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listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy Best Friends, Prepp, I'm going for you, true Mariano. Yeah, this is the Fantasy as Friends Forever. Here the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside for Frankie Stanfeld, I am Greg salesman. Franky, what's going on about Greggy? I had to do my best Gym Day impersonation coming in today, obviously, had the Metallica?

Had the Metallica going to represent Marianna rivera first unanimous Hall of Famer obviously going to be a very polarizing topic on Twitter, some people debating um that he should not be the first unanimous Hall of Famer because he's a closer. Everyone has their thoughts that on and so forth. Doesn't matter. He's the best closer of all time. He's in the Hall of Fame and rightfully so, so I

thought we would celebrate that with a little intro. Greggy, I love how it's what I'm talking about the Yankees yesterday. I started off the show like, oh, of course Greg talked about the Yankees, and there's Frank putting an intro in not only wearing folks a Yankees Bernie Williams jersey, but you can also take a look at his pinch stripe socks and then he's put on with the blue with the matching sneakers. Of course, that's right. There you go, There you go. I was draft in fantasy Baseball based

on whether you're Yankee or not. Greg, I was about to get excited about Marianna Rivera, Megan the whole face I was pumped from. I was pumped um that it mattered to him so much to be the unanimous, which was really cool. Seeing Martino's video, which we probably should play, by the way, did you ever cut that for us? No? I thought you guys were gonna use it on the morning after. Yeah, we need you to cut it to make that happen, But he didn't remind me. I was

here for two hours. Never brought it up, thought you did it. Nope, alright, it happens, man, it's a miscommunication on our part. Yeah, Martino was there. You've seen the video on Twitter. It's from Martino. It's like if you see my reaction to Mariano getting the call, that's from our guy Martino, video producer here at the Fantasy Sports Network. He helps out, helps out with the morning show a lot, obviously helps you out within the NBA in the morning. Um,

and yeah, he was there to our film Marianna. He was our executi producer of College Football Today all season long. So yeah, Martino, Um, Alex, when are you in your doing Roger Clemens or something? Good? Back to you on that, All right, appreciate it. But Roger Clemens, who's not in the whole of fame greg and never will be because he was a certainly seems it certainly seems to be the case at least four now, uh, Jeff like slow

like incrementally, So they didn't. That was the problem. So based on the based on how slowly they're building, right, I think, what do they have left? Like three years? They each they have three years left. But there was no jump from last year to this year, there wasn't like an increase, like it wasn't drastic enough. Yeah, and only moves two or three percent. Basically, everybody that like you read like all like the John Hayleans that can Rosenthals and so on and so forth. Um, they're on

those ballots. It's all the private people like their boots private that do not vote for them. And Jefferson interviewed fifteen of them, um and basically they all said, we're not even will never change our mind. You cannot get us, and it's gonna be very, very tough, unfortunately. Never like the eighty year old guys who are like, well, I mean, Sarah don't get home steries are a little bit different

like that. They weren't like to get off my long guys over there, I'm not going to vote for Marion Rivera's I'm not even Who are the people who are not voting for steroid abusers those times? Yes, it's the old guys, And it's just as certain people that don't believe steroid abusers should get in. I don't hate that logic as so much as I hate like the guy didn't want to vote for Mariana like that was just stupid. So then why is Bud See in the Hall Fame?

I agree, you can't have one without the other, do you know, with you like he you know, oh, closed an eye to what was going on in baseball, but it also drove to like the best ratings television rates, Like look at where television ratings are now with baseball. Nobody wants to watch baseball, butbody also talk about baseball.

But during that time, as as you can spend the next day talk about in the nineties, in the early two thousand's, that's when I mean you could argue baseball was at its peak, right dig long ball everybody like everybody likes all wrong except for except for the do was that have these Hall of Fame ballots? Apparently, Well, it wasn't about the home runs rank. It's about the

way they achieved that. Okay, But Barry Bonds was still one of the best baseball players, even when like you can find like you can find the time in his long timeline of like NL career when he started using steroids, even up until that point, if you just kind of take what he was doing and extrapolate it, he's still a Hall of Famer. Absolutely and that's why he continues to get votes. All his head was like three times bigger than it wasn't that that's why he continues to

get votes. To Roger Clemens contin used to get votes and Sammy Sosa does not. Sammy Sosa's numbers are ridiculous. But they think that if you took the stories away from Sammy Sosa, he would be terrible. What Sammy Sosa was like every trick in the book, right, didn you have like the cork bat and like everything else you

could think of? Absolutely, Manny Ramirez felt multiple tests. I actually wrote an article about this, not an article, I wrote um an essay about this in College Greg which which really grinded my gears about like a logic with the Baseball Hall of Fame and kind of like how um P E. D s and steroids are like the

worst thing that ever happened. What about the guys who were using like amphetamines in the sixth season in the seventies and like, you know, absolutely they're they're not to the same level performance and hnting drugs at the at the time, performance and dancing drugs. These guys put amphetamines in their coffee every morning, in the clubhouse in order to wake up, to get a joke for the day, to get to get hyped up for their baseball game.

