Feb 26th, Hour 1: Previewing the outfielders.

on your popular podcast providers. You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy best Friends Forever. M to Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do doo? Dude didn't too? Yeah, there as the Fantasy best Friends Forever here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Hello, e sad Raggy Snaffle. I am what's going on? A happy Tuesday? It's so interesting spring training games on the

board today. I gonna talk about the outfield position. Uh, really see how far we can get into the outfield position because it's very deep, well not deep in terms of talent, but there's just a lot of players. There's like so many different players, you know. I think we'll aim for like top twenty, maybe top thirty, try and get through like three four tiers of talent. I'd imagine what Greg, Yes, how did you sleep last night? Buddy? This is great? This is great, man, great I did.

I went to bed like another. Raw ends up exactly eleven o'clock, because Monday is like Bachelor night, right, so Bachelor's like two hours. Shouldn't say that on the show out loud? Why it's because you know, Bachelor, right, a lot of shams. Okay, so Bachelor. So Judy watches The Bachelor from eight to ten. So I usually watched like whatever. The beginning of RAW is. We usually eat dinner about eight o'clock, as you know, So we eat dinner, she

starts the Bachelor. Whoever, we're done whatever. I watched a little bit of Raw. Then I go out and watch the rest of the like last half hour, let's say, to the Bachelor. Then I get to pass forward like the last hour. We're also like live for the end. Now that it ends like an exactly o'clock and baseball hasn started yet, obviously there's the one that night football Nick suck, So I'm like, well they didn't pay last night too, And then you play last night, I'm like,

all right, we go to bed. So it's in bed at exactly eleven o nine last night. The next day I n my low and off was like, wow, I was a good sleep. I can't even tell you the last time that happened. I'd have to be pretty inebriated for that time. That usually helps boost to sleep normal random weeknight. It's great. It doesn't go well for me really, Like how often do we got lots of tossing? Attorney? And do you know what I think about a lot of stuff when I try to go to bed, Greg,

I think too much. That's my problem. I gotta think less. It's gonna do you know what I'm saying? I think too much? What come down to? I do a lot of thinking in bed, A lot of reading in bed, which is bad, Like you're not supposed to read your phone and stuff. I read a lot. You know. That's the time where you know people normally the old fashioned the movies and stuff. You see people reading their books before they go to sleep and stuff. That's when I

read a lot of you know, sports fantasy. You know the problem. So the cool thing is that that is like when you're reading a book if you kind of get lost in whatever like world you're in, right, like in the book theoretically, but you're like reading stats and you're reading articles and trying to retain information to learn about players, and you're trying to obviously just understand more and be more prepared to be better educated in this, and you're just like reading and by doing so, it's

just like your brain is working too hard. At that moment. I think you get lost in a book, You're just like, all right, this is cool. You get tired, you go to sleep, but you're so focused on this that you're not ready to you shut down yet. You're probably right, yeah, yeah, I'm doing this great Fantasy Baseball Invitational Champions League there, and you are like so crazily focused on it. I'm

stressed out, stressed out. I wake up in the middle of night, like, dude, God, don't want to take Malex Smith, don't want to take Michael Like Frank made a pick yesterday. Frank made a pick yesterday, and then I'm not even in this league and you had a pick yesterday and every pick he was giving me update was like, dude, you don't pick for another twenty five picks, Like, what do you do doing that? Was not true? Yes, it was. I was giving you an update when there was like

three people before. You don't have the Marriager Jersey got a little Mitch Haniger action yesterday. There were five outfielders that you wanted. So immediately after you took James Paxton, which is what I thought the right move was, you were giving me the updates. It was it was actually like, okay, fine, fine, this is my first you know, I've done some Best Ball drafts and stuff. This is my first legit Rhoto

draft listen. I didn't I get I totally get it, but like if you you shouldn't be doing you good a bed like big a pig and they're like, all right, wait in the morning, didn't do that. I was. I had to make a pick last night. I ended up taking Hazy Agilard in the seventh round, something that which you do not like. I don't like it. Seventh round. I mean his a DP s a lot earlier than that. If it if it makes feeling, it does um yeah.

I was just kind of like staring at stats and stuff for like an hour last night trying to figure out who to the drestr Kingo was thrilled she's already she goes to sleep early. It's always as many times I understand that. I when you say last night, like you didn't say like after she went to bed, if he goes to bed at like ten o'clock, and then you're like pumped, No, what kind of well not yesterday she burned her fingers, so I had to wash all

the dishes. I washed all the dishes every night. Yeah, and she was looking them over today and she put a bunch of them back in the sink. I guess I didn't do a good job. I honestly was piste off because there were so many dishes and took me like thirty minutes to do. Would you last night? I mean's chicken, rice and beans and pepper like like spoons and all. So we told you on Sunday night for the there was a lot of stuff to do. And

then apparently I did it bad too. On Sunday night we watched the Oscars, we made wings and stuff and first logic though, greg, because if I do them bad enough too many times, she'll be like, you don't even have to do them anymore. So I hope on Sunday, we watched the watch the Oscars like wings and stuff. Um spent all these dishes like we were eating at the TV because we're watching the Oscars. She brings all the plates there kind of just leaves in there, Like

are you leaving them there for me? She no, I just like we're watching the Oscars. I gonna do it. We'll do it later. I was like, all right, so why can't we do it together? Like, yeah, we can, but like I just felt like you just really took our plates up there and just left them there instead of just like washing them. We'll do it later. But it was all a trick. She played me. I got played.

