Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Podcast. It is me Joey p joe.
Speaker 2: Pisapia, and today we've got another all star team for
Speaker 2: you today it's the All Sleeper Team for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Get excited, everybody, It's me, it's the Welsh, it's you,
Speaker 2: and everybody has a different definition of sleeper. And to me, Welsh,
Speaker 2: when I think about sleepers, I just think about guys who.
Speaker 1: Are being undervalued.
Speaker 2: And sometimes it's young players, but sometimes it's also veterans
Speaker 2: who continue to produce and yet still nobody wants them
Speaker 2: because they're another year older. But sometimes these veterans can
Speaker 2: continue to be steady productive players in your fantasy lineup.
Speaker 2: Do you have a definition of sleeper before we kick
Speaker 2: things off with our All Sleeper Team of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's kind of like, uh, because there's breakouts
Speaker 3: and there's sleepers and rebounds and blah blah blah. They're
Speaker 3: they're all in the same family. So sleepers, in my
Speaker 3: mind are players that are being taught about less than
Speaker 3: Because we just did the Breakouts episode and that episode
Speaker 3: is designed these players are ready to take this next step,
Speaker 3: and they're usially not like in the higher level, I
Speaker 3: do think sleepers can still be Like there could be
Speaker 3: a guy that's ranked like fifty if I think he
Speaker 3: can be the first overall player. Michael Harris. Michael Harris
Speaker 3: isn't a sleeper technically.
Speaker 1: No, but in the depth be a sleeper of the
Speaker 1: first No.
Speaker 3: No, but in my definition of like, if that's a
Speaker 3: guy that's like a third rounder, that I can be
Speaker 3: a first rounder, Like, that's kind of that undervat. So
Speaker 3: it comes back to your undervalued conversation. My definition in
Speaker 3: this episode is players that get talked about less because
Speaker 3: the community is so much bigger, there's so many more
Speaker 3: people in voices, it's hard to find sleepers and deeper.
Speaker 3: So I'm playing these deeper names because I do believe
Speaker 3: there's handfuls of players that are still in the top
Speaker 3: one hundred that are sleepers by being undervalued. But these
Speaker 3: are much further down. These are further down guys we're
Speaker 3: sleeping on that in some cases aren't really being drafted,
Speaker 3: could then end up jumping in and being valuable starters
Speaker 3: across the board. So I will kind of join you
Speaker 3: in all all that stupid crap. I just said in
Speaker 3: that it's like it's undervalued. These are undervalued players discussed.
Speaker 1: Sleep is the key for you.
Speaker 2: I like it when you said under discussed because I
Speaker 2: think you know, there's certain guys we've talked about so much.
Speaker 2: You know, we've talked about the Reagans and the Michael
Speaker 2: Kings and the Kaminaro, like, we've.
Speaker 1: Talked about those guys, and we love those guys.
Speaker 2: But I think it's important to start to give some
Speaker 2: love to some players that nobody's talking about, or maybe
Speaker 2: people are tired of talking about, or even worse. Take
Speaker 2: for granted, and I'm looking at just so happens. All
Speaker 2: of mine are ADP's outside of the top two hundred
Speaker 2: save one who's at one ninety nine currently, So I'm
Speaker 2: talking about guys that are buried. I'm talking about this
Speaker 2: is towards the end of your drafts. So again for sleepers,
Speaker 2: it's a mixture. For me, and I'm gonna start here
Speaker 2: with our catcher, and for me, it's Mitch Garver, who
Speaker 2: I don't think people are paying enough attention to now
Speaker 2: when you look at fangrafts, he is slated to hit
Speaker 2: four in this lineup. He qualifies at catcher, but he's
Speaker 2: also going to DA so you're gonna get more at
Speaker 2: bats out of Mitch Garver. Mitch Garver last year had
Speaker 2: a pretty solid season. He's still going to give you power,
Speaker 2: which I think that's something that is forgotten too much.
Speaker 2: If you're in deeper leagues and you're looking for somebody
Speaker 2: with RBI potential, somebody with power potential, or in the
Speaker 2: two catcher league, Mitch.
Speaker 1: Garver becomes really intriguing.
Speaker 2: He is right now currently the fifteenth catcher going off
Speaker 2: the board and Welsh I don't think we're taking enough
Speaker 2: into account his position in the batting order, which means
Speaker 2: so much. He's got Horidy Polanco and Julio Rodriguez hitting
Speaker 2: in front of him. Those guys are going to be
Speaker 2: on base. He's gonna have RBI opportunities. I think Mitch
Speaker 2: Garver is one of these guys that you could take
Speaker 2: as a deeper league utility guy. I think he's a
Speaker 2: great bench bat. I think he's a great deeper league
Speaker 2: catcher or in a two catcher league. Mitch Garver is
Speaker 2: somebody you should pay attention to because, like I said,
Speaker 2: he is going to qualify there and He's going to
Speaker 2: get at bats in the middle of that Seattle order,
Speaker 2: and I think Seattle is going to be challenging for
Speaker 2: that West this year.
Speaker 1: They're my pick to win it.
Speaker 2: I know that's not always the popular pick, but I
Speaker 2: think from the board right now on the betting side,
Speaker 2: it's a really intriguing one. Who is your catcher that
Speaker 2: you think is in your all sleeper team this year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to point out I probably would have
Speaker 3: picked Garver here of all the position I was also say,
Speaker 3: all the positions that we're gonna talk about. I do
Speaker 3: think the line between breakout and sleeper and like favorite
Speaker 3: player to draft, they're really close in this because, as
Speaker 3: I've said to a lot of people, I like late catchers.
Speaker 3: I don't want any of the guys on the top end.
Speaker 3: So could I have picked Gabby Moreno here, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: put him in the all breakout team because I think
Speaker 3: he's going to take a next step one of your
Speaker 3: guys Logan, Ohoppy, I could have put him here as well. Garb.
Speaker 2: I think I'd breakout because I think he showed you
Speaker 2: enough last year where you're like, Okay, you give this
Speaker 2: guy one hundred and you know twenty five games, he's
Speaker 2: gonna hit thirty home runs, like that's a breakout.
Speaker 3: But he's also a sleeper at catcher.
Speaker 2: Fourteen he can be You're right at sleeper at catcher.
Speaker 2: He's still technically a sleeper as well. But you got
Speaker 2: another name.
