Speaker 1: Let's mock it up and talk to the pros. Welcome
Speaker 1: back everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. It is time for
Speaker 1: us to have a little fun, and that means bringing
Speaker 1: Mayo in the Worm. Yeah, it's right. Everybody loves Mayo
Speaker 1: in the Worm. It's everybody's favorite duo. Welsh loves them
Speaker 1: so much that he had to actually take a breath
Speaker 1: and now he's back again joining the show. But Mike
Speaker 1: Mayor Ryan Warmly, two of our good pals, are colleagues
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Speaker 1: had an amazing guest list today, Paul's or, Nick Pollock,
Speaker 1: Chris Meani, Frank stamfele Ino, Sarah's Craigmish. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: what an incredible group. Am I missing somebody? I forget somebody?
Speaker 2: I feel like there's somebody that's forgotten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but and Welsh was here too.
Speaker 2: That all right. Occasionally when I'm not clicking buttons and
Speaker 2: leaving room.
Speaker 1: Yeah what's going on with that? Yeah? You done clicking buttons?
Speaker 2: I literally clicked over to one thing and somehow I
Speaker 2: turned into Twitter and I had to come back. But
Speaker 2: I love seeing these beautiful faces here. This Mike Mayor
Speaker 2: aka Ryan Mountcastle. Lots of mount Castle stuff, gonna be
Speaker 2: uh up on the updates for leading off this year.
Speaker 2: And I just personally love Ryan working. So I'm the worm,
Speaker 2: the Worm the Welsh. It's a it's a match made
Speaker 2: in heaven.
Speaker 1: Mayo the worm in the Welsh. Hey take it better
Speaker 1: than this, all right? So we have a mock draft
Speaker 1: we're gonna do here. It is a twelve team roto
Speaker 1: mock draft. I'm gonna start it right now. I have
Speaker 1: the one pick we have corner infielders we have three outfielders,
Speaker 1: we have two utilities. We're not doing bench today because
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor has more important things to do. Uh, you
Speaker 1: are drafting. I love this. You guys went five six seven.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor is in the five spot, the Worm is
Speaker 1: at one o six and the Welsh where the Welsh
Speaker 1: could also work to you.
Speaker 2: Just want to say, worm in the Welsh is pretty good.
Speaker 2: If we're talking like all the names here, worm in
Speaker 2: the Welsh is pretty good.
Speaker 3: We've said this before. Worm goes with anything. There's no name.
Speaker 3: What doesn't pair well?
Speaker 2: Joe Joe, Yeah, Joey, but that sounds it sounds like
Speaker 2: a band, Joe and the Worm, everything.
Speaker 1: And the Worm. I'm sure it was one of the
Speaker 1: bands that competed in Scott Pilgrim, which is a great movie.
Speaker 1: By the way. Before we go after this too, I
Speaker 1: just want to again thank everybody for watching and going
Speaker 1: through everything here. It has been a phenomenal uh day
Speaker 1: here of talking baseball. I'm gonna go ahead and just
Speaker 1: pause this real quick because the draft is being a
Speaker 1: little wonky on me. I don't know if it automatically
Speaker 1: picked for me or not. Did it a little good talking?
Speaker 1: All right? So here we go. I'm gonna declare the
Speaker 1: show he Tani because last night was just the greatest
Speaker 1: thing ever.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to declare him to be one player here,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to take Joeyotani with my number one pick.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that because I can, because I'm running
Speaker 1: the show and I'm running the draft. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: do it. But I do believe this. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you are in a league where he is one player,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what it is. There's nobody like Joeyo Tani.
Speaker 1: There's nobody's gonna give you this amount of productivity. Yes,
Speaker 1: it comes with risk because he is a pitcher. Something
Speaker 1: happens to the arm. You're missing the bat, you're missing
Speaker 1: the picture, You're mitching your number one overall pick. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and start with Joeyotani.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see who's joining us today. It's got the florininga socks.
Speaker 1: Floren just socks? Is that how you say it? Floren
Speaker 1: just socks? They go ahead and take Aaron Judge, mister Buster,
Speaker 1: friend of the show, drid Rack is joining us. Of course,
Speaker 1: we have Mayor Worm Welsh that Juggernaut at one o eight,
Speaker 1: that one fool at one oh nine. Of course, our
Speaker 1: good friend Wonky Penguin at one ten, who will probably
Speaker 1: win the draft as Oh ways, then we've got Jay Gucci, Hey,
Speaker 1: Jay Gucci twenty four and oh the Shawan back the
Speaker 1: Chalmer uh who had a pretty good draft last time,
Speaker 1: so back for more. Ronald Acuna goes three overall. So,
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer, you're sitting here in the five spot. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna go ahead and hope that Julio falls to you?
Speaker 1: Like a smart person? Would? I am?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And I actually picked first off, I would say I
Speaker 5: picked my spot before the other two. Jabroni's went right
Speaker 5: after me. So I asked you where I should pick.
Speaker 5: You said, just try to space it out, So I did,
Speaker 5: and then they went right after me. So I picked
Speaker 5: five intentionally because I have kind of a clear top five.
Speaker 1: So well, Jose Ramirez just went So Julio is yours
Speaker 1: for the taking? To Julio one five, Worm one o six.
Speaker 1: What do you got?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very happy to get Trey Turner boo, I
Speaker 3: without question not even need to think about it.
Speaker 4: Turners might pick here.
Speaker 1: Here you go, Turners and easy one Welsh one O seven.
Speaker 1: What do you got?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: Uh? You know this is kind of a consensus Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: that's what the experts say. There is just something about
Speaker 2: Mooki for me this year and the second base loved applications,
Speaker 2: something that I want to get in on. But I
Speaker 2: am gonna go Kyle Tucker here. Really tempted to go
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts, but I you know, seven is a decent spot.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've drafted seven to any of the
Speaker 2: mock drafts we've done, so Kyle Tucker fall into me.
Speaker 2: And the one Sodo injury I want to point out
Speaker 2: change this a little bit. That oblique injury has me concerned.
Speaker 4: MRI.
Speaker 2: We still haven't got the results and obliques don't heal quickly,
Speaker 2: so this could be an iel stint. Otherwise, I think
Speaker 2: Juan Soto would have been the consensus pick here. But
Speaker 2: just while we're doing it, I am not touching it.
Speaker 1: And Ryan, about a month ago, the first round seemed
Speaker 1: like an embarrassment of riches, and then we have the
Speaker 1: Alvarez hand issue, the side issue for Sodo. Things get
Speaker 1: a little bit more complicated in the first round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, And I will point out. Also, like
Speaker 3: Mayor gave me a hard time for picking right behind him.
Speaker 3: I picked twelve the last time we did this at
Speaker 3: the turn, so I wanted to be more in the
Speaker 3: middle and kind of experience something else. And with all
Speaker 3: the injuries in the first round kind of getting maybe
Speaker 3: less deep than we thought it was going into draft season,
Speaker 3: it's nicer to be towards the middle now.
Speaker 2: And to be fair, I think there were three open
Speaker 2: spots when I picked, so I just picked the best
Speaker 2: one that I could find stuff just the point, I
Speaker 2: think that was about what was.
Speaker 1: Left ever the opportunist, the Welsh. All right, we have
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts going after Kyle Tucker to the Welsh and
Speaker 1: jan So to Bobby wit Junior from the Wonky Penguin.
Speaker 2: I am at one ten. I am shocked that Kelly
Speaker 2: went with Bobby with I seemed likely. That does not
Speaker 2: seem like a Kelly Kirby pick. Am. Maybe I'm completely
Speaker 2: off on it. It seems like something Kelly would rip
Speaker 2: us about going at ten.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what she does on the turn on
Speaker 1: the way back. Alvarez at one eleven, Vladdie at one twelve,
Speaker 1: which I just took vladd In on a turn on
Speaker 1: the league the other day too. It felt good, felt
Speaker 1: real good. I think I started with ladd and Austin
Speaker 1: Riley or something in that league. I mean that works
Speaker 1: for me. They're based another tough one too. So as
Speaker 1: we get to the second round here, Chomers got back
Speaker 1: to back pick. So Vlad is the first one, the
Speaker 1: second one, Machado not a bad start there, get those
Speaker 1: corners done, move on. I actually like that strategy quite
Speaker 1: a bit of the turn this year. Take care first
Speaker 1: and third, then you're good just outfield and pitching, and
Speaker 1: then you figured it out. Raffield evers at two o two,
Speaker 1: wonkye Penguin off for two oh three. Mayor you got
Speaker 1: a guest there, you work all day with Kelly. What
Speaker 1: do you think she's gonna do here?
Speaker 6: I don't have a guess.
Speaker 5: She's pretty smart, So I do agree that Bobby Whitt
Speaker 5: was kind of a surprising.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe she's changing it up.
Speaker 2: I think I know what she's gonna do, because this
Speaker 2: is exactly what I've talked about with Bobby Witt. Freddy
Speaker 2: Freeman is ridiculously solid picker. That would be the most
Speaker 2: sense on the planet to pair exactly.
Speaker 1: And it's not because you said it. It might be in
Speaker 1: spite of.
Speaker 2: Clearly not you said it.
Speaker 3: I believe that's the exact pair I started with. The
Speaker 3: last mock draft we did was Wit and Free.
Speaker 2: I love that pairent. I love that pair. If you're
Speaker 2: gonna commit on Bobby Whitt, wh there's a little bit
Speaker 2: of risk. Freddy Freeman is like the ultimate floor with
Speaker 2: great upside. That's an insane start for Kelly. It's stupid.
Speaker 2: We shouldn't allow this.
Speaker 1: Fourth one Full is up next with five seconds on
Speaker 1: the clock, and the pick is Corbyn Burns. So the
Speaker 1: first to pitcher off the board is Corbyn Burns Juggernaut
Speaker 1: up at two o five pitching generally speaking, Worm, just
Speaker 1: get your your thoughts on this. Are you somebody that
Speaker 1: targets the pitching earlier you wait for that more fourth
Speaker 1: and fifth round grouping.
Speaker 3: I adore the depth in that sort of like third
Speaker 3: to seventh ish rounds this year. So I mean, if
Speaker 3: a value follows, I'm always gonna be open to it.
Speaker 3: But by and large, I am targeting hitters early because
Speaker 3: I just think there's so many possible, really good pitches
Speaker 3: you can get later.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna go up to the part where
Speaker 1: we're all picking, which is all that we all care about.
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo goes at two o five. The Welsh is
Speaker 1: up here with thirteen seconds on the clock at two
Speaker 1: o six.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm dealing with position eligibility versus what I want
Speaker 2: to do. I can't. I can't pass up Trout. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna pass up Trout here. I'm really upset because
Speaker 2: I wanted to do something completely different, but I just
Speaker 2: cannot pass up Trout. The only reason I'm pondering is
Speaker 2: because we're only doing three outfielders on this one. If
Speaker 2: this is a five outfielder, this is like, I don't
Speaker 2: even worry about it. But the positions are a little
Speaker 2: bit more squished, and I didn't think Trout was gonna
Speaker 2: be there, so this altered my plan a little bit.
Speaker 2: So I got two outfielders to start in a three outfielder,
Speaker 2: which is not ideal. But I won't be thinking about
Speaker 2: it for quite some time.
Speaker 1: Not too much hesitation. At two o seven, Paul Goldschmidt
Speaker 1: to Ryan Ryan, talk about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean again, you know there's stars at the top,
Speaker 3: maybe not as much death as previous years. I just
Speaker 3: want to get one of those guys that I really
Speaker 3: trust going to contributing a lot of categories.
