Feb. 28th, Hour 1: Deep sleep outfielders, points vs. roto leagues, and more...

You're listening to the Fantasy Sports RADIOO Network. Fantasy best Friends Forever m Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do yeo, says the Fantasy best Friends Forever. Here in the Fantasy Sports in your Network, I am Greg Suspen. Frank Stamfle has the day off today, so it's gonna a good show. It's Frank's not here for our number one outfield sleepers for years. Are at the end of the outfield week Tomorrow we're gonna starting pictures. Frank will

be back in the Costello. Um, we will be here. But for our number one outfield sleepers. We got our man, Chris Venture in the house. Chris, what's going on? What's up? What's up. It's your boy. I'm back again. Outfield Part three, Mark Trace Part three. We're here. We've done like the forty Outfielders or show. We're figured why not just any one likes and yeah, exactly Dry will be here as he always is about twenty minutes into the program, so that'll be fun. Our number two today football. I think

that you're sticking around. Yeah, that you're sticking around our number two. We talk football. Jim Day's gonna be on here, so I'm gonna basically kind of your rough the frenzy, uh, and play traffic Cop a little bit. We're talking with the combine, the news and notes that are just coming out of the combine. Of course, Kyler Murray the big story in sports today. I'll ask Jim how important he thinks that is. Uh, and a whole lot more. Chris, I just sleep last night. I slept well. I slept

well for the first time in a couple of days. Yeah, I'm feeling good. The weekend's almost, Tia, and I gotta do some really heavy research. I think this weekend to start like the real deep stuff. When is your holy draft, my homely draft? Is we set it for the I think the seventeenth, or it's a Sunday of March. Yes, so that is uh some probably seventeen seventeen, Sunday, March seventeen. Yeah, so it's on a Sunday. We're doing it on Sunday?

Is that selection Sunday? All right, Well, that's cool. There's a couple of things to look forward to. Then. Um, usually we do it live, but we're doing it online. I don't know. Everybody asked if we should we do it online. It's always a problem to get everybody live. One of the kids moved to Sandy Um, Seattle, so he lives in Seattle, so we have to get him on Skype anyway, so we said, you know what, let's just do it online. Plus, I feel like baseball is

longer and more dragging. It's about the same as football. Yeah, I got a little a little longer probably. Yeah. I think we enjoy the football live more. Yeah, I mean I get that. But as I said yesterday or a couple days ago, do you guys like we do it all in the in the Google drive, in a Google doc. So we always do it live together, sitting together. Um, and people that are there, they are there, they're just

getting they're getting the document, big deal. But the rest of us can hang out, have a couple of beers and do the thing. And yeah, I like that. I enjoy it, you know, and we make our lives. We're constantly trading picks and stuff. I told you that it's well if you've got things like that going down, Yeah, you definitely need to do that a lot. It's awesome when you're just texting that, you're texting back and forth trying to make it work. I love it, man, Like

it is funny, exactly. You haven't actually seen this, Frank saw this, but like I can show you our draft boards and there's just colors everywhere because people are trading up and down the board. It's awesome. Well, who's the commissioner, because that's tough, you know, the commissioner on the commission Do you manage that? Uh So, I'm not the best that Excel one of my I have a lot of accountant friends who are I gonna make a joke here at this point, But I have a lot of accountant

friends that are very good at Excel. So I'm gonna actually turn my computer towards you, and I'll turn to with the camera too. So here's last year's Fantasy baseball draft board. And if you can see, you just color because you mean, although there's different colors, each each person is represented by a color, right, so as you think, Jean Martino, So every person up there at the top is represented by a color. And if the box is

different color, that means is that person's pick. So it says Russ in green right there, right, it says Russ and green. And there's that blue square in his box. That means it's comp pick in that spot. And it's all around. There's different a lot of trades. It seems like a lot of purple on the board. Yeah, he was all around as if you if you scroll down, because everyone has you trade picks, you gotta make sure you have the same amount of picks. I'm gonna turn

it around again, Martino, Um towards the bottom. Yeah, they'll lot of colors. Turn around again. I know he's doing it right now. There's a lot of colors there. Um. Right there shows you all the all the trains that you make. So you do you you and put this drift manually into excel. That's how you do it, right, No clock, Well, I keep the I actually keep the clock at the draft as well. Yeah, so you do a lot, you do a lot, and I'm entering into Yahoo as we go. See I used Clickie draft, Sure

we did. We used his interest. We used clicki for football. Maybe I should do the Excel thing, but I feel like that's more work. Maybe Clickie. It's definitely more work. But Clickie. The problem is, so we're still doing the trades and stuff, and our commissioner for football is uh is Jet fan Jeff Um. He has to anytime we have a trade, goes have happens back all these guys out of the out of Clickie put the right guys in the right spots. So just speacial teasers. It's colors,

you know. The colors kind of make it a little bit easier. And I've actually learned over the past couple of years it's really good when I'm on the end of the draft. So this I have to have first. I picked it out of the duck. Remember I have first. I can enter the players in as we go into Yahoo as well. Everyone enters their own picks in here. I just entered as we go because on the end it's very easy for me to be able to do that,

so they enter on Excel for you. So yeah, everybody, everybody has access to the the Google print sheet, so they entered them themselves. And then as we go, I entered in the Yahoos. Some of the time we're going with the draft. Everybody has their team in Yaho. All set, make your pickups, do whatever you gotta do. That's beautiful, I mean, listen. Uh. The thing is, though, I would think that you'd fall behind on some picks later on

at some point. No, I do a pretty good job, pretty good keep it up because like I when I'm entering picks, sometimes I feel like, oh I missed a bunch, and then I you know, I'm not looking at who I want next and stuff. So of course, and that's why I was just saying, like, it's good to be on the end when you have to do that, right, Like I'm on an end, so I have plenty of time to do my research wrapper and anyone. A lot of the research comes, um, A lot of research comes beforehand,

