March 10, 2020 • 48 mins
Dr. Roto complains about the Coronavirius and its effects o sports Leagues. Are we panicking for a virus that is similar to the common flu ?Grey Albright from Razzball dot com joins to talk Cornoavirius and the players getting drafted in baseball.
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All right, it's Dr Rono. Get out the insurance card
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and get out the cope. The office is open, my friends.
There is so much a stereo going on with the coronavirus,
and it is filtering to the fantasy baseball world. We
are right now in the midst and I don't mind
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discussing it because I think it's a very interesting discussion.
Tower Wars is this weekend, and there are a lot
of towents who don't want to go to New York,
and the Tower Wars Commission years are saying we're still
drafting and we're not doing anything online. That's a tough one.
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I mean, I got lucky. I was actually in a
they head to head league the last couple of years,
and because of my sickness, they were able to move
me to the draft and the Holy League, which I
greatly appreciated because I knew I wasn't coming up to
New York before there was Corona. I just knew that
I couldn't risk it, so they were nice enough to
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change that for me. But now with this Corona hysteria,
let me guarantee you something I would never have come up, never, never,
not with what was going on in my life. And
it's you know, it's it's hard to tell people what
to do. And there are people in the community who
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are just summer coming from Texas, summer coming from California.
And I'm sure we'll discuss this with Grey Grey Albright
later because I know he's got some issues with this.
Tout is meant for a few things. It's meant for
the industry to get together, to see one another, to
hang out. It's also meant to educate the touts. The
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tout where has taken very seriously because we want you,
for example, in our draft and hold league, we want
you to look at our boards and learn from that. Right,
this is what we did in our league. So it's
and the same thing with fab each week. You know,
we're always trying to model for the greater good. But
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this one man, I don't know to ask somebody to
to to to draft for you that lives in New York,
that's probably what the best answer is. I'd call my
friend and say, hey, can you can you draft for
me that day? I mean, that's probably the number one thing,
But what if you don't have any friends who live
in Manhattan or in the Tristate area who can't get there. Now,
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that's actually happened to me the last couple of years.
I've had a friend draft for me the last to
two years, and tout Wars I was there in person
one year, and then the last two years I haven't
been able to make it. Now. One time, I don't
remember one time what what it was. The other time
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I remember distinctly. They had said that our draft was
going to be on Friday, and I booked my ticket
and then they changed our league to Sunday, and I'm like,
I can't do Sunday. Now, you know, I couldn't change
it because my ticket would have me going home on Saturday.
So I had to get my friends to do it,
because I wasn't paying another six hundred bucks to be
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in this league. Because here's what you win to tout Wars.
Nothing right, You win the you win, you know the victory,
but you don't win anything. You get some dish named
after you at some restaurant, but you don't actually win
any money. So this is a this is a really uh,
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it's really affecting people. You know. I don't know how
I feel about this. I feel like each person needs
to make his or her own mind up. And you know,
if we were doing a league, so if you know
full time Fantasy, you know us the Fantasy Football World Championship,
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what if we couldn't get people there? What we do?
We have online leagues right now? Do you think how
many people are running in Vegas? Trust me, we all
want to go to Vegas. I'm dying to go to Vegas.
But if there was Corona, who knows, I would have
to think that our drafts would be our live drafts
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would be slashed at minimum in half minimum minimum. So
I have a theory. Here's my theory. Take the money
anyway I can. And here's what I mean by that.
If people want to play, let them play. If they
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want to play online, that's fine. We have drafts that
are half online and half in person. Why can't they
do that for town? Is it inconvenient? Absolutely? Is coronavirus inconvenient? Hello?
Yes it is. Life is not always about convenience and
trust me. I love convenience. I'm the most convenient person
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I know. But come on, there's mass hysteria. What are
we gonna do not have tow wars. You can't not
have tow wars. Nobody wants that, nobody wants. Everybody wants
to be part of tow wars. But you've got to
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make it work. People have fears and they're legitimate. This
is not something that you could pooh pooh. You know
this is this is a youth thing. This is not
a youth thing, right, this is countries are getting quarantined. Right.
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This is not your germ fobe. This is bigger than
that it is. So let me just I'll take this
to the next level. If you are in a fantasy
baseball league at that at some point in the next month,
please do not cancel your league. Just do it online.
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There are a lot of great websites out there, CBS, Yahoo, ESPN.
I know it's fun to get together. I know it's
fun to bash each other in person. I know it's
fun to make each other to you know, to heckle
each other's picks. I get it. It is fun, but
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you know, it's more fun having the league, having the
league is more fun than anything. Keeping the league afloat
and going during times of crisis, right because you don't
want to shut down. And if you all don't want
to get into somebody's house, I can't blame you. Where
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you don't want to go meet in a bar in
the city, I can't blame you. We used to do
a draft every year at the stumble In in Manhattan.
Used to be the old most Caribbean six And second,
would I go to that this year? That's a tough one.
I don't know, man, I don't know if I'd go that, probably,
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but not in my condition. So if I if this
was a young, healthy Dr Roto, probably, If this is
this year's Dr Roto, no, And let me tell you something.
My league, that league that I'm talking about, had a
stipulation that you have to be there person, Well, then
then I couldn't be in that league. Sorry, you gotta
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you gotta adapt your rules. When there's the coronavirus. This
is not something that is minor. This is something that
people think is major. Whether or not it is or
it isn't, there's no proof either way. I think it's
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more major than minor. I think we all need to
be worrying about it a little bit, and I'm not
a worrior when it comes to things like that. I
just try to live my life, try to live my
life the best way that I can and the smartest
way that I can, and not put myself in a
situation that I will regret. So please what I want
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to get at, Keep doing your leagues. If people want
to do them online, do them online. If half the
people want to get together and one or two people
want to do it online, help them out. Make it
convenient for them. Everybody has fear, right, it's just a
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question of to what degree. We should never judge people right.
We should never judge people and their fears about this
right because there's no right answer. There's no right answer.
They're just wrong answers. The wrong answer be not having tout.
The wrong answer, it be not having your league. That's
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the wrong answer. I didn't say stopped playing. I said
let's adapt our drafts. Let's adapt him so that people
can continue playing, because trust me, we are going to
want to play Fantasy bay spall this year. Right that
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goes on. We want to play Fantasy. We love fantasy.
So just help the leaks out the best way we can.
I'm interested to talk about this with Grey Albright. I know,
I mean great, Gray has a great laugh at all,
but I don't think there's a laughing matter about I
don't think he'll be laughing. So I'll be very interested
to get his take on this. All right, we're gonna
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take a little break. We're gonna come back and you
know what, how about a Chicago cub preview. Let's do that.
Let's do a Chicago cub preview. When I returned, I'm
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I'm gonna have Gray Albright from razball dot Com joining
us next segment. But right now, let us take a
closer look at the Chicago Cubs. If you've never been
to Wrigley Field, you should really go, except I will
tell you something I don't know if you guys know this.
If you've never been to Wrigley Field, they have obstructive views.
