Fantasy Baseball 2020: 1st Base Rankings!

Frank stamfle I'm Greg sauceman. Frank, Greg, I was taking ahead of you, I noticed, right alright, like an exaggerated one after yesterday's bottle. What's going on? Man? Happy Thursday? Here to talk about the first base position for fantasy baseball, not nearly the position that it once was. Greg. But before we do all of that, I do sleep last night, but I sleep very very well, very well. Greg's getting a good night of sleep outside of obviously the Judy debacle. Um,

but last night it's love great. I really like making up, feeling refreshed. It's awesome. Nice. No trouble in paradise, huh, No trouble in paradise, sleeping well. Things are good. Feeling good, feeling strong might not be too good if you're Garrett cold. Greg, that guy stinks. I feel like we shouldn't draft him. Now that's it, we're out. How do you give up six runs to the Detroit Tigers four home runs players? Travis Demerit. Who's that guy? Who? I don't know who?

This guy? Guy looks a little slim down to see you, Greg, we're talking first base today? Uh huh? Where is he ranks for you? Little little corner infield? Where's he ranks? I don't know that I have him ranked for me. Cabrera, I don't have him rank on rank, so he's never thirty four. Oh, I have a thirty four. So they moved ahead of a Dan Vogel Box, I can move on ahead of Michael Javis, who qualifies the first base in young Yeah. I think we'll probably leave Miguel Cabrera

where he is. Yeah, seems that seems fair on the program that I more first baseman talk about the problem is I said this to you while making the rankings for first base in second base. There aren't many good players that play these two positions, and it's very hard to feel. Well, a first based spot and then a corner in field spot. I mean third base is deepen off,

I guess, but absolutely at first base this is bad. Oh, I just gotta text that, um there are calls fever, which means he probably a coronavirus, which is why, well, I don't know, is it in Florida, it's everywhere. That's bad. Queen. We have five first baseman that we like, a lot of first basion we don't like. Hopefully that they find the first basemen we like. We also could learn a lot more. Thank you, Greg. I'mstokia with your PFF Sports

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left hand. He will be on a minute restriction, expected to play between twenty four and twenty eight minutes when the Warriors take on the Raptors tonight. That is your BFF Sports good News update. Now back to Frank Guys. All right, we're gonna get into the first based position here on the show from a fantasy baseball perspective. But like we do every day here on the Fantasy BFS, we give you a little snippet of tonight's NBA DFS preview.

And Greg Sausman was with Davis Maddock earlier today from Daily Rohada dot Com as they did the NBA tip drill, telling you why you should have Andrew Wiggins in your lineup tonight, moving on to the small forward position Alec Marks's former team, Andrew Wiggins is on there now and doing well enough you consider to put in your line out. I thin everyone will be looking at Steph Curry and his return tonight, which makes Andrew Wiggins potentially undervalued. Yeah,

I think it definitely makes him undervalued. So just actually, right before you and I got on air, Steve Kurt Talk the media said that Steph Curry is gonna play at most in six minute verse for sure, less than thirty minutes and probably closer to twenty five minutes in

his return. So that leaves, you know, a big portion of this game for Andrew Wiggins to just continue doing what he's been doing, which is playing with a bunch of you know, to to put it kindly, a bunch of U G League players right like, these guys on the Warriors roster right now, these guys are are mostly scrubs. You know, it would be very surprising to me if Juan Toscano Anderson is the Warriors roster next year. So

it's given. It just gives Wiggins a lot of usage, and it's gonna play you know a ton of minutes without step tonight. And that was Davis Maddick from Jailey Rhodo dot Com earlier today on the NBA tip Trill. You can catch that every single day here on the sports cod YouTube channel over at NBA Fantasy as well on Twitter and Greg. Since Andrew Wiggins has joined the Golden State Wheres, we've seen a lot more defensive statistics

out of him. He's getting a bunch of steals, a bunch of blocks, which obviously if you play on fandel you get three Fantasy points per defensive numbers. So Andrew Wiggins a name to look at tonight in NBA dfest a little and harold it out there in Golden State

with Steph Curry back tonight. And that's what davi Us and I obviously chatted about a little bit earlier on lets we want a first Basement, Frank, where again we were just trying to name some names of players that we wanted to draft to play at first base, uh in our auction which is one week from today, and we lead it on Nobody Frank. Yeah, Greg, we got a little trouble in paradise here in terms of because I want figuring out Franky gregs fun players. Yeah, yeah,

all that fun zero fun, sir, that's you. Yeah, okay, we'll see you just said, why don't we drive? Luke Void is their starting first basement. The guy might not have a job halfway through the season. You haven't been able to stay healthy either. By the way, you're a downgrade Clayton Kershaw. Ye got a downgrade Luke Void injuries. He's not like an injury prone guy. Luke Void. Yeah, he's coming off a major course surgery. He's all right, but how long will it last season? I hope you're right. Well,

they don't worry. Then I named a whole bunch of other options at first base, right then like any of them? Well, you know what Frank says, and he says every day, jes Jose b is always the answer at first base, and I like Jose right. I didn't know she's expensive, man, But what worth it all? Where do you want to start Greg at the first base? Because do you want to just dive into Jose bray was at the first player you want to talk about? You manna tell you

why he's the best first baseman of all time? Yeah, that's actually the ideal. Yeah, alright, well, I don't know that he's the best. This would be one of them all time, you know how like we really struggled to get to our top twenty lists here. He's not gonna be one of those days. There's just not enough first page. All right, do you want to start with Jose? Alright? Take it look after a time through a banged of eighteen. Yes, I'll give you your time to talk about Luke Voyd

