Fantasy Baseball 2020: Starting Pitcher Rankings, Part Deux!

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be here with you. Greg. Continuing our starting picture preview Part two, Part Part nose you go? What's going on with you? Hi? To sleep last night? I slept pretty well last night. Now issues great? I feel I almost started my um my next position ranks, and we're doing the outfielders the next two days. It's like almost started that. Good luck with that too, but then I did. It's only like a hundred and fifty of them to rank, you know, I always find a way. There's so many

starting pitchers, there's just so many outfielders. And I got the starting pictures done. I saw it. It's true, so all the colors, this guy, it's real. What's the content that you need doing my job? So tonight I'll have to work on the outfields. I could have done it last night instead of I had a debate to watch, so I couldn't do it one of those. I mean, come on, we can just how about you, uh tell us about your Trevor Bauer rankings, Greg, and then we

can just have a debate right here on this. As you'll find out in just a few moments, Trevor Bauer number twenty two on my rankings. Unbelievable. Let's unbelievable that there's Trevor Bauer the best Red's picture question we're gonna have to answer. Learned anything last year? Greg? We owned him. We owned him, that we lived through it. Find that in much much cheaper, much cheaper for this year. Many back. You know, I want to hear more in Sunny Gray.

The hey guys will get into you. I want to talk about It's honey as well as and a sleepers as well. First as wells update. Thank you Greg Susman. I have song Bostocky and we their bff sportscred news updates. All right, let's head over to the NBA breaking news. Hornets gardener Leak Monk has been suspended indefinitely for violating

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to thirty seven and a half on your total. After that, you have the clip first at the Phoenix Suns the Clippers seven point favorites two thirty two and a half year total and the nightcap ten forty pm Eastern Time from Utah Boston at UTAW the Jazz five and a half point favorites to eighteen and a half your total in that one. Let's go to the MLB score card here. Spring training games going on. But the news is J. D.

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the racket? Is that what they call it? I don't know. Anyway, We're gonna get into our starting pitcher preview Part two, the rest of the show here on the Fantasy BFS, specifically getting out our top forty seven starting pitchers, and

we'll give you some sleepers as well as well. You do, Greg something like to say as well, But what we also have is a snippet of the NBA tip trill from earlier today, Greg Susman with Daily Rhodo dot COM's Drew dink Meyer to talk about one of the players that they're focusing on tonight in the NBA b F slate. Let's go over to shooting guard here, Drew, and that Raises. Now do well Marta Rosen, which makes sense because La Marcus Aldres is not in there tonight, like end, A

lot more of that coming your way. But in these games between San Antonio and Dallas, you gotta like Tmarta Rosen. Yeah, Tmarta Rosen. In the games without LaMarcus Alders this year, his usage rate a shot up to over thirty. The rebounding and the assist rates have have bounced up as well, and so he's just got a huge opportunity set whenever

LaMarcus Aldridge is off the floor. And that's consistent when you look at on a game level basis, or just in the regular season when they both played in the same game and Aldred just been off the floor, the use of right really skyrockets. So you know, thirty five plus minutes of that tonight against Dallas, a team that you know plays fast and is a little bit loose around the defensive side of the ball, a really good

price tag on to Marta Rosen. It doesn't look like it's been adjusted for the assumption that Aldridges out price below seven thousand. You should really take advantage of that tonight. This is kind of like the c j MC Collumns situation from the last few nights, where without Damian Lillard, c j MC Collins rates explode without LaMarcus soldiers to

Marta Rosen's rates explode. I don't know if we'll quite get the performances from tomorrow that we've been getting from c J, but I think it's very likely to pay off the six price tag and shout out to Daily Rhodo Andrew dick Meyer. The guys have been absolutely crushing it all season long. From an NFL NBA Dfest perspective, also from an NFL Dfest perspective, But right now we're in NBA season. We're prepping for Fantasy baseball as well.

But these guys have done a phenomenal job. They gave out Joel Embid the other day, Greg, and he dropped a career high forty nine points tonight to Marta Rosen. With La Marcus Aldridge out, the usage rate goes up, the points per game go up for Demarta Rosen. I think it makes a ton of sense de mar de Rosian with a Lamargus Aldridge, He's gotta be a lock

for your lot up. I know Drew also likes Luka doantech Here to night givebout joellan vehicle days ago, as you said, Dwelling Bead was your NBA Fantasy Player of the night. Thanks for those forty nine points. All right, let's get a new starting pitching Part du Part two, Part dose, and we begin with Claire. I have two, Frank, because we did one twenty one yesterday Claire twenty two. It's power power, let's go. There's no way that you actually want Trevor Bauer and he is a target of yours.

Why not? All right, So tell me why, Greg, I'll tell you why you're wrong. The Trevor Bauer obviously two years ago. It was awesome last year he was drafted as an ace like pitcher. He's just twenty nine years old. And listen, he had to set back last year. Didn't really feel right in Cleveland. Warily work out that well. Um, but while all the numbers were much worse last year than they were the year prior, you're doing a great job, doing a great job of selling Trevor Bauer. You can

bounce back. You've got nothing, dude, Why do you have Trevor Bauer? Reg Number twenty two at starting pitcher? Here's to here's what you need to know. He had one phenomenal season. Can't take anything away from him. Back at two eighteen, a two point to one e r A great If you had him that year, probably helped to win a Fantasy Baseball championship. If you own him last year, he did not help you. In fact, he hurt you.

