaker 1: which sounds terrible for an outfielder, So I need to
Speaker 1: know more about that. But if if he is healthy
Speaker 1: for opening day and this isn't something that's going to linger,
Speaker 1: than you're getting Hey, set set your watch to whatever.
Speaker 1: With Justin Upton as he is every single year he's
Speaker 1: he's he's just a better player in Rhodo. You just got.
Speaker 1: It just stinks because like you don't know when that cold,
Speaker 1: cold month or whatever it's gonna come and then he'll
Speaker 1: go on a tag. Don't get me wrong. But one
Speaker 1: thing really strange though, seventeen and this four points leagues.
Speaker 1: He had forty four doubles last year at eighteen doubles,
Speaker 1: Like what happened there? Like what did you do? How
Speaker 1: did you go from me? He's not really a big
Speaker 1: double sixteen eighteen, so you know, so you don't expect, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you expect twenty five to thirty, not eighteen. Though I'm
Speaker 1: not probably not going to drift him, but I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: the outfield shallow, like he could be a starting third
Speaker 1: outfielder on a team. You know, like in my points
Speaker 1: league there's no strikeouts negating for strikeouts. He strikes out
Speaker 1: a ton so it really make that change. Probably no,
Speaker 1: because you know what the problem that is everybody everybody
Speaker 1: strikes out of time. Man just enough, by the way,
Speaker 1: same aj JJ Pollo, never guess that. All right, dude, break,
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Speaker 1: every day and give the opportunity to do so, we
Speaker 1: like it. Adding ninth we don't like it. That could change, though,
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Speaker 1: how How in how in might he might lead off
Speaker 1: against left handers right away too? How in are you
Speaker 1: Chris Ventra on Victor Lass I'm obviously um to eighty
Speaker 1: eight last year. I really like to see that a
Speaker 1: small samples size, of course, but in this lineup I
Speaker 1: think listen, him and Eloy Jimenez are interesting to me.
Speaker 1: I like Elo more, but Eloy isn't probably going to
Speaker 1: play till later in April, right, he's probably not gonna
Speaker 1: get called up till then, so probably, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta fill in for him the first month or so,
Speaker 1: so that kind of bothers me. But and Robot is
Speaker 1: gonna play right away. I like Eloy better as a player,
Speaker 1: but I don't like the lineup that Eloy will be in.
Speaker 1: I like this lineup better. If Robots could work his
Speaker 1: way into into betting leadoff or something like that, then
Speaker 1: I really like this guy for the counting sets and
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Speaker 1: Giants sign him? Yeah? I mean it would just be
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Speaker 1: kind of on the brink of rebuilding, rebuilding, like they're
Speaker 1: an older team on Gloria, Like they're getting closer to
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Speaker 1: off and kind of tear it down and build it
Speaker 1: back up. Like Madison Bumgardners in a contract the year,
Speaker 1: they probably end up trading him. And it's not just
Speaker 1: me saying this because you know I want well selfishly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want Bryce Harper there in San Francisco, but
Speaker 1: it just doesn't it doesn't make a lot of sense
Speaker 1: to me. Look, he wants to be on the West coast, Braake,
Speaker 1: I told you that all along, He's gonna end up
Speaker 1: a Dodger. That's what's gonna happen. He's gonna end up
Speaker 1: with a Dodger. To me, it's Dodgers or Phillies. And
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Speaker 1: kind of clashing and stuff. It doesn't make a lot
Speaker 1: of sense to me when it comes to Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. For Victor Roeboliz, you went in the
Speaker 1: sixth round of this current Great Fantasy Baseball invitational draft
Speaker 1: that I'm doing, you went ahead of guys like Marcella's
Speaker 1: doing the Mitch Hanigers. So just to give you a
Speaker 1: looking side, what the experts, the industry folks are thinking
Speaker 1: about Victor roblists is they're very excited, and I think
Speaker 1: for a good reason. Right, you look at his sprint
Speaker 1: speed last year, he was a ninety five percentile. He
Speaker 1: is a very very fast guy. Uh. He has seasons
Speaker 1: of seven and thirty seven stolen bases down in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues. He's a career three hundred hitter in the
Speaker 1: minors with as He's got a little bit of pop
Speaker 1: and he's kind of gonna grow into that. And I
Speaker 1: was listening to a podcast with Ian conn actually our
Speaker 1: our buddy, our friend of the program, where he compared
Speaker 1: Victor robots to Starling Marte in the future. He might
Speaker 1: he's probably he's not gonna be there that year, obviously,
Speaker 1: because then you'd expect him to do what a third
Speaker 1: or fourth Ron caliber player is doing and Starling Marte,
Speaker 1: but Starling Marte light. And you know, look at his
Speaker 1: fan grass projections. They have him at to seventy five
Speaker 1: around fifteen home runs, around from thirty stolen bases with
Speaker 1: you know the county stats at you know, six d
Speaker 1: R B I s and over seventy runs scored. That's
Speaker 1: Starling mar Daylight. Mm hm, you know. So he's he's
Speaker 1: gonna give you, you know, those those twelve, He's gonna
Speaker 1: give you close to thirty stolen basis if he plays
Speaker 1: every single day. I don't expect Adam Eaton to stay
Speaker 1: healthy for all that long. And I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if Victor Robis right from the get go against left
Speaker 1: handed pitching, does lead off for this team. Um, I
Speaker 1: think there is a lot to like about him, So
Speaker 1: I'm kind of in I have him. I have him
Speaker 1: rankings as my outfielder of thirty, which is just behind
Speaker 1: Justin Upton, just behind Zuna, just behind Castils and those guys.
