3/21, Part 2: Starting pitchers, rookies, and The Pit Draft!

listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Did let me just become best friends? Fantasy best Friends Forever? Our number two best friends forever Fantasy Sports Radio Network that worth out great. Alongside like stamfle and GRG Sassman, we're joined by the closer. Christ. How you feeling Chris? What's up? What's up? I'm feeling good. I just sleep last night. Good good Friday at a draft last night. Again I

almost forgot about So here's the issue. Most people, they sleep really well on the weekends and they come in Monday and all right, I slept great, kind of refreshed. You don't know, that's part of the issue. And they stay up real late on the weekend. Yeah, that's kind of the issue. I think. Yeah, it kind of fund the crux and you're sleeping profitable. Yeah, you throw yourself off, stay stay up late on the weekend. You got to try and find some waiting to catch. On the weekdays,

you wake up early. Obviously you're in here making graphics. My theory is that if I don't sleep a lot during the weekend, that I'll be tired and go to sleep early on the weekdays. It doesn't usually work out like that, though, I'm saying, so it's time to change the theory. You need a new formula. Enough of success, yere vntra. I actually got a question in the chat

that wanted me to ask how you're doing. Make sure that you're okay, because in the draft that people participated with you last last night, they said you didn't take Azzi Albis. Sure that you're okay. They everybody was expecting me to grab Ausi Albies at this one point, and I said, I don't really need him, had Jose Ramirez. I didn't really need Azzi Albies. I needed pitching, so I went pitching for a closed Albis. I think I took Roberto Sona something like that. Get a closing, get

close cloth closing, gets closer. Yeah, it's Roto draft. That's my first Roto draft last night in years years. It was fun but glad you enjoy anybody. And it was simple, you know simple, uh, you know stats that you need to competing against. Jim was in this draft. Jim Day was in this draft. We had the mailman who Rock Caft is, the Ron Cafferty is the commissioner. Shout out to him. He did a good job and it was fun. It was fun, did a good time, went quick relatively,

and I think I did all right. Sure, So that's it I had. I had a home league draft last night as well, eating against our our own Michael Florio, the one with your father in it. Yes, my dad, isn't it Actually I can read you some of my dad's players. Is that while he's drafted, I'm thinking Ventro would love this team. Oh yeah, Ventro would love this team. Actually, we debated yesterday what should my dad do? He ended

up taking my track. Actually he took Mike trap first overall at the two three you have to take pitching. He doesn't have his fourth and fifth round picks because he's keepers, so he ended up he got Strasberg and Burials. Mind you keeper league. So a lot of pictures were already taken. They were kept, so that's not bad. The second third in this draft is more like the fourth fifth. We ends up with Strasburg and Burrios. I like that. But he also he got Josh got Josh Bell. That's

my boy, guy, he got speaking of your dad. By the way, come in the studio next week, coming in studio Tuesday. How about that Tuesday season predictions? We can do some season predictions teams. Oh, I like that. Do you see team over under team over unders with him and awards with him? That's fun. I like that. I would like to do that. Of course, pick some teams

who would have win division. Yeah, we'll do all of it. Actually, last year I predicted, correctly Jacob the Ground would win the L did I also predicted Gary Sanchez would win the a L M v P. I just did not think. I think, I think Aaron Judge, there's your law of averages. Yeah, get one right on real wrong. That's a tough one. Florio. Pick Blake's not win the Scion actual, yes, my guy, all right, so look at that. Uh tear it up to predict both young's. Now you have to get something

right this year. Try my last year. I think Aaron Judge is the m v P. Jolice Severino has a side hung and Glaver Torre. Hey, that wasn't bad though, I mean those guys all didn't. Maybe you should go back to the Yankee well again he probably Carlin. Yeah, James Pats who did win a le rookie deal issue, that would be shoheyo, Tani, we'll eat out Miguel and Hard can do her m h. I don't know. I can do with your dad. My dad also drafted Joy Lucazy.

That was another round likely. Yeah, what do you get him? Late? Probably right? He got him. I've that's awesome. I guess in then I got him really last night? Yeah, I got him like the nineteenth round last so nobody is to the show. He ended up with Matt Strom and Domingo Santana. There you go. League Spoty got Austin Hayes. Who do you like better? His team or your team? I love Mike, you love your team? Have you ever said I don't like my team very early? The pitching staff,

I'm cool with that. I got it Ward of Rodriguez as well. I can't even be bomb don't do that. Let and Greg. I got a Greg guy, got Wade Miley on the bench. I loo, how Wade Miley is the Greg guys? Guy, way, those are your guys? Are they not? Come on? I would say Murphy is one of his guys. I got Murphy on this team too. I got Gregory Polanco very late keeper draft that cash him on the injured list to get on there. The one, the one takeaway from the team that I don't really like.

