Feb. 25th, hour 2: Third Base Preview with The Closer, Chris Ventra

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you doing? We're good, Thanks for thanks for hanging out of course every day. How was your weekend? How did you sleep? All right? You know, no, venture doesn't sleep, not a big time sleep. Yeah yeah, stays up all hours of the night Fortnite Night Owl? What else? Any other game going on? Right now. You're doing this text legend thing a little bit, a little bit little bit. How many hours day do you play video games? It

depends like yesterday I didn't play at all. I'm like a weeknight, like you get home from work whatever, probably three Christina doesn't want to kill you know, she knows what what's up? You know? What? Did? She just like do her her thing in like another room, like, well, she usually comes home later. I usually do when I go home afternoon before. So that's the venture time. Yeah, right, and then after that I'll look, you know, watch games. Yeah,

of course baseball makes sense. Who cooks in the in the venture households? I'll cook like once a week. Yeah, what do you? What's your something? You know what I'm saying a little still for Asians? Taking something Italian? You know what's crazy? I gotta start Friday night? Could I start frid night? It is good, it's good. We have just threw a bunch of vegetables in a pot. You put some meat done. It's great. You need to walk though, we got we got the walk you gotta walk to

I don't have a walk though. You gotta get go getting married, you gotta walk. Put it on the registry. Put walk, look at this guy. Registry I don't have yet. I mean all we wanted money. If you come and you you give us something other than money, you gotta you can get engagement presents, which is what the registry spot and then you need to check after that. I'm not having engagement party, Greg, I didn't have one. Either

didn't have one. I didn't So I mean, how would I you know, I would you set up a registry for engagement gifts? You just give you presents. Nobody does that. Like if someone somebody said I can show you that. If you sent me a registry and said, hey, Frank, I got engaged, if you want to give me a gift, I would laugh. No, even if I would ever say that, you just people people engagement party. No, people get people get gifts and be like okay people, if you're serving

gifts for being engaged. Nobody gave me. But you know some people give us like the little I countdown things and yeah, if we set up a registry a cold months after we got engaged, people have gotten as gifts, they will vangue us a check on our wedding. We have not had an engagement party. We will not be having an engagement party. Well, the engagement you guys missing out on money and the engagement party though, that's why

you make money. Also lose money though we're not having You gotta pay to have a party, you know, you get all the money back you try, don't because you try to have a cheaper engagement party, like you know, having like a backyard. So we thought it was just it was like a lot, a lot to ask for people. So we're not doing engagement party, but we got gifts. I got a lot of gifts. That makes good sense to me. Hey, guys, we're engaged. We're not having a party, right,

but give us a gift. But you get it president for being engaged. People get a present for the engagement and you get a resent for getting married. Yes, it doesn't make any sense to me. This is what the world is. Because what the world is, man, you should be what. It surprises me zero that Greg Susman is the one that's taking advantage of this. It's surprising he's having an engaged your party to get more money. I'm not. I already did have my you already had one. I

made a nice chunk. I didn't do that. I didn't do it either. You still can't you have people, you know what other people's engaging parties. Actually, I don't know. It's like can hear from now? He's like, I think we're just gonna go away somewhere. We're gonna go to boor Bora. I think is it gett married there? Yeah, Well you're not gonna have a big reception or anything. No one's gonna come because it's gonna be of course, it's like, of course a fortune to go to board

two of you are go get married. Yeah, because we think you can listen a wedding. Do you really want to be stressed out and worried about everything on your wedding day? No, we want to have fun. Well does that make sense? Believe me? It's not just your wedding day you're stressed out about you. You have nody that I'm arguing about today. It's ridiculous, That's what I'm saying. Setting up it's like a year eventible duty. I told you to put this on the engagement registry? What do

you do? Regis done? Dude? I went, I picked up. I can't believe this. How can you get gifts for being engaged? And then also get money on your wedding. It's a thing. It's it's just a me. That's just a me thing at all, baby show they have the I was literally just about to jump out here and say I got a lot of gifts for getting engaged, thank you. It's the thing. It's the thing, all right, you know me, I live under a rock. I didn't

know this register. You'll get gifts, okay, but I'm just telling you, like you or Bivona, if you guys told me, like hey, Frank, I have an engagement in registry. But I'm not having a party. If you want to get me a gift for getting engaged, I wouldn't get you so how it normally works, and I wouldn't expect you to get me any how it normally works. You would basically just google minded Judy's names and it just comes right up. I'm not gonna do that. I don't. I'm

not asking for a gift, Frank. A fact that anyone did that is ridiculous. Outside of your family and friends. I have friends too, I don't. I don't expect anything for getting engaged. It's something like other people care. This is what's happening. Buy me a shot whatever to the bark, gonna throw like a bridal shower. Is that gonna be a thing. I don't know. I don't. I don't think she wants to. She's like she doesn't from that too. She doesn't want people to just sit there and watch

her open gives. Yeah, she's not like that's normal. I like that. I wish more people like that because I can't stand these gender reveal parties either. I think it becoming a thing. I don't go to any of them. Are you gonna do the Philly Special and then when you score, you're gonna slam the football down and then find out if you're having a girl or a boy?

Why would I do the Philly Special? Well, Judy from Philly, maybe she wants you to do it crazy at first of all, I haven't whatever, Jude, he goes no doubt about decade, Like Judy definitely wears the pants, absolutely the household.

