Astros Don't Care About Cheating, Comparing ADPs

Where where Frank? What are you doing? Frank? What are you? What are you doing? Oh? Oh, hello there? Greg? What's going on? Man? Are you? Are you? Are you taking notes on other shows content? What are you watching other shows during our show? Are you cheating? Greg? I'm just using the technological advancements that we have to try and gain an edge in the industry. There's a very competitive industry, Frank. That's against the rules. You can't watch other shows during

our show try to create better content. You can't do that. That is cheap. Doesn't say it anywhere in the rule You canna say it anywhere in the rule book that I can't use technology to help gain an edge in the industry. Doesn't say it anywhere in the rule, but even trash can to let me go what all their shows are doing? Are you kidding me? This is against every law, the industry, every grace that we have. This is just wrong, man, Greg. I just want us to

be the best that we possibly can. We were nominated for an f s w A Award a couple of years ago. I want to get back to where we were back in I want to be the best. We can't do this. This isn't right, all right, I gotta I gotta do something about this. So let's go to the update with Shaan Wassilakia and when we come back, I will handle this for all of us sports grade news. I'm Sean Glossomachia with your BFF sports grid News up. The Astros cheating scandal takes a new turn as the

players met the media today. Astros Alex Regman and Jose Altuve are deeply sorry for the choices they made by their team and the organization as well. Regman went on to say, I've learned from this and I hope to regain the trust of baseball fans. Um It was not well received by the media, a couple of stumbles by the Houston Astros organization. Their owner Crane met the media as well and kind of contradicting himself a number of times. So not a good look for the Houston Astros or

all the Chatman Yankees. Closer, he also met the media and he called Old Jose Al two action where after he hit the home run off of Chapman, his actions afterwards where they wouldn't rip off his jersey suspicious. So stay tuned as this cheating scandal continues to make headlines. All right, let's look at the NBA scoreboard today. Just two games later tonight eight pm Eastern Time, you have the Los Angeles Clippers at the Boston Celtics. Celtics two

point favorites on the point spread to your total. And the nightcap, the last game before the NBA All Star Break, it's the Oklahoma City Thunder at the New Orleans Pelicans. Pelicans three and a half point favorites on the point spread two thirty four and a half is your total. And on the basketball college basketball Lanscope tonight, a couple of big games, you have Iowa at Indiana the Who's yours? Two point favorites in that one one and a half

your total. Arizona State at Stanford later tonight, that's two and a half point favorites for the Ardinal one thirty eight and a half your total in that. When Washington State at u c l A. That rounds out the college basketball action eleven pm Eastern time, tip seven and a half point favorites for the Bruins one thirty seven your total. All right, let's head back now to the BFFs with Greg and Frank. That's your sports grid update. Back to you guys. Niculous, I mean, it's just simply ridiculous.

I mean, you're using a monitor right to watch other shows during our show, completely unethical. So I had now taken this monitor. I smash it. Look at this, I smash it because he's unacceptable. It is unacceptable what you did, and I will not stand for it. I won't. I will do it. Remember when they know grants the fun well and right, Greg doesn't care about anything. I care about ethics and I care about doing this right Indias

industry and that is not allowed. Well, Greg, how was I supposed to know that just because you're here smashing a TV that you wanted me to stop doing what I was doing. How was I supposed to perceive that because we should stop? It's not right? How was I supposed to know that? How about this right? Me smashing the TV? Not right? But you never told me to stop. You never actually told me to stop. All you did was smash a TV that I was using to gain an edge so that we can be the best. How

is I supposed to know that? But you smashing this TV? You wanted me to stop doing that? Rank you mentioned that we are in f s W, a award nominated show. Do you think we needed this to steal it that? Look, I'm not saying that it would have helped us be better. I can't say that it would have not helped us be better. You know what that matters is that we were nominated. I have to ask, like, who is mombing this? How many all the people knew? Like does Florio? No?

