March 4, 2020 • 50 mins
Gregg Sussman and Frank Stampfl unveil their 2B Rankings, featuring a different player at the top for each of them! Plus, they'll provide sleepers that are worth targeting and the third baseman their absolutely out on. Yes Shed Long! Boo Kevin Newman!
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will give you inside up Studio thirty four. These are
your BFFs. You're Fress Nevil, I'm Grangs Sauce. And what
is that? Greg? Why are you starting the show so confused?
I did the open. You shook your head and then
looked at me. What what was that? Greg? I'm gonna
go ahead and guess that you have not watched back
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at the beginning of the BFS for the past two months.
Why why is that I do that every day? You know? No, no,
no, no no, I do. I look at you, like, what
is what is Greg doing? Now? What is Greg? No?
I do? It's more of it. It's more of a
than today. It was like a headshake today. Today it
was different. I've watched a lot of BFFs. Have you, Yeah,
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i'd say so over the last few years. I don't
like that one. I'm sorry, Budd. I didn't want to
get a start off on the wrong foot. Today. That's
where we are previewing second base. We are you know,
what is the most fun position of all? It's not.
I've realized that the positions I like the least this year,
Frank or first and second basis, which we're talking about
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today and tomorrow. That's correct. They're sorry, and Catcher obviously
the next three days terrible programming. Oh you're a you're
a great advocate, selling the show, selling the network. If
you hate terrible positions, come back for the next three
week here, first Base, second Base, Catcher. We got it
all cover and they all suck. I just sleep last night, Greig,
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Greg Frank not great. Judy was at the event with
her friends and sister. Yeah, I was watching. I was
at a bar watching Maryland. They lost terribly again. Are
on a weeknight? Horrible turn a note, two beers watching
the game? Whatever? Got home. She was at her event
with her friends. I get a text, Hey, my sisters
sleeping over. She has her own apartment, and I'm like, why,
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why is this So of course this picture angry Greg
in a bar getting a text about sisters. So then
I'm I'm sleeping, like well thirty, they come in, you know,
they're quiet, and did Junie get into bed and she's
just like asking all these questions. Yeah, and it was like,
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you know, this is not gossip, Susan family turning, This
is not gossip time. This is sleep Timepy. This guy's
fifty years was Matthew. It'll make me happier. This update
from Alexasana. I am Alex Josana with your sports grid
(03:25):
news update here on the fantasy BFFs guys in Major
League Baseball. Yourd on Alvarez Well manager Dusty Baker said
he will be withheld from baseball activities for three to
four days while the slugger manages knee soreness. Alvarez His
shutdown seems to be precautionary more than anything, but until
he re enters the Houston Grapefruit League lineup, his status
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will be one worth tracking. He has expected to occupy
a spot in the heart of the lineup this year
in after an exceptional rookie campaign where he posted eight
point four twelve on base percentage last season. Sticking with
Major League Baseball, Red Sox are still waiting for a
third opinion on Chris sales elbow after they make the
decision on his status. Red Sox inter manager Ron Rennicky
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told reporters on Wednesday that the team is still waiting
to hear from renowned surgeon Dr. Neil l atras A.
Rennicky stresses that the Red Sox need to get this
right before determining how to proceed with sale. Sale underwent
the m r I on Tuesday after experiencing elbow store
in this following his first live batting practice session. Guys
in the NFL, The Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to trade
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quarterback A. J. Buoyer to the Denver Broncos for a
fourth round selection in this year's NFL draft. Trade cannot
be processed until the New York League begins in March.
H of March eighteenth, to be specific, buoy A told
ESPN S Josina Anderson that he was informed of the
pending trade both from Jaguars GM Dave cal Caldwell and
Broncos president and GM John Elway. Everyone remembers Buyer. He
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was one of the key members of the two thousand
and seventeen free agent class for the Jaguars that was
regarded as one of the best enfranchise history. You got
a full slate of NBA, NHL, and college hoops tonight.
Nine NBA games on tap for tonight. The Boston Celtics
visit the Cleveland Cavalier. Celtics three and a half point favorites.
The total is to seventeen. You also got the Utah
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Jazz going to Madison Square Garden to take on the Knicks.
Utah Jazz your eight point favorites to the totals to
eighteen and a half. Also, the New Orleans Pelicans visit
that Alice Mavericks. Mavericks are your six point favorites of
the total to forty in this one. All right, I'm
Alex Possano. When this has been your sports grid news update.
Now back to the Fantasy BFFs. All right, we're back
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here on the Fantasy BFS checking on Greg currently yelling
on the phone at Judy because he didn't get enough
sleep last night, So I'll keep you updated on that.
We're going to go through our entire second base ranks today.
Talk about sleepers, talk about bust but like we like
to do every day here on the Fantasy BFS, we
give you a little snippet of our NBA tip trill
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and earlier today, Greg Soussman spoke with Drew dick Meyer
of Daily Rodor dot com about Carris Lavert. Last night
posted a career high fifty one point. We're going back
to the well, let's find out why at the shooting
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guard spot. Last night was the game of his careers.
Purty seven points in the fourth quarter in overtime for cares,
fifty one total story every point in oc as a
nets defeat of the Boston Celtics, like none of them
back to back. You're still going back to LeVert? Is that? Yeah?
It's hard, you know, you usually don't want to kind
of hit the home run two days in a row.
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You know, it's unlikely for him to kind of repeat
that performance from last night and playing into overtime, playing
heavy minutes on second night of back to back is
always a concern. But pray second is still really affordable
at six thousand dollars here, and a match up with Memphis,
another team that plays at a pretty fast pace, is
a pretty good one for Lavert on the whole so
we think he's gonna be one of the better shooting
guards to play now, if Marcus Smart is not suspended,
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which we're still waiting for that news, he's gonna be
another premier shooting guard option with no Kemba Walker, probably
on mcgrdon Hayward, probably no Jayson Tatum, probably no Jalen Brown,
so Marcus Smart would kind of be the last man
standing there. Those two are kind of the top shooting
guard options, but with the unknown on Marcus Smart whether
he'll be available tonight, careful birth hard guy. All right,
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there you go. That is Drew dinck Meyer of Daily
Rhodo dot com speaking with Greg Sussman about tonight's NBA
DFS slate. And I have to agree with Drew. Normally,
when you see someone put up a career night, you
don't want to go back the next day because then
you just feel like, oh, well, I missed out on
the career night already. But I think things set up
pretty well for cars LeVert, who was just ridiculous last night.
Let that come back for the Brooklyn Nets. They were
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down to twenty one points against the Boston Celtics. He
scores thirty seven points in the fourth quarter in overtime
to help the Brooklyn Nets get that big win over
the Boston Celtics. Greg going back to the well with
Caros LeVert tonight, Well, that's cash LeVert understanding the show.
He was awesome last night. See if we can win
some money over in DFS. Also gonna win your money
by drafting you the second basement. That matter, Frank, Let's
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get right into it. Let's start. Let's not to the top.
Are there any No, this position is bad, Gregg, It's
not good, Frank. At least I would say almost every
position outside of catcher has like a first round pick,
a second round pick, not second base. No, driving your
second basick. You know it's interesting my top there's ten
second bas me. You have my listening aboard right now.
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I'm actually kind of surprised you have AUSI number one
as well. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in on Azzie al
base for me. I got ten guys alike nobody else. Well,
I hope you get one of those top ten, greg Orlse,
you're screwed right, correct, I don't like anybody else. Yeah,
let's start on the top here with Ozzy Albis number one, old, Yeah,
you do yeah, I'm not. I've number one as well.
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I'm just surprised that you know I have about two
bad four and I'll tell you reasons why I'm not
in ours two. To be fair, I didn't rank Kettle Martins.
We talked seven days now, so he's just not ranked.
Talk about him again. No, Greg's hatred for Kettle Marte,
It's unwarranted. Greg super consistent first two seasons here out
of Azzi, I'll be back to back. Twenty four home runs,
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over a hundred runs scored, eight six RBIs, fifteen solen
bases with a two batting average in last year, improved
his walk rade, lowered his strikeout rate, improved his battle
ball across the board, started hitting more line drives, started
hitting more hard contact. Greg. The barrel rate, average egg
of velocity, the expected slugging percentage, everything you want to
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see out of a young hitter has been improving for Azzi. Albis.
He's still only twenty three years old. He's gonna bad second.
Think about this, He's gonna bad second. Between Ronald Dacuna
and Freddie Freeman. There might not be a better spot
to bat in in all of baseball than to be
Azzy Albi's this upcoming season. Greg, the one thing that
I will bring up, and I'm surprised you haven't mentioned
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this to me yet, is that he has struggled against
left handed pitching in his against right handed pitching in
his career. He's a switch hitter. He crushes lefties, and
all throughout the owners it's been the same thing. He
absolutely crushes left handed pitching, but it is not as
good against right handed pitching, even as a switch hitter
last year against leftist three eight nine with an OPS
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over a thousand against lefties to sixty seven with an
OPUS around seven eighty against right handed pitching last year
for Ozzy Albi's, So hopefully he can improve there. He
hasn't really shown any signs. He has a long track
record of being the same player in the minor leagues.
But even if he's not, Greg, I think, you know,
twenty home runs, I think there's still another level in
terms of soulen basis. It wouldn't surprise me if he
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can get probably going to approach one runs scored once again,
a really good line up there at the top of
the Atlanta Braves. Um. I think he's just an as
sending player and I don't mind snagging him in that
third fourth ront range. I agree in what you just
said is right because he's still young. And I think
that given that he's twenty three years old right now
and playing he's what third full season in the major
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leagues ready, it's a player that's prime to go this season.
It doesn't take much to get there. He's he showed
more speed in the minors two right, I think I
can get the steals, right. I think everything else that
we're seeing, he's realistic, Like you'd like to improve against righties,
but first half of the second half, why not being
relatively even the power runs in second days, getting steals
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over all, the runs scored in the middle of a
great or top of a great lineup. It's a guy
that's only going to get better. This is an ascending
player that's clear that you want, Like, you know, how,
what does Ozzie Albies have to do? I guess it's
more power or more speed? What does he have to
do to get in that first second round range? Next
year he's like in the third round, Like it's where
he's going, that's where you should be going. What does
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he have to do this year to ascend. I think
if he remains where the batting averages right, if he
approaches three and he goes, he's probably a first round
player next year. Outside of that, if he if he
does something similar to what he's done the past couple
of seasons, he's probably just gonna stay status quo and
this might be the player he is. That's perfectly fine,
but there's also that chance that he takes the next
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step because he's still so young. He's only years old.
So would you rather have a Sting Marte? I would
rather have Starling Marte just because you basically want Ozzy
Albis to do what Stalo Marte does every single year.
But he is a sendame. But there is a little
bit more injury risk as well. I'll take Staring Marte,
but it's a fair question. It's close. What's look more
of the second basement, including whose l Today next? Are
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into that hottle bit later on in the program. Uh.
