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Speaker 1: We are joined by the closer, Chris. Chris, What's top?
Speaker 1: What's top? I'm more energetic today, sounds left. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Um, you know, I'm feeling good. I
Speaker 1: have a drift tonight too. I think Draft night too.
Speaker 1: It's really good. I'm not sure. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means. I haven't looked I mean, like five leagues,
Speaker 1: and I don't know when the drift up it there
Speaker 1: all this week. We got one Sunday, I know that.
Speaker 1: The league, Yeah, I think I do have one. No,
Speaker 1: I have one Thursday, Yeah, Thursday, Sunday, one Sunday Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think I'm good night. I got Thursday,
Speaker 1: Saturday auction, Sunday draft is like then the league, we
Speaker 1: don't even talk about that. Yeah, in the morning, two
Speaker 1: games in we got two games back to back. It's
Speaker 1: five thirty tomorrow, five thirty on Thursday as well, will
Speaker 1: you wake up earlier than normal? Just watch baseball? Not
Speaker 1: even that I need my sleep, Greg, And you know
Speaker 1: I'm not a morning not a morning guy. Yeah, that happened.
Speaker 1: That's a little it. Maybe if it was a it
Speaker 1: was a Yankee game, I might do that. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: I mean, do I have to wake up at five
Speaker 1: thirty to watch Mike fires verse two? First? I think
Speaker 1: this is you know what I mean. I think there's
Speaker 1: a chance, like thek there's a chance like so I
Speaker 1: give myself like an actually fifteen minutes to kind of
Speaker 1: like mess around in the morning time. Do you actually
Speaker 1: wake up six so, I mean, you can see a
Speaker 1: good chunk of that game if you want to yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm probably like, don't really hanging like my benefits fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna get right up, go in the shower,
Speaker 1: come out, and then turn on the game. That's when
Speaker 1: I wake up. So maybe I can catch you. I
Speaker 1: catch some of it. Yeah, you can watching the train anyway.
Speaker 1: Yea and a Lott service might get frustrating. We're not
Speaker 1: like watching for anything specific, are you? Do you have
Speaker 1: anybody in these on these teams? I mean yeah, I
Speaker 1: got Chris Davis and the best bowligue with Frank. I
Speaker 1: have had some players all right there. I love in
Speaker 1: the main event. So I'm hoping to get off to
Speaker 1: a nice maybe maybe you will. You will turn it
Speaker 1: on you wake up tomorrow morning, Gordon Steals. I mean
Speaker 1: quite honestly, I'd rather watch the pitching matchup between Walker
Speaker 1: Bueller and Shane By but tonight. I think that's more
Speaker 1: that's said. You guys are amazing. You guys are amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, Frank, let's start at the catcher position where
Speaker 1: things have kind of settled. Things are what they are.
Speaker 1: Who's your catcher target going forward this week? This last
Speaker 1: draft week, there are three main targets with a few
Speaker 1: backup options as well. And Wilson Ramos obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of us very excited about the Mets line up. You know,
Speaker 1: he was. He had the highest batting average among catchers
Speaker 1: last year. He hit over three hundred. He was the
Speaker 1: only catcher do that qualified catchers. So the batting average
Speaker 1: is gonna be there. He's gonna hit in the middle
Speaker 1: of this line up. I'm very excited about Wilson ron
Speaker 1: Most I know, a bad ball profile. He has a
Speaker 1: lot of balls in the ground, but he's consistently had
Speaker 1: a home run to flatball ratio over right around, so
Speaker 1: I trusted it will be there again. Hit three hundred
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen home runs and that range. I think the
Speaker 1: counting sets will be pretty good as well. Done. Grandal
Speaker 1: another target of mine for obvious reasons. Gonna play every
Speaker 1: single day, great hitters ballpark in Miller Park. Gonna be
Speaker 1: in the middle of a great lineup as well. And
Speaker 1: I think he's good for either format, rode or points
Speaker 1: leagues because he has good discipline in terms of walk grade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's always double digit walk grades. You know he's gonna hit,
Speaker 1: you know, close to twenty five runs, maybe even exceed
Speaker 1: five runs. Batting average won't be great. It always strikes
Speaker 1: out a decent amount um so probably like a hitter.
Speaker 1: That's fine though, because he's a catcher, you know, so
Speaker 1: Wilson Ramo's grandal and then Yadi your Molina every year,
Speaker 1: no one wants Yadi here Molina. This gets the job done, steady, Eddie.
Speaker 1: Not gonna hurt your batting average to sixty two two
Speaker 1: seventy hitter, I'm side to be even better than that.
Speaker 1: Fifteen home runs, counting status are counting, stats are solid.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna hurt you anywhere. So those are my
Speaker 1: three main targets. And then you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: just worth mentioning. If I miss out on those guys,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna wait and then probably end up with
Speaker 1: Danny Jansen or Willington Castillo if I play in a
Speaker 1: one catcher league, to catcher leagues, Francisco Mihia as a
Speaker 1: second catcher, I like Almaravayez as a second catcher as well.
Speaker 1: And then Carson Kelly has ended up in a few places.
Speaker 1: So those are my main catcher targ for me. Um.
Speaker 1: I like to tier where you are with Ramos, with Molina,
Speaker 1: with YASMANI Grandel. Those are the guys I want, but
Speaker 1: I'm not going to reach for any of them. Ideally,
Speaker 1: will take the last one on the board. If I'm
Speaker 1: exactly what I did, If if I'm in the right spot,
Speaker 1: and if and if there happens to be a catcher
Speaker 1: run miss on all of them, I'm just gonna wait. Yes,
Speaker 1: the wait to the end and they can can drift Rancesco.
Speaker 1: I'm serious, exact. I think you know Trancisco and was
Speaker 1: on Modiquz team as a second hatcher this weekend. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I'll just wait. I'll draft like Franciscan be here and
Speaker 1: when he plays, will be happy when he doesn't whatever. Yea,
Speaker 1: it is worth mentioning. I like Danny Jansen regardless of
Speaker 1: format two because more or less of beef. I have
Speaker 1: him ranked one spot higher, and look, he's gonna play
Speaker 1: every single day. They traded away Rosells Martin. They're ready
Speaker 1: to hand over the keys to the starting catcher job
Speaker 1: to Danny Jansen. The walk grades have been very good
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues. You look at last year in
Speaker 1: Triple A twelve point two percent, the year before fourteen
Speaker 1: point one percent. Last year in thirty one games at
Speaker 1: a major league level nine and a half percent walk rate,
Speaker 1: So I think it could be a you know too,
Speaker 1: sixty two seventy hitter with twelve to fifteen home runs.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play most of the time. The thing about
Speaker 1: that is, I think Carson Kelly could do something kind
Speaker 1: of similar and he's going basically for free. So if
Speaker 1: you need if you play in a Roada league where
Speaker 1: you need two catchers, I think Carson Kelly is gonna
Speaker 1: play every single day, be like a two six he
Speaker 1: hit or with double digit home runs. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's necessararily gonna hurt you. And when when you need
Speaker 1: two catchers, that's what you need to find Greg. So
Speaker 1: it's really a catcher who's not gonna hurt you. And
Speaker 1: that was my thought with Mahia that I don't care
Speaker 1: how many games he plays, because when he plays, he's
Speaker 1: going to hit. Yeah. Well no. But here's the thing though,
Speaker 1: with Kelly, I don't know, I like me here a
Speaker 1: little better, like I feel like me. He is gonna
Speaker 1: get involved a lot because he was bad, right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Kelly don't have to have Carson Kelly. Kelly's good though
Speaker 1: he don't have that bad. I think that Mahia could
Speaker 1: potentially have. And the other thing what Kelly is you
Speaker 1: got him as a righty, he got a villa on
Speaker 1: the Besh's a lefty. He's gonna get playing. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean all backup catchers get played. Yeah, but there's
Speaker 1: like three He's there three catchers, Murphy. There, there's three guys.