Speaker 1: I have them ahead of Joey Gallo, Will Myers, Aaron Hicks.
Speaker 1: So he's kind of part of this tire where I
Speaker 1: wouldn't really mind him as one of my outfield three. Again,
Speaker 1: those other guys that we talked about earlier on the
Speaker 1: show the first hour, I'd rather have one of those
Speaker 1: guys my outfielder three. But he's he's kind of in
Speaker 1: this range where if you take if you take a
Speaker 1: power hitter early on like a judge, and then you
Speaker 1: take someone who kind of a little bit of everything,
Speaker 1: like a like a doll or a plague, you come around.
Speaker 1: I think it makes a lot of sense roster construction.
Speaker 1: Why as where doesn't hurt your batting average, gives you
Speaker 1: a little bit of pop, gives you speed. Yea, let's
Speaker 1: let's with other speed guy. Then Frank, shall we where
Speaker 1: do you having compared to Alex Smith? I have Malex
Speaker 1: Smith at thirty eight. You were considering drafting Malex Smith
Speaker 1: in your Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational and ultimately wound up
Speaker 1: going in a different direction. Okay, I'm worried about the injury.
Speaker 1: Right now, we don't really have a lot of news
Speaker 1: with Malex Smith. He's dealing with an elbow injury. He's
Speaker 1: been edited list now, he hasn't uh, he hasn't I believe,
Speaker 1: hasn't swung a bat yet in spring. So he's dealing
Speaker 1: with this injury. But look, there is a lot to
Speaker 1: like about Malex Smith. Again, you know, expected to lead
Speaker 1: off for the Seattle Mariners, whether it Tim or d
Speaker 1: Gordon or you know, I do think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: at the top of this line up. His sprint speed
Speaker 1: in percentile from last year, one of the fastest players
Speaker 1: in all of baseball, and we were kind of let
Speaker 1: in to what his upside can be last season to
Speaker 1: or he's stolen bases, um, you know, sixty five runs
Speaker 1: scored and that was in a hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: games where you know he wasn't even necessarily the starter
Speaker 1: in a lot of those games. I feel like he
Speaker 1: didn't really come along, come along until in the second half.
Speaker 1: But he's a three category contributor. He's gonna definitely hurt
Speaker 1: your your in home runs, you can definitely hurt you
Speaker 1: in r W eyes. But he can be like d Gordon,
Speaker 1: like I see a lot of similarities there. And you know,
Speaker 1: being a left handed bat, he didn't struggle against lefties
Speaker 1: last year either. He actually took a huge step forward
Speaker 1: against left handed pitching. So I don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: Did he give you a two eight plus batting average
Speaker 1: and he gets on base, he can he can come
Speaker 1: close to fifty stolen basis, Greg But again, this is
Speaker 1: a this is a roster construction thing. You have to
Speaker 1: make sure that you're good everywhere else in the power departments.
Speaker 1: But you know again at that point in the draft,
Speaker 1: round nine, round ten, Yeah, he helps your average too,
Speaker 1: so he gives you again, he gives you average still
Speaker 1: bases and run scored. He's you know, that's good. That's
Speaker 1: what we said about Lorenzo Kane, who's going in the
Speaker 1: fourth round except Lorenzo Caine's gonna give you a little
Speaker 1: more popped than Malex Smith. But at this point in
Speaker 1: the draft, to get a batting average, speed and run
Speaker 1: scored kind of guy, and there is a lot to like.
Speaker 1: But I dropped him down a little bit personally, just
Speaker 1: because I don't really know what's going on his elbow injury. Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it gives me some news on that. UM. As a
Speaker 1: shout out to Michelle S. Harper right there. Uh, Malex
Speaker 1: Smith is expected to be cleared to resume throwing next week.