That doesn't surprise me because Judy wears the pain because she knew, No, she just knows my tendencies and that like I wouldn't be able to just like have him sitting there. So remember we talked for a while on Sunday night, you and I remember, Yes, we did so while I was on the phone with you, is set there clean dishes, and she knew it. She knew I would be able to do it, and I did. I sat there on the phone with you washing dishes while were on the phone. Have my headphones. Inday, we'll talk

to you. I'm washing the dishes. Yeah, I probably wouldn't be able to focus. Why I don't need to focus on washing dish I'm not good at it anyway. All Right, Today on the show, we're getting into the outfield preview s. S Frank I mentioned there's so many outfielders. We're thinking that taking like a three day affair. We were thinking Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Franks not gonna be here Thursday, so I'll take you hole on Thursday with all the late

round guys and the sleepers and whatnot. UM hoping then she will joined me for two hours. He doesn't know that yet, but umventure if you're listening downstairs, two hours for you on Thursdays. It's kind of the goal here telling on Thursday at We do have a guest book for Friday, which would be awesome, a lot of fun. Thursday. The second hour is actually gonna be a combined preview show in the combines, so te days gonna be on here with christ and so we're hoping that first hour

we ventured I talking baseball rapt of the outfielders. In the second hour outfield sleepers, some doctor, will do the combat, will do the COMBA. Yeah, the outfield injury updates UM with dr Ay the first ALB asked dr about Justin Upton because he has Pateeller tendonitis, which tomorrow when I sent him the list, you'll be here for that Friday. Uh, we have a guest coming in are on Skype, which

would be awesome. It will be UM some of the pictures list, which is cool one any you're a big fan of that, yeah, Nick Pollock, Nick Pollock, Yeah, they do great work. They do a lot of gifts, a lot of videos out on Twitter, but not just that. I mean Nick is a great fantasy baseball player, great fantasy baseball mind. I listen to work that he's done on the Sleeper and the Bus podcast with Paul Spoorer. I respect his opinion a lot, so I think it makes a lot of sense. I mean, pitch your list.

We're gonna start our starting pitt Er preview on Friday with Nick Pollock. I mean it makes a lot of sense. Yep. So there you goes and Nick Pollock will be Let's tip with us for the first hour of the show. Venture of course, will be out on us with us for our too, and they're hoping that Ian Cotton tomorrow. I didn't want to announce that, but reach out from tomorrow. He's gonna see if it could work and we'd like to have him, and studio should be great for like that.

Middle out fielders a nice So today on the show, we are getting into the top little outfielders and we'll see how far we get where wherever we land will pick up tomorrow nice and easy. So we start at the top, and I give a very similar question to start this off. Rank. Can you make an argument that Mookie Bets you go ahead of Mike Trapp? Mm hmm. You can make the argument for it just because he's been healthier the past couple of seasons. To me, that's

really the only argument. On a per game basis micro To still the best player in baseball. But but these are undoubtedly the top two picks, and Fancis baseball like, there's no reason to try and get cute Mookie Bets Mike Trout. There legit five category contributors. If you're play in Rodo and if you're play in a points league,

both of these guys make a lot of contact. They both walk a decent amount They're both gonn hit at the top of you know, the Red Sox is a little bit of a better lineup than the Angels, but pretty good line ups. They're both gonna hit at the top there. I think, regardless of format, these are your

top two players. I know that you'll see some people tweeting about how my Mookie Bets has out earned Mike Trout in terms of auction dollars over the past couple of seasons in Roto, and that really just comes down to the health that and that comes down to, you know, him playing more games consistently. So yeah, that's the argument that you can make. You know, if you think, you know, you think this is a recurring thing with Mike Trout where he's gonna miss you know, maybe twenty thirty games

per season kind of thing you worry about that. There were a few leagues and the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, and you'll hear us talk about this. The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational's kind of like Scott's Fistball, but for baseball. There's fifteen team fifteen team rotal leagues. There's about you know, I want to say fifteen of them something like that. There might even be more. But it's a bunch of different fifteen team rotal leagues, and everyone's competing in their

league but also against each other for an overall. So we have a lot of data on a lot of average draft position um data based on these drafts that are going on right now. And I know that there were a few drafts where Mookie Bets was actually selected ahead of Mike Trout. It's not like unspeakable me personally, I wouldn't do it. I would still take Micron. I

wouldn't do it either. My Chats still a guy. It's crazy that, like Mike Chad has been in the league for so long at this point that you're like, oh man, it's probably getting a hold, it's probably slowing down. Just seven years old, prive of his career. He's the best player in baseball every year, Like, all right, so maybe a little more speed about Mookie Beats. Trout has missed an average of thirty five games over the past few seasons that you know. So that's it. That's not nothing.

That's it's a pretty big that's a pretty big bugaboo when it comes to realistically. First of that came in seventeen last year, he missed twenty games. I mean, yeah, I mean it still matters. Though Mike Trout, Mookie Bets is a little bit more adorable. Look how fun with that? Man? Like, you know, I'm not even I'm not doing it. I

mean you want to talk. I have some stats hurting down for both of you, Like I honestly didn't do much digging into either one because it's just like if you just look at the surface stats hard hit rate ninety one percentile for Mike Trout, his friends speed was nine percent how so, legitimately one of the best athletes in the game in terms of elite contact and elite speed.