Speaker 3: On this, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was just kind
Speaker 3: of lining all those up because I think the line
Speaker 3: is very thin. The guy that I picked is the
Speaker 3: ninth adyp catcher, so it's not too too far down there.
Speaker 3: It's Wilson Catreras. And one of the reasons behind putting
Speaker 3: Wilson Contreras there is constant twenty three straight seasons now,
Speaker 3: he has put up at least twenty homers, gets a
Speaker 3: handful of stolen bases. Batting average is actually ticked up
Speaker 3: over the last three years. I think that Cardinal team
Speaker 3: is gonna kind of rock back out this year this
Speaker 3: coming year. His XBA was the highest of his career
Speaker 3: this past year, two seventy nine versus his two sixty
Speaker 3: four batting average. Hard hit numbers are pretty solid, almost
Speaker 3: forty seven percent hard hit Baseball Savant. You go and
Speaker 3: look outside of his chase rate, you're kind of top
Speaker 3: twenty percentile and ex wOBA X slugging in a really
Speaker 3: good offensive lineup that I think, like I said, Aeronaudo
Speaker 3: Goldie are going to have a bounce back and at
Speaker 3: catcher nine. Really the sleeper aspect of this is I
Speaker 3: don't think anybody talks about him. People talk more about
Speaker 3: his brother. People focus on the top end. I think
Speaker 3: Catres can easily be a top five closer or catcher,
Speaker 3: So I think he definitely defines the high end offensive
Speaker 3: upside that I want from catcher. So Gabby Marino breaks out,
Speaker 3: Ohapi breaks out, Garver is killer, but Contreris can be
Speaker 3: a top five catcher easy with those offensive stats, and
Speaker 3: that is why we are sleeping on him and he's
Speaker 3: my all catcher sleeper.
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Speaker 2: And now back to the action. All right, who is
Speaker 2: sleeping on at first base?
Speaker 1: Welsh?
Speaker 2: Because your name is somebody that I just took in
Speaker 2: our Underdog draft. I think with all the new rookies,
Speaker 2: were kind of leaving him out of a lot of discussions.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about your selection.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you were saying like all your sleepers are
Speaker 3: outside the top two hundred. Contrast is technically because of
Speaker 3: the NFPC, I have two other players that are inside
Speaker 3: the top two hundred that I'm designing as sleepers. This
Speaker 3: is one of them Christian incarnacion strand huge hard hit
Speaker 3: numbers this past year average one to eleven almost essentially
Speaker 3: one to twelve ev, which is killer. Over ten percent
Speaker 3: barrel rate, which is great, almost a fifty percent hard
Speaker 3: hit rate which is phenomenal, forty eight point four percent.
Speaker 3: And let's go back to the batting average stuff. His
Speaker 3: expected batting average XBA it was the same as his
Speaker 3: batting average which was two seventy. So their strikeout issues.
Speaker 3: But what does he do in my book, hits the
Speaker 3: ball really hard. He also barrels the ball, he gets
Speaker 3: it in the air. And now he's got more opportunity
Speaker 3: with the Nuelvie Marte situation in the best hitting ballpark
Speaker 3: in baseball, best ballpark factors, So now we're less worried
Speaker 3: about any weird playing time stuff. He's going to be
Speaker 3: handed this first base job. So why is he a sleeper?
Speaker 3: Because he is being massively undervalued, which could have been
Speaker 3: a big piece because of this weird situation with too
Speaker 3: many players, and this might start to change. But at
Speaker 3: one fifty seven and ADP the nineteenth first baseman on
Speaker 3: the Fantasy pros, ADP, he's a sleeper he's the top
Speaker 3: one hundred bat Christian and Carnelcion Strand. I love Tristan Kassis.
Speaker 3: He's my all breakout team. I all whatever, I want,
Speaker 3: every share of him. Strand could put up top ten
Speaker 3: catcher numbers this year and he's almost going into the
Speaker 3: first base numbers.
Speaker 1: You mean first base?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, first base. I'm catcher closer.
Speaker 1: You tried to have a catcher close and now you're
Speaker 1: like catcher.
Speaker 3: Closer is as an enunciation thing between it. I screwed
Speaker 3: up all the time. I don't know how I turned
Speaker 3: him into a catcher. The good thing is he's got
Speaker 3: a position. It's first base. Those power numbers are real
Speaker 3: and there's a thirty home run potential, uh with Cincinnati
Speaker 3: with all of that playing time. So I think Strand
Speaker 3: we have been sleeping on him, and we might not
Speaker 3: be so sleepy anymore because of the Nouelvie Marte situation.
Speaker 3: But he's my pick for the all sleeper first baseman.
Speaker 1: I've got one from Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: And also, you know, if you watch the show last week,
Speaker 2: we did the breakout Team and I was talking about
Speaker 2: Michael Garcia Thurbe. I was also talking about Nuevee Marte.
Speaker 1: That was my main guy.
Speaker 2: And of course the pd suspension came like hours later
Speaker 2: after we finished that show, of course, but because of
Speaker 2: that same suspension, I've got another guy in Cincinnati who
Speaker 2: he's gonna get more playing time for sure. Now it's
Speaker 2: johnmer Candelario of the Cincinnati Rights. Last year, coming off
Speaker 2: a season where he had twenty two homers the RBI
Speaker 2: seventy runs, he say, okay, well, that's not really exciting,
Speaker 2: but you know what, it's exciting enough when you're hitting
Speaker 2: in the middle of his order in a good offensive ballpark,
Speaker 2: on a good offensive team, and in those mixed leagues,
Speaker 2: those deeper leagues where you're looking for help in your
Speaker 2: corner spots. He qualifies at first, he qualifies a third.
Speaker 2: The dual eligibility is great. I'm putting him here at
Speaker 2: first base on this team because, again, middle of the order.
Speaker 2: I keep coming back to how important lineup placement is
Speaker 2: in fantasy and right now, Strand is looking like he
Speaker 2: could be hitting eighth according to Fangrafts. That's where he's projected.
Speaker 2: Candelario hitting cleanup right now. Now, that could flip flop
Speaker 2: by May. But at the same time. I think you
Speaker 2: have to pay attention to Candelaria. He is a player
Speaker 2: that I don't think gets enough credit. Another guy too,
Speaker 2: He qualifies at second base. He qualifies a couple of
Speaker 2: places as a Brandon Drury of the Los Angeles Angels.
