Fantasy Baseball 2020: Who Should You Pick With Pick #6?

Gregg Sussman and Frank Stampfl are done with their rankings..but of course they've all changed! How the weekend affected all of their plans. Plus, Frank will let you know who you should pick if you have the #6 overall pick?

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Here's Frank Staffle. I am Grank Sauceer. What's happening, Frank?
What's going on? Have your Monday to you? I had
to sleep. I slept alright, I had this back injury.
Was telling you about an f S T today when
I fill it in for Mish for an hour. Um,
no worries. I'm playing spike Ball on Saturday. On Sunday yesterday,

(01:18):
I got a stretch and I didn't stretch, Greg, I
didn't stretch. Fifty years old, not stretching. I mean, what
do you think they all of a sudden, there's a
certain point and I was ready to go to the
next point, and I was like, I just grimace. I'm like,
what happened to your back? I'm like, yes, and it's strained. Frank,
I got a strained back, for sure. I pulled a

(01:38):
muscle back here. Greg, all jokes aside, the same thing
happens to me. Man, Like, we're not getting any younger. Dude,
when does it go away? It doesn't. Your back is
currently hurt. No, no, I mean it'll It'll probably take
a few weeks. But like playing basketball and stuff, like
I messed up my ankles at the time, Like I
have to wear ankle braces on both of my ankles
because they're basically hanging out by a thread at this

(02:00):
Frank soft man, we're getting up there in age, you
more than me, but we're both getting up there. We
are what ax, Well, what are you saying? How's your weekend? Greig?
It was good. Other than that, I it was fun night.
I didn't really do much. Did laundry. I told you
I was doing. Oh yeah, you called me while you
were doing laundry the other day. I did, and I
just so you know, I did fold it for for

(02:21):
GD before she got O what a nice husband. Only
that then when you got home, I still wasn't the
supermarket by myself. She was very thankful and then felt bad.
Why I feel bad? He did all the chores, they
did all the stores, and I absously left it up
because I bought up potato and it wasn't a sweet
potato and about the wrong kind of potato. I should
have went. I'm like, you know what, I tried my

(02:41):
best here. Yeah he tried. Come on, I really did try.
Cut cut him some slack. This is the week man,
This is the week we've been waiting. This is what
franklos for our auctions. He lives fifty two weeks for
one NFBC This weekend times two tow boards head to
head auction grege like you're the least focus of d

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after this some date from Seanstomkeet, thank you, grag. I
am Seanstonket with your FFF's news of the Major League
Baseball Houston astros Ace Justin Burlander has been shut down

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after an m r I revealed a mild Latin strain.
This according to general manager James Klick. Berlander told reporters
he is unlikely to be ready to go opening day.
Other baseball news this coming from Japan. Because of the
Corona virus, the start of the Japanese pro baseball season
has been delayed. Japanese officials postpone the start of the

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twelve team professional Baseball league on Monday. They were scheduled
to begin play on March twenty. Japanese Professional League has
been playing its preseason games without fans because of the virus.
College basketball, we have a uh plethora of games tonight
starting at six pm Eastern times c A A Championship

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semifinal Delaware Hofstra. Hofstra favorite by three points in that game,
the total one seven. Southern Conference Championship game that's at
seven pm Eastern time, Walford, East Tennessee State. East Tennessee
State favored by seven and a half points. The total
in that one one thirty two. Or Roberts in North
Dakota State in a semifinal matchup in the Summer League Championship.

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North Dakota State favored by one and a half points
to total one nine and have Sun Belt Conference Championship
second round. Coastal Carolina Appalachian State. Appalachian State your favorite
by four points a total one six and I have
other notable games later on tonight. We have the West
Coast Conference Semifinal st Mary b y U b y

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U the favorite by four points seven your total and
Gonzaga number two in the nation. And the other West
Conference comp uh West Coast Conference Semifinal favorite by thirteen
points against San Francisco. One fifty two is now your
total in that one. NFL news, the Bills have signed

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cornerback Josh Norman to a one year deal worth six
million dollars. It's worth as much as eight million with incentives.
Norman played with Sean McDermott, the head coach for the
Buffalo Bills in Carolina, when McDermott was the defensive coordinator.
That is your BFF sports grid news update for this hour.
Now back to Greg and Frank. All right, welcome back

(05:46):
to Fantasy BFFs. We're gonna jump into a ton from
a fantasy baseball perspective today. We're gonna give you some
updates on our rankings. How far down are we be
moving some of these injured players. Justin Verlander, we got
the news just earlier dealing with a latin injury. So
he's shut down for the foreseeable future. I'll get into
all of that. I'll have a white board for you
guys later on in the show, what should you do

(06:07):
if you have the six pick in your Fantasy Baseball draft?
Will jump into all of that, but first, it's a
snippet from tipt earlier today, Greg Susman with Drew dig
Meyer from Delhi Roado dot com talking about Miles Bridges
for tonight's NBA Dflate. Moving over to small forward, Miles

(06:34):
Bridges is up next for US. Bridges one of those
guys all season long, you add and your dropping your
season long league dfs. You put him in, then you
it's stunk, and then you didn't put him in and
he went off. Tonight, We're expecting a big game for
Miles Bridges, or at least we hope. Yeah. I think
this is the right type of environment from Miles Bridges.
I think there's a couple of things going on in
Charlotte's rotation that have helped Bridges to perform a little

(06:55):
bit better of late. One of the big things is
the fact that you know they've they've smoleek Monks suspension,
and as a result, there's been more usage to kind
of go around. They staggered Bridges in Washington a little
bit more, splitting up some of that usage, and now
you get a great game environment with Atlanta, a team
that you know allows the most fantasy points kind of
across positions to two opposing teams because they play at

