February 21, 2020 • 49 mins
If you have the last pick in your fantasy baseball draft, who should you expect to draft? Frank Stampfl is back to tell you in another edition of his Whiteboard Series! Gregg Sussman will analyze, Frank will be upset. It's a perfect Friday!
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With that, we walk to you inside a little studio
thirty four. This is the BFFs. He is Frank Stamford.
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I am Greg Sauceman. Franky was happening? Man? We almost
had an extended version there. I felt like you were
you're going for about twenty seconds there. I've funger than usual?
Was it? I don't know? Was it? Happy Friday? Greg?
How you doing, buddy? How did you sleep last night?
I slept really, I slept really well. Oh no, I
had oh I remember it now. So I had this
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dream and I was like, I gotta tell yeah, wait still, Frank,
what this dream was about? I could not remember it
until right now. We don't know what it was. Of course,
your boy and this guy in charge of tot Wars.
It sounds like a nightmare for you, not really a dream.
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All of a sudden, they put whoever runs it, who
runs tot Wars. It's a collection of individual jeff Ericson,
it was jeff Errickson. Jeff Ericson stepped down and I
took over it, and I was like, Frank is gonna
love this. So I remember that I was charge tot Wars.
I woke up historical laughing that I was in ar,
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happy that you were somewhat dreaming about me and in
fantasy baseball. I was, that's how far we can today.
I woke up. I had the biggest couple of weeks ago.
Greg didn't even want to talk baseball, and then he
dreaming about it. It would be the first thing you
change when it comes to tot Wars. Great everything. What
does that mean? Oh, the are is a bunch of
fantasy leagues. I would put money in it. The least
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should be for money. That's the first thing I would do.
I know that cost money to make money, but they
should be for money. The experts is it in the industry,
claim a pride to do it. Everyone running that person
right now? Some of the notions should we make more money?
Everybody shown was of Mocia in the news outday. I'm
John Wass the Mokia with your BFFs news update. Let's
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start with the w g C Mexico Championship right now.
Your leader Justin Thomas. He is at three under through
round two through eight He's actually at seven under for
the tournament. That is a one shot lead on Rory mclroy,
who started the day in the lead at six under.
He still at six under even through six holes. So
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that that's your w g C leaderboard Mexico City Round
number two. Let's head over to baseball, and we have
some spring training action. Top of the first inning, Rangers
Royals first spring training game. That is the Cactus League
at Sunrise, Florida. Tomorrow a lot of the other teams
get started, but we just have one today and that's
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just on their way. Top of the first no score
between the Rangers and the Royals. Let's head over to
the FanDuel Sports book. Let's check out the card for
basketball NBA action tonight as we get set for a
big slate of NBA action. You have the Cleveland Cavs
at the Washington Wizards. Wizards laying six to thirty six
your total. Dallas at the mag Magic that's four point
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favorite for the Mavericks and that one to twenty and
a half is your total. Later on tonight the headline
matchup the Denver Nuggets at the Okay City Thunder Thunder
laying a point and a half to six seed and
a half your total, and rounding out the Markey matchups
in the NBA tonight, Grizzlies at Lakers. Lakers tendant a
half point favorites to thirty four, and have your total Pelicans,
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They're gonna make a charge for that eighth seed in
the Western Conference at the Portland Trailblazers Plicans on the
road five and a half point favorites to thirty nine
your total in that one. Major League Baseball News you
and a Sespenis has not begun sprinting all out according
to his manager Louis Rojas, So stay tuned on that.
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Sesspitis missed all of last season with hell surgery. See
if he makes it full return this season. That is
your BFF sports Grade news update. Now back to Gregor
frank other sports grade. The Pelicans a five and a
half point favoriteccording to what Shaun just said. That's over.
At four, we get more injury news now, dude, it's
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just think everyone's piling on the Pelicans tonight. This is
the problem though, Greg, that I've noticed at least, and
we'll get into fantasy baseball, of course, I feel like
the Pelicans are somewhat being overvalued with Zion Williamson. Don't
get me wrong. I'm very excited about combination being overvalued
and Lili, Yeah, for sure. Like Lillard's been ridiculous since
the start of the new year. The guy has been
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like dropping fifty points like every other game. Basically, it's
been awesome points five and a half point dogs at
home are Portland, Greag, we got MSG after this, he's
still gonna back up the New Orleans Pelicans. I don't know.
I'm not allowed to change. You might have to rethink
things there. That's a lot of points, man, it's a
lot of a lot of points off. That's one thing guarantee.
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That's an absolutely couldn't reward on that. Let's move into baseball,
and now's the news and headlines on today's show. Let's
let's at least bring that up on today's show. Oh,
we're gonna have our second edition of Multiple Things here.
It will be the second edition of the white Board
series with Frank Stanford. We preview picked number one earlier
this week on Monday, we go to pick number twelve
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here to end the week. So we begin and end
one to twelve. That's what we'll do later on in
the program. Also here we will get into money in
the Bank at Triple Threat Match of pictures and where
they're going similar adp s. I don't freak and I
feel differently about the players that are involved in today's
Money in the Bank contest, So we'll get into that
coming out, you know, just about ten minutes from now.
Before we do any of that, though, let's get some
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of the headlines for today, Frank, and that takes us now.
It begins us well in St. Louis were Paul gold
Schmidt have a bit of an elbow injury. He says
it's not a big deal, He's gonna be fine. I've
been down here for Goldschmit. Really started out cold, got
hot as the season went on, as he normally does.
He's usually a pretty slow starter. Are you in on
Paul gold Schmidt here? No, I'm not in on Paul
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gold Schmith this upcoming season. Greg. That's why I actually
hate to see this news because whenever there's an injury
to a player that you weren't in on, that means
they're gonna fall down the draft board, and players who
were you were you were in on are going to
slightly move up the draft board. It was the same
thing with a u Henyo Suarez. I wasn't going to
be on Suarez at his draft costs before he had.
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He has slipped a little bit, so maybe I'll look
more into Suarez now, But Paul gold Schmidt is someone
that I was not looking at. Greg. The batting average
has come way down from where it has been, and
then you're just off all Cardinals. You don't want to.
I don't think that they're a good team, which is
crazy to say, because they're like a great organization obviously,
and they always find a way to win like eighty
five plus games and they're right in the thick of things.
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But I mean, outside of Jack Flaherty, I don't think
that they're pitching staff is great. They're trying to make
Carlos Martinez a starting pitcher again. They're throwing him back
in the rotation. Um, who's their closer right now? Is
the Giovanni Diegos. Andrew Miller hasn't been great the past
couple of seasons. I don't think the lineup is very
good either. Maybe he'll get better once they call up
some of these young kids, Dylan Carlson someone they're very
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excited about. Paul Goldschman now k percentage up over back
to back years. His chase rate was the highest of
his career. Last year barrel percentage was down. He had
to sixty. Greg, you have to think, oh, well he
got unlucky, right, Paul Goldchman normally it's two eighty two
nine expected batting average to sixty two. Well, there's stole
a lot of bases, right, it's Paul Golchman does no,
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doesn't steal basis anymore, Greg, So three bases. Where's Paul
Goldchman in your it's first base rankings? That is a
fair question. And I'm going to stall while I pull
that up for you. Uh, and my first base ranks,
I have Paul gold Schmidt at number seven, whereas he's
like the fifth starting the fifth, first basement off the
board usually after after how you just driving him I
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don't way lower seven. Should I lower him more? So?
I haven't one spot ahead of Josh Bell, But I
think Josh Bell has a bunch of question marks too.
Doesn't he rough second half? Well? He acts? The thing
is he ended the season really well, like August September.
It was like June July brutal, Yeah, very bad, and
then auguste care That's that's a good point. But Josh
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Bell probably a player you want the points leagu right,
good plate discipline, watch a lot doubles streaky. Not a
good line up either. There in Pittsburgh who got nine?
So I have Goldschmidt seven, Josh Bell eight. I have
Dtail Mayhew nine. You could argue that he should probably
be higher. Fine, and then I have Max Mounsey at ten.
I like Max Moncy wearing Paul Goldchman. Well that's because
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you played in ob P. For me, he's probably gonna
hit like. Max Moncy is great in OBA and Paul
Goldschmidt is too. He still walks a lot. But I
don't know, man, it's something about Paul Goldschmian. It just
seems like one of these years it might just fall
completely on his face. Not a lot of protection in
the lineup to the RBI. We thought that was last
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year for a lot of the year. So you know
what's crazy. Hogel Schmid is the eighth first basement off
the board, so I guess I'm not really down on him.
He said it was fifth a few willmas again. Yeah,
and NBC he's the eight first basement off the board.
I have him at seven. Maybe I should find a
way to move him lower. I don't really want. I
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just told you how. Move them behind Josh Bell and
d G the next next month, all right, talk me
into it, alright. Other news and notes from camp. Carlos
Carrasco hurt again, which is frustrating. Not um serious thing
like when he battled last year. But he is banking
up um and certainly someone you want to see bounced
back have a nice spring, not of a good start. No,
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he's not, and we reported we not. We reported like
the BFS are out there on the field watching Carlos Carrasco,
but we saw the We're not. That is a factual statement.
But the reports yesterday or that he left he was
dealing with a leg injury. He was on crutches. It
comes out today that it is a hip issue. It's minor.
I saw last night lyde Settler, who competes in a
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ton of NFBC drafts. He's a great high stakes player,
tweeted out that Parlos, Carrasco, and Severino went in around
fifteen and sixteen respectively. Round fifteen. Sure I have a
shot of calls Carrasco there? Why not? Absolutely? I think
there's gonna be some correction. He's gonna about Stecca. Right
when do we come back? A couple of news notes.
I want to get to Frank was tweeting out trade Turner,
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so he wants to reveal when he was tweeting about.
And then we'll get into this week's money in the
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about all right, well, well, well exact with you here
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on the BFS on a Friday, Gregg sauceman Frank stand
for hanging out having too much fun. I need it
mans around. I heard on FT this week you got
a big weekend plan. You have no fiance, which means
a whole lot of sitting on your couch and drafting.
No draft this weekend, Greg, nothing planned yet, but look
there's some time to change that. It's time to get
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in alve getting in a draft. There is no fiance
this weekend. She's off to ball bustin. I shipped her
up to Boston Grand going out tonight night on the
tap with my brother. He was Johnny Stamfull and Johnny
be on his phone looking wrestling backdowns all the night.
There's no one thing. He watches a lot of SmackDown.
If he does, it's on demand, it's not live. I
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can tell you that much he loves wrestling. I don't.