Greg later on the show. Uh, he bounced back major last year, and I was all over Break last year. I didn't understand why people were downgrading him. Obviously dealt with a very unfortunate situation back in eighteen, if you remember correctly, Greg, that involved testicular torsion. I'll just leave it at that. When it comes to Jose, a Break bounced back last year. Did you know he led the American League in RBIs did with a hundred and twenty three.

I don't know if you noticed this, Greig, but the line up for the White Sox got even, so he had a hundred and twenty three RBI last year. I'm not going to project him for that, but I think he's going to be well over a hundred. They add Edwin and Cornacion. Luis Robert is tearing up the spring right now, Eloy Hemenez. A lot of people expect him to take the next step. And at the top of the line up we haven't even mentioned yet Yoan Moncata,

Tim Anderson. Obviously, if you're playing an O B P or in a head to head points league, Jose Brew gets to devalued a little bit there, Greg, right around a six percent walk great, He's not gonna walk very much, but consistently hits for a two eight plus batting average, thirty plus home runs. He's just solid man. And I understand the auction price fifteen team leagues over at the NFBC.

His A A V right now is around I understand that's a big price to pay, but I think for the consistency and the safe floor out of jose Briew, I don't mind paying that price. I've already have a few shares of jose Brew taking him in the fifth round. Greig, I like it. Where you in a better line of than even last year, isn't a good spot. The only thing is I feel that people are coming on in an auction. He's twenty one dollars, which is not nothing

rank it's expressive. Yeah, So to put that in perspective, some other names right around that range pulled ultimate over the past week, twenty Anthony Rizzo twenty dollars. People are finally starting to realize. Yeah, yeah, like the I think it's actually going a little bit too far the other way now in Rizzo, because I've said for years, Greg, I didn't understand why Rizzo was going to three rounds ahead of Jose A. Brew sometimes five ten dollars more

than Jose Brew in an auction. Now it feels like it might be going a little bit too far the other way with Anthony Rizzo. And you know, if you can get him in the fifth, sixth round, obviously plays much better in ob P formance the day you get him. I don't mind. Actually, I don't mind Anthony Rizzo at this point. Like, if we can get Rizzo at twenty bucks, Greg, I'm fine with it. Oh my god, Now he doesn't want Anthony. I will say this, Anthony Rizzo is not a fun player, so I will agree with you on

that he's rocks. No, he's rock solid. We did that in the GD already. Jose Brew is my fourth rank, first basement, my fifth rank. All right, I have what do you don't test me, I'll put him ahead of Peter Alonzo tested dr I have that old set up Matt Olson's fun other frightenings about mat Olson. We got back next. Want to light the lamp on Draft Kings and FanDuel this NHL DFS season. Then joined Daily roado dot com and learned from the best daily fantasy sports players.

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break and eyes doing a ton of rasears. This is great, and this is so it's all gonna Davis Madtic today, before the tip trail, I was asking you about fantasy baseball and if you das or not. He's like, I've been watching you and Frankly, you guys really love fantasy baseball, as I think frank does. I'm just kidding, like I do just kidding but not really. It was like, I know you love fantasy baseball. I really love fantasy baseball as I love fantasy basketball lot too. Um both every

day it just never end. And you know me, I mean like you're crazy with it. You don't name all these guys I've never heard of, like Rico Dubon. We didn't even get to him yesterday. And I actually know who that guy is. I don't remember struck out on a nasty slider from Kershaw as he sucks. But like these conversations will have a dream of the break like I love it, I really do. Is that the stuff

we should be broadcasting, Greg? If maybe it's basically just me introducing a player that I want in our auction and Greg being like I don't know about that player, and then him going to another player, and then me me being like I don't know about that player, Greg, that's basically it. Oh, we agree on a certain players. That's not true. Like there's been a lot of guys we have talked about this sprang Winter, we're rolled it on. I will reveal it right now. I won't say who,

but we have our catcher position filled out. Both of them shortstop. He doesn't even remember. I remember the bad catching shortstop in third base. Our outfielder one you probably don't remember that one is the one? Is it? The one? Is the expensive one? Or not? Banging on a trash can are fourth and fifth outfielders. And we have over pictures filled out already. Great, come on, we're doing great. I love our pitching staffs on sunny grains on it.