I played third base Chicken I lost. I love it, I love it. I got mikeel Franco's started third I don't love it. I don't know we love it. He was on the tier that we that we said our third basement. All right, So what happened was I was debating Mustakis and Chapman in the sixth round keeper draft. I was beating both of them. So you know what I said, I'll take whoever comes back to me. Came back to David dal David d and you had heard pick. So it's like, all right, I don't want to which

way was it going? It was it was going the short wave. So that's why I was like, oh, you know, I got well, I would have known the I would have done the same thing to David Dahl, and I got him as my third outfielder. I said, all right, let me see if I can get one of these third bases. That's actually that's actually surprising that neither of them came back to you. That's that sucks your guy to take one of them. Yes, he took Michael Stock. This is the show. Like that, this is the show

the moose. He did a good job. Sounds like great. You want to lunch bet we were talking about it during the break. I want to lunch eat. Alonso will start on the opening day roster New York Men. Got it. I got it for me. Let's go mats. I don't know that, um, Pete Alonso gonna start an opening day roster. Start on the opening day roster. I mean he's gotta start, I would say at first, basis no reason to have

on the bench. Yeah, I know, Dominic Smith is having a big spring, and look, maybe he hasn't had a fair shake, but Pete Alonso's crushing it in the spring. I think he has thirty home run upside. The thing I worried about what Peter Alonzo is where's the batting average? Going to settle in it because it was very good in double A. Last year when he went up to triple A came down, the strikeouts went up. I think he'll you know, he'll probably be around like strikeout right guy.

It's the ball very hard, so we might be able to overcome that. The difference is if he's a two thirty hitter verse being a two sixty, because I can see both outcomes from Pete Alonzo, a guy who's gonna I expect to strike out about a quarter of the time, probably, but I'm excited about it. You think he would settle it. Do you think he's closer to thirty or closer to sixty? You're optimistic? Excuse me, I don't want he doesn't like Peter.

Where you at on Pete Alonzo venture. I like him a lot, and I think that the average maybe the first year isn't gonna be what you want, but I think the power will be there so you'll be okay with it. What are you getting him? Brand? He had like a four fifty ft home run two weekends ago. The power is about it. He's got six home runs on the spring already. I believe m. I mean that's tops. Yeah. I mean he's crushing it, so I just think he's

gonna go through slumps. You're gonna get your fast hair. So, especially as a rookie, ye first exposure to two major league pitching, That's why I worry a little bit more about the batting average. Who would you, guys rather have the Battle of New York? Luke Voit for Pete Alonso. He's very close. It's very close. I'll take mm hmmm. I would take Alonzo Anso too. Yeah, I'll stick with Lucavo. I was in that situation last night. I think Luke Void's playing time is gonna be That's what I was

thinking too. That is how I was thinking between Voit and uh Alonzo. At one point, they were lingering on the board for a long time and I was like, which one do I want? Though? End up with either neither. I just continued to pass on that. You're like, I'll get them later on. It never happened. I just kept passing until I got Bell later much later. Ended up with Justin Smoke is my corner life at c J. Crony know, I love CJ. Let's go twins. What do

you like My middle infielder as well. What do you like c Jet thirty home runs last year, man, I think that goes under the radar. People might worry about the playing time for c J. Crone because they signed Margan Gonzalez. Remember, Gilson knows out for the first month of the season, so marwgn Zalaz could play third base. Plus he can move around. If you want to give someone else a day off, you give Scope a day off. Here you can play Marrow at second You could give

Marrow Gonzalez a day in the outfield. All right, maybe c J. Crone, you know, doesn't play one game out of the week because they put Marwin Gonzalaz at first base. I still think c J. Crone is gonna play the majority of the time. He made games last year. He get thirty home runs, flies under the radar. And I'm very bullish on this Twins lineup. If he's sitting in the middle of this lineup, I mean he might have

the opportunity to driving runs. This year hit thirty bombs, so maybe more, But it all depends on his perfect corner infielder. Here's the problem, right, his one thing that everybody likes him, why he's in the Major's power right. Everything else though, is a problem. To fifty three last year wasn't bad, but I'm expected. But like other power hitters, he's not gonna completely sink your batting average like it

d to fifty to sixty. He did last year last year to fifty three, but I think that's going down. I don't think he's gonna be a career over to fifty hitter. I think he's more along along two in his career. He's a two sixty hitter for his career. And that's that's over two thousand plate appearances. What some crazy sample size river Blues. By the way, going back to the Lukeway for a second, you guys, I wanted

to finish the chrome you went away from. You went away from Luke before I was ready, so I was trying to cut it in here. Okay, what do you got Luke's what's going on? The Yankees beat is very good chance, Luke Boyd's say, the All Star starter at first basis in the American League, very good chance, very good chance. That's the American League first base in the American League? Why not serious? What about Jose breve Right? You have a lot of the other ones are Nationally Freeman,

smidt Rizzo, Hoskins, Ellinger. I can play uf Daniel Murphy, Joey Vado. That's true. It could have been mad Olson, but now I don't know what's going on with medals correct tagal r mac Carpenter. All right, Greg, he has a chance. I mean it's very good. He just name twenty nationally first basement, I have Frank significant That's that's what I expecting to be much better. That's one one guy you're telling me it's pretty good. There's gotta Benas ranked over him as well, but he's more of a deed.

I would take Boyd has a better chance than Edwood. At this point, I again wins on his way out act accordingly, Cabrera could be Migel. I still I like, look, really as now has a second or third best chance. That's pretty good. That's a very good chance. I had a second or third best chance. That's a very good chance. That's a good call. I would still take Void over Peter Crone. I like, I like, yeah, like crony spines. Do you know what made me like him even more?

