3/25, Part 2: Spring Training, Turner bases, Jose Ramirez injury, and more...

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the more easy. You can pound. They're not gonna see you, Pat because for the camera's on us. But that's cool. Matt Striker and Mike the rohto Cop are here to talk about what's going on in their fantasy baseball world and break down all the latest news with us. So, gentlemen, welcome to the show. Thanks for coming in, thanks for having us. Really appreciate it absolutely. But first and foremost, where can people listen to your podcast? Let him know's

on pod. On Twitter, you could follow me at Mike the Rhoto Cop, follow Matt at Matt Underscore, Riker Underscore and Matt Underscore Striker Underscore, as well as on rasball dot com. There you go, and they can also follow you from sure a bunch of wrestling stuff as well. Yeah, but we're here to talk about fantasy baseball. Baseball is real. That is I look at that. Look at that, not implying anything, but there you go. Absolutely, So the biggest

news in fantasy baseball came. There's a lot of news yesterday, right with the biggest stuff being that Josie Ramirez in the first inning leaves the game after taking a ball off the knee, and you're just like a crap, And we did the same thing, Frank, We drafted them fourth overall. I'm sure you guys have him somewhere. And it wasn't like he just limped off. It wasn't like he crawled off. It was he was taking on a golf cart and immediately taking him to the X ray machine and thankfully

everything comes back negative. But Matt, you're you're an athlete. Is that is that enough to kind of kualda worries for you? Yeah? Absolutely. When you find out what the results were and you realize that it's just gonna be a bruise or things like that, you do hold your breath for a second, but then after a while you realize he's a quality athlete. He's going to be just fine. But as from a fantasy perspective, you go exactly and I know in an hour draft that we had last night, Frank,

he didn't really drop right. He still went in the middle of that first round where he's been going. And I was looking on Twitter right after the injury and people were talking about taking him in the middle round, like this is like overreaction, like fantasy twitters that something is a thing. Well, you know what, I think it's it's a reaction to metals because we didn't know what was happening with Matt Olsen, and there were a lot of drafts going on, you know, Thursday, even Friday before

we had information. I think, you know, people who might have drafted matt Olsen, it might have got burned, you know, by having like injury optimism there. So you see this happen to Josier mirrors yesterday and the fact that he was harded off and he was riding rolling around in pain. I think it worried a lot of people because you know, talking about potential shin breaks, something wrong with his knee there. So especially for a guy we expect to steal bases,

I mean that that's what worries me the most. Is just gonna affect his ability to run, you know, his lower legs. You know, that's kind of why I've pivoted off of Francisco Lindor, which kind of scared me because you know, you want Landor to steal twenty five basses. Now he's dealing with a cash train. So I understand people might worry about Hosier mirrors, but I mean for the initial reaction to be let's drop him down into the middle rounds, I thought that was a little too much.

Like you said, fantasy Twitter is just is something is completely something else. Now speak of Cleveland, Mike, we've been I was looking at their infield with Josierramires hurt and indure her, and it's like this team is terrible, Like you don't realize that the Cleveland team that has been so good for the last few years isn't It's not the same team anymore. The pitchings outstanding, but Lindore, Josie Ramirez, Carlos Santana's back, but the rest of it's not good.

And yeah, you have Jake Bowers in the off field, but the infielders filling in, you have Brad Miller there and some other guys you haven't heard of. So Frank kind of led us to Hanley Ramirez and Hanley Ramirez being a part of this Indians team. He was somebody that Frank was interested in picking up in leagues, picked up in a league. What do you think, Mike about Hanley Ramirez? This is the best case scenario for Himley and all the options coming into the season where he

could land. He actually found himself in the fifth spot on the roster. Resource to have him in the fifth spot in an Indians line up? Do you think a roster ressearch? By the way, what why do we have it here? Is there like an inside roster researchs a bit of an inside I think roster resarch. Honestly, I don't know the people for Rossal Resource, so I hate to just like destroy them. It's terrible. It's terrible, but it's not act. It's not accurate, educated, similar to what

we do. Okay, so what do I need them for? What do you think Hanley Mirrors is gonna bat in the line up? Greg? I don't know if he's gonna play every day. You're the one that's community can play every day. Who's gonna take his spot? That's what? Is it gonna be Jordan's Lapwell, I don't make so. I don't know. He got him at d H here onst Source, but one guy they also have Eric Stammit's is playing shortstop, which I don't think it's gonna be the case. So

there you go. It's like an extreme on each side. Don't sleep on you, Chang Chang, Who I change you guys? You're not really my guy. I don't want to go on air about Chang saying if he gets that baths and for Mirrors does hit the I l might find his way into some at bats in the infield. He had twenty four homers in the minors two seasons ago. I kind of slowed down a little bit, but he could provide extreme, extreme cheap pop someone's middle field position.

I got him for two dollars yesterday's bab and uh T j FPI I probably could have gotten from one dollar. I didn't check to see if anyone else been on him. I highly doubt it. I don't sleep on you Chang. That's another option for for the Indians. And he's got a great name to say, yes, you don't you think this is actually perfect time to bring up Yeah, so what I do? So? I am very into the um cool name theory, and I think prospects are hyped up

when they have cooler names. Actually looks back to Alexander Bogart's Trevor Bauer when with popular Corvin Burns right like Tyler Skaggs, like these guys have to ben to say right. So you Chang right in there. It's the cool name of theory. But I will say this, as far as Lindora and Ramirez, I've been off of them for a while now. Ramirez won me in ten leagues. Last year he won me seven out of my ten leagues. So this year I was saying to myself, I want to

deviate and I want to go somewhere else. So I've been off of those guys, which has allowed me to look at guys that could replace them. Maybe sometimes I can build Ramirez orl Indoor out of two different guys. So when I see these things happen, I kind of say, not cool, but cool off the worry. I agree, these guys were kind. They're not on an avoid list by any means. I would never put it as on avoid list.

