XFL Week 1 Recap, MLB Trades, NFBC ADP Desk

Forever show. Start listening to us or suffer the consequences. Yeah, we bake your host Friday from Fin God Rob Say Francis practice standfall, ladies and gentlemen, your b fs. It's with that we want you inside up Studio thirty four. This he's in the FX. He's Frank Staff. I am Greg Sauceman right out. I was having a month, Greggy, Happy Monday to you. We're back and we've got face Ball to talk about later on in the show because we gotta get to some XFL. How is your weekend?

Had you sleep last night? But I didn't sleep great, Frank, of my work, My weekend felt like a lot of work, to be honest with you. Yeah, I was here on Sunday Greg, I didn't see I didn't see any Greg Susterman aroun on on a Sunday, right, don't worry. I was on the phone with your producers on Sunday and on Saturday. And here we are today, Frank, so feeling great, feeling great, feeling great. How did How did you sleep, Frank?

I slept very well. Probably stayed up too late like I always do, but I slept very well at a had a solid weekend. Did you watch the Oscars? I watched a little bit of the oscars? True story. I only turned the Oscars on because I saw that Eminem was performing. By the time I turned the Oscars on, he was already done performing. And then I just left it on in the background and heard Parasite pretty much

win everything. Yes, spoiler alert. For those didn't watch the Oscars, well, you should have watched it by now, or if you haven't, you probably heard. For an update on everything that's not the Oscars, here's Alex Fasana Sports grade news update. I am Alex Fassana with your sports grid news update here on the Fantasy b f FS, It's finally official in Major League Baseball. Mooky Bets and David Price are finally

headed to Los Angeles. Source has told ESPN's Jeff Passing that a deal had been agreed upon to send the players to the l A Dodgers for a package that includes Alex Verdugo, shortstop Jeeter Downs, and catcher Connor Wong, all of which will go to Boston. A blockbuster three team deal was agreed upon almost a week ago. However, the Red Sox were nervous about grad Role. Bruce dal grad Role, a prospect from the Twins who had Tommy's

john surgery missed time in two thousand and nineteen. The rework deal still has Bets and Price going to Los Angeles, and the Red Sox have agreed to pay half of the ninety six million dollars left on prices deal. In also Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers are sending right hander Kenta Maeda and cash to the Minnesota Twins for right hander Bruce dal Grad, roll off, outfield prospect

Luke Rayley, and the sixties seven pick in draft. A different version of the deal was originally reported to be as part of a three team deal with the Red Sox and Mookie Bets. However, the Red Sox again had issues with the prospects medical reviews. The Athletic was the first to report this new Twins Dodgers deal, and in the end f L Philip Rivers will officially enter free agency this offseason. He ends his sixteen year run with

the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers and Rivers jointly announced the veterans quarterback's decision on Monday, with general manager Tom Talsco saying that the timing of the announcement will allow everybody to put themselves in the best position for success in Philip Rivers turns thirty eight this year. He is the most prolific passer in the Chargers history. He finished the twenty nineteen season with four thousand, six hundred and

fifteen yards, twenty three touchdowns, and twenty interceptions. The Chargers finished five and eleven and last place in the a f C West. All right, that doesn't for me, Gonna send it back to the BFFs. This was your sportscrid news update. I'm Alex Fasano. There you go, that's Fasano's news.

Oh day, fantastic job breaking down the trades. We're gonna do that in a little bit, breakdown both of the trades actually happened this weekend, including Mookie bats, including Maddie Margo finally no longer a padre, but to a situation that somehow is worse than the padre. Uh, it's remarkable. We're gonna do that. We're gonna have some fun a little bit later on, but we're gonna start. There's this is the XFL. Frankie, did you watch I saw you tweeting how set you were that you couldn't play. I

was sad. I was said that I could not play XFL dfs. I had to get my football fixed in over the weekend. I caught some action here and there. I was out at brunch on a double date, and I did have my phone playing XFL on YouTube TV enrager fiance, No, no, no no, I mean it's two couples. The girls were talking, the guys were talking, and you weren't talking. Had it in the back of it. Got to the point it was on your phone looking at the XFL. This is what we're doing, Like we have

the stream of the XFL on our phones. Now, you don't need the money on the game. Let me know when it's my turn to talk, right, because I'm pretty sure. It was my turn to talk, and you rudely interrupted turns on this show. It's a conversation. Here's what I'll say. It wasn't like Ronald UNA's debut. And I was with you at Yankee Stadium also watching Ronald da Cuna on my phone at the same time. I had it on

in the background. I just wanted to see if any big plays were happening, if anything crazy was going on, So I caught some xfl action this weekend. Probably shouldn't have watched as much as I could have, but I did see some highlights as well, and I thought it was interesting. We have football all year round. Let's go Guardians, New York's football team. The best football team in New York, Craig, it's not hard, it's not hard, but the best team

that plays in MetLife. There you go. The Guardians defeated the Vipers three for a little bit. Well man, Aaron Murray on the Vipers got benched. Uh Matt mcgloy fifty nine two through for a touchdown, which was wonderful, right you, Oh, Matt mcgloyd and Kevin gilbrid an apology based on what you said. I don't like put it right in your eye. Though. I'll say this. My doorman when I left this morning, he's like, hey, did you watched the Guardians? Like, Frank,