Speaker 4: I love parent him with Trey Turner.
Speaker 2: Okay, Austin, That's what I was, That's what I wanted
Speaker 2: to do here, Mike, that's a great pick.
Speaker 1: Two oh eight Mike Mayer, Austin Riley, nice value here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the big thing there is third base,
Speaker 5: Like you guys have talked about it all day, Like
Speaker 5: the drop off at third base is unlike any other
Speaker 5: this year, Like there are other like thinner positions, but
Speaker 5: third base is like there's a cliff and if you
Speaker 5: don't get one early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a scary, scary place where people should never roam,
Speaker 1: should never go. Uh dry is it dry Lack? Am
Speaker 1: I seeing that correctly? Am I reading it.
Speaker 2: For another Pokemon? That sounds like another Pokemon?
Speaker 1: We had Muchen earlier and now we have dry Jack.
Speaker 1: Let's just go on, Let's go, uh Pikachu and go
Speaker 1: got to catch them all you have to. Uh, mister
Speaker 1: Buster is up next at the two to ten pick here.
Speaker 1: As I continue to think, do I take an ol
Speaker 1: on our here at third base because it's so bad?
Speaker 1: I know one guy I'm definitely hoping to take, but
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it out loud because I got
Speaker 1: two more picks, and I can say it now because
Speaker 1: he went it's Fernando Teptis Junior. Well, obviously Welsh knew
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna do that every single time you give
Speaker 1: me the chance. Second base also not a great position either.
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole goes off the board. So the draft wizard
Speaker 1: is telling me to take Sandy on Contra, which I
Speaker 1: actually kind of like that, to tell you the truth.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty easy selection there for me. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and take that because I've already got
Speaker 1: a hitter and a picture. Now I got another picture,
Speaker 1: so now I gotta look for another hitter. Lindor an
Speaker 1: interesting piece here, Spencer Streider. Those are all the guys
Speaker 1: out there. But I kind of think I am going
Speaker 1: to take that leap into third base because it is
Speaker 1: just bad, and I'm gonna go ahead and take Narrow
Speaker 1: and Arnaudo off the board. So Aeronauto goes to me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to make up some stolen bases here soon,
Speaker 1: but we'll figure that out. Flooring socks, floring socks, what
Speaker 1: color socks are you wearing right now? Mayor? Just out
Speaker 1: of curiosity because you just had another kid, and typically speaking,
Speaker 1: you have no idea what you're doing or how you're
Speaker 1: getting dressed in the morning.
Speaker 6: That's gonna be my answer. I have no idea.
Speaker 5: Color socks, probably some kind of like black with color
Speaker 5: in them.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure are they even matching? Probably not.
Speaker 6: I actually never match socks on purpose.
Speaker 1: Oh you're one of these people. Why why is that?
Speaker 1: My oldest daughter does that, and I don't understand why.
Speaker 2: Feel like you might be like ENO's kid, Did you
Speaker 2: prefer Japan last night too?
Speaker 1: That story was amazing, by the way, Heno's kid trolling
Speaker 1: him for the last two weeks. He wrote it for Cuba,
Speaker 1: for Cuba over the United States. But Mayor, why the
Speaker 1: two color socks?
Speaker 5: Well, they're like I just have like a whole drawer
Speaker 5: of like somewhat similar socks, and I don't like bother
Speaker 5: like pairing them. So whatever I grab, I grab. So
Speaker 5: if they match that day, that's great, But if they don't,
Speaker 5: who cares?
Speaker 1: Ryan, I would feel off all day like that would
Speaker 1: bother me. Maybe it's the libra in me where I
Speaker 1: like harmony imbalance. But I can't have two different socks,
Speaker 1: like they have to be the same sock, the same thing.
Speaker 1: I would think about it all day. It would drive
Speaker 1: me crazy.
Speaker 4: Unless I'm leaving the house. I very rarely am wearing socks.
Speaker 3: I prefer the like two long sweatpants that you kind
Speaker 3: of cover up the feet with. So I'm just really
Speaker 3: not a socks guy in general. When I do wear them,
Speaker 3: they tend to match.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll get you your snuggie later. After
Speaker 1: Nolan Arnado goes Francisco Lindor than Justin Verlander to mister Buster,
Speaker 1: Pikachu took Simeon. Then Mike Mayer took Michael Harris, who
Speaker 1: was dubbed a potential bust. So you don't think so, Mayor,
Speaker 1: why are you so confident taking Michael Harris?
Speaker 5: I mean, the potential is there, but the upside is
Speaker 5: also there. And I also find myself this year like
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get like a lot of those like
Speaker 5: five category like contributors early, especially like guys at steel bases,
Speaker 5: even if they only steal like you know, five to
Speaker 5: ten bases, getting some of those early because who knows
Speaker 5: what kind of what's going to kind of happened with
Speaker 5: stolen bases this year. You know, a guy who normally
Speaker 5: steals like ten bases might steal a fifteen or twenty
Speaker 5: this year just because of all the rule changes. So
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get guys who run early this year.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, jass Chisholm to you worm at three
Speaker 1: h six. That kind of fits the bill, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: And also I feel a degree of safety starting off
Speaker 3: with Turner and gold Schmid, So I like going for
Speaker 3: the you know, high upside guy with the third round pick.
Speaker 4: And also second base eligibility.
Speaker 3: Clearly he's gonna have outfiel eligibility this year, so I
Speaker 3: like sort of the extra you know, positional flexibility there.
Speaker 2: I probably would have done the same thing because I
Speaker 2: had a very simp I have, you know, the Tucker
Speaker 2: Trout balance. That jazz chism was one thousand percent on
Speaker 2: my peripheral here because also you know, power speed combo,
Speaker 2: you can take on the risk. But just sniped right
Speaker 2: in front of me, and you know, I went Spencer
Speaker 2: Strider Joe thinking that this league wouldn't touch Jacob to
Speaker 2: Grom and there might even be the slightest chance he
Speaker 2: would come back. It didn't happen, but I get a
Speaker 2: little bit more floor. I'm going with my pitcher here
Speaker 2: because I've got two outfielders. We only have two sp
Speaker 2: spots too, are peace spots and then four starting picture
Speaker 2: spots if everybody wonders. But there's still some really good
Speaker 2: sps out there. So third round seems to very much
Speaker 2: be like where I start to dip my toes into
Speaker 2: the starting pictures. I don't do it in the first
Speaker 2: two rounds. But there's just great guys. There's a couple
Speaker 2: guys I really love to grom Strider and another player
Speaker 2: that hopefully doesn't get picked.
Speaker 1: You got to know, every time we draft with the
Speaker 1: Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks, it's always going to be
Speaker 1: a tough draft every single time these folks are pared.
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen goes next to three oh nine than Aaron
Speaker 1: Nola at three ten, Randy Rose Arena at three twelve.
Speaker 1: As we look for the four turn worm. You were
Speaker 1: our first guests for our first mock, and this is
Speaker 1: our last mock after all. So how do you feel
Speaker 1: from one to the other. Do you feel more confident?
Speaker 1: I remember you coming off, You're like I barely looked
Speaker 1: at things. I don't know where I am Randy a
Speaker 1: Rosa wat and now how do you?
Speaker 4: Oh, maybe not quite that bad.
Speaker 3: But yeah, as I said back then, drafting in January,
Speaker 3: you're kind of throwing stuff at the wall to see
Speaker 3: what sticks. You're kind of still feeling things out, not
Speaker 3: only feeling out your own personal strategies and evaluations of players,
Speaker 3: but feeling out what typical draft rooms are going to
Speaker 3: be doing. You obviously have much more of a sense
Speaker 3: of that by the time we get to mid to
Speaker 3: late March season less than a week away or I
Speaker 3: guess just over a week away at this point. So
Speaker 3: I definitely feel a little bit better. Also, watched a
Speaker 3: lot of these guys in the World Baseball Classic. You know,
Speaker 3: we've done some drafts, our Fantasy Pro Salary Cap draft.
Speaker 3: You and I went head to head on that, Joe,
Speaker 3: So definitely feeling a lot stronger than I did in January.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, let's get to look at
Speaker 1: the names coming off the board here, Shane Bieber insures her.
Speaker 1: So back to back pitchers at the turn there for chums.
Speaker 1: Ozzie Albi's who I desperately was hoping but I knew
Speaker 1: would not make it back to me at four oh two.
Speaker 1: And of course the Wonky Penguin does this smart thing
Speaker 1: can take Sea m clann and four yep, of course,
Speaker 1: four to oh four, Corey Seeger four oh five College Warber.
Speaker 1: You know, I hope Wonky goes out there, and I
Speaker 1: hope she's in like a million NFBC leagues this year.
Speaker 1: I really do Welsh. You took Brandon Woodriff. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: I mean it was just the backup of backup plans.
Speaker 2: I wanted Seae McClanahan like nothing else, and then my
Speaker 2: backup was Corey Seeger. I was gonna one hundred percent
Speaker 2: jump on getting Corey Seger right now. I love his
Speaker 2: offensive ability. Uh first time under three hundred babbit and
Speaker 2: it was two forty two, no shift offensive numbers through
Speaker 2: the roof. I wanted him really, really bad, so I
Speaker 2: kind of came back to it and wanted to get
Speaker 2: My original plan is getting two aces. I just like
Speaker 2: Sean McClanahan. I think he can do the number one
Speaker 2: pitcher this year, but going with Strider and Woodruff, I
Speaker 2: actually probably provided myself with a little bit more safety.
Speaker 2: And this happened sometime, and like I saved myself because
Speaker 2: like I want to take Jacob de Grom, and then
Speaker 2: all would have gotten crazy had I not taken Spencer Strider.
Speaker 2: Spencer Strider safer than de Gram would you have probably
Speaker 2: even safer than Sean McClanahan at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: So I'm fine, but I'm not super happy. And me
Speaker 2: and Kelly are gonna.
Speaker 1: Feel like some friends. Fine, You're not really fine. You're
Speaker 1: making faheitas fine, right, I.
Speaker 2: Think that's kind of the Pokemon's up right now.
Speaker 1: Though Pokemon is up. But after Brendon Woodrow, Zach Wheeler
Speaker 1: to Ryan Warmly, this was I believe Frank Stamfeles had
Speaker 1: one of his most drafted players. So you drafted Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel?
Speaker 3: I feel great, really reliable. He's my first pitcher off
Speaker 3: the board. Obviously I didn't go in that third round
Speaker 3: starting pitcher run. But he's a guy I'm really happy
Speaker 3: to get in the fourth and I think he could
Speaker 3: easily win more than the twelve games he got last year,
Speaker 3: just considering the Phillies lineup, even with Harper, you know
Speaker 3: out to start the year.
Speaker 1: Okay, after that, we've got Cedric Mullen's going to Mike
Speaker 1: Mayor certainly stolen bases there. We talked about the power
Speaker 1: drop off cut in half because obviously ballpark also second
Speaker 1: full season. What do you expect, Mayor for the third
Speaker 1: year of Cedric Mullins.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm gonna hope that the Orioles don't continue to
Speaker 5: move like all of their fences back every year going forward.
Speaker 5: So that would be great, even though it doesn't really
Speaker 5: affect him as much. But my main concern heading into
Speaker 5: last year was that the year before was a fluke,
Speaker 5: and even though the power came down, he proved that
Speaker 5: it wasn't.
Speaker 6: And so now I'm comfortable.