The fact that they lost so much protection in the off season between Edwin Brantley, Donaldson injury, wind Or injury, So Jose Aramirez, where is his protection to the lineup going That's just something you think about drafting. Kind of not an avoid but just something to think about. It was a bad day for Second Basement all around over the weekend with Josie ramire Is going down, after Scooter Janette goes down, and Scooter Jeannette was a guy that

I I've been part of. Like there's two sides of Fantasy Twitter when it comes to Scooter Jeannette, and that was the fact that those that don't understand it and those that just don't care that they don't understand it, but they buy into it. Because he's really good. He gets hurt, changes growing very significantly out eight to twelve weeks, and the obvious idea would be that, hey, r Nick Senzel, He's played second he's played up, played second base throughout

his miner's career, and they're like, no, he's a center fielder. Now, Okay, maybe that's all b asked to hold him down until April fifteenth, which is the date that he can come up, and it probably is, but nevertheless, for our purposes, he's not coming up, which means Josie LaSIE is going to be the starting short stop from this team, and whose Pa slides over the second base, which could Frank open up more an opportunity or more position eligibility for whose Peraza,

giving him second base and shortstop eligibility depending on how many games he plays there. Yeah, I think he'll gain the second base eligibility, and it's a position he's played in the past. Does jos actually someone that's been pretty hyped up here during during the uh the draft season because of stolen bases? Right, everyone's trying to find stolen bases, and I did it last night. I think they look, you know, they look back at what he did in

the minors. I don't know that he has like this crazy stolen base upside like we're expecting, you know, maybe he steals twenty to thirty. I think he's that you know that range, tend a fifteen home runs something like that. But my biggest worry with Paza at this point was where is he going to batten the lineup? So this might actually help him now if he's able to move up in the line up a little bit, obviously helps him score more runs. So we'll see what happens with there.

As of now, they say Jose Glaze is gonna fill in at shortstop. He's a fine defensive player, but I'm not really expecting much from him offensively or for for fantasy purposes. I'll say you, I don't really love the fact that the Reds sent down Scooter Genet because uh sent down Nick Senzel, because they've been talking about fielding their best team. Clearly they're not you know, abiding by that or listening to their you know, what they're telling people.

But if they really do want to just play him at center and have him focus on center field, I don't have a problem with that, because they've been trying to transition him into that. It's like you don't want him to go back and forth between outfield and second base. He's right kind of mess with a young prospect. So at least like, if you're gonna make me a center fielder or an outfielder, just stick to that, all right. Let him get his reps in the minors. Hopefully he's

up by mid April. Uh. You know a lot of people excited about him, and rightfully so I don't have a problem with them keeping him in the outfield. And Mike and I talk about this on our show on the strike Zone pot that I own shares of Senseil and now he has the n A next to him, so I have to But on the flip, I think the Reds are gonna be good and I like the options that it gives for that outfield. I'm a big, yassy guy uses a birdman bat, and I'm friends with

a lot of guys over bird man bats. But I think guys like Jesse Winker and scotch But now become even more interesting. If you are looking for some kind of something in the middle or late rounds, a guy like Chad even a guy like Winker. There you you go right there. So if Senzel stays down, I don't like it because I own shares of him, But at the same time, it may give people out there an

option in late rounds. For me, the reason I jumped like on Josie Perrazza was because not only is not that his playtime wasn't secure, it was he's gonna move on the order a little bit. And I know they're planning on leading off Jesse Winker and having Joey Vato that second, But ifs Parazza could run a little bit more and so now get towards the top about that lineup, the opportunity for him to score more runs are going

to be there. Uh there? Certainly with twe and you, any of Suarez and kept behind him, I think the possibilities are endless. So that's why I was really excited last night to jump in on Josie Prazza, and that's what I did, Like, I need a little bit of speed and knowing this this lineup and there are a team that's trying to win. I was in on Perrazza. Who else in the lit up are you? And all? Make um pretty much in on everybody honestly, Jesse Winker.

If he gets the bats that they're promising, he's gonna be a real good value in fantasy Joey Votto, everybody's on always. Suarez is gonna coming off the great year week, I guess is the name to talk about here, because like everyone else, I think Pa is gonna see as long as he stays on the field. There's it's a little worried about his injury history, But as long as he stays, I think I think Queek will be the guy to own in Cincinnati. Fair enough. Please your your

guy too, Frank. We've had a discussion a lot of the ASTI Puig versus David dal versus George Springer versus Tommy fam and I have Queen ranked higher than all those guys. So so really aggressive here. But if there's anyone who's gonna show up, and I've continuously said this about Peek, if there's anyone that's gonna show up in a contract year who wants to get paid more than we all want to get paid, But nobody wants to

get paid more than He's got a lot of money. Look, he's in a great ballpark from beginning to the end of the season. It's the best ballpark that he's played, and he's going to be right in the middle of everything. I mean, they're seriously thirty home run you know, fifteen to twenty based upside here. I just gotta keep his head on straight. And I like the point that you

made about Scott Schebler too. While we lost Nick Senzel for the early portion of the season, you know, for the first month, Scotch Cobbler might see every day at bats, and if that happens, it's likely going to be in the middle of this lineup. So there's cheap production to be had there too, your fifth outfielder in a fifteen team league or and only for sure. Yeah, the only problem to concern for me is going to be the pitching.

And I'm not on Sunny Gray. Alex would will be hurt maybe by the time we go off the air. So I'm really glad you said that because last night we're going to I'm in a league with Frank and our old co host Mike. I don't call my bff anymore after I'm just kidding anyway, So Florio, so we own Alex would and he was one of our last picks in the league. And I'm just like we were going over waivers for last night and I go, well, we can probably drop Alex would and Frank's like, honestly sure,

but that's Mike's guy. You gotta talk to Mike. And Mike just sends me back some snarky quality greater sign quantity, and I'm like, I gotta be a dick about this, like, just tell just tell me really feel I mean, just tell me, like, yeah, you don't give me some cliche line. If you like him, it's fine, but quality of a quantity That's how I won all my leagues last year. I'm like, come on, dude, we're friends. Like, don't treat me like i'm your Patreons subscribe. Everybody can subscribe to

Patriot right now, but like, tell me why. And his theory is just that, especially in rodal leagues, it doesn't matter how many innings you get out of these guys, as long as the innings that you do or quality not. You're kind of like because I mean, and first of all, I grew up in Queens. I think I know fifteen Mike Florio's and I played hockey with eight of themselves. He's probably the same guy, but I get that but if you're in these Rhoda leagues, and I understand what

he's saying, but so I love the waiver wire. I worked the waiver wire like it's my job, and I love pitching. So I would much rather go out and and find this type of guy every other third or fourth day then have to sit and worry about about Alex Wood or I mean, I mean, there's there's other options there, tender row Ark. I think even Molly is

going to make the rotation. There's this other options there. Well, what's also dealing with the lower back tightness, So he's already hurt, That's what I say, not even off the area that's the star with him. So like like Matt said, I think there's other options to be at every third or fourth day, a guy like Alex Wood, who knows how many can we just send Florio this? I don't have a problem with it. I will say this. At least he's staying on brand because he loves rich Hill too.

