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listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Did we become best friends? Fantasy best Friends forever? What's up? And welcome inside studio thirty four, Thursday February four, team for Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day to everybody out there. I am Frank Stanford will be joined live in studio with my good buddy Andy Singleton. Make sure you follow MOS, but are

over over at People's Pen. People's with a Z also have dr a of inside injuries on the show later on today to talk about some some baseball players that that we have some concern over heading into the season. We'll get the latest updates on those players, what their timetables are, what we should expect heading into the season. We'll get into all of that today, I got I got got a fun show planned with little Valentine's Day theme. You those little sweetheart candies, the hearts to have all

the sayings on them be mine, cutie pie, I love you. Basically, gonna match up players for Fantasy Baseball this season that match those sayings how we feel about those players this year. So we're gonna get into all that. Got a fun show planned for you today. A four four, four, three seven nine is a number to call in. But I would be remis if I didn't mention. Everybody sees what's going on with Corey Parson are good buddy, friend of

the show. I love Corey as long as I've been in this industry writing, Um, you know, going back towards he said serious, I was an intern there. I've learned a lot from Corey. I love him. Can't really talk about anything behind the scenes that's going on, obviously, but you know you can check out everything that's going on with Corey over on his Twitter at the Fantasy Exact. Uh, you know you want to continue follow him so on

and so forth. You know, look, nothing but love for Corey. Um. You know, Gabe spoke about a little bit during the morning show a lot like sports, right, Like you know, there are things that go on behind the scenes that unfortunately we can't talk about. But if you've been following the show, if you've been following the network, if you've been following me for years, you know that me and Corey we have nothing but love for each other. So

I just wanted to address that first and foremost. At the top of the show, I mentioned Andy Singleton here live in studio. Andy, before I ask you, how's everything going in your life? You're a newly wet I thought it made a lot of sense to have you on the show, the Valentine's Day edition. I just sleep last night, buddy, I actually I slept all right. The last night was pretty good. I I feel like I'm here in a

somber on a somber day, even though we're here. It was supposed to be spreading love Valentine's Day, as you mentioned, but Corey awesome. I love Corey. I was just dming with him back and forth. I just found out about this myself as I was walking up the stairs to come in here. I was excited to be back here. Uh So, Corey, wherever you are, miss you. Love you.

I was hoping we've seen you today but understood. But um, I'm happy to be back, Frank, and um, you're at my wedding, so right, it's a great I don't remember much of it. I wish I could say on air that I don't either, but I probably get in trouble so I remember every single moment of it. But no, I'm exactly I'm happy to be here. We got a

lot to talk about, a lot to discuss. I can relate actually from from the lead that you just started with, because, uh, some of you might know the baseball stuff I did with the Baseball Show. Uh, we just kind of had a little thing go on as well, and I'm not gonna get into details, but the Baseball Show, unfortunately will be no longer. So probably the first place I've said that officially, but uh, just you know, if anybody was curious, anybody tuning in wondering where the videos have been the

last couple of weeks, now, you know. So yeah, new new year, new season. But I'm excited to get in things two things with you today, and this is my first time with Dr Ray. I'm curious, you know, we're so far apart and there's so many, so much room around you. So I give you a little uh Andy Singleton Island over there, a little bit of a little bit of Durell Reevus little Revus Island for you. That's the Singleton Island over there. I love this spot over here.

I remember being here on draft in the NFL drafting night, and I was owning this. You really remember that night. I do remember, and I do remember, and I remember owning this and wanting to uh my real estate here, but no, I put the cologne off of you and everything, and he kicked me to the corner. So anyway, let's go. Let's get into this thing. Let's do it. Look, yeah, you've been following Andy for years. He's a friend of the show. He's come on. We talked baseball, we talked football,

he mentioned the Baseball Show. Just because it's not around doesn't mean that all of his knowledge goes away. He still has knowledge. He's still, you know, still has it in there to talk about some fantasy baseball. So, as I mentioned, we're gonna get into that right now. Little heart candies, you know, I couldn't find any I was trying. I looked in a few Pharmacies. I'm trying to buy the little heart candies for Valentine's today. Figured I can, I can pull out some of the heart sayings and

we could do it live on the spot. You know, what does this heart candy say? Let's find a player that that matches how we feel about said player. I couldn't find the heart candies. I'm sorry everybody. I tried. I couldn't find them. So instead, look the pictures. I got them right here. We're gonna start off with be Mine,

So be mine. I was trying to figure out how to make these relate to Fantasy Baseball andy, and what I came up with for B mine is somebody who you haven't owned before in Fantasy baseball, who you want to own this year. So we'll start it off with you. I'll throw it your way. We'll do a hit her in a picture for each one of these B mine. Somebody you haven't owned before you want to own this year. Who's your hitter. I absolutely love the concept of what

you're going with with this. Uh, everybody knows Valentine's Day candy, so I really love this. But the fact that we don't have them physically year, I think I might want to leave now, Um, but my hitter, I'm gonna go with Nick Castellanos, who I actually just traded for in my main Dynasty league and this past offseason. Uh just turns twenty seven on March four, so he's just about to enter his prime window. This guy is like an Aronado light maybe even Anthony Rizzo would be about a

compious for the consistency he's starting to put together. It's a discounted version of those two players, of course, but uh, you're getting consistency across the board. No speed, but you're getting the average, you're getting the power. I think he's a lock for thirty home runs this year. I don't think he's the type of player that's affected by his supporting cast at all. And this is a guy I've never really been able to get ah my hands on

in former draft. So, like I said, I just traded for him in Dynasty League and he's somebody I'm definitely targeting, and re draft League says, I think the price is right with the value that he provides. And I love Nick Castiano. He's someone that I was touting last year. I was talking him up a lot. Unfortunately I didn't end up with the guy. Look, he hits for great batting average to eighty five to seventy the past three seasons.