Speaker 1: There's a lot. Don't really worry much about it. I
Speaker 1: mean he fell off the face of the earth last year.
Speaker 1: He was the flavor of the month if they traded
Speaker 1: Gulchman away, and a big part of that was getting
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly. He was supposed to be the air apparent
Speaker 1: satire Molina never really got the opportunity to play in St. Louis.
Speaker 1: Obviously they got back Luke Weaver, but I think getting
Speaker 1: back Carson Kelly was a big piece of that trade.
Speaker 1: I personally think that they're gonna let him play most
Speaker 1: of the time. Like if they play six games in
Speaker 1: a week, he'll play four to five games. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play most of You have him as like
Speaker 1: you know, deep leagues, and you know I don't want it,
Speaker 1: Like if I play in one catchually I don't want
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly only catcher, No, no, no, I mean Jansen
Speaker 1: is a good one. I think he's a top nine catcher,
Speaker 1: ranked eight. So the mahea, Greg, you're you've been the
Speaker 1: Maha guy. How many times per week do you think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play three? A backup catcher, backup catcher, hedges,
Speaker 1: a great defensive catcher. That's the problem. That's the way,
Speaker 1: because I want to like me here, I think everyone
Speaker 1: wants to like Maha Padres. You don't get to say
Speaker 1: this many times in your lifetime. They have a wealth
Speaker 1: of riches they right now. I mean between their outges
Speaker 1: is one of those riches though, great defensive catch power,
Speaker 1: a little power for power, and they don't really they
Speaker 1: don't really need him to do much in terms of
Speaker 1: adding because the rest of their lineup, it is all
Speaker 1: of a sudden very good, Greg. Yeah, So, I mean
Speaker 1: the Padres are gonna have a ton of prospects. They
Speaker 1: have a wealth of riches in their outfield and the
Speaker 1: cashier pizzers. That's why I wouldn't be worried about Machado either,
Speaker 1: because I think he'll be just fun. I don't think
Speaker 1: you should have to worry because I had a friend
Speaker 1: tell me, I don't really like Machado that much because
Speaker 1: so much is in San Diego. Now, I said, that's
Speaker 1: not that big of a deal. Maybe he loses a
Speaker 1: couple of homes, gain a couple of doubles in the process,
Speaker 1: and he's got guys around, and then they could produce
Speaker 1: with and still get counting sets. People are worried about
Speaker 1: Peco because it used to be this big pictures. They
Speaker 1: moved the defences in and it's it's it's come a
Speaker 1: little bit closer to being neutral right now. And but
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you about Machado. I saw over
Speaker 1: the weekend in one of these high stakes draft he
Speaker 1: went in the middle of the third round. You can't
Speaker 1: have teen team leads. I don't care. He's elite around Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't agree with let's go to let's me on
Speaker 1: a first base, right, some of our first base targets
Speaker 1: that we're looking at this week four hour draft. For
Speaker 1: me tonight, I've been all over this Daniel Murphy train.
Speaker 1: Obviously in points leagues. I'm always gonna like Carlos Antana,
Speaker 1: Josian Bray, you that tire and Matt Olsen that tears
Speaker 1: kind of where I want to live. Yeah, me too, Greg,
Speaker 1: And that's why I don't think I'm gonna end up
Speaker 1: with a lot of shares of Freddie Freeman or Golschman.
Speaker 1: And it's not because they're bad players. I think they're fine.
Speaker 1: I actually have Freddie Freeman ranked is my my top
Speaker 1: first baseman. I still think that he's gonna have like
Speaker 1: he has the capability to have a season where he
Speaker 1: goes over three hundred, where he hits thirty to thirty
Speaker 1: five homers and over a hundred RBIs. It hasn't happened
Speaker 1: altogether yet, but I think Freddie Freeman is capable of
Speaker 1: all that. So I am ranked is my first first baseman.
Speaker 1: But again, like you, I've been living in that middle tier,
Speaker 1: so I haven't really wound up with a lot of
Speaker 1: shares of these guys. I love a bray you. I
Speaker 1: really don't think he's that much different than Anthony Rizzo,
Speaker 1: and he's going, you know, fifty sixty picks later than
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo. Um. I like Matt Olsen at too. I've also,
Speaker 1: you know, Hazew's aguilar has grown on me a little
Speaker 1: bit for points leagues though, Greg Carlo Santana has been
Speaker 1: a top ten first baseman each of the past five years,
Speaker 1: and in points leagues. He's not drafted that way. No,
Speaker 1: he's he's a great value. Yeah he is. I agree
Speaker 1: with that. But the thing with Santana is just he's
Speaker 1: basically a compiler. He's gonna play very reliable for very
Speaker 1: boring to fifty batting average and twenty five home runs.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get more mediocre, more met than that. Whatever's
Speaker 1: gonna be. But he walked more than he strikes out.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit doubles too, So I mean he's always great, solid,
Speaker 1: but you can get him late because like you said,
Speaker 1: he's boring. Who's who? Who are your main first base targets? Well,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman obviously is on my team, but I kept him,
Speaker 1: so that's different. You know, a third round keeper. I
Speaker 1: think that's a good value there because you know he
Speaker 1: could be the best. And quite frankly, he hasn't done
Speaker 1: anything in his career to say otherwise except get hurt,
Speaker 1: and that's when people kind of jumped off dealing with
Speaker 1: the risk issue. Right years ago. He played a hundred
Speaker 1: sixty two games last year. Last year he did exactly
Speaker 1: why he's still an elite player and he could even
Speaker 1: do better. So the floor is absolutely one of the
Speaker 1: best in the league. When it comes to Freddie Freeman
Speaker 1: gold Schmid, these guys like you said you don't want
Speaker 1: to pay for him. I get it because you guys
Speaker 1: probably think the first base is very deep and you
Speaker 1: don't need to pay up at first base when you
Speaker 1: can pay up at all the positions that aren't deep. Right,
Speaker 1: So I do like Rizzle. I do think Rizzle deserves
Speaker 1: to be at the head of Um. Who are you
Speaker 1: saying reasons my third first basement? Yeah, I have a
Speaker 1: breave as my eight. It's definitely a difference. Were you
Speaker 1: saying the value you like? You like getting him? You
Speaker 1: know fifty sixty right, But the only difference there is
Speaker 1: that you know Brad was really never gonna walk. Rizzle
Speaker 1: walks a lot. That's the big difference. Rodo Um, Jose,
Speaker 1: Brad is gonna have a better batting average. I think
Speaker 1: the home runs will be similar, Uh, the RBIs will
Speaker 1: be similar, maybe an advantage of of runs to Anthony
Speaker 1: Rizzo because the Cubs line up is a little bit better. Uh,
Speaker 1: And he'll give you five stolen bases where a brave
Speaker 1: you will give you nothing. Those are the biggest differences.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's worth of fifty fifty spot difference
Speaker 1: in the draft. Probably add also consistency in there, because
Speaker 1: Rizzo has been so consistent, so content every year. Anthony
Speaker 1: Rizzo slow starter. Man. You know, if you don't draft
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, just trade for him in May or or
Speaker 1: June because he sucks in the first couple of months.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because it's cold in Chicago.