So I kind of love alex Wood. You might as well love rich Hill and she how many other guys he could get back? He wanted us to draft Kershaw at that point, it was like the eighth round. So if you would have got him, I would have been it right with you know, I will mention Sonny Gray does have my attention. I know he was really bad with the Yankees, but the home road splits were drafting. He was much better on the road, and I think

it was an organizational thing. I do kind of buy it with what Sonny Gray said about, you know, the Yankees wanting him to use his slider and throw it strikes and it's just something he wasn't able to do. So if he goes over to Cincinnati where they actually have the pitching coach that came over from the wakee uh, and you know he did great work with with the Brewers rotation. Obviously what he did with Josh Hayter. Sonny

Gray has my attention. So you know, I want to see what he can do here early on in the season. You know, maybe in some shallower leagues. I put him, like on my scout team. I obvious see what he does early on in the year. I don't know if he's worth rostering in like twelve team leagues Greg, but anything deeper than that, I would say, Yeah, I'm intrigued here by Sonny Gray. I want to see what he can do. I just think the high fly bowl tendency,

especially in that park. I think, Mike, you agree with that. And Uh, he's never really been a strikeout guy. And I like to see my guys create the whiffs that are generate the whiffs, and he's never really done that. So maybe Cincinnati's a turning point for him and he gets to pitch the way he wants to pitch, because like in New York, he wasn't pitching the way he wants. Before we hit the break, it was a weekend full of closers, right Hunter Strickland. We know, we saw what

he did in Japan last week. He's the bodified closer. We talked about that last hour. We talked a lot about Greg Holland and how he's now very much on the fantasy radar because he was named the closer, and that was a big talk last hour. I want to get into Jordan Hicks as well, because on Friday, Brian Schilt was like, you know what, we don't have a closer, but it's gonna be Jordan Hicks that gets the majority of the sieves. And that's all us fantasy owners want

to hear. If that is the case, Mike. I want to go in to you here and that's the case, Mike. How high on all these lists of relievers would you put Jordan Hicks. He's on his way to the top. This is uh, this is great for my Hicks share. I have a share of Jordan Hicks, and I'm very happy to hear this news. This is the guy who woluped the slider last year. So his Synker at a pitch value attend is Slider at a pitch value of five.

And now he redeveloped his changeup, which I don't know if you've seen the gifts from either Picture List or Rob Friedman change up looks filthy too. So if he could have to change up to his repertoire, he's gonna be right up there with I don't want to go as far to say the Josala Clarks of the world. That's that's reasonable, though, I think I think right under

right under him. If he could get those strikeouts his cape or nine to go up to either probably around the ten, he's gonna be in a league closer going into two thousand twenties and for the rest of the season, obviously, And I think that makes a lot of sense given given how good he is in those pitch and there's numbers that you said. The look issart I had was the other guys. They're right edge Miller. Is there Alex Rays in the bullpen? That's scary. Yeah, But on top

of all of this, I'm a Cardinal fan. Hicks throws one five, So let me leave it at back. Yeah, I think that will work. We're gonna take a break here. When we come back. I want to get into your guys teams. Who do you have the most shares of? Why? Who have you avoided? Why? We'll break that out, tuck your parents out what we've done when we come back. Fantasy Best Friends Forever. Fantasy Sports Radio network Daily Rhodo dot Com learned from the game's best DFS players. We

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Morised online Duck. So it's interesting. So Stryker closes his eyes when you can read and just run like this and you're like reading your computer like, I just gonna make sure you get the Twitter. It has so much going on. I gotta this is as far as if we're a tag team. I'm the Marty Janettie and he's the shot. Michaels. Absolutely, man, Mike is the man that

is there. You go, I'm just gonna at this point just be the Paul Haman's in it to him as a nice Jewish point from Scars, exactly so perfect me. The fantasy season is about to start where the MV season has started. It's really gonna kick off Thursday. Everybody plays on Thursday. Your draft done. I have one tonight, one tomorrow. When one Wednesday from I'll do nine This year,

I did tend see I'm insane. My girlfriend's ready to leave me, and I basically really just sit at home and I just have all these little pieces of paper everywhere. Going to the kitchen it's X fit, going to the bathroom, this it's just everywhere. I Mean, I'm nuts, but I love it, and I think you have to love it to be successful. At like how many of these are doing. On the contrary, I like my girlfriend, and I don't.

I'm only in four, but my four is probably equal to somebody else's funny with the amount of with thee I pay attention to the four. You know what I mean. I want to get in my old I don't want to just set a lineup, not check guards. So I'm more like you. I think I'm in four or five, and that's a lot for me because I can't. I can't do. I've been at least of Frank where I have too many leagues. I just lose it and Frank gets piste off of in. It's fine, but our partnership's

gotten better now before Fantasy Basketball champions today, so excited. Um. The point is, I can't. I can't do what you do, and I can't do what you do in the amount of leagues that you guys are in. And Frank will have his sticky pad on this computer by this time next week. I put the sticky pad up in the house. I don't want to. I just got this computer. I'm not ready to put the sticky notes on the computer.