The fact that I have the support from high stakes player from this past weekend. He got him everywhere, but Carol got him everywhere obviously, um irrespected player. J. Crone made me feel even better. But we're forgetting two first basements. That's gonna get in voids way, Matt Olson and call Santana, possibly Santana if they voted based on points league scoring, but everything else to jump up to. Also remember AMers, he's just so boring. Remember All Star Game is in

Cleveland this year. I believe that's want to remind you of that. You also have justin smoke. Um, but Crone, he's the biggest problem. Doesn't walk When you're a power heady, you need to walk. Yeah, I mean see a powerlet hit that doesn't verage. It doesn't matter to me in Roto for Rhodo, if you can hit to sixty thirty home runs, that's fine, especially where he's going give me that. As it's to sixty then he's okay, Yeah, perfectly fine. You just gotta hope that average doesn't dip to like

two thirty. I don't think it will. I think we have enough sample size from you might be to fifty. I don't even goes below two fifty. I think I think C J. Crones range of batting averages to fifty spin you're gonna go it's highest. I'm gonna say to sixty. Okay, close enough. This year it is in Cleveland, Greg the All Star Game logo is a guitar. Let's let's uh, because of fame is in Cleveland. Yeah, let's say a

phone call in three seven at night. You're interested in taking the phone call, We're gonna take the phone call for guys. Stephen Massachusetts, what's up, Steve? Hey, what's up? Guys? How much? Man? How you doing? I'm doing all right. So I did a draft right before the season started, like like for those uh the games on Wednesday, and uh, with all what all the news of all these guys like making the roster, like padd Doc and like Pete Alonso.

I wanted to get your thoughts on those guys because I have like like a couple of extra bench spots like I have Ian Hatt and I can even like drop him to like Peter Alonso, and I could even like get like Paddock once. Uh, Carlos Martinez has to go on the ihouse spot. And then I have another question about like a future guy that could be coming back, who's on the I l right now, but I wanted to get your thoughts on those guys first. Okay, so

Paddick is a free agent in your league. If I'm deciding between Paddock and Pete Alonso, I would drop Ian Hab for either of them right now. I would definitely pick up Paddock first. I would wait until Carlos Martinez goes in the island and try and pick up Peter Alonso. To me, we'll put more of a priority on Paddock over all, no question about it. Depends on your roster to no, you know, just have the upside starting pitcher reddened up. There's a lot of upside first basement that

you could get. We just look at c J. Crone that could only maybe do what Peter Odser could do. Chris Paddock is an upside pitcher. Really excites me more. Yeah in San Diego. Um, I don't know. I'm I'm pretty close with both of them though, like I half

for either one though, Oh yeah, absolutely yeah. Jimmy Jimmy Nelson, Uh, you gots big on him when he comes back, because he's looking pretty good at spring right now, And I just wanted to know if I should stash him because he's maybe he has like the upside of like all the other Brewers pictures because he had that breakout season and then I know we have like that Tommy John and he was trying to push like to come back

last year and it didn't work out. But should I like try to stash him and see if I can get anything novel? Yes, So we actually spoke about Jimmy Nelson in the first hour today and yesterday's show as well. I'd go as far as to say this, Greg, I'd rather stash Jimmy Nelson than Carlos Martinez. Yes, I'm just tasting stashing one of them on the I l well, it's just one. You don't even know if he's gonna be in the rotation with you. Might be in the bullpen,

but that means he might be a closer you Haven. Yeah, I do like the prospects of Martins. I love I'm just I'm falling, I'm I love with you. I could also draw up a college glass now I'll do yeah glass now yeah, alright, Steve, we appreciate the cald buddy. Well, when we come back more with vent show, we got our lottery for our staff. Lee coming up a little bit as well stick round more and white next. Daily Rhodo dot com learned from the game's best DFS players.

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South Pacific, Joe do you know the words? That's it. It's not Joe to mash you right there you go anyway, So yesterday Chris and I had a conversation with Frank about Jimmy Nelson where Frank slavered over him. Then for the first hour I had to sit and listen to Frank slaver over Jimmy Nelson, and then Nick and then Nick Pollock was was not slavering as much but slight slaver. I think, yeah, he was interested. He was interested, but it wasn't like a full on slaver like Frank was.

And this is my version of you being slimy and Chris, I think we spent most of yesterday together on the same side saying, listen, this guy is hurt. He's not going to come back and just be the same time that he was in hasn't pitching a year and a half, hasn't pitched in a year and a half. That give me a guy that that that's healthy right now. I cannot guarantee that Jimmy Nelson is gonna just be Jimmy Nelson, and we need to see him get back on the mountain, right.