Speaker 2: He is the twenty second second baseman going off the
Speaker 2: board two twenty and ADP currently and this is another
Speaker 2: one Welsh. I just don't get it. I keep looking
Speaker 2: around and I keep saying to myself, why does no
Speaker 2: one want Brandon Drury qualifies at first qualifies a second
Speaker 2: two straight of twenty six or more homers, twenty eight
Speaker 2: homers in twenty twenty two, twenty six last year. Again,
Speaker 2: I understand the runs and RBI fell short a little bit,
Speaker 2: maybe have expectations, especially the runs last year, down from
Speaker 2: eighty seven to sixty seven, but he's still at two
Speaker 2: sixty in both of those. I'm looking at just the
Speaker 2: profile of this player, and I think, because people are
Speaker 2: so sour on the Angels, and rightfully so, that his
Speaker 2: ADP has been suppressed further than it should be, because
Speaker 2: if you're just talking about a projectability of a twenty
Speaker 2: eighty eighty player, and that's what he is with a
Speaker 2: two to sixty batting average. I think that's better than
Speaker 2: two twenty at eightp I just think that's far more valuable.
Speaker 2: You know who the player is. I understand that first year,
Speaker 2: maybe you weren't buying all the power, you weren't buying everything.
Speaker 2: But when he basically repeated it year over year, what
Speaker 2: do you have to lose with this player?
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: I don't think we've done one show where we talked
Speaker 2: about him. I've started drafting him. I drafted him in
Speaker 2: the raz Slam. I drafted him in a couple other
Speaker 2: best ball situations. We just did the Underdog Draft. I
Speaker 2: drafted him there too. He's going late, he's got pop,
Speaker 2: he's got at bats. To me, this is another player
Speaker 2: that I'm going to lock in terms of batting order. Also,
Speaker 2: that's another thing where okay, where's he gonna hit in
Speaker 2: the order. We know Trout's gonna be, you know, towards
Speaker 2: the top of the order, but right now he is
Speaker 2: slated to hit sixth in this batting order.
Speaker 1: That's a good situation there.
Speaker 2: Anthony Rendome is never healthy, so he could easily flip
Speaker 2: into that four or five spot without a doubt.
Speaker 1: So that's my guy's second. Okay, so Drury is the
Speaker 1: guy for me.
Speaker 2: Welsh, You've got another guy at second base on your list,
Speaker 2: also on the same Angel squad.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stay with it. It was funny. I actually had
Speaker 3: a Bill smile when you when you put dry on
Speaker 3: here and you said Drury because I'm going on that
Speaker 3: other side with Luis Ringifo as a super super deep
Speaker 3: sleeper here two sixty six ADP right now, as far
Speaker 3: as second base goes, he's ranked twenty eighth on the
Speaker 3: Fantasy pros ADP when you look at it now, numbers
Speaker 3: last year pretty solid. He's he increased his barrel percentage
Speaker 3: career high barrel percentage into the sevens. His hard hit
Speaker 3: rate continues to tick up. It was actually a career
Speaker 3: high thirty six point nine percent. But the guy at
Speaker 3: LEAs sits around that two fifty batting average marker does
Speaker 3: not strike out a whole bunch. We've seen some power
Speaker 3: seventeen and sixteen homers respectively. He's also hit the same
Speaker 3: batting average two straight years. But the talking about him
Speaker 3: leading off, and that's something that I really know pun
Speaker 3: intended to our show. That's something that I really like
Speaker 3: if he's going to be able to lead off, even
Speaker 3: if it's in a split situation, if it's like him
Speaker 3: and then Shan, well, if they're going to go back
Speaker 3: between that, it's going to create run opportunities. Everything that
Speaker 3: you just said about Brandon Drury lives with Rin Gifo
Speaker 3: as well. He's probably going to score more runs than
Speaker 3: he is RBI batting average anywhere from the two fifty
Speaker 3: to two seventy range. He's going to steal some bases,
Speaker 3: we might get into double digits with more opportunities, and
Speaker 3: he qualifies at a lot of different spots. So he's
Speaker 3: kind of one of those super utility markers. So Luis
Speaker 3: ring Guifo is going to be my sleeper second baseman.
Speaker 2: Now I mentioned this name on the Breakout Show, and
Speaker 2: you've carried him over to the sleeper list because I
Speaker 2: think it's a great spot. So with third base, as
Speaker 2: a guy in Kansas City who who might be flying
Speaker 2: to the top of the batting order because he's having
Speaker 2: such a good spring. We talked about him last week,
Speaker 2: Michael Garcia, So Walsha, I want you to talk about
Speaker 2: him some more because this is a player that I
Speaker 2: kind of, you know, was alluding to maybe there's a
Speaker 2: breakout there.
Speaker 1: Not the biggest slugger.
Speaker 2: You look at the minor league numbers, you know, not
Speaker 2: a lot of power there, but maybe there's a little
Speaker 2: bit more pop. Maybe again the run score, the stolen bases,
Speaker 2: maybe all that is enough here if he makes enough
Speaker 2: contact to go from the nine hole to the one hole,
Speaker 2: and that would be huge for his fantasy value coming
Speaker 2: out of the gate and opening day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I want to point out too that one
Speaker 3: hundred percent was putting Candelari on this list. You got Candelario,
Speaker 3: this was my third base guy. You already talked about him,
Speaker 3: but he is a one thousand percent all sleeper team guy.
Speaker 3: But the other guy that was floating around, like you said,
Speaker 3: was Michael Garcia. It's not a big power play and
Speaker 3: sometimes playing like out of traditional stats. Bagman and I
Speaker 3: did this episode on ITL about a month or month
Speaker 3: and a half ago where it was like what do
Speaker 3: you need out of your positions, Like what are the
Speaker 3: average stats of the starters you need? And third base,
Speaker 3: Harry's a lot of big power. So if you're gonna
Speaker 3: take perceivably if he was gonna be like your starter,
Speaker 3: you're missing a lot of power and you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to make up in other spots. That marker goes down
Speaker 3: when you start to look at a player that you
Speaker 3: can put for your middle or corneringfield. And that's a
Speaker 3: cool thing about Michael Garcia is he could qualify at
Speaker 3: third and short in some places. ADP's around two point
Speaker 3: fifty big hard hit number last year fifty point six percent,
Speaker 3: and he had over four hundred and sixty at bats,
Speaker 3: So that's nothing to just scoff at. Problem is he
Speaker 3: hasn't gotten the ball in the air. It was around
Speaker 3: a four percent barrel percentage. But he doesn't strike out.