She won't say that, she definitely does. Though you realize we've been talking ten minutes about registries and stuff here for right, three guys, you know, three guys are three hosts are engaged, our producers engaged, Like yeah, it's a crazy old bachelor I'm learning a lot of Like, there you go, Alex's learning lessons. Alex, Alex, what are you gonna get Greg for off of his engagement? Ask? You got to get him a gift? Now now that you know you want to, you want to puck her up

to the boss. You gotta get him a gift. I mean, at the end of the day, since I've been here, all I've heard that nobody's been engaged since the beginning. So until I hear an actual date or anything, I'm not I'm not doing anything. Alex Is Alex is the one that's gonna be in charge of our bachelor's party. This is so crazy, it's gonna be a combination of all of us. Alex. If if one of your good buddies got engaged, would you get him a gift off of his registry or would you just be like, hey man,

I'll given a six pack. Well, actually, one of my best friends from my school just recently got engaged married in November. And remember what I want to say, this year sixteen. Then it's the sixteen yes of this yearthday they've been together for Oh, happy birthday, Happy early birthday. They've be engaged to engage. They've been together since I want to say eight to ten years now, so throughout high school, throughout college, Hofstra and Ford him not too

far from each other. They're very great. They're like, people, did you get him a gift? I haven't even gotten invite to the bachelor party or anything so far. We don't know when did they get engaged? Uh? Three months ago? All right? All right, your time frame of getting them a gift is over. That's all right. Forget what would you recommende? You have the guy six pets or if you go to the bar, buy him a shot and be like, hey, google their names, see if they have

a register. But he does this, You're you could not be more wrong. Women do that. I wouldn't do it. Women. Women do this, women know to do this. I didn't. I went there and picked stuff out with you college Judy wears the pants in the road. It's because I wanted to get something. I want an on the registry, dude, like a new Foreman drill. That was awesome. You don't deserve a new forming grill for just getting engaged. It's not an accomplishment. I don't know. I think it's part

of the engagement. Wedding. It is, of course it is so Alex. Google their names see if they have a ustry. You should something out gifts. You should pick something out that is affordable in your price range, and then you go to the wedding. That's it. Don't do this. I gotta keep it in mind. You have the guy two d dollars on his wedding day and that's it. And don't get like that's where I would like. Don't waste

your time buying me a forming grill. Give me as much money as you possibly can on my wedding day, and that's all I want. That sounds a lot simpler to exactly. Corn No, no need to make things difficult here. Greg's gonna have a groom shower shower. You sit and watch Greg open up his gifts. I'm having a bachelor party, you know that. I don't know if I am doing a bachelor party. Got a board board for your wedding, I'm going board board exactly. To me, that's like, okay,

a vacation and everything all on one. Well, that could be your honeymoon. All right, we're gonna do things differently. I don't know. I don't like. That's good don't follow the structure. Make a registry. Yeah, she can make a registry. I am making. We're over the registry, greg I'm done. I'm not like you have a registry. I don't think we do. I don't think we were going to do that. We're actually we're we're just asking for money and we'll just buy our own stuff. All right. This is just

you are prime millennial. That's what it is. No, no, no, no, no no. The register, the registry thing is actually like fairly forever there's been registry ever. You make a registry for your wedding, not for getting engaged, all right, Like you make a registry for bridle shower or something like that, for the bridle shower. Absolutely so, all right, so you're getting gifts. You're getting gifts for getting engaged on the bridle shower or something different. Right, you're gonna make a

new registry, same registry. It's one big registry. But you're all right, but you're getting gifts for getting engaged for the bridle shower. The wedding just gonna be money when just wait now people are giving us presents. It is a lot though, it's very much selling. Get do you give people that much stuff. I have to of course you have to. That's the thing of cour You're giving people five their wedding your best friends, I better get five.

There's absolutely absolutely. So then you know, here's what we gotta do. We have to uh what was that show where they sit everyone down and they you know, like when they have like a drinking problem intervention intervention. So here's what we gotta do, Susman and all of his friends. We have to have an intervention. A lot more people than that. No, like there's like millions of people everybody on your Facebook. This has to be like a worldwide intervention.

There should not be a registry for engagement. The problem is the world's going in the opposite direction. Like you don't, you don't. You don't have to give people three gifts for getting engaged and getting married. It's one gift. Whatever you feel comforry, maybe a bridle shower gift. Whatever. You're not always invited. You're always invited. The bridle shower. That's a women. Women's give me a bunch of money on my wedding day. That's it. I'm cool with that. Let's

close this out. I mean it's good. It's like it's great for you, Greg, but it's like reciprocation because I'm sure you had to do it with your But that's why we need to evention like thing for really for Judy is really what it sucks? Right If you gotta buy an engagement gift and she I'm not going to the bridle showers, I'm not paying for it. She has to buy a gift, and then we got to pay for the wedding gift. Sucks. Yeah, basically it comes out to all the Yeah, I mean, what do you do

like closing that out? You have three different registrates for your birthday and Christmas too. While you're at it, there's not three, it's you don't understand the registry. It's one registrar. Okay, I know, it's literally one registry. You go to the bead bath and beyond it they got a bunch of stuff. Yeah, it just seems ridiculous. No, but other but then if you're the person trying to get something on the registry, you have to worry about, oh, who got this? Who

got this? What do they disappear off the registry? They say it's they say it's been born already. All right, that's kind of you know, there's your your wedding update, wedding one on one here on a fantasy best friends forever with christ Frank with three packs Chris Christmas Frank. There you go, there you go anyway, and you know anywady question, eligible bachelor to be Alex Alex what's your Twitter? Make sure you plug it if anyone wants to find you and uh take you out on a date at

