February 20, 2020 • 49 mins
Nine players last season finsihed with 20 home runs and 20 steals. Who were thosep layers and who could reach that mark this year? Gregg Sussman and Frank Stampfl will let you know, here on 2/20!
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inside of Studio thirty four. This is the BFFs. He
is Frank stamfle I am grand sauceman. Frank's okay, We've
actually got a lot to talk about here we do February. Greg, Yeah,
how you doing? How you sleep? I slept very well,
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my friend, very very well last night. It's to hear
because I don't hear that very often from you anymore,
not anymore, not these days. But said, well, it's great.
Does it make you feel better that I read up
on some political news today? Greg? I woke up today
and I got a message from Frank and he's like,
I know what happened to the debate last night once,
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not only did you sleep well, you woke up to
great news. Greg. Normally I got a text early the
morning from Frank it's why didn't you do this? Or
this sucks or this is wrong? But instead I woke
up to a nice text. I texted with you. I
texted with Florio Cardio. Don't text me like oh man.
He texted me about the debate. It was great. It
was awesome. And amidst all of that, I sent you
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a thread about Kevin Bigio to help brighten your morning
having her Cavan. Pretty sure it's Kevin. I've been calling
him Cavan for a while. Well, let's look that up. Yeah,
we probably should. We'll go look that up for you, No,
no doubt about it. On the show today on Too twenty,
did you have a zero anything? Aren't we going? We
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are going to talking about all the players, all nine
of them that went last season. We're gonna talking about
the players that Steamer projects in this season. We'll give
you some long shots as well, and we're gonna check
in with Farrell live in Vegas for Fury Wild. There's
a huge show. It all takes place over the next hour.
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Before we get to any of that He's Alex Passano
with your sports trade news up, team sports grade news update.
I am Alex Possano with your sports grid news update.
Here on the fantasy b f f's in the NFL,
we may be expecting a playoff structure change. As part
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of a proposed playoff format, only one team from each
conference would have received a first round five. As now,
the conferences will expand to seven teams each in the postseason,
The regular season will be expanded to seven teen games
per season, and the preseason shortened to three games per team.
Once again. The proposed playoff format will feature one team
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getting you by for each conference and the league. Sources
said NFL owners are pushing forward to happen next season.
This will also include a revised postseason schedule that includes
six games on wild Card weekend, three on Saturday, and
three on Sunday. In Major League Baseball, Luis Severino was
scratched from a scheduled bullpen session on Thursday due to
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right forearm soreness. Concerning news for a guy who pitched
just twelve innings during the two thousand nineteen regular season.
Yankees manager Aaron Boud noted that the forearm issue dates
back to Severinos a LCS Game three start against none
other than the Houston Astros. The twenty year old right
hander has been shut down from throwing and will see
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a team physician on Friday and in the NBA, Minnesota
Timber will Center Carl Anthony Towns will remain sidelined indefinitely
as he continues to recover from a left wrist injury.
Coach Ryan Saunders sold report as that team held Towns
out of his first practice after the All Star break
on Wednesday. Saunders said Towns will miss upcoming games, but
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did not specify how many. Big Cat is averaging a
career best twenty six point five points and ten point
eight rebounds per game this season. Minnesota returns to action
on Friday home against the Boston Celtics. You got a
full at NHL college troops and NBA games making their
return from the All Star breaks, so you want to
consider the Miami Heat visiting the Atlanta Hawks. Hawks are
your six point home dogs in this one. The total
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is to nine. Also, the Houston Rockets visit the Golden
State Warriors. Rockets here nine and a half point favorites.
The total is two thirty three. I'm Alex Fasano, and
this has been your sports grid news update. Now back
to the fantasy BFFs. Alright, nice job today, Alex, better
than yesterday, I'll being honest, a much better update today,
doing a great job. We didn't get any NASCAR updates.
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It was a good update everything that we need a
little basketball, a little base to get Louis Severino in
there for you guys. You know you bring up Louise Severino,
and I'm glad you did because that you lead it
with the right stuff today. I I thought it was
a great job, and I think we need to lead
off with the right stuff as well, Frank, So we
have to be here before we get into two. We
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gotta talk about Louise Severino, who unfortunately is hurt again.
Remember the conversation we had dum dam dum dump but
damp Hey, Alex, remember the thing Frank made with Luis
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Savorino on it. You want to just all right, we
have a song, we have the the graphic with him.
That's ah, here you go. We do one more time,
We do one more time. Well, I want to feel better.
It's a race. The last thirty seconds and day that
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was your fatost moment of the day, brought to you
by your fantasy BFFs Luis Severino, Greg another one bites
the dust just like that, he fades to black. Lui
sa Vorino has forum shorts, as Alex told you about.
And unfortunately, Yank, he's have no idea the severity of it.
He's gonna take some anti inflammatory meds. No, uh, he's
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not gonna have any other tests, which he was stupid.
He was gonna see the doctor and then he wasn't
seeing the doctor. Now he's seeing the doctor again. You
know what this has written all over it, Frank, Does
it start with uh t and and and with an honor?
It might, yes, But I was talking about the way
that the Yankees are like diagnosing this. It rise with
j E T S Jets, Jets, Jets. Come on, Craig,
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don't put the Yankees in the same conversation as the Jets.
I'm not. I'm putting the same conversation as the Mets.
Rhymes with the Jets, That's what it makes sense, right, Well,
the Jets kind of had an interesting year in terms
of injuries. Remember when I think it was other Cinder,
one of their star pitchers, and regard Wheeler de Graham
was hurt and it was like this, we had some
stories and he was seeing the doctor that he wasn't
seeing the doctor, and he was playing. Then he wasn't playing,
and we killed them. Floria was here and we sat
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here killing them, and rightfully so, because he was one
of the most important pieces on the team, and we're like,
what are you doing? Let see the damn doctor. And
that's how I feel about this with Luis every Now.
He heard himself form soreness after Game three of the ALCS.
He was cleared and healthy enough that he was going
to pitch in Game seven of the ALCS if it
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went that far. We are now November December January, four
months past that, and he has the same soreness. He
underwent an m r I November and then m r
I earlier this month. No issues, but something is wrong
in that forearm because you can't throw a damn change up.
This is bad, Frank, really really bad, and it's bad
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for maybe everybody not named the Tampa Bay Rays. Let's
go with that, because it's bad for the Yankees, it's
bad for Yankee fans, it's bad for fantasy baseball. Let's
be honest man, We've already seen other starting pitchers drop
off the board due to injury. James Paxton another Yankee
who apparently was dealing with a back injury late last
season during the postseason, Did they just think that these
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guys were gonna, you know, sleep all off season and
rest up and that they were just going to come
back to healthy. Why wasn't this addressed in or at
least in early You just thought that they were gonna
show up pitchers and catchers and these guys were just
gonna be perfectly fine. It doesn't work that way. So
I don't know. Based on everything that happened last year
with the Yankees, all the injuries that they suffered, they
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basically cleaned out the training staff and same old Yankees
from last year. I mean, it's it's crazy right now
with these injuries. But again from a fantasy perspective, that's
just another top twenty starting pitcher that's gonna drop way
down draft boards, and rightfully so, because you have no
idea what's going on right now. Carlos Carrasco earlier today
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heard his leg. The guy is on crutches. He was
a top thirties starting pitcher being drafted. We already lost
Paxton as well. So look at this. We're a week
into pictures and catchers, Greg and already we've lost, you know,
potentially three starting pitchers. Yeah, it's crazy, it's insane. Jose
here has also heard his foot today, you know your
number one third basement as you now, by the way, yep,
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which is how we'll get into a nice transition that
he did. Um. But Luis Severino, James Paxton, obviously, Domingo
Harman is suspended. It's incredibly, incredibly frustrating, incredibly frustrating. There's
not even March first, and these are the injuries, and
Yankees are dealing with ready heavy favorites to at least
heavy favorites to win the a L get to the
World serious only behind the Dodgers to win it all.
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I'm happy you brought up the just the betting odds
real quick, Greig, because the regular season win total for
the Yankees is one oh one and a half. And
I understand they won a hundred games last year with
everybody banged up, and they added Garrett Cole to the mix.
There's some heavy juice on the over right now minus
one two. I am not going to bet against the
Yankees personally, because it just wouldn't surprise me if they
go over this number. But if you are worried about
the injuries to Severino and James Paxton and the entire
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pitching staff, you're getting good money on the under right
now at plus one oh five. If that's something you
are interested in, I would say George Montgomery is virtually
a lock for the rotation at this point. Craig assuming
he's healthy because again he doesn't pitched much over the
past couple of seasons. Um and we'll see how they
round out that rotation. Jay Happ is going to be
in there as well. They might go with an opener strategy.
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Maybe you no go with a Jonathan the Wise, It
good to a Chad Green something like that. But yeah,
there's a few other guys vying for that spot. Chad bettis,
Nick Tropiano. We'll see what the Yankees do, but ultimately
it sucks for them and it sucks for Fantasy baseball.
Greg another twenty top twenty starting pitcher. Following off the board,
we're gonna talk twenty here on to twenty. Before any
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of that, we're gonna check in with Farrell, who's live
in Vegas. Most see what's up with him on his
show Coast to Coast. When we come back, you know
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is sports Cred. Get all the back with you, BFFs,
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Frank Staffele and Greg Susman. We are live in New
York City, but Scott Farrell is live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He's there for Fury while they're the Saturday's doing shows there,
Tonay and tomorrow. That comes your way live at four
pm Eastern and he joins us for a couple of minutes.
Right now. What's happening, Scott? What's shag boys? It's all
good here in Sin City. A lot happening, the media
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centers rocking, and especially now that I'm here, I always
take over this room. Here's what's gonna happen when I
do the show live. We're gonna clear this place out.
We're gonna get all the best guests. We're gonna get fighters.
We're gonna cause trouble. It's electric here. There's a lot
of energy. It's lit, it's packed. It's uh got the
feel of a Mayweather McGregor. It's got the feel of
a Mayweather packy out. It's got the feel of a
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you know, a heavyweight Championship of the World with Wilder
and Fury. There's a great atmosphere. People are checking in.
The MGM is packed, uh, and it is venom. It
is no joke here. If you're not ready to dance,
you will be stepped on like a bug. I've been
to over a hundred title fights and here we go again.
I know all these people. It's great that I have
the juice here that I've had over the years. It's
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great to have sports Grid here, and uh, it's exciting
to have the network here for our first fight on
sports Grid and all of our partners and everyone included
in that including Pluto, Zumo, Stir, YouTube and um Our
Radio partners, Fantasy Sports, Radio, Fantasy Sports Network, tune in,
I heart Premier. Everything is just fantastic. We're lit. I'm jack.