Speaker 1: This was February. I did it again. I really had
Speaker 1: at that time. Actually, um, and it's possible he could
Speaker 1: begin swinging the bat even before that. It's good news
Speaker 1: for Smith, so could be throwing next week. I know
Speaker 1: that's worse. I'm listening for me. I'm the opposite. I
Speaker 1: could understand roto. He does a lot of things that
Speaker 1: you want to fill out and roster construction. But in
Speaker 1: points leagues, he's not He's not that good at him
Speaker 1: for a while last year, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he's He's fine. The thing is,
Speaker 1: he's held around eight and a half percent of walk
Speaker 1: grade for his career. So Smith, you always wanted it
Speaker 1: to be like at least last year I owned him.
Speaker 1: Chris always just wanted to do a little more. He's
Speaker 1: amaze he stole forty bags, but you're like, I felt
Speaker 1: like he always wanted a little bit more, Like he
Speaker 1: stole what he bigs and he only foty five Fantasy points.
Speaker 1: Stole forty bags last year. Greg, it was him and
Speaker 1: with Mary Field. It's not easy and fine man, no man,
Speaker 1: it's not in Rhodo. That's why I'm saying he's valuable
Speaker 1: on Rhodo points. It doesn't matter. We did this yesterday,
Speaker 1: we did this exercise with something else. But I mean,
Speaker 1: name on your hand, how many guys who can legitimately
Speaker 1: steal forty plus bags this year? Only five guys Harry Field,
Speaker 1: Billie Hamilton's Dee Gordon, Alex Smith, monest Starley Marte might
Speaker 1: be Yeah, Marte, maybe he could if he plays a
Speaker 1: full season. By Mookie can to go forty forty. But
Speaker 1: realistically there's really only five guys I can do this.
Speaker 1: Malex Smith is one of them. Kind of liked Gordon
Speaker 1: light and he's going later than de Gordon. Where is
Speaker 1: de Gordon going compared to Malex Smith. Gordon's going Gordon's
Speaker 1: going one ten and Malex Smith is going it picks
Speaker 1: earlier round. Well, then maybe it was just my draft.
Speaker 1: It seems that way. I just don't like him in
Speaker 1: points leagues. I'm not going to drift him as a
Speaker 1: starter in points leagues. Did you have de Gordon as
Speaker 1: a starter in points leaves at second base? Not in
Speaker 1: the outfield, but at second base. Maybe that's a low one,
Speaker 1: right that like speed, guys just don't do They don't
Speaker 1: do it. If you don't have the power and stuff,
Speaker 1: you don't you know, he don't do everything anything else
Speaker 1: really Besides Gordon Waite in the sixth round of my
Speaker 1: draft and Malex Smith went in round eight, we almost
Speaker 1: two full rounds later. Should the discrepancy be that farg
Speaker 1: what do you think? That's just a product of Malex
Speaker 1: Smith not being in spring training right now, dealing with
Speaker 1: the injury. A lot of question marks there. Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: what more younger, I don't want to boot put that
Speaker 1: maybe not one more. But the next guy I want
Speaker 1: to kind of put in this crew potentially is Elo Himnez.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say him Andez, you know him
Speaker 1: and Nez, him and Thenez Eli Him Andz. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: young guys. Don't do that again. Preventral will take you
Speaker 1: out back. Eloimenez not as Harold is as Lad, but
Speaker 1: should be up close soon as after top prospect for
Speaker 1: Chicago long time coming obviously went over to the White
Speaker 1: Sox in the Jose King Thana deal like that. Actually,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, venture. We're gonna get some get
Speaker 1: some calls. What point do you take? What do you take?
Speaker 1: Eli Himanez Frank I think uh, I think in that
Speaker 1: eighth round range again. I think he's in this tear
Speaker 1: right after the those guys that we spoke about in
Speaker 1: the first hour, there are those guys are more of
Speaker 1: the fifth six, maybe seventh round. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the players that we've talked about now are eighth
Speaker 1: rounder later in the eight to ten round range and
Speaker 1: Elohimenez similar to Vladimir Guarro Jr. And I've made this
Speaker 1: case on Twitter for him drink is if Vladimir Guerrero
Speaker 1: weren't around this year, Eloi Himenez would be going two
Speaker 1: or three rounds earlier than he is. Right so, because
Speaker 1: because vlad is kind of taken away all the prospect
Speaker 1: type and everyone wants all the time vladimc Guarro in
Speaker 1: the third round, fourth round, I gotta take vladimcgarreoh junior.
Speaker 1: Everyone's kind of forgetting about Eloi Himenez and he's a
Speaker 1: player that you're getting four rounds later. Should the discrepancy
Speaker 1: be that far between those two? I know, like Vladim
Speaker 1: Mcgarreol's can't miss, like you know, the next generational prospect.