I don't think he loves it that much. I don't know, man,
he really loves wrestling, but I don't really handling his
plans on a Friday to watch SmackDown. Johnny Snaffle, Johnny
Staffle loves wrestling, dude. You know what, I'm gonna have
him send me a picture of Legitimately. He has two
cases in his room of real wrestling belts, the offensive one,
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like three fifty plus dollar belts, no joke. He asked
my parents for them, like every holiday, Birthday, Christmas, he
wants a belt. I mean, it's a sick collection. He's
like the yellow Intercontinental title. He has the Smoking Skull
w w F, the heavy one. He's like it's leather
and it's like the real championship. He has like twelve
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of them lined up in like a glass case. It's
pretty sick. Well, yeah, he loves wrestling, but not on
a Friday. He's hanging out with me. We're not watching SmackDown.
I'll tell you that. Just go out after SmackDown, well
my pre game and watch SmackDown. If that's there, I'm
gonna I'm gonna text Well watching some highlights of the
Royals and Rangers, Greg who were playing right now. I'm
gonna get a text from Frank. I cannot wait. It's
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gonna be him on the couch looking at Rangers, Royals
box scores and Johnny Stanfell screaming at his TV at
Roman Reins. I can't wait for It's gonna be awesome. Alright,
you have you tweet about trade Turner at last night?
What were you tweeting? Yeah, I just wanted to make
it known. I've I saw the report that he might
move down in the lineup, he might bet third, and
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I tweeted this out. In his career, Trade Turner has
average one stolen base every twelve plate appearances while batting leadoff.
That's a sample over fifteen d plate appearances. While batting
in every other spot in the order. In his career,
tray Turner has ever once solen base every nineteen point
seven plate appearances, just over five hundred and fifty plate
appearances combined in every other spot in the lineup outside
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of leadoff. So assuming that he gets six d and
fifty plate appearances, Greg, I you know, fired up the
old calculator app here on the computer. Your times nineteen
nineteen point seven. I'm saying this wrong. Take six hundred fifty, Yeah,
divided by nineteen point seven. This is why I'm not
I'm not the math guy, and you're projected thirty three
stolen bases for Trade Turner. Greg, would you be happy
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with thirty three stolen bases from Trade Turner if you
took him in the first round? I agree, I don't
because the power is not enough right and need footy
stas from him. The power is not there, like it's
not enough for your take. The power went up last year. Sure,
I guess there's a chance that it keeps trending up.
I don't know. Maybe it was just juice ball related anywhere.
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He's only twenty six years old. Everyone's just assuming the
juice ball is gone. I tell you, nobody knows it
was gone in the postseason for sure. You know where
a guy is with him in the auction Yamada. We
already went over this key boo him down reserve rounds.
It might be able to get him in the reserva.
You want to know what it do? You know what
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his a DP is? Right? No? Wow, he goes late
almost him him. I'm with you, so it burnt me
everywhere last year. I'm back. If someone wins a dollar,
I'm going to I'm not on three, I'll go to alright.
Maybe I'm just saying it's reserved rounds. Come on, Greg,
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don't even mention the name. Don't even say the initials
c K. I don want nobody to know. New underwear
brand coming out carder Key Boom, c K BFFs go
kill boom. We should make a cologne line harder Key Boom.
I like this jokes guy Calvin Klein and my joke. Yes,
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all right, Greg, you can only be your joke. Greg
can only make Calvin Klein jokes. He's the only one
that can ask about crappy players on this. When I
bring up some trap, it's like, what about Taoscar Hernandez.
When I'm asking Greg about someone relevant, He's like, who's
that I've never heard of? That guy you probably name
is someone irrelevant. And if I don't know he's irrelevant,
that's oh yeah, that's gotta be true, you know that? Um?
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All right, any more news to notice, you know, Let's
do some fun. She's on the fun. It's too Friday.
Let's have some fun. And this week it's time once
again to find out who he's Money in the bank.
Here comes the money. Here we go money talk, Here
comes the money cheating Money in the bank. This week
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here on the bf F S Frank, let's get right
into it. This week, we're facing off again some of
the pictures that are going in the third and fourth round.
It's Chris Paddock, aur Nolah and Noah's s God No,
it's Nderguard Aaronola, two players that were seen as top
twelve pictures probably just a year ago. Chris Paddock, of
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course alone. Hazy's Lazardo was the hottest name uh Young
picture wise that was being drafted last season. Now it's
Paddock and Aaronola going in similar spots. Well, now a
Synderguard goes about a round later than both of them. Frank,
let's start with my guy, Noah Syndergard. He's a player
that I believe, despite going last on this list, he's
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a guy I would want want, I would want most
of my team for me. I'll reveal it right now
for me, Noah's Syndergard is Mr Buney in the bank.
We'll just get right to the chase while you're at it.
When it comes to no Syndergard is extremely frustrating, and
we spoke about him with Nick Pollock of Picture List.
I forgot the acronym that he uses for him, but
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basically it was along the lines of Noah Synderguard has
all the stuff in the world but doesn't know how
to pitch. Hopefully having Rene Rivera as his dedicated catcher. Well,
I actually helped him because last year with Wilson Ramos
as his catcher, Noah Syndergard had an ear a over
five in games that Wilson Ramos was his catcher. In
Noa Syndergard's career, Greg, with Renee Rivera as his catcher,
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thirty games, a hundred and eighty innings pitch that might
be a full season out of Noah Syndergard. Would you
like these numbers? Greg, let me know a two six
five e r A. There's no whip here, but sive
ar a. How about two hundred and five strikeouts and
a hundred eight pitch and he's pitched, could not have
any more in He'll say that Renee Rivera is going
to be the dedicated catcher for Noah Syndergard this year.
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But I understand why some people might be out on him, Greg.
He tinkers with his pitch makes he relies on his
fastball sometimes a little bit too much. He should be
throwing his breaking pitches more. I think he has all
the talent in the world. We all know that about
Noah Synderguard. They called the guy Thor for a reason.
I mean, he's built like an Adonis, and normally I
don't usually like that because guys like Aaron Judge and
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Giancarlos Stanton are hurt all the time. Right, Syndergard has
dealt with his own injuries managed just a healthy last year.
You didn't get the performance out of him that you
were hoping for, But there is a world, Greg, and
I realized that a range of outcomes where he does
put it all together, manages to stay healthy with Renee
Rivera as his catcher and puts up you know, bow
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three's e r a a good whip, two hundred strikeouts
dred eighty to two endings pitched. That does remain a
possibility for Noah Syndergard. Greg, But let's talk a little
bit about some of these other candidates as well. Sure,
I mean that everything he just positive, Syndard, other than
the way he's built well and the fact that he
sucked last year, Greg, how about that? Sure he's stunk well,
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he got better, He got better, and look, no Arno
has been healthier the past couple of years. Like that,
you can depend on him for more volume than you
can with Noahs Syndergard. I want to tell you, look
at Chris Paddock here three point three three and you're
going right in the paddock god Man, I had the
notes worthy for Chris Paddock. Greg all Right, Aaron last
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year one up with a three eight seven a three
A two x fit. He was not great. His fastball
was the worst of his career. It got smacked around
last year, Greg, And we know he has a great curveball.
When it comes to Arnold, the command was really out
of whack last year for Aaronola. The walks per nine
up over three and a half. You're not used to that.
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Still got a ton of strikeout, still got a ton
of ground balls, but with those walks going up it
also we also saw his whip balloon til one to
seven uh from eighteen Greg, he had a three three
five e r A out of Aaronola, a three to
nine x fit over a strikeout per ending two point
four walks per nine, really good groundball rate, a one
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on four whip and a twenty eight percent hard contact
rate last year. The hard contact for Aaronola just has
to get back to relying more so on that curveball.
The command has to come back for the fastball. Again.
He doesn't have a great fastball. It's like he has
to use that pitch to set up his secondary pitches.
Curveball change up as well. He gotta get back to
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mixing things up, and he's gotta command his pitch is better.
There's no doubt about it when it comes to Noah.
But for me, Greg, the track record for Noah from
eighteen is nearly on par with Noah synder Guard, if
not better, And he's been able to stay healthier than
Synderguard as well. So if he can get back to
that picture that he was the four seasons before, then
I think nobody can really pay off where he's going
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right now. As you mentioned, the walks really went up
last last year three point five six, very uncharacteristic for him.
Walked per nine. That's almost over a walk, way over
a walk more he's ever given up his career per
nine eight. Strike has also went up at the first
year with real moods. I wonder if that has something
to do with it. Could be really just not going
anywhere I'm there. The home runs for nine also went
up man one point to zero. Juice ball related possibly
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home on the five ball ratio, also related highest home
in the fly ball ratio of his career at seventeen
point four. I don't you mentioned this to me last year,
that eighteen if you look at all the numbers for
Aaron Nola, always the outlier, and we thought, all right,
My response is I really like that last year was
we got better. He's never gonna give again. That's not
gonna happen. That's the thing, right, So he never is
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going to do that again. That may have been the
year of his career. And the way I responded to
you last year as well, he just got better that
that that's it. And you said, well what if he didn't,
what if there's just an outlier? And I think it was.
I think the picture that you saw last year was
a kind of picture that you will see again, at
least for Syndergard. The walks or less strike has we're
a little bit less as well. The ex fit was
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actually exactly the same at three point eight. I think
Noah Syndergard has more of an ability to be better
than he has better stuff than Aaronoa, there's no doubt
about put it together, but more of an injury risk
than Aaronola as well, only inning He's no Syndergard pitched
last year. It was close to season last year. Yeah,
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but that's the thing. He's never done it, you know,
like all together with a full season of like the
production we're used to. You would only do that for
like a hundred and fifty innings. I got welcome back, Frank,
give you more on Chris Paddock and he'll tell you
who his Mr Money in the bank is. Here we go, Money.
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Blue Here Friday, let's go. Let's break it down, baby.
All right, we're going through our Nola and Noah Syndergard.
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I've already told everybody my Mr Money in the Bank
right there. It's Noah Syndergard. But there is one player
left h in the triple threat draft matchup, and that
is Chris Padck, the player that actually had the best
season in twenty nineteen, better than Aaronola, better than Nowihs
Synderguard except for the X fit, which was higher than
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both of them. Extra for Chris Paddock over four ERA
A at three point three three. He went nine in
seven last year, pitching forty innings nine point eight strikeouts
per nine under two walks for nine. Very very good.
They're the Babbitt was extremely low at two thirty seven,
although you know it wasn't really high throughout his minors career. Frank,
Chris Paddock is going the earliest out of those three.