He was terrible. He had an ear a over four a four point four eight ear a like he has had for most of his career. Actually, in fact, outside of that two thousand eighteen season, Trevor Bauer has had an ear a of at least four point one nine in every single season as a starting pitcher in Major League baseball. He's not good. He's Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray and Trevor Bauer have the basically same career numbers, and

I will illustrate that to you right now. Robbie Ray four eleven career e r A one three five whip career eleven case per nine. Trevor Bauer four point zero four ear a. Alright, he's point zero seven better, one point three zero whip point zero five better. There nine and a half case per nine in his career. I will give you this. Over the past three seasons, his caper nine has been up over ten. Still not as good as Robbie Ray. Why are we drafting Trevor Bower two, three,

four rounds ahead of Robbie Ray. If you want someone who's gonna suck at everything except give you strikeouts, why don't you just take Robbie Ray? Greg Okay, you think that sherevor Bower can still improve, Like I feel Robbie Ray is Robbie Robbie Ray is can't you ever? I know you're gonna say, but isn't eighteen like the aberration?

Isn't that just the outliers? Obviously? But I think that not these both of these guys didn't have that top prospect pedigree, And I like, I don't like Robbie Robbie right, Robbie Ray ragged. I'll tell you the time that you draft Robbie Ray, greg is you pair him with Kyle Hendricks And I don't. And I believe it was I believe it was Alex Chamberlain, who was a Baseball Writer of the Year last year, Fantasy Baseball Writer of the

Year with Fan Grafs still the phenomenal job. He kind of brought about the idea of pairing together Robbie Ray and Kyle Hendricks and making one super picture because it makes a lot of sense. Hendricks is gonna give you ear a, He's gonna give you whip. I'm not gonna give you strikeouts. I'll be Ray. I'm gonna give you strikeouts, gonna give you nothing else. Maybe he'll give you wins. Because that division outside of the Dodgers is lackluster and

should have good run support behind him. But outside of Batman. But I get it on Trevor Bauer, the swinging strike percentage, the strikeout ability, I understand it. But you can get strikeouts later on in the draft. We'll talk about to Nelson limit, We'll talk about Robbie Ray, Canton, Mayata. You can get strikeouts anywhere. All he's gonna do is hurt your ear and whip as well, unless he doesn't sally about Sunny Gray, his teammate the other side up. Yes,

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rock and Roll was being born. Marijuana. We with scorn all your here on the show. Game you wanted to talk about Trevor Bauer, You got it now. All I want to do is talking right back here. B f F's Frank, I'm Greg. We we talked about Trevor Bauer and we talked about well. Frank mentioned during the break to me they maybe the pigeon coach Larry Johnson in Cincinnati the work his magic, because he's worked his magic before,

specifically with his old pupil, Sonny Gray. Sunny Gray. Last year you had a really nice bow back yere from his couple of tough years in New York. Sonny Gray is my number? Where is he? My number? Twenty five pitcher off the board right? Where is he for you? Sonny Gray is my number right, So we both have He's at our top twenty five there. I know you really like Sonny Gray. This year a great bashback year. Why do you think, uh, he's twenty twenty, more like

twenty nineteen. Then says seen, Well, I think that they figured some things out last year, and you mentioned that he was reunited with his former pitching coach Derek Johnson, and Derrek Johnson came over from the Brewers and obviously did a phenomenal job with players while he was with in Milwaukee, and then last year wound up helping Sonny Gray and Luis Castillo get to the next level. And he was just phenomenal last year. UH sub three e r A one oh eight whip the x fit was

a little bit higher three six five. But even if he gave you, you know, a mid three's e r A this year, based on where he's going at top twenty five starting pitcher, I think that you would be all right with that the strikeouts were up. He does exactly what you want. He gets strikeouts, He gets a lot of groundballs, nearly a percent groundball rate. Still struggles a little bit too much with the walks. But last year, Greg, and we've always said this about Sonny grade is that

he didn't get enough strikeouts to mitigate the walks. Last year was the year that he actually finally did that. Posted a career high eleven percent swinging strike rate pent K rate was by far the highest of his career and fourteenth highest among qualified starting pitchers last year. The biggest difference for him was that he started using his breaking pitches more, and we hear that a lot in baseball is get away from the bast the fastball, use

your breaking pitches more. That's exactly what he did. Use the slider more, used the curveball more. Uh and the slider rated as a top twelve pitch according to fan Graphs pitch Values. His curveball was top five among curveballs last year as well. So there's some people that speculate that his breaking pitches won't be as good. And I believe when we had Nick Pollock on a pitcher list, that was his hesitancy when it comes to Sonny Gray.