You know I was telling you that was it a
day or two ago where I was like, your hatreds
just gone to Chris Bryan, Chris Bryant, that all I
needed to do was hear hatred. Hatred. But Frank means
either Trevor Bauer or Chris Bryan this year? Does Who
was it last year that you just like despiesed Umm,
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I remember who it was. You can look at my
rankings and find out. Yeah, I remember it, like I
know you. He comes to mind right away. I knew you,
the astio tweet guy. You didn't like George Springer. But
it wasn't like I minded George. It wasn't like this
hatred level on George Springer. You just preferred. Yeah, that
was like the first thing game in min I don't remember.
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I'll go back on my rankings and trying to remember Rizzo.
I'm out on Rizzo everywhere too. I guess I just
don't like the Cubs except for Jabier Bias So Chris
Bryant one and I really thought that you just like
went too far. We discussed that on our Outfielder Program
or a third Mad Show. I feel the same way
about Who's al to you? Guy? Like, listen, I'm you
see my rankings. I got Ozzie Albie's at number one.
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We're an agreement his ability to go five you catapult
as a twenty three year old player. It makes a
ton of sense, Like I'm all in there, But Who's
al today is number two? And I think that that combination.
He doesn't run like he used to. He's not gonna
have power. He doesn't run at all. He's not gonna
have power like a Labor torres Is. I understand that
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it seems like you're going down the route of your
Trevor Bauer defense once again, really telling me a bunch
of reasons why Joe two Bay is not good in
order to defend why you have him ranked second. He
doesn't run as much, the average will be better than Labor.
I think I think he has a good shot to
score more runs than Labor potentially maybe really ah, he's
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gonna have one of the six steals this year, isn't he?
I don't know. Well, if you ask Alex Bregman, he is.
We had Alex Bregman's interview on Fantasy Sports today and
he said, Jose how two is gonna steal thirty bases
this year. I for one will be taking the under
on that. The guys just dealt with a ton of
injuries the past couple of seasons. Greg he had a
knee surgery two years ago, he dealt with hamstring injury
last year, and those have hampered his ability to run,
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and it wouldn't surprise me if he miss his time
again This upcoming season. Kind of reminds me of where
Paul Goldschmidt has kind of been trending the past couple
of years, where next year Jose L two is going
to be more of a mid round pick, like a
fifth the sixth round picks. Still a solid player, but
I just see him trending down and his plate discipline
has gotten worse. Mind you, it's still really good compared
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to like league average and like most other players in baseball,
but career high fifteen percent strike out rate last year
seven and a half percent walk great was his lowest
since to eighty two. Expected batting average was his lowest
over the past four seasons. I just think the combination
of injury risk knee, hamstring, he's not gonna run as
a result of that. Last year he went six for
eleven on the base paths um if he continues to
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get cost stealing early on in the season, do they
just give him the red light. I've said that about
a lot of players this year. I'm gonna remain Yeah, Dusty,
don't care, don't care. All right, Well, we will find out.
I still think that there's a chance that he does
miss time. He has missed sixty three games over the
last two seasons. Greg and last year's power breakout was
obviously an anomaly. Thirty one home runs. His home run
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to flyball rate in the second half last year Greg
was twenty. His previous season high for a whole season
was fourteen and a half percent home run the fly
ball ratio. I think he's probably more like a twenty
four home run hitter. Good batting average probably gonna hit
you to ninety runs. RBIs will be there handful of
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stolen bases, and if he misses time, I think the
counting stats will even take a hit. So if you
ask me between Jose two and Labor Torres, I will
take Labor Tourists right with mary Field above him as well. No,
I don't I have he's another one. I'm not draft
him anywhere with mary Field that nine? God? Why because
he's old and he's boring in the starting basis. Stolen
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basis are turning down, Greg, and D nine, I think
you'd be a little agreed. Just now, Gregg, are you
gonna argue with the top ten fantasy ranks? Yeah, he's
the amazing they're trending down. He still a twenty last year? Yeah,
he cut it in half? So what he cuts it
in half again? Greg? He won't. This is his game.
He's a three hitter. Yeah, Greg. How much did the St.
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Louis Cardinals run when Mike Matheny was their manager? Let
it run much? Rank? And then the saying I understand,
just saying like this is what mary Field does, isn't it?
Maryfield is fine. I just don't think there is a stretch.
I don't think there's much upside that that's what I'll
said maybe I should have him over Maxi Monc because
I don't really like Maxi Mounsey either as well. So
once you get past um d La Mayhew, eight and
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nine for me Max Monsey and with mary Field, this
is like a respect ranking. I like Michael I have
met ten, but I'm not actually going to draft him
over those guys like in a vacuum. If you're both
available in like the seventh round, sure, I'll still take
Wit Maryfield over Michael Stockers. The problem is Merryfield goals
in like the fourth round. That's too early for me. Greg,
I just don't like the price on Whit Maryfield. I
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understand that you shouldn't have it right that you like
this guy's better. Then no, I don't. I haven't met nine.
You you said you're gonna take Maryfield over Monthda moving
up on spot. There you go. I will say this,
if they're both on the board at the same time
and I want a second Baseman, I will take DJ
Lemayhew over Wit Maryfield. Then you're then it's right for you. Yes,
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So there you go. He fits in at number eight.
For a guy that wants speed, you keep eliminating all
the sea you gotta pick and choose where you want
the speed, Greg, this is where you wanted Frank. But
all right, so look he's gonna give you speed. He'll
probably give you like eight plus run score. I don't
think the Royals lineup is a great one to eight
batting average. I'm just saying, like he's getting older. What
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number one? What if the numbers continue to trend down
like they have been the past couple of seasons. Of
those seasons, what does just last? What did the stolen
basis go from twenty to fifteen? Is that getting it
done for you? It wouldn't surprise me if that happens.
He just went from like forty to twenty. But like
the year before, we had thirty five? Right, so what
up and down? It wasn't like it's been trending down.
It was in half of what it was last season.
I understand that Maryfield is a fine player. I just
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don't like the price on him. That's fine, But I
think the fourth round you're gonna take whit Maryfield over Many,
Machado or Moncada. There's no no, I'm not going to
do that, absolutely not. But again I still think there
was back at you where are you finding speed? Every
time we do this, we have this conversation. Albi's seals
number one, right, a little bit more power than whit Maryfield,
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more run scored. Is the number one second basement? Yes,
you're not, are you Kestinghira I have ahead of him,
and he's gonna give you probably ten to fifteen seal
chat about Kesting here? Doesn't here is an interesting one?
Doesn't here is interesting? He's no my number five second
basement here this year, right behind whip Maryfield, right behind
Glabra torres kesn't Eira a a top prospect the Brewers.
He burst onto the scene, went back to the miners
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that called back up. But how the playoffs rolled around.
He was the starting second baseman four in the Milwaukee Brewers.
He's gonna hit in the middle of the lineup. He's very,
very talented. He's just twenty three years old. Ninth stolen
basis for him last year he had also seven in
triple A, so you combine that's like sixteen. Obviously the
power is there. Average was good overall o b P
was good overall strikes out of bunch. But Frank, there
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is downside of Kesting here, greg I am sad that
I have done probably four or five drafts by now
and I have I have zero shares of Kess and Hera.
I've got to get a few shares of him this
upcoming season. The prospect pedigree is there, and Greg, your
homework for either tonight or during the break, if you
want to look side by side at the swing of
Mike Trout and Kess and Heira, it is very similar.
It is like eerily similar. The downside to Kessanhira is
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his plate discipline. He's a lot like Javier Bias. He
strikes out a lot. He's gonna be near a thirty
percent strike out rate this upcoming season. He has a
high swinging strike rate, he chases pitches outside the zone.
I realized all of those things. But Greg, when he
makes contact, he makes really really good contact at the
second base position. Last year, he was first in barrels
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per plate appearance. He was third in average exit velocity.
He was fourth in average exit velocity specifically on fly
balls and line drives last season. And what I like
most Greg is he's someone that was battle tested in
year one as a rookie. His first two weeks he
came up hit two eighty one, four percent walk grade,
thirty three percent strike out rate, hard contact. Fine, he
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was all right. He was sent back down, came back
up later on. What do you do? He got better?
Batting average went from two eighty one to three oh
eight the rest of the season, hit fourteen home runs. Uh.
He doubled his walk grade to eight percent when he
got called back up from the minor From the minor leagues,
he cut his strikeout rate by three percent. His hard
contact when up to forty six percent. We're talking about
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a second baseman. Middle endfielders don't normally hit the ball
this hard as hard as Keston Hira does. The Swingey
striker at the chase rate they decreased a little bit, Greg,
But I understand why people would be worried about him.
Second year pitchers are gonna make adjustments to him. Is
he gonna be able to adjust back? I just trust
the pedigree and the fact that when he makes contact, Greg,
it is really really good contact. We're talking about amongst
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the best at the second base position, except not against lefties,
except not against left So all right, I'm happy you
bring this stuff because I do have a note on this.
He struggled against left handed pitching last year in the majors,
but if you look at his minor league numbers, his
minor league splits, he performed against left handed pitching very
well at every single level. It really struggled last year.
He had eight nineteen total one and he's a right
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handed battery. Doesn't that make you feel even better about
he's gonna he's gonna, you know that he's going to
improve against left handed pitching. It's weird, it's weird, but
the minor league numbers say that he should get better
against left east so it'll probably normalize a little bit,
you know, maybe won't you know, mash against right eas
as well. How many steals do you think he winds
up with? I think tend to twelve is a fair projection.
He's not gonna give you nothing for sure. What it
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likes a great athlete. What I like about kessing hera
is those minor league numbers are all pretty much the same.
Right like you look at like the average in the
O b P. He's always been a good hitter. You
look at the power, it's pretty much always been around thirteen.
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Last year a nineteen driplens nineteen more with the Brewers.
That's a juice ball run thing for sure. I like
casting Hera. Alright, have you the casting Hera? Where's he
going that? You're not taking him right now? So he's
going I like the three four turn right now in
fifteen team leagues, so cast and Hera has an a
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DP of forty two, so the back end of the
third round in the fifteen team league, the middle of
the fourth round in a twelve team league. So he's
going around players like those name hitters for fun. Kettle,
Marte your boy. I'll take Marte over him. Jake Jonathan,
we are over him. I have Jonathan VR one spot higher.
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I have Kesting here on one spot higher. I think
VR is a little bit safer. And obviously you talk
about where do you get that speed from thirty five
plus deals? I think that's pretty safe. From Jonathan VR,
it's not nearly as fun. It's not as fun. No,
the upside is tantalizing, like he could hit thirty bombs
with fifteen stolen bases. I'm still gonna have VR ranked
ahead of it. I want to see you actually take
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VR O. I guess here. I want to see Yeah,
I mean it's one of those where if I was
on the clock, would I actually do it exact and
then when I don't do it, I go back and
change my rankings. It's one of those. But I do
like Kesting Hero using here Charlie Blackman. I will take
Charlie black Men missing hero George, I will take Kessing.
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here live with you. He's Frank, I'm Gregg. What's up?
What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up?
Reminds me of night at the Roxbury Greg. Now, I'm
looking at this list you mentioned, and I want to
get into the next ten. Like the second ten guys
because I don't like any of them. Um like, I'm
really good with any of my first tem players. We're
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gonna cont Cavin Vision in a second. But you said
you don't like Maximums, and he's a guy that I
gotta asked you about for a while because I like him.
