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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Fantasy Best Friends Forever. To Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Yo. This yes, the Fantasy best Friends Forever here on the Fantasy Sports Rain Your Network, alongside Frankie Staffle and my buddy Jeremy Wolf, Greg Sussman, Jeremy, How you doing? Um? Good? Could playing with the mike over here? The mike's fines, the headphones. You sound great. You don't worry about I hear you. You sound good here. We don't have you.

I'm really happy to be here. We hear you don't worry about not hearing yourself? Well, I will fix that at some point. Okay, Well, I'm holding it. We're you are here today because it's a big day. It's now ab aff tradition where we do our big small lottery for our whole league, live in studio on the air for the world to say. Last year we had Jeff the Jets fan. Yes, Jeff, the Jeffs fan. I'm slowly meeting Greg's friend group. You were the next one up.

I'm being he talked to hometown hell all right, yeah, have I Jaguars fan? Yes? I just remember all your friends based on their fandom, their football fandom of all things, too, right, Jeff Jeff fan, Hello, hometown Heller, the Jaguars fan, Jeremy. I'm being told that you would like to be referred to as the artists currently known as Jared Wolf j

Wolf Artist, Mon Stabiling Jacket. That's pretty cool. Yesterday I paid half price, alright, yeah, which is still a pretty good deal, you know, right, it's not more who uses that, right, I've been like so out of wrestling. They don't call him that anymore. The artists formerly known as Shinskay No, I don't even to call him that anymore. Not anymore. I'm gonna roll with it. The artists currently know a thing.

I don't need the the headphones. I could hear you guys right here, perfect headphones off, take your shoes off, make yourself feel at home, whatever you want. Let's take the shoes off. You know that's cool. So on the show today, it's really fun show. We have our draft lottery live. We're gonna tell a couple of stories in regards to that. Um. But later on the show, John el is gonna join us and we're gonna talk about some best ball strategies. Frank, Yeah, he's basically, to my knowledge,

the gym day of fantasy baseball. You know, Jim Day does like a hundred different bestball leagues, you know, a hundred plus fantasy football leagues. This guy that we have coming on, John l are you following on Twitter at MLB moving a VG has got a bunch of awesome stats graphs that he puts out. He's pretty much done like fifty best ball Baseball drafts already, and he basically hads it down to like a formula, a science of how to win and how to make money doing so.

So we're gonna have him on later on the show and we'll talk about that. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Great, he's pumped. It's gonna be a great show. We're not only to talk about our draft lottery, of course, but some strategy that goes into it. So we've got some questions on Twitter about draft strategy this year. Um really every year, I guess, like where you want to be in the draft, what your opinion is. I want to know where do you guys want to draft. I

also want to know the history of this league. For example, J Wolfe, have you performed well in this league? Has Greg performed well in this league? So I'm I'm a champion. I am on a trophy which is which is good? Greg? Gregor was actually probably the most dominant Greg's the is the reigning defending champion, Frank Frank some of those things. So that thanks to you. Yeah, that's true, because you told me to drive the cashi. He's good at baseball. I mean, why doesn't he help me when we team

up together. He's good at baseball, But he also has youse. Um, so we have um Corban. Maybe I'll start helping out J wolf on the stud I haven't made the playoffs in seven years. We're gonna, We're gonna, We're gonna emails. So yeah, So I wrote my initially email to the league, and Jeremy cares about baseball more than anybody else in

the league. Like he's talking about baseball sixty five, Like he doesn't care about football and baseball is everything to him, and that's weird, but it's very rare to find that. So he cares more about baseball than anything. So I just I just felt like he hadn't I liked you up until now. I just felt like he really cared a lot, Like I don't remember making the playoffs in a while. So when I sent my like hello email to the league, I went back through the commissioner and

the commissioner that's so. Yeah, I know it's awful. Um, there's one thing worse than being a commissioner in fantasy football. I don't agree for the is worse, Yeah, because people care more about I feel like there's more like moving parts. Though with baseballs, yes there's a lot going on, but people care more about football, so there's like a bigger player pools. Think football the one day a week thing really just builds up the hype and people get going

into it. But baseball, like ar league is pretty into it for the most part. Well, we got we got rid of some of the dead weight. So two of our long so we've been so we've been around for fifteen Jeff fans in. So we've been around for fifteen years. Our league. And two of our members said, one of hum, like, you know what, I don't I don't care about baseball afore I don't want to be in this. I don't want to do this. And we've had a few people drop out as well, so so he dropped down. He's

actually unfortunate. He's actually a football commissioner and he dropped out of baseball. And then the other person never he's always very good at drafting, but never actually they did anything during the season, so he would he's one of those guys what living later on, he'll be great at bestball. Basketball is like perfect for him. And he's one of those guys that like makes the playoffs because a really good draft up. He has like under ten moves made

during the season. You can't really win in baseball without, you know, so we can pick ups. So we do. So we brought two members, two members in the league. It's keeper league. And this guy this is the drafting like drafted lad. So the guy coming into the league gets lad Now that's cool. So who are the two new guys, Guy and Ben and Bash? Sounds like a tag team, Ben and Bad. I want to know more about Bash. He's uh a step cousin. Is it his real name? Michael bas Bro? Michael Bash is his name?

Probably hired him to become in the league. So you could just treat cast well, the fact is you're going to it's part of your family. I will tell you this. I don't even exist. I didn't ever seen insider knowledge that Jeff's already already tried to talk talk trade with him. I'm trying to swindle Jeff. Jeffs already trying to get no idea, no idea. So last year on this program, we did the lottery, right, we did. We did the lottery. Jeff was here. It was all fair and it was great.