Does Florio know what happened here? Well? Speaking of Michael Florio, Mike Cardano, one of the leaders of the Sports scrit Network, he did suspend Michael Florio for a year at the time. At the time, he suspended him for a year, and because of that, we figured it was just best to let him go. So this is why Flourio now lives in California. He needed to leave the city because of

what you guys did. Yeah, we look, we were disgraced by his actions and due to the suspension, we thought the best thing to do, the best course to take, was to just let him go. Greg, Alex, did you know about this? Do you know about this? Downstairs? With it? That Frank and Mike we're doing this? Greg, usually pretty on top of things here, I'm pretty disappointed in you. You're You're usually the one to say first come first, Listen,

listen what I joined this show. When I enjoined Mike and Frank back, I didn't know they were doing this, and all right, when I got here and I noticed, I should have done more than hit the TV. You're right, I should have done more. But I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I did what I thought I could, I didn't do enough. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to the audience. I thought Frank was better than this. I thought Mike was better than this. I thought the brand of BFFs, the team that we are,

it was better than this. And you know what we're not. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. One of the final things that I will say is that the producers had no say in this whatsoever. They were just doing what they were told. Did anyone course in doing this, so they should be absolved of any wrongdoings. You know, they gave Mike Cardano, you know, the report, and because of that they were given immunity and they testified against the BFS. Just know but that the produce sers were not in charge of this, Gregg.

They are absolved of any wrongdoing. And you know, as one of the hosts of the show, the producers will not be suspended, they will not be fined. They're absolved of any wrongdoing in this matter. Grace, who does whose idea is this? It was Michael Florio's, Michael Florias. That's why we had to let him go. Do you or do you feel responsible for us? I am in no way, shape or form responsible for this. If I think you can refer to my Cardano's report on the matter as well.

Quick question, does this seem ridiculous to you? This is what we've just proven all sound completely absurd to you, Because it sounds absurd to me that the person that was physically benefited from watching the monitor from taking his notes. Nothing happens. Franks still gonna host the show today. The Astors are still going to play baseball this year, including the guys that cheating. Right, there's a sound of certain to you. I played the fifth. This is a ridiculous.

The actions don't monish me. J Hinch. He's only new interviews on MLB Network and my p MLB outlets. Jim Cray, the owner of the Astros, absolves himself completely. Said they were good enough without cheating, it didn't matter. And yet they were. They cheated. Nothing happens. They don't care. It

doesn't matter. Greg. I do have one final thing to remind you that according to Mike Cardonald's report, Again, according to Mike Cardinal's report, the commissioner of Sports Grid, he absolved the players of any wrong he absolved the producers of any wrongdoing. Here, I will just I will just refer to Mike Cardinal's report. Was there a buzzer used? Frank? According to my Cardinald's report, a thorough report. They looked into this throughout the investigation and they did not find

any buzzers. So there were no buzzers, just cheating. Do you feel that other shows were wronged by what you did. Look, I can't say that the other shows would or would not have been affected by us cheating back in Seen. All I can tell you is that we were good enough to be nominated for an f s w A Award back in seventeen. Greg, we were good enough and we won that award. We would have won that award and we didn't get caught cheating. When we come back, well,

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the sheet to do that. We just won't. We analyze the data. We give a better advice than any other show in the industry. And to do that, let's nave you a new segment we like to call ad V money in the bat Are you're playing the music this show? Already? I was ready to go there is there a dollar dollar? This is Greg trying to do the shame McMahon shuffle. You were trying money in the bank right here? Maybe a BP money the bay. How is this going to

work going forward? We are going to give you three players that are going in a similar spot in a DP in sorry, in NFPC drafts over the in the month of February, there'll be three players going in a similar spot. We will tell you which player is Mr. Money in the bank, the one that you want to draft here the season, Frank, who do we got today?

All right? We got three pictures. We're going back to back to back in terms of NFBC a DP, right, now the night picture off the board, Steven Strassburg with an ADP of twenty nine point nine in the month of February, Blake Snell with an a DP of thirty four point two in the month of February, and just behind him all of these pictures within five picks of each other in the NFBC Chris Sale with an ADP

of thirty four point nine five. Greg, there's a constant theme among these three starting pitchers is that they're either all currently dealing with an injury or have dealt with plenty of injuries in the past, right, So all these guys know the injuries last year or injured now, as you mentioned here, this is our money in the bank segment where you're calling you which player we believe in

the draft? These money in the bank, right you said it, there are three players were going after day, Steven Strassberg, who you know basically won the Nationals in the World Series, I would say, Blake Snell and Chris Sale all going within five pigs of each other. As you mentioned, let's start with the one going the earliest, that is Steven Strawson right now in the NFBC in the month February,

he's going at twenty eight. Overall, you've had your concerns about Strasby the only time has been able to really stay healthy in that contract year. Now he's gotten paid and he stay healthy A goat. Yeah, I think that's the biggest question when it comes to Steven Strassburg. It was his first time over two hundred ennings last year since two thousand and fourteen. There's no doubting when he is on the mount. He's one of the best starting