(07:16):
such a fast pace that gave up so many steels
and blocks. Miles Bridges at small forward is one of
those guys that has you know, forty fantasy point outside
and he's probably kind of in the five thousand. So
I think attacking that Charlotte Atlanta game is an interesting
one tonight, and we'll certainly have to watch the injury
report on Atlanta side, but Miles Bridges is certainly one
of those targets for Charlotte, and I'm looking to tonight

(07:37):
have it Miles Bridges one of the players that we
can consider grabbing here tonight in d F fast, I
was gonna look at the bucks, Frank, there's no nice tonight,
Eric bless So, Chris Middleton, Brook Lopez, all in play, Acquary,
the Drew Digmayer tonight on the oral all are going
to step up uh for Janice here. So I went
back to back for the Bucks, but you like them all.
Chris Middleton's points one game, that's nine game is not

(08:01):
in the lineup. Yeah, I remember he had that big
game earlier this season where he scored over fifty points
in that average. That'll help the average for sure. So yeah,
I definitely look at some of the Bucks tonight. Miles
Bridges as well. They're cheaper than usual, so obviously a
solid value there as well. Greg, how about this this
year for my fantasy baseball home league, we were all

(08:22):
assigned a baseball a basketball game, and whoever had the
highest point total, we'll get first pick, second pick, so
on and so forth, Greg, I had the Bucks and
Sons yesterday two d and one. I'm in first place.
There's three games left tonight, so there's a chance, but
I don't suspect those teams those games are gonna go
over two points. So that means, uh, I have the

(08:45):
first pick in my home league. Mike Trout, Christian each
wherever I want, Rond the Cooni already kept. I could
take a picture, Greg, you do a pictures, probably take
an old one too, Not Justin Verlander. He's an old
like you don't want to take Justin Verlander over the
weekend left the game after two winnings. He was supposed
to go for why you asked, because he has a

(09:05):
lot strain which came out earlier today, a lot strain
four years ago. I believe we're five years ago now.
I cost him a little bit of time. Of course,
we know that Luis Savorino's last strain cost him several
months last year for the New York Yankee, Justin Verlander
was going off the board at picture A number three. Frank,
how far down you're dropping Justin Brlander. So I've already

(09:26):
dropped him down to SP five and I feel like
I'd probably need to drop him a little bit lower, Greg,
So we could talk this out in the air right now.
Find out what you do with Justin Verlander as well.
But I'm thinking I have to move him down probably
closer to the ten mark, probably you know, around that
bieber Strasburg Flaherty group, maybe even behind that group as well,
because again last strain, you mentioned it what Luie Sabino

(09:49):
dealt with last year. Inside Injuries tweeted this out that
the Astros are obviously shutting down Verlander. He left to
start yesterday mild last train. This is a tough injury
for a picture, and I expect to miss at least
the first few weeks of the season, Greg, So you
might potentially see him miss the first month, the entire
first month. Maybe it's mid April, late April. Nobody knows

(10:11):
for sure. And because of that uncertainty, I've dropped him
down to five for now, but I'm thinking I'm gonna
drop him down to eight. I'm definitely drawing him down
to five. I think that's I think that's easy. Fay,
I'm gonna move them behind Biber, Strassburg, Flawherty. You do
love those guys. Actually don't love those guys. Is interesting.
You don't love Flower, you don't love Strasberg, you love Beaver.

(10:32):
I do love Biber. I just don't really like the
price on those guys. I think they're a little overvalued
in the second right. I think it's hard with verlander Um,
and it's really hard with all these injuries. Like Lake
Snell came back from injury and walk forward guys today
like a little hit the but he walked forward guys
fifteen two pitches, zero point one, no hit anything, Greg bad.
He said his arms felt great after the game, he's

(10:52):
rearly hit on the gun. He's arm felt great, he
said he was throwing awesome, but you know, driving his legs,
He's like, this is what springs four? Like I gotta
figure it out. But at least mat Orma feels good.
Couldn't locate his fastball at all. No, So, in regards
of Verlander, does it come back? Is he's the same guy?
Does he lose something? Does he rushed back? And these
are the questions to ask yourself, And the same goes
for a lot of these injured players, right like is

(11:14):
there when you were taking them? Is there a spot
where you're like, I don't want to deal with these injuries.
I have to deal with injuries anyway. It's like why
bother getting into this versus? This is too big of
a discount, Like how do I how do I not
take a chance here? Like I may find the league
winner by taking injured playing here. My Clevinger comes to
mind because he's been injured for a while, he's coming

(11:34):
back and maybe he drops too far and I don't
know which camp to fall in. Traditionally I've been very
conservative when it comes to injuries. Then you get to
a point where I'm like, oh, this is silly, I
should take this guy. I'm more like, F'm more likely
to take Verlander in a shallower league, like a ten
or twelve team league, because it's easier to deal with
the injury. Where if you take him in a fifteen teamer, Greg,

(11:55):
replacing that starting pitcher spot in your lineup is really
really tough in those leaks. It's hard, man, It's hard
to figure out health. It's number one thing you gotta
think about drafting pictures more all the way. We're ranky's
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learn more. Al Right back here on the app absence,
I'm Greg Men justin Verlander and where we're dripping him
in and regulating point in the break, because I said,
as we're going to break, then I would have them

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at five. I wouldn't drop them too far. And I
Frank goes, Lesson, you're driving right now. We have our
draft on Thursday. Legitimately, you're driving right now. Are you
taking Berlander ahead of Javer, Jack Flaherty, or Steven shosh
And or Steven Shossbrook. My answer was, now, I would
take all three of those guys ahead of Verlander right now.
Then he goes, Okay, what about the next Trude, the
Patrick Corman, the Blake Snell, the his boy Charlie Morton

(13:20):
like that kind of those guys. I think I would
take Verlander ahead of them. He goes, then you have
him at eight, And you're right, Frank, I do have
him at eight. Then, um, that's what I would do
right in this second. You're absolutely right, So fair enough.
When it comes to Justin Verlander, let me move um
and go in a different direction. And I want to
go with a positive rankings mover. And that's Jese's Lazardo