what are we doing? What do we And just to clarify, your doorman's name is Frank, because I'm not Gregg's doorman, right right, So Frank the doorman, not Frank Staffle. But the fight. The doorman was like, oh, I'm pretty excited. They were pretty good and they want to watch them this season. People are actually into the XFL. Three point three million people watch the XFL this weekend. Look, there is a desire for football year round, and the XFL

are doing things a little bit differently. They're interviewing kickers as soon as they miss kicks. They're interviewing yeah the interview that there, I didn't. I'm pretty sure they interviewed a quarterback as soon as you throw an interception, like what do you say in that moment? So they're doing some interesting things obviously. And yes, the Guardians won three to three. Matt mcloyn did enough. He also had a

rushing touchdown. Greg, come well, man, let's go Guardians. I can't believe you were talking to Smack about Matt mcgloyne on on Friday and you were backing Aaron Murray. How did that work out? Six for thirty four with two interceptions against that elite Guardians. He didn't look good a lot, to be honest with you. He looked very, very bad.

You know, also look bad. I was excited to get into this with you, with the Renegades and the battle Hawks, the St. Louis battle Hawks to be the Renegades fift nine. I really like Dallas on this one. But these running backs that you were so high on because you knew their names, Cameron Artist, Pain the Cap and Kristen Michael. Don't you read there stats, Frank, I don't know what you're talking about. Greg. I can't find them all of a sudden. It's crazy, but I'll be happy to read him.

I have him off here. Kristin Michael carry the ball seven times? The battle Hawks with a Christen Michael like zero yards? Whoa Greg? Can you talk about the rushing leader of the St. Louis battle Hawks who was also a former NFL player. While we're at it, No, Matt Jones had twenty one attempts for eighty five rushing yards. That's a pretty good game. Christie Michael not so much. But Cameron artists Pain did not too much on the ground either. Two rushes for six yards. He did have

four receptions for thirteen yards. So if you played on Draft Kings the PPR format, that helped you out. But yeah, that's the one big takeaway I think from this weekend. Greg and I heard Gabe talking about this on Twitter over the weekend. The offensive line play was not great, and it's not surprising because the offensive line play is not great in the NFL either, Like it's hard to find quality offensive line play and it takes time for these guys to play together. Before you know, maybe they'll

start to gel a little bit. But the biggest takeaway for me was that there was not a lot of great rushing performances any running backs this weekend. That show is the only one. Matt Jones performed very well for Matt Jones. If you look at like the Redding Gads, they they're leading Russia. I had five carries. It was Lansdown bar so NFL player as well, but again didn't do much with it. No, there's just not that much rushing. You go to the Wildcasts who felt at the US

Roughnecks thirty seven and seventeen. Leading rusher was a lot of Hood twelve carries for forty three yards. Right then, they're not really rushing the ball. I think teams obviously still trying to figure it out. But your guyd J Walker, whereas yesterday p J Walker, Man, he was awesome and he rushed a little bit as well. He added twenty six rushing yards. This was the guy that I did have in my fake DFS lineup, which I tried to submit and then found out that you can't play New

York dfs on XFL dfs in New York. I still got to kind of clarify that because I don't know what's going on there Greg, but apparently you can in New Jersey, so I think we're gonna have to do that this upcoming week. But p J Walker was great four touchdowns as well. Sammy Coats, Alex Passano non Sarah's big Steelers fan. You're reminded of why Sammy Coats is no longer a Pittsburgh Steeler. Nine targets, just two receptions,

dropping the ball everywhere as well. Uh did not get much done this weekend, but p J Walker was someone who certainly did. Nelson Spruce was great for the Wildcats, eleven for one oh three franc and fifteen targets. What there's your PPR beast Eli Rogers to Eli Rogers had like six or seven catches. Defenders defeated the Dragons. Not much rushing there either. Rickey Pearl's kid five eight and

two touched as looked pretty good. That Cardello Jones goes for two, five and two, and as we mentioned before, Eli Rogers goes six for seventy three. So that's someone you want to target in DFS this upcoming weekend. That was the as out. When we come back, Mookie bats straight at Jack Peterson. Not let's tell you what happened over the weekend. Are you ready for the nation's first and only, free, twenty four hour network dedicated to you

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I'm Greg, Thanks for hanging out. Coast Coast coming up next Scott for real and the gang will hide to cover. Oh by Game Marcy in Game Live all night long on NBA All Star Break coming to the weekend, which is maybe they all star like picks um later in the week I'm down. He still owe me a player? Sure, I just have to pick a player in the NFL. I just haven't picked a player yet, right, Yeah, that's fair. I mean I'll just tell e why he has to pay for it, because he has a lot more money

than I do, so that seems fair. I don't disagree. You'll get your shirt somehow, some way from Eric Young. You do your thing, man, Yeah, yeah, probably. Did you win any fantasy football league this year? Greg, I'm gonna guess did you come close? Yeah? Gave me a second. Alright, So who who was like the best player on that team or like a few of your favorite players from that team. The best player on that team was Nick Chubb,