It worked out really really well. So for whatever reason, Frankie, our friends like, there's always a little momentum to do the lottery. And when I told you we're doing the lottery today, you're like, that's so early, like when you're draft. So our drafts March nineteen, which our commissioner hasn't even welcoming, no no, he's he's hit a supperating but he hasn't talked like draft lottery at all. So it was like a March thing. So our draft is our March nineteenth.

The keepers will do a week before March twelve. And it's like, you know, slowly, but sureley you get there, you know. So there's always a little momentum to do the lottery. You're like like a month and in like ten days. And people want to People want to research, like you and I talked. I mean, i'd like to. I like to know my draft early to like you and I talk to people every day. But people want to research their draft slot and have an idea of

where things. It was this a keeper league, yes, all right. You already mentioned Vladimcgrero did so, all right, So yeah, it changes who was available in the first round exactly. So people want to scout and I can respect that. So you have good keepers. Um, that's the league where you kept I made you keep raw failed divers last Yeah, I'm sorry, It's ok. There's Azzi Albis, Raphael Devers. Don't

forget that. Hey, you know what, A obviously sucked in the second half, So come on, there's a. There's a right side to everything. I'm gonna asking my question about my keepers a little bit later on keepers, everyone else,

come on up the keepers already, let's hear it. So I got Mike Conford, oh, in the fifteenth round, like it's good, dear Mitch, Mitch Haniger in the seventeenth round, like Mitch, I'm a little worried about the Mariner's lineup, but I liked seventeen und it's great for whatever I got. Um Matt Chapman also in the seventeenth round, like one of those being the sixteenth, like chance, you'll have to choose. I'll probably keep chatting defenses in the category in this league. No,

it's not. I try and once to make errors a category, but now I'm gonna blank on my fourth one. Of course, you remember it. I bet you. Everyone else remembers it, but you don't have christ names anymore, right, Matt Carpenter my captain. Captain and Matt Carpenter in the seven seventh round, seventh round, All right, yeah, that's solid, frank you. No,

I'm gonna big picture, big pitch. I have two first round picks too, so he traded so given that out of it, last year imaging a fan of trading draft picks, by the way, didn't it's great for years and a third round pick. Very annoying for the commission. It's not had a basketball league one year where you know, we had trading draft picks. It was a disaster. So it's because you don't do it as well as clean as we do it. Because it's like we have an offline spreadsheet.

Each color represents somebody, so it makes it very easy. I gotta greg. But people get crazy, you know, like and then they'll trade away raft picks and then try and lead league. You know, they'll try and win that year and then try and leave the league. We don't have that, like organ We didn't. We didn't. We didn't

allow them to make trades last year. Once they said that, once they said leaving the league, we did not allow Them's in a podcast where you know, if it if it, if it's the league that goes this deep, you should have people pay for the next year in advance. What do you think about that? Don't pay until someone wins? Yeah,

so everyone so basically everyone pays a bad idea. So everyone like if it's a dynasty league, like you're in advance so that you can't just like ween In, trade away all your draft picks and then leave the league. So I like that idea, and like we have a rule like she supposed to pay before the draft. Everyone follows it. But but Jeremy, so this went back before when he was, you know, struggling for cash between jobs. So he just like, I don't have the money right now,

and now he has the he's the artist known. Now he has the money, he still swim the cash. Yeah. Yeah, I'd just rather be in my bank he's got the jacket, he's got it, rather than be alone to me for six months. Yeah. Yeah, that's It's just principal thing. And don't even don't even pay. You won't pay him this here because you're gonna win, because IM gonna help. You're not paid. He's always paid, always always. You're not gonna

have to pay this here because you're gonna win. This is the year of the kids, looking Ford, Oh baby, the kids. So my potential keepers, I have Aronado in some round, right, And then so I told I told you this um off Eronado in around. You know, it's just it's Eronado in the seventh all right, Yeah, that's fine. Blake Snell in the tenth, We love that, Patrick corbyan in the eleventh. Alright, So then Corby a little bit

this week. So then it comes down to my other keeper, and I have this idea that I might want to do because we've talked a lot about this guy this week off the air. I could keep Zach Wheeler as well, but I wouldn't have a pick nine, ten elevenicks would be Wheeler, Snell, Corban and all those guys around my team at one point last year. So these guys could have all been potentially on my team forever. And I just have been really bad at Fantasy baseball seven years.

So you did that last year. Three rounds not a keeper. It's both good and bad, okay, because you're getting players that are better, but like, you don't have access to the player pool watching guys, like it's like a break in the draft for you. Right yere, you're gonna come back and you see what's going on. You drink a beer, Yeah, of course, you can go use the bathroom. Do we gotta do? You get three rounds out? Three rounds off?

You really need to pay attention. You need to pay attention like closing two rounds before you're about like you have that shriek of not having picks. You have to pay attention because I remember last here, dummy idiot, I drafted Evan Longoria bum my third basement, right. I was like, oh, it's sorry, I'm gonna take blakes now on the next round. Miscalculated and then and then Florida ended up getting blakes Now.