(13:41):
over the weekend, and you and I had talked about
this a bit. This morning, Lozardo was filthy as he
has been all spring long for the aids, and he
was filthy last spring. He's now filthy this spring, and
he has a lot of people talking about how good
he is. I have Haze's Lozardo ranked as my thirtieth
starting pitcher on the board. You know, I I love
Haze's Lozardo. Um, but we're seeing that price certainly climbed

(14:01):
for him, both in auction values and in overall rankings. Uh.
Or in this month over at the NFBC, he's costing
me about fourteen dollars. Uh. He's the hundred and eleventh
player off the board at this moment. Is Hazel Lazaro
getting too expensive for you? Frank? Yeah? I think he is, Greg,
And you know, I have bummed him up slightly in
the rankings, But all along I kind of knew that

(14:23):
I wasn't gonna wind up with a lot of Hayes's
Lazaro shares, Greg, because I think he's gonna keep climbing
and climbing. And we have the NFBC main events this weekend,
and I think he's gonna wind up being a top thirty,
maybe even a top twenty five starting pitcher drafted six
seventh round, whatever it might be. I have him at
SP thirty two, and I think that's a good spot

(14:43):
to have him. And you know, over to the weekend,
we saw the adp climbed to one oh eight. So
he's a thirty fifth pitcher off the board board. But
consider that there are closures that go ahead of him
as well, so Taylor, Rogers one, Hendricks too Soon at three,
Chapman four, Yates five, and then Hate or six, so

(15:04):
that actually puts him at nine off the board. Great,
he's already inside. He's already inside the top thirty. And
I'm telling you this weekend, Gregg, he's gonna be closer
to So I have him reluctantly at thirty two. I
have him, you know, just ahead, I have Montas Freed,
Gallen Lament, so Rocca, Zach Wheeler, and Matthew Boyd. I

(15:27):
have Lozardo ahead of every single one of those players,
dam And I've had it like that, right, But you
have other players ahead that just I don't agree with,
like like Bower and Clueburn, those guys. I have lower
Rasco tremendous And I literally literally was about to say
I have to lower Karashka. Dealing with elbow inflammation, himself. No,

(15:47):
thank you. I have to lower Carrasko. I gotta lower
a wheeler. It's hardly gonna be in my top twenty
five boards. Also hadn't done Lozardo. Yeah, I looked at me,
and you just see this a little bit differently because
I like Lozardo and I when he's on the mound,
he's gonna be really, really good. He at eight strikeouts
this weekend, like three and a third endings pitched against
Seattle Mariners, mid nineties fastball, change up, slider combination. Um,

(16:09):
he's got the secondary pitches, he's got the poise, he's
got everything that you want, except potentially the endings. Greg.
So that's where you and I differ a little bit here.
Y gradersigned quantity. Frank. Look, even if even if Freed
or Gallen or Mantas are not as good on on
a per ending basis, I I suspect all of those
guys are probably going to give you thirty to forty

(16:31):
more endings pitched in Lazardo this season. I don't think
he's giving you much more than one thirty. And we
didn't talk about They haven't talked about this player. It
wasn't we were at schedule to talking about this player today.
We know Tyler Glass now, We're not talking about Tyler
Glass now very much at all. Like he's sitting here
a number twenty six in my ranking, so I just
let his name pop up. He's one of the players, Greg,
that is obviously risk reward, and I wanted at least

(16:53):
a few shares of him in case he does pop off,
because he has that potential. There's no doubt about that. Like,
the guy was a lecture last year. Um, he had
like a sub two e r A. But the injury
risk is real, Greg, I mean he dealt with I
believe it was like a flex or mass last year
or something in his forearm elbow area, Like it wouldn't
surprise me one bit if he's a month into the season,
he's shut down for the rest of the year and

(17:14):
he season ending surgery. Like that's the type of risk
that comes with someone like Tyler Glass now. But the
upside is if he stays healthy for a hundred and
fifty plus endings, he's probably a top twelve starting pitcher.
So I'm kind of splitting the difference here, Greg and
I haven't met twenty one, so to me, right after
that group of Nolah, Syndergard, Granky Paddock, who those guys, um,

(17:37):
you know, routinely going in the fourth, fifth round range.
After those guys go Tyler Glass. Now is the next
starting pitcher up that I would target. I have him
just ahead of Brandon Woodruff, just ahead of Jose Barrios,
just ahead of Sonny Gray, all the hype guys as well. Um,
And I'm really just kind of splitting the difference because
I think the upside is massive, but I also think
the floor is you know, he's out for the season

(17:58):
and doesn't give you much more than like ten stars
asked me that same tier with Sonny Gray, Josie Barrios, Um,
Trevor Bower for me, not for you? I know which
well have the weekend though last that was not I've
said this about a lot of players. He's not an
active targetive targets, not an active target. All right, Greg,
what would how would you like me to friend? I
want a name. I want to name our team active target. Yeah,

(18:20):
target side the active target. Oh dude, we should get
like the target that was easy button I have that's
a Staples. Yeah, I screwed that one up, Dude, that
would have been great if every time we went a
player at the auction that was easy we could. We
could still do that, yeah, but it would have been
better if it was target. Should I bring the button? Sure?

(18:41):
Let's have find a way for them to hate us
even more. Mind you, there's a fifteen team auction that
we participated in every year, the Gotham Diamond District. Some
real heavy hitters in this league. Derek van riper Cardi
does projections, so the heeny he hates us. The BFFs
draft Zack Gallen, let's go. I'm down. Oh it's so good.

