Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It is B Joey P Joe Pisapia
Speaker 1: and today it's mock draft time. That's right. The Welsh
Speaker 1: is sick. I knew this was coming. I did a
Speaker 1: show with him on Monday. He was not one hundred
Speaker 1: percent Welsh. He's gonna get squeezed. He's gonna come back,
Speaker 1: hopefully healthy later in the week. He is day to
Speaker 1: day on the injured reserve for a little while. But
Speaker 1: Joe Rico's here with us, and in the conference of
Speaker 1: Joe's we decided, you know, we need a big personality,
Speaker 1: a big time guests in the world of fantasy baseball,
Speaker 1: and who better than Justin Mason to pinch it for
Speaker 1: the Welsh today. Of course, if you don't know Justin Mason,
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Speaker 1: doing podcast TGFBI creator Justin Mason. I missed your face.
Speaker 1: I love your hoodie. Look look how great your setup is. Now,
Speaker 1: look how it's a voet over the years. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm most impressed by.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, this is in a large part
Speaker 2: due to you. Right, this is the exact same room
Speaker 2: that used to call the Mason Murder Mansion.
Speaker 1: The Murder the Murder Mansion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So I have, I, you know, put up
Speaker 2: walls and I actually have things hanging up on them.
Speaker 2: So it's a painted wall. It's orange, which is bad
Speaker 2: at night because I look orange. But uh, that was
Speaker 2: a mistake. But yeah, no, it's it's in large part
Speaker 2: thanks to you.
Speaker 1: Well, if I could shame anyone else into fixing their setup,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to do it. But it looks great, you know,
Speaker 1: and the evolution of it is terrific. It looks it
Speaker 1: looks very professional and exciting. And you know, as long
Speaker 1: as you don't start putting up emotional balls, Mason, that's
Speaker 1: all I want, Just no emotional balls, just the physical ones.
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, you've been working your tail off doing a
Speaker 1: million mock drafts. One trend that you've seen recent just
Speaker 1: out of curiosity, have you seen some players start to
Speaker 1: really shoot up the board is Cam and Arrow that
Speaker 1: guy that's starting to really pop, Like, what's happening because
Speaker 1: you know, and I know, spring training, a couple of
Speaker 1: guys start getting some hits and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: ADP starts to go bananas.
Speaker 3: You literally nailed it, Joe, Like, I'm literally thinking, Well,
Speaker 3: the first one that comes to mind is Junior Cam
Speaker 3: and Arrow. I did an ADP show yesterday that you
Speaker 3: guys may or may not have heard by this point
Speaker 3: with Jeff Erickson and Derek Van Riper, and we were
Speaker 3: talking about Cam and Arrow and Mark Vientos, and I
Speaker 3: forget what one of them said, but this isn't really
Speaker 3: that close an ADP anymore. They just getman. Arrow is
Speaker 3: shooting up so much, he's going to be terrific. I
Speaker 3: know that sometimes players get hyped up in spring and
Speaker 3: then they end up jumping up three rounds and then
Speaker 3: falling flat on their face, but this doesn't feel like
Speaker 3: one of those situations. Considering the ballpark, considering the skills
Speaker 3: the team around him, Cam and Arrow might be a
Speaker 3: third round pick pretty soon, and it's maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit early, but it's really hard to argue with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, we're trying to draft teams that are what
Speaker 1: the ADP is going to look like in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I remember, ADP is just polling, it's a suggestion, it's
Speaker 1: a consensus. Start to think about what nexts, first and
Speaker 1: second round look like. And that's the guys you should
Speaker 1: be targeting. And today we've got a different style draft.
Speaker 1: We're doing head to head at roto categories and change
Speaker 1: it up a little bit. I was getting bored too
Speaker 1: many BA would do OBP today, So no batting average.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do quality starts instead of wins. Because I'm
Speaker 1: a man of the people. That's what we're gonna do today.
Speaker 1: It's twelve teams. We're gonna have corner spots. We're going
Speaker 1: to have two mandatory RP spots. Then we're also going
Speaker 1: to have four outfielders one U till and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have the seven pitcher spots just three bench Still today,
Speaker 1: we're gonna, you know, we don't want to take too
Speaker 1: much of Mason's time. He's gotten murders after all, to
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Speaker 1: We've got Joe Rico at eight, twelve teams, Mason at
Speaker 1: the turn, of course, he's at the turn first. A
Speaker 1: couple of picks off the board. Bobby Witch, Showel Tani,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. Oh no, it's an OBP league. Do I
Speaker 1: have to take Juan Sodo? I guess I do. I
Speaker 1: guess I will. Okay, you twisted my arm, by the way,
Speaker 1: Mason when Sodo signed, did you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of the feels for me just out of curiosity.
Speaker 2: Like I definitely felt good for my Mets friends, right,
Speaker 2: Like my Mets fans friends, like they have suffered for
Speaker 2: long enough, and it feels really good for them, especially
Speaker 2: getting him from the Yankees, right, Like yeah, the crossdown
Speaker 2: big brother. You know, it feels like at that moment
Speaker 2: when you're finally bigger than your big brother and you
Speaker 2: get to punch him in his face and he can't
Speaker 2: do anything about it. So like, yeah, that I felt
Speaker 2: good for you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go and tell mom you loser. That's right, and
Speaker 1: it just took your toy from you. You nailed it.
Speaker 1: That is the cherry on top of the Sunday for sure.
Speaker 1: But look in OBP leagues and head to head leagues.
Speaker 1: Obviously you know want Soto, great player, but also you know,
Speaker 1: strategy wise here things might change a little bit because
Speaker 1: when you're looking head to head, I know, for me,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for guys who do everything right. I'm looking
Speaker 1: for those those overall players as much as I can
Speaker 1: get them. Mason, for you, what's your strategy when you're
Speaker 1: doing the head to head categories too? I like to
Speaker 1: instead of going with the specialists, the guys who do
Speaker 1: it all, and I value those guys a little more.
Speaker 1: Is there a certain strategy you like to employ.
Speaker 2: I definitely like to employ a strategy of more balanced players,
Speaker 2: more balanced rosters. I think a lot of people want
Speaker 2: to take like the boomer Bus guys in head to
Speaker 2: head leagues, and that's how you lose weeks because guys
Speaker 2: go cold, and there's nothing worse than like dominating your season,
Speaker 2: and then your guys go cold in the playoffs and
Speaker 2: you get knocked out in the first round. So for me,
Speaker 2: I like these guys who contribute to as many categories
Speaker 2: as possible but also are pretty even week to week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was tough for me to pass on Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez here, but again, OBP, I've got to go with
Speaker 1: Sodo here. After Ramirez, Elie de la Cruz, Gunner, Henderson,
Speaker 1: Joe Alrico. You took Kyle Tucker at eight. We'll let
Speaker 1: you go make your pick here, Mookie Betts at nine.
Speaker 1: Then we had the tenth pick, Corby Carrol, Fernando Tatisa,
Speaker 1: and then Mason. You took Lindor and Guerrero. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty nice start here. How do you feel about these
Speaker 1: two players going into twenty five.
Speaker 2: Love them. I think they're both like top ten players.
Speaker 2: It's getting him in the back end of the first
Speaker 2: round is great. I think this is a great year
Speaker 2: to draft at the back end, getting that early second
Speaker 2: round pick. There's some really leap players, especially in a
Speaker 2: twelve team.
Speaker 1: Agreed, all right, Joe Rico, let's talk about your picks here.
Speaker 1: Because after vlad went Freeman, Scooble, Skimes, a couple of pitchers,
Speaker 1: then you took Alvarez, So Tucker and Alvarez. I like
Speaker 1: that you reunited these guys. That's very sweet. They must
Speaker 1: be very happy to play on your team together. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the OBP, like Justin and I just talked
Speaker 3: last week about how we're both a little bit worried
Speaker 3: about Kyle Tucker considering how bad Wrigley is for lefties,
Speaker 3: but OBP bumps it up a little bit. As OBP
Speaker 3: was over four hundred last year, albeit he did miss
Speaker 3: some time. But I think the OBP format does boost
Speaker 3: up both him and Jordan Alvarez. As much as there
Speaker 3: are some reasons to be concerned about both, I think
Speaker 3: it's a pretty solid foundation as well.
Speaker 1: Now because it's head ahead. I'm a little bit more
Speaker 1: willing if a big time pitcher makes it to me
Speaker 1: that I like to go ahead and pull the trigger on.
Speaker 1: So after Alvarez goes Julio Cheerio, Bryce Harper, I took
Speaker 1: a Tel Marte at two oh nine. Again, line up
Speaker 1: the scores. A ton of runs. Love Marte there. Second
Speaker 1: base is not great, so feel pretty good about starting there.
Speaker 1: Then Zach Wheeler went now Wheeler, Gilbert and Sale were
Speaker 1: all on the board still when I took Marte was
Speaker 1: hoping one made it back to me. They did, so
Speaker 1: Wheeler went Durand and ad to turn Ronald Acunya to
Speaker 1: team one. Trey Turner at three oh one, pick than
Speaker 1: jas Chisholm, Logan, Gilbert. I wanted Gilbert. He didn't make
Speaker 1: it to me. Oh well, I'll have to sell for
Speaker 1: Chris Sale. Question here at the two twelve, Mason, Look,
Speaker 1: you're mister NFBC. You're you know, throwing money around and
Speaker 1: you know thousands of dollars on leagues and stuff. What
Speaker 1: is your risk management of Ronald Acunya this year? What's
Speaker 1: the what's the magic eightyp spot for you? For him?