Speaker 3: He walks some and he steals tons of bases. He's
Speaker 3: stole twenty three this past year. I've seen him a
Speaker 3: bunch in camp. Looks like he's gotten bigger over at
Speaker 3: Royals camp. If he is leading off, there's run arby
Speaker 3: run opportunities. There are tons of stolen base opportunities that
Speaker 3: you're getting out of position. If that power can come up,
Speaker 3: kel Garcia could be a low key CJ. Abrams this year.
Speaker 3: If he can get to twelve to fifteen homers, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he could push thirty stolen bases and you could
Speaker 3: have that at third. Michael Garcia is one of my
Speaker 3: big sleepers, and we're putting him here at third base.
Speaker 2: He's projected already on fangrafts to lead off. Now that
Speaker 2: was not the case last week when we talked about him.
Speaker 2: So there's you look at some of the spring training lineups,
Speaker 2: keep looking at where Garcia is hitting when you get
Speaker 2: into the next week or so spring training, as Welsh
Speaker 2: alluded to, as a player who's making a step up.
Speaker 2: And he is so cheap right now, I mean two
Speaker 2: forty seven, Welsh, that's just absurd.
Speaker 3: And it's it's late stolen bases, and it's late stolen
Speaker 3: bases just to throw out. So it's like you, you know,
Speaker 3: he qualifies in a couple of different spots.
Speaker 1: He's cheap.
Speaker 4: You're trying to chase your stolen bases. This is the
Speaker 4: guy to chase. My guy is somebody that's been around forever. Literally,
Speaker 4: he's one hundred and forty two years old. He's being
Speaker 4: drafted outside the top two hundred. He's at two to two.
Speaker 4: He's a twenty first third baseman being selected. And I
Speaker 4: get it, you're not excited about drafting Justin Turner.
Speaker 1: I get it. Okay, last year, what did he do?
Speaker 2: He at two seventy six, eighty six runs, ninety six
Speaker 2: twenty three homers. He played one hundred and forty six games,
Speaker 2: which is great. I know in twenty two he only
Speaker 2: played one hundred and twenty eight, but he did play
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty one and twenty twenty one. So
Speaker 2: when you're drafting Justin Turner, you have to realize you're
Speaker 2: probably at best getting some around one hundred and thirty games,
Speaker 2: like that's kind of what your peak is. But he
Speaker 2: continues to show you that he's still gonna probably drop
Speaker 2: twenty bombs and there he's gonna drive in runs.
Speaker 1: And guess what.
Speaker 2: Guess where he's hitting Welsh in the order for the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays this year. He's slated to hit cleanup. Now,
Speaker 2: I've just given you four straight guys being drafted outside
Speaker 2: the top two hundred who are hitting clean up for
Speaker 2: their respective teams. Mitch Garver, Candelario, Drury and Turner. Are
Speaker 2: they the most exciting guys on the planet? No? Are
Speaker 2: they going to be productive if they stay in that
Speaker 2: cleanup spot? Yeah, they are outside the top two hundred.
Speaker 2: To me, Welsh, it's a win. People are just bored.
Speaker 2: They're concerned with the age, and I get it, but
Speaker 2: he is still a live bat. You look at the
Speaker 2: second half of the year, the stats are still there.
Speaker 2: All he does is hit the baseball. That's basically all
Speaker 2: he's done his entire career. After being a utility player
Speaker 2: for the Mets, and of course only the Mets. Could
Speaker 2: I get a guy so wrong, like Justin Turner, and
Speaker 2: then he goes on to have a great career and
Speaker 2: hits twenty home runs and hits two eighty five every year,
Speaker 2: only the Mets. Let's switch gears to shortstop. Here Welsh
Speaker 2: and my guy shortstop. I'm excited about. He's turning just
Speaker 2: twenty two. His exit velo this spring has been unbelievable.
Speaker 2: He's had a couple balls over one hundred. Ezekiel Tovar,
Speaker 2: who had some great numbers in the minor leagues, very
Speaker 2: young players. Still, he got exposed last year at the
Speaker 2: major league level too much swing and miss. He has
Speaker 2: worked his butt off. You could see also physically a
Speaker 2: little different this year, a little bigger in the lower
Speaker 2: half in terms of the leg size, so you see
Speaker 2: like he's getting more drive on the baseball.
Speaker 1: So far, he looks really good. He is crushed minor
Speaker 1: league pitching.
Speaker 2: He got exposed a little bit, and that happens sometimes
Speaker 2: with young players. But as excited as I was about
Speaker 2: Tovar last year, I'm still excited about him this year.
Speaker 2: And I feel like the bloom is off the rows.
Speaker 2: Everybody's moved on to the next thing and the next thing,
Speaker 2: and I have not. I'm gonna give this guy a
Speaker 2: little bit more time. Why because he also plays in Colorado. Folks,
Speaker 2: At any point, you know, Colorado is a great place
Speaker 2: to play. So if he can get right trim down
Speaker 2: the strikeouts a little bit. So far the spring things
Speaker 2: have gone really well for him. I had an eighth
Speaker 2: keeper in my home league. He was the last guy
Speaker 2: I kept because it was a good price, and I
Speaker 2: was like, you know what, let me see what age
Speaker 2: twenty two season brings for a guy who's playing shortstop
Speaker 2: for the Rockies. And again, you look back at the
Speaker 2: minor league track record, this was a player that showed
Speaker 2: you some elite offensive potential. So to me, this is
Speaker 2: a player that we've forgotten about and we shouldn't have.
Speaker 2: And til Var should be a guy on your radar
Speaker 2: going at two oh five, the twenty first shortstop Welsh,
Speaker 2: where are you going for shortstop for your all sleeper team?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love yours. I think like if you were
Speaker 3: literally drafting, if we were like drafting the all sleepers,
Speaker 3: like he would be the quintessential sleeper shortstop. This year,
Speaker 3: I'm going deeper and I don't remember. Let me take
Speaker 3: a look at it. This might be one of the
Speaker 3: deepest guys here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is outside of three hundred baby.
Speaker 3: Three seventeen shortstop thirty really one of my favorite guys,
Speaker 3: especially in deeper leagues. To take zach Netto, we're going
Speaker 3: back to the Angels. You're just looking for opportunities. Now.