Alexander Faz Are you single? Long Island? Yes? I am? He fortunately you go. He's got a demo too, what's your what's your website? With your demo? Road Sports Media, you find out what he looks like and how you know how he talks. Bob Cardono, alright, what do we got here? Bob? What's Mike? What? What is you know from a married man or an ex married man? This

whole topic is sickening. What are we doing here? Well, Mike, I just think it's ridiculous that Greg is over here asking people for, you know, gifts for every little like life event that happens here. Like, you know, he got engaged, Why does he Why do you get a gift because you got engaged? To me, it's like you give your friend a handshake, you give him a shot or you

give him a beer. Like you don't get a gift for getting engaged, and then you get a gift at a bridle shower, and then you gotta give a gift at a wedding. To me, that's too much stuff, Mike. At least do a segment on ranking the gifts or something like that. All four, you're getting married before you get back to fantasy. But we'll get back to it right now. The first our first hour was great, Mike, Mike, who who do you want? Who are your drafting? Your

third base? We went over like twelve third third basement the first hour, Mike, which third basement are you drafting this year? I don't know. My head is my head is spending right now? I'm sure it is. What what of your fiance's I'll put a third base alight? You know it? All serious? Is we go to you? We talked again with a lot of third basement? Right? Is there anyone that you like? We ask you, but Chris Bryant? Right, because Chris Bryant has been it was a bit of

a hot topic. Right, where are you at him? I'm big on Chris Bryant. Okay, Yeah, I like Chris Bryan. I have him like uh, I think right now fourth as my fourth third basement believe him six. Yeah, I'm like a huge difference because he's in his prime, and we know when he came up he was a monster. He was a monster from most of his career so far except for uh, pretty much bead to nine over years in a row seventeen. Uh, he's got the power,

hit thirty nine homes for one year. Now you can't guess the homers because he's also hit twenty nine and last year thirteen, even though he played a hundred two games. Uh. I just think, listen, he walks a ton, he does everything else well, he doesn't. He didn't really even strike out that much as a lot of other power hitters, and I think his average is gonna bounce back. Listen. He just had a bad year and he was hurt.

I think, once again, there's another guy who played hurt for most of this most of the time that he did play, and he just never, you know, really bounced back. He never really retained this form. He was ineen, but he could easily recover and come back. He's healthy. Now he's got another fresh new season to play. He's in the Cubs lineup, which is a great line up, a

pretty good Bullpark. Later in the year, I think this is a guy that could be a top six player, like he has that potential and I love that a bad and plus even and as a safety floor in the full season, I think he'll still give you, you know, in a bad year, Homers all about to seventy. You know, he'll walk, you know, sixty seventy times. He still gives you some good stats around what and he bats in a part of the line. But he's gonna give you counting stats no matter what. I do think it's just

a solid play overall. You know, it's crazy you venture said, you know, even in a bad years, this is what he could give you. That's basically my projection. That's why I only Chris I've met two seventy and runs wellok, back you know the other third baseman after the top ten. We'll do that next thing. Daily Rhodo dot Com learned from the game's best DFS players. We don't just give you premier advice. We play every day, all major sports,

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Sports Networking on your popular podcast. Providers joined the Experts live on the air every day by calling in at April four, six, eight nine to join the Fantasy Sports Network. Nice touch from Boggona here. I like this white wedding, each classic. Get me started. I just changed change the topic, changes topic. We're on a third baseman, Now get me fired up. We've done the top ten. Does anybody in the top ten NFBC Chris that you want to hit them,

like Indu, Horror Shore or anything like that. I should move on, um devers, is he not your He's eleven men. Let's let's start there. Let's actually start away. But who I want to ask Venture this real quick. Who in the top ten unless it's Chris Bryant, Like, who are you most likely to target at their value? Right now? Chris Bryan's one of them, top ten third baseman, Chris Bryan stuff just black black spring training baseball going on right now? Right, Greggy A bomb A bomb? Baby? What

else did you say? Chris streetly interrupted by Tula, Which, well, we like to see that Yankees. Baby. Let's go um Bryant for the value there? Uh and I think vlag Guerrero you have him in the top ten. Yeah, he's six six, You have Donor vlad uh blood come, I mean Venture? I mean you know Venture is a sucker for the upside. So I mean he loves he loves like yeah, he I mean, he's what we said earlier about is you know his nineth percentile outcome is you

know he hits three twenty with thirty bombs. You know, if you believe that, then you're one of these people that take him in the third round. Yeah, and she's probably one of those people like I'll take Rendon. You know what I'm saying. If I see the vector both on the board, you're at the end of the third round and it's Randon and Vladimir Guerrero. You're looking at your team. You want batting average, you want some power where you're taking on the board, You're taking Lad over

Anthony Rendon. I'm taking Lad. I'm very like. I think Lad's gonna cut like and a lot of people do. Obviously he's gonna come in just literally ripping right away. And I know you gotta wait till the end of April or whatever it is, or two weeks into April. I'm okay with that. I'll figure it out, you know, for those first couple of weeks plugging whoever. And then once he's in, you're talking about possibly maybe the best third basement in the league, or at least top three.