Dalvin Cook. I mean those are cool player shirts to have, No, you know, you don't like the nice brown and orange all over your body, Greg trant to see who the best player of that team was. Do that during the break? I mean you wrote it up now, so Tyreek Hill, I don't like you. Probably don't want to Tyreek Hill shirt on your back, Gregan. They don't. I want to get like an uncool shirt like Jack Doyle. Don't please

don't do that. All right, let's get back into baseball, Frank, Because the long awaited Mookie Bets trade was finally completed over the weekend with some alterations. Basically, it seems like it seems like what happened was the prospect that was

going from Minnesota to Boston. The Medicals then kind of add up and the Red Sox exactly, the Red Sox thought of him as a reliever when he was valued as a starter because the Medicals it's called bs basically, the Red Sox and all this backlash, they didn't get it enough for Wiki bats and demanded more exactly, and because the Dodgers, um, I didn't want to lose on the Mookie bats and have a very plentiful system, like you know what, f you guys, We'll give you Jeter

downs will make this happen. If that makes you feel better, and now it's done. Movie Vets and David Price are bold members of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jeter Downs and Alex Verdugo are now members of the Boston Red Sox, and Kenda Mariana and now a member over the Minnesota Twins. Those the primary pieces of where everybody has gone. But I'm still trying to understand is why the Dodgers decided they need they did not need the trade Jock Peterson anymore.

I don't know it was the Angels that says, screw this, we're walking away, um, But that trade wind up not happening. So a lot to kind of uncover here, Frank, we now know it's official. Let me start from the Red Sock side of things. I know we did a whole um segment previously on Alex Verdugo. Um we really talking about Jeter Downs because it wasn't in the trade. People have kind of speculator of the Jeter Downs at some point in the near future. Could replace be the replacement

for Dustin for Joy at second base? Obviously Michael Javis played there last year, But what do you think of the Jeter Downs addition to the Boston Red Sox. I thought it was great that they were able to add another prospect. I agree with you completely. It's like someone in a fantasy baseball leagu getting fleeced for a trade, and then when they hear the backlash from everyone else, they're like, oh, can you please veto my trade so that I can try and get more out of someone else.

That's basically what happened here. The Red Sox got absolutely fleeced, and even with adding Jeter Downs, I still don't agree that they should have traded Mooky Betts, but it does look better on paper now that they get a prospect with the pedigree of Jeter. It was really interesting that I don't know. I think Verdugo is going to be a stunt. I really do believe that. So I don't know what the agenda is here. I was trying to

figure it out. But multiple times this weekend, John Hayman tweeted out Alex for duto has like Clint Fraser like problems. I don't know that means it's just like Cravy Fielder or some personality issues that I think it's personality stuff because I've heard I've heard things like that before as well above her Dugo, so I had not heard that, you know, maybe under the leadership of like A J. D. Martinez. And I always like young players being surrounded by, you know,

veterans who have been around a while. The same thing that happened last year with Miguel Snow with Nelson Cruz coming in, I thought that would have a positive impact on him. I'm not sure if that's the direct correlation that made Miguel Snow be awesome last year, but I do like when these older players are on teams and they can take youngsters under their wings. So we'll see what happens when it comes to Alex Verdugo. I think

he's gonna play every day. I think he's either gonna lead off for bad fifth for the Boston Red Sox. And I tweeted this out Roster resources. I tweeted this out on Friday, Greg. The pre trade NFBC cost for Alex Verdugo was twenty seven and since the trade happens, so from Wednesday on, his ADP was and if you remember what I told you, I said he was going to move up about fifty spots and he might move

up even more than that. I think Verdugo has Michael Brantley type upside, maybe not like his first full season, but eventually I think that that's what his upside can be. Verdugo is still twenty three years old, and according to roster resource right now for the Boston Red Sox, Verdugo

is projected to that seventh in this lineup. So what do they have leading off attendee followed by Dever's, Bogart's J. D. Martinez, Mitch Moreland, Michael Javis, Verdugo, Christian Vaska is j B J Right, So they might put it might leave Verdugo a little bit lower in the line up to start. They don't want to put too much pressure on him. But he's he's gonna make his way up there. Like I think he's better than Mitch Moreland. Now, Jeter Downs, I know to cut you off, but he was a

good prospect. Could get you said, why is that he's like a top fifty prospect in baseball, one of the better prospects in the Dodgers organization. You look at what he just did this past year at power speed combination. Twenty one years old at between double A and high A ball of this past year twenty four home runs, twenty four stolen bases. He hit to seventy six with eight o ps, so there's upside there. It's just very weird that there's a person named Jeter in the Boston

Red Sox organization now, but you're right. I think his long term future is he probably takes over at second base Greg they still have Bogarts locked up at shortstop, and then they'll eventually probably move Michael Javis back to his original position, which is first base. I think Mitch Moreland is just kind of a place holder for maybe this year. I don't think we're gonna see Jeter downs this year, but maybe like a September ish call up. If not, then the following year he'll probably be like

a mid season all up. I think that's fair to say. So then let me kind of follow that up with the player that played second based last year for the Red Sox, with Michael Chavis and just told you he's betting six in this lineup. What do you think of Michael Javis this season? I'm interested, obviously batting in the middle of a really good ballpark, a ballpark that plays for right handed power, and that's exactly what Javis has and you know, he was their top prospect for a while.