And like the twelveth round, I didn't have my tent eleven twelve pick and I wanted blakes now, and I was I had a cued up and like, all right, I need a third basem'ly gonna take a long glory here and next round gonna take blakes now. I wasn't paying enough attention. It's a bad and that's why I tell you, like it's good and bad. You get nervous, but you gotta pay attention. Man. So I'm nervous about that. I can keep or I don't keep one of those guys,

and I can keep Justin Turner in the thirteenth. I believe just points, I mean basically points for purposes get trans hit or strike out exactly pretty good. Now you know that's what. So that's what I'm that's where my head's at. We're wait to see who the Dodgers sign before Yeah, of course, so I'm gonna see what's going on. And we have got to keep each you think so,

or he'll be the ninth. It's good value. It's just you're gonna have Snell Wheeler Corp. To start, and I could go hit or hit or hit her head or hatter you know one. I have four can I have four starters? Not to worry about it for a while. So that's where my heads are right now. Cool. Right, So going back to the draft lottery, like people want to always do it early, and there's always a little bit of a momentum in my league to do it around the super Bowl because obviously we all get together

and watch the Super Bowl. Might say, what I mean, we all, Frank, I mean everybody but me, because I traditionally always watched my dad. It's been it's been a think my whole life. But we always watched Super Bowl together and everybody knows that, and it's totally fine. So because I'm the commissioner of the Baseball League, obviously I'm not doing the lottery when I'm not there. The commissioner and also this year defending champion of said league. Yeah,

so I was like, we'll do lottery collusion there. So we did this whole thing where it's like, okay, we're all friends. My my point of view is we're all friends. We don't get together whatever and do a lottery, Like, why does it have to be this? They well, you know I can't make it. Yeah, and then we have one less day of programming in February. Right. So, so Jeremy was on the other side. It was an argument and he said, you're being a douche. We're doing a

lottery without much. It was much worse than that. I used douche for our purposes. It was like, you're a douche. We're doing a lottery. I don't understand word. I go, well, you know, my dad's coming over. I probably can make it Super Bowl Sunday. I probably can get there where everybody was at three, hang out for three to three thirty, and then go back before my dad gets there. And Jeffy was like, well, I'm not going till four. We're thirty and I'm like, but I'm trying to accommodate you.

He goes, then just face time me for a lottery? Are you kidding me? I'm going there for for you. He's like, I'm good, you're both Sunday getting there at four thirty. I mean, you can't knock. You can't knock him for getting there for but he couldn't get it off three. I was so bored at four. I was with my friends, but like your friends, was like, why isn't the game starting yet? But it's you on me to be there at three the lottery? What's what you wanted to do? But no one else was coming at three?

But if we could have had everybody coming, if you really want to come on there to argue about this, I just say I just wanted to do the ladder, you know, and here you are, here, we are so after this and so Jeremy and I are. Group chat went back and forth pretty pretty extensively. How many people are inside group chat? Eleven? Is it that's pretty legit like a text? Or is it it's a yeah? What is your is it constantly going off? Well? You see my phone always going off? I don't. I don't have

the buzzer on to like the notifications. I'll pop out like an occasional notification so so are are f fantasy chat is not good enough for you? But you can have an eleven person I'm not friends with those people. I'm telling you right now. We have we have like a twelve person a fan You're right, eight people. It's me Greg Florio and like five dudes from California that we have no idea who they are and we're basically just talking to them like we're best friends. It's true,

we don't I know in this chat we have. We got Kane, we got JORDI got Undertaker. You like that joke, right, We got Kane and Jordan though I know them. We don't have a chat. We have like an emails's a you Biff and Rob has a chat, right, Yeah, that's that's our that's our friend chat. But we don't have like a fantasy baseball like text chat or anything. So like this group chat just our whole group of friends. Like even the people that are not involved our baseball anymore,

they're still the chat obviously. How you got kick him out? We kick him off the baseball thread basically email thread. But there still are a group chat. I mean, there's a lot to maintain. It's our friends. Man, good gup of friends out of it all? Right, Jerry, we we got about a minute left. You have two first round picks due to the shows of Tree last year. What pick do you want? Ideally, what picks do you want?

I want one and two because I think there's a clear one and two in early Given the keepers, it's it's Mookie Bets and Max Shrs would be the top two. What's the dromiras as well? So there's three really good players, Yeah, totally, but I at two of the top three and keeping four hitters. I'm keeping four hitters, so ideally I would would like to get shares in it. So I want one or two. Okay, we'll see what happens when we come back. We'll spin the ducks will get in the lottery.

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style of basketball. Week days to the four pm Eastern on the Fantasy Sports Network and on your popular podcast providers through about the luck Pie Well well well Well Fantasy Best Friends Forever, Fantasy Sports Radio Network, live with you inside Studio thirty four. That is Frank Stample. This is my buddy, Jerry Will follow that j Will Studios on Instagram, and I am Gregman Jerry inside Studio thirty four for our home league draft lottery. So inside our

spinning wheel, we have twelve ducks. Each duck has a name on the bottom of it. First duck out becomes the first pick over all. Are you ready, Jerry? Yeah, I'm ready. I just I just want to say one thing before we start. Um, just something cool. You know, Greg and I have been in this fancy league for for how many years? Greg? Forever for a long time, and um, We've always said that one day we're gonna

be on the radio. It'since high school. And then are thirteen years later, and I just I just think it's so cool that Greg has has filowed up what he wanted to do his whole life. Here I am, and I'm about to do uhm on YouTube and television or whatnot. Think it goes back that deep. You guys went to high school together. Ye we we thought we were gonna be on air partners. I have won a different round obviously different. Yeah, but radio wasn't your thing. I mean

we can, we can guess. I don't think i'd be bad at it. But you're doing all right naturally, Jeff, So you're you're from You're from Jersey Shore too. With Greg Jersey Shore. We have have okay, great pictures of Gregg with a blowout from back in the days. Just have to find those. It it wasn't a backup on the screen. You know, I'm gonna look up pictures of you in a pool and I'm gonna have those going all week everybody and everybody knows everybody has pictures of