When he's playing, we didn't really talk about him much, Greg. I mean, look, the date when he can come up is Friday, April. Probably not gonna come up that day because it comes a little bit too obvious to you. Maybe it's a couple of days later, maybe it's the next week whatever. Last year, I said on the day of Kuna was going to be available to come up, you know, I I you know, I think I had a bet with day Martinez and I lost. I had to buy him a beer. And you know, he didn't

come up that day. He came up like a week later. So you know, I don't think it's gonna be exactly that day. That's the earliest it can happen. But he was a monster last year. I mean, look, ten percent strike out right, eight percent strike out right at triple A last year. I mean his ops at double A was eleven twenty. His ops at triple A was So I have my stroll, I have my projection for him. Greg Greg at home runs five RBIs great, which is close to what rand Don't could do it, except you've

seen wrend don't do it before. That's the thing. I do like Randow a lot because one he's been very consistent, hits a ton of doubles, does all the things I like, um, hits for good average, he does everything well. I just don't what's the ceiling is this? This is it? Right? Is there much more we're gonna get out of Rondown at this point, well last last years. I mean, but he's not a top He's never gonna be a top

like player. He's not gonna be a first rounder ever or a second rounder even ever, he's just gonna be what he is. He might be. He might have the upside to be a second rounder because he was a little unlucky in terms of the power last year. The plody of contact that he made was really good, So you know he could if he gets BIS, he's probably a second round player next Yeah, well that's possible that that would be his his best season probably, you know

what I'm saying, that's his best season. I think Guerrero could do something like that, you know, something similar this year? Who would you rather have? Greg Ladder rend I understand both things. I understand both of it, right, Like I rather have Chris Bryant and Anthony Rendol. I told you that before. Um so so for me, like I get the tantalizing upside of Ladimir Guerrero. I think in the year one though, I'm gonna take Rendon only because what

do you think lad can do this year? I don't, Yeah, I mean correct in Layman served a safer He's just playing safer, playing safe. I agree that. I'm not talking about forever. It was like a year one, so if you're thinking about this year, yeah, you're right. I play a lot of keepers leagues too, so that sways my opinions. But Chris Bryant is not a young player, you know, I say, we say like young players, but Chris Bryan's not a young player. It's been the league for a

while now. I just see the talent. To me, the talent of a Chris Bryant is astronomical. Chris Bryant could be one of the best players in league, twenty seven years old, prime of his career. To Digger, he's a revenge game Toronto, a shop against you brought up your number eleven guy. We did the top ten. Your number eleven guy, as Raphael Devers. Now. According to the NFBC, Devers is the eighteenth third baseman off the board. Frank and I, I was our guy last year. The two

of us burn, two of us together. We're all over. Roth started super, We're hot. He was very, very bad. I don't know if it was second half. He was bad all year. I promise, wasn't there what I'm telling you, Like I was grasping at Straw's last year, Like whenever this guy went on a two week straight, if he hit a home run, I mean, dude, it's coming, It's coming. If you even hit a home run. I mean, you get texts from Frank's like he's back baby, and I'm

just like, oh god, Frank, let's not do this. March and April he had four home runs twenty one rb I in the first month. That's great. Ye first half to forty one second half two thirty six. He was never good now, he was never good less never Look, he's a post hype sleeper for sure. Lost twenty pounds. Yeah, best shape in my life, hattag, best shape in my life. There is actually a Twitter that that is just like articles that are being written about players in the best

shape of their lives. You gotta find it on Twitter's Iron Buckston twenty one pound Iron Buckston Saturday dude five ribbies. Sorry al right, So Rafievers, what do you like? Why are you doing? What are you doing? But what am I doing? What are you doing? Well? You guys like Devas Lestia, So why did you like him? Lestia? Who had? There's reasons like I looked I was. I was all way on the bats beat. Look, I've seen this guy.

I was at the game in person two years ago when he hit an opposite field I had to watch him. I watched him live and he went opposite field against I wandered five mile per hour, rolled this Chapman fastball, and he hit a bomb. It sucked being at the

game and watching that happened. I was like, dude, if this guy could do that against a lefty, one of the best in the game, like a roll the Chapman gives up maybe like three home runs a year, and Robbie Devers is going field on a hundred five mile per hour fastball up in the zone and he hit well against leftist last year. I kind of trusted that, but look inen he regretted big time. I mean to nineteen ops against left handers, a d eighteen at bats

he was bad. In seventeen he batted five hundred. It was a small sample, so fifty as against lefties. But uh, you know, I think he can be better. And this is what I convinced myself last year is in the minor leagues he was pretty good against lefties. You know. Then you know he was eighty two against lefties in Double A. In twenty seventeen, he was to seventy eight against lefties in High A. So he held his own against left because it's not like he was mashing against him.

But he's the only the thing is he Okay, he had a bad yeal Is ship. But we talked about this before, young players having big As these things happen, this is the right time to jump on the guy is when he's at the greatest value he'll ever be at. You're not wrong, right like, this is when you want to get him. Nobody wants him right now. This is when you want him. Like the people you know him last year, like we want to be out on him. But that was right. You could get him as your

corner infielder. Now last year I had to pay the like six last year is too much, sounds Your corner infield is the corner infielder now in the middle rounds. Dude's twenty one October twenty one years old. Last year runs. What's not to like about that? Power to forty great average whatever. Look at the famous projections for him, right, they have him right around to seventy, right around twenty

five home runs. If he does that in the Red Sox lineup, you know, maybe he gives you eight And that's fan grips who are very conservative two or seven. That's a thirty point boost in his batting average, So well, he is a better hitter than two forties, is he? That's what it comes down to. He wasn't he was throughout his career. He was a two hitter in the minor leagues. Believe me, I dove deep on this guy because I'm trying to figure out, like what went wrong.

He's one of these aggressive swingers to like, he's gonna swing it pitches outside the strike zone. He's gonna change pitches, he's gonna swing and miss, you know, higher than league average. It's not a super alarming rate like your Bayas is like seventeen eighteen percent swinging miss rate, and Raffi Devers is at thirteen percent for his career. So the league average is like ten and a half percent. He's a little bit higher than that. But he chases his pitches

outside the strike zone. League average, you know, chase rates like thirty percent. He's at thirty seven. So he's gonna he's gonna be aggressive. He's gonna swing it pitches outside the and he hits a lot of infield fly balls, a lot of them. Last year it was fifteen and fifteen point seven percent. You look at the minor leagues. He's always hit a lot of infield flyball and and those are automatic outs, automatic outmes down to the get under the ball. He tries to get under the ball.