We definitely did that. So that was you and I right, And Frank was like, like, this guy still is he? How do you know he's going to a pitch this year? How do you know how many stars Drew palm Red is gonna give you before he gets hurt? You know what I do know he's hurt too. No, no, no, no, no, I know that one guy's currently healthy and in the rotation. I know one of the healthy and in the rotation. Doesn't mean that he's going to not hurt you more

than he's gonna have, but he's healthy. Right now, What is Jimmy Nelson? What's going on Jimmy Nelson? Frank, why don't give to their art listeners and viewers update? Well, Jimmy Elson is doing just fine. Really, Oh, Jimmy Nelson is dealing with elbow soreness. We just got this before the break, so uh during the break. So I know, I told Steve mass Chuttes will pick up Jimmy Nelson. Don't do that. Now it's a little bit more pessimistic. Now. This is from Tom Rod court Ruer's right hand pitcher

Jimmy Nelson has some elbow storeness. After Thursday, outing will back off a bit, but not considered serious Greg, So we'll be all right here. So this is the first is the first time that Frank's ever heard of an elbow injury and and been not worried, been not worried. We started off the week talking about how if I was choosing between Fulton, Image, Severino and Kershaw, I would take Faulty. Said, let's do that on Monday before we even talked to drs Tuesday, and the way we talked

to dr yesterday. Plus, you're taking Faulty because of the value that correct You're not telling is the best you'll taking the value taking the value correct me, Nelson's a great value and we'll continue to because it's only gonn slide down draft boards. Even more, he's gonna be the last pick of the should slide down, drink off the ear and the miners in the in the I l whatever it is. I can't trusting out of twelve team, but anything deeper than that fifteen team roto leagues for sure.

I have shares of Jimmy Nelson. I'm holding on joy. I mean, if you could stick him in sure, But I mean, I don't know he he may not come back back. Of course, he's gonna feel a little something. He'll be all right. He's already got an issue, a problems, an issue already. Rich Hill, about you called and we knew that was gonna happen too. Was on the show today next week. Okay, his mom is intent. His mom. It's very nice after. He's coming back though. He was

going to visit us a big time. He doesn't need to come to be fair, to be fair in l A. Why aren't you coming here? Yeah, Well, if you're a real Mets fan, maybe you would come for the season opener. He usually does because he lived the Queens a little bit different. Now he'll go to games a little bit harder. I saw him when they played the Dodgers. Well. In our home league draft chat last night, he was talking to a buddy that we have that lives in errors own.

He said, quote, I'm out here next weekend so we can watch rich Hill pitch against the Diamondbacks. I guess that won't be happening, Mike, that probably will not be happening, doesn't It doesn't seem that way. Well, this is exactly why the because of injuries. And this is the same thing with Jimmy Nelson. And this is what I told him when he called in. I said, just wait for someone in your league to drop Ridge Hill. Don't even draft him. He didn't say that, because it happens every year.

He gets hurt early on in the season. He sucks every year in April, in May, and then he's awesome in the second half. Wait for someone to drop him and then pick him up because early he got dropped in our fifteen team league last year and we picked him up at that point. Sure, I'll read the rewards of rich Hill. I'm not gonna use draft capital take him in the tenth round of a draft like no, no, no, no no. He felt real far and last night's drift,

I'll tell you that I skipped them many times. I want I wanted to in my draft to Tuesday and get him. I wanted him. And then is before news of injury though, of course obviously um speed of injuries. Another guy that Frank Las is injured, Stolling Marte was scribed with lower back discomfort. We talked to that a little bit yesterday in the show him the next week off he'll be fine. Have you ever heard this much

injury optimism from selling Marte Luis Savarino dead things? It doesn't look very supposedly by the way of the rumor um that I read that my um frontexted meeting regards about Olsen was hammate boone. That's what people are nervous about. I haven't seen it would be very bad. That's what Stanton had a couple of years ago. So again I haven't seen that. I haven't seen it anywhere, so I have not been able to collaborate that traver rate that robbery.

But that's the rumor, hammate, but hopefully not. What could that mean? Hammate? Bone was if you swing the bat weird you can break a bone in your hand, right if you actually how long would you be? Okay? And had this a couple of years ago, I don't remember that. That sounds like an accurate timetable, and that would that would actually rush people drafting metals. I mean we have them great, yeah, but we you know, we also have your guy and when we're Flora, we have Robinson Cano

in Yahoo has first base eligibility. He does crazy, so we we'll figure it out. But you know, if he does miss time, who's the biggest beneficiary there? Had Pender play every day for sure, Mark Canna, I mean I'm talking about like only probably Mark Hanna. I would think probably Marc greg I got some news here. The starting rotation for the Dodgers opening senteries has been confirmed. It will be engine ryou Stripling, Meda, and Bueller in that order.

So Walker, Bueller we'll be going the first time through here in the rotation, which is kind of what we thought the dogs when we re read like the tax and reread the kind of information there, it was kind of what we thought, right well, it was either going to be towards the end of the first time through the second time through, but he's gonna given the injuries are like, all right, we need an so they have Walker Dealer. And another note, Nick Senzel has been reassigned

to minor league. Nick Senzel going to the minor leagues, not starting the season in the majors, which is good for you. It's not Jesse Winker fans out there. It's a good thing for you. Do you think Winker's the odd man out? Not necessarily. He's had a bad spring, which is the only thing that worries me because I think those are the players where you actually do have to pay attention to the spring, because obviously there's positions.

There's so many players for the Cincinnati Reds in the outfield, from Scott Debler to camp A Winker, Senzel Wage obviously, so those are the guys that you have to pay attention to. UH, Jesse Winker has not had a good spring. Um, I would be lying if I said it doesn't worry

me at all, because it kind of does. UM. I have him in a few locations, but they seem very scited about him, andor David Bell came out early in UH, early in camp and said, we want Winker to get Really I thought he might platoon because he's a left end. Then you got Kemp as a right he maybe platoon them.