Speaker 3: Where he's hitting in the lineup might be a problem.
Speaker 3: There was a time where they even talked about maybe
Speaker 3: hitting him higher in and leading off. Currently he's setting
Speaker 3: at nine, So those are going to kind of backtrack
Speaker 3: a little bit. But let me read off this ATC
Speaker 3: projections on zach Netto. So remember this is the number
Speaker 3: nine hitter outside of the three hundreds ATC two forty
Speaker 3: eight eighteen homers, nine stolen bases in five hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty four played appearances. It's one hundred and thirty games.
Speaker 3: So if you want to push that up to one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty games in a full season, that's a
Speaker 3: twenty ten guy probably into the seventies and runs bat
Speaker 3: x has. I'm hitting two point fifty one, eighteen homers,
Speaker 3: seven stolen bases. Playing time is still down. Neto's one
Speaker 3: of those guys forty percent hard hit rate, barrel percentage
Speaker 3: almost into the double digits at eight point eight. That's
Speaker 3: a great thing to see for like a young shortstop,
Speaker 3: and we've seen this power grow. I think Nedo is
Speaker 3: one of the most undervalued shortstops, especially for the counting stats.
Speaker 3: Twenty ten isn't just something we throw away. We're talking
Speaker 3: about that earlier twenty ten out of that middle infield.
Speaker 3: He's more of a traditional middle infielder. You're not gonna
Speaker 3: draft him as a shortstop, but at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, he might be able to put up top
Speaker 3: fifteen shortstop numbers, maybe even a little bit higher, especially
Speaker 3: if he moves higher in that lineup. But the power
Speaker 3: is becoming real. It's all about contact. He's kind of
Speaker 3: like an Anthony Volpi. He just doesn't steal as much.
Speaker 3: Netto's trending up. He's one of my sleepers, trying to
Speaker 3: draft him wherever I can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, these are two guys in Neto and Tovar
Speaker 2: that we were all excited about last year, young players
Speaker 2: coming up, and just because it didn't hit the ground
Speaker 2: running right away does not mean that you throw them away,
Speaker 2: not at this age, not the opportunity, and not the
Speaker 2: fact that they're both gonna be starters and really no
Speaker 2: ways good well.
Speaker 3: Especially you know, it's a weird thing too, and I
Speaker 3: know this, like we always do this thing, but like
Speaker 3: there's guys at Carlos Korea that are sitting out there.
Speaker 3: We know exactly what we're getting from Carlos Kre and
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to down talk it.
Speaker 1: Seventy five games, Yeah, well you're.
Speaker 3: Gonna get twenty homers, you know, seventy five, seventy five
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. But it's like there's no stolen base upside.
Speaker 3: Neto can outperform Carlos Korea just by playing throughout the year.
Speaker 1: Like there's many games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's a toll.
Speaker 1: Faver opportunity that Tovar can do the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeremy Payannia, other ones these are guy Jeremy Paynea
Speaker 3: Carlos career. Going ahead of both of these guys, I
Speaker 3: think Nedo can easily overpass them statistically. Tovar is already
Speaker 3: kind of like designed to be there.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: These shortstops I think were the big easy ones for
Speaker 3: us to pick.
Speaker 2: All right, My outfielders might have been a little easy here.
Speaker 2: In fact, my guy was at one ninety nine. The
Speaker 2: first one gonna talk about is Jared Durant, who I
Speaker 2: know Welsh has talked about him a lot.
Speaker 3: I would have talked about him today.
Speaker 2: Outside of but he was already a your breakouts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so like you can't be the breakout in the sleeper
Speaker 2: like I mean that maybe it can be.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm with you. I'm I'm holding
Speaker 1: hands with you.
Speaker 2: On the Jared Duran thing because over one hundred and
Speaker 2: two games last year, Duran showed you that if he
Speaker 2: plays a full season, he is a potential fifteen thirty guy.
Speaker 2: And he hit for two to ninety five batting average,
Speaker 2: So the batting average is going to be there. So
Speaker 2: this is potentially a five category player that you're getting
Speaker 2: around pick two hundred in the outfield and outfield is tough.
Speaker 2: It is not great. It's funny Welsh. As I'm looking
Speaker 2: at this, we just did our underdog draft right If
Speaker 2: you want to see that, go check it out.
Speaker 1: We're doing a best Ball draft on Underdog on one
Speaker 1: of the shows.
Speaker 2: We just record him, Tovar Drury, and Jared Durant all
Speaker 2: on that roster, all being undervalued and best Ball undervalued
Speaker 2: in regular drafts too.
Speaker 1: If you tell me, this is.
Speaker 2: A player that's gonna score one hundred runs and is
Speaker 2: going to hit at the top of the order for
Speaker 2: the Red Sox and is going to be a potential
Speaker 2: player that's gonna give you a fifteen thirty and a
Speaker 2: high batting average. Why the hell is he being drafted
Speaker 2: so late? I just don't understand it. So for me,
Speaker 2: this is another player that I'm all in on, and
Speaker 2: another guy too, especially in points leagues, Jung Hulee of
Speaker 2: the San Francisco Giants at two twelve. To me, this
Speaker 2: is a guy who could challenge for the batting title again,
Speaker 2: just like Duran hitting at the top of the order.
Speaker 2: So this is a player that you want pieces of,
Speaker 2: you want to be in on Lee.
Speaker 1: He's going to be hitting at the very top of
Speaker 1: the San Francisco order.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have run potential, batting average potential, he's got
Speaker 2: some pop.
Speaker 1: Is that the greatest home ballpark?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: But I think it offsets a little bit. At the
Speaker 2: same time, I think the unknown factor with Lee is
Speaker 2: scaring some people off, and I don't think it should.
Speaker 2: When you watch this guy play and you watch him
Speaker 2: in spring, he's flashing some power in the spring so far.
Speaker 2: This is one of these guys where spring training matters
Speaker 2: as well as we always say this, like spring training
Speaker 2: doesn't matter except for the guys that it matters for,
Speaker 2: and Lee's one of these guys. For me, I wanted
Speaker 2: to see how he's hitting some major league pitching. What
Speaker 2: does he look like here?
Speaker 1: Is he overmatched? And the answer is no, He's not
Speaker 1: overmatched at all.