Speaker 5: Just you know, I've just filled out my outfield with
Speaker 5: guys that are gonna run and also provide some power.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna go ahead and probably reach for
Speaker 1: a player here, I imagine pretty soon, just because I can.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead and reach for Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 1: because I need stolen bases.
Speaker 2: Then your mouth, I knew that, you know what, it did.
Speaker 1: Not give me the reach alert?
Speaker 6: How about you love the reach alert? You're always looking forward.
Speaker 1: I love a good reach alert, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: got to play double to get the reach alert. It's
Speaker 1: crazy looking around to I mean, I can always go
Speaker 1: with bullpen. You know I'm gonna do something I never
Speaker 1: do Welsh, When have I ever done this? But you
Speaker 1: know what, it's a twelve team league. It's the fourth round.
Speaker 1: I take real Muto. How about that apples top player?
Speaker 1: I got the gun two tickets to the Gun Show, Baby,
Speaker 1: let's go. I even thought about taking two closers, and
Speaker 1: then I sobered up and decided that was a stupid
Speaker 1: thing to do. All right, let's continue on. So after
Speaker 1: we go through the players who just recently picked, we
Speaker 1: had Cedric Mullens to Mayor and Luis Robert, who I
Speaker 1: would have taken at four oh nine, George spring Or
Speaker 1: four ten, Dylan season four eleven that I took, Corman Carrol,
Speaker 1: and jac Real Muto. Julio Urius goes to Florin Sox's
Speaker 1: Mister Buster Friend of the show at five oh three
Speaker 1: is up next, So, Mayor, what are you hoping makes
Speaker 1: it back to you here in the fifth round?
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what the exact name you want me
Speaker 5: to tell you? Who I'm looking at draft?
Speaker 1: So Christian Hobber just went so you could tell me
Speaker 1: whoever that might be. I mean, I'm sure they're watching.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're on a ten second delay
Speaker 1: how that works.
Speaker 6: So I don't have a picture yet, which is, you know,
Speaker 6: not ideal. But you know, like I.
Speaker 4: Don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of these drafts, and I like,
Speaker 1: this is where you start hammering the pitching. You got Bossman,
Speaker 1: You've got Alec Manoa, you, Darvis, Zach Gallons, a lot
Speaker 1: of good pictures out there.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go in another direction. I know this
Speaker 5: might not be the best format to do it. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take a picture, but I'm gonna take Class A.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, all right. So Alec Minoo, by the way,
Speaker 1: was not available when it came down to you. He
Speaker 1: went right before at three at five oh four, excuse me,
Speaker 1: five oh five, Class A worm five oh six. What
Speaker 1: do you got for us?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Right around adp here on Bregman.
Speaker 3: I just want to get one of those high end
Speaker 3: third basement I didn't get one early. My infield is
Speaker 3: now completely set already, which which is great. I can
Speaker 3: really owne in on just outfield and picture. But you know,
Speaker 3: I want to get Bregman. I would have been happy
Speaker 3: if I got Gun or a couple you know.
Speaker 4: A little bit later.
Speaker 3: But really those were the last two third basement I
Speaker 3: was excited about, so I just wanted to get one
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there you have it. Uh, continuing on here
Speaker 1: with the picks. That means the Welsh is up next.
Speaker 1: No hesitation from the Welsh. I could have I could
Speaker 1: have told you what this pick was going to be.
Speaker 1: It's Josh Hater. Uh do you love your closers?
Speaker 4: Welsh?
Speaker 1: Wow, It's not that.
Speaker 2: I love my closers, it's I don't love the closing market.
Speaker 2: I don't believe me. Of course I could play in
Speaker 2: all save and hold leagues. Great, let's let's devalue all
Speaker 2: of them and do that. But we're not, and we've
Speaker 2: got less lockdown closers than it feels like even last year.
Speaker 2: And I'd rather be in the market. That's why, you know,
Speaker 2: Mayor taking Classe is just such a good pick, Like
Speaker 2: he doesn't go that late usually and you're getting the
Speaker 2: top closer off the market. I would have loved him,
Speaker 2: but Hater is in that group as well. I just
Speaker 2: don't like you can swim in the pool, but I
Speaker 2: don't want to swim in the pool. I don't want
Speaker 2: to swim with the Fairbanks and the jose La Clerks.
Speaker 2: If I have a choice, I want to at least
Speaker 2: have a top guy. And you got to pay for it.
Speaker 2: The NFBC drafts can to teach you some of these things.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to pay for steels. You're gonna have
Speaker 2: to pay for saves. Maybe you don't have to do
Speaker 2: it in some of your own home leagues, but I'm
Speaker 2: going to do it here, and I'm going to try
Speaker 2: to win this projection game.
Speaker 1: Does your wife make your driver to the save and
Speaker 1: hold every weekend? Too?
Speaker 2: You always have to drink kids of the saving holds.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the saving hold is, but always
Speaker 1: Mayor Mayor always has the saving holds. He's there all
Speaker 1: the time. Now he's buying diapers at the saving hold.
Speaker 1: He's got two kids. Now, the whole thing is this crazy,
Speaker 1: It's just madness. The picks continue to fly off the board.
Speaker 1: Here after Josh Hater, we have Kevin Gossman going at
Speaker 1: five ohage or Romano at five oh nine. Here's your
Speaker 1: closer on Devin Williams at five to ten, Luis Castillo
Speaker 1: at five eleven, Zach Gallon at twelve. What a pitching
Speaker 1: staff there being built there by charms. I just want
Speaker 1: to point this out. Sure's er bieber Gallon? Uh? Mayor
Speaker 1: what do you think about that trio?
Speaker 6: I wish I would I had any pictures instead of
Speaker 6: the es.
Speaker 1: That's why I asked you, what do you think about that? Well,
Speaker 1: you could have taken Zach Gallen. I was kind of
Speaker 1: willing you to after Minoa was off the board, but
Speaker 1: you didn't want to do that. So what's the plan
Speaker 1: for pitching? When it comes back?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Who's the guy? You're like, Okay, I've got I got
Speaker 1: a group here, because now you've got to establish somebody
Speaker 1: who could be an ace for you or potentially for
Speaker 1: your rotation. A whole lot of those guys left. There's
Speaker 1: a few names. Uh, it's taking a shot a guy
Speaker 1: like Carlos Rodon Are you willing to do that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: I have a pretty firm no Yankees rule, so ah,
Speaker 5: that's for you.
Speaker 6: Wise, that's not just kidding.
Speaker 5: I do have like one home league where I like
Speaker 5: jokingly rarely have Yankees. But no, I mean the injury
Speaker 5: risk of there. I don't want to like anchor my
Speaker 5: staff to a guy like Rodan, especially like you know,
Speaker 5: like first year at Yankee Stadium. You know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: I'm like thrilled about that. So I'll probably dip further
Speaker 5: into this like larger tier.
Speaker 6: That we have here.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll see how he dips, because not only
Speaker 1: is Zach Gallon gone, but also you Darvish gon so
Speaker 1: Chom's just taking all the pictures now, just just he's
Speaker 1: just like Garry Galla got my Ford pictures. That's it.
Speaker 1: Max fried goes and fran Ravaldez.
Speaker 6: And Monkey took who I was going to take.
Speaker 1: Well, fran Ravaldez is a nice picture there, so it's
Speaker 1: a nice selection at all these Garcia Worm, What do
Speaker 1: you think about Garcia this year? Obviously a player of
Speaker 1: power and speed. Potentially the speed was a little surprising
Speaker 1: I think for some of us last year, but the
Speaker 1: rules make it easier steal bases in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Do you think that number holds, grows or shrinks.
Speaker 4: I would guess I don't know for sure.
Speaker 3: Obviously I would guess it definitely grows, but that would
Speaker 3: be my answer for pretty much anybody just giving the
Speaker 3: rules like you alluded to, and you know, he's not
Speaker 3: somebody that I'm targeting in a lot of places. But
Speaker 3: I think there's definitely a case to be made, especially
Speaker 3: like you said, if you think those numbers even go higher.
Speaker 3: Those are really nice outing stats that aren't always easy
Speaker 3: to find.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, continuing on to Loya Menez, what I was
Speaker 1: hoping again would make it to me. He did not
Speaker 1: six O five Gunnar Henderson to the well shakes six
Speaker 1: let's go third base is rough? You got it.
Speaker 3: If I hadn't already taken Bregnant, I would have been fury.
Speaker 1: I know. But you know when that last draft I
Speaker 1: did with warm he tried to get all the Orioles.
Speaker 1: It was win Jedipal, like four Orioles on that team.
Speaker 1: Something like that.
Speaker 3: I got sniped a couple of times, I think on
Speaker 3: like Adlie and Gunner. I ended up with a couple
Speaker 3: of guys late like the Santine days of the World,
Speaker 3: but but not the stars worm.
Speaker 2: This is what I was going to do. I was
Speaker 2: sitting long and hard to get maybe the top two
Speaker 2: closers and have like probably the two best closers that
Speaker 2: you can have in this group, I was gonna take
Speaker 2: Ryan Presley, but I still like a few guys and
Speaker 2: I decided to pivot off of it. And that's why
Speaker 2: I went with Gunner Henderson because third base is such trash.
Speaker 2: But I love your Presley pick because I was like
Speaker 2: two seconds away from just clicking his name and not
Speaker 2: thinking about anybody else.
Speaker 3: I almost never invest heavily enclosers, but I like to
Speaker 3: get at least one, like you were talking about in
Speaker 3: the last round, Like I don't want to have to
Speaker 3: be played in those waters for both of those guys.
Speaker 1: Exactly understandably. So all right, Ryan Presley gone, Dalton Varshow
Speaker 1: to Mayor. Mayor, you're deciding that you just hate all pitching, right,
Speaker 1: so you're going zero sp Is that the Yeah?
Speaker 5: Maybe I just maybe I've just been playing in too
Speaker 5: many two catcher leagues lately, you know, this early in
Speaker 5: the draft season. So I just saw Varshow there and
Speaker 5: I was like, you know what, who cares? Who needs pitchers?
Speaker 5: Let's just fill fill this out?
Speaker 1: Who kids, I'll just go get it later. Uh at
Speaker 1: Glacias and Will Smith go off the board next at
Speaker 1: six o nine. Excuse me? Right after varshow was Rodin,
Speaker 1: then Will Smith and Iglesias. Now it's to me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and just pound on the outfield a
Speaker 1: little bit here. Let's go take ti Oscar Hernandez. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna go ahead and take Starling Marte also.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna go continue to just that. That's it.
Speaker 1: I'm done, done with the outfield. I got Corbyn, Carroll,
Speaker 1: I've got to askar Hernandez, I got who else? I
Speaker 1: just take Starling Marte. So there you go, taking the
Speaker 1: advantages there where I can get them. I'm drowning the pool.
Speaker 1: At the same time, top players on the board O'Neil
Speaker 1: Cruz at seven oh two goes to f Orange Socks.
Speaker 1: Mister Buster at seven oh three is next. Mike Mayer
Speaker 1: is up in two picks. So, Mayor, is this the
Speaker 1: breaking point where you finally take a starting pitcher? And uh,
Speaker 1: what's it going to be like for you when Carlos
Speaker 1: Carrasco is your ace.
Speaker 5: Carlos Carasco will not be my ace because I would
Speaker 5: just quit and leave this.