That's the thing. The thing is our pitching staff is like a hundred and fifty dollars of our budget. What are we doing, saff We're going the other way. Everyone tells you sixty your budget. We're going agree with that. I want all pitching. Well, Greg, you do start more hitters than you do pictures, so let's still fall in five categories. Only five categories. Is not thirteen hitters compared to nine pictures. It's only five categories right right within

all the pitching categories. Is there training in this league? Yeah? I believe there is. Well, we'll get all pitching. People always need pitching, true, always need it all right, Greg, first place, it's back to the the first place. I mentioned Matt Olsen before the break. That is a different difference that you and I have. I have matt Olsen as my number four first basement. You have matt Olsen as your number five first basement without actually looking down at

your sheet, Um, I have been six? Actually you have? Who do you have? I have Anthony Rizzo. I don't know how I became the Anthony Rizzo guy. Now I actually dropped Anthony Rizzo. Um, after the graph, after years of me bashing him, you finally bought in. I feel much better at this. I have Olson at four, a rad at five, Rizzo at six. You have the same players as a little bit of a different order. Um, and I know what this says. You ignore that. Um, why do you have? Why do you like mat Olson? Way?

You just like Matt Olson? No, I like Matt Olson a lot. And maybe this is like a slippery slope fallacy of mine so far in the draft season, Greg, But whenever I mind early to mid round players that do not contribute in batting average and only give you power and nothing else, I am pivoting away from those players more often than not, because I've convinced myself that, well, if you're gonna take Matt Olsen in round five, or if you're gonna spend twenty in an auction on Matt Olsen.

Why don't you just wait and get Reese Hoskins five rounds later and he's you know, look, the batting average might be lower than madd Olson to forty hitter, but what are you expecting how hoskinst home runs, good County stats, obviously gets on base, good ballparks to hidden So maybe this is a fallacy of mine, and only time will tell. But I've basically been pivoting away from any hitters in the early rounds that only give you power and nothing else. I mean, look at the bus that I've called out

so far, Aaron Judge, I'm not on Peter Alonso. I'll tell you why I'm not on him, for basically the same reasons I'm telling you probably not gonna draft Matt Olson. I just want to get batting average at least or stolen bases in those early rounds. And I think that Anthony Rizle is probably gonna hit two AD plus. I think that Jose Bray is probably gonna hit two ad plus ad. Olson is great. He might hit fifty home runs this season, but he's probably not gonna hit more

than two fifty. If we're just being honest. So guy has struggled against left handed pitching. He has struggled to hit in oco as well. What I will say about about Matt Olson greg is that his stack cast page is just ridiculous. It's like Cody Balinger. It's like Cody Balinger light. It's there's red everywhere, which is a good thing.

He was percentile or better in barrel percentage, average, eggs velocity, expected slugging percentage last year and hard contact right and that was coming back from a hammate bone injury, which just crazy, like you don't normally see stuff like that. Matt Olsen has ridiculous power, awesome batting stance as well, where he just like holds the bat out here like crazy, good mine up to hit him. Obviously not a great ballpark, Craig. I think he hits between two fifty and two sixty

conservatively project forty home runs. It wouldn't surprise me if he approaches fifty. He has that type of power. So this doesn't contribute batting average, which is why have him six. And I understand that, but I have to ask for anyone who wants Peter Alonzo out there, just take Matt Olson three rounds later. That was literally the question I was about to ask you. It's not three rounds so much anymore though. So that Olson is fifty two in the NFBC O the past two weeks, um Peter Alons

is thirty one. So it's around and a half or two questions will just take Matt Olsen two rounds later. The stack has numbers, the power. The power numbers are actually better for Matt Olson in than they are for and if he can get the average out, you're talking about Reese Hoskins five rounds later in a lonest thing, the same kind of thing. Yes, So the thing is Greg, am I doing that too much? Am I taking that

too far? Because what happens? All right? You say, all right, well I wanted Peter Alonso, but you're right, Frank, I can wait. I can get medalson Oh crap, someone took medalson out from under me. Next thing, you know, I missed out and Reese Hoskins. If you just keep thinking like, oh, I can wait and get someone that's similar, haven't, eventually you might not get that player. I haven't answered that

one to what happened to be missed out on him? Greg? Way, So when the first basin you missed out on that you probably won't miss then then it's your fault. That's probably Christian Walker. But I do like I Met, I like Madelson, but probably more so and and uh points leeg just because you don't have to worry about the batting.

So I'm gonna go back to the same question that we keep going when we keep trying to tackle and you you name some of the players that we kind of have in our heads of this auction, and they're all really very solid guys. I like where heads are at. Where are you finding speed? Like the guys that we have have oh speed. So last year in the NFBC main event, I wound up drafting de Gordon for speed and that didn't work out. He had a terrible season.

And you've heard people kind of caution you about this in the past, and I basically had to live through it myself to learn my lesson. I don't like taking the players that you expect outside of a trade turner. I don't mind taking trade turner that you expect to give you thirty five plus stolen basis. I like taking the guys that just chip away. Greg felve to fifteen

here twelve to fifteen. There, maybe get a guy who gives you a twenty to twenty five, someone like an Oscar Mercado or a Victor Roblos who can give you thirty. Like one of those guys down what Oscar Mercado Victor Robis? I mean, I have mental notes in my mind down because you really follow the notes in the draft. All right,