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I'm ready. Not only that, We're gonna do two great
shows today Coast to Coast and in Game Live, and
then we're going to the hockey game tonight and I'm
hoping to get in a fist fight. Now. Will be awesome.
If you get a fist fight. I would have put
that on in Gay Live rather than you know, seeing
Gabe like that. Like I said, you're a fist fight
while you're watching the veiggat nights like that would be
an ideal situation for me. It's gonna be a great game.
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It's Tampa Bay. They won eleven in a row against
the Knights, who are getting hot. They made some deals.
They got Alec Martinez from the Kings. They're making a
push for the playoffs. They've been a playoff team. They
went to the Stanley Cup Finals, went back to the playoffs,
got beat. Uh. They mean business here. They lost five
in a row. They fired Galant. They are no joke.
Foley's the owner. He's like patting the general. Uh. It's
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an electric atmosphere at that arena. Team Mobile for hockey
unequaled in the league. I've been in the league for
over thirty years. I've never seen anything like going to
a night's game. It's gonna be exciting. But the fight
at the Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night on pay
per view on Fox, the Fox App, Fox pay per View,
and ESPN Plus pay per View is gonna be fantastic.
The first fight was incredible at Stables in Lipstick City.
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Maffi and I were there for that, and the twelfth round,
I'll never forget it when Wilder knocked him down and
not only knocked him out but hit him with a
left hook that even even more damage. And then when
Fury somehow got up, by the grace of God, we
know what happened. Wilder kept beating his ass like no
one's business, and it was absolutely phenomenal that the guy
was able to withstand all of it and finished the
fight and then get a draw because he had won
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about ten rounds in boxing points world, but in terms
of knockouts, ninth and twelve couldn't take it away from Wilder.
So here we go again. It's gonna be great Saturday night.
That place will be absolutely shocked and I mean to
tell you, it'll be rolling in that building, and it
will be loud and crazy, and it'll be all kinds
of smoke show hotties and celebrities and movie stars, and
half of them are gonna want to sleep with me.
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It's awesome. And he won't be able to sleep with
any of them, which is makes it that much worse.
All Right, you mentioned wild there, of course Antison Fury
Saturday night, and he's over the first fight. I had
rided Scottie that in the second fight that the loser
has thirty days to declare a rematch. Is that true?
It is Drew greg and I think that that is bunk.
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We've heard a Fury in bed say he wants to
retire when he beat It's Wilder. First of all, I
don't think that's happening. It might, it might very well.
He fought a great fight. I will say this much.
Fury is not afraid of him. I don't want to
see the third fight, frankly, unless this fight is so phenomenal,
it's so incredible, because it's never as good the second
time around. You thought she was hot, the second time around,
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it wasn't as good. Right, here's the deal. Every time
I've seen fights. I saw Paty I'll fight Marquess five times.
I talked about it on the Froll on the Bench
podcast on Fantasy Sports Radio, and I said, you know,
after a while three, four or five, I'm bored with it.
I was sitting there at those fights, going they're good fights.
But why am I doing this for a fourth and
fifth time twice with this one. If it lives up
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to the hype, if it lives up to the great
first fight, where it was ten rounds of Fury dominating
in points, dominating and boxing, getting in his head, sticking
out his tongue, wagging his tongue, laughing at him, mocking him,
and then getting knocked down in the ninth and twelve
with vicious right hands and a left cross. That was
a great fight. Equal that fight. Live up to that
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fight again, be better than that fight, then I'll change
my mind and say trilogy, bring it on. Until then,
this will be enough for me. This will determine who
is the heavyweight champion in the world. I think it's Wilder.
In fact, I'm betting that he'll knock him out this time.
Flush this time he'll knock him out, and he won't
get up. They'll carry him out on a wheelbarrel. Well, Scott,
that eliminates one of the questions I was about to
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ask you, is which way you're leaning with this fight?
The Vandal Sports book has this basically even it's minus
wan oh wait for Wilder, minus want to wait for
Tyson Fury as well. I did want to ask you,
did you think that the first fight should have been
a tie? Because I agree with you it seemed like
Fury was dominating the entire time, but the way that
Whilder knocked him out late, I was okay with that
decision personally. Were you okay with that decision? And is
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this the most anticipated fight? You mentioned McGregor Mayweather? Is
this the most anticipated boxing match since then? Yeah? I
think it is. But I think that fight was bigger
without his doubt, and so is Mayweather packy out bigger,
But it didn't live up to it. It was an
absolute joke. That was the worst fight ever. Aw So
I'll say this, um, Frank, I agree with you that,
uh you know, And I said Fury dominated the fight
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in points in ten rounds. And we were there and
I was sitting in five rows from the ring and
I thought the whole night, I'm like, this guy's winning
this fight. He's gonna win this fight. And then in
the ninth round, uh, you know, he got knocked down,
got up, no problem, kept going in the twelve when
he got hit, when he got hammered with that right
and the left coming down, he hit him with a
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right when he was tipping over like a tree. On
the way down, he said, your mother wapp with a
left cross across his face, and his face snapped off
and he hit the ground, his eyes rolling back in
his head. I thought it was lights out. The fat
lady was singing good night Irene. All of a sudden,
God peels him off. The campus guy gets up, but
then he got even more abuse. He took so many
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shots for the next two and a half minutes I
couldn't even believe he was stood it. And all I
have to say is, when they do it again, I think,
you know he's gonna do the same strategy. He's a
better boxer, he's a better points fighter, he's a better jabber,
he's a better move fighter. He does the little jabs
and then hit you with a jab, a little drop
step drop step jab, drop step jab and a a little
fake like he's kind of hit you and then he
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hits you. And Wilder doesn't do that. Wilder doesn't box.
He's not a points fighter. He is a mistake fighter.
The minute you make a mistake, he throws a bomb
that knocks your head off. And that's all there is
to it. I've said this before. Tyson eliminated people in
the first and second round because he wanted to go
to dinner and get some leg and go to the
strip club. When Wilder does it, he waits for your mistake.
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He doesn't care if it's in the seventh, tenth, twelve.
He waits for the mistake and get you. Tyson wanted
to go to dinner after the first round. He wanted
to get out of the building and without gun shots.
I've been there for that too. In the middle of
the casino. He was a different kind of maller. This
guy throws bomb. That's why they call him Bomb Squad.
I think he'll knock him out. He did it twice.
Now he's here to finish the deal and he means it.
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I'll just talk about Fury winning in two rounds is uh,
that's a catastrophe. Waiting to happen. If he knocks him
out in the second round, I'll walk out of the
MG naked into the valet. Great for anyone who didn't
see the Wilder Fury first fight. The only way that
I could describe this and you'll be able to appreciate
this is the Undertaker gift. Man. If you've seen the
Undertaker Gift, you seen in a million times. He just
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stood up from the dead. That was Tyson Fury Man
like this guy had no business getting up after the
way he got knocked out. The only way to describe
it is Undertaker seriously called great call by you, Frank.
I had no doubt about it. I've heard that before.
It was one of the great fights. I'll never forget
leaving the Staples Center in Lipstick City and heading to
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the airport because we had a red eye, so we
saw him get dropped. The fight ends, We hear the decision,
and then we drove Maffi and I a hundred miles
an hour in the uber. I tell the uber driver,
the faster you go, the more money I'm gonna give you,
and my boy was doing a buck on the l
A Freeways. We got to the airport in time and
flew home. In the entire flight home, we talked about
how great it was, what an experience, because I, you know,
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I've been to so many fights over the years, a million,
and they don't live up to They're never like fights
that are so memorable and fantastic that you talk about
them the whole way home or the next day, or
you know, text the guy a week later and say,
can you believe we were at that fighter? When they,
you know, show the fight again a second time, can
you believe we were there. That's only happened a few
times in my career, but I've seen over ninety title fights,
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so that was one of them that Maffi and I
were talking all the way to the airport and all
the way home and a few days later about it too.
But good call by you, one undertaker. I love wrestling.
I used to uh watch Bruno Sammartino and eat doritos
and smoke bong rips and stead on my couch all day.
When I was a kid watching wrestling. My dad used
to say, You're worthless, You're gonna be a loser and
a just an absolute felon. You have nothing in life.
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I used to say, screw you. Dude, you have no idea.
What you're talking about. Wrestling is awesome. I hate you.
Get out of my face. I ended up winning because
he became a fan of the show too. Beat his
ass to so so it's boxing Coacht the Coast covers
your way in about thirty five ad minutes from now.
Any idea who have been guests are all today's program, Scotty,
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I have no idea, but I wanted to say one
thing for the fans, to be honest. Because of Sports Grid.
We we came out here, my boy Ryan and Carver High.
We had a tremendous amount of stress. We had to
carry five pounds of equipment. We had to set up
for the first time ever to do TV. We had
to do all this testing. We had to set up wires,
set up plug set up this audio video, everything else,
and they pulled it off. The only reason I'm on
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your show today is to prove that we could do
it and set it up right and get on the air.
We've done it. We've accomplished it. Now for the next
two shows from four to six and seven and nine
on Coast to Coast and in Game Live, we'll bring
you some surprises We're hoping to get the fighters in
here too, but you never know what easy egoes. Absolutely,
the egos are big, not as big as you're. Scotty.
Have a great show. We'll talk to you to you
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next time. I love you guys. B FF. We start
doing that thing. Well, I was doing the two zero
earlier because we're talking. I like the hand motions that
Scotty throws out there too, out in the dance moves.
I catched the show after the BFS obviously, when we're
down in the pit and I see Scotty, he's always
giving out his best bets and he's wiggling the fingers
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around and he's, yeah, this is I'm on tonight, Baby Vegas,
Golden Nights. Let's go. I love it, And you get
more of that coming up four pm Eastern right here
on Sports Screen. He got Farrell don't go Coast to
Coast last night in New York City. Tonight out there
in Las Vegas, Nevada, hosting Coast to Coast right here
on the Sports Screen TV network only places a Cash
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Farrell and hopefully the fighters, Fury and Wilder. We'll we'll
stop by at some point coming up here on the BFS.