me in a pool. It's not like I s It's not got hidden face oh, it's gonna live view of Greg downtime. You know, I just I just want pictures of you laying on like a float in a pool. Should be hard to find. Those Those are gonna be alright over the network. All right, let's spin the wheel I'm gonna have. I'm gonna take first franks because I'm the defending champion. And then do I spin and like you open or how does it start? Spin it? Open it up? Year you just have like a chance, spin

the ducks spin the It's not creative at all. Jeff probably came up with something, wasn't the alright, open it up? And I don't wanna. I don't want to look obviously, don't look closing my eye. Jeremy's my eyes closed when you're looking the other way anyway, too, all right, I don't wanna. I don't want to make your time here. I got it here, we got I'm nervous. This is the very first pick my homely draft. I know, like twelve people care about this more than anybody else, but

like we really care. I care. Jerry's got two first round picks. I'm really nervous. Does he have the first overall pick to j Wolfe the first overall pick. But I've been Fantasy Baseball draft ghost too. I got you every duck in here, says Greg. Baby, I was awesome. What does that say? Maybe I see bash the bash Broson there. Wow, that was amazing. Spit him again, frank him again. Are you gonna take I don't know. I'm too happy. Probably gonna take movie bats. But I'm angry.

This is what happens, right, So now I go again. Because I picked my name out, what has to be me? I'm sorry, Jareba, all right, this is all this. Look if this is Hey, how you're root against me? This is I mean, I have to If this is j wolf you gotta take Bess first. Let's let him get shirts. All right. I got a second pick. Here me go, second overall pick, but Alvin Fantasy Baseball Draft it goes to Evan Kersh justin mantel tour. Congratulations. Who is that?

I met the coach when I heard his name. You might have you might have. Sorry, Yeah, this is this is not working outright. You could have like middle of the draft, like back to back pack like six and seven or something. I'm sorry, you can said, you can take the next one. All right, Jeremy can't take it yet that I really want to get the bass bros. Just one. Number three overall it goes too Yes, I'm sorry, j Wolf. It's not him. You were off by one that worked out. Well, you gotta make a trade so

you can trade up and get us. It's possible. Take that my pitching solved. Damn, just stop spinning for that one. I like that I can still get you still get four he got Jeremy. You're Jeremy, You're up. Don't look because I look for silk there here we go. Number four overall goes to my buddy job Mike comp Sorry pick number four. I I definitely never met that guy. Now he lives in North Carolina. Yeah, I'm fairly certain

I haven't met him. You have not, Alright, So we were four picks or four picks in a lot of the job is gone because Jeremy and I both got pit. Well, here's a second pick I would like. Towards the end of the draft, I'm now rooting for Bash even I want. I want Bash, you get whatever pick he want pick next. Jeremy and I also want Jeff the Jeff fan to get whatever pick he wants number five overall J Flex, the j who's j Flex, He's master Flex, He's married,

he's got kids, married kid and so cute. Do you remember do you remember my buddy that dropped off these exact shoes here from foot locker. I don't want even I remember Snagly, remember him walking in and like getting you. I don't remember how he looks, all right, like a lot older than you guys. You know, so he's like fifty, right, I have to choke that Greig's really old. It's not really Jeremy's older than you could pick for I'm a little bit older. Yeah, alright with the what are we six?

The six over pick and rooting for Silk to get a higher pick, right, whatever you want? When when depends? When you want the highest pick, the highest pit but isn't number six, it's not that goes to bash there you go? I mean, six picks kind of bad. I love six picks right in the middle. I love being right in the middle of the draft. The next one, I think, you know, Jay Wolf, you should have one

early pick and one late pick. I feel like that would work out pretty but you know, he only has to have my third round, like I'm the third slot, so now I just want the earliest picks. I only get one pick. You know, it's the first round. He already has his draft slot. He doesn't have the other first pick. I only have one pick, so I wanted to be the earliest one. I wanted first. You know. Yeah?

Fair enough? Uh? Yes? With the seventh world pick, Yes, home down Heller, Hello doctor, all right, hold town, Helen, he's a doctor. He's not sound. Holdtown Heller goes number seven. That means Jeff and Jeff still in. Alright, what pick does jet fan Jeff want, no idea, as he's probably already really upset. No one's actually responding at the moment, reaching into the pool of ducks, and we go with number eight. Number eight pick Malvin fancy baseball league goes

to dabe, Oh, Marenzi, he's league. We just go back to how Greg picked himself first. Yeah, amazing, that was a joke. I feel like something FLUKEU like that happened last year too, did it? I had seventh pick last night? You know what you should have done? Have you ever done this before? Where you picked the duck, but the first duck that you pick is picked twelve yeah, we did it. We did it last year. Gest, we did it last year. Yeah, we were close. We were like tough.

We had so you had like the he had like the second pick, basically had the first pick in football. We were in the middle of in the middle. We were if you have picked first overall, I don't know. I don't have to think about it. I might us too, to be honestly, Yeah, alrighty, how many do we have left? This is what? Pick nine? This is pick nine. Some good names still on the board. If you're yeah, Jerry's gonna pick himself still that she leaves the first round,

is it you? It's Silk, all right, has ninth pick? So is that good? It's whatever? So you get that pick, he gets that. Silk is number nine. So the last three minute we got we got one of our new guys. It's Ben Ben. I like his brother bash More. They're not relating whatever you said before. I don't know. I just made them brothers because all right, who's up next? Speaking of bed, Yeah, you pick Bett. That means Jeff fans you could be last. I mean, it's not so bad.