And thirty percent both years. That's not great. No slow league average around it's thirty five percent right around lea average fel flyballs is terrible. Home run for the flyball ratios or whatever, it's sixteen and a half percent. He's a lot of balls. The amount of groundballs, guys his closest fifty vercent. Yeah, it's not it's not. And it's not an ideal ballpark either for a lefty, for lefty power and Fenway, it's not. But he is in an ideal lineup. He's line drive, He's in an ideal line up.

Like his quality of contact is not great, Greig, that's fine. He start against left last year. Right, Who would you rather have a Matt Chapman? M Chapman, So way do you have en? Right? I have Chapman. Actually, I have Chatman. I have It's seven. I'm worried about these injuries. Chatman seven venture I hear you on this. Everything that Chapman did last year was awesome. These injuries are another guy these injuries are real. Man, He's like he's dealing with

a thumb and a shoulder. You know, he was two or forty four hitter in the minor leagues and then he's always had big pop. He was like thirty strikeout guy in the minors. He was a two forty four hitter. He hit for a lot of poppy, hit a lot of home runs, consistently strikeout right or higher. Last year

that was twenty three point seven percent. I'm telling you, like the the improvements that he made last year, he might legal league bullets on the Oakland A's because the improvements that their young players made last year between Chapman and Olson were awesome. These guys can be awesome players, but they play in Oakland, which sucks. That's okay though for the guy with this type of pell. He had thirty eight, but the injuries, man, I'm game forty doubles.

He had fifty eight walks, so the walk rates pretty good. In a hundred five games, six d abbas, a hundred runs scored his first full season. I mean, there's a lot to like him. Like him, it's only the injury. It is everything. He's a guy, He's a guy to watch. He's a guy to watch spring training, and I can't draft him right now. The pombe and a shoulder. I mean, you don't have to really fall. But I'm worried about something like that. I'm telling you, Greg, I'm bullish on

the approvements that he made. His swinging strike rate last year was eight He's gonna strike out. He's gonna strike that. That's gonna help. What I'm telling you, et percent is great league average because strike is ten and a half percent. He struck out eight point eight percent. He swung and miss eight point eight percent of the time. We are he's expected. He made a lot more contact here, and he made really really good contact, hard hit rate, fly

ball rate. He's expected his debut by the way training tomorrow. Like his average loss LST year was thirty three point one. That was fifth best in baseball. That ch happens a really good players. The thing he's going to be in the line of every day because he might be the best defensive. The one thing you might be right about the league is that he might have a big dip in average. I could see as like a kind of like a softomore slump, even though it's it's going into

his third year. He had such a good whole season in a software slump. He's just never been a high average guy. Last year, that's what I'm saying. That might be an anomaly. Isn't. But he also he also don't know, severely cut down his strikeout so that's way higher. Ever, Yes, but his heart hit rate was also way higher than that his average eggs veloss. He was fifth best in baseball. He can maintain that that he can maintain like if

he does that again, he can maintain could eighty. Everything is you have to take minor leagues with a grain of salt because guys are gonna grow out of those. My only staff, you know a lot of times years old is Match Chapman. It's not the like. And it looks like he's gonna be healthy. He's a couple only couple of days behind, expects to play this week tomorrow in fact in spring training, so well safe rank. Maybe

he's a guy that moves out your rankings. The fan graphs projections haven't matter between like two forty and two fifty. That makes sense. Yeah, I agree with that. I don't you get tire no, like he's upside to be like a two seventy hitter. He does on his quality of calm, and we know that he has power in his bats. So you know, if he had to seventy with thirty home runs, that wouldn't surprise me one bid. But I think you're more likely. I'm excited about this Oakland A's team,

but I just need to know that he's healthy. I don't know right now. Well, we have to watch spring for Tying sr training for that. But if you know he's healthy, he's the things you gotta expect. I don't think that the average dips, but he'll make up for with power. This is a guy that I would think it's more likely to hit thirty home runs than he is to hit two eighty again. Much more likely to hit thirty home runs and hit two eighty again. That's the type of guy he is. He is gonna walk

a lot, he's gonna hit a lot of homeless. He's almost a TRIE three true outcome guy. The thing is he also just hit makes a ton of hot contact, so he's gonna hit a lot of doubles and do everything else well. So he's a well above average power hitter and right and like that, right in the middle of everything. That's he scored a hundred runs last year. He's writing like he's gonna be towards that base. He's either gonna bet second or third in the Oakland like

I think you would bet. They'll probably split up the right. He's will do Chapman second, They'll do Madelson thirds a ton of power, especially right and then like Jerks and Profile leading off or whoever you know, Robbie Grossman against left handed. I'm telling you, look, if Matt Chapman healthy right now, Greg, I would have him ranked a third base I would have him ranked right behind and number seven four our guy Chris Venu right now, well, I have him at he said right now, right now, it

is right now. I have Chapman at eighteen. He should probably raised that. Frank, I'm worried, Man, I'm worried. You should be worried. But if if biased on his talent, if he plays eighteens low, I have him just beyond Devers and Travis Shaw. I mean, look that's here. A third baseman is not bad like my twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, Will Myers, Will Myers, justin Turner, Max Munsey, Travis Shaw, Raffie Devers, Justin Turner here, I like both. I got

burned by Will Myers last year. I got burned by guys. Justin Turner is awesome. You know, Matt said it before he left. Turner is awesome. Why does everyone love him like I do? I think, Well, Gregg, he doesn't play ye hundred and twenty games. He missed the first half of last year. We knew that already. The second half he was great was what he played, and he was great. Now. I think people don't realize how good he was. He plays a hundred fifty games, he has Anthony rend Frode.