At least twenty two stolen bases and three straight seasons for Trout, at least twenty seven home runs in seventh straight a three or seven career hit her um with Mookie Bets three six batting average, pretty pretty good. Won the batting title last season. A d twenty nine runs also led the MLB at least one one runs scored in in three straight season, at least twenty six stolen bases. These are your top two players. They're going to contribute

in all five categories. It stop two players on the board, but you have to ask, like, is there an argument to take Max Scherzer ahead of one orblem? Okay, okay, great, fair, it's fair question. I mean someone might be thinking about it. I'm happy to do you have that, well, I don't you have that feel what people have discussed that as well. I mean, it's just not just me. A couple of years ago, I had the first overall pick and we

actually given the players that were keptain whatnot. It was actually between bets And and Kris Shaw at the time, and I would up taking and I would up taking Kershaw. Kurshow, by the way, I wasn't good right now, It's not worse than Carlos Martinez, which is is it really not? I mean, Kurs I can't even throw a ball right now, Dude, Carl Martin is in a sling cave fame. Like someone's gonna come out and spin a promo for Carlos Martinez away Kenny injury all along and he just hits it

with the cast. Okay, So Shotton vets go one to no argument by anybody, right, that is correct? And look, you really do worry about pitching on your next turn? Take two starting pitchers. You're in a prime position to do so where you know, I believe in my league's the person who's Carlos Crasco over there right, Yeah, like you Corey Kluberfeld all the way today in fift seam league. You know Blake Snells in that range, Carrasco, Savorino, Trevor Bauer,

Walker Bueller. So I'm gonna go snag two of those guys if you really want to shore up your starting pitching. Absolutely already have one one of the two best hitters in baseball. Then you get to the next outfielder on the board NFBC Y and by the way, Frank's outfield ranks soon enough inside his Patreon. But which you will have to pay for. You're gonna have to pay pay for that. We're giving you the infield and the catchers for free, but the outfields, starting pitching, and the relievers.

Maybe will make the relievers free. But the outfielders and the starting pitchers a lot of work, a lot of names there. Unfortunately, you're gonna have to pay for that. How much is that gonna cost people? Uh? Well, we have different packages for the rankings, for the rankings, for the rankings, like reveal that'll be like the five dollars. That's a five dollars. It's a firm like my updated like rankings that you can see, like the Fantasy Pros what I'm gonna plug in and like keep updating that.

So ultimately you want the initial rankings, you get five dollars for the ones that's gonna be in a Fantasy Pros which is gonna update really every week every month. That's gonna be a ten dollar tier for you. Let'sten, it's ten ten bucks you updated ranks, Like, yeah, it's like a beer in the city. Come on, take my money. It's it's it's ten bucks for the updated ranks on

Frank's Patreon. And I do actually want to take this time to make the announcement that came out yesterday that Rhoto Experts this year is going to uh three hundred sixty five days of football content. Um football is obviously number one sport in the industry, so that's where roto Experts is going to focus. And there's a lot of great talent on the daily Rodo's side and on the Roto Expert side that's gonna contribute to that football content. Frank maybe one of those names coming up after we

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there's nobody that we have that's better than Franks. So please if any money that you would have contributed toward the Roto Experts Baseball package to this man's pockets, Frank Staffell's Patreon Now in your phron I'm going to assume that your next afterbas are off the board was G. D. Martens. So you've taken in drafts, in beastballs and whatnot thus far,

he's number three according to the NFBC. And I've actually uh limited the scope to February today, so almost like the last ten days or so, getting rid of early February, they have changed from training and starting and whatnot, So I've limited my school doing February fifteen. Now, okay, I'll do the same thing. Okay, so the last two weeks or or last eleven days or so. J. D. Martinez goes next, followed by Christian Yellich and then Ronald Lacuna.

All these guys. These guys according to an FBC or five, six and seven. Do you agree with that? Do you agree with this is a tier? Do you agree with the order? Yeah? So I have my top tier as Trout and Beats. I think they're in a tier of their own for me. That's here one. Tier two starts with J. D. Martinez. Uh, and I do have it in the order j D. Martinez, Christian Yellich, and Ronald Lacuna.

But I will say if you are worried about the stolen bases, for example, in my Great Fantasy Based Invitational League, A Kuna and Yellis both went before J. D. Martinez. So if you're someone who worries about the stolen based category a little bit more than others than Acuna and Yellois might be where you want to go instead of J. D. Martinez. But J D. Martinez is still Look he's an elite four category contributor in terms of batting average, home runs r B, I has run scored, the ability to hit

the ball hard. He finally stayed healthy last year becauseause he was mostly a d H for the Boston Red Sox. That's gonna be the case again. He's gonna hit in the middle of a great line up three thirty last year, Greg, that was second best in all of baseball behind who Mookie bets? Again? That lineup really good. I don't think to go wrong with any three of these guys talk about the more when we get them. Yeah, absolutely, we have another hour and forty minutes were all these guys.

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your popular podcast providers. We're back. You're on the Fantasy best friends forever. How about killed little news and notes. We do want to get to you before we see you. All the outfielders. Clayton Kershaw shut down again, little shows soreness. I know who's still avail. He's still available in your draft? Who is this? Uh No? He went the slide ended at pick eight one, which was the that was the max pick, max pick, min pig. Would that be max?

Uh No, yeah, that would be his max pick. That was his max pick in the Great Fantasy based invitation across all the leagues. That was the latest he went. So he went in the sixth round um at pick eight one. And you know, I saw a lot of discussion about it on Twitter yesterday. Look, there was already reasons to be concerned with the decreased velocity, the decreased skills.