You get back to back picks. You can make it work. You want to pick this one, Frank you on me. I mean, I'm definitely gonna get Jeff because he's a Jeff. We rolled together Jeff, which means at number twelves, which means that number twelve. It is Russell. You know, Russell actually talking Russell a lot. Yeah, Russell is a big fan of the show. Listens a lot. So Russell finishes at number twelve. And there is your draft order. Who is your buddy that kept calling in during the football season.

That's Max. That's a different league, Max, He's not in this league. He loves Philip Lindsay spends a lot of fab money on him. But what's the what's the waiver wire set up? In this league's fab first go first serve. It's Gregg gets whatever choice of players. Not true, so it's not really true anymore. That used to be true. I agree, But like you work from home, obviously you're working. You work from home. You have Sports Center on the background.

I don't you were you were downstairs where I work, where I work. But you also have seven or eight guys down there who are ready to tell you that opinion they have. There's a lot of people that are on it, like Hella beat me a lot last year, Rust beat me a lot last year. I voted for non continuous waver wanted first come, first serve. Yeah yeah, I've always been. I mean it's it's part of the game.

If atention more, you deserve the player more. I shouldn't have to guess how many dollars I need to spend every day because there's a random closer now, like I don't want to take Like it's just an added luck element to the fact, Like what if I bet ten dollars and now he's been eleven? Like what if somebody has a job that doesn't allow them to do it? You know that's a little unfair. Agree, he voted for all these guys to the computer. They come on like

one of the now two of them have kids. If anything, they're they have the biggest struggle of of having to do Fantasy pickups. But other than that, no, no guys stopped complaining. So great, you're taking you're taking bets, you're taking sure that we decided for another month. Frank, who am I protected that? What are the top three? I don't know? You you show me, you looked at it there, you're even one of Jose Mirus or Jose mirrors guy though,

who's after you want to trade? Yeah? He's awesome. Yeah, yeah, let's talk off the air a good time. Let's make a trade right now. I don't want to. I don't know what I want? All right? Well, who else is in your player pool? Do you have it? Like pulled up? So I don't. People haven't haven't, so I don't, So I don't know Ingram hart Kuzma, No, Greg want four for first round? Here there you go, so you have it.

There's a draft for all whole. So I've sent to our group chat the person who would be the next picture up after Max Scherzer herself. Those guys are not gonna be good pictures, so take one of those guys. Fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, but I want Yeah, I mean everyone wants. You might get shar but you know what, settling for the ground is not, certainly not love the little consolation price. So I sent it to my group chat, the picks. He goes, no more on the show for real?

I got last again. I wanted live in person and someone says I thought it was wonderful. It wasn't. I'm not doing online next year for football or baseball. I wanted, person, how could you assure me that my feet looks good? I'm like, dude, Like, I don't want to tell you the feats perfect, Like I got a mon in it right here. It looks great. We're passionate. There's clearly no collusion going on here. Like, I don't know we're doing it live on radio television. I don't know what you

want me to do. We spun a thing. I had my eyes and looked the other way. I asked you before I took anything. I want to see the Greg duck. I want to inspect the Greg duck. For sure. You probably marked it with something or like, did something weird and you were feeling first, don't even know what it is at all. Oh that was heavier. Um, you definitely did. They're all the same, They're all exactly Peter. Has Jeff

responded yet. Jeff is not responding yet. No, but but after our whole argument, like I just didn't want you to get the first pick, and then did I feel awesome? I had a first pick a couple of years ago. Actually, um, and who did I take? Do you feel bad that you have the first pick and trout is not available? No? I mean so a couple of years ago I first

picked also, which is rare. I feel I always picked towards the end, and for whatever reason, two of the last four years, I think I've had first pick overall, and I have to Clayton Kershaw number one overall a couple of years ago. I'm gonna go ahead and guess you won't be doing that this year. I will not

be driving number one overall. You know. I gotta play it out and figure out, like what Ace could be there for me in the second round, Like maybe I do trade down to three where he is and let him whoever he wants, and then grab Hosier treate a little bit. For if you trade down to four, you're guaranteed one of the aces because someone'll take bets, and then you can get one of the starting pitchers. I might treat down to four. Who is four in early Jerry com I think you. I think I got quickly

convinced to just take the ground. So if I can get something to trade down with four and get Hosier mirrors, like that sounds amazing, but that also jeopardizes me cursing Graham because I am a fantasy curse and he has a wolf has a curse. He has been playoffs years. No, no, no, but it's it's beyond that. Like I ruined players, You draft players and they just suck. None of they like get injured or they all right, So you send me

everyone you draft, so I know who not pretty much? Yeah? Yeah, So there you have it, Um, Frank, is there any strategy that goes into it to go into where you where do you want to draft this year? Let me ask you, what do you want to draft this year? You've you've done a little bit of research here. Where do you want to be? Number one? I think I want to be towards the back end so that I can get one of those starting pitchers and also get a legitimate here. I mean, it's basically what I've been

reaching the past couple of days. Is I want one of those aces. I want one of you know, Scherzer's, Sale, d grom Uh, Corey Kluber. If I get one of those guys, impair them with a legitimate hitter. Because this year, more than ever before, I mean, there are very very good hitters that are slipping into the second round for you know, reasons unknown. You know, Manny Machado and Bryce Harper are unsigned right now, that's why they're going in