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Does that mean you would draft him the earliest of
those three? Well, Greg, you're gonna have to wait and
find out after I'm done analyzing Chris Paddock. You mentioned
the e r A and the X fit. The X
fit was higher than the e r A a a little
bit over for a zero point nine eight whip. I mean,
let's not understate that this guy had a sub one
whip last year as a rookie, his first season in
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major League Baseball with the juice all as well, maintained
a whip under one case per nine over nine nearly
ten at nine point seven nine the walks for nine
under two. The guy has phenomenal command. Sheriff Chris Paddock.
Shout out to Matt Modica. Believe he still has Chris
Paddock as his Twitter avatar as well. It's how much
he loves Chris Paddock. We know how great the command
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is when it comes to Paddock seventy one first pitch
strike percentage. He establishes the strike early in the count
as well. Um basically fastball changeup combination last year has
like a Vulcan changeup, they call it. I almost want
to choose him just because he uses something called a
Vulcan changeup. G sounds awesome. He needs to continue working
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on the curveball. The only thing about ten and a
half percent of the time last year, and it really
wasn't a great curveball. But everything we've heard in the
off season Greg is that exactly is what he's doing,
is he's working on the curveball. He's developing it. He's
called it a quote top shelf curveball. Heading into the season,
somebody to pay attention to throughout curveball. But Greg, I
really do believe that if this curveball just becomes adequate,
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it's all over for everybody in the league. I mean,
look what he did with just a fastball, changeup combination
throws mid nineties. That change up keeps everyone all balance.
And then if he mixes in a curveball that he
just uses ten to fifteen percent of the time and
it's just a solid curveball, then I do think that
you're gonna see the e r A stabilize out, the
babbit might go up a little bit, the X fit
dropped down, and he's just going to progress as a
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starting pitcher. I love everything that I saw from last year.
Great home roads, was great against both lefties and right
e's as well. If I'm projecting him, I think he's
given you three five, maybe three six e r A
a hundred and seventy to eighty innings pitched. I really
like what I saw at a Chris Paddock last year,
and I really like him going into this year. Greg
Hey is my money in the bank winner Chris Paddick.
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Here we go, money talks. You drive Chris Paddock, and
you're going to be money in the bank this fantasy
baseball season. Greg, I like Aaron Nola, but I worry
about the command issues last year, worry about that fastball,
and I just worry about No Sindergarten general. Is he
ever going to put it all together? I don't mind
any of these players, in fact, I like all of them.
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But if we're splitting hairs and choosing the player who
is going to return the most money on his investment,
that's going to be Chris Pattick. We'll see obviously rookie
last season. As you mentioned, Frankie, will you get better? Well,
that's the question we're gonna have to ask ourselves here,
uh during draft Monk for me, don't think no Synderguard,
especially because you're getting him around later. All right, And
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with that, it is now time for the continuation of
Frank's White Boys series. Let you know how this works. Basically,
Frank is going to take a pick once a week
twice a week, depending on what we got going on,
and he's going to draft three rounds with this pick,
both in a rhodo format as well as a head
to head format, and he wants you to get an
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idea of the players that will be there and how
to build your team. The idea here is for you
ultimately to get an understanding of a what pick that
you want in the draft and be well, what the
team looked like here. So we're gonna get started in
just a few moments. I know Frank's getting ready over there,
so let's make sure the camera next to Frank is
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facing him so he's ready to rock here and we
will get right it'll it'll be this one here, So
I'll move over there. We'll get right into it. Follow me, everybody, Alex,
follow me over here. There we go. Let's get into
this here. It is the money in the bank cop
contest here Chris Paddock. Frank's winner for me, the clear
champion Frank was Noah Syndergarden. He's the guy who's going
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to have the best year and he's costing you the
least at the moment. We did number one earlier in
the week for the white Board series. Number one overall
pick was Ronald Kunia and then he followed up with
a couple of pictures different pictures, which was interesting. Uh. There,
that was number one overall. Now we go to the
other side. We started with one, and now we move
on to number twelve. Sean, are we ready to go
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with alright? So with that we throw it over to
Frank Sample with the white board series. Thanks Greg, and
I had a lot of fun earlier in the week
doing the number one pick, but we gotta go to
the back end of the draft with the number twelve pick.
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Of course, we're doing this for twelve team leagues. I
know a lot of people play in the NFBC and
they play in fifteen team leagues. I participate in a
ton of them myself, but most people play in twelve
team leagues. So that's what we're going to attack today,
the last pick of the first round if you play
in a twelve team league. Again, well, we did this
during the the fantasy football season, and we would pick
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two different teams up against each other and then ask
you which one you liked more at the end of
the white board today, like we did with the number
one pick, we're gonna do it from a Rhodo perspective,
and we're also going to do it from a head
to head points perspective, and I'll kind of break down
why there are differences in the players that we are
going to draft. So reg you know, that I like pitching.
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You know that I like to get the and that's
exactly what we're going to do. Frankly on both sides.
A little foreshadowing here, but with the twelve pick, the
first pick, if you have last pick, your number one
pick if you have the last pick, is Justin Verlander.
No surprise here, Greg, and I guess there's a chance
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he could be drafted by then, but according to a DP,
he is available here with the twelfth pick, I want
to get a starting pitcher because by the time it
comes back to in the third fourth round range, you're
gonna be looking at someone like Patrick Corbyn, Luis Castile.
Those guys are fine and you can still build a
pitching stuff around them. I would just feel better personally
if I have one of those horses that anchor in
a Justin Verlander. I'm not worried about Verlander when it
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comes to the age. When it comes to the cheating scandal, Greg,
this guy has had a sub one whip in each
of the past two seasons while with the Houston Astros,
and he just continues to get better. I mean, the
guy is like a fine one right now in terms
of real life baseball Fantasy baseball. He's likely going to
give you a sub three whip. He's gonna get to
a lot of wins. He's been extremely durable, going over
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two endings repeatedly in his career. I'm gonna take Justin
Verlander with my first of two picks here at the
back end of the first round. If you have the
twelve pick in a twelve team league, starting off the
second round on the wheel here, you know, I like
to get stolen basis to Greg, I like to get
someone who can do it all. Who is someone who
can do it all that's going at this point in
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the draft. Well, it could have been Fernando Tatis Jr.
But it's not Fernando Tatis Jr. It's Jose Ramirez. We're
just hoping that Jose Ramirez is fine after you got
hit by a pitch in spring training the other day.
And I think this is a great way to start
off your draft because you give yourself a base with
starting pitching and Josi Ramirez. Well, he might not be
a five category contributor because I don't know how great
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the batting average is gonna be. I probably project him
for a two seventy to two seventy five batting average.
It doesn't hurt your average, but he's gonna give you
stolen basis. I'm midst everything that was happening last year.
I understand he was a letdown for a lot of
people earlier on in the season, wound up, you know,
pulling it all together, and still had over twenty home runs,
over twenty stolen basis. He was still giving you speed
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all the while. Second half of the season, you look
at the numbers and he stopped lifting the ball. He
got to home run happy, goes back to the second
half of where he was just trying to hit too
many home runs. He was lifting the ball too much.
He got back to his normal approach, hitting line drives,
pulling the ball, and naturally the ball started to go
out of the ballpark again. He didn't have to try
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to do anything differently, just be who you are, Joseer Mires,
and I think he's gonna do that again this upcoming season. Greg,
I would tab him for home runs to thirty stolen bases,
good counting stats and a solid batting average at eighty.
Do you have a problem, Greg, with either one of
Justin Verlander or whose are Mirons don't have a problem
with either. Ranthom My question was the suicidal you put
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Justin Burlander on the board. Was there no thought given
a Max Scherzer in this spot? Well, I think it's
a fair a question, right, because if Max Scherzer is healthy,
which is the biggest question, Uh, he could be better
than Justin Verlander on a per star basis. But I
think that they're close enough Greg that I will take
the picture who has been more durable. We are not
worried about any back or neck issues even in the
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World Series, sure as it was dealing with that issue
missed some time throughout the regular season last year as well.
So I think they're close enough on a per game basis.
Where give me the guy who is healthier, who has
been more durable, and that is Justin Verlander. Was there
any thought, let's throw it out there, of taking Verlander
and Max schers are back to back. It's thirteen in
a roto draft. I wouldn't do it. Maybe in the
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head to head points league, it's something that I would
look into it. Yes, well you are about to find
out right about that, but I would not go with
two starting pitchers there at the back end of the
first round. I want to get something offensively for you know,
in my five by five leagues, you can pump the
offensive categories, and especially if you get someone I can
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give you those stolen bases without hurting you any where else.
That's what I would want to do with Jose Ra Mirrors.
There are a lot of great hitters in that range,
Alex Bregman, but he doesn't give you anything and stolen
basis So for me, I'm going to opt for someone
who do you taking Ramrors over? I would take Ramirez
over Bregman and no one Arronado. He's my number one
third base because there is no speed of course, really
comes to Ronado and when it comes to Bregman. I
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get it. Man, I think I think it makes sense.
It's funny because I'm really proud of you. You're going
against your gut, which is this guy killed me last year.
I can't do it again, and here you are jumping
right back in Josieerra Mirrors. I agree with it. I'm
buying the second half is the real josieer Mirrors because
we saw it so often the the year prior to
the year before that first half an aberration. It'll be fine.
I like Josier Mirrors. It's a great starts of the team. Man,
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I can't start my team with Justin Verlander and Josie
ra mirrors or Max Scherzer and Josie Ramirez. Feel really
good about myself. I like that, Frankie. Yeah, absolutely, Gregg,
and we'll talk more about the head to head points
side of things we come back after the break. Obviously
here again on the rural side. Number twelve pick started
team with Justin Verlander and Josie Era mirrs. It's pretty
good start, Gregor, all right, let's take a break. When
we come back, we're gonna get into the head to
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head side. As Frankie mentioned, we'll find out who he's
taking at the turn there and then we'll do the
turn after that on both sides. To wrap up the show,
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What's going on? You're wrapping up the show? You have
to really coast to coast coming your way next, Scotty
Evase with Mike Carver regularly, here be a fun night
as we get you ready for a fury while they're
obviously a game on the show yesterday. Uh, Frank, we
go back over to you in the Rhodo side of things.
You let off with Justin Burlander and Jose Ramirez. Let's
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move on the head to head side of things, shall we. Yeah,
let's move over to the head to head points side
of things again. I play in two head to head
points leagues. Let's make it three now that I have
joined out wards. But my longest standing trying what what
greet you? Uh, my longest standing home league is a
head to head points league. So I actually do really
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really enjoy this format. And I stressed with the first
overall pick taking Garrett Cole, because you need starting pitching.