You know, I talked with Modica a little bit about it yesterday, and it seems like, you know, a lot of people agreed that maybe he should have went even a nater. It's only he can't throw a ball right now. It's only getting worse when it comes to Clayton Kershaw, who has tried. I leaped twice now to get back

on the mountain. Throw, and it just hasn't gone well unfortunately, Bill Plunkett yesterday Dave Dave Robert said Clayton Kershaw quote didn't feel great about throwing point today, throwing program back on hold. We already had concerns with you know, injury risks and uh, you know, skill risk in terms of, you know, he's not striking people out as much, he's walking a few more guys, the velocities down. You have to worry is he gonna go a hundred sixty endings?

And you have to worry about, well, when is he gonna pitch. There's too many concerns. I could you know, I passed on this guy in the fifth you know, the fourth, fifth round as my SP three. I couldn't pull the trigger. I totally agree with you. I think there's way too many concerns with Cleanton Kershaw right now, way too many concerns at that shoulder is just not right. And this is coming from somebody who last year's velocity dipped. Everything dipped. Last year every metric youse can read was

bad for Clay Kershaw. Besides, you know the E R A and whatnot. So be very very very cautious, well asked dr about CLAYT. Kershaw. Obviously there is the headliner up by just speaking of headliners, that no Dowarnado signs the highest A A V contract in baseball history, three or two and a half million dollars a year for an eight year, two hundred and sixty million dollar contract extension which goes into effect this year. Ronado off the market.

Good for him, good for the Rockies. Yeah. Also, I have talked to me about Ernado because he had like a shoulder thing in the second half lest year and I haven't heard anyone talk about it. So I just want to make sure, like it's still good. But he's still amazing. It's gonna have he was. I mean he declined a little bit. It wasn't like anything too drastic. I mean, these shoulder things can linger. So you know, he's like, all right, one of the names if you get to it, you get to it kind of thing

with doctors on the end of the list. Yeah, he's on the end of the list. But you know, I do want to know if there's any like residual effects of that shoulder from last season. Yeah, about at three twelve of the first half, just to seventy five in the second half for Aronado last year. I want to know about that. But three homers the first great for keeper, Great for Dynasty beeause you have him in a keeper league. This is great obviously for Dynasty. You know, being in

Coors Field, there's there's ever better spot. And look at his home road splits in his career too, so this is great, great for them. They're still expected to be a pretty good UM free agent class next year, one that will be headlined by Anthony Randon. Looks like he's the best hitter available for next year, and there's guys like Justin Verlanders, Jericole, Paul Gloschman also up there as well.

So pretty good class next season. Um, I don't know if it has the same combination of youth meets talent that this one had in terms of Bryce Harper and and Manny Machado, but definitely some better pictures available next season than there are this year. This year was really Dallas Kaiko and you know a couple of relievers. Nothing

nothing too great in terms of starting pitching. Absolutely, So let's get back to the outfielders now, and we're in that J. D. Martinez, Christian Yellick and Ronald Kuna territory. Don't do the uh Modika came on for one Monday and he's already got you saying, Christian, how many times did you try and get Modia to not say that? It just doesn't list every day, but like they did, multiple players for multiple people. Um, who was it? Oh my god? Who what? Who was it? Yes? Yell? No,

no, no no, it wasn't Yellow and it wasn't Modica. It was somebody. I was talking to you about a certain player, like kept saying the player's name, and I kept correcting them over was it Miles Mikolas because I still don't know how to say it is Kolos is Michels It's not. I think it's just Nicholas, Nicholas whatever, Imber it was all right, see as JD. Martine's Christian yell and great story. I wish I remember the player was. I apologize now. It's it's an annoying that he should just a couple

of days ago. All right, Frankie break yeah. Look with with J. D. Martinez, I would probably still take him over all three of these guys. I know you can. Some people might worry about the injuries, but look, you played a hundred and fifty games last year. He finally stayed healthy three of the five years before UM three of the five seasons he was a hundred twenty three games or less. So I understand some of your concern, but he doesn't really play outfield all that much. They

protect him now. He plays a lot of d H. Uh, and you know that obviously helped him last season. And this guy has been hitting the ball hard his entire career. Over the past five seasons, he's been over hard hit rate. He's been hitting the ball hard since it was cool to hit the ball hard, greg And you know, nine average eggs velostity, that was eighth best in baseball. You know, I trust this guy. Three hitter, forty plus home runs, uh, close to a hundred runs definitely over as as longly

he stays healthy. That's the biggest knock on on j. D. Martinez being a d H kind of changed everything for him. Obviously he did that a lot in Detroit, but not as much as he could have with the Martinez Bigelobrera there whatever to Arizona the second half of that year couldn't be the d H. Last year, essentially as a full time d H was able to stay healthy and played in those hundred and fifty games and now back

to back seasons with forty home runs. This guy's this guy's ability to hit the ball completely changed when he revamped this wing and he saw that in Detroit and it just has not stopped. And I understand had the age concerns at thirty one years old, but thirty one is not exactly old by any means. And I think playing in Fenway Park, hitting in that lineup, he is

out of Ronald Kunia and in Christian Yell. I understand that he cannot give you the fifth category of stolen bases, but I think what he can do is almost most replicable out of these guys, like I trust Jade Martinez to do he when he did again more so than necessarily Ronald Lacunaum royal Queen, you're buying the what do you expect him to? Mostly because both had ridiculous second hands. And even when we were talking to Modica yesterday, he's

someone who likes yellow. He said, Look, regression is gonna come, but even if regression comes, he's still gonna be a very, very great player. He's gonna be like a top ten player. And that's why he's being drafted where he is in Fantasy shouldn't surprise it should surprise you. J D. Martinez is babbit. Last year was a crazy three seventy five yellow just three seventy three. But he hits them all so hard, so so you can't like, Okay, is it really a high babbitt or No. He's a great hitter.