I will, I will write down the names. But a lot of my draft so far, Greg, have been just chipping away, a lot of Haavier Bios shares Manny Machado eight to ten stolen bases, maybe like a Tim Anderson close to twenty stolen basis, someone like that. I'm just chipping away. I don't want the Malix Smith's I don't want. I don't mind a Jonathan VR, but he's not really

a target of mine. I we went over our second basis in shortstop ranks, Greg, I would rather have Asilbi's chipping away fifteen and twenty stolen basis, Kessen Heira twelve to fifteen stolen bases. Just get a bunch of these guys, and then at the end of your draft you look up and you realize, oh, well, I got six or seven of these guys, I'm projected for a hundred stolen basis and that's perfectly fine. You can compete with that, all right. I just wanna remember, like we need that

category at some point. No, you're right, because all the players so far that I'm looking at the list right now, we don't have much speed on This is usually, like you know your side of things. It's a fair question, and you're not gonna get it at the first base position unless you draft like Danny Santana or Julie Gurrel, who will give you like maybe five to eight. So well,

you mentioned stolen basis at first base. I think it's a good time to talk about Paul Goldsman because for years Paul Goldschmidt was a crazy thirty stolen base threat at the first base spot. You're like, oh my god, this is a guy that literally go thirty thirty at first base. That was crazy. Now you expect that a really big year in his first year in St. Louis. You don't really get it. Although the second half way better than this first half. I have Paul Goldmate rank

is my eighth ranth first baseman. Are you backing on Goldie or you like, I think he's on the wrong side of his career here on out. Yeah, so Paul Goldschmith falls into the Chris Bryant and Josel two Bay category. For me, Greg, I'm not gonna have any shares of Paul Goldschmith this season. I have him down at my as my tenth first baseman as anah, it's not no, it's nothing egregious by any means. But it was a

solid season with St. Louis. We saw the batting average dip all the way down to two sixty Was he expecting average? What I don't like It was only two sixty two, So it's not really like you know, he was on lucky last year. We could expect some positive regression in the batting average department. What I really don't like, Greg, is it's two years in a row now that we've

seen the plate discipline start to slit or Paul gold Schmidt. Uh. The K percentage up over two years in a row is eleven percent walk rate, which is still really good. I understand that if you play an O B P or in a point's league, I think Paul Goldschman is still a fine, viable first baseman. There's nothing wrong with him. But his eleven percent walk rate is the lowest it's been since His thirty one percent chase rate last year was the highest of his career. Eleven percent swinging strike

rate the highest since his rookie season. So to see the plate discipline starting to slip a little bit, Greg, I don't think that the Cardinals have a great lineup. And I look into his op yes by month, Greg, I do league average ops. It's like seven fifty eight is ops by month last year seven fifty three, eight three one thousand eight five, seven oh five and nine three. There were four months last year out of a six month season where Paul Goldschmidt was worse than a league

average player. I'm not in in a road league. Though he did have over thirty runs for the thirty consecutive year, four out of five years. He did have closal hundred run scored close to the hundred RBI. When it was all said and done, Yeah, he's he's not gonna steal anymore. He's just no, no, no, I mean the soul and basis just continue to decline. Thy een to seven to three, maybe he gives you three to five, but I mean

it's anymore. Can we see the county stats starts to come back even a little bit more In that line of Greg, I don't think that the Cardinals have a very good line up. They lost Marcelo Zuna, remember, so I think it was really it was really interesting. Is the two years nineteen, they're the same. The only difference is the average went down, and that points the play discipline that you pointed out a few moments ago. I think what you're seeing is what you get from Paul

gold Trade at most. I don't think you see anything increase. I think it's only what if the average continues a little bit more, if it goes down to fifth and will say his babvit was around three hundreds. Traditionally it's been around three forty. Like he's a career three forty eight Gavitt, So it was he was unlucky last year in that regard. But I don't think you're gonna see the two three hundred player anymore. You're gonna be closer to three sixty. And again, this type of the numbers

are fine. From the first page. He's fine. He's a fine option at first, that's what he is. But he just don't expect upside exactly. We just talked about Matt Olson and missing out on him and missing out Peter Alonzo all was fine in that regard with Reese Hoskins and those types of players. He's not a superstar anymore. And that's the deal. I want to be the next Daily Fantasy millionaire. Dunk on your NBA DFS competition with Daily rodal dot com and dominate on fandel and DraftKings

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over runs. Last year. He was an amazing last year in his rookie season for the Mats, and maybe he is just as goodness second year. But we didn't expect some regression here, Um, Frank, why don't take a few minutes to spend on Peter Alonzo. Yeah. Look, it's very similar to the what we said about Matt Olson. Now you can just get him a little bit later on. And look, if you expect Pete Alonso to come close to hitting fifty home runs again this upcoming season, then

you should be drafting him. But I think anyone who realistically does projections probably has him in the forty the low forties range this upcoming season, which is still really good. But what I had to say about what he did last year, Greg is that his nine point six mile per hour average exit velocity was in the seventy eight percentile in baseball That ranked fifty third among qualified hitters last year. So he doesn't hit the ball nearly as hard as some of the other big name sluggers in

the league. Guys like Aaron Judge mcguilson, No Nelson Cruz, frand Milrays. All those guys hit the ball way harder than Pete Alonso consistently. Uh And his slugging percentage in the second half last year, Greg dropped from six thirty four to five two. Obviously, it was his rookie season, right, like, we couldn't expect him to keep up at six thirty