It wasn't really a great farm system obviously, but I think he proved something last year. Greg. I mean, the power is legit. You watched the batspeed, Like the kid has bat speed. I think his power is gonna play, especially in Fenway. The problem is he's got to cut down the strikeouts. Plate discipline was a dreadful from Michael Javis last year, and he struggled a little bit in the minors with strike out. With strikeouts, you know, he's

normally in like that mid twenty percentage. So even if he was, you know, around thirty percent, you can live with that. Like Fernando Tatis jr. Ist ideally you wanted to be better, but thirty three is a lot, Greg, So Michael Javis has to be better in terms of plate discipline and cutting down on those strikeouts. But I liked what I saw this year. Eighteen home runs in ninety five games a full season with Boston. I think you should be able to hit home runs from the

middle endfield. There's value. Their hard hit percentage last year for Michael Javis thirty three point six. It's no, it's not great, you know, strike evercentage ulversentage at I'm not a Michael Javis. You're out Michael Jas. But the thing is he's young enough where like he's years old right now. Yeah, like he can he can easily you know, improve his launch angle, cut down the strikeouts, and in before you know it, he's like a two seventy hitter who's hitting

twenty five home runs. You can pump the brakes. But the thing is he's not He's like not going early in drafts right now. Who in the NFBC in the month of February six, that's nothing. I'm not pretty much out on him though, because like, give me Cole Hamiles two spots before him. I agree with you know, I love col Hamiles, right, give me Mitch Kella going just ahead of him as well. But look at some of the hitters in this range, like Eric cosmer Man fine

to seventy home runs. It is what it is, Geo Orshella, you don't really know how the play time is gonna shake out there with the Yankees at least what Chavis. You know he's gonna play every day. Someone who's going a little bit later on though that I do love Austin Hayes is here last year too. Love Austin Hayes every year. Greg, alright, fair enough, let me go to the Dodgers. Let me have the Dodgers side of things. Obviously, no Mookie Betts. He has really solidified being in the

top five. I think he's I personally find him to be like the clear fourth hitter off the board. With Cody Bellinger his teammate being five. I think your first five doesn't include Garrett Cole or um Jacob Degraham. I think that's kind of six seven for me. But your top five, I think it's set Mookie Bets, Cody Bellinger both in it. Yeah, I mean it may personally in the deeper leagues, I would make the argument for getting the ace starting pitcher, just giving yourself that base of

picture list does not agree. Pitcher list does not agree. But you know, look they kind of cater more to twelve team category, which is fine in that format. Look, I would say that the hitter, what you're gonna get from the hitter is safer than what you can expect from any picture. Because I'll ask you for a friend here, Frank, if all five of those guys are gone and the next hitter happens to be Alex Bregman or Francisco Lindore. Would you take one of the pictures? No, yes, I

would definitely take the picture. You are cool, Jacob dem I have Jacob Graham as my sp one switch I said that, Oh along, I switched. I think you did. Surprise surprise. Greg can't get away from the pin stripes fair enough. We'll see what happens. I was originally Garrett Cole. I think a come more and Jacob de Gram, but we'll say, yeah, look, Betts is gonna go inside the top five picks in most strafts, and I think it

makes sense still a five category player. You worry, maybe maybe a little bit about the sixteen stolen basses last year. I think that's his floor. I think he probably gives you between fifteen and twenty stolen basses and he's gonna contribute everywhere else. His expected batting average last year was actually like fifteen twenty points higher than his actual batting average, so I think there's actually some positive regression coming from mookie beats as well. What will we ask you this one?

Also abouting this trade currently going at one A three in the NFBC in the month of February. Is David Price going at two? That's Kenza Maana. We refer to this uh last We referred to this um last week on the show that they were going very very close together. But I'll ask you again that trades official, Frank, would you rather have in Fantasy Baseball this year Kenza Mayanna or David Price? Yeah? I think they're both risky. I think at some point, like Kenta Maita is probably gonna

be slowed down. I don't know that you could defend depend on him for more than a hundred and fifty a hundred and sixty endings this year, even with the Minnesota Twins. That's just not the picture that Kenta may has been. Same thing with David Price. You know, he's almost certainly gonna miss some time throughout the course of this season. But I will take David Price. I think that both teams are gonna get tremendous run support. But

there's just something about the Dodgers, right. It's like every starting picture that winds up with the Dodgers, it's a lot like the Houston Astros. These guys are just phenomenal and if you look at David Price from last year. The strikeouts actually bounced back in a big way. A twenty eight percent strikeout rate for David Price last year was the highest of his career, so he actually was pitching well. I think he had. He was unlucky last

year as well. Four to eight e ar a, Greg, you see the X fit down at three seven three. I think the whip was a little bit unlucky as well. The strike outs the highest of his career. I think these guys are close. But give me David Price over kent to Maada. I think both guys are players that I want on my team's kids in MYDA. Pitching a full season as a starting pitcher, if he holds up, I think he's in a good spot. I to rely before well, David Price, first time pitching in the National

League's gonna be helpful. Some pieces value go. I'm in on both of these guys. He gets to face the Giants like five times a year. Greg, it's awesome. All right, we'll take a break, we'll come back one another. Trea, you gotta get into just stay around. Well, not more coming your ways. Are you ready for the nation's first and only free twenty four hour network dedicated to you

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is Sports Crade. Get on the grid. So we mentioned a lot about the Red Sox Dodgers Twins trade here, Frank, before we move on, any idea from your perspective why the Dodgers didn't consummate the trade with the Angels. I think it was related from to the Angels, like just just kind of backing out of it and that it was taking too long. I don't know exactly the details.