He hits the ball to all fields and he hits the ball hard all the time. So that's why you know he has bad is as high as it is. Do you lean towards j D. Martinez these guys, I do I pretty pretty easily, but like pretty affirmatively. I I lean Georg j D. Martinez over both this guys. You know what's pretty cool to think about is Aaron Judge could be j D. Martinez. He can be a top five player for Fantasy. The biggest differences of strikeouts

because they both hit the ball extremely hardly. If you look at these guys side by side, it's Aaron Judge strikes out thirty percent of the time. Last year, j D. Martinez struck out twenty two percent of the time, which

was a six year low for him. And that's the difference that eight percent strikeout, right, is the difference between J. D. Martinez hitting you know for a three thirty batting average because both of those guys hit the ball so hard, and Aaron is being a two eight hitter because he strikes out eight percent more than j D. Martinezes he strikes out around thirty percent of the actually difference. You know.

You know, if Aaron Judge ever cut those strikeouts down, then he has the ability to be a three hitter. But we haven't really each seen that at any at any point, right, even if you're a month by month throughout Judge's career. I mean, the strikeouts have been pretty consistent totally. What's cool about um JD. Martinez is the average is has always been good, right like two two three or three and three thirty last year O BP

has gotten better every single year. Like you won't project a three thirty batting average, but like average, yeah he can be, He's gonna be a three hitter goes drastically wrong. Yeah. So, And what I'm learning now is, especially in these Rhoto drafts, man, please grab batting average early. You gotta grab batting average early. It's the only guys that you're gonna get batting average from late and I'm kind of figuring it out now

on the fly. Is Michael Brantley, Julie Gariel, maybe like Jesse Winker, Corey Dickerson, Like it's not pretty Robinson Cano, like he's another batting average guy you know, in the middle to later rounds. But you gotta be conscious of batting average early. I drafted Jose ramror Is and Bryce Harper. But your guess is as good as mine is what they're gonna hit. Because Bryce Harper's all atility and batting

average has been all over the place. And we'll get into that too, but definitely, you know, one year he's a three thirty hit in the next year weird. So his like volatility and batting average is all over the place. Good luck trying to project that, Like I I project Breaks Harper for like two seventy five, just because it's kind of the middle. Yeah, you don't really know. And then Jose Ramirez, he's kind of sacrifice batting average the past couple of years to become more of a power hitter.

As I've said throughout the draft process, we're gonna get into these guys in just a few moments, I said jose Marriage because that was the other player I drafted. Here. We get to this a few moments, but those outfitlders, the standing, the judges, the Harpers are all going in the second round. Like what's amazing about them and picking where you are for the opportunity to get them is they all have the ability to finish his first round picks.

Like we've seen Harper go off the board at two overall in that year he was going at too many people argue you should be one standard was first round pick forever our and judge last year and the argument he is the first round pick. So all those guys have the ability to finish as a first round with first round value, which I think, um obviously is great value. You can get them in the second and you get the season that you expect. Before we get to those guys more in depth, I want to then argue the

Christian Yellows versus Ronald Kuna point. So we both agree that j D. Martinez should be the third outfielder off the board. We kind of compared up to the Yelloch and that makes me think that you also have yell Atch above Acuna Kuna yes, I do, okay, yeah, And it comes down to the batting average. I trust the batting average more for Christian Yellows because he didn't strike

out as much as a guy like a Kunya. You're kind of hoping that a Kunya is Christian Yellis, maybe with more stone basis last year's Christian Yellots, not like Marlin's very early Marlins. Like, you're kind of based on my projection, right, So I have Christian Yellots for three D batting average, twenty eight home runs, a hundred runs scored, ninety five ribbies, eighteen stolen basis. That's kind of what you want Ronald Lacunia to be. Maybe more stone basis

stolen basis. But if he gets more stolen basis, that's gonna come at the expense of his RBIs because that means he's going to be leading off. Because I truly believe that if he bats clean up, his stolen basis are gonna be closer to fifteen for the season. If he bats lead off, Ronald Dacunia, that is, you might be able to steal twenty five bases, might even be able to come close to thirty, But then his RBIs

are probably gonna be closer to eighty. If he bats clean up in the Braves lineup, he's probably gonna be closer to bis. So it's kind of the trade off and not. Someone on Twitter asked me yesterday, you know where do you want Ronald lacune you the bat because yesterday in the Braves he was batting clean up. I said, I want him to hit leadoff because I want the stolen basis. So you know, I'd rather have the thirty stolen basis for Ronald da Cunea. But with Christian Yellis, Look,

the second half was just it was otherworldly. I mean it was ridiculous. Three sixty seven with twent five home runs in the second half alone. I mean, you want some guys said, it's twenty five on runs in a full season. Christian Yellows did that in the the second half alone. He had a twelve nineteen o PS. He did make some bad ball adjustments here. He raised his fly ball rate by four percent. The hard hit rate went up from forty five percent to fifty percent for