pitchers in baseball. A three one seven e r A in his career, a two x fit in his career, consistently over ten case per nine, and under two point seven five walks per nine in his career. Last year, you bring up that season that he had three three two e r a one oh four whip nearly eleven strikeouts per nine, a fifty one percent groundball rate, the

second highest of his career. You want to look at the underlying numbers here for Steven Strassburg, a thirty seven percent chase rate career high, sixty three point six percent first pitch strike percentage, and a thirteen point four percent swinging strike create That was a career high for him as well. He changes things up. I to use the sinker more last year than ever before. He raised his

curveball usage. According to Fangraphs pitch values, his curveball was the second best in baseball last year, behind only Charlie Morton. The biggest issue for Strossburg Greg is whether or not he can stay healthy. There are reports last year that he changed he changed up his training regiment with the Washington Nationals and that helped him stay healthy for the entirety of the season. There's no doubting that when he's on the mound he's one of the ten best starting

pitchers in baseball. There's no doubt about. Usually someone Frank that buys when a guy makes a change between out Reese Hoskins, changing his batting stances another reason to get back in on him. But I have to wonder, because we've talked off their on air. You haven't been really in on Strasburg. But you want to dive into that, Garrett Cole, Jacob Degrand's here. You don't really want in on Steven Stotsburne and those injuries and just doing it

one time, ever, has you a little bit questioned? You know, how are you questioning when you want to get back, you know, Steven Strossburg, but he changed the regiment up, he stayed healthy. Isn't that enough. I just feel like he's a little bit overvalued based on where he's been in years past. And we brought this up last year, right, we said, look, you're getting him in the fourth, fifth round.

He's gonna be someone that goes in the second round and then he's gonna be someone who lets him down again because it seems like that's what Strassburg always does. There's no doubting the talent here. And he made a change to his pitch mix. As I mentioned, he started using the curveball more. He used a sinker eighteen and a half percent of the time. That's the first time he's consistently used that pitch since. So he did make adjustments.

I like Steven Strasburg. I don't know personally if he is going to be my money in the bank here when we're comparing him up against Blake's now and Chris Sale. I do like him, maybe not to win this money in the bank, though, Greg. I know Mike Floria before he got suspended and ultimately fired from our show. I know that Michael Florio was all in on Blake's Now, that was his guy, and he got it right. Now. He probably cheated in order to get it right, but

he ultimately get it right. Last year he told Blake Snell will be good again. He wasn't. He struggled, he got hurt, came back, got hurt, and then never really pitched keep into a game again. The Razor always going to be cautious with their starting pitchers. Blake Snews my forward siding on award where he won manybe leaves just two years ago. For you, Frank Lake's not gonna be more like eighteen or twenty nineteen here. I think the answer is he's gonna be somewhere in the middle, but

probably closer toen. Look, he's not gonna replicate what he did in that side young year. I mean, he was extremely lucky in terms of BADIP that season, but last year that luck went completely too far the other way in terms of BADIP. Again, his bad have been ten to forty one for an entire season. Last year it was three forty three, with his hard hit rate being

less in ten than it was in eighteen. So again the luck just swung completely the other way for Blake Snell last year, and if you look at the first eleven starts Craig before he dropped the piece of furniture on his toe and broke his toe, his first eleven starts, a nine percent swinging strike ery that is absolutely insane, a thirty five percent strike out rate, twenty seven point seven percent K minus walk percentage, a three oh six e r A, a three oh eight fit, a two

eight to xfit. His first eleven starts Greg, while he was healthy last year, he was absolutely insane, and I think if he's healthy again, that's a lot to ask. He dealt with some shoulder fatigue and elbow injury in late July as well. Um, but by all accounts he is healthy this offseason and coming into spring training. If we can get anything close to the picture we saw inmost first eleven starts Greg before he fractured his toe, then I think he probably has the highest upside of

this group. Isn't it kind of interesting that you're begging on a guy that did Injurus tough, they did have the shoulder fatigue, didn't pitch a full game after July last year. You're doing that rather than banking on a guy that let his team to a World Series last year, stayed healthy the entire season. I know the ADP is a couple of spots different, but about four or five

spots earlier he was better. He earned it. But don't you almost worry about him making that deep run into the postseason a little bit more because the endings are up and he's not used to pitching that deep into the season. He was phenomenal, There's no doubt about it. We earned that World Series MVP. But someone who finally stayed healthy for over two endings and then pitched that far into the postseason as well, I think that adds a little extra, you know, level of nervousness here for

