5/17, Part 1: FAABAGANZA, Waiver Wire, Florio Friday

us there. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Fantasy best Friends Forever. To Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do? Yeah, Yes, the Fantasy best Friends Forever. Here the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie Stanford. I am Greg Souman joined today as we are when he feels like being here. It's Mike Gloria. What's going on? Mike? I missed one week. One week, that's it and great. I'm sorry for the shadows. I bought some lights. I'm

trying to make it better. But I was in like an hour of l A traffic before coming on the show, so I got home with like five minutes before, so I couldn't really get rid of the shadows too much. Here uh here, like traffic is very terrible, dude. I had to go like ten miles. It took me over an hour. Oh my god's harriful, Frank, I don't know. You don't you lose it, man, I would listen to a lot of podcasts. I guess that's that's the best

way to look at it. But Mikey, how does it compare to you know, do you really miss the R train here? Do you really miss public transportation? I do not miss the train at all, um I do. I don't know. New York traffic is pretty bad itself, but it's just l A is the worst I've ever experienced. But luckily for me, and I feel like a lot of people out here, like you try your best to not have to get on the highway, so I typically do a good job of avoiding it, but today it

was just inevitable. I've been on that highway to when I was in l A. It's like it's like six or eight lanes wide right, Like it's it's absolutely insane. Yeah, the four oh five. Luckily I wasn't on that today. I was. I was coming back from downtown l A. But yeah, the four oh five is is atrocious. Wild are you doing, but had you sleep? It's great, man, sounds really good. It's not pretty good, toothing. What it was.

I was watching Curry versus Curry, which is tons of fun, tons of fun, and the game ended and I was just really choked that one away and went to bed. Woke up to some panic text messages about six fourteen, sorry six so nine this morning? What panic text messages? I didn't even know what happened here? What? Yeah, so you don't fill me in on anything anymore. I'm supposed to be Greg's right hand man. The guy didn't tell

me anything, right, you don't want to know anything. You don't want you don't want to deal with You don't want to deal with anything. Sometimes I gotta know, though, Yeah, you just leave me in the darks. So today there's a miscommunication. So Bavona is gone. Floria is getting married on Sunday. So yeah, he's not here. You can't hear you. So we'll send that to him. So the person that was replacing him, he had told us we I thought he'd be here today and not Monday and Tuesday. So

I had a contingency for Monday and Tuesday. How you would fill it in but we had misread the email. He will be here Monday. He was not here today or Tuesday, so there was no here. There was nobody here, So thankfully Bryan steff Dutt was able to handle things a little bit late. But there's nobody here early this morning and things were a bit of a crap show early this morning. Here. We should have had Florida. He still knows how to do some things right. It was

like three am Florida time. Oh gosh, I was not awake, but I do not miss Greggy. I don't know if you remember Thanksgiving like I think it was. I do. I do Everythingksgiving Floria. So yeah, I remember, I got the show started. I think it's seven am. I will get it like six. They were out. They were that, that's a fact. This weekends about to get crazy. It's about to get crazy. Whatever you want it. So fabigedd Fabinado.

I like Fabinado podcast yesterday, fabric gedding. Yeah, so all those very dumb right, so very very dumb because we're like, oh, it's you're never the world faber like all right, enough fabric gedd in, enough Fabinado, enough, wait till you hear what this guy came up with, Mike, do you realize what today's show is going to be? Florio? What is it? Tune this in Alex here we go. This is a fab you Looso show is what this is? This show is fave you low soo. Did you go this morning

and buy that? No, we had it as a fabuloso show. There's people looking inside the studio like, why the hell is this guy holding up a bottle of fabuloso? Actually, I actually know that person. Really look at you, Mr Popular? What is fabuloso? Use it to clean long lasting fragrance. That's what it says on the bottle, Lavender, fresco lavanda. It is long last thing that's going to help your

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Here's what I will say. I'm really excited about this weekend because I'm very confident that at least three or four other teams are going to get down to my love fab and that makes me happy, Like there's gonna be there's gonna be three or four teams that's been like over three dollars this weekend in the main Event or in the Great Fantasy Based Limitational, and it will all be under two hundred dollars FAB for the rest

of the season together. And that will make me feel a little bit better, although I will not have any of these prospects on my team, which makes me a little sad. But I have you what's up, Mike? So you said you're under two d and FAB right in those leagues? Are you going to put every dollar you have on these players and hope that you get one? I can't because in the main event there are no zero dollar bids, So I kind of like I have to be prudent here. I gotta I gotta figure out

what to do. I have one seventy nine in the main Event, and I have too twenty one and the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, and there are no zero zero dollar bids a loot in each of these, so ills in let me look, it's more than likely that I'm

not gonna end up. These guys are that we're gonna talk about, are gonna go for more money than I even have left so I realized that I'm gonna still have bids in on like Nicky Lopez, Oscar Mercado, probably nothing to you, which means that I'm probably just not gonna get any of these guys. And it's all right, Like my team is performing now knock on wood, so even without Aaron Judge. So we'll see if we can keep it up. But overall, I'm not really expecting to

win a lot of these prospects here. That doesn't mean everyone else can't go out there and win them. And that's basically what we're here today to do. Greggy absolutely absolutely. And so last night in my league, not enough people paying attention. So the people that I thought would get here and get Riley get people that we're not paying attention did it. So my league not helpful for you when it comes to fab, but we want to be

more helpful. So we heard yesterday from you, Frank and how much you were going to bid all these guys here and Riley Um and Nicky Lopez and more and Brendan Rodgers potentially. But Flora, I want to get your Ranki's I know they're inside your Patreon page, but you can help us out. What are your rankings on these guys are like fabulous of Friday. So to me, I think Mercado was last. I think that's an easy one. I think Nicky Lopez is next. I just don't I

like Nicky Lopez. I think he's the safest of all these prospects, but I don't think he has the upside of the other four. So I couldn't I actually couldn't agree more like he's playing time security. He was brought up for the Royals though for any injury. He was brought up because it's time to bring him up, time to let him play, and time to just get better. He made him right the twos at second base and