That's what I saw on Twitter a little bit people talking about, but it kind of it seems weird to me that the Angels wouldn't still go through with it, because, yes, while they have more rotation arms now, it seems like they can never have enough depth because that Andrewheney has always hurt Hyotani. You don't really know what you're gonna get out of him. So I think they should have

went through with it. And you get an outfielder like Jack Peterson who already knows the area he plays with the Dodgers and probably could have hit your thirty home runs playing every day and in right field there. I think that made a lot of sense for the Angels. And then you know, getting a picture like Ross Striplinger, I think, look, we've seen upside out of Ross Stripling. He was an All Star in ten, like he had a stretch where he was phenomenal as a starting pitcher

and really good curveball as well. The strikeout numbers are solid, but has this really good command, doesn't walk all that many guys. So I thought that getting Ross Stripling for the Angels would have been great for their rotation, and it would have been great for fantasy right because we would have unleashed Kent to my Ada, we would have unleashed Ross Stripling at the same time. Now we still

kind of have these question marks. We have like five six players for the Dodgers, Greg to fill two rotation spots with Julio Eurias and with Jimmy Nelson, Dustin May, Alex Wood, Alex Wood, Ross strippling, so you still have five guys to fill two rotation spots and it's frustrating from a fantasy perspective. Now that glut reminds me of what we also know in Tampa Bay, where the Tampa Bay Raised that a lot this offseason, but it feels like none of its made it our jobs any clearer

by any means. Over the weekend, the Raised round up training away Emilio Pagan. They're closer this past season for Manny Margot and those other pieces that are involved in that. But more go and put on the two big pieces traded away, right, yes, okay, so those are the two

major pieces. It's Plagan that goes over to San Diego that he's gonna help their bullpen in front of Kurby Yates or place Kurby Ights who is a free agent to be if he gets traded away, and you have Manuel Margo, so they will play the outfield for Tampa Bay, much like his old teammate Hunter renefro being traded away from San Diego to Tampa. But Tama has had a lot of players in the mix including Renafro in including um Kevin Kermeyer. For instance, Kevin Kiermyer, Yoshi Suitsugo, you

have Nate Low, you have Jose Martinez. You have basically six or seven guys greg that are trying to fill

you know, right field, d H and first base. And again this reminds me of the Dodgers, where it's frustrating from a fantasy perspective, but it's a great problem to have if you're the Tampa Bay Rays, You're just going to continue to play the matchups, right, So Austin Meadows is gonna play every single day in left field, and then you're gonna have a combination of Kevin Kermeyer and Manny Margot in center field, you know, maybe just a

straight up platoon with ker Meyer playing against right handed pitching and Margot playing against left handed pitching. And then again in right field, you have if Margot is not playing that day, you could put him in right field, or you can get one of Jose Martinez out there, or Uhunter Renfro or a Yoshi Sasugo, and then whoever isn't playing there you can use as your d H

and in your first base. And all the while we have Nate Low, who you know, has all this prospect pedigree and he's been mashing in the minor leagues, doesn't have a spot to play, doesn't have an opportunity here with the Tampa Bay Rays. So uh, it's definitely a frustrating situation from a fantasy perspective, Greg with the Tampa Bay Rays offense, and we haven't even gotten to their bullpen, so I can. Man, it's a complete mess. It's a complete utter mess. And you look at the bullpen and

I'll try to figure it out. Um, who will be the closer when it's all said and done. I don't know the problem with the raises. The closer on day one could be the starter on day two. I mean that quite literally. And the same goes for the outfield. The entire starting outfield can be replaced on day from day one to day two. That's how many pieces they have here. And Margot, is he going to be a starter? Like you trade away your closer for someone's gonna be

a fourth or fifth outfielder for you. I wouldn't think so. No, this is was like making money. No, it's a it's a buy low opportunity for the Tampa Bay Rays. They're looking at a player that you know was once regarded as one of the top outfield prospects in baseball, and he went over to the San Diego Potters in the trade from the Red Sox years ago. He hasn't panned out with the San Diego Padres, and now the Tampa Bay Rays are buying low on him and potentially selling high.

I guess on Pagan. I don't know why they wouldn't like Pagan because, as you mentioned, Greg, and he was damn good last year over twelve strikeouts per nine, under two walks per nine, two point three one e r a a three point one five exit, a zero point eight three whip Miliel. Pagan was great last year, So I don't really know why the Rays would want to give up on him. Maybe there's something they know that

we don't. But he led this team last year with twenty saves, and then of course we had Diego Castillo in the mix who had a few saves, and we also had Jose Alvarado, so it was Diego Castillo with eight and it was Jose Alvarado with seven saves, and Alvarado took a huge step back the year before he had over thirty saves. Greg and we know that he has filthy stuff. His his swing and miss stuff is is phenomenal, but his walks per nine were up over eight.