Like I couldn't pay attention to all nine of those leagues, knowing who's out there, knowing how much to bid, especially on Sunday nights. If if your fabs running overnight, I I couldn't do it. It's much more manageable to do the four leagues, in my opinion, so you could really dive in and really know what's going on in every single league and make the trade offers and so on and so forth in those four leagues. Who's been your guy this year or guys? I am very happy to

say this, my guy has been Chris Paddock. With cread of four leagues, I have Chris Paddock. So the follow up question to that your first draft, your first draft was winning, your last draft was, well, that's where it gets interesting. My first draft was in February and I got Chris Paddock or towards the n February was actually the tj FBI. I got him at two seventy eight in round nineteen. And fast forward two weeks later, I did a main event qualifier on NFBC. I got him

at two nineteens. So that's the difference of whatever it is fifty picks right there, I was around fifteen four rounds. Fast forward again too, more recently, I did a Yahoo Pro A thousand and I got him at two oh three. I got him at two or three was funny. I don't know the guys in the draft because it's yeahoo league. The guy went insane when I took him at in the seventeenth round. But now his main event a DP is one seventy from all the main eventurey hafts that

have been going on. My deal with Paddock, I don't know. If you guys are familiar on Baseball Reference, you could, uh, there's a metrical the pointing quality, and you can really gauge gouges how um in spring training what kind of level of competition you're facing. So you know, everyone says spring training it doesn't matter. You could begade it from a one to ten and being major league level competition,

one being rookie ball competition. So Chris Paddock has an eight point two, which is sitting there between probably like a low lower major league hitter, but it's still a high triple a lower major league hitterer. So what he's done in spring is pretty impressive to have a two point one three year right against that kind of a point in quality. You check some other guys there pointing qualities like four or five, and they're having good springs.

That's something to keep an eye on with with Paddock spring. If anyone tells you it's just spring training, it's not just spring training. He's facing major league talent, be it lower league, major league talent, but it's still major league talent to do what he's doing. The twenty strikeouts in the twelve and two thirds kids insane. He's got a plus change up plus fastball average, curveball plus command, and

he's lining up to start against San Francisco. I don't know any Giant fans out to be ready for it, because Chris Paddock's gonna dominate San Francisco that first start of the season. Right when we were an NBC, we consistently saw Chris paddickill in the thirteenth to the fifteenth round, depending on what draft you're watching or what auction you were in, and he went for him Lazaro before Lazardo got hurt, all in that same in that same range.

And now it's been very consistent. And what I like about it, Frankie, is not that he's going so high, because I don't think it's so high. I still think it's a spot where the return on investment will be good enough. It's not like we we talked about this all the time. A guy like ever Shade Biber and my Clevinger, they have to come through for you now. Even where they're drafted, Chris Paddock doesn't still getting him where you're getting him in the fourteenth round. It's still

a lottery ticket, which I like, I couldn't agree more. Yeah, Chris Paddock. Over the weekend there was a a ton more NPC made of Vegas in Vegas and his ADP from this weekend specifically one sixty six point five. So he's all the way up there. He's being drafted as a top forty starting pitcher now now, but again he has the top had to be a top thirty guy, top twenty five at season's end. And it's very obvious at least at this point, that the Padres are going

to be aggressive with him. So maybe he'll you know, he'll he'll miss a few starts throughout the season. They'll try and limit the endings. But I still think, you know, he could get one fifty one sixty and if he gives you one sixty of a sub three six e r A and a good whip because he doesn't walk anyone, and he gets a ton of ground balls and he gives you, you know, let's say eight case per nine. Again, that's legitimately like a top thirty, top five starting pitchers.

So I don't have any problems with him. You know, we share a lite together. We do the the g ST fifteen team Roto. We got him last week, and I believe like the fifteen or sixteenth round as our SP five or SP six. I love it, man, I have no problems with it. And you say that eight k and nine, I'd be disappointed if it's Kata nine. Is an eight be a little bit more conservative, but he has the stuff to get it to strikeout per ny. You know that's just me like conservatively protecting, but he

could be even better than that. Does anyone have a concern though, that the Padres may shut him down at some point and then or you've already gotten you value out of him. That's the thing I don't think care. I think if we seriously you can miss a start like here there towards the end of the the season, a lot of it comes down to you, Okay, are the Padres playing for a wild card spot? Because I think at that point like they have to put out their best product. They got to try and win games, so

that will pay a lot into it. If they're not, then yeah, I could see them maybe taking it easy on him. But for the most part, I would say, maybe he'll skip a start here there, they'll try and limit some of the innings. But I still think that he can get to that one six mark by the end of the season. One caveat with all this is we're talking about Rodo here. But if you're in the head to head league like Yahoo Pro and thousand, don't expect them to be there when you're in the playoffs.

Those starts might not be there. Sure, But again but again again, where you are, where you're drafting, it doesn't matter. Yeah, exactly, and and I don't I don't really care personally. I draft the pad again our yeah who head to head last night does not bother me in the least. I'll drop them. Figure it out come August and September. Matt, who's a guy that you do in your nine leagues or somewhere seven that you've drafted the far drafted six

so far, have three more left. And I was looking at it, and this wasn't by design but it just happened to be this way in every league. I owned Aaron Hanson, I owned V GJ, Vladimirgold, and I owned Joe Musgrove. And I'm fine with all of that, to be honest with you, And that's where I'm right now. As well as Jack Flaherty is another guy that I've been just all over because I'm a Cardinal fan and I really like the stuff that's your fandom, your Cardinal fan.

I don't know what you're talking about. We all love Jack Flaherty too, and I want to getting to Garrett Hampson. Are you nervous about him not playing every day? I mean, Mike and I talked about this on the show. We do think that Ryan McMahon could be pushing back against him, But I just think with Hampson's defense and speed is such a commodity in fantasy baseball this year, So I just I am hopeful that when he does play, and he plays himself into the lineup, that they'll find another

place for McMahon. You mentioned David Dods, China Doll. He's gonna break at some point. Ian Desmond, you can have him. I don't want him. There's gonna be somewhe where from McMahon and Hampson to both play, so it doesn't concern me that much. We got a lot of questions about these two, specifically over the weekend. Everyone wants exposure to

cors Field and Colorado. Obviously, I do think that Ryan McMahon is gonna be on the strong side of the platoon, playing at second base most times against right handed pitching. But I still do think that Hampson could find playing time around because they could give someone a day off here and there. They've been using him in the outfield and spring training, so I mean he could play against lefties.

If they want to sit Ryan McMahon, he could play in the outfield they want to give Desmon a day off, or they want to give Dollar a day off, or you know, he's one injury away. Remember there's Daniel Murphy on this team who is playing with like bone on bone on his knee. You mentioned David dal who has been injury prone. So we're not rooting for these injuries.