moves with Maryfield for him. Put him at second base, that middle infield combo with Albert Jomond to see Nicky Lopez, I mean that is the combo for the future, ideally for the Kansas City Royals. So I could not agree anymore with you thus far, Floria that he's driving safe. I don't think he's upside both power and speed. I think he could be a good average hitter, and I think he'll healthier fantasy teams, but he won't light the world out of fire. Yeah, I agree with that, and

also like the Royals aren't competing. That's another thing I always I like to factor in UH. And after that, I think the next four, depending on who you ask, you might get different answers. To me, my personal favorite of them is Brendan Rodgers. Uh. He plays a premium position, He's gonna have short stup and second base eligibility, He's going to be in the Rockies lineup, get half his games at course field. Plus. To me, I think there's really no threat at stealing his job, at least initially.

Like I don't think he's gonna get Carter Key Boom, Like, all right, he had a bad three weeks, let's send him down. Because Garrett Hampson has done nothing to warrant, you know, taking that job away. Neither has Ryan McMahon, and they both have had McMann has had shots in the past as well. So I think Brendan Rodgers is my favorite just because the premium position and the course field.

I would put Austin Riley I think a second, But man, it's it's close between all of these guys, and I think a lot of it when you're I spoke about this on my podcast when you're deciding on which order you want to put these guys in. To me, a lot of it comes down to what positions you need. Because if you need a middle infielder, all right, and maybe I'll go with Brandon Rodgers over Austin Riley. But if I really need, say a third baseman or an outfielder,

then I'm boosting up Willie Calhoun and Austin Riley. So to me, I think those four guys are all very close. I have Brendan Rodgers is my personal favorite, then with the with the Riley second, but I think all and I think Calhoun doesn't have the ceiling of the other guys, but he's not off by much. I just think the other guys there's a little bit more hype around them because we haven't seen them fail at the major league level yet. But I think all four of them deserve

to go in the same range. And I think in in leagues like the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational and the and like NBC Main Events or anything any league with an overall fift team league, I think is what these guys are gonna cost. Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense, and I'll actually take it one step further. Based on what Mike said, it's not just positional need what you need, I think you look at statistical need too. So if you need power, I think Austin Riley is

probably your guy. If you need a little bit of everything on the offensive side, then you're probably looking at a guy like Kess and Hero or even Brendan Rodgers, who I think might be able to hit for decent batting average, a little bit of pop. Obviously playing in Coors Field in Colorado, he sold twelve basses last year, so gives you a little bit of everything. So I think statistical need is another factor into this. Greg. If you just need speed, then maybe you're a little bit

more aggressive on Oscar Mercado. So I think not only is the positional need, I do agree with that that is obviously going to play a big factor into who you're bidding on this weekend, but I think what stats you need also factored into which players you're bidding on here, Greg, yes, if you need pictures. Last week and NFBC Corbyn Martin wasn't available yet because he has to at least play in one game before he's available, so he was available the next day on Monday because he made his start

on Sunday, but he wasn't available that night. So that's another factor into this. If you need pitching, then maybe you're really really aggressive on Corbyn Martin even ahead of some of these hitters. It really comes down to what you need for your team, Greg. Of course, it is do you need do you need power? Do you need speed? Do you need middle in field? Do you need outfield? You need a corner in field? That those are the questions you have to ask yourselves. Oh, almost like a

draft rank. And I know you put a lot going into the draft on position scarcity. Position eligibility doesn't matter, right, Like, if you believe Austin Riley is the best is the best hitter out of any of these guys, don't you just grow out and grab him and then worry about the rest of it later, not necessarily think Okay, I think if you truly believe he is head and shoulders above the I don't I think all four of these

guys are very close. And those four again, Flora, Uh, it's it's Willie Calhoun, Austin Riley, Brendan Rodgers and Keston Ira. I always struggle to say his I listened to the audio from the minor leagues and they were saying the eye before it, So I that's that's how I've been saying it. I could be wrong. I'm not saying I'm I'm right. I struggle with that guy's name. But to me, those four are all very very close together. They're they're

very similar. They have sky high upside. I think a lot of them, outside of Willie Calhoun do have to worry because they're they're on teams that are looking to compete this year. That's why I think Brendon Rogers though, because the position competition is less, Like I'm not, let's not fully discount Travis Shaw and Enter and c RT being somewhat of competition for those other guys. So that's

why I have Brendan Rodgers one. But if you truly believe Greg that Austin Riley he's the can't miss guy here, then yes, I think you do need to pay up to get your guy. When Mike breaks it down like that, I think it makes sense. But I think from my perspective and just looking into all these prospects, I don't think that they're all that dissimilar. If you think that Austin Riley is the best and sure, and I think,

you know, he's obviously performed really well thus far. But you know, there's a lot of hype around all these guys, Kess and Hira, Brendan Rodgers, so I think that they're all close. I don't think that there's one prospect here that's head and shoulders better than the rest. But if you were to say think that, then I understand why you would be aggressive on that one player more than others.

But I'm just saying, based on everything that I've read, everything that I've seen, the way that I feel about these prospects, I think that they're pretty close. And I'm actually kind of surprised that you have Brendan Rodgers first here, Mike, because to me, I would have it, and I said this all week, I would have a Kessing here first, also Higley second, then maybe a little bit of a gap, I would have Brendan Rodgers and then maybe a little

bit more of a gap, and then Willie Calhoun. I do think that all four of those guys are probably in their own tier together, but I think that the offensive upside, the output that Hera and Austin Riley can give you outweighs what Brendan Rodgers can give you. So I'm a little bit surprised you have them first on that list. The reason being is because I am I think we do need to learn some lessons from past mistakes.