Speaker 1: There's one ace on the board at Joe Musgrove. To me,
Speaker 1: is still an ace, like if you pull off Joe
Speaker 1: Musgrove here, then you're the You're the mac Daddy. As
Speaker 1: the kid said in the nineties, I believe you.
Speaker 6: Gotta be honest. The pick is not gonna be Joe Musgrove.
Speaker 1: Oh, not gonna be Joe musk Grove Wels, Who would you?
Speaker 1: Who's your fallback ace? Well? Shore do you have?
Speaker 2: I mean of aces that are still available? I mean
Speaker 2: I kind of wanted you to shut the hell up
Speaker 2: about Musgrove a little bit, like just shut your mouth.
Speaker 2: But like at seventy six, it's a little tough because
Speaker 2: he is going to miss a starter too. But I
Speaker 2: think we are missing a lot of aces. But mayor
Speaker 2: you ended it with Tristan McKenzie, who you know that
Speaker 2: is a little bit higher. And I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people are down, but you are not. My friend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, why uh, desperation, Why desperation be the first one?
Speaker 1: This is always my favorite part of this fantasy fest
Speaker 1: because it's been like four plus hours now, and Chris,
Speaker 1: who are a Steam producers, done a phenomenal job of
Speaker 1: running the show. He knows. Once I cross over the
Speaker 1: fourth hour, the filter is just completely gone, and I
Speaker 1: just that's it. I start to get really salty and
Speaker 1: goofy and.
Speaker 2: You know this is the y range.
Speaker 1: This is the Yeah, this is where we're at. Robbie
Speaker 1: Ray went right before you. Would you have taken Ray
Speaker 1: over McKenzie or no, mayor.
Speaker 6: I would have taken Ray.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so Ray would have been the pick. Brian
Speaker 1: Reynolds goes to Worm Welsh must Grove is still on
Speaker 1: the board.
Speaker 2: You pull the trigger, buddy, ah man, no man, oh man,
Speaker 2: I gotta get this guy. I want my stole second.
Speaker 2: I got him.
Speaker 1: I got him.
Speaker 2: I love Andris so much and I hate not getting him.
Speaker 2: I think his stolen base totals are going to go up.
Speaker 2: The bat X actually gave him one of the biggest
Speaker 2: boosts of any player. He's up to like thirty five,
Speaker 2: I think, no, maybe it's twenty eight. It was like
Speaker 2: from twenty one to like twenty eight stolen bases on
Speaker 2: the year. I love Andriss. I get to slot a
Speaker 2: minute second base here and I just needed to lock
Speaker 2: that up.
Speaker 6: That's who I want it. But I just needed a
Speaker 6: picture so bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I almost thought about taking him, but then I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm gonna take all the outfielders.
Speaker 2: And just be and then Tommy Edmund. Right at Joe
Speaker 2: Musgrove and Tommy Edmond, which were the other two guys
Speaker 2: on the list just right after him.
Speaker 4: Bang.
Speaker 1: I thought about him Andez and Edmund and just finishing
Speaker 1: off the middle infield as opposed to finishing off the outfield.
Speaker 1: But I have more concerns with the outfield than anything else.
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds, by the way, was the outfielder that the
Speaker 1: worm took here Ryan twenty seven home runs last year
Speaker 1: for Brian Reynolds a two sixty two batting average. Good
Speaker 1: chance he gets dealt somewhere else. If he does. Is
Speaker 1: that a big piece of the puzzle of why people
Speaker 1: should be looking at Brian Reynolds this year, because he
Speaker 1: could end up on a contending team in the second
Speaker 1: half that could really help his stats down the stretch
Speaker 1: or playoff run stats.
Speaker 4: I think for sure. I mean, we know that he's
Speaker 4: a good player.
Speaker 3: I didn't have any outfielders yet, so I, you know,
Speaker 3: really felt like, how could you I took them all somebody?
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: But then also, of course, you know, the ceiling just
Speaker 3: goes up even higher if he gets traded to a
Speaker 3: guy where can get even more counting stats, so I
Speaker 3: think that's definitely part of the equation. Maybe he's not
Speaker 3: guy I'm gonna reach on, but when I have a
Speaker 3: strong infield, I've already gotten a start and reliever.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to get him as one of my outfield pieces.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's recap the draft here after him and as
Speaker 1: to Welsh at seven o seven, then we had at
Speaker 1: seven o eight Joe Musgrove to Juggernaut. That one fool.
Speaker 1: Then at seven oh nine to Tommy Edmond Willia Domas
Speaker 1: at seven to ten, Ryan Helsley at seven eleven, ADLEYE.
Speaker 1: Rutchman at seven to twelve. Somebody check on Worm, Okay, Ryan.
Speaker 4: It was it was a lock.
Speaker 3: I was gonna take him with my next pick, so
Speaker 3: it was smart that they took him there.
Speaker 1: You gotta take him early there, all right. Reyese Hoskins
Speaker 1: goes next. Then Sal Perez little mini catcher run here,
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson Milwaukee Penguin out of Mike Cuan onto her team.
Speaker 1: A great value at eight o four for Jose Abreu
Speaker 1: to that one full first bases rough that's a good value.
Speaker 1: If he bounces back into that thirty home run range.
Speaker 1: Juggernaut selects Byron Bucks did right from underneath the Welsh. Oh,
Speaker 1: that one's gotta hurt.
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna take him.
Speaker 1: I was gonna see even though he was a full
Speaker 1: time DH now and I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm all about Bucks and I probably would
Speaker 2: have tried to get him last round. It's always hard
Speaker 2: to tell, Like you guys all hate him, so it's
Speaker 2: like maybe I can actually.
Speaker 3: Had I actually had him at the top of my
Speaker 3: queue for this next pick. On Adley went Buckson was
Speaker 3: going to be my.
Speaker 1: Pick because he's a DH right Ryan, I mean, at
Speaker 1: this point, that's what I wanted, Like you, dhrim takes
Speaker 1: a fair amount of that risk away.
Speaker 2: I think it takes a ton of the risk away.
Speaker 2: But the shortstop market is getting really bad. I wanted Wander,
Speaker 2: I wanted on, you know, Cruz. They went before Xander
Speaker 2: Bogarts really fell. I know the number is kind of
Speaker 2: tapered down, but guess what, He's just going to be
Speaker 2: hitting between monsters all across the board. Run totals should
Speaker 2: look good. I think the Homers are kick back up
Speaker 2: to get him. At ninety. Xander Bogarts is like a
Speaker 2: great deal at this point, but I was honed into
Speaker 2: Jose Brady right there, So that was a little snipe
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, Byron Buxton. Then Xander Bogart's for Welsh Batista goes
Speaker 1: to the Worm and Mayor takes Nathan Lowe Felix Batista.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Batista going to you, Ryan and
Speaker 1: at eight o seven your.
Speaker 3: Thoughts, Yeah, well after Adleye when I had to get
Speaker 3: in an oriole and also I'm not really worried about about
Speaker 3: the injury. The way he's talking, they seem pretty unconcerned
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: He was really really good last year.
Speaker 3: I think the Orioles are primed to win more games
Speaker 3: this year than they did last year. He is the
Speaker 3: primary closer, assuming health. He's not going to be supplanted
Speaker 3: from that role, so I think he has a lot
Speaker 3: of opportunity for save this year.
Speaker 4: He's going to strike out guys. I love him as
Speaker 4: a second closer.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about low Mike Maheror. Your thoughts eight
Speaker 1: o way. Can you repeat the twenty seven home run
Speaker 1: breakout season?
Speaker 6: Probably not, but first base of Mike.
Speaker 1: Mayor there is It's never a positive. It's just always
Speaker 1: like no, it's like the Debbie Downer effect.
Speaker 2: It is a.
Speaker 5: Looking at projections and you have to be conservative. So
Speaker 5: I look at like the conservative side of projections and
Speaker 5: just kind of, you know, try to build my team
Speaker 5: around that way. But like Welster was saying, I wanted
Speaker 5: actually Tim Anderson, but he didn't make it. And then
Speaker 5: you know short stops getting pretty ugly.
Speaker 1: Didn't make it or he just didn't get to you,
Speaker 1: like I don't want to not make it. That sounds
Speaker 1: really it's no longer with us. Jeez, that was morose. Alright,
Speaker 1: we have Carlos Korea going, then Camillo Divaul at a ten,
Speaker 1: Vinie pas Quentino at eight eleven. I need more pictures,
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna start taking pictures. I like, let's
Speaker 1: start with Lance Lynn and then let's say go Lucas Giolito.
Speaker 1: I don't care about the reach alerts. I really don't care.
Speaker 1: So there you go. So al Contra, Otani, Lynn, and Giolito.
Speaker 1: That's the pitching staff for JOEP right now. Florence Socks
Speaker 1: nine O two is up next. Welsh, if I told
Speaker 1: you you could have Otani the picture slash hitter, al
Speaker 1: Contra and then the two guys from the White Sox.
Speaker 1: You going to war with that pitching.
Speaker 2: Staff, gonna go to war with that stuff. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to go on both of them. But
Speaker 2: the problem is is I like both of them. That's like,
Speaker 2: you don't want to go with both buybacks. But I
Speaker 2: like Giulito, I like Lynn, and they're you're three four you.
Speaker 1: Miss fourteen starts last year at the end last fourteen starts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's still I think he's still a vibe.
Speaker 2: I mean he's a buyback because he's not going in
Speaker 2: the fifties or sixties. He's he's adp is and like
Speaker 2: the one elevens and whatnot. So the other thing I
Speaker 2: would point out to like what you're building is as
Speaker 2: long as this is a daily league. If this is
Speaker 2: a daily moves league, I like what you've done. If
Speaker 2: you're in a weekly moves league, you're a little bits
Speaker 2: with Otani because you're gonna have to weekly pick is
Speaker 2: he a hit or a pitcher? So that's why he's
Speaker 2: not like the consensus number one in some.
Speaker 1: Aspect that it's a daily transaction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I figured we were pretending it was.
Speaker 1: Whatever is better for me. That's what I want to pretend.
Speaker 2: I figured that.
Speaker 1: I think I've established that Logan Web goes to Florence Socks,
Speaker 1: then Christian Walker to mister Busser at nine oh three. Uh,
Speaker 1: Dreijack takes Kelly Jansen at nine oh four, then Dansby
Speaker 1: Swanson at nine oh five. Mike Mayer continuing the thumb
Speaker 1: is nose at pitching. Let's talk about Dansby Swanson, your thoughts.
Speaker 5: Same thing I've been talking about the whole time. You know,
Speaker 5: speed power combo and you know, wanted to short step
Speaker 5: last time around Shorts. That's getting pretty thin. I still
Speaker 5: really need a second basement. That position is even uglier,
Speaker 5: you know, potentially even uglier than my pitching staff is
Speaker 5: going to be. So still instead of trying to, like,
Speaker 5: you know, reach a little bit further down to a
Speaker 5: pitcher I don't like as much.
Speaker 6: I just want to. I wanted to grab Swanson while
Speaker 6: he was there.
Speaker 1: Is the draft wizard starting to send you like rude
Speaker 1: messages about pitching yet, like, hey, Mike, you might want to.
Speaker 2: Should put that in there, be like hey buddy, you okay.
Speaker 1: Hey buddy, you can everything all right?
Speaker 2: You good?
Speaker 1: The hey buddy message would be nice.
Speaker 2: Hey, buddy, you up like a little piece of I think.
Speaker 1: Ryan, you have a good voice for the you did
Speaker 1: radio for a long time. Could you do the hey
Speaker 1: buddy check in voice for us real quick?