Steven Strotsburg. Anyway, there's one more player in this trip will threat money in the bank contest, and that is Chris Sale. He was him and Sherzer last year. Which one do you want to take first? Well, Chris Seal

never seemed right. Velossity never got there. We questioned if he was injured, He swore he wasn't injured, and around around we go Chris Sell mostly underlying numbers look pretty good ear a not a lotch It's four four when it was all said and done, he's already come down with a bout of pneumonious So he's behind the other starters in Boston of Austin team that's not expected to

be good. Chris Tale has the ability because he's done it before Frank de finishes the number one overall picture, and you're getting later than Blake's now later in Steven Stocksberg, I'll like, you know, five picks in one pick. But that's what we're talking about, Chris Sal, Are you buying that last year it was an abnormality and we'll get the picture back that may have been the best picture in baseball? Are you buying that? Something certainly still seems

off of Chrysale. Chris Sale. To me, Greg is the biggest wild card in fantasy baseball this upcoming season because we know when he's on your right he can be the sp one overall. He's also someone in my opinion, that could be shut down by mid May, by the middle of April, maybe even before spring training. I mean, something was not right with him last year, and we saw that he dealt with left shoulder inflammation in late July, and then he got shut down in mid August because

of an elbow injury. He wpens to go visit Dr James, and he's three words you never want to hear when it comes to a starting pitcher in fantasy baseball, in regular in baseball in general. If you're a Boston Red Sox fan. He'll turn thirty one this upcoming season. I think the fact that his he has like a wonky delivery, and his frame is very uh. He has a very skinny frame, a very frail frame. I guess you could call it as well when it comes to Chris Sale.

Those are things that worry me as well. The underlying numbers were great. I can't dispute that fourteen percent swinging strike create a two point nine three xfit. He did post a four point four e r A. His fastball velocity was down two miles per hour then where it's normally been at in his career, down to ninety three point seven miles per hour, the lowest it's been since sixteen. His hard hit rate was up. His left on base percentage was terrible. I watched a lot of Chris Sale

greg last year. I had him on my NFBC Main event team. He was not right and his location was all over the place. He couldn't put hitters away. His last city was down. He's the biggest wall card and Fantasy Baseball this year. If you are, you know, a risk taker in the early rounds in Fantasy baseball, I tend to be risk averse in those early rounds. I want to build a solid foundation. Then you know, if you want to take that risk on Chris Sale, He's

someone that can absolutely win you a league. But I think that within his range of Acams Gregg, he is somebody that can also be shut down by the middle of May. There's just no knowing. You know, based on this shoulder and elbow injury that he dealt with last year. That's the big question mark when it goes to Sale that he maybe not the same guy for he was a year or two ago, but there may be some

underlying injury. But he swears he's healthy, So we're all last year he was healthy and nothing just seemed right. I don't know. It's the same staff. Can they get the most out of him? I do. I simply do not know. It's it's weird because his upside is greater than both, Like you said, it is greater than Blake Snells. It is greater than Stephen Shost because he's done it, He's been the number one overall is your in fantasy baseball?

But that you know what, I actually feel like Blake Snell has the highest floor out of these guys because Sale can have a debilitating injury. We've seen shotspurg have debilitating injury. Snells wasn't like debilitating last year like Drops with furniture and the shoulder fatigue. I don't know, man, All right, this is it we got thirty seconds ago, and then we're gonna go more about Blake Snell in a few moments as doing stats is gonna join us from the sample of day rays. But Frank, who is

Mr Money in the bank for you? Miss their money in the bank with these three injury pro starting pitchers. In my opinion, great, You're right, it's Blake Snell. I think he is the highest floor and I would argue that his ceiling is up there with Chriss Sales as well. We'll hear more about Blake Snell as Dwayne Stats joins us next. I want to light the lamp on Draft