(19:05):
Can you take this? I don't forget? Yes, perfect, putting
it in the book bag now, I mean fantastic. I
can't wait to do that. We really should get like
a target and like a dartboard. We should do it.
Say we'll put it, will put a hangover? Um, no,
I can play darts. You're not good at right? Okay,
we should put it like where the white board is?
We just active target? Who are Greg and Frank's active

(19:28):
targets this year? The Great show Man Ran Reynolds Safari Planet.
Too many, too many ideas, too late? Um, the not
an active target target here? So guy. Let's look at
some other players whose values rising and falling. That includes
the Yankee outfield of Jean Carlos Stand and Aaron Judge.
Stanton's working his way back from a calf injury. U

(19:48):
seems to be making good progress, but we've seen this
before with Stanton. Aaron Judge we found out I guess
it was Friday, an Friday or Saturday. Um, but he's
got this thing going on on and they're waiting two
weeks to see if, like, hey, maybe it'll make it better.
Even though he's rested for like six months, these two
weeks will determine whether he needs surgery or not. Uh.

(20:11):
Inside injuries, Virginia Zaka is uh speculated that they could
be out, he could be out for period of months. Yeah,
he's of course, they're not going that far yet. I
know Aaron Judge was not an active target of yours previously,
But how far is he's dropping inside your rankings? So
I moved him down to outfielder thirty eight, Gregs, so
I have him very low. Over the weekend, we saw

(20:32):
the ADP at outfielder twenty eight, So still about ten
spots higher in ranking than than I am comfortable taking
going to just ahead of guys like in four Oh,
Friend Milrays, Michael Brantley, all outfielders that I do like
the season, Jean Carlos Stanton is going one outfielder spot higher.
My question where Gean Carlos Stanton have Stanton at thirty one?

(20:53):
So I do feel a little bit better about where
Stanton is going. But great, I mean, why take the
risk on power hitting outfielder and Stanton who has a
calf injury right now when you can get friend mil
Reis twenty picks later. He's healthy right now and he's
mashing in spring, so his upside could be that he
has forty five home runs as well, So why even

(21:13):
take the risk on Stanton or Judge? At that point,
I agree, I just did it. I'm more likely to
take stand. That's where I've kind of I'm more likely
to take Stanton than I am judged. Oh that's fantastic, Frank, alright,
So I just I just redid it as we're on
the air because I'm listening to Frank. Here we go,
h I now have Stanton at twenty eight and Judges
of twenty nine. That's where they ended up. Oh wow, Greg, Well,

(21:36):
don't want an FBC A d P. You know were there,
look Stanton and jud That is where I just where
I feel comfortable. Another name that was actually thirty one
on the list, thirty one and thirty two and thirty
three only crap, h thirty one and thirty three on
my list. All uh have numbers that are probably going
down right now. Frank Train, Mancini, Oscar Mercano, and Willie

(21:59):
Calhoun all over the weekend get hurt. Mercado has a
wrist injury actually were negative of. Hopefully we're back in
the lane this week. If that remains the case, I
won't move him. Willie Calhoun got hit in the face
broke his jaw. That's annoying and horrible for him. And
then Trae man Cini has this pretty serious undisclosed injury
where his teammates are like wishing him well and hoping

(22:21):
he gets back soon. And I don't know what that is.
That could be anywhere if I'm not trying to joke,
like anywhere like a coronavirus thing to something significantly more serious,
and it's very very scary. Where do you have Trae Mancini,
Oscar Mercado and Willie Calhoun now in your rankings, So
I moved Oscar Mercado down. I had him around thirty
and I moved him down to thirty seven. So oncepot

(22:42):
ahead of Aaron Judge, I'll take I'll still take a
chance on Mercado. I don't know how far he's going
to move over the weekend. His a DP was at
outfielder thirty three, so maybe I could jump in there. Obviously,
dealing with the rist injury, he's day to day. You know,
doesn't sound too bad, right, sounds it sounds like you
got away with it. It sounds like all the other
player as we're talking about here, Greg are at a
much higher risk Willie Calhoun. We don't know what the

(23:05):
timetable is gonna look like, but he fractured his jaw,
and I just feel so bad for Willie Calhoun because
this was the opportunity he was finally going to start
Opening Day, be the left fielder, no one standing in
his way, hit twenty one homers and like eighty games
last year, I really thought this was the year Willie
Calhoun to seventy plus batting average, thirty plus home runs,

(23:26):
hitting in the middle of a solid lineup with the
Texas Rangers. And now we don't know what the timetable
looks like, but fractured jaw. I've seen some people speculate
six weeks Greg, So that would put him at the
middle of April, the end of April. Maybe this is
the whole first month of the same. And it's like
I dropped him down to i'll feel eight and I
have Mancini one spot behind him at forty nine. Same same.

(23:49):
It's actually crazy. I just absolutely just did it. Yeah,
Calhoun at forty eight, Man at forty nine. Hopefully get
more information. Shout out to Mancini. Hope he's all right,
you know, just wishing him well his family as well,
because I and I think the way you illustrated that
Greg was perfectly. We just don't know what's going on
with him right now. We know, of course, Chris sale
We've talked about him and what's going on. I don't
really want to touch Chris sal Um. Nevertheless, I moved

(24:11):
Christal to move them down to a hundred and thirty three.
What is actually right? Oh great, we're not far off.
I haven't at forty two. How about Blace, No, Greg,
let's round it all out. So I previs said Blake
Snell at number nine for me right, I could see
me somebodyself moving in fourteen, so I'm probably not gonna

(24:33):
have too risky man. He's back, He's healthy. Whiteboard series
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(25:19):
here on BFFs Dregs, I's gonna live Scott Parrell Mafia
will be out in Jersey with him, so it should
be a fun show. The Scott Westel during the program
in our number two You're on the BFFs. We will
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up towns. We like to call it in the rankings

(25:40):
of players that are moving up and down based upon
where what they are doing in spring training. But right
now a lot of people have asked, Hey, I had
the number six pick, what do I do? The top
pictures are probably off the board. Potentially you're not are
your choice of pictures is probably pretty easy. Um, but
maybe Voiceley it's it's not Maybe we should have done

(26:00):
like pick eight. Frank may pick nine realistically pick nine tomorrow.
All right? Is that all being said, it's time to
go with the lightboard series. Here is Frank Stample. Thank you, Gregg.