Christian Yellis. Here in the second half he's a legitimate five category contributor eighty eight percentile in terms of sprints speed, so I trust the stolen bases are going to be you know, in that fifteen and twenty range for Yellows. Maybe doesn't have to upside in terms of stolen basis that Ronald Lacunia does. Still hits too many ground balls, still over fifty percent last year, but it's trending in the right direction, Like I say, the fifty one point

eight percent, which is still very high. That was a career low for the Christian Knowledge, so he's slowly de trending in the right direction. And his thirty five point six percent home on the flyball ratio was ridiculous last year. What was it the year before, Aaron Judge posted a thirty five percent home run to fly ball ratio, So like when you hit the ball as hard as they do, Judges hard hit rate last year was I mean two years ago was that maintained a thirty percent home on

the fly ball ratio. Yellows hit rate last year was forty seven point six percent, so better than Aaron Judge the year before. It was a seventh best in baseball and he had a thirty percent home on the flyball ratio. So yes, it's very high. I'm not going to protect him to hit thirty six home runs again. But if he's hitting the ball that hard, it's really not that crazy. Because we saw Aaron Judge do it two years ago.

I think the home run of fly ball ratio is probably closer to like percent, maybe, you know, if if he can still kind of maintain his quality of contact. But again, most the thirty home runs a three hitter, he's a legitimate hitter. Uh, He's gonna score a lot of runs in this Brewer's lineup expected to beat second RBIs are gonna be there because it's still a very deep line up. So even when it wraps around, I still think he's gonna have RBI opportunities and he's gonna

steal bases. So I think he's a little bit safer than a Counia. I'd rather have him than a Counia. I agree with you. I agree with you for everything that you said. He's gonna still he's gonna steal a few, but you're gonna start saying to me outlandish so that you disagree with I'm sorry. R Also, I think Christian Yellich I don't want to say Ronald is Christian Yelloch. I think he could be better and a honestly than

Christian Yelloch. I feel safer might have a higher upside Like Christian yellis Is upside was what he did last year is an MP Definitely you got it. Like can it be better? Though for Christian Ellities I don't think so. Like I think what you got last year is the best of what can Ronald lacun you get to that level? I think six home runs, batting average, we saw score. I don't know the batting average, but like we saw

he strikes out a little bit more than you. We saw this twenty six homers in a hundred eleven games. Is it's crazy that he hits thirty five homers in a hundred fifty games? No, no, of course not in a hundred fifty games. Is it crazy to think he gets the thirty stolen bases? No, of course not. I do think it'll be crazy to think he bass three thirty. That's not gonna happen. But I think the stolen bases will make it, will you know? Kind of take that

part away. So I think ronaldun Is upside is higher in the first round. I always want a little bit more safety, So why I have no issue drafting Ronald Lacuna in the first round. I do have an issue drafting rot Lacuna had a Christian yell. Yeah, I agree with that too. And look pre injury, remember like when he hyper extended his knee when he was in Fenway, he was trying to run through first base, kind of slid across the bag, hyper extended his knee. That's Ronald

Lacuna before the injury. Last year, in twenty nine games, he was, you know, eight percent walk crazy. He's striking out a lot twenty nine percent of the time to sixty five hitter. He had five home runs during that that stretch. When he came back from the injury, that's when Ronald Lacun you really really took off. Eighty two games post injury. The walk rate up to about ten percent, the strikeout rate down percent, so down about five percent. He was a three hundred hitter, three eighty O b

P five eighty nine slugging percentage. He had a two eighty five isolated power, twenty one home runs in eighty two games. So we talked about what is the upside for Ronald Lacun So eighty two games, you know, you multiply that by two hundred and sixty games season, you can hit around forty home runs. Like, that's what his upside can be. He showed that like as hot as he was in the second half lest year, he showed it during that stretch. Fourteen stolen basis already during that

that time. So again, he has the speed, he has the ability here to steal twenty five to thirty basis. The upside legitimately is higher. Yeah, I think his upside could be higher than Christian Yell. Just I'll just say it like that, But I think Christian Yelli is a

little bit more agree a safer player. But the adjustment said he made though in season, Ronna, I can't stress that enough in terms of not chasing as many pitches before he got hurt, thirty two chase rate when he came back, Like we're talking about a guy how old years old, Ronald making one years old, those type of adjustments mid season, Like this is a really really impressive cat here. Absolutely totally totally agree with you. The upside

is the moon for Ronald Kuna. Now, Frank, we're gonna why don't get into the break in just a few moments here, So I don't want to start a whole new tier, but I think that's here. When he gets you after the break is kind of what we mentioned earlier. These three guys, really four guys do you want to include Charlie Blackman and him that have the ability to be a first round pick or have been a first round pick just a few, you know, years ago or

even a year ago. That's what Aaron Judge, Bryce Harper, John Carlston and Charlie Blackman represent. They're all going in the second round right now? Should they be? What the what should the order be for these guys? Well, you know when we return, it's Franks Stamps the Fantasy best Friends forever here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. The Fantasy Sports Network is hitting you from all angles with the best fantasy sports and betting analysis. You can catch

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because she's not around. They're gonna need food. So maybe one of those days you want to feed me. She's not gonna be here, all right, maybe Friday night, maybe, like I don't know, tomorrow night, but I don't like those are two nights where she's gonna be gone, got nothing to do? All right, what do you want to do? We's talk, okay? She just the outfielders, Yes, we should perfect he was canceled by the way, is the rain? I'm sorry? Really it means not a lot of games

are probably gonna be canceled. Is they all kind of play in the same area? Hopefully you Darvish isn't man. That's one that I really want to see what happens to today, Like we're on you Darvish watch. He's one of the big names pay attention to here during the spring. Let's see what happens. The Blue Jay's Red Sox game was also canceled, and yeah, that looks like it for now everything A few of the games are warming up. So let's see the Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Bryce Harper tier.