And Carter keybu the big mistake was, Yeah, he sucked, But this team was competing, and they have other players who could play those positions when they're at least healthy. And so do the Brewers and so do the Braves, And those are two teams that are very much so competing hoping to win a division this year. They're in

a dog fight, each of them. So I don't necessarily think like if either one of those two guys were to start to struggle, I wouldn't be surprised if we see them either lose playing time to the veteran that is going to return from injury, Whereas I don't think that is an issue. For Brandon Rodgers, that's the old To me, it's like the the upside and the safety combined. To me, it's just a little bit. It puts him

a little bit higher than the other guys. For me, I just have some concerns when it comes to the Rockies because it feels like when whenever they've had prospects or young players, and I realized that Brendan Rodgers is their top prospect, Like he is a higher ranked prospect than guys like Garrett Hampson and Ryan McMahon the past, and even even Ryan mel Tappy. But it seems like they've had prospects forever and they've been so hesitant to

give these guys an opportunity. Now Brendan Rodgers is going to be up today, should be in the line up. Hopefully that's what we're expecting. But it just seems like they are a team more so than even other teams. Greg were like, if a prospect is struggling, that they're gonna find a way to like get a veteran in there, or find a way to mess this stuff like Pat Vlaika or like Mark Rennolds. We wanted Ryan McMahon or Garrett have should be a thing, and they gave these

guys opportunities this year and they haven't capitalized. So I understand that. And I like brend Rodgers. I don't want to sound like I'm poop pooing him. I like him as well, and having exposure to coors Field is a is a very big factor for fantasy baseball, But it just seems like organizationally, Greg their philosophy has been that they just don't trust the players all that much totally,

and and Atlanta are going just going back. Atlanta has been the opposite, right, like they've kind of let their young players run with it in a way. With Albie's and Swanson and Alcuna, of course, I think those guys though they came up at a different time. They came up when the break like last year. I know the Baper is one the division. They did not have expectations

of that. Their their plan was to let the young kids play and they ended up completely outperforming what everyone thought and running away with it, which is awesome to see. But they they're competing now and there they need to win. And the Brewers, we know they like to mix and match. Was it a break? When we come back. I want to get into Willie Calhoun for a moment because I joked about it with you, Frank yesterday, and I want to ask you about it today. Florio Daily Rhodo dot

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that we think you should spend on these guys. I promise you will go in nice in order and make it easy for you. But before we do, I wanted to speak about Willie Calhoun a little bit more in depth for a moment. Now. Last year, all three of us were all in a Willie Calhoun floria, probably third out of the three of us, obviously the most frank.

It didn't work out. He finally got called up, he didn't hit, he got sent back down, finally came back like literally the last two weeks of September, was never given consistent playing time. He's been up for two days to home runs for Texas, batty out of the two hole, one day at d H, one day in left field. New managers Chris Woodward in Texas, so holy new regime, totally new opportunity for Calhoun. And I think some of the prospect luster Mike. He's gone from Willie Calhoun because

of what happened last year. We haven't seen Austin Riley yet. We haven't seen um here A yet. We haven't seen Brandon Rogers yet. We haven't seen Nicki Lopez yet. We haven't seen Oscar Mercado yet. We have seen Calhoun. And because of that, I think in forget the expert league, but I think people's home leagues, they're gonna se Willie Calhoun. They're gonna be like, all right, been there, done that, it didn't work. So I think he could actually get him a little cheaper. Why is he in your top

four with Riley, Hera and Rogers. So I thought the same thing Greggy, And when he first got the call up, I wrote on Patreon, I would spend five to ten percent in my fab because my thinking was everyone else is going to want these other prospects. Willie Calhoun, like you said, has lost that luster. We've seen him fail before. I thought people were gonna kind of be like, all right, I'll get Willie Calhoun has a backup bid, and I

was dead wrong. Like Franken attested this, he went for over twenty dollars in both of our home leagues, and that's a league where I thought people were gonna think the same way. He went for more than Nicky Lopez, he went for more than Mercado. So I don't think people are are reacting the way we thought. Greggy and I fully admitted on my podcast yesterday, like I read

this situation wrong with Willie Calhoun. I hope you didn't live into the five or your fab didn't run yet, because I think he is going to be in a

similar range as those other guys. To me, he's fourth, just because I do think that that luster is a little bit worn off with him, where the other guys everyone is really excited, but still Willie Calhoun was mashing at the Triple A level this year, hitting three or four eight home runs UH twenty two r b I and then he had over four ov p and then the fact that he's come up and played this well. I think everyone is excited and I don't see reason

why they shouldn't be. The Texas Rangers are not competing this year. We know that. I don't think Hunter Pence or since You Chew are really gonna stand in his way. Unfortunately. I think both of those guys, Pence being the big loser, but I think both loses sometimes. Woodward does not seem to trust Choo against lefties for some reason, so so I think both of those guys kind of step aside. I think they're going to let Willie Calhoun continue to play.

He's gonna bat in the two hole, and yesterday it was great to see the only player in that game, and the Texas Rangers put up a lot of runs. At least when I looked, the only player who who had a higher a ball harder hit than Willy Calhoun's multiple hits yesterday was Joey Gallows. So that's really good company to be in. He's hitting the ball hard, he's doing everything you wanted to see so far. He's red

hot right now. I think because of that hot start and because of what he's been doing in Triple A. He is going to be right up there with those other guys. Yeah, and I've read the situation wrong as well, Mike. I had I think a six or seven dollar bid in our home league, and he goes for twenty two and twenty one dollars respectively in our two home leagues,

both twelve team head to head points keeper leagues. So I understand why he would go for a little bit more, especially in the keeper league, if you think that he has some staying power and obviously for years to come the upside that he has. But professional hitter man, this is what I really like about Willie Calhoun. Say what

you will about his defense, He's a horrible defender. He might honestly work out as a as a full time d H. It's crazy to say as young as he is, he's still only twenty four years old, but he is that bad of a fielder. But if you look at his minor league numbers, there's a guy who's never struck out more than fifteen point nine percent at any level of the miners. This season, Mike spoke about his EP had four sixteen fifteen point nine percent walk great for

Willie Calhoun, A thirteen point eight percent strike already. This guy is a professional hitter. He hits line drives um. He's hitting for power already at the major league level. He has a thirty one homer season under his belt a couple of years ago when he came over from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and between the Dodgers and Rangers farm sist from that year, he had thirty one home runs in the minors. He was performing well this year.