Speaker 4: Hey, hey buddy, you are right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really good. See, I knew it. That's all
Speaker 1: you know. Directing is ninety percent casting at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. That's all right. So Worm, you took
Speaker 1: Christian Yelich. So what sort of insurance policy are you're
Speaker 1: taking out with that?
Speaker 3: A very expensive one, I'm sure. I like Yellish this year.
Speaker 3: The rules help him, not only in that I think
Speaker 3: he could run more this year, even as he's getting older,
Speaker 3: but also like our big complaint with him is that
Speaker 3: he hits the ball in the ground so much. But
Speaker 3: with the shift rules, like maybe so a few more,
Speaker 3: there's become bas hits.
Speaker 4: So he's not a.
Speaker 3: Guy that I'm like actively going on my way to target.
Speaker 3: But again, I really need outfield help here at this
Speaker 3: point in the draft, and I think there is some
Speaker 3: upside there with the rules changes.
Speaker 1: All right, Welsh, to no surprise, you took Blake snow
Speaker 1: Oh man, I love the Welsh. I'm so happy that's
Speaker 1: what Blake Snell said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure he loves it every time
Speaker 2: I do it around spores or is like, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell him because their buddies, their twitch budgers, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: go ahead, how you know, let's.
Speaker 1: They share mustache waxed together the tap.
Speaker 2: I can't help if he talks like that, and I
Speaker 2: have to like impersonate it every single time. But I
Speaker 2: also think he's a phenomenal pitcher. We talked about it
Speaker 2: earlier in this show that you know, incredible second half
Speaker 2: getting him as my sp three. This is kind of
Speaker 2: what I wanted. This is exactly what I want, and
Speaker 2: I got him outside the top one hundred, so it's
Speaker 2: a pretty pretty good spot. I'm happy about it.
Speaker 1: Juggernaut takes a leap of faith at nine oh eight
Speaker 1: with Glass Now then George Kirby at nine oh nine,
Speaker 1: Stephen Kwan to the Wonky Penguin. She doesn't care all
Speaker 1: the bad news that Welsh says about Stephen quanh She
Speaker 1: ain't hearing it. A Jose Altuve at nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: So that's the big question, Welsh when to al Tuove,
Speaker 1: is this the right time? At nine to eleven feels
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 2: I think, I think this is the range that I've targeted.
Speaker 2: One hundred to one fifteen is the range the key,
Speaker 2: and it's not gonna help projections, but like who cares
Speaker 2: is who is this? Jay? Gucci is gonna need to
Speaker 2: make sure that they get another second basement to back up,
Speaker 2: and like I personally like to tell Marte, I think
Speaker 2: getting Katel Marte later and slotting him back in this
Speaker 2: is the range though, and they jumped right on it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm good with it. I'm game.
Speaker 1: Uh worm, What do you think about al two Vay's value?
Speaker 1: Is this about the range where you missed two months?
Speaker 1: About ninth round, tenth round? About where you're ready to
Speaker 1: take him? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I actually was considering him with the pick and with
Speaker 3: the idea being that I could move Jazz to outfield.
Speaker 1: I yeah, you were in a good position to actually
Speaker 1: pull that off.
Speaker 3: I was between Yelich and I went with him because,
Speaker 3: like I said, the rules changes. I was between Yelich,
Speaker 3: snell And and al Twove, so those guys all went
Speaker 3: right after. But I think it's a really fair round
Speaker 3: for him, just knowing what you're gonna get once he's
Speaker 3: back healthy.
Speaker 1: Chalmers continues to uh just obliterate pitching Gilbert and Severino,
Speaker 1: next Andrew Vaughan, then Santander, Chris Bryant at ten oh four,
Speaker 1: then Taylor Ward at ten o five. Right before the Welsh.
Speaker 2: Well, Chris Bryant was I was one thousand percent taking
Speaker 2: Chris Bryant, so that one kind of stunned.
Speaker 1: He's the enigma. Nobody knows what to make of him.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna do. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: big power to make up for some of the speed.
Speaker 2: I might go with Geon Carlos Stanton surprisingly just to
Speaker 2: fill this out, because if you guys pay attention, like
Speaker 2: I got boguards for batting average, but power might be
Speaker 2: suss Andre Simenez maybe same thing Gunner. Maybe getting Stanton
Speaker 2: to go with Trout and Tucker is just gonna fill
Speaker 2: back out my power. But I really wanted Chris Bryant there.
Speaker 1: Does Bogman still take Jan Carlos Stanton, No, I don't
Speaker 1: think he does.
Speaker 2: I think he's over the the John Carlos Stanton stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the one year was there where it was
Speaker 1: like with him, all right, look flames Row or Hunter
Speaker 1: Green goes to Ryan Warmly in the next pick of
Speaker 1: ten o seven. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a big time upside play. Obviously.
Speaker 3: I know quite a few people who are talking about
Speaker 3: him as you know, a potential like nice dark horse
Speaker 3: bet for and nol say Young puts it all together,
Speaker 3: takes that next step in his development. I have Zach
Speaker 3: Wheeler as my only other picture right now. There's a
Speaker 3: degree of safety there that I really like. So I'm
Speaker 3: willing to take sort of the big swing on my
Speaker 3: second picture. And I didn't really love some of the
Speaker 3: guys that were ranked ahead of him, so I'm happy
Speaker 3: to do a little bit of a reach on him there.
Speaker 1: Mayor, speaking of reaches, nest Cortez at ten, Oh wait,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about that over Clayton Kershaw? He
Speaker 1: took Nester Cortez over Clayton Kershaw. Let's let's die.
Speaker 6: Get out of Clayton Kersha seven or eight?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right now, yet every get the Dodgers of
Speaker 1: a ninety six and a half win total. Explain that
Speaker 1: to me, folks, somebody explained that to me, Mayor, So
Speaker 1: why Cortes over Kershaw? Just starts? That's it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty much? You know I need someone I can
Speaker 5: rely on. I think Yankees are gonna win a lot
Speaker 5: of games. You know, like you said, who kind of
Speaker 5: knows what's gonna happen with the Dodgers. Who knows what's
Speaker 5: gonna happen with Kershaw? You know there's the potential. He
Speaker 5: just like shuts it down. H shut it a point
Speaker 5: in my pitching staff to really kind of gamble on someone.
Speaker 1: Like KSh understandably, So I'm gonna take a gamble here
Speaker 1: on a med Rosario and Brandon Lau. I know it's
Speaker 1: giving me a reach alerts. I really don't care because
Speaker 1: I need middle infield. So I've solidified that. I actually
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about it. I tell you the truth.
Speaker 1: After you took your dude, I mean, if Glabor Torris
Speaker 1: amand me, I would have taken him after Kershaw, Labor
Speaker 1: Torres went, then Wilson Contreras. I took Rasario at the
Speaker 1: ten twelve end. At eleven oh one, I took Brandon Loud,
Speaker 1: then Clay Holmes at eleven o two, Matt Chapman eleven
Speaker 1: o three. Pokemon's up next at eleven o four. Let's
Speaker 1: see who they select. Mike Mayer gonna keep pounded on
Speaker 1: the pitching here.
Speaker 6: I might, yeah, but I might.
Speaker 5: I might get one of your patented reach alerts with
Speaker 5: the guy that I'm I'm thinking about taking it.
Speaker 1: Well, Joe Ryan's on the board. I like him as
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher there, Redebt Mers is interesting, Lodolo, Freddy
Speaker 1: peralta old man, Charlie Morton. Uh no, it is.
Speaker 2: The Welsh special. It's just such a.
Speaker 1: Springs such we have.
Speaker 2: A pleet button.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 2: We don't personality to do that.
Speaker 1: And the worm took Joe Ryan right after, so I
Speaker 1: would have taken Ryan still too. What would you have taken?
Speaker 1: Springs is even in too you Ryan or no?
Speaker 4: No, no.
Speaker 3: I was eyeing r And for those last few picks,
Speaker 3: and I was a little annoyed that you said him.
Speaker 4: Not that you would be if it's.
Speaker 1: I love it, like everyone's annoyed that I'm doing my
Speaker 1: job discussing the like literally, that's what my job.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to take someone, have Joe tell me
Speaker 5: to take.
Speaker 2: That exactly control Joe.
Speaker 3: Not like Joe Ryan, though he shares both of our names. Joe,
Speaker 3: I mean, he's no brain.
Speaker 1: He is he is our child of love and forever show.
Speaker 1: He remained well, she took Chris Sale, So talk about buybacks.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on Chris Sale twenty twenty three with a
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox team that's gonna make Mike Mayor cry
Speaker 1: a lot this year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just think I've got I've got
Speaker 2: some good safety. I've got my one closer with big
Speaker 2: strikeout numbers. I got Strider, Woodruff and Snell. I can
Speaker 2: take a little shot. We talked about it. I think
Speaker 2: we talked about this earlier too, like who's the picture
Speaker 2: that had the Who the hell are we talking with?
Speaker 2: Is it Pollock? That was like, who's the picture that
Speaker 2: has it up the top twenty Chris Sale is one
Speaker 2: of those guys with the big strike cut numbers. He
Speaker 2: just got to stay healthy. So I wanted Springs that
Speaker 2: would have been one of the guys or someone else
Speaker 2: in there that I was taking a look at. I
Speaker 2: don't even think I was necessarily sold on what I
Speaker 2: was doing here. But Spring's going to stinks. But Chris
Speaker 2: Sale was kind of the next off the board because
Speaker 2: I wanted to I want to have four strong sps,
Speaker 2: and I think Sale at four kind of works for.
Speaker 1: That Max months he Goes at eleven Oway, then Nick
Speaker 1: Lodolo eleven oh nine. Now Walky Penguin took McCarthy at
Speaker 1: eleven ten, and Jake McCarthy is somebody I had to
Speaker 1: take because I was short on outfield last night in
Speaker 1: a real draft, And now that she took him, I
Speaker 1: feel better about taking because you were you were a
Speaker 1: negative Nancy about Jake McCarthy.
Speaker 2: I mean, it'll help the projections, it'll help Wonky win.
Speaker 2: It's not going to help her win a real league.
Speaker 2: It's going to help her win the projections. Jake, no girl,
Speaker 2: no Jake McCarthy for me.
Speaker 1: Jordan Walker eleven eleven Welsh is just the right time
Speaker 1: for Jordan Walker. I'll ask you that.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, if you're getting into your risk reward territory,
Speaker 2: Jordan Walker. If they announced tomorrow that he's got the
Speaker 2: gig inside the top one hundred, easy, this is a value.
Speaker 2: If you paid one thirty and you have to eat
Speaker 2: it for a couple of weeks, it's not great, But
Speaker 2: I'm with this. I'm definitely with this range.
Speaker 1: You're down, You're cool, you I'm cool.
Speaker 2: I Ca'm hip with it all right.
Speaker 1: Ian Happ at eleven twelve, and Josh Bell at twelve
Speaker 1: oh one, Charlie Morton at twelve oh two. Lars newtbar
Speaker 1: now she's now it's personal. See you said what she
Speaker 1: said and then she knew barred you.
Speaker 2: I know she did.
Speaker 1: She told you a lesson.
Speaker 2: There's great outfielders. I've been staring at Lars Nubar for
Speaker 2: a little bit. But there's a couple of really good
Speaker 2: values out there. What can I do? What can I do?
Speaker 2: When the Fantasy pros cruise here? Mayor and Wonkee just
Speaker 2: both breaking my heart? I just have to pick. And
Speaker 2: that's what we're.