So I think it's likely kemping center though that's the thing, Well, you're not gonna play, So the my thought process is like Senzel was just gonna take plaintime away from everybody outside of I think Chler will start and and that's what you've said, and maybe they want Senzel to get more experience at the center field position because he's an infielder. His entire career. So I think that just having one of these after there's gone only helps a guy like Winker,

only help Scotti, Cheveler, helps everybody. He's not there right now, but I mean it hurts for people who invest in Senzel. But he shouldn't be he shouldn't be gone for a while. Three weeks. I don't know if he's a three week guy.

I don't want to guarantee that. No, it's not for sure, because I know the first date that you can get called up is April twelfth, April around their range Shout Out to the Bench with Bubba podcast he had James Anderson wrote a wire on and I was listening to that on the way in today Greg and apparently they were talking about, well, Senzel could just come up whenever he's first eligible, but that game is actually a Mexico series, so they're not gonna call Nick Senzel up to a

Mexico series. So maybe slightly after that, you know, April would be great something like that. Yeah, i'd be happy with that. I just hope it doesn't link for a while and then all of a sudden he's not up till may You know what I mean? I would stink. Yeah, and he's actually climbing up draft boards a little bit. People are excited about him, but he had a lot of injury issues the last a couple of years. I'm not as excited as everyone else on Senzel this year.

Maybe it's one of those things where, like, prove it to me this year, stay healthy, I'll be on you next year and everything. Like, you know, if everything works out, then he'll be drafted as a top sixties. I think he's prepared for the majors though, you know what I mean. I know, but I also love the multiple position eligibility in a lot of leagues, so that to get a late round guy like that who could also be a stud is great, you know, because he could fill in

a lot of spots outfield, second base, shortstop. He has those eligibilities on Yahoo. That's a great pick in the late rounds. That's why you want to see him come up and see what he can do. You're a little bit more optimistic than me on sense. Yeah, like sends a lot. Like sends it a lot. By the way, Brewers have signed a reliever and it is not Craig Kimberal. It's Alex Wilson. Who they signed, so maybe they're not

going to get a Kimberle direction. Look, if kimber wants as much money as he was talking about, he wanted a long term deal now at this point, maybe he'll just take a one year deal at a high a a V. If that's something they were offering. Let's say, you know, if if the Brewers coming in and they're like, we'll give you one year, twenty two million, you're closer

for this, maybe kimberll takes it. But if not, as of right now, if the season started today, Greg Josh Hayters absolutely absolutely also starting today, the closer in it Alanna, I know we're talking about splitting time with him and aj mintor Youna remember Mints and Pitched. He's still hurt from and Dave O'Brien tweeted this out. He's the Atlanta Beat reporter that the force from his seatbelt strap hurt his shoulder after he's in a minor car wreck and

that's what has caused him to be out. That's that's not great. Yeah, you can't really So this Guyana will, you know, have an opportunity to really run away with this job. But this guy, you know, was dealing with a shoulder thing last year as well, right, Greg Hanna was out for a month of the sign out for a month or two in the summer. Yeah, I feel like I've read somewhere that Braves are going to be a little castes with him in terms of you using

so that might limit his uh save upside as well. Yeah, are you interested in because of this moving him up the board? I am not. I'm not really I'd move up a little bit, A little bit, I move a little rather have right now, Greg, this Guyana or Hunter Stricklet we've seen games already, the closer for the Mariners. Yeah.

I like the security as Jim about that. You know, if he's changed his tune, Greg, If if I asked you who in this Braves bullpen like if he can't go back to back days and a j Mint is not healthy, who is who's here that's gonna get save opportunity and Winkler? I know some people were talking about him last year he enters Jesse Biddle feels like he's

been a prospect forever. Oh sign him. All indications it doesn't seem like the Braves want to spend much money inside of what they did with Donaldson, they had the opportunity to sign Dallas Kaiko. It's not Kimber, but it seems like you're not hearing a lot about that now. I don't think they want to spend that much more. Their parrol has gone down since last year. Interestingly enough, I know, I know they said Donaldson, but they have

a lot of young players in their lineup. But I think it's interesting, like because Donaldson he made is playing, but he made the playoffs. Your window is now and your paris going down. Spend job of the brain. I don't I don't disagree and you will. About Dallas Kaiko, I don't think he's great. I think he's actually regressing

a little bit here. They can use another veteran arm like that, you know, near the top of the rotation you have if you have a Tehran Kaiko Galman and then you you mix it up Bussan or something like that. I know that they have a lot of arms, like young arms. Kyle right right, tearing it up in this Max Free has been good too record, So we'll see what they do. As of right now, Rosster resource has Max Freed in the bullpen. Any chance he's he's save upgrade. No, no, no,

he'll be more of a long reliever, potential starter. If someone goes down, I think the next man up would be Dan Winkle. I think we we have her. Craig Himberroll rumored back to Atlanta at one point before the way before the Milwaukee stuff came out. So see, you know, I think somewhere Kaio thing is weird too, like is clearly good enough A star somewhere absolutely makes a lot of sense too, right, shout to make some noises year. But I think he wants I think he just wants