I think he's gonna be in the lineup. I don't really worry about splits with him either, unless that's something that Chris Woodward worries about, because when I looked into his minor league numbers, he didn't struggle against lefties at any level. So again, professional hitter and a guy that can hit for power in a really good spot in a really good lineup like we gotta. I think we

underestimated the Rangers line up coming into this year. It's still a really, really good ballpark to hit in and for him to hit second in that lineup, behind Shinsu Chu and ahead of guys like Elvis Andrews when he's healthy, and Joey Gallo and all these other matters behind him

He's in a really, really good spot. So I do agree that if you if you need power and you need batting average, specifically those two categories, and you're playing a five outfielder league, you're gonna have to be really aggressive. You're looking at now. One of the I really like about Calhoun, outside of the statistics that you guys both gave,

is what I also liked about Heilopez. He wasn't called Like, yes, Elvis Andrews got hurt, but I don't know that that had anything to do with whom being called up, you know what I mean. Like, it's not like Willie Calhoun's playing the infields all any of their outfielders are coming inside. They just called him up because he's ready. They called him up because he's ready, and they batted him right there in the top of the order, and he's obviously

produced for the first two games. Much like Lopez this year, unlike last year, Calhoun seems safe and if you're looking for a little bit of safety, Calhoun's your guy. When they changed the ball in the minor leagues, he went from not having any power last year, if you remember Frank that was a huge issue. He had eight home runs thus far this year he had eight home runs in like thirty games. He had nine and over a

hundred last year. Is I don't know how many times this week for these prospects, I've had to write career high eyes. So this year the juice ball is real, like and the power that you're seeing in Triple A from these guys is going to translate over my opinion, Yeah, I totally totally agree with that. Um So that's why Calhoun gets in Florio's top four and gets people like Frank really excited. Uh And that makes sense to me. Okay, before we give the prices, I just want to hit

one more thing. You just retweeted Aaron Glenman Florio and you talked about Luis Ariah is getting called up for Minnesota. What can you tell us about him and where does he belong in all of us? Yeah, he's an afterthought, I think. Uh. I don't even know if he's going to play every day for the Twins. I don't know too much about his like prospect pedigree, but what I read during the break was no power, a little bit

of speed, really good bad on ball. Uh So to me, and what even like the beat writers are are speculating right now, is like he is a f piece. He's going to play some games here and there, But for fantasy, I think he's more of just an afterthought. Florio, I know, I'm sorry, Frankie. I know you don't have much on Aria. So I want to go to you about another prospect that was called up kind of under the radar. You pointed that out to me. It was Sean Anderson for

the San Francisco Giants. What should we know about him and should we should we invest here or is it not worth of this point? Wait and see? I think in twelve team leagues or shallower than that, it's it's a wait and see. You put him on your scout team. He is the top picteing prospect for the Giants. Doesn't really say much, I don't have a great farm system. Probably projects out more of like a mid to late rotation piece at the major league level, like SP three

or SP four. But I think it's worth noting just because he's gonna play half of his home games, half of his games in Oracle Park, obviously in that big ballpark, doesn't really have doesn't really flash anywhere, like, doesn't have like a plus fastball, but he's solid across the board. Um, more of like a fifteen teamer maybe obviously and now only Uh, the Giants don't have you know, great pitching outside of like Madison Bumgardner, who's performed, you know, all

right this year. But I think that they're going to leave this guy in the rotation. They want to see what they have in him. Uh, and the fact that he pitches his home games in Oracle Park. I think he's worth a look in deeper leagues like fifteen team makes if you're really desperate for pitching. And obviously and only just because he has a spot in the rotation right now, all right, So let's give out then what

you are spending. So I was gonna just real quick before we go over these guys, because these are the six that everyone like cares about and we know that like someone in Frank's position this week, do you think they're gonna be able to sneak one by the goal and get these guys for cheaper than they are, Because I do think that's gonna happen this week. I think everyone is bracing to spend big fab on these six guys that the other guys are gonna be even cheaper

like non prospects. I agree, Yeah, like any of these, even like Corbyn Martin, I think is getting overlooked right now, So I'd be loved. I'd be happy to get him. I very much agree with you Florida that the guys were gonna talk about in a moment, the veterans that Tommy Lostella. I picked up Macgilson and her homely for four bucks. Yeah, that's like one of those where like he gets overlooked top prospect because everybody's putting the people down.

Everyone's just so focused on the young guys. These veterans are gonna go for a lot less. And I know Frankie were working this morning on guys are out there in GST outside of the young players. Guys are out there in g d D for us that are not these young players, guys that people whore go going to forget about because so much money is going to be spent on these young players. But that's what you care about. And we understand that. We get it's fabulous of Friday.