(26:24):
That was a fantastic introduction here to the white board
series today. Uh, here's the six pick. Maybe we should
have an eight or nine. We'll do it tomorrow. Thanks Greg.
That was was fantastic. In case any of you missed
the other white board series that we've done or when
I've done this throughout the fantasy football season, what I
like to do is draft three different teams. So I'm
gonna give you the first three picks in fantasy baseball

(26:45):
from the six pick. Uh, And this is basically how
I would like to start the team. And you build
out your base and and uh, you know, for the
rest of the draft, you're set up nicely and you
can kind of go in any direction that you want to.
When I did this for football, normally I would just
do two to three teams and kind of picked them
up against each other. Today, I'm gonna do one in Rhoto,
one in head to head points. Obviously, there's people who

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playing in all different types of formats, so I'm gonna
try and cover as many basses as I possibly can.
Hear Greg, So we'll start things off with the number
six pick, and I will be operating under the assumption
that in Rhoto pitching is getting pulled up the board
right now, obviously the Justin Verlander injury. I'm going to
assume that the top three hitters the top two pitchers
are gone when it comes to the Rhodo side of

(27:26):
things here, which means you'll have your decision between Cody
Bellinger Mookie Bets. Greg and I have argued over this
in the past. I prefer Cody Bellinger over Mookie Bets,
but I think you can go with either one of them. Obviously,
both are five category contributors and just contribute across the board.
Give you it's all betting average home runs obviously, the
power of the runs, the r b i s and

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stolen bases as well. Mookie Bets probably give you, you know,
five to seven more steels and someone like Bellinger. But
Bellinger had fifteen stolen bases last year, so uh, you know,
in the middle of that first round, you grab one
of him or Mookie Bets obviously set yourself up quite
well across the board from a Rooto perspective, taking either
Cody Bellinger or Mookie Betts on this side. Greg in

(28:08):
head to head points league, I have stressed over and
over that you need starting pitcher. I believe when I
did the first pick here, I said, yeah, you should
probably take one of you know, Garrit Cole or Jacob
Degram with the first overall pick. They just scored so
many more points than the top scoring hitter. And this
is going based off of the CBS Sports head to
head points scoring format that they use. There's like three

(28:28):
points for a quality start, five points for a win,
whatever it might be three points or an ending have
a point for a strikeout. But in the league's I play.
In the head to head points leagues, the pictures typically
outscored the top hitters and it's not necessarily close. So
take your pick, whether it's Jacob degraam Garrit Cole. Uh,
let's just assume Jacob Degram has gone already, or vice versa,

(28:49):
whatever it might be. Whole I'll even just put the
Graham here whoever is available between the two at pick six. Obviously,
I do want one of those guys, and honestly, if
they're both gone by picks they I probably would pull
even another starting picture up the board, whether it's a
Walker Bueller or whether it's a Max schers or probably
Max Scherzer project a few more dings for him and
the volume and had to add points League is so

(29:10):
so important, So GARYT. Cohler, Taco de Graham or you know,
if those guys are gone, I'm probably gonna pull pull
one of Walker Bueller or Max hrs or up the
board here, Greg, any problems thus far outside of the
fact that you like Mookie Bets over Cody bet Yeah,
I think be Bets over Cody Bellinger. The nice job
explaining here at six, Hey to Graham and Coley, expect
to be gone in that format, which is why you're
taking Cody Bellinger there at six and the points format. Um,

(29:33):
if Bullen were still there, I think what's really interesting
is that you're still pulling a picture up the board,
whether that's Bueller or Shuts are depending on who whom
you like. Um. For me, I think the best player
available right is best player available. I think Frankie. If
Colin de Graham are both gone, I think it's Francis
Lander like I think that of the guy I'm thinking
at six. If the two top pictures are gone, I

(29:55):
don't I get what colon the ground was like that
much better than everybody else and me and Shuts has
been there, Formula could generally enter that territory. But I
think that I lean Lindoor over Yeah, and Lindora is
honestly a better player for Rhodo than he is for
head to head points leagues, obviously because he contributes town
basis Tolen bases don't really matter much in a points

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league perspective. Francisco Lindora? When where? What are you talking about?
I don't know the auction in the auction, Well, if
you want to spend you know, thirty five or more
dollars on our top hitter, Greg, then sure we could
jump in on Francisco lindor Wait, alright, something you can
think about here, Greg. Let's move on to the second round.
Whether it's Cody Blinger, whether it's a Mookie bets, I

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am going to want to grab at least one starting
pitcher in the first two rounds. You know, if you're
playing Rhodo and one of the gram or Cole fell
to you, then I think you can take that starting pitcher.
But assuming that they're gone, you take the hitter here
in the first I do want to get a starting
pitcher in the second round. I need one of those workhorses.
I need an ace and to me, Shane Bieber is

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that next man up. And according to the nf b
c A DP, Shane Bieber is still available at this
point in the draft. What he did last year over
two dings one of fifteen pitchers who did that, you know,
close to two d and fifty strikeouts last year. Uh.
The guy is just amazing, Shay. He's having a great
spring so far as well, apparently working on his changeup.