But you know, if he can come anywhere close to replicating what he did with his breaking pitches last year, Greg, I think that he can give you a you know, three five to three seven e r A with you know one one five, two to one two oh whip with you know, really good strike outs, add eighty innings. And you know, if he does that, he's likely going to be a top five, top thirty starting pitcher once again. Sony is obviously not sexy. Um, like you said, the

washer down strike guys, we're up. Um. I feel like you just have fatigue on Sonny Greg, Greg, is that I do? I I think that he's a really good word for it. What do you want him as? So that's a good question, and I was going to bring this up as well. I think if you play in a fifteen team league, and that's more so for deep performance NFBC formats, I don't mind him as my SP two. I don't love it, but ideally I would want him

as my SP three. And I think there's something we should break down as well, and I wanted to mention this is that we went over our top twenty one pitchers yesterday. Greg. When I'm doing my drafts, I want to come away with at least two of my top twenty one, right, and that's when that's what Garrit Cohler to Graham in the first round. If not, you know, maybe a Patrick Corbin or a Geldo in the third. But I do want to grab a Morton or a Paddock or a Synder Guard. I know you like Syndergraard

a lot in that fourth round range. Give me two of my top twenty one starting pitchers, and then I also want to extend that to give me three of my top thirty Sunny Grays inside of that top thirty. So I wouldn't mind him as my SP three ideally fair enough, Sunny great for me. I haven't met twenty five. Like I said, he's an SP three here A draft Sunny Gray, you're not in. I can only see me drafting Sunny Grey Wight team with you, like I can be talkings anywhere, like, hey, this is how the team

is kind of shaped. Me up. I want Sunny Gray here, but like, okay, I can see that. I don't see myself really drafting him. The thing is, the price isn't anywhere near what he did last year, because it's because it's not just me that has getting in like a you know, the six eight rounds in the seventh round. Yeah, it's not just me that has that. It's he goes. Yeah, there's a lot of people who are skeptical of what

he did last year. Right, So that's why you know, if you like him, you'll get him at at a solid value. If not, I mean, just keep letting them fall down the board. So I have a tier that goes from two to twenty seven. I mention Trevor Bauer, I mentioned Sonny Grace. You only have six guys in that tire. I only have six guys in that's here because my mind is similar. I have it from thirty one. It's a little bit bigger. Okay, that's interesting. One. I'm gonna read you, my guys, and then you can get

into years. You can put it, and you guys should put it up so everybody can see what we're talking about. So I got Trevor Bauer here at two, followed by Jose Burrios, Corey Kluber, Sonny Gray or Less Carrasco and Tyler Glass. Now, and that's really when my tear ends, and I have Wheeler starting my next year. What I know, you hate Bauer and that's fine. What do you think about the rest of it, Frank Corey Cluber? I I'm not in on either this year because at the point

you were. We did the starting picture preview on FC earlier today. My two bus were Trevor Bauer and Corey Cluber. Okay, yeah, you're just not buying that. Clue were always a terrible apron onnoight, are you just not buying that, Corey Cluber and bounce back in anyway? I mean, I'm not ruling it out. There's definitely maybe having some a year off

from that shoulder like that could be helpful. It might it might actually help him, right, and he's older now, But I think what we saw last year, we just can't completely dispute that. And I understand much last year. He normally gets off to slow starts, Greg, But I mean what he did last year was really bad. Yeah, but he meets seven starts. It's not like insignificant. That's

almost a quarter of the season. Well, fine, Star Wars, but like you know, if the slow start, those seven starts at eight fil nay, it wasn't warm yet, it's cold in Cleveland. You're making the case for Clover here, Greg, And look, he he might make me look stupid here if he bounces back with Texas. He's not in the r angeen. Yeah, that's why it looks. It's hard to be. He's one year removed from a two eight nine e r A was zero point nine nine. Like he was great,

there's no doubt about that. But I think late in twenty eight teen we started to see the skills a road a little bit, definitely, and then early last year, so that's all we have to go on. It's like the first month of last year and the last month or two of eighteen and those last three months have not been good and he's getting up there in age as well. Over here, here's what lander and granky. There's

no signs right with Cluber. There is a bad months, three months was a bad month, five eight e r A and seven starts last year the walks three point seven nine bad. That's not something you normally see out of Klueber. His twenty two percent hey rate was his lowest and twenty thirteen in those first seven starts. And here's another thing, Greg three seventy babbitt for the record. But here's what I get to on the babbitt last over the past two seasons is hard contact rate is

thirty six point seven percent. From two thousand and eleven through seventeen, his hard contact was twenty seven percent over the past two seasons now and again this is going back to eighteen where we're starting to see a trend of him giving up hard contact. The past two seasons up over thirty six percent hard contact, which is nowhere what it has been in years past. For Corey Klueber. There is a range of outcomes, um where he completely makes me look foolish and he goes back to being

the Corey Cluober of old. I I recognize that, but I'm not willing to take that gamble. Give me someone like Sonny Gray, who I still think is young enough and you know, showed us what his upside was last year. Give me one of these you know hype guys starting pitchers with Mantas and Max Freed and Gallen all players who we think could take that next step. Corey Cloober Greg at age thirty four, is someone that I am

worried about this season. We'll say this, Corey Clubers fastball, Uh was the slowest that has ever been ninety one point in a six miles per hour in those seven starts last year. Uh he usually around ninety three and ninety one. If he's losing juicual the fastball, that's not so good. Who do you have closing out this whole tier or is making up this whole tier for you? Yeah?