I still feel like he has that breakout coming. And you know, whether he's with the Detroit Tigers or not, I actually think if he gets moved, will probably end up in a better offensive situation because as of right now, you know, it's not like the Tigers line up is murderers row or anything. My biggest problem right and you know, I'll call you out, you call me out, so on and so forth. We'll go back and forth. Here he said he's a lock for thirty home runs. It's something

he's never done in his career. It's home runs last two years ago. It's twenty three home runs last year. It's the ball extremely hard. I love the bad ball profile for Nick Cassiano's My biggest issue. Doesn't hit enough fly balls. You know, thirty five percent last year, thirty eight point two percent the year before. Hits a lot of line drives. Reminds me, you know, his bat ball profile reminds me a lot of Freddy Freeman. It's a lot of line drives, hits a lot of doubles. He's

gonna give you good batting average. I just I think if he does raise the launch angle, that we can get a thirty home run season out of him. The problem is, Andy, I haven't seen enough of it trend ending that way for me to project him for thirty home runs. If that makes sense. I get where you're going with that, and I'm not opposed to you feel in that way. I think if you look at him being a safe twenty five ish home run guy, he

said twenty three was twenty six year before. But I go back to that turning twenty seven this year, and that's the prime. That's the one the window opens for your prime. That that nice five year gap from twenty seven to you know, thirties to thirty two where your your physical prime, your peak power performance. And I think that if you look historically, there is a significant jump for players that enter that twenty seven years. So if he's already at twenty five, I'm willing to bet. And

you know this is this is just historical data. This isn't and and a gut feel if you will. This isn't necessarily saying something. I'm looking at a number and pointing and saying the launch angle or egg velocity of things of that nature. I'm just saying, for where he is and where he's been, I think you can safely assume that that five homer jump and put thirty as the as the floor for him this year and in the power department. Yeah, if I were projecting him myself again,

I love the batting average. I think you know, whether he's with the Tigers or with another team, I think kill be in the middle of wherever he whatever lineup he's in. So look, I think you know a d plus runs, you know eight ninety r BI, you know, hitting two five, I think that's a safe floor. Only five home runs. I love Castanos. Um, well, you know we'll see where he ends up. Um see if I

get some more shares of Castanos this year, I'm definitely in. Look, a guy I haven't owned before and I've already been talking him up a lot is Tommy Fam. I really like what I saw at a Tommy fam last year in the past couple of years as much as I love him, and I'm gonna talk about why I do with the Tampa Bay Rays last year, Look, he was phenomenal, three forty three. He didn't have to worry about whether

he was gonna play every day. You saw the article last year in Sports Illustrated with Tommy fam He's a very animated dude. You know, he was using all kinds of different language talking about, you know, why is this bum playing ahead of me on the St. Louis Cardinals, And you know what, you can't really argue with the guy. He gets traded over to Tampa Bay. In thirty nine games, he had seven home runs, scores thirty five runs. He actually scored over a hundred runs last year combined between

the Cardinals and the Rays. He hit three forty three one percent hard hit rate last year with the Tampa Bay Raid, lots of line drives. Um, I see the home run of fly ball ratio. It's high, it's over twenty percent, but it's twenty three nine percent for his career. So at this point, you know, you got about plate appearances in his back pocket here at the major league level. I trusted, I trust the home run to fly ball ratio.

So to me, I think Tommy fam is one of these guys where you could get a season out of him with a very good batting average close to three hundred, maybe above that, he's gonna hit at the top of the raised line up. Not a great lineup, it's not a terrible lineup. It's fine. He's gonna hit in good hitting environments. In the A l East, I think he could come close or even exceed a hundred runs scored. Once again, here's my problem and the a DP when

it comes to Tommy Fam. Right I'm looking at fifties six point eight five NFBC a d P, which in a fifteen team league puts him in the fourth round. So you're probably getting getting him sometimes as your outfield one. I think ideally you'd want him as your outfield too. I know in the Labor Draft the other night, Paul Sporer and Jason Collett teaming up, they took him at the three four turn in the fifteen team league. Let's pick.

What do you think about Tommy Fam What do you think about the price you have to pay right now? I personally like Tommy Fam a lot. I thought last year was the year to really be all in on him. I liked the situation moving to Tampa Bay. But that is way, way, way too much of a premium, too rich for my blood. That's not a price I'm willing to pay. For fam. You look at what he did last year in more games he had less Homer's less steels. Uh.

Of course he is outspoken. He hasn't he you know, hasn't even having a full season in Tampa Bay yet, and he's already blasting the fan base. I mean the off the field stuff alone worries me enough that he can get off to a bad start there and not have support. And you know, maybe in the dog house, you know, they have a lot of talent coming up in Tampa Bay. Maybe he's the guy that's on the trading block next year and and getting shipped out of