But if something were to happen, Garrett Hampson is going to be the primary beneficiary because he's a super utility bat at this point for the Colorado Rockies, Garrett Hampson, Ryan McMahon, really anybody in Colorado or on our radar. And I was stuck drafting Garrett Hampson's by starting a shortstop. But you know, if he is in Colorado, I mean you and I could go to Colorado and probably hate you. I can't say I can, but you probably Daniel Murphy

bone On Mury. He can conceivably hit like way over his head in Yeah, I was afraid to say it, but I'm glad you did. Frankie Monty could three fifty and then you're the big winner if you drafted him. Absolutely. Now, Ronald Acunia Frankie is a name that we drafted. We we draft him in our g D D league. He was our first pick. And I know you and I had a debate of a Kunia versus Yello, and we ultimately decided on yelled. He went for too much. We stuck with a Kuna. Cuna is betting clean up against

right handers. He's probably clean up against left handers. He's going to stay at the cleaning spot. How much does that hurt his value? Similar to what Matt said about this, I think obviously you lose some stolen bases, and that's I think that's what people were most excited about for a Kunia. He could hit thirty plus home runs with you know, maybe potentially thirty steels. Right, he has the

upside to be a thirty thirty hitter here. Uh, the speed is legit absolutely, but you know, batting clean up, I think that might slow him down a little bit. Here maybe we're closer to like fifteen eighteen stolen basis. But you know, as a result, if he were hitting leadoff, his RBIs might be capped maybe eighty. Now, hitting clean up with Freddie Freeman ahead of you, and Josh Donaldson ahead of you, and you know entran c RTE and uh and Ozzie, I'll be splitting the leadoff duties here.

We're talking. You can drive a D ten seriously in this lineup. So you lose some stolen bases, but obviously you gain you gain some more county stats when it comes to the r BIS. I think the runs are gonna be good regardless because I expect a lot from this Braves lineup, So it's it depends what you needed. I think people would have wanted the stolen bases more, but you gain r BIS. You lose something, you gain something else. It's tough to put a put a specific

number on it. Um he missed a month last year, which a lot of people don't really talk about too much, but fourteen of the stolen basis came from leadoff and then when he hit second the line up, which is really the only thing we have to compare it to, he only ran three times. He was one for three, So that's something just to keep an eye on with him. But if you're drafting around with the Kuna, you're gonna get everything no matter where he has on lineup. And

now what you lacking stolen bases? What's he gonna steal ten less bases? If that's gonna make up in RBS and home runs and runs and everything else. So the opportunities will be there for him in a in a really good Atlanta lineup, I gotta say I am off, and I'm also off yell at two. I mean, call me crazy crazy, but I am. I'm just off of these guys because I just I see a regression coming. I will be amazed if they can match or surpass

what they each did respectively this season. Before I'll say one thing, A Kuna did have a three fifty something BABIT, which so expect a little bit of aggression in his in his average and his overall average this year, but he's still an absolutely. I think he's easily no question the first round there. I actually disagree with you. Oh my gosh, you could still you could still hit two eighty. Even if the batting average comes down from town was high.

He still strikes out around a quarter of the time. And what I've said about Yellows, I don't disagree that he's going to regress, but I think even if he regresses, he could still be a top ten player for fantasy, because you know, if he hits three ten with home runs instead of thirty six and a hundred runs and a hundred RBIs and still steals twenty bases, I mean that's the top ten player for fantasy. So I do agree like regression is gonna come, but I still do

think that he could pay off value regardless. So just looking at some numbers, and Mike and I are big numbers guys, So Yellows his home run fly ball rate was thirty that's a full fifteen points higher than his career average. So let's just assume a rate this year, and that's being generous. He loses a third of his home runs right away. He had a three seventy three babbit his career is three fifty nine, So let's assume

a drop an average as well. If he hits ten less home runs and loses twenty to twenty five points off his average, yes he's still valuable, but he might even be dipping into like a second round kind of guy.

The reason I say I'm off him is that in the first round I want to throw my draft into a frenzy when everyone thinks I'm supposed to take Christian Yellos, and I swoop in and take I don't know, Mike the roodocop, so who so who are you taking over Yellow and un or who have you been taking if you have one of these like top six or seven picks, it depends. I'm a big pitching guy, and a lot of my league's guys don't touch pitching in all the

six or seventh round. So I'm jumping in and I'm grabbing Jacob de Grand before anybody, and I'm grabbing Aaron Nola before anybody. Mike, and I love Trevor Bauer and what it does is it sets everyone off of their game plan. And I love that because I'm just I'm a villain and I love to watch people go crazy. I think I'll take Trade turnover both those guys over yellow.

In the NFC, we saw Trade Turner going, let's get three and because I know there's an overall in violve and you need to speed, but Trade Turner, I was surprised, right how just how high he was going, And Mike, you're right on it. A hundred sixty two games last year, he does that again, He's gonna have another great season. He he has a better year than last year. It's gonna be an unbelievable season. So I expect a lot

from Trade Turner this year. People people saw the report about eight stolen basic attempts, and look if they actually legitimately let him do that. I personally would love him to hit leadoff, because if you look at his career, hitting leadoff versus is like hitting second or anywhere else in the lineup. He's much more aggressive stealing basis hitting leadoff. So I know, as of now it's like Adam Eating is supposed to lead off, and and Trede Turner bad second.