Speaker 1: But look at Ego's numbers. I mean he's really good too.
Speaker 1: He's powers three eleven career hitter in the minor leagues
Speaker 1: within eight seventy eight ops. It's twenty two home runs
Speaker 1: last year and only a hundred and eight games last year.
Speaker 1: We were talking about top pross fixing baseball. The comp
Speaker 1: that I gave him was Nelson Cruz. I think that
Speaker 1: Elo Jimenez. Once he hits his prime, is gonna be
Speaker 1: a two eight plus hitter with thirty five home runs?
Speaker 1: Does he get this there? This year's the question because
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna be down a few weeks in Chicago,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a pretty good ballpark to hit in
Speaker 1: with the White Sox there, and you know, again he's
Speaker 1: gonna learn from a guy like Jose Brave, which I
Speaker 1: think makes a lot of sense. Right, You're gonna have
Speaker 1: that vetter in presence in the lineup. If I'm just
Speaker 1: projecting for this year, he gives you no speed whatsoever,
Speaker 1: but nothing. I think he could be a two eight
Speaker 1: hitter with twenty five plus home runs with with solid
Speaker 1: r b I s as well in the White Sox
Speaker 1: a per game basis, that'll be pretty It just good.
Speaker 1: It just comes down to what you need at that
Speaker 1: point in the draft. If you need batting average, home
Speaker 1: runs in RBIs, I think Elo him and is gonna
Speaker 1: be a pretty good bat. Would you take him ahead
Speaker 1: of Malex Smith, Victor rob I like Victor Roblats his
Speaker 1: power speed combination a little bit more, and the fact
Speaker 1: that he's already been in the Major league. He got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a taste last year, and he's
Speaker 1: going to start. I like roblasts a little bit more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Eloy I have I have just a few spots
Speaker 1: beyond him. I have Rode last at thirty. I have
Speaker 1: Eloy at thirty four. So they're they're just for reference.
Speaker 1: Where's like Brantley and Pollock we talked about earlier? Brightly
Speaker 1: it's thirty five. Have the one spot behind at thirty six.
Speaker 1: Oh so interesting. So Rode Blas and Jimenez are before
Speaker 1: these guys. Interesting. Okay, two spots ahead of Eloy. I
Speaker 1: have ear knows um leg Calf, whatever you can think of,
Speaker 1: Will myersond and I have Aaron Hicks thirty third. That
Speaker 1: was awesome. We did that. Let's get an Aron Hicks.
Speaker 1: Perfect time to do that before we hit the break
Speaker 1: one last player. Aaron Hicks size the seventy seven years,
Speaker 1: seventy million dollar extension. And I keep saying, then O B.
Speaker 1: P Leaves in particular. I like Aaron Hicks. Man. You
Speaker 1: look at this dude and he does everything that theoretically
Speaker 1: you would. I let's just say with average, the average
Speaker 1: isn't good. The everage two forty eight was two forty
Speaker 1: eight last year's a career two thirties six center the
Speaker 1: O b P. I think he's better than the two
Speaker 1: forty the O b pe s six year before that
Speaker 1: with the US three sevent too. He's always been high
Speaker 1: on base guy, and he says that's what he does.
Speaker 1: What makes him so good is that he always tries
Speaker 1: to limit the strikeouts and walk a lot. He walked
Speaker 1: fifteen and a half percent of the time last year
Speaker 1: while striking out under twenty percent of the time. Twenty
Speaker 1: seven mombs stole eleven basses. He's got that consistently steals
Speaker 1: you around ten bases when giving an opportunity. Uh ninety
Speaker 1: runs scored, seventy nine r v I. Hicks is going
Speaker 1: to hit probably near the top of the Yankees. A
Speaker 1: lot of him leave right now. He's projected to lead off. UM,
Speaker 1: he could flip flop I with Glaberry in the middle
Speaker 1: at some point, but he's gonna hit in the middle
Speaker 1: to the top of the Yankees lone of a Yankee stadium.
Speaker 1: That's very good. He's a switch hitter. He's going to
Speaker 1: be there in there every day as their center fielder.
Speaker 1: You you should want Aaron Hicks I really really like
Speaker 1: Aaron Higgs a lot that he was an average Fantasy
Speaker 1: points per game. He was number thirteen outfielder. He's great.
Speaker 1: Love That's why I was three point seven. He's really
Speaker 1: good because past two years, fourteen percent or higher put
Speaker 1: down the strikeouts of the you know, since earlier on
Speaker 1: in his career he's below there's below league average in
Speaker 1: terms of he's gonna give you, you know, tennis twelve steals.
Speaker 1: And if this is a big if, because last year
Speaker 1: he played a career high a hundred and thirty seven games.