Damn good it is. But look at look at his past seasons, Greg He's gonna miss time one oh three last year, one thirty one fifty one, which was a career high in twenty sixteen. You look at his games played, that's the outlier every other season. It is a hundred and thirty year left. It's not a spring. So you know he's gonna miss like thirty years. You are agist, you know that. I'm a little He's like, he wants the prospects, he wants Azzi out. You know, I'll take

a guy that's thirty two. If he's still in his prime, thirty two year old, that you'll draft Chris Davis already one drafted Chris Davis. I got a pretty old team. And Chris David. He's not one years old. He's not even thirty. I don't think he's twenty eight or something like that. I don't know. Actually he's thirty. Wine with that your spot on their venture. Yeah, I have Brentley. I have Brentley on my team. A Pollock. My outfield is very old. You might combine a hundred sixty games

from your outfield this year. I mean my outfield is not that bad. I have a Brantley, Chris Davis, A J. Pollock, Nom Mazar, Jesse Winker. I mean there's five outfields. This is a deep, deep team, deep league. But I'll take any you know, I've seen I've seen people make the comp that like Justin Turner is as j D Martinez, JD Martinez like profile, but he just can't stay healthy.

Now if he finds if it's a year where Justin Turner does stay healthy, and he'd beat J D. Martinez light yeahs not j D Martinez, Like think Justin Turner can be jd Light he was the eighth best third Babies. We'll tak a rag, We're rut of the shell. Go next. College basketball has reached the climax of the two thousand nineteen season, and the Fantasy Sports Network as you covered for all the news and betting information for the conference

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through basement doesn't turn it. J Martinez light says Frank Stapville. Did that quote up somewhere. He was the I think seventh or eight ranked best third baseman last year in average points per game. Well, look, I just say like j D Martinez because j D Martinez was a guy who always couldn't stay healthy, who you know, had great batted ball data, who hit the ball extremely hard and hit the ball in the air. And Justin Turner does all of those those things. He just is never able

to stay healthy. So yeah, when I say light, if he plays a hundred and fifty games and hits three hundred and hits thirty home runs, that is at Martinez light and you know that, you know Justin Turner could end up being one of the most profitable players this season, but it all comes down to health. Again. There's one outlier season in his career where he played a hundred and fifty one games every other year he's been a hundred and thirty or less, but it's baked into his

price though you're getting him at a discuse. You're right at this point you have to, you know, he's kind of like the last gasp for me at third base. Like he's the last, you know, guy that I would feel comfortable the last you know, he's one of the last guys that I would feel comfortable with him as my starting third basement. It's you know, it's him, Uh, Travis Shaw, It's month We already spoke about Monthly on the First Base episode. I don't really want Max Monse,

but I don't know. Mike Mustak is like Mustak is Justin Turner, Travis Shaw, those are probably like my last Mustas is my last basis. Snow is a really deep can you have? We speaking about guys in miss Games. I mentioned best in Justin Turner hundred games last year. Will Myers is um Willers one of these guys. Also that this is just a ton of games. Last year he only played eighty three. Are you get a Wilms Chris, I mean, on on his value, I'll draft him currently

currently in the NFPC in the month of February. He's going off at one oh nine both third base and outfield eligible one oh nine, So that's like round what nine right here? Yeah, I think that's like fifteen team league. That would be you know, fifteen time standards way off Will Myers. I think he's like the eighth round. I think that's what that would be. Round I think eight ninth rounds. I would take him and look at it

like the early eighth round. And this is the guy that that he has probably was going like you know, fifth round, fourth round, things like that. I mean, I think the value is good at like could give and at that point, but another he's gotta be roster construction. You can't have him as you're starting third basement if you have a bunch of injurias on your team. To two years, probably he basically played full seasons. He played

full seasons. And when last year in the fifth round and I fell free to about this his inside injuries, right, I'll look at this last year they have him as arm back, triceps, bilbow, oblique, foot nose voting, Will Myers must suck man. Mean what, that's exactly what I wrote down in my notes. Look at this, I wrote all of his injuries, dot dot dot what what that's exactly what Venture to said? What back priceps elbow oblique footnotes that'll make me drop him down for that much stuff

like last season? Aybody with eighty three games last year back to back season of a hundred and fifty five or more. Like Venture mentioned, it's hard hit rate, hits all extremely hard. I mean line drive rate seven and a half better line up now obviously shadow in it. It's a lot better homers sole bases in thirteen. That's awesome, like the outside is great. Like Rather, it's a roster

construction thing. I can't have him on a team where I have a bunch of injury risking if I have a bunch of would That's what I was gonna ask you, who would you rather take? I would take Myers over Turner, but greg In in this climate where everyone's trying to find base yet you know it's different, you know in just in Justin Turner per games per game, right, well,

strikes out of decent week. You're right, But he's gonna disappear for a long time, probably terrible, more likely why because he's always hurts reading again, but he had two full seasons on back, triceps, elbow, oblique, foot, knows what. He's also much younger. That was coming the agist. Yeah, like Turners time a concern for Wilmiers too with the padres. Yeah, the outfields stacked. He's gonna play third and this is he this is what we worried about last years as

he played first base they signed Eric Cosmer. When they moved them back into the outfield, he becomes more prone to getting injured again because he has to run around, He's trying to make diving plays. He's throwing the ball more. You're asked, it's more taxing on your body when you play the outfield as opposed to first base. So in those two years where he played back to back a hundred fifty five games, he's playing first base. You put him back in the outfield. He's running around a little

bit more, he's making diving plays. You know, he's throwing the ball around a little bit more. He's more prone to getting hurt. He has no choice. He has to play left. You know, maybe are they more likely to sit him out of game or two per week to try and preserve him and keep them out. They have a lot of outfield options out there in San Diego. There's a lot of moving parts right now. With Will Myers.