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And when I say obstructive views, I'm saying legit obstructive views.
So I go with my wife two years ago to
a game in Wrigley I think it's on July fourth,
as a matter of fact, on July four, and I
go on to StubHub. I get these seats and they're
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they're pretty good, right. I'm like, look, we're in Chicago.
My wife's gonna go the game. My wife is my
wife like's baseball. It's like sports in person. She's not
gonna watch any sport on TV with me, but you'll
go in person. Right. And we're sitting next to this
family and they are literally blocked by a beam. There's
a beam in their way. And I feel badly. I
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do because I'm like, oh, come on, I want them
to see. But I paid a whole lot of money
from my tickets. So I mean I try to like
move to the right a little bit so that they
could like lean over, but you know, as obstructive view.
And there was a dad and his two kids. I
was like, oh my god, I feel like crap. But
you know, dude, when you go to Rigney Field, go
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make sure you can see your picture because if it's
looking at a beam, that's not a good shot. That's
not a good scene. Okay, I can highly tell you that.
But let's talk about the cubbies. At catcher, Wilson with
two l's will rule Son Contraras. Look, I like Wilson Contrais.
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He has power, he hits about two seventy. He's he's
a good player, and he is that type of like
six seventh eighth round catcher. I'm not the guy who's
getting JT real buddle. That's on me. But I can
get Contrais. I can get behind that. I think he's
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a good player, all right. At first base, Anthony Rizzo,
M you know exactly what and who you are getting
with Anthony Rizzo. At second it's about thirty home runs,
hits right around five. Rbism gonna hit you about to
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eighty five and that's what he does, and he does
it really well. Now the question is, as he gets older,
will he continue playing at this level? At what point
do we see the Joey Votto. Now here's what I
would tell you. Last year, I'll do the last three years.
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How about that two thousand seventeen he had more walks
than strikeouts nine than in two thousand eighteen, he had
seventy walks to eighty strikeouts. Two thousand nineteen he had
seventy one walks to eighty six strikeouts. If we start
to see fewer walks and more strikeouts, that's when we
know to divest. But for right now, we're still in
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on Anthony Rizzo. Okay, we're still in now. Second base
is a nightmare? Here? Is it Nico Horner? And if
it is, what you do? Is it David Bote, who
I kind of like a little bit. I mean, is
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it Jason Kipness. I don't think so. What I always
wanted to see. I wish it was I and happy
that made more sense to me. But he can't feel
it anywhere. He's terrible, So I don't know. I kind
of like David Bote just a little bit. And I'll
tell you why because Bote is that Swiss army knife
that I always talked about. Right, So last year fifty
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games at seconds, sixty seven and third played nine at
short that's a kind of guy. He's not a sexy player.
I get that. I get it. Not sexy at all.
But in thirty of your draft, when you need a
guy who plays different positions, you shove them in there.
You shove him on your bench, and then he plays.
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So there's value to that. Shortstop is Hobby Bayaz, who's
really good. Harby Biaz is really good. And this was
a guy in ten who was close. You could tell,
but people worried about his strikeouts because he didn't and
he didn't walk much at all. Had a hundred forty
four strikeouts the thirty walks. But the power was there
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and the speed was there, and he had four hundred
and sixty nine at bats in the next year. He
stayed healthy and he really started to play well. And
now you're getting Hobby Bayez a star. He's a Fantasy Star.
Hit about two eighty four, you hit about thirty home runs,
hit about nine r b I s at star. Nothing
not tolike. Now, third base is Chris Bryant. Now here's
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the problem with Chris Bryant. He's not who you want
him to be. I think at one point we wanted
a forty home run guy. We wanted a hundred twenty
r BIS, we wanted a three hundred batting average. I
don't think that's him. Now here's the beauty of Chris Bryant. Though.
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It's gonna bat lead off and he's gonna score a
lot of runs. So if he bats lead off, I
still think we get the thirty home runs. But you're
gonna lose r BIS and gain runs scored. Right, So
instead of the hundred r BIS and the eight runs scored,
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you're gonna get a d r BIS and a hundred
runs scored. Solid player, what not? What's not to like? Runs?
Runs is a very underrated category. You need guys who
score runs. If you have guys in the bottom third
of a lineup, you lose. You can't have too many
of them. You can't have too many of them. You
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have to have guys who bat in the top half
of the lineup because those guys score runs. Once you
start to get around guy number six nine, yeah, you're
not winning leaks, you're not winning leaks. All right, Let's
get to the outfield. In left field, Kyle Schoreber. I
kind of like Kyle Schober. Guy can mash. Now. He
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does strike out way too much, he does, but when
he hits it, he can hit it far. I think
he's the guy. If you said to me, hey, dr
rodo give me a player who's like in the high
thirties and home runs who you think could go to forty.
Kyle Schober would probably be my poster child. I like him.
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In center field, we have Ian Happ who was kind
of hapless out there hitting the ball. I mean there's power,
there's a little speed, but there's not enough contact and
he's really bad at feeling. So Albert Olmoora comes in
there a lot late in games, and rightfully so, because
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Almoora is really good at catching the football, at catching
the baseball. He might be good at catching the football too,
I'm not sure, but it's good at catching the baseball now.
I think there's a value to that. I really do.
If I am a manager, I want to have an
outfielder who I could bring in if it's like a
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five one game, I'm bringing this outfielder into the eighth inning,
I'm taking the in half how out after a third
at bat, and I'm bringing in the defensive guy because
Ian Halp, certainly in the ninth inning could make a mistake.
I don't need that. I don't need it. In right
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field is Jason Hayward, who I think he's thirty, but
he feels like he's forty eight to me, I mean,
haven't we been talking about Jason Hayward for like the
last the seven years. I think you just got older.
He just aged three years during this preview, he's like
he's thirty three. Now in another minute, is gonna be
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thirty six. Now. There are some guys here. Albert o'morra
I mentioned right hits lefty as well. I like playing
in in DFS against a lefty. Steven Sosa interesting player.
One of my friends likes him very much. Let me
tell you about something about Sosa and two thousand, seventeen
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thirty home runs, sixteen stolen bases. He's got that kind
of game, except he cannot stay healthy. But if he can,
I think you'd be better off in the American Lady,
quite honest with you, better than the National League. Okay, bullpen,
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I'm not a Craig Campbell guy, I'm not I think
this guy is not dialing it up like he used to.
He is not throwing it at nine. I've seen Kimberill
play live. I've seen him throw. He's starting to throw.
You're like Dr L. It's only four miles per hour.
It's significant. It is significant. I would say, I don't
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know whether he's I'm not sure he's last thing the
year is the closer, especially if the Cubs are losing.