Speaker 1: The ball doesn't fly as well in the early months
Speaker 1: when when it's that cold and the wind is blowing
Speaker 1: in regularly. But for whatever reason the past couple of seasons,
Speaker 1: because I've owned him each of the past two years
Speaker 1: in roto early on, he sucks just like you know
Speaker 1: who used to be like that, always started real slow. Um.
Speaker 1: But my target, you guys know, Josh Bell is one
Speaker 1: of my targets. Um. It's a corner in fielder more
Speaker 1: than a first base. Yeah. I wouldn't want him as
Speaker 1: my starting first baseman. Uh, you know, but I'd be
Speaker 1: okay with like going every other position and saying, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'll wait for Josh Bell and he'll be
Speaker 1: my worst player on my team, but it'll be my
Speaker 1: first baseman. I'm actually okay with that. I'm not confident
Speaker 1: in him, but you know that's me, Joey Gallow. I'm
Speaker 1: not on I'll tell you that. Even though even though
Speaker 1: his's Italian, even though you know he's been consistent with
Speaker 1: the homes, I just worry about that average killing his
Speaker 1: playing time. Uh. And then you have one of the
Speaker 1: guy that I really like later as a target that
Speaker 1: you could get as a backup, even is justin Smoke.
Speaker 1: I think Smoke's gonna have a pretty big bounce back year,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of power. So I think those
Speaker 1: are probably the guys. Otherwise, you know, I'm in with
Speaker 1: all those guys in that those first and second tiers.
Speaker 1: And what I'm saying honorable mention for Luke Boit Greggy,
Speaker 1: just because I've been on record saying it wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me if he's this. Here's haze battball profile reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of Haze. Hits the ball extremely hard, he
Speaker 1: can go the opposite way. He's built perfectly for Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1: People might worry about playing time, but I mean he's
Speaker 1: done everything he has to do to the spring to
Speaker 1: win the job over. I think he's gonna be the
Speaker 1: Yankees every day first baseman and obviously playing in that ballpark,
Speaker 1: in that lineup. I mean, there's a lot of upside
Speaker 1: to me. He's like in the purgatory between what I
Speaker 1: want to be my starting first basement and my corner infielder,
Speaker 1: because he's he's a fallback option as a starting first baseman.
Speaker 1: I deally, I probably don't want him as my starting
Speaker 1: first baseman, but I would love to have him as
Speaker 1: my corner infielder. Could He's right in the middle of
Speaker 1: both of those, right, And you know, you could do
Speaker 1: a kid in my drifted this drifted void Bird back
Speaker 1: to back in the fourteen and fifteen. So you locked
Speaker 1: up New York Yankees first basement. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: handcuffing your your first basement. It's like, I mean it
Speaker 1: could work. I mean, people want exposure to the Yankees lineup.
Speaker 1: It's not the craziest thing. Wait and bird and then
Speaker 1: he went Alonso after that interesting all all New York
Speaker 1: first baseman. He took all the New Yorkers, all the
Speaker 1: New York's, Yeah, cool with it. Greg looks like he's
Speaker 1: just I just don't not doing the like the Luke
Speaker 1: Void thing. I think ultimately, I find myself right caught
Speaker 1: a call in the middle because I don't want to
Speaker 1: pay up at the corner in field spot as we saw.
Speaker 1: But he's, like you said, around the twelfth right, first basement,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna cost me too quarter spot exactly. He
Speaker 1: cost me too much, me a quarter infielder, and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna want to necessarily way to round for him
Speaker 1: to be my first basement. Potentially, I agree you don't
Speaker 1: target him. I wouldn't like be like, oh I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for Void. I'm just not gonna take any first baseman,
Speaker 1: so I could get Void right, do that exactly? Vo.
Speaker 1: It's ADP from the weekend was that one seventy eight
Speaker 1: some hitters who went just behind him ramon Loriano's he's
Speaker 1: our Hernandez Domingo Santana. Greg, would you rather have Luke
Speaker 1: Void or Domingo Santana all things equal right now, Domingo
Speaker 1: Domingo close. I like Domingo. I would still playing time
Speaker 1: and series. Lov'm sorry with the biggactly. I mean, are
Speaker 1: you really a concern about why this is what if, Gregg,
Speaker 1: What if because of Aaron Higgs now starting this season
Speaker 1: on the team, starring the season on the I L
Speaker 1: alls and Gregg Bird plays gets hot? I would Gregg
Speaker 1: Bird play, though I still don't think he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: know I'm in the LEA. I have no idea I'm
Speaker 1: more than certain its head categories. Greg's team. All right,
Speaker 1: I'll look right here, one catch at one first base second.
Speaker 1: It's definitely had categories, utility, some weird categories here. I'm
Speaker 1: not a categories guys, basically points for you, dude, it's
Speaker 1: extra base hits is a category, one category by itself. Yes,
Speaker 1: a Martinez that we make this five by five rather
Speaker 1: than I think it's like seven by seven. I don't
Speaker 1: like this. I don't like this. You gotta talk to Steve.
Speaker 1: I'm not expressing his concerns here. What is this? Runs
Speaker 1: hits homes home A right, we get rid of hits.
Speaker 1: It doesn't need to be a category. Dude. Instead of hits,
Speaker 1: he's gotta put doubles, tripping average and opus at Frank,
Speaker 1: can you handle this place? Yeah? We'll talk to Steve tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I think Steve in the chatt and he's watching it
Speaker 1: right now, is he? Yeah? Steve? What are we doing?