You know that. I think that there's still concern with
the Dodgers in terms of playing time. I think Max
Month is going to play the majority of the time.
But they have a great luxury right now after not
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trading away Jack Peterson. He's still out there in the outfield.
They have a j Pollock, they can opt to move
Cody Bellinger to first base if they want, And of
course they have Gavin lux who we're going to talk
about on today's show as well. Uh that one of
the top prospects in all of baseball, who people are
very excited about this upcoming season. So I worry a
little bit about that. And when it comes to Max Month, Greg,
I understand the position versatility is fun. Second base, first base,
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third base. You can move him all around. I think
the obvious answer is that you're going to use him
at second base. The thing is what he provides Greg
is not really hard to find. He's gonna hit your
home runs. He's gonna score a ton of runs, There's
no doubt about it. Like if the guy plays a
hundred and fifty plus games in that Dodger's lineup, he's
probably going to score over a hundred runs, which is
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very valuable. I don't want to downplay that. He's much
better in ob P leagues. He strikes out a ton,
it's probably gonna hit around to fifty. He just reminds
me a lot of Michael Musakis, who you can get,
you know, like thirty picks later. And Max mons is
probably going to score more runs than Mustakis. I'm not
going to dispute that, but I could see them having
a similar home run output. Mike Lustakis is hitting thirty
five to forty home runs. Mustaki is going to have
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more r b I s as well, potentially five to
ten more points on the batting average. I just don't
really see the difference between Max Moncy and Michael Mustakis,
Greg and they difference in price right now is over
the past week. At the n of BC, Max Monsey's
going to pick sixty eight. Micha Musakis is going to
pick ninety, so you're getting him twenty two picks later.
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So I have Max Munsey and back eight nine of
my rankings, that is, I have them nine tens. Yeah.
So because you don't have Kenll Marte in your second
base Franks, so we have them in the same spot,
in the same spot. Totally. We've got to get somebody
on the show who loves Max Mounsey to explain the
love for him. I like Xmuncy. It's like an ob
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P format, you playing O. I should probably like him
a lot more, I know. Do you like him like
twenty two spots? I don't, But if you do play
in an ob P league, he's gonna walk, He's probably
gonna double up. Sure, but what you described over the
power like, I can get that other places, especially likes
not thirty picks later. It's right there. Do you worry
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about the playing time as well? Yes, that's the other
thing with the Dodgers. They have so many guys and
it's worked in my Max Muncy's favor and I find
myself every year kind of falling for these bit Dodger players,
Max Muncy, Chris Taylor, Key Hernandez. I've followed for all
of them, in the past because I think I always
think if you extrac late their playing time like they're
gonna be pretty good, it doesn't really work like that.
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Dave Roberts doesn't care about your fantasy team. Now he doesn't.
That's one on the negatives of my guy, Justin Turner,
and he just doesn't play enough games like he's really
good when he plays, he battles injuries. The difference is
Justin Turner, you get it like pick one sixty, Max Munzy,
you get at Pick seventy exactly, and that's a much
different price to pay. If you're talking about Habia, well, Greg,
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I think I could just take the segment off and
I go walk around somewhere and you can just wax poetic.
You wanna do you want to call her? Call Judy
as well, and let her know you even't sleep home. Yeah,
you know what I am. I'm gonna call you. I'm
gonna You're gonna have some of your number because I
don't have it. Maybe I can, like Facebook caller like
Messenger's friends with Judy on Facebook. But yes, I will
call her and say you ruin Greg's day. You just
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grouchy because you you just talked about o b P
and Max Munsey having bis O p P was a
hundred and thirty points higher than his average a hundred
and thirty a three sixty four op that's fantastic. We
talked about speed. Fourteen stolen bases in the major leagues
last year, zero caught stealings. Talk about that ratio of
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the red light. There is given the right light because
he was perfect last year. Fourteen or fourteen in just
a hundred games. This is a guy that legitimately has
the ability to steal the twenty bases. This is the guy,
in my opinion, that legitimately has the ability to hit
twenty home runs. He's sixteen again in a hundred games
last year, twenty six in Double A. He has legit power,
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he has legit speed. He will be twenty five years old,
so it's a little bit older than the top prospects,
but entering the prime of his career. The problem with
Cavin Bigio is he's very selective. He walks sixteen and
a half percent of the time. That's obviously why the
opp is so high. Strikes out too much, close to
thirty percent of the time, not egregious. It is under
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thirty percent, so it's not an egregious is not egregious.
It's pretty bad greg not egregious. Look at this up
in a second. Yeah, what have you said about Frand
mil Reius in the past who strikes out? They was
much higher than it's not. I feel he's over. You
see when it's Cavin Bigio, it's all right. When it's Frands,
not feel like it's over thirty I'm telling I don't
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believe it, alright. Why would allow to my best friend?
What the other thing I like about Cavin Bisia more
than anything, and this is what he actually doesn't like.
He gets the ball really hard thirty nine and a
half percent that's supposed to hit rate. For a second basement,
that also has to be that also has power. We're
talking about guys before John E. V r um as
albis to it to an extent. Who's l two guys
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that run and guys a different power. Cavin Bio is
the next guy like that. And he's going way later
than these players, and in ob P format, he's going
way too late. Other than to wards last night, you're
getting this guy. Traditionally in the NFBC over the past
two weeks or so, he is number one. All the
other guys are just way earlier, and he's somebody that's rising.
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But you're talking me in a twelve team league. We're
talking about the eleventh rounders. So and simmy up, Simmy
for Cavin Bia. Cavin Bigio for me is an interesting
one because if you do play in a standard roado
or in a head tad categories league with batting average,
he's probably going eight and a half percent. Why would
I lie Havin Gio is gonna probably hit between two
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thirty and two forty. And we had the projections up
on the screen and Steamer hasn't projected for two thirty five.
Nobody on fan graphs has Kevin Bizio projected for higher
than a two thirty five batting average, Greg. And what's
so crazy about his strikeout? Right? It's twenty eight point
six percent, right, Greg? His swingy strike rate is eight
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point seven percent. So it just doesn't add up. Why
does he strike out so much of his sweny strike
rate is so low? And it's the reason you mentioned
he is too selective. He's too passive. He gets deep
into counts, which is good from a baseball perspective because
you work pitch counts you get a picture's pitch count up,
and obviously that helps you get to an opposing team's
bullpen faster. But for Cavin Bigio, he almost takes too
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many pitches the pitches. Maybe he should be aggressive on
early in the count. Uh, And that's why you see
the swingy strike rate is low when he does swing
and miss. It's when there's two strikes in the count,
which often leads to his eight point six percent strikeout rate.
What he needs to do the next step for Bigio,
and maybe he won't do it because this is just
a player he is. He needs to go down a
similar route as you on Moncada. Chase a few more
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pitches outside the strike zone, be more aggressive, don't walk
as much, don't be as passive. And if he does that, Greg,
considering how hard he hits the ball and how often
he hits the ball in the air, he probably would
raise that batting average to around two sixty. If you're
telling me we're getting a two sixty hitter with twenty
home runs and twenty stolen bases, that's probably a fifth
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or sixth round pick. He'd be going, you know twice. Uh.
The adp that he is right now, so that that's
the maturation process for Kevin Bigio. But if you look
at the minor league numbers, this is basically who he is.
He walks it on. He strikes out a lot because
he goes deep into these counts and he hits a
lot of fly balls. He hits for a low batting average,
uh and is going to give you some pop. Greg's right,
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much better in an O b P league, much better
in a points league. But if you do play in
a rodo league, you really can't project him for anything
higher than a to forty batting average. And that's fair.
He's ever done it right in Triple A last year,
just forty three games he batted three twelve, which was nice.
But the rest of his minor early career you're looking
at the guy that basically hit two foody on aperage,
Like that's who he is. The OVP is really really good.
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So you play in an OVP league, I think you
have every right to really be in on Gavin Bigia. Greg.
Of all the young kids on the Blue Jays, who
do you think it is most likely to see another
minor league stant this year? Can I say, like, no,
top four batters, you can't say, lord, I can for bat.
I think him and Visio are the most likely to
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Like they have high ceilings, but they also have lower floors.
I would say, then both Bischette and Vladimir Guerrero don't
lially either of them. I don't. I don't think any
of them go down. It's probably not going to happen.
But I'm just saying, you know, in a worst case scenario,
if one, you know, if one needed to go down
to minor leagues to work on their swing or tweak
something because they're performing that badly, I would say, but
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here's probably. But in a real major league situation, if
your guy is giving you a three fifty o b P,
you don't care. You're getting on base. It's your job.
But what happens if he's hitting one eight with like
a three, I don't still stay up. No, probably not
what I'm saying, Like, it can create her like that,
it strikes out that much and just only hits fly
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balls and they're not going out of the park and
they're just like lazy flyballs, kind of Red Gardner, right,
Just she's so many pitches. Right, Um, let me go
to the second part of the ten or tend to
twenty second baseman. Like again, I don't like any of that,
So I'm just gonna point out, like the ones, what
do you have Jeff McNeil Levin, you don't like him?
I told you I'm not Jeff mgeil and g D
Davis Ian there were talking about these guys. I'm still
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out on there, Okay. I don't know that they're playing time.
I don't know what's real with them. I don't know
that mag Meial is gonna play every day us him.
I'm not so sure. You don't know. I don't know. Yeah,
I'm I feel safer about Jeff McNeil. You're cool with
techail La Mayhew Light, so you're cool with Jeff Agel. Yes,
he has second base and outfield eligibilities, so that helps us.
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What is the two hardest position to fill? First and
second of the first base stinks soon, just terrible. I
want to get in on you talking about jumping Gil
if you want. He's d you Light and I think
you know his minor league numbers show some potential growth
for power. I'm not saying he's going to hit twenty
five home runs. I think it's within his range of
outcomes that he can hit twenty five home runs, gonna
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bat near the top of the lineup for the Mets,
so he's gonna score runs. I think safe for to
eighty maybe even two nine plus batting average, hits, a
ton of line drives, can hit both lefties and right e's.
I don't I don't mind Jeff big deal those like
in that seventh eighth round range someone that again he
allows you the opportunity to take another slugger because he
helps out your batting average. So I think, you know,
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I think he's DJ let you like, probably gonna gave
five to ten stile and basis he does a little
bit of everything's fine. Yeah, he's not a target of yours.
He's not like an active target of mind. But if
he falls to the right point, then I will take
him too the draft. Al right, break where they come back.
We're talking about some players that I interested in rapid
fire a little bit more about Gavin Lucks. You have
the playing time concerns there, but obviously a top prospect
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with Dodgers we had Tommy Edmonds is a little bit
because we talked about him earlier today that Carpenter's injury
could open up some time for him. We'll get into
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This is Sports Grade. Get off the grid a lot
more same basement to get to you. Not much time
to do it, Frank, Let's just dive right in once again,
and I'm gonna start with Gavin Lux for a top
prospect or current top prospect. Really um with Dodgers. We've
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heard his name a lot. You do wonder, as you
mentioned the Maximus about the playing time and how much
he's going to see. How confident are you that was he?