So how much this weekend of their budget should players spend on Austin Riley. Let's start there, um, all right? So if I was just saying twenty on Willie Calhoun. I think Austin Riley is in that range. I can see him getting a little bit more hype. Look, I spent over thirty pcent of my fab on Carter Key Boom, So if this is your guy, you need to find the one that's your guy. You need to find your guy. You need a third baseman, you need a quarter infielder

or alfielder. Goes back to what we were saying earlier, positional needs, statistical needs. You have to figure out about what you really need for your for your team, and you're going to be really aggressive for that player. And it's not to say like you're obviously gonna set backup bids for the other prospects as well, but you have to decipher which one is the one for you. So if it's if it turned out to be Willie Calhoun, then I could see approaching thirty percent. You gotta get

that guy on your team. I understand that. Again, I spent over thirty percent on Carter Key Boom, and I'm hating myself right now for it, but it's in the past. If you need Austin Riley, you need some pop, you need some power. Uh, you need batting average. Everything that he's done thus far, everything he's done in the minors, fifteen home runs in the minors his first two games. He looks the part. All the quotes that I've seen about him. I retweeted something from Bryan Snedeker last night

as well, Brian McMahon talking about how legit this kid is. Um, it's gonna takecent and if you really need that power, you really need that batting average. I could see going over thirty percent from Greg the Oh no, I was gonna say, I agree on that. I've been saying a week twenty and in fifteen team leagues leads with an overall anything like that with go even willing to go

a little bit higher if you really want him. I will say, though, I've been telling people, if you play in a you know, a twelve team home league, I think you devalue it a little bit. You can make it twenty percent there just because I don't. I feel like players are less aggressive in those leagues. And that

makes sense. I've seen even in like twelve team NFBC leagues when people are talking about fab traditionally the players go for much more in fifteen teams just because you don't get this level of talent all coming up at once, um, and it's just it's obviously harder to find players that can contribute in fifteen team leagues is compared to twelve teamers. So I agree we see a week in a week

out that in fifteen teamers in those deeper leagues. Uh, these prospects and just players overall go for more money than than in the twelve teams. Prospects in general are always to go for more money, whether it's expert lease or twelve team least or in one league. Alston Riley went for twenty dollars in our twelve. Yeah, I had a fourteen dollar bit on him. But you weren't surprised

by this, so I wasn't. I wasn't surprised. Okay, so you said cal who you have said now Austin Riley as well, Flora, let me start with you with Hira here or whatever. To me, they're all these big guys, these big four, and it's gonna sound kind of boring. I've got like to me, I agree with Frank said, you find the one that you really want and you'd be most aggressive on him. But for if you know

I'm telling people, what's the bid. I'm telling on this too, unless you're in like a shallower league, which then I've been saying twenty to because I think all of these guys are going to go in a very very similar range. You're gonna see a lot of two hundred dollar bids, probably even a little bit more on some of them. Socent is what I've been saying. But if this is the guy that you want, I'm okay going up to

thirty on any of these guys. Yeah, and I agree with that, and ah Along I had here as my higher rank prospect, just in a vacuum, if you don't have any positional need, if you just who's the best prospect of the Barns. I think kess and Hira has consistently been ranked as a higher rated prospect in Austin Riley.

It doesn't always work out that way, but three thirty three in the minors this year, eleven home runs, it's a little bit of speed as well, just hitting in a really good ballpark, obviously in Milwaukee, in a really good lineup. It's just I think the ballpark and the lineup give him a little bit more of an edge over Austin Riley. And it's not like Atlanta is a bad place to hit, but overall Miller Park is just

better and and the Brewers lineup is better overall. So that's why if you're just saying in a vacuum, I would give a slight edge of questing here, Greg, And that's what you said yesterday. I believe as well, good whatever whatever was okay, that least just Brendan Rodgers. Right, So Brenda Rogers and we grouping these four guys Floria. I'll be with you again with Brenda Rodgers. Yeah, I'm gonna say the same thing again. Go higher if this

is your guy home league. But another reason why I love Rogers so much is I looked at yesterday the production the Rockies have gotten out of the second base position this year. You guys ready for this. It's absolutely disgusting. A ninety nine average, which was uh the third lowest amongst all teams from second base position this year. One of which lower than them was the Gnats uh to seventy o b P that was the lowest in the league, and a two nineties slugging, the second lowest in the league.

They play half their games in coors Field and they can't even get a three hundred slugging percentage out of the position. I think Brandon Rodgers has a long leash. I think this is a team looking to make another push like they did last year after a slow start, and I think they realized, hey, we need to get some production out of the second base position. So I

ultimately do believe his leash is like he's safe. I think he as long as he doesn't, you know, completely bottom out like hey boom, I think he will continue to be up in the major League. So to me, he that's the reason I feel a little bit safer about him. That's why I keep saying I'm willing to go over thirty percent for him. But again, these four guys acent go upwards, go towards thirty five for whichever

one he feels strongest about. Yeah, Greg, We've got the question a lot so far that well, is he just filling in for Trevor stories Tevor stories heard or is he here to play second base? I all along have said I think it's the latter. I mean, Ryan mcmanhn has been given an opportunity and he has not taken advantage of it for most of the year he said to thirty to forty. He has three home runs. Two of those came in the same game, so he hasn't performed.

Garrett Hampson hasn't performed as well. Also. I do think that Brendan Rodgers maybe if Trevor Story is still banged up, he'll play shortstop a few games here, but I think overall they want this kid up to play second base full time for them. I don't have a problem with that number. Me personally, I do rank him a little bit lower than some of these other guys. I understand it's coors Field. I just feel like Austin Riley and

Kesson here, and I might be wrong about this. I'm not like a prospect guru by any means, but I feel like those guys were more regarded as being better offensive players and Brendan Rodgers. I feel like Rodgers is better all around, like really good defender as well, and that's why he gets hyped up in prospect circles or from a fantasy perspective. I feel like Heira and Austin Riley might have a little bit more upside, so that's why I would rank those guys a little bit higher.

