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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Did we just become best friends? Fantasy best Friends Forever? Yeah? Yeah, you need your mic on for that one, Greg Frank stand for the close out, Chris Venttra Greg's ausmen, your Fantasy best Friends Forever, our number two, locked and loaded. Final hour the week, gentleman. And then she literally goes home right after this, So things are good. That's the way to wrap up the week. Really is a nice way.
Shortstop talk. I love it you see Mataca live, No, I do love metalca though blind live. I saw three Doors Down live at a free concert Norbany. I saw krypton night. I saw three doors Down live at a free concert in in Where did I go? Panama Beach, Florida, Panna City. It was free like it was. I was like I stayed. I was at right there, so I was on the beach and I was just like walking down the beach and at some places three doors, yeah, there was they do. I haven't seen three doors down
three for free. Then one of the old people said, we'll do the inauguration and we don't Gearrell, We'll play anywhere. Who else? Have you seen? Live Venture? Event seven Folds my favorite band. You've seen them? I've seen them actually open up for Metallica. Yeah, White Actually they did that ye into a couple timescause they're very similar. Yeah, at MetLife I saw them. And then the greatest, one of
the greatest weekends of my life. I went to a Metallica weekend two days show at an abandoned airfield in Atlantic City. It was like it was called the Oryan festival was two days. One day they played the entire album Start to Start to Finish, and then they also played the entire Ride the Lightning album then Start to Finish Metallica and on Saturday, Events seven Fold opened up for them. Amazing, They're great. Life was crazy, moss Pit
and stuff. I didn't go in the Christina she came to me with that concert, We're gonna go to a show and we're gonna get down system of a down concert where it went too well. So one of the best concerts I haven't been like that. They're awesome the violin. I wouldn't mind going to a Dave Magic Band concerts. Relaxing, you get the lighters out, you know, it's chillingly. That's like that. Yeah, I mean it's a different, five different vibe. Not really my VI. I go to UH. I like
mosh Pit Greg. I've also I've also been to some hip hop shows. You ever been to a hip hop show? I've seen Macmiller alive rest in Peace. I've seen like love that dude. Right, Yeah, he's great. Remember when when he passed away, you were like shaking. Yeah, it was kind of like affecting me for the whole weekend. Still kind of affects me now when I listen to him, he like kind of me and him. Are were the
same age. I think he was actually a year younger than me, and I would listen to his music throughout college and stuff, and you know, I had some weird times in college. Everyone has some weird time to college, right, so, like, you know, he was a lot of like the music I would turn to, So I kind of I had a connection there with him. So Alrea on a ground they broke his heartunately. And I've also seen Kid Cutty live that was amazing. From that, al right, I gotta
go to a rock shows. I've seen Black Sabbath awesome with Judas Priest testimated it was kind of like the Legends of Metal kind of thing. I wait with my dad at the Jones Beacht Theater. That was far uh cool NFL notes for you before you get back. Yeah, I don't listen to Judas Priest can name Judith so that's old old medal one Judath Priest song. I don't think I could name it the name of title of it. I'll know the songs nothing. He used to wear leather,
that guy like very tight leather. So it kind of like bugged me out. I didn't know what I was in for with Judas Priests. Yeah, I think so Stulors GM Kevin Colbert said three yes, yes, yes, yes. Three teams reached out to far and potential Antonio Brown trade. That's interesting. Maybe they didn't name the teams. Uh and Adam Schefter just said on Sports Center that a source told him that Robert Kraft is not the biggest name
caught up in the prostitution ring. So we can only hope there's interesting news one name bigger Belichick, A little, a little rubinage. This is um Florida, in Florida, by a certain club that Craft. You guys are gonna get this Bivona. Well, it's by a certain club that Craft frequents. So I'm hoping that the owner of said club is the person that was caught on tape. I think I know where you're going with this, but I really don't know. Think as possible. Is it who I think it is? Yes, Um,
I'm ready to chet owner of said club. I'll say that loud, go ahead, chat, let's see. Oh yeah, I'm not gonna say that, lad. I can't do that. I'll tell you during the break. Then all right, Um, that'd be cools. You want to get back there? Yes, absolutely do, I absolutely do want to get back to Zandi Bogards. We heard Rank say and basically as I told Frank during the training on right now, by the way, guys, right as I told Franks during the break, If I
end it was Xander Brogart. I'm like, I'm happy, like he looks good, certainly heads head and points leads whatnot? Zander Boks is good and I have no issue drafting him. I don't want, I don't want to say that he's someone I'm gonna go out like I'm looking to draft. But he's the best guy on the board, which I think he could be at some point. I'm happy to draft him. I have no issue draft him. Where are you and Dre Brogards? I agree? I think he's uh solid shorts. He's one of the back end top twelve.
I think to me, I haven't met eleven. I believe I haven't met eight. He is the number eight short stuff off the board and the NFBCA. I'm sorry, I haven't met ten. Yeah, so I haven't met eight. So one name I'm assuming you have ahead of him venture is Carlos Correct? How come you like correct? I know Frank hasn't barely inside his thought swell and number twelve. I'd like to have the Carlo's Crezy debate. Mender will
start with you, what do you like crea this year? Okay, So, like Xander, I like a lot of for what he does. But I think we've seen you know, his max potential throughout all the years, not any particularly, but I think you could see what what he is about. Uh, this is his power max. I think he's not a big time power guy. So my thing is Korea has a lot more in the you know, to prove. I think his ceiling is much higher than we we've seen last year.