Table Bay late, a late bloomer. I do like the combination of everything he brings, But I don't think this is a fourth round, fifth round guy. Uh, you're chasing I'm guessing you're chasing speed and steels at that point. And that's way too early and too much of a premium for me to put on a guy that I'm looking at maybe hopefully have fifteen steals from. I can get that later. You know, the steels is definitely a premium, and you can't find a lot of players that are

going to give you a minimum fifteen steels. But I can still get those in the middle rounds later on that I don't want to invest in the fourth fifth, Even if he felt to the sixth round, I would still look at us a little too much. Uh, there are other guys I'd rather have. We mentioned Castellanos, the guy I'm going after. I'd much rather have the safety

in that bat. And that's going on full three to four rounds after Tommy fam so um a lot of more questions and concerns than guarantees from me with fam And and that's what worries me. Yea, And I can't knock you for that either. Look, he's a real interesting case. You mentioned some off the field stuff. The way that he talks. He's very candid in his interviews. He's a thirty year old guy, uh, you know, who was kind

of a late bloomer with the St. Louis Cardinals. You know, the cartoons are always able to find these random, kind of like journeyman guys that have been in their minor leagues and then they come up and they end up being awesome. I mean, Luke Voyd could have been another one of those guys, but then they traded him over to the Yankees. It just seems like they always find these guys. Matt Carpenter seems like he was kind of a late bloomer to Tommy Fam. Just another one of

these players. I'm just I'm really looking at the battle ball profile here. He strikes out a lot, but he hits the ball extremely hard. I'm talking about an average eggs velocity around ninety three miles per hour. Man. The prices just it's really it's really getting up there. I think he's a player that runs steal twenty to twenty five bases with a great batting average. The problem is, I think everybody else is also seeing Tommy Fam the same exact way. I'm gonna have some shares of Tommy Fam.

I don't hope I'm gonna be able to get him everywhere at that price, but I do really really like him season this season. I think there is a lot to like there and he Let's move over to the starting picture that you have here. I would expect nothing less from Andy Singleton here, very polar I zing picture this season. A picture for the Colorado Rockies. It's not Kyle Freeland, it's the other Colorado Rockies. Uh, you know.

Memo Deca refers to these guys every year as the helium arms, you're the guys that are just shooting up draft boards. It's hard to dispute what her Man Mark has did in the second half last year. I mean he was otherworldly, you know, for the season as a whole, two and thirty strikeouts, but in that second half, I mean, his strikeout rate way up, his walk rate way down.

People have concerns though, because he pitches in Colorado. I know that his slider is, you know, one of the filthiest pitches in baseball, started throwing it more last year. You're not scared off from from Coors Field, Huh, I'm not at all. And if that's the only concern, then I think we have to rethink how baseball has been going the last few years. You've seen a couple of Colorado Rockies pictures more significantly over the last few years,

have better success. Um, you know the things they've done to try to quell you know, Chase Field and then of course course Field as well, things to affect how the balls are hit out there. Uh, that's not even it for me. That that's not why I'm buying into it. I'm buying into it because you mentioned how we finished from August on eight innings two to four e r A A zero point nine five whip twelve point three

k per nine. Frank, do you realize that not since Hermann Marquez was eighteen and seventeen when he was his first two seasons in rookie ball did he have a walk per nine above three. Every year since that he's been above I mean, I'm sorry, below three walks per nine. That's remarkable control. He's up the k rate taking advantage of the free swinging hitters in the MLB. Now, how many pictures today are getting you two hundred innings on the seasons he was four shorter than that last year.

He's got the frame in the in the body and as sized him to be a two hundred inning pitcher and you're only getting a dozen to twenty of those guys will say fifteen two hundred in in guys per season in baseball. Now he's one of them. So I am not scared off at all. I think could still

a tremendous value for where the a DP is. I will take Herman Marquez in every draft that can get him, and and take advantage of other people having the doubt about him and worrying about him being in a rocky so Herman Marquez would an NFBC A DP in the month of February of eighty five point one five. You know he's going. I've seen him in that, you know, six seventh round range in fifteen team leagues. I'm looking at the second half and I see it. I understand

the upside here. Reminds me a lot of Louise Castile from last year. He's kind of the guy that you know you're drafting as a top thirty pitcher that you see have a monster second half and you're holding hoping that he can continue to build off that. There's some of these numbers in the second half two point two five, two point three zero xfit twelve, case per nine, one point nine, four walks for nine. I get it. Man, course Fields just scares me a little bit. Get it.

The upside is definitely there for Marquez when we get back well dr a of inside injuries. That's Andy Singleton. Follow him at People's Pen. I'm frank stand Fantasy BFFs, the fantasy sports radio network Daily Rodo dot com learn from the game's best DFS players. We don't just give you advice. We play every day, all major sports, all year round. We never stop. Industry leading DFS toolfl and custom projections, and now the Daily rodo dot Com optimizer.

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to win the SAMES category longest. I don't. Week days to the four pm Eastern on the Fantasy Sports Network and on your popular podcast providers Fantasy Best Friends Forever Frank Stanfeld joined live in studio by my good buddy Andy Singleton. The f F is correct. And what do you think about me? You? Are you all right with this? Because my musical taste, I constantly talked about this. I had Ian Conline live in studio yesterday talking about I'm all over the places. This is my error though this?

Did you heard about this? Probably when your parents were playing this. I was exactly I was growing up when this was actually on the top charts here, exactly right. That's that's the problem of what the age disparage. Well, you're not as old as Greg. You know, Greg just turned fifty years old this week. We're gonna get into that anymore. I hear some sniffling back there, which means dr a of inside injuries is on the line. Uh, Doc, what do you think about the song be My Lover

is Is? Is that? Is that your jam? Yeah? You know, I think that's more my speed of Uh. When I was growing up, you probably weren't even born when that song came out. I love it though, I love it. I'm all over it like eighties, nineties freestyle, techno, house dance. I'm all over the place. I'll listen to hip hop. You know, I've been to hip hop shows Rest in Peace, mac Miller, I've seen him live, Metallica, I've seen them Aton too as well. So musically I'm all over the place.