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He's developing that the fastball has been the issue for
Shane Biever per hour. The breaking stuff is great, the
slider of the curve ball they all progressed last year.
Now working on his change up as well, So if
he has a legit four pitch mix with three off
speed pitches that he can throw for strikes that he
can get swings and misses on. I think Shane Bieber

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maybe he is even better than he was last year.
I don't mind taking him in this second round range. Again,
with all the injuries to starting pitchers, I want to
make sure that I get at least one of those
workhorses that's going to give me two hundred plus endings,
and I do expect that out of Shane Bieber here
as well. Going back to the other side, head to
head points league, according to the ADP, you can actually
get some really really good hitters here in the second

(32:00):
round range, Greg in the middle of that second round,
which projects four pick eighteen. Again, this is in a
twelve team league. To take Gary Cole or de gram
or a Walker Bueller or Suser if these two guys
are gone. The reason why I see should take a
starting pitcher in the first because the hitters available in
the second are really really good. So whether it's a
Bryce Harper, yes, I know he's moving up draft boards

(32:22):
right now, but I don't think he's gonna move much
higher than around pick eighteen, which is the middle of
the second round, or even according to the NBC ADP.
Well like Alex Bregman. If you get either one of
these guys. Bregman was the top scoring hitter in head
to head points leads last year. Just hits a ton
of doubles. I'm not really worried about the whole cheating
scandal when it comes to Alex Bregman. Just lifts the ball,
hit pulls it. Hit so many balls to that short

(32:45):
porch in left field. With the Houston Astros again batting average,
great play discipline. He was the only qualified hitter who
had more walks than strikeouts last year. That helps you
in a head to head points leave format as well. Greg,
So we'll jump back in. Get you involved here, Greg,
body Balinger Shane Bieber in the second round. Whether it's
a Strasburg or maybe you like a Jack Flaherty more,

(33:05):
you can go in that direction. I have Shane Bieber
now as my SP five with the injury to Justin Verlander.
On the other side, Greg, I want to take a
starting pitcher in a head to head points league in
that first round, and then in the second round you're
still exposed to a really, really good hitter in one
of Bryce Harper or Alex Bregnant. Yeah. So if Bryce
Harvor Alex Bregan are on the board there in the
second round, you're right that that's an awesome, awesome spot,

(33:26):
uh in the six in the second round to get
one of these guys. And these are players that we've
talked about. Bryce Harvard now going in the first round
of these fifteen team NFBC draft. Bregman is a guy. Uh,
then I think you can certainly take at the end
of the first round in a twelve team league or
a thief teen team league. I like Alex Bregman. I
think that um kind of about your valued a little bit.
This week is year because all the astro stuff going on.

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I like both of these players, Frank at this spot
in the second round there, Shane Bieber, Jack Flaherty. I
can get one of those guys in the second round.
That's a no brainer. I really like it. All these
teams going out all right, here we go, so we'll
move on to the third round as well to hair
with Cody Bellinger and Shane Bieber. Uh. And there's a
group of middle infielders that I just love going in
this range Greg this year in the third round. That's

(34:08):
why in most of my drafts. I don't really mind
taking a starting picture early because you have exposure to
guys like Javier bays guys like Ozzy Albis as well.
I spoke about Javier Bayez in the past during the
whiteboard series. If you wanted to take a short stop here,
he would be the option for me in the third round.
He's my uh, you know, right behind Fernando Tatis and
that whole group, the top short stops, the elite shortstops.

(34:29):
Javier Bias would be the one. But let's assume that
he's done, or that we want to attack positions scarcity instead,
and you can look at a second basement and my
top second basement, Gregg, as we spoke about when we
previewed the position, is Azzi Albis at second base, someone
who I think can give you twenty twenty, maybe even
take that next step this year. He obviously did that

(34:50):
last season in terms of the batting average, and I
think he's hitting close to three hundred this year. Twenty
home runs post to twenty stolen basis. I think there
is a next step in terms of this speed. I
think he can get stolen basis and we've seen this before.
When it comes to stolen basis in fantasy and then
a real life perspective as well. A lot of it
is just what is your motive Because a lot of

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the guys are talented enough to do it, they're fast
enough to do it. It's just do they have the
green light? Do they always want to run when they're
on the base pass? A lot of it is motivation
dependent here, uh for stolen basis, And I think Ozzie
Albis is fast enough and he has enough talent. It's
just a matter of does he want to steal more basis?
So that's something that potentially he could give you. But
if you're just modestly projecting, I think you know, coming

(35:34):
close to with eight plus r b I S a
hundred plus run scored with a good batting average is
what you can expect out of Ozzy Albi's this upcoming season, alright, GREGT.
So there's a bunch of different directions that you can
go in in the third round here, And I've stressed
starting pitching over and over again when it comes to
a head to head points lead, I'm gonna pass on
a picture and I'll tell you why in a second.

(35:55):
And I think you can get someone here like Austin
man knows of the Tampa Bay Rays, who another player
similar to Ozzie Albis greg where we expect him to
take that next step. We all saw the breakout last
year over thirty home runs, good batting average, should hit
a ton of doubles, handle himself both against left handed

(36:16):
and right handed pitching. The reason why you would pass
on a starting pitcher here in the third round is,
I'll tell you after the break. Austin Meadows is who
you should be targeting if you want to hit her
in the third round. Again, I don't worry about playing time.
I know a lot of people might worry about that
when it comes to the Tampa Bay Rays, but he's
the one person who I don't really worry about him

(36:37):
and probably William Domas have the safest playing at time.
When it comes to Tampa Bay. There's gonna be platoons
everywhere else. Vanni Margo, Kevin kier Meyer, Jose Martinez, Yo
Ci Suits tou Goo. Austin Meadows is someone who's going
to be in the lineup every single day, and he's
who He's the hitter I would be targeting here in
the third driver. I think make sense you little bee
a little bit power. We'll wrap up today's white board

(36:57):
series and send yo home when we come back to
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(37:52):
probably number six pick tomorrow. Hopefully there's number nine. They
got an interesting and it's okay, Frank, we do that.
Whatever your heart desires. Great, Maybe Francisco Lindoor will be there.
Pick nine. Well, my goal is that he's not there. Yeah,
he's probably not. That's what what's whine flare like? I
thought there was a clear um top eight. I think