How does that break down for you? And why so? I still have all these players in the same tier as a Kunia YELLOWT JTT Martinez. I mean, you can argue that maybe they shouldn't be, but to me, these are all like mid to late first round, maybe early second round outfielders. Um, but I have it. Excuse me, I have it, Bryce Harper, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Standing have it in that order. So I have Bryce Harper the

highest out of the three. And I don't disagree. Like I heard Rona's talking about this yesterday on Scout Fantasy. You can hear him at two p m here on fanc s Y Radio. Um, he drafted Aaron Judge, I believe, twelfth or thirteen in our Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational draft, and he said that Judge should be a first round pick. I can't really argue with that. Well you did when I when you show me the second half. No, it wasn't the second half, it's the it's the home road.

I mean those matter more for head to head leagues than you know in Rhodo. It's end of season numbers, like, yeah, Aaron Judge is much better at home. You know, I'm looking at that of here, three two hitter at home within eleven thirty seven o ps and Yankee Stadium. On the road, he's a two twenty six hitter with a seven ninety three ops. So you know he's more like

Steven Suzo when he's on the road. Uh, and he's you know, he's he's Aaron Judge, he's j D. He's j D Martinez when he's at home in Yankee Stadium. So those are stark differences. But for Rhodo it doesn't really matter. It's like, okay, end of season numbers. You know, he's still gonna hit forty five home runs. He has the upside to give you fifty. Uh, he's in a great lineup. He's gonna hit you know, to seventy. And he's no slouch on the basse pats either, Like it's

gonna have you eight to ten stone basis. So I can't agree that Aaron Judge should be should be a first round pick in fifteen team leagues. If you're in a twelve team league, he's there on the turn, but not before Harper. To me, it's like maybe Aaron Judge is safer. Rice Harper is volatile. I've talked about this, like his batting average the last four years, Greg, like he's inconsistent the other way. Yeah, that was weird. I'm sorry.

I was going from last year and back, Um, what he's inconsistent on a year to year basis, and we still don't even know where he's gonna play. Like, the only one to me that you really have to worry about is San Francisco, if he goes to the Dodgers, if he goes to Philly, I mean, I'd love Philly. Philly is the idea that obviously it's just a better ballpark than Dodgers. But if he goes into that, Dodgers lineup as a party, good Dodgers lineup too. So so

so let me try to get this out right. So you mentioned the volatility to set three three nineteen and then to forty nine last season. Why what change? What also changes year to year that he has not been able to have a sustained batting average around you know three. So I think last year he obviously had bad, badbit bluck. Right if you look at the two years where you know, seen where he hit too forty three and last year where he hit to forty nine. Last year, you know,

his his babbit last season was too eighty nine. Batting average on balls and play was to eighty nine, despite his hard hit rate being the highest of his career forty two point three forty two point three percent. Now you know he did he did pull the bowl a ton last year. That was the second highest of his career. But guess what, he also pulled the ball forty five percent of the time when he won the MVP, back when he was completely ridiculous. So you know, these are

things that I was looking at. He still hit the ball hard. Last year, his babbit was unlucky. That's what it comes down to, you. I mean, he had a two eighty nine babbitt. He was a two forty nine hitter. He's expected batting average was two sixty. So you know, we'll talk about expected batting average a lot. It's not extremely higher, but a lot of the times people's expected batting average according to stack cast is lower than their

batting average. His was eleven points higher, so she was unlucky. I mean in the two years where he and two nine is, Babbitt was much lower than his career mark, which is right around three sixty four and sixteen to eighty nine eighteen in the years they betted over three hundred in the last four back in MVP season three sixty nine was his batting average balls in play, which also isn't sustainable, and then in three fifty six, So

like there's a wide range of baban. We talked a lot about bad babit, which is batting average of balls in play this week, and a lot of times I've brought it up. Frank has mentioned He's like, well, he hits the ball so hard it's gonna land somewhere. And that's what you kind of said about a lot of players or speed guys hit the ball in the ground. They run it out, they can they can run, they

make it. It's not always a direct correlation just between hitting the ball hard and Babbitt, because I mean, you know, you could be unlucky for an entire season, right like you're squaring the ball up. But it's like these guys have so many different shifts and stuff, and they know how to align their fielders where you know, maybe a lot of the times when you're hitting the ball on

the screws, it's going right at defenders. So and especially now as a lefty with so many shifts in the game, and you know, over dramatic shifts where you know they're playing another guy in basically you know right field that's taking away a line drive or a hard hit ground ball, it's a little bit harder. So you know, we saw it happening with like Mark two Shara when I'm like, when they started shifting him crazy in Yankee Stadium, all they tried to do was hidden out of the park.

He was just trying to hit it over the shift. But he you know, he's in a turning in constantly because you know it was just because of the shifts. But you look at you look at the stack cast data last year for Bryce Harper, like the average act velocity is still very good. His expected WHOBO greg was

nineties six percentile. He's in the top four percent in terms of like WHOAA weighted on base average, which is you know, another metrics similar to kind of like it's it's a more contemporary version of like what they're trying to replace ops. Basically, it weighs you know, ballparks and your lineup, and it kind of it weighs it compared to like everyone else in the league centile. So he's in the top four percent of the league in terms of uh, you know his expected WHOAA expected slugging percent.