like we do so many of these shows together. We have an idea of who he wants. You have an idea of who's gonna be there. Yeah, and you know who you know We're going over these guys over and over, and we you know, we pretty much know them, you know, almost inside out. Obviously we don't know every stat by you know, by memory, but we know almost of what they're doing. You know what I'm saying. It's it's more so you just have an idea who he wants, I think, And is that how you like to? Like do you

make projections? I find that to be a yeah. I mean Frank does, does, Jake Doesnando that it, Florio has done. It's interesting, but I feel like it's a lot of work, and it's like to work. It's a ton of work. And like thankfully I'm friends with Frank and FLORIAO and I just take their yeah literally. I texted Florio who

just points. He does points leads rankings, which is good for you, right, So Frank does Rodal league rankings, and I consider my lead points least every year Florio sends me he's spreadsheet rather than like the fantasy prose version, he sends me a spreadsheet and then I reorganized it like the way I want to. But like at least

I have like a baseline. I have it, and I have it like I don't need like because that's not Rhodo, Like I don't need to get a certain amount of home runs or a certain around, just get the best players. I love that. And there's certain guys that we talked about the last two weeks that you know who you want, Like you go in here having an idea who you want. There's certain guys like I'm never gonna take that guy, so I and I know that, and you know that.

Now it is tougher later into the draft because we want to pull you and I people like us whole guys up with the board, like we really like somebody, we're gonna put them off. And the people in the room, why are you taking this guy right here? And it it doesn't really matter because that's that's who you want. But that that's something that by using app why I think projections are like, uh, like it's a lot of work for really not that much of a benefit. So

I can't predict exact projections. I agree with that, and I think in Rhodo it makes a lot more sense because you need to get to a certain number, but you need to reach this plateau in order to have a chance to win in points. You don't have to do that you're taking the best player based on how your points scored. Yeah, yeah, so speak of later in drafts. Let's get into the outfielders, all right, Let's get in some of these deep league outfielders. And we stopped, I

believe yesterday we stopped at about number forty. Yeah, and they're n c r D according to the NFBC. Okay, So a guy that we had didn't have a chance to speak about yet and I and I wanted to how you feel because he's a younger guy waving to breakout hasn't exactly happened. He's no more Zara, He's no Murmisara. Is one of these dudes that came up. Was pretty good when he first came up, and then we ket waiting and waiting for a bigger breakout. Hasn't really happened.

But for three full years in the MLB, exactly twenty runs in all three seasons. Now last year at the least about of games he has his entire career at hundred twenty eight. Had some injury issues. The batting average has been pretty similar for the last three years to sixty six, two fifty three to fifty eight. He's about a two fifty five to sixty hit like, that's the guy we're looking at with No arm Zara, and he wasn't hurt last year, you would have gotten more home

run rely, so I think it's fair to say. But the crazy he is, and he'll be twenty four in April, so he's still still pretty young. The the hard hit percentage last year career high thirty seven and a half percent. That's obviously over the league average. The biggest problem I see with No. One Rozara is he had so many damn ground balls fifty five percent of his balls in

play or ground balls. That's an issue. Although we project, like we just said, twenty five whole runs or so, he's home five ball ratio twenty percent last year, very high, especially considering his first two season as MLB it was around thirteen six thirteen sixteen and a half percent or so. No One Zara, you'd like to think there's more when you're here. You'd like to think there's there's a jump coming.

I just don't know if that's true. What do you think about Noon Rosara, Chris, I really like Normamzara because you're talking about in this part of the draft, right, so, like obviously I don't like him compared to the established, proven guys and things like that, but he's becoming kind of established in three years. We know it pretty much what his floor is. It looks like yep at least. Uh. I feel like there's still more of a ceiling that

could be had here. You know what I'm saying. If he changes those groundball to fly ball ratio is a little bit, maybe he could pop thirty homers, so he could give you a boost their Um. You know, I'm thinking the average I think could still go up. He hit two sixty six his rookie season, so you know, maybe he hits two seventy one year. Uh, That's what I'm saying. Like the walk rate I think could go up as he gets older. He had fifty five walks in forty last year and in a shortened season. Um.

I like what he does kind of everywhere. But there's nothing great here yet, you know what I'm saying. I just like the fact that where he's going he has more potential and a nice floor compared to the guys around him. You know what I mean, He's a little bit more proven with the ceiling compared to these other guys that that's why I like him. And he's young. Yeah, So I think where he's going, which according to the NFBC right here is one. I think there is a

little bit of a room for improvement. I don't want to just forget these twenty four years old I don't want to forget that. And like a lot of these numbers or grades, particularly that groundball percentage, it's not oh, here's room for that. I think he can still grow. Now, how does he compare with guy like Stephen Piscotti, who another four top prospect a little bit older, plays in that vaunted A's lineup. As Frank Stamford would say, around

Chris Davis, around Matt Chapman, around Matt Olsen. He's around all those dudes, and I took a shot of Ben behind them. I think right is six, and I took a shot up Scotty last year. But as a forward top prospect, he was a late Bloomery's twenty eight years

old already. You probably didn't realize last year over the A's he played a full season, a hundred and fifty games, seven homers, seven more homers than Mazzara, there et Ribby, seventy eight runs scored, struck outless, the Massara walked around the same amount bet our average than Mazara, Babbitt was around the same, and the hard hit percentage of Steven Piscotti better. All these things better for Steven Biscotte nor Massari. You gotta like him better. I mean you based on

last year stats, you have to like him better. Yeah, you do. But see, the thing is, I might end up in a certain situation take Mazzara of a Piscotti. Um. I like the fact that first of all, Massar's batt and third in his lineup. I think there's a lot of count extants to be had there. I think he could end up scoring uh more runs than Piscotti. Where he's batting six in the lineup, he doesn't have too much protection behind him. Uh, he has protection in front

of him. He has guys great in front of him. So he'll drive in more runs probably, But I don't think I'll have the same run scored, so that'll kind of balance out. I think he has the potential to do with Piscotty is doing here uh, And I think he also has the potential to do maybe a little bit more in the walk category. I think he could do uh, just as good in the doubles category. I just like the fact that there's still a little bit more so I think we're seeing Piscotti is seiling here.