Speaker 1: If he stays healthy leading off of the Yankees Greg,
Speaker 1: he has the upside to score a hundred and ten runs.
Speaker 1: Legitimately runs last year and a hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 1: games he plays a hundred and fifty, he's gonna score
Speaker 1: a hundred plus runs, So he does have that upside. Again,
Speaker 1: the battle ball data is great. Hits a lot of
Speaker 1: line drives. I mean, he really came into it els
Speaker 1: on last year thirty nine percent hard hit rate stat
Speaker 1: has had his expected batting average at two sixty. Last
Speaker 1: season he was at to forty eight. He was a
Speaker 1: little bit unlucky. I think he's more of a two
Speaker 1: sixty two sixty five hitter who can between twenty and
Speaker 1: thirty home runs, and if he stays healthy, he could
Speaker 1: legitimately hit thirty home runs least he plays a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty games. That's sixty thirty home runs, a hundred
Speaker 1: runs scored, and ten to twelve stolen basis. If he
Speaker 1: could have more than square, I mean Aaron Judge, Cal Stanton,
Speaker 1: Gary Sanchez behind him. That's ridiculous. That's why I don't
Speaker 1: think he should be drifted as a third outfielder. I
Speaker 1: think he should drifted as more of a utility guy.
Speaker 1: I would be very happy as like my fourth outfield
Speaker 1: slash utility guy in my line up, my fantasy lineup.
Speaker 1: ELI is an interesting I'll take Aaron Hicks. I'll take
Speaker 1: Aaron Hicks. Take a break. We'll hit the bottom of
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Speaker 1: his Patreon. Guys, a couple of outfielders left to get
Speaker 1: in to round out I should say, the top forty
Speaker 1: outfielders on the board, and a guy that I've gone
Speaker 1: back and forth with this trap season. He's David Peralta
Speaker 1: of Arizona, who if you look at some of the
Speaker 1: batted ball profile, it's just pretty good. There's a lots
Speaker 1: of like on David Peralta, and you're like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be in on this guy. You see that the
Speaker 1: hard hit percentage was forty eight point six and I
Speaker 1: like that. It was like the second half ridiculous. You
Speaker 1: like that even better. What you don't like is that
Speaker 1: the groundball percentage is over fifty percent for David Parralta. Well,
Speaker 1: you like three bombs last year, two three batting average, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the babbit was less than it was the year before,
Speaker 1: three back to back years. You like that. What you
Speaker 1: don't like is the split against lefties where he isn't
Speaker 1: so great, adding to thirty seven against them last season.
Speaker 1: David Parralt does a name where I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's a hype guy frank or is a He's a
Speaker 1: guy that people kind of feels a little bit sneaky on.
Speaker 1: What do you think about David parla He's not a
Speaker 1: hype guy. I'm a little torn on He's not a
Speaker 1: hiph guy. There's a feeling in the industry that like him.
Speaker 1: I know Al melki Or isn't on him. There was
Speaker 1: a pretty cool piece on The Athletic which talked about
Speaker 1: him consciously trying to raise his launch angle and lift
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more. As you could see
Speaker 1: in his battleball profile from eighteen, he lowered his groundball
Speaker 1: rate by five percent, started hitting more line drives, started
Speaker 1: hitting more flyballs, and if he trends even more in
Speaker 1: that direction and continues to square up the ball and
Speaker 1: hit it as hard as he does, then you know,
Speaker 1: maybe his upside is higher than thirty home runs. And look,
Speaker 1: the home run the flyball ratio was a career outlier.
Speaker 1: It was very high last season. But if you continue
Speaker 1: to uh to improve the launch angle and hit the
Speaker 1: ball hard, even if the home run the fly ball
Speaker 1: ratio comes down a little bit, those things can mitigate, mitigate,
Speaker 1: and he could still kind of be in twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty home run range. We know that he's a
Speaker 1: good cure hitter in terms of batting average career to hitter.
Speaker 1: I want to see him get better against lefties, for sure,
Speaker 1: but you know, at this point in his career he
Speaker 1: has appearances. He hasn't been good against lefties ever, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's ever gonna come. He's an elite,
Speaker 1: elite hitter against right handed bats. I'm talking about like
Speaker 1: one of the you know, ten fifteen nest hitters in
Speaker 1: baseball against right handed pitchers. But this is kind of
Speaker 1: who he is at this point. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: so I don't think the power is is going up.