I'd like to have fun, but let's get into let's get into the injury. You know some stuff that might not be as fun for others, specifically Francisco Lindoor. You know this was a guy that I made headlines last week, came out I believe Friday over the weekend last week Francisco Lindoor. Uh, seems like a pretty severe cash strain here Doc expected to miss seven to nine weeks. Specifically, why this worries meet is he might be ready for the start of the season. You know, he might miss

the first week or two. But this is a guy that we draft relying on speed to you know, we want stolen bases. When should we expect lind Door back? How worried are we about re injury with Francisco Lindoor And can we count on him to have the same

speed on the base paths this season? Yeah? So this is a Grade three calf strain and for a shortstop, this is something that is more worrisome than for any other position on the field because of the you know, the movement that a short shortstop has to make not only defensively, but like you said, uh, to steal bases and on the base base paths. And so this is a really this is sort of a worrisome type of injury.

We have him slated at eight weeks recovery time, which is right in line with what the team is saying. But you know, he could heal from this if his recovery goes fine. The issue is is that, you know, to initiate the speed that you need from the you know, sort of forward facing position when trying to steal a base.

That initial move is done with hamstrings and with calves, and you know, I could just see him if he's not stretched completely or you know, in terms of he's not prepared one game that he's playing and he could re injure that calf and then you'll you're looking at a ten eleven, twelve week significant time miss type of things. So I would be very careful with lind Or in the draft. Andy, Yeah, dr, I can. I'm concerned. I just want to touch on Lindo or a little bit

more here. Uh. I've seen expert drafts already where he's gone pick eight and nine. He's not escaping the first round. I can't dispute the talent of Francisco Lindoor. Yeah, but um, you know, can you still and can you still use your first round pick on Well? That's kind of what I wanted to ask him because we have Donaldson on this list coming up in a moment, and we saw

him completely derailed by a calf injury. I've had calf strains as i've and it's it's horrible because you walk around and rely on you cast for everything and the only thing that really helps that is rust. Right, you can't take a pill for this, and there's no surgery that you have and to to make it better and

go away. So my question for you, dr raised how much of Linda's age factors in for you with his recovery time and being able to that eight week window when he comes back, say hey, this is in the rear view mirror, go forward and have a normally healthy season. I mean, he's still just twenty five, so there is a difference of when he had this in comparison to Josh Donaldson. Yeah, and see, I think also because there's from a shortstop standpoint, Josh Donaldson's a third baseman and

he got significantly impacted also because of his age. Now, yeah, I agree, the younger you are, the better you heal. The only thing that I worry about this is that it's the number three is after this grade not too three means that there is a tear within the muscle, and that's what we're predicting based on everything that we've heard, that there is a tear within the muscle and that takes not only is it from a recovery standpoint longer, but also it is a higher likelihood that does recur.

And he has all of these risk factors, especially the fact that he's a shortstop. So if he's expected to steal bases and he's expected to have a lot of range and coverage in that position, then you know this is an injury that has a really good chance of recurring. And so that's why right now our i r C

with Lindor is thirty six percent. Is going to improve because you know, obviously after the eight weeks are over, it will improve, but if you could just it won't improve to the point of five percent, It will probably go down and get better to a moderate to maybe fifteen percent. So if you calculate that he's likely to miss fifteen percent of the games of the season due

to this injury, that's what it's saying. Speaking with Dr A of Inside Injuries and Doc and he brought up Josh Donaldson who dealt with a calf and a shoulder injury, You're gonna notice a lot of there's a theme today. I mean, we have the calf with Josh Donaldson and Lindore, and then there's a lot of shoulder injuries to the just wanted to get updates on some of these guys. So Josh Donaldson, Um, you know, he basically the best of both worlds or or the worst of both worlds.

I guess he has the calf and the shoulder from last year. How how much can we rely on Josh Donaldson this year? Is he gonna be healthy? You know what's gonna be his risk for re injury as well as of right now you're getting Josh Donaldson has a discount in draft, But me personally, I feel like it's not worth the risk where you're getting, Like there are still guys where he's going that are completely healthy and at his age. I'm really worried about the health of

Josh Donaldson. Yeah, and he should be. Uh, I mean he he has been recovering this offseason and um and you know it's the biggest thing with him, his age and the multiple injuries on top of multiple injuries and multiple cap strange in seventeen and eighteen and um, and you know he's not a shortstop, but his age is catching up to him. His I r C right now is forty nine percent. I mean, it's basically flip of a coin if he's gonna get injured or not every

game he goes out. This is I got all the red red flags over at his his with all the rest and everything like that, he still has an HPF below average and so uh with a forty nine I r C and a below average HPF at six, this is the best he's gonna get in our books, which is basically telling you to look elsewhere. Can I bring it back to the Lindor for a moment, because well, and I mean it. I think it matters for Bold Lindor and for Donaldson with the same injury with the

calf at least. But we're talking about a top five overall pick in Lindoor who at just twenty five has already hit thirty plus homers and back to back seasons. And I was talking about Castellanos before entering his prime physical prime at seven. Lindor's not even there yet and he already hit thirty eight homers last year. Steals a side. This is still somebody that people rely on for the power in the batting average and everything like that. How much of the calf injury would you say affects the

power and the ability to drive the ball. So a lot of the power comes from core um. So yes, although calf has something to do with it, calf is more related to speed and coverage and side to side loud removement and an initiation of speed like hamstring at her powers really generated from core and hip flex ers um and lots and you know than an upper bot strength et cetera. So um from a power standpoint, the calf is a much less of effect than in terms

of UH the ability to steal bases and coverage. Awesome, doc I mentioned, you know, shoulder injuries that we want to get into. We spoke about Donaldson. Chris Bryant another one here that was dealing with the shoulder off and on all the season last year. Grade one rotator cuff is what I have it as here and you know there was there was data to support that. You know, after he suffered as the injury, his batted ball data, his performance, every single thing went down basically in a