You're using performance and hancing drugs as well. It's just like, come on, dude's preaching the choir man like, I'm on your side here. I need to get it off. Okay. We never really talked about it. I understand, I understand, but it just pisses me off. Dot Holiday gets in as Della's, Edgar Martinez, and Mike Messina all of them get into the Hall of Fame this year. Very nice class. Next year's class we be interesting. Derek Teter the only big name that is joining the ballot put machine in

the Hall of Fame and not Roger Clemens. Do done, Brake, Sure you go? Sure we've seen is going in as an oriole Right? Is that was that announced? I'm not officially, I don't think. But when I saw them like tweet out the photos of like the players in their jerseys, it was Messina in Orioles alright, kind of assumed, so I would assume him too, And I'm okay, and I'm okay, and I'm okay with that. Otherwise, Yankee fan that's fine. Doesn't bother me. Come on, every not every guy has

to go in a Yankee. Maroto Rivera actually the first Yankee that was either drafted by the team or signed signed as a free not a free agent signed as a amateur by the Yankees to going to the Hall of Fame. Um, sus, I need seventy four actually, so it's a little long, and it was voted in back to back years of that. You know that that's correct. Next year, it's been a long time coming, a long time coming. Wait for the for the Derrek Cheater haters

to come out next year as well. If he was a Pittsburgh pirate, would he be a first ballot Hall of Famer? I mean some slack by the way, carry irving out again tonight, really Terry Rose here all the way, Terry Rose yere from DFS NBA DFS tonight. Also all we're kind of getting things off our chest. Man. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna think I think it's just me. I didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I slept on the same side of bed that I do every single day. I'm not gonna start a fight

with the frenzy guys again for what you know. You lead off the show yesterday, I'm talking about hard hit rates and putting me to sleeps. Someone on the network has to talk about fantasy baseball. We are the fantasy sports network and obviously transitioning into gambling and gaming as well. But somebody on the network has to talk about fantasy baseball. We're not just gonna sit here and act like it

doesn't exist. You can't talk about fantasy baseball without talking about the saber metrics hats like it's just you can't do it. Nowadays, we can do We're talking about the back of a baseball card rate. We can every at home runs. But Greg, we take it a step further. We tell you why an average will go up or down based on bad but based on hard hit you knows. Well. What I'm saying is that we can do better. Frank is explaining what those things mean and why they important.

That's what we can do better, all right, So let's get into it for today. I had a lot of fun on yesterday's show, so today we wanted to do more of the same. Some other players that have changed teams in the past couple of months that you maybe didn't know or maybe just forgot about. As I have one of them is a greggy guy, or seems to

be a greggy guy early on here. Well, the one of these guys is a greggy guy for sure, because I haven't one of my team every year it would be a f guy and the other one, as I will now, I'm confused. Get my toe into the water. I have carloson down every year, dude, Carlos. As I did my toes into the water, You're like, I'm gonna draft Jean's a girl getting into that, dude. Sorry. As I've did my toes into the water here and started some fantasy baseball research, I'm like, you know what, I

think I really like cigarette this year. And Frank turned to me and gives me this a very confident headshake. Yes, that's really think I was on the right track with some of the research I was doing, Like I said, really just kind of diving in slowly and finding some guys that I really liked, Jane Sagura being one of them, his teammate Reeves Hoskins this morning being another. Let me start with who was now a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Here and he was traded over to Philadelphia for who, Frank, he was traded for. I mean, this was a pretty complicated trade at the time. But let's see, it was Jeane Sagurro, Wan Nicasio and James Pazzos to the Phillies, Carlos Santana and JP Crawford went to went to Seattle, and then it was Edwin and Carnacione who went to

It was it was all over them. It was Incarnacion went from Cleveland to Seattle then, which sent Carlo Santana back to the Indians, and Yandy Diaz, who was on the Indians went to the Rays along with Cole Sulzer. So Sigura to the Phillies, Arl Santana and JP Crawford at the time to the Mariners. JP Crawford stays with the Mariners, Parl Santana now from the Indians, from the Mariners back to the Indians, Edwin and Karnassi onto the Mariners, Yandy Diaz to the Rays. It was this whole big,

convoluted thing. But that's basically the takeaway there perfect the job all right broken down. Now let's talk about the important parts of that here, Frank, which Jean Sagura is now remember the Phillies, and this dude like for being as good as he is. He's played for a lot of teams, uh in his short career, um from the Brewers, the Reds, the Brewers, Diamondbacks, the Mariners, and now is a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. I said I was in on him and he should shook your head, Yeah

you should be. What makes you like Jean Sagara going into this year, Well, he's kind of like the forgotten man. You know a lot of people for gotten son, Jean Siagura. You look at the a d P sixty sixty nine, he's around that range. He's one of these you know, you get him in the fifth, sixth round of fifteen team drafts um. But he's you know, he's one of these guys where you could get stolen basis from him in Rhodo and he doesn't kill you everywhere else, Like

he gives you a little bit of everything. I looked at this at least a three d batting average, eight run scored and twenty stolen bases in each of the past three seasons. Is a three oh eight average during that time. That's eighth best in all baseball two and seventy three runs scored. That's twenty one in baseball. Seventy five stolen bases over the past three years, that's eleventh

best in all of baseball. Now, I know these stolen bases have trended downwards three years in a row, back thirty three with the Diamondbacks, that went down to twenty two and went down to twenty last year. But he was dealing with lower leg injuries believing an anklely at a shin injury at one point. And that's another thing you can he's gonna miss sometime. He's averaged a hundred and forty two games per season over the past six years, so he misses on average twenty games per year. You

gotta bake that in as well. But to me, Greg, he's safe for to ninety batting average, ten to fifteen home runs. He doesn't kill you in the RBI department. That's where like normally, if you want a draft guy who gives you stolen bases, they kill you in the r B i s and the home runs. He gives you a ten to fifteen home runs, he gives you sixty plus r BIS. You look at what he's done over the past three years, So I think a realistic

projector for him. What I wrote down here was to thirteen home runs, eighty five runs scored, sixty five r BI, twenty stolen basis, he's gonna hit a top a pretty good Phillies line up, which could get even better if Bryce Harper or Many Machado were to join this lineup. But if you just look at the top right now, it's he's our Hernandez, Jean Sigura, Andrew McCutcheon, Reese Hoskins, they have a few other names there. Makes massive contact.