(38:12):
it's seven. I think that some people are going to
make the argument for trade Turner or Trevor story over Lindor.
I personally wouldn't I do like lind Or off the board. Yeah, yeah,
so I agree, I do have it ranked Lindoor story Turner.
But there are people in Rhodo who are going to
put an emphasis on Stone basis and are gonna take
Trade Turner as the eighth player off the board. I'm
not one of those people, but I think it more

(38:33):
so starts after seven. I think it's a very clear
top five hitters, but obviously Trout, Akuna, yellowch Bellinger, BET's,
and then there's a clear top two starting pitchers with
the Gram and Cole. I think that's kind of where
we've settled then, and then for me it's Lindora's next
at eight, and then nine is where it's kind of interesting,
right because like you, like you said, you have the
Trevor story there, Um, you know, trade Turner there. I

(38:54):
think you have one Sodo there as well. Let's bring
a picture of the board and Walker, Buehler and Mestres are. Yeah.
I think that's that's all fair, and those are gonna
be options that people start to look into now because
with another injury to Justin Verlander, you know, all this
does is it's going to put more weight on starting
pitchers moving up early, whether it's Bueller, Scherzer moving more
so into the first round, higher up the first round,

(39:15):
or even guys like Beamer moving up Flaherty, and it's
gonna have a ripple effect all the way down the board,
Chris Paddock. More in all these guys, we're gonna see
starts to move higher up in the fourth round, maybe
even into the third round as well. But I did
leave you with a little bit of a tease before
the break on why I would take Austin Meadows and
a head to head points leak. We'll get to that
too in a second here, Greg, because it still does

(39:37):
a little everything. He does a little bit of everything.
Great play doesn't win obviously with Austin Meadows doesn't strike
out all that much either. I'm feeling generous, so I'm
gonna let's extend this a little bit. Let's go fourth
and fifth round as well. Can we just pop on
that for a second before before you continue on, Like
I think Azzi aldis what makes him so good is
going in the third round. You know what, Meadows are
a little bit everything, yet a little more speed out

(39:59):
of Aussi Albe's in an amazing lineup out there in Atlanta,
And I was talking to during the break about like, Hey,
that's the when we go after because it's tough to
find speed and tough to find these guys. We did
a whole show on to about find these players. It's
not not that many of them. Azzi Albis really does
fit that category. And in a roadal league, he was

(40:20):
really really good last year twenty four homers, fifteen steels
like okay batting average. He does everything across the board,
over runs, scored. I light that pick at three, yeah,
and second base, Greg, stay with me. Stinks not a
good position. And look at how you set yourself up
here from an offensive perspective. Right, if you're in the
middle of the draft and you start with Mookie Bets

(40:41):
and Ozzie Albi's, you don't have to stress any category
for a while because you've set yourself up across the board.
Maybe if you take a Mookie Bets and and Azzie Albies,
you'll look more for power in those middle rounds. But
ultimately I think that you're in a really good position
either way. With Cody Bellinger and Ozzie Albie's probably works
out better that way, Greg, that's why you should take
Cody Bellinger over Mookie Betts, all right, But in the

(41:04):
fourth round here, and this is something I've typically leaned
on for a couple of years. I like to have
two starting pitchers by the first four media. I'll stretch
it to the first five rounds of the draft, but
typically I want two of my top twenties starting pitchers.
And if that's the case, you do have to target
someone here in the fourth round. And you know someone
who I do have ranked inside my top tennis here,
Greg can say it with me, Charlie Moore in the

(41:27):
old Man, Greg, I mean off a career year with
the Tampa Bay Rays in its season with the juice ball,
pitching in the American League East against the Yankees, Red
Sox and everyone else in that division. Charlie Morton was
better than ever and managed to stay healthy for right
around two under any's just like one. I believe last season.
Strikeouts are still there. The command got better for Charlie
Morton last year. One of the best curveballs in the game.

(41:49):
I have no worries when it comes to Charlie Morton,
and that is the reason little little that you talk
about you have no worries Charlie Morton all as well.
Are you concerned at all that Charlie Morton age wise
Frank is thirty six years old? Well, does that mean
that you have completely you know, taking guys like Max

(42:11):
Sures are off your draft boarders six years old? Yeah,
I'm pretty sure he is. Greg. It seems like something
that's not Za Granky, completely off your board, Gregg. Charlie
Moore is completely off my board. I didn't say that.
All I asked is you're concerned that he's thirty six
years old personally? No. I mean if you wanted to
take someone last five alright, well mid thirties, Greg, But

(42:33):
with someone like Chris Pattick, who's also going in this range,
how many endings is he gonna throw? One? Eighties? So
you have concern there. Clayton Kershaw has the concern of
eight back the past couple of seasons. So everyone in
this range kind of has their own concerns. Patrick Corbin,
it's deep into the postseason. Last year is coming off
the season with a ton of endings. Luise Casteel is
the is the command for Luise Castile going to rear

(42:55):
its ugly heads. So I think you kind of nitpick
for all the starting pitchers in the springes, Greg me,
the skills, the underlying numbers are Charlie Morton are what
really stood out. The sween strike rate and you know,
the first pitch strike percentage and all the underlying the
r A estimators, the Sierra, the X fit, everything there
for Charlie Morton. So pretty damn good. Yeah, you know,
you look at Morton's numbers. What's cool about him? He's

(43:17):
even in the late thirty he's gotten better every single year.
You obviously had a lot of injury problems earlier his career.
He was a top prospect for the Braves. At one
point the race series kind of got into him and
it eventually worked. He pulled it out of him. And
now in two years of the Astros and he here
with the Rays fourteen wins, fifteen wins, sixty wins and
no wins or lucky whatnot. Beginnings one sixty seven one,