four slugging percentage for the entirety of the season. I get that, but I just think that you could get similar production out of players later on in the draft and it wouldn't even surprise me if Madelson outproduces Pete Alonso this year, Greg, and you're getting him two rounds later. So just realize, if you take Pete Alonso in that second third round range, you were passing up on some serious talent guys like Llwing, Marte Javier Bias, who we've

just seen do it for longer. Um position scarcity, second base category scarcity, you know, Soulen Basis batting average early on in your draft as well. You're passing up on all that to get a great three category player, own runs, runs in RBIs. But realize he's gonna give you nothing in batting average and nothing in stolen bases, and it's really hard to make up those categories in the mid

rounds Craig, Yeah, it's it's hard. As you said, it's been an early round pick and not get the categories that you need and make up for what Peter Pete Alonso gives you. I think at the home run home runs, are you gonna find ultimately with all the players we have named throughout today's show, you're going to find it. Peter Allows as amazing as he is, Frankie as his deficiencies being of home runs, your boy, there's venture. You could say nothing, a lot of things about him, but

he nowled Josh Bell. Last year. He absolutely destroyed this one with Josh Bell. He's my number nine ranks, third first baseman because the only other good player in his lineup is not Kevin Newman, It's Brian Reynolds Safari Planet. Josh Bell had an awesome year last year. I know he struggled, uh towards the second half. He's not active target yours this year despite the breakout last year. Yeah, I think I think he is a fallback option that

you can actually get later than Paul gold Schmidt. Right, So we called Paul gold Schmidt a fallback option and he goes in the fifth, sixth round, and you know, Josh Bell, you can get a round or two even

later than Paul gold Schmidt. You know, I think he is kind of the cliff right where the tear ends for with Josh Bell and then the next tear starts with Reese Hoskins, and he's fine, but obviously gonna hurt your batting average a lot more than someone like Josh Bell, who I think can hit, you know, around two seventy two seventy five. Last year, Greg was the tale of three seasons. Obviously, he got off to that phenomenal start from March through May he hit three forty three with

eighteen home runs and ops over eleven hundred. June and July, Greg two months been hit two thirds team with nine home runs and a seven s S O p S. So really struggled there in the middle part of the season, and then August and September kind of turned it back on to batting average not great, but fine. Ten home runs with an OPS of eight, which that is pretty good. He claims that throughout the course of the season he went from sinking up fastballs Greg to sinking up breaking balls.

And here's a quote from Josh Bell, I feel like, if you're not sinking up to the fastballs, you can't hit either. Well, once I started focusing more and more on all speed pitches, it just went down hill for me for a stretch of time. So it seems like he was focusing so much on trying to hit breaking pitches that he was then late on fastballs and vice versa, and he was just getting completely messed up. So obviously Pictures made an adjustment to him. Will Josh Bell be

able to make the adjustment back? That's why I do have some pause. He did some really nice things last year. He hit the ball extremely hard, average eggs of LOSSI percentile in baseball last year. And he's someone who he said for years Greg that if he would lift the ball, he would hit more home runs, like we said about Christian Yellish and a lot of players. He's obviously very strong human being. He's a big boy um and he

started lifting the ball last year. So he has to maintain just a lot of the strides that he made last year, and I'm just a little skeptical that he'll be able to maintain all of them. I still think he can be solid to seventy thirty home runs, eight runs, nine d R B I s. It's not a great line up. The Pittsburgh Pirates do not have a great lineup. It's not a great um ballparks hit and either he's actually much better in O BP and head to head points. He's Greg he has a great eye at the plate,

great walk great. Maybe I'm wrong about Josh Bell. Maybe he just picks up exactly where he left off last year and you know, continues to get even better. But he made so many strides last year, I'm just a little skeptical that he'll be able to pick up all of those once again. I think he'll be solid, but again just not an active target of mine. Yeah, and that's fair. I think he's part of this first based crew that I feel comfortable drafting. I think he said

he's gonna be solid. Maybe he doesn't give you what he gave you for a lot of the year last year. Even if he does kind of bounce back in the performance that we saw, I'm fine with him. And it's only like I said, that's the word right for him and Goldsmith? Fine, Yeah, you're fine, Yeah, I am. I am. Are you finally a boomoo Mancini? Well, he's another one too. Man. Is he going to be able to keep up the

career year that he had last year? Obviously, great ballparks hidden in came to yards and great division to hidden You're Austin has will be there at some point. Frank Austin Hayes is gonna be their opening day gress. That's right, gratulations. I love Austin Hays too. Reserve rounds fifth olfielder, young guy on the fifth halfialder all right, he's a backup to our other fifth outfielder, which remains to be named right now, we will not reveal that information. Who is it?