I don't think he's gonna do much better than what we're seeing here. I think this is his top performance. Maybe he does hit a little bit more homes, maybe he reaches a thirty homer plateau, but I don't know. I just I don't trust Piscotti as much as as I do Missouri. I just feel like Missoura has a nice floor. The year before, Piscotty played a hundred seven

games only and had nine homers. Uh hit two thirty five, had kind of a really a big down year, like even in Missours down years, which there's only been three years of his career. But they're pretty much the same as the as every single year of his career, you know what I mean, Everything is pretty much pretty standard and pretty solid. I think he can move up from there and won't go any low from where he is where.

I think Piscotty could go through a too much stretch where he's super cold, and that could really kill a team. Nor Massara is ranked about ten spots higher in Mike Florio's points leagus rankings than Steven Piscottis. Martino texted me and notes like, hey, Piscotty obviously went to Oakland, wanted to be closed to the Bay Area in order to be by his mother, who was unfortunately synic passed away last year. I believe in may Um, but now he's not.

But now, you know, hopefully that's kind of behind him in a way, and have to not to be so callous like that, but just focus on baseball in a way. I guess now we can focus on baseballs. Were saying. I mean, he still had a pretty really good year. I think you can't really complain about what he did, you know what, I mean, a little boring, but but better across the board than he is. But he was better across the border. You obviously didn't play more games,

Yes he did. Yes, he did quite a few more games, you know, like twenty something. Uh. So, I mean, listen, I would draft the guy at at a good value, but I wouldn't take him over guys like Massara. I really I'm high on Massara. So that's just me. Uh, and Floria obviously high on him. Points leads as well. Uh, but there's other guys, you know, like if the Missoura and maybe like I like Chris Taylor, I like Buxton, I might take a Buxton. I want to start exactly

where he wanted to go next. I wanted to bring up Byron Buxton here because we keep talking about some of these top prospects. He's really sketchy, A lot more sketchy than Biscotti is, you know, because of the injuries and the poor performance. I mean, at what point do we call Byron Buxton a bust? What he is? A bust? Byron Buston, Byron Buston. Yeah, but seriously, right, like, at what point do we just say that? Because I understand what some of these metrics say. I understand why people

get really excited about him. You look at spring training five or five to baby, I'm back, baby. You see what he did in the final month of seasons. I get it. I understand why people are so excited by him. But every time he's got an opportunity, he's failed. Are you gonna take the shout of Bucks? And you just said, hey, you're interested? How come I am interested? I've had him a couple of times, and I know exactly what happens.

It's like he'll he'll either be completely off mechanically strike out every single time, then he'll get hot and just start ripping bombs acause but you just see that talent potential in short glimpses, you know what I mean. I think he just hasn't put it all together yet. He also got hit by injuries, so that kind of, you know, hurt him as far as trying to progress and grow.

I think, listen, you don't give up on a guy that's twenty five, especially a guy who was a number one prospect or top five prospect coming up for a few years. Um, with the talent that this kid has and you could do something, he could be a five category type player. UM, I just don't. I wouldn't give up on just yet. I'm I would give him. I would even give him two more years even if he you know, you saw more glimpses then he got injured

or he failed here and there. I would give him more chances until you know, he finally just completely falls off. He hasn't completely fall off, because you're still seeing spurts of talent even in spring training. So this is the guy, you know, high upside, high risk, high reward. I take the chance, break those three Buxton, Oh, Buxton, Mazzara, mscot Little Bizarre, Piscotty Buxton say to break. Dr Y joins us next. Daily Rodo dot Com learned from the game's

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Fantasy Sports Radio Network. That's Chris Venthu, I am Greg Sousman that time of the week. Or we'll talk to dr a of inside injuries to break it all of down for it's going on, Doc. How are you? How are you today? Everything going well? Yeah, no problem with man. We haven't an armageddon yet. Some things are right. That's good. That's good. It's good to not have armageddon. I think so. It's too but kind of feels like it's armageddon. Dobs.

You can't right right now where Clayton Kershaw has tried throwing a whole bunch of times and every time he starts, he stops because he's not feeling great in that left shoulder. That's an issue. We have seen Clayton Kershaw go drafted as an ace and then in other leagues seen him drafted around pick fifty, around pick eighty. You were very scared Clayton Kershaw. Should they be yes? Next? So? Um, no, So Clayton Kershaw. You know he's gotten multiple throwing injuries

in this past. You know, the throwing extremity has been a chronic, repetitive issue. Uh, he's great two shoulder right now. The very fact that the team right now has decided not to send him for an m r I is the fact that they're sort of used to the fact that he has so many throwing shoulder issue shoes and so you know, every year that goes by, he gets older a lot more wear and tear. Um. This is

a huge red flag. I know he's a big name, but a throwing shoulder grade two UH injury right now before the season starts, starting to already rest him uncertain of his future in terms of his UH length into the you know, into the game, and how many innings he's actually going to pitch. Um. This is not good news. And this is a huge red flag. Uh. Right now he will you know, from a prediction standpoint, is I r C right now? Is it's it's very high. It's fifty.