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right back here on in the BFFs. He's Frank Stafville. I am Groan Sausman. We have a broken TV in the middle of us. After I saved our show by ending the cheating that Frank did for years, for years, Frank, all I can say is I was just following my court holds report. Fair enough. Joe is now not a cheater, a great broadcaster. It's Twain stats with v by Rage. What's up, Twain? Hey guys, how are you doing? We're doing fantastic, man, how are you? We're very well? Thank you,

thank you. Some pitchers and cashers have afforded. Baseball season is upon us, and we were just talking about Blake's now who had those unfortunate injuries last year. Is he healthy? And ready to go and give us two or dreatings this year. Yeah, I think, uh, you know, he's coming to spring training. His big emphasis over the winter was eating better and better nutrition and all that. So I think for him to be focused on that. He's happy

with the other recoveries from the problems he had. I think he's ready to go out and you know, show command of the fastball. And you know, he's been back and forth between his curveball and his slider over the last couple of years, and it really did seem than when he went with that breaking ball, the curveball more,

you know, he was more effective. And I think I look back at him when he first came up with the variety of pitchers he had normally think the guy's going to command the fastball better than his secondary pitches, and he was actually just the opposite of that, and the idea that that he can command that curveball as

well as a slider. But he really likes the curveball now and the change and the command of the fastball has been a you know, has been the biggest challenge for him when he struggles and he thinks, uh, all of those things are in line and he has something to prove coming off you know, the great year two years ago and then some inconsistency and some health injuries, health issues last year. So he's, uh, he wants to

reassert himself at the at the top of that rotation. Hey, Joanne Frank standfel here, thank you so much for taking the time to join us today. We saw the Rays make a trade last week. They trade away Amilio Pagan, who was the team's closer last year, to acquire many more go Uh, the name of the show, here's the Fantasy BFF. So we're trying to give people antasy baseball information. We're trying to figure out who's gonna close for the

Tampa Bay Raised this upcoming season. Because saves are very, very valuable in fantasy baseball that you might not have just one answer. It might be a combination of a bunch of different guys. But who do you think leads the Tampa Bay Raise in saves this upcoming season? Well right now they're saying it's a closer by committee, and I have to take them at their word. Pagan did

emerge as the guy at twenty saves. As the season went on, he got opportunities once he got back to the big leagues, and I really think, um, I think you have a couple of front runners in Diego Castido and Nick Anderson, with Jose Alvarado short of the uh, the third guy in that mix. All three have as you know, I have great arms and and could close. Anderson when he came over from Miami was unbelievable, So I can he be as good as he was when

he came over? Essentially, I think he had something somewhere in the mid thirties and strikeouts before he ever walked anybody after he came over here. And and the Castillo entry will determine will be determined. I think how much they use or do not use the opener they've been talking here now not only using you know, three starters like Morton and Snelldon and Glass now, but thinking of

Torinos and Yarboro as starters. And if they do that, then that obviously would affect what happens in the bullpen, because they used Castillo a lot as an opener last year. So if he's consigned to the bullpen, he's got to be one of the front runners. It's gotta be Castio or Anderson and Alvarado two years ago and early last year had great stuff. He had some personal issues involving family and back and forth between Venezuela and and here. So they're hoping that they all get some consistency and

he's settled in. But right now he's kind of the the wild horse pick out of those three. But if I had to pick somebody who's gonna lead this team and closures now, it would be it would be Castillo if they don't use the opener, and Anderson if they do use Cato as an opener. It was a great closive breakdown there from doing stats. You know, for me, I think what you mentioned with Josie Jose Alvarado is the obvious one because he was so good two years ago,

he struggled last year. And we always say, Frank on the show, figure out some of these players personal lives and see what's going on. Read a little bit deeper than with the stats of the peach say, and knowing what now that he did have some family struggles in Venezuela and here in the States, and that certainly contributes the men a part of the game, which is a huge aspect of baseball. Yeah, absolutely, we always have to try and consider the human element. You know, what we

do is trying to give out fantasy baseball information. A lot of that's going to be analytical driven, but you also have to look at what's happening off the field for some of these guys. And I think that's part of the issue with Jose Alvarado last year. The struggles that he was going with were obviously tied to things that were going on off the field. All Right, you

mentioning Amelia Pagondred and asked, who is the closer? Well, I'll be trying to figure out the other side of things in the outfield where this offseason, the Rays have acquired Manny Margot, They've acquired Hunter Renfro, they acquire Josie Martinez. All of these guys play similar positions in the outfield corner infield, they had a lot of names. They're, uh, here, Dwayne, who's gonna start for this race team? Well, they're trying

to figure out positions right now. I actually think, you know, Kermeyer is going to be in center, Meadows is out there. Renfro is gonna get a lot of playing time. Marco. I think we'll get his playing time against uh selected lefties.