We're talking about Robbie Ray territory out here, Greg with those types of walks. I think Diego Castio is really good, but oftentimes they use him as an opener, so you don't know what you're gonna expect there from Castillo. I think Nick Anderson is gonna get the first shot, and even if they kind of play matchups, I think you can expect him to get two thirds of the save opportunities this upcoming season, something similar to what we saw from Pagan last year when he had twenty saves and

these other two guys had seven each. Um, I think Nick Anderson is legit. Greg had a forty one percent strikeout rate last year that was second among relievers behind only Josh Hayder, so he's really damn good. The strikeouts are legit when it comes to Nick Anderson, I get. I think he gets the first opportunity, but I also think Diego Castillo and Jose Alvarado are going to be in that mix depending on matchups. Fair enough, I think it's like I said, a mess there and we can

speculate as much as we want. It's just not going to be clear. But you're gonna want the closer ideally because the race he's like, they're good, They're good exactly. Craig set the over under for Nick Anderson's saves this year for eleven and a half on F s T number That seems low to me if he's the closure. If he's Poggan had twenty last year, and I think Nick Anderson could step into that role. Plegon could wind up getting some saves this year, as I mentioned. If

Kirby yet it gets traded. But Nanuel Largo traded away from the outfield, how does that outfield in San Diego now shape up? Yeah, so we're looking at Francie Cordero on the strong side of a platoon. He struggled big time against left handed pitching in his major league career, but it looks like Francie Cordero is going to be the uh strong side of a platoon in center field,

playing against right handed pitching regularly. And they're obviously you know, they traded for Trent Grisham as well, and it seems like they like him a lot because they gave up Luis Urias to get Grisham, and Urias was once regarded as one of the top prospects in baseball. Uh And of course they traded for Tommy fam with Tampa Bay Ray's earlier in the off season. So their outfield team set you have Famine left field, Grisham, and right field.

I think Cordero plays against right handed pitching in center field, and then against lefties. They'll get Will Myers in center field, and perhaps Will Myers fills in a little bit against left handed pitching to give Trent Christian a day off because he is a left handed batter as well. But I'm kind of a trade them for Chie Cordero. Greg Remember a couple of years ago, Matt Modica was all over Francie Cordero, and he's someone that does have a

little bit of a power speed combination. Back ineen in the minor leagues, he had three six with seventeen home runs and fifteen stolen bases. The year before that eleven home runs and twenty three steals for Francie Cordero. He's still just twenty five years old, and in fact, I just took him in an NFBC Draft Champions League that I'm in right now, Greg. I took him in the twenty sixth round as my sixth outfielder, so at that

point a little bit of a power speed combination. I think he plays most of the time in center field. If he struggles, we could see Taylor Trammel, the prospect that the Padres traded for last year, get an opportunity later on in the season. Yeah, he was the former top prospect for the Cincinnati Reds, I believe, and that's correct. I remember what he was traded. We were all like, what what are you doing? And he's gonna have a spot.

I was reading the article he tweeted out, UM from and will be dot com and regards to San Diego Padre listen, Jamelle. Obviously, um his closers would offer to you to need than he was. But he hasn't really hasn't playing Triple A yet, so we had a lot of time before. We're gonna lots of strikeouts for tailors exactly, so we have some time. I think this opens up a lot a lot of opportunity for Will Myers, who

they haven't been able to get rid of. So Will Meyer's is still gonna get a chance to play here Myers and Um Cordero clearly the biggest beneficiaries. Yere, you like Trent Grisham, where is Grishaman? Gun Risham is going in the month of February four thirty four, so he's basically free as well. And in the draft that I'm doing right now, he went in the nineteenth round, so he Trent Grishmaan goes in the nineteenth round, and I got franch to Cordero seven rounds later in a fifteen

team draft. It was good and turned Christmaan broke out last year in the minor leagues. But the thing with him was how much of that is legit? Because that was far and away the best minor league season he ever had. Again, last year with the Milwaukee Brewers, between Double A and Triple A, he had twenty six home runs with twelve stolen bases and a three batting average when an opius over a thousand. So Grisham has some upside here, Greg, But that was really the first season

that he broke out like that. I believe he did something different to his swing, Like he changed his swing up mechanically, and uh that's why he was able to uh kind of make this adjustment and make this jump in the minors. Uh, and then the Padres go out and trade for him, Greg, Yeah, fair enough? All right. When we come back, Frank, let's get in the first a DP desk of the season. I pick a number. Frank is then going to talk about said player at the number. Does he like him? Does he hate him?

Does he want nothing to do with him? Or is he all in? He's gonna answer all of those questions or we come back sick? Are aud? The ADP desk is next. You're on the b f S. Are you ready for the nation's first and only, free, twenty four hour network dedicated to you, the betting and fantasy sports enthusiast. Sports Grade will provide you with a real time content, statistics and gaming intelligence unlike anything you've ever seen before.

Located both in the Harvor of New York City and inside the FanDuel Sports book at the meadow Lands Sports Crede, he's live eighteen hours a day here to serve you the fanatic. This is sports Crade. Get on the grid. Al right back here, pf FS, It's time the first a D D the season. Are you y excited? I'm very excited. Using the NNBC a DP in the month of February. Greg Susman is gonna give me a number, and we're gonna talk about said players. Even a number

phrase let it come from my head. Oh yeah, You're not just gonna think of a random number. So how are you gonna do this? Greg Susman's reaching under the table and he gets the trustee. Let's spin the wheel, Rubbert Duck. Let's spend the wheel of ducks the number on each duck. Let's go and away we go. Before I do this, we have no idea what numbers are. Well, you wrote the numbers. We don't know which players. They are not completely random. All right, I'm gonna start before