I mean I've never I've never seen it that high in a picture before. Uh. And so I think by the time the season starts, if he rests, he'll still be up into range just think about a hundred. You know, if he's gonna he's protect you know, if he wants if you want to start a picture to make twenty starts starts, um, you know he'll he'll make twelve of them. Probably really bad year objected from Dr A just saying

he's not gonna be able to be healthy. Supposedly, this is the latest that Kershall play cash for five minutes at sixty ft. I don't know if it was just cut short or he's hurt again like something Kershaw Chris huge red flags. I don't think, I mean, there's not doing this. I mean it depends on how far he falls, I guess is there, but like, at what point do

you just pull the trigger? Pull the trigger because eventually you got to pull the trigger, are you, I mean, if he falls to the fifteenth round, are we not pulling the trigger on him because you'd get him for free basically fifteen round? All right, you know it's late fifteenth round. I'm fine, but not in top ten, top ten rounds, maybe the maybe the ninth of ten. That's crazy that he that he's got a fold after dr A. You already just said he's not gonna have it starts. Yeah,

that's scary. Yeah, it is for sure. And Doc, there's another picture we asked you about last week, but there's even more here, right, and that's Carlos Martinez who shown over to sling. Just showed up in a sling, like I can't you have like a sling? M Yeah, that's a's it's a it's a bad omen when you see that the visual is amazing, isn't it so? But now the same it's you know, sort of the same type of injury grade two shoulder um. You know, a throwing

arm um. You know, uh, you know when you hear a picture saying that his shoulder has been bothering him. You know, bothering is a key thing that our algorithm picks up. It's not every you know, if you go back in time and you hear the word bothering on a picture and then you see how his sort of trajectory has been, it's not good. And so you know,

bothering is just not a good word. Um. And you know, even though the m R I showed that is you know, there's no tears or in structurally sound, it does not. That still means that he could have inflammation and tendonitis in the rotator cuff and four uh you know starting picture that is definitely a shutdown. You have to get completely healed. If you have any calcification, um, you know, like a little bit of calcification on that tendon it makes it a little bit more friable and more delicate.

And that that you know, and you know, when you have repeated sort of chronic repetitive, repetitive tears. Um, you know, an inflammation of the rotator cuff. It makes it much more at risk to tear. So um, you know d L three times last year. It just says it with shoulder, oblique and lateral strains. I R c Uh. He'll be probably at thirty by April, so you know, third of his starts. Again, he's not as bad as Clayton, but you know, definitely up there. Oh, Sportsine is not nearly

as bad as Clayton Kershaw here at this point. But you know, another one of these guys, Chrise, I gotta stay away from right now. Yeah, injured pretty much for most of the last season. When he came back, he was a mess, went into the bullpen and stuff like. It's just and this was a guy like you know, we're talking top fifteen twenty starting picture in fantasy and baseball like like, I mean, this guy was dominant. So it's sad to see. This is how fast pictures can

full like the picture, injuries come fast and heavy. Absolutely, you know, you fall off the map. That's why it's

scared to draft pictures early on. Uh. Sometimes I shot away from that and I'd rather take my chances on values later, but especially throwing extremities on pictures Like they can suffer from other stuff, but when you start, the first throwing extremity injury that they have is the beginning of a long road of multiple injuries and an eventually misstarts and an eventually you know, end of career type of stuff and surgery. Yeah, not great. There. We're talking

to Dr A from Inside Injuries here. Uh and doc Uh, Frank's not here if you want to make sure we asked you about just an update and what's going on with that patella. Uh. He heard some words that he didn't know and wanted you to clarify them. So the teller tenant in connects to your kneecap, to your tibia, you know, the bottom part of your knee. It's the main thing that extends the knee essentially creates that stability.

You know, as an outfielder, the biggest thing is is running and catching up to you know, uh, flyballs and line drives, etcetera. And the patellar tendon is really really impactful and so when it does that tendonitis, it will

slow that outfielder down. Now it's a Grade one, so it's the lowest grade, you know, minor inflammation, Uh, two weeks optimal recovery time, you know, and you know, so he and you know, from from healing from that injury, and then he'll just need to rehab it a little bit and he should be ready for opening day right now. He fell, he fell back into below average because of this, but then you know, if you rest appropriately, he'll be back up to above average, close to peak health. He

is a little injury prone. Um, he will still have like a fifteen uh you know, uh, injury risks. So if you just take you know, out of a hundred and sixty two games, uh, you know, he'll probably play in a thirty of them this year. Okay, so only thirty games. But at least it's only a grade one at this hotel, A tendant injury shouldn't Keehm out for a while. Chris, Yeah, that's good news, I guess. Um. You know, it's just it's worried somewhat a guy like

Upton because you're spending a decent draft pick on him. Uh, and he is already a risky option in terms of being a streaky hitter. You really hope that the injury doesn't affect his whole season, you know, and then then you're really talking about losing major value on a guy that you're taking with a high draft pick. So it's something to look out for, especially in the spring training. Right now. Absolutely, we're talking to dr Ay from Inside Injuries, Chris.

Anything you want to ask, doc, Um, did you got hi? Doc? This is Chris Fncher. Pleasure to your video a whole timelf. Now, I haven't asked him a question yet, so I figured I introduced myself now. So my question was about did you already ask about Will Meres? And Frank already ask him about Willmers? About all those different injuries calf, shoulder, Yeah we should we We asked him. We asked him about Will Myers a couple of weeks ago, and and basically Doc is just like this dude is basically dead.