He doesn't strike out a lot. He could be better for points leagues if he walked more, but he is a very aggressive swinger at the plate. But he also does make a lot of contact. Eighty eight percent of the time, Gregg he made contact last year That was fifth best in all of baseball. So for all those reasons, I think he's safe. I think he's, you know, one of these guys where he'll give you twenty five still on basis and doesn't kill you in any of the

power stats. Well, you're telling me before, Frank, is you want in those first three rounds to get speed, to get basically five to players and you didn't have to take him in the third. Well, that was what I was getting to that he's probably not somebody that grabbing

the third round. So if you grab a guy that is strictly powers very solidly in the middle of the fifth round of a fifteen team dress if you're strictly going on power in that third or fourth round and you want to pick up a little bit a little bit of speed later on, not that much later on, but like slightly later on. That's what a guy like Jeans Cigar is. I think what I made me like Sigur the most. You kind of know what you're getting, right, You're gonna get close to double digit home runs or

ten to fifteen runs, we'll call it. You're gonna get stolen basis playing for Gabe Katler now on affiliate team

that is going to be aggressive. We talked about yesterday Frank on the base paths right like, we think that is actually something that worries me because the Phillies only Phillies only attempted They attempted the twenty four most stone basis last year, so they were they were in the lower third of the league and Gabe Kapler you know, he's one of these guys where he's big on the analytics and wherever the analytics kind of like moved stolen basis.

Over the past couple of years, they've kind of shied away from stolen basis. You know, let's not let's not run into out on the base paths when we have guys like McCutcheon or Reese Hoskins or you know, if they get Bryce Harper coming up, which could potentially turn a Reese Hoskins to run Homer, Whereas if you run into an out on the base pass, it turns into a solo Homer. Um, you know, just not giving up

easy outs on the base pass. And it's not like he's had a great conversion ratio year twenty stolen basis and eleven called stealings, So I understand people might have some worry in that regard. But again, I do think the fact that he was dealing with a lower leg injury kind of contributed to some of that last year. I think personally he's still safe for stone base and I think that's what a good safe number. And I'm gonna asking for thirty to thirty five. What you're looking

for for Sigura. UM the other things, particularly points leads and you pointed out Frank, which is how much contact he makes eight percent of the time, top five, you know, all baseball. It's unbelievable. The guy doesn't strike out. And I was looking today about walk rate and k rate in general, um and why he doesn't walk. That he also doesn't strike out was wild to me, and I was like, okay, how sustainable as that? And you go back in his career and it's always around lower like

he does not strike out. And if you're just a guy that's gonna make contact with his speed, especially on the ground, like I'm okay with that. A guy that's going to make contact and get on bees, good things happen. And we talked yesterday about run scoring and particularly Charlie Blackman and why we may want to take him over some other guys. Jee Siagura basically averages eighty runs scored. It feels like on a given season and in that

line of which should be pretty good with Philadelphia. Segura is gonna bat right above season Hernande's right below sees Hernande's there's between CCSR and there's a lot to like there With Jean sagura Um. The o b P also really good in ob P leagues, around a three hit over the last couple of years. I like he's just safe, and there's something to be said about a safe short stop. Let's take a break. When we come back, the other members of his trade will break it down as best

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Why I want on one get your bonus deposit match. All right, Frankie, you gave the details over the trade. The other members going over to Philadelphia James Potto's uh and Pizzos and one to Coasto Bullpen pieces um for Philadelphia. Now going over to Seattle. The one was staying in Seattle was JP Crawford, former top prospect or Philadelphia longtime top prospect. But the more you dove into those numbers, especially in the high miners, wasn't exactly a fantasy friendly

output for JP Crawford. Has anything change for him in Seattle fantasy perspective, well as of right now, he's not even projected to start at short stop because they signed Tim Beckham. So for now, I mean, we'll probably see JP Crawford at some point, Like there's clearly something they liked about him, And you're right, he was a top prospect for a while here, probably more so known for his defense than anything in Triple A. He did hit

fifteen home runs, only bad at two forty three. But um, at the major league level, he just he hasn't shown much in UH. In just about two five plate appearances at the major league level, he has three home runs. He's bad at two fourteen. He strikes out a lot. He does walk a lot, which is something worth noting. But there's some guys who are like, it just doesn't work out. Maybe he needed a change his scenery. Maybe

that'll help him out. Um, you know, maybe a team like the Mariners who are a little bit more aggressive on the base pass like maybe like exploit some of that athleticism for him. I just needed a new beginning. It wasn't working out with the Phillies. It took forever for him to make it to the major league level. They seemed um, they seemed hesitant to ever really give him a shot. I think it won't be long in