Last year was just a down yere I think, and I think, you know, like we said, young guys need time to grow. His first season, I mean, I'm sorry, he hit twenty homers, rbs, seventy five walks, thirteen bags. I mean he had a solid year, uh and thirty six doubles. Things kind of evened out there. I think that this can be a guy that goes to the next level. I really do, especially in this lineup. And he should get back to three fifteen average and he had seen I think he should get back to two nine.
I think he could easily bounce back to that level. The walks will go back up, the homers should go up from fifteen last year. Right, he has power. This guy's a top prospect. He was supposed to be better than Francisco Lindor coming out of the minors better than Francisco Indor, and he hasn't proven it right, But I think that this guy in this lineup has much better potential than Azanda Baugard's. Now, Bolger is the more steady guy,
the safer guy, I think. But I'm out. You know, most of the time I look at to play it safe, I'll take Correa after the top six guys that I believe a better than him are off the board. After that, I think a lot of guys are in a clump in a tier. And I can't dispute the upside of Carlo's career because I feel like we've seen it. There's two camps of Carlo's career this here. You either love the value that you're getting them at in the fourth round,
or you're just not gonna draft him. And that's where I stand. I'm gonna do my best Dr A impersonation here. But pulling up his inside injuries page is a thirty three percent overall injury risk, which is hot, which Dr A is gonna tell you he's gonna be expected to miss about a third of his games, which he has done. If you look at the past two seasons, he hasn't played more than ten games in each of the past two years. His HPF his health performance factor is six
six percent. It's above average, but that overall injury risk. Look, this is a guy that dealt with oblique and back injuries last year. It's not the same thing as Clayton Kershaw, but these things can very quickly turn into recurring injuries. And you watch Carlo's corea bat. I mean, this guy swings with ferocity like you need. You need to have your your core everything working together intact. Like if one thing goes wrong in your back or your oblique affects
your performance. And that's what we saw last year. Like it is Carl's COREA hitter? Hell no, no, you know he's He's a he should be a perennial three hitter. He's extremely talented, but it affected his performance last year. Hard hit rate, He's hitting the ball on the ground more, striking out more than ever. So that's what I'm talking about. When you know, if just one thing goes wrong with the oblique or the back here, it's gonna affect his overall.
He doesn't steal bases anymore either, So he's a four category contributor. When he's completely healthy. But I don't think that he's gonna be completely healthy. I'm more in the camp that he's probably gonna miss thirty or forty games at some point this year, and with the back and the oblique injury, it could affect as a performance even when he's on the field. He did affect his performance last year. The harder percentage at twenty eight point eight percent.
If you trust call his career is healthy, because that's exactly what he's saying. What else is he gonna say. He's not gonna come out and say, oh, you know, I'm eighty percent. I'm still kind of dealing with it like you're gonna say he's on healthy. If you at home truly believe he's healthy, then this can be a major steal for you, and I would advise you to go out and draft him if you believe that. Me personally, I think that it's gonna be an is. I don't
think that it's a major steel. You go back to two years ago, it was his his best season of the majors, right, but at two seventy four had the twenty home runs, thirteen stone bases, ninety six r V I I think the steels, like you said, are dead, Frank, I don't think you. I don't think like when you were drafting him. It wasn't his best season though before before Bass, but he was ops. That's one of like the ten best hitters in baseball games, right, that's you know,
a hundred fifty but the close. But the reason I said it was because he played a hundred and fifty three games. Did not do that in twenty seventeen or flash days. Upside and he was an MVP candidate without without question with the opps a moment ago, which was what So that's what you're praying for extrapolated for a full season in that's his upside. That is clearly the up six years his downside right the injuries now. But here's the thing though, Like I would be really worried
if this was an older guy. He's twenty four. I gotta give him the benefit of doubt. He's gonna be in the league for a long time. And that was any Singleton's sake years old, especially for the value might be able to get him at right now. Uh, you know it could pay off, no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. But the crazy thing to me is I want to go back to addlebort Demandacy for a second. He's twenty three. It's not like that's like
the point. The point is he's twenty three. Carlos Crazy is only twenty four, and he's been the leading for because he he was like the Glabor Torres before Glabor tourist. Absolutely not, you know, just comparing the two, because Charls Korea when he's healthy, it's probably better than Glabor. For now, we'll see what glabor tourists turned into. What guys don't just come up at you know, years old and just take the league by storm. It doesn't happen all that often.
Carl's Korea and Glabor Torres. I mean, these guys are different breeds. So what I mentioned with Adelbert to modesty was he came up when the Royals were competing, Yes, and he didn't get a fair opportunity because they needed guys to perform right away. Now they're not competing, so they're gonna give him every chance to play, and he went down. And you know, you can say this about a lot of guys, but I do think it could be true. I mean, it depends on the player that
you're talking about what their mindst is, but failure. Greg could be a great motivator. I think you have to when talking about ad albert'sa honesty everybody met modcom in a fantastic point and Byron must do you have that up, Frank, why is he compared to Going through his Twitter feed, he compared at albert'sa Mondescy to Byron Buxton and basically
similar situations. Right, Like Byron Buckston came up, didn't work out, trying to compete whatever, got a full opportunity batting, leadoff, the whole deal on a Twins team that was supposed to be terrible, and they gave him every opportunity to play. And all this dude did, dude did was just get out. He was striking at a crazy pace at one point. I remember Crazy Base noween he got out to the really really really cold start, came back actually really nice year, right,
sixteen home runs, almost thirty steals. Um still stuck out s Ton, but he strikes out even more than Modesty does. Crazy. Yeah,
I have it up right here. It's Buckston in seventeen, from August to September, he had that you know, two months stretch where he went nuts eleven homers, thirty nine runs scored, thirty five rb i's, thirteen stolen bases, five percent great twenty seven point six k rate an Alberto Monescy August and September last year in less plate appearances in in about thirty less plate appearances, eleven home runs, the same number, thirty one runs, twenty six RBI one
four stolen bases. So I think he you know, he might even be faster. You mean he might be just a better base runner than Byron Buckston number one. That speed, right in terms of sprint speed, Yeah, but I mean there's more that goes into it than just being fast. You gotta gotta know how to steal the basis. That's why he's just fast. K percentages two percent last for Alberto Mondessey. So the floor isn't as Is this why you're comparing them. They're very similar in everything that they do.