But they've already come out and said that they want trade Turner to attempt this many stolen bases. Does it happen? I don't know. I still think that you get hit towny home runs and steal fifty basses. If that's the case, you know he'll perform like a top five hitter for fantasy purpose. They still stole seventeen basses last year from hitting seconds, so I'm not worried about worried about his

storm basis at all. Like the question that I had in my draft last night was myself on my second starting pitcher, and that was between Patrick Corban and Stephen Strassburg. Would you have taken You've said neither, neither. Um you mean Patrick Corbyn. I mean Patrick Orban, the new Patrick Orban, not the old Patrick Orban. The new Patrick Corbyn, and I'll take him over Strasburg's injury history between the two,

like you said, I would go neither. So I'm actually working on an article right now for as Ball, and I think that Patrick Corbin is destined for an i L stint because of the increased use of the slider, and I should look at what that slider does to a lot of game. Just look at Michael Panada, right, and he's actually coming back this year and it's gonna be intriguing to see. But if you take Patrick Corban as your SP two and in May his arm falls off,

he becomes Dave Dravecky, what are you gonna do? That's why so neither for me as well, But if I had to, it would be Corbin awesome. You know how all draft season I've been saying I'm off Corbin. I don't really have a reason why. I was just waiting till any reason. I was just like because last year I was all over for Corbin and I love like

the profit that he returned at his value. And now I don't know if this is fair that we when we do this to players, because in years past, like when you get a player and then they severely outperformed where they were drafted, then the next year, you know they're going as like a fourth round pick, and now you're just off that player because I've had them last year.

I don't want to pay that price because I already like got my profit on that player, and I can't really see them being much better than they were last year. I know, like he's that fair everybody's last year like he was the greatest thing in the world he produced. Now everyone's off because he's going so high. That's a similar situation, Greg, Was there a third person that you could have picked outside of Corn? So it's funny because I would say both pictures that I ended up within

the fourth and fifth round. Greg over both, So I did. I took in the fifth round. That was that. That was the thing. So I I waited and played a little picture chicken because there weren't guys that I loved there, And of course they all went in between my two pigs. Of course in between the fourth and the fifth like where um I want up taking Tommy fam when tie on Clevinger packed in? Um Wheeler, were all Wheeler Grinky or all in the boards? All right, I get any

of these guys from back? I got none of them. So at my spot it was Corbyn or Shosberg and that was the end of the tier and I need to reach five though it's pretty good value team league in round five. Yeah, so I don't have a problem with it. At that point you're deciding between the end of this year. Correct off the board? Probably not? I but I hate you even in the eighth round. I'm so awful and her mom him or hate him? Hate him? Uh yeah, I love him, alright, I love him. I

hated him, now I love him. Maybe tomorrow I hate him again. But let's see what happens. He's got an easy schedule the first month, so to me, it's just like I don't want I don't need to buy the Colorado. There's plenty of other places to go. I don't need to buy in the Colorado for fishing. Even as good as her Moan and Marquez Freeling, who were last year. All right, we heard who Matt and Mike really liked and drafting all our teams. I'm excited to find out

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it really easy to listen to and really fun. And the numbers like the Baseball reference, spring Train, anything that you referenced no idea, and I am very I wish I told that that two weeks ago. Drafts like that's awesome, Just an interesting way to see who players are competing against, what their competition levels like, because some of these guys pusted up these insane spring training stats and they're really not facing major league level talent. So it's definitely an interesting,

interesting metric that baseball offense has. So have you used that to not draft certain players? I want to know. You're about four leagues, who have you actively stayed away from? Obviously a you certain guys that just don't fall into your range, and that's okay, But who have you actively stayed away from? I feel a little bad discussing this guy. Um everyone card and everyone's staying away from. Now it's not gonna everybody's staying away from. But Clayton Kershaw, first

the back, now the shoulder. So when this when the draft season started, he was the first round pickers, one of the first pitchers going off the board, and now he's kind of fell down to like a fifth round pick or whatever it is. The last year's case per nine were the worst that's ever been at the eight point six five his swinging strike right was the worst it's ever been at an eleven, So there were signs

before the shoulder injury. His his fastball VELO dropped from ninety three to nine point one to ninety one point four. His pitch value on his fastball in two thousand six team was twenty two. Now we're approaching negative. I think it was a zero point two. It's almost a negative pitch, one of his best pitches his whole career is almost a negative pitch now. So I think the narrative would

be different if his name wasn't Clayton Kershal. I think that's what's keeping him at that fifth round or like you said, the eighth round you brought up before that Floria wanted to draft him. I think that's what's keeping him in that range. And honestly, I'm staying as far away from Clayton Kershaw as I can. First to back, Now, the shoulder, who knows when the back's gonna flare up again,

Who knows what's gonna go on with the shoulder. I just really don't don't trust him at all, Frank So, I think that's the important thing that too many people are forgetting and You're totally right, Mike, play Kershal is injured. He's got this back injury that's kept him out year after year after year. Now it's a shoulder, and it's probably all related in some way because you're overcompensating. And

we talked to a guy that has herniated disk. He's like, Hey, somebodys I feel greatat which Kersha I feels great, but other times I can't feel my fingers, I can't I can't feel my r I can't feel my shoulder, and it's kind of all related there. So you have that and you can take that and put that on one side. But as you just pointed out, Hershel has been declining for a couple of years now, and his best pitch is no longer his best pitch. It's not even above

average pitch. And I think, Frank, we've forgotten that to extend that it's not just Clayton Kershaw is hurt because he's declining in other ways, which is a little scary. Yeah, for sure. I mean this has been someone that I've been avoiding as well. It's like strip the name off the back of the jersey here. If this is another player whose skills declined this far from I mean he he would be goings even later than Clayton Kershaw is.

So I think the fact that his name is Clayton Kershaw kind of keeps him in this fifth sixth round relevant range. But I can't disagree with anything that you mentioned about Kersha. Look, the velocity on his fastball was the lowest of his career, not just dating back to the rookie year, it was the lowest of his career. The skills are declining, He's not getting as many swinging strikes, he's walking more guys, he's not getting as many strikeouts.