You know, his numbers are very good against lefties. Kiermeyer and Margot give them top flight defense in center field, so it gives them an opportunity I think too, not have Kermeyer in the lineup against some lefties with the confidence that they're gonna get the same kind of defensive performance in center field, and probably against those lefties, better offense out of Marco than they get out of kier Meyer. And I think they're looking at Meadows to be the

same guy he was a year ago. They're very high on him, and he's the one guy I think you can pencil in he's gonna be somewhere in that lineup every day in the outfield and some DH and Renfro. I think they they'd love to see him play and get as many advanced as he can becaumes of his power.

The interesting thing about Meadows, you know he spent some time ding, but suddenly you know they have number of guys on this team that they're gonna have to consider as almost strict d H s and and that's led by Jose Martinez, who can swing the bat as power. They're concerned about his glove work, so I don't I don't know how many DH opportunities Meadows will get, which means he's going to be in that outfield more than he was maybe a year ago, because he's going to

be in the lineup every day. So I would look at at that mix in their lineup and I think they're expecting, they're expecting good things out of Mark Go but in a role where he will give them great center field defense and great offense against lefties. And that's a flexibility there. But the rest of it, I think is what we've talked about already with the Martinez getting a lot of the d H at bats. Dweyne, you brought up Tyler Glass now earlier in terms of the

pitching staff here for the table Bay raising. It looked like he was finally starting to put it all together last year, but then he got derailed with a forearm injury which limited him to just sixty and two thirds innings pitched last season. You know, what are you projecting for Tyler Glass now this upcoming season? For can he maintain those gains that he that we saw him kind of improve in terms of the control and the command

last year. We really saw the walks Uh improved from Tyler Glass now last year, can he stay healthy in twenty twenty? What are your expectations for Tyler Glass now this upcoming season? Twain, Well, he's gonna have every opportunity. You know, he had the forearm issue, the strain last year. UH, he had he had a little procedure done to relieve a nerve issue in the in the rest area. They say he is fine. He threw yesterday. They were very

pleased with what they saw. Their interesting thing about him, aside from that great velocity and you know nine seven somewhere a tick or two on either side of last year, that curveball was so great for him. I think uh the on base percentage of opposing hitters was under one seventy with his curveball. He wants to add and has

worked on split this uh this offseason. So I'm anxious to see him in the offseason or see him in spring training to see how he incorporates that pitch in because from what we saw last year, his primary deal is to stay healthy, and I think he found that niche where that inconsistency that he had in UH in Pittsburgh that prevented him from the Pirates being competent enough

to rely on him. It all came together here, and I think just being in an environment with the other pictures having Charlie More on this stamp certainly helped him and Kyle Snyder his influence on any of these pictures. I'm I'm a very big fan of Kyle Snyder, so I would look for good things there. I think they're

again their rotation. If if they go with whether they go with those three guys that we talked about, our at RINOs and Yarbro to round it out to essentially a five man traditional rotation, they're gonna get a bundle of innings and quality innings out of all those guys. Right there, you go, Dwayne Stats from the Tampa Bay Raised broadcasting team. We appreciate your time, sir. I have a great spring and come back soon. We'll look forward to it. Good to be with you guys. Have some fun,

We absolutely will. We're excited, man, baseball is back. We're excited to talk about it obviously all spring long. We come back, we're gonna take a look at some more a DPS. But we're doing yesterday regards to the juice ball era, who really gotta in fact, what are these power hitters were all basically because of the juice Ball Try to continue to figure this out to some more names. Put it up next. I want to be the next

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to learn more. Have apps hanging out with you and it's Coast to Coast Scotty Farrell, Carver I and NG the cover four to six pf Eastern Time, biggest to everybody works on that show, worse everyone in the worst in our show. We appreciate it. Okay, So let's get in Frankie Boy to the uh juice Ball Era guys. When Canna get you yesterday and I want to start

that was miss IoT. The team that I think is super juice Ball Era, but like the Minnesota Twins, were bombs away last year from target field for the Baracobell Delly in his first year, and one of the breakout guys was Max cap starting center fielder for or sorry out fieldside for this Minnesota Twins team. What Keeviller did last year was awesome. You do it again, Michael and Frank. That's a fair question, Greg, And that's what we're gonna

try and figure out right now. Thirty six home runs last year, he had two fifty two comes with a lot of prospect pedigree. It seems like he finally put it all together again. He is twenty seven years old, just turned only seven, much like Greg who just turned fifty three years old. But it was a breakout year for Max Kepler. You know what's crazy, his homeworn the flyball ratio eighteen percent, Greg does not seem completely unsustainable.