I go to the ducks. I'm gonna go a number two eight Kobe Bryant, number two forty eight, Kobe Bryant NFC in the mother February. Who is number? That would be Dan's by Swanson? All right, of the Atlanta Brave talking hands be Swanson. Uh kind of broke out a little bit last year. I remember he was a popular waiver wire pick up. Was Dan's by Swanson? Again? Former first round picks still just twenty You know what I

was gonna say twenty years old. He turned twenty six years old tomorrow actually, so happy birthday to Dan's be Swanson. But he did break out a little bit last year seventeen home runs, ten stolen bases, two fifty one batting average. I don't think that the offense is ever going to get to the point that maybe people expected it too. I know he was more so regarded as a complete prospect, someone who is a great defender as well, but he does offer a little bit of a power to speed

ish combination. I don't know that there's a lot of upside with a dance by Swanson. I love the lineup with the Atlanta Braves, but I think a fair projection, Well, you had seventeen on runs in a hundred and twenty seven games, so if he could stay healthy, maybe there's a chance we started to see him mature and get to that twenty home run plateau greg with ten to twelve stolen bases and no not a great batting average. I think that's what you can expect, right, He's probably

gonna give you between the two forty and two. Swatson did have, as you mentioned, a little bit of a breakout. There's a time in the middle of the season, You're like, oh my god, it's happening right then? It didn't you know? He was ringing endorsement very similar speed last year. Ten steels in each year caught four or five times. You know, I think at twenties, what six years old? Now he's going to be who is And I don't know if

that's that's good enough. There's a lot of guys doing swantson Does I do like the hard percentage two and a half percent currently projected to bad eighth for the Atlanta bra Thats another issue. So are you interruted dances? Well, I'm probably going to be out and just looking at other players in this range to kind of compare the middle infield position. Not a lot of middle infielders in this range. Luisa Riya's is going ahead of him. I don't really like Luisa Riya's either, but Austin Hayes is

in this ring. Come just it all comes back to Austin Hayes. Shinto Chow is going after him as well. Sintu Chu undervalued every season, Greg Great, Frank tomorrow, you mentioned Nancy sass birthday, that is to eleven. Let go to number two eleven oh, number two eleven. What do we have here? Hell, yeah, that would be Oh, this is an interesting one. Marcus Stroman the New York Mets. So I looked into Marcus Stroman last week. I'm happy you did because he changed things up a little bit.

Like I like Marcus Stroman. Yeah, I was talking about I was talking about Stroman with Matt Modica on Twitter because I didn't understand the disparity between Stroman and Kiko, because they don't really seem that dissimilar. They both get a lot of groundballs, not enough strikeouts, and they walk too many guys. I will say, Stroman is younger and the Swingen strike rade is like two percent higher. So does that mean that there should be a sixty pick

difference between those guys? No, probably not in my opinion. But then Matt Moodika brought up how Stroman kind of changed his pitch mix a little bit in UH in September and he started getting more Swingen strikes, started getting more strikeouts. So maybe there's perceived more upside for Stroman, But I still don't think that there should be that big of a gap between him and Dallas k I think that's fine. I like Stroman in the National League.

He he didn't have a semblance of good luck last year. He came home baby back to New York. I like Stroman, he could get traded a end midseason obviously. UM, I like Marcus Stroman, I can get You know, Marcus Stroman at two eleven who the players just going around, going right around Marcus Stroman. We have lost the first second. Sorry, Greggy. Marcus Stroman at two fifteen, six spots earlier draft, No, Musgrove.

I'm taking Joe Musgrove over Marcus Stroman. Just behind Marcus Stroman, we have Griffin Canning, who was a popular breakout stide of picture this year as well, Massa Hero tanaka Joey Luke, Casey Jose or Queedy, Haleb Smith, Dustin May. Those are like the six seven starting pictures that are going after Marcus Stroman. Just ahead of him, you have Joe Musgrove. You have a closer in Ian Kennedy, correct, Mike Fultonevitch of the Atlanta Brave, someone who we are slightly interested

in as well. And then Andrew Heeney. Great can I interested in Andrew heiny He's going about fifteen spots ahead. Of Marcus Stroman's the whole round. Really wait round Stroman, I agree with that, that's fay. But Stroman I did want to just bring this up. In the month of September saw his k per nine go to the highest it wasn't any month, nine point to five k per nine, and it's walks per nine dropped to two point nine

walks for nine. So if he can get that command down, lower the walks a little bit, continue to this recent surge of strikeouts that he had. Once he came over to the New York Mets, they probably figured something out with him a little bit, and there's probably a decent amount of upside here for Marcus Strumman being drafted in the spot. All right, there you go. Hello here, we're hearing that all is so, uh, make sure guys downstairs we hit the right button for will uh that's uh?