So I have a twenty two through thirty one. For me, this is my tier three, and I really want one of these guys as my SP three if at all possible. I have Tyler Glass now at SP twenty two, followed by Brandon Woodruff, Jose Barrios, Sonny Gray, Carlos Carrasco Max Freed to seven, Zack Gallon at, Frankie Mantas at nine, Zach Wheeler at thirty, and Mike Saroka at thirty one. That rounds out that tier for me. And as you can see up on the screen, Uh, the start of

thirty two is the beginning of the next year. So for me, you're hiring than Brandon would you have which we which we knew already that you literally leave that up Alt Saw. I want to be able to compare. So Brandon, would you if you have higher than than I do, which we which we knew about. He's your number twenty three overall? What makes you so high? I would your I get Glass note right, like, I'm a little bit worried about the health with Glass now after

you come back last year. But it was tough for him. I'm starting to buy in a little bit all this talk about using like a split change up to even if he uses that like ten, it's it's literally it's a matter of staying healthy. But if Glass now stays healthy for like one fifth year, one sixty, it's like the steel the draft. Totally agree with that. I was totally all on the glass now you can stay healthy. Um,

there is risk, Bob. But Brandon, would you you have a twenty three, I have him down at thirty and then you have all the hype guys back to back to back year twenty nine. The Lazardo is a little bit lower here for you at thirty four and a different tier. Um, we're getting those guys in a few moments. But why are you showing brand Wood this year? So he is very fastball and sinker reliant, which normally I would like a starting pitcher to have, you know, a

breaking pitch that he really can rely on. He used the slider about twenty percent. Uh, and it's a solid slider. But he's really really reliant on his four steamer and his sinker ball. And last year, Greg, I mean it was a breakout. You remember, throughout spring training he was someone that you know, a lot of people were touting as a sleeper and it came to fruition A three six t e r A last year a three point three six x Fips says that maybe he should have

been even better than he was last season. Greg a one one four whip. I think the strikeouts might take a little bit of a step back. He was at ten and a half case per nine. Yet his uh, his strikeout rate was it seems a little deceptive based on the eleven point nine percent swinging strike rate. Actually wrote next with swinging strike crate Matt. So maybe the strikeout has come down a little bit for Woodruff. But he's someone that could get groundballs. He has good command.

He didn't walk too many batters two point two two walks for nine last year, and there were always kind of signs of him being good. He was just never used solely as a starting pitcher. He's been using relief, bouncing back and forth a little bit. But in the minor leagues he was very good. Um, I think there's a lot to like. He relies on his fastball. He throws it like miles per hour. I saw his first start the other day in spring training. He was hitting

like ninety nine regularly. So I mean he throws extremely hard and as one of the best fastballs in the game. Um, I'm buying in. I don't mind him as an SP three or again, if you play in one of these deeper leagues in the great fantasy based presentations, I not ideally, but I wound up with him as my SP two with Patrick Corbin. So I'm gonna continue to hammer out starting pitching in that draft, but I do not mind him whatsoever as an SP three. Greg and the numbers

all going up for Brandon wouldr Off. Of course, he's gotta get you on the Brandon would Off training. Come on, it's funny. Look at the stats last year. I was like, sure, we're talking to Brandon would More. He's good and all over him last year and I was like missing something here, it's pretty good. Yes, you get back in on them this year. All right, let's get the hype guys here a little bit and go further down in our top forty. Stick around Dave's roll out after this. I want to

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kind of leading this tier off, Max Free, Zach Allen, Frankie Mullintos all in that pack for you. These are Lozardo. A little bit later on, I Lozardo as the head of my hype guys. You mentioned it on Twitter last night. You mentioned as you walked in the Haris Lozardo now has a new high pick in the NFBC going in the sixth round. People are buying the hype once again

on Hazar's Lizardo. Yeah, and I like Lozardo. The reason why I have him ranked a little bit lower than some of those other guys is, as you can see the projection below, they have him projected over on Fangraphs for a hundred and forty nine endings pitch. That to me is extreme best case scenario, because this is somebody who only pitched fifty five innings last year, pitched three more in the postseason. The year before that, he threw a hundred and nine innings only through forty three. This

guy has never really thrown that many endings. And I know that the reports that have come out of Oakland are there's gonna be no ending's limit for Lozardo and A. J. Puck. I'm not buying that, because they want to play in the postseason, they want to go deep. They need Lozardo and Puck to yes, help them get there, but they're also gonna need them once they get to the postseason.