Speaker 1: Getting it from both ends there. The juggernaut is on deck. Welsh,
Speaker 1: So twelve oh six, what do you have your eye
Speaker 1: on here? What do you hope it makes it to you?
Speaker 2: Nothing concrete that I want to be careful about what
Speaker 2: I say to you guys, because you guys are rats
Speaker 2: of all that of rats that I want to be
Speaker 2: careful about. Here. I see a couple good value. I'm
Speaker 2: going to jump on this. This is one that like
Speaker 2: in the one thirty area. I think this is just
Speaker 2: a solid by. I'm gonna go to Castianos on the
Speaker 2: buy back. I don't have a bunch of shares, but
Speaker 2: one thirty seven seems like a crazy good deal. Three
Speaker 2: outfielders will want to optimize it with a util This
Speaker 2: is kind of a no brainer.
Speaker 1: Love that pick there, excellent pick. He was my next
Speaker 1: guy at the top of my queue as well. It's great.
Speaker 3: See I'm getting typed up both sides from Mayor and Wells.
Speaker 3: It's a terrible place to be picking. I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: with with Freddy Peralta. Obviously you get another guy with
Speaker 3: health scarees on my team, but just obviously super talented
Speaker 3: went when he's on the mound.
Speaker 4: So again, kind of going for the upside play there, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Mike Mayer on the clock before excuse me after
Speaker 1: a nud bar, should say David Bedner and then Anthony
Speaker 1: rendon't Ren don't have a really good spring? Well should
Speaker 1: anyone care.
Speaker 2: Not to take him inside the top one fifty? We shouldn't,
Speaker 2: But yeah, I had a nice spring. I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, on this team, if
Speaker 2: this team is gonna win, he's gonna be a catalyst
Speaker 2: to it. He's always been a high batting average guy.
Speaker 2: You're going to be hitting in some capacity around guys
Speaker 2: like Taylor Ward and Otani and Trout. If all things
Speaker 2: worked out, it's great. It's just you want to get
Speaker 2: your guys. But you could have gotten Anthony Rindo in
Speaker 2: like fifty picks later. I think that's pretty safe to say.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: I just don't like where it was gone, but the
Speaker 2: bounce back, for sure, I wouldn't count him out.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's see Jordan Montgomery is the Actually I
Speaker 1: should get to Ryan's pick Freddy Peralta at twelve oh seven.
Speaker 1: Then Jordan Montgomery, Ryan, let's talk about Freddy Peralta. That's
Speaker 1: a great selection there in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Like I said, I mean, just like I
Speaker 3: have this team full of injury guys. But you know,
Speaker 3: if he stays healthy, a ton of upside. I think
Speaker 3: at this point in the draft, when you're middle of
Speaker 3: round twelve, pick one, thirty something whatever I was, that's
Speaker 3: the type of upside player that I love, that could
Speaker 3: if he stays healthy, turned out to be a league winner.
Speaker 1: Then Jordan Montgomery to Mike Mayer. Nice solid starting pitcher there,
Speaker 1: mayor your thoughts.
Speaker 5: My thoughts was Ryan was talking about us sniping him,
Speaker 5: and then he took Freddy Pralta, so I had to scramble.
Speaker 1: Yashida goes next, then Pablo Lopez, then Bryce Harper before me,
Speaker 1: and then I took you and Doran and Andres Munos.
Speaker 1: Those are my two relievers. So yeah, I'm good. I'm fine.
Speaker 1: That's my plan and sticking to it. I'll take one
Speaker 1: of them. If I get both of them, it's the
Speaker 1: perfect time because if they both close, I've got two.
Speaker 1: What what would you say, Welsh If they both close
Speaker 1: for seventy five percent of the year, where do they
Speaker 1: finish at RP?
Speaker 2: I think they're both top ten. I mean that's like
Speaker 2: I wanted Munho's coming back, so you one hundred percent
Speaker 2: sniped me there, one hundred percent wanted him. I think
Speaker 2: Monias is a top five closer if he has the
Speaker 2: job all year, and I think Durand is in that
Speaker 2: same general vicinity. So I think it's great. It's just speculation.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna like projections are going to jump through
Speaker 2: the roof for you or anything like that. But I
Speaker 2: love the picks, and I wanted munhos Ba.
Speaker 1: I know the projections are not gonna like this team.
Speaker 1: I love this team that I'm drafting here I will
Speaker 1: I will go fight with this team on the battlefield
Speaker 1: that is Fantasy Baseball. Rowdy Tillz at thirteen oh two,
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neil thirteen oh three, then Rizzo going, followed by
Speaker 1: Mike Mayers selecting Nico Horner. So little Nico Horner sat
Speaker 1: in a corner and went over to Mike Merrier's team.
Speaker 1: Let's hear your thoughts on Nico.
Speaker 5: So the real reason here is because he's going to
Speaker 5: be my second basement because he's going to get a
Speaker 5: second base eligibility and second base is really kind of thin.
Speaker 5: So he's been kind of my cheat code at you know,
Speaker 5: if I don't get a second basement earlier in a draft,
Speaker 5: I usually I've been kind of grabbing him here just
Speaker 5: to try to fill that position.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, all right, next to Hunter Renferro to Ryan Warmly,
Speaker 1: I'll field is tough to find. You found one. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about it?
Speaker 3: I really needed power and he's got a lot of it,
Speaker 3: and that it's basically as simple as that. I do
Speaker 3: think it's a fairly decent value at this point in
Speaker 3: the draft, and you can get him here in most leagues.
Speaker 4: There's some upside there, but it's purely a power play.
Speaker 1: Purely the power play. Welsh CJ. Crohn injured, can't hit
Speaker 1: outside Colorado?
Speaker 2: Why a big power he hits in Colorado, And my
Speaker 2: first basement, We're gone. Rowdy Teles is who I wanted.
Speaker 2: That did not work out for me. So I'm just
Speaker 2: playing a big power projection side for a team that's
Speaker 2: going to manufacture runs. I want to point out also
Speaker 2: that earlier or at the back end of the twelfth round,
Speaker 2: I was one hundred percent sitting on taking Bryce Harper.
Speaker 2: I was gonna take Bryce Harper. Fill that out just
Speaker 2: because of the shorter you know, the shorter of overall
Speaker 2: starting roster size and twelve man. So I thought that
Speaker 2: was a great pick, and I've just kind of had
Speaker 2: to pivot all the way through. But I wanted Rowdy
Speaker 2: te Les and he went, you know, five or six
Speaker 2: picks before. So a little bit bummed about that.
Speaker 1: Ryan. It sounds to me like somebody's got a case
Speaker 1: of the I would is, what do you think about that?
Speaker 3: Well, not to just agree with Welsh, but Harper was
Speaker 3: somebody that I was thinking about too in that range,
Speaker 3: and again, you know, in a league like this, Yeah,
Speaker 3: as long as you can make it to the point
Speaker 3: that he returns, you're adding a stud part way through
Speaker 3: the season. I kind of love that strategy if you
Speaker 3: trust yourself to kind of find a depth to get
Speaker 3: you through and sell.
Speaker 1: Then Welsh fun question from Sean here, what do you
Speaker 1: guys think of getting Munyos and Seawald. I'm just going
Speaker 1: for Munhos. If Seawoll falls in my lap late as insurance,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'll take him too. But what do you
Speaker 1: think about this?
Speaker 2: I don't like. Here's what I like better much.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do it. I guess I like.
Speaker 2: Taking Duran and Jorge Lopez because it's cheaper like Seawald
Speaker 2: than munios are just a big more expensive. Or you know,
Speaker 2: if I were to take Barlow Scott Barlow, I would
Speaker 2: have to get a world as Chapman later like I
Speaker 2: would make those I don't like making. That's very like
Speaker 2: remember our old RB strategies where we're handcuffing. I don't
Speaker 2: like to handcuff anything, so I would not be handcuffing
Speaker 2: two closers inside the top one fish.
Speaker 1: It can make so many jokes here, but I'm not
Speaker 1: going to. But just know that.
Speaker 2: Jake, the j Gucci guy is just such a process
Speaker 2: of ours in Cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: Let's continue on here. We had the draft flying right now,
Speaker 1: says Azuki than Jeremy Panne at thirteen o nine, Willem
Speaker 1: Contraras at thirteen ten. One of my favorite Slawakye Peng
Speaker 1: when read debt Meurs touch the gouch at thirteen eleven,
Speaker 1: then thirteen twelve. Turn you have Jeff McNeil and Jonathan India.
Speaker 1: So lots of second basement there for choms. Ryan Mountcastle
Speaker 1: at fourteen oh two, Laser's Lozardo, who I was contemplating
Speaker 1: as well when I just took my last pick. Walkee
Speaker 1: Peng went at fourteen oh three, alanro Kirk fourteen oh four,
Speaker 1: Robertson at fourteen oh five, and Alexis Diaz to the well,
Speaker 1: she got a closer. How do you feel?
Speaker 2: Well, it was one hundred percent taking Ryan Mountcastle. You're like, oh,
Speaker 2: what to j Crown because I thought Wormley was away
Speaker 2: from me and I could get Mountcastle coming back.
Speaker 1: And I got greedy and you got caught with your
Speaker 1: hand in the cookie cher.
Speaker 2: I guess, I mean, maybe Cron would have kept falling.
Speaker 2: But my backup plan was Alexis Diaz. I wanted to
Speaker 2: get I want decent closers, and I think he's a
Speaker 2: lockdown closure. I also think he is one hundred percent
Speaker 2: an opportunitist to be traded, and if he gets traded somewhere,
Speaker 2: he will continue closing. This wouldn't be like you know,
Speaker 2: Melanson getting traded and being a seventh inning or not
Speaker 2: on the roster type of guy. Diaz will close somewhere.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Mountcastle was the pick back there worm.
Speaker 1: It takes Chris Bassett, solid starting pitcher Bassett, right.
Speaker 3: Ryan, Yeah, well, you guys, I had at the top
Speaker 3: of my queue where Mount Castle Lozardo and Diaz, so
Speaker 3: that half round really hurt me. I kind of panicked,
Speaker 3: But it's not really a panic to end up with
Speaker 3: Bassett because he is a good picture. I think there's
Speaker 3: a lot of opportunities for wins coming over to the J's.
Speaker 3: And I will say, the whole reason that I picked
Speaker 3: picking right before Mayor was so I could eventually snipe
Speaker 3: him on Mount Castle, and it didn't happen.
Speaker 4: So that's very disappointing to me.
Speaker 1: I'm sad. I'm sad for everyone that that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: I'm also sad for Mike Mayor, who drafted Dustin May,
Speaker 1: because you want to talk about so your argument Mkershaw
Speaker 1: as it starts, and then you took Dustin May, explain.
Speaker 5: Yourself well several rounds later. And also, you know Ryan
Speaker 5: didn't snape me on Ryan Mountcastle. But I had just
Speaker 5: talked myself into taking Chris Bassett when you know you
Speaker 5: excellent turned over and I had to take Dustin May.
Speaker 1: My team name is going to be Riachelert in this draft,
Speaker 1: and I don't care. I just took Ezekiel Tovar at
Speaker 1: fourteen twelve and then fifteen oh one Jose Miranda, so
Speaker 1: I've got my middle infield and corner infield solidified. In
Speaker 1: between those, pick Sean Murphy at fourteen oh nine, fourteen ten,
Speaker 1: Rasmussen at ty France. Then my two picks Peter Fairbanks,
Speaker 1: mister buster on the clock. So Mayor, what are you
Speaker 1: going for next? I don't like I, you know, all
Speaker 1: joking aside, we're looking at the pitching staff. Are you're
Speaker 1: still hitting the pitching where you're still looking just her
Speaker 1: best player on the board.