If the Cubs are losing and Kimberll's met, watch him
get moved. They love this kid. Rowan Wick. I think
we need to watch him and Jeremy Jefferess has has
some experience closing at the ends of games too. I'm
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not sold on Kimberl. He will not be on any
one of my team's. Promise you that all right? Starting pitching,
you Darvish got up, he's gone down. He's fluctuated. But
when he's good, he's really good. When he's bad, he's
really bad. But when you Darvish is good, you want
him on your team. I like him. I like Kyle
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Hendricks too. He's kind of a soft tosser, but you
know exactly who he is. He's gonna throw about a
hundred and eighty innings. He's gonna get about a hundred
and fifty hundred and sixty strikeouts. He's gonna get in
the r A in the mid threes. He's gonna have
a whip about one point one four, one point one five.
He's gonna get twelve wins. You know exactly who you're getting.
I love Kyle Hendricks like that. I am not a
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Jose Cantana fan. I am not a John Lester fan.
I can't stand Tyler Chatwood. I do like this kid,
Alec Mills a little bit. Maybe he gets a shot.
He might be a little interesting to me. I like Darvish,
I like Hendricks. The rest is buyer, Beware caveat em door,
said Mr Brady. I just don't trust them. Maybe Kintana,
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But do you really want ten wins in the r
A of four point five that badly? I know, I don't,
I know, I don't, all right, You know what I
do want. I do want to take a break, and
when I come back, I do want to talk to
Gray Albright. So I will do these things, and I
hope that you'll be there to listen. When we returned
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dunk to learn more. All right, we are back talking
tow Wars and coronavirus at the same time. Whoever thought
of that in a segment? But we have my friend
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Greg Albright from razvald dot com who is in the
middle of a what's what's the imbroglio? What I mean,
give me what's the word you gotta? I mean, this
is this is this is a mess. This is a
real mescal and salad here. Ma man, yeah, I don't know, man,
I uh you know, I was like I was for sure,
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like okay. So to give people a backstory, tow Wars
is held every year in New York City. So now
it's coronavirus as everyone knows. You know, New York City
is a bit of a quantree and you know they
just locked down New Rochelle. It's now a containment center,
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and uh, honestly, people just don't know. Like I'm not
saying it's it's like, you know, it's gonna be fatalities falling,
you know, on the sidewalk, and uh, you know everyone
should remain in their house for the next six months.
I mean, well, no one knows. That's the whole thing.
So you know, they've said that, you know, to avoid
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any unnecessary risk, people should try to avoid New York.
So I live in l A. So I was like,
you know, instead of me flying both ways to New
York City, how about I just draft online for this
one year. I'll just like call in onto Skype or
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or even like, you know, maybe do an auction draft.
Like point nine percent of the entire fantasy Are you
in the Are you in an auction league? Are you
in a draft? Which one are you in? I'm I'm
in I'm an n L only auction Okay, So, but
I was told that it was impossible to do a
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online draft, that everyone had to go into New York City.
So I was like, well, everyone does online drafts. Why
is this so? Why is this so difficult? I don't understand.
So and then like, you know, Lenny Melnick, who I
respect a lot, he tweeted out that he's you know,
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he's over the age of seventy and he's worried about
his own health. Let me, let's just stop that. Do
you think Lenny was doing that to just like pick
pick the bear, because poke the bear, because Lenny could
do that, or do you think he was legitimately concerned? No,
I was gonna say no. I mean, you know, I
don't think this is uh breaking a confidence. He called me,
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you know, he's worried. He called me up on the phone,
and you know, I don't usually pick up the phone
for anyone to be totally, but I thought, I don't
Lenny calling And I was like, what's going on? Lenny
the legend calling me? What's up? And uh, you know,
and he's he's truly concerned about his own well being,
which and honestly, no one should ever have to worry
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about their health to draft in a fantasy league. Like
that is the number one rule that should be across everything,
Like if anyone is worried, they should not have to
be worried to do a fantasy draft when you can
just do it online. Like that's that's simple. Like I've
heard of living, living and dying with fantasy. But you
don't want to literally live and die with fantasy. No,
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I don't. I mean I honestly, if I could drive in,
I would, But you know, it's the the whole like
flying right now, it's it just doesn't feel like what
if they lock down New York City is during the
five days that I'm in New York and I can't
fly back out. It's like it's it's just not worth it.
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It's not worth the risk for me. But I understand
also like older people, Like honestly, the people and tot
Wars aren't that young. There's people that are truly concerned.
Like I'm getting personal emails from other people in the
league saying I agree with you no, And that's the thing.
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I think there are a lot of people who do
agree with you. I agree with you a d And
I said as much in the very first segment. I
think that there's no reason this year. And I won't
even just say tout Wars. I'll just say local drafts.
If people people should be able to draft anyway they
want this year, we need to accommodate because we can't.
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Everybody's fear is different, right, how you feel about as
different from everybody else. I don't want to see there
not be Fantasy baseball, but we have to accommodate. Let's
do a draft online. We've got ESPN, We've got Yahoo,
We've got CBS. I've done auctions on CBS many every year.
My football my football league Gray is done on auction
on CBS, on CBS. It's not that hard. No great,
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I mean I don't honestly, I'm so young and spry.
I don't think I'm at risk. I really feel like
I'm totally fine. But if anyone is ever concerned about
drafting in person because of what's going on right now
with this health crisis, there's no reason to make people
do it like there's no like there's no reason. And honestly,
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it really stinks for me because I enjoy going in
and doing the auction draft in person, like I really
do enjoy it. Like it's like a bummer, And I'm
conflicted because i feel like I'm okay, but on the
other hand, it's just not worth it, Like, it's just
not worth the risk for it. All Right. I know
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you're young. I don't know how spry you are, but
I will say, my god, I'm so spry. So I
like the word spry though, but here So when I
meant when I didn't do two drafts, what I had
to do was I had to get the guy who
set in for me. He had to be blessed by Peter.
So Peter needed to know that this guy had played
Fantasy before. I'm like, this guy has been playing Fantasy
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longer than I've been alive, and he's been a friend
of mine, have been leaves with him forever. So basically
I had a vouch and then Peter had to bless him.
So you could find a random New Yorker Gray and
have him sit in that seat, and then you can
be on the bluetooth talking to him about what he
needs to do. Yeah, well that's what I'm That's what
I'm gonna have to do. I And that's another whole
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wrinkle I have never really considered before. I'm gonna have
to have someone else draft for me while I'm on
the phone, and if anyone who's been in an in
person auction draft knows if you don't hear like the
actual bids, like it's really like it gets super confusing
if there's like who's up, who's getting bid on? What's
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the bid at? Like I prefer to just be there
in person, But it's just not gonna be possible. And
I've got great I got good news for you. A
friend of mine just tweeted me he can be a
pinch drafter. Oh perfect. Who is this person? Is? No? No, No,
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he's a he's a good player. Yeah. His name is
Ron and he's uh I. We call him the fantasy
male man because he always delivers and he's been in
some some high stakes leagues with me before, I will
put you in touch with Ron and you guys can
can figure it out, because look, I want you to
be in the league, and I'm sure Ron will do
a great job. He'll listen to you, know, I mean,
nobody wants to listen to you in bluetooth for that
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many hours. But I will say this as someone who
did it last year, you have to do your bids
in advance because all of a sudden, what's going once
going twice? It's very hard to like help somebody on
the phone bet another dollar. It's it's kind of it's hard.