So instead, you know, I'll tell I'll take it back. I want to I want to ask about another one of those outfielders inside the nl West here, Doc, And that's about a J. Pollock, Because Alwa was looking at a J. Pollock right that's thirty one years old and he never can stay healthy. We were talking about him yesterday Chris, and Pollock is just a guy that you know, we can keep waiting, and we can keep waiting in a full season. He's gonna do this. He's never gonna

play a full season. Talking may be healthy now, but is all of a sudden A J. Pollock's time winding down? What what round do you want to take him in? Chris? Then I'll back into this and I like it. I like it. So Chris says the twelfth, he's going on the board at one thirteen overall. Okay, Yeah, he's a he's a thirteen rounder. I think that he's um hpf is. He'll be at it's in peak category by opening day. He's he's recovered, he has no current injuries. Here's the problem,

thirty six percent injury risks. So he played a hundred and thirteen games in eighteen, he played a hundred and twelve games in seventeen. He's gonna play a hundred and five hundred hundred, five hundred ten games in nineteen. So just you know, thirty six percent, you know it's a very he'll miss forty to fifty games this in nineteen. Yeah, absolutely, Doc, no doubt about it. J twelve Okay, So he's You guys are more optimistic on a j than I am,

which is shocking. He's do you usually pessimistic? One? Yeah, but you know when a guy doesn't have any current injuries and he's actually rested for what seven months, you know, and so I mean he should be you know, he's healthy. He should be recovered from all of the injuries that he was suffering from. But his age and his wear and tear and everything and all the other stuff we

take into the I r C calculation. Uh, he'll miss thirty percent of the uh not not maybe twenty five percent by the time opening season, So quarter of the season. Quarter of the season is probably around forty games. So great, that's a lot that is. I mean, he's playing well now, he's got on base all three times in his lique game in singles, trumpy. Good, tell me when he starts running. Yeah, we'll see dr Ay here. I wanted to ask you another guy who's not really hurt but had some injury

issues going down the stretch last year. I wanted to make sure he's a hundred percent. He just signed for like a billion dollar contract the stension with the Rockies, and that's Nolan Arnado. Is he totally one percent healthy? Um? Well, he has a grade one shoulder okay now, and you know it's grade one so you know if he rests and it'll be you know, it'll be completely healed. Yeah, he's good to go. He's at ranny with this injury. He was at nineties six percent before he'll get he'll

be back up there, so he should be good to go. Okay, So nothing to worry about. Eronada. The shoulder does have the power a little bit. Uh So you're worried about that, but it looks like we're the dr A. There's nothing to worry about when it comes to Nolan Aaronado. Now, let's talk Jock about some of these guys that we you we know ore injured and we're kind of waiting for them to, you know, start moving. And Matt Chapman, who spoke a lot about earlier this week. And Matt

Chapman is one of Frank's favorites. He said, if he's healthy, one of ventures favorites as well, people like Matt Chapman. But I'm still concerned he's not swinging yet. It's that gonna happen soon. Yeah, this is the remember we spent about twenty minutes talking about the owner side at sesamoid bone decision, and I was trying to explain to you guys what that is. But yeah, yeah, but you know, he's at above average at seventy seven our peak health

category start at and so he's very close. And so he's he he'll be from you know, from an injury impact standpoint, he won't really have that much uh significant impact from the injuries, however, he's he will he's at racy right now. He'll be down to probably about eighteen seventeen percent by opening day. So out of you know, a hundred and sixty two games, he'll play about a hundred and forty of them. That's good. So all in all, with everything going on, that's pretty good for Chapman. It's

very good for match having. Okay, so again, not really a worried. There's a lot of optimism from from not there. I'm not used to that. Good. It's very good. Do you have optimism when it comes to Marcello Zuna as well? Um, Marcela as you know, let me quickly look him up on this list here here he is Okay, yeah, great, throwing shoulder surgery. This was you know, miss much of the two thousand and eight Uh you know, uh, the

shoulder injury, played through it the two eighteen. Still was able to play in a hundred and forty eight games last year, which was shocking, but uh, you know underwent uh you know, sort of the scope and all of that stuff. He's at sixty eight percent right now. Um, you know, he'll get up to seventy close to he'll be above average peak. But again, this whole throwing shoulder, uh, you know, left fielder needs to have power, he needs to throw out people, He needs to get the ball

back into the end field very very fast. That's going to hamper him a little bit. That's eyes injury risk right now is that it'll be down to probably in the beginning of the season. But if you can take him playing about, you know, a hundred and twenty games through the season, then I think then he's your guy because I'll be close to peak. How possible is it for that shoulder injury to just get worse? He has to have surgery on it, Like, is that something that

he can come back that's gonna recur? Or is he fine? It's gonna it's he's fine. From it. I mean he's recovered from that injury. He had a scope, probably a clean out procedure. Um, there wasn't really in any tear that we can scrape and and and crawl for. I mean all of the data that we have, so basically, um, it's gonna be like sort of a chronic, repetitive type injury. So yes, this will come up. That will be the forty games that he misses because of this type of injury. Okay,

there you go, d a from inside injuries here. That injury is going to cost him and potentially cost him and fantasy owners dearly doc. Yesterday Josh James got hurt. Fantasy owners love themselves some Josh James potentially in that astro's rotation. It looks like this injury is gonna knock him out of rotation contention to start off the year. How serious is the injury and how long will it last? Yeah?

I feel for Josh James, you know, being competing as the fifth starter and then getting a quad strain that which is responsible for a lot of your power as the starting pitcher. You know, I kind of feel for him because you know that that kind of is the Achilles heel and he needs power and so, um it's a grade one. Great news, but not not great timing. Um,