the second round. I mean Paul Goldschmidt, change of scenery goes over to St. Louis. Now he's going in the second round. Yesterday we spoke about Josale two. I'm not a Josale two Bay guy, but if you're an Al two big guy, he's normally a first round pick. You can now get him in the second round. Alex Bregman guy, were a lot of talent better or Aaron Judge. Right, So there's a lot of hitter talent early and even

going into the middle of the second round. I think I want to be in that later portion of the first round so that I can get one of these legitimate aces and impair them with would still a really good hitter. Yeah, I get it too um to be. Like I watched with Venture downstairs, I want two of like the top fifteen starting pitchers. I was watching one of your Best Ball draft, the one you have going

on right now. We're talking about Bestball coming up with John l In about five minutes from now, and Frank you mentioned he started like the ground Stanton. Now you started with yes from pick six, Like that's that's exactly where I want to be. Star starting to ground Stanton at pick six, that's awesome, and that that was with me reaching on to grom right. Normally he would go closer to the end of the first round, like pick eleven twelve in a in a league that has the

entire player pool. But I pulled of the draft board because I wanted an ace. Max Scherzer went to pick before me, kind of in a similar boat as you. I wanted a starting pitcher. I pulled Jacob to Graham up with the draft board. Again, it's between him and Chris Sale. But in these best ball leagues, I think the gram is a little bit safer in terms of

his endings pitched. And you know, maybe that's just a little bit of recency biased because Chris Sale only pitched like, you know, one fifty or a hundred and sixty ennings last year. Every year before that he was well over two hundred innings. But I just worry a little bit with Chris Sale. I mean, the wiry frame um seems like he always kind of trails off in the second half of seasons. So I think it's very close between

him and Graham. But in the best ball League. I'll take the ground because they trust the endings pitch a little bit more. I also think the ground is just more stable than sail at this point, that start basis Chris Sale still like it makes me nervous though it looks like the ground I'm not nervous about, like the Metzer. I mean he hasn't. We haven't seen it the ground that we should be nervous about yet. So until we

see that, I think he's more solid than Sale. Just we we we need more time to talk about this, but I'll just I'll throw it your way. Greg and I was talking to Floria about this because I ended up with Gram and Blake Snell, remember my team. And he said, well, you're buying two guys that are coming off career years. Does that affect you when you draft?

So I think you want to just you're buying like you know, they're going so much higher than next year, because absolutely year, you're looking at two guys or yes, they both want to side on awards, they're both absolutely fantastic, But you look at two guys, I think it's theoretically sustainable, right, Like Blake Snell, it's not like he's a twenty nine year old due like he's twenty five right, and Jacob deGrom Like has always been really really good and he

was very high on him last year coming into the year and he was outstanding. He's not gonna have a one something e r A again, He's not gonna be that dominant maybe, but um, can he be an a shore like? Can he be right now? Actually? Greg? Okay, you want to pick it right now? We're in round now, we're in round Levin. I think we're in round eleven. I have the Grahm, Blake, Snell to Naka and Povetta, my fourth starting to I don't even know who needn test all right, he's on the list, the list. Take

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watching you're gonna watch Fantasy Football Frenzy up next. You know, he does over a hundred best ball football drafts every single year. This guy is basically our baseball version of Jim Day. I mean, he's crushing best balls right now. So with that being said, John L make sure you fall him on Twitter, MLB moving averages at MLB moving A v G on Twitter. John, it's a pleasure to have you on. What's going on, Buddy Gregg? What's tell

the man? Well, I have to say first, I'll never ever forget the fact that I just came in for my first podcast Sherry because the song kiss Me. I don't think I've ever felt any man. I never felt any man here in my life. Six beautiful. Yes, Greg, You're all welcome. So that specially made magnetic duck any time, any time. I appreciate him, Man, I am appreciate it. Now. You are the the best, best, best best ball guru here, and I have to ask very basically, what's the strategy, man, Like,

what's the plan? What do we do? Okay? I love it. I love it because first things first, assoft from the love of the game itself, it's always about strategy and at the end of that day, it's about money. So I always do my a lot of pre planning, and it really starts with the game type. Right. So this is something that I feel like a lot of DFS players could relate to. When I say I focus solely on the best Ball drafts that are fifty fifties with

the top half of the competition gets paid. I'm gonna be honest, if we're just looking for a top payout in best ball, it's really really hard. If anything, it's probably more luck than anything because best ball is a war of attrition. It's very hard to keep those slots filled. And to be honest, the winning team is the one that's scoring points in September, as silly as that sounds, you know. So I think, Greg, I think that's number

one is to find your style of game. Right. So for me, it's the fifty fifty because I want the safe play. I'm gonna look for the floors. I want to avoid injuries. Does that make sense? Yeah, I think does. And you know you mentioned when we were talking that you really wanted to compare this to DFS, and I think it makes a lot of sense for for the

season long, right. You mentioned you know, they have these top payout best Ball leagues, but the ones that you really focus on are like these ones where if you finish in the top half of the league, you double your money. So you you go over to fan tracks, they have ten dollar leagues. They have all different kind of price points that you could play at and you could double your money if you finish in the top half of the league. So you basically wanted to compare

that to DFS. Um. You know, what are what other parallels you see there? Well, really that the main one is security. It's safety. So if it's a fifty fifty, we're talking cash. As much as we love risk, as much as we love upside, we've got to be safe because it's a long season and those points, every single point counts. I think a little bit later, when we get into kind of the roster construction point of this,

you'll you'll see what I mean. Um, Like, for example, I followed your intro to Best Ball the other day. Of course, as always, you're doing great work, but there were a couple of things that I probably argue against, not because you're making bad decisions, but I just think that the strategy might be a little misplaced for this type of game if I get a little deeper into its specifically, Frank, you had mentioned Howavia bayas dude, it's very hard to argue against the guy with his skill set.