We got like twenty five minutes ago. We had all
lot to talk about. We'll probably spread it out of
this couple of days. I assume a lot. We have
a lot to get to. It's a fun day here
on the program. Who went last year? We're gonna tell
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you there's nine guys that did it. We'll let you
know all nine of them, and which of those nine
we're back in on here in the year. We'll tell
you that Who's going twenty twenty? A lot of questions,
not a lot of time the answers come anyway. Are
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you the fanatic. This is Sports Grade. Get off the
grid all right for our coast coast. You heard at
four pm Eastern time one pm Pacific he is live
in Las Vegas, Nevada out there for sports Grade. But
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over the next twenty five minutes or so, we'll talk
about some more major league baseball stuff before we throw
it over to Scottie Farrell. All right, let's get into
the players last year. Frank, there are nine of them.
Can you name them all? I can, because of course
I help you make the rundown in the and the graphics, Greg.
But a few of these names I think would surprise
people if they're just kind of jumping back into fantasy
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baseball now and reviewing the stats from last year. I
think one name that definitely stands out who is interesting
to talk about is Danny Santana. I think another name
is Jose Ramirez, who's still being drafted in that first
second round range. You're not really getting a discount on
Jose Ramirez based on his early season struggles, and I
agree with you. Actually like Jose a lot, assuming he's healthy,
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because the guy got hit by by a pitch on
his foot. Today we're talking about Severino getting hurt and
packs and getting hurt, and of course now Jose Ramirez
limped off the field with a foot injury, so of
course we're gonna need healthy legs. Healthy feet for Jose
if he's going to run again this upcoming season. But
I think a lot of the names on this list
greg are not surprising, are almost a spected outside of
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maybe Danny Santana, And you know, I think Jose and
Mirrors is definitely an interesting name. You're not getting You're
not getting any discounter value from last year. I leave
it that lead the list up because you can kind
I'm not gonna talk about some of these guys, right
like sure, I'm not talking about Ronald We talked a
lot about the number one overall pick according to you, Frankie.
I don't want to talk about Ristian Yelle, number three
overall pick according to you, Frankie. We talked about that
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a lot as well. Francisco Lindoor, we talked a lot
about him on this show as a first rounder, seeming
to go with Trevor story. We've broken him down, oh munch.
So let's hear rid of all those guys. I want
to start at the very top here with Jonathan vr
who led these um crew in steels. He had what
forty steels, all right, forty stone bases over twenty home runs,
and I've brought him up to you on yesterday or
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yesterday show, or I think it was one of those
guys right randomly throughout you. I wasn't supposed to talk
about him. I think it was during the break. Actually fine,
so I brought U Johnny VR. I'm like, dude, do
you eat on Johnny VR? And you signed? And you're
like no. And because we've already seen what the down
side is of him, well, last year you go up
forty steal mass the lead Major League Baseball or lead
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players in Smithlin, Major League Baseball, but forty steels and
twenty four homers year before thirty five steals to go
with fourteen homers. Year before that, when everybody's drafting him
in the second round, well, he had just twenty three
steels and eleven home runs. We have seen the downside
of Jonathan VR. Last year was the upside we got
up there right now. You see right below me the
Steamer projections from him for this year, where he has
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his projective for thirty three steals to go along with
seventeen home runs. If he can hit his Steamer of
projection and hit about two fifty seven, where should he
be taken in draft rank? I think that he should
be a third fourth round pick. I don't really have
a problem with his price, Greig. The problem for me
lies in the players that are going around him. I
just like those players more. I like Haavi or Bias more.
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I like could Tell Marte Moore. A lot of people
are gonna question, what could Tell Marte did from last
year is a juice ball related If you look at
can tell Te, he's actually filled out, He's gotten stronger,
he raised the launch angle, raised the average eggs of velocity.
He started hitting the ball harder last year as well.
I like Kessing Hero more than Jonathan VR as well,
and I think that one's a complete toss up. If
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you liked VR more than Kess and here, I couldn't
kill you for that. Um. The problem with VR for me,
and the main reason why I like those players more
than him, is because I think Jonathan VR has more
bottom out potential. I think that the floor is lower
for Jonathan VR than some of these other players, just
because we've seen it before. We've seen him bottom out
after being in early round pick where he basically got
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reduced to a bench role. When he was with the
Milwaukee Brewers, he had a phenomenal season last year. There's
no doubt about it. The move from Camden Yards to
Marlin's Park is definitely going to affect his home run output.
I think the Steamer projection is fair. He's probably gonna
give you a fifteen and seventeen home runs and probably
going to give you a thirty to thirty five stone basis.
Doesn't help you, doesn't hurt you in batting average. He's fine.
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But he's also playing a new position this year as well, Gregg.
He's playing center field and on FST Craig Miss spoke
to Jonathan VR. We had an interview a couple of
weeks ago, and he didn't really seem excited about the
idea of playing center field. So I almost wonder if
that's going to affect him at the plate. We've seen
that happen before with other players. I think that there's
just a lot of moving parts that there's a very
low floor for Jonathan VR as well, and because of that,
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I will just target other players that are going in
his range. But if you want steals, I can't knock
you for wanting to take him. I think his value
is fine where it is right now. Would you rather
have Jonathan Vr? Or with Maryfield. I would rather have
VR because the power potential is obviously stronger. The stolen
bases are going to be higher for they are the
average and lower though they are definitely fair, So there
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are trade offs there. You're probably gonna get more runs
and more batting average out of WIT Maryfield getting categories
you need, yes, but stolen bases are also very scarce.
I think what mary Fields probably gonna give you a
round twenty and VR could give you as much as forty. Again,
he's but a fair projection is more closer to thirty five.
I'll give the trade off of batting average for more
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stolen basis. I'll take VR, right, Johnathan v R going
in that third, fourth round, somebody you're obviously going to
going to want to consider at that spot depending on
how your team shakes out. Let me move on to
a guy that you and I both like, and I
think people are off of this guy because it's been
around for a long time, and that's starling Marte and
starring Marte for years. Was the guy that we thought
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would catapult in the first round and be this potentially
thirty five thirty five guy, right like that was the
idea we're starring Marte, and it never really happened. He
never really stolen enough bases, he never really hit enough
home runs. And I think people are a little bit
board for lack of better term of Starling Marte. He's
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out thirty one years old. He's past that thirty threshold,
which is just a number. Last year there's twenty five
stolen bases, the most of these hats in ten where
he hit and nine on runs. Twenty three home runs
last year with the juice ball was the most of
his career. Twenty five steals, It wasn't the most. Sorry
I read that wrong. I had had three steals and
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twenty He had thirty three steals down five last season.
He ran way more in team and had more power
than ever. Last year it's twenty nineteen. That very much
could be juice ball related. The average, well, it was
all the way up to two ninety five. Last season.
That was the highest since twenty sixteen. Starling Marte was
very good. Now he goes over to Arizona. What should
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be a better lineup. I know people are a bit
fatigue of Starling Marte, but the steam of rejections has
him as somebody that you're gonna want to take because
steaming rejections at twenty four home runs and twenty six steals,
that almost twenty five with a strong batting average of
two eighty four. I get it. People are bored Starling Marte.
This is a guy that I look at like, yeah,
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I definitely want this player. I agree, I want Starling
Marte as well. I think the biggest hindrance of Starling
Marte drafting him this year is his price. I mean,
his ADP over at the NBC in the month of
February is thirty one. So that's a mid third round
pick in a twelve team league. That's a borderline second
third round pick. I've seen him go in the second
round in in a ton of these fifteen team leagues
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as well. And look, it's a big price to pay,
but it's someone who's going to give you all five categories, Greg,
and you're if you want to talk about five category players.
A lot of those guys go in the first round. Again,
a Kuna, Christian Yellis, Mike Trout, Francisdor Story. All these
guys go in the first round. The reason why Charlie
Marte doesn't is because he is an injury risk. He
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played a hundred and thirty two games last year, the
year before that seventy seven and twenty seventeen and one
and twenty sixteen, so you almost have to bake in
he's gonna miss twenty to thirty games throughout the course
of the season. But he did that last year. Greg
still hit twenty three home runs, still sold twenty five
bases to batting average, He's a career to eighties seven hitter.
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He's a five category player. These guys normally go in
the first round. Und you're getting him at the at
the end of the second to early third round. There's
definitely some injury risk involved, but I have no problem
taking him where he's going right now. I'm I will
say this, he's better for Roto than he is for
points because he doesn't walk very much. He has a
career four point nine percent walk great, so it doesn't
have great O b P doesn't have a great I
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at the plate in terms of walking, so it doesn't
help you as much in a points league. But for Roto,
where you can get stolen bases without this guy hurting
your batting average or power, it's a no brainer for me.
When it comes to Marte. Surprising game on this list fright,
without question is Danny Santana all of the Texas Rangers.
He came out and I remember coming up and was like, hey, dude,
he said that it's pretty hot. Should I pick him up?
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And You're like, no, why would you do that? So
I didn't, and Danny Santana never well stop being hot.
He was fantastic all season long. And now Danny Santana
in the mix to play every single day for the
Texas Rangers, but no journeyman. So I think questions are fair,
But Ny Santana went last year? Can he do it again? Man?
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Danny Santana is probably the biggest wild card in fantasy
baseball stuff coming season. Gregg really came out of nowhere.
You hit it on the head wind up hitting two
eighty three with eight home runs and twenty one steals.
Sounds a lot like the line that's starling Marte is
projected to give you this upcoming season, and you got
that from a waiver wire pick up last year in
Danny Santana. I mean the question you have to ask yourself, Greg,
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and we're gonna try to answer, is can he repeated?
Can he can he come close to doing that again?
Similar to Starling Marte doesn't walk all that much four
point nine percent walk great, but he strikes out a
lot more than someone like Starling Marte twenty nine and
a half percent strikeout rate. He has showed a power
speed combination at times throughout his minor league career back
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in eighteen with the Braves sixteen home runs, twelve stolen bases.
Earlier in his minor league career he stole a bunch
of basses as well. I don't know that he's gonna
go twenty again, Greg, I think he's someone that could
give you a little bit of power, a little bit
of speed. I myself would not be projecting him to
go Maybe a fair projection is, you know, fifteen fifteen
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and Steamers a little bit more optimistic than I am.
Nineteen home runs, seventeen stolen bases. The second question you
have to ask is where is he gonna play? Is
he gonna get in the lineup every single day for
the Texas Rangers. There was a report that came out
just the other day that said Nick Slack has an
opportunity to play in center field for the Texas Rangers.