Speaker 2: He's gotta be fourth round for me to really want
Speaker 2: to work and like, you're just not gonna have that happen,
Speaker 2: especially in the NFBC world, right Like people are gonna
Speaker 2: see that upside and go, hey, I want a Ronald
Speaker 2: Acunya because he can be the best player on a
Speaker 2: per played appearance. Basis, the problem is in NFBC specifically,
Speaker 2: you don't have enough IL spots or you have zero
Speaker 2: IL spots, so like, yeah, you're having to carry that
Speaker 2: on your bench. You don't know when he's going back.
Speaker 2: Even in leagues where you only have one or two
Speaker 2: IL spots, it's really difficult to roster because you're gonna
Speaker 2: suffer other injuries. So for me, I would not be
Speaker 2: drafting Ronald Lacunya at cost right now. But I understand
Speaker 2: why people chance that upside.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a good conversation. I think it's very helpful
Speaker 1: to everybody out there too, because the temptation of a
Speaker 1: Kunya obviously is huge off the charts. I think I
Speaker 1: would sput the difference. I'd go fourth round. Rika, Where
Speaker 1: would you go for Akunya? I know you're on the clock.
Speaker 1: Can you walk into you gum at the same.
Speaker 3: Time, we'll see I think Acunya for me is probably
Speaker 3: like a mid third round value something along those lines,
Speaker 3: depending on format. I wouldn't have any problem if somebody
Speaker 3: in an IL format wants to move him up a
Speaker 3: little higher than that, because then you especially if it's
Speaker 3: like a ten team league. My home league is ten
Speaker 3: team head to head categories, and I'm going to target
Speaker 3: a Kunya because there's IL there. The replacement level is
Speaker 3: so so high, even if I only get four and
Speaker 3: a half months when I like that. But in leagues
Speaker 3: where you have limited or no IL spots, he's probably
Speaker 3: a mid third for me. And I have no problem
Speaker 3: with Justin's fourth round valuation either. I think that's that's
Speaker 3: totally fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a little more fast and loose I think
Speaker 1: I would go in the third round there for him,
Speaker 1: especially the more shallow league, the more willing I am
Speaker 1: to do it. So ten or twelve team, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: get to fourteen, that's what I'm a little more risk
Speaker 1: averse to him. So after we have Garret crochetgo, Raphael
Speaker 1: de Nevers, Matt Olsen, Michael Harris, then Justin Mason at
Speaker 1: the turn here for the three four Manny Machado and
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Class a. Machado is a guy that I find
Speaker 1: to be, you know, continuously underrated every year and underappreciated.
Speaker 1: I like the steady eddie manny Machado and it looks.
Speaker 2: Like you do two Mason, Yeah, I mean, and he
Speaker 2: was my third round pick in TGFBI. I just think
Speaker 2: he is about as stable as you can get, a
Speaker 2: guy who can completely just deliver. You pencil him in
Speaker 2: on like perfect. You know, thirty homers, one hundred RBIs
Speaker 2: decent batting average, like He's just stable and it's easy
Speaker 2: to work around.
Speaker 1: Easy to work around. That's that's the key right now,
Speaker 1: all right after that selection, Contraras Burns. All right, So
Speaker 1: George Kirby to you, Joe Rico, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about that tandem of Crochet and Kirby as the front
Speaker 1: of your rotation.
Speaker 3: I really really like it. I think it's a great pairing.
Speaker 3: I'm going best player available a lot of the time
Speaker 3: in the early rounds, and I think the pairing makes sense.
Speaker 3: But I also think that Kirby just at the time
Speaker 3: was the best player on the board. But when I'm
Speaker 3: talking about pairing somebody who has the massive strikeout upside
Speaker 3: with the consistency that Kirby brings with a low whip.
Speaker 3: I really like that as a one two.
Speaker 1: All Right, after Kirby goes, you have Cole Reagan's, Blake Snell,
Speaker 1: Jacob de Gram. I took Brent Rooker because I love
Speaker 1: me some Brent Rooker. I love the power. Really surprised
Speaker 1: how this draft is going for me. This is not
Speaker 1: what I thought I'd be doing here, but this is
Speaker 1: where the values falling. Every draft is a snowflake. It's
Speaker 1: so perfect and unique on its own. Corey Seeger goes next,
Speaker 1: O'Neil cruz Azzi, albis than Dylan Cees at the five
Speaker 1: oh one, five oh two, Wyatt Langford off the board,
Speaker 1: Jose al Twoba at five oh three, and Langford's gone,
Speaker 1: which means I decided to reach for James Wood at
Speaker 1: five h four because he's got power, he's got speed,
Speaker 1: he's got batting average, he's got it all. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of James Wood. Let's talk about him for
Speaker 1: a second, Mason, because I think James Wood this time
Speaker 1: next year is going to be going probably in the
Speaker 1: late second round. Therefore, I think in the fifth round
Speaker 1: he's a steal. Do you think I took him a
Speaker 1: little too early, ADP suggests, maybe I did. But what
Speaker 1: does Justin Mason suggest?
Speaker 2: I think you should throw ADP out the window and
Speaker 2: go get your guys. ADP is a collection of data
Speaker 2: points that includes the team that's going to finish last
Speaker 2: in the league as well as a team that's going
Speaker 2: to finish first.
Speaker 1: A right, but that is the most zen thing you've
Speaker 1: ever said, and you've said a lot of zen things.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's true, right, It's a collection of every
Speaker 2: member of a league, and you know the last place
Speaker 2: team has waited the same as much as the first
Speaker 2: place team. Use it as a guide to know, like
Speaker 2: especially the mid max is like, hey, how early would
Speaker 2: I need to go in order to get this guy?
Speaker 2: Or how late could I potentially wait? But it's not
Speaker 2: really that useful from a drafting perspective, right, because it's
Speaker 2: weighing a bunch of teams that are not going to
Speaker 2: cash in your league. So I don't think ADP is
Speaker 2: that useful. Have your own projections, have your own ranks,
Speaker 2: and go buy that. Don't worry about ADP. If someone
Speaker 2: lasts at you, you can laugh at them at the
Speaker 2: end of the season.
Speaker 1: All right, Now, was that just pilibustering because you didn't
Speaker 1: like the James Wood pick or No.
Speaker 2: Actually, like I think for a young guy, I think
Speaker 2: he has a pretty safe floor, especially with the speed.
Speaker 2: I think his hit tool is is still developing a
Speaker 2: little bit. I think the power is still developing a
Speaker 2: little bit. But you know, progression isn't linear, and this
Speaker 2: could be a guy that really takes off. Like I
Speaker 2: think he's a pretty safe guy, but with a massive upside,
Speaker 2: very similar like Jackson Turio was coming into last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cherio player. I'm very high on this year, but
Speaker 1: not getting a lot of pieces. I got him in
Speaker 1: a draft the other day. We did though, I think
Speaker 1: one of the last drafts we did. I finally did
Speaker 1: snag a share there of him. All right, let's continue
Speaker 1: on with the draft board. See what it looks like
Speaker 1: here after I took Wood, Ozuna goes Garrett Cole, goes,
Speaker 1: Devin Williams, goes Mason Miller. All right, so closer time,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico. When you have mandatory closer spots, it does
Speaker 1: force the hand a little bit more towards the relievers.
Speaker 1: I find that when I take relievers early, though, I'm
Speaker 1: missing out on a little offense or starting pitcher, and
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just not my move. So why
Speaker 1: Mason Miller?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: For you, I know he gives you, you know, strikeouts,
Speaker 1: obviously gives you a lot on the whip side too.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Mason Miller and what those builds
Speaker 1: look like when you start going reliever of these kind
Speaker 1: of rounds.
Speaker 3: For me, it's more so been the ugly builds that
Speaker 3: have turned out of the Luke Weaver specs and the
Speaker 3: Lucas air SAgs earlier in draft season. I typically am
Speaker 3: more on your side there that I like to shop
Speaker 3: a little bit later on, but I also like to
Speaker 3: have at least one guy that I know is not
Speaker 3: going to lose the job, one solid lockdown closer, and
Speaker 3: then for the second guy, then I can kind of
Speaker 3: shop in that little bit more variable range. I guess
Speaker 3: you could say for guys that you're not one hundred
Speaker 3: percent sure of, if it's like Carlos Astevez, if it's
Speaker 3: an air seg, if it's maybe Justin Martinez or somebody
Speaker 3: like that. That's kind of the way I like to
Speaker 3: go about it. If I'm taking two guys from that range,
Speaker 3: then you risk one of them losing the job. There's
Speaker 3: players that could still get signed out. I think we're
Speaker 3: probably at the point now where it's not as big
Speaker 3: of a risk, but David Robertson's still out there. David
Speaker 3: Robertson could sign as a closer potentially, and I'm not
Speaker 3: necessarily expecting it, but I just like to lock down
Speaker 3: at least one of them so that I just remove
Speaker 3: that fear and I can just say, Okay, I'm getting
Speaker 3: thirty saves here regardless.
Speaker 1: Zeno Mieto four, Joe Rico, that's no fear for those
Speaker 1: people who enjoy a little penta. That is c j
Speaker 1: Abrams next at five oh nine, then Bryce Miller five
Speaker 1: to ten, Josh Hater at five to eleven. Then you
Speaker 1: have Justin Mason at the turn, taoskarnandez Edwin Diaz. I
Speaker 1: know you're on the clock again. Welcome back to you
Speaker 1: here ya, I'm Amoto at six h two, then Diaz,
Speaker 1: Michael King, and then Joe Rico. You stole Pablo Lopez
Speaker 1: for me? How dare you? How dare you? He was
Speaker 1: my ideal number two guy, but now he's your three.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good looking pitching staff. Are you worried?
Speaker 1: Though you've gone one, two, three, four pitchers in a
Speaker 1: row so far, just Tucker and Alvarez, you think you
Speaker 1: can make up the difference here on offense.