Speaker 1: What we Alright, we're gonna get rid of hits category
Speaker 1: and extra base hits. I'm not opposed to making it
Speaker 1: a six by six and adding o BP though as
Speaker 1: an extra category. I don't need the ad average. Ops,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hang average and ops. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I'm fine. I like quality starts. You know that. Let's
Speaker 1: hits and extra base hits as a category. Stupid, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there shouldn't be horror. Oh it's interesting is holdly? We
Speaker 1: had holds here? Okay? All right? Are winds? Save strikeouts?
Speaker 1: Hold e r a whip? That's fine, whatever, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Seven by seven eight, it's eight by seven right now, right?
Speaker 1: Eight by seven? Right? So let's eliminate two hitting categories. One.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get rid of hold. Why don't we make
Speaker 1: it saves plus holds. Let's do that, steve it does
Speaker 1: plus holds. Quality starts will also be a category. Will
Speaker 1: make it a six by six category. Totally agree, yes,
Speaker 1: and then get it to hits. But don't get rid
Speaker 1: of ector extra a base hits you just did. Then
Speaker 1: what are you gonna have? You're just gonna have home runs? Right?
Speaker 1: What about singles, doubles and triples? I mean that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Who cares? Because if your players players hit doubles and
Speaker 1: they're more likely to score runs and they're more likely
Speaker 1: to drive in rbs, you get you get those other categories.
Speaker 1: Need that, okay, and plus it's gonna help your your Yeah,
Speaker 1: your ops will be higher because you hit a double exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, Steve, you hear that no hits, no ops,
Speaker 1: no holes or no hits, no extra base hits, getting
Speaker 1: rid of those. We're getting rid of the holes category.
Speaker 1: We're making it saves plus hole done, Steve. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: how do we choose if people want to be in here?
Speaker 1: What what do you say? He said, I'm here. Huh,
Speaker 1: we'll vote on this tomorrow. We just override. We just
Speaker 1: did we just do we fill us vetoed it's over
Speaker 1: But Greg, you're very big on democracy obviously and being
Speaker 1: democratic here, and this doesn't seem very democratic. You can't
Speaker 1: democratic sports. No, Yeah, I know that. Dane was out
Speaker 1: on the he was like, let's eliminate some of these categories.
Speaker 1: I got an email from I just I just saw
Speaker 1: the categories. I'm not but Greg, you said that there's
Speaker 1: an open spot, and now there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that want to jump in. Who's first? A lot of
Speaker 1: people I don't know when you not. Not A lot
Speaker 1: of people were first. One person was first, ron c said,
Speaker 1: Roy can get another ron cafferty. Now. Then once again,
Speaker 1: it was basically a tie between Big Timer and ron C.
Speaker 1: I'll join was from Big tim or first, actually all right,
Speaker 1: and then ron C was second, count me in and
Speaker 1: then our guy d j Osborne who show says he'll
Speaker 1: join as well, So he got three guys. Should I
Speaker 1: there in the mix? Should I ask a trivia question?
Speaker 1: To design it? Mendo Bruce also a long time listening.
Speaker 1: A lot of people, A lot of people just ask
Speaker 1: trivi question, ask a tribute question. I want to find
Speaker 1: a triviy question. You're gonna fire up a trivia question.
Speaker 1: First person to call in with the answer, Okay, not
Speaker 1: not on the YouTube channel. Well I got a good
Speaker 1: trivia question. Actually do you want to ask you want
Speaker 1: to ask the question? Then? Not right now, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna find out. Make sure that's correct, Make sure that's correct.
Speaker 1: That's what I remember. Something that just gotta chick a question.
Speaker 1: Venture will give the question out in a few moments
Speaker 1: while we wait. Second Base targets Frank before. I think
Speaker 1: the second base is just completely loaded this year. I
Speaker 1: think we should mention when we were running through First
Speaker 1: Base Crag, we did get a update on Matt Carpenter,
Speaker 1: which we haven't talked about ye and He's already dealing
Speaker 1: with a back injurger, guys, and this is something that
Speaker 1: has plagued mac Carminter for years now. Last year it
Speaker 1: seemed like he was bothered by early on in season,
Speaker 1: still wound up hitting thirty six home runs. So take
Speaker 1: this news however you will. He's dealing with the backing
Speaker 1: pre people will not play in spring training games again
Speaker 1: until Friday. They're holding him out. I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 1: This worries me. He hasn't really been an active target
Speaker 1: of mine because him and Olson are kind of going
Speaker 1: in the same range. Maybe he might even be going
Speaker 1: ahead of Olson, and I think he can. I think
Speaker 1: Olsen can do what Carboner is being ascid to do
Speaker 1: right now, to to fifty and thirty five home runs.
Speaker 1: I think Madelson could do that. So just give me
Speaker 1: the discount of Madelson anyway. That's the way I've been leaning.
Speaker 1: But this news about Carpenter definitely worries me. Say, I'm
Speaker 1: worried it's spilled the spring. They're being safe with him,
Speaker 1: guy who's always kind of dealt with the back injury,
Speaker 1: gret injury. All Right, I'm a little more worried about
Speaker 1: it than Gregg is. We want to say before we
Speaker 1: were in a second base, I teased before the break
Speaker 1: that there was some one of you guys as hurt. Yes,
Speaker 1: Michael Fulmer, Tommy John Time. Well, it's suggested, it's not
Speaker 1: known whether he's gonna do it yet or not. That's
Speaker 1: the end of Former Fridays. Yeah, former any days. Sorry,
Speaker 1: he's definitely at the whole year. Definitely, he's definitely getting
Speaker 1: it god enough to steal the American League Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year from Gary Sanchez that year and ever since
Speaker 1: then he's just it's been downhill from Michael ful So,
Speaker 1: a guy that I was very high on the past
Speaker 1: couple of years, but he he dealt with a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries. He got shut down already in spring here
Speaker 1: the VLO was down. This was a guy who was
Speaker 1: drowing ninety six miles. Now he's around so clearly has
Speaker 1: some issues going on. It sucks from Michael Former. I
Speaker 1: I you could come back. I still think he's young
Speaker 1: enough where he can come back from this, but likely
Speaker 1: not going to see him any any time. Suit m hmm, yeah. Former.
Speaker 1: At least you're not drafting him high. He're getting him
Speaker 1: for pretty cheap. So it doesn't hurt you. If you're
Speaker 1: drafting you have him on your roster, Hey, pick up
Speaker 1: one of the pictures we talked about in the first hour,
Speaker 1: because now you have a roster spot like Strom in particular, Well,
Speaker 1: he's killing it in spring, uh until recent start, and
Speaker 1: I just yeah, right, and you getting him for nothing?