So there's just there's too much in play here. And the fact that now he's dealing with the shoulder and he has the back injury. It's like, what more do you need to see from some from from a situation to tell you do not draft me. I mean, everything is there when it comes to Clayton Kershaw. Would you rather have Clayton Kersha? This is a question we ask everybody, Clayton Kershaw or Louis Sabrina. I'll take Saborrina at this point a day, even even though one is seemingly healthier

than the other. I wouldn't say he's he's he's seemingly healthy literally not literally healthier. I'll go Severino his upside and where you could get him now, because you could still get him a couple of rounds after you could you would have to pay for Krishaw. So I think Severina would be uh would be the more value play out of it too. You know draft last night, Frank Surprise, he went in the six rounds and not all that much value. Kershaw. I actually considered taking Kersha last night. Also,

Saverno actually goes a lot higher than Kershawe. I have these guys rank back to back and twenty nine to my starting pitcher ranks, so I mean I'm still pretty low on all of them. I have guys like Tanaka, Archer, Mikolas Sto Granky all ranked ahead of these players, and I should probably drop them even lower because realistically, when I'm in drafts, I just skip over their names, and it's it's just I can find someone later on I would rather have added more of a value. Edwardo Rodriguez

goes later. I'll grab him. Joe Muskro if you mentioned, I grab him, you know, three four rounds later. Nick Pavetta, take someone like that Paddock goes. You know, I have six rounds later, So to me, I just skip over these guys and I'll wait, you know, a couple of rounds and find a picture I like even more. Matt who's the guy that you've actively avoided during draft season? So staying with the pitching, I have avoided John Lester, and uh so Mike is a big numbers guy, as am.

I I like to back it up, not just because I don't like him or whatever. So I'm gonna back it up. So let's star at a nineteen point six percent k rate last year, and that was forty three out of fifty seven qualifying pictures. Just to put it in perspective, that's worse than guys like Matthew Boyd or Jake Odorees. Also, his swinging strike rate was eight point five percent. That was forty nine, behind guys like Jose Uren and Mike Fires. Now, this is great if you

have great control. Lester does not. He has a walk rate of eight point five percent. That's the sixteenth highest in the league. These are all the reasons why you can keep you some John Lester. John Lester, I somehow drafted him, so I see I'm just talking to myself out of out of the studio. So here's the thing. So I draft. I drafted him, and I literally I said, you're aft in my whispers, I'll take John. I was like, I tried to trade him, like before my next pick

was up. I was like, I'll just keep you John, lust for anybody. And then I came in the next day. I was like, embarrassed to face Frank, I'm like, I don't I can't left. He did, Should we all just point and laugh at you on? I would laugh myself like I don't get it, Like I don't even know why I did it. And it was one of those things times running down was like, oh right, pretty much I have I can't defend myself. I can defend myself

a Corbyn because the round was right. He's the last guy that's year, Like, I get it, and the numbers were good. You're absolutely right that slider's gonna cause me get injured at some point. Again, I can't do it last and I don't know why. You just can't deal with I tried to trade him for anybody. I asked the guy three times this week training for Paul de Young. He said no, what ever, he said no every time offer. But I'm going I'm going to keep asking. Maybe he'll

change his mind. That actually, Paul Paul Young is a guy like that. I will throw out my buddies, the Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes. Paul Young is a guy that I'm all in on. I would not trade. We put double or nothing on him as well. Look at us an American nightmare. Are we done? I know you guys want to Cody, I'll play you in Hangman before we've done. Okay, I appreciate it. Back to Uh, Back to Lester. Here's a question. Would you rather take Frank Matt Greg would you rather take or beIN Burns to

mingle Herman or would you rather take John Lester? So, I think there's no question you rather Burns than her mom because the upside she's higher and that and that's where it is, and that's with all, that's with all the guys that Frank was just mentioning when Severino and in Kershaw especially go for the upside. There's the worst that the literal worst that could happen with the guy that Corbyn Burns is that he sucks. And if he sucks, you drop him and it didn't cost you anything. And

the same really goes for Lester. If that first week, when Lester makes his opening day start and a lot of six cern runs or a weekly if sathing happens, I'm not going to play by the name and the guy on the back of the jersey. I'm gonna drop him and I'm gonna treat him like Corbyn Burns. And if that's the case, it's fine. It's a lottery ticket. And that's the thing. See, that's a great thing that you say, and I tell it to anyone that will listen.

You have to approach this type of fantasy like that. You can't get hung up on the name on the back of the jersey. You have to close your eyes and look what you can't do. Just look at the numbers and be okay to drop a guy. And it's really hard to do that. As easy as it is for us to say this on March, it's really hard to pull that trigger. And Frank knows that I have a very issuy trigger finger when it comes to fantasy sports Baseball, basketball, football. It doesn't matter who wasn't last

year that had a bad first day first day. I was right for the record, I was right, it was, and I was right, was right, but it's but I was like, I don't want to do this anymore. And come on, you drafted him for a reason, and I go, you're right, but e've been over four or four kgs. What are we doing here? Yeah, it's much easier to do with players you get late. I'm assuming you got John Lesser super late in your draft. So if you

and perform early on, you could just cut bait. I will say, I agree with what you said to a certain extent. Right, Like, if if a player I drafted early on, like a foundation on my team isn't performing, obviously you have to have more patience. So I think it's worth reiterating that. But you know, some of these guys that you get later on your drafts, if if they're not performing two three weeks in, and there's obviously someone who has upside on the waiver wire. Do Mingo

Hormon probably wasn't drafted in a lot of leagues. Uh, you know it was the Brewers guy deep, but the entire Brewers staff, well, all these Brewers guys have a ton of upside. Brandon Woodard of Corbin Burns, Freddy Peralta. We spoke about the Marlins in the first hour, Pablo Lopez getting a lot of high Trevor Richards getting so, look, if John Lesser's performing, some of those guys are playing well early on, you know, don't don't don't worry about the name John Lesser is. I think we're I think

we're past that point when it comes to Lesser. I completely agree with you. It actually doesn't matter. Another guy I did, Gregory Planca, who you actually did? It was a weird role reversal there, Oh, Gregory PoCA last year? Yeah, yeah, I dropped into early man and then he and then he turned it around and say he did have a good second half. What do you expect for Polanco this year? So let's say, I guess a really fair question, and for me, I guess that's why you've asked it. But

um so I'm staying away from Polanco. The shoulder injuries scare me. Shoulders and wrists injuries from hitters really really scare me. And as Frank knows, I'd rather take a shot on the guy Glaniy chisen Hall. Who's gonna start for Polanco? Chisenhle whenever you we're both laughing at that. For you, whenever it choosen, Hall take has an opportunity to an opportunity to Cleveland. He flourished and he can't hit a lefty. That's fine, you may you mainly face right,