He's you know, a top prospect for them, performed well
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last year for the Rangers, And so that's actually hysterical
because I like Nick Solack. You already still like came
from No, I don't you know anything Lack? No, so
Nick Slack. I saw an old tweet of mine from
three or four years ago. But Nick Slack the Yankees,
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I hope Nick Slack become Brandon Jury. Is that's who
they traded for? Brandon Jury? Really Nick Slack? Oh yeah,
I'm kind of excited about Nick Solack with the Texas Rangers. Um,
I don't mind Any's Antana. I think he's probably more
of a fifteen fifteen guy with a bad batting average.
And do a couple more notes on days Antana and
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off the grade. So interesting little not about day Santana,
which I forgot about. Uh in the early he remember
this Minnesota Twins team that kind of came out with
Eddie Rozario and Horri Polanco like days Antana was a member. Yeah,
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he was in that group for sure, and I think
he had some prospects satisfack in the day, So it
was interesting to me he was back in. He stole
twenty basses and he batted three nineteen speed for with
the Twins in twenty three games as I'm sorry, at
age twenty three in over a hundred games. And year
later you're like, all right, this guy, this guy could
be pretty good next year, And then he wasn't because
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he's added a hundred points lower with his average his
babbitt over four over four hundred to nineties, he stole
just eight basses and he never really regained his story
and job bounced around after that. So Speed we have
seen him steal twenty bases before. That's why last year's
twenty one steals doesn't really seem like a fluke. Um.
He does have the ability to play all over the field,
all over the infield and all over the outfield. So
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I think that the Rangers really want to get him
in the lineup. We'll find a way. There's definitely a
an outcome, a range of outcomes where he makes me
look completely foolish, Greg. He goes off for like twenty
maybe even the speed is there. The batting average isn't
gonna be good. He strikes out a lot, twenty nine
and a half percent strike out right, He's got a
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little pop. It'll be interesting to see how the new
ballpark plays out there in Texas, Greg. But they have
a roof now, so a lot of people think that
is going to suppress some of the power a little bit.
It's gonna come back a little bit, not the same
way that the ball used to travel when it was
just open and it was really hot out there in Texas.
So something to pay attention to. But again, probably more
of a fifteen fifteen projection for me at a Danny Santanna,
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when are you kind of okay with that? Right? Like
if you get it wrong with days, that's miss Like, fine,
I got it wrong. That's how I feel, like Dana
down Like I'm not gonna wind up taking this guy
and if somebody else takes them and grass, Yeah, I'm
I'm okay being wrong with him in terms of my analysis,
but you can't afford to be wrong with him if
you draft him, because he's going He's going to pick
one thirty. I totally agree with you what I'm saying.
I'm not drafting him. So if I agree with you,
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I'm not gonna have him either, and I'm not gonna
be upset. But that's why he's the X factor because
if there's people that are very bullish on him and
he does come to fruition, like, yeah, he's gonna be
like he's gonna be like that GPP played for DFS.
Nobody else is going to have Danny Santana and he's
going to propel you ahead. So all the other guys
that went last year kind of makes sense, right. I
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name some of the bigger players that went are going
in the first round. The other players who I didn't name,
or the Actus. The only player I didn't name was
Tommy Fan. We started them on very in on Tommy Fam.
He gave some information today, Frank that maybe not as interesting. Yeah,
So Tommy Fam is just starting to throw from ninety
feet now. He was dealing with especial doctors. Yeah, seriously, right,
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he dealt with a u c L injury late last
season and he's just starting to throw from ninety feet now.
So reading something like that on February is not really
what you want to see out of Tommy Fam, especially
when you have to pay a fifth or sixth round
price tag on Tommy Fam last year. I won't doubt
the skill. He was someone that I loved last season
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as well. Greg, you know, I was all over Tommy Fam.
But I'm a little bit worried about this injury. And
he's dealt with a lot of stuff the past couple
of years. I know he's had surgery on his eyes
to help prepare you know, his vision, and now he's
dealing with this u c L. Is something you might
have to think about basically all season long, and even
before this season starts. Based on that price tag, I
think Tommy Fan might be a pass for me. We
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like Tommy Fan literally, hey, like we were we were
in on this guy because of this potential in San Diego.
Top of the line that we liked it, I'm not
thinking a risk with the guy has has has had
a strain you see, out for four months, and he
has typically missed a lot of time in the past
recular injuries. So, um, I like Tommy fan It would
be frustrating if he goes off because because I did
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like him. Um, but I'm not gonna take that. That
put Ramon Loriano ahead of him for you, Greg, because
I kind of marry those two together. I think they're
similar players. I think they are. Loriano projected the bad
second for the A's. This is a great spot to
be in that lineup, hitting right behind Simon, right ahead
of someone like Matt Olsen or Chapman, whoever they put there.
He's gonna see some good pitches to him. Man. I
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think it's possible. Man, I think it's possible. Lead Simon
leads off the team. Okay, it's good. You're not sold
on Loriano, huh. I remember that stretch last year. It
was like a month or two stretch where he was
basically like performing like Mike Trout amazing. He was awesome.
He was amazing. Okay. So, other than the players that
went last year, Steamer projects a few other players this year.
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That's some of the ones that went last year. Or
projected to do it again this year, but for the
most part a lot of them are. But there were
five players that Steamer projected to go this year that
did not last year. And it begins with the guy
that you said, I don't remember. It was the air
on the air you go, man, I really want to
at least one share of this guy, and that is
Albert though Mundency, of course of the Kansas City Royals.
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We know the speeds there, how it should be as well,
where is he going and what's it cost? So Adelbertomondency
right now is going in a similar spot to where
Jonathan VR is going. Jonathan VR we mentioned earlier, going
around pick forty five, Adelbert Thomondency going five spots higher
with an ADP of thirty nine point nine. So right
around you know that forty range for Mondency in the
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early fourth round of a twelve teamer in the third
round of a fifteen teaming league. And I want one
share of Mondescy Greg just by the chance, the off
chance that this guy just goes ballistic, because look what
he did last year. Forty three stolen bases in a
hundred and two games. Didn't kill you with the power
nine Homer's sixty two Ribbies, and if I've watched a
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few Royals games where the broadcasters talk about like how
the team feels about him, they think that he has
m v P type upside. He is that talented. It's
just a matter of him stay healthy. He had a
surgery in the off season to repair a torn laboram
so we need him to be healthy. Obviously, that's, you know,
first and foremost the most important thing for h adalbertomondency.
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But if he's healthy, Greg, if he's healthy, this is
someone who can hit fifteen and twenty home runs with
legitimately sixty stolen bases. So he's not a main target
of mine. I'm not going to have multiple shares, but
he is someone I would like to have at least
one share in case he is that player that pops off.
This cost you a whole lot, right, cost you a
whole lot? Would you rather have Adelbert Mondesty and Jonathan
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v Are I have before that, I would take VR
because he is safer. He is Oh gosh, yeah, I'll
stick with that. No, you won't. Realistically, my answer is
I'm not gonna like I'm targeting someone else in that range.
I understand, but gun to my head, I had to
choose one of these players, I'm gonna take you. I
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gotta go. I just hate going back on what I said.
You know, he's gotta He's gotta stay healthy and I'd
like to see him get on baseball that more steals.
If he gets on baseball styear and still stole forty
three bases, that's why he could be up to sixty.
Even get on base a little bit more, it's crazy.
Or just stay healthy that's works. Two hundred two games
last year, twenty three years old, twenty four this upcoming
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season for at Alberto Mondesi another young player that kind
of fits this mold. Frank Is in Toronto. Where Bo
Bichette fits this mold. Uh. Last year it was all
about Vladimir Guerrero and then bobashett having Vigo, Btis Gariel,
all these guys kind of coming up together. A lot
of the hype surrounds of Laddie. Why isn't Bobachette he
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talked about more. I think there is a substantial amount
of hype around bobichet I think there's a lot of
people that like him. Awesome hair. By the way, as well,
when it comes to Bobichette, I worry a little bit
about the speed, Greg, because he had four solen bases
last year, four caught stealing. He's likely going to have
the green light to start the year. But if he has,
if he continues to steal bases at a fifty percent
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conversion rate, then at some point they might hold up
to stop sign on Bobichette and tell him to stop running.
But I think that the tools are all there. He
has speed, he has the hit tool, he has power.
The guy hit eleven home runs in just forties six teams.
He has the pedigree as well, obviously the son of
Dante Bishette as well. And it's awesome that Blue Jay's
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lineup is just you know, all second generation players with
Bobachette and Kevin Biggio and Vlag Guerrero Jr. And Laura
es Gil Jr. As well, And it's a lot of fun.
But I don't think I'm gonna own any Bobichette this year, Greg,
And you know, maybe I miss out on, you know,
the breakout season this upcoming year. But similar to a
few of the other players we've talked about, there are
just a lot of players in that range that I
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like more. I'm gonna take you on Moncada over Bobichette.
Has more major league experience and I think has similar,
if not better upside than bobashett Manny Machado is going
in that range. You know him, a big Machado guy
as well. Look, if Bobachette goes off this year, it
wouldn't surprise me. It's probably going to be on somebody
else's team unless the value comes down a little bit,
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and I can't see that happening just based on the
name in the prospect pedigree. I like Bo Bichette. Man.
This is one of those where if he goes off,
like you just want to share him and want to
share because we could rather have him in a vacuum.
Would you rather have him over Machado or Yan, I
won't want I don't want him over Machado. I gotta
send you my Moncada notes. Man, there's a lot to
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be excited to talk about him briefly. So, Mancada basically
completely changed his approach from last year, where he became
more aggressive. In the past, he was almost too passive
in twenty teen. His chase rate on pitches outside the
strike zone was like last year it went up to
thirty one, So he started chasing pitches outside the strike
zone more. But the best part is Greg his contact
rate went up, so he chased those pitches, but he
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made contact with those pitches. You would be pushed pushed
away from Encada if he chased pitches and swung and
missed at those pitches more. He didn't. He was making
more contact inside and outside the zone last year and
he finally put it all together. Greg twenty five home runs,
three fifteen batting average. I know you're going to look
at the four oh nine babbit and say, look it's
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it's four h six and say that's not sustainable, and
I would agree with you, But look at his minor
league babtists as well. Yeah, So I looked at that
consistently over three sixty, over three seventy. I think there
was like a three ninety babbit season in there. There
was a three seventy nine in their three seventy. He
was more aggressive last year. He cut down the strikeouts
from like thirty three to twenty seven percent and makes
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elite batted ball like. When he makes contact, it is
awesome contact like, look at a stack numbers, and his
hard hit rate numbers about thirty nine point nine percent
hard hit. Yeah, the stack cast the average exit veloscis
like ninety six percentile. So look, I just think the
sky's the limit. It wouldn't surprise me if Moncada goes
to eighty thirty home runs fifteen stolen bases, just has
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one of those monster breakout seasons someone who's like drafted
where Devers is going this year or something like that.