The production is going to be there. Yeah, we know he could be a little flukey, he chases and stuff, but nobody knows how the production will fall. Whether it's trading stocks, whether it's fantasy baseball. Don't let anybody tell you how it's going to end. The best we can do is be proactive and tell ourselves if a happens, then I will react with b So when it comes to something like best ball and fifty fifty, I put

such a stress on roster construction. And you're really now that I've probably logged about fifty of these so far, and again back to profiting. They started as ten dollar drafts. You know, the reason you want to be doing these drafts in the first place is because mocking itself is really fool's gold. In my opinion, you could sit, You can mock and mock and mock until your face turns blue, and on draft day you don't have no idea what's

going on. You're completely lost. So believe it or not even having something minimal like ten dollars on the line for a game that doesn't pay out until October, which I mean we're talking about since a day. Over the long run, it's really important to kind of hamme it down what you want your team to look like. So for me, specifically, I see five outfielder you know, rosters,

and there's three utility. I'm not touching a second baseman until later on because the sh us of those outfielders, you're gonna see them dry up, you said right now, But you're in the eleventh round of the Best Ball Draft. Probably at that point all the really good outfielders are starting to shrink. If you only have one or two, you're gonna find yourself in a very hard spot come

the thirties. Well, John Ben, happily, I'm happy you brought that up because I'm on the clock right now, and I'm gonna put you on the clock because you're the master of these Best Ball Draft. I want you to help me. I need a fourth outfielder. I have gian Carlos Staton, I have Lorenzo Kaine, I have Justin Upton. Solid could be better. I probably you're right, I probably should have taken another outfielder early on rather than taking

a Javier Bias or Jose A Brave. Now, the three top guys that I'm looking at Nomar Mazzara, Stephen Piscotti, Byron Buckston. You have to take one of those guys as your fourth outfielder. Who are you taking? Man, that's tough. I don't have all the numbers in party, but I would say this, Buxton absolutely not remember floors, right, We're talking floors here, frank I'm gonna be honest. Going by

those three guys, I think have missed the window. And I don't think outfield is the spot for you right right, So when's where to? Because you want well and and here's what I mean about about the pre planning and so, Frankie, we spoke about this. I want to go back to something you mentioned before, but I had to fill in some information in the middle. And it's what you were

talking about with dfs and stuff like that. When it comes to these best bolts drafts, you cannot imagine how low of a percentage of people are thinking in terms of to use the word handcuffed is not even doing it justice because you even want to stack like a DFS stack, right, you'd have two three guys. I'm going one further. I'm thinking in terms of clusters. But why because of what I said, it's a war of attrition.

We want those points in September. So I don't like Stanton because Stanton is not really part of an outfield compliment. I like to think in the first round. I'm already thinking about the thirty fifth round. And Frank, you and I spoke off air about this about stacking. So man, it's tough in your position, you know, for me to tell you, like which way to go, But maybe it's time for you to start thinking about that stack of of an infield. Now you clogged up second. I don't

know if I love the Chicago cup stack. Yeah, I guess you could go with Addison Russell. I mean you have to have him. If you have buyas obviously Russell is an absolute muster. You could definitely get him in the forties. I don't think that would be a problem. But I actually took down a couple of infields that I'm targeting because they provide a combination of low prices with high production possibilities, and they're easily stacked by draft value. Would you wand if I shoot you a couple of

those or right ahead? Alright? Cool, cool cool? So right up the bat and first things first, man, I forgot you know, the third chair for my man Florio, whom also I talked all the time offline. I am the biggest Yankee fan. Let's go Yankees. Who is ready for the season right along? Anyway? Because my first infield is the best and now I know Met's kind of yuck, you know, the first thing we think of as yak

and kind of like evacuations. But when you could combine Robinson Canoe, who you can get late, Jeff McNeil, who you can get leader, and Jed Lowry, who you can get even later than that, you're talking about using up three of your very limited spaces. I want to get to that um after we conclude this point is the actual construction. But right there you have three players that complement each other that if your piece canoe were to

go down, you will automatically have a fill in. If you're not thinking in terms of stacking, you add a Robinson Canoe, but you have a backup from another team. I'm seeing a lot of people chasing then. They love these prospects are chasing uh chesting, and you are on Milwaukee. Listen,

this guy may end up to be fantastic. He has no correlation to Robinson Canoe's production, so not to say he's worthless, but when you look at it on a roared rush, let's say from the broadest view, the widest aspect, we need players that are correlated. I need to know if I lose one guy, I'm gonna have somebody stepping up, because there's a lot of zeros to be had in these leagues. Let me tell you, man, I actually went back if you don't mind me, Keith Bramlin coming off

if you need to. So I went back and I looked at a couple of the busts from last year, right, last year's best ball busts, and it's gonna serve as a really good set of reminders for the warning signs for this year. So let's go number one, my number one bust. Oh Man, was I excited to have Eloy Jimenez e Lloyd Lloyd? Zero points? Zero points? I burned an early pick on a player who didn't pick up the bat. Why with chasing helium, with chasing prospects, you

can't do that. In the cash game. It's all about playing time, it's about at bats, about innings. We need those things. They are essential and they drive the price more than our perceived projections, which you know most people are really hooked into. Uh, this guy's gonna hit to sixty five. I think you might hit two sixty seven. To be honest, in best pool, that is completely irrelevant. I just need a human being, you know, because that's

the truth. If you took three second basement on three different teams days, a likelihood you were taking zeros from July and now you're out, and it's not because you didn't pick good players. It's because they weren't constructed properly. I want to keep going down the list. I always need to be reined in. Yeah, I need to be reined in. I know I know so uh about some bestball strategy and he's given to the players that he likes the strategy. How it's all that high floor guys

more so than anyone else. You guys are gonna play games. You get unique guys that are going to be able to just sustain on a long haul, and yet you take your chances. You gotta do it a little bit later, John's put together just a ton of friends, put a ton of work into this um, and he's give a stage advice here. Frank, Yeah, absolutely, John, I know you mentioned what you wanted to say about roster construction. We had to sign off YouTube in a minute or two here,