Is that what you're saying? Everything what they did, what they did when they got hot towards the end of seventeen for Buckston and the end of twenty, White people loved Buxton going their their draft price the next year, like Buxton was a fourth round pick last year, Alberto honesty. This year is like a third fourth round pick, so the end of season, yes, yeah, I mean Buckston got hurt, right, or he just got sent out hurt last year? I mean last year head down, it was awful, it was awful. Yeah,
he had like a broken toe. He had like something going on with his head too. Yeah. That's why what if you guys have fire Bucks on this year? I will you will for the value. Now you wouldn't be out, I think, you know. Speaking of Byron Bucks and Matt Modica, he actually drafted him in in the tout War draft round. He drafted him in round thirteen as his fourth field fifth. That's good like that, Uman, Yeah, a guy that was going to the fourth round of last year, now you're
getting him in the third round. Definitely a little bit of bounce, but still years old. Tweet about it, he said, I'll do it every time, give me, give me Byron Bucks. And because we know the towns insane at that point, it's worth the risk. And that's what we were, you know. That's what will say that I will say saying about Hobby Bias last year too, at some point it's worth I will say this though, this Twins team this year,
as concrostructing is trying to compete. They're trying to can paint up too with a lineup that just added Morewin Gonzalez. You can play in the outfield if you move a guy like Eddie Rosario to center field rather than left, or Max Kepler from right into center Byron Buckston. Ultimately he's not performing, could be the oddment out again as a fifth outfielder. It doesn't matter. It's not part of the conversation. I'm just saying we were looking and talking.
Where does Marwin Gonzalez in on this team? Well, in the outfield maybe the answer. Let me ask you about more definitely, let me ask you about Marwin Gonzalez. Guys, he's got short he have shorts of eligibility or now I don't think he does. That's why I'm asking. Well, he does on Fantasy pros because they use Yahoo and everyone's eligible according the n FBC. He does n FECs first, second, short and outfield, So that that's correct, where's your more
Gazalez be drafted? I just added him to my rankings doing this on the spot here, just trying to figure out where he would go. You he should go around like the William Das area, like kettl Marte William Damas. That's like yeah, and that's just a huge tier like I have. My Tier three is from thirteen to twenty nine. Yeah, it's all clumped together though once you get to the back. I mean, you can pick any one of these guys
fair enough. Okay, um, where are you on, Craig greg I like Correa, I'm not as cold as your because I think, as VENTURE said, there's a dude that you can draft. Where are you getting him in the fifth rounder? Cell? And he give you a first drum back right like that? That year he's he's twenty four years old. And if he could just stay healthy, and I know, as with our fantasy basketball team, Frank, we said that a lot, and it has exactly worked. Thank god. I trained Anthon
Davis my man. Welcome to squad tonight, right um before the he debuted before okay um, if he can stay healthy, he has the ability to give you back first round value when you can get those guys in the middle rounds. I'm interested. I don't know that, I said. I like Sander Bogart's I do at Olvert's I'm honestly, I'm not exactly hoping for Like, I don't I'm not gonna take it. Let somebody. I'm gonna let somebody else do that create things in treating. Man, heways gonna board to pick fifty one.
That's a fourth round of fifteen team leagues. It's a fifth round in I'm interested there, man, I'm interested in what he could bring in the top toward the top of that Houston lineup, like in the fifth round, Like that's kind of where I want my shortstop, like because you know, if he plays in the points, I'm interested, man, I listen. I mean, if you want to win your league, right, like, you gotta have it's just team, right, So you gotta
take some shots somewhere. And you know somebody's gonna get hurt on your team guaranteed, multiple people will. It's guaranteed. So you're gonna have to figure that out any anyway, I'm willing to take the shot on Core in the fourth and fifth round because he could end up winning the league for me. That's how good of a player is. And that's why I'm gonna you know, I'm boasting them up the rankings a little more because I mean this guy, when he plays, he's doing damage. You know that, Like
we know that it's just about beast year sucked. I mean, he's hurt. He's playing hurt. You know, when you play hurt, it's it's it's very hard. I hear what you guys are saying. Look, there's two again, there's two camps. If you guys believe that, then you might be getting one of the best values in the draft. He personally, I think he's probably gonna get banged up again at some point. Probably all right, we'll tak a break, guys. When we come back here on the Fantasy best Friends forever, We're
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Enter promo code F n T s Y and you'll be on your way to becoming the next Daily Rhodo Millionaire. Fantasy Best Friends Forever Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Think a good progress, gentleman on the shortstop position. We've hit up nine of them so far. Client through, Flying Through, we spoke about Laborer. But yesterday right a second, yes, should we skipt labor We should say where we're gonna slot him? Him? Uh, I have him nine, I have him at eleven, debating
if I should move well. One of the guys that I know you're probably trying to decide if you're moving past, is our guy Jeans Sagura, who, Frank, I know we came into draft season without before we do do a VP here really liking Jeans Sagura. What have you learned since you dove deep on short stops? I learned that
I do like Geene Skurtt at his current price. UM, where you're getting him is, you know, about pick sixty four, So he's going in that fifth round range, a little bit later than some of the other guys that we've talked about. He's a little bit later than Korea, a little bit later than Boguards, but he's just steady man. Look this, this might not be the league winning pick that you know, Venture mentioned with Carlos Korea, but at least eight batting average, eighty runs, and twenty stolen bases
in each of the past three seasons. I mean, those are three categories that were constantly you know, how do we find those? Adding average, runs and stolen bases. And Jeane Sigura gives you all three of those, uh, you know, over the past three seasons, three or eight batting average, that's eighth best in all of baseball. Run scored, that's twenty one seventy stolen bases over the past three years. That's eleventh best in baseball. Makes a lot of contact.