He can't play first or third. He's locked away from that because Cosm is way too good at like, you know, he doesn't have any opportunities, so he's gonna play left. It's just he's playing corner outfield. Yeah, and they have a lot of corey outfielders. Yeah, but like Renfro's not that not good people. I don't know why bombs. This is like a lot of things. I like the little things that people do. He doesn't do any of the little things. He doesn't who walk, he doesn't hit doubles,

he doesn't do anything else but hit bombs. He has for no average, Like, I don't want that guy. He's so one demensional. I don't want him. What had hit right? I don't care though, And he strikes out so much and he doesn't do anything else. Good when he set three with nineteen bombs in the second half, venturee homers in sixty games, I mean we're talking about here. He's got power. I know that he has the upside to hit forty homers. That would be a great great Yeah,

I'd be very surprised Hunter run from side upside. I hope he does. I hope he does. I mean, I just don't. I can't trust the Mayors and Justin Turner are going around the same area. And I think it's justified. It's based on roster construction. If you need batting average, and maybe I think they probably have the similar amount

of pop in terms of upside. You know, I think speed is obviously the RBIs is gonna probably be a little bit in Justin Turner's favorites hit in the middle of a pretty good lineup with the Dodgers batting average, and you need RBIs, then, you know, I think it's if you need stolen bases, that's it. Though. The only thing you with JaQuel Myers ahead of Justin Turner fo we're stolen basis everything else. I want to Turner everything.

But I do think you don't think the Padres and the Padres lineup is going to be conducive enough to will Myers giving you solid counting stats. Sure, but eighty plus runs in RBIs Turners aver the same will be just a solid It's you're talking to me about average versus speed. That's that's what you want. That's average. Is that what you want? Because I wore Myers projected for to fifty, but I kind of have it like projections for me, I have a t Hoers seventy runs seven

RB has fifteen slong basis, they're a little bit. I bring them back a little bit because I'm only projecting and play like a hundred and thirty game. See. I think Myers is could be better than Turner though. That's the thing, like if if they play full seasons, I think Mars can end up with more homers. Okay, I think he's got more power. He doesn't have the average like Turner. Turners a great hitter. He hits consistently, but

the injury obviously scares me about Turner. I think Myers can give you more of a ceiling before we move on. You know what I'm saying, Before we move on? Frank greted one more time, one more time, one more time for the little boys and girls at home listening, Will Myers arm back tricepts, Oh beliefs. What that is a lot? What that is scary? That's his inside and you got to keep I looked over, I looked over to your sheet before you had a bunch of notes on Josh

Donaldson obviously on atlant up batting second this year. What do you think I don't want him either. Look, I'm not doing the injury optimism thing like that's been a very consistent theme. But these are all guys a directing late. They all have late just to talking about round that's not late. Yes it's not late, but it's been where you're gonna find people that all have issues, right, they all have some sort of issues. So you got to

decipher between that with everybody. But look, would you rather take Josh Donaldson or would you rather wait fifty picks and take a post hype sleeper and Raphael Devers? Oh? Absolutely, I love that's what That's what you weigh, right, Like, you're right, all these play layers at this point they have their awards and you have to weigh that. But

you're getting it. You're telling me you're getting a fifty round difference for Rafael Devers at a younger player in a pretty good Boston Red Sox lineup as well, and he doesn't have the injury risks, have the injury risk, So like, yeah, you have to ask yourself. You gotta you gotta weigh the cons of each of the of the players at this point because they all have cons but to me, the consort Josh Donaldson are huge. Yeah, Like I'm not It's been consistent theme of mine. I'm

not buying the injury optimism this year. Correa, Chris Bryant, Josh Donaldson, I don't want to do it. And then you're like, you're getting Josh Donaldson around a hundred, which is much later than what he normally like last year was going like the third fourth round. But he's another guy. He was dealing with a calf injury. He's dealing with a shoulder injury. He's one year older. I love the lineup in Atlanta, but they've already talked about are they

gonna play him every single day? Like this is a team that might give him a day off for two days off per week because they have a serviceable back Johan Camargo, Like, you know, you gotta play every day, Like they need to preserve him too. He's putting he bet on himself. He's playing in a one year contract right now, approve yourself deal and then he'll try and turn this into like a two or three year contract. Yeah, how much longer. Is he gonna last? Could list and

be agis. I would promise you he's not getting that kind of just like I mean, you should be listening. You're you're if you look at history, you're technically going to decline once you turn like has basically a full season over the last two years. He's missed a hundred and fifty nine games. He played fifty two games last season. Could not be he has like one of the widest range of outcomes. Like if he plays a hundred and forty hundred fifty games, he's gonna he's gonna score a

hundred runs. He'll bring one and he's gonna hit you know, to seventy with the thirty five home runs and then right or he could play fifty games and you know last, But you're right, Devers is much better grab because you're getting him much later. The value so much better. I mentioned on the Shortstop Show a guy that I like to said were Escobar. I think that's I think that's kind of cool. Um. I think he plays every day

really year. Last year is kind of boring. It's like two sixty sounds at me adding second in the Diamondbacks line. Every day, you'll probably get like eight and you get you get a good position in eligibil to eve with Escobar as well. I believe he has second base and third base. Yes, he's the guy you're getting. Is everybody for? I feel like, you know what I want to ask? You know what I want him ask my middle endfielder. That's what I wanted field that's a perfect utility guy.