Speaker 1: You know, he's like a guy you could just basically
Speaker 1: pick up as a flyer. You could even like in
Speaker 1: my league. He didn't get drafted. So I ended up
Speaker 1: driving alex Cologne for for Matt Strom because I had
Speaker 1: that one roster spot, and I think that he be
Speaker 1: something more than a flyer. I think he can actually
Speaker 1: give you value, and if he doesn't, you didn't pay
Speaker 1: anything for him anyway, so I think he's worth a shot.
Speaker 1: It's hard to find starting pitching late late in the
Speaker 1: draft that can actually produce. I like Strong. I think
Speaker 1: the town is there. He said in the off season
Speaker 1: he put on about twenty pounds because he wanted to
Speaker 1: be a starting pitcher, which you'll have more durability deeper
Speaker 1: into games. While looking at the fan Grass projection systems here,
Speaker 1: they have him basically bouncing between the rotation and the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Because they have him between fifteen and sixteen starts and
Speaker 1: then between thirty six and forty one appearances. So that
Speaker 1: would tell me he's gonna bounce around between the rotation
Speaker 1: and the bullpen. I mean, if you look at what
Speaker 1: he's done in the past couple of years. Last year
Speaker 1: he was at seventy five and two thirds endings, So
Speaker 1: maybe a realistic expectation he could get up to like
Speaker 1: this year. They like they like the They like him
Speaker 1: for over a strikeout for ending, they like him for
Speaker 1: you know, three three seven, five to three nine nine
Speaker 1: e r A, so up four e r a a
Speaker 1: strikeout for any I mean, that's definitely worth rostering, right,
Speaker 1: And the only reason why you're getting him so cheap
Speaker 1: is because of that, because he hasn't been stretched yet.
Speaker 1: He's been a reliever pretty much. Uh, and now he's
Speaker 1: trying to become a starter and it could fail miserably,
Speaker 1: but at least he's getting the chance. He's gained weight
Speaker 1: as positives and he's looking great in springs. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of the guys, BOYD who you don't like.
Speaker 1: Do you have do you have the trivia question yet? Adventures? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got it. Seven nights, whoever calls in first with
Speaker 1: the correct answer to the trivia question will be in
Speaker 1: the in house league here at the Fantasy Sports Network. Yep,
Speaker 1: do you want me to ask question? Who was second
Speaker 1: in the MLB last year in doubles? You can't look
Speaker 1: this up though, can't look this up? Number one was
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman with fifty one. Can you tell? Can you
Speaker 1: guys call up and tell me who's number two? You
Speaker 1: can't look it up though, I can't have cheating. You
Speaker 1: guess in your mind. It's a very hard. It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's not it's not who I was thinking?
Speaker 1: Who was second? Animil being doubles? You you cannot cheat? Yeah,
Speaker 1: even though there will never be a way of us
Speaker 1: knowing if you cheat it or not. You don't. You
Speaker 1: don't say that. What do we do? They don't know
Speaker 1: if you can say it or not? Anyway, because Ventor's
Speaker 1: already here, like, no cheating, no cheating. That's kind of
Speaker 1: a stop man. All right, I'm sorry that it hurts me. Now.
Speaker 1: I people gonna cheat, They were going to cheat anyway,
Speaker 1: were they? All right? Colon? Do we have any callers
Speaker 1: second base position? It's gotta be quick whoever's targeted. Yea,
Speaker 1: let's do targets. So I like everybody almost like almost
Speaker 1: every second baseman here for real, top out answer. Everybody
Speaker 1: very shallow though second based right, No, it's deep, you
Speaker 1: think it. Like Daniel Murphy, I like Max Munsey, I
Speaker 1: like Stototo Jeanette, I like Robinson Canell, I like Travis Shaw,
Speaker 1: I like Mike rustock Is, I like Runette o'dor, I
Speaker 1: like Garrett Hampson. As they eat guys are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like every one of those guests, but like, okay, but seriously,
Speaker 1: who really the tears though, I'm saying you like guys
Speaker 1: that aren't even like back in the here. I like
Speaker 1: all those guys, though, by point is, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: win a second base. So then you're not gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of shares of Daniel Murphy. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to use like a fifth round price tag on day Murphy,
Speaker 1: just like all these guys. Doesn't make sense for me. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna agreement with you. You know, I like
Speaker 1: rugenetto door. He's someone that I've talked a lot about.
Speaker 1: He made gains in terms of his plate discipline. Last year,
Speaker 1: he struck out less, he walked more. I saw yesterday
Speaker 1: he has an eleven percent walk right in the spring
Speaker 1: so far as I watched a few Texas Rangers games
Speaker 1: where he's actively taking what defenses are giving to him.
Speaker 1: He hit the ball, uh getting to shift the other
Speaker 1: way a few times, so Bruno door he was stubborn
Speaker 1: for a long time. You hear that a lot about
Speaker 1: these aggressive hitters. At the point they're they're stubborn, they
Speaker 1: don't want to change their approach. Rugnodor is actually doing
Speaker 1: the necessary steps to change his approach and do things differently.
Speaker 1: So he's a target of mine. Obviously, I've been in
Speaker 1: on Robinson Cano love Mike Mustakas as well, So those
Speaker 1: are probably the my my three favorite. And then if
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at a middle infielder, a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: A guy that I've been ending up with a lot
Speaker 1: greg is Joey Wendell. I ended up with him and
Speaker 1: the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational. I think he could hit
Speaker 1: for a plus batting average, hit in the middle of
Speaker 1: the lineup for the Tampa Bay Rays, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys in this range. Debt and hit twelve
Speaker 1: to fifteen nor runs and steal twelve to fifteen bases.
Speaker 1: Joey Wendo is one of those guys, and I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it with a pretty good at good
Speaker 1: counting stats. Maybe with Tampa being in the heart Attempa
Speaker 1: just goes so late that I end up with him
Speaker 1: in fifteen leagues as my middle infield. Why are you
Speaker 1: projecting runs him? What do he last year? Ten seven
Speaker 1: and how many games one? Right? Yeah, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna get to double digits though he did hit three.
Speaker 1: What are you doing the miners? I feel like the
Speaker 1: minor league numbers were better. There had to be a
Speaker 1: reason why I had that sen He hit twelve of
Speaker 1: the miners teen and a ball at sixteen. He also
Speaker 1: hit forty two doubles in fifteen thirty one sixteen. Nobody
Speaker 1: loves doubles. They're important. Seven percent hard hit rate was
Speaker 1: five point four percent. You have to imagine in the
Speaker 1: at least that has to go upgrad right, especially as
Speaker 1: a lefty. I mean, he's gonna have some games in
Speaker 1: stadium too. And I like this. He bats lefty last
Speaker 1: year against leftist batting average but eight on nine, so
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna play every day he gets. I
Speaker 1: mean it looks like in the minus he didn't get
Speaker 1: on base very well. Twenty six walks in games twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: twenty two and a hundred thirty seven games fifteen, and
Speaker 1: he also kid a hundred fourteen times and a hundred
Speaker 1: twelve times. Those ratios aren't really that great. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've only want taking him in roto leagues where batting
Speaker 1: average matters. I haven't taken him in VP or or
Speaker 1: any points leads because then obviously in points leads don't
Speaker 1: want guys who walk more strike out. But he makes
Speaker 1: a lout of contact. He just h he's he's an
Speaker 1: aggressive swinger. He also doesn't win bad gloves probably pieces
Speaker 1: on our hands. Who do you like a second base?