The thing is, you're not far off from that already,
right because last years a hundred and thirty games. Fine,
the batting average is gonna come back a little bit
for sure. What I'm saying is, yeah, you get twenty
five homers and tenantilmaz his last year, If you just
give him five more homers because he plays thirty more games,
why can't you get better? Twenty four years old? Twenty
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he'll be twenty five in May. Mcada another guy that
you have a little bit of prospect fatigue on already
because you've been hearing about him for so long because
he was trading in the Chrysale deal. Macad I like it, Frank,
but wouldn't you rather have someone who has been in
the majors for a few years already, where you almost
worry a little bit about that second year and pictures
making adjustments on someone like Bobaschett. Again, he might go
off just completely make me look stupid, but I think
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Mancada is someone who we've already seen take those necessary
steps changed the approach batotball data is amazing Assaultman. The
other players on this list protected to Trade Turner of
the Nationals. That makes sense we talked about yesterday. And
Louise Robert, you are Moncada's teammate in his rookie year.
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having her Cavan. Pretty sure it's Kevin. I've been calling
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six games on wild Card weekend, three on Saturday, and
three on Sunday. In Major League Baseball, Luis Severino was
scratched from a scheduled bullpen session on Thursday due to
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right forearm soreness. Concerning news for a guy who pitched
just twelve innings during the two thousand nineteen regular season.
Yankees manager Aaron Boud noted that the forearm issue dates
back to Severinos a LCS Game three start against none
other than the Houston Astros. The twenty year old right
hander has been shut down from throwing and will see
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a team physician on Friday and in the NBA, Minnesota
Timber will Center Carl Anthony Towns will remain sidelined indefinitely
as he continues to recover from a left wrist injury.
Coach Ryan Saunders sold report as that team held Towns
out of his first practice after the All Star break
on Wednesday. Saunders said Towns will miss upcoming games, but
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did not specify how many. Big Cat is averaging a
career best twenty six point five points and ten point
eight rebounds per game this season. Minnesota returns to action
on Friday home against the Boston Celtics. You got a
full at NHL college troops and NBA games making their
return from the All Star breaks, so you want to
consider the Miami Heat visiting the Atlanta Hawks. Hawks are
your six point home dogs in this one. The total
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is to nine. Also, the Houston Rockets visit the Golden
State Warriors. Rockets here nine and a half point favorites.
The total is two thirty three. I'm Alex Fasano, and
this has been your sports grid news update. Now back
to the fantasy BFFs. Alright, nice job today, Alex, better
than yesterday, I'll being honest, a much better update today,
doing a great job. We didn't get any NASCAR updates.
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It was a good update everything that we need a
little basketball, a little base to get Louis Severino in
there for you guys. You know you bring up Louise Severino,
and I'm glad you did because that you lead it
with the right stuff today. I I thought it was
a great job, and I think we need to lead
off with the right stuff as well, Frank, So we
have to be here before we get into two. We
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gotta talk about Louise Severino, who unfortunately is hurt again.
Remember the conversation we had dum dam dum dump but
damp Hey, Alex, remember the thing Frank made with Luis
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Savorino on it. You want to just all right, we
have a song, we have the the graphic with him.
That's ah, here you go. We do one more time,
We do one more time. Well, I want to feel better.
It's a race. The last thirty seconds and day that
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was your fatost moment of the day, brought to you
by your fantasy BFFs Luis Severino, Greg another one bites
the dust just like that, he fades to black. Lui
sa Vorino has forum shorts, as Alex told you about.
And unfortunately, Yank, he's have no idea the severity of it.
He's gonna take some anti inflammatory meds. No, uh, he's
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not gonna have any other tests, which he was stupid.
He was gonna see the doctor and then he wasn't
seeing the doctor. Now he's seeing the doctor again. You
know what this has written all over it, Frank, Does
it start with uh t and and and with an honor?
It might, yes, But I was talking about the way
that the Yankees are like diagnosing this. It rise with
j E T S Jets, Jets, Jets. Come on, Craig,
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don't put the Yankees in the same conversation as the Jets.
I'm not. I'm putting the same conversation as the Mets.
Rhymes with the Jets, That's what it makes sense, right, Well,
the Jets kind of had an interesting year in terms
of injuries. Remember when I think it was other Cinder,
one of their star pitchers, and regard Wheeler de Graham
was hurt and it was like this, we had some
stories and he was seeing the doctor that he wasn't
seeing the doctor, and he was playing. Then he wasn't playing,
and we killed them. Floria was here and we sat
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here killing them, and rightfully so, because he was one
of the most important pieces on the team, and we're like,
what are you doing? Let see the damn doctor. And
that's how I feel about this with Luis every Now.
He heard himself form soreness after Game three of the ALCS.
He was cleared and healthy enough that he was going
to pitch in Game seven of the ALCS if it
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went that far. We are now November December January, four
months past that, and he has the same soreness. He
underwent an m r I November and then m r
I earlier this month. No issues, but something is wrong
in that forearm because you can't throw a damn change up.
This is bad, Frank, really really bad, and it's bad
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for maybe everybody not named the Tampa Bay Rays. Let's
go with that, because it's bad for the Yankees, it's
bad for Yankee fans, it's bad for fantasy baseball. Let's
be honest man, We've already seen other starting pitchers drop
off the board due to injury. James Paxton another Yankee
who apparently was dealing with a back injury late last
season during the postseason, Did they just think that these
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guys were gonna, you know, sleep all off season and
rest up and that they were just going to come
back to healthy. Why wasn't this addressed in or at
least in early You just thought that they were gonna
show up pitchers and catchers and these guys were just
gonna be perfectly fine. It doesn't work that way. So
I don't know. Based on everything that happened last year
with the Yankees, all the injuries that they suffered, they
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basically cleaned out the training staff and same old Yankees
from last year. I mean, it's it's crazy right now
with these injuries. But again from a fantasy perspective, that's
just another top twenty starting pitcher that's gonna drop way
down draft boards, and rightfully so, because you have no
idea what's going on right now. Carlos Carrasco earlier today
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heard his leg. The guy is on crutches. He was
a top thirties starting pitcher being drafted. We already lost
Paxton as well. So look at this. We're a week
into pictures and catchers, Greg and already we've lost, you know,
potentially three starting pitchers. Yeah, it's crazy, it's insane. Jose
here has also heard his foot today, you know your
number one third basement as you now, by the way, yep,
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which is how we'll get into a nice transition that
he did. Um. But Luis Severino, James Paxton, obviously, Domingo
Harman is suspended. It's incredibly, incredibly frustrating, incredibly frustrating. There's
not even March first, and these are the injuries, and
Yankees are dealing with ready heavy favorites to at least
heavy favorites to win the a L get to the
World serious only behind the Dodgers to win it all.
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I'm happy you brought up the just the betting odds
real quick, Greig, because the regular season win total for
the Yankees is one oh one and a half. And
I understand they won a hundred games last year with
everybody banged up, and they added Garrett Cole to the mix.
There's some heavy juice on the over right now minus
one two. I am not going to bet against the
Yankees personally, because it just wouldn't surprise me if they
go over this number. But if you are worried about
the injuries to Severino and James Paxton and the entire
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pitching staff, you're getting good money on the under right
now at plus one oh five. If that's something you
are interested in, I would say George Montgomery is virtually
a lock for the rotation at this point. Craig assuming
he's healthy because again he doesn't pitched much over the
past couple of seasons. Um and we'll see how they
round out that rotation. Jay Happ is going to be
in there as well. They might go with an opener strategy.
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Maybe you no go with a Jonathan the Wise, It
good to a Chad Green something like that. But yeah,
there's a few other guys vying for that spot. Chad bettis,
Nick Tropiano. We'll see what the Yankees do, but ultimately
it sucks for them and it sucks for Fantasy baseball.
Greg another twenty top twenty starting pitcher. Following off the board,
we're gonna talk twenty here on to twenty. Before any
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of that, we're gonna check in with Farrell, who's live
in Vegas. Most see what's up with him on his
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Frank Staffele and Greg Susman. We are live in New
York City, but Scott Farrell is live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He's there for Fury while they're the Saturday's doing shows there,
Tonay and tomorrow. That comes your way live at four
pm Eastern and he joins us for a couple of minutes.
Right now. What's happening, Scott? What's shag boys? It's all
good here in Sin City. A lot happening, the media
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centers rocking, and especially now that I'm here, I always
take over this room. Here's what's gonna happen when I
do the show live. We're gonna clear this place out.
We're gonna get all the best guests. We're gonna get fighters.
We're gonna cause trouble. It's electric here. There's a lot
of energy. It's lit, it's packed. It's uh got the
feel of a Mayweather McGregor. It's got the feel of
a Mayweather packy out. It's got the feel of a
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you know, a heavyweight Championship of the World with Wilder
and Fury. There's a great atmosphere. People are checking in.
The MGM is packed, uh, and it is venom. It
is no joke here. If you're not ready to dance,
you will be stepped on like a bug. I've been
to over a hundred title fights and here we go again.
I know all these people. It's great that I have
the juice here that I've had over the years. It's
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great to have sports Grid here, and uh, it's exciting
to have the network here for our first fight on
sports Grid and all of our partners and everyone included
in that including Pluto, Zumo, Stir, YouTube and um Our
Radio partners, Fantasy Sports, Radio, Fantasy Sports Network, tune in,
I heart Premier. Everything is just fantastic. We're lit. I'm jack.
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I'm ready. Not only that, We're gonna do two great
shows today Coast to Coast and in Game Live, and
then we're going to the hockey game tonight and I'm
hoping to get in a fist fight. Now. Will be awesome.
If you get a fist fight. I would have put
that on in Gay Live rather than you know, seeing
Gabe like that. Like I said, you're a fist fight
while you're watching the veiggat nights like that would be
an ideal situation for me. It's gonna be a great game.
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It's Tampa Bay. They won eleven in a row against
the Knights, who are getting hot. They made some deals.
They got Alec Martinez from the Kings. They're making a
push for the playoffs. They've been a playoff team. They
went to the Stanley Cup Finals, went back to the playoffs,
got beat. Uh. They mean business here. They lost five
in a row. They fired Galant. They are no joke.