Seattle before they do him a shot. But he hasn't really done much um at the major league level to give us confidence miners. He showed a little bit of pop, but really not great batting average or stolen bases either. I don't I don't have high hopes for JP crow in all. Honestly, there's just not much here. As I said that makes you excited about JP Crawford. He has not put it together in the high level miners in the major leagues quite yet, and there's just enough enough

other guys to make it work. Interested in Tim Beccam, I know we weren't talking about Timham today, not really. Um. He was injured for a lot of last year with the with the Baltimore Orios. The year before that kind of everything came together where I think that was the year he played for Tampa Bay and Baltimore runs that year to seventy eight, but strikes out a lot, doesn't walk all that much either. Um, it could be an interesting source of power from the middle infield position, but

of a battle ball profile. Regrets last year didn't hit the ball all that hard. It just seems like that one year we have twenty two home runs with the raising Orioles combined in kind of the out wire in his career. I think this is one of those situations where the Mariners will give him an opportunity to play early on, and if he can produce anything, then they'll try and flip him at the deadline for whatever they

can get. Um and if that doesn't work out, if he struggles early on, Ben will just give it up to JP Crawford. Makes sense to me, all right. So the other part of the trade was Carlos Santana and he was traded to Seattle and then immediately un immediately but close to it, from the Seattle over to Cleveland where Seattle picked up Edwin and Carnassium and Carlos Santana

after one year hiatus returns to the Indians. Santana's line last year the same as it is every year where he had twenty four homers, had ad runs scored, he had over a d r v I. His walk rate was excellent. He didn't strike out all that much. Uh. The average lower than it has been in the last couple of years, but the ov P writing line where it always is around three fifty two three sixty. The drop in average can be explained as a low babbitt babbit over the bath over his careers about to six year,

so UM last year was two thirty. That's why he dropped about twenty about yeah, about thirty points here um in average. Carlo Santana despite the age franc at thirty thirty three in early April. You know what you're getting. Have you seen? Do you see any signs of decline or any signs of change that Carlo Santana owners can

be expecting when they draft him. No, I mean I think you kind of rightfully outlined Carlos Santana, especially for Rhodo, Like you know what you're gonna get to batting average points is where you want him, right Like, he's much more valuable in points leagues than he is in rhodo leagues. And when we say points leagues, those are leagues that you know, you get a point per single you get,

you lose points for strikeouts. It's kind of comparable to And if you haven't played fantasy baseball before, if you're transitioning from fantasy football to fantasy baseball, that might be the league that you kind of want to get into because rodo a little bit more uh complicated. You know, you're trying to figure out more stats. You gotta figure out what you need in order to move up and

move down in the standings. So um, if you're just transitioning from fantasy football to fantasy baseball, points leagues are are easier in my opinion and more comparable. But he's much better in points leagues just because of his plate discipline. He walks so much. Since two thousand and eleven when he became a full time player, greg a fifteen point two percent walk rate for Carlos Santanna's that's fourth most in baseball, behind Vado, Aaron Judge who's only played the

past two years, and Jose Battisa. The problem is during that same span, his batting averages to forty six. So for Rhodo, if you're a two forty two, two fifty batting average guy and you give me twenty five homers. Yes, the runs and r B I s are they're helpful.

You know that you're gonna get eight plus out of both of those categories from Carlo Santana as long as he's in the lineup and he is expected to hit in the middle of a pretty good Cleveland Indians lineup, or I mean, remember with the guy with Santanna and Cleveland he let off for a while and manager there, I don't expect him to eitherland doors are gonna lead off. I just wanted to note it at least it is

worth mentioning. And he was pretty good in that role, just because the ob P gets on bass as much as he does. But Francisco Lindora had an awesome, awesome season last year, um and that was as a leadoff hitter, So I don't really see them going away from that roster resource right now for what it's worth. As Lindoor Kittness, Jose Ramirez, Carlos Santana and then Jake Bowers, who I'm sure we'll get into as well, but the ADP for I can very much see Carlos kind of betting two

in that lineup. And not Jason Kitness that could make sense as well. Lindoor San Santana back to back switch hitters, and then you have actually would be back to back to back switch hittersor Santana and Jose Aramirez that could work, could drive up the run scoring opportunities for Carlos Santana as well. The rest of this lineup not so great.

Give me the rest of the lineup they have as of right now, they have Tyler Naquin playing right field for this team as a platoon player with Jordan Luplo, and then they have Roberto Perez is the cashier, John Gomes is no longer, they're Leone's Martine as a center fielder,

Greg Allen left field. So that's why you you hear names like Trevor Bauer and Corey Cluber floated around with with the Indians because Harbor they need outfield Hillnce Harbor they probably should, but for whatever reason, uh, you know, teams don't want to give out these big long contracts right now. And you know we're kind of seeing that as like a trigger trigger down effect. For all three years, it's like it's been a slow it's been a slow offseason for for for the MLB and for the hot stove,

which is not very hot right now. But that's why it kind of makes sense for the Indians to float out a guy like Corey Kluber or Trevor Bauer to see what you could get in return, Like this has been an organization that just turns out pitching prospects and that you know, these guys have turned into pretty good pictures. Like remember they took Carlos Carrasco from the Philadelphia Philies as kind of like a reclamation project, and they made

him awesome. Corey Kluber was a guy who was a late bloomer in his career with the Indians, came up when he was seven and ended up being awesome. Trevor Bauer they got from a Diamondbacks. They turned him into an awesome picture. Levinger is awesome as well. And and people are you know, getting excited about Shane Bieber, who is you know, the last guy in the sortation. So it would have surprised me one bit. I expect, I fully expect one of Uber or Bauer to be moved

at some point because they need outfield help. You know something you've heard the padres as a potential landing spot for Corey Klueber. And that's because why the Padres have a glut of outfielders. They have Hunter Renfro, they have Frand Marais, they have Frankie Cordero, they have Will Myers. They you know, they have so many outfielders. So something

between those two clubs could make sense. But just getting back to karl Santana just much better in points leads because he doesn't strike out much, he walks a lot. But for Rhodo, you see the NFBC A DP one point nine seven, you're getting him for basically nothing. The problem is, if you're a fantasy baseball player who likes to take a shot on like upside plays late in