Speaker 2: So Lee and Duran are two guys that are going
Speaker 2: late in the outfield that I love. Now you've picked
Speaker 2: two guys that are going even later, which I love,
Speaker 2: one of which I need you to sell me on
Speaker 2: because I'm almost there with the first one. And the
Speaker 2: second one I think is one that's gonna blow a
Speaker 2: lot of people's minds. So let's talk about your two
Speaker 2: sleeper outfielders for twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there have been two late outfielders. I'm targeting
Speaker 3: every drought. There's lots of outfielders I like this year.
Speaker 3: We've talked to of done videos like Riley Green and stuff.
Speaker 3: When we go later. There's two guys, Jared Durant, who
Speaker 3: you mentioned, and Jared Kelnick. So double Jay's Double j
Speaker 3: not Jeff Jared, but Jared Durant.
Speaker 1: And joy Le bad country music.
Speaker 3: But Jared Kelnick. Jared Kelnick is the guy. So last season,
Speaker 3: Kelnick was kind of off to a you know, we
Speaker 3: had this whole big thing. Eleven homers, threw three hundred
Speaker 3: at bats, hit around two point fifty. He was stealing
Speaker 3: a bunch eleven stolen bases in that first run. Then
Speaker 3: he gets hurt, comes back power Zapp stops stealing. He
Speaker 3: was hitting for contact. He had two eighty eight posts
Speaker 3: all Star break in around sixty at bats, which I
Speaker 3: think then he got hurt after that. Actually maybe because
Speaker 3: maybe I mix that up, but either way, that power
Speaker 3: kind of zapped. Batting average went away. We saw who
Speaker 3: Jared Kelnick was, and you're now going into a ballpark
Speaker 3: where left handed hitters thrive way more. I mean he
Speaker 3: was in Seattle, one of the worst ballpark factors out there.
Speaker 3: I think he's a top ten ballpark factor for left
Speaker 3: handed hitters. For Jared Klnick, who has been bareling the
Speaker 3: ball better, he's been stealing bases. The strikeouts are a problem.
Speaker 3: That's always something that we've got to consider. But a
Speaker 3: two sixty four expected batting average overall is great, one
Speaker 3: twelve MAXIV solid, double digit barrel percentage. Good, he's getting
Speaker 3: the ball in the air. It was in the tens.
Speaker 3: These are things that you can build off of into
Speaker 3: a huge, big offensive lineup in Atlanta that is going
Speaker 3: to support him overall. Hitting six or seven in Atlanta
Speaker 3: is like that Dodger situation.
Speaker 1: Is that point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like you drop him into the Braves offense, like
Speaker 2: you gotta be real, JABRONI not to be good in
Speaker 2: the Braves offense, like you're gonna produce something, Just just
Speaker 2: make some contact for goodness sake. But this is a
Speaker 2: really interesting move. Keep talking about Kelnick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also, I mean he destroyed fastballs last year
Speaker 3: ninety two. EV hit two ninety two with a two
Speaker 3: eighty two expected batting average. Though the batting average wasn't
Speaker 3: great against breaking an off speed. The expected batting average
Speaker 3: thirty nine and two sixty seven was good. He's becoming
Speaker 3: a better hitter. I think he's going twenty twenty this year.
Speaker 3: That's where I think Kelnick is gonna go. You're gonna
Speaker 3: get more offensive opportunities, even hitting six, seven or eight
Speaker 3: in Atlanta because that offense turns over even more and
Speaker 3: you're out of the platoon stuff. So I love Jared Kelnick.
Speaker 3: He's one of my main targets sole and bases power.
Speaker 3: The other guy is a guy that might get some
Speaker 3: leadoff opportunity or hitting high in the in the lineup
Speaker 3: as well. One of the deepest guys in here, well
Speaker 3: out outside the top three hundred. And it's not Riley
Speaker 3: Green with the Tigers, it's Parker Meadows. This is another
Speaker 3: twenty twenty guy. I say a lot of some of
Speaker 3: the same stats. Sometimes that could be annoying to people,
Speaker 3: but it's things you're looking for, big breakouts, nine percent
Speaker 3: barrel percentage, you're closing into the double digit percentage gets
Speaker 3: the ball in the air. Last year he had an
Speaker 3: eighteen degree launch angle. It's one of the highest, probably
Speaker 3: for any outfielder but one of the highers in the
Speaker 3: league expected batting average two point fifty part hit percentage
Speaker 3: moving up a little bit. This is a solid bat
Speaker 3: and he is a power speed threat. I actually think
Speaker 3: he could steal more bases than hit homers. But if
Speaker 3: you get fifteen to twenty five out of a full season,
Speaker 3: I think that is in the cards. I think if
Speaker 3: he plays a full season, he's gonna put up twenty
Speaker 3: stolen bases. And I'm going to take a look here
Speaker 3: over on We'll do ATC or do our buddy Ario
Speaker 3: Cohen where we've got a great episode here if you
Speaker 3: guys want to check out. And for Parker Meadows in
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty three games, they have fifteen stolen
Speaker 3: bases and thirteen homers with a low batting average of
Speaker 3: two thirty. So you can start to project out if
Speaker 3: he plays one hundred and fifty, you're gonna close in
Speaker 3: on a twenty twenty. So both of the guys I
Speaker 3: picked here are twenty twenty potential players, and that's what
Speaker 3: I'm looking out of a lot of my depth in
Speaker 3: the outfield. I'm trying to get big power bats early
Speaker 3: on as much as i can, and then Jared and Durant,
Speaker 3: Jared Kelnick, Parker, Meadows. These are some of my favorite
Speaker 3: outfielders in those five outfielder formats to target.
Speaker 2: Things starting to turn around for the Tigers a little
Speaker 2: bit Welsh after all these years, we'll see, all right,
Speaker 2: the starting pitcher as Welsh. Who are the two names
Speaker 2: that you're targeting as sleepers in twenty four.
Speaker 3: So number one, I've got Nick Pavetta, who I think
Speaker 3: I've talked a little bit about. Thirty one. Yeah, thirty
Speaker 3: one point two percent K percentage from July first on
Speaker 3: Paveta had I think it was the number one K
Speaker 3: percentage and he had the highest on the season, highest
Speaker 3: on the season with increase of a starting pitcher overall.
Speaker 3: With increase and Paveta has had a good spring, we're
Speaker 3: seeing vlo upticks bodies there making that team even better.