So just just very quickly. It's is not always my best. It's a forty round draft. I just want you to let everyone know how should they construct their teams, because what you told me off the areas, you're looking at nine our fielders, you know, three of every infield position. Absolutely break that down, okay, just quickly. I've actually pivoted from my original position just a few weeks ago, as I've increased the money risk. But we'll get to that.

So initially it was three players per each infield position, including catcher, so CEE one B, two B, three B S S right, all three? You need three at that. That gives you fifteen. If you have eight our fielders, then you're up to twenty three leaves you with seventeen pitchers. Since then, because of what I was talking about with playing time, I've actually eliminated taking a third catcher. I'd take two catchers on the same team for the hope that I'm locking up those catcher at bats and then

that's it. I'd rather use that extra spot on the ninth outfielder, like you mentioned, which is really important to me. Nine outfielders. Remember we start five, you don't even have a replacement for each guy. Seen thing nine pitchers when you have seventeen, you don't even have a replacement for each guy. So it's really really important, um that you're able to replace these guys. I mean, again, we're probably around the time, but that goes into what we spoke

about with avoiding relievers. You don't even want closures in this team. Maybe trained and maybe Kimberal there the last of lead Town left on the board, but other than that, they are an albatross. You do not want these guys. The closer position turns over at a rate that is mind boggling. I mean, if there were eight or nine guys that had the job wire to wire last year, I'd be surprised once they lose those saves. Those guys are worthless and best ball do not even bother with relievers,

take only starters. Before we sign off of YouTube, I want to just say John, thank you. So much for being with us and all that awesome analysis and insight. Where can people follow you? Where can they read you? What? What can do people do to help you? Thank you so much. I love it because it's a brand new account. I'm just starting. I'm trying to put out all types of original content. I just have a couple of articles

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you go. That is John L at MLV Moving a v G. This has been awesome and insightful and comeeccium man yo, thank you so much, guys. I really appreciate your time and you owe me for the overnight coress delivery for that talk body there you go. With that, we're gonna say goodbye all YouTube for now. Uh please like subscribe, rate, leave us five stars, leave a comment and we appreciate everything. Frenzies up next. Corey is off, so the Jim, Jim Ventua, Jim Day and Chris Ventua

going the rest of the way. We have about two minutes. We're so left here. Jeremy, how did you enjoy your first on air experiences? Mike's un huh it was it was good. I had a great time. Thanks for having me, guys, Thank you man, thanks for coming. This is a very successful day. Yeah. Well, exchange emails. Don't worry. We're gonna get you into the playoffs. So I want to say this, You let me know who you draft so I don't draft them and they get hurt. So um uh. In

our group chat, people are saying this. Jerry is saying he's pumped about his bad keepers. It was funny. The other thould have to be nice about it. They're good keepers. You know what. I think what they're saying is, you don't have a guy that's like a first round talent, right, that's fine, but you but you have guys who are going much later than they normally would. I mean, you look at drafts right now. Mitch Hanigery, he's going in the seventh, eighth round. You have him for what a

seventeenth round pick? You have Michael CONFORDO. He's going in you know, the eighth, nine, tenth round. Right now, you're you have him in the fifteenth round. So you know you you're slowly adding up the value here. And don't you know, let's sleep on my guy j Wolf. He's got two first round picks. He's gonna be You have like one hitter and one picture? Is that the plan? Um? It depends who's there at nine. I really don't know who's gonna be there at nine, but I'm definitely taking

a picture. I'll have to take one of the aces. I don't really have a choice. You gotta get one of these. Gotta go with one of the aces, probably the ground my boy Jake. And then when year I drafted Jake and I traded him during the draft, I think too, you to me, that's right? Do you remember who that was? Four last year? I traded him to you for j D. Martinez? Oh my god, So I had I kept j D Martinez one year. I love I love that j D. Martinez and I drafted him early.

I got him was great, so I kept him a year later, I traded him because I didn't have any pitchings. I traded him during the draft to Jeremy for um Jake de Gram. He wound up getting hurt that year. Here came back the next year and he went late in the draft because he still recovering injury. So Jeremy drafted him again in fifteen fourteen, sixteenth round exactly. So

it was awesome. And then in the middle of the lead middle of the year, he then traded him for what Jeremy, Oh no, it was only forty seconds after the show, right, don't make me do it. Don't make do it? He didn't answer. It was um. It was the guy from the Yankees. What's his name? The picture and that's on the Pirates now. It was j D. Martinez for Ivan. It was a closer. I once traded Adam Done to Michael Florio in like the first week

of the season for some FuMB that I dropped. The next week we went on forty home runs date here we all make mistakes. In my defense, Nova had like eighteen qualities. Jeremy, we appreciate you being with us, and Frank Stample, Jeremy Wolf and John l thanks so much for watching Frenzy's up next. Now, no, don't get Monday. I'm off baby,