Speaker 3: I definitely can in a twelve teamer at least I
Speaker 3: think I can pitching the way that it does eventually
Speaker 3: dry up, because I know that the common narrative right
Speaker 3: now is that pitching is very deep. Give it a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, it's not going to be as deep
Speaker 3: into I want to lock down at least a couple
Speaker 3: of aces, and like I said, I'm kind of going
Speaker 3: best player available there, and I think that Lopez, like
Speaker 3: I wanted to go hitter. I really did want to
Speaker 3: take a hitter there, but I didn't want to force
Speaker 3: it when it didn't feel like that was the best
Speaker 3: time based on my valuation. So I went with my
Speaker 3: best player on the board, and that's Pablo Lopez. There's
Speaker 3: the SP three. I'm very happy there now.
Speaker 1: Mason. At the turn here, you took Ti Oscar and
Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz. You went into the closer game as well.
Speaker 1: So are you somebody that has to come away, especially
Speaker 1: in a mandatory RP situation, with at least one guy
Speaker 1: that you feel really good about or are you willing
Speaker 1: to let the draft come to you?
Speaker 2: I think a twelve team league, I'm more willing to
Speaker 2: let the draft come to me than I would be
Speaker 2: in a fifteen team league. Being said, there's a limited
Speaker 2: amount of closers, and I don't want to deal with
Speaker 2: the guys who are going to be sharing roles or
Speaker 2: potentially losing their jobs. So I grab closers as early
Speaker 2: as it possibly can, just to make sure I don't
Speaker 2: have to deal with that. Because you're going to pay
Speaker 2: for Saves one way. They're going to pay for Mint
Speaker 2: the draft table, You're gonna pay for him in season,
Speaker 2: and rather just pay from the draft table and worry
Speaker 2: about other things.
Speaker 1: See, I'd rather spend all the fab chasing Saves. Sounds
Speaker 1: like an Adell song. I'm pretty sure there might be
Speaker 1: one that's coming in on the new album. Possibly all right,
Speaker 1: So after Pablo Lopez at six oh five, Framber Valadez
Speaker 1: off the Bard, Marcus Simeon, Mark Vientos Goes, I took
Speaker 1: Lawrence Butler. I'm feeling good about Lawrence Butler. Look at me.
Speaker 1: We'll give you two a's what's the word? Uctioned me
Speaker 1: Athletics pardon me, pardon me, I I gotta change my
Speaker 1: verbiage here. Butler a guy that had a magnificent summer.
Speaker 1: I think he can build on it again, power, speed,
Speaker 1: everything there. Rutchman goes than Helsley Imonaga at the turn
Speaker 1: at seven oh one, Willia Damas. Then you have Rhyso Iglesias,
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass. Now I took Josh Nayler at seven oh four.
Speaker 1: We were getting a little dry there at the corners,
Speaker 1: and I certainly needed one. So I'm gonna ask you this,
Speaker 1: Mason Williadamas, really good player, great season in Milwaukee. Now
Speaker 1: he's with your San Francisco Giants. Obviously, the ballpark factor
Speaker 1: is going to factor in a little bit to his ADP.
Speaker 1: Is Willias steal here at this adp? Or is he
Speaker 1: still a little tenus based on the change of ballpark
Speaker 1: factor from Milwaukee to San France.
Speaker 2: It's not just a change of ballback ballpark factor, but
Speaker 2: that is definitely playing into it. It's also just a
Speaker 2: much worse offensive team in a much worse offensive park,
Speaker 2: in a team that does not steal. Right. They were
Speaker 2: like bottom five and stolen bases as a team in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I don't see that changing, whereas Milwaukee's
Speaker 2: the top five teams team stolen bases, right, So I
Speaker 2: think all those things make Willia Domas worse in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. Now, I do think that the ADP is
Speaker 2: probably a little bit too harsh on a Damas. People
Speaker 2: are downgrading that a little bit too far. And we
Speaker 2: see this all the time. We're seeing it with these
Speaker 2: A's players that you're just referencing that we're seeing prices
Speaker 2: get out of control on some A's hitters and some
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay hitters because they're going to be in these
Speaker 2: minor league parks. You should always take advantage of the
Speaker 2: opposite of what the general public is doing. And so
Speaker 2: I think a Damis represents one of the last sky
Speaker 2: Is at shortstop that I really want to roll with
Speaker 2: at that position, and so I'm okay waiting on him,
Speaker 2: but just know it's not going to be as pretty
Speaker 2: as it was in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's continue on the draft board. See how
Speaker 1: things are flying here. I took Josh Naylor at seven
Speaker 1: oh four, then Luis Robert at seven o five. I
Speaker 1: had so many outfielders I decided to go at Naylor
Speaker 1: instead of Robert team six, go ahead and take Christian
Speaker 1: Walker Junior Kmenaro at seven oh seven. I was hoping
Speaker 1: I could make one more round, but obviously I could not.
Speaker 1: So Brian Reynolds at seven o eight to Joe Alrico,
Speaker 1: that's a nice offensive player. It gives you a lot there,
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds, very underrated, very underappreciated. Anthony santanderre at seven
Speaker 1: o nine, Brenton Doyle, Jordan Westburg, and then Justin Mason.
Speaker 1: You went and you took Matt McClain for me out
Speaker 1: of my queue, and then Logan Webb. Now I am
Speaker 1: in on mcclan. You look good in the Fall League,
Speaker 1: had some power there. So far, so good in spring.
Speaker 1: To me, it's just him getting at bats again. And
Speaker 1: with Spencer Steer being heard, I think that also clears
Speaker 1: up a little space here potentially for an easier path
Speaker 1: for mclan. Let's talk about McLain and Webb. One of
Speaker 1: the most consistent guys to make it thirty starts every year,
Speaker 1: but it was a rough end to the season. Any
Speaker 1: concerns with the end of the season for Web and
Speaker 1: what are your expectations for mclin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, real concerns, and I'm not a big Web guy,
Speaker 2: but in a quality starts format, you know he's gonna
Speaker 2: go deep into games, right like the Giants are gonna
Speaker 2: let him get his six. So and there are other
Speaker 2: guys down below that actually have rated higher than him
Speaker 2: that I know I can get in the next kind
Speaker 2: of next turn that I'm gonna make here. So usually
Speaker 2: if if you, you probably never see me draft Lagan Web,
Speaker 2: especially in an NFBC for it, because I'm going to
Speaker 2: reach on the guys that I want that are going
Speaker 2: a little bit later in a in a Fantasy pros
Speaker 2: mock draft, or in an ESPN or Yahoo league or
Speaker 2: something like that. But just a stable force McLain, I love.
Speaker 2: I was a little worried coming into draft season about
Speaker 2: the health. But he's healthy right now. He looks good
Speaker 2: in spring, look great in ears on a fall league.
Speaker 2: Like you said, I think he could have a massive
Speaker 2: season all right.
Speaker 1: So possible massive season coming. I have a I have
Speaker 1: a tricky decision on the board here right now. Is
Speaker 1: this the time where I try to take Mike Trout
Speaker 1: because he's still around? Do I dare do it to myself?
Speaker 1: Do I hate my life? If I do that justin
Speaker 1: Mason will I.
Speaker 2: Uh, you might, but it's it's a twelve teamers so
Speaker 2: and in not very like deep benches, so like there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of room on the waiver wire
Speaker 2: to pick up guys for him when he eventually does
Speaker 2: get hurt. But in ob league, like it's still on
Speaker 2: a you know basis or played appear in spasis. Mike
Speaker 2: Trout is a stud still, so like that's.
Speaker 1: How I think in the OBP. So you know what,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Let's have some fun. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: that pick in just a second. Here, I want to
Speaker 1: run through the rest of these after Web Nola, Grason Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo, Freddy Peralta goes next, then Hunter Green, Tanner
Speaker 1: Byby I took Mike Trout, Salvador Perez goes next, and
Speaker 1: then cal Rawley, Hunter Brown, Joe, Ryan, Max Freed, Cody Bellinger.
Speaker 1: Now I passed because I thought I had some pictures
Speaker 1: there that I still felt pretty good about, and I did.
Speaker 1: And his name is see McClanahan. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and just go here with a picture that is
Speaker 1: normally an ace, normally a guy people would take as
Speaker 1: a one. He's now my two. Now I've waited on pitching.
Speaker 1: We'll see how this works out here. Joe Rico hit
Speaker 1: the pitching like a like a Justin Mason, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: in a murder shed. I feel like I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm like a Norm McDonald mood today, Like, oh boy,
Speaker 1: it is Justin Mason. He sure does murder starting pitching. Ah, God,
Speaker 1: look at him. He's got he's got a wagon.
Speaker 2: He really upset at Team nine. I don't know who
Speaker 2: Team nine is the robot in the parking lot robot
Speaker 2: Team nine.
Speaker 1: So let's go through the Team nine roster. For the
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Speaker 1: we're trying to do by opening day. Team nine, Mookie Skeens,
Speaker 1: Raphael Devers, Alonzo Abrams, Michael King, Santander Castillo, Schwellenbach. This
Speaker 1: could be the the Jordan Mason robot for all we know,
Speaker 1: I mean, just a Mason robot.
Speaker 2: For I like their team. I'm not gonna lie like that.
Speaker 2: That is as a pretty fun team right there, especially
Speaker 2: that pitching stuff. But Schwellenbach I have as a top
Speaker 2: ten pitcher this year.
Speaker 1: Is the fourth starter on team and.
Speaker 2: He's their fourth starter this year.
Speaker 3: So like you have in the top ten, justin I.
Speaker 2: Do, and I'm about to take someone that I know
Speaker 2: Joe doesn't like.
Speaker 1: Right, So, no, I like Bailey Ober? Is that is that?
Speaker 2: Joe was talking some mad trash on Twitter about Bailey
Speaker 2: Ober the other day.
Speaker 1: Oh Joe, that Joe? What do you mean? I like
Speaker 1: Bailey over? You gotta specify your Joe's here. Confusing for me.