It is so valuable in a head to head points league.
Depending on how your points league is set up. Again,
in the league that I play, we get a point
per out. You get I would make three points per
ending pitched. You get bonuses for quality starts for wins,
half a point for strike out as well, and you
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lose points for things like hits and and earned runs
as well. But pictures typically get more points in this format.
So you gotta get at least one, maybe two. I'll
let you know in a second. If Justin Verlander is there,
he might be gone because pitching gets pulled up the
board in a head to head point league. According to
a DP, Verlander is going to be there. So for
today's exercise, I will take Justin Verlander. But if he
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were gone, I've got to get at least one starting
pitcher here. Whether it's Walker Bueller, whether it's Max Scherzer.
You cannot escape either of your first two picks in
a head to head points league without a starting picture.
I cannot stress that enough. So for all the reasons
I said, you're taking Justin Verlander on this side, you
will also take Justin Verlander in the head to head
points league because of the volume, the endings, pitch to
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strike outs, equality starts, the wins, everything that Justin Verlander does.
We're gonna take a second picture. No, we are not
going to take a second onon picture because you can
actually get a really good one or two later on
at the three four turns, So we'll wait a little
bit on that. I want to anchor my team with
another hitter here as well. I am not going to
take Jose Ramirez, while he is also pretty good points
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league because he has a good point discipline, he doesn't
strike out, he hits a lot of doubles. I'm gonna
take Alex Bregman here at the overall pick, with the
second round pick of the of the number twelve pick
in this draft. And Alex Bregman in a points league
was the number one hitter last year. He hits a
ton of doubles. He had more walks than strikeouts last year.
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If you worry about the cheating incident when it comes
to Alex Bregman and you're worried about his performance falling off,
first of all, you probably shouldn't, but if you do,
maybe just go in a different direction, I would take
a hitter here still one of Jose Ramirez or A
Bregman or Nolan Arronado. For me, Alex Bregman is the
hitter you should take in a head to head points league.
He was the number one hitter and points leagues last year. Greg,
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even if he regresses a little bit, I still think
he's going to be really good. So in Rhodo ball
team league, last pick Dustin Verlander and Jose Ramirez on
the Rhodo side, and head to head points league, Justin
Verlander and Alex Bregman. Greg, is that all right with you?
It's funny because we went from Hoosier like you talked
me a Hosier mirrors on the other side. Then he
went to Alex Bregman here. Of course, you never want
to hit her in points leads last year. I don't
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know what about the steels, but we've talked so much
about this early past couple of weeks. How this kind
of in a head to head categories leage you can
put steals, right, you don't, you just don't need it.
Points leaves kind of the same thing. You don't really
work fantasy points, so right, It's not like in fantasy basketball,
where like blocks are were a lot of points, it
steals are a lot of points in fantasy basketball, fantasy
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baseball well in two points, and they're so rare anyway
that you can get by without them. I'm cool with
Alex Bregman. I also told you earlier in draft season.
I'm an only Houranado guy, but diving in a little
bit deeper here, Bregman is a better player and the
best player here at third base in points lead over
No l Aronado. As much as that hurts me to say,
I agree with that, Frank, I'm cool with it, all right.
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So Justin Berlandard Alex Bregman in the head to head
points league. Coming back over here in Rhodo, you have
the last pick in the draft. At the three four turn.
You're looking at picks thirty six and thirty seven. Normally
I only set up your first three picks. I'm feeling
a little generous here today on a Friday, we'll do
the thirty six and thirty seven overall pick. If you
play in a roto league, Greg, I love the base
of stats that Justin Verlander gives you so much that
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I am not going to take a second starting pitcher
at the three four turn, because at the five six
turn later on I pick sixty, you get someone like
Chris Paddick or no A synder Guard or Aaronola or
Zak Granky, And I don't mind any of those pictures
as my second starting pitcher in a Roto league. So
I'm going to double down on hitting here and I'm
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gonna get a few players that I think can contribute
across the board. So let's start this off with pick
thirty six. We're gonna take Austin Meadows of the Tampa
Bay Rays, someone who can do a little bit of everything.
We saw last year the breakout season from Meadows. There
was a lull in the middle there, but ended up
finishing out strong. That he's someone who can hit to
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eight plus thirty home runs, maybe even more power than that.
It doesn't hurt you anywhere, and the fifteen so on
basis performed well against left handed pitching last year, even
as a left handed batter. Really like to see that
out of Austin Meadows. He just has to stay healthy,
something that you do worry about with Meadows. He did
have some injuries earlier in his minor league career, but
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stayed healthy for the most part last year with the
Tampa Bay Rays. We're gonna double down on hitters here,
Gregg and I mentioned, I want to get someone who
could do it all, and to me, that is Javier
bayas Man. I'm gonna take Austin Meadows and Javier Bias.
Pair these two guys together. I actually think that they're
pretty similar players in terms of what they're going to
give you. They're not similar in terms of plate discipline.
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Nobody is like Javier Bias. He is one of a kind.
He swings and misses a lot. He doesn't walk. His
plate discipline is terrible. I tried to doubt him in
the past and he made me look completely foolish. Now
you're getting him in the third fourth round. The guy
was a borderline first round pick last year. Greg He's
been extremely consistent between a two seventy and two ninety
batting average each of the past three seasons. He gives
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you thirty home runs, good counting SATs. Say what you
will about the Chicago Cubs, their lineup is still pretty
damn good. There was a report lier today Javier Bias
the thumb injury from last year is behind him. He's
fully healthy, he's good to go. I think he gives
you twelve to fifteen stolen bass. I think both of
these guys, Greg, Greg give you a little bit of everything.
I don't mind the starting pitchers that you can get
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a little bit later on at the five six turn,
at the seven eight turn. And because of that, I'm
gonna double down on hitters here, Borlander, Jose Miris, Austin Meadows,
Javier Bias, any issues. Yeah, because in the past you
have said the third fourth round is your sweet spot
for pitching, right, use a lot of guys you really
like here. And we talked about it before, Chris Paddock,
that was Syndergaard, Aaron Nola, Massa hero to not. I'm
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sorry you, Darvish, h Luisa Varrino was in this cruise,
that Greggy, all those guys, that's time it gets back.
He gone, He's gone. But all those guys, by the
time is your pick again in the fifth round, they're
probably gone. Probably not Greg really going to the NBC
A d P. Yeah, I pick sixty. They're gonna be
there in rotal leagues. Okay, even someone like Zach Grenky,
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if you know he could wait a little bit but yeah,
I mean according to the ADA, I think you can
get someone like Paddick. You know. The thing is, I
show you a lot of my draft boards, Greg, that
are fifteen team draft. That's why you see Paddock and
and Um Synderguard and Darvish and all these guys. They
go in the fourth round in a fifteen team round,
but in a twelve teamer they can last till the
end of the fifth round the beginning of the six
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So you can actually grab one of those guys a
little bit later. The pictures you would be looking at
here Luis Castillo, Patrick Corbyn, those pictures are fine, but
I don't really think that they're that dissimilar from pictures
you can get later on. I'm gonna take the hitters
and really kind of build out my base of hitting stats.
I know, how any bias is your guy? Obviously have
to give an outfielder, given that many rotal leaves played
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with five outfields, so you do you need ones one
here In the first four rounds, Austin Meadows had this
breakout campaign for Kevin Bay. Let's see if you stay
healthy here in Frank's go back to you and figure
out who we're wrapping up our head to head team
with Okay, so I mentioned on this side we can
wait on starting pitching head to head points, We're not
gonna wait on starting pitching. You have to grab another
one here, just because I want someone who is going
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to give a lot of endings, who's going to give
me volume, someone who is dependable, and I do think
that that is Patrick Corbin. Again, He's gone to under
endings pitch each of the past two seasons, proven himself
wipe out Slider, one of the best in the game.
The walks went up last year. I want to see
those come back down a little bit. Here. In has
a good team behind him in Washington. He's going to
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get run support. He gets to face the Miami Marlins
as well. The strikeouts are gonna be solid. I think
Patrick Corban is a very fine sp two. But in
a points league, I want someone who's going to give
you a volume, someone who's a little bit more dependable,
who's going to give you those endings. Uh. And I
think it's a perfect combination with someone like Justin Verlander.
Again in points league. I'm in points leagues. I'm just
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going to stress starting pitching a little bit more than
I am in Roto leagues because in Roto you can
find those guys who are good on a per enning basis,
good on a purse star pieces. Quantity quality over quantity
in Roto, quantity over quality when it comes to head
to head points, Greg, I want to grab a hitter here. Okay,
I'm not gonna take Austin Meadows. I'm not going to
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take Javier Baias. When I'm going to take is actually
Xander Bogarts of the Boston Red Sox, who did not
lead the league in doubles last year? If not lead
the league in doubles last year? I asked Greig throughout
the break. He actually laughed at me and said, that
was the most ridiculous question you ever asked. No, because
no, no no, no, let me describe this. I know you
have two minutes ago, but like you, just like, hey,
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did Xander Bogers lead league doubles last year? It's a
fair question. Doing a fantasy baseball show, you think it
was gonna have that available for you not know what
you're talking Aboutander, It's easier for you to pull it
up on your laptop than for me to like hunch
over here, and I got it. For you. He did not.
His teammate Rothhaeld never has had more than him last season.
It makes sense, and leading the league overall was Nick Castiano's. Well,
Xander Bogarts has to be close. I'd imagine, right, Greg
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had six less doubles than Nick Castianos all right, so
he was up there, had over fifty doubles last year,
and again, from a Points League perspective, a really good,
play disciplined Xander Bogarts continues to get better and better right.
Kind of reminds me of Anthony Rendon from the shortstop position,
where he's gonna give you a good batting average. I
think the power probably takes a step back. He had
over thirty home runs last year, probably hits twenty five
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seven home runs, really good batting average. Even with Mookie
Betts out in Boston. I like the Red Sox lineup.
I think people are kind of undervaluing the Red Sox
a little bit too much right now with Mookie Betts
being gone. Doesn't strike out so obviously that helps you
in a Points league. He's gonna hit doubles. Um. I
like grabbing two starting pitchers in my first four rounds
in the Points League I think Xander Bogart's is a
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perfect target from a points league perspective. Greg. Notice I
don't have an outfielder yet on this side, because in
the points leads that I play in, UH standard Points league,
normally you only use three outfielders. Maybe you use four outsiders.