your draft, Carlos Santana doesn't really fit that bill. But well it stir construction if you do have other guys on your team that are a little risky year, like if you took a lot of upside shots earlier on in the draft and you want a guy who you can pencil in for Tooty too fifty and eighty, that's carl Santana. It's crazy cart going and pick two eight right now, which is so late, and it's crazy to because he does what he does every year. My draft last year just boring, like it feels if you could

find those guys like even later than that. I don't even know if that's true. Like let's look at who's going around here. Yeah, I'm doing just that, Like he's going to Martinez doesn't have a job as of right now with the Cardinals. Joey Wendel surprised some people last year. This is a name to watch, Greig who is going to be a hype guy. Jarrett Hampson with the Colorado Rockies was a hot name prospect for the Rockies last year.

Stole a ton of basis in the minor leagues, and I do believe as right now he's he does have a starting role with the Colorado Rockies, but with everybody trying to find stolen bases, where they starting Garret Empson second base because who wasn't there anymore? There was gonna

play first base? Okay, Yeah, as of right now, they have Daniel Murphy at first, they have Garrett Hampson at second base, They have Trevors Story at short and they have Ian Desmond in the outfield and Ryan McMahon and Ry melt happier are kind of the odd names out with David dal starting in right field. So Garrett Hampson, who was going after Carl Santana right now, that is a name to watch out for. It's funny. What are

you looking? Where are you looking at? Ust root um an FBC from so I'm looking you just right NFBC, A DP and Google. Have I have it? All? I go from January one and we're looking at the same thing, and I have Garrett Hampson actually going twenty spots higher January one, nineteen to one nineteen, Gregor do you have that? Not the problem? You found the problem? What was what was your end date in the adp uh correct, it was the beginning date which was one oh one two.

That was not helpful. I all, um nahen eighty nine not to you know, who's comparable to Carl Santano goes right around him, Corey Dickerson. Yeah, like Corey Dickerson is still going to have a role with the with the Pittsburgh Pirates. You can argue has a better batting average upside there what kind of similar players? So how you wrought him off? Because that given an opportunity to bring out doesn't hole excited Lonnie Baseball were very excited now

in Pittsburgh Corey Dickerson every day is he going to Yeah? Man, you know he crushes right E's I don't do this. You know who loved does it all that? Nanda loved Lonnie Baseball when love is his nickname. When I texted when there's always like a two week stretch every year where lions isn't all takes over and he sucks for the rest of you when he um when Lonnie is an old simon Pittsburgh, I texted, no, no, and he

was so excited. Nanda loves the reclamation projects too, right, Like, what was the dude Eric Cooper who was on the Yankees a couple of years ago, now with the Miami Marlins chest to play Gods lineup? Man, have you looked at the Pirates line up yet? Greg? Oh my goodness, gone back in basement? You know what? You know what I do like on the Pirates and we just kind of jumping all around. But why not, umdzis to catch

us who you know? In a small sample size, he played like the final two or three months of the season where he was an everyday player, Francisco Savelli was dealing with injuries, good batting average, he get like ten or twelve home runs, like battball profile looked good for him as well. I'm really really hoping that Francisco Savelli gets shipped out here because his name has been floated

out there in trade rumors. One problem was one of those rumors was the Dodgers, and they traded for Russell Martin, But the Dodgers have also still been in on Real Muto. I just really hope that Servelli gets shipped out. Not that Survelli is bad, because you know he is what he is like he was. Savelli was one of these launch ango guys last year who was actively trying to lift the ball more and it worked out for him.

But why SDS was a guy who was a little bit excited about last year based on what he did in a small say, do they have any prospects? They are like ready, No, what's going on with the Pirates organization? I don't know. They're interesting organization because last year you would have thought they would be sellers and they end up buying chrisus Archer. They thought there was they thought there was value there. I like Chris Archer too, who's that this morning? Actually ended up taking took him in

my in my best ball. I took him at the end of the seventh round. Is my third starting pitcher off the board? Good? Um, all right, Glen's going back to the Indians here and actually back to the Rais as well. Where you said, Carlos Santana right now projecting you hit right in front of Jake Bowers person on the scene last year for Tampa and we thought this was potentially a long term solution at first base for the Raise. Ultimately not to be. Bowers goes to Cleveland,

effectively replacing Edwin or Carnacion in the lineup. What do you think about Jake Bowers. So, Jake Bowers, I was a little it was a little thrown off frankly that the that the Tampa Bay Rays gave up on him a little bit too quickly. But the Rays are one

of these forward thinking organizations. So if there's something that they saw in Jake Bowers last year that kind of put him off him, I kind of trust Tampa Bay just based on what they've done over the pasteons with like going to the opener and ziggies with everyone else's Zagging's almost like Tampa Bay can't afford to get that one wrong. They have to get right. Like he was. He was one of their top hitting prospects for a while.

And he was a guy that we talked about before the season last year who from the first base position offers some stolen base upside could have been like a fifteen fifteen guy possibly got there, saw some stolen basis at the minor league level. Um I really liked his eye at the plate at the minor league level consistently over ten percent walk right career three sixty one o b P and the miners the problem. Here's here's the problem. Greag. Last year he hit two oh one at the major

league level, twenty seven percent strikeout right. Now, you look at and and this is where we'll kind of explain some of these numbers. Bad it bat is batting average on balls in play. It's kind of predictive for actual batting average. So he hit two oh one last year, were they to fifty two badd And the reason why the batting average was much lower than the bat it was because he stuck out twenty seven percent of the time.