Speaker 2: We've got multiple Joe's here. So I was hoping to
Speaker 2: get schwelle Bach and Ober right there. That was the
Speaker 2: gamble I took. I wish I now had taken Schwelling
Speaker 2: back last round over Logan Web. But then I'll go grab,
Speaker 2: you know, like a Zach Gallon, who I just think
Speaker 2: is perpetually underrated this year.
Speaker 1: Deal that is such a steal right there. So mcclana
Speaker 1: and Contreras steer Volpi, Bregman goes to a Rico, Schwellenbach
Speaker 1: goes to Team nine feel expatista Kwan. Then Mason took
Speaker 1: Ober and Zach Gallen. I can't agree with you more.
Speaker 1: I mean Zach Gallen absurd. I think that he goes
Speaker 1: where he goes here, Tristan Costas a teo to Will Smith,
Speaker 1: Bobashett at Team nine, Joe a Rico right out from
Speaker 1: under you. That's got to be very upsetting. So how
Speaker 1: do you pivot here? Let's talk about Bregman and then
Speaker 1: this next pick you're going to make here.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, Bregman. I really think that that's a good
Speaker 3: opportunity for him to still keep his fantasy value. I
Speaker 3: don't think that he's going to be quite what he
Speaker 3: was in Houston necessarily, but I think he can still
Speaker 3: be really valuable. Plus he's likely going to be gaining
Speaker 3: a multi position eligibility. I'm still not sure how that
Speaker 3: whole thing's gonna shake out, but he should get second base.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna take Juan Duran here with my second
Speaker 3: of these two picks and just lock down that second
Speaker 3: reliever spot. I really think that Duran has the potential
Speaker 3: to give you close to one hundred strikeouts. I don't
Speaker 3: want them to be playing any games with Griffin Jacks
Speaker 3: or anything like that. I hope it just Duran, that's
Speaker 3: the question. But I think he can give me thirty
Speaker 3: saves with good ratios and probably ninety some odds strikeouts,
Speaker 3: so and I also don't have to worry about relief now,
Speaker 3: I don't have to worry about when Jeff Hoffmin's gonna
Speaker 3: go and when the astavezes of the world. I can
Speaker 3: just focus on filling out the rest of my team.
Speaker 3: At this point as well.
Speaker 1: I'm developing a theme with my pitching staff here. We'll
Speaker 1: see if you can guess it. So after Deron Goo's
Speaker 1: Riley Green, Royce Lewis, Andres Munios, Matt Chapman to me,
Speaker 1: I needed a corner guy here, so let's take the
Speaker 1: third basement. Chapman gave me fifteen steals last year, fingers
Speaker 1: Cross could do the same. Definitely light ups and stolen bases.
Speaker 1: We'll see if I can find some Later Sunny Gray
Speaker 1: than Justin Steele won at ten eleven, Rookie Sazaki at
Speaker 1: ten twelve, Robert Suarez at eleven oh one, eleven oh two,
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty, then Vinnie Pasquentino. I took Sandy al Contra,
Speaker 1: So al Contra, Shane McClanahan, two guys returning from Tommy John.
Speaker 1: But so far it seems like no problems, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I've got three aces here, Mason, is.
Speaker 2: Is your theme for your pitching staff? Guys who won't
Speaker 2: make it through the season.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is guys that will make it for the
Speaker 1: season for one thousand. Why why won't they make it
Speaker 1: through the season. You know, everybody's everybody's falling over themselves
Speaker 1: to draft Jacob de Gram who hasn't thrown a hunting
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen, and Sandil Contra and Shane mcclanann are
Speaker 1: going rounds rounds later, and one of those guys just
Speaker 1: want to say young a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I actually don't have necessarily a problem with uh with
Speaker 2: the top of it with with a Chris Sale, I
Speaker 2: do worry about a guy like Seane mclann and a
Speaker 2: guy like Saniel Contra, just because community control are tricky.
Speaker 2: We saw it last year with Robbie Ray coming back
Speaker 2: from the from the Tommy John surgery, where like he
Speaker 2: came in his first start, he looked like vintage Robbie Ray,
Speaker 2: elite Robbie Ray, like was I think it's throwing five
Speaker 2: perfect innings before they've pulled him out, and then the
Speaker 2: next start he comes in, he can't find his own
Speaker 2: at all. And that's what happens with these guys coming
Speaker 2: back from Tommy John sure is they struggle with consistency
Speaker 2: in their command and control. I prefer McClanahan overall contract
Speaker 2: because all contract is one on a terrible team where
Speaker 2: he's not gonna get wins. Now, this is a quality
Speaker 2: start league, so.
Speaker 1: He's got a terrible team for the first three months
Speaker 1: of the season. That's the capital for.
Speaker 2: The first three months. This is I don't think they're
Speaker 2: going to trade him. They the contract to team friendly
Speaker 2: and then he is a pitcher who relies on committal control.
Speaker 2: He's not an overpowering guy. And so I think for me,
Speaker 2: if I'm going to take a gamble on one of
Speaker 2: these guys, it's McLean and over our contract, oh.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. I think your assessment's absolutely correct, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. But I'm taking shots on these guys.
Speaker 1: I think the difference with Robby ray too is the
Speaker 1: amount of time of him coming back and maybe trying
Speaker 1: to push to come back at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Mclana has been gone a very long time, while Contras
Speaker 1: on the normal schedule coming back, and I think also
Speaker 1: coming back in spring with everybody else and the hitters
Speaker 1: and the pitching coaches around you and all that. I
Speaker 1: think is a very different environment than rehabbing on your
Speaker 1: own and trying to come back late in the season.
Speaker 1: I think it's very different. They feel like they're on
Speaker 1: a normal, getting ready kind of pace, and I think
Speaker 1: that does go a long way. Pitchers are creatures of habit.
Speaker 1: They are very strange birds, and to me, I think
Speaker 1: that is crucial for them mentally to feel like this
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Speaker 1: get back here to the draft. After where do we
Speaker 1: leave off? Sandy alcntra, Ian Happ goes at eleven oh five,
Speaker 1: Jake Bergert eleven oh six, Ryan Walker, then Joel Rico
Speaker 1: takes Randy A. Rosarina eleven oh eight, Christian Yellich at
Speaker 1: eleven oh nine, then Xavier Edwards and Olas Garcia. Then
Speaker 1: Mason you took Terrang and Dylan Cruz. Love Dylan Cruz.
Speaker 1: Question for you about Terrang? If these stolen bases drop
Speaker 1: off save from fifty to thirty six. Is that a
Speaker 1: pick you end up hating, Uh.
Speaker 2: For sure. But I don't think they're going to drop off.
Speaker 2: I actually think, if anything, they could even increase. Terrang
Speaker 2: is a much better in zone hitter than I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people give him credit for it. Is
Speaker 2: a good defender, so I think he's going to be
Speaker 2: playing every single day. I think the batting average will
Speaker 2: bounce back, and I think those stolen bases are going
Speaker 2: to be fine. And this team right now needed stolen bases,
Speaker 2: so I kind of had to make this pick, had
Speaker 2: to make the pick.
Speaker 1: Forced into a corner. That's where he is right now.
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue on here with the draft board,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico when it comes back to you after Dylan
Speaker 1: Cruz Tovar, Spencer Strider, Jared Jones, Jonathan India, so Rose
Speaker 1: Arena in India, let's discuss those two players and what
Speaker 1: you think about them in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah a Rose Raina, Well, both of them really get
Speaker 3: a nice bump from OBP. Both of their batting averages
Speaker 3: leave something to be desired, especially Rose Raina. Last season
Speaker 3: it was brutal. He batted two nineteen, but he walked
Speaker 3: eleven percent of the time, so the on base is
Speaker 3: still there, almost a guaranteed. Twenty twenty, I did need
Speaker 3: a little bit more balance in those two categories with
Speaker 3: a Rose Arena and with Jonathan India, I think he's
Speaker 3: going to be leading off for Kansas City. I had
Speaker 3: of Bobby with Junior, I had a VINTP ahead of
Speaker 3: sal so he should have the potential to score one
Speaker 3: hundred runs while giving me probably a three forty ish
Speaker 3: on base percentage, And I really like that. I don't
Speaker 3: want to focus in too much on on base percentage,
Speaker 3: but these guys are also very well balanced assets that
Speaker 3: also just get a bump from their OBP.
Speaker 1: Going back to Dylan Cruz real quick, I took James Wood,
Speaker 1: Mason took Dylan Cruz. Who do you prefer jul Rico
Speaker 1: at their current ADP in terms of return on investment?
Speaker 3: Sorry, Dylan Cruz and Hill Cruise and James would in
Speaker 3: terms of return on the investment? Yeah, in the ADP
Speaker 3: like obviously later, Yeah, Cruz is probably a better bargain.
Speaker 3: Welsh and I talked about him yesterday. He could probably
Speaker 3: go like fifteen and thirty if things break right. I
Speaker 3: think James Wood is really really good, but he's a
Speaker 3: top fifty pick and he's got a serious groundball problem.
Speaker 3: Like that's I think a legitimate problem. Can he fix it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but his launch angle last year was like two degrees.
Speaker 3: He has enough rob power to mitigate that. But I
Speaker 3: also think that Cruz going one hundred picks later, I
Speaker 3: think is probably a bit of a safer play to
Speaker 3: return value.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, we'll see how the draft goes here.
Speaker 1: I am up on the clock. I don't love what
Speaker 1: I've got in front of me, so I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: a pick here and continue on. So after India, Shane
Speaker 1: Langliers goes, Luis Garcia goes, code I Singa Than I
Speaker 1: took Brian Wu. I was hoping Rodin would make it
Speaker 1: back to me, but he did not. Ezac Parides goes next.