So and if I'm projecting Lozardo, I'm not giving him much more than a hundred and thirty or a hundred and forty endings pitch greg And for that reason, that's why I have him ranked below names like Freed and Gallon and Montage, just because I think that those guys are gonna give you more endings. Maybe Lozardo is better on a per ending basis, but the thing is you're probably going to get thirty to forty more endings pitch

out of those other pictures. Yeah, you exactly what I was going to say that I think he's just better than all the guys that you mentioned, Gallen Freed, It's hard to argue with that. I mean, the guy is ridiculous to five three r A in the minors. Sure, last year, Montas pitch h nineties six citings around a major suspension that wiped him out for most of the year. He was phenomenal last year. I remember you, Floria and I were hanging out, uh and dancing around Frankie Montas.

We all bought in and it worked out. I remember Florio at first did not like Frankie mont hitting and I had to try and talk him into it. But you know, Frankie Mantas what he did last year, and it was not p D related. He finally just put it all together. Look at his career, his career log year by year. There was one year where he got a ton of strikeouts but would walk too many batters, and in the next year he limited the walks and then didn't get any strikeouts. And last year he finally

figured it all out. Has prospect pedigree always through hard, so it's not pe D related. What he did last year was related to the fact that he introduced a splitter. He introduced a new pitch, and last year thirty five percent chase rate that would have ranked twelve among starting pitchers. Fortcent groundball rate has solid command, gives you groundballs, solid strikeouts, you know, maybe around a strikeout for any like nine per nine kind of guy. Not gonna wow you there.

But I think someone who can pitch to a you know again, three five to three seven e R. I think someone similar to like a Sonny Gray. That's why I have these guys ranked similarly. Some people might be skeptical because it was the only season he's ever done it Greg, but I'm not one of those people. Raymondas is twenty six years older Jurdge wenty seven at the end of March, and I agree, finally put it all together.

He was a guy that once it started going right last year, we all kind of notice because what he was doing seemed legitimate. And when he came back from the suspension, I picked up where he left off. I think his final start, he only made one start after suspensions, good six innings of one run ball with six strikeouts against the of the Anahi Mangels Los Angeles Angels. Whatever, Well, this is good and if he could just continue on this path, You're got a nice value here. With Frankie Mantaz,

I think, yeah, I'm with you. I like Frankie Mantas, not as much as I like Freed and Zach Gallen. We spoke about these guys a lot, but we'll just kind of reiterated real quick. I mean with Zach Gallen, traded over from the Miami Marlins last year, and what he did in the PCL, the Pacific Coach League, mind you wear, the average e r A was like five in this league last year. That's how bad pitching was. He had a one seven seven e ar A, a zero point seven whip and and twelve strikeouts and a

third endings pitch. When he came up last year, did struggle with command a little bit. I didn't. I don't think he had enough confidence in his stuff from the get go. But as the season went along, once he got traded to the dimeback, stills walks started to come down a little bit, the strikeouts remained all along. He has four different pitches that he can rely on, four seam, curve, cutter, change up, and he threw a hundred and seventy one and a third endings pitch between the Miners and the

Major's last year. So I don't think he's gonna be on any type of endings limit. I think He's probably gonna give you a hundred seventy five hundred endings of really really good baseball. That is Zack zac Gallen and then Max Freed. Greg, just look at the numbers, man, it's the strikeouts were phenomenal. He really took a step forward in terms of command the spring, not the spring. No, no, no,

but that's good. Look, if you're scared off of Max Freed, continue to let him fall because I will take him in all of my drafts. He did get blown up in his first start here in the springcent groundball rate, Greg, how about this in the second half for Max Freed ten point two case for nine three point six r A with a three point one to x fit. We're all in on Max Freed. And let's go over to Greg Suspen with I don't know a sports screed news update.

You're not gonna believe this, Bam, bam, bamy. You are going to believe everything about Tell you Edwin Diaz shut down for the season because he stinks. Wrong team, Thank you very much. Try again? Uh, what team and what player do you think we get hurt it spring training in February? Um, do you any spice very close in right City. Oh is it a Brandon Nemo? I saw it was hurt early. Oh no, no, right he was on again, Right City. Don't say Garrett colegreg right team.

Oh no, no, no no, you expect this player to get Judge, Chuck. Carlos Stanton heard his right calf during outfield work and an m R I revealed the grade one calf stream. This is insane. This is absolutely insane. I would like you to please stand up right now and pat me on the back. Come over here and just give me a pat on the back. Let's go. Greg Susan here on the BFS Live, give me a pat on the back. For anyone who watched Fantasy Sports today the other day, believe it was tuesday. We had

our outfield preview. I said my bus at the position we're gian Carlos Stanton and Aaron Judge, These gentlemen cannot stay healthy. You need to stop buying in oh, fifty home runs one year in Marlins Park. He has one season over forty home runs in his career. He closes his eyes when he swings, he can't hit a breaking pitch, he's overrated, and now he's hurt once again. How much time is he gonna miss? Unlikely to be ready to go?

There you go, perfect, Clint Frasier, Welcome to the team. Sockman, Mike Tuckman, Oh no, I know who it's gonna be, Miguel and dude, dude, the do The first batted ball in today's Yankee game went to who Mike in left field? And let me tell you, he looked good. Pretty damn shaky cat good ball look better than Stanton did. Well, it's not hard to look better than sating, Greg. All you gotta do is be on the field. This is ridiculous. Man. I'm more so angry just from like a Yankee fan perspective.