But based on his forty heart hit rate. So he's hitting the ball hard, but the balls that he's hitting, we're not leading to hits based on his two bad Why was that? So you look into that and why was that happening? He pulled the ball ball fifty one of the time. He's a lefty who doesn't hit lefties well, who hit won seventy six against lefties, who was getting just hitting the ball hard but into the shift all

the time. This is where baseball is going. And I think that's kind of like why you see the Yankees not signing a lot of left handed bats is that they want an already lineup. It's because it's a little bit harder to shift against righties nowadays, and and right eass can hit both right e's and left like that's the hitters that they're trying like. They bring a guy like d J. L. Mayhew, a guy who can hit

both rights and lefties. And I think that's where baseball is going right now, where if you're a lefty, great, you hit the ball hard. Look at Jake Bowers, it's his first year in the majors and he hit the ball hard over the time. It's a very good mark. But his bed was to fifty two because he's hitting it into the shift every single time, which led to a two one batting average, and he struck out a lot.

So I think that kind of put that opened up the eyes of the rais and they're like, this isn't gonna work, Like this isn't where baseball is going right now, So they try and take a reclamation project of their own in the Andandy Diaz, who if they can help him learn how to lift the ball a little bit, because right now he crushes the ball. He hits the ball extremely hard. The problem is it's into the ground every single time. He hits a ton of ground balls.

So if you teach this guy how to hit line drives, even line drives, that's all you need for him, and then he could potentially be a three hitter and he'll he'll hit a ton of doubles, kind of like a U leaguerril, Like you get that out of him. And if you've seen pictures of Dandy Diaz after the trade, this guy is yoked up greg like he he has power there, you just kind of need to get it out of him. I think that's the way that baseball

is trending right now. And That's why you see a team like the Raids give up on Jake Bauer so earlier. Hey there you good? Annousis there from Frank Standfell When we come back, there was another Indian that was traded to the Indians last offseason. Now it's not like the Braves. Let's talk about Josh Donaldton and what we think of him going forward when we come back. More Fantasy best

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Cleveland became their starting third basement uh into the playoffs. Ultimately, he turned it into a twenty three million dollar one year contract with the Atlanta Braves, where he is slated to that second I believe in that Braves line up directly behind Ronald Kuna. Donaldson one year at age thirty three is of starting third basement in Atlanta. Are you buying for example, No, okay, I'm not buying Josh Donaldson based on his current a DP at ninety nine right

around pick one. Look, if Josh Donaldson does bounce back this year, it's gonna be on somebody else's team. It's not gonna be on mine. I don't know that there's a player going inside the top one D picks. Maybe like Adalbert home Mondessey is one of those guys too, who has a wider range of outcomes and possibilities than

Josh Donaldson. It's just it's hard to look at anything he's done last year the past couple of years, and kind of build that into your projection for this year, because it's all relative to whether or not he's over the shoulder injury, because it's obvious that that hampered his play last year could easily hamper his play this year if that shoulder was still a thing. If you remember watching him last year, you couldn't even throw the ball across the diamond. He's a third basement. He was three

hopping the ball to first base. So, um, it's gonna be completely health related for Josh Johnson. Is it possible that he bounces back and it's to seventy with thirty home runs and nine d r B. I, yeah, it's certainly possible. What I would would I say it's probable. Probably not, I don't. I don't think it's very likely. You know, it's just around that range. Um, I'll take

some of these other guys. You know, we'll get into Incarnacion as well, who's on Seattle for now, and he'll probably end up somewhere else, but he's going something like thirty picks later. I'd rather do that, Like I'd rather take the savings the discount on Incarnacione thirty picks later. Um, just because I'm pretty sure I know what I'm gonna get from Incarnacion at that point, whereas Josh Donaldson, you're kind of hoping Josh Donaldson just does what Edwin Incarnacion

does right, just like with a better batting average. So there's just too much risk built into donald Donaldson for me. Greg, He's missed hifty nine games over the past few seasons. Yeah, it was so good about Josh Donaldson for his m VP season and and then a couple of years before and after that was he played a hundred fifty five games in all four of those seasons one ft eight, one ft eight and a hundred fifty five and he was uber consistent, hitting about thirty home runs or more

in all of those seasons. His first two years of the Blue Jayson and he was just ridiculous, right with all over hundred run scored, over hundred r v i s and the average that was very good. Um ov P that was even better, and he was fantastic. But at thirty three years old now, the injuries have certainly seemed to hatch up. I think Frank hit the nail on the head and said, hey, when you can get Edwin and Carnassion two and three rounds later, and those

numbers are pretty much what you're hoping. Josh Donaldson gives you, why wouldn't you rather have an Edwin and Cornassio. I agree with you. I like Eddie, and we've seen that if you have legitimate power, as a guy like Edwin and Cornasion does, and he does stay in Seattle, it's not like a black whole, right Like Nelson Cruise was

always fine in Seattle. So I think that comparable players too, exactly, So I think there is something to say about and winning Carnascio, not just completely falling off a cliff himself. Josh Donaldson and he's telling me he was going to play a hundred and fifty five games. I would buy it. I would be, you know, Josh Donaldson. But I think the Braves signed him not even expecting that either, because they have third base options behind him, like a guy

like Johan Camargo played very well lest years. So I think Josh Donaldson is going to be kind of one of these maintenance guys for the Braves, you know, kind of close. So like what's going on with Kawhi Leonard with the Toronto Raptors right now, maybe not to that same extent, but would it surprised me if Josh donald is sitting out a game or two per week to try and keep him healthy to maximize his value, call him Quai why Donaldson? Yeah, they like it. Yeah, I

mean that's that's my realistic expectation. He's not gonna be on my team. He goes off, He's gonna be on someone else's team. Why Donaldton is no back to backs? No back to backs? Well, it's pretty hard in baseball not to play back. That would be an issue for sure. Why Leonard by the way, No, and I either drafted him in one of my home leagues, greg in a weekly league, and it kills you in a weekly league because you can't even fill someone else in this spot.