So he'll recover from this nicely. From from an injury standpoint, if you rest two weeks by March thirteenth, he should be good to go and he'll be back up to peak health and low injury risk. Okay, so there you go to Josh James. Soon enough will be good to go back to low injury risk, back to peak health, just not yet unfortunately, going to cost him an opportunity. But we'll see how early the season the astros oultately

do call love Chris. Yeah, I think I think that's actually really good news because now the value in drafts is great because he'll be falling down the wall. People canna be worried he's not in the rotation to start the season. That's gonna be a big h you know, basically bad your rafters. Uh. And I think if you get him, you know, like late as a flyer, that's one of the highest episode flyers you can get in

the draft. And if he's coming back as dr he said, you know, March, early March, mid March, that's that's great. That's great news. I think I think that's a guy that you you should be targeting in the light rounds alright around flyer on Josh James Here, just a couple of minutes left, Doc, and we we get to Malex Smith, who Frank wants to love. And I'm saying, I don't know how you're taking this guy who hasn't Isn't there anything? Yeah? How serious is injury to Malex Smith? Will be ready

to go? Yeah? I mean elbow sore no grade one. I mean that could be a multitude of different things, but most commonly in a in a baseball player, it's going to be some sort of triceps uh, or some sort of um uh, ligament sprain grade one ligament sprain within the elbow. Uh. It's a minor injury. It's one one week actually recovery time. The htr was already healthy to return, was already reached. He just has to not

get back into throwing shape. Um. You know the problem with Alex Smith is the fact that you know he's had multiple multiple injuries in sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen, specifically hamstring injuries. UM, so I'm not so much worried about the elbow. He'll recover from this it's fine, it's fine. But the hamstring injuries, He's virtually guaranteed to get a hamstring injury in nineteen because he's you know, it's just that's what he does. He gets hamstring injuries, and so

his injury risk is at thirty pc. It's going to knock him out, um, you know for probably again fifty fifty five games this season. He'll be, you know, one of these guys that you should not take, you know, early on in these rounds. I mean this, this is a guy that's going to miss a third of the season. A third of the season, Frank Staff, I hope you're listening. Alex Smith's one of those guys is going to miss a third of the season. What are you doing, Frank,

what are you doing? I know what he's gonna do. He's gonna pivot to end fair dr right, eat sign injuries. Man. Thank you so much for coming on with us, and we appreciate at the time. And let's do it all again next week. Okay, guys, have a great day. Absolutely when we come back the final twenty minutes of the outfield preview with Chris Venture and myself Chrissie, let's get into some of these deep leaguer guys, the guys that you've been asked about the most, the Harrison Invaders of

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day off. Jim Dady will join us four hour number two talk a little bit about football football Hill. It's kind of combin absolutely. Before we get into that, we want to contell you on with some of these outfielders here and Billy Hamilton's name. He mentioned about what aga you draft Billie Hamilton's this year? Me, No, I will not in a points league. Uh, in the in the way I play. Uh. We don't like Hamilton's could have a great year. He needs to hit for average otherwise

the stolen bases are not gonna be enough. Um, because he doesn't walk. He walks at a decent clip, but not a great clip, okay, And he needs to get on base in order to be a productive player. That's what it comes down to. He's not gonna hit for any sort of power whatsoever. Uh. And he's only gonna score runs if he gets on bass, so he needs to walk more, and he needs to for a high erg to thirty six last year, to forty seven the

year before. This is kind of a dead fish to me. Um, And you know you're looking for fifty plus stolen bases out of this guy, and he's only gonna do that. Like I said, if he gets on base, it's too risky. Uh. If you're now, if you're in the Roto league, I could see the value. Obviously there's major value in the stolen base category. Uh, so you know you're gonna want to target him if if you need that. But in points league, he is on the bottom of the ring

for me, all right, bottom of the ring. I'm not he's draftable, but he's not. Never draft Yeah, I'm just never gonna do it. I never do it either. Well yeah, you know, ultimately, I just I feel you can't win with him. That's the problem. I ultimately feel that I have I disadvantage. Um. Well, Billy Hamilton, Billy Hamilton, right talking about right, Yeah, he hit two eighty, that'd be a different story. He's not hitting two eight. He hit to sixty one year. I was surprised Florio actually has

Byron bucks and behind Billy Hamilts, which is surprised. And I understand the speed. I get it. I'm never doing that, Like I mean, Buckston could hit Homers though, that's crazy. Rankings are interesting, man, he has I don't know if I'm allowed to even say any of this, but he's like even doubt way behind all of these guys. Is it interesting that is well? I could see that because David Doll hasn't really done anything. What has he done? Nothing?

It's just round places in Colorado. That's the big thing. It's a bit, it's a big thing. But his health risk and just the fact that we don't know exactly what he's gonna give us is like really scary. So I could see, I could understand it. You know, I can see where he's coming from. You want to play it safe, you go away from Doll. And name you mentioned before Chris was Chris Taylor and last year Max Months, this year's Max Monsey was Chris Taylor. Right came out

of nowhere. I had a monster year for the Dodgers, had very good position eligibility and really struggled. Um shrug out a lot last year. I know you don't care about the strike ats, but a lot of fantasy that's important. Yeah, it's important. A lot of a lot of fantasy owners

do in points least because more um taller. Taylor last year, playing a hundred fifty five games a playing time wasn't conncerned had over six hundred at bats, but went down in home runs of the same amount of runs down in verbis down and steel struck out more almost thirty percent of the time did walk a little bit more. Average dropped by thirty five points or so. Chris Taylor also saw the hard hit rate go up a lot, which is interesting, up six percent, and the hard hit

rate ground balls went way down. He was just hitting, you know, making good contact, I would say, yet a little bit unlucky as his babbit certainly fell from the excellent three one to really still extra five. But it felt a little bit but he wasn't making as good of contact. What do you make Chris Taylor in twenty nineteen. I'm still on him. Actually I drafted him at at a place where it wasn't the greatest value. But I was very high on Chris Taylor last year. Um so

I understand he played more games. He he went down a little bit. I think this is more of like a growing pains thing in the MLB because he played his first full year in twenty seventeen, and I think he kind of need to adjust. I think people adjusted to him. Pitchers adjusted to him. They got a scouting report on him, they knew how to pitch him. He had to us, and I think he did a decent job of it, because he still had a pretty decent

season considering the thirty point, uh, you know, drop an average. Honestly, he does everything pretty well. I think the average will go up. Like you said, the babbittie, he it should start heading more in that direction. Uh cl closer to to seventy. Trying to figure out why he got unlucky, and I don't know, he just probably got unlucky. I mean, but that many he strugg out a lot more, a lot more here. He struggled, struggled against lefties last year betting two thirty two, which is a bit of it,

which is obviously, um a bit of an issue. His August. His August was like horrific. He meant eighty five before. It's kind of turning it on um Sintember and October, So you know, Chris Taylor a streaky guy. I think that's fair to say. You think that's like gonna be a career trends, maybe bet a roto player. Potentially, well, where he's going in drafts now as opposed to where he was going last is a much better value play. And I think we can see numbers more similar to seventeen.