Speaker 3: He went a full mile per hour up on the fastball.
Speaker 3: I think what they're going to be doing with pitchers
Speaker 3: overall has been phenomenal. Paveta could hurt us, I suppose
Speaker 3: in the long term, but the K percentage was like
Speaker 3: elite without any crazy walk issues, and it might have
Speaker 3: actually even been the K minus walk percentage. Which was
Speaker 3: really high from July first on. He was an elite
Speaker 3: strikeout option and now he's going to get the full
Speaker 3: throes of it. Hopefully he stays healthy. I think he's
Speaker 3: a big sleeper pick, and his ADP at one seventy
Speaker 3: five has actually been moving up. But he's pitcher fifty one.
Speaker 3: It's top thirty SP upside with the strikeouts. My other
Speaker 3: one we've talked, we've talked to actually a decent amount.
Speaker 3: I think in the underdog draft was TOADJ. Bradley and
Speaker 3: Taj Bradley. With that confidence back, some uptick in spring
Speaker 3: with the cutter working again, I think Taj Bradley is
Speaker 3: in line for all the innings that he can have
Speaker 3: this year, and I think he's he might be the
Speaker 3: best pitcher, like overall pitcher, especially from a stuff perspective,
Speaker 3: in that rotation and given the full confidence and without
Speaker 3: many restrictions, I think Taj Bradley is going to have
Speaker 3: a big breakout this year. So Taj and Paveta are
Speaker 3: my two sp sleepers, two.
Speaker 2: Really good ones definitely there. And Bradley that's another one too.
Speaker 2: I'm buying back in. You know, he was an elite
Speaker 2: prospect last year we're all excited about. We were telling
Speaker 2: everybody run to the waiver wire. Spengers need to get him.
Speaker 2: It didn't work out. Okay, that doesn't mean he's a
Speaker 2: bad pitcher. It means he's a young pitcher that still
Speaker 2: has to learn. And it seems like he's been humbled
Speaker 2: a little bit. Seems like he's put the work in
Speaker 2: the off season so far the spring showing you some
Speaker 2: much better versions of himself. The velocity, but I don't
Speaker 2: know if you saw this Welsh he was sitting at
Speaker 2: ninety six ninety six point four.
Speaker 3: And he was ninety six point one last year, so
Speaker 3: he's upticking a little bit. I mean, he got hit
Speaker 3: hard last year, but I think that's something that decreased.
Speaker 3: Like every single pitch he threw had a ninety or
Speaker 3: higher exit velocity against. But that's rookie. That's rookie pitching.
Speaker 3: I think with the tutelage, I'll be very curious to
Speaker 3: see what changes happened. The cutter was the big, like
Speaker 3: weird thing. I'll be curious to see if the split
Speaker 3: finger comes up, because last year had the highest fifth
Speaker 3: percentage over forty percent. If we see the split finger trend,
Speaker 3: that's going on. If we see maybe that overtake the
Speaker 3: cutter a little bit more. I think the Rays are
Speaker 3: going to turn him into a bigger strikeout pitcher this season,
Speaker 3: and that's going to be the focus, and I think
Speaker 3: that's what's going to make him exceptionally better.
Speaker 1: I do too. I'm excited about TODs.
Speaker 2: I'm also excited about my two pictures on the list
Speaker 2: at two three and two twenty two. The first one
Speaker 2: is Brian Wu of the Seattle Mariners, a picture with
Speaker 2: a live arm who had a spotty record I think
Speaker 2: at times in some of the college baseball, but you've
Speaker 2: seen what Seattle's been able to do out of him,
Speaker 2: and in eighteen games last year, eighty seven innings, ninety
Speaker 2: three strikeouts for him, he's got to trim the walk
Speaker 2: rate just a little bit.
Speaker 1: If he can do that, that's great.
Speaker 2: A four to two to one era, Okay, you know
Speaker 2: it's again rookie stuff, as we were alluding to before,
Speaker 2: but a one two one whip.
Speaker 1: And I think that Wu is.
Speaker 2: One of these pictures you start to see what kind
Speaker 2: of competitor he is. He's in the back end of
Speaker 2: this rotation. It's a deep rotation. There's no pressure on
Speaker 2: the kid. All he's got to do is just go
Speaker 2: out the every fifth day. Give the Seattle Mariners a
Speaker 2: chance to win. And I told you already in the
Speaker 2: beginning of the show. I like the Mariners, So I
Speaker 2: like the Mariners. I'm in on the Mariners. I want
Speaker 2: the Mariners to, you know, continue to use this rotation
Speaker 2: to get not even into the playoffs, but I think
Speaker 2: they can go all the world, all the way to
Speaker 2: the World Series and maybe even win it this year.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 2: And Aaron Savaldi's the other guy in Tampa going at
Speaker 2: two twenty two. If you look at Aaron Savally, it's
Speaker 2: eerily similar of some of the earmarks of what we've
Speaker 2: seen time and time again in Tampa, where they take
Speaker 2: a guy who's kind of feels like a middling pitcher
Speaker 2: who at time shows you better versions of himself. He
Speaker 2: comes to Tampa and all of a sudden you get
Speaker 2: the best version of him. If you look at Savally's
Speaker 2: recent seasons, you see a guy who is, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of under nine k per nine, somewhe around that
Speaker 2: eight and a half range eight range nothing blown away
Speaker 2: era floating round four. Go back and look at Zach
Speaker 2: Eflin before last year. It's pretty much the same guy.
Speaker 1: Statistically speaking, Can the.
Speaker 2: Rays be the team that gets the most out of
Speaker 2: Aaron Savali? I think the answer is one hundred percent yes.
Speaker 2: Every year we've started to get smarter and smarter to
Speaker 2: this Welsh where we say, oh, who are the Rays
Speaker 2: signing this offseason?
Speaker 1: That guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me put him on the sleeper list, because
Speaker 2: Zach Efflin was on this list last year, I believe,
Speaker 2: or one of these lists we talked about, Hey sleeper pitchers.
Speaker 2: Take a shot on Effln? Why because Tampa signed him?
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna go back down to this well again
Speaker 2: with Savally.