Speaker 1: So this is why I think a shild because I
Speaker 1: don't like a lot of the guys that Greg's on,
Speaker 1: like Scooter gen I know he loves Scooter Genet Scout Jets.
Speaker 1: To me, he's more like he's above average. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's great or anything. I don't think it would
Speaker 1: be any better than what he is in points leagues.
Speaker 1: He's good, he's not great. Um, you know, guys like
Speaker 1: Jed Lowry, I'm not interested. Rogno the Door not interested.
Speaker 1: I like Glad but Torres why Bugo Door just not
Speaker 1: my type of guy, not my type of guy. In
Speaker 1: Points Leaks he's really not good. But what if he
Speaker 1: continues to make these games in terms of plate discipline
Speaker 1: he starts walking? Well, I like what you can get him.
Speaker 1: I like what you get him. I mean in my steels,
Speaker 1: he's done it before. I mean you're asking for a lot.
Speaker 1: I think you're asking for a lot. I think at
Speaker 1: his price you get him in like that seven to
Speaker 1: nine round range, and in Points Leaks you can probably
Speaker 1: get big upside man. Yeah, I mean he he has
Speaker 1: up so he's still young. You know, I still do
Speaker 1: like him more in Rhodo than I want. I like
Speaker 1: Glabor a little more. I'll pull Mankad off the board.
Speaker 1: I love Mankad. I think he's gonna have his possible
Speaker 1: breakout this year. Uh. And then you know, guys like
Speaker 1: can know I love Alb's that Albi's is my main
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Speaker 1: I won't knock you for you drafted him. You call
Speaker 1: him whatever you want. He's my dude, dude, Joey Fuego
Speaker 1: they call him. Actually, I'm not even joking around. Look,
Speaker 1: is that his baseball reference nicknames. We're gonna do this
Speaker 1: again and I'll be dot com nickname because man, these
Speaker 1: baseball reference nicknames. And I remember last year I was
Speaker 1: killing him for they had some dumb name. No way
Speaker 1: anyone calls him that. I was listening to. Uh. I
Speaker 1: was listening to the Pirates broadcast. One day they called
Speaker 1: Gregory Polanco by his nickname yea to have his nickname
Speaker 1: of Coffee Joey FuG Joe Luke CAZy, Greg Held Coffee,
Speaker 1: Gregory Planco. When I read this, I said, there's no way.
Speaker 1: Is it not heard the pirates broadcast? Calling that interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Should you get the phone? Last four four three six
Speaker 1: of nine eight four four eight four three six ss
Speaker 1: of and nine. We begin with Justin in North Carolina? Justin,
Speaker 1: what's up? What's up? Alright? Alright? And Justin? Do you
Speaker 1: have the answer to the trivia question? I have the
Speaker 1: answer to the question. Your question, it's Mookie is not
Speaker 1: very close though it's not Mookie bets. I appreciate the court.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you not cheating either. We appreciate the effort.
Speaker 1: Do you have anyone else? You have enough? Let me
Speaker 1: handle it was third, Jesus, you're rushing. You're rushing three people.
Speaker 1: Mookie was third with forty seven doubles? Justin? You have
Speaker 1: anything else? Man? You have a question? You want to
Speaker 1: ask us what we're talking about? We're friendly? Oh no,
Speaker 1: I love you guys. So he was not worth hearing from.
Speaker 1: It wasn't worth hearing. There you go. That's gonna DJ
Speaker 1: and Seattle DJ what's up, man, what's going on? What's up?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm it is not Brian Doser Hunter Doser. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good guest Doger. It's a lot of doubles.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of doubles. Else TJ what's going on?
Speaker 1: Any questions you too? No? No, I'm good. All right,
Speaker 1: that's luck. Let's look this season. Let's go to Steven
Speaker 1: New Jersey. It's up, Steve, st Are you doing, guys? Man?
Speaker 1: What's up? So? I was actually gonna say, bets um,
Speaker 1: good thing you did since that caller said it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I would have if that if I called
Speaker 1: in before that guy. So now being that veer said
Speaker 1: it's a puff and I'm that to Arizona two years
Speaker 1: ago and didn't watch Diamond back games, Yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess a Guardo Escoba Arizona. Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 1: You are correct, and Guardo Esco I remember them talking
Speaker 1: about how many doubles he had, you have, like like
Speaker 1: almost fifty right second on the league to Bregman, very good.
Speaker 1: If you didn't play, it was a pop. I'm learned
Speaker 1: to guest him. Steve, welcome up. Are you interested in
Speaker 1: being on our Fantasy baseball that drafts on Sunday. Yeah. Absolutely, Um,
Speaker 1: how do I go about signing up? All right, so
Speaker 1: to talk to the producer down series? Give you yeah,
Speaker 1: talk to the producer downstairs. Um, you give them your'll
Speaker 1: give him your email. Um, you'll get Steve's email and
Speaker 1: then we can handle off linenguations you guys, and uh,
Speaker 1: I really love what you guys are doing. It's a
Speaker 1: great show. Welcome, Welcome to the league. The draft is
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Speaker 1: team league, head to head categories, big league, m how
Speaker 1: many teams? Fifteen? I mean, okay, alright, awesome, thanks guys,
Speaker 1: if you have a good day. YouTube got it because
Speaker 1: he watched the Arizona dimeback Stephen Joy's he said he
Speaker 1: moved to Arizona. Yeah, so he's still Steve in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Huh give him Erican Brooklyn. What's going on? Man? Hello?
Speaker 1: How are you? What's up? Hello? Uh? You guys do
Speaker 1: an L n L only segments? We do not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I've been doing a fantasy baseball league before you
Speaker 1: guys were born. My first pick, well actually not my
Speaker 1: first pick, but I got Marc mauire for one dollar
Speaker 1: in my first drift. I believe it was nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: three or eighty four, I can't even remember. But I've
Speaker 1: been doing it that long. I read the book from
Speaker 1: Wagner Um that was a million years ago. Uh And
Speaker 1: here's here's the first controversy. We picked all the guys
Speaker 1: and one guy who wasn't on the lead on his
Speaker 1: team or actually active on the roster of the American
Speaker 1: League teams from my buckle picked an unknown Boston picture
Speaker 1: for his guy to pick his last pick. He got
Speaker 1: Roger Clemens, an unknown on Now, it was unbelievable to
Speaker 1: imagine that I can get Mark McGuire. But here's the kicker.