It was the highest of his career. We saw back in had a fifteen percent home run to flyball ratio. The past two years, he's hit consistent flyballs around forty six percent of the time. He also hit the ball harder last year than ever before, a forty two percent hard contact rate. And something I really liked that we saw from Kepler. Last year, Greg as a left handed batter,

finally started to hit well against left handed pitching. And we saw a little bit of that in the second half of the seen season, and it carried over to last year against lefties to batting average and eight eighty OPS. Now, what we need to do, Kepler, is we got to go back to hitting rightyth a little bit better as well, because he hit two thirty six against right handed pitching h and also had an eight forty five OPS. Seven of his thirty six home runs came against right handed pitching.

And you know, he dealt with a lot of nagging injuries Greg in late last season. I'm looking at his injury uh, his injury page, and this is the entire season right knee, elbow, knee, knee, leg, chest, chest, shoulder, and he was day to day for all of those injuries at some point throughout the course of last season

and still managed to have a career year. Last year strikes me as a hitter who was finally maturing again, Like I don't think the home run of fly ball ratio is out of this world, Like maybe he takes a little bit of a step back, maybe comes back to it, comes back to thirty home runs, it's two fifty to sixty. But you're not even paying anywhere close to the price um for the production that you got last year from Max Kepler in the month of February,

I believe one thirty five. So it's not egregious, you know, egregious, close to egregious. I really like Max. We're looking at where this ADP is and looking at those stats from last year, you know mean like I like guys that get on base a lot, and the three six VP isn't outstanding by any means. You go strike out to walk ratio, right, Like his strikeout percentage sixteen point six percent. That's low comack to most hitters and baseball these days.

His walking average strikeout rates so I see under twenty that's pretty good, right. The walk percent back to back year is over ten percent. He walks a lot. He doesn't really hit many groundballs, just around thirty six percent groundball percentage. Now the babbitt never good for Max chaff to four last or two thirty six, because I think he's hitting those five balls and he's heading get harder than ever. He's been thirty six home runs in a

hundred and thirty four games last year. Fine, maybe it comes back down to thirty, but you're still a ton of runs hit at the top of the Twins lineup. You're st looking at a ton of rb I hitting at the top of the Twins lineup. He doesn't run it at all, which is like a little bit frustrating, but that was never really a part of his game, respected to be part of the whole run. Whole run. The ball percentage comes back down to where it was back in his debut season, a fifteen percent rather than

the eighteen percent, which is like nothing, crazies. But if that comes down and he plays more games and stays healthy, it'll be around the same number anyway. Yeah, he's gonna be thirty five home runs anymore. The big difference in Kepler is that the hard hit percentage, and you described it went up to from thirty three percent just two or three years ago. That is a change. It's not

juice ball necessarily related. One thing I've noticed is that just across the board on fangrafs last year, everyone's hard hit rate was up. Every launch angle you have that his launch angle was eighteen point two degrees on average, which was the highest of his career and is bordering almost being too high. Okay, you want an average launch angle, this is it's not crazy. Eighteen degrees is not crazy, but typically an average launch angle what was it previously?

What was lung angle sixteen the year before, twelve point seven the year before the year before that, consistently higher launch Yeah, he's consistently going, but you know, I don't want him to go much higher than where he's at right now. And the batting average you saw last year

was two fifty two. Is expected batting average to sixty two, So maybe even some positive regression on the batting average air And again, Greg, what I'll bring up about Kepler and his value this upcoming season is why take Kepler when you get fran Milray's fifteen twenty picks later? That's the ultimately the question that you have to answer, because are they going to be that dissimilar? I don't know

that is here're a good question. If Kepler's here's the difference, right, If Kepler's leading off for the Twins team, He's gonna score like ten runs, similar power, similar RBI, but his his RBI will be down though similar where it was last year. That lead up most of the year last year, so he had he did have nine d r BI last year. Yeah, last year, and he had the splits right here. Yeah, for thirty seven at bats leading off the first of all year last year. Nine they were

they looked they were one of the best alls. And they're gonna be really good again, like they have Josh Donaldson, to have miguelso Nelson Cruz, They're gonna be really like Kepler man, I like Kepler. I think he's under value here. I would agree with you. I A point we were trying to get at with yesterday's exercise was were these players affected by the juice ball? And I think you even make a case that he was, to be honest with you, but I also think you see a player

that has made strides to get better. He's twenty seven years old and he was regarded as a top prospect. Why is it inconceivable that in his age twenty six season he finally put her all together. It's not, of course, it's not. I also used to think Kepler was a Jew. He's not. No, He's from Germany. Greg Maximilian Kevloski is his name. I like that name, Maximilian. I don't need to ask you this question, but I will anyway. It's just as brother Max, I'm going to everyone's birthday. Man,

it's crazy. I'm gonna assume that you did not you did not watch you did not watch UGO growing up. No, that's the enem mated series. You're still asking the trading card game, right, I got it? No? No, because there was a very popular character and they're called Maximilian Pegasus. Nice sick name, name your kids. There was a prospect named Maximilian Pegasus. Name Maximilian Pegasus stamfill nice. Right, it's not bad. I kind of like Maximilian as a name.