Speaker 1: Another pick that I was hoping for. Mi Q got
Speaker 1: absolutely obliterated. In these next couple of picks. Here, Xander
Speaker 1: Bogart's Carlos Rodonna twelve twelve, that thirteen oh one, Jason
Speaker 1: Dominguez Pete Carl armstrong erseg goes, and I took Seth Lugo,
Speaker 1: who had a phenomenal season last year. He was one
Speaker 1: of my breakout guys in the Fantasy BlackBook last season,
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty one strikeouts, a three E A
Speaker 1: one O nine whip, he threw two hundred innings. I
Speaker 1: get it, like people say it came out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: but it didn't if you were paying attention to San
Speaker 1: Diego the year before Mason. Where are you at with
Speaker 1: Seth Lugo? I mean, at thirteen oh four, it seems
Speaker 1: like a guy that isn't getting enough respect considering what
Speaker 1: he did last year. And it wasn't out of the
Speaker 1: blue because all the earmarks were there for a big
Speaker 1: season after twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't out a blue. He's always been a
Speaker 2: very good pitcher. He just has vacillated between being a
Speaker 2: starter and a reliever and moved to a great park
Speaker 2: in Kansas City. I think he is one of those
Speaker 2: kind of safe glue guys that I like in a
Speaker 2: twelve teamer. I don't know that I draft him very
Speaker 2: often because I just don't see the massive upside that
Speaker 2: you're looking for in those kind of leagues. He's kind
Speaker 2: of a guy you stream in and out of your
Speaker 2: lineup as opposed to someone you rely upon, but in
Speaker 2: a fifteen teamer I love him because it gives you
Speaker 2: that volume that is so king in fifteen teamers, and
Speaker 2: I think he gets underrated, similar to like teammate Michael Walker,
Speaker 2: who's just been a fantastic picture that nobody seems to
Speaker 2: talk about because he doesn't like have these huge amount
Speaker 2: of a huge strikeouts, but the volume matters, and being
Speaker 2: in a good stadium like that can matter. And so yeah,
Speaker 2: I definitely like Lugo more in a deeper league setting,
Speaker 2: but just generally speaking.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I mean, Lugo kind of started
Speaker 1: off the year a little lukewarm in terms of strikeouts
Speaker 1: and then they started to really pop and come on.
Speaker 1: So just kind of interesting to see how that ended
Speaker 1: up just unfolding at a certain point. But again, I
Speaker 1: don't know what he needs to do to prove everything
Speaker 1: to everybody. And as my let's see where he's my
Speaker 1: fifth starter, I'll go to war with Seth Lugo my
Speaker 1: fifth start. This is a guy who has been exciting
Speaker 1: conversation last year. So yeah, all right, I gotta eventually,
Speaker 1: I guess take a closer here, at some point, so
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. Maybe Pete Fairbanks can actually
Speaker 1: stay healthy for a season. We'll see I've gotten some
Speaker 1: value picks. Thanks Draft Wizard. Appreciate the thumbs up. I
Speaker 1: need that kind of encouragement. It's very important for me.
Speaker 1: So after Seth Lugo, Logan OHOPPI then Brandon Neimo thirteen
Speaker 1: oh six, Kerry Carpenter, Bryson Stott to Joe Arico Tanner.
Speaker 1: Scott goes next, Nico Horner, Yuenio Suarez, Justin Mason. You
Speaker 1: took Munsei and Colton Kowser. Your thoughts on Kowser this year,
Speaker 1: and I also want to ask you about the Orioles too.
Speaker 1: If Kobe Mayo Kurstad holiday all push and perform, does
Speaker 1: Kowser get pushed, does Westburg get pushed? How does that
Speaker 1: all work out?
Speaker 2: I don't think either would necessarily get pushed. Cowser is
Speaker 2: a really, really good defender and one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why he continues to play even when he does struggle.
Speaker 2: So he will go through kind of ups and downs,
Speaker 2: but he's got a lot of powers, a little bit
Speaker 2: of speed, and he just plays such good defense that
Speaker 2: the Oriols are going to give him opportunities. I think
Speaker 2: if anybody gets pushed out of that outfield, it might
Speaker 2: be Cedric Mullens, my boy, which is sad from a
Speaker 2: personal standpoint because I've made a career on calling Cedric
Speaker 2: Mullens before anybody else. But I think Kowser's defense will
Speaker 2: definitely keep him in there. Westburg I'm not as big
Speaker 2: of a fan of but I think he will just accumulate.
Speaker 2: It's just to me, like he doesn't do anything spectacularly,
Speaker 2: so he needs that volume, and we did see him
Speaker 2: lose time last year to injuries. So I'm a little
Speaker 2: bit more scared about Westburg than I am about Kowser,
Speaker 2: and Westburg's going way too high for me, especially recently
Speaker 2: in drafts.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See, Westburg is the guy that really scares me too,
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you kind of said that, like just
Speaker 1: a little bit concerned there. I am buying back in
Speaker 1: big time though. On Jackson Holiday. So after the cows
Speaker 1: Aer pick, we have Kevin Gosman, Jerkson Profar casting on us,
Speaker 1: and then Brandon Lao so Stott and Lao al Rico.
Speaker 1: Let's discuss these two infield picks here back to back yeah.
Speaker 3: I early in the draft, I took nothing but pitchers
Speaker 3: and outfielders, kind of similarly similarly to what we did
Speaker 3: on the mock maybe a few weeks ago, Joe, where
Speaker 3: I just packed up the outfield. So I needed to
Speaker 3: fill in some of these infielder positions, and I think
Speaker 3: I got a lot of values, Like you know, lowing
Speaker 3: the fourteenth Stot in the thirteenth, I got Danzy Swanson
Speaker 3: in the fifteenth. It just feels like really solid picks,
Speaker 3: guys who are just overall contributors, who aren't going to
Speaker 3: really hurt you anywhere. That are just really solid guys
Speaker 3: that are falling about around past ADP generally speaking. So
Speaker 3: it does change things because it's on base percentage and
Speaker 3: it probably confuses people, But I think that these are
Speaker 3: all really solid picks. My own base percentage right now
Speaker 3: is projected to be second in the league behind some
Speaker 3: guy named Joe Pizzapia, So I'll take that.
Speaker 1: Well, Jan Soto equates for about ninety percent of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So just so I'm winning the OBP war, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: behind on stolen bases. This is one of the great
Speaker 1: things too about Draft Wizard is you can look and
Speaker 1: see where the categories are. So if you're playing in
Speaker 1: rotal formats, I mean it's it's a dream man. Obviously
Speaker 1: I'm behind on saves too, so I've got to figure
Speaker 1: that out. Uh, but quality starts again right now. It's
Speaker 1: showing me at thirteen, it's showing Joe Rico at eleven.
Speaker 1: So for all those pictures you took, you're still behind me.
Speaker 1: Joe A. Rico. Do you feel like that's stop being
Speaker 1: fair draft Wizard maybe not being fair with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to talk to the devs. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a long conversation. I'm going to write
Speaker 1: a strongly worded letter. Oh my goodness, shortstop has dried
Speaker 1: up and I am not a happy boy right now
Speaker 1: because Carlos Correa is gonna have to be a selection
Speaker 1: for me. Do I have to do that to myself?
Speaker 1: I hate life right now. I don't think I have
Speaker 1: much of a choice. But while I'm all that decision,
Speaker 1: let's continue to look at the rest of the picks.
Speaker 1: Here after Brenton Lao, Paul Golschman, Alec Bohm, Trevor McGill,
Speaker 1: Luis re Rengifo to me at second base. Then Mason
Speaker 1: Win goes next to shortstop. That's the guy that I
Speaker 1: really wanted to make it back. He did not very upset.
Speaker 1: I'm just getting crushed here at the turn with these
Speaker 1: three teams. Mason Win, Ronaldo Lopez, That's okay, he can go.
Speaker 1: J t Real Muto at fourteen twelve, then Jeff Hoffman
Speaker 1: start fifteen oh one. You say, Kakuchi at fifteen oh two,
Speaker 1: Josh Low at fifteen oh three. Then I took Fairbanks.
Speaker 1: After that, Brandon fought Stevenson, Jeremy Panya. Nice value there.
Speaker 1: Dansby Swanson to Joe Rico Dansby, what do you think
Speaker 1: of the Cubs this year? I'm in on the Cubs,
Speaker 1: and I feel like Dansby needs to elevate a little
Speaker 1: bit because the rest of this team is getting better
Speaker 1: around him. Do you think that is going to help
Speaker 1: him kind of reach that next level.
Speaker 3: I don't know that he's gonna necessarily reach another level.
Speaker 3: I think he can probably do something like similar to
Speaker 3: what he did in twenty two or twenty three. Give
Speaker 3: you like low twenties homers, really good counting stats, counting
Speaker 3: on him for some steals, the on base percentage, is
Speaker 3: nice because he walks close to ten percent of the time,
Speaker 3: So even though the batting average is in the two
Speaker 3: forty range, the on base should be in the three twenty.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he can get up to three thirty. So I
Speaker 3: just feels like a really balanced player. In terms of
Speaker 3: the Cubs overall, I think the Cubs offense is fantastic.
Speaker 3: I think they're super deep one through eight. Mcelmayah even
Speaker 3: I shouldn't slander mcgalamya, he's not too bad. The whole
Speaker 3: lineup really is very, very solid now. Like I alluded
Speaker 3: to earlier, we talked about it last week, Justin and
Speaker 3: I about how Wrigley is awful for left handed hitters.
Speaker 3: So probably not the greatest news for Kyle Talker Michael Bush,
Speaker 3: Pete car Armstrong investors because they do take a little
Speaker 3: bit of a hit there. But I think this team
Speaker 3: is really really underrated.