I know, no I have you know, I have a
spreadsheet for all my auction bids, so I know, like,
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I feel like I can guide people if I talk
to them beforehand. It maybe a five hour beforehand conversation
of me telling someone at the trip because I may
I may have to walk them through an entire draft
first and then they go and sit for six hours
and do another draft. But I think I can. I
think I'll be able to do it. I'm just you know,
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it's thinks, it really does like it's a not ideal situation.
Well it's not easy being you, I mean, but but
I do, I do really honestly feel that this is, uh,
this is problematic. I really do. I I think and
you know what I'm I'm I'm taking this very seriously.
I'm taking it seriously with Lenny. I'm taking it seriously
because you know, the fantasy baseball community is not as
(32:32):
young as spry as we think it is. No, I know,
that's what yeah, I mean, that's what I was getting
at before. I mean, some of the guys in the league,
like I feel like I'm okay, but I worry about
some of the other guys, and I don't know if
they're gonna be okay, So I mean it's not worth
it when you're when you're demographic, is you know, sixty
(32:55):
eight and older? Like, just do it online for one year.
I understand you can if you could walk, you could
walk out of your house and get hit by a car.
Like I understand there's risks in everyday life, but this
is an unnecessary risk that no one needs to take. No,
it's so true. I by the way, I just sent
to you the tweet. You are now officially hooked up. Okay,
(33:18):
I have saved you, Gray Albright. If you win, you
owe it to the mail man. It's Dr Rono. Just
know that. Will he wear his uh his mail man shorts?
You ask him whatever you want. Maybe it's a ras
ball shirt and mail man shorts. Whatever you need. Ron
is a great guy and he will help you. That's what. Well,
(33:39):
anywhere will anywhere a paste on mustash Listen to me,
you talked to ron I can't I can't discuss I'm
not his agent. Okay, you have to discuss things with
him directly. All right. Let me ask you a question
your Don Alvarez. You're starting to get worried about this
dude's knee. Uh No, actually not Uh. If if Ron's listening,
(34:04):
he's in the a L and I'm gonna help wait,
so ignore this part of the show, Ron. But now
I'm not worried about your Don Alvarez. I feel like
he's young enough. And what does he do, Uh he
has to sit on the bench and and take you know,
twelve swings a game. I'm not worried, honestly, I'm worried
(34:25):
more about like, oh, Blink's worry me, uh ribs, Like
with Aaron Judge, that worries me. But me's on your
Don Alvarez. I'm not worried. How about backs with Gary Sanchez?
Does that worry you? Yeah? Yeah, Gary Sanchez worries me
because you know, you think about the you know, the
(34:45):
whole process of catching uh a hundred and fifty two
pitches a game. It's it's not it's not easy on
the body. So yeah, Gary Sanchez would worry me. Plus
I don't draft high catchers. Ron, if you're listening, I don't. Alright,
all right, I'll tell you what great can you want
to stay for another segment because I want to I
we didn't ask you, ok, Baseball, we just talked about coronavirus,
(35:08):
which is not as important to our to our listening. Faithful,
all right, you want to come back for another little
segment here? Sure? All right, and then you can tell
Ron what you want and what you don't want. I'm
sure he's taking copious notes while he's listening to you.
But Gary Sanchez, right now, does he drop? Does it?
We have thirty seconds real quick. Do you think he
drops from like round four to round six? Do you
think it stays same? No, I mean maybe it will drop,
(35:32):
but I think it should stay the same. I'm not
worried about your down outbreast at all. I'm really not
all right. We'll take a little time out. We'll come
on back with my friend Gray Albright from Razball dot com.
I am Dr Rhoda will be back with you right
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We're back. It's Dr Rhoda here with my man Gray.
All right for another segment of Fantasy Baseball Talk here
(36:37):
on full Time Fantasy and uh Gray did one? Gray
k Kite? Greg Kite, tell people what you did? You
you did one of the things that people tell you
not to do. There was there was a big email
where the person who wrote it said, please just reply
directly to me, and Gray was like, uh, I'm replying
at all soccer And now all of a sudden it
(37:00):
opened the floodgates to to about twenty seven emails in
my email box. So thank you so much, Greg. I'm
spending my afternoon going through the emails. I really appreciate it. No,
I'm usually the I'm usually the first person who says,
you know, if someone if there's a mass email, just
respond to the person who sent the email. But this
is a very specific case where I feel like you
(37:23):
don't want to tamp down discussion. You want people to
be able to discuss freely what's on their mind and
how they're feeling. Like you shouldn't be saying to someone like, oh, yeah,
come to New York City where it's ground zero for coronavirus.
But also, don't discuss it with anyone else in your league,
and let's just see what happens. All right. When you
(37:44):
put it that way, then I don't mind you getting
into my email box. I'm fine with that, all right.
My man, Max Scherzer, who is in the NL only league,
has an ailment on his right side? Is this a
mild latch drain? Are we worried at all? Now? This
(38:04):
is the kind of thing where I'm totally worried because
I don't know. This is interesting to me, Like, don't
it feels like a mental block for some people when
they when they start doing their drafts the following year,
Like they don't really consider what happens the season before,
Like it was so obvious to me. Max Scherzer could
(38:25):
not throw in the playoffs because of his back, like
and then this off season he went and tried to
tweak his uh, his wind up in order to take
make some relief for his back. So this is like
obvious to me. I don't know why it wasn't obvious
to others, But it's obvious that Max Scherzer was injured
(38:48):
last year. Why would you be drafting him in the
top five starters like he was so off the board.
For me, there was no way I was ever drafting
or round. The mailman also was not going to draft
him as by property. So here is the question. If
Scherzer is like at fifteen dollars, do you say sixteen
(39:08):
or is there no value for him on you for
your roster. There there's a price for everyone for sure. Yeah. No.
If if Ron's sitting in the draft room and he
sees Max sharser come up for fifteen, I I take
go to sixteen. But at a certain point he's not
worth it anymore. I'd have to look at my values.
But I would guess shares are becomes he goes at
(39:31):
it after twenty dours, I think he becomes too pricey. Alright.
Michael Confordo dealing with a side issue as well. I
kind of like this guy. But he's going to see
Dr David Allcheck, never a good sign. He's actually flying
to New York by the way from Florida, I'm just
on that. Can Conford Town draft for me and Pat
(39:53):
words Well, Ron is gonna be upset about that, But
maybe conforda will draft for you now that he's up
in New York. Now are you okay? Are you okay
with Conforto who had an imri in Florida but now
he needs to be evaluated further? No, I would totally
stay away from Conforto at his previous a DP. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't necessarily stay away from him completely, though, if
(40:16):
his price comes down. I'll tell you the with the oblique,
you have usually a case where guys gonna be out
for three to five weeks roughly. So I took from
my projections, I took Conforto down about eighty at bats,
which is about three weeks worth of a bat. So
that feels about It feels conservative, but about right. So
(40:38):
I think Conforto was at around seventy five eight five
overall for me, and now he's around a hundred and
fifty overall. Oh wow, that's a big drop, dude. Yeah,
he dropped down from like I think the best outfielder
to about the forty second beat outfielders. So seventeen outfielders
(40:58):
have become better than them. Now are we liking Jake
Marisnick a little bit? I mean, is there anybody in
that Mets outfield that can pick up the slack? Yeah?