But if you want that exposure to course field, I can't. I don't have a problem with going as high as Florio saying does the defense factor into you guys at all? That Austin Riley is playing an outfield position that he just started to learn, and they have a guy a gold Glover like Enteran Crt who they could ultimately fill in his spot if he was to struggle or with with Hiora. We hear all the time his defense is far from what is why he is up here? Does

that question of factor into you at all? Because I know Carter Key Boom's defense struggled and that was part of why he got sent back down. I think it's a good question, and I think it's a fair point, and I feel like we we address this a little bit the other day Greg and we were talking about it. But it always comes down to what they I think it comes down to what they do offensively, what the

leash is for them defensively totally. So if Austin Riley hits, I think that they're going to kind of suck it up whatever he does in left field, like they'll pull him late in games. We saw that the other day. Charlie Colverson came in for him, and even once Enteran Crt is back. This is just me speculating. I don't

think anyone knows right now. I saw, you know, a few Atlanta Beat reporters have already been asked this question and they're trying to answer to the us of their ability, and they're saying like, I don't even think anyone really knows, but my guests would be you know, they'll give mar Cacis a day off here and there, They'll get Entering

Crt in the lineup. They'll give Josh Donaldson a day off here and there because he's a little bit older, and they'll play Austin Riley at third base for those games. And I think he'll play most of the time as long as he performs. And when it comes to Kess and Hira, look, Mike, I don't know how good he is defensively or how bad he is, but he's got to be better than Mike lu Stock second base. So

I think that obviously helps his cause as well. So it sounds like hera safer potentially than Auston Riley and Brandon Rodgers, just given the Colorado Rockies theories and not playing young players. Yeah, I mean, and that's why I've ranked from the highs. Enough, Okay, where do they break? When we come back, We're gonna move on from these young players. We talked about the bargain deterans. Let's talk about who those bargain veterans are and how much you

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of fantasy football you play. Say temper cent at Ruto experts dot com with the promo code V and T s Y. It's the NFL three Fantasy Football package only at Rhoto Experts dot com. Pffs, you're on the Fantasy Sports radio network. Frank brought up a fantastic point during the break. He's like, Okay, we have all these prospects are out there. Everybody wants him and understandably sell, but in order to do so, you gotta drop him. You gotta drop somebody to go out and get him. So

at what level? Where are we about dropping certain players? Right? He wrote up Jason Hayward during the break, Mike, would you drop Jason Hayward for any of these guys? Yeah? Jason Hayward was fun while he lasted, but he's batting below two hundred in the month of May at least, though as of yesterday he was So I have no problem dropping Jason Hayward. Yeah, I agree with that. He's over his last six team batting average down to two

thirty five. Overall, it was fun while it last. Mike, You're right, and I have him in the main event, so I'm probably looking to replace him this weekend. Greg, Yeah, I think so. It's you. Jason Hayward. I got hot, but it's no longer a thing. Would you drop for these guys? Frankandy Diaz is battling a bit of an ankle injury. I believe we're an injury of some sort. Oh man, this is tough one too, because Andy Daz has He's been a little inconsistent recently, but overall, I

mean the numbers have still been pretty good. Nine home runs, twenty five runs, twenty two r b I s UM two seventy three batting average. I don't think that I would Greg, and I understand wanted to get these guys on my team, but he's been good. What do you think, Mike, Yeah, I'm not dropping Andy. I own Yandy in multiple spots. He has been a little up and down this year there, but man, he's he's playing every day, he's hitting clean up for the race. You want to get, you know,

some exposure in that line up. I cannot drop the andy Ds right now. There. There have to be someone else on my team. I would want to drop first. Yeah, I agree with that as well. Are you One of the questions we were getting into chat and I said, it wouldn't drop this player. It's tough. I don't. I don't have any exposure. You know, I was off this guy.

But Joey Vodo, Joey Votto's he's having a term of year, he's it seems like he's he's not Joey Vatdo anymore, you know, even going back to last year, at LEAs last year he hit two eighty four, the power was down tremendously, only hit twelve home runs. But this year it's kind of like we're getting both of those things together. It's not much power and the batting averages to fifteen. It's May seventeen. This guy has a strikeout rate that's not like Joey Votto. Mike I said, I wouldn't drop him.

Maybe I'm just thinking too much about like the draft capital and understand, you know, a month and a half into the season, you can't really think about that much anymore. But this is a tough one. I don't think that I would drop Joey Vatdo. Would you? No? I wrote about Joey Vado this week. I understand how frustrating he's been,

but I expect the power to increase. Like his heart hit rate is thirty nine percent, it's a little bit lower than what it was last year, but the fly ball rate is a career high forty four point four percent. Like those balls should be leaving the park. So his home run from flyball ratio right now is even lower than it was last year, which was half less than

half of what it was the year before. I expect improvement there, But I get it if you're if you're frustrated and you want to put him on your bench shirt. But I'm still not ready to drop him just yet.

I think I'm more likely to trade him. And I know this doesn't necessarily like fit the philosophy of what we can do, like normally tell people to do sell high and and by low, but I still would imagine if there's someone in a league somewhere that still has faith in Joey Vado based on his name value, So I think it'd be more likely to trade him before I dropped him, Greg, I agree, who else here is?

I've been getting questions about Clint Frasier too, but you know, my question back to other people is Clint Fraser was a highly regarded prospect as well, and he and he hits in the Yankee Stadium. I understand this month has not been good for him, and kind of spoke about this yesterday, Greg that potentially the injury that he suffered derailed some of that momentum that he had, and he

was performing so well in the month of April. Just sucks that he got hurt and now he's come back in May, and basically since he's come back, he hasn't been himself. But he himself is also a prospect, and he hits in the middle of a good lineup and a good ballpark. So it's like, what are you really expecting out of these prospects That's different than what you're expecting from Clint Frasier. So I'll throw that one your way as well. Mike, would you drop Clint Frasier? That

one is close. Again, I feel like there's probably would be someone on my team I would want to drop more, but if not, I would drop him. Not for Nicky Lopez or Mercado, but for the other four. I think I would. I would take that upside shot. I'm more on your side with that point, right, Like Clint Fraser was that top prospect earlier, but much like Willie Calhoun, that the shine was off and I understand that home back to back games, the Fraser was really hot until

he got hurt. To me let him kind of run back into form prospects, you're gonna Evan Flow and you have Clint Fraser. You're not hoping that those guys become Fraser because he struggled and you probably spent a lot of money to get him to Fraser. To me, I'm Leasha is longer for me on Clint Frasier. I'm not dropping Frasier for these guys. Yeah, I'm closer to you on that one as well. Greg, I've surprised. Yeah, yeah,