too much money. Still. Remember there was a rumor that he turned down a pretty substantial deal from the Astros last year. I think they offered him like five or seventy five or something like that. There's also a massive mistakes turning down a big deal of the asterisk, yes, which is you know when we were talking, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. The agents have not been doing a great job. What happened with Michael stockis, well, that's a couple of years he hasn't you know, he

hasn't done great well. That's why all these guys are now signing extensions that all these extensions for sale, about to get a monster one yesterday's one yesterday. You see even some of these younger players, a mans gets an extension, Supposedly, Verlander and Cole think it makes us nobody wants to get every agency. I'm sure you would, Frank, sure you would get him and pinch stripes acted by the new year King. Yes he wasn't. Remember that was one of

the first years I was following the draft. Garry Cole got drafted and he never signed. I got a question, guys, sure, Speaking of closers, the Philly situation, Okay, Dave Robertson right now getting drafted as the closer. Yeah, I don't get that either. Sarranthony Domingo's is way better at this point. I think I don't know what I think he should be the closest. I don't know if I agree with that, but I don't know. And it's been it's Gave Kahler, and I just don't know that they're gonna have a

set closer, but I really don't. I don't know. I don't think they're gonna try. It's just gonna go back and forth. Whoever's fresh last year? And why would he go away from what he agree with. So but the question is should there be this much of a discrepancy? Exactly, that's the real question. Even Robertson is going at pick one sixty seven over the past two days in the Wow, Sir Anthony Domingius is going exactly. I'm always I'm taking

Domingos every time he picks difference. Would you rather have Domingus at the value or do you think a question that might split it? David Robertson might get to me, No question, it's Dominiez at that value. Like Robertson where he's being drafted, he being drafted is a bona fide closer. He's not that, absolutely not. So that's why you can be domini is all those because later no question, tons of potential to mean on the Phillies, Gordon Hicks, David Robertson,

Jordan Hicks, Hicks. You don't know if he's going to be the closer you get either stand by Alex Ranson might have the closer that I've said that Robertson or Will Smith. I don't know who the closer is in San Francisco either neither. I think there's a good chance to Will Smith. That's traded to. That's a really tough one. Yeah, that's a really tough one because I could easily see them given the contract trying to get Molansen to do it again. Molansen right for the past two days right there,

because of what people saw in Japan. Guess where Hunter he moved up the board significantly. Yeah, it's not just significant. What is he moves that that's to that's crazy, not to signific it's very signic where people but like that's one of those easies to pay and what you got on six ahead he's ahead of David roberts Chaszy should be. Yeah, he's the closer. All right, that's the way. That's the lottery. Next staff league. It'll be fun. That's fun. Do it.

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Earlier this week we looked at the rules that Steve set up. They were not appropriate or accurate in anyway, so we we fix those up. Um, so Steve the mic fro from the ground, so you can you can respond to me. Um, you can't just kill the guy. That's why I'm asking, and I'm going to write these down. So did we change? Did you change the categories? The categories are all said, all right, so the categories are all sets. Let me look at this here, all right, let me look at this. I have to change my

team name fatting average and ops offensive good. And then we got wins k's ear a whip quality start, Steve plus hold Steve, excellent jobies, welcome, thank you very much. So now it's most of our staff that wanted to participate fifty bucks pop. Like we said, a couple of listeners are in there as well. Now for this lottery, do we want to go twelve to one or one to twelve as we would pick it out? One is? While we want to out first first overall picks the

first duck out. Oh, actually, I think I'm asking you want to go the first duck out is picked twelve For the first duck out to pick one, well, fourteen would be the first. Um, either one. I like going backwards. Two, I'll take backwards. You want to go back four team out first fourteen? I got this already right in mention, you want Steve to pick. He's the commissioner. He set the whole thing up. He's gonna pick the first one

out close. Don't look, I don't. He can't look. When you do that, you gotta look at you gotta look a right. All right, here we go with the number fourteen pick in the pit draft. Who is it? It's Seancer, you are number four s games. You know what's funny? He was gonna pay an extra fifty bucks just to have the first pick. He was doing some coluding with him. If he would have if we would have won to fourteen, he wouldn't have first pick. But he didn't. Should have

offered more money. All right, Steve for thet pick in the twenty nineteen pit draft, he goes to Yang. Yeah, yeah, actually responsible for the league. It was his idea. You're the commissioner. Now it's yours, and I feel like one name already fell off. All right, that's okay if you take if you take that duck and we'll find the name jagright, Mike blew it. Mike Blewett gets picked No.

Pick twelve twelve. Sorry, Mike Blewett gets picked twelve. Mike Blue is in earlier today filmed with some He's not a winner unless maybe he wants to maybe he wants to pick from there. All right, and we have an empty empty duck. Alright, so the paper there's there's empty paper in there, the empty duck. Just you can stick your hand and you can look at it. This a matter, you're gonn shake up anyone. There's a paper in there. I see it. It is who our listener, Jake that

won the last spot. Jake got the last spot, and he's now pick eleven. You know his name is Jake. That's what the email said. All right, the fan could be wrong, job Jake. Pick eleven eleven, you can't go alright. Pick ten. It's me and my co manager Stan. We are tenn even stands stands st Stan is gonna help me draft. I don't know who stand is. One of my favorite bits for Friendly was Shawn Michael's yeah I