I'm not really going to put an emphasis on a
position scarcity. I'm just gonna take players who perform well
in that format, and Xander Bogarts is one of them. Greg,
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all right, Alexander Bogarts, I feel good about him. Him
and Hobby Baya is both good picks I think in
that spot in the Points League, though, I think we're comfortable.
Lexander Bogart's Frank excellent job, which hems like better? Oh,
I am going to take that. I really like this season.
This has all my guys like I loved Meadows last
year too. Kind of sucks that he's going as high
as he is this season because I'd like to have
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more shares of him. But someone who I really like
in Roto this year is Jaby or Bias as well.
I like the Seam a lot. Obviously. Both teams are great.
I drafted them ROT a little bit better Jessic, Patrick
Korby don't even like Patrick Korby. I do not like
Patrick Corbyn. I was on Corban a couple of years ago.
Greg Hell tell the people a long time ago. Grows up,
Nash Frank, I'll drag up a fantastic weekend weekend enjoying
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some spring training action. Top of the first inning, Rangers
Royals first spring training game. That is the Cactus League
at Sunrise, Florida. Tomorrow a lot of the other teams
get started, but we just have one today and that's
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just on their way. Top of the first no score
between the Rangers and the Royals. Let's head over to
the FanDuel Sports book. Let's check out the card for
basketball NBA action tonight as we get set for a
big slate of NBA action. You have the Cleveland Cavs
at the Washington Wizards. Wizards laying six to thirty six
your total. Dallas at the mag Magic that's four point
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favorite for the Mavericks and that one to twenty and
a half is your total. Later on tonight the headline
matchup the Denver Nuggets at the Okay City Thunder Thunder
laying a point and a half to six seed and
a half your total, and rounding out the Markey matchups
in the NBA tonight, Grizzlies at Lakers. Lakers tendant a
half point favorites to thirty four, and have your total Pelicans,
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They're gonna make a charge for that eighth seed in
the Western Conference at the Portland Trailblazers Plicans on the
road five and a half point favorites to thirty nine
your total in that one. Major League Baseball News you
and a Sespenis has not begun sprinting all out according
to his manager Louis Rojas, So stay tuned on that.
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Sesspitis missed all of last season with hell surgery. See
if he makes it full return this season. That is
your BFF sports Grade news update. Now back to Gregor
frank other sports grade. The Pelicans a five and a
half point favoriteccording to what Shaun just said. That's over.
At four, we get more injury news now, dude, it's
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just think everyone's piling on the Pelicans tonight. This is
the problem though, Greg, that I've noticed at least, and
we'll get into fantasy baseball, of course, I feel like
the Pelicans are somewhat being overvalued with Zion Williamson. Don't
get me wrong. I'm very excited about combination being overvalued
and Lili, Yeah, for sure. Like Lillard's been ridiculous since
the start of the new year. The guy has been
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like dropping fifty points like every other game. Basically, it's
been awesome points five and a half point dogs at
home are Portland, Greag, we got MSG after this, he's
still gonna back up the New Orleans Pelicans. I don't know.
I'm not allowed to change. You might have to rethink
things there. That's a lot of points, man, it's a
lot of a lot of points off. That's one thing guarantee.
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That's an absolutely couldn't reward on that. Let's move into baseball,
and now's the news and headlines on today's show. Let's
let's at least bring that up on today's show. Oh,
we're gonna have our second edition of Multiple Things here.
It will be the second edition of the white Board
series with Frank Stanford. We preview picked number one earlier
this week on Monday, we go to pick number twelve
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here to end the week. So we begin and end
one to twelve. That's what we'll do later on in
the program. Also here we will get into money in
the Bank at Triple Threat Match of pictures and where
they're going similar adp s. I don't freak and I
feel differently about the players that are involved in today's
Money in the Bank contest, So we'll get into that
coming out, you know, just about ten minutes from now.
Before we do any of that, though, let's get some
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of the headlines for today, Frank, and that takes us now.
It begins us well in St. Louis were Paul gold
Schmidt have a bit of an elbow injury. He says
it's not a big deal, He's gonna be fine. I've
been down here for Goldschmit. Really started out cold, got
hot as the season went on, as he normally does.
He's usually a pretty slow starter. Are you in on
Paul gold Schmidt here? No, I'm not in on Paul
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gold Schmith this upcoming season. Greg. That's why I actually
hate to see this news because whenever there's an injury
to a player that you weren't in on, that means
they're gonna fall down the draft board, and players who
were you were you were in on are going to
slightly move up the draft board. It was the same
thing with a u Henyo Suarez. I wasn't going to
be on Suarez at his draft costs before he had.
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He has slipped a little bit, so maybe I'll look
more into Suarez now, But Paul gold Schmidt is someone
that I was not looking at. Greg. The batting average
has come way down from where it has been, and
then you're just off all Cardinals. You don't want to.
I don't think that they're a good team, which is
crazy to say, because they're like a great organization obviously,
and they always find a way to win like eighty
five plus games and they're right in the thick of things.
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But I mean, outside of Jack Flaherty, I don't think
that they're pitching staff is great. They're trying to make
Carlos Martinez a starting pitcher again. They're throwing him back
in the rotation. Um, who's their closer right now? Is
the Giovanni Diegos. Andrew Miller hasn't been great the past
couple of seasons. I don't think the lineup is very
good either. Maybe he'll get better once they call up
some of these young kids, Dylan Carlson someone they're very
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excited about. Paul Goldschman now k percentage up over back
to back years. His chase rate was the highest of
his career. Last year barrel percentage was down. He had
to sixty. Greg, you have to think, oh, well he
got unlucky, right, Paul Goldchman normally it's two eighty two
nine expected batting average to sixty two. Well, there's stole
a lot of bases, right, it's Paul Golchman does no,
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doesn't steal basis anymore, Greg, So three bases. Where's Paul
Goldchman in your it's first base rankings? That is a
fair question. And I'm going to stall while I pull
that up for you. Uh, and my first base ranks,
I have Paul gold Schmidt at number seven, whereas he's
like the fifth starting the fifth, first basement off the
board usually after after how you just driving him I
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don't way lower seven. Should I lower him more? So?
I haven't one spot ahead of Josh Bell, But I
think Josh Bell has a bunch of question marks too.
Doesn't he rough second half? Well? He acts? The thing
is he ended the season really well, like August September.
It was like June July brutal, Yeah, very bad, and
then auguste care That's that's a good point. But Josh
(09:24):
Bell probably a player you want the points leagu right,
good plate discipline, watch a lot doubles streaky. Not a
good line up either. There in Pittsburgh who got nine?
So I have Goldschmidt seven, Josh Bell eight. I have
Dtail Mayhew nine. You could argue that he should probably
be higher. Fine, and then I have Max Mounsey at ten.
I like Max Moncy wearing Paul Goldchman. Well that's because
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you played in ob P. For me, he's probably gonna
hit like. Max Moncy is great in OBA and Paul
Goldschmidt is too. He still walks a lot. But I
don't know, man, it's something about Paul Goldschmian. It just
seems like one of these years it might just fall
completely on his face. Not a lot of protection in
the lineup to the RBI. We thought that was last
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year for a lot of the year. So you know
what's crazy. Hogel Schmid is the eighth first basement off
the board, so I guess I'm not really down on him.
He said it was fifth a few willmas again. Yeah,
and NBC he's the eight first basement off the board.
I have him at seven. Maybe I should find a
way to move him lower. I don't really want. I
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just told you how. Move them behind Josh Bell and
d G the next next month, all right, talk me
into it, alright. Other news and notes from camp. Carlos
Carrasco hurt again, which is frustrating. Not um serious thing
like when he battled last year. But he is banking
up um and certainly someone you want to see bounced
back have a nice spring, not of a good start. No,
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he's not, and we reported we not. We reported like
the BFS are out there on the field watching Carlos Carrasco,
but we saw the We're not. That is a factual statement.
But the reports yesterday or that he left he was
dealing with a leg injury. He was on crutches. It
comes out today that it is a hip issue. It's minor.
I saw last night lyde Settler, who competes in a
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ton of NFBC drafts. He's a great high stakes player,
tweeted out that Parlos, Carrasco, and Severino went in around
fifteen and sixteen respectively. Round fifteen. Sure I have a
shot of calls Carrasco there? Why not? Absolutely? I think
there's gonna be some correction. He's gonna about Stecca. Right
when do we come back? A couple of news notes.
I want to get to Frank was tweeting out trade Turner,
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so he wants to reveal when he was tweeting about.
And then we'll get into this week's money in the
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about all right, well, well, well exact with you here
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on the BFS on a Friday, Gregg sauceman Frank stand
for hanging out having too much fun. I need it
mans around. I heard on FT this week you got
a big weekend plan. You have no fiance, which means
a whole lot of sitting on your couch and drafting.
No draft this weekend, Greg, nothing planned yet, but look
there's some time to change that. It's time to get
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in alve getting in a draft. There is no fiance
this weekend. She's off to ball bustin. I shipped her
up to Boston Grand going out tonight night on the
tap with my brother. He was Johnny Stamfull and Johnny
be on his phone looking wrestling backdowns all the night.
There's no one thing. He watches a lot of SmackDown.
If he does, it's on demand, it's not live. I
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can tell you that much he loves wrestling. I don't.
I don't think he loves it that much. I don't know, man,
he really loves wrestling, but I don't really handling his
plans on a Friday to watch SmackDown. Johnny Snaffle, Johnny
Staffle loves wrestling, dude. You know what, I'm gonna have
him send me a picture of Legitimately. He has two
cases in his room of real wrestling belts, the offensive one,
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like three fifty plus dollar belts, no joke. He asked
my parents for them, like every holiday, Birthday, Christmas, he
wants a belt. I mean, it's a sick collection. He's
like the yellow Intercontinental title. He has the Smoking Skull
w w F, the heavy one. He's like it's leather
and it's like the real championship. He has like twelve
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of them lined up in like a glass case. It's
pretty sick. Well, yeah, he loves wrestling, but not on
a Friday. He's hanging out with me. We're not watching SmackDown.
I'll tell you that. Just go out after SmackDown, well
my pre game and watch SmackDown. If that's there, I'm
gonna I'm gonna text Well watching some highlights of the
Royals and Rangers, Greg who were playing right now. I'm
gonna get a text from Frank. I cannot wait. It's
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gonna be him on the couch looking at Rangers, Royals
box scores and Johnny Stanfell screaming at his TV at
Roman Reins. I can't wait for It's gonna be awesome. Alright,
you have you tweet about trade Turner at last night?