You know, he's not gonna completely He's not gonna he's not gonna completely kill your your home run either, like he's gonna give you, you know, twelve. He's a better ballpark now, and he you know, he was in he's in Citizens Bank, and he's in a great lineup. He's gonna hit at the top of that lineup. He could score a hundred runs this year and he could drive in you know, sixty seven rbs, could hit over three hundred. He's gonna doesn't strike out? What is there? Not any
sort of power? What I have here is his stolen basis and have to climb three years in a row, and he's twenty eight years old in Yeah, he's gonna be twenty nights. So do they continue to decline if he gets closer to like fifteen eighteen than yeah? That's not what you Where is he but want stolen bases? He's banking second second, right. Gabe Kapler is one of these analytical, you know, analytically driven managers here, Greg where if the analytics are telling him not to run, he's
not gonna run. Philly isn't run all that much last year. So but they should use him to run. I think that they will. I think he's still he'll still be safe for twenty five. I do. He's in a great lineup. So I love the safety that he provides. He's like he's gonna miss sometimes, like he's always had one DL stint per year. He's average one hundred and forty two games played over the last six years. But he's consistent with it. You no, like two, Okay, he's gonna miss
twenty games. He's not missing you know, he's not playing a hundred ten like Carlos Correa. Like everyone's gonna miss a few games there. Um, I'll tell you right now why in points leagues. In points leads last year was thirteen short stop he missed. He missed more time time, right, yeah,
yeah no, and he miss more time in games. He had four six total point three point three average, which is like, I actually don't think he's at solid because he's been He might be alright for head that category to give you stolen basis, but head to head points like four percent career walker eight. He makes a lot of kids, which helps, like he's not gonna give you strike out. He doesn't walk, so he hits a lot
of doubles. Very aggressive swinger listen in Philly, though, I might be interested in drafting him as a nice little valley pick if you know, all my guys are gone, I don't have a short stop and we're in that tier. So Gore's really not a bad pick this year, especially in points leagues because the accounting stats should be better in Philly. Homers and maybe fifteen twenty homers. You know
he's hit twenty homers before. Man, I owned him every everywhere that year with the Diamondbacks like Monster season nine, breakup, thirty three stolen bases. I don't think he has that kind of upside anymore. But you know, ventures right in Citizens Bank, can he get you know, maybe a lot better ballpark and Safeco. Man, I'm interested in Rhoto. You know, if I get him in the fifth, if somehow he felt with the sixth round, I'd love it there. But
I like it in the fifth. I love it in the sixth and you and you say he missed time and he still scored over eighty runs. Last he is in a row in Philadelphia and that lineup like he could score a hundred time. What do you have I have him at twelve as the last one of that year. I have him ninth. Okay to aggressive Greg No, I don't think so, Gabor. I think that's fair. I think it's fair, and we're more than Glaber alright, absolutely continuing on our short stop short stops, one more person I
think belongs in this tier. It's another guy with a question mark. He's going later than all of these guys, but I want to bring him up here, and that's Corey Seeker. Corey Seeker is a guy that was a five round pick the last couple of years, gets hurt late in Mrs A. Roundell, the playoffs, come back for the World Series. Isn't right in spring training? Isn't right? Early on last season? Uh might have even missed the
beginning of the season with shoulder injuries. They had that shoulder injury, got knocked out, and then also that Tommy John major major injuries. Everything fixed. While that's what the thought process was, right, get hit major injuries from Corey seeing over the last couple of years. But back he's in camp, he's healthy, Chris, what do you do? A Cory Seeker? So I might be a little higher than a lot of people because I have secret eight. I
have him behind. If he's healthy, he's a point. He needs to be healthy, right, Um, I mean obviously these rankings could change. I want to see what happens in spring training. I want to see who's playing, you know, like, yeah, yeah, you gotta watch him in the spring. If he's playing and he said looks healthy and he's hitting with pop,
that's all you need to see. If he's got the pop back and his bat speeds good and everything, then I'm okay with jumping back on board and going right back to this guy, because he's another guy that can be right behind Corea as a top five shortstop. You know what I mean, Like he's that, he's that talented. He does everything well except he doesn't steal basis. He does everything else the pops not I mean massive, He's not like like Carlos Correa's upside is high. Yeah, that's
that's correct. He could hit thirty, he could hit thirties. Never hit thirty rookie year, right, so that he's Almos. You know he's turning twenty five and April, so he could grow into that power. Look, he doesn't hit enough flyballs. That's the biggest problem. He's had thirty flyball rate for his career. He hits a lot of line drives, and that's what you know, lends itself to. You know, he's
gonna be a doubles hitter. He's gonna hit a lot of doubles, which you know that helps him in points leagues. Even a couple of years ago when he was going in the second round for Rhodo, I wasn't in just because again he doesn't really stand out, like if he stays healthy in the Dodgers line up. Betting second. He could score a hunt runs, definitely, and I have him one spot higher than Korea, and people might be screaming at me, what Korea's upside is higher? They're both injury prone.