Where everything's on this side? That window? Will I love window? Will I'm on the show? Why not? I guess it was an it was really in or not not over there? All right, whatever, So we'll go back at the ADPSK. Here we go. Let's go number one thirty eight, Frankie, number one thirty eight in the month of February. What we're getting some good ones today. It is our boy, Max Freed, Max Free. Everyone loves Max Free. We're talking

about Free. Last week, Matt Modica has Max Freed ranked is his s he twenty four the Top Stars, and we spoke about, you know, some of the hype guys this upcoming season. Frankie Montoss I think is in this mix. I think Zach Gallen is in this whole segment on this last week. Yeah, I like Max Freed a lot as well. I probably still would prefer to take Zac Gallant ahead of him, although there was a report over the weekend that Zack Gallan has to earn the fifth

starting pitcher job for the Arizona Diamondbacks. But I like Max Freed a lotman and I had Modica on FSC last week, Greg on Friday, and he said Max Freed kind of reminds him of Shane Bieber from last year. So not saying that that same thing is going to happen kind of get it. You can you can kind of see the parallels there. I kind of get it. I kind of get like. I like I like Freed as a breakout this year as well. Uh, let's continue on WEEKA, which Zack Gallan has moved ahead of Max

Freed and ADP. You think I'm the one fueling that Greg. People must be watching the BFFs up next number three fourteen we have so when we just spoke about during the break, Travis Shaw now with the Toronto Blue Jays, So again, I brought up Travis Shaw last week to Craig Mission on a seat and he said, what's the floor with this guy? Like there's a chance that he's

cut from the Blue Jays like mid season. He was dreadful last year with the Milwaukee Brewers, and it's hard to defend that he's been really bad against left handed pitching the past couple of years with the Brewers. But I think we also can't forget that he had two seasons in a row where he was thirty plus home runs. Greg really good ballpark in Toronto, good division to hit

in with other really good ballparks. He's projected to hit fifth in a lineup with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. With West, with Laura's Gariel Jr. We're all excited about those guys. If Travis Saw is heading in the middle of this

line of Greg. I think there's some upside, especially at what three or fourteen pretty good spots Again him, it's okay, you know, so for all the reasons we lay Travis Shaw over the last couple of years, that's why you're buying Mackie and like figure out something went wrong maybe in his personal life this past year and for whatever reason, like we love you and I love the Travis Shaw season. Him and Mike Muss we were you know, both of them. I know you're still in on Moose. But the Travis

Shaw thing, the value is there. He's in a good line of it. He can just find that stroke again and play every day. He might get platooned against left hand but again, like going this late, like you're gonna find a war with every hitter or pitcher that's being drafted outside the top three hundred, right, So there's a reason why they're going this late. And again he is projected to be a platoon player according to Roster Resource with who former Yankee great Brandon Drury. So we'll see

what happened them. But I do like Travis Shaw as a corner infielder in a deeper league, maybe an a l only as your third Baseman. I think he's someone that can bounce back and there's gonna be RBI opportunities in the middle of that Blue Jay's line up. Greg right up next, Bragan number one sive, number one, sixty five in NFBC a DP in the month of Februar. Right, he's so excited. I don't know it is so excited. It's actually someone on my team, in my current track champion.

It is not. It might be after that injury. Right. Uh, it's Edwin Incarnacion with the Chicago White Sox. Very interesting. So here's the thing with Edwin Incarnacion, and this will kind of tell you about how I feel about Pete Alonso too. I'm gonna try and intertwine these two guys. Pete Alonso, based on his profile, is going to strike out a lot this year. It's probably gonna hit you around to fifty I think, similar to what he did last year. He makes great contact when he makes contact,

but he still strikes out a lot. And I'm here to tell you that if you want a profile of someone who's gonna hit you to fifty in thirty five plus home runs with a hundred plus r B, I why are you taking Pete Alonso in the third round of an NFBC draft when you can get Edwin and Carnacion in the tenth or eleventh, I understand. Pete Alonso is way younger, the upside is way higher, and he's coming off the season where just hit fifty three home runs,

albeit in a season with the juice ball. We don't know what type of ball is going to be used this season in baseball, but one thing we do know for sure is the consistency that we've gotten from Edwin and Carnassion for the past decade plus. So I think he's another lock for thirty plus home runs and in that White Sox lineup, Greig, you could argue is one of the best, maybe the best line up in baseball right now, one of the most exciting. I think that

these guys have similar profiles. Give me Edwin and Cornassion in the tenth or eleventh versus Peterlanso in the third. Listen, I totally agree with you, because Edwin Cornassion when he is healthy, he's the same guy that he has been his entire career. Playing a good White Flux lineup right in the middle of the order, I think you have to like Edwin and Carnassio in that spot. I give it. I'm down at that number. Here, give it to me, Um, I have as my starting first baseman, which it might

not be ideal. You might like him more as a corner. But again to forty plus plus home run, Yes, this would you Cornascio in that spot or the guy we really like five rounds earlier. So that's the thing. They're gonna have a similar profile as well. Right, So I kept looking at Reese Hoskins, and I asked myself, why don't I just wait a couple of rounds and take Edwin? And I don't think that Edwin and Carnacion is dissimilar from a Reese Hoskins. Greg, let's hit one more before

the break? One more. It's eight DP end of the show. That's correct. That one is I'm trying to get. For some reason, it's not Jose Barrios of the Minnesota Twins. Greig doesn't like that one. He's just like, I don't want to talk about Jose Brias. Why not? Greg? I don't mind him, I don't. I think that he kind of just is who he is. When Frank says that he's not he's not a target, that's for sure. He's not a target. But he's not like an a void either. If you need an s P three, s P two

and he Rios Brand Woodruff. But they're close in my rankings, very close. Gon FBC two for all goes it goes up next next to Sean and Alex down stairs for Frank sample. I'm Greg Susman. We'll do it all gonnamorrow, We hope. Are you ready for the nation's first and only free, twenty four hour network dedicated to you the betting and fantasy sports enthusiast. Sports Grade will provide you with a real time content, statistics and gaming intelligence unlike

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