WEBVTT - 12 Team Mock Draft: OBP and QS (Ep. 938) 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.560 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is the 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.680 Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It is B Joey P Joe Pisapia 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.800 and today it's mock draft time. That's right. The Welsh 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.079 is sick. I knew this was coming. I did a 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.080 show with him on Monday. He was not one hundred 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.960 percent Welsh. He's gonna get squeezed. He's gonna come back, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.680 hopefully healthy later in the week. He is day to 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.880 day on the injured reserve for a little while. But 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.680 Joe Rico's here with us, and in the conference of 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.080 Joe's we decided, you know, we need a big personality, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.720 a big time guests in the world of fantasy baseball, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.440 and who better than Justin Mason to pinch it for 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.200 the Welsh today. Of course, if you don't know Justin Mason, 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.360 then I question your choices in life. You can follow 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.720 him on x the Twitter machine at Justin Mason FWFB. 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.240 Of course, Fantasy Benefits is where he is living fangrafts 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.960 doing podcast TGFBI creator Justin Mason. I missed your face. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.160 I love your hoodie. Look look how great your setup is. Now, 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.200 look how it's a voet over the years. That's what 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:05.200 I'm most impressed by. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.720 I gotta be honest, this is in a large part 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.920 due to you. Right, this is the exact same room 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.080 that used to call the Mason Murder Mansion. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.640 The Murder the Murder Mansion. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.399 Yeah, exactly. So I have, I, you know, put up 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.880 walls and I actually have things hanging up on them. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.399 So it's a painted wall. It's orange, which is bad 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.160 at night because I look orange. But uh, that was 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.720 a mistake. But yeah, no, it's it's in large part 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:33.319 thanks to you. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.920 Well, if I could shame anyone else into fixing their setup, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.440 I'm happy to do it. But it looks great, you know, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.959 and the evolution of it is terrific. It looks it 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:48.200 looks very professional and exciting. And you know, as long 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.840 as you don't start putting up emotional balls, Mason, that's 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.760 all I want, Just no emotional balls, just the physical ones. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.480 Joe Rico, you've been working your tail off doing a 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.520 million mock drafts. One trend that you've seen recent just 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.840 out of curiosity, have you seen some players start to 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.000 really shoot up the board is Cam and Arrow that 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.559 guy that's starting to really pop, Like, what's happening because 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.239 you know, and I know, spring training, a couple of 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:10.880 guys start getting some hits and all of a sudden, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:12.320 ADP starts to go bananas. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.200 You literally nailed it, Joe, Like, I'm literally thinking, Well, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.639 the first one that comes to mind is Junior Cam 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.079 and Arrow. I did an ADP show yesterday that you 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:21.680 guys may or may not have heard by this point 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.680 with Jeff Erickson and Derek Van Riper, and we were 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:26.440 talking about Cam and Arrow and Mark Vientos, and I 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.120 forget what one of them said, but this isn't really 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.480 that close an ADP anymore. They just getman. Arrow is 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.600 shooting up so much, he's going to be terrific. I 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.160 know that sometimes players get hyped up in spring and 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.040 then they end up jumping up three rounds and then 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.280 falling flat on their face, but this doesn't feel like 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.120 one of those situations. Considering the ballpark, considering the skills 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.680 the team around him, Cam and Arrow might be a 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.200 third round pick pretty soon, and it's maybe a little 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.280 bit early, but it's really hard to argue with it. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.840 Yeah, look, we're trying to draft teams that are what 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.640 the ADP is going to look like in twenty twenty six. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.640 I remember, ADP is just polling, it's a suggestion, it's 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.800 a consensus. Start to think about what nexts, first and 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.000 second round look like. And that's the guys you should 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.560 be targeting. And today we've got a different style draft. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.560 We're doing head to head at roto categories and change 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.080 it up a little bit. I was getting bored too 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.639 many BA would do OBP today, So no batting average. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.480 We're gonna do quality starts instead of wins. Because I'm 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.200 a man of the people. That's what we're gonna do today. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.399 It's twelve teams. We're gonna have corner spots. We're going 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.240 to have two mandatory RP spots. Then we're also going 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.720 to have four outfielders one U till and we're gonna 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.079 have the seven pitcher spots just three bench Still today, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:31.720 we're gonna, you know, we don't want to take too 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.840 much of Mason's time. 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You can find mock drafts everywhere in 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.719 our discord or just you can run them here with 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.600 the robots two as well, but it's going to sink 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.120 directly to your leagues and you can use it in 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.480 your real drafts as well. I am in the fourth spot. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.920 We've got Joe Rico at eight, twelve teams, Mason at 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:24.960 the turn, of course, he's at the turn first. A 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.440 couple of picks off the board. Bobby Witch, Showel Tani, 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.200 Aaron Judge. Oh no, it's an OBP league. Do I 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.120 have to take Juan Sodo? I guess I do. I 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.800 guess I will. Okay, you twisted my arm, by the way, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.040 Mason when Sodo signed, did you have a little bit 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.760 of the feels for me just out of curiosity. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.760 Like I definitely felt good for my Mets friends, right, 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:50.200 Like my Mets fans friends, like they have suffered for 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.040 long enough, and it feels really good for them, especially 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.640 getting him from the Yankees, right, Like yeah, the crossdown 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.560 big brother. You know, it feels like at that moment 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.560 when you're finally bigger than your big brother and you 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.480 get to punch him in his face and he can't 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.719 do anything about it. So like, yeah, that I felt 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:07.520 good for you guys. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.760 Yeah, go and tell mom you loser. That's right, and 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.359 it just took your toy from you. You nailed it. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.440 That is the cherry on top of the Sunday for sure. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.880 But look in OBP leagues and head to head leagues. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.080 Obviously you know want Soto, great player, but also you know, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.840 strategy wise here things might change a little bit because 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.200 when you're looking head to head, I know, for me, 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.080 I'm looking for guys who do everything right. I'm looking 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.440 for those those overall players as much as I can 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.840 get them. Mason, for you, what's your strategy when you're 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.760 doing the head to head categories too? I like to 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.839 instead of going with the specialists, the guys who do 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.080 it all, and I value those guys a little more. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.760 Is there a certain strategy you like to employ. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:48.000 I definitely like to employ a strategy of more balanced players, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.839 more balanced rosters. I think a lot of people want 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.440 to take like the boomer Bus guys in head to 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.160 head leagues, and that's how you lose weeks because guys 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.200 go cold, and there's nothing worse than like dominating your season, 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.920 and then your guys go cold in the playoffs and 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.120 you get knocked out in the first round. So for me, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.200 I like these guys who contribute to as many categories 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.520 as possible but also are pretty even week to week. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:16.560 Yeah, it was tough for me to pass on Jose 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.320 Ramirez here, but again, OBP, I've got to go with 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.560 Sodo here. After Ramirez, Elie de la Cruz, Gunner, Henderson, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:26.120 Joe Alrico. You took Kyle Tucker at eight. We'll let 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.880 you go make your pick here, Mookie Betts at nine. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.120 Then we had the tenth pick, Corby Carrol, Fernando Tatisa, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.360 and then Mason. You took Lindor and Guerrero. That's a 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.640 pretty nice start here. How do you feel about these 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.040 two players going into twenty five. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.880 Love them. I think they're both like top ten players. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.880 It's getting him in the back end of the first 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.800 round is great. I think this is a great year 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.559 to draft at the back end, getting that early second 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.640 round pick. There's some really leap players, especially in a 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:50.800 twelve team. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.880 Agreed, all right, Joe Rico, let's talk about your picks here. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:57.200 Because after vlad went Freeman, Scooble, Skimes, a couple of pitchers, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.760 then you took Alvarez, So Tucker and Alvarez. I like 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.560 that you reunited these guys. That's very sweet. They must 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.200 be very happy to play on your team together. Yeah. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.160 I think the OBP, like Justin and I just talked 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.840 last week about how we're both a little bit worried 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.840 about Kyle Tucker considering how bad Wrigley is for lefties, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.960 but OBP bumps it up a little bit. As OBP 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.600 was over four hundred last year, albeit he did miss 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.440 some time. But I think the OBP format does boost 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.960 up both him and Jordan Alvarez. As much as there 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.720 are some reasons to be concerned about both, I think 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.400 it's a pretty solid foundation as well. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.960 Now because it's head ahead. I'm a little bit more 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.040 willing if a big time pitcher makes it to me 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.920 that I like to go ahead and pull the trigger on. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.920 So after Alvarez goes Julio Cheerio, Bryce Harper, I took 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.280 a Tel Marte at two oh nine. Again, line up 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.600 the scores. A ton of runs. Love Marte there. Second 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.680 base is not great, so feel pretty good about starting there. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.400 Then Zach Wheeler went now Wheeler, Gilbert and Sale were 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.199 all on the board still when I took Marte was 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.600 hoping one made it back to me. They did, so 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.640 Wheeler went Durand and ad to turn Ronald Acunya to 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.160 team one. Trey Turner at three oh one, pick than 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.040 jas Chisholm, Logan, Gilbert. I wanted Gilbert. He didn't make 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:00.800 it to me. Oh well, I'll have to sell for 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.600 Chris Sale. Question here at the two twelve, Mason, Look, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.760 you're mister NFBC. You're you know, throwing money around and 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.760 you know thousands of dollars on leagues and stuff. What 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:16.040 is your risk management of Ronald Acunya this year? What's 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.800 the what's the magic eightyp spot for you? For him? 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.480 He's gotta be fourth round for me to really want 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.400 to work and like, you're just not gonna have that happen, 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.520 especially in the NFBC world, right Like people are gonna 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.640 see that upside and go, hey, I want a Ronald 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.640 Acunya because he can be the best player on a 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.320 per played appearance. Basis, the problem is in NFBC specifically, 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.880 you don't have enough IL spots or you have zero 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.960 IL spots, so like, yeah, you're having to carry that 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.679 on your bench. You don't know when he's going back. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.160 Even in leagues where you only have one or two 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.199 IL spots, it's really difficult to roster because you're gonna 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.680 suffer other injuries. So for me, I would not be 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.120 drafting Ronald Lacunya at cost right now. But I understand 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:59.439 why people chance that upside. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.520 Okay, it's a good conversation. I think it's very helpful 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.679 to everybody out there too, because the temptation of a 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.360 Kunya obviously is huge off the charts. I think I 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.319 would sput the difference. I'd go fourth round. Rika, Where 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.000 would you go for Akunya? I know you're on the clock. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.439 Can you walk into you gum at the same. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:19.680 Time, we'll see I think Acunya for me is probably 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.000 like a mid third round value something along those lines, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.840 depending on format. I wouldn't have any problem if somebody 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.559 in an IL format wants to move him up a 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.600 little higher than that, because then you especially if it's 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.760 like a ten team league. My home league is ten 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.640 team head to head categories, and I'm going to target 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.640 a Kunya because there's IL there. The replacement level is 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.360 so so high, even if I only get four and 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.560 a half months when I like that. But in leagues 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.240 where you have limited or no IL spots, he's probably 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:46.800 a mid third for me. And I have no problem 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.280 with Justin's fourth round valuation either. I think that's that's 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:49.880 totally fair. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:51.800 Yeah, I'm a little more fast and loose I think 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.200 I would go in the third round there for him, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.360 especially the more shallow league, the more willing I am 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.120 to do it. So ten or twelve team, Yeah, we 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.319 get to fourteen, that's what I'm a little more risk 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.920 averse to him. So after we have Garret crochetgo, Raphael 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.480 de Nevers, Matt Olsen, Michael Harris, then Justin Mason at 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.880 the turn here for the three four Manny Machado and 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.920 Emmanuel Class a. Machado is a guy that I find 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.839 to be, you know, continuously underrated every year and underappreciated. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.400 I like the steady eddie manny Machado and it looks. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.440 Like you do two Mason, Yeah, I mean, and he 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.960 was my third round pick in TGFBI. I just think 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.760 he is about as stable as you can get, a 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:33.560 guy who can completely just deliver. You pencil him in 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.360 on like perfect. You know, thirty homers, one hundred RBIs 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.640 decent batting average, like He's just stable and it's easy 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:41.720 to work around. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.559 Easy to work around. That's that's the key right now, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:49.040 all right after that selection, Contraras Burns. All right, So 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.640 George Kirby to you, Joe Rico, how do you feel 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.480 about that tandem of Crochet and Kirby as the front 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:55.120 of your rotation. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.440 I really really like it. I think it's a great pairing. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.920 I'm going best player available a lot of the time 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.839 in the early rounds, and I think the pairing makes sense. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.520 But I also think that Kirby just at the time 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.520 was the best player on the board. But when I'm 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.360 talking about pairing somebody who has the massive strikeout upside 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.520 with the consistency that Kirby brings with a low whip. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.080 I really like that as a one two. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.920 All Right, after Kirby goes, you have Cole Reagan's, Blake Snell, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.840 Jacob de Gram. I took Brent Rooker because I love 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.920 me some Brent Rooker. I love the power. Really surprised 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:26.920 how this draft is going for me. This is not 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:28.920 what I thought I'd be doing here, but this is 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.880 where the values falling. Every draft is a snowflake. It's 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.600 so perfect and unique on its own. Corey Seeger goes next, 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.680 O'Neil cruz Azzi, albis than Dylan Cees at the five 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.760 oh one, five oh two, Wyatt Langford off the board, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.320 Jose al Twoba at five oh three, and Langford's gone, 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.760 which means I decided to reach for James Wood at 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.080 five h four because he's got power, he's got speed, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.560 he's got batting average, he's got it all. I'm a 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.680 big fan of James Wood. Let's talk about him for 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.960 a second, Mason, because I think James Wood this time 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.320 next year is going to be going probably in the 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.960 late second round. Therefore, I think in the fifth round 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.160 he's a steal. Do you think I took him a 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.520 little too early, ADP suggests, maybe I did. But what 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.080 does Justin Mason suggest? 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.920 I think you should throw ADP out the window and 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.720 go get your guys. ADP is a collection of data 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.319 points that includes the team that's going to finish last 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.720 in the league as well as a team that's going 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:23.600 to finish first. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.640 A right, but that is the most zen thing you've 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.120 ever said, and you've said a lot of zen things. 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.319 I mean, it's true, right, It's a collection of every 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.840 member of a league, and you know the last place 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.880 team has waited the same as much as the first 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.800 place team. Use it as a guide to know, like 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.920 especially the mid max is like, hey, how early would 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.560 I need to go in order to get this guy? 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.800 Or how late could I potentially wait? But it's not 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.360 really that useful from a drafting perspective, right, because it's 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.599 weighing a bunch of teams that are not going to 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.440 cash in your league. So I don't think ADP is 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.240 that useful. Have your own projections, have your own ranks, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.800 and go buy that. Don't worry about ADP. If someone 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.360 lasts at you, you can laugh at them at the 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:04.319 end of the season. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.120 All right, Now, was that just pilibustering because you didn't 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:08.520 like the James Wood pick or No. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.600 Actually, like I think for a young guy, I think 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.640 he has a pretty safe floor, especially with the speed. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.000 I think his hit tool is is still developing a 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.560 little bit. I think the power is still developing a 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.760 little bit. But you know, progression isn't linear, and this 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.560 could be a guy that really takes off. Like I 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.720 think he's a pretty safe guy, but with a massive upside, 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.240 very similar like Jackson Turio was coming into last year. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.840 Yeah, Cherio player. I'm very high on this year, but 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.720 not getting a lot of pieces. I got him in 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.280 a draft the other day. We did though, I think 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:40.920 one of the last drafts we did. I finally did 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.800 snag a share there of him. All right, let's continue 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.400 on with the draft board. See what it looks like 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.280 here after I took Wood, Ozuna goes Garrett Cole, goes, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.560 Devin Williams, goes Mason Miller. All right, so closer time, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.640 Joe Rico. When you have mandatory closer spots, it does 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.920 force the hand a little bit more towards the relievers. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.240 I find that when I take relievers early, though, I'm 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.240 missing out on a little offense or starting pitcher, and 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.440 I feel like it's just not my move. So why 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.080 Mason Miller? 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:05.280 Now? 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.440 For you, I know he gives you, you know, strikeouts, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.240 obviously gives you a lot on the whip side too. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.760 So let's talk about Mason Miller and what those builds 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.920 look like when you start going reliever of these kind 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:15.600 of rounds. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.400 For me, it's more so been the ugly builds that 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.120 have turned out of the Luke Weaver specs and the 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.800 Lucas air SAgs earlier in draft season. I typically am 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.280 more on your side there that I like to shop 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.080 a little bit later on, but I also like to 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:31.880 have at least one guy that I know is not 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.360 going to lose the job, one solid lockdown closer, and 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.000 then for the second guy, then I can kind of 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.480 shop in that little bit more variable range. I guess 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.040 you could say for guys that you're not one hundred 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.280 percent sure of, if it's like Carlos Astevez, if it's 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.760 an air seg, if it's maybe Justin Martinez or somebody 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.800 like that. That's kind of the way I like to 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.760 go about it. If I'm taking two guys from that range, 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.480 then you risk one of them losing the job. There's 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.160 players that could still get signed out. I think we're 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:56.640 probably at the point now where it's not as big 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.680 of a risk, but David Robertson's still out there. David 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.520 Robertson could sign as a closer potentially, and I'm not 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.720 necessarily expecting it, but I just like to lock down 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.280 at least one of them so that I just remove 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.000 that fear and I can just say, Okay, I'm getting 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.480 thirty saves here regardless. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.640 Zeno Mieto four, Joe Rico, that's no fear for those 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.680 people who enjoy a little penta. That is c j 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.440 Abrams next at five oh nine, then Bryce Miller five 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.320 to ten, Josh Hater at five to eleven. Then you 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.760 have Justin Mason at the turn, taoskarnandez Edwin Diaz. I 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.480 know you're on the clock again. Welcome back to you 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.760 here ya, I'm Amoto at six h two, then Diaz, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.920 Michael King, and then Joe Rico. You stole Pablo Lopez 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.080 for me? How dare you? How dare you? He was 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.960 my ideal number two guy, but now he's your three. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.000 That's a pretty good looking pitching staff. Are you worried? 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.640 Though you've gone one, two, three, four pitchers in a 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.240 row so far, just Tucker and Alvarez, you think you 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.040 can make up the difference here on offense. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.520 I definitely can in a twelve teamer at least I 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.400 think I can pitching the way that it does eventually 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.640 dry up, because I know that the common narrative right 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.480 now is that pitching is very deep. Give it a 0:16:58.520 --> 0:16:59.800 couple of weeks, it's not going to be as deep 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.960 into I want to lock down at least a couple 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.600 of aces, and like I said, I'm kind of going 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.800 best player available there, and I think that Lopez, like 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.399 I wanted to go hitter. I really did want to 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.639 take a hitter there, but I didn't want to force 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.280 it when it didn't feel like that was the best 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.480 time based on my valuation. So I went with my 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.560 best player on the board, and that's Pablo Lopez. There's 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.440 the SP three. I'm very happy there now. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.760 Mason. At the turn here, you took Ti Oscar and 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.520 Edwin Diaz. You went into the closer game as well. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.560 So are you somebody that has to come away, especially 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.280 in a mandatory RP situation, with at least one guy 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.480 that you feel really good about or are you willing 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:35.760 to let the draft come to you? 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.760 I think a twelve team league, I'm more willing to 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.840 let the draft come to me than I would be 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.480 in a fifteen team league. Being said, there's a limited 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.920 amount of closers, and I don't want to deal with 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.080 the guys who are going to be sharing roles or 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.480 potentially losing their jobs. So I grab closers as early 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.200 as it possibly can, just to make sure I don't 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.840