I'll text check e chat. But tree Mancini last year, much like Josh Bell, someone who started to lift the ball us here Greg for a long time. He hits the ball hard, but always hit the ball in the ground, started hitting more line drives. Last year. The fly ball rate went up to thirty one percent, which is still not great, but it's great compared to where he was at uh in in past years. So he's a lot like Josh Bell. I have him ranked in the tier

below him. I have Trey Mancini at fourteen, so I have him just behind Reese Hoskins, Miguel Sino, and Julie Guriel. I just think a lot went right for tray Mancini last year. I think the home runs take a little bit of a step back. I don't think he comes close to thirty five again. I think he's probably. Yeah. I think he's you know, late twenties and home runs, solid, batting average like at two seventy to eighty hitter and however you want to project the counting stats for him,

it's the Baltimore Orioles. It's not a great lineup. Look around him. Austin Hayes, Bernado nun Yez, Anthony Santander crushed Davis, the wrong crush Davis by the way, maybe you get eight runs a d r b S. I just worry about the line up around him. Greg, He's fine. He's also like Josh Bell and Paul Voltchman, just a tier lower. I think I'm a little bit really a target of mine. I think I'm a little bit higher on train than than you are. Actually it's just context, you know, I

understand the team context. But I think if you look what he's literally done in the last three years. Yes, the home runs arout thirty five, that's too high. He's probably closer in between twenty five and thirty. But he gave you those home runs every n I think the I think the average is closer to what you saw two in the last three years, around that to ninety number. I think that what you saw Adam train Mancini outside of all of the all of those home runs, I

think it's pretty legitimate. Man. What I will say about Trey Mancini is if you are somebody who buys into what he did last year, then he is an absolute bargain for you, and you should be in on him and on him, you know, either a late first baseman or a corner infielder, or utility about whatever it might be.

If you buy what he did last year and you think he hits around to nine once again, and you know, approaches thirty home runs, and if he does all that, you know maybe the counting stats are actually all right in that ballpark, then he is a value for you. The thing is, I don't think that he gets to those numbers specifically, Greg No, man. I think it's closer than than you might realize or you might believe. I

shouldn't say realize. You might believe Andre Mazzine a little bit higher on him, which is why I have him at number ten. For me. We're talking about Max Monsey a lot on the show I Want to Move Faster, Dad. We talking about the girls. You know, I didn't even rank it as the first basement. We talked about him a lot. You will have first based eligibility early in the season, so we talked about him a lot. When we move over with some guys, he's the best. Think

he's just tough to um. Even though Carlo Santana he was awesome last year. He's another one like Trey Mancini, right coming off the career year, and carl Santana is a little bit older as well, so you know he has the breakout year. How old is he Greg if you have that information, he's like thirty two thirty three

years old. So it's just a weird time to be coming off a career year for Carlos Santana last year, which included him hitting two eight one, thirty four home runs, a hundred and ten runs scores, and eight and ninety three RB. I s he is he will be thirty four years old. Thirty four years old, much better in points leagues. Look if you can get this guy in a points league at a discount, because people see the name and they're reacting exactly how I'm reacting right now, like, oh,

I don't want Carlos Santana. He is so great and points league put this in perspective, he was the seventh ranked first baseman in ROTO still really good. Last year number four, he was the fourth best first baseman in head to head points leagues, and he basically does that consistently. Greg. He walks a ton, he has great play discipline. He's awesome for O B P leagues as well. His second half came back to a little bit. In the second half, Greg, we saw the batting average drop a little bit. Two

sixty two eight fifty five ops. Still really good um to sixty eight expected batting average last year behind the entire career to fifty career hitter expected. That's awesome. I will say, like, where are he's going. It's fine, it's awesome in a points league, But Greg, do you them as your starting first basement in a ROTO league? Ideally not. But it really excels nowhere, at least when you talk about Peter Anso and those guys, like they're gonna excel

in path uns. Ye, it wouldn't surprise you if Carl Santana hits two fifty six home runs, eighty five runs and eighty five r b i's and nothing else, Like, yes, he doesn't do anything else. It would because if he does that, the average is be lowers should be close. It's true, right, he's great and points leaves. I'm not drafting. I love you, Carlos Santana. I always will man other first basement, I have we look like Julie Guriel before. I like Julie Guriel. I think he's I think he's

a good player. How much do you buy into the power of Greg just Ball? Where would you set the over under for home runs? Last year he had thirty one, which was by far career high runs. Have a projection written down here with twenty two you can be under, but also with to nine batting average and eighty five ribies look at for average? Are we not very good? Do you find power? He is a fallback option at first base who gives you batting average, which you cannot

say about a lot of players in this range. Great speak of guys will not give you batting average. Look about the power guys, Eddie Luke, Voyd, Christian Walka on the ground. I want to light the lamp on draft kings and fan duel this NHL DFS season. Then joined Daily Roado dot com and learned from the best daily Fantasy sports players get updated fantasy hockey projections for NHL DFS, blind combinations, and build stacks for tournaments in the Daily