just kicked stand. That's stupid. All right? Inside the top ten. Now, next pick is inside the top ten, and it is it is me number nine nine, feel good, having good. I want to be in the middle. So I'm having pick nine. Okay, not I've said at a pick nine because a lot of good names can fall. So it's on the board anymore. Chris vent Shaw, Chris and I going back to back here, It's going to be crazy. I don't mind that because Chris and I very different

styles drafting, and it's so I'm between both of you. Guys. You're ready to see Josh Bell going in the first round. To worry about her Man Marquez because venus here you go worth that great number seven. Joe Joe Galina, Joe Galia, the fantasy Jesus is number seven. Fantasy Jesus is number seven. We get to pick number six. Frank Stamp will still on the board. No, he's not. Every time he says that six. Want you want to trade picks ranks? Upset about this number at six? I'm at nine six nice.

Just as the announcer, alright, top five is all the top five, top five, number five spitting speeds. Dane Martinez so still eating, he still in here. We have team Alex slash Martino, we had Wilson is in there, in there, Constant is no longer in there. Lots number four needs to stop. So top three we got Alex and Martino, we got Constantine and we got Keith. There is ali top three in there called the Shots, by the way,

goes live on video tonight. Either is already still in there is he costeint number three, which means Martino and Alex or Keith Arizari. We'll have the first pick overall. Here we go, here we go. I hope Martino gets with the number two pick. He goes to the number one overall pick is Alex and Martino. Al Right, our video producing downstairs to celebrate. Alex got lunch right now like the first pick. When he comes back there you go there it is Alex. He's got trout. The draft

is at what time? Steve eight o'clock Sunday night? Who is stand? Stand is Mike Cole manager, But we don't know stand I don't know Constant Costin's listener and a patre Ringer Ringer. Really he's an expert. Why you need an expert you can't do by yourself. I actually have a shoot on Sunday which ends really really close to the draft, so he might started for me and then we'll continue it. Okay, so shot weekend. We're very business weekend.

I don't want I don't think your friend's fiance's are watching. But he seemed okay with that. Yeah, I recommend. So Steve is such a good job for my engagement. I recommend that I recommend him everybody. I thought he was also helping make money. So now Greg, Greg has two friends that are getting engaged back to back days tonight and tomorrow, and Steve is shooting their engagements. We've got about four hours till one of them. Yeah, so Steve

has get worked out very quickly. All right, summer Fridays we got to get out of here earlier. We're doing summer Fridays absolutely, friends, I don't care about watch Madness. Clearly one of them really done too. And I asked, like, are you nervous? He's more nervous for Buffalo? All right? Oh, he should be more nervous because he's he's like sick, you know, gosh, he's a sick human being. Kid. Uh, this kid that loves Buffalo, he Buffalo bulls. Okay, okay,

money on it. So someone asked me in the chat earlier, can you talk about your cold pick in the second seems early. I took Garrit colast Night in the second. That's what I well, I had the I had the third pick overall of what pick overall? I believe we get all the way back and so right, No, yeah, it's that's fine though that yeah, I had the third pick, and so I got him with the eighth pick of the second round. You know the pictures before him with

Justin Burlander, Chris Sale. You know, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Right higher than that's you. I know who I want with ninth overall. I hope you don't take him. I think I know who you're thinking of it. I all then, No, it wasn't my think that overall. I would take him at an overall I'll tell you that right now. Right, you know, Frank's may fan too. But it's head to head, so things change a little bit. It's interesting. Yeah, I know what I

want head the heads awesome a weekly basis secret. Love it. I love it. I know what I want. I think maybe get him to like I said loud, because you guys all I already said mine out loud. It's not fair you pick before me, I know, but all the people like everybody picks before you ain't gonna take. Yeah, there's actually big news. We spoke about it during the break. I actually will be updating my relief picture rankings inside the Patreon. Inside the patreons available right now. Subscribe to

Franky's Patreon last week and of Fantasy drafts. You need all the up to date, up to date info, including Frank's updated rankings, which he says he's gonna do, so make sure you subscribe the patreon. Yes, I'm gonna spend spend the rest of today updating the position of rankings. I'm updating those on the site. I'm gonna update the closure tracker as well. I mean, this look like raft thing. It's all colorful based on get that up teams before Sunday. Please. Yeah,

I got to do it for myself too. Yeah, i'd like, do you know what you're going in with? Climbing all the way up the board? Alex column now confirmed as the closer. What we expected to happen, But I mean it's a little bit it's a little bit more helpful Greg now that we know for sure he's been named the closer. So Alex Column which so yeah, so the question becomes when you guys, rather have Alex Columnar or Hunter Strickland. I moved them up back to back. I

have Strickland fifteen and column A sixteen. Yeah, I rather have strictly, I think I think they're in the same boat. I think the White Sox might actually be a better team this year than so I don't disagree with that. I'd rather I'd rather have Strickland because if column A falters Horere is there Strictly falters, anybody there'll find someone if he's that bad, Yes, of course, but like column formaly know the first time he falters could be horrare. You know what I mean? Well, I don't. We don't

know how long this question. I have a reliever question for you. What do you think about Vino this year? I like him as a reliever to fantasility os and give you yeah, that makes sense, right holds So that's kind of why. And I think a lot of leagues actually and to switch you know what matters that Stason Holds, David Robertson and Sranthony doming Yes, in the league like this and raft the best talent right when it comes to the relief pictures because the holds leaders are going