Speaker 1: I do too. I think they're gonna make a strong
Speaker 1: run for that division. I think they smell blood in
Speaker 1: the water. The Cardinals are week Pittsburgh doesn't have enough offense.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's still trying to figure themselves out a little bit.
Speaker 1: But look, if Swanson can bounce back, we're in a
Speaker 1: good spot there. Certainly he would be a huge contributor
Speaker 1: for that team. Kyle Finigan goes next to fifteen oh nine,
Speaker 1: then Christopher Sanchez, Ryan Mountcastle, Justin Mason, look at you,
Speaker 1: Robbie right, and Spencer Arraghetty, who that was another target
Speaker 1: of mine in this draft. Arrogedtty the first few starts
Speaker 1: of the year terrible, the last twelve dominant, which Spencer Araghedty.
Speaker 1: You think we're gonna get in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but my team really needed strikeouts. You
Speaker 2: know what, Let's go get some strikeouts here while while
Speaker 2: I still can't. And Arraghetty and Robbie Ray really fit
Speaker 2: the bill right there. So I've got to figure out
Speaker 2: another guy who can go get some strikeouts. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with Nickeldolo, even though that medium scares the crap
Speaker 2: out of me, but I needed those strikeouts. And sometimes
Speaker 2: when you're playing these kind of leagues, you gotta make
Speaker 2: a pick you don't necessarily want to, just because you
Speaker 2: can go and get a category that helps you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, So after you took Araghedtty, Jackson Holiday goes
Speaker 1: at sixteen oh two. Yondi Diaz Luis hell, Ryan Pepio
Speaker 1: to Joe Rico, Andre Simenez, then Alexis Diaz Arise. I
Speaker 1: ended up taking Korea, but grudgingly Correa goes to me.
Speaker 1: Then Taylor Ward Francisco Alvarez, who I am high on
Speaker 1: this year. I like the adjustments he's made in the
Speaker 1: offseason here with the bat being in a different position,
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmond at the turn seventeen oh one, Michael Tolia
Speaker 1: seventeen oh two, Lane Thomas Barrios, and then Nate Avaldi
Speaker 1: to be at seventeen oh four. He was the biggest
Speaker 1: boost on the board, so I took him Show Mania
Speaker 1: the Team five, Bednar Jackson job and then Eflyn so Arico,
Speaker 1: Pepio and Eflyn building some rotation depth. Eflin's not a
Speaker 1: guy that I'm in on. I think the Orioles are
Speaker 1: going to take a step back this year. Grayson Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: I love. I just feel like they had they had
Speaker 1: everything in their hands and then it kind of fell
Speaker 1: apart at the end. You let Corbyn Burns walk. You
Speaker 1: really didn't replace him. I don't know. I'm just the
Speaker 1: Orioles I think are It's weird. I think they're in
Speaker 1: a retool, which sounds bizarre because I've got all these
Speaker 1: young players coming up, But I look at the pitching
Speaker 1: staff and I'm just not impressed. What is intriguing to
Speaker 1: you about Zach Kaflin sell me on Ethel this year?
Speaker 3: Well, you don't think Charlie Morton is a good replacement
Speaker 3: for Court?
Speaker 1: When pitchers are as old as me, I get very concerned.
Speaker 2: Like you're a very young man, Joe. You don't don't
Speaker 2: talk about yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't look a day over forty five.
Speaker 3: So for Efflin. For me, the predictive nature of whip
Speaker 3: has become something that I've focused in on quite a bit.
Speaker 3: Previous season's whip for Affluent over the last three years
Speaker 3: one twelve, one oh two and one fifteen. He gave
Speaker 3: you a three fifteen era last season. The strikeouts aren't
Speaker 3: quite what you're hoping for, necessarily, but I already have
Speaker 3: a hell of a lot of strikeouts. I got Pablo Lopez,
Speaker 3: I got Garrett Crochet. I don't need to really worry
Speaker 3: about strikeouts. He's more of a ratio booster for me
Speaker 3: and Ryan Pepio. I just think he's gonna be an ace,
Speaker 3: like I think you know over the edge last week
Speaker 3: you know why why what did.
Speaker 1: You know say? In that show? For those people whom
Speaker 1: I missed it, you can go back and watch. We
Speaker 1: have the Ultimate Pitching Guide show with Eno and then
Speaker 1: part two with myself and Nick Pollock and then you
Speaker 1: have the ADP battles there. But for those people who
Speaker 1: want to miss that show, you can go back and
Speaker 1: watch on the YouTube. But tell me about if you could,
Speaker 1: just real quick what EO was talking about Pepio.
Speaker 3: So again, just not to focus on it, but the
Speaker 3: whip was really good. At one fifteen, he has five
Speaker 3: pitches that are at least average in terms of stuff
Speaker 3: grades out as a one oh seven overall stuff plus,
Speaker 3: which is really good stuff plus. Just got a bit
Speaker 3: of a facelift recently. I worry a little bit about
Speaker 3: the ballpark and that could be something that holds him
Speaker 3: back to some degree. But I think he's talented enough
Speaker 3: to overcome some of the ballpark concerns. He's been fantastic
Speaker 3: throughout his career, albeit it it's forty three games, thirty
Speaker 3: six starts. He's a three twenty eight Era one thirteen
Speaker 3: whip to go along with some of the stuff numbers.
Speaker 3: The hard hit rate only at thirty seven percent. Ino
Speaker 3: will describe it a lot more eloquently if you want
Speaker 3: to go back and listen to that show. But he,
Speaker 3: I think, is somebody that definitely has a chance to
Speaker 3: take that next step forward this season.
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue on the next step of this
Speaker 1: draft here, because after you took Pepio and Eflyn Sadoni Rafaela,
Speaker 1: then Netto Neveda, Justin Mason takes Horis Hilaire and as
Speaker 1: you mentioned Nick Lodolo. Now Lodolo is another one of
Speaker 1: my sleeper pitchers too, and I heard you were excited
Speaker 1: about taking him, So Mason to me, you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: those lefties take a little bit longer in the pressure cooker.
Speaker 1: But also you've got a situation where the health just
Speaker 1: wasn't there. If the health is there, you've got some
Speaker 1: good leadership there. Now with Francona there, you've got a
Speaker 1: really exciting young team here. It looks like you're investing
Speaker 1: in the Reds from this draft that we're doing here.
Speaker 2: I like the Reds, and so I did this series
Speaker 2: on TikTok earlier in the off season where I went
Speaker 2: through every single team that I felt like could surprise
Speaker 2: and make the playoffs. It didn't last year. And you
Speaker 2: know what I did. I covered every single team in
Speaker 2: the NL Central because I think every team in the
Speaker 2: NL Central has an actually shot at winning this division.
Speaker 2: Because the Brewers are taking a step back, the Cardinals
Speaker 2: are taking a step back. The Cubs got a little
Speaker 2: bit better, but not much better in the grand scheme
Speaker 2: of things. Like the Reds are a really interesting team.
Speaker 2: They need health. This team cannot stay healthy and they're
Speaker 2: already dealing with Spencer's ears bum shoulder issue right now.
Speaker 2: But if Lodolo can stay healthy, I think he is
Speaker 2: an elite starter. I really really like Nickelodolo, but the
Speaker 2: problem has been staying on the field on that mount
Speaker 2: So in a lead this size, where I know there's
Speaker 2: going to be replacement value for starting pitchers on the wire,
Speaker 2: I'm totally fine taking a guy like Nicolodolo in a
Speaker 2: fifteen teamer.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, No, that makes sense. It's a good cell
Speaker 1: job on Nicolodolo too. I like where your head's at, Tanner,
Speaker 1: howk goes next? Then Luke Weaver at eighteen oh three,
Speaker 1: Shane Boz, Christopher Morel to a Rico who's on the
Speaker 1: clock for his next pick t j Friedel eighteen oh six,
Speaker 1: then Bradley Rasmussen. I took Zach Gelloff because I needed
Speaker 1: somebody in the middle infield. It's an OBP league, so
Speaker 1: I don't care about his two eleven batting average, and
Speaker 1: I'll just take this deals in a little bit of
Speaker 1: the pop. Kelly Jansen goes next, Rounout Blanco, then Tyler O'Neil,
Speaker 1: Josh Young at the turn at nineteen oh one, Glaber
Speaker 1: tour Is at nineteen oh two, Parker Meadows at nineteen
Speaker 1: oh three. I took Bowden Francis, another pitcher I'm very
Speaker 1: high on. Maybe the Blue Jays are one of those
Speaker 1: teams that could make the playoffs this year. Blue Jays Athletics,
Speaker 1: I think very much in the mix this season. You
Speaker 1: Darvish goes next at nineteen oh five, then Ryan Weathers
Speaker 1: at nineteen oh six. Team seven, Mackenzie Gore, Joe Rico,
Speaker 1: Clark Schmidt. Now that's a picture. I think people are
Speaker 1: sleeping on pitches for a good team. Bullpen now has
Speaker 1: somebody solidified in the ninth inning role. If things break
Speaker 1: right for the Yankees, obviously, the upside is ninety five
Speaker 1: plus wins and Clark Schmidt. I mean, the quality start
Speaker 1: guy in league is seat of a wins league. Maybe
Speaker 1: we can have that discussion. But Schmid's a guy that's
Speaker 1: you know, been waiting in the wain for a while
Speaker 1: now and had a good, solid season, kind of very
Speaker 1: under the radar last year. Let's talk about Clark Smiitt
Speaker 1: in this pick. He just made.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people kind of forget about Clark Schmidt because he
Speaker 3: missed a lot of the year with injuries. But over
Speaker 3: his eighty five innings he had a two eighty five
Speaker 3: ERA one eighteen whip at eighteen percent strike up minus
Speaker 3: walk rate. He was very good. And now there was
Speaker 3: some concern throughout the offseason, kind of keeping the price down.
Speaker 3: I think of is he going to have a rotation spot?