What were you tweeting? Yeah, I just wanted to make
it known. I've I saw the report that he might
move down in the lineup, he might bet third, and
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I tweeted this out. In his career, Trade Turner has
average one stolen base every twelve plate appearances while batting leadoff.
That's a sample over fifteen d plate appearances. While batting
in every other spot in the order. In his career,
tray Turner has ever once solen base every nineteen point
seven plate appearances, just over five hundred and fifty plate
appearances combined in every other spot in the lineup outside
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of leadoff. So assuming that he gets six d and
fifty plate appearances, Greg, I you know, fired up the
old calculator app here on the computer. Your times nineteen
nineteen point seven. I'm saying this wrong. Take six hundred fifty, Yeah,
divided by nineteen point seven. This is why I'm not
I'm not the math guy, and you're projected thirty three
stolen bases for Trade Turner. Greg, would you be happy
(15:30):
with thirty three stolen bases from Trade Turner if you
took him in the first round? I agree, I don't
because the power is not enough right and need footy
stas from him. The power is not there, like it's
not enough for your take. The power went up last year. Sure,
I guess there's a chance that it keeps trending up.
I don't know. Maybe it was just juice ball related anywhere.
(15:52):
He's only twenty six years old. Everyone's just assuming the
juice ball is gone. I tell you, nobody knows it
was gone in the postseason for sure. You know where
a guy is with him in the auction Yamada. We
already went over this key boo him down reserve rounds.
It might be able to get him in the reserva.
You want to know what it do? You know what
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his a DP is? Right? No? Wow, he goes late
almost him him. I'm with you, so it burnt me
everywhere last year. I'm back. If someone wins a dollar,
I'm going to I'm not on three, I'll go to alright.
Maybe I'm just saying it's reserved rounds. Come on, Greg,
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don't even mention the name. Don't even say the initials
c K. I don want nobody to know. New underwear
brand coming out carder Key Boom, c K BFFs go
kill boom. We should make a cologne line harder Key Boom.
I like this jokes guy Calvin Klein and my joke. Yes,
(16:55):
all right, Greg, you can only be your joke. Greg
can only make Calvin Klein jokes. He's the only one
that can ask about crappy players on this. When I
bring up some trap, it's like, what about Taoscar Hernandez.
When I'm asking Greg about someone relevant, He's like, who's
that I've never heard of? That guy you probably name
is someone irrelevant. And if I don't know he's irrelevant,
that's oh yeah, that's gotta be true, you know that? Um?
(17:17):
All right, any more news to notice, you know, Let's
do some fun. She's on the fun. It's too Friday.
Let's have some fun. And this week it's time once
again to find out who he's Money in the bank.
Here comes the money. Here we go money talk, Here
comes the money cheating Money in the bank. This week
(17:45):
here on the bf F S Frank, let's get right
into it. This week, we're facing off again some of
the pictures that are going in the third and fourth round.
It's Chris Paddock, aur Nolah and Noah's s God No,
it's Nderguard Aaronola, two players that were seen as top
twelve pictures probably just a year ago. Chris Paddock, of
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course alone. Hazy's Lazardo was the hottest name uh Young
picture wise that was being drafted last season. Now it's
Paddock and Aaronola going in similar spots. Well, now a
Synderguard goes about a round later than both of them. Frank,
let's start with my guy, Noah Syndergard. He's a player
that I believe, despite going last on this list, he's
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a guy I would want want, I would want most
of my team for me. I'll reveal it right now
for me, Noah's Syndergard is Mr Buney in the bank.
We'll just get right to the chase while you're at it.
When it comes to no Syndergard is extremely frustrating, and
we spoke about him with Nick Pollock of Picture List.
I forgot the acronym that he uses for him, but
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basically it was along the lines of Noah Synderguard has
all the stuff in the world but doesn't know how
to pitch. Hopefully having Rene Rivera as his dedicated catcher. Well,
I actually helped him because last year with Wilson Ramos
as his catcher, Noah Syndergard had an ear a over
five in games that Wilson Ramos was his catcher. In
Noa Syndergard's career, Greg, with Renee Rivera as his catcher,
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thirty games, a hundred and eighty innings pitch that might
be a full season out of Noah Syndergard. Would you
like these numbers? Greg, let me know a two six
five e r A. There's no whip here, but sive
ar a. How about two hundred and five strikeouts and
a hundred eight pitch and he's pitched, could not have
any more in He'll say that Renee Rivera is going
to be the dedicated catcher for Noah Syndergard this year.
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But I understand why some people might be out on him, Greg.
He tinkers with his pitch makes he relies on his
fastball sometimes a little bit too much. He should be
throwing his breaking pitches more. I think he has all
the talent in the world. We all know that about
Noah Synderguard. They called the guy Thor for a reason.
I mean, he's built like an Adonis, and normally I
don't usually like that because guys like Aaron Judge and
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Giancarlos Stanton are hurt all the time. Right, Syndergard has
dealt with his own injuries managed just a healthy last year.
You didn't get the performance out of him that you
were hoping for, But there is a world, Greg, and
I realized that a range of outcomes where he does
put it all together, manages to stay healthy with Renee
Rivera as his catcher and puts up you know, bow
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three's e r a a good whip, two hundred strikeouts
dred eighty to two endings pitched. That does remain a
possibility for Noah Syndergard. Greg, But let's talk a little
bit about some of these other candidates as well. Sure,
I mean that everything he just positive, Syndard, other than
the way he's built well and the fact that he
sucked last year, Greg, how about that? Sure he's stunk well,
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he got better, He got better, and look, no Arno
has been healthier the past couple of years. Like that,
you can depend on him for more volume than you
can with Noahs Syndergard. I want to tell you, look
at Chris Paddock here three point three three and you're
going right in the paddock god Man, I had the
notes worthy for Chris Paddock. Greg all Right, Aaron last
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year one up with a three eight seven a three
A two x fit. He was not great. His fastball
was the worst of his career. It got smacked around
last year, Greg, And we know he has a great curveball.
When it comes to Arnold, the command was really out
of whack last year for Aaronola. The walks per nine
up over three and a half. You're not used to that.
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Still got a ton of strikeout, still got a ton
of ground balls, but with those walks going up it
also we also saw his whip balloon til one to
seven uh from eighteen Greg, he had a three three
five e r A out of Aaronola, a three to
nine x fit over a strikeout per ending two point
four walks per nine, really good groundball rate, a one
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on four whip and a twenty eight percent hard contact
rate last year. The hard contact for Aaronola just has
to get back to relying more so on that curveball.
The command has to come back for the fastball. Again.
He doesn't have a great fastball. It's like he has
to use that pitch to set up his secondary pitches.
Curveball change up as well. He gotta get back to
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mixing things up, and he's gotta command his pitch is better.
There's no doubt about it when it comes to Noah.
But for me, Greg, the track record for Noah from
eighteen is nearly on par with Noah synder Guard, if
not better, And he's been able to stay healthier than
Synderguard as well. So if he can get back to
that picture that he was the four seasons before, then
I think nobody can really pay off where he's going
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right now. As you mentioned, the walks really went up
last last year three point five six, very uncharacteristic for him.
Walked per nine. That's almost over a walk, way over
a walk more he's ever given up his career per
nine eight. Strike has also went up at the first
year with real moods. I wonder if that has something
to do with it. Could be really just not going
anywhere I'm there. The home runs for nine also went
up man one point to zero. Juice ball related possibly
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home on the five ball ratio, also related highest home
in the fly ball ratio of his career at seventeen
point four. I don't you mentioned this to me last year,
that eighteen if you look at all the numbers for
Aaron Nola, always the outlier, and we thought, all right,
My response is I really like that last year was
we got better. He's never gonna give again. That's not
gonna happen. That's the thing, right, So he never is
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going to do that again. That may have been the
year of his career. And the way I responded to
you last year as well, he just got better that
that that's it. And you said, well what if he didn't,
what if there's just an outlier? And I think it was.
I think the picture that you saw last year was
a kind of picture that you will see again, at
least for Syndergard. The walks or less strike has we're
a little bit less as well. The ex fit was
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actually exactly the same at three point eight. I think
Noah Syndergard has more of an ability to be better
than he has better stuff than Aaronoa, there's no doubt
about put it together, but more of an injury risk
than Aaronola as well, only inning He's no Syndergard pitched
last year. It was close to season last year. Yeah,
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but that's the thing. He's never done it, you know,
like all together with a full season of like the
production we're used to. You would only do that for
like a hundred and fifty innings. I got welcome back, Frank,
give you more on Chris Paddock and he'll tell you
who his Mr Money in the bank is. Here we go, Money.
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Blue Here Friday, let's go. Let's break it down, baby.
All right, we're going through our Nola and Noah Syndergard.
(24:53):
I've already told everybody my Mr Money in the Bank
right there. It's Noah Syndergard. But there is one player
left h in the triple threat draft matchup, and that
is Chris Padck, the player that actually had the best
season in twenty nineteen, better than Aaronola, better than Nowihs
Synderguard except for the X fit, which was higher than
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both of them. Extra for Chris Paddock over four ERA
A at three point three three. He went nine in
seven last year, pitching forty innings nine point eight strikeouts
per nine under two walks for nine. Very very good.
They're the Babbitt was extremely low at two thirty seven,
although you know it wasn't really high throughout his minors career. Frank,
Chris Paddock is going the earliest out of those three.
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Does that mean you would draft him the earliest of
those three? Well, Greg, you're gonna have to wait and
find out after I'm done analyzing Chris Paddock. You mentioned
the e r A and the X fit. The X
fit was higher than the e r A a a little
bit over for a zero point nine eight whip. I mean,
let's not understate that this guy had a sub one
whip last year as a rookie, his first season in
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major League Baseball with the juice all as well, maintained
a whip under one case per nine over nine nearly
ten at nine point seven nine the walks for nine
under two. The guy has phenomenal command. Sheriff Chris Paddock.
Shout out to Matt Modica. Believe he still has Chris
Paddock as his Twitter avatar as well. It's how much
he loves Chris Paddock. We know how great the command
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is when it comes to Paddock seventy one first pitch
strike percentage. He establishes the strike early in the count
as well. Um basically fastball changeup combination last year has
like a Vulcan changeup, they call it. I almost want
to choose him just because he uses something called a
Vulcan changeup. G sounds awesome. He needs to continue working
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on the curveball. The only thing about ten and a
half percent of the time last year, and it really
wasn't a great curveball. But everything we've heard in the
off season Greg is that exactly is what he's doing,
is he's working on the curveball. He's developing it. He's
called it a quote top shelf curveball. Heading into the season,
somebody to pay attention to throughout curveball. But Greg, I
really do believe that if this curveball just becomes adequate,
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it's all over for everybody in the league. I mean,
look what he did with just a fastball, changeup combination
throws mid nineties. That change up keeps everyone all balance.