to give you, you know, thirty to thirty five. Yeah, the top holds leaders. Well, Britain is going to be the Britain is gonna get the holds. The guess but I would think that right. So now Britain steps up to the eight role and I would think seven roll. That's what I'm thinking. I would say a lot of holes. So Britain's a guy to jump in on. I would jump in on before out of the value. Would you rather have you rather pay up a little bit more for Britain or take Davino a bit later. I'll just

take the value. I'll take whoever goes last. That okay, And I think Attovino actually helps you more for fancy purpose, I can give you more strike out. Britain's very good, could have an elite ear, a elite whip. He doesn't strike out nearly as many batters as I think. This is where League should start to trend more saves plus holds. Because again we did the relief picture preview. What I said was in it saves plus hold League. At that point, you're just drafting the best talent, and that's how it

should be. Like we shouldn't have to draft Cody Allen because he might give us thirty saves a four point five e r A over Josh Hayter. And that's the problem. Like half the team, well not half to I say about thirty teams in the league don't know who that closure is. You got two or three closes trying to figure it out, and you almost don't want to draft

any of them. If you're in a saves league, you draft both three players a team that should be rosterable that you just can't hold on a team because they're not giving you anything, right, like a guy that's gonna give you one inning and two strikeout, it's worthless. Hold has no value, right, right, it should go over five last year, but he was consistently rostered because he gave people the thirty saves and I drafted him last time. And Frondsky another one you know who's really Ryan Pressley

and he was nasty down to stretch for them. So yeah, there's a lot of guys there. You go, guys, study up, study up when you set up man over the weekend and find out just serious for leavers aren't waiting for your for your list man and you're you know I actually do on the closer tracker? Is I I tracked the obviously the guys who expect for the ninth inning, but also I put the next man up set up relievers do that as well? Have that hopefully done by tonight.

You're right about that too, which should go in that direction. Saves hold should be uh standard thing. Eventually it should be a standard. Then we don't want to worry about taking and when d has in the fourth round, I never do have people do. But would you not rather have the fifth best reliever than the third worst closer which you might want to roster in a Yeah? Did you have Shane Green everywhere? Man? To him? The other day in GSC? You have him everywhere? Man? That wasn't

It wasn't. Yeah, But it's gonna take It's gonna take a long time for it to become an industry standard, though, I mean usually these things take wait. So in my opinion, it's similar to fantasy football superlex have PPR to me should be the standard PPR to because full PPR is you're overvaluing wide receivers and pass catching running backs who might not have that much value for an actual football team.

You're overvaluing them too much for fantasy. All PPR was made because wide receivers did not have enough value in the nine in the early two thousands, when running backs were dominating fantasy, when the entire first round was running back, they needed to create PPR to make wide receivers better. Now the spectrum has gone the complete other way. Wide receivers are really really good again. Why can't we just

make it half PPR? And I know this is the point that Jake has made about PPR is should you really get a point if you catch a screen pass and you lose yours, like, you know, a screen pass or neg of five yards? Did you gain a Fantasy point for that half a point? Yeah, at least have a point. It makes sense. Yeah, I like that. I feel like four PPR just gives too much value. So I would love to see half PPR become the industry standard and safe plus holes become the standard rather than Yeah.

I think so too. I mean there's a lot of sense because you're quite frankly, you're rewarding the best relievers, like the guys are best at their jobs. We can get excited to draft amingez Ryan Pressley, who you mentioned like these guys are very valued of their teams, and just an arbitrary save category kind of like an arbitrary wind category. It doesn't does make sense anymore, right, So it's almost like true, almost like kickers in a way, yes,

a weird way, in a weird way. Yes, you just want the guy that's gonna have the most throwing a dart, and you want the guys gonna throw a dart the most times. Well, I mean you've got more research to on closes. You got more that you could project polatively from year to year trying to the same reject saves because all right, last year, for example, Edwin Diaz had fifty seven. The chances of him having over fifty again

are minimal, well on the mess minimal. And you know what, the chances of him even leading the league in saves are not great. Yes, I mean saves they can fluctuate from year to year. Yeah, it's very hard to the worst team in the league could have the most sat a saved. It's not you need them a certain amount of ron's a certain amount of innings pitch. It's not just you coming out there and pitching an inning. Yeah, there's a bridge to you and everything. Yeah, there's a lot. Listen,

I agree, this is where it go. It's gonna be saves hold saves plus holds that you're not a big march madness guy. No, do you think it would be. I don't know. If you're in like the World Cup and you're kind of you're betting on stuff, is like the king of all that I watch you, You know, I just don't know enough. I feel like that's a lot of research that I would have to add to my repertoire can a lot because I don't like that you know half of something. I want to know all

of it, you know what I mean. That's the best part. We all become experts in three days. That's the best part of that. It would take you forever. Bruins, have that work out for you. Terms and LSU tomorrow at twelve ten. It's gonna be awesome for Venture, for Steve, for Frank. I want to thank Nick Pollock from Pitchuls for joining us one. I thank Bivona, Shawn, Alex, Natalie, everybody downstairs having wonder a weekend. We'll see it back here on Monday. We hope