I wouldn't want to drop him at all. So for me, though, I did pick up Nikki Lopez and Mercado each in a different home league players, I dropped him. I dropped Chevor Richards sadly in one tier, and then another player I've been supporting. I've dropped Pablo Lopez in another, and I don't want to drop I'm sorry for cutting you off. Pabolope was actually the next name I was gonn ask

you about, Um, Yeah, I don't. I wouldn't want to ideally drop him, but I had a lot of pictures in depth, and he was just, unfortunately the last picture on my roster. So I said, you know what, I didn't have any bench beats in this league. I wanted to get in on one of these prospects. I had to do what I had to do. What about hundred pence we just picked up Frank is gone? Well, we

didn't spend much to gain him. I think we got a four dollar bid out of a hundred, so I would I would think that in a fifteen team or you might be able to find someone else that you could drop before Hunter Pence. I mean, he still was doing a lot of good things. I don't want to pooh pooh him. I know, you know, of course, the week that we pick him up seems to be like the week that he's gone cold. He hit a home run yesterday, but overall this week he hasn't been great.

But he was still doing a lot of really good things, So I don't want to downplay that all too much. Is the worst player on your rosters, then yes, I could see dropping him for these prospects. Anybody else come to mind, gentleman, that's worth discussing. I mean, it's hard to obviously do it this way. I'll throw a few names out here, guys that got off to starts that are kind of cooling down now, three names, Michael franco Um. I will also say who else was I looking at here?

Ki her Nandez I'll throw out, and then Dan's by Swanson, three names that have that got off the odd starts and are kind of cooling down here. And I think especially for these top four, I don't know if I would drop all three of them for these other like lower prospects that we're that we talked about, but for the top four, I think I would be alright dropping

all three of those guys. So the only one or a headstat actually is Michael Franco because he was so good and he's in that lab and in that ballpark where I really has you have him in a league man like he's he's we have them together. He's like the batting averages all the way down to thirty eight. It looks at bat ball day like he's not hitting the ball hard to It's like, I think that first month might have just been a little bit flukey. What do you think about those three players? Mike, Yeah, I'm

okay to me. The one I had the most pause about is is Dan's by Swanson actually because he plays that premium position. I picked him up in a league and I've been happy with the production I've got, and I know it's up and down with him as well, but again former top prospect, high pedigree. But for those top four, I would drop all three of them. I wanted to throw two names to you guys, because these are two names that I've gotten a lot this week.

Uh it's Craig Kimbrell and Dallas Kiko. So I think it depends on where you're at in the standings, Greg, Like if you're at the top and you're gonna need a closer, like we know Craig Kimberll is gonna be signed, Someone's gonna sign, Someone's gonna sign Kiko. Also, there's no way I could drop them because they have trade value. I'd be more likely to drop Kaiko than I would I can't drop I'm not droping Kimber. Like when he comes back in June, he could go back to be

in the top five top ten closes. So I would be more likely to drop Kaiko than I would Kimber. I'm not gonna drop either. And I think it also depends on where you're at in the standings, Like if you're falling behind Greg, you can only have so many players that your stash, stash prospects. You're trying to stash these guys signed, yet you're waiting for players to come back from injury. It's tough. I just totally get it.

But that's that's the position you're in. You how one or both of these guys training with somebody that can afford to wait. That's what I've been saying, Like we've held out this long, we have like two or three more weeks to go. I think Kimbrella, once he signs, he's on a major league roster like I would be surprised to see him need rehab like a like a minor league stint at all, and the Dallas Kiko might

be the same thing. One other name though, just just because I've been thinking about the names that I've been getting questions about a lot, and this one is a player who I liked a lot heading into the year. It's Jesse Winker. Getting a lot of questions should I drop Winker? Mainly for Riley and Calhoun. I love Jesse Winker, He's my guy. We spoke about this the other day to Greg, and initially my response was, well, what are you expecting these prospects to do that we're that we're

not expecting from Jesse Winker? Right, So kind of similar to Clint Fraser, where he's a former top prospect himself. He hits in a good ballpark, and I think as a weather starts to heat up more and more in Cincinnati, the ball is gonna start to fly out there. And while the batting average is to twenty one, obviously that's

not ideal. This was a guy that at every level, the one thing you could depend on him to do was hit for batting every so I would kind of hang my head off Matt when it comes to Jesse Winker and still hitting the ball extremely hard, hard hit rate, hits too many groundballs from my liking overall, but again, good ballpark, he hits in the middle of a good lineup. My question is, what are you expecting these prospects to do that we're not expecting Jesse Winker to do. You

do have the nine home runs from Winker. Obviously r b I s aren't there, but it's not really his fault. He's got fifteen runs most of the season he was leading off. Yeah, I know, I know. Um. I think you can expect more power out of Riley, potentially Calhoun. I think the power for Winker is going like I think his average is gonna skyrocket and he's gonna not

gonna hit two fourteen babbit. But he's also he hits the ball on the ground a ton, Frank, So he's really reliant, like you said, So he's relying on that high home run and fly ball rate. To me, I wouldn't bank on this power pace keeping up, but I

think the average is gonna get a lot. Do you remember those minor league numbers where he didn't have all those home runs came before the juice balls in the minor leagues, and that even though I'm even this year, the nine runs so far this year, like home run a fly ball rate is pretty high. Like, can he is it sustainable? Could he sustain it? I mean over the course of the season, shirt, But I don't know if I want to pank on that is rather high

for what it's worth. All the other projection systems on fan Graphs have him for between eleven and seventeen home runs, the rest of the in between two sixty six and to seventy three batting average, so pretty good batting average the rest away from him, and you know, the power is all over the place, but the bat Derrick Cardi's projections I mean pretty smart. Dude knows a lot more than me and you do. Greg. He has him for

seventeen home runs the rest of the way. That would give him overall, you're gonna drop a twenty six home run hitter, not to seventy three the rest of the way. Let me ask you one last one time. I don't I wouldn't want to drop him, Frank. Before we get to the veterans here these ark Daniel Murphy. Oh, this is a very relevant question right now, Greg, I would not Okay, I think I think you're just giving up a little bit too early, and we what his upside