He's I We never had an opportunity. Like I said, he did really really well. And I think in that small chance he has without Gregory Planco in there, I think he's going to do fine. When Polanco comes back, it's not going to be And I think we all forget this. It's not all but a lot of people forget when you start. It's not like you're just you're

back and you're the Gregory Polanco of old. You. You need time to get back to feel healthy, to feel what it is to play every day, to get hit with a baseball again, to run in the stool wall again. Especially in the National League where there is no d H It's not like he's already taking batting practice. There's a lot mentally as well that has to come back in order for him to be good again. So for me, I'm not drafted Gregory Planco. I'm not drafting you and

a Cesspicius. The one guy that I am drafting at the end of drafts is the Greglorious because I think um in the middle of field, it makes sense. And I also think that we've seen Glabor Torres, for instance, on the Yankees come back and be totally fine coming back from Tommy John surgery. Where are you, Mike on on the injured guys like cesspicous planco Indeed, I have a confession. I did drop the Gregorious in my tj FBI league yesterday for purposes. I got um Quota Hudson

for eleven dollars. Like there's no d in the in the t g FBI either. Yeah, So I drafted him thinking maybe I could get something out of this eventually, but I decided to go the other way with it. You mentioned Polanco. He did show better play discipline in the second half of last year. Good. He had the moment I think the highest walk percentage of his career last year, which is like an eleven, which isn't isn't uh, it's actually far off from his usual six percent or

whatever it is. So I do like Polanco a little bit, just because Steels will always play. If he comes back and runs, that's always gonna play. Chisen Hall, I don't think it's a bad hitter, though I don't think that's a bad uh bad suggestion if you're looking somewhere else beside Polanco, certainly, and only leads as well. But if we're talking Pittsburgh, we're talking besides Polanco. The one ning we have to bring up is Adam Fraser. And Adam

Fraser is somebody that he's got a bit overlooked. And we've all fallen in love with Ramon Loriano and we've fallen in love with Cedric Mullins. Adam Fraser is a guy that is like these players that potentially can give you fifteen and fifteen, But nobody's talking about Matt how come? So I love that. It's because so it's what I say. It's not sexy, right, he didn't put on his lipstick and do his hair, and I don't notice him walking in the bar, and if my girlfriend's listening, I don't

notice any girls are walk in the bar. Only have eyes for you. But the point is that he's he's not sexy. Raman Loriano, I'm all over him. I love him. His name is fun to say. No, So I think it's one of those things. And if you're you're level headed and wise like you obviously are. Then you're gonna be able to see don't tell your girlfriend, you're telling him beyond the name, and you're just gonna be able to look at the numbers. And to me, that's what

this is all about, looking at numbers. So that's why guys like that go go overlooked. In my opinion, it's sexy, and I think Fraser and specifically players like him and Cedric Mullins are all right. It's not a great lineup. It's Pittsburgh, it's Baltimore, but they're projected to lead off rejected, we'll see what happens, but there's not like where else are the Pittsburgh Pirates gonna go in terms of leadoff better? So I think there's value to be had there. They're

gonna score runs. I don't not gonna light the world on fire in terms of stealing basis, but can you give me ten to fifteen ten to fifteen home runs as well? He's gonna score runs because he's gonna get on base in Pittsburgh, and same thing goes for a player like Cedric Mullins. The Orioles lineup is not good. We all understand that he's still gonna lead off, he still might steal fifteen and twenty bases, and because of that, you know, maybe he'll score seventy five runs. I mean,

there's value to be had with that. I agree. You know, we got Adam Fraser as our middle infielder in one league. I think I ended up with him in the main event or something else too. So I'm not opposed to you know, eight in your drafts, you get a measurr middle endfielder and and he has dual eligibility to Adam Fraser second base and outfield. There there's there's a lot of value there. The only thing with Fraser is he didn't run last year. He only attempted to four stall

on bases. The year before that he attempted fourteen. So I don't know what the what the reason was for the difference. So that's the only thing to keep an eye on if you if you're expecting tenstall on basis. Speaking of stolen bases, the guy that we liked early on the draft season was Jean Sigarura in Philadelphia. New line up like he's gonna run, but gave Kafler, I was concerned new Age New analytics. He would literally run We looked this up and he ran lee average last year.

It wasn't that, it wasn't anything to scare us away. So Philly playing Tampa Bay, and Jim Salisbury, who was one of the beat reporters, said, here's the starting lineup a k a. Their opening day line up, and I wanted to read it to you guys because Philly is a place that we were looking at. Right, McCutcheon is leading off, then Jean Sigura, Harper, Hoskins back in the

line up. There's an injury concerned there, Reese Houses back in the line at that and clean up real MutS so five, and then that was what the question was, right, who would be next? It's o'double at six, sayzar Hernand is at seven, and mikel Franco at eight, which is a big of a disaster for us. Frank that's ad Yeah, I mean, look, I worried Franco was gonna hit. I knew it was going to be in the lower third.

I could see o'dooble being six, just so you break up some of the right e's there because they have Hoskins in real Muto obviously four and five, so I could have I could have seen o'doble being seven, six, and then we get Franco at seven. But man, I mean eighths. It's not great for Franco. He's not gonna get a lot of pitches to hit there, obviously with the with the picture coming up next to so that's

not great. He was a corner and fielder that I like just because it's great lineup and you know, I can hit twenty five runs. It's sneaky, but and in the lineup, the accounting stats are not going to be good. Whither you guys, you know, sneaky mcil Franco play. I actually have them monthly. Again, I'm so sure that he's gonna be hit an eighth for too long. I think the way Kapler runs that show it's gonna be a different line up out there until he gets the right one.

And I think that's like you said, with Franco, I could I'd like to see him seven and hit says here Hernanda's eight. I think that's more more realistic. Yeah, I agree to. And there was some talk early in the spring about he says her under is leading off, and then I just wondered where would cauch go. But to me, I'd rather see says her end is at the bottom of that order, cause then the lineup turns back over and that gives her nanda Is some opportunity

for counting stats. So I wouldn't be that concern with Franco. If that lineup turns over and does what it's supposed to do, he may get some numbers. Guys, one last time, where coul everyone find your podcast and listen to you, guys. Mike the Rhodo Cop on Twitter. You can find me a picture list dot com, Friends of Fantasy Benefits dot com, and Mets Morizes online dot com First and Fantasy Benefits f BFF has the same. Were all together now? Where

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