And then if he mixes in a curveball that he
just uses ten to fifteen percent of the time and
it's just a solid curveball, then I do think that
you're gonna see the e r A stabilize out, the
babbit might go up a little bit, the X fit
dropped down, and he's just going to progress as a
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starting pitcher. I love everything that I saw from last year.
Great home roads, was great against both lefties and right
e's as well. If I'm projecting him, I think he's
given you three five, maybe three six e r A
a hundred and seventy to eighty innings pitched. I really
like what I saw at a Chris Paddock last year,
and I really like him going into this year. Greg
Hey is my money in the bank winner Chris Paddick.
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Here we go, money talks. You drive Chris Paddock, and
you're going to be money in the bank this fantasy
baseball season. Greg, I like Aaron Nola, but I worry
about the command issues last year, worry about that fastball,
and I just worry about No Sindergarten general. Is he
ever going to put it all together? I don't mind
any of these players, in fact, I like all of them.
(28:15):
But if we're splitting hairs and choosing the player who
is going to return the most money on his investment,
that's going to be Chris Pattick. We'll see obviously rookie
last season. As you mentioned, Frankie, will you get better? Well,
that's the question we're gonna have to ask ourselves here,
uh during draft Monk for me, don't think no Synderguard,
especially because you're getting him around later. All right, And
(28:35):
with that, it is now time for the continuation of
Frank's White Boys series. Let you know how this works. Basically,
Frank is going to take a pick once a week
twice a week, depending on what we got going on,
and he's going to draft three rounds with this pick,
both in a rhodo format as well as a head
to head format, and he wants you to get an
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idea of the players that will be there and how
to build your team. The idea here is for you
ultimately to get an understanding of a what pick that
you want in the draft and be well, what the
team looked like here. So we're gonna get started in
just a few moments. I know Frank's getting ready over there,
so let's make sure the camera next to Frank is
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facing him so he's ready to rock here and we
will get right it'll it'll be this one here, So
I'll move over there. We'll get right into it. Follow me, everybody, Alex,
follow me over here. There we go. Let's get into
this here. It is the money in the bank cop
contest here Chris Paddock. Frank's winner for me, the clear
champion Frank was Noah Syndergarden. He's the guy who's going
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to have the best year and he's costing you the
least at the moment. We did number one earlier in
the week for the white Board series. Number one overall
pick was Ronald Kunia and then he followed up with
a couple of pictures different pictures, which was interesting. Uh. There,
that was number one overall. Now we go to the
other side. We started with one, and now we move
on to number twelve. Sean, are we ready to go
(29:59):
with alright? So with that we throw it over to
Frank Sample with the white board series. Thanks Greg, and
I had a lot of fun earlier in the week
doing the number one pick, but we gotta go to
the back end of the draft with the number twelve pick.
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Of course, we're doing this for twelve team leagues. I
know a lot of people play in the NFBC and
they play in fifteen team leagues. I participate in a
ton of them myself, but most people play in twelve
team leagues. So that's what we're going to attack today,
the last pick of the first round if you play
in a twelve team league. Again, well, we did this
during the the fantasy football season, and we would pick
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two different teams up against each other and then ask
you which one you liked more at the end of
the white board today, like we did with the number
one pick, we're gonna do it from a Rhodo perspective,
and we're also going to do it from a head
to head points perspective, and I'll kind of break down
why there are differences in the players that we are
going to draft. So reg you know, that I like pitching.
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You know that I like to get the and that's
exactly what we're going to do. Frankly on both sides.
A little foreshadowing here, but with the twelve pick, the
first pick, if you have last pick, your number one
pick if you have the last pick, is Justin Verlander.
No surprise here, Greg, and I guess there's a chance
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he could be drafted by then, but according to a DP,
he is available here with the twelfth pick, I want
to get a starting pitcher because by the time it
comes back to in the third fourth round range, you're
gonna be looking at someone like Patrick Corbyn, Luis Castile.
Those guys are fine and you can still build a
pitching stuff around them. I would just feel better personally
if I have one of those horses that anchor in
a Justin Verlander. I'm not worried about Verlander when it
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comes to the age. When it comes to the cheating scandal, Greg,
this guy has had a sub one whip in each
of the past two seasons while with the Houston Astros,
and he just continues to get better. I mean, the
guy is like a fine one right now in terms
of real life baseball Fantasy baseball. He's likely going to
give you a sub three whip. He's gonna get to
a lot of wins. He's been extremely durable, going over
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two endings repeatedly in his career. I'm gonna take Justin
Verlander with my first of two picks here at the
back end of the first round. If you have the
twelve pick in a twelve team league, starting off the
second round on the wheel here, you know, I like
to get stolen basis to Greg, I like to get
someone who can do it all. Who is someone who
can do it all that's going at this point in
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the draft. Well, it could have been Fernando Tatis Jr.
But it's not Fernando Tatis Jr. It's Jose Ramirez. We're
just hoping that Jose Ramirez is fine after you got
hit by a pitch in spring training the other day.
And I think this is a great way to start
off your draft because you give yourself a base with
starting pitching and Josi Ramirez. Well, he might not be
a five category contributor because I don't know how great
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the batting average is gonna be. I probably project him
for a two seventy to two seventy five batting average.
It doesn't hurt your average, but he's gonna give you
stolen basis. I'm midst everything that was happening last year.
I understand he was a letdown for a lot of
people earlier on in the season, wound up, you know,
pulling it all together, and still had over twenty home runs,
over twenty stolen basis. He was still giving you speed
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all the while. Second half of the season, you look
at the numbers and he stopped lifting the ball. He
got to home run happy, goes back to the second
half of where he was just trying to hit too
many home runs. He was lifting the ball too much.
He got back to his normal approach, hitting line drives,
pulling the ball, and naturally the ball started to go
out of the ballpark again. He didn't have to try
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to do anything differently, just be who you are, Joseer Mires,
and I think he's gonna do that again this upcoming season. Greg,
I would tab him for home runs to thirty stolen bases,
good counting stats and a solid batting average at eighty.
Do you have a problem, Greg, with either one of
Justin Verlander or whose are Mirons don't have a problem
with either. Ranthom My question was the suicidal you put
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Justin Burlander on the board. Was there no thought given
a Max Scherzer in this spot? Well, I think it's
a fair a question, right, because if Max Scherzer is healthy,
which is the biggest question, Uh, he could be better
than Justin Verlander on a per star basis. But I
think that they're close enough Greg that I will take
the picture who has been more durable. We are not
worried about any back or neck issues even in the
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World Series, sure as it was dealing with that issue
missed some time throughout the regular season last year as well.
So I think they're close enough on a per game basis.
Where give me the guy who is healthier, who has
been more durable, and that is Justin Verlander. Was there
any thought, let's throw it out there, of taking Verlander
and Max schers are back to back. It's thirteen in
a roto draft. I wouldn't do it. Maybe in the
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head to head points league, it's something that I would
look into it. Yes, well you are about to find
out right about that, but I would not go with
two starting pitchers there at the back end of the
first round. I want to get something offensively for you know,
in my five by five leagues, you can pump the
offensive categories, and especially if you get someone I can
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give you those stolen bases without hurting you any where else.
That's what I would want to do with Jose Ra Mirrors.
There are a lot of great hitters in that range,
Alex Bregman, but he doesn't give you anything and stolen
basis So for me, I'm going to opt for someone
who do you taking Ramrors over? I would take Ramirez
over Bregman and no one Arronado. He's my number one
third base because there is no speed of course, really
comes to Ronado and when it comes to Bregman. I
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get it. Man, I think I think it makes sense.
It's funny because I'm really proud of you. You're going
against your gut, which is this guy killed me last year.
I can't do it again, and here you are jumping
right back in Josieerra Mirrors. I agree with it. I'm
buying the second half is the real josieer Mirrors because
we saw it so often the the year prior to
the year before that first half an aberration. It'll be fine.
I like Josier Mirrors. It's a great starts of the team. Man,
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I can't start my team with Justin Verlander and Josie
ra mirrors or Max Scherzer and Josie Ramirez. Feel really
good about myself. I like that, Frankie. Yeah, absolutely, Gregg,
and we'll talk more about the head to head points
side of things we come back after the break. Obviously
here again on the rural side. Number twelve pick started
team with Justin Verlander and Josie Era mirrs. It's pretty
good start, Gregor, all right, let's take a break. When
we come back, we're gonna get into the head to
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head side. As Frankie mentioned, we'll find out who he's
taking at the turn there and then we'll do the
turn after that on both sides. To wrap up the show,
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What's going on? You're wrapping up the show? You have
to really coast to coast coming your way next, Scotty
Evase with Mike Carver regularly, here be a fun night
as we get you ready for a fury while they're
obviously a game on the show yesterday. Uh, Frank, we
go back over to you in the Rhodo side of things.
You let off with Justin Burlander and Jose Ramirez. Let's
(37:13):
move on the head to head side of things, shall we. Yeah,
let's move over to the head to head points side
of things again. I play in two head to head
points leagues. Let's make it three now that I have
joined out wards. But my longest standing trying what what
greet you? Uh, my longest standing home league is a
head to head points league. So I actually do really
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really enjoy this format. And I stressed with the first
overall pick taking Garrett Cole, because you need starting pitching.
It is so valuable in a head to head points league.
Depending on how your points league is set up. Again,
in the league that I play, we get a point
per out. You get I would make three points per
ending pitched. You get bonuses for quality starts for wins,
half a point for strike out as well, and you
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lose points for things like hits and and earned runs
as well. But pictures typically get more points in this format.
So you gotta get at least one, maybe two. I'll
let you know in a second. If Justin Verlander is there,
he might be gone because pitching gets pulled up the
board in a head to head point league. According to
a DP, Verlander is going to be there. So for
today's exercise, I will take Justin Verlander. But if he
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were gone, I've got to get at least one starting
pitcher here. Whether it's Walker Bueller, whether it's Max Scherzer.
You cannot escape either of your first two picks in
a head to head points league without a starting picture.
I cannot stress that enough. So for all the reasons
I said, you're taking Justin Verlander on this side, you
will also take Justin Verlander in the head to head
points league because of the volume, the endings, pitch to
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strike outs, equality starts, the wins, everything that Justin Verlander does.