You know what? Actually, Marisnick is really interesting to me
because he's got some speed. So in like an NL
only league where Ron will be drafting, you have Marisnick
(41:19):
who could give maybe five, no more like maybe seven
to twelve feels at a price of like zero dollars.
And now I'm not saying in a mixed league Marisnicks
off the board because he's just not that good. But
then then now, only if you can get seven or
twelve feels for a dollar or less, that's pretty good.
(41:41):
As we like to call it a mono league. If
you will, uh no, no one says that, Yes they do.
You just you're not not in your crowd. It's not
in l A. It's it's an East coast thing, not
a West coast there, all right, Willie Calhoun, will he
all right, I'm going two d and fifty fat it's
over on, John Willy Calhoun. I'm gonna go over by
(42:06):
about a hundred and fifty bats. I'm not that concerned
with Willy Calhoun as long as he doesn't get the
yips from you know, from the broken jaw. I think
he'll be back within like, I don't know, I want
to say, fifteen to twenty days of opening day, so
that's a roughly like three weeks into the season. That's
(42:27):
not bad. I think he's the every day guy in
the outfield and he's probably you know, roughly four hundred
and five at bats, maybe three five. Yeah, it's I
go way over on two fifty, really way over. You
don't think that, Uh, you don't worry about him staying
(42:49):
getting too close to the plate anymore, feeling that I'm
gonna get smack to the head. No, I mean, well
that's the risk now that he never really comes back
from that. But I don't know. I mean, I think
it takes, you know, it takes a little bit of
crazy in the head slash bravery to stand in the
(43:09):
box at a nine fans blood it is, so you
would assume he's he's able to get back in there.
So yeah, I'm okay with them. I don't think the uh,
you know, I think Nick Solak is interesting as like
a round flyer in a twelve to fifteen team mixed league.
(43:29):
But I feel like he might be a utility guy.
I want to get too crazy about Solac. I love
Dick Solak. I mention that, Yeah, I mean I like them,
especially especially in tout wars. I mean, if Ron, if
Ron was doing an a L league, his O b
P a verry high. Yeah, well, Ron won't be doing
in a L And now you're just crowding Ron's mind
(43:52):
up with stuffing doesn't need to know. All right, let
me ask you about when you take David Donald the Rocky.
You're talking about him batting leadoff. This is a guy
who can never stay healthy. But what if what if
David Doll stays healthy? Are we buying? Oh? Yeah, no completely.
(44:13):
I actually already got him in the Labor and L
only um, which I drafted. Uh. I wanted to say
that was like two weeks ago. I had no problem
flying then by the way, Uh yeah, no, I drafted
David Doal for twenty dollars in twelve team and L only,
and I would do it again in the second. If
(44:33):
Ron's listening still, is there speed with David Doal? Because
at one time he had some speed in the minor leagues.
But it never translated to the majors. Now, you know,
I think David dog bet bet honestly is to try
and go out there and get four seventy plus at
bats without without running hard, without like tweaking anything, like
(44:58):
just like go super see on the base path. Don't
just like get twenty two to homers, hit to eighty
and maybe one or two steals, like, don't push it.
We're trying to steal though. All right, I'm with you.
Let me give you a guy, Mitch Keller. I like
the picture, I hate the team. At what point do
(45:21):
we draft good pictures on horrific teams? Uh? Well, everyone's
got a price, like I said before, But you know,
Teller to me feels like a guy who is is
basically gonna go in like the two D and fifty
overall range of snake drafts and like a you know,
(45:43):
a three to five dollar flyer in auctions, which is
a totally correct price. I mean, I would take the
fire on him. I don't have crazy high hopes though,
that he's gonna be able to do much. I think
he's probably in for a bit of an up and
down seas then, uh, you know, because it's just hard
for rookie pictures. I think if he if he has
(46:06):
a under four year ray, it would I would count
that as a success for him. Really, you don't think
he can do better than that now, you know. I
think Keller is probably like and he's in a good
park too, But it's just so like rookie pictures are
just so iffy. As I've said before, you know, if
you look at Clayton Kershaw's rookie year, he wasn't good
(46:29):
in his rookie year, like a lot of guys just
aren't good when they first are when they first get
a you know, a run around the league. So you know,
I don't know Keller at this point as forty eight
major league getting he had a seven year ray. It's
not I mean, he didn't have a great time of
it last year. I don't think he's suddenly gonna be
(46:49):
great this year. He could be, and at some point
I do see Keller being good, but it may take
two to three years. You know, you never know how
long it's a the picture to really start clicking. Do
you like Joe Musgrove, Yeah, I do. Actually, Joe Musgrove
(47:09):
is one of the guys I wrote a sleeper post
on him. He's one of those guys where I feel
like he could potentially be and under the radar number
three uh late late in drafts like around say, you
know he's going around like I think overall, so he's
going in a in a range where I think it's
(47:31):
it's assumed he's gonna be a fifth the sixth fantasy starter,
but I think he could be a three like I
expect him to be eight plus k per nine and
a high three low four. Yarr, all right, Greg Albright,
thanks for sticking around, my man, talk to you soon,
stay here alright, alright, guys, Dr Roto right up against it,
(47:54):
timped out to put away the insurance card, put away
the cope. The office is close. My friends. Want to
thank great Bright for hanging out for two segments. Hope
you enjoyed it. Thank my man, Sean and the booth.
We are back tomorrow with remember p G A DFS.
It's the Players Championship. Somebody's gonna win a million dollars.
I hope it's you if it's not me. All right
(48:14):
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All right, it's Dr Rono. Get out the insurance card
(00:24):
and get out the cope. The office is open, my friends.
There is so much a stereo going on with the coronavirus,
and it is filtering to the fantasy baseball world. We
are right now in the midst and I don't mind
(00:45):
discussing it because I think it's a very interesting discussion.
Tower Wars is this weekend, and there are a lot
of towents who don't want to go to New York,
and the Tower Wars Commission years are saying we're still
drafting and we're not doing anything online. That's a tough one.
(01:10):
I mean, I got lucky. I was actually in a
they head to head league the last couple of years,
and because of my sickness, they were able to move
me to the draft and the Holy League, which I
greatly appreciated because I knew I wasn't coming up to
New York before there was Corona. I just knew that
I couldn't risk it, so they were nice enough to
(01:33):
change that for me. But now with this Corona hysteria,
let me guarantee you something I would never have come up, never, never,
not with what was going on in my life. And
it's you know, it's it's hard to tell people what
to do. And there are people in the community who
(01:57):
are just summer coming from Texas, summer coming from California.
And I'm sure we'll discuss this with Grey Grey Albright
later because I know he's got some issues with this.