direct correlation with this shoulder injury. But it seemed like his injury, more so than eyone else, just lasted all season long. What can you tell us about Chris Bryant? You know you're getting him at a discount. Again, he's going more so in the third round this year. In years past he was the first maybe second round pick. You're getting a bit of a discount. But this was a very severe shoulder injury last year with Chris Bryant. Yeah, And I mean the good thing is he's not a

picture so he's in a completely different category. Uh, third baseman, this is a this is a I believe it's throwing shoulder. So he still got to make that throw from third base in a very powerful fashion. And so this is originally this injury was a great to rotator cough. That means it's not a mile but a moderate sprain of the rotator cough. And you know he's had, you know, a significant amount of time to heal. He's already back up to above average, likely will sneak close to peak health.

Um and you know the injury risk right now is but it's gonna drop to probably fifteen or sixteen percent so by the time opening day comes around. So you know, I think third round is a very very solid uh area for him to be in based on his previous ongoing shoulder problems, on his age. But I do think that from this particular injury. Once the season starts and he doesn't have any setbacks, you know, he should be very close to peak health. So third round looks right,

It looks pretty good for me. I mean, I have a lot of questions about Chris bryant Um. I think the ultimate plan for the coast even if if his if his shoulder goes back to what if he has this recur moving the first basic move rizzo the second right rizzles played there before. So I mean, I feel like you lose the d h in in in the NL, but maybe we're gonna have that now universally, right, that's the next topic, So that would help Chris bryant Um.

I don't know how much longer we have for Dr Ray, so if it's all right, I wanted to skip ahead to another guy we have on this list here because, uh, of of all the other guys that we have here, Matt Chapman, Arnado, Ozuna, Darvish, Brandon Marrow, Kenney Jensen, Dnyelson, Lamy to me is the most polarizing and intriguing because, as you've noted here, Frank yet Tommy John surgery last April, but he's still not ready to come back. Yet and

it's not even for a while yet. Still, so what's the delay with his recovery from this in Is it something that people should be concerned about? Is it something you think he can come back from and and has success this season or should we just completely avoid him, because even if he does come back, he's probably gonna have a lot of kinks to work out. Yeah, So, I mean ten years ago, the Tommy Johns surgery was

really eight months nine months recovery. Uh. And you know, if if somebody gets torn a c L in the beginning of one season, then by the beginning of next season, you're thinking, Okay, he's gonna be ready to go. Well, data and statistics show that an extended period of rest post surgery and an extended period of rehab really makes the longevity and the stability of the repaired on their

collateral ligament a lot better. And so right now, the optimum recovery time for a Tommy john type surgery completely torn all the collateral ligament is a minimum of sixty weeks from surgery. Okay, so you know that's over a year. It's it's about fourteen months, and it could be more. And so you know, it's not surprising to me that he's not going to be ready. It's typical fourteen to

sixteen months for a fully healed Tommy John type surgery. Now, if he if he's, if he's out more than that, then you can almost guarantee the team has not been telling you about a setback that he had. But right now he's on schedule. Sometime mid June is when we're thinking that he'll get back, um, because that really is right around the fourteen month standpoint. Now back meaning fully capable, ready to go out in games if he's if he's able to, you know, have command and control of his

pitches and a wething like that. Yeah, mid June to early July. Okay, alright, so there's a prognosis update for the Nelson Lament. Uh. You know, I think I think we've been exposed so much too that I'm just talking for myself here. I feel like I've been exposed to torn a c L s so much that I'm kind of like combining torn a c L and torn U c L at this point, and I'm thinking that, oh, well, everyone's returning from you know, torn a c L and

football and you know whatever. Six eight months. Nowadays, I think we're kind of just like lumping that in together with Tommy John. And at least that's my thinking. I don't know. I felt like Tommy John John was like quicker to come back from. But I think I'm just kind of like emerging Tommy John and torn a c L together. Yeah. Yeah, for sure one's in elbow, one's ones a knee. But yeah, I mean, both very popular

and their respective sports. Obviously with torn a c L with football, uh, and then with Tommy John in baseball. Doc I didn't wanna get to Matt Chapman here again, another guy dealing with a shoulder injury. Here he had off season surgeries on both his shoulder and his thumb.

And we've actually had updates with Matt Chapman saying that he is going to be a little bit behind everybody else in Oakland A's camp in terms of spring training and getting in there and getting at bats and getting back up to game shape, and you know, in in mid season for me, it's gonna take a little bit longer for Matt Chapman. How worried should we be about him? Okay, so you know, the thumb, the right thumb, surgery is

the owner sided sesamoid boint bone excision. And so you know if you take your right if you take your right thumb, there's sesamoid bones on your thumb basically right here. Then one is on the owner side, which is on this side, and one is on the radial side. So they took this one out. This this thumb is a significant uh anchor point in terms of swinging the bat. So if he has any pain post surgery, uh, and when he's theoretically fully healed on that, it'll significantly affect

his power. And uh, the sesamoid bone injuries are very highly recurrent. So I would watch that with Matt Chapman because once I saw that he had a sesamoid bone decision, Um, you know, the algorithm as well as myself, we were very clear and the fact that this is something that will affect it's such a finesse and a specific point. But that thumb represents an anchor point, okay, and so uh, if he experiences any pain there, it will be very hard to treat and it will affect his power. So

that's number one. Left shoulder had surgery in mid December. Looks like it was a Greade three. So he actually had a partial tear, uh and not just a rotator cough inflammation or um you know, or a spray. This one is a partial tear. And so with a combination of these two injuries, UM, I know it's he's gonna be delayed. But you know, we are very very negative on Matt Chapman for this year based on these two injuries alone, especially this right thumb injury, because power is

what you need from him. But um, you know, with this right thumb injury, it may be very difficult for him to sustain that all season long. Speaking with Dr a of inside injuries, you know, Matt Chapman, I was looking at the second half bad ball data last year

and there was a lot to be excited about. But basically, Andy, what I just heard from doctor, he was don't draft match happen, which is unfortunate, very unfortunate, very unfortunate because he's a guy I would love to have on every team, him and him and his twin if you will, Matt Olsen's I love the mats uh you have down here, Kenny Jansen, and I would imagine would be pretty quick. But heart surgery is that something that worries you or is this something that don't you know? Fix him up?