Foley's the owner. He's like patting the general. Uh. It's
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an electric atmosphere at that arena. Team Mobile for hockey
unequaled in the league. I've been in the league for
over thirty years. I've never seen anything like going to
a night's game. It's gonna be exciting. But the fight
at the Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night on pay
per view on Fox, the Fox App, Fox pay per View,
and ESPN Plus pay per View is gonna be fantastic.
The first fight was incredible at Stables in Lipstick City.
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Maffi and I were there for that, and the twelfth round,
I'll never forget it when Wilder knocked him down and
not only knocked him out but hit him with a
left hook that even even more damage. And then when
Fury somehow got up, by the grace of God, we
know what happened. Wilder kept beating his ass like no
one's business, and it was absolutely phenomenal that the guy
was able to withstand all of it and finished the
fight and then get a draw because he had won
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about ten rounds in boxing points world, but in terms
of knockouts, ninth and twelve couldn't take it away from Wilder.
So here we go again. It's gonna be great Saturday night.
That place will be absolutely shocked and I mean to
tell you, it'll be rolling in that building, and it
will be loud and crazy, and it'll be all kinds
of smoke show hotties and celebrities and movie stars, and
half of them are gonna want to sleep with me.
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It's awesome. And he won't be able to sleep with
any of them, which is makes it that much worse.
All Right, you mentioned wild there, of course Antison Fury
Saturday night, and he's over the first fight. I had
rided Scottie that in the second fight that the loser
has thirty days to declare a rematch. Is that true?
It is Drew greg and I think that that is bunk.
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We've heard a Fury in bed say he wants to
retire when he beat It's Wilder. First of all, I
don't think that's happening. It might, it might very well.
He fought a great fight. I will say this much.
Fury is not afraid of him. I don't want to
see the third fight, frankly, unless this fight is so phenomenal,
it's so incredible, because it's never as good the second
time around. You thought she was hot, the second time around,
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it wasn't as good. Right, here's the deal. Every time
I've seen fights. I saw Paty I'll fight Marquess five times.
I talked about it on the Froll on the Bench
podcast on Fantasy Sports Radio, and I said, you know,
after a while three, four or five, I'm bored with it.
I was sitting there at those fights, going they're good fights.
But why am I doing this for a fourth and
fifth time twice with this one. If it lives up
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to the hype, if it lives up to the great
first fight, where it was ten rounds of Fury dominating
in points, dominating and boxing, getting in his head, sticking
out his tongue, wagging his tongue, laughing at him, mocking him,
and then getting knocked down in the ninth and twelve
with vicious right hands and a left cross. That was
a great fight. Equal that fight. Live up to that
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fight again, be better than that fight, then I'll change
my mind and say trilogy, bring it on. Until then,
this will be enough for me. This will determine who
is the heavyweight champion in the world. I think it's Wilder.
In fact, I'm betting that he'll knock him out this time.
Flush this time he'll knock him out, and he won't
get up. They'll carry him out on a wheelbarrel. Well, Scott,
that eliminates one of the questions I was about to
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ask you, is which way you're leaning with this fight?
The Vandal Sports book has this basically even it's minus
wan oh wait for Wilder, minus want to wait for
Tyson Fury as well. I did want to ask you,
did you think that the first fight should have been
a tie? Because I agree with you it seemed like
Fury was dominating the entire time, but the way that
Whilder knocked him out late, I was okay with that
decision personally. Were you okay with that decision? And is
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this the most anticipated fight? You mentioned McGregor Mayweather? Is
this the most anticipated boxing match since then? Yeah? I
think it is. But I think that fight was bigger
without his doubt, and so is Mayweather packy out bigger,
But it didn't live up to it. It was an
absolute joke. That was the worst fight ever. Aw So
I'll say this, um, Frank, I agree with you that,
uh you know, And I said Fury dominated the fight
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in points in ten rounds. And we were there and
I was sitting in five rows from the ring and
I thought the whole night, I'm like, this guy's winning
this fight. He's gonna win this fight. And then in
the ninth round, uh, you know, he got knocked down,
got up, no problem, kept going in the twelve when
he got hit, when he got hammered with that right
and the left coming down, he hit him with a
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right when he was tipping over like a tree. On
the way down, he said, your mother wapp with a
left cross across his face, and his face snapped off
and he hit the ground, his eyes rolling back in
his head. I thought it was lights out. The fat
lady was singing good night Irene. All of a sudden,
God peels him off. The campus guy gets up, but
then he got even more abuse. He took so many
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shots for the next two and a half minutes I
couldn't even believe he was stood it. And all I
have to say is, when they do it again, I think,
you know he's gonna do the same strategy. He's a
better boxer, he's a better points fighter, he's a better jabber,
he's a better move fighter. He does the little jabs
and then hit you with a jab, a little drop
step drop step jab, drop step jab and a a little
fake like he's kind of hit you and then he
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hits you. And Wilder doesn't do that. Wilder doesn't box.
He's not a points fighter. He is a mistake fighter.
The minute you make a mistake, he throws a bomb
that knocks your head off. And that's all there is
to it. I've said this before. Tyson eliminated people in
the first and second round because he wanted to go
to dinner and get some leg and go to the
strip club. When Wilder does it, he waits for your mistake.
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He doesn't care if it's in the seventh, tenth, twelve.
He waits for the mistake and get you. Tyson wanted
to go to dinner after the first round. He wanted
to get out of the building and without gun shots.
I've been there for that too. In the middle of
the casino. He was a different kind of maller. This
guy throws bomb. That's why they call him Bomb Squad.
I think he'll knock him out. He did it twice.
Now he's here to finish the deal and he means it.
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I'll just talk about Fury winning in two rounds is uh,
that's a catastrophe. Waiting to happen. If he knocks him
out in the second round, I'll walk out of the
MG naked into the valet. Great for anyone who didn't
see the Wilder Fury first fight. The only way that
I could describe this and you'll be able to appreciate
this is the Undertaker gift. Man. If you've seen the
Undertaker Gift, you seen in a million times. He just
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stood up from the dead. That was Tyson Fury Man
like this guy had no business getting up after the
way he got knocked out. The only way to describe
it is Undertaker seriously called great call by you, Frank.
I had no doubt about it. I've heard that before.
It was one of the great fights. I'll never forget
leaving the Staples Center in Lipstick City and heading to
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the airport because we had a red eye, so we
saw him get dropped. The fight ends, We hear the decision,
and then we drove Maffi and I a hundred miles
an hour in the uber. I tell the uber driver,
the faster you go, the more money I'm gonna give you,
and my boy was doing a buck on the l
A Freeways. We got to the airport in time and
flew home. In the entire flight home, we talked about
how great it was, what an experience, because I, you know,
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I've been to so many fights over the years, a million,
and they don't live up to They're never like fights
that are so memorable and fantastic that you talk about
them the whole way home or the next day, or
you know, text the guy a week later and say,
can you believe we were at that fighter? When they,
you know, show the fight again a second time, can
you believe we were there. That's only happened a few
times in my career, but I've seen over ninety title fights,
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so that was one of them that Maffi and I
were talking all the way to the airport and all
the way home and a few days later about it too.
But good call by you, one undertaker. I love wrestling.
I used to uh watch Bruno Sammartino and eat doritos
and smoke bong rips and stead on my couch all day.
When I was a kid watching wrestling. My dad used
to say, You're worthless, You're gonna be a loser and
a just an absolute felon. You have nothing in life.
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I used to say, screw you. Dude, you have no idea.
What you're talking about. Wrestling is awesome. I hate you.
Get out of my face. I ended up winning because
he became a fan of the show too. Beat his
ass to so so it's boxing Coacht the Coast covers
your way in about thirty five ad minutes from now.
Any idea who have been guests are all today's program, Scotty,
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I have no idea, but I wanted to say one
thing for the fans, to be honest. Because of Sports Grid.
We we came out here, my boy Ryan and Carver High.
We had a tremendous amount of stress. We had to
carry five pounds of equipment. We had to set up
for the first time ever to do TV. We had
to do all this testing. We had to set up wires,
set up plug set up this audio video, everything else,
and they pulled it off. The only reason I'm on
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your show today is to prove that we could do
it and set it up right and get on the air.
We've done it. We've accomplished it. Now for the next
two shows from four to six and seven and nine
on Coast to Coast and in Game Live, we'll bring
you some surprises We're hoping to get the fighters in
here too, but you never know what easy egoes. Absolutely,
the egos are big, not as big as you're. Scotty.
Have a great show. We'll talk to you to you
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next time. I love you guys. B FF. We start
doing that thing. Well, I was doing the two zero
earlier because we're talking. I like the hand motions that
Scotty throws out there too, out in the dance moves.
I catched the show after the BFS obviously, when we're
down in the pit and I see Scotty, he's always
giving out his best bets and he's wiggling the fingers
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around and he's, yeah, this is I'm on tonight, Baby Vegas,
Golden Nights. Let's go. I love it, And you get
more of that coming up four pm Eastern right here
on Sports Screen. He got Farrell don't go Coast to
Coast last night in New York City. Tonight out there
in Las Vegas, Nevada, hosting Coast to Coast right here
on the Sports Screen TV network only places a Cash
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Farrell and hopefully the fighters, Fury and Wilder. We'll we'll
stop by at some point coming up here on the BFS.
We got like twenty five minutes ago. We had all
lot to talk about. We'll probably spread it out of
this couple of days. I assume a lot. We have
a lot to get to. It's a fun day here
on the program. Who went last year? We're gonna tell
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you there's nine guys that did it. We'll let you
know all nine of them, and which of those nine
we're back in on here in the year. We'll tell
you that Who's going twenty twenty? A lot of questions,
not a lot of time the answers come anyway. Are
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you the fanatic. This is Sports Grade. Get off the
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over the next twenty five minutes or so, we'll talk
about some more major league baseball stuff before we throw
it over to Scottie Farrell. All right, let's get into
the players last year. Frank, there are nine of them.
Can you name them all? I can, because of course
I help you make the rundown in the and the graphics, Greg.
But a few of these names I think would surprise
people if they're just kind of jumping back into fantasy
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baseball now and reviewing the stats from last year. I
think one name that definitely stands out who is interesting
to talk about is Danny Santana. I think another name
is Jose Ramirez, who's still being drafted in that first
second round range. You're not really getting a discount on
Jose Ramirez based on his early season struggles, and I
agree with you. Actually like Jose a lot, assuming he's healthy,
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because the guy got hit by by a pitch on
his foot. Today we're talking about Severino getting hurt and
packs and getting hurt, and of course now Jose Ramirez
limped off the field with a foot injury, so of
course we're gonna need healthy legs. Healthy feet for Jose
if he's going to run again this upcoming season. But
I think a lot of the names on this list
greg are not surprising, are almost a spected outside of
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maybe Danny Santana, And you know, I think Jose and
Mirrors is definitely an interesting name. You're not getting You're
not getting any discounter value from last year. I leave
it that lead the list up because you can kind
I'm not gonna talk about some of these guys, right
like sure, I'm not talking about Ronald We talked a
lot about the number one overall pick according to you, Frankie.