Tout is meant for a few things. It's meant for
the industry to get together, to see one another, to
hang out. It's also meant to educate the touts. The
(02:22):
tout where has taken very seriously because we want you,
for example, in our draft and hold league, we want
you to look at our boards and learn from that. Right,
this is what we did in our league. So it's
and the same thing with fab each week. You know,
we're always trying to model for the greater good. But
(02:44):
this one man, I don't know to ask somebody to
to to to draft for you that lives in New York,
that's probably what the best answer is. I'd call my
friend and say, hey, can you can you draft for
me that day? I mean, that's probably the number one thing,
But what if you don't have any friends who live
in Manhattan or in the Tristate area who can't get there. Now,
(03:05):
that's actually happened to me the last couple of years.
I've had a friend draft for me the last to
two years, and tout Wars I was there in person
one year, and then the last two years I haven't
been able to make it. Now. One time, I don't
remember one time what what it was. The other time
(03:26):
I remember distinctly. They had said that our draft was
going to be on Friday, and I booked my ticket
and then they changed our league to Sunday, and I'm like,
I can't do Sunday. Now, you know, I couldn't change
it because my ticket would have me going home on Saturday.
So I had to get my friends to do it,
because I wasn't paying another six hundred bucks to be
(03:48):
in this league. Because here's what you win to tout Wars.
Nothing right, You win the you win, you know the victory,
but you don't win anything. You get some dish named
after you at some restaurant, but you don't actually win
any money. So this is a this is a really uh,
(04:10):
it's really affecting people. You know. I don't know how
I feel about this. I feel like each person needs
to make his or her own mind up. And you know,
if we were doing a league, so if you know
full time Fantasy, you know us the Fantasy Football World Championship,
(04:32):
what if we couldn't get people there? What we do?
We have online leagues right now? Do you think how
many people are running in Vegas? Trust me, we all
want to go to Vegas. I'm dying to go to Vegas.
But if there was Corona, who knows, I would have
to think that our drafts would be our live drafts
(04:56):
would be slashed at minimum in half minimum minimum. So
I have a theory. Here's my theory. Take the money
anyway I can. And here's what I mean by that.
If people want to play, let them play. If they
(05:18):
want to play online, that's fine. We have drafts that
are half online and half in person. Why can't they
do that for town? Is it inconvenient? Absolutely? Is coronavirus inconvenient? Hello?
Yes it is. Life is not always about convenience and
trust me. I love convenience. I'm the most convenient person
(05:39):
I know. But come on, there's mass hysteria. What are
we gonna do not have tow wars. You can't not
have tow wars. Nobody wants that, nobody wants. Everybody wants
to be part of tow wars. But you've got to
(05:59):
make it work. People have fears and they're legitimate. This
is not something that you could pooh pooh. You know
this is this is a youth thing. This is not
a youth thing, right, this is countries are getting quarantined. Right.
(06:21):
This is not your germ fobe. This is bigger than
that it is. So let me just I'll take this
to the next level. If you are in a fantasy
baseball league at that at some point in the next month,
please do not cancel your league. Just do it online.
(06:45):
There are a lot of great websites out there, CBS, Yahoo, ESPN.
I know it's fun to get together. I know it's
fun to bash each other in person. I know it's
fun to make each other to you know, to heckle
each other's picks. I get it. It is fun, but
(07:06):
you know, it's more fun having the league, having the
league is more fun than anything. Keeping the league afloat
and going during times of crisis, right because you don't
want to shut down. And if you all don't want
to get into somebody's house, I can't blame you. Where
(07:27):
you don't want to go meet in a bar in
the city, I can't blame you. We used to do
a draft every year at the stumble In in Manhattan.
Used to be the old most Caribbean six And second,
would I go to that this year? That's a tough one.
I don't know, man, I don't know if I'd go that, probably,
(07:49):
but not in my condition. So if I if this
was a young, healthy Dr Roto, probably, If this is
this year's Dr Roto, no, And let me tell you something.
My league, that league that I'm talking about, had a
stipulation that you have to be there person, Well, then
then I couldn't be in that league. Sorry, you gotta
(08:13):
you gotta adapt your rules. When there's the coronavirus. This
is not something that is minor. This is something that
people think is major. Whether or not it is or
it isn't, there's no proof either way. I think it's
(08:33):
more major than minor. I think we all need to
be worrying about it a little bit, and I'm not
a worrior when it comes to things like that. I
just try to live my life, try to live my
life the best way that I can and the smartest
way that I can, and not put myself in a
situation that I will regret. So please what I want
(08:59):
to get at, Keep doing your leagues. If people want
to do them online, do them online. If half the
people want to get together and one or two people
want to do it online, help them out. Make it
convenient for them. Everybody has fear, right, it's just a
(09:20):
question of to what degree. We should never judge people right.
We should never judge people and their fears about this
right because there's no right answer. There's no right answer.
They're just wrong answers. The wrong answer be not having tout.
The wrong answer, it be not having your league. That's
(09:43):
the wrong answer. I didn't say stopped playing. I said
let's adapt our drafts. Let's adapt him so that people
can continue playing, because trust me, we are going to
want to play Fantasy bay spall this year. Right that
(10:04):
goes on. We want to play Fantasy. We love fantasy.
So just help the leaks out the best way we can.
I'm interested to talk about this with Grey Albright. I know,
I mean great, Gray has a great laugh at all,
but I don't think there's a laughing matter about I
don't think he'll be laughing. So I'll be very interested
to get his take on this. All right, we're gonna
(10:26):
take a little break. We're gonna come back and you
know what, how about a Chicago cub preview. Let's do that.
Let's do a Chicago cub preview. When I returned, I'm
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(11:40):
I'm gonna have Gray Albright from razball dot Com joining
us next segment. But right now, let us take a
closer look at the Chicago Cubs. If you've never been
to Wrigley Field, you should really go, except I will
tell you something I don't know if you guys know this.
If you've never been to Wrigley Field, they have obstructive views.
(12:06):
And when I say obstructive views, I'm saying legit obstructive views.
So I go with my wife two years ago to
a game in Wrigley I think it's on July fourth,
as a matter of fact, on July four, and I
go on to StubHub. I get these seats and they're
(12:26):
they're pretty good, right. I'm like, look, we're in Chicago.
My wife's gonna go the game. My wife is my
wife like's baseball. It's like sports in person. She's not
gonna watch any sport on TV with me, but you'll
go in person. Right. And we're sitting next to this
family and they are literally blocked by a beam. There's
a beam in their way. And I feel badly. I
(12:48):
do because I'm like, oh, come on, I want them
to see. But I paid a whole lot of money
from my tickets. So I mean I try to like
move to the right a little bit so that they
could like lean over, but you know, as obstructive view.
And there was a dad and his two kids. I
was like, oh my god, I feel like crap. But
you know, dude, when you go to Rigney Field, go
(13:09):
make sure you can see your picture because if it's
looking at a beam, that's not a good shot. That's
not a good scene. Okay, I can highly tell you that.