Speaker 1: I traded Mark McGuire for one dollar, three year contract
Speaker 1: for one dollar for Pressley and a leaf Smith. Pressley
Speaker 1: was a big hole one hitter in the early eighties
Speaker 1: and leaf Smith, who was believe Kansas City. And uh So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I've been doing this since eighty three
Speaker 1: and eighty four and only a l we had four
Speaker 1: by four and then in the last five years. And
Speaker 1: as funny as my league is, CBS construction leg because
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys work at the construction shop there
Speaker 1: and we've been doing this since I can't even remember.
Speaker 1: And we did it in forbidding for money, and then
Speaker 1: we started doing drafts and no more keepers because keepers
Speaker 1: were getting ridiculous and things like that. But like I said,
Speaker 1: I've been watching you guys, and it's very good and
Speaker 1: very a lot of information. I really enjoy it. Were
Speaker 1: you should do a segment, we should. You should do it,
Speaker 1: really a segment of a five by five ah, only
Speaker 1: because when I hear you guys talking the same top
Speaker 1: six or top eight guys, that's frustrated because I gotta
Speaker 1: pick number twenty and I got to get the middle
Speaker 1: and field at number twenty, and I'm looking at Tender.
Speaker 1: I was fifty with the whole run and one stolen base.
Speaker 1: Not a bad not a bad at. He's one of
Speaker 1: those guys. He's stack cast hero Greg. We're very under
Speaker 1: the radar. You wouldn't even expect it. But this guy,
Speaker 1: Tad Pinner, hits the extremely hard. He's like he's gonna
Speaker 1: play most of the time too. Trying to pick a
Speaker 1: starting pitcher pick number twenty two and not have a
Speaker 1: above five e r A and over a hundred hundr case,
Speaker 1: it's almost possible. You got to pick your meet in
Speaker 1: the beginning. So my first question is I pick eight
Speaker 1: out of ten guys, and then I picked thirteen, and
Speaker 1: I was probably gonna go with Sale and then Cole
Speaker 1: the best two pitchers answered that's just like each each
Speaker 1: of the other nine teams during getting one good start
Speaker 1: of one anchor and everyone else is good. That all
Speaker 1: the eras and whip are going to be monstrous that route.
Speaker 1: And yeah, the two big monsters that the two high
Speaker 1: strike got guys. I mean, you have Bland who is
Speaker 1: in a great form, but it's Clover who can get traded.
Speaker 1: And answer that who you're looking at. You're looking at Thiebes,
Speaker 1: you're looking at um a price, You're looking at the
Speaker 1: half even if clever der embarrass But those are young guys.
Speaker 1: You want a veteran sa I've been doing this since Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like I said, we have a six reserved guy.
Speaker 1: So you can pick your starting pitches at the end
Speaker 1: and just go these two top notts guys. Pick a
Speaker 1: cup closes in the middle like a La Clark, maybe
Speaker 1: an eight as sooner. If I want to go early,
Speaker 1: it would be maybe a five second question. Otani. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna get thirty home runs? Is she going to
Speaker 1: be at a four hundred at bets where he got
Speaker 1: like twenty three? Yeah, you talk all right. So I'll
Speaker 1: start off with Ottani because I actually ended up with
Speaker 1: him on my main event rosser from over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I got him around eighteen of fifteen team league. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and he know only I do think that
Speaker 1: he can be between that three hundred fifty and four
Speaker 1: hundred plate appearances. Last year he was at three sixty seven.
Speaker 1: He played a hundred and fourteen games, and that was
Speaker 1: with him, you know, missing time here and there. That
Speaker 1: was with him being a starting pitcher. I do think
Speaker 1: that once he returns and hopefully all goes well, he'll
Speaker 1: return in May. I think that Hill play more often
Speaker 1: than not. I mean they you know, they have a
Speaker 1: lot invested in Otani and they're paying him money. And
Speaker 1: I do think a lot of times Greg money talks,
Speaker 1: and I think that they're gonna give him a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities to play. Last year he was phenomenal home
Speaker 1: runs ten Stone basis. So if he gets up that
Speaker 1: up to uh, you know, twenty five games, I mean,
Speaker 1: if he gets that up to games like why can't
Speaker 1: he hit twenty five home runs? And this is what
Speaker 1: we were saying about him. You know, he hits the
Speaker 1: ball extremely hard. The home run the fly ball ratio
Speaker 1: was high last year, but hard hit rate. Um, there's
Speaker 1: a lot to like. And look at the projection systems
Speaker 1: on fan Grasive. They all have in between twenty three
Speaker 1: and twenty eight home runs with a with a two
Speaker 1: seventy plus batting ap. Lots of like there, even like
Speaker 1: especially in ale Only, you gotta find something something to
Speaker 1: fill them in with for now. And I know A
Speaker 1: Only is gonna be a little bit tougher, but that's
Speaker 1: one of those guys where if you get him back
Speaker 1: in your lineup and an ale Only, he he's a stud.
Speaker 1: He can help carry you. You can help Carre's a hitter. Um, let'sten.
Speaker 1: He average five point one per game in my points league,
Speaker 1: five point one, which is elite beyond the league. Full
Speaker 1: point five is like, you know, Bryce Hopper, Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: Mookie Batts, that's what they averaging on a full season,
Speaker 1: full point too to full point five. So and he
Speaker 1: walked ten percent of the time. Only issue in the leagues.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have a position. He's a d H, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna don't have to stick him in a utility
Speaker 1: spot depending on what league you're in, but most eligibilities
Speaker 1: is a d H or starting pitcher. So you gotta
Speaker 1: know that he fills your utility spot and you can't
Speaker 1: put anybody else there because he's gonna play pretty much
Speaker 1: every day as a hitter. When he right, I mean,
Speaker 1: so he's not gonna pitch this here, They've already they've
Speaker 1: already announced that. So and when we were talking about
Speaker 1: Ottani a few weeks ago, greg I made the point
Speaker 1: that I think this might be Otani's most valuable season
Speaker 1: in fantasy baseball. Could be because he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: worry about pitching. And last year when he was pitching, yes,
Speaker 1: he would give you both, but they would kind of
Speaker 1: take away from each other because he would pitch one
Speaker 1: time a week, but they he would only play as
Speaker 1: a hitter three times a week. Now this year, who's
Speaker 1: to say, because he's not pitching at all, that he
Speaker 1: doesn't play five six times per week as a designated hitter.
Speaker 1: You might be able to get some of the best
Speaker 1: offensive production out of Watani this season because he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to worry about pitching? Really can hit? Yeah, even
Speaker 1: on that evening, that drum all spring, all spring, even
Speaker 1: I think he should be drafted and it mixed because
Speaker 1: I think he's still got pretty good value. Team team
Speaker 1: mixed and all only for sure anything shoveler than that.