I don't think about two eight eight. I'm thinking more like two seventy to seventy five. UM, maybe give you a twelve to fifteen bags uh and hopefully you know around fifty to sixty walks uh. The RBIs and run scored. He hasn't really had the RBIs, but the run scores are there, it's what you want to see. And scored less two years and row eighty five in a row, so that's good. Doubles are there, thirty four and thirty five, and I think he could be a twenty to twenty

five home er guy. I think this is pretty much what you're gonna get, except more of the twenty seventeen version of him than this version of I think you just had a little bit of a down year and had to adjust. I think he's a solid guy to draft, especially at the shortstop position, shortstop and outfield eligible. Going off the board. Picked two nineteen is Chris Teller. I do like him better than a guy like Adam Eaton, a guy like I'm kind of shore like Chris Teller

better than that he measured Harrison Bader. Has there anything to know about Harrison Bader? Chris Bader does almost everything well, uh, he's said he kind of reminds me of But I think he's gonna have more power than this guy Andrew benn in Tendi. Okay, interesting with the stolen bab He's not gonna have the average. Okay, I don't think I'll have the average like benn Intendie, but he'll have the He'll have more power, so it's kind of gonna wash that out. Is he going to play? And are you

sure he doesn't have more power? It's twelve home runs a hundred thirty games last year. I'm thinking I'm looking more at his minor league career at twenty homers and nineteen homers two years in the miners, a hundred thirty undred, twenty games. It's a lot of homers and miners um. You know, I thinks a lot strikes out a lot, so That's that's how you know he's definitely going for the power of power shot. He's only twenty four. He's gonna be twenty five in June. Uh so, like there's

still time for development here. It was only really his first full season, so I think, and not even really a full season. So I think the you know, the average could to sixty four in bad for a first year. He could be even bumped that up to two seventy to seventy five. I think the homers go up. I think the doubles, all that stuff will go up. The walks. I don't think he's gonna be a guy that walks a ton, but he'll walk you know, maybe forty to fifty times like a Chris Taylor um and strikes out

a ton. That's gonna happen. But if you could get the average up to t eight, I think this is not a bad player to have any stills basis he's kind of teen. Is there a spot for him in that outfield? Though, Well, what do we have right now? We have our zoo Zuna, we have him him. I think he should definitely start in that outfiel who else is really there pulling it up? Hang on one second, cause I'm I'm having a brain. I'm having a brain far in here. Um in the outfield for the Cardinals. Yeah,

obviously Marcello Juna, he's out there. Dexter Fowler is still going to play because he makes a ton of money. Um, and the other one I'm missing, and Harrison Bader is protected about eighth place center field for this team. Center field. I mean, Fouler isn't really much of a threat though, like you know what I'm saying, Like that's their third outfield. There's Fouler, Like I would think that somebody else even takes foul stuff. Eventually, I mean, they may want to

get Josie Martinez in the lineup. Figure out a way to do that. People need to like Yramunos, as I said, as Freight pointed out to me, Martinez, I don't see because they I don't think he's just not a good hitter. He's just not that he's a good hitter. He's not a good fielding's terrible fielder. But I don't see, like what numbers those Josie Martinez ever. Really he's got some power, I think, to be honest, with this little power, and then that's about it right. Yeah. Tyler O'Neil is another

outfielder that certainly that fantasy owners love. He's got a ton of power if he learned are interested about him. Um, he's the main guy that I think people would be concerned about when it comes to Harrison Bater. I would think people love Tyler O'Neill. Tyler O'Neil, Okay, I mean, I don't think any of these guys really are gonna threaten much. Uh and listen, you're right I was wrong about that. Ido Jose Martinez was a lot less of an averager. He'd throw a five, throw nine in the

past two. He's good hitter, that's pretty good. Um, But I just I don't see, if anything, I think Martinez might take Fowler time away. I don't see it taking Baters somewhere. He's a young guy, he's got potential. He's playing center field, so obviously he's probably one of the better outfielders Defensively. I think you know he's gonna get a shot. I wouldn't worry about playing time. I'd worry more about you know, I hope he climbs up in that lineup. Eight isn't isn't really a good spot to be.

But if he hits and he you know, he's hitting consistently, well, he'll move up in that line of because that line up isn't like, you know, stacked by any means. Um. I like the guy. I think it's not a bad value pick later. I wouldn't reach on him or anything like that. Like I still like um, you know, like a Chris Taller and not Winker though I think you're like Winker. I like Winker, and I want to talk about Winker because somebody pot that up to me. Winker

is an interesting guy. I think there's a guy, there's a guy with value here right right, right spot for him, right spot for him. We're right in the right in the right area. I think that bad has just proven more already in the MLBU. Winker hasn't really you know, he hasn't. He played barely you know, half a seat little one a half a season, uh, and hasn't really shown too much. But he did hit nine. That's something you really like to see in ninety games. Uh, you know,

almost fifty walks in ninety games. That's really good to play disciplines day. The averages there doesn't strike out, he walked more than he struck out. I think that's what stands out the most to me about Winker, and that's why I really like him. But he didn't see any power. Really, seven homers in ninety games isn't really that great if you can get till. So that's the thing with Jesse Winker.