But let's talk about the cubbies. At catcher, Wilson with
two l's will rule Son Contraras. Look, I like Wilson Contrais.
(13:32):
He has power, he hits about two seventy. He's he's
a good player, and he is that type of like
six seventh eighth round catcher. I'm not the guy who's
getting JT real buddle. That's on me. But I can
get Contrais. I can get behind that. I think he's
(13:55):
a good player, all right. At first base, Anthony Rizzo,
M you know exactly what and who you are getting
with Anthony Rizzo. At second it's about thirty home runs,
hits right around five. Rbism gonna hit you about to
(14:16):
eighty five and that's what he does, and he does
it really well. Now the question is, as he gets older,
will he continue playing at this level? At what point
do we see the Joey Votto. Now here's what I
would tell you. Last year, I'll do the last three years.
(14:39):
How about that two thousand seventeen he had more walks
than strikeouts nine than in two thousand eighteen, he had
seventy walks to eighty strikeouts. Two thousand nineteen he had
seventy one walks to eighty six strikeouts. If we start
to see fewer walks and more strikeouts, that's when we
know to divest. But for right now, we're still in
(15:04):
on Anthony Rizzo. Okay, we're still in now. Second base
is a nightmare? Here? Is it Nico Horner? And if
it is, what you do? Is it David Bote, who
I kind of like a little bit. I mean, is
(15:24):
it Jason Kipness. I don't think so. What I always
wanted to see. I wish it was I and happy
that made more sense to me. But he can't feel
it anywhere. He's terrible, So I don't know. I kind
of like David Bote just a little bit. And I'll
tell you why because Bote is that Swiss army knife
that I always talked about. Right, So last year fifty
(15:47):
games at seconds, sixty seven and third played nine at
short that's a kind of guy. He's not a sexy player.
I get that. I get it. Not sexy at all.
But in thirty of your draft, when you need a
guy who plays different positions, you shove them in there.
You shove him on your bench, and then he plays.
(16:08):
So there's value to that. Shortstop is Hobby Bayaz, who's
really good. Harby Biaz is really good. And this was
a guy in ten who was close. You could tell,
but people worried about his strikeouts because he didn't and
he didn't walk much at all. Had a hundred forty
four strikeouts the thirty walks. But the power was there
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and the speed was there, and he had four hundred
and sixty nine at bats in the next year. He
stayed healthy and he really started to play well. And
now you're getting Hobby Bayez a star. He's a Fantasy Star.
Hit about two eighty four, you hit about thirty home runs,
hit about nine r b I s at star. Nothing
not tolike. Now, third base is Chris Bryant. Now here's
(16:54):
the problem with Chris Bryant. He's not who you want
him to be. I think at one point we wanted
a forty home run guy. We wanted a hundred twenty
r BIS, we wanted a three hundred batting average. I
don't think that's him. Now here's the beauty of Chris Bryant. Though.
(17:15):
It's gonna bat lead off and he's gonna score a
lot of runs. So if he bats lead off, I
still think we get the thirty home runs. But you're
gonna lose r BIS and gain runs scored. Right, So
instead of the hundred r BIS and the eight runs scored,
(17:37):
you're gonna get a d r BIS and a hundred
runs scored. Solid player, what not? What's not to like? Runs?
Runs is a very underrated category. You need guys who
score runs. If you have guys in the bottom third
of a lineup, you lose. You can't have too many
of them. You can't have too many of them. You
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have to have guys who bat in the top half
of the lineup because those guys score runs. Once you
start to get around guy number six nine, yeah, you're
not winning leaks, you're not winning leaks. All right, Let's
get to the outfield. In left field, Kyle Schoreber. I
kind of like Kyle Schober. Guy can mash. Now. He
(18:24):
does strike out way too much, he does, but when
he hits it, he can hit it far. I think
he's the guy. If you said to me, hey, dr
rodo give me a player who's like in the high
thirties and home runs who you think could go to forty.
Kyle Schober would probably be my poster child. I like him.
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In center field, we have Ian Happ who was kind
of hapless out there hitting the ball. I mean there's power,
there's a little speed, but there's not enough contact and
he's really bad at feeling. So Albert Olmoora comes in
there a lot late in games, and rightfully so, because
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Almoora is really good at catching the football, at catching
the baseball. He might be good at catching the football too,
I'm not sure, but it's good at catching the baseball now.
I think there's a value to that. I really do.
If I am a manager, I want to have an
outfielder who I could bring in if it's like a
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five one game, I'm bringing this outfielder into the eighth inning,
I'm taking the in half how out after a third
at bat, and I'm bringing in the defensive guy because
Ian Halp, certainly in the ninth inning could make a mistake.
I don't need that. I don't need it. In right
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field is Jason Hayward, who I think he's thirty, but
he feels like he's forty eight to me, I mean,
haven't we been talking about Jason Hayward for like the
last the seven years. I think you just got older.
He just aged three years during this preview, he's like
he's thirty three. Now in another minute, is gonna be
(20:10):
thirty six. Now. There are some guys here. Albert o'morra
I mentioned right hits lefty as well. I like playing
in in DFS against a lefty. Steven Sosa interesting player.
One of my friends likes him very much. Let me
tell you about something about Sosa and two thousand, seventeen
(20:33):
thirty home runs, sixteen stolen bases. He's got that kind
of game, except he cannot stay healthy. But if he can,
I think you'd be better off in the American Lady,
quite honest with you, better than the National League. Okay, bullpen,
(20:54):
I'm not a Craig Campbell guy, I'm not I think
this guy is not dialing it up like he used to.
He is not throwing it at nine. I've seen Kimberill
play live. I've seen him throw. He's starting to throw.
You're like Dr L. It's only four miles per hour.
It's significant. It is significant. I would say, I don't
(21:17):
know whether he's I'm not sure he's last thing the
year is the closer, especially if the Cubs are losing.
If the Cubs are losing and Kimberll's met, watch him
get moved. They love this kid. Rowan Wick. I think
we need to watch him and Jeremy Jefferess has has
some experience closing at the ends of games too. I'm
(21:40):
not sold on Kimberl. He will not be on any
one of my team's. Promise you that all right? Starting pitching,
you Darvish got up, he's gone down. He's fluctuated. But
when he's good, he's really good. When he's bad, he's
really bad. But when you Darvish is good, you want
him on your team. I like him. I like Kyle
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Hendricks too. He's kind of a soft tosser, but you
know exactly who he is. He's gonna throw about a
hundred and eighty innings. He's gonna get about a hundred
and fifty hundred and sixty strikeouts. He's gonna get in
the r A in the mid threes. He's gonna have
a whip about one point one four, one point one five.
He's gonna get twelve wins. You know exactly who you're getting.
I love Kyle Hendricks like that. I am not a
(22:25):
Jose Cantana fan. I am not a John Lester fan.
I can't stand Tyler Chatwood. I do like this kid,
Alec Mills a little bit. Maybe he gets a shot.