Speaker 1: What do you think twelve team mixed Rhodo, Greg? Where
Speaker 1: are you of your last round pick? Probably he got
Speaker 1: drafted in my legs? Twelve team mixed keep believed, Yes
Speaker 1: in the eleventh round? What do you think of the
Speaker 1: strategy of if you're playing an ale only doubling down
Speaker 1: on the elite starting pitchers in the first two rounds,
Speaker 1: you give yourself such an advantage, but you're gonna be
Speaker 1: you give yourself a huge pitching advantage either something massive
Speaker 1: hitting just had a disadvantage, a massive hitting disadvantage. You're
Speaker 1: gonna end up with players who don't play all the time,
Speaker 1: who are going to be on you know they're going
Speaker 1: to be in platoon situations. You know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to only before it's still gonna have five, still gonna
Speaker 1: have five outfielders. You still need a middle in a
Speaker 1: corner infielder. You're gonna have guys on your team who
Speaker 1: don't play every day. I've done it. Also, it's hard
Speaker 1: you want to play a tougher league, trobably playing in
Speaker 1: the league with you're trying to get all the worst players.
Speaker 1: Do you ever playing one of those the backwards leagues
Speaker 1: upside down leagues one of my friends fathers played, used
Speaker 1: to play where you try to draft the worst players possible,
Speaker 1: very easy? Yeah you think so, right, It's not that easy.
Speaker 1: Just all those players don't play. Well, No, no, they
Speaker 1: have to play. They have to be starting players. You
Speaker 1: have to draft players who play every day who are
Speaker 1: really bad. Yeah, you didn't get no stats if if
Speaker 1: you just unlimited catchers. Oh, you can't do that either.
Speaker 1: It's hard. It ain't easy. Would be the first overall
Speaker 1: pick and down it's like a minimum were games they
Speaker 1: have to play? Assume I think so, yeah, you have
Speaker 1: to play a minimumum of games worst players. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you first overall pick upside down? Lee, this is what
Speaker 1: this is coming to? Uh? Where this is where we are?
Speaker 1: Hugs first picture off the board. He's in the Alex
Speaker 1: Cobb first picture off the board, Greg and the draft
Speaker 1: Grayson Grinder. That's a good one stop Gracy grinder is
Speaker 1: actually a sleeper, and you want to talk that's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of your catchers and only expected not Sandy Leone,
Speaker 1: he is, he's he's patuning, right, that's why catchers. You're
Speaker 1: talking about catchers saying purposely, yeah, I mean yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot of big
Speaker 1: players to a lot of bad players when you're on
Speaker 1: the spot, right, because you always think about it like,
Speaker 1: oh this player sucks. Correct, Now, I can't really think
Speaker 1: think of anyone who's that most. Look at my list,
Speaker 1: like I got rid of all the craft players though,
Speaker 1: the all players that I knew I've never drafted on
Speaker 1: my list. I'm forgetting players now too. It's other than me.
Speaker 1: JP Crawford is usually pretty terrible. He's got upside though.
Speaker 1: The marriage is just traded for him. Give him a shot.
Speaker 1: Nick Hunley, he's a starter. Play every there is that, Okay,
Speaker 1: if we put I don't know you, I don't know
Speaker 1: your rules. I'm sure the catchers have a nice minimum,
Speaker 1: you know, because they put tune a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Who's terrible? Who's terrible? Looking ahead, this is where the
Speaker 1: show's come to the last four minutes of the episode.
Speaker 1: I will give you my thought. Daniel paulk is awful. Yes, no,
Speaker 1: he's not Greg. Yes, he doesn't need to average. What's that?
Speaker 1: You don't only me, Dre anybody? We need to get
Speaker 1: worse players into this. There's bad players. They're there most
Speaker 1: worst players. How about extra Fowler is a bad player.
Speaker 1: He's bad? So you know what so is Jason? Heywards
Speaker 1: have a hunted? Does he? Oh? Second? No, don't talk
Speaker 1: bad about Hunter? Come on, what do you mean It
Speaker 1: is crazy that Daniel paul did. Yeah, right, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Twenty four games he's got I know I said that.
Speaker 1: When I looked at him, I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: why is no we're talking about this guy only sleep?
Speaker 1: Why are we might be a platoon player for the
Speaker 1: White Sox, but he has pop only seven bombs in
Speaker 1: a hundred twenty four games. It's like when Venture found
Speaker 1: out the Verlin your kids would ninety guys, Well, this
Speaker 1: is a little deeper, Like nobody knew that. Nobody's looking
Speaker 1: at Pauca. This is crazy. Yeah, ninety four down, he
Speaker 1: doesn't hit average and Goodwin of the Kansas City Royal.
Speaker 1: That's what I said. Yeah, what about Anthony Santander's Orioles,
Speaker 1: he's bad. What Pence he's having a great spring. You
Speaker 1: know that Craig best shortstop in the league, in this league,
Speaker 1: Jordy Mercer about what are like all the relievers? Why
Speaker 1: don't you get all relievers? Just get bombed like Brian Mitchell.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could just take vers, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like every every day handsil Roblost
Speaker 1: was given up a bomb less I want to join
Speaker 1: one of these leagues now. Robert Matt Joyce, he sucks.
Speaker 1: Come on, now we know who not to draft. It funny,
Speaker 1: this is fun. I like this game, your fun. I'm
Speaker 1: not a post to doing the drafting. Two legit aces
Speaker 1: and a only though. You just put yourself so ahead
Speaker 1: of everyone else, and then you give yourself the ability
Speaker 1: if you could trade of that league. You could trade
Speaker 1: out of position of strength. Later on in the season,
Speaker 1: targeted two hitters for those guys. I like doubleing down.
Speaker 1: We didn't get here yet, but targets in third base.
Speaker 1: I like Justin Turner love Turner love Rendon obviously loved.
Speaker 1: I did my picks earlier on in the in the week,
Speaker 1: Greg on Twitter, I had and I had Anthony Rendon
Speaker 1: is my nl M v P. Wow, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: We're doing that next week. You know what, It's funny
Speaker 1: you say that it was something that it was kind
Speaker 1: of going viral on Fantasy Twitter. So funny said, I
Speaker 1: think I do those lead. Some people don't. He's borderline.
Speaker 1: I think he's an elite play, especially in Fantasy Points.
Speaker 1: He's No. One Aeronado Hight, but he's No. One Aeronado
Speaker 1: without course Field. That's how I feel about any good
Speaker 1: luck in your drafts tonight. We'll need it for Frank
Speaker 1: Staff or Chris Vencher if everybody downstairs and Greg Sulton
Speaker 1: thinks so much for watching his fantasybffs, We'll do it
Speaker 1: all again tomorrow, you hope,