A lot of people like it gets like, you know, ten to fifteen stole bases out of their middle endfielder. Escobar is not going to give you that. Going down lest here, that's what the happens here feels to like that guy. I like him, like him because I've had multiple years. He's a headache to own, a complete headache. No,

I mean I like him. I will take him once I see a sign of progress because there's no happy This year is kind of like the Javier Bias situation from years past, but on steroids, because he swings and misses a crazy amount of His strikeout rate is crazy. He also walks a lot. But you know what, what do we always say about Javier Bias? We kind of worry about is he gonna play every day like Joe Madden? Kind of like this. But he's the same thing with he had Ye. He doesn't play everything like you know

he didn't. He's in and out of the lineup. There were you know, they're against lefties. They might play Albert Almore Jr. In center field. So here's the thing we have to worry. But but let's say half starts, just starts raking right, you're not taking him out of the line up. He could easily get himself to become an everyday player. That's all on him, you know, MADDI will throw him in there once he starts ripping. He just wasn't ripping. He wasn't doing it consistently enough. So he's

twenty four years all, he's young. He's still got promised. But this is a guy you don't even need to draft. You can probably just wait watch him play, keep a good one on him, put him on your watch list, and then once he starts eating up, if you need help, you pick him up. I wouldn't draft him, though I wouldn't team league. It's different, Greg. It is worth mentioning mcguilson. No, I have to get my gotta get my Miguelson up here.

He's a guy that every year. I try to make the case for mcguilson know, and I mean this year specifically, he's going outside the top of two So you're getting him at the discount that you've wanted the past. And uh, you know, look the bat Derek Cardi projections he has twenty nine hitters projected to hit thirty plus home runs this year. Miguelson no is one of those, uh, and he there's only three players that he has projected for thirty plus home runs. We're going outside the top two hundred.

It's Miguelson, Know, Kyle Schwarber, and Justin Smoke. So if you're trying to find power late, I think Miguelson know is one of those guys. And you know, I'm really kind of I'm taking a stroll down narrative street here, Greg, because I do think having a veteran presence in the lineup like Nelson Cruz, you know, these guys are both natives of the Dominican Republic. I think having that kind of uh, that kind of presidence and that kind of player around him is going to kind of help the maturity.

The maturity and the injuries have been the two biggest issues for mcguilson. Know he's had some off the field issues. Uh, he's you know, he's dealt with a lot of injuries. Last year the bottom completely fell out home runs. But this is a guy who you know among the power, Like you want to talk about hitting the ball hard career forty two point six percent hard hit rate. Uh, He's gonna strike out a lot, and you know his

batting average is gonna fluctuate. You know, this is kind of what we used to say about Sea Rus Davis Chris Davis from Baltimore a couple of years ago. Is he strikes out so much that his batting average volatility can reign from two thirty to two sixty. But he hits the ball extremely hard. That's the same you didn't care about back then because he was doing so well and hit so many bombs, you didn't care about his average. I like to Twins lineup two. I'm in. I'm in

on the Twins lineup, man. Like a lot of people have expectations for Max Kepler this year. They bringing Nelson Cruz, Eddie Rosario, I mean steady Eddie. You know two years in a row to eight home runs Byron Buckston has a little bit of upside in this lineup to like, I like this lineup. I like this. But Gilson, know to me, is a guy who has the opportunity to hit. You know, the batting average isn't gonna be good. He's probably, like I think, on the higher end of things, he'll

be here. He could be ext but I haven't projected for two forty five. But he could hit thirty home runs. And if he does that in the Twins line up, he's probably gonna drive an ad R BIS and you're getting him outside the top two hundred, so so you've really got a lot of risk. He's one of these guys where I think he has thirty home home a upside. He's going out drift him as a bench guy though, Really, if I get him as my corner infielder, I don't hate it. You don't hate it. I don't hate it. Utility.

See this is where I say, this is where the bottom of Marwin they bring Marwigen Zollison and if struggles what he gonna play, If Byron Buckston play, if Myron buckson shows they can play. But you know they can move them around. You know they'll they'll give everyone kind of a day off here and then before Polanco a day off, they'll play Marwin and Zalez like they're one

of those types of teams. And I will say, you know, one of the first things when Marwinken Zala signed and I told you greg is, I was, I was a little worried about mcgilson. Know if he struggles, they have someone now that they could plug in any other third basement that we have not mentioned. Chris, you want to throw out there. We have a middle left. You mentioned Jake Lamb. Baby, Jake Lamb guy. I love Jake Lamb. Yeah.

I mean you get him for nothing. You can just I'm just gonna watch him and maybe I'll pick him up. Jake Lamb. I mean that's a guy with great power to uh walks a lot those all those things. He's just terrible books lefties. Ah, he has to fix that. Months. I mean we said months, you're not really interested, right, I don't really pro far sure it kind of falls out after that. I got happy. I got Mustakis. I got to know there a wad o Escobar. Oh, here's

some really deep guys. Jamir Candelario, Dia, Oh Goddario interested. Listen, he's got bat in the heart of the Detroit lineup right, he's gonna leave, He's gonna lead off. Yeah, whatever, wherever he bats in the top four, I'm okay with that. That means he's got production value. Let me know. And the show's gonna shot at the Mets because it's fun. Uh And announcing the Aaron Hicks extension the Yankees talking to love It, O P, S, O B P, war walk Right, Chase Rate, w R C plus and stack cast.

That's direction the Yankees are going in Mets rb i's run. They're going here. There's the New York comparison. I want to thank CGM Baseball for joining us. Sign up for Frankie's Patreon or that Chris Ventra and Chris Pavona Alex Passano as well for Venra memo deco standful, I'm Greg. Tomorrow we begin outfielders, we hope