It's interesting. He's interesting because as a young hitter, I mean, what is twenty five years old, twenty six and August twenty five years old in the last two years of small sample sizes, he sees the ball really really well because he doesn't strike out, He walks an s ton as you as you just mentioned, the power hasn't been there in the Great American Ball Park. If he couldn't guarantee me that Jesse Winkers is gonna play every day, And we have this conversation yesterday when he came to

yas L Peak. There's a lot of names there, from Scotti Cheler yas L Pweak to Matt Kemp to Jesse Winker. There are a lot of names there. Nix sends Nix sends, so potentially he comes out plays the outfield. If you can tell me Jesse Winker would play every day, I am really interested man. Really, it's just a good player, especially where you're you know, I think people start hard. Hit percentage going up for last year, that's really good.

It's really hard. The thing is the home in the five ball ratio under ten percent, and that's why that you're not that's right there. Percentage was almost twenty five percent, So I get it right. He's in a lot of line drives aren't going out, but some of those how many doubles do you have last year? You're the doubles guy? Yeah, he only had sixteen he played, but that's like, that's roughly thirty, so that's not bad. That's okay. Closing the home runs with this average. I like Jesse Winker man.

I like it. As a left he's going I think he's gonna play today. He's playing right and right as of right now, he's supposed to be leading off theoretically electic big but platooning verse lefties. What was batting average against lefties lest year? Last year against lefties, Jesse Winker bad at two eleven, which is the massive problem. I was going to hide that, uh to eleven. I feel like every lefty just bat's bad versus lefties. There's only like a handful a handful of guys that actually back

well versus lefties. But um, you know, he's a left handed hitter. I mean, he's got to do better than two eleven. If he hits two thirty versus lefties, that might even suffice if he's king. Isn't that crazy? So the thing is, I don't like the platoon thing. That scares me. He doesn't. I mean, he just doesn't play against left the Ultimately, he's not gonna play. I mean, he's not gonna play a pinch hitter. That's it. Because you've had three against last year. Yeah, I mean that

that's why you bet nine. But in the daily Transaction league, can't you just movement it out in the daily transactionally, Yes, great guy to have I played. You know, most people play. I feel like weeklyly play daily. I kind of want to move to daily, but nobody will do it. Love it. They won't do it. It's too much work, is what they'd say. But to me, weekly change you can't do anything. I mean, he's staring at your team for a week

and you can't do anything. I know, And what if a guy gets hurt right before the game is on Monday sucks that guy's out the whole week. But if a guy gets hurt right after a lot of Monday, yeah it sucks. It's terrible. Yeah, no, I agree, but they're not gonna do that. And if you a lot of people, I'm sure I play that weekly head to head format like a fantasy trip ball. So it's scary. But I think this guy has just so much potential. I mean, listen, if you walk more than you strike out,

that's like pools. You know what I'm talking about. That's pools type of bad. Don't you know what I mean? Don't you lay Ryan Braun Also, I do like bron but he doesn't play. He did last year. He's just always hurt. How much? How many games did he play last year? Last year Ryan bron for the Brew Crew played in a hundred twenty five games, So like, is that what we're hoping for? Twenty and ten and twenty

five game and a hundred twenty five games average. Obviously is never coming back, but he's still even at this point in his career. He's twenty and guy, man, I love that Guy's whole career was really Ryan Brod was rerather Ryan Broner Andrea Cutching. I'd rather have him a Cutching right now, just because I know he'll probably play a full season. The last three seasons he played pretty

much full seasons, absolutely bowlketball parks. The problem with like he's played a hundred He hasn't played more than a hundred and forty games since two thousand, twelve hundred fifteen, but before that was two thousand, hundred fifty four, So he hasn't really played a full season forever. That's a scary thing, like always getting hurt. Older guy now too, he's older then McCutcheon. He's he's thirty five years old.

McCutcheon is thirty two, I believe. So that thirty five age, I feel like that's where the decline starts for most players six you know, in the stertor is more like thirty thirty nine. But it's not start there anymore. People start declining at thirty five now, So I'm scared. I'm scared of Braun, to be honest, But you're getting him at cheap value, So I do like I know you have you have at the baseball and I have some

breaking football news if you don't mind nice. The Cowboys have announced that Jason Witten is returning the nineteen season. Ah wait what yeah he got did he get cans from the I don't know. That is the perfect segue to talk to Jim Day about today. How about that news? He definitely he was like I don't He's like, I suck it. Yeah, I'm not doing this anymore, but I want to play football game. I guess you got a year ar rest. Maybe that'll help him. And he was

really bad at another job. I mean some say a lot of people are saying he was doing much better. I didn't. That was just Corey only Corey was saying. I heard one of the person to say that I forgot what it was, but I didn't see that. Yeah, I didn't really see the a little bit of improvement. Of course, you're gonna improve as you do something more. But like he was still bored, Like he just wasn't entertaining to me. You know, he's very monotone, and you know,

I guess that's the plan for him. He wants to make money still, you know, he he's note you know what, And I bet he was getting cans from his job and the let's face, the Cowboys need a tight end. Now buys could use the veteran, use anything. He's a veteran in there for sure. How much money they're giving him's see if it's here, Um, it doesn't how much money. Quote the fire and Simon to compete and play this game is just burning too strong. It's he was a

great group of rising young stars. I want to help them make a run in the championship. This is completly my decision, and I'm very comfortable with it. I'm looking forward to getting back in the dirt. Wow, it looks like ESPN is gonna go find another commentator. That's how much they can pay Greg Olson? That's the question, right, how much could they Payson? Do you think that will be the replacement? That's the idea, Although will they do

it with another tight end? That's the question, right. We'll see. I'm sure there's a lot of candidates. There will be. There will be again and maybe they're just like Bogger do it. Maybe they're just be Bogger Tessa bugs in in the actual studio of course. All right. We ended with football, back to Bageholl starting pitchers tomorrow. When we come back, Jim Day joins us to break down the count by stick around more after this