So him up in the past and Kenny Jensen can go back to being a stud closer. No, everybody has, not everyone, but there's quite common to have some sort of hard rhythmia. He had atrial fibrillation. A lot of that has to do with diet and um body mass index and and quality of life, etcetera. I know he lost twenty five pounds and he's cutting out carbs and sugar,

so he's on the right track. Um. The surgery is really just a it's a non invasive, minimally invasive surgery to to basically make sure that his heart rhythm is back in line. UM, and he had the procedure, it's good to go. It really does not affect anything from a orthopedic sports medicine standpoint. This is outside the realm of that. So he's in peak health. He's got his a rhythmi under control. He lost twenty five pounds. From that standpoint, he looks pretty good to go. That is

dr a of inside injuries. Make sure you follow inside injuries on Twitter. You know, I have a little turn on notification thing that whenever inside Injuries tweets. I get a notification to my phone so that I could be up to date with the latest injury information that is coming out from some of the best they're over at Inside Injuries. Again, that was Dr A Doc. We appreciate you so much. I know we didn't get to all the names that we did today. Hopefully we can do

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it might be the only Andy Singleton on Twitter. So if you just put my name, you'll find the People's PA if you if you get confused with how to spell People's but that that was a nickname. That's there's a history behind it. Uh. I did just launch a new website, Expand the box Score, two months ago. It's a refreshing to talk baseball again. I've been mired in NFL draft coverage lately, and uh Expand the box Score

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for fantasy, for your draft, for anything you want. It's only ten dollars for an entire year's worth of access, so it's really just an advanced tool for your toolbox. Expand the box score dot Com spanned the box board score dot Com. Andy, I didn't get to my picture before. Who I wanted be mine? The little heart Candy, Happy Valentine's Day for everyone out there watching and listening. The picture that I have here going a little bit later, and this is somebody who you haven't owned before, who

you want to own this year? Kind of pains me to say former Yankee, not not a former Yankee great, had the potential to be great. It seems like the Boston Red Sox kind of unlocked some of that potential last year. And I'm talking about Nathan of Valdi going to at you know, pick one sixties six right now

in NFBC a D. P. Valdi. Look, if I can always point to something that a picture is doing differently, is doing new if they're throwing a new pitch and they're having success because of that, and I'm gonna be pretty excited about that heading into the next season. Of all, he was always known as a guy more of a thrower than a pitcher. He can throw extremely hard, we know, you know, he touches a hundred miles per hour on the gun regularly when it comes to to his starts.

But last year he added a new wrinkle to his game. Uh started throwing a cutter last year thirty two percent

of the time. And he started doing this a little bit a couple of years ago with the Yankees, and I thought we were starting to see some success with him that year back in through this cutter, you know, seven percent of the time, um, and it looked like he was starting to turn a corner a little bit there for the Yankees, and then he had to go and have Tommy John surgery derailed his career a little

bit there. But last year, through this pitch thirty two percent of the time, and I know it was painful to watch, But in the playoffs down the stretch. You know, uh, painful for Yankee fans to watch. It was great for Red Sox fans to watch. But he pitched very well. And you know three point eight e r a um, you know, the era indicators are lower than that. I don't know a lot of people that are gonna be

on all the andy. I'm pretty excited here, man. I always, for whatever reason, blindly assimilate evolved the to the car Pavano just kind of like what he produced with Yankee's fair And it's not it's not at all. It's not at all. But I just kind of feel like, you know, they remind me of each other in that realm. But uh, you look at evolved these numbers, and we think of

him as like this power arm. I was really intrigued when there was speculation that you might go to Houston and become an astro and and you know what they're putting in the water for their pictures down there, and how they're evolving and changing, and I would I would have loved to have seen that experiment. But the crazy part about the Evaldi is like you look at his numbers, He's never been above a nine for cape or nine. This is not anywhere near a strikeout picture, but yet

we have this thought of him being that. Uh, maybe it's because he can't touch a hundred whatever, but he does still hasn't really figured out how to harness that, and even last year it was just at eight point one nine k or nine. So he's maintained the walks, he's kept those down. But maybe it's his strike outs are coming in big moments and that's why we think of him in that way. But as as a guy over the course of the season, not really much. I'm

excited about it. I will put some stock into the fact that he's on defending World Series champion Red Sox, he's in that rotation, he does have a great offense behind him. He should get a ton of run support, so he should be in line for wins. But as far as the counting stats going everything like that, I mean, you look at the e r A. The r A has never been something you know, significant or substantial. The whip nothing, nothing about him screams out like I have

to have this guy dominant pitcher. Uh. He got hot at the right moment on the right team and the on the on the right stage, and I think that's propelled the perception of him a little too too much for me, and I can't argue with that. Look, six point seven eight case per nine on average throughout his career, so it hasn't been great. I'm just gonna kind of hang my hat on last year the swinging strikeker going up,