When we spoke to dr Ay, I asked us this question, who's more likely to have a reoccurring injury here here? And he said Carlos Karrea because he's the beak in the black the bag. And frankly I agree with him, because yes, these were recovering from Tommy John as a hitter. Labor Torres also recovered from Tommy John last year as a hitter. Didn't have any effects on him hip surgery. All right, it's a little bit more to worry about there,
a little bit more special power with the hip. Yeah, definitely. So look, I don't know that him or Carl's Correa is our active targets of mine. If it were like if they were both available somehow in the sixth round, if I was just you know, choosing between them, I would take Corea. But at their current draft price, you're getting Correa later, you know, you're getting Seeger later to three rounds later. I would rather take the value on seegers.
They're both injury risks. I'd rather take the value on see in a draft, though, and you're let's say, in the fourth round and you know Seeger and career available. Are you gonna say I'm skipping Korea because I know I could get Seeger two rounds right there and take that chance. Then you lose out on Seeger, and I feel like you don't want to miss out. I don't think you want to miss that. Yeah, Like there's a top twelve venture. We've talked about this at the top
of the show. You missed out on those guys, then my thirteen and fourteen and hose Is, Jose Peraza and Paul DeJong. Really, I don't want one of those guys in my story. Short, I can't miss out on those guys. I can't. I want them to be my middle infielder. So in that back end, the interior's saying, it's like Korea, Seeger, Glaber Zander out of birth though, and Sigora, Yes, all right after that, Yeah, you're right, it's a huge drop off. There's like I'm to Manson, that's just me in a second.
But it's really interesting because people draft some of these guys go very very early right, Lindor Turner, Regman Bayes Machado story. I mean, these guys are all gonna be off the board by the end of the second round. And then it's like, whoa, those are legitimately six guys. I just named half of half of the starting shortstops in the first two. It's not well deep in the sense of the top twelve, fine, but the first six are gone, and then it's so then all of them
are gone by pick eighty four. It's crazy, that's easy. Yeah, So this is knowing, This is knowing your draft spot or status. Right, Like, what do you do do you open up that next year after the first six? Do you wait until the end to make sure you get the last one? Frank? How would you play that? In a no, no, no, no, no, no, no. First six are gone. You don't have a short stop, right, you don't have any of the first six. Because the guys that go to the first two acts, right, the next
six are out there. They go from anywhere from pick forty one, which is in the coretyn FBC Adalberto Mondescy to pick eighty four. Of course, guys, about forty picks, when do you jump into short stop? Because you just said I have to get one of these guys. I cannot wait for the parazas that Tim Anderson's jerks and profiles. I can't do that. So you need one of those guys. Do you wait and say whichever the last one left is, I'll take him. Do you go out and get your guy?
What is your plan when it comes to those six players? So again, seeger Korea and Modesty are not really active targets of mine. But okay, in the fifth round, if Boguards, Sigura or Glabor Torres were there, I would I would jump on one of those guys. You would not. You would not wait to see who falls to you. You would make the selection. Yeah. Look, ideally I wouldn't want to use as early as a fifth round pick on maybe maybe Boguards. But I don't think I want to
use my fifth round pick on Cigura or Torres. I you know, maybe i'd risk it and try and wait till the sixth round and see if one of those guys falls back to me. You know, that's just me,
just kind of fishing for value. But again, yeah, I mean you you don't want to play chicken, right, You don't want to play shortstop chicken here, unless you know, if you're right with a guy like Corey Sigert as you're starting shortstop, then okay, if you miss out on one of these guys, maybe the six seventh round you can just take Corey Seeger and it's your fallback option. But I think you don't want to play chicken, then
I'm probably taking Boguards or Cigura in round five. I think the scary thing is that you have to watch out four because there's twelve guys we just named, right, that's easy, it's you have. This is really pay attention to your draft. You gotta pay attention on the Bregman, Bias and mac Chato teams because those guys in the are gonna have the billion much how soon enough to play multiple positions where you can draft another shortstop, and
that's somebody else is to draft the shortstop. The team that drafts Trevor's story Albert tom honesty isn't most likely the jumping back in the shortstop little so quickly. Theoretically, it's the people that draft Bregman, Machado and Bayaz and figure out where they draft comparatively where you draft to make sure you get a shortstop just in case. That's just paying attention. What would you do, Chris in the scenario, I would try to jump on either Corea or Seeger.