Speaker 3: What's kind of funny about it is like these three
Speaker 3: pit elementthropep there too, Pepio, Savally and Bradley. They're all
Speaker 3: just cheap. I don't hate the idea of like taking
Speaker 3: them all and figuring out because it is kind of
Speaker 3: weird that you can't just throw all the raised pitchers
Speaker 3: in and be like, hey, they're going to do this
Speaker 3: in this But the Rays have a system of picking,
Speaker 3: like Pepio had some big stuff plus numbers, fastball you have.
Speaker 3: You've seen Savally and what he can do with some
Speaker 3: of his off speed stuff. And then it's like you
Speaker 3: get one of the best organizations that manipulate some of
Speaker 3: these players and has their hand into pitching development, and
Speaker 3: they've taken these pieces in. All of these guys could
Speaker 3: be great in different ways. Savally from a command perspective,
Speaker 3: Pepio looks like a big strikeout guy. Bradley might be
Speaker 3: the best combination between them. It's just not bad to
Speaker 3: bet on the same thing you did with the Mariners
Speaker 3: as well. You can't get a Mariner's pitcher really for cheap,
Speaker 3: except for Wu and Bryce Miller, and I wouldn't hate
Speaker 3: you for taking both of them Rays Mariners. The cheap
Speaker 3: options that are going to be out there, I think
Speaker 3: those are great just bets. Now, it's tough if you're
Speaker 3: going to do a big capital on drafting a bunch
Speaker 3: of them. But let's just arguably say, somehow you were
Speaker 3: able to get two of these Race pitchers and two
Speaker 3: of those Mariner pitchers, you're probably giving yourself at least
Speaker 3: a fifty percent chance for a player that is going
Speaker 3: to blow past the cost of what you put into them.
Speaker 2: It's it's you know again, it's like buying more tickets
Speaker 2: to the fifty to fifty raffle. You know he's just
Speaker 2: like it's going to be there.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure that's the Have you ever known a.
Speaker 1: More than ones now happened? I've got proof.
Speaker 3: I got that at a minor No, you'd at a
Speaker 3: minor league game you did not win at like a.
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Speaker 2: Let's get to our relief pitchers. That's all that's left
Speaker 2: here on our list. So for me, this one's easy sometimes,
Speaker 2: you know me, I don't like to pay for saves.
Speaker 2: So if SAMs just get away from me, Jose Leclerk
Speaker 2: is the guy in Texas that got the boat on
Speaker 2: them last year, Texas is still gonna be a very
Speaker 2: competitive team.
Speaker 1: And if Leaclerk isn't the guy.
Speaker 2: And as the manager said, well, we haven't put names
Speaker 2: and we don't want to put labels on guys right now,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna.
Speaker 1: Label anybody anything.
Speaker 2: Okay, fine, Well Robertson's there too, so it's gonna be
Speaker 2: one of these guys. So you think Robertson, well your
Speaker 2: very last pick, and you take Laclerk late, and you've
Speaker 2: got all the saves in Texas, Welsh, I think it's
Speaker 2: a very easy equation.
Speaker 1: Where are you going here for your saves?
Speaker 2: Because the name on your list is the one I
Speaker 2: was gonna put on mine.
Speaker 1: But this one you nab before me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, like I agree with it you said about
Speaker 3: closers in general, I like the cheap save guys. Laclerk
Speaker 3: would be a player. But you know, if we're talking
Speaker 3: like sleepers, and we're talking upside. Matt Brash would have
Speaker 3: been a player I would have picked if he didn't
Speaker 3: have this arm.
Speaker 4: INNG.
Speaker 3: The other obvious one is a guy that's qualifying as
Speaker 3: a starting pitcher right now, and it's Mason Miller. So
Speaker 3: that's who you were alluding to because of this insanely
Speaker 3: big fastball and the team said they want to commit
Speaker 3: to him being like a reliever this year. They don't
Speaker 3: want to hand him the job to be the closer
Speaker 3: from day one. I think they want him to kind
Speaker 3: of prove and work it. But this is a guy
Speaker 3: they kind of keep telling us these things with Mason Miller,
Speaker 3: and then it just bam, it explodes. I mean, we're
Speaker 3: talking about a triple digits fastball pitcher who really I mean,
Speaker 3: he throws a cutter, cutter and sliders can kind of
Speaker 3: be the same. It's kind of a slider fastball guy,
Speaker 3: quintessential classic closer that they've already said they want to
Speaker 3: put him in. Here's the only problem. How many opportunities
Speaker 3: are the a's actually going to have to say that's
Speaker 3: a bigger question. But when given those opportunities, Mason Miller
Speaker 3: is going to thrive with it. He's going to strike
Speaker 3: out guys. He might have a couple of blow ups.
Speaker 3: He is the closer of closers, and if the opportunity
Speaker 3: happens early, Mason Miller might save twenty five to thirty
Speaker 3: games and he would be a top ten closer. So
Speaker 3: you want to talk about a closer sleeper. I think
Speaker 3: he is the number one quintessential player. But there is
Speaker 3: risk in this pick because he could just be a
Speaker 3: middle relief.
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't think he's going to be
Speaker 2: a middle relief. I think to keep him healthy, the
Speaker 2: best thing to do is give him that clean ninth inning.
Speaker 2: And if the A's were a competitive team, might be
Speaker 2: more concerned because I don't want Mason Miller working three
Speaker 2: or four days in a row closing out games. And
Speaker 2: the A's are three or four games in a row,
Speaker 2: that's not gonna be a problem. So in a lot
Speaker 2: of ways, it's kind of the best case scenario. Make
Speaker 2: him the closer. He's not a bad team. One or
Speaker 2: two appearances a week, Okay, great, it's a great opportunity
Speaker 2: for Mason Miller to be healthy, be productive. I think
Speaker 2: it's the best case scenario for him. So just to
Speaker 2: recap here. Here's our all sleeper teams. Welsh has Wilson
Speaker 2: contraresat catcher, Christian and Carnascio Strand at first, Luis Rangifo
Speaker 2: at second, Michael Garcia at third base, Zach Netto at third,
Speaker 2: excuse me at shortstop. The outfielders Jared Kellennick Parker Meadows
Speaker 2: then Paveta and Bradley the pitchers, and Mason Miller at
Speaker 2: c I've got Mitch Garver clean up catcher. I'm Rick
Speaker 2: Candelario clean up at first base, Brandon Jury clean up
Speaker 2: at second base, Justin Turner clean up hitter at third base.
Speaker 1: See I love a theme, Ezekiel Tavard's short.
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Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time, kids. Peace,