It's gonna get sorted to Max Max stamfle that's sounds cool. No, No, no, no, we're out on Max Stamfel. Whish all right. Another guy last dude had a really good year was trad Man City Boom moom Um get back last year after a down year. Ever leave the year before. People really liked him back in Rather, I think he struggled last year. He was fantastic for the Orioles for most of this season.

It was his twenty six seven year old season. He had thirty five homers over a hundred runs scored almost a hundred r v I at a two nine you want with an OVP over three sixty. He was awesome last year. Highest heart hit percentage of his at seven percent.

Not really egregious on run five ball ratio though highest of his career over twenty three percent was at home in the ball ratio got a little bit lucky last year, Frank, what do you think about trade Man sin Yeah, there seems to be some people that are split on trade Man Seni this upcoming season, trying to figure out, you know, how did he finally put it all together and break out last year. You mentioned the home run to flyball ratio a little bit high for him at twenty three

point six percent last year. It was at twenty point nine percent the year before percent for his career, so it really wasn't that much higher than his career. Mark did put together a career season thirty five home runs, a hundred six rbid, six runs scored ninety seven r BI, and he did that in the Baltimore Orioles line up. That was not very good, but it is a very good ballpark to hit in. Just in general for Camden Yards, he improved the walk percentage last year. He decreased the

strikeout percentage last year. I mean he did everything you want someone to do in terms of plate discipline. He still hits too many ground balls probably here greg similar to friend milrays, but he lowered that margin. He lowered that about nine per cent from He raised the fly ball rate over five percent from he raised his line drive rate three percent. I mean, he did everything you are asking somebody who normally hits too many ground balls to do. He raised his launch angle and it seemed

like it really clicked for him last year. Improved in terms of plate discipline. You look at the splits of Trey Mancini, you have no worries whatsoever to batting average with a eightee o p s against right handed pitching to seventy seven with a p s against left handed pitching. His home road splits nothing There p s at home nine oh six ops on the road, hits in a division with other great ballparks that hit in Yankee Stadium Fenway can end in Rogers Center. I don't mind Trey Mancini.

I look the way that I'll say it is he's not a target of mine. But if I were to get him as a fallback option at first base or as a corner infielder. I would not be mad with that. Man. I don't think you're getting as a quarter infielder. He's going in the top one in the NFBC. He's probably not. He's not gonna you're likely going to get him as your first base correct So would you rather have Trey Mancini at ninety nine or forty picks later you go

get Max Chepler. I would rather have Trey Mancini because I'm confident that the batting average is going to be better for for Mancini. Becaus projecting myself, I think he's probably gonna hit two seventy five to two eighties. I think that range. But I think the run score over a hundred last year at TC that's not replicable. It probably not, but has the orient I guess they've gotten worse with with no Jonathan Ran. Here's here's what concerns

right in team where he had that down year. Run still okay, he wasn't playing every single eight though hundred and fifty six games played more than he played the layer last fifty six games played, he had twenty less at bats fine sixty runs scored fifty eight revies. That's brutal. The Babbitt was to eight five and it was much less than three six last year. I had a little bit of lucky struck out more two years ago they did last year. Hard a percentage went up last year.

But that's like i'd say the floor, and he did in seventeen eighteen. He had back to back years of essentially the same year outside of the average. If we think Max Kepler has gotten better, and this is what man Seni is like, I'd rather that man forty picks I'm sorry, Keppler forty picks later pretty minute SEENI and Max Kepler at the same age, Greg, So why can't we just trust that man Sini just got better as well? Right, it might continue to get better. He could also nickname

Boom Boom. Absolutely, it's not really his name. Nickname that's okay to me, but it's the laws. Absolutely. Also awesome, Scott Ferrel. He's up next with Coast to Coast and Frank's Navie. I'm Greg Sauceman. Thanks to Shot and Alex downstairs. We'll do it all you tomorrow, we hope.