Roado NHL DFS Lineup Optimizer. If you are playing daily Fantasy Hockey without using Daily Rodo, you are doing it wrong. Enter the promo code action for a ten percent discount. That's promo code action for a ten percent discount. Alright, fine, a few minutes your program. First Base Preview. He's frank I'm Greg. Thanks for joining us year today. Craggy Reese Hoskins. I realized talk a lot about him this spring, because well, I like Reese Hoskins a lot. So Franklin, why are

you now backing off oh Man a little bit? I don't want to worry too much about spring training, but based on how he end of the year, Greg second half hit one eight, which was the lowest qualified batting average for any hitter last year. In the second half of the season, it was not good bad. A lot of strikeouts and Reese Hoskins trying to hit the ball in the air too much. Seems like he's kind of selling out for home runs. And so far here in

the spring he has a swing adjustment. Greg he has a new swing, and he is three for seventeen with nine strikeouts. So I don't want to put too much stock into spring training, but based on the second half that he had last year, I would have liked to

see something out of Reese Hoskins here throughout spring. But Greg, if he can come anywhere close to the first half that he had last year, if he can repeat that for a full season, then he's absolutely a seal right now, because everyone's looking at the second half and I get it. But in the first half of the season, Greg, he hit to sixty three with a four oh one on base percentage and a five thirty slug with twenty home runs and fifty nine r b i s in the

first half of the season, obviously mentioned. The second half, his fly ball rate balloon to fifty two percent. Greg, I mean, he was basically it wasn't even three true outcomes. It was walk, strike out, or flyout. It wasn't even home runs because he was just you know, the launch angle was too high. He was trying too hard to hit home runs. So he just has to go back to doing what he does best, try to hit more line drives again, lower that launch angle. A little bit

because he's trying too hard to lift the ball. His launch angle last year was number one in all of baseball, so again just trying too hard to lift there. And if he does that, I think he hit two to fifty thirty five home runs. Really good counting stats because obviously gets on base a lot. Greg a fifteen percent walk right over the past three seasons. That is sixth

best in baseball. He's better in ov P leagues, better in points leagues because of the on base per centage UH and the walks obviously, but I think you know, comparable numbers once again to him Matt Olsen, not the same type of upside, but runs eighty five plus runs close to a hundred ribbies, really good lineup, really good ballpark. All that is true, he plays every day. The vatting average has to bounce back a little bit here, man.

I think it has to. He's not hitter, right. I mean, if he continues to strike out as much as he does and only hit five balls, Greg, then is and it might, right, it might stay at around to twenty. That's the risk of riees Hoskins. You're absolutely right, going down a little bit further a lot further. In this case, we get to Edwin and Carnassium, who is in the same guy for the last decade. Right, He's a guy that average is not going to be great, but he's

gonna hit a ton of power. Last year for the Yankees and for the Marriage bed at four thirty four bombs, eight sixbies, eighty one runs scored, played in just a hundred and nine games and still giving thirty four on runs. He's hit thirty home runs at least every years twelve rank pretty good. I get it, he's like forty. He's thirty seven years old. But much like Nelson Cruise are we spoken about there's really no sign up slowing down here in the juice ball. Yeah, helping at thirty four

and just a hundred and nine games. This is a guy that has legitimate forty home run power that's going way later. So I have to ask why are we wasting and not wasting? But why are we having a draft pick on Matt Olson when way later and when at Carnacion he gets similar numbers. It's a fair question, and there's obviously more downside to Encarnacion at his age of thirty seven years old. There's obviously injury risk as well. He hasn't played much here in spring training and only

played a hundred and nine games last year. So the obvious answer, Greg is there's more downside than someone like Matt Olson, who is much younger and you know obviously could be due for a career year this upcoming season. But I'm with you, I think another fallback option at first base. If you want power and someone who is obviously going hurt your batting average, then why not just wait on someone like Incarnacion, who I think is gonna hit around thirty five home runs, He's gonna drive in

probably close to a hundred. Because that White Sox lineup again, Jose A brave Mankada, Tim Anderson, Eloy Jimenez, Incarnacion is going to be in the middle of all of that. It's just a matter of how healthy can he be. And for anyone who thinks that, you know, it was just all aided by Yankee Stadium last year. He was actually better with the Mariners than he was with the Yankees.

He hit twenty one home runs in sixty five games with the Seattle Mariners last year, uh and actually had a higher home run to fly ball ratio with them. A higher isolated power with the Mariners last year, and he still walks a ton as well. So even if you're playing O B P or in a points league, I don't mind Incarnacion. You just have to bake in that he's probably gonna miss at least thirty games, Greig. And that's the downside to Incarnacio. Okay, but where you're

getting him, he was fine. He's going later than anyone we've talked about yet. And there's so much And where do you have him? Because I have him at I haven't met sixteen fourteen. But there's just a few players that you don't include in the ranks, right like well Mayhew, Okay, we probably haven't been a similar spot. Yeah, we probably probably Ultimately you have him behind Mancinia Julie gae Um.

I mentioned a couple of times on the show Christian Walker and Luke Voit, which one of those two players you'd rather have? So I actually have these guys back to back and they start off the next here for me, really guys that I'd rather have as corner infielders than starting first baseman. And I do have Christian Walker one spot higher. Christan Walker is someone who last year Greg look at the stat cast numbers, I mean, everything just

pops off the page for Christian Walker last year. Uh, and he is somebody that for years we didn't know

if he was just like a Quad A players. He's someone that just dominates Triple A. But he had twenty nine home runs in a hundred and fifty two games, ninety one mile per hour average eggs of velocity eighty five percentile, thirteen point one percent, barrel rate ninety percentile last year in his career in the minors, hit ter eight thirty nine o p s. I mean, I think that there's a lot to like about Christian Walker, and I think, frankly, greg he's just a little bit safer