I'm obviously, look, I don't want anyone to get hurt, but it's just like it's obvious to me, why do we keep drafting these guys that are built like Adonis's. That's it's just doesn't work in baseball. It doesn't. George always hurt, Stanton always hurt. Joey Gallo last year, Oblique, he's built like a mammoth human being as well. Greg. It's just it's frustrating all around from a baseball perspective, fantasy perspective, It's it never ends, man, It never ends.

Stanton felt the CAF injury yesterday at the end of his workout, Yankee sent him for an m RI. I today, all right, Greg, are you gonna draft Max for you this year? What? Yeah? Alright? Cool? Max? Straight? Um, I noticed that one hype guy is a little bit oh right, he's actually hiring your rankings and most people, but he's a little bit lower than I have them. That's the Nelson Lamette. Um, how come you're a little bit lower hinds with the other guys. Yeah, it just comes back

to the projection. How many endings are you projecting for to Nelson Lamette this upcoming season? The strikeouts are gonna be great, There's no doubt about that. And last year he was unlucky pitched to an ear a over four a three point four for Xfit, but the whip was high. It's always gonna be high because he walks a lot of guys. He's very similar to this mold of like a Trevor Bauer or a Robbie Ray type, except I think the ear A can be a little bit better.

He had a thirty three point six percent strikeout rate last year that would have ranked fourth among starting pitchers if he qualified. But you know, over three and a half walks per nine last season, over four walks per nine for his career. Uh, the swinging strike rate was great fourteen percent. That would have been tied with Chaine Bieber for ninth among starting pitchers last year. Uh. Kind of worry about him being just a two pitch Picture Greg. He used like a four seams sinker and he uses

a slider. It's like it's like a or it's like a slider curve type pitch of the time, and it's a great pitch. But I worry about him just being a two pitch pitcher. I'm probably not going to own him just because there's always someone in the draft that likes him more than I. But I do acknowledge that the talent is there and the strikeout upside is there. But I do worry about the projected endings as well. He's probably giving you like one fifty if we're being

on I think innings are a fair question mark. Control obviously also a fair question mark when it comes to limit. I'm high on him. I have no issue drafting him pretty much where he's going, Like I want one of these guys you know it's fun. You wanted to get it right, I won't one in every single one. I don't want to leave a draft without one of Franks Freed, Zach Gallen, Frankie Mantas, Lizardo or even if you want to put into this mix as well, who you your

eyes with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Well, so your eyes isn't inside my top forty seven. I think he's very similar, Like he's forty really good. So here's my thing, with how many innings, how many things you set it with Lizardo, he's in the rotation you set it with the Nelson Limt. You've already said he's in. Really he's in, He's already you know he's he's the sp four. They're basically saying that their rotation is set with Alex Wood rounding it out.

And you know that mind, that's what it really get scerning about him. You still have to worry about it because the Dodgers have a lot of really really good depth greg they have rows tripling if if Urias is struggling, obviously, the Dodgers have aspirations of I don't know if they're ever gonna do it winning a World Series and going deep into the postseason once again. I mean, if there's

any year they can do it, it's this year. But last year only seventy nine and two thirds endings pitched in the Major and in the major's two endings in the minors, so you know, slightly over eighty. And look, I've I've got to be fair in my analysis. If I'm criticizing someone like Lazardo for not getting much more than a hundred and thirty hundred forty endings pitched, I have to be consistent with Urias, and I think that

some of those concerns remain. Uh fan graphs they have him projected for, you know, right around between a hundred and thirty and a hundred forty. I think that's a fair projection. But he's probably gonna be really good in those one nings. You're talking like a sub three point five e r A a good whip and over a strikeout for any I really think that's attainable. For who we are, Your rights rights in the rotation because cantatas you right, you are not talking about them when they're

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learn more. Next for real, those cust live on sports from Jared Smits will check in the wrong it doesn't join me on the NBA Twitch program to the NBA Fantasy Our at some point, I assume you will stick around for this, right for the NBA Fantasy Hour. Yeah, maybe you can. Uh, I don't know. It tice me me, I don't know, take me out for dinner and well and then we'll do the Fantasy Hour together. No, we do what the plan aren't auction. We also have to plan a date for you to make me some buttermilk

fried chicken. It look pretty good, dude, It was amazing. It was a lot of work, admittedly, yeh. Was it worth it? Yes? Yes? Speaking of which, Greg, will you be trying the new KFC fried chicken on a doughnut sandwich. I understand a lot of people are going to be grossed out by it, and I get it. It's one of those things, Greig, where I have to try it. I had to try it. At least you're going to have a heart attack. I think I am so plan for a new coast. I don't want to do that.