I don't want to talk about Ristian Yelle, number three
overall pick according to you, Frankie. We talked about that
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a lot as well. Francisco Lindoor, we talked a lot
about him on this show as a first rounder, seeming
to go with Trevor story. We've broken him down, oh munch.
So let's hear rid of all those guys. I want
to start at the very top here with Jonathan vr
who led these um crew in steels. He had what
forty steels, all right, forty stone bases over twenty home runs,
and I've brought him up to you on yesterday or
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yesterday show, or I think it was one of those
guys right randomly throughout you. I wasn't supposed to talk
about him. I think it was during the break. Actually fine,
so I brought U Johnny VR. I'm like, dude, do
you eat on Johnny VR? And you signed? And you're
like no. And because we've already seen what the down
side is of him, well, last year you go up
forty steal mass the lead Major League Baseball or lead
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players in Smithlin, Major League Baseball, but forty steels and
twenty four homers year before thirty five steals to go
with fourteen homers. Year before that, when everybody's drafting him
in the second round, well, he had just twenty three
steels and eleven home runs. We have seen the downside
of Jonathan VR. Last year was the upside we got
up there right now. You see right below me the
Steamer projections from him for this year, where he has
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his projective for thirty three steals to go along with
seventeen home runs. If he can hit his Steamer of
projection and hit about two fifty seven, where should he
be taken in draft rank? I think that he should
be a third fourth round pick. I don't really have
a problem with his price, Greig. The problem for me
lies in the players that are going around him. I
just like those players more. I like Haavi or Bias more.
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I like could Tell Marte Moore. A lot of people
are gonna question, what could Tell Marte did from last
year is a juice ball related If you look at
can tell Te, he's actually filled out, He's gotten stronger,
he raised the launch angle, raised the average eggs of velocity.
He started hitting the ball harder last year as well.
I like Kessing Hero more than Jonathan VR as well,
and I think that one's a complete toss up. If
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you liked VR more than Kess and here, I couldn't
kill you for that. Um. The problem with VR for me,
and the main reason why I like those players more
than him, is because I think Jonathan VR has more
bottom out potential. I think that the floor is lower
for Jonathan VR than some of these other players, just
because we've seen it before. We've seen him bottom out
after being in early round pick where he basically got
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reduced to a bench role. When he was with the
Milwaukee Brewers, he had a phenomenal season last year. There's
no doubt about it. The move from Camden Yards to
Marlin's Park is definitely going to affect his home run output.
I think the Steamer projection is fair. He's probably gonna
give you a fifteen and seventeen home runs and probably
going to give you a thirty to thirty five stone basis.
Doesn't help you, doesn't hurt you in batting average. He's fine.
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But he's also playing a new position this year as well, Gregg.
He's playing center field and on FST Craig Miss spoke
to Jonathan VR. We had an interview a couple of
weeks ago, and he didn't really seem excited about the
idea of playing center field. So I almost wonder if
that's going to affect him at the plate. We've seen
that happen before with other players. I think that there's
just a lot of moving parts that there's a very
low floor for Jonathan VR as well, and because of that,
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I will just target other players that are going in
his range. But if you want steals, I can't knock
you for wanting to take him. I think his value
is fine where it is right now. Would you rather
have Jonathan Vr? Or with Maryfield. I would rather have
VR because the power potential is obviously stronger. The stolen
bases are going to be higher for they are the
average and lower though they are definitely fair, So there
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are trade offs there. You're probably gonna get more runs
and more batting average out of WIT Maryfield getting categories
you need, yes, but stolen bases are also very scarce.
I think what mary Fields probably gonna give you a
round twenty and VR could give you as much as forty. Again,
he's but a fair projection is more closer to thirty five.
I'll give the trade off of batting average for more
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stolen basis. I'll take VR, right, Johnathan v R going
in that third, fourth round, somebody you're obviously going to
going to want to consider at that spot depending on
how your team shakes out. Let me move on to
a guy that you and I both like, and I
think people are off of this guy because it's been
around for a long time, and that's starling Marte and
starring Marte for years. Was the guy that we thought
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would catapult in the first round and be this potentially
thirty five thirty five guy, right like that was the
idea we're starring Marte, and it never really happened. He
never really stolen enough bases, he never really hit enough
home runs. And I think people are a little bit
board for lack of better term of Starling Marte. He's
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out thirty one years old. He's past that thirty threshold,
which is just a number. Last year there's twenty five
stolen bases, the most of these hats in ten where
he hit and nine on runs. Twenty three home runs
last year with the juice ball was the most of
his career. Twenty five steals, It wasn't the most. Sorry
I read that wrong. I had had three steals and
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twenty He had thirty three steals down five last season.
He ran way more in team and had more power
than ever. Last year it's twenty nineteen. That very much
could be juice ball related. The average, well, it was
all the way up to two ninety five. Last season.
That was the highest since twenty sixteen. Starling Marte was
very good. Now he goes over to Arizona. What should
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be a better lineup. I know people are a bit
fatigue of Starling Marte, but the steam of rejections has
him as somebody that you're gonna want to take because
steaming rejections at twenty four home runs and twenty six steals,
that almost twenty five with a strong batting average of
two eighty four. I get it. People are bored Starling Marte.
This is a guy that I look at like, yeah,
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I definitely want this player. I agree, I want Starling
Marte as well. I think the biggest hindrance of Starling
Marte drafting him this year is his price. I mean,
his ADP over at the NBC in the month of
February is thirty one. So that's a mid third round
pick in a twelve team league. That's a borderline second
third round pick. I've seen him go in the second
round in in a ton of these fifteen team leagues
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as well. And look, it's a big price to pay,
but it's someone who's going to give you all five categories, Greg,
and you're if you want to talk about five category players.
A lot of those guys go in the first round. Again,
a Kuna, Christian Yellis, Mike Trout, Francisdor Story. All these
guys go in the first round. The reason why Charlie
Marte doesn't is because he is an injury risk. He
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played a hundred and thirty two games last year, the
year before that seventy seven and twenty seventeen and one
and twenty sixteen, so you almost have to bake in
he's gonna miss twenty to thirty games throughout the course
of the season. But he did that last year. Greg
still hit twenty three home runs, still sold twenty five
bases to batting average, He's a career to eighties seven hitter.
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He's a five category player. These guys normally go in
the first round. Und you're getting him at the at
the end of the second to early third round. There's
definitely some injury risk involved, but I have no problem
taking him where he's going right now. I'm I will
say this, he's better for Roto than he is for
points because he doesn't walk very much. He has a
career four point nine percent walk great, so it doesn't
have great O b P doesn't have a great I
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at the plate in terms of walking, so it doesn't
help you as much in a points league. But for Roto,
where you can get stolen bases without this guy hurting
your batting average or power, it's a no brainer for me.
When it comes to Marte. Surprising game on this list fright,
without question is Danny Santana all of the Texas Rangers.
He came out and I remember coming up and was like, hey, dude,
he said that it's pretty hot. Should I pick him up?
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And You're like, no, why would you do that? So
I didn't, and Danny Santana never well stop being hot.
He was fantastic all season long. And now Danny Santana
in the mix to play every single day for the
Texas Rangers, but no journeyman. So I think questions are fair,
But Ny Santana went last year? Can he do it again? Man?
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Danny Santana is probably the biggest wild card in fantasy
baseball stuff coming season. Gregg really came out of nowhere.
You hit it on the head wind up hitting two
eighty three with eight home runs and twenty one steals.
Sounds a lot like the line that's starling Marte is
projected to give you this upcoming season, and you got
that from a waiver wire pick up last year in
Danny Santana. I mean the question you have to ask yourself, Greg,
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and we're gonna try to answer, is can he repeated?
Can he can he come close to doing that again?
Similar to Starling Marte doesn't walk all that much four
point nine percent walk great, but he strikes out a
lot more than someone like Starling Marte twenty nine and
a half percent strikeout rate. He has showed a power
speed combination at times throughout his minor league career back
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in eighteen with the Braves sixteen home runs, twelve stolen bases.
Earlier in his minor league career he stole a bunch
of basses as well. I don't know that he's gonna
go twenty again, Greg, I think he's someone that could
give you a little bit of power, a little bit
of speed. I myself would not be projecting him to
go Maybe a fair projection is, you know, fifteen fifteen
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and Steamers a little bit more optimistic than I am.
Nineteen home runs, seventeen stolen bases. The second question you
have to ask is where is he gonna play? Is
he gonna get in the lineup every single day for
the Texas Rangers. There was a report that came out
just the other day that said Nick Slack has an
opportunity to play in center field for the Texas Rangers.
He's you know, a top prospect for them, performed well
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last year for the Rangers, And so that's actually hysterical
because I like Nick Solack. You already still like came
from No, I don't you know anything Lack? No, so
Nick Slack. I saw an old tweet of mine from
three or four years ago. But Nick Slack the Yankees,
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I hope Nick Slack become Brandon Jury. Is that's who
they traded for? Brandon Jury? Really Nick Slack? Oh yeah,
I'm kind of excited about Nick Solack with the Texas Rangers. Um,
I don't mind Any's Antana. I think he's probably more
of a fifteen fifteen guy with a bad batting average.
And do a couple more notes on days Antana and
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off the grade. So interesting little not about day Santana,
which I forgot about. Uh in the early he remember
this Minnesota Twins team that kind of came out with
Eddie Rozario and Horri Polanco like days Antana was a member. Yeah,
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he was in that group for sure, and I think
he had some prospects satisfack in the day, So it
was interesting to me he was back in. He stole
twenty basses and he batted three nineteen speed for with
the Twins in twenty three games as I'm sorry, at
age twenty three in over a hundred games. And year
later you're like, all right, this guy, this guy could
be pretty good next year, And then he wasn't because
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he's added a hundred points lower with his average his
babbitt over four over four hundred to nineties, he stole
just eight basses and he never really regained his story
and job bounced around after that. So Speed we have
seen him steal twenty bases before. That's why last year's
twenty one steals doesn't really seem like a fluke. Um.