Speaker 5: I've probably gotten a little bit too heavy to overcommentate
Speaker 5: with pitching now. So I need to get back to
Speaker 5: filling out my lineup, especially you know, I still don't
Speaker 5: have a real starting second basement.
Speaker 6: I late to start the season. So I'm going to
Speaker 6: take Estrata here.
Speaker 5: Get the eligibility that he provides, plus is going to
Speaker 5: beat at the top of that lineup, and at least
Speaker 5: you have him as an.
Speaker 6: Option kind of all over the board, especially if it's
Speaker 6: the Daily League.
Speaker 1: Garcia Boem, Estrada worm, You're up next.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll go Melendez here. Like I said, I definitely
Speaker 4: need power. I didn't have a catcher yet. I like
Speaker 4: that he plays other positions.
Speaker 3: If I'm not getting Adleie, Melendez is a guy I'm
Speaker 3: targeting late in a lot of my drafts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good signs right in front of me.
Speaker 2: I mean that he was just he shouldn't have been
Speaker 2: falling where he was. That was pretty stupid. If we're
Speaker 2: being honest, and that's such a good, ridiculous value, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna pivot off. I'm gonna go with another starting pitcher.
Speaker 2: We talked about upside before. I'm gonna go Grayson Rodriguez
Speaker 2: and hopefully Ryan's upset now and then I thought, I thought.
Speaker 4: I could wait an another round on him.
Speaker 3: I don't know that he's gonna get the innings I want,
Speaker 3: but when he pitches, I just he's so fun to watch,
Speaker 3: He's so good.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great pick.
Speaker 4: This lake.
Speaker 1: The quality over the quantity juggernaut is four is fifteen
Speaker 1: oh eight right now on the clock. So let's take
Speaker 1: a look at the rosters and see how they're shaping
Speaker 1: up here kind of going through, Let's talk about Ryan's roster, Melendez,
Speaker 1: gold Schmid, Chisholm. Then you've got Trey Turner, so a
Speaker 1: lot of stole base potential between those two guys, Alex Bregman,
Speaker 1: Bryan Reynolds, Yelich, renfro Then, Zach Wheeler, Hunter Green, Presley, Batista, Paralta,
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan and Bassett. How do you feel? What does
Speaker 1: this feel like grade wise that the draft wizards.
Speaker 3: Uh, well, it feels like an A plus plus if
Speaker 3: that's even an option. But more realistically, it's a team
Speaker 3: where I like a lot of the players. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if I love how they all fit together. It's
Speaker 3: more of I'm drafting players I like unless here's how
Speaker 3: I'm sort of filling out the different categories you need
Speaker 3: to fill out. But I really like all those players,
Speaker 3: and I don't feel like I've had any major reaches
Speaker 3: unlike you, Joe.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I love them play. I'll take Tavar
Speaker 1: every day of the week. You'll let me Welsh. You've
Speaker 1: got CJ. Cron, Jimenez, Boguarts, Gunner, Henderson, Kyle Tucker, Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: casting Oo, Stanton, Spencer, Strider, Woodruff, Hater, Diaz, Snell, Sale, Graceon, Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: How do you feel.
Speaker 2: I love my pitching staff. I probably need to get
Speaker 2: an innings eater to compliment maybe a few guys that
Speaker 2: are questionable in there. My hitting is pretty good. Categorically,
Speaker 2: it doesn't love what I'm doing right now with stolen
Speaker 2: bases and runs are a little bit low, but I
Speaker 2: think I'm near the highest on like RBI and home
Speaker 2: run totals. Stanton helped that. I think there's a pretty
Speaker 2: good balance here. There's a couple of things I would
Speaker 2: have rather, you know, gone a different way, but I
Speaker 2: got some of my guys, like andre Ja Meenez. I
Speaker 2: did want Castianos in here, So I don't know. This
Speaker 2: is probably like a B plus team at best. I
Speaker 2: don't know how well I'm going to project.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor, Dalton VARs Show, Nathaniel Lowe, Estrada Swanson, Riley Horner,
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez, Michael Harris, Cedric Mullins, Tristan McKenzie, Nester Cortez, Classe, Springs,
Speaker 1: May and Montgomery. Your feelings and thoughts.
Speaker 5: I don't think I hit enough power like earlier on,
Speaker 5: and I think one of the mistakes I made early
Speaker 5: was I filled up. I really liked the three outfielders,
Speaker 5: but I kind of took three pretty similar players when
Speaker 5: I could have probably pivoted to either a better pitcher
Speaker 5: or filling out my middle infield before it kind of evaporated.
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Speaker 1: through some more of the picks. So after Rodriguez went
Speaker 1: to Welsh fifteen o seven, then Hori Polonko Wit Merryfield
Speaker 1: cattel Marte some really interesting pieces here, Alex Vverdugo fifteen
Speaker 1: to eleven, then Jady Martinez, oh Mad Chalmers again, Joey
Speaker 1: Manessa's Cronenworth Seawald Singer at sixteen oh four than sixteen
Speaker 1: oh five, Stevenson Brandon Nimo to the Welsh out of
Speaker 1: my cue. Nice work, Welsh. I had him all ready
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: Needed average, needed runs. That helps. He's falling just due
Speaker 2: to the kind of wonkiness of the injuries and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. And it's an okay pick. I have enough
Speaker 2: power that I think I could balance it, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna try to pull a couple rabbits out of my
Speaker 2: hat here in the next couple of rounds.
Speaker 1: If I can't, I look forward to seeing that. That
Speaker 1: looks fun. After Nimo goes, Johanno Suarez to the Worm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, another strict power play, and I'm sorry to feel
Speaker 3: much better about my power than I did before the
Speaker 3: last couple of rounds. But that's another one where I
Speaker 3: just want power not easy to find late, so I
Speaker 3: wanted to get him.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and take Andrew Heeney and
Speaker 1: see if that works, which I probably won't, but whatever,
Speaker 1: that's just the world we live in. Looking at my
Speaker 1: roster right now. In terms of needs, I still need
Speaker 1: a corner guy for God to even have a first basement.
Speaker 1: So that's where that ended up. Nailers around, Vargas is around.
Speaker 1: I think we just go ahead and take nail Or.
Speaker 1: That's an Aerial Cohen favorite one. So they'll shout out
Speaker 1: to my boy Ariel and look a little bit of
Speaker 1: twenty pop there. Look at my squad right here. J
Speaker 1: t Rel Muto, Jose Miranda Brandon, Lao Rosario Aarnado, Naylor Tovar,
Speaker 1: Then Ti Oscar Starling, Marte Corbin, Carol Shohyo, Tani Contra,
Speaker 1: lance Lynn Toron, Munos Giolitohiney. I like this Tea Welsh.
Speaker 1: It's definitely a little boom or bust, but you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good about it. What do you think about
Speaker 1: this roster here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you said, it's not gonna be great on
Speaker 2: the projection side, but I think you're getting your guys.
Speaker 2: You're pulling up here. This is definitely a piece of.
Speaker 1: P A like team yeah, it feels very piece of pia.
Speaker 1: Its a little loud, little obnoxious, oddly charismatic at times.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the next pick here, Josh
Speaker 1: Young pick there for Florence Socks. Then mister Buster takes
Speaker 1: Javy or Bias at seventeen oh three. I have zero
Speaker 1: Hoavier bias, interest or shares Welsh? How do you feel
Speaker 1: about bias this year?
Speaker 2: Zero interest or shares? Also want to be but not
Speaker 2: gonna do it.
Speaker 1: No, I just can't do it. Riley Green goes next
Speaker 1: to seventeen oh four, So it's time for tigers apparently.
Speaker 1: As we kind of wrap things up here, Sandoval next four.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayers were closing things out there, so rounding out
Speaker 1: the pitching, we've got three picks left each, I believe now,
Speaker 1: and Brian Hayes goes to Bryan Warmly. Cabrian Hayes has
Speaker 1: not been able to get out of his own way, basically,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about this because at what point, Worm
Speaker 1: do you go, maybe it's just never gonna happen for
Speaker 1: this guy.
Speaker 3: Not at this point yet, I would say, yeah, obviously,
Speaker 3: I'm a huge believer in the pirates because I got
Speaker 3: Hayes and Reynolds earlier. But I mean again, he's really
Speaker 3: talented guy you already hasn't been able toe out of
Speaker 3: his own way. But again, picking this late, I'm really
Speaker 3: happy to just take a swing on a guy that
Speaker 3: I think is a good player and can figure it
Speaker 3: out in a more meaningful way than he has to date.
Speaker 1: Okay, meaningful. Colton Wong one of Welsh's favors here, especially
Speaker 1: if fans up into the top of the order of
Speaker 1: seventeen oh seven, that could be a huge bargain, especially
Speaker 1: in the stolen based totals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was one hundred percent taking key
Speaker 2: Ryan Hayes. It's one of the few players I had
Speaker 2: in my cue that's surprised because corner and field, stolen base.
Speaker 2: I wanted to pick up some more stolen bases. I
Speaker 2: think he's one of the better values that was left
Speaker 2: on the board. We're also not taking bench players from
Speaker 2: like we as mock drafters, have to optimize our starting lineup,
Speaker 2: which is going to maybe change a few things that
Speaker 2: we do when we're not drafting bench and he was
Speaker 2: just the perfect like starting optimization for stolen bases on
Speaker 2: a corner endfield. I love Wong Wong would have been
Speaker 2: one of the picks coming up here soon, but that
Speaker 2: was Ryan again, just such a dirt back.
Speaker 1: I love Wong, A story about a man and is
Speaker 1: long continuing on Tony Gonsolin at seventeen oh eight, then
Speaker 1: Alex Cobb at seventeen oh nine, Cabrera at seventeen ten,
Speaker 1: Miguel Vargas at seventeen eleven, followed by Jack Peterson at
Speaker 1: the turn at seventeen twelve, Alex Lang at eighteen oh one,
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty at eighteen oh two. That's another guy got
Speaker 1: zero shares of Welsh. Do you think there's any world
Speaker 1: where flerty can really turn things around?
Speaker 2: I never say never. I'm not that type of person,
Speaker 2: but no, now, I like, it's not gonna be on.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bet that at all. But you know, hey,
Speaker 2: stranger things have happened.
Speaker 1: All right. Scott Barlow goes next to the wonky penguin,
Speaker 1: fall by that one fool at eighteen oh four. We'll
Speaker 1: see what they have up their sleeve. As we continue
Speaker 1: on with this draft, closing things out here pretty soon.
Speaker 1: We've got a few picks left on the board. As
Speaker 1: we're wrapping up Hunter Brown to the Juggernaut. After that
Speaker 1: the Welsh at eighteen o six, what do you got.
Speaker 2: Ooh, well, I got a not many picks here left.
Speaker 2: I gotta see where my cue is. I got that
Speaker 2: sneaky guy, and I need a corner, a catcher, and
Speaker 2: a pitcher here. So that sounds like a setup to
Speaker 2: a joke. By the way, we'll lock our picture and
Speaker 2: we're gonna get John Gray. We're gonna lockdown. John Gray
Speaker 2: is my final starting pitcher, and then hopefully nobody touches
Speaker 2: the last two guys I want to take, or I'm
Speaker 2: gonna flip the table. At the four and a.