it was a career high ten point seven. The case per nine were a career high up to eight point one nine case per nine last year. So, look, he's doing something differently. He's getting he's missing more bats, getting a few more strikeouts. He's kind of progressing the way that we kind of hoped he would before he got hurt. He's doing so now. So I'm pretty excited about Nathan of Valdi getting him as your you know, your SP

five in that range SP five, s P six. I do think that there's a little bit of upside there and in that in that realm absolutely fine. I mean they're getting him, you know one d P. So if he's going pretty late in draft, if he's at the back end of your rotation, I wouldn't want him higher than SP five. No, I don't want him as one of my top four pictures. I just think the name became a little inflated as as as far as we

think of him, and and that's all I'm saying. I want to see him do it for another full year, and it's if this becomes a premier pitcher this year, then yeah, drafts, I'm all of them again. It's Valentine's Day twenty nineteen. I had to bring in the newly wed Andy Singleton because I made the most sense. And not only that, I kind of like it's you had it down that road, you know what I am. You're absolutely right the next sweetheart candy that we have up here.

The saying on the sweetheart candy is cutey Pie, somebody who's not the hottest but has potentially. Not I was I was actually trying to think of how to relate cutie pie to fantasy. Uh. And my fiance was actually the one who came up with this. He said, you know somebody who's not the hottest but has potential. Well, you know what I would I would hope she would think that I am the hottest Andy. But all right, whatever potential you have here, Luke void one a DP

right now? You know, I almost forgot what everything that's going on. Greg Susson's out this week. I've launched a Patreon page and I haven't even promoted it all week long. Like you know, my head is all over the place. I got everything going on. Oh, head on over to my Twitter. You know Greg's enjoying his pooling the rules out there in Florida right now. If you head on over to my Twitter right now, you know my pin tweet, you will lead you to my Patreon page. And I'm

slowly revealing my my Fantasy Baseball rankings. As of right now, I'm releasing everything for free so everyone can kind of get a taste of what I'm gonna be doing throughout the season. I wrote about a first based sleeper Andy that was Luke Void that is your cutie Pie. Why Well, first of all was I you should be everything on this list to your your darling, your cute, her, cutie pie, her v mind, her everything, all that kind of stuff. So I didn't mean. I didn't mean to make it

slight in anyway. But um, the picture on page, I've checked it out. It is fantastic, phenomenal. It's a lot of good stuff that Frank's putting up there. So I would highly recommend going to check it out as well. And and that's you know, my my live read for Heartfelt. That's I'm not getting anything for that. That is a true statement. Go check out Frank's page. Um. As far as Luke Void, yeah, he's I mean, you can't like

Adalbertelmantasy or Max Mons. You can't like these guys and then not consider Void to be in that same kind of range. I mean, you look at the numbers he put up in a short period of time with the Yankees. It's astronomical. He was always considered Quad a kind of guy. So he didn't exactly come out of nowhere because the minor league numbers back it up. But he just never really had a long enough opportunity at the major league level to see if it could work. Um, the stints

were short and it didn't work. So he's labeled that Quad a guy. But the biggest thing, and I like the psychology of sports a lot. I mentioned that a lot in my analysis and reviews and things I've heard. You've heard me mentioned this before with other players we've talked about today. He fits in tremendously with his teammates and and the Yankee clubhouse like he was an instant fixture, UH fan favorite. Um, he became somebody that you know.

You see him in all the Instagram video, all the pictures. He's always with his teammates, like he blends into that clubhouse perfectly. Well, not to say anything about Greg Bird, but I don't have the same feeling of Greg Bird having those intimate moments with the teammates the same way I see Luke Voit in that in that way. Um, he was up to third or fifth in the lineup by the end of the season and into the playoffs. So this is a guy that wasn't just you know, doing it at the back end of the of of

the lineup. He moved himself into a considerable position. So the opportunity is there. The Yankees have come out and said, this is our first basement until he proves he can't be our everyday guy. I don't see how there's not more buzz first base is week this year. This is a guy you can get later on that can be a top ten, maybe even top five first basement four You so um for a guy that it's not necessarily

how I'm viewing him. The Q fight being how others are viewing him doesn't seem like people are putting a lot of stock into him. What what what I say is uh eight is is NFBC a DP that's extreme related. Getting this guy is your is your corner infielder, right even you're starting first basement, but it's a weak position as well. First basis week this year so very top heavy. You know, we got the two elite guys at the

top there. To me, there's a clear you know, top ten maybe guys that you trust, the Jose bre Use, Matt Olsen, who I like a left this year as well. I'd even say it's five yeah that I trust that I feel comfortable. Yeah, okay, yeah, Look everyone's fri um and you know there was just h I think there are a few more guys, you know, Matt Carpenters in that mix kind of you know, people who have gone back and forth on Matt Carpenter this year. But for void, Look,

he hits the ball extremely hard. That's what you need to know about him. He absolutely mashes. Last year two miles per hour average eggs of velocity that was top twenty in all of baseball. The year before it was with ninety one miles per hour in a small sample size with the Cardinals. He was a career to eighty eight hitter in the minors. The guy can hit. People are asking, you know, why is he going I pick one? Then, well,

there is a downside. He swings and misses a little bit too much more than you would like to see four swinging uh swinging strike rate for his MLB career k rate. Well, and and you know Greg Bird is still there for whatever reason. It seems like, you know, the Yankees are never gonna just like get rid of Greg Bird. But there's a lot of upside. Look in at my Patreon page, you can read about Luke Void