in terms of injuries than someone like Luke Voit. Luke Void might have higher upside because obviously Yankee Stadium and hitting in that lineup, but remember Luke Voit is coming off of core surgery. Christian Walker did stay healthy four and fifty two games last year, and it's a solid lineup out there in Arizona, and he projects a hit right in the middle of it as well. So I think someone who can hit to fifty home runs, I

think that's fair from Christian Walker. I think everything you're saying, and it also described Luke Voit like every like literally that entire stat lit we just saw for Christian Walker. It could happen, and the upside is higher for Luke Void. Agree. I'm not going to dispute that his swing is built for Yankee Stadius. He can go the opposite way. He

hits a ton of line drives. I just think that there's more downside there because of the injury risk, all right, that I'd rather just take the upside, especially at this corner infield spot, especially at this price. Give me the higher upside with Lukevoi than Christian Walker. He's a good person. Nah, I trust Christian Walker more. You shouldn't. All right, let's move on. There's nobody else I really like to be

with you. There's no other first patients that I like at all Right, tell us about Danny Santana none is eligibility everywhere starting center fielder for the Texas Rangers, and asked, I know that's it should be utility guy Sanna's every day center fielders. We want to talk about Eric Cosmer. Greig was actually up because he stinks and don't draft him. All right? Moving on, I got him as my corner

infielder in the Great Fantasy Base Team League. Why he's fine, Greg, What does he do that is the key word here? What does he do well? Fine? R B I last year, everybody's like these days, right, do they? He's hitting in the middle of the lineup that a lot of people like stinks. He's just fine. It's twenty two homers of the juice ball. He's been playing every day because it's too many groundballs. He's the next one man. I will say this about Hosmer. If he's six percent groundholen the

six percent. We've seen other guys that have that were stubborn about this in the past. Change He's like, if he lowers it, if he lowers it the fiftent. If he just lowers it the fifty percent, and he's a twenty five home run hitter with likely to seventy batting average, you know the last you're the last time his granda probably never never, fifty six percent was down from the year prior. Hit a lot of groundball Team League. No, he is fine as a corner He's not. I just

agree he's bad. We're not drafting him. Cut him off. You don't have to thought, Sep, do you realize how the auction between Greg Sausman and myself has clearly become a dictatorship? I disagree. Why did you all of a sudden cross him off the list? We don't we only need fun players. Greg's idea. You know what was a fun player last year? Ramo Loriano? Greg? What happened there? You didn't want Romo Loriana Ramono Lorianna didn't say who's

the same one? Who I'm gonna say? You know he's this year's Mauriceo Dubon Watch Dubons gonna have a great year. Who's very I don't even know what team he plays for? They don't. I still don't remember San Francisco Giants, Gregg, I don't think you want many giants, Greg, Who would you rather take? Last question regarding Eric Cosmer Osmer or Daniel Murphy? I don't have Daniel Murphys in Colorado. Hey doesn't play against left handed pitching. I'd rather than Daniel

Murphy in Colorado. You would who'd rather have Eric Hosmer or Will Myers? Greg would rather have Daniel Murphy than Eric Cosmos. Yes, and he says no to every other boring player that I bring up here on you know, I have Daniel Murphy at like thirteen home runs. I do have Eric Cosmy. You said Eric Cosmer was bad and the Juice Ball year because he had twenty two runs. Murphy in Colorado twelve home runs. So you know, I answered that with Eric Cosmers my eighteenth rank first baseman,

and Daniel Murphy it's twenty two. So I would rather Erica have Erick Cosmer reg higher than I do. Well, let's be fair, I don't have cree guys in you. So in the Great Fantasy Basic Mo Invitational, I was debating between Eric Hosmer and Dania Murphy. What what about the other guys like has Aguilar Justin No, I like Justin Smoke, I'm not I'm not doing the haz Justin Smoke in Milwaukee said he gonna play every day or

they might he might play every day. It seems like he's gonna play every day with the Milwaukee Brewers that they're going to kind of split time in the outfield with Ryan Braun and Visa Garcia your boy, which doesn't bode well for Evil Garcia obviously, but you know, look that's what they're saying now, there's still a chance, you know, maybe against left handed pitching. They use Ryan Brown at

first base and they use Garcia in the outfield. But I think Justin Smoke obviously going over to Miller Park, a ballpark that is so conducive to power for left handed batters. And yes, Justin Smoke is a switch hitter, but most of his power comes from the left hand side. Um, look, we're just talking about Christian Walker hitting two fifty with thirty home runs. Justin Smoke might be able to do that and you get them like a hundred picks later.

So as a fallback corner infielder, Greg, if you want to put him on the list for auction, I have no problems with Justin Smoke, no issue with Justin I'd rather have c J. Crown over both. But I like C. C. Moore as well. I just changed rings because I had Smoke once spy higher. Now I have c J. Crown at twenty three and Justin Smoke at twenty four, and

let move Justin Smoke up. C J. Cron By the way, before we on the show, fifty five one runs over the last two seasons, hit twenty five last year and only twenty five games and was six in baseball in barrel percentage. He's gonna play every day with the Detroit Tigers. As long as he's with the Detroit Tigers, We'll see what happens with c. J. Crow. Tomorrow, we wrap up

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