He does have the ability to play all over the field,
all over the infield and all over the outfield. So
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I think that the Rangers really want to get him
in the lineup. We'll find a way. There's definitely a
an outcome, a range of outcomes where he makes me
look completely foolish, Greg. He goes off for like twenty
maybe even the speed is there. The batting average isn't
gonna be good. He strikes out a lot, twenty nine
and a half percent strike out right, He's got a
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little pop. It'll be interesting to see how the new
ballpark plays out there in Texas, Greg. But they have
a roof now, so a lot of people think that
is going to suppress some of the power a little bit.
It's gonna come back a little bit, not the same
way that the ball used to travel when it was
just open and it was really hot out there in Texas.
So something to pay attention to. But again, probably more
of a fifteen fifteen projection for me at a Danny Santanna,
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when are you kind of okay with that? Right? Like
if you get it wrong with days, that's miss Like, fine,
I got it wrong. That's how I feel, like Dana
down Like I'm not gonna wind up taking this guy
and if somebody else takes them and grass, Yeah, I'm
I'm okay being wrong with him in terms of my analysis,
but you can't afford to be wrong with him if
you draft him, because he's going He's going to pick
one thirty. I totally agree with you what I'm saying.
I'm not drafting him. So if I agree with you,
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I'm not gonna have him either, and I'm not gonna
be upset. But that's why he's the X factor because
if there's people that are very bullish on him and
he does come to fruition, like, yeah, he's gonna be
like he's gonna be like that GPP played for DFS.
Nobody else is going to have Danny Santana and he's
going to propel you ahead. So all the other guys
that went last year kind of makes sense, right. I
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name some of the bigger players that went are going
in the first round. The other players who I didn't name,
or the Actus. The only player I didn't name was
Tommy Fan. We started them on very in on Tommy Fam.
He gave some information today, Frank that maybe not as interesting. Yeah,
So Tommy Fam is just starting to throw from ninety
feet now. He was dealing with especial doctors. Yeah, seriously, right,
(39:22):
he dealt with a u c L injury late last
season and he's just starting to throw from ninety feet now.
So reading something like that on February is not really
what you want to see out of Tommy Fam, especially
when you have to pay a fifth or sixth round
price tag on Tommy Fam last year. I won't doubt
the skill. He was someone that I loved last season
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as well. Greg, you know, I was all over Tommy Fam.
But I'm a little bit worried about this injury. And
he's dealt with a lot of stuff the past couple
of years. I know he's had surgery on his eyes
to help prepare you know, his vision, and now he's
dealing with this u c L. Is something you might
have to think about basically all season long, and even
before this season starts. Based on that price tag, I
think Tommy Fan might be a pass for me. We
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like Tommy Fan literally, hey, like we were we were
in on this guy because of this potential in San Diego.
Top of the line that we liked it, I'm not
thinking a risk with the guy has has has had
a strain you see, out for four months, and he
has typically missed a lot of time in the past
recular injuries. So, um, I like Tommy fan It would
be frustrating if he goes off because because I did
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like him. Um, but I'm not gonna take that. That
put Ramon Loriano ahead of him for you, Greg, because
I kind of marry those two together. I think they're
similar players. I think they are. Loriano projected the bad
second for the A's. This is a great spot to
be in that lineup, hitting right behind Simon, right ahead
of someone like Matt Olsen or Chapman, whoever they put there.
He's gonna see some good pitches to him. Man. I
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think it's possible. Man, I think it's possible. Lead Simon
leads off the team. Okay, it's good. You're not sold
on Loriano, huh. I remember that stretch last year. It
was like a month or two stretch where he was
basically like performing like Mike Trout amazing. He was awesome.
He was amazing. Okay. So, other than the players that
went last year, Steamer projects a few other players this year.
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That's some of the ones that went last year. Or
projected to do it again this year, but for the
most part a lot of them are. But there were
five players that Steamer projected to go this year that
did not last year. And it begins with the guy
that you said, I don't remember. It was the air
on the air you go, man, I really want to
at least one share of this guy, and that is
Albert though Mundency, of course of the Kansas City Royals.
(41:32):
We know the speeds there, how it should be as well,
where is he going and what's it cost? So Adelbertomondency
right now is going in a similar spot to where
Jonathan VR is going. Jonathan VR we mentioned earlier, going
around pick forty five, Adelbert Thomondency going five spots higher
with an ADP of thirty nine point nine. So right
around you know that forty range for Mondency in the
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early fourth round of a twelve teamer in the third
round of a fifteen teaming league. And I want one
share of Mondescy Greg just by the chance, the off
chance that this guy just goes ballistic, because look what
he did last year. Forty three stolen bases in a
hundred and two games. Didn't kill you with the power
nine Homer's sixty two Ribbies, and if I've watched a
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few Royals games where the broadcasters talk about like how
the team feels about him, they think that he has
m v P type upside. He is that talented. It's
just a matter of him stay healthy. He had a
surgery in the off season to repair a torn laboram
so we need him to be healthy. Obviously, that's, you know,
first and foremost the most important thing for h adalbertomondency.
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But if he's healthy, Greg, if he's healthy, this is
someone who can hit fifteen and twenty home runs with
legitimately sixty stolen bases. So he's not a main target
of mine. I'm not going to have multiple shares, but
he is someone I would like to have at least
one share in case he is that player that pops off.
This cost you a whole lot, right, cost you a
whole lot? Would you rather have Adelbert Mondesty and Jonathan
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v Are I have before that, I would take VR
because he is safer. He is Oh gosh, yeah, I'll
stick with that. No, you won't. Realistically, my answer is
I'm not gonna like I'm targeting someone else in that range.
I understand, but gun to my head, I had to
choose one of these players, I'm gonna take you. I
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gotta go. I just hate going back on what I said.
You know, he's gotta He's gotta stay healthy and I'd
like to see him get on baseball that more steals.
If he gets on baseball styear and still stole forty
three bases, that's why he could be up to sixty.
Even get on base a little bit more, it's crazy.
Or just stay healthy that's works. Two hundred two games
last year, twenty three years old, twenty four this upcoming
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season for at Alberto Mondesi another young player that kind
of fits this mold. Frank Is in Toronto. Where Bo
Bichette fits this mold. Uh. Last year it was all
about Vladimir Guerrero and then bobashett having Vigo, Btis Gariel,
all these guys kind of coming up together. A lot
of the hype surrounds of Laddie. Why isn't Bobachette he
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talked about more. I think there is a substantial amount
of hype around bobichet I think there's a lot of
people that like him. Awesome hair. By the way, as well,
when it comes to Bobichette, I worry a little bit
about the speed, Greg, because he had four solen bases
last year, four caught stealing. He's likely going to have
the green light to start the year. But if he has,
if he continues to steal bases at a fifty percent
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conversion rate, then at some point they might hold up
to stop sign on Bobichette and tell him to stop running.
But I think that the tools are all there. He
has speed, he has the hit tool, he has power.
The guy hit eleven home runs in just forties six teams.
He has the pedigree as well, obviously the son of
Dante Bishette as well. And it's awesome that Blue Jay's
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lineup is just you know, all second generation players with
Bobachette and Kevin Biggio and Vlag Guerrero Jr. And Laura
es Gil Jr. As well, And it's a lot of fun.
But I don't think I'm gonna own any Bobichette this year, Greg,
And you know, maybe I miss out on, you know,
the breakout season this upcoming year. But similar to a
few of the other players we've talked about, there are
just a lot of players in that range that I
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like more. I'm gonna take you on Moncada over Bobichette.
Has more major league experience and I think has similar,
if not better upside than bobashett Manny Machado is going
in that range. You know him, a big Machado guy
as well. Look, if Bobachette goes off this year, it
wouldn't surprise me. It's probably going to be on somebody
else's team unless the value comes down a little bit,
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and I can't see that happening just based on the
name in the prospect pedigree. I like Bo Bichette. Man.
This is one of those where if he goes off,
like you just want to share him and want to
share because we could rather have him in a vacuum.
Would you rather have him over Machado or Yan, I
won't want I don't want him over Machado. I gotta
send you my Moncada notes. Man, there's a lot to
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be excited to talk about him briefly. So, Mancada basically
completely changed his approach from last year, where he became
more aggressive. In the past, he was almost too passive
in twenty teen. His chase rate on pitches outside the
strike zone was like last year it went up to
thirty one, So he started chasing pitches outside the strike
zone more. But the best part is Greg his contact
rate went up, so he chased those pitches, but he
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made contact with those pitches. You would be pushed pushed
away from Encada if he chased pitches and swung and
missed at those pitches more. He didn't. He was making
more contact inside and outside the zone last year and
he finally put it all together. Greg twenty five home runs,
three fifteen batting average. I know you're going to look
at the four oh nine babbit and say, look it's
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it's four h six and say that's not sustainable, and
I would agree with you, But look at his minor
league babtists as well. Yeah, So I looked at that
consistently over three sixty, over three seventy. I think there
was like a three ninety babbit season in there. There
was a three seventy nine in their three seventy. He
was more aggressive last year. He cut down the strikeouts
from like thirty three to twenty seven percent and makes
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elite batted ball like. When he makes contact, it is
awesome contact like, look at a stack numbers, and his
hard hit rate numbers about thirty nine point nine percent
hard hit. Yeah, the stack cast the average exit veloscis
like ninety six percentile. So look, I just think the
sky's the limit. It wouldn't surprise me if Moncada goes
to eighty thirty home runs fifteen stolen bases, just has
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one of those monster breakout seasons someone who's like drafted
where Devers is going this year or something like that.
The thing is, you're not far off from that already,
right because last years a hundred and thirty games. Fine,
the batting average is gonna come back a little bit
for sure. What I'm saying is, yeah, you get twenty
five homers and tenantilmaz his last year, If you just
give him five more homers because he plays thirty more games,
why can't you get better? Twenty four years old? Twenty
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he'll be twenty five in May. Mcada another guy that
you have a little bit of prospect fatigue on already
because you've been hearing about him for so long because
he was trading in the Chrysale deal. Macad I like it, Frank,
but wouldn't you rather have someone who has been in
the majors for a few years already, where you almost
worry a little bit about that second year and pictures
making adjustments on someone like Bobaschett. Again, he might go
off just completely make me look stupid, but I think
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Mancada is someone who we've already seen take those necessary
steps changed the approach batotball data is amazing Assaultman. The
other players on this list protected to Trade Turner of
the Nationals. That makes sense we talked about yesterday. And
Louise Robert, you are Moncada's teammate in his rookie year.
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Would rather have Bobacht or Louise Robert right there? You go.
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