Gavin Lux out there every day. I think that the
Dodgers are going to try to get him out there.
You know, if they play six or seven games, you know,
maybe he plays five or six of those throughout the
course of the week. And you won't like to hear this, Greg,
you know, cover your ears, But I have Gavin Looks
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one spot higher than Kevin Busier for this upcoming season.
I heard that. I think that the upside is higher, uh,
for Gavin Looks. Look at what he did in the
minors last year, Greg, and he hit three forty seven
with an opus over a thousands and second base runs
ten stone bases across two different levels in the minors
last year, double A and triple A. And actually had
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James Anderson of Rhoda Wire on Fantasy Sports Today a
couple of weeks ago to ask him about some of
the top prospects this year, and he said one of
his hot takes early on in fantasy draft season was
that Avin Looks will outproduce Luis Robert this upcoming season
from a fantasy perspective. So just hearing that from someone
who obviously analyzes prospects for a living, let's call it
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for what it is. He knows more about prospects than
I do. You know, he is bullish on Gavin Lux
and I'm really trusting that. I hope that the playing
time is there. Obviously, they're a team that's competing Greg.
If he struggles early on, then they could look to
go in another direction. To have so many options, have
a lot of options. But let's just say he performs well,
starts moving up in that order. One of the best
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lineups in old baseball, probably the best in the National League,
has a little bit of a power speed combination. The
hit tool is there for Gavin Looks. There's a lot
to like. The upside is very high. I realized the
downside is very low as well. Which has better chance
of going to the miners this year Kevin Bigio Gavin looks.
That is a fair question. Uh, it's probably looks just
just being honest, But I think the upside for Looks
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if everything clicks, is higher than Kevin Bigio. All right,
let me continue on and move on to Tommy Edmund,
the guy that he picked up in the second half
of last year. He helped it out. He's able to
have eligibility really all around the diamond in many leagues,
and he was not promisingly starting job coming in the
strame with Matt Carpenters still battling injuries, which could leave
third days open for Tommy Edmond. You start this year
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depending on how things wind up working out. You know,
Tommy Edmund. I haven't drafted him anywhere yet, and I
think he's a hard hard name to figure out here, Greg,
because I think the hit tool is there. He had
three or four last year, he had three or five
in the miners at Triple A. The year before that
he had three eighteen in the minors. The year before
that he hit two nine hind in the miners. I mean,
the guy can hit. There's no doubt about that when
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it comes to Tommy Edmond and the St. Louis Cardinals
just find players like this all the time, Guys that
just fire under the radar in their minor league system.
They get called up. They can do a little bit
of everything, and we saw that last year, only two
games played, Tommy Edmond had eleven home runs with fifteen
stolen basis. I think the power might have been a
little bit juice ball related. Personally, I think he's probably
more of like a twelve thirteen home run guy this
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upcoming season, but the speed is going to play. I
think if you know he plays regularly in a super
utility role, whether it's in the infield, third base for
carpenter Um. If he plays in the outfield, he's currently
penciled in as the starting left fielder over at roster resource,
then I think he's someone that can steal you fifteen
to twenty basses. Greg I just haven't drafted him yet
because I do have slight concern over the playing time
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if he struggles early on. Like the Dodgers, the Cardinals
have a lot of different players they can use in
the outfield. In the infield, Dylan Carlson is coming very
soon for the Cardinals, Tyler O'Neil is still out there,
Lson Bader is having a nice spring as well. So
there's just a lot of names that can pick up
the slack if Tommy Edmund gets off to a slow start,
but if he gets over to a hot start, he's
going to play every day. Because if you look at
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the names both in the infield the outfield, and they
can do all of it right. Emmy can play pretty
much any position on the field outside of picture and catcher.
And you look at who these starters are are, Paul
the Young at short stop. I think's undervalue this year.
Talk a little bit of that yesterday. His job is safe.
Cold one gets benched every year. It's like it's at
least very good year every year. At some point, Greg,
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it happens. You know, don't downplay Colton longer. You know
you stolen bases last year. You don't think you got
bench in some point last sleep on Colton Wong Gay
sleeping games. He's got bench for fifteen games? How many
games of Kevin Bisio played? Greg? Who he starting to manners?
He didn't games? Uh? Dexter Fowler sucks, Harrison Mader kind
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of sucks, and Tyler O'Neill doesn't. Is a name that
I'm actually taking late everywhere? Then that's fine, Like he's
a lot of you taking I get it. But all
three spots in their outfield han to be replaced. And
do you think Dylan Carson will be there at some point?
Tyler O'Neill, if he hits, he'll be there. Dexter Fowler again,
who knows? Harrison Bader slumps. There are a lot of
moving parts. But let's say for what it is, Greg,
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there are a lot of moving parts. I think Edmund
probably does have a regular role as like a super
utility player, and expecably liked Manu last year we didn't
know the role and whatever that and maybe he just
makes me look stupid. Maybe HiT's five teno runs, twenty
stolen bases with you know, good counting stats. Great. I
don't think the Cardinals line up is very good, but
if he hits near the top of it, he's probably
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gonna score runs. Right in May. He has good minor
league numbers. I mean, he has a season with thirty
stolen bases right now, Tommy Edvan in the NFBC is
going to one thirty one. That's four spots after Calvin
Bigia and I'm sure you'd rather have Visio in a
in a vacuum. That's two spots after Frean Mills. Frank,
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that tells you why I'm not getting any Tommy Tommy
Edmonds here. It's great Tommy Edmund or a Mead Rosaria.
Oh gosh. Death is not an option. That's not a death.
It's not an option one. I think they're just not
targets of mine. Like friend mill Rais is a guy
I'm taking. I don't think death is not an option one.
That that's like a little harsh on these guys. Yeah,
I know they do give you a little bit of power,
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a little bit speak. I'll take a Meadros area at
least it's a more prospect pedigree and probably say for
at least fifteen fifteen, I'll take calls over both of
them as well. Okay, moving on here. That's an our
guy or my guy, says Hernandez. We talked about like
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you want a little bit of speed late. He hit
a shot yesterday too great. I'm talking it was like
it was like a four foot moon rocket. You don't
expect that out of Caesar. You want like fifteen wasn't
so crazy. He just needs to play every day and
he's on a team that's gonna let him run. He
needs to be in the lineup. He needs to hit
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at the top of the line up. When he's given
those opportunities, he's good. Philadelphia didn't give him the opportunity
last year. They go away from him, Greg he played
a hundred and sixty one games, Yeah, but they dropped
him in the lineup. Frank, they did. That was my issue.
Fourteen home runs with nine stolen bases last year to
seventy nine, just solid across the board, seventy seven runs,
seventy one r BIS does a little bit of everything.
I'm with you, man, like the guy has a good
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eye at the place. Last year he did drop from
a thirteen percent walkrate eighteen to a six point seven
percent walk great, So you don't like to see that
from an o VP perspective or in a head to
head points league. But if you do play in a
head to head points league, I don't mind him as
a fallback option in second base if you play with
the middle infielder, I think he's a fine option there.
Even in rotal leagues. I think he's a fine middle infielder.
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He's just going so late. Greg and plays on a
team where they're gonna let him run. He's gonna have
the green light. The Indians typically always let guys like
Lindoor run. The guy came back from my calf injury
last year, Francisco Lindoor, and they still let him run.
So with him and Jose Ramirez Mercado, they let all
these guys run. Who knows, maybe if they let he's here,
an end is loose. If you can steal fifteen twenty
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base exactly. I think it's you know, it's within the
range of outcomes. I like he's are. I think he's
a solid player, atter better middle, easier than an actual
starting second. He might number eight teen staring. He's like
a basements that's like a middle infield prospect. Man, I
gotta move him out. I have him way too. Yeah, exactly,
they moved him. I don't know. It's tough because I
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don't know if I want to move him against ahead
of Nick Madrigal, Greg had Nick Madrigal? Do you uh,
do you know who Nick Madrigal is, by don't know
where one of the top prospects for the White Side.
I'm not gonna give you anything in the power department,
but his NI thirty one, his plate discipline, Nick Madrigal. Well,
that's because these are probably more so for Rhodo, and
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Madrigal has the upside Greg to come up and just
feel like thirty basses once he gets called up in
like may so being able to find that speed later
on in your draft. But I do have them back
to back right now. I like Sea Hernandez. I've met
twenty four. Sorry man, yeah, that's all right, man. Each
other reading that Odor earlier this week, you're you're backing
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on odor. Oh no, oh no, oh no no, yeah,
thanks thanks for that great impersonation. That was pretty good.
I haven't been let down that that much since uh
since the end of Game of throwing expression. Oh no no, alright,
so hit two oh five last year, to fifty three
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the year before that too, oh four and seventeen and
two in Greg, he's an even year player. It's man,
You know that means we're getting a two fifty plus
batting average at a rugenetto O door. You know, honestly, Greg,
the projection systems have him projected four twenty eight home
runs and thirteen stolen basis if you want to find
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go to speed last he's gonna if he's gonna hurt
your batting average. You're taking Kevin Busio at what's the
ADP on Busio seven? What is door? Oh dot all? Uh?
Hundred picks later? I mean, come on, Greg, A hundred
picks later, he's projected for twenty eight home runs and
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thirteen seals. How much better is Busio going to be
than that? A hundred picks later? I mean, O door?
Look that. I just think the hate has gone too
far and out door I understand like the batting average
is gonna be bad, There's no doubt about it. He
has the potential to completely sink your batting average. He
hit around two hundred last year, but he expected batting
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average was better. He's been unlucky in terms of the
batting average department. I would say he probably hits two
twenty or two thirty, which is probably gonna be worse
than Kevin Biggio. But is it going to be a
hundred spots in adp lower? I think the hate has
gone too far on a door, Greg Should we talking
about that mother effort Kevin Newman? That first of all,
explain to people why you just called him that that?
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I literally only off they are called him that f
Kevin Newman I never referred to refer to. In fact,
I was watching the Pittsburgh Pirates game on the way
over to the You know who was in the booth,
Damison Tyo. How about that broadcast for the first three innings,
So forget about him. They should have showing that, um,
he's not coming back. Oh, keep relea type of players
you want to drive the end of the draft. Yeah,
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I mean you're gonna stash him on your I l
all year long. That doesn't work out. Yeah, you're gonna
need those io spots. Greg, Everyone look at just like
eighteen page years heard already just saying, do you wonder
I forgot about Jameson Town. Um so anyway, where I
was watching gay jameson ti On I played Equality starts
league Jameson time, mowing them down, mowing them down, umpire
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killing him with a walk. Kevin Newman has not one,
not two, but three errors in the inning causing time up.
There are a thousand pitches, let up runs and never
come back out and loses the quality start losing the game.
What a disaster, gregg By sleepers at the second base
position are shed Long and Mauricio Dubon. In case you
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were wondering, we didn't. We didn't even get toward sleepers.
I agree with you. Former Yankee Green Coast Coast for
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will give you inside up Studio thirty four. These are
your BFFs. You're Fress Nevil, I'm Grangs Sauce. And what
is that? Greg? Why are you starting the show so confused?