You have to play him. Like, what's going on with Kawai Leonard? He hasn't played to to three games in a row now four, I think four in a row. They're saying he's expected to return on Friday. But what's crazy is the games one of the Raptors don't play him, they win, so like it's kind of justified. It, it's kind of justified they keep winning games without him, And I think that kind of speaks volumes to uh was

it Nick Nurse there? I think it speaks volumes to the job that Nick Nurse has done with this team this year in terms of the development with guys like Ascalciackum, Sergeibaka has had a bounce back here. I don't know how we got into like Kawhi Leonard, but it just kind of frustrates me. Why Donald Um anything else. Yeah, I have a lot on edwinas and actually twenty six a DP right now. Just Baran has first based eligibility.

Played twenty three games there last year. Since two thousand twelve, two hundred sixty three home runs, that's the most in baseball, extremely consistent, only hit thirty two last year, but he played a hundred and thirty seven games, So if he played a hundred and fifty, he's probably still in that

thirty five thirty six home run range. He is thirty six years old, so I understand people who might have a bit of a worry, but you're getting a pretty big discount on on Anchor Nazi on this year at pick you know, a hundred and twenty five, hundred and

thirty whereas in years passed. Remember last year he took him on the four or five swing in fifteen team league, so they're you know, you're spending sixty pick sixty five, he's going double that, and you know he's a guy who has power that it doesn't matter where he goes.

His power is going to travel. I understand people might have uh concerns about him because the average and the strikeouts have been going the wrong way three years in a row now, and I do think that there's a chance at some point that like he could just fall off a cliff. I don't think that he's there yet. He's one of only four team players last year were

part of the forty forty club. You remember the forty club from last year, Greg hard hit rate, fly ball rate, so that means pretty consistently you can expect a favorite um a fair amount of home runs from said players. So he was one of only fourteen players who have a bat atball profile who looked like that. I still believe in the power. I think a fair projection for him to forty thirty five on runs Andy plus r B I S and you're getting that thirty picks later

and Josh Donaldson, Okay, there you go. Josh Donaldson going earlier, stay in Seattle for now, and then Jerry would have traded him already. Yeah, he's not gonna get traded before spring training or before the season. He could be a guy that's moved at like the deadline, or I'm just trying to feel not last season Seattle. I'm trying to figure out if I'm worried enough about the Mariners line up to the point where it affects Hanniger. Because I

was the fair question. I was debating taking Haneger last night in its Best Ball Draft as my outfield too. I ended up going with Tommy Fam instead. You like Tommy Fam. Pretty excited about Tommy Fam this year. He's a guy who just crosses the ball, hits it extremely hard, and he does walk a lot as well, also strikes out a decent bit. But Man, based on what he did with Tampa Bay last year, doesn't have to worry about being on the Cardinals this year, worrying about when

he's gonna play. He's gonna play every single day with the Tampa Bay Ray. So I took Fam over Haneger, but I was debating those two guys. Ennagar did a lot of great things last year. But should we worry about the Mariners lineup? Greg on paper, I don't think it's as bad. It's kind of crazy. Just looking at Tommy Fam for just the second now, I was like he was looking at hard hit right, and obviously he was very high up there. Um, but I remember people

being disappointed with Tommy Fam. Maybe he's just the Cardinals being disappointed. He literally had the same exact year the year before, like you had ten less stolen basis, but everything else is literally the same. It's crazy. Yeah, and he steals bases. You want to talk about trying to find stolen bases. It's fans of a guy who's gonna be what where's he hitting? Um yeah, I'll probably hit at the top, you know, first or second in the lineup, just based on much he walks. I think that's fair.

I don't. I don't know if he'll be in the middle of that lineup. I do think a guy like g Man joys in the middle of the Raised lineup. As of now, they have Kevin Kiermyer, Tommy Fam, Joey Wendell, Absale Garcia who was just I love, and then towards the bottom of the line up, you do have some upside place here. William Domas batting six, Austin Meadows batting seventh. So some interesting names here for the Tampa Bay race, definitely,

and they trained for Mike's Nino speaking man. They're one of these teams that, like, when everyone is doing one thing, you just go the other way. It's crazy. Speaking of interesting names, the other Braves before we move off of them, they let a Braves resigned one on our own yesterday, resetting Nick Markekes for one years, six million dollars and taking themselves out of the running for Bryce Harpor. Markekres made the first All Star team of his career last year,

but there were resurgence in Atlanta. Good clubhouse guy, more importantly as a good fantasy guy last year. For years people have slept the Markakas. I know Floria was publing him out last year. Say hey and points league, this guy's good. He doesn't strike out, he makes a lot of content, and he was great early on in the season. It looked like he was kind of buying into like hitting more flyballs and trying to hit for more power and hit home runs. But it kind of it tailed off.