Speaker 1: It's going down if anything. Yeah, look he's probably closer
Speaker 1: to home run guy. But from where he's going in drafts,
Speaker 1: even if he gives you his career batting average, which
Speaker 1: is around to ninety and he's twenty five home runs
Speaker 1: with you know, eighty plus RBIs and plus runs, but
Speaker 1: where he's going in drafts, it's pretty good value. He could.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be a pretty good value. You
Speaker 1: don't want to drift him as a as one of
Speaker 1: your first three out. I don't want him as one
Speaker 1: of my first That's what it comes down to. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's kind of like a fallback option. The ones that
Speaker 1: are the ones that we're gonna be talking about this
Speaker 1: segment are like fallback options totally if you miss out,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe I should have told myself that
Speaker 1: because I missed out with the fallback options, well you
Speaker 1: missed out. You missed out on David Peralta. And then
Speaker 1: that you just told us during the break that you
Speaker 1: might may have to consider is Ian Desmond and you
Speaker 1: got the Colorado Rocky Course Field factor. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Ian Desmond, Desmond was a guy that I think
Speaker 1: we were You and I were on him last year, right, Frank, Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't really getting him at a discount because of
Speaker 1: what he did in seventeen, his first year at the Rock.
Speaker 1: So theoretically we could say it didn't work out last year.
Speaker 1: He's bad at two thirty six. But yet you look
Speaker 1: at just the line and as a Rodo player, Whey
Speaker 1: Homer's steals ad runs scored eight eight r v I
Speaker 1: that's a really good line. And by to look at
Speaker 1: that bad to seventy nine, his batty was to seventy nine.
Speaker 1: He's a career and he plays in course field. He
Speaker 1: plays in courts field. So a two seventy nine bad.
Speaker 1: I don't care that he hits the ball in the
Speaker 1: ground sixty two percent of the time, which is it's
Speaker 1: a little it's a little annoying, but He's always hit
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground a lot. I mean not
Speaker 1: this much. But you know, even if the power comes
Speaker 1: back a little bit, even if he's eighteen home runs
Speaker 1: back to back years of sixty, Grandma, all right, what
Speaker 1: do you believes in Colorado? Right? So the batting average
Speaker 1: is gonna bounce back, and believe he's expected batting average
Speaker 1: was somewhere like to sixty, right, and you look at
Speaker 1: the projections have him right around two sixty. Got to
Speaker 1: be better in course field, like he was unlucky last year.
Speaker 1: The bad bit was bad. The batting average was two
Speaker 1: thirty six. That was a career low for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's it's an obvious outlier season for him. And he
Speaker 1: hit the ball harder than ever before last season as well.
Speaker 1: So look, I don't love Ian Desmond, but again you're
Speaker 1: talking about a guy who can come close to being
Speaker 1: a twenty with at eight plus runs and eight plus
Speaker 1: RBI's last year, and he's going where he's going. I
Speaker 1: don't like you. I like more as an outfield four,
Speaker 1: but he's one of these guys where he's gonna at
Speaker 1: least contribute a little bit of steals. He's getting to
Speaker 1: be in guy with solid county stats, and I expect
Speaker 1: the batting average to be better in the in the
Speaker 1: two sixty Chornge, I think it's a fine I think
Speaker 1: he's a fine rotal league player league yet not a
Speaker 1: point too streaky to you know, very streaky too hit
Speaker 1: a miss, like at the end of the year. At
Speaker 1: the end of the year, the numbers will be there.
Speaker 1: It's all. That's all another guy you're considering. Yesterday, at
Speaker 1: least I was enduring because he has some speed, he
Speaker 1: has some ability to hit for average at times. And
Speaker 1: yet when I say that name, venture goes cringe. Why
Speaker 1: don't you like Chris. He's not a points league guy.
Speaker 1: He's just not a point league guy. Dude. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna get it done in points leagus for you so much.
Speaker 1: So much of value is tied into where he's gonna
Speaker 1: hit in the lineup, which nobody knows right now, because
Speaker 1: the other day Ronald Dacunia batted clean up its bring
Speaker 1: training and today he's hitting leadoff, So they're kind of
Speaker 1: trying a Kunia in different spots. But if Kunia does
Speaker 1: bat clean up, then they're they're gonna put n cr
Speaker 1: tap off. Obviously that helps his value tremendously because then
Speaker 1: he's gonna have more opportunities to run. He's gonna score
Speaker 1: a ton of runs in that Braves lineup, hitting ahead
Speaker 1: of Josh Donaldson and Freddie Freeman and Ronald Kunia. So
Speaker 1: his values directly tied into where he's gonna bat. But
Speaker 1: last year, I think, you know, the two sixty five
Speaker 1: batting average is the outlier every other you know, the
Speaker 1: three years before that, he was to nine one or better.