I like those two in the well see here goes two rounds later. As you said, Frank, would you what would you rather do? Krey in the fifth or See in the seventh? Theory more likely to have to use a fourth round page if you in the fourth the sixth, Yeah, I'd rather go see in the sixth. Yeah, if I If that's possible, you know I would do that. It all depends to like what I need on the board at that time and stuff. Well, well, guy, I like there. I might just take Corea, you know what I'm saying,
if he's my favorite guy on the board left. If not, then I'll wait. Greg. We've talked a lot about position scarcity, and I think what I'm learning is by the fifth round, I'm probably gonna have two out feelers, two starting pitchers, and a short stop. You don't want to play pre plan your draft too hard, but you want to have
a plan. Well, it's interesting because I know that in a draft earlier this month, you played first base Chicken caught in a Best Ball draft and I ended up with, you know, Miguel Cabrera, And like Tyler White, doesn't that concern you a little bit by by saying, hey, I'll probably have two Outfie, there's two pitchers in short stop, first base. You know, I think that there are other positions, like there are other players at positions, at least that
we've talked about so far. You know, when we talk about catchers, I said, you know, eight ninth round, I could target my first guy. You have to worry about that first base j B. You can you know, sometimes you get him in the sixth round. If not, I'll wait a little bit. You know, I could get a guy like Matt Olsen. That's what you're trying to seventh round, Like, there are targets that I get a little bit later
at first base. I'm a right with that. I think the talent though of the first place, isn't that seconds second base is a little a little more interesting. But there, you know, there are guys here. If I if I get Robinson Cano in the eighth round, I know you're like him. I'm all right with that. If I get Scooter Jeanette in the seventh round, if I get if I get Mike Mustakis in an eighth, ninth round, I'm
cool with that like that. You know, so far, what I've learned is, you know, I don't really have to I don't have to have a second basement by the fifth round. Like if I don't end up with Daniel Murphy or Ozzy Albie's is at the end of the world. For some people, it might be for me, no, because I mean there's still guys here again Jeanette Cano and to any extent, you know, Mike Musaki is too if I get him as my second basement, Like, I'm not gonna have him a second base right away to start,
you know, ten games into the season. But I'd be all right with one of those guys. So, just talking about what we did with the shortstop position, I think I want one of those guys, Like I'm either going to target Trevor Story in the second round or I'm gonna try and get a guy like Boguards or in their sex right. No, I know what you're saying. I mean the outfield. The strategy outfield pitches through two starting pitches to al Now that's based on five outfield Um.
See the thing is for me like I feel like those first three, four or five rounds, I'm just going best available. I'm just literally taking the best player at that point. Then I worry about skiing at all. I mean, look at this best bull drift. I said, you know what effort I'm taking Trey Turner and Javier Bayas completely against. You came in today and you said, oh snap, we
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coming up a little bit later on. You see it on our YouTube channel and the social media channels of the NBA and for Vandal guys. Founds wanted me to the program that it's our short stop preview episode and this next years. Like to me, I look at it like, all right, clump of guys, it's a clump of dudes. Your guy Jose Praza, Greg, I'd like Jose was great last year for me. Is your starting shortstop. Of course, of course you went down, so I needed a short
stop whose prazza became my guy? Yeah, you're gonna have no starting short this year. No, I wanted the twelve guys. You just discussed this, frank, Yeah, you want one of those first of all you guys? Is going that late? Yes? Is a DP? Do you know what? Have it up in fro front of me? You've already seen it. It's in front of me early man to he was good. It's good last year, pretty pretty big price. And man, you want to call it? Guys, you were for the
last three weeks stopping your feet. I d Elvis Andrews, Jeff Andrews, and you come in after doing research on shortstops, like I've got a cool on Elvis, and ye know what, I wasn't like my flag on Els or anything? All right, Man, got a fracture, double Give the guys, Give the guys a break, a fracture, double life. I don't I don't like him anymore. What happened? Where? Where did you? Why did you like him? Why do you not? Now? Yeah? So I I had a lot of two years ago
fresh in my mind. Um, which was obviously his standout season when he had twenty home runs and eight RBI and bases it was ridiculous. Let a lot of people win championships two years ago, and look, you hit the ball harder than ever that year. And you know he is home run the ball ratio eleven point six percent, clear outlier. You know, his career is five point one
percent or run the ball ratio. So I think I had a lot of that still fresh in my mind and thought, like, all right, where he was going, Like you're getting him at a great discount. He's gonna have third as of right now in the Rangers line up. Come to the conclusion that it's it's not that great all together they're here. But look, the stolen bases were way down last year too. And I know he was hurt, um,
you know, he was dealing with that fractured elbow. But five stolen basis three called stealing in nineties seven games. He's turning thirty one in August. Us this here too, like this is when stolen bases decline. Speed is gonna start to go here, man. So yeah, I mean that's I just don't really see much upside here with Alvis Andrews. So I'm kind of I'm taking a step back here. He does make a ton of contact, he doesn't strike out that much. The walk grade is decent, it's not great.
He doesn't do anything. I'm worried about the stolen basis, right, Like, if he doesn't give you the five stone basis, then he comes back closer to like fifteen the entire season. Yeah, so I have his projection at like two seventy homers, seventy runs, seven rbi, fifteen stone basis. Like, he's fine, but there's a bunch of guys in this range that do this exact thing. This tier, it's filled with a bunch of players who we're gonna give you ten fifteen
home runs and the fifteen stolen bases. Take your pick on any of them. Because it's or Polanco, it's Andleton Simmons, it's Elvis Andrews, it's Marcus Simeon your pick, They're all gonna do close to the same exact thing. It's Tim Anderson and does do a little bit more than these loves. Why is it manager? You love him? Chris Well with the with the eyeball test in particular, when I was watching him, Dude, this guy has such I feel like, has such raw power in him, even though he doesn't
look like he should. He has power, and I think it's gonna come sooner or later. He's only twenty five years old, um, and he's shown glimpses of it throughout his career, right, but he hasn't really shown that big breakout yet. You know what I mean? The average it's to forty last year from to fifty seven from Uh, the stolen bases went up twenty six. Stolen bags only caughte eight times. So that's the upside thing. You can expect.