could be. Floria, would you drop Hayes's aguilar. That's a good one. Uh, he's a regular. That's a really tough one. I would say no to Murphy for sure, although I don't know if he's healthy. Frank, that's why I had I can't decide if I want to trade for him to trade with Floria. We keep going back and forth, Florida. Frank, tell me about your proposal. I thought it was real. I thought it was fairly offered it to him. I just threw it out there. I was like, Hey, Joe

must Grove, I think. I. I don't think it's unfair. My fear is Daniel Murphy's rushed back, and if he's going to land on the I l again because that would do me no good then, because I'd be in the same position I am now. Um, that's the only reason I have a little hesitation. Haze sagular for the top guys. Yes, for Lopez and Mercado, No, I agree with that. We can follow your rid of him. We get rid of them, all right, Hey, Floria, who's gonna play first base for us? Anyway? We'll figure it out?

Is it Ronnie Rodriguez is eligible at first? Miss run? Ronnie's crushing it? Man? Actually short stop eligibility? Who has every everything? Everything? Um, Floria counts at first? I know this is a no. I just want to throw it out. Would you drop Alex Wood for them? Yes? Wow? What would changed? Once he had a set back? That's when I was like, all right, we could drop him. But before that, it was like he's gonna be back first week of May. It's like the week before May, and

Greg's like, yo, let's cut him. Yeah, And I was right, you were right. After back, I was, man, I stand by the fact that we didn't need to drop him. You know what, You're wrong because we have to drop Zack Fflyn and then spend money to get him back. Yeah, but we didn't spend that much, so I didn't want to drop back. I did not want to drop Zach Eflyn. So you guys are basically blaming me. I was sleeping. It wasn't my fault, well, I asked Mike. I was like,

all right, well, what do you want to drop? It was he could have an axe? Would I think we had? So we had another bid on Alex. Would I think we needed like a middle infield of that week? Pomping Alex would and we didn't get any. Oh the trials and tribulations of teaming the two people, Mike, why does Zach Miller suck? Suck? Zach Wheeler just can't. It's against

the Nationals, that's it. Like I tweeted before this last start his numbers from that blow up start against the Nats before this last week start, and he was pitching like an ace man below three e r A, below three eight in the r A indicators. Oh well over a strikeout for in giving ten like in three of his last four outings. So it's just for some reason when he faces the Nationals, you have mind permission to

sit him, other than that he's been pitching well this year. Well, Mike, would you like to know who was next started against? It's against the national Let's go. You got a two start week next week, Nationals and Tigers. So basically you're gonna get one five inning, six earned run performance and probably one seven enning let's say two earned run performance. That's gonna be your Zach Wheeler double start next week, right, fantastic? This is ridiculous. Why does Patrick Corbyn Frank who you

select the Zack Wheeler over Frank? Did? She gets the Mets every time? Dominate them because the Mets suck the Nationals? Well, you know, Zach Wheeler probably wishes that he could face the Mets too. It's not his fault. That's a fair point. You see. I don't want to do I don't want to do this, Floria. I really don't. What do you care anyway? Like I have main event with Greg Binen, not with you, so you shouldn't care. The guys are three geese will stick together. But um, I don't want

to do this to Flora. But I just feel like you're at that point, like remember that first week April, whether than that, every Mets Fani was like, now we're in May, where we always are, and they're all just like we suck. Ye. Yes, it is just therustrating part. It's it's like clockwork. The Mets, for some reason, are always awesome in April. They always are going to win an opening day. We know that, but from May on

they just can't figure it out. I do think they're going to be better this year than they were last, but to think that they were going to win the division if coming into the year I did not think they were making the playoffs, well, you know it is a dog fight though. If you look at the NL East right now, the Phillies are leading in A nineteen, so there's only five games over five hundred and like the Braves are close. The Mats as like up and down as they've been there, only three and a half

games out, and you know it could be worse. Mikey Greg and I both chose the Washington Nationals to win the n EL easis here and we both had Anthony Randon as our National League MVP, so it would be worse. He looked like it until he got hurt. Yeah, and we we we discounted some player named Christian Yelloch that. Yeah, I mean a lot of people. My dad actually chose Yellows to be the MVP two years in a row when he was on the show that he did. I shout out of my mom too. By the way, happy birthday,

Mom's birthday tonight, Happy birthday Frank's mom. Mom. I'm going by their house tonight a little, a little party. Hard. That's awesome. Your father selected. He did not. Oh gosh, he's like the no one ran all right, not a bad not a bad no I got. I got Christian Yellow ten overall in our home league. I'm just gonna say that, that's great. I don't know why I was planning on taking Chris Sale and I got him. I

was so happy. So I had I had third overall, and I took Max Scherzer because it's I wanted pitching. You know, my top three picks in that leak where Max Scherzer, Freddie Freeman, and Jehan Carlos stand, all three have been quite underwhelming. That's why I'm two and four. He had a home run last night, But overall, it just feels like he hasn't done enough this year, at least not what I was expecting from And then John Carlos Stanton, that's just a dumpster fire flor to this weekend. Uh,

this is more like a chill weekend. I have a bunch of trips coming up in June and July, so I'm really looking at York. Yes, I haven't booked New York yet, but it's either going to be the middle week of June or the middle week of July. I'm going back and forth on that. But I'm going to Florida the weekend next I won't be able to do BFFs that week. Sorry, guys. I'm going to Mexico one week soon. I'm going to San fran It's gonna gonna

be exacting for Mexico. That's cool. And certainly Florida, Florida, Florida, Mexico. I'm not sure if I can. Yeah, they don't let you have WiFi. That all right for Mike, Florida. We appreciate it, talent. Talk to you next week, but sounds good. Thank you. Guys. Already out over two including Jason starts week you Tiny question is up next around via maps