Speaker 1: I think he's a better hitter than Town. I would
Speaker 1: expect a two sixty five and he's I would expect
Speaker 1: the two eighty five batting average, twenty five steals, you
Speaker 1: ran a lot last year. He got, he did, but
Speaker 1: he also he attempted forty two steals last season. That
Speaker 1: was by far his highest. I mean before that, his
Speaker 1: highest was thirty one attempts. He attempted forty two last year.
Speaker 1: So and maybe that was that was under a newer
Speaker 1: ish manager for the Atlanta Brave. So if that's a
Speaker 1: mindset thing where they want n c RT to run
Speaker 1: a lot, that's a good thing. So I think he's
Speaker 1: probably closer to five steals to eight five batting average.
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna get though here, which that isn't complete?
Speaker 1: Like he gave you at least ten home runs each
Speaker 1: to the past two seasons, would you have? Isn't he
Speaker 1: a lot like male Lorenzo Kane? Now you're looking at
Speaker 1: it right, Lorenzo Kane gave you ten home runs and
Speaker 1: thirty eight Ribbies last year and there give you ten
Speaker 1: home runs at sixty one Ribby's and he scored, He
Speaker 1: scored at least eighty runs three years. Kane walked a
Speaker 1: lot more. Kane walked at a better clip. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: at and I know I like Lorentzo Kane hits three
Speaker 1: hundred and everyone's I think two years ago. I think
Speaker 1: people are reacting a little bit too in in CRTs
Speaker 1: to sixty five at batting average last year, it's a
Speaker 1: career two eighty nine hitter will go all right, Frank
Speaker 1: I was sold. If you need need, if you need speed,
Speaker 1: solid average and steals and someone who's not gonna completely
Speaker 1: sink you, and he's gonna give you ten home runs
Speaker 1: in the you know, in this range of the draft
Speaker 1: in is whatever. He's he's a pretty good like he's
Speaker 1: learned learns o Kane light but not really that light.
Speaker 1: He's actually a pretty close. Why is Kane going so
Speaker 1: much higher? You tell me Greg, accounting stats kind of
Speaker 1: the same. I think the side might be better than
Speaker 1: the Brewer's lineup. The fact that they you know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get from Lorenzo Cane. You know that he's
Speaker 1: gonna hit lead off every single game. You don't know
Speaker 1: that about it was a little bit more. I guess what,
Speaker 1: I have them ready, all right, and there's played a
Speaker 1: hundred fifty six games. Lenzo Cane played one. You know,
Speaker 1: Lorenzo can is gonna miss a few games. He had
Speaker 1: forty less of bats total. Cane had ten home runs
Speaker 1: home runs. Kane had ninety runs scored in year seven
Speaker 1: run difference and CRT had sixty one Ibby's he need
Speaker 1: thirty eight thirty steals for Kane, eight for incrte times
Speaker 1: was Kane caught stealing seven? Much better, much better ratio.
Speaker 1: The only attempt at thirty seven. The ratio is great
Speaker 1: attempt at forty two. A lot got caught fourteen times.
Speaker 1: But they kept running them out there. I mean walk
Speaker 1: great Cane at eleven and a half percent in seven
Speaker 1: and a half percent, that's the difference. That's a big
Speaker 1: difference ob P and points leagues. That obviously matters. Cane
Speaker 1: strikes out a little bit, standard Cane strikes a little
Speaker 1: bit more more. Fifteen point two percent in CRT is attent.
Speaker 1: I think we found something here. I think we did too.
Speaker 1: Babbitt for Lorenzo Cane last year, three fifty seven CRT
Speaker 1: to three. Would you rather have NCRT here? Malex Smith
Speaker 1: in Sierta. Malex Smith has the upside of fifty steals too,
Speaker 1: Like I think he comes. He's a better player. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit more of everything. Yeah, he's more balanced,
Speaker 1: just more balanced. Yeah, I have it paral to Malex
Speaker 1: Smith TRT in that order right now. On draft either
Speaker 1: one of those guys, I'll just tell you that they're
Speaker 1: not points le guys. Would you drop there? Would you
Speaker 1: draft David Peralta him I Mike, would you draft him before?
Speaker 1: Would you draft Andrew McCutcheon? Yes? Yes, are badly, we
Speaker 1: are bad? What is happening? You guys are all in
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. Awesome, dude, he's awesome. What pup
Speaker 1: I got it? You're actually gonna get your present? Pasantly
Speaker 1: surprised letn't surprise. Look, the twenty Horme runs looks bad
Speaker 1: last year because he played after in San Francisco. What
Speaker 1: are you three percent hard hit rate? Greig? It's still
Speaker 1: there but for the for the old Stallion here? Do
Speaker 1: you like him? And Philly? He ain't that old? Would
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you like it? Ain't that old? It is?