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah between all the Marcus Stroman stuff. Luis
Speaker 3: Heal got shut down yesterday, It's going to be like
Speaker 3: four to six weeks for him. Clark Smith absolutely has
Speaker 3: a spot in this rotation. I think the skills are
Speaker 3: good enough for him to probably give me double digit
Speaker 3: wins go one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty innings, hopefully,
Speaker 3: because he won one hundred and sixty innings in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three, down to eighty five last year. I'm kind
Speaker 3: of hoping he can just get back to that one
Speaker 3: fifty one sixty range and I should be able to
Speaker 3: return a decent profit on him. Here at the point
Speaker 3: of the draft post pick two hundred, it feels too
Speaker 3: late for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. Gabriel Moreno goes next Michael Garcio than
Speaker 1: Kirby Yates, JJ Bladena, Justin Mason. Another guy that had
Speaker 1: a good season last year, Austin Wells So JJ Bleday,
Speaker 1: a player that was in that Marl system for a while,
Speaker 1: a player that I liked. It took a lot of
Speaker 1: crap basically from a lot of scouts, I feel like,
Speaker 1: and I always thought was going to end up being
Speaker 1: a decent major league player, and we started to see
Speaker 1: that version of him last year with the Athletics. I'm
Speaker 1: excited for this Athletics team. I'm excited for Rooker Butler.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for them to go be playing in Sacramento
Speaker 1: and get out of that trash ball park. What's the
Speaker 1: upside for Blade in twenty twenty five in your opinion.
Speaker 2: I think the upside is pretty massive. Moving from the
Speaker 2: Oakland Coliseum to that park. And here's the thing. I
Speaker 2: think on a better team, bla Day would not be
Speaker 2: playing full time. I think he'd be on a strong
Speaker 2: clvilaltoon he's not good against left handed pitching. But on
Speaker 2: the A's I think he may play every day. And
Speaker 2: while that may hurt the overall batting average and an
Speaker 2: on base percentage league, he walks at a double digit rate.
Speaker 2: He's got power. He's going to be moving to a
Speaker 2: park that's going to be much better for power. Like,
Speaker 2: could he be like a twenty eight to thirty homer
Speaker 2: guy with a kind of a decent average but a
Speaker 2: much better on base percentage? Yeah, I think he could.
Speaker 2: And like there's this is a team that is getting
Speaker 2: better around him. So I really like Bludey is kind
Speaker 2: of a late outfielder. They kind of take a gamble
Speaker 2: on all.
Speaker 1: Right, looking for some late possibilities there. Let's move to
Speaker 1: the next couple picks here in this draft, we're almost
Speaker 1: at the tail end. Here. You have Walker Buehler going
Speaker 1: next at twenty oh two, which also feels like a
Speaker 1: pretty good dart throw. Heli o'ramos, Sean Murphy Hazels Sozzardo
Speaker 1: di Jo Rico. If you didn't pull the trigger, I
Speaker 1: would I know you're up right now. Jeffrey springs up next.
Speaker 1: Then Mitch Keller Castro I took Brandon Woodriff at twenty
Speaker 1: oh nine. We're taking shots here if Woodriff works out.
Speaker 1: Nick Pollock just talked about it on the last show
Speaker 1: we did last week. If you missed it, go watch it,
Speaker 1: go listen. Why not take a shot on a guy
Speaker 1: who was looking like a front end starter And again,
Speaker 1: more strikeouts from Brandon Woodriff, Gavin Williams. That was what
Speaker 1: I was going back and forth beween those two guys.
Speaker 1: I ended up taking Woodriff because I'm sticking with the
Speaker 1: theme guys coming back from injury. What could go wrong?
Speaker 1: Starting pitchers? Nathaniel goes next, and then you have noan
Speaker 1: Aernado Rangers Suarez at twenty one oh one, Alex Burlson,
Speaker 1: Reese Olsen. I took my catcher. Finally, Colt Keith goes next,
Speaker 1: than Michael Waka Cutter, Crawford, jul Rico, Ivan Herrera, Lozardo
Speaker 1: and Herrero. Your last two picks. Lozardo seems like nothing
Speaker 1: but upside at this ADP the twentieth round. You take
Speaker 1: a shot on a guy two years ago when a
Speaker 1: terrific season, He's got more offense behind him, he's got
Speaker 1: a better defense around him. It feels like a no brainer.
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't work out, you cut him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You and Welsh talked to me intil hages Lozardo
Speaker 3: I had got into my head for some reason. He
Speaker 3: was a lot older than twenty seven. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I think he's just been around a long time, around
Speaker 3: a long time. Yeah, but I thought he was like
Speaker 3: thirty one or something, and at that point I'd be
Speaker 3: a little bit less interested. But at his age. He
Speaker 3: didn't pitch a ton last year, just sixty six innings.
Speaker 3: He's in a much better spot, no pressure on him
Speaker 3: as the number five starter in Philadelphia. I think it's
Speaker 3: a good bounce back opportunity. There's certainly at this point
Speaker 3: of the draft there are a few players with as
Speaker 3: much potential as Hazus Lozardo. Just a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, he put up what was pretty
Speaker 3: close to a cy Young worthy campaign, and he really
Speaker 3: looked like he was starting to break out. Over those
Speaker 3: couple of years, until the injury bug got him. So
Speaker 3: I think it's a good point to buy back in here, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So buying back in Lozardo again on the cheap
Speaker 1: makes sense to me. I definitely like it all right
Speaker 1: after you went ahead and did that, Ivanarreira, Christian Carnascio,
Speaker 1: strand A. J. Puck Merril, Kelly Kumar Rocker, Justin Mason,
Speaker 1: Max Scherzer. So two risky pitchers against late in the draft.
Speaker 1: We're taking shots here. You want to talk about innings concerns.
Speaker 1: I have them about Kamara Rocker. I think Rockers should
Speaker 1: be turned into a closer. Personally, I see a lot
Speaker 1: of Lease Smith and him Mason's that's my evaluation of him.
Speaker 1: What I watch, he writes me a lot of Lee myth.
Speaker 1: It's just big fastball coming at you, intimidating presence on
Speaker 1: the mount of Mex sus Er. I mean, what do
Speaker 1: you want to set the over under seventeen and a
Speaker 1: half starts? What do you want to take there?
Speaker 2: I probably take the under there. But he looks healthy
Speaker 2: right now, looks good in his first Springs start. Kamaracker
Speaker 2: looked great in his first spring story. But these are
Speaker 2: guys at the back end of your rowster that you're
Speaker 2: gonna drop that you're going to stream in and out.
Speaker 2: So take some upside, you know, gamble see if it works.
Speaker 2: If doesn't, you move on really really quickly.
Speaker 1: Okay, So gambling time here, that's what we're doing in
Speaker 1: the draft. Cedric Mullens goes next. Who you say is
Speaker 1: your guy yet you passed on him. I'm just putting
Speaker 1: that out there. Tyler Fitzgerald, Jordan Romano. I was trying
Speaker 1: to snag him later, but it's okay. Francis qualifies at
Speaker 1: ourp so I'm just gonna start him there. See what
Speaker 1: I did. I'm just gonna just play the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. Jock Peterson, that goes next
Speaker 1: to Joe Ricos on the clock, Guriel Robless, Joey Ortiz.
Speaker 1: I took Cronin Worth for a bench bat here, Brandon Donovan,
Speaker 1: Ryan Presley, Connor Wong to finish the twenty second round
Speaker 1: to begin the twenty third, Ben Joyce, Ryan McMahon, Justin Martinez.
Speaker 1: I took Clay Holmes another shot here. I keep talking
Speaker 1: about him being like that conversion of Derek Lowe years ago,
Speaker 1: but I think Holmes has some more strikeout ability extreme
Speaker 1: ground ball pitcher as I've done a good job with Manaiyah,
Speaker 1: a good job with sever Maybe Clay Holmes is that
Speaker 1: next reclamation project. Ree Detmer's Brady Singer another late pitcher
Speaker 1: that I really like. I think he's a solid, like
Speaker 1: bench starter, two start week guy. I like Brady Singer,
Speaker 1: Matt Shaw, and then Joe Rico takes David Festa, So
Speaker 1: Peterson and Festa two really good picks here. Festa guy.
Speaker 1: He might not start the year in the rotation, but
Speaker 1: I like what I saw from Festa. Those first two
Speaker 1: starts were a disaster. After that, things looked much better
Speaker 1: for him, so let's discuss him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have been all in on David Festa. I
Speaker 3: think that there's a good chance he doesn't start in
Speaker 3: the rotation. Like you said, I just don't think Simeon Woods,
Speaker 3: Richardson and Chris Paddock should keep him out for very long.
Speaker 3: Paddock has been a disaster for a while. Simmy Wood,
Speaker 3: Woods Richardson say that ten times Fast was a bit
Speaker 3: of a troubling guy last season from a fantasy point
Speaker 3: of view, like he was fine, but he's also not
Speaker 3: good enough that you'd want to start him in a
Speaker 3: lot of shallower leagues. I think Festa's talent is probably,
Speaker 3: you know, third or fourth best on that staff, and
Speaker 3: I think that by the time we're talking about mid May,
Speaker 3: he's going to be in that rotation. Whether it's due
Speaker 3: to an injury, whether it's due to Paddock falling on
Speaker 3: his face, I think the Fest that does have that
Speaker 3: job soon than later.
Speaker 2: The shade, the shade that Joe just through that. Ever,
Speaker 2: having actually say Bailey Ober's name is insane, right, because
Speaker 2: saying that David fest is the third or fourth best
Speaker 2: starter is pretty much just saying, oh, David Fest is
Speaker 2: better than Bailey Over. Which don't get me wrong, I
Speaker 2: love David Festa. I think he should be in this rotation.