I mentioned going to break about Julia. You said it's in the rotations, the number four starting picture announced by the Dodgers. I'm gonna do my research to make sure you're not lying at it. I hope I'm not lying either. You just take him, No, I didn't take him. We

took res Hoskins in the ninth round. It's my guy. Um. But the reason that there are spots in the rotations just hundred, Ryou and Kenta Mayata are no longer in the rotation with the Dodgers because they're no longer on the Dodger My he's in Minnesota and Ryou heads over to Toronto. I have these players both inside of my top forty seven, with Rye being at forty three, my hand at forty seven. But I think it very similar, Um, similar pictures obviously right. He was amazing last year. Where

are these guys for you? So I have re you at thirty nine. I have David Price at forty three. You didn't bring up David Price. Well, he's joining the rotation. I have him at thirty seven. Okay, so we all have We have these guys in pretty much similar ranges, and I have my Ada at forty six. We're very close there. So here's the three guys inside our top

forty seven. Yeah, and here's what I'll say if we could throw the rankings back up again, my basically thirty two through forty seven, and you see thirty two through forty here, I'll let you know just not listed here, uh, forty one through forty seven. I have a Rod, Kyle Hendricks, David Price, Robbie Ray, Matthew Boyd Quentamida, and of course Joe must grow like I got it mcget him inside

the top forty seven year. But unless it was Greg, it's a good mix of this area of the draft is you have pictures who are going to be really really good on a per ending basis. Guys like your Ryots, guys like you, Guys like Quentomata, guys like David Price. They're going to be really good when they're on the mound. But for whatever reason, whether it's due to injury risk or the fact that they've never pitched that many endings before, you can't really project them for much more than a

hundred and fifty maybe a hundred and sixty endings. But you do have some good balancing acts with Kyle Hendricks, someone like a Madison bum Garner, somebody like and Eduardo Rodriguez, or someone like a Joe must Grow. These are all pictures who I think are going to give you ennings, and they're not gonna be as good of endings. They're probably gonna be you know, high three's e r A if we're being honest. But they're also going to, you know, give you close to tings and they're gonna give you

solid strikeout. It's not great, you know, between seven and eight case per nine, and a lot of these guys are gonna give you good whip. Greg. If there's one thing Kyle Hendricks is going to give you, it's a good whip. Over the last four seasons, he has a one point one one whip that is twelve best. I'm unqualified starting pitchers last year. I think I believe Bumgunner had around like a one zero whip and he did

that for two d endings. Getting two hundred endings of a whip is awesome, and those are that that's an elite whip specialist everything else that Bum'm gonna give you. Personally, I don't really like Bummy because the underlying numbers were not great. It's probably gonna give you close to a four ear right, maybe even more than that. The guys out here, you know, Rodeo in and and doing all this other stuff. Mason Saunders nickname whatever he is. Uh, he is an injury risk as well, but it's two

last year. Uh gives you that volume and gives you a good whip as well. So I think this range of starting pitchers greg is really good in terms of giving you endings but also giving you players who are really good on a per ending basis. And you can kind of pair some of those pictures together. Yeah, I I think I like all of them. The current Dodger picture, the X Dodgers pictures. I think I'm in on all

of them because I think they're been undervalued. I know there is there's injury risk specifically, right, you always missed his time when you kind of just leave him alone and let him beat in the starting rotation. Frank, he's pretty good, man. I think he just in the a L probably pitched around a four E r A, maybe a little bit less than that. It's a great division to pitching. He has to face the tigers and oils in the Indians. Yeah, Indian strike out a lot. The

strikeout numbers have always been good. Four. He has a fourteen percent swinging strike right and backed back seasons, Greig, some of that comes out of the pen. I realized that well last year made twenty six starts like thirty seven appearances, undred and fifty three endings. Pitch. I don't have a problem with him. Question is does he separate himself from the other pictures in this tier? You know, Greg,

it seems like a lot of them are similar. How do you differentiate Kenta Maeda from like a David Price, for example, because David Price last year had his highest strikeout race like the past five years. I think so I actually like Price. I have Price. Price is gonna get you wins too, and Priced ten spots higher that I have kids in my hand. He'll get you wins. But I have priced ten spots higher because out of Boston and in the NL, those are two really good

factors for David Price. I think so for David Price. I looked into this last night, his career versus the Yankees. I mean, we all know it's bad. An e r A over five horrible, a one four three whip in head of in two hundred and fifty two hundred and fifty nine ning sample that's like to David Price seasons and he has an e r A overre five against the Yankees. He doesn't have to face the Yankees anymore.

He gets to face the Giants four or five times a season, the Padres, who Okay, yeah, we're kind of excited about Tatis and Machado, but I think there's still some question mark. Yeah, I don't have to go to Colorado. That's true, all right? So those are top Are there anybody else inside your top seven? That's when my tear ends.