I did the open. You shook your head and then
looked at me. What what was that? Greg? I'm gonna
go ahead and guess that you have not watched back
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at the beginning of the BFS for the past two months.
Why why is that I do that every day? You know? No, no,
no, no no, I do. I look at you, like, what
is what is Greg doing? Now? What is Greg? No?
I do? It's more of it. It's more of a
than today. It was like a headshake today. Today it
was different. I've watched a lot of BFFs. Have you, Yeah,
(01:40):
i'd say so over the last few years. I don't
like that one. I'm sorry, Budd. I didn't want to
get a start off on the wrong foot. Today. That's
where we are previewing second base. We are you know,
what is the most fun position of all? It's not.
I've realized that the positions I like the least this year,
Frank or first and second basis, which we're talking about
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today and tomorrow. That's correct. They're sorry, and Catcher obviously
the next three days terrible programming. Oh you're a you're
a great advocate, selling the show, selling the network. If
you hate terrible positions, come back for the next three
week here, first Base, second Base, Catcher. We got it
all cover and they all suck. I just sleep last night, Greig,
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Greg Frank not great. Judy was at the event with
her friends and sister. Yeah, I was watching. I was
at a bar watching Maryland. They lost terribly again. Are
on a weeknight? Horrible turn a note, two beers watching
the game? Whatever? Got home. She was at her event
with her friends. I get a text, Hey, my sisters
sleeping over. She has her own apartment, and I'm like, why,
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why is this So of course this picture angry Greg
in a bar getting a text about sisters. So then
I'm I'm sleeping, like well thirty, they come in, you know,
they're quiet, and did Junie get into bed and she's
just like asking all these questions. Yeah, and it was like,
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you know, this is not gossip, Susan family turning, This
is not gossip time. This is sleep Timepy. This guy's
fifty years was Matthew. It'll make me happier. This update
from Alexasana. I am Alex Josana with your sports grid
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news update here on the fantasy BFFs guys in Major
League Baseball. Yourd on Alvarez Well manager Dusty Baker said
he will be withheld from baseball activities for three to
four days while the slugger manages knee soreness. Alvarez His
shutdown seems to be precautionary more than anything, but until
he re enters the Houston Grapefruit League lineup, his status
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will be one worth tracking. He has expected to occupy
a spot in the heart of the lineup this year
in after an exceptional rookie campaign where he posted eight
point four twelve on base percentage last season. Sticking with
Major League Baseball, Red Sox are still waiting for a
third opinion on Chris sales elbow after they make the
decision on his status. Red Sox inter manager Ron Rennicky
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told reporters on Wednesday that the team is still waiting
to hear from renowned surgeon Dr. Neil l atras A.
Rennicky stresses that the Red Sox need to get this
right before determining how to proceed with sale. Sale underwent
the m r I on Tuesday after experiencing elbow store
in this following his first live batting practice session. Guys
in the NFL, The Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to trade
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quarterback A. J. Buoyer to the Denver Broncos for a
fourth round selection in this year's NFL draft. Trade cannot
be processed until the New York League begins in March.
H of March eighteenth, to be specific, buoy A told
ESPN S Josina Anderson that he was informed of the
pending trade both from Jaguars GM Dave cal Caldwell and
Broncos president and GM John Elway. Everyone remembers Buyer. He
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was one of the key members of the two thousand
and seventeen free agent class for the Jaguars that was
regarded as one of the best enfranchise history. You got
a full slate of NBA, NHL, and college hoops tonight.
Nine NBA games on tap for tonight. The Boston Celtics
visit the Cleveland Cavalier. Celtics three and a half point favorites.
The total is to seventeen. You also got the Utah
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Jazz going to Madison Square Garden to take on the Knicks.
Utah Jazz your eight point favorites to the totals to
eighteen and a half. Also, the New Orleans Pelicans visit
that Alice Mavericks. Mavericks are your six point favorites of
the total to forty in this one. All right, I'm
Alex Possano. When this has been your sports grid news update.
Now back to the Fantasy BFFs. All right, we're back
(05:36):
here on the Fantasy BFS checking on Greg currently yelling
on the phone at Judy because he didn't get enough
sleep last night, So I'll keep you updated on that.
We're going to go through our entire second base ranks today.
Talk about sleepers, talk about bust but like we like
to do every day here on the Fantasy BFS, we
give you a little snippet of our NBA tip trill
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and earlier today, Greg Soussman spoke with Drew dick Meyer
of Daily Rodor dot com about Carris Lavert. Last night
posted a career high fifty one point. We're going back
to the well, let's find out why at the shooting
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guard spot. Last night was the game of his careers.
Purty seven points in the fourth quarter in overtime for cares,
fifty one total story every point in oc as a
nets defeat of the Boston Celtics, like none of them
back to back. You're still going back to LeVert? Is that? Yeah?
It's hard, you know, you usually don't want to kind
of hit the home run two days in a row.
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You know, it's unlikely for him to kind of repeat
that performance from last night and playing into overtime, playing
heavy minutes on second night of back to back is
always a concern. But pray second is still really affordable
at six thousand dollars here, and a match up with Memphis,
another team that plays at a pretty fast pace, is
a pretty good one for Lavert on the whole so
we think he's gonna be one of the better shooting
guards to play now, if Marcus Smart is not suspended,
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which we're still waiting for that news, he's gonna be
another premier shooting guard option with no Kemba Walker, probably
on mcgrdon Hayward, probably no Jayson Tatum, probably no Jalen Brown,
so Marcus Smart would kind of be the last man
standing there. Those two are kind of the top shooting
guard options, but with the unknown on Marcus Smart whether
he'll be available tonight, careful birth hard guy. All right,
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there you go. That is Drew dinck Meyer of Daily
Rhodo dot com speaking with Greg Sussman about tonight's NBA
DFS slate. And I have to agree with Drew. Normally,
when you see someone put up a career night, you
don't want to go back the next day because then
you just feel like, oh, well, I missed out on
the career night already. But I think things set up
pretty well for cars LeVert, who was just ridiculous last night.
Let that come back for the Brooklyn Nets. They were
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down to twenty one points against the Boston Celtics. He
scores thirty seven points in the fourth quarter in overtime
to help the Brooklyn Nets get that big win over
the Boston Celtics. Greg going back to the well with
Caros LeVert tonight, Well, that's cash LeVert understanding the show.
He was awesome last night. See if we can win
some money over in DFS. Also gonna win your money
by drafting you the second basement. That matter, Frank, Let's
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get right into it. Let's start. Let's not to the top.
Are there any No, this position is bad, Gregg, It's
not good, Frank. At least I would say almost every
position outside of catcher has like a first round pick,
a second round pick, not second base. No, driving your
second basick. You know it's interesting my top there's ten
second bas me. You have my listening aboard right now.
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I'm actually kind of surprised you have AUSI number one
as well. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in on Azzie al
base for me. I got ten guys alike nobody else. Well,
I hope you get one of those top ten, greg Orlse,
you're screwed right, correct, I don't like anybody else. Yeah,
let's start on the top here with Ozzy Albis number one, old, Yeah,
you do yeah, I'm not. I've number one as well.
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I'm just surprised that you know I have about two
bad four and I'll tell you reasons why I'm not
in ours two. To be fair, I didn't rank Kettle Martins.
We talked seven days now, so he's just not ranked.
Talk about him again. No, Greg's hatred for Kettle Marte,
It's unwarranted. Greg super consistent first two seasons here out
of Azzi, I'll be back to back. Twenty four home runs,
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over a hundred runs scored, eight six RBIs, fifteen solen
bases with a two batting average in last year, improved
his walk rade, lowered his strikeout rate, improved his battle
ball across the board, started hitting more line drives, started
hitting more hard contact. Greg. The barrel rate, average egg
of velocity, the expected slugging percentage, everything you want to
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see out of a young hitter has been improving for Azzi. Albis.
He's still only twenty three years old. He's gonna bad second.
Think about this, He's gonna bad second. Between Ronald Dacuna
and Freddie Freeman. There might not be a better spot
to bat in in all of baseball than to be
Azzy Albi's this upcoming season. Greg, the one thing that
I will bring up, and I'm surprised you haven't mentioned
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this to me yet, is that he has struggled against
left handed pitching in his against right handed pitching in
his career. He's a switch hitter. He crushes lefties, and
all throughout the owners it's been the same thing. He
absolutely crushes left handed pitching, but it is not as
good against right handed pitching, even as a switch hitter
last year against leftist three eight nine with an OPS
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over a thousand against lefties to sixty seven with an
OPUS around seven eighty against right handed pitching last year
for Ozzy Albi's, So hopefully he can improve there. He
hasn't really shown any signs. He has a long track
record of being the same player in the minor leagues.
But even if he's not, Greg, I think, you know,
twenty home runs, I think there's still another level in
terms of soulen basis. It wouldn't surprise me if he
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can get probably going to approach one runs scored once again,
a really good line up there at the top of
the Atlanta Braves. Um. I think he's just an as
sending player and I don't mind snagging him in that
third fourth ront range. I agree in what you just
said is right because he's still young. And I think
that given that he's twenty three years old right now
and playing he's what third full season in the major
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leagues ready, it's a player that's prime to go this season.
It doesn't take much to get there. He's he showed
more speed in the minors two right, I think I
can get the steals, right. I think everything else that
we're seeing, he's realistic, Like you'd like to improve against righties,
but first half of the second half, why not being
relatively even the power runs in second days, getting steals
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over all, the runs scored in the middle of a
great or top of a great lineup. It's a guy
that's only going to get better. This is an ascending
player that's clear that you want, Like, you know, how,
what does Ozzie Albies have to do? I guess it's
more power or more speed? What does he have to
do to get in that first second round range? Next
year he's like in the third round, Like it's where
he's going, that's where you should be going. What does
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he have to do this year to ascend. I think
if he remains where the batting averages right, if he
approaches three and he goes, he's probably a first round
player next year. Outside of that, if he if he
does something similar to what he's done the past couple
of seasons, he's probably just gonna stay status quo and
this might be the player he is. That's perfectly fine,
but there's also that chance that he takes the next
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step because he's still so young. He's only years old.
So would you rather have a Sting Marte? I would
rather have Starling Marte just because you basically want Ozzy
Albis to do what Stalo Marte does every single year.
But he is a sendame. But there is a little
bit more injury risk as well. I'll take Staring Marte,
but it's a fair question. It's close. What's look more
of the second basement, including whose l Today next? Are
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into that hottle bit later on in the program. Uh.
You know I was telling you that was it a
day or two ago where I was like, your hatreds
just gone to Chris Bryan, Chris Bryant, that all I
needed to do was hear hatred. Hatred. But Frank means
either Trevor Bauer or Chris Bryan this year? Does Who
was it last year that you just like despiesed Umm,
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I remember who it was. You can look at my
rankings and find out. Yeah, I remember it, like I
know you. He comes to mind right away. I knew you,
the astio tweet guy. You didn't like George Springer. But
it wasn't like I minded George. It wasn't like this
hatred level on George Springer. You just preferred. Yeah, that
was like the first thing game in min I don't remember.