Speaker 1: Half hour mark of this show, Well we shall see.
Speaker 1: After you go ahead and took Jonathan Gray. The worm
Speaker 1: is on the clock here if he touches one of
Speaker 1: Welsh's things.
Speaker 3: Well, I really, I really thought I was gonna be
Speaker 3: able to wait another round on Edward Cabrera, and then
Speaker 3: Kelly took him.
Speaker 1: So that seems to be the theme of your draft.
Speaker 1: I thought I could wait another round.
Speaker 3: That was extremely disappointing I did. I don't feel good
Speaker 3: about Abrams, but more speed, I think he'll get, you know,
Speaker 3: plenty of playing time in a bad lineup, and I'm
Speaker 3: really really getting a lock on the speed with him
Speaker 3: and Turner and Chisholm and Hayes.
Speaker 1: So there you go, all the speed. That's you know
Speaker 1: what warm likes. He loves the speed. Can't get enough
Speaker 1: of it for it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ioke, there you go.
Speaker 1: Well you know that's fine. There we go, and then
Speaker 1: Sunny Gray goes to Mike Mayor because he likes pictures
Speaker 1: that were good a couple of times and years ago.
Speaker 2: Also his disposition a little Sonny Gray's yeah good, Mike Mayor.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, that's actually that that does fit. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what Pokemon does next year. Pokemon's got Oscar Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: excuse me, then busters up, then me gotta figure it out.
Speaker 1: The question is how many Texas Rangers pictures am I
Speaker 1: allowed to take and still compete in this league? That
Speaker 1: is the question. Because I could just empty the tank
Speaker 1: here and go with Clerk and Evaldi. Why not, right?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we're having fun.
Speaker 2: We're only we're going in hour five, that's all.
Speaker 1: Evaldi went right underneath.
Speaker 2: Me there, mister watching being rude.
Speaker 1: Hannager goes next, geez, I went full full. Norm McDonald
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 2: One you did. I was about to say, oh boy,
Speaker 2: I can't believe Simpson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my face is red. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: Tyler Molly and take Trey Mancini. I'm gonna take my
Speaker 1: reclamation project. Guys here, see how that works. I'm all
Speaker 1: in on Trey Mancini, especially since first base sucks and
Speaker 1: outfield sucks, and you know what, Trey Mancini is a
Speaker 1: guy that just a couple of years ago was dropping
Speaker 1: thirty bomps, and Chicago's a heck of a better place
Speaker 1: right now for him to be hitting. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a shot. Monda Sea goes next at nineteen oh two.
Speaker 1: I thought about taking him, but you know what, I
Speaker 1: just can't do it. I just can't do it. Not ever,
Speaker 1: mister Buster at nineteen oh three selects von Grissom, who
Speaker 1: is tenuous right now to make the club. Nineteen oh
Speaker 1: four is Pokemon. Is Drogic up next? And then Mayor
Speaker 1: at nineteen oh five, Mayor where you got your eyes on?
Speaker 5: I need to fill up my last two utility pieces,
Speaker 5: and I'm looking for kind of like eligibility to help
Speaker 5: me cross the board, and also I really need power.
Speaker 6: But there's not a whole lot of that left around.
Speaker 1: Nope, there's not a whole lot of power period nowadays.
Speaker 1: It's a slim pick out there, out there.
Speaker 5: The other one is Justin Turner, my last pick, and
Speaker 5: I couldn't believe that he went when he went.
Speaker 1: Really you wanted Justin Turner? Just curious.
Speaker 5: Just I like to get him this late because he's
Speaker 5: going to bat in Fenway Park. He's going to hit
Speaker 5: third in that order, and he could be a sneaky
Speaker 5: late round twenty home run kind of guy. And he's
Speaker 5: also gonna at some point probably get first base eligibility,
Speaker 5: so he'll be first and third.
Speaker 1: Okay. Brandon Drury goes to Mike Maher guy who plays
Speaker 1: everywhere makes a lot of sense. Then Donovan to Ryan Warmly, Ryan,
Speaker 1: what do you think about donovanother superutility kind of guy.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, speaking of a guy that plays everywhere,
Speaker 3: I mean, basically gets you position eligibility everywhere in your
Speaker 3: roster except catcher, and I think there's more power potential there.
Speaker 4: He sit pretty well this spring.
Speaker 3: I know he might not play every day, it'll kind
Speaker 3: of depend on how the roster shakes out, but he's
Speaker 3: a guy I really like to have on my team,
Speaker 3: especially if it's daily lineups.
Speaker 1: Okay, which we already pretended it was because it was fun.
Speaker 1: Oh Will Myers Welsh nineteen oh seven. There you go.
Speaker 1: So Craig Misch had some good things to say about
Speaker 1: Will my earlier on the show, and now you're gonna
Speaker 1: put him on your roster. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think he's still a sneaky source of stolen bases.
Speaker 2: He's good power. Cincinnati is one of the most hitter
Speaker 2: friendly environments out there. He should be hitting in the
Speaker 2: middle of the lineup. Why not. I was contemplating between
Speaker 2: him and I'll just say it, since we're in the
Speaker 2: last round, Josh Rojas, just because Rojas gets you a
Speaker 2: little bit of position eligibility. He's projected higher on the
Speaker 2: stolen bases. Actually, Tristan Costas, who just went those are
Speaker 2: the three hitters I was contemplating to put into that
Speaker 2: corner infield spot. But I decided Will Myers just because
Speaker 2: of the home run speed potential and just you know,
Speaker 2: where he's hitting is really, really, really phenomenal spot in
Speaker 2: such a bad, bad ballpark.
Speaker 1: Elvis Andrews, then Tyler Anderson, and Tristan Cassis, Evan Phillips.
Speaker 1: As we round out the last round here into Horey Matteo.
Speaker 1: Now the last picks. Shamer is up next here. As
Speaker 1: we go through, just from the feel of the draft, Welsh,
Speaker 1: who do you think won this draft?
Speaker 2: Ooh, I think what is their name? The person that's
Speaker 2: been me off the whole time?
Speaker 1: Gooch.
Speaker 2: I think the Gooch is gonna win. I think it's
Speaker 2: top three is going to be like Gooch, Schamer, and Kelly,
Speaker 2: and none of us will be on the top three.
Speaker 1: I agree with that sentiment. Ryan, do you agree?
Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting that those were picks ten, eleven, and twelve,
Speaker 3: so picking at the end provided a lot of opportunity
Speaker 3: to hurt a lot of us. Yeah, I think Goshi
Speaker 3: or I have you pronounced it was they got a lot
Speaker 3: of the players.
Speaker 2: We might we might be appropriate with. By the way, well,
Speaker 2: I'm digging the greatest pick of this entire draft and
Speaker 2: it hasn't caught up the projections. I'm taking Gabrielle Moreno
Speaker 2: at the end of the draft. Who's now the starting
Speaker 2: catcher for the Diamondbacks. So sneaky skilled, thank you, let's
Speaker 2: go worm.
Speaker 1: Last pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is not a pick that is going to
Speaker 3: like get highlighted as a great value picked by the
Speaker 3: you know the system.
Speaker 4: I do think it is Kyle Bradish.
Speaker 3: He had some really impressive starts last year against the Astros,
Speaker 3: who obviously were a great lineup. I know that he's
Speaker 3: been talked about a lot on the podcast, and I
Speaker 3: think earlier in this stream as well. He and Edward
Speaker 3: Cabrera are the two pictures I'm getting late in every draft.
Speaker 3: I can obviously Kelly got Carbrera before I could, so
Speaker 3: I'm happy to get Bradish as the guy instead.
Speaker 1: All Right, I know that Mayor's got a jet. So Mayor,
Speaker 1: you make your pick. You can leave whenever you need to.
Speaker 1: I know you've got important things going on. Seth Brown
Speaker 1: goes to Mike Mayor, then Adam goes after that, then
Speaker 1: Rojas a lot of pressure with me for mister irrelevant
Speaker 1: the very last pick. Here go ahead. We're gonna well,
Speaker 1: I mean, Garrett Whitlock, Manaia Carrasco all still out there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think my boy, Garrett Whitlock, because that's been
Speaker 1: a guy that I really like. He's got that due allegibity.
Speaker 1: I gotta be as I always get the B plus.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at the projected standings. Welsh, what grade
Speaker 1: did you get?
Speaker 2: I got an eighty so I just barely got got
Speaker 2: a B minus on there. They did not like it
Speaker 2: so outran.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you know what? Mike Mayor got a B plus.
Speaker 1: It looks like I think in eighty six I believe, Hey,
Speaker 1: now the worm is dead last.
Speaker 3: The worm is dead last seventy three out of them.
Speaker 4: That's way worse than I did in January.
Speaker 2: He was eleven. This is the system's broken.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Ryan, I think the lesson learned here
Speaker 1: is don't work that hard. You know, you came in
Speaker 1: knowing nothing, really, and yet yeah we're just scrapping around.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm shocked at Wonky ten eleven twelve Welsh
Speaker 1: Wonky and worm, which is also sounds good together. The
Speaker 1: winner is Pokemon dry Jack or whatever the heck that
Speaker 1: is it? Ninety eight? What an incredible a drillic? Is it? Drillic?
Speaker 1: It's hard to see because it's very tiny on my
Speaker 1: scream But now oh you go, You're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: must get Drew Dak. Drudak is who I must get.
Speaker 1: Haha Florence Socks was second, Mister Buster was third, So
Speaker 1: shout out to the three of them beating all of us.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer beat me. I don't know how he has
Speaker 1: no pitching makes no sense to me whatsoever. Expert opinions, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess trusting the process. Dalton delle Don and friends,
Speaker 1: Zinky and Andy Barons all hate my team. So does
Speaker 1: Joe Rico last time he gets invited to the show. Welsh,
Speaker 1: Real quick, any fun expert opinion you want to share?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, actually, Joe Rico loved mine more than anybody else.
Speaker 2: Funny enough. You know who else liked it? Chris Welsh,
Speaker 2: Kelly Kirby and Joe Piece of Pia loved my draft.
Speaker 2: And Ariol Cohen and Ryana Moore they hated me the most,
Speaker 2: So thanks Ariol, I appreciate it. But Joe, you loved me.
Speaker 2: You and Kelly loved it, so you really loved me?
Speaker 1: Who loved you? Both?
Speaker 4: Both Kelly and Mike Mayer loved me.
Speaker 3: So I don't know why Mayor is so much higher
Speaker 3: if you wanted to take all the players I got.
Speaker 3: But they both love my draft, which is which is
Speaker 3: great to see because I trust their opinions A lot.
Speaker 3: No Fantasy Pros guys disliked my draft, which I don't
Speaker 3: know if that says about me, but mayor how about you?
Speaker 6: I liked my own draft a lot.
Speaker 5: I had b Don, Travis Argo, Dalton Dell Don and
Speaker 5: our own Pats Fitzmorris also liked my draft.
Speaker 1: There you go. Shout out to the FITZI here, and
Speaker 1: a shout out to everyone who joined us today, especially
Speaker 1: all of you watching and listening back. I know if
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Speaker 1: our producer for the last four hours and change, not
Speaker 1: only setting everything up but running all these graphics and
Speaker 1: everything for you here. A phenomenal job by him as always,
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Speaker 1: guest Paul Sport, Nick Pollock, Frank stanfil Chris Meanie, Craig
Speaker 1: mish Ineno Seris and of course the Worm Mike Maher
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