(43:40):
the k rate ten and eight three eleven point one
walk great last year all the way down to two
point six four, even like the xfit was the lowest
that we've seen in you know, three or four years
now from Charlie Morton, he's gotten better with age, and
you know, we have seen a lot of players of
their age be successful, not to stay healthy, but like

(44:00):
rich Hill came to my was thirty nine years old.
Way he came back at the majors, he was awesome.
The only thing I'm a little bit afraid of Charlie
Morton is risking to pick this early for him. Um,
but other guys doing that range. You mentioned Chris Paddock,
Aaron Nola, knows, Synderguard. They all have their awards too.
He's is certainly a check mark in their column. But
affecting this is the check Martin Charlie Morton's column. Out

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of all of these players last year, Charlie Morton is
the best season, every single one of them, the most
complete season, the fullest season. And it's the biggest question
is his age. That's something we're willing to look past.
Obviously for you the answers, yes, yeah, And that's why
I do have Charlie Morton ranked inside my top ten.
I love the value of getting on him this year,
whether it's the fourth sometimes even the fifth rate round

(44:44):
in a twelve team league. You've seen Charlie Morton, so
I'm gonna go, you know, with Charlie Morton on the
other side as well, And that was kind of the
tease earlier. Greg, is you know, if you want to
take someone like Luis Castillo in the third round or
Clayton Kershaw, you just preferred that player over Charlie Morton,
and sure, take them in the third round. But to me,
Morton is not dissimilar from someone like that and you

(45:04):
can get him around later. So if I can get
a better hitter who's available in Austin Meadows, because I
don't think he's going to be there in the fourth round,
then I'll take him in the third Charlie Morton in
the fourth because according to ADP, he is definitely going
to be there in the fourth round, whereas you know,
someone like Clayton Kershaw, Luis Castillo, they might not be
there in the fourth round. And I think they're similar
players and I think you can get similar production. So

(45:26):
I don't have any worries when it comes to Charlie
Morton here on the head to head point side, going
back to Rhodo mentioned, I'll fill out the first five
rounds for you and Greg two active targets of mine
this upcoming season. Juan Moncada were Manning Machado, and I
love the value that you can get those guys right
now in the fifth round range. Manny Machado just going
this late. It's it just sounds weird. Last year borderline

(45:49):
first round pick disappointed his first season with San Diego Padres.
He's gonna give you shortstop eligibility, shortstop and third base.
He has dual position eligibility. And you see, you know,
you just set yourself up nicely, nicely here in terms
of versatility because you have a first basement slash outfielder
and bellinger, you have the second baseman. You don't have
to worry about that crap position anymore. And then Manny
Machado you can play at shortstop and third and that

(46:12):
allows you to take whatever you think is a better
steal later. So if you think there's a better third
baseman left, you can move Machado to shortstop. If you
think there's a better shortstop available that you want to
take him, and move Manny Machado to third base. So
it allows you some flexibility in your draft. I do
think that he's gonna bounce back, not really expecting much
speed this year, Greg, but seven eight steals to seventy

(46:32):
five home runs. We have no idea. You gotta manager
Jingler is yeah, we don't know if jas Tingler is
gonna let these guys run. But um, either way, I
think you're probably gonna like five to tentionle On Basis
at Manni Machado, which is fine. I'm not really drafting
him for speed. I want him for the power. I
think thirty five home runs good RBI is good runs
as well, are all reasons why I like getting him

(46:54):
in this fifth round range. So I know you love
Mani Chado, So there's a lot of Mani Machado in
this spot in the fifth round. I think it's a
tremendous value. You always want to find guys that have
the ability to you jump Browns in the fifth round.
Getting any Machado, that's the type of player that you're getting. You.
Aman is another one that's right there that very much
could break into that mold, break into being a second

(47:14):
three round pick next year. He's got the prospect of
pedigree as well. I like both of them. On the
other side, here twelve team head to head points league,
you set yourself up well, so far you have two hitters,
you have two starting pitchers as well. Let's triple down
on starting pture take three starting pitchers in your first
five rounds. Again, there is an emphasis on starting pitching

(47:35):
here in the Head to Head Points League. And Greig,
you know what, We'll take a pick for you and
we'll go with Thoor. Noah Sindergard, who's so far does
not have a walk this preseason in spring training, uh,
you know throughout as we ramp up for the regular
season in the spring, no Syndergard. Believe it's like nine

(47:55):
or nine, ten, eleven strikeouts, zero walks. The command has
been there for him. Those are um, I think there's
lots to like about Syndergard obviously, you know, if you
like someone like Aaron Nola. More still available is that
Granky who randomly perennially undervalued for a fantasy perspective. He
was like a top seven starting pitcher in both head
to head points and RHODO last year. So I don't

(48:15):
mind Synderguard, Nola Granky. And you have your top three
starting pitchers in most head to head points league, you
either start five or six, so then you can kind
of you know, you can take some upside with your
four year start of four, five and six, or you know,
you can just kind of play the matchups, play to
star pitchers as well, but you do have that core

(48:36):
the top three starting pitchers. I usually want in a
head to head points league three of my top five, Greg,
I really want to have reliable players at this position,
and obviously have you have two really good anchors in
terms of your hitters as well, So you go, Greg,
normally only go three on each side. Have you really
banging the drum of the mets here, huh, let's go
Mets do do do? Yeah, Yeah, it's Graham and Zinda. God,

(49:00):
that's the exact whel are the ex met Steven Matt's late. Yeah,
thank get behind that. Zack would burn me last year. Greg,
he's out hit to like that. Frank, we're done. We're
done with Zach Wheeler. We're back. One might say he's
not an active target of mind this Sea rank number
six pick nice job. Someone would say it was easy,

(49:22):
indeed right, you'll do to take number nine tomorrow. That's
on the order, sir, Frank Stanville, I am Grank sauceman.
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