Speaker 2: I don't know that he's going to be, like Joe mentioned.
Speaker 2: I think there's a chance that he starts the year
Speaker 2: in the minors because of paying Chris Paddock and for
Speaker 2: some reason they have a love affair with Simeon wis Richardson.
Speaker 2: But Bailey Over is still better than David Festa. Let's
Speaker 2: just stop with this nonsense.
Speaker 3: He is he is better than David Festa. He's fourth,
Speaker 3: all right, I'm just I'm just spewing narratives at this point.
Speaker 3: But blame it on Eno. Eo got into my head
Speaker 3: last week about Bailey Over.
Speaker 2: I love you. Nobody loves you know more than me.
Speaker 2: I owe partially owe my career in this industry to EEno, Sarah,
Speaker 2: but you know is wrong on Billy Over. You know
Speaker 2: he's insane on Bai. I have Billy Over as a
Speaker 2: top twenty pitcher this year, no questions asked. You have
Speaker 2: to remember if you take out that first start where
Speaker 2: he just was terrible, he was fantastic the rest of
Speaker 2: the way. Like, I think Billyover is gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: He's one of my one of my undervalue guys all year.
Speaker 1: It's funny because you mentioned heal earlier, Joe, when you
Speaker 1: were talking about the Yankee stuff too. He's my number
Speaker 1: one fade this year. You know, it's it's funny, how
Speaker 1: like some of these things are already starting to look
Speaker 1: like they're true and we haven't even started the season
Speaker 1: or anything. They want to put too much in the spring,
Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes you know, these red flags are
Speaker 1: there for a reason, and the green flags are there
Speaker 1: for a reason. To pay attention to after Festa, Connor Norby,
Speaker 1: Nester Cortez, Estevez, you took Springer and Hoskins at the end.
Speaker 1: Here Mace Saganu goes next, Cabaljeriro Severino, last round nowt
Speaker 1: bar Bush, Grant Holmes, Bubba Chandler, Liam Hendrix to me.
Speaker 1: So hopefully he's a closer for the Red Sox. If not,
Speaker 1: I'll just pick up chat and A'll give Chris Bassett,
Speaker 1: Eric Vetti and Tario Estrada nice finish their nice last pick.
Speaker 1: So the winner of the draft was Team two, but
Speaker 1: the best of the three of us was me, Joey
Speaker 1: p coming in at third and eighty seven a B
Speaker 1: plus not so bad. Kelly Kirby the Wonky Penguin liked
Speaker 1: my draft. I've been working so hard for Kelly and
Speaker 1: her to respect me for years now, so the fact
Speaker 1: that this happened makes me really excited. In fact, I'm
Speaker 1: going to screenshot this as I'm talking, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to send it to her in our slack channel. So
Speaker 1: because I'm very excited about that that just happened. Joe
Speaker 1: Alrico number five, Justin Mason respectable at number six. Here's
Speaker 1: my favorite part is that Team nine the team that
Speaker 1: Justin Mason loved the most finished dead last Mason, what
Speaker 1: does that say about your evaluation process?
Speaker 2: Oh no, they fell apart after I talked trash at
Speaker 2: that spot when they took Spencer Schwellenbach in the ninth round.
Speaker 2: They just completely fell apart. Boba, Schet Christian. You know
Speaker 2: a guy in Buschett who I don't even know who
Speaker 2: what he is at this point. Kristen Yell, it's got
Speaker 2: a back issue. Tanner Scott is he the closer? I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's the closer. Kyle Finnegan, like really
Speaker 2: really shaky skills in the second half. Louis heel is injured.
Speaker 2: Like they just completely bombed the second half of that draft.
Speaker 2: I got in Team nine's head, that is.
Speaker 1: Where you go. You got in his kitchen. H thumbs
Speaker 1: up for me. Look at this group Scott Bogman, Andy Barn,
Speaker 1: Scott Pianowski and Joe Pi's appeal Like by draft. Who
Speaker 1: did not like my draft? Mike Maher who never likes me,
Speaker 1: So I mean it makes yeah, yeah, I mean, you
Speaker 1: know I like him, he doesn't like me. Whatever. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Mike and I love each other. This
Speaker 1: is what we do on the program. All right, let's
Speaker 1: run through your team. Justin Mason, Austin Wells, Vlad Guerrero,
Speaker 1: Matt McLean, Lindor Machano, Munsey, Bryce Terrang, then the outfield
Speaker 1: Ta Oscar, Dylan Cruz, Cowser, Springer, Solaire, the pitching staff
Speaker 1: Logan Webb, Bailey, Ober the aforementioned many times, Zach Gallon,
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray, Spencer, Arighedti Lodolo, Max Scherzer, and then you
Speaker 1: had class A and Das Boy. That's a pretty good
Speaker 1: tandem there, believers in a head to head format, Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Bodet and Kumar Rocker on the bench. Mason, this feels
Speaker 1: like a very Mason team. What do you feel like
Speaker 1: at the end of it all.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie. I hate this team.
Speaker 2: I don't think I did for I had a strategy
Speaker 2: coming in, and this is what happens when you don't
Speaker 2: look at your rules and realize that you have to
Speaker 2: draft starting pictures. Because my plan going into the draft
Speaker 2: was I was gonna let you guys draft all starters.
Speaker 2: I was gonna punt quality starts and strikeouts, and I
Speaker 2: was just gonna load up anything else. And then about
Speaker 2: seven rounds into the draft, I started to realize, oh no,
Speaker 2: there's actual starting pictures slots I have to actually fill,
Speaker 2: and that just kind of changed the complete outlook of
Speaker 2: my team. I wouldn't have taken the two clorses as
Speaker 2: early as I did. I would I would have prioritized
Speaker 2: at least an elite starting pitcher, which I didn't do
Speaker 2: in this draft. So yeah, know your rules number one
Speaker 2: rule of fantasy.
Speaker 1: In all fairness, though you did come in late the game. Here,
Speaker 1: you're pinch hitting for the Welsh, which we appreciate a
Speaker 1: great deal.
Speaker 2: This is what monk drafts for, right like, this is
Speaker 2: what mock drafts are.
Speaker 1: Four And if you didn't like this team, you could
Speaker 1: restart the whole thing. You could do it again. You
Speaker 1: could back out the picks, which is beautiful, and then
Speaker 1: continue to make the pitchds the best.
Speaker 2: Do another hour, mon that's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not after this meeting. I got at
Speaker 1: one o'clock. I got nothing else going on, So why not.
Speaker 1: Let's let's do that, Joe Rico. Let's run through your
Speaker 1: team real quick. Here as we look at the evaluation
Speaker 1: process and the expert opinions Joe, Rico, Ivan Herrera, Brennan
Speaker 1: law Stott Swanson, Bregman, Morele India. I gotta be honest
Speaker 1: with you, Joe, This infield doesn't jump off the page
Speaker 1: to me. Outfield Kyle Tucker, Alvarez, Reynolds, Suzuki a Rosaina
Speaker 1: much better there. The pitching staff impeccable Crochet, Kirby Lopez,
Speaker 1: Pepio then Eflyn Schmidt, Lozardo, Mason Miller, Doran Than Neuke Bar,
Speaker 1: Jock Peterson, Festa. So pitching is tremendous, Joe. You think
Speaker 1: if you had to do it again, maybe you would
Speaker 1: have hit a little bit more offense early, considering how
Speaker 1: the starting pitching fell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with those Mason Miller and Pablo Lopez picks, I
Speaker 3: probably should have gone something like maybe tay Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 3: and something else, maybe cam an Arrow or something like.
Speaker 3: I did kind of ignore the infield a little bit
Speaker 3: too much. The offense is especially if you look at
Speaker 3: the projections here. One of the best things about doing
Speaker 3: these drafts is that updates in real time and shows
Speaker 3: you how you projected. My pitching stats are all projected
Speaker 3: for the most part in the top five and then
Speaker 3: a lot of the hitting stats tenth, eleven, seventh, So
Speaker 3: I definitely left the offense a little bit too late,
Speaker 3: especially in the infield. But I think the pitching is strong.
Speaker 3: I don't have to worry about streaming pitching as much
Speaker 3: for this team. I can worry about using fab or
Speaker 3: waiver priority on some of those guys that pop in
Speaker 3: April on the offensive side. So I like the team overall.
Speaker 3: I think it would be a team I'd be happy
Speaker 3: to play out the season with.
Speaker 1: All right, my team here, Jeffer is a catcher than
Speaker 1: Josh nail Or Katl, Marte Correa, and how I know,
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman, Rangifo, Zach Geloff, Van Juan Soto, James Wood,
Speaker 1: Brent Rooker, Lawrence Butler, Mike Trout. This is if you're
Speaker 1: not first, your last team right here and get there
Speaker 1: right now. I mean Correa and Trout. What a kind
Speaker 1: of death wish do I have with this squad? But
Speaker 1: it still has Won Soto and James Wood on it.
Speaker 1: So I feel like I got some pieces here and
Speaker 1: Marte as well. The pitching staff Chris sal Stan McClanahan,
Speaker 1: Brian Wu, Sandy Alcntra Seth Lugo, Eovaldi, Brandon Woodriff again
Speaker 1: took some shots there, Fairbanks, Bouton Francis. I also got
Speaker 1: relievers in Clay Holmes and Hendrix. So my strategy here
Speaker 1: is just load up on starts with guys that qualify
Speaker 1: at RP, which is a fun way to dupe the system.
Speaker 1: I can punt saves, wait for saves. But again, if
Speaker 1: I've got that second arpeace spot, that's mandatory. I don't
Speaker 1: have to have a reliever. It can be a starter
Speaker 1: who's also a reliever, and I can get my quality starts,
Speaker 1: more strikeouts, more innings there for those guys too, So
Speaker 1: different approaches here for all three of us. What's your favorite?
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