It tailed off in a big way. In the second half. Like second half, Nick Markekeus was classic market because great batting average. Again, makes a lot of contact, but just not enough power or anything else really to sustain value in a rotissary league. In the points league gets different because he doesn't strike out, so you don't lose points for that. He has good plate discipline, he still walks,

he hits a lot of doubles. So for all those reasons, and you know he HiT's in a good lineup with the Atlanta Braves, so for all those reasons, he's still

fine for points leagues. I think the biggest takeaway and what kind of influences fantasy most here with the with the resigning of Nick Markekus is yesterday it was announced via David O'Brien, beat writer for the Atlanta Braves, that uh Snitker, the manager of the Braves, is leaning towards a lineup with ender Incrte, Josh Donaldson, Freddie Freeman, Akuna Akuna and then markeks fifth And why is that so

influential in Fantasy baseball? Last year, Ronald Qunia did most of his damage as a leadoff hitter for the Atlanta Braves. He had a one thousand, forty three ops as the leadoff hitter of the Braves. Fourteen of his sixteen stolen bases came in that leadoff spot, whereas in all the other um spots in the line, if he only had two stolen bases, and his OPS was much better as

a leadoff hitter than everywhere else. So as of right now, it looks like a Conia is gonna bat clean up for the Braves, which might limit his stolen base ups. All right, good, good little tibet there from Frankie Stanford. With that, we're gonna sign off a YouTube for today. We appreciate you hanging ow Wot's appreciate you watching like, subscribe and rate us both on YouTube and on it teams. Leave a comment as well, both on our YouTube chat, on our video and of course on iTunes. Fantasy Football

Frenzy comes your way. Next, Core's Parson Gym Day and Chris Venture. We go another four minutes or so here, Frankie, I know we want to talk about Daniel Murphy, but is there anything else with the because Phillies are, the Braves, are the Mariners, the Indians and the else you wanted to hit on those kind of four teams where we circled around the uh No. Just again, touching on the Mariner's lineup, I'm currently weighing whether I think it's good enough.

I personally, I do think it's I think it's okay. Like they have Malex Smith, they still have d Gordon, they have Mitch Haniger, they have Kyle Seger, they have any Carnacione for now. I don't think the Mariners line up is as bad as like at first glance, Like if you assume that they're going to trade Incarnacion away, I get it, But I do think the Mariners lineup could be okay. That was one of the main takeaways here. Spoke about the Tampa Bay Ray's lineup a little bit

with Yandy Diaz. Yandy Diaz as of right now, I think they have him starting in the minor leagues, but they do not have him on the major league So they have right now on Rosster Reachars. I'd be surprised. I think I'd be surprised if he's not starting somewhere for the Raises here, whether it's third base or first base or designated hit it we'll not designated here because they signed Garcia for reasons, but I'd be surprised if

they don't. If Yondi Diaz is not up there, they're probably maybe they'll take some time in the minors to kind of work out these kinks and kind of do whatever they want to do to his swing in order for him to like get a little bit more lift in that swing. So me, you know, we see him a little bit later on, but I mean, he's going like the four right now in a DP Andy dazn't He's an opportunity to talk about you guy, Charlie Morton,

Robie Moon. I haven't really looked into Charlie Morton. Frank has asked me for like four days in a row, can we talking about Charlie Morton? And and because you keep shooting me down, I haven't been able to like really done a deep dive on Charlie Morton yet. The biggest thing with Charlie Morton he goes over to the Tampa Bay Rays, who obviously got the most out of blakes now he was a sy Young Award winner last year. They got the most out of their openers. You might

says they're openers. They're they're openers. I mean, it's not like a opener is not a legit term. They made it. They made it a thing. That's why it's not the thing. Closer wasn't the thing until it was a thing. Yeah, we'll see if opener is more of a thing this year. They don't go out and sign to Charlie Morton because they want more openers. No, no, Charlie Morton will be opener ne Bake Snell. But right now the question will be with Tyler glassnow being Tyler glassnow get an opener? Oh,

Ryan Yarbro and Ryan Yarrow and had openers all season long. Um, it'll be interesting to see what happens when guys like um, Brent honey wellcome back, when guys like Brity back last year. Right, Yeah, he was cheating year. He is terrible. Had he traded for you, I don't think he was. He's not on the team anymore. He's still on the rate him in

the minor leagues. So they getting Brent Honeywell back, they're getting Hojsie da Leone back, and they got Anthony Banda back, three guys they wanted to be starting pictures for them. So it happens ultimately, Yeah, I don't think the opener was like a long term thing. I think they were just I don't know, find ways last year. It's very interesting, It's very was very successus. I need to figure out

what Charlie Morton is. What the the adjustments that the Houston Astros made to him as a starting pitcher, will they translate to another team. I don't think he's just gonna forget everything that he learned while he was with Houston, because Houston's very They're always hard as you can fastball velocity, the spin rate on the curveball, so on and so forth.

But you know, is he gonna is he gonna have the right stuff greg to get that spin right back, because you know, guys like Trevor Bauer speculate that the Astros have kind of hidden substance that they use to get that spin rate. I think it'll be interesting, man, So I gotta look into that a little bit more. Jalen Beaks another name to pay attention to. They traded for Jalen Beaks last year that Eovaldi trade from Boston, who performed very well in the minors as a starting

pitcher and now comes in here. He was kind of used as that like they would have an opener and then he would pitch like three or four innings, so they were using him in that way. I think he's another name to pay attention to as well. With that, we say goodbye for now the Fantasy people. Both Frenzies up next, Corey Parson, Jim Day, Chris Bentro, and they'll have you covered for the next hour or show over. Franky stanfil I'm Gregg Sousman, Dr A. We'll join us

tomorrow on the programs. Look forward to that. Have a great afternoon. We'll see tomorrow, we hope.