Speaker 1: It is? Yesterday we were talking about certain players. It's
Speaker 1: the it's the best ballpark that he's gonna play in ever,
Speaker 1: for ever, I mean playing the stadium last year, but
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the scene, for the entire year
Speaker 1: of the season. It's the best ballpark he's ever going
Speaker 1: to play in. And he's pretty good. Phillies line up.
Speaker 1: It would be better if Bryce Harper would go there,
Speaker 1: but now I'm not so sure. But it's still a
Speaker 1: pretty good line up with Real Mutoa and Reese Hoskins.
Speaker 1: The Phillies lineup is good. Are going to be there, man,
Speaker 1: Like I'm back, I'm back, back up last year. Remember
Speaker 1: when everybody gave up him a cutcheon? Was it last year?
Speaker 1: Two or two years ago when he was I'm back.
Speaker 1: He's going so late nobody wants him? Yeah, nobody wants
Speaker 1: him because of that though. That's what I'm saying. He
Speaker 1: disappeared at one point two years going in and then
Speaker 1: he's doing one thirty seven. He's going after right after Jimenez,
Speaker 1: Michael Brandley, Aaron Higgs, David Peralta, and for me, Andrew
Speaker 1: McCutcheon is a guy based on Now here's a guy
Speaker 1: that based on his hard hit rate last year and
Speaker 1: as many line drives as he hits, he should have
Speaker 1: been a better hitter than two fifty five. So I
Speaker 1: think he's closer to a let's see, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's a two seventh stadding average, close to home runs
Speaker 1: in the middle, middle of the Phillies order. He's gonna
Speaker 1: drive in more and as much as he gets on base,
Speaker 1: he's gonna score runs in the Phillies line up, and
Speaker 1: in the stolen basis came back up last year. Not
Speaker 1: to mention he's gonna walk twelve to fifteen stolen bases.
Speaker 1: He might walk a hundred times. He doesn't hurt you anywhere.
Speaker 1: He doesn't hurt you anywhere like that happens. Right if
Speaker 1: he has two seventy with twenty four home runs, eighty
Speaker 1: runs scored, eighty five r b I s and twelve
Speaker 1: stolen bases. He's basically Eddie Rosario and that group. He's
Speaker 1: basically that group in his production. But he's going later,
Speaker 1: much later. Let's see two rounds, three rounds. Eddie Rosario
Speaker 1: and Hanniger are going pick nine is going on seven.
Speaker 1: This is a guy. This is a player that is
Speaker 1: undervalued right now for fantasy purpose. Just honestly, the move
Speaker 1: to Philly is huge, fim. He's gonna score over a
Speaker 1: hundred runs lineup. I mean he he hasn't gotten hurt
Speaker 1: a long time. Really, he plays almost hundred six. Is
Speaker 1: he projected to lead off right now? Is that where
Speaker 1: the leadoff? Alright? So then the RBIs aren't gonna be there.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be like the runs will be with Segura, Real, Muttu,
Speaker 1: Ries Haskins all batting behind him. I think he'll score
Speaker 1: a hundred runs. He'll I mean I lead off. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. He's gonna take a hit in aubis. He's
Speaker 1: gonna walk a hundred times because people are gonna walk
Speaker 1: him because's been lead I mean, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: get end up getting a lot of walks. You walk
Speaker 1: ninety five times last year. That's that's a lot. That's
Speaker 1: a lot, dude. I mean he does everything well. I
Speaker 1: don't see how people only get fourteen bags also, so
Speaker 1: I'll have ten to fifteen bags. Ninety average eggs of
Speaker 1: Philosophy was a three year best last year renaissance. I
Speaker 1: would take him as a third outfielder even we have
Speaker 1: a minute left, you will not be in tomorrow. Give
Speaker 1: us one more outfield that you're targeting, Austin Meadows. I've
Speaker 1: moved them all the way up. I have him as
Speaker 1: as my outfielder forty one right now. You know, once
Speaker 1: you get past you know it's McCutcheon, David Parlson, Alex Smith,
Speaker 1: n CRT. That's kind of like the cut off for me,
Speaker 1: where those are your fallback outfielder three options. If I
Speaker 1: end up with Alson Meadows as my outfielder four in
Speaker 1: a lot of leagues, I'll be pleasantly surprised, because I
Speaker 1: do think there's upside there. He has the prospect. I'd agree.
Speaker 1: I think you could be between fifteen and twenty home
Speaker 1: runs and stolen bases, not gonna kill your batting average.
Speaker 1: It's actually better against lefties. Last year he makes a
Speaker 1: lot of contact, he doesn't strike out. I think Tam
Speaker 1: Bay is gonna let him play every day. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot to like about all the medals this year.
Speaker 1: I'm in Venture and I will break down the rest
Speaker 1: of the top fifty outfielders tomorrow on the program. We're
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