But there anybody in this section of guys that are on your list or right outside your list that you have not mentioned that you wanted to at least get on getting on before we want to some of our late round sleepers just quickly mentioned Matthew Boyd. I think Matthew Boyd is basically the American League version of Robbie Ray. I think they're very similar. They give up a lot of hard contact, a lot of home runs. That was an issue for Boyd last year, but he's going to

give you strike out. So again, if you can marry a Matthew Boyd with a Kyle Hendricks who's gonna help your ratios, or you know, someone similar to that, I think it makes a lot of sense as well. Joe must Grove, I'll just say it quickly, Greg, I know that you're out on must Grove finally. For years we're pounding the table on Joe must Grove. But Ray Series is no longer. The Pitching Coach Series puts an emphasis on fastballs and sinkers. Joe must Grows fastball was not

a good one. The final month of the season, he saw an uptick in velocity, started using his slider more, started using his breaking pitches more, and he does have very good command. He's going to be a plus whip contributor. I still believe in the skills of Musgrove. I think one of these years he's going to put it together, and frankly, a lot of people were burned by him last year, and he's following down draft boards and you can get him as like your SP five or your

SP six. So at that point, why not My next crew is numbers forty ninety eight that included Joe Muscrow, also includes Joe Muscrow's ex teammate Lance mc colors. He's like a lot today, frank about some of these younger pictures that will be limited and how many Anis are going to give you. You look kind of jumping back in a Lasma Colors who hasn't started a game yet in screen training. You know, he's working his way up towards that. Hopefully we'll get there next week. Here's someone

the drafting. Probably not because he's going into similar range as you're riots and not going much later than a lot of the names that we just mentioned, and he might be as good as those guys on a per enning basis. Career three six seven e ar a from the Colors, but he's never pitched more than a hundred and twenty eight endings, and coming off the injury, he has struggled with command in the past. He has a

career three point five three walks per nine. I feel like the first season Backgreg, it's you know, that's something that someone struggles with right coming off of a major injury like this, is they can struggle with command early on. Lansom Color strikes me as someone who, you know, if he's shaky this year, I'll be in on heading into next year, assuming that he's healthy, because you'll get him at a discount. Lansom Colors not really someone that I'm

targeting this upcoming season. I think we could see some rough patches early on Greg. Also in this crew of guys around Lansmer Colors for me, or some names that we talked about in the past that we like, Frank Luke Weaver, he's in there, Marcus Stroman is in there, Rivn Canny and Caleb Smith as well. Yeah. Look, when it comes to Luke Weaver, he was great last year. He just got hurt and I understand it's scary like

he's he was dealing with a forearm injury. It seems like at any point his elbow could just fall off this upcoming year, but he was finally starting to figure it out. And we know that Luke Weaver has that prospect pedigree came over in the Paul Goldsmith trade, devastating fastball changeup combination. The difference was last year Greg, he started using a cutter about fift the time and it was a really really good cutter. So having that third

pitch that he can go to. H you saw it pitching too, you know, uh a sub three five e ar a um gets groundballs as well. Luke Leaver is someone that I like. I realized there is risk with him, but if he can stay healthy, he's one of these guys that can return potentially top thirty starting pitcher value and the other names you mentioned. Caleb Smith first eleven starts last year was lights out. That really really struggled in the second half. I believe he was pitching through

injury and that's what ultimately affected him. Stroman started using his slider more in the final months of the season. When we went over to the New York Mets, Greg, the strikeouts went up for him. He's always someone who's gonna give you a lot of groundballs. If he can maintain some of those some of those swinging miss numbers that we saw what the Mets, then this could potentially be the best season that we see out of Marcus Stroman,

and he's been good for long time. In his initial adding with Mets this spring, all right, I'm gonna throw we have two minutes left, Zill Ferrell, I'm gonna just throw names at you. You give me like a one sentence response. Sure, I mean he is a football. Um, well do they get baseball last year? All right, ready, let's go her mom Marquez No, Jake Odoriesi, No, not really. Mike foltonevitch I was originally in on Faulty. I don't

mind him as a back end rotation piece. But last year the swinging miss still wasn't Their strikeouts weren't great. So the walks a lot of guys. There are a lot of players in this range that I like more like Caleb Smith, I like more Andrew Heeny, Andrewhani. I like. It's just a matter of staying healthy. We know that he's a really really good pitcher. Interesting pitch mix, but gets a lot of strikeouts as well, and solid command, not not bad command for the strikeouts that he gives you.

Just needs to stay healthy. I think he's really good when he's on the mount. Adrian Houser Adrian Houser is a name that I'm targeting, and you can get him as you know, a bench piece um in your league's And he's someone who got a lot of groundballs last year. Greg, I think in your fifty crown ball rate over nine case for nine last year had solid come in. Maybe it was just a blip and and aberration, but you look pretty damn good last year. The brewers randomly find

starting pictures like this. I like Adrian Houser alright. Finally John Gray. Uh, maybe he'll be in a Yankee uniform soon, Greg, and then I could buy in there. But I'm someone that's just never going to own pictures in Colorado. You can tell me about the swinging strike Rade, the strikeouts all you want with Marquez and John Gray and what will you can stream them on the road. It's too much of a headache. I want a player that I can use all the time. John Gray is not one

of those guys. All right, there you have those are starting picture rank sweeted us what you like and what you don't for roll coach coaches up next. Thanks to Seawan and Alex down stairs. For Frank, I'm Gregg all again tomorrow. 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 draft kings this season.

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