They expect twenty plus from him maybe next year. Uh. And listen, successful on the bass pets strikes out a lot, but whatever, I don't care about that that much. Walks doesn't walk obviously, I don't like that. But how about does he doubled his walk right from the year before it was still only five percent. It was dirty walks he had before. It's terribly Yeah, but listen, that's the only thing that he really does poorly is walks. I
think he's gonna boost that average up. This guy was a well above three hundred career average ary minor leagues. He's going to hit eventually. I think he's just it's taking him longer than most. You know, sometimes it takes guys a while to get into that groove. But you're seeing glimpses of he hit twenty homers, twenty eight doubles, seventies seven runs scored. The lineup is not great, so I'm not expecting too much on the Cantex sets. But I think he can boost those homers up to twenty
five and and it doubles up to thirty five. I think he could steal twenty bags, uh and maybe forty walks if he's lucky, and and back to eighty. Here's yes, I think that average is definitely going on. Here's the thing that I think he's sold out the batting average to try and hit for more power, so will bounce out eventually. If you were able to get on base more, it wouldn't be twenty five stole bases, it would be
forty sto basis if that's what we always want. Forty stolen bass season in double A. And we're still kind of holding onto that last year, right because in sold fifteen we're like, all right, well, you know, this guy's never gonna be a great bass dealer, all Greg. If I told you, if I asked you, how many players do you think with last year, what would you say in all of baseball? I'd probably say like six six six.
It was only ten alright, a little bit higher, but still there was only ten people in all baseball last year that Anderson was one of those guys. He was. It's gonna sound a little crazy, but based on his a DP last year, I went back and looked at my Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational draft from a year ago. I finished first in my league at a hundred and thirty seven points in a fifteen team league. I dominated it. I finished fourth in the overall. I got Tim Anderson
as my starting shortstop last year. In the sixteenth round. He was a league winner. He gave you in round sixteen he was a league winner less and he's still going pretty. I think he's sold out a little bit of a batting average. He was consistently over three D in the minor leagues, but he didn't hit for any power. I think he's sold out some of the batting average right now in order to hit for some power. I will say I think his batting average should be better
than his home run. The five ball ratio has been the same the past two years. He's starting to hit more line drives, hit the ball in the air a little bit more. I think he should probably be closer, like a two fifty maybe two sixty hitter. I don't know that I buy the power completely. You know, I think he might settle in right around twenty. He's like, I think, the biggest issue and trust the speed. You know, his Sprincepe was the biggest issue for me looking at
Tim Manderson is a split, A big split guy. Frank, Yeah, I have I have those as well. I mean in his career he's three or seven verse left easi's two verse two twenty four games right these last year. I wrote my notes here, not great, Bob to twenty four against righties last year. Obviously, the majority pictures you faces are right. That's based on his career to forty like, still not great, but he should have been better than
two twenty four significantly. But if that normalizes to where he's been at in his career, then that's where the batting a marriage is gonna come overall. That's what I'm saying about Hoskins the other day. You know, Okay, to twenty four against rights. It looks really bad the two forty career hitter versus rights. So if that normalizes back up fourteen points and the majority of pictures that are rights, then he's gonna be more of a two fifty two
sixty hitter. And that's where I think he should be. I think he could be even better than that. To be honest, Look, you don't want this guy in me personally. You don't want this guy in points because he strikes out a lot and he doesn't walk. But in Rhodo, if I missed out on the top twelve short stops, he might be my target as my starting short stop. And it's nothing against Jose Praz. I think parraz is fine. But Tim Anderson, I think he is the guy that
can at tifty to sixty. And I'm saying there's a lot of potential by that. I'm but I'm just buying the power is going to settle it around there. I think he's gonna be twenty. You know, there might even be more stolen base upside. Maybe you could still thirty bases. So so here's the thing in points. Leagues unlike yours that doesn't have strikeout don't have a right. So I
like him because of that. Fine. Would rather have Posey praz and that kind of league and affords the leaves like that doesn't really strike out, doesn't walk either, doesn't strike out, so he doesn't strike out, but he strikes out. I'd rather have Tim. I'd probably take Parrazaza. Praza only stole three less basses last year and four yeah, and he had twenty. Right, Yeah, I think there's a little more power. Listen. Definitely, I trust the power more with Tim. Yeah,
I agree with that for sure. I think him and you've got to do more of the eyeball test with him. He's got crazy bat speed and could pop a lot of Homer's if he you know, it all depends if everything clicks for him. He's giving up average for power now. He needs thinks to click from what because he needs to be like a two sixty hitter if he wants to, you know, stay around long enough to do everything that
he's been built in talking. I think he has upside under If Tim Anderson it's to sixty home runs and thirty stolen babes, beautiful, He's gonna be a lead winner. Why can't. I mean, he's getting better every year. What about the groundball percentage, Frank, he's been decreasing it, but he's turning in his direction every year it is. But look he's gone, he's gone. That's a that's a big difference.