the comparison I made. I thought he could be this year's Hayesew's Hagler, someone who's kind of flying under the radar, who can hit to six seventy with thirty plus home runs Andy And it's a guy that's right at that five mark that I was talking about, top five for the position in first base. I have add are right, they're like right at the at the at the line where I want to feel comfortable based on what we've seeing him, you know, coming up with Cleveland that never

really materialized. Then he gets us the role in Milwaukee blends in well with that clubhouse kind of same thing I was saying about Void. Uh. I love that comp actually because it is a similar type of player, a late Ris or late Bloomer. Um. But going back to Void real quick, just go look at some of the pictures that have been posted this guy is workouts. Go to YouTube the guy convince person undred and thirty five pounds with with a full bar belt and forty pound

weights on each side with one arm. Yeah. The the one concern I might have to Void is he might be getting too big. Yeah, he might be getting too strong. That wrong about is what it's coming down to. It's trouble using the bathroom and wipe himself. Save that tomorrow. Save the speaking of saving that for tomorrow, any Singlestom will be here again tomorrow. We have a lot more players that we didn't even get to today, more players

that we like for the upcoming season. So we'll kind of carry that Valentine's Day theme over from today into tomorrow as well. Um. But with that being said, I do want to sign off YouTube as right now. We'll still be on the radio side of things for the next five minutes or so. Again, if you're watching or listening, we want to thank you so much. Please subscribe to the Fantasy Sports Network. Give us a thumbs up, leave

us a comment. If you're listening on demand for for the podcast, whether it's iTunes or Google Play, make sure you rate reviews, subscribe, give us five stars. Again, leave us a comment. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, things that we can improve us. So on to fourth. We are very much appreciative. We're gonna continue on the radio side for the next five minutes. Andy the player that I had here as the cutie pie, someone who's not the hottest but has potential this year

for fantasy baseball. He's going even later than Luke Voit. I actually have these guys back to back in my first base rankings. I'm very excited about both of them. The other one is Tyler White. He's going at pick two, sixties six point five right now in NFBC a DP

in the month of February. And there is a downside because the Houston Astros have a lot of talented players, and Kyle Tucker is coming at some point, and I understand all of these things, but I look at the potential of Tyler White and what he's done at the minor league level and then what he did last year at the major league level, and it intrigues me. Last year at the minor league level at Triple A, seventy games, three and thirteen played appearances, fourteen home runs, fifty three rbi.

He added three thirty three. He played a hundred and eleven games at Triple A, home runs, a three hundred batting average. I think at his core, Tyler White is a professional hitter who is trying to learn how to become a power hitter. And the hard hit rate wasn't necessarily there last year, and people could point to that, and I understand I've been pimping out hard hit rate and average exit velocity. It's not necessarily there for Tyler White, but he's making a concerted effort to hit the ball

more in the air over ball rate. Last year, the home run to fly ball ratio was up sevent He played in sixty six games, two and thy seven plate appearances. He had to seventy six with twelve home runs. So if he's the every day, full time d H, if you know he split some time at first base, as long as he's in the lineup every day in a good line up in Houston. I think he's a guy that can hit to seventy five twenty five home runs. And you're getting him where you're getting him right now

in draft. I think it's a pretty good discount. Man. Here's the problem. I have a White and for where you're getting him, fine, it's it's it's cost you nothing to to take Tyler White. But he's he is depited me of a late bloomer. I mean he's twenty eight entering this season. He turned twenty eight last October, so for the entire season, which is is kind of late

to to be getting your first opportunity. Now. I know what we're saying the same things about Voit and to a lesser degree are, but still I feel like it's uh too too late of a bloomer for me. And the biggest problem I have is the other guy I have on my list is as somebody I'm always drafting, is the guy who's still at first base for the Astros and yue Gurio, who's not going anywhere, and he's way better than people want to give him credit for.

He's a three. He's a guy who's gonna get you, you know five not so much power and not so much speed. But Tyler White is gonna be relegated to the DH roll. I don't think he's gonna win in any other spot in that I agree with that. I agree with that, so it would be the full time DH I think he's gonna be struggling to get every day at bats. And for that reason again, wait, wait, like you said, where he's going to cost you nothing, so he might as well. He's worthy of a gamble.

But I'm not excited about it, and I can't knock you for that. I'd be lying if I said I didn't have concerns about Tyler White and playing time. As of right now, roster resource has him as a starting designated hitter. But again, you know, Kyle Tucker is coming at some point, so you know, if they want to put Kyle Tucker in the outfield and then maybe you know, Josh Reddick starts to steal some designated hitter at bats, or you know, if they want to get Jake Marisnick

in the lineup for his defense. I understand there's definitely concerns with playing time, but if I'm trusting the talent of Tyler White and what I've seen at the minor league level and then even last year to an extent at the major league level. I'm us seeing that the talent is gonna win out here and that he's gonna be in the lineup every single day. I think for a long time they've wanted Tyler White to kind of like become this player, and I think it's finally happening.

And I'm buying into the Astrols lineup. Obviously a great lineup, so I get what you're saying, but I'm more so just trusting the talent and hoping that that wins out here in twenty nineteen for Tyler White. Andy, Uh, how would you say? You're your Thursday, your your first Fantasy best friends forever of win. So far, so good. I'm excited get to come back tomorrow. So hopefully that was an indication. We've doubling the show tomorrow as well, so maybe maybe that means it was a good thing. So

I'm happy to be here. Follow me on Twitter. Eight. The Singleton had people's pen look for us tomorrow with a more baseball and who knows what other surprises or Andy Singleton, I am Frank Standford. I want to thank everybody for watching and listening. As always, remember Stig Classic Fantasy Owner. Couldn't you catch the live show? Make sure to download our podcast at the Van t is WI Sports Network Audio Boom channel oh so Fa