You know he was unlucky last year, you flat out was unlucky. What do you think how would you have these three ranked in terms of Judge, Harper and Stating Because I think if you ask ten different people, you might get I don't even know if there's like a different combinations, but you could get different answers every single time. It's really really hard for me. Rice Harper has like the reason why I rank him higher is he has

the ability to hit three thirty. Aaron Judge doesn't have that ability, and the batting average is hard to come by. Like Rice has showed us that his ultimate upside is if you put together like all his best categories throughout the seasons, he ge hit three thirty with forty home runs, twenty stolen bases, a hundred runs and over d RBIs. That could be Bryce's best season. Can Aaron Judge's best

season be better than that? I don't think so. So I feel most comfortable saying I would put Stanton last out of these three. I have him last as well, only because he strikes out the suns. He definitely doesn't suck. He strikes out the same amount as Aaron Judge, but almost walks six percent less than Aaron Judge. So he has the powers are saying. The RBIs are the same, the runs of the same projecting, of course, So if you're looking just for a couple of differences, then that's

all you're looking for. That strike out to walk ratio is enough for me to break him last. Is that enough for you? I don't why you haven't last? Like, is that enough for you? Yeah? Um, I think the so freaking hard. And look they both hit the ball, they both ed the balls stream of course. Yeah, they're really similar, place, really similar. Looking for probably gonna give you like two three stolen bases, whereas Judge is gonna

give you eight to ten. Is that the difference? Maybe the fact that you're gonna get like last year's standing stole five bases Judge even though played in twelve games, but so sex a dozen twelve games h hundred five. They give you nine the year before, so it's gonna be eight to ten. Sure those you know, stolen bases matter that much in terms of like you know, when you ranked players in terms of like boxin dollars, it

goes based on like Z scores and stuff. I don't you know, I don't want to get into this too much, but it basically puts a weighted value on every single statistical category. So the difference between like three and eight or nine stolen bases between Stanton and Judge is actually going to push the auction rank value of Aaron Judge up that much more or like just ahead of him because of the stolen basis. Like they actually do mean that much. So you know, he ses, I'll use the

strikeout to walk ratio whatever it is. Stanton's last for us, I mean at least three. They're very similar players. They're both going to strike out around thirty percent of the time, and you know, you look at what's the outlier season for gian Carlo Ston it was his m v P year, The only strikeout twenty three point six percent of the time. Every other season in his career he was twenty six point six percenter higher. He's a you know, career twenty

eight percent strikeout rate, So that's the outlier. His MVP season was the outlier year in terms of in terms of strikeout right, he still swings and misses a lot. He hits the ball extremely hard. One thing that I didn't notice last year with Jiancarlo Stanton is that how about this Greig? He had two seven seventy nine s at Yankee Stadium. He was the opposite of Aaron Judge. He sucked at Yankee Stadium. Comfortable. Yeah, but I'm I'm.

This is me making the case for him where if you know, if he hits and the opius goods up to where it should be for John in Yane Stadium, and his other side is maybe even higher, Like you can perform under pressure. Man, he kisses me off. If real life baseball John call Stand pissed me off. In the big moments when you needed him most, he didn't come through. You know a lot of Yankee fans will say, um, oh, well, Aaron. When Aaron Judge got hurt, John Carl Stanton put a

team on his back. There was like a month stress where like he hit three D Yeah, that's fine too, he did, but he's always kind of nicked up though, isn't he all right? So we will have a Stanton last, would you feel comfortable to thinking of that? They literally back to back to back and there's a little separation an FBC. Um, let's see who they're actually separated by a hang on. So you have Judge in between in

between Harper and Stantonio justin vertlantas, all right, that's a picture. Um. In between Judge and Harper, you have Goldschmidt's story, machadow Bys. So if I'm taking I'm kind of looking at this from a roster construction perspective here. If I'm taking Aaron, Judge or Stanton, I kind of want to pair them with someone who's gonna get me close with three batting average. If I'm going in some speed, if I'm going hit or hitter, you need some speed too, yeah, I mean yeah, Well,

like so look at this team. For example, I'm looking at you know, my draft right now, and someone started Lindoor Stanton Mondescy. You get your you get your speed with modesty pitching land though, yeah. I mean as of right now he has Patrick Corbin, Blake Trining, and David Price. That's not good team week. You're gonna have a whole somewhere. That's what it comes out. You're gonna have a whole somewhere.

Ronus for example, started Aaron Judge and Alex Bregg. Mean that's pretty good because you get the batting average of Bregman, not a lot of solen bases. You'll get like eight to ten out of both guys. I mean you just kind of like you gotta chip chip away at the Soulen base category throughout the draft. I think the awesome to like para Kunia in Stanton, like that would be fun,

that doable. Not really, Stanton's not really gonna fall. Like maybe you might get like who you think person picking your lakes now because they took a Knia fourth overall. But if you get a Kunia at eight or nine, the Yellish person star Marte, that's interesting telling you batting average and Stulen bases. You're getting a five category contributor in Yellows. And then you're getting Starley Marte who doesn't kill you in home runs, but he also gives you runs.

He's gonna give you batting average is gonna beve stolen bases. Starley Martex, you're making the earlier than I would take. Starling Mardon person in roto Man. He's a second, he's a late second. You're official Harper over Judge your taking. Yes, can not gonna be a popular take, but I don't think I want to do it. Can You'm gonna argue with you and I got I got Harper later than

Judge instant. I got Harper five picks after stay all right, give you the top eight for the next hour, will give you a you know, a couple more stick around our series next. I couldn't catch the live show, make sure at the download our podcast at the v n T S Y Sports Network Audio Boom channel oh