Groundball rate by six percent. He raised his his flyball rate by five percent, and he raises line drive percentage a little bit, only one percent. But he doesn't hit any infield fly balls. You know, That's something I've been looking at. Those are automatical line drives this guy. And here's the thing, though, I'm okay with Yeah, I'm okay with sacrificing five homers middle infield target Tim Anderson or hold the young well flor I'm I'm down. I'm doubt
to sacrifice five homers for the year. If he adds ten doubles or something like that in points leagues, that's okay. That's basically almost evening itself out said. I don't like Jose right, No, I mean, dude, shortstops are not known for eating the ball. That I just I mean, look, he was a great hitter in the minors. I mean, he's it feels like he's a late bloomer. He's still only twenty four years old. And he's turning at the
end of April this year. But he's a career hitter at the minor league level, makes a lot of contact, he doesn't strike out. I don't dislike Jose Praza. I think what I might not like. I'm gonna look this up here, is he's going to hit towards the bottom of the lineup with the Reds. Last year he had the opportunity second year. Is that gonna happen again? Why wouldn't it? Why would he hit second though he doesn't walk. It seems weird to me because they probably don't have
a viable second basement. No, Scooter, Jat's gonna second unless he gets traded. Now we're talking a lot of if, if, sans and butts. Jose At adding seventh, Greg seventh, that is going to especially when you look at him scoring eighty five runs last year. That's because he was batting towards the top of the lineup. You put him seventh. I I'm moving him down, he said before they have Winker leading off in Votto said before fifty games batting lead off last year for Proz he had too eighty
six in those games. Still ten bases betting second. Seventy two games, he hit two. He had three h three with ten stolen based stolen bit coming first or second when he was batting seven. That was in two games, So it's a small San Francis the one guy who could be targeting in the middle of fields, butts Paul de Young? How come? Yeah, for sure, Paul de Young.
There's a lot to like. I think people are sleeping on him a little bit because he was hurt last year and only played a hundred and fifteen games, But the power numbers were still there, and you know, he he's actually projected to hit near the top of the Cardinals lineup. Rosster resource has him hitting second, just ahead of guys like Paul Wiltman and Marcelo Zona. That's gonna be a pretty good spot to be in terms of
scoring runs. There's definitely some pop there. Uh. Hard hit rate actually went up last year thirty eight point seven percent and yety percent for a short stop. To me, he's you know, he's not gonna steal a basis, but the profile reminds me a lot of Trevor story Light. Yeah, he doesn't playing corns field a story He's not gonna steal any basis. He's like Trevor story Light minus stolen basis.
But he strikes out a lot. The walk rate not you know, he improved it last year seven point three percent. He's a better hitter than hitting two four. He's not too eighty five from two years ago. He could be to sixty with twenty five home runs, good runs scored and good RBIs in the Cardinals lineup. Yeah, what's not to like about? Paul? Are your fallback? You missed out on the top twelve? Tim Anderson and Paul de young
goose are your fall backs right there? Like moving Jose Prosy down as we speakers in a hundred and fifteen games, these are numbers that could turn into thirty homers, thirty five doubles, something like that. That's solid across the boards. Now my number short stop and pulled the fourteen holding on. He's not gonna lose his job most likely at that. I mean, he does have options remaining. But like jet Jerko, Colton wands always in a line kind of like Yiromonos
there do they all? Right? So if he struggles, and you know, they're a team that that wants to be competitive, The Cardinals great division. By the way, it's excellently central. It's Cincinnati Reds besides very But the thing is we say that about the Pirates every year, and every year, you know, they're over five pictures do well usually. You know, that's something that I would like to tarry. I would like to see what there season total for wins is
the Pirates last year? I said, I liked it. It was like at seventy eight and a half they went over. I mean, they never get any respect. You can look at all right now because I have a tribute question for Venture right now, right Venture, You're you're the big doubles guy. He telling me all abou doubles. Yeah, I love doubles. Can you name the eight players that had more than forty four more doubles last year? Without look forty four? I'm not Yeah, I'm looking Jose Ramirez, Jose
ramire As is your first strike. He didn't have overt four doubles, not having over do I know he had? Um? Yeah, they do turn into bombs. He had thirty eight doubles. Um, we had a ton of doubles last year. I mean, this is hard though. You're the doubles guy. I mean I know who hits a lot of doubles them, I'll name the guys that hit a lot of doubles. I guess, yeah, so I want to know. I'm literally of course they am. Um uh no, secret didn't last year? I got one
Freddy Freeman number seven forty four exactly. Actually there's one from Frank pointing for Frank venture. You want someone who plays a lot of games, Yeah, Freddy Freeman played like a hundred six. Brian Roberts used to hit a ton of doubles. It's not on this last Yankee. Great, you just said Mookie Betts. That would have been right. Oh how do we forget Mooky Martinez while we're at it, He's not try another team in mookies double only and only a hundred and what was a hundred thirty five
thirty eight games last year? From Bogart's six on myself into him. I just told you, man, and then he run down another second basement, third basement forty four. Nick Castianos had four six doubles. You're a guy, this is an easy one. I'm surprised not that you got best. Yeah,
Mi yell and do hard forty seven double? Remember all he did was double double double double dobirates over under tootal Greg we see it at seventy seven and a half like that over yeah, Caesar's Palace over the two wins last year for the team, Mookie Bess was three, number two in all LV. This one was hard. It's
probably I haven't talked about him it all yet. Escobar fallback option as a middle middle infielder in points leagues because he hits a lot of double forty eight doubles last he's gonna hit at the top of the Diamondbacks line. He's the guy that probably won't turn that into homers. Why is this guy on twenty home runs the past two years? Don't sleep? Why is this guy off of everybody's radar? No, it is. I mean that doesn't really do anything. Besides, he's gonna hitting average is not good.
Sixty hitters seventy two last year. He's an Arizona now to score some runs. Seventy five run as a middle eight doubles list homers. You gotta like that, Like you know what, I think people are sleeping on a little bit of year walks Chris Taylor. Yes, that's a guy I haven't ye. I think people are sleeping on. Chris Taylor, no one can give you fifteen fifteen and a really good Dodgers player league doubles last year. Alex Bregman brag, Chris Bench, Thanks hopping on Land, Franky stand full and
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