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I'll go back on my rankings and trying to remember Rizzo.
I'm out on Rizzo everywhere too. I guess I just
don't like the Cubs except for Jabier Bias So Chris
Bryant one and I really thought that you just like
went too far. We discussed that on our Outfielder Program
or a third Mad Show. I feel the same way
about Who's al to you? Guy? Like, listen, I'm you
see my rankings. I got Ozzie Albie's at number one.
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We're an agreement his ability to go five you catapult
as a twenty three year old player. It makes a
ton of sense, Like I'm all in there, But Who's
al today is number two? And I think that that combination.
He doesn't run like he used to. He's not gonna
have power. He doesn't run at all. He's not gonna
have power like a Labor torres Is. I understand that
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it seems like you're going down the route of your
Trevor Bauer defense once again, really telling me a bunch
of reasons why Joe two Bay is not good in
order to defend why you have him ranked second. He
doesn't run as much, the average will be better than Labor.
I think I think he has a good shot to
score more runs than Labor potentially maybe really ah, he's
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gonna have one of the six steals this year, isn't he?
I don't know. Well, if you ask Alex Bregman, he is.
We had Alex Bregman's interview on Fantasy Sports today and
he said, Jose how two is gonna steal thirty bases
this year. I for one will be taking the under
on that. The guys just dealt with a ton of
injuries the past couple of seasons. Greg he had a
knee surgery two years ago, he dealt with hamstring injury
last year, and those have hampered his ability to run,
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and it wouldn't surprise me if he miss his time
again This upcoming season. Kind of reminds me of where
Paul Goldschmidt has kind of been trending the past couple
of years, where next year Jose L two is going
to be more of a mid round pick, like a
fifth the sixth round picks. Still a solid player, but
I just see him trending down and his plate discipline
has gotten worse. Mind you, it's still really good compared
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to like league average and like most other players in baseball,
but career high fifteen percent strike out rate last year
seven and a half percent walk great was his lowest
since to eighty two. Expected batting average was his lowest
over the past four seasons. I just think the combination
of injury risk knee, hamstring, he's not gonna run as
a result of that. Last year he went six for
eleven on the base paths um if he continues to
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get cost stealing early on in the season, do they
just give him the red light. I've said that about
a lot of players this year. I'm gonna remain Yeah, Dusty,
don't care, don't care. All right, Well, we will find out.
I still think that there's a chance that he does
miss time. He has missed sixty three games over the
last two seasons. Greg and last year's power breakout was
obviously an anomaly. Thirty one home runs. His home run
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to flyball rate in the second half last year Greg
was twenty. His previous season high for a whole season
was fourteen and a half percent home run the fly
ball ratio. I think he's probably more like a twenty
four home run hitter. Good batting average probably gonna hit
you to ninety runs. RBIs will be there handful of
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stolen bases, and if he misses time, I think the
counting stats will even take a hit. So if you
ask me between Jose two and Labor Torres, I will
take Labor Tourists right with mary Field above him as well. No,
I don't I have he's another one. I'm not draft
him anywhere with mary Field that nine? God? Why because
he's old and he's boring in the starting basis. Stolen
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basis are turning down, Greg, and D nine, I think
you'd be a little agreed. Just now, Gregg, are you
gonna argue with the top ten fantasy ranks? Yeah, he's
the amazing they're trending down. He still a twenty last year? Yeah,
he cut it in half? So what he cuts it
in half again? Greg? He won't. This is his game.
He's a three hitter. Yeah, Greg. How much did the St.
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Louis Cardinals run when Mike Matheny was their manager? Let
it run much? Rank? And then the saying I understand,
just saying like this is what mary Field does, isn't it?
Maryfield is fine. I just don't think there is a stretch.
I don't think there's much upside that that's what I'll
said maybe I should have him over Maxi Monc because
I don't really like Maxi Mounsey either as well. So
once you get past um d La Mayhew, eight and
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nine for me Max Monsey and with mary Field, this
is like a respect ranking. I like Michael I have
met ten, but I'm not actually going to draft him
over those guys like in a vacuum. If you're both
available in like the seventh round, sure, I'll still take
Wit Maryfield over Michael Stockers. The problem is Merryfield goals
in like the fourth round. That's too early for me. Greg,
I just don't like the price on Whit Maryfield. I
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understand that you shouldn't have it right that you like
this guy's better. Then no, I don't. I haven't met nine.
You you said you're gonna take Maryfield over Monthda moving
up on spot. There you go. I will say this,
if they're both on the board at the same time
and I want a second Baseman, I will take DJ
Lemayhew over Wit Maryfield. Then you're then it's right for you. Yes,
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So there you go. He fits in at number eight.
For a guy that wants speed, you keep eliminating all
the sea you gotta pick and choose where you want
the speed, Greg, this is where you wanted Frank. But
all right, so look he's gonna give you speed. He'll
probably give you like eight plus run score. I don't
think the Royals lineup is a great one to eight
batting average. I'm just saying, like he's getting older. What
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number one? What if the numbers continue to trend down
like they have been the past couple of seasons. Of
those seasons, what does just last? What did the stolen
basis go from twenty to fifteen? Is that getting it
done for you? It wouldn't surprise me if that happens.
He just went from like forty to twenty. But like
the year before, we had thirty five? Right, so what
up and down? It wasn't like it's been trending down.
It was in half of what it was last season.
I understand that Maryfield is a fine player. I just
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don't like the price on him. That's fine, But I
think the fourth round you're gonna take whit Maryfield over Many,
Machado or Moncada. There's no no, I'm not going to
do that, absolutely not. But again I still think there
was back at you where are you finding speed? Every
time we do this, we have this conversation. Albi's seals
number one, right, a little bit more power than whit Maryfield,
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more run scored. Is the number one second basement? Yes,
you're not, are you Kestinghira I have ahead of him,
and he's gonna give you probably ten to fifteen seal
chat about Kesting here? Doesn't here is an interesting one?
Doesn't here is interesting? He's no my number five second
basement here this year, right behind whip Maryfield, right behind
Glabra torres kesn't Eira a a top prospect the Brewers.
He burst onto the scene, went back to the miners
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that called back up. But how the playoffs rolled around.
He was the starting second baseman four in the Milwaukee Brewers.
He's gonna hit in the middle of the lineup. He's very,
very talented. He's just twenty three years old. Ninth stolen
basis for him last year he had also seven in
triple A, so you combine that's like sixteen. Obviously the
power is there. Average was good overall o b P
was good overall strikes out of bunch. But Frank, there
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is downside of Kesting here, greg I am sad that
I have done probably four or five drafts by now
and I have I have zero shares of Kess and Hera.
I've got to get a few shares of him this
upcoming season. The prospect pedigree is there, and Greg, your
homework for either tonight or during the break, if you
want to look side by side at the swing of
Mike Trout and Kess and Heira, it is very similar.
It is like eerily similar. The downside to Kessanhira is
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his plate discipline. He's a lot like Javier Bias. He
strikes out a lot. He's gonna be near a thirty
percent strike out rate this upcoming season. He has a
high swinging strike rate, he chases pitches outside the zone.
I realized all of those things. But Greg, when he
makes contact, he makes really really good contact at the
second base position. Last year, he was first in barrels
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per plate appearance. He was third in average exit velocity.
He was fourth in average exit velocity specifically on fly
balls and line drives last season. And what I like
most Greg is he's someone that was battle tested in
year one as a rookie. His first two weeks he
came up hit two eighty one, four percent walk grade,
thirty three percent strike out rate, hard contact. Fine, he
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was all right. He was sent back down, came back
up later on. What do you do? He got better?
Batting average went from two eighty one to three oh
eight the rest of the season, hit fourteen home runs. Uh.
He doubled his walk grade to eight percent when he
got called back up from the minor From the minor leagues,
he cut his strikeout rate by three percent. His hard
contact when up to forty six percent. We're talking about
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a second baseman. Middle endfielders don't normally hit the ball
this hard as hard as Keston Hira does. The Swingey
striker at the chase rate they decreased a little bit, Greg,
But I understand why people would be worried about him.
Second year pitchers are gonna make adjustments to him. Is
he gonna be able to adjust back? I just trust
the pedigree and the fact that when he makes contact, Greg,
it is really really good contact. We're talking about amongst
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the best at the second base position, except not against lefties,
except not against left So all right, I'm happy you
bring this stuff because I do have a note on this.
He struggled against left handed pitching last year in the majors,
but if you look at his minor league numbers, his
minor league splits, he performed against left handed pitching very
well at every single level. It really struggled last year.
He had eight nineteen total one and he's a right
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handed battery. Doesn't that make you feel even better about
he's gonna he's gonna, you know that he's going to
improve against left handed pitching. It's weird, it's weird, but
the minor league numbers say that he should get better
against left east so it'll probably normalize a little bit,
you know, maybe won't you know, mash against right eas
as well. How many steals do you think he winds
up with? I think tend to twelve is a fair projection.
He's not gonna give you nothing for sure. What it
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likes a great athlete. What I like about kessing hera
is those minor league numbers are all pretty much the same.
Right like you look at like the average in the
O b P. He's always been a good hitter. You
look at the power, it's pretty much always been around thirteen.
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Last year a nineteen driplens nineteen more with the Brewers.
That's a juice ball run thing for sure. I like
casting Hera. Alright, have you the casting Hera? Where's he
going that? You're not taking him right now? So he's
going I like the three four turn right now in
fifteen team leagues, so cast and Hera has an a
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DP of forty two, so the back end of the
third round in the fifteen team league, the middle of
the fourth round in a twelve team league. So he's
going around players like those name hitters for fun. Kettle,
Marte your boy. I'll take Marte over him. Jake Jonathan,
we are over him. I have Jonathan VR one spot higher.
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I have Kesting here on one spot higher. I think
VR is a little bit safer. And obviously you talk
about where do you get that speed from thirty five
plus deals? I think that's pretty safe. From Jonathan VR,
it's not nearly as fun. It's not as fun. No,
the upside is tantalizing, like he could hit thirty bombs
with fifteen stolen bases. I'm still gonna have VR ranked
ahead of it. I want to see you actually take
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VR O. I guess here. I want to see Yeah,
I mean it's one of those where if I was
on the clock, would I actually do it exact and
then when I don't do it, I go back and
change my rankings. It's one of those. But I do
like Kesting Hero using here Charlie Blackman. I will take
Charlie black Men missing hero George, I will take Kessing.
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here live with you. He's Frank, I'm Gregg. What's up?
What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up?
Reminds me of night at the Roxbury Greg. Now, I'm
looking at this list you mentioned, and I want to
get into the next ten. Like the second ten guys
because I don't like any of them. Um like, I'm
really good with any of my first tem players. We're
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gonna cont Cavin Vision in a second. But you said
you don't like Maximums, and he's a guy that I
gotta asked you about for a while because I like him.
You know that. I think that there's still concern with
the Dodgers in terms of playing time. I think Max
Month is going to play the majority of the time.
But they have a great luxury right now after not
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trading away Jack Peterson. He's still out there in the outfield.