We're gonna take a second picture. No, we are not
going to take a second onon picture because you can
actually get a really good one or two later on
at the three four turns, So we'll wait a little
bit on that. I want to anchor my team with
another hitter here as well. I am not going to
take Jose Ramirez, while he is also pretty good points
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league because he has a good point discipline, he doesn't
strike out, he hits a lot of doubles. I'm gonna
take Alex Bregman here at the overall pick, with the
second round pick of the of the number twelve pick
in this draft. And Alex Bregman in a points league
was the number one hitter last year. He hits a
ton of doubles. He had more walks than strikeouts last year.
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If you worry about the cheating incident when it comes
to Alex Bregman and you're worried about his performance falling off,
first of all, you probably shouldn't, but if you do,
maybe just go in a different direction, I would take
a hitter here still one of Jose Ramirez or A
Bregman or Nolan Arronado. For me, Alex Bregman is the
hitter you should take in a head to head points league.
He was the number one hitter and points leagues last year. Greg,
(39:43):
even if he regresses a little bit, I still think
he's going to be really good. So in Rhodo ball
team league, last pick Dustin Verlander and Jose Ramirez on
the Rhodo side, and head to head points league, Justin
Verlander and Alex Bregman. Greg, is that all right with you?
It's funny because we went from Hoosier like you talked
me a Hosier mirrors on the other side. Then he
went to Alex Bregman here. Of course, you never want
to hit her in points leads last year. I don't
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know what about the steels, but we've talked so much
about this early past couple of weeks. How this kind
of in a head to head categories leage you can
put steals, right, you don't, you just don't need it.
Points leaves kind of the same thing. You don't really
work fantasy points, so right, It's not like in fantasy basketball,
where like blocks are were a lot of points, it
steals are a lot of points in fantasy basketball, fantasy
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baseball well in two points, and they're so rare anyway
that you can get by without them. I'm cool with
Alex Bregman. I also told you earlier in draft season.
I'm an only Houranado guy, but diving in a little
bit deeper here, Bregman is a better player and the
best player here at third base in points lead over
No l Aronado. As much as that hurts me to say,
I agree with that, Frank, I'm cool with it, all right.
(40:47):
So Justin Berlandard Alex Bregman in the head to head
points league. Coming back over here in Rhodo, you have
the last pick in the draft. At the three four turn.
You're looking at picks thirty six and thirty seven. Normally
I only set up your first three picks. I'm feeling
a little generous here today on a Friday, we'll do
the thirty six and thirty seven overall pick. If you
play in a roto league, Greg, I love the base
of stats that Justin Verlander gives you so much that
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I am not going to take a second starting pitcher
at the three four turn, because at the five six
turn later on I pick sixty, you get someone like
Chris Paddick or no A synder Guard or Aaronola or
Zak Granky, And I don't mind any of those pictures
as my second starting pitcher in a Roto league. So
I'm going to double down on hitting here and I'm
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gonna get a few players that I think can contribute
across the board. So let's start this off with pick
thirty six. We're gonna take Austin Meadows of the Tampa
Bay Rays, someone who can do a little bit of everything.
We saw last year the breakout season from Meadows. There
was a lull in the middle there, but ended up
finishing out strong. That he's someone who can hit to
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eight plus thirty home runs, maybe even more power than that.
It doesn't hurt you anywhere, and the fifteen so on
basis performed well against left handed pitching last year, even
as a left handed batter. Really like to see that
out of Austin Meadows. He just has to stay healthy,
something that you do worry about with Meadows. He did
have some injuries earlier in his minor league career, but
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stayed healthy for the most part last year with the
Tampa Bay Rays. We're gonna double down on hitters here,
Gregg and I mentioned, I want to get someone who
could do it all, and to me, that is Javier
bayas Man. I'm gonna take Austin Meadows and Javier Bias.
Pair these two guys together. I actually think that they're
pretty similar players in terms of what they're going to
give you. They're not similar in terms of plate discipline.
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Nobody is like Javier Bias. He is one of a kind.
He swings and misses a lot. He doesn't walk. His
plate discipline is terrible. I tried to doubt him in
the past and he made me look completely foolish. Now
you're getting him in the third fourth round. The guy
was a borderline first round pick last year. Greg He's
been extremely consistent between a two seventy and two ninety
batting average each of the past three seasons. He gives
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you thirty home runs, good counting SATs. Say what you
will about the Chicago Cubs, their lineup is still pretty
damn good. There was a report lier today Javier Bias
the thumb injury from last year is behind him. He's
fully healthy, he's good to go. I think he gives
you twelve to fifteen stolen bass. I think both of
these guys, Greg, Greg give you a little bit of everything.
I don't mind the starting pitchers that you can get
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a little bit later on at the five six turn,
at the seven eight turn. And because of that, I'm
gonna double down on hitters here, Borlander, Jose Miris, Austin Meadows,
Javier Bias, any issues. Yeah, because in the past you
have said the third fourth round is your sweet spot
for pitching, right, use a lot of guys you really
like here. And we talked about it before, Chris Paddock,
that was Syndergaard, Aaron Nola, Massa hero to not. I'm
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sorry you, Darvish, h Luisa Varrino was in this cruise,
that Greggy, all those guys, that's time it gets back.
He gone, He's gone. But all those guys, by the
time is your pick again in the fifth round, they're
probably gone. Probably not Greg really going to the NBC
A d P. Yeah, I pick sixty. They're gonna be
there in rotal leagues. Okay, even someone like Zach Grenky,
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if you know he could wait a little bit but yeah,
I mean according to the ADA, I think you can
get someone like Paddick. You know. The thing is, I
show you a lot of my draft boards, Greg, that
are fifteen team draft. That's why you see Paddock and
and Um Synderguard and Darvish and all these guys. They
go in the fourth round in a fifteen team round,
but in a twelve teamer they can last till the
end of the fifth round the beginning of the six
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So you can actually grab one of those guys a
little bit later. The pictures you would be looking at
here Luis Castillo, Patrick Corbyn, those pictures are fine, but
I don't really think that they're that dissimilar from pictures
you can get later on. I'm gonna take the hitters
and really kind of build out my base of hitting stats.
I know, how any bias is your guy? Obviously have
to give an outfielder, given that many rotal leaves played
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with five outfields, so you do you need ones one
here In the first four rounds, Austin Meadows had this
breakout campaign for Kevin Bay. Let's see if you stay
healthy here in Frank's go back to you and figure
out who we're wrapping up our head to head team
with Okay, so I mentioned on this side we can
wait on starting pitching head to head points, We're not
gonna wait on starting pitching. You have to grab another
one here, just because I want someone who is going
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to give a lot of endings, who's going to give
me volume, someone who is dependable, and I do think
that that is Patrick Corbin. Again, He's gone to under
endings pitch each of the past two seasons, proven himself
wipe out Slider, one of the best in the game.
The walks went up last year. I want to see
those come back down a little bit. Here. In has
a good team behind him in Washington. He's going to
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get run support. He gets to face the Miami Marlins
as well. The strikeouts are gonna be solid. I think
Patrick Corban is a very fine sp two. But in
a points league, I want someone who's going to give
you a volume, someone who's a little bit more dependable,
who's going to give you those endings. Uh. And I
think it's a perfect combination with someone like Justin Verlander.
Again in points league. I'm in points leagues. I'm just
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going to stress starting pitching a little bit more than
I am in Roto leagues because in Roto you can
find those guys who are good on a per enning basis,
good on a purse star pieces. Quantity quality over quantity
in Roto, quantity over quality when it comes to head
to head points, Greg, I want to grab a hitter here. Okay,
I'm not gonna take Austin Meadows. I'm not going to
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take Javier Baias. When I'm going to take is actually
Xander Bogarts of the Boston Red Sox, who did not
lead the league in doubles last year? If not lead
the league in doubles last year? I asked Greig throughout
the break. He actually laughed at me and said, that
was the most ridiculous question you ever asked. No, because
no, no no, no, let me describe this. I know you
have two minutes ago, but like you, just like, hey,
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did Xander Bogers lead league doubles last year? It's a
fair question. Doing a fantasy baseball show, you think it
was gonna have that available for you not know what
you're talking Aboutander, It's easier for you to pull it
up on your laptop than for me to like hunch
over here, and I got it. For you. He did not.
His teammate Rothhaeld never has had more than him last season.
It makes sense, and leading the league overall was Nick Castiano's. Well,
Xander Bogarts has to be close. I'd imagine, right, Greg
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had six less doubles than Nick Castianos all right, so
he was up there, had over fifty doubles last year,
and again, from a Points League perspective, a really good,
play disciplined Xander Bogarts continues to get better and better right.
Kind of reminds me of Anthony Rendon from the shortstop position,
where he's gonna give you a good batting average. I
think the power probably takes a step back. He had
over thirty home runs last year, probably hits twenty five
(47:08):
seven home runs, really good batting average. Even with Mookie
Betts out in Boston. I like the Red Sox lineup.
I think people are kind of undervaluing the Red Sox
a little bit too much right now with Mookie Betts
being gone. Doesn't strike out so obviously that helps you
in a Points league. He's gonna hit doubles. Um. I
like grabbing two starting pitchers in my first four rounds
in the Points League I think Xander Bogart's is a
(47:29):
perfect target from a points league perspective. Greg. Notice I
don't have an outfielder yet on this side, because in
the points leads that I play in, UH standard Points league,
normally you only use three outfielders. Maybe you use four outsiders.
I'm not really going to put an emphasis on a
position scarcity. I'm just gonna take players who perform well
in that format, and Xander Bogarts is one of them. Greg,
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all right, Alexander Bogarts, I feel good about him. Him
and Hobby Baya is both good picks I think in
that spot in the Points League, though, I think we're comfortable.
Lexander Bogart's Frank excellent job, which hems like better? Oh,
I am going to take that. I really like this season.
This has all my guys like I loved Meadows last
year too. Kind of sucks that he's going as high
as he is this season because I'd like to have
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more shares of him. But someone who I really like
in Roto this year is Jaby or Bias as well.
I like the Seam a lot. Obviously. Both teams are great.
I drafted them ROT a little bit better Jessic, Patrick
Korby don't even like Patrick Korby. I do not like
Patrick Corbyn. I was on Corban a couple of years ago.
Greg Hell tell the people a long time ago. Grows up,
Nash Frank, I'll drag up a fantastic weekend weekend enjoying
(48:32):
Theory Wilder. Thanks to Sean and Alex downstairs. We will
do it all again on Monday as we get our
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