They have a j Pollock, they can opt to move
Cody Bellinger to first base if they want, And of
course they have Gavin lux who we're going to talk
about on today's show as well. Uh that one of
the top prospects in all of baseball, who people are
very excited about this upcoming season. So I worry a
little bit about that. And when it comes to Max Month, Greg,
I understand the position versatility is fun. Second base, first base,
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third base. You can move him all around. I think
the obvious answer is that you're going to use him
at second base. The thing is what he provides Greg
is not really hard to find. He's gonna hit your
home runs. He's gonna score a ton of runs, There's
no doubt about it. Like if the guy plays a
hundred and fifty plus games in that Dodger's lineup, he's
probably going to score over a hundred runs, which is
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very valuable. I don't want to downplay that. He's much
better in ob P leagues. He strikes out a ton,
it's probably gonna hit around to fifty. He just reminds
me a lot of Michael Musakis, who you can get,
you know, like thirty picks later. And Max mons is
probably going to score more runs than Mustakis. I'm not
going to dispute that, but I could see them having
a similar home run output. Mike Lustakis is hitting thirty
five to forty home runs. Mustaki is going to have
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more r b I s as well, potentially five to
ten more points on the batting average. I just don't
really see the difference between Max Moncy and Michael Mustakis,
Greg and they difference in price right now is over
the past week. At the n of BC, Max Monsey's
going to pick sixty eight. Micha Musakis is going to
pick ninety, so you're getting him twenty two picks later.
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So I have Max Munsey and back eight nine of
my rankings, that is, I have them nine tens. Yeah.
So because you don't have Kenll Marte in your second
base Franks, so we have them in the same spot,
in the same spot. Totally. We've got to get somebody
on the show who loves Max Mounsey to explain the
love for him. I like Xmuncy. It's like an ob
(28:01):
P format, you playing O. I should probably like him
a lot more, I know. Do you like him like
twenty two spots? I don't, But if you do play
in an ob P league, he's gonna walk, He's probably
gonna double up. Sure, but what you described over the
power like, I can get that other places, especially likes
not thirty picks later. It's right there. Do you worry
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about the playing time as well? Yes, that's the other
thing with the Dodgers. They have so many guys and
it's worked in my Max Muncy's favor and I find
myself every year kind of falling for these bit Dodger players,
Max Muncy, Chris Taylor, Key Hernandez. I've followed for all
of them, in the past because I think I always
think if you extrac late their playing time like they're
gonna be pretty good, it doesn't really work like that.
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Dave Roberts doesn't care about your fantasy team. Now he doesn't.
That's one on the negatives of my guy, Justin Turner,
and he just doesn't play enough games like he's really
good when he plays, he battles injuries. The difference is
Justin Turner, you get it like pick one sixty, Max Munzy,
you get at Pick seventy exactly, and that's a much
different price to pay. If you're talking about Habia, well, Greg,
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I think I could just take the segment off and
I go walk around somewhere and you can just wax poetic.
You wanna do you want to call her? Call Judy
as well, and let her know you even't sleep home. Yeah,
you know what I am. I'm gonna call you. I'm
gonna You're gonna have some of your number because I
don't have it. Maybe I can, like Facebook caller like
Messenger's friends with Judy on Facebook. But yes, I will
call her and say you ruin Greg's day. You just
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grouchy because you you just talked about o b P
and Max Munsey having bis O p P was a
hundred and thirty points higher than his average a hundred
and thirty a three sixty four op that's fantastic. We
talked about speed. Fourteen stolen bases in the major leagues
last year, zero caught stealings. Talk about that ratio of
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the red light. There is given the right light because
he was perfect last year. Fourteen or fourteen in just
a hundred games. This is a guy that legitimately has
the ability to steal the twenty bases. This is the guy,
in my opinion, that legitimately has the ability to hit
twenty home runs. He's sixteen again in a hundred games
last year, twenty six in Double A. He has legit power,
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he has legit speed. He will be twenty five years old,
so it's a little bit older than the top prospects,
but entering the prime of his career. The problem with
Cavin Bigio is he's very selective. He walks sixteen and
a half percent of the time. That's obviously why the
opp is so high. Strikes out too much, close to
thirty percent of the time, not egregious. It is under
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thirty percent, so it's not an egregious is not egregious.
It's pretty bad greg not egregious. Look at this up
in a second. Yeah, what have you said about Frand
mil Reius in the past who strikes out? They was
much higher than it's not. I feel he's over. You
see when it's Cavin Bigio, it's all right. When it's Frands,
not feel like it's over thirty I'm telling I don't
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believe it, alright. Why would allow to my best friend?
What the other thing I like about Cavin Bisia more
than anything, and this is what he actually doesn't like.
He gets the ball really hard thirty nine and a
half percent that's supposed to hit rate. For a second basement,
that also has to be that also has power. We're
talking about guys before John E. V r um as
albis to it to an extent. Who's l two guys
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that run and guys a different power. Cavin Bio is
the next guy like that. And he's going way later
than these players, and in ob P format, he's going
way too late. Other than to wards last night, you're
getting this guy. Traditionally in the NFBC over the past
two weeks or so, he is number one. All the
other guys are just way earlier, and he's somebody that's rising.
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But you're talking me in a twelve team league. We're
talking about the eleventh rounders. So and simmy up, Simmy
for Cavin Bia. Cavin Bigio for me is an interesting
one because if you do play in a standard roado
or in a head tad categories league with batting average,
he's probably going eight and a half percent. Why would
I lie Havin Gio is gonna probably hit between two
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thirty and two forty. And we had the projections up
on the screen and Steamer hasn't projected for two thirty five.
Nobody on fan graphs has Kevin Bizio projected for higher
than a two thirty five batting average, Greg. And what's
so crazy about his strikeout? Right? It's twenty eight point
six percent, right, Greg? His swingy strike rate is eight
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point seven percent. So it just doesn't add up. Why
does he strike out so much of his sweny strike
rate is so low? And it's the reason you mentioned
he is too selective. He's too passive. He gets deep
into counts, which is good from a baseball perspective because
you work pitch counts you get a picture's pitch count up,
and obviously that helps you get to an opposing team's
bullpen faster. But for Cavin Bigio, he almost takes too
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many pitches the pitches. Maybe he should be aggressive on
early in the count. Uh, And that's why you see
the swingy strike rate is low when he does swing
and miss. It's when there's two strikes in the count,
which often leads to his eight point six percent strikeout rate.
What he needs to do the next step for Bigio,
and maybe he won't do it because this is just
a player he is. He needs to go down a
similar route as you on Moncada. Chase a few more
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pitches outside the strike zone, be more aggressive, don't walk
as much, don't be as passive. And if he does that, Greg,
considering how hard he hits the ball and how often
he hits the ball in the air, he probably would
raise that batting average to around two sixty. If you're
telling me we're getting a two sixty hitter with twenty
home runs and twenty stolen bases, that's probably a fifth
(33:29):
or sixth round pick. He'd be going, you know twice. Uh.
The adp that he is right now, so that that's
the maturation process for Kevin Bigio. But if you look
at the minor league numbers, this is basically who he is.
He walks it on. He strikes out a lot because
he goes deep into these counts and he hits a
lot of fly balls. He hits for a low batting average,
uh and is going to give you some pop. Greg's right,
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much better in an O b P league, much better
in a points league. But if you do play in
a rodo league, you really can't project him for anything
higher than a to forty batting average. And that's fair.
He's ever done it right in Triple A last year,
just forty three games he batted three twelve, which was nice.
But the rest of his minor early career you're looking
at the guy that basically hit two foody on aperage,
Like that's who he is. The OVP is really really good.
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So you play in an OVP league, I think you
have every right to really be in on Gavin Bigia. Greg.
Of all the young kids on the Blue Jays, who
do you think it is most likely to see another
minor league stant this year? Can I say, like, no,
top four batters, you can't say, lord, I can for bat.
I think him and Visio are the most likely to
(34:32):
Like they have high ceilings, but they also have lower floors.
I would say, then both Bischette and Vladimir Guerrero don't
lially either of them. I don't. I don't think any
of them go down. It's probably not going to happen.
But I'm just saying, you know, in a worst case scenario,
if one, you know, if one needed to go down
to minor leagues to work on their swing or tweak
something because they're performing that badly, I would say, but
(34:54):
here's probably. But in a real major league situation, if
your guy is giving you a three fifty o b P,
you don't care. You're getting on base. It's your job.
But what happens if he's hitting one eight with like
a three, I don't still stay up. No, probably not
what I'm saying, Like, it can create her like that,
it strikes out that much and just only hits fly
(35:16):
balls and they're not going out of the park and
they're just like lazy flyballs, kind of Red Gardner, right,
Just she's so many pitches. Right, Um, let me go
to the second part of the ten or tend to
twenty second baseman. Like again, I don't like any of that,
So I'm just gonna point out, like the ones, what
do you have Jeff McNeil Levin, you don't like him?
I told you I'm not Jeff mgeil and g D
Davis Ian there were talking about these guys. I'm still
(35:37):
out on there, Okay. I don't know that they're playing time.
I don't know what's real with them. I don't know
that mag Meial is gonna play every day us him.
I'm not so sure. You don't know. I don't know. Yeah,
I'm I feel safer about Jeff McNeil. You're cool with
techail La Mayhew Light, so you're cool with Jeff Agel. Yes,
he has second base and outfield eligibilities, so that helps us.
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What is the two hardest position to fill? First and
second of the first base stinks soon, just terrible. I
want to get in on you talking about jumping Gil
if you want. He's d you Light and I think
you know his minor league numbers show some potential growth
for power. I'm not saying he's going to hit twenty
five home runs. I think it's within his range of
outcomes that he can hit twenty five home runs, gonna
(36:19):
bat near the top of the lineup for the Mets,
so he's gonna score runs. I think safe for to
eighty maybe even two nine plus batting average, hits, a
ton of line drives, can hit both lefties and right e's.
I don't I don't mind Jeff big deal those like
in that seventh eighth round range someone that again he
allows you the opportunity to take another slugger because he
helps out your batting average. So I think, you know,
(36:42):
I think he's DJ let you like, probably gonna gave
five to ten stile and basis he does a little
bit of everything's fine. Yeah, he's not a target of yours.
He's not like an active target of mind. But if
he falls to the right point, then I will take
him too the draft. Al right, break where they come back.
We're talking about some players that I interested in rapid
fire a little bit more about Gavin Lucks. You have
the playing time concerns there, but obviously a top prospect
(37:03):
with Dodgers we had Tommy Edmonds is a little bit
because we talked about him earlier today that Carpenter's injury
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more same basement to get to you. Not much time
to do it, Frank, Let's just dive right in once again,
and I'm gonna start with Gavin Lux for a top
prospect or current top prospect. Really um with Dodgers. We've
(38:06):
heard his name a lot. You do wonder, as you
mentioned the Maximus about the playing time and how much
he's going to see. How confident are you that was he?
Gavin Lux out there every day. I think that the
Dodgers are going to try to get him out there.
You know, if they play six or seven games, you know,
maybe he plays five or six of those throughout the
course of the week. And you won't like to hear this, Greg,
you know, cover your ears, But I have Gavin Looks
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one spot higher than Kevin Busier for this upcoming season.
I heard that. I think that the upside is higher, uh,
for Gavin Looks. Look at what he did in the
minors last year, Greg, and he hit three forty seven
with an opus over a thousands and second base runs
ten stone bases across two different levels in the minors
last year, double A and triple A. And actually had
(38:48):
James Anderson of Rhoda Wire on Fantasy Sports Today a
couple of weeks ago to ask him about some of
the top prospects this year, and he said one of
his hot takes early on in fantasy draft season was
that Avin Looks will outproduce Luis Robert this upcoming season
from a fantasy perspective. So just hearing that from someone
who obviously analyzes prospects for a living, let's call it
(39:10):
for what it is. He knows more about prospects than
I do. You know, he is bullish on Gavin Lux
and I'm really trusting that. I hope that the playing
time is there. Obviously, they're a team that's competing Greg.
If he struggles early on, then they could look to
go in another direction. To have so many options, have
a lot of options. But let's just say he performs well,
starts moving up in that order. One of the best
(39:30):
lineups in old baseball, probably the best in the National League,
has a little bit of a power speed combination. The
hit tool is there for Gavin Looks. There's a lot
to like. The upside is very high. I realized the
downside is very low as well. Which has better chance
of going to the miners this year Kevin Bigio Gavin looks.
That is a fair question. Uh, it's probably looks just
just being honest, But I think the upside for Looks
(39:52):
if everything clicks, is higher than Kevin Bigio. All right,
let me continue on and move on to Tommy Edmund,
the guy that he picked up in the second half
of last year. He helped it out. He's able to
have eligibility really all around the diamond in many leagues,
and he was not promisingly starting job coming in the
strame with Matt Carpenters still battling injuries, which could leave
third days open for Tommy Edmond. You start this year
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depending on how things wind up working out. You know,
Tommy Edmund. I haven't drafted him anywhere yet, and I
think he's a hard hard name to figure out here, Greg,
because I think the hit tool is there. He had
three or four last year, he had three or five
in the miners at Triple A. The year before that
he had three eighteen in the minors. The year before
that he hit two nine hind in the miners. I mean,
the guy can hit. There's no doubt about that when
(40:35):
it comes to Tommy Edmond and the St. Louis Cardinals
just find players like this all the time, Guys that
just fire under the radar in their minor league system.
They get called up. They can do a little bit
of everything, and we saw that last year, only two
games played, Tommy Edmond had eleven home runs with fifteen
stolen basis. I think the power might have been a
little bit juice ball related. Personally, I think he's probably
more of like a twelve thirteen home run guy this
(40:57):
upcoming season, but the speed is going to play. I
think if you know he plays regularly in a super
utility role, whether it's in the infield, third base for
carpenter Um. If he plays in the outfield, he's currently
penciled in as the starting left fielder over at roster resource,
then I think he's someone that can steal you fifteen
to twenty basses. Greg I just haven't drafted him yet
because I do have slight concern over the playing time
(41:19):
if he struggles early on. Like the Dodgers, the Cardinals
have a lot of different players they can use in
the outfield. In the infield, Dylan Carlson is coming very
soon for the Cardinals, Tyler O'Neil is still out there,
Lson Bader is having a nice spring as well. So
there's just a lot of names that can pick up
the slack if Tommy Edmund gets off to a slow start,
but if he gets over to a hot start, he's
going to play every day. Because if you look at
(41:40):
the names both in the infield the outfield, and they
can do all of it right. Emmy can play pretty
much any position on the field outside of picture and catcher.
And you look at who these starters are are, Paul
the Young at short stop. I think's undervalue this year.
Talk a little bit of that yesterday. His job is safe.
Cold one gets benched every year. It's like it's at
least very good year every year. At some point, Greg,
(42:02):
it happens. You know, don't downplay Colton longer. You know
you stolen bases last year. You don't think you got
bench in some point last sleep on Colton Wong Gay
sleeping games. He's got bench for fifteen games? How many
games of Kevin Bisio played? Greg? Who he starting to manners?
He didn't games? Uh? Dexter Fowler sucks, Harrison Mader kind
(42:25):
of sucks, and Tyler O'Neill doesn't. Is a name that
I'm actually taking late everywhere? Then that's fine, Like he's
a lot of you taking I get it. But all
three spots in their outfield han to be replaced. And
do you think Dylan Carson will be there at some point?
Tyler O'Neill, if he hits, he'll be there. Dexter Fowler again,
who knows? Harrison Bader slumps. There are a lot of
moving parts. But let's say for what it is, Greg,
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there are a lot of moving parts. I think Edmund
probably does have a regular role as like a super
utility player, and expecably liked Manu last year we didn't
know the role and whatever that and maybe he just
makes me look stupid. Maybe HiT's five teno runs, twenty
stolen bases with you know, good counting stats. Great. I
don't think the Cardinals line up is very good, but
if he hits near the top of it, he's probably
(43:08):
gonna score runs. Right in May. He has good minor
league numbers. I mean, he has a season with thirty
stolen bases right now, Tommy Edvan in the NFBC is
going to one thirty one. That's four spots after Calvin
Bigia and I'm sure you'd rather have Visio in a
in a vacuum. That's two spots after Frean Mills. Frank,
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that tells you why I'm not getting any Tommy Tommy
Edmonds here. It's great Tommy Edmund or a Mead Rosaria.
Oh gosh. Death is not an option. That's not a death.
It's not an option one. I think they're just not
targets of mine. Like friend mill Rais is a guy
I'm taking. I don't think death is not an option one.
That that's like a little harsh on these guys. Yeah,
I know they do give you a little bit of power,
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a little bit speak. I'll take a Meadros area at
least it's a more prospect pedigree and probably say for
at least fifteen fifteen, I'll take calls over both of
them as well. Okay, moving on here. That's an our
guy or my guy, says Hernandez. We talked about like
(44:12):
you want a little bit of speed late. He hit
a shot yesterday too great. I'm talking it was like
it was like a four foot moon rocket. You don't
expect that out of Caesar. You want like fifteen wasn't
so crazy. He just needs to play every day and
he's on a team that's gonna let him run. He
needs to be in the lineup. He needs to hit
(44:33):
at the top of the line up. When he's given
those opportunities, he's good. Philadelphia didn't give him the opportunity
last year. They go away from him, Greg he played
a hundred and sixty one games, Yeah, but they dropped
him in the lineup. Frank, they did. That was my issue.
Fourteen home runs with nine stolen bases last year to
seventy nine, just solid across the board, seventy seven runs,
seventy one r BIS does a little bit of everything.
I'm with you, man, like the guy has a good
(44:55):
eye at the place. Last year he did drop from
a thirteen percent walkrate eighteen to a six point seven
percent walk great, So you don't like to see that
from an o VP perspective or in a head to
head points league. But if you do play in a
head to head points league, I don't mind him as
a fallback option in second base if you play with
the middle infielder, I think he's a fine option there.
Even in rotal leagues. I think he's a fine middle infielder.
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He's just going so late. Greg and plays on a
team where they're gonna let him run. He's gonna have
the green light. The Indians typically always let guys like
Lindoor run. The guy came back from my calf injury
last year, Francisco Lindoor, and they still let him run.
So with him and Jose Ramirez Mercado, they let all
these guys run. Who knows, maybe if they let he's here,
an end is loose. If you can steal fifteen twenty
(45:37):
base exactly. I think it's you know, it's within the
range of outcomes. I like he's are. I think he's
a solid player, atter better middle, easier than an actual
starting second. He might number eight teen staring. He's like
a basements that's like a middle infield prospect. Man, I
gotta move him out. I have him way too. Yeah, exactly,
they moved him. I don't know. It's tough because I
(45:59):
don't know if I want to move him against ahead
of Nick Madrigal, Greg had Nick Madrigal? Do you uh,
do you know who Nick Madrigal is, by don't know
where one of the top prospects for the White Side.
I'm not gonna give you anything in the power department,
but his NI thirty one, his plate discipline, Nick Madrigal. Well,
that's because these are probably more so for Rhodo, and
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Madrigal has the upside Greg to come up and just
feel like thirty basses once he gets called up in
like may so being able to find that speed later
on in your draft. But I do have them back
to back right now. I like Sea Hernandez. I've met
twenty four. Sorry man, yeah, that's all right, man. Each
other reading that Odor earlier this week, you're you're backing
(46:41):
on odor. Oh no, oh no, oh no no, yeah,
thanks thanks for that great impersonation. That was pretty good.
I haven't been let down that that much since uh
since the end of Game of throwing expression. Oh no no, alright,
so hit two oh five last year, to fifty three
(47:04):
the year before that too, oh four and seventeen and
two in Greg, he's an even year player. It's man,
You know that means we're getting a two fifty plus
batting average at a rugenetto O door. You know, honestly, Greg,
the projection systems have him projected four twenty eight home
runs and thirteen stolen basis if you want to find
(47:27):
go to speed last he's gonna if he's gonna hurt
your batting average. You're taking Kevin Busio at what's the
ADP on Busio seven? What is door? Oh dot all? Uh?
Hundred picks later? I mean, come on, Greg, A hundred
picks later, he's projected for twenty eight home runs and
(47:48):
thirteen seals. How much better is Busio going to be
than that? A hundred picks later? I mean, O door?
Look that. I just think the hate has gone too
far and out door I understand like the batting average
is gonna be bad, There's no doubt about it. He
has the potential to completely sink your batting average. He
hit around two hundred last year, but he expected batting
(48:09):
average was better. He's been unlucky in terms of the
batting average department. I would say he probably hits two
twenty or two thirty, which is probably gonna be worse
than Kevin Biggio. But is it going to be a
hundred spots in adp lower? I think the hate has
gone too far on a door, Greg Should we talking
about that mother effort Kevin Newman? That first of all,
explain to people why you just called him that that?
(48:31):
I literally only off they are called him that f
Kevin Newman I never referred to refer to. In fact,
I was watching the Pittsburgh Pirates game on the way
over to the You know who was in the booth,
Damison Tyo. How about that broadcast for the first three innings,
So forget about him. They should have showing that, um,
he's not coming back. Oh, keep relea type of players
you want to drive the end of the draft. Yeah,
(48:52):
I mean you're gonna stash him on your I l
all year long. That doesn't work out. Yeah, you're gonna
need those io spots. Greg, Everyone look at just like
eighteen page years heard already just saying, do you wonder
I forgot about Jameson Town. Um so anyway, where I
was watching gay jameson ti On I played Equality starts
league Jameson time, mowing them down, mowing them down, umpire
(49:13):
killing him with a walk. Kevin Newman has not one,
not two, but three errors in the inning causing time up.
There are a thousand pitches, let up runs and never
come back out and loses the quality start losing the game.
What a disaster, gregg By sleepers at the second base
position are shed Long and Mauricio Dubon. In case you
(49:35):
were wondering, we didn't. We didn't even get toward sleepers.
I agree with you. Former Yankee Green Coast Coast for
all is up next like the shan anx now Snares,
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