He might be a little interesting to me. I like Darvish,
I like Hendricks. The rest is buyer, Beware caveat em door,
said Mr Brady. I just don't trust them. Maybe Kintana,
(22:48):
But do you really want ten wins in the r
A of four point five that badly? I know, I don't,
I know, I don't, all right, You know what I
do want. I do want to take a break, and
when I come back, I do want to talk to
Gray Albright. So I will do these things, and I
hope that you'll be there to listen. When we returned
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dunk to learn more. All right, we are back talking
tow Wars and coronavirus at the same time. Whoever thought
of that in a segment? But we have my friend
(24:11):
Greg Albright from razvald dot com who is in the
middle of a what's what's the imbroglio? What I mean,
give me what's the word you gotta? I mean, this
is this is this is a mess. This is a
real mescal and salad here. Ma man, yeah, I don't know, man,
I uh you know, I was like I was for sure,
(24:33):
like okay. So to give people a backstory, tow Wars
is held every year in New York City. So now
it's coronavirus as everyone knows. You know, New York City
is a bit of a quantree and you know they
just locked down New Rochelle. It's now a containment center,
(24:54):
and uh, honestly, people just don't know. Like I'm not
saying it's it's like, you know, it's gonna be fatalities falling,
you know, on the sidewalk, and uh, you know everyone
should remain in their house for the next six months.
I mean, well, no one knows. That's the whole thing.
So you know, they've said that, you know, to avoid
(25:15):
any unnecessary risk, people should try to avoid New York.
So I live in l A. So I was like,
you know, instead of me flying both ways to New
York City, how about I just draft online for this
one year. I'll just like call in onto Skype or
(25:36):
or even like, you know, maybe do an auction draft.
Like point nine percent of the entire fantasy Are you
in the Are you in an auction league? Are you
in a draft? Which one are you in? I'm I'm
in I'm an n L only auction Okay, So, but
I was told that it was impossible to do a
(25:59):
online draft, that everyone had to go into New York City.
So I was like, well, everyone does online drafts. Why
is this so? Why is this so difficult? I don't understand.
So and then like, you know, Lenny Melnick, who I
respect a lot, he tweeted out that he's you know,
(26:21):
he's over the age of seventy and he's worried about
his own health. Let me, let's just stop that. Do
you think Lenny was doing that to just like pick
pick the bear, because poke the bear, because Lenny could
do that, or do you think he was legitimately concerned? No,
I was gonna say no. I mean, you know, I
don't think this is uh breaking a confidence. He called me,
(26:44):
you know, he's worried. He called me up on the phone,
and you know, I don't usually pick up the phone
for anyone to be totally, but I thought, I don't
Lenny calling And I was like, what's going on? Lenny
the legend calling me? What's up? And uh, you know,
and he's he's truly concerned about his own well being,
which and honestly, no one should ever have to worry
(27:07):
about their health to draft in a fantasy league. Like
that is the number one rule that should be across everything,
Like if anyone is worried, they should not have to
be worried to do a fantasy draft when you can
just do it online. Like that's that's simple. Like I've
heard of living, living and dying with fantasy. But you
don't want to literally live and die with fantasy. No,
(27:31):
I don't. I mean I honestly, if I could drive in,
I would, But you know, it's the the whole like
flying right now, it's it just doesn't feel like what
if they lock down New York City is during the
five days that I'm in New York and I can't
fly back out. It's like it's it's just not worth it.
(27:52):
It's not worth the risk for me. But I understand
also like older people, Like honestly, the people and tot
Wars aren't that young. There's people that are truly concerned.
Like I'm getting personal emails from other people in the
league saying I agree with you no, And that's the thing.
(28:13):
I think there are a lot of people who do
agree with you. I agree with you a d And
I said as much in the very first segment. I
think that there's no reason this year. And I won't
even just say tout Wars. I'll just say local drafts.
If people people should be able to draft anyway they
want this year, we need to accommodate because we can't.
(28:35):
Everybody's fear is different, right, how you feel about as
different from everybody else. I don't want to see there
not be Fantasy baseball, but we have to accommodate. Let's
do a draft online. We've got ESPN, We've got Yahoo,
We've got CBS. I've done auctions on CBS many every year.
My football my football league Gray is done on auction
on CBS, on CBS. It's not that hard. No great,
(29:00):
I mean I don't honestly, I'm so young and spry.
I don't think I'm at risk. I really feel like
I'm totally fine. But if anyone is ever concerned about
drafting in person because of what's going on right now
with this health crisis, there's no reason to make people
do it like there's no like there's no reason. And honestly,
(29:23):
it really stinks for me because I enjoy going in
and doing the auction draft in person, like I really
do enjoy it. Like it's like a bummer, And I'm
conflicted because i feel like I'm okay, but on the
other hand, it's just not worth it, Like, it's just
not worth the risk for it. All Right. I know
(29:43):
you're young. I don't know how spry you are, but
I will say, my god, I'm so spry. So I
like the word spry though, but here So when I
meant when I didn't do two drafts, what I had
to do was I had to get the guy who
set in for me. He had to be blessed by Peter.
So Peter needed to know that this guy had played
Fantasy before. I'm like, this guy has been playing Fantasy
(30:03):
longer than I've been alive, and he's been a friend
of mine, have been leaves with him forever. So basically
I had a vouch and then Peter had to bless him.
So you could find a random New Yorker Gray and
have him sit in that seat, and then you can
be on the bluetooth talking to him about what he
needs to do. Yeah, well that's what I'm That's what
I'm gonna have to do. I And that's another whole
(30:24):
wrinkle I have never really considered before. I'm gonna have
to have someone else draft for me while I'm on
the phone, and if anyone who's been in an in
person auction draft knows if you don't hear like the
actual bids, like it's really like it gets super confusing
if there's like who's up, who's getting bid on? What's
(30:46):
the bid at? Like I prefer to just be there
in person, But it's just not gonna be possible. And
I've got great I got good news for you. A
friend of mine just tweeted me he can be a
pinch drafter. Oh perfect. Who is this person? Is? No? No, No,
(31:06):
he's a he's a good player. Yeah. His name is
Ron and he's uh I. We call him the fantasy
male man because he always delivers and he's been in
some some high stakes leagues with me before, I will
put you in touch with Ron and you guys can
can figure it out, because look, I want you to
be in the league, and I'm sure Ron will do
a great job. He'll listen to you, know, I mean,
nobody wants to listen to you in bluetooth for that
(31:27):
many hours. But I will say this as someone who
did it last year, you have to do your bids
in advance because all of a sudden, what's going once
going twice? It's very hard to like help somebody on
the phone bet another dollar. It's it's kind of it's hard.
I know, no I have you know, I have a
spreadsheet for all my auction bids, so I know, like,
(31:50):
I feel like I can guide people if I talk
to them beforehand. It maybe a five hour beforehand conversation
of me telling someone at the trip because I may
I may have to walk them through an entire draft
first and then they go and sit for six hours
and do another draft. But I think I can. I
think I'll be able to do it. I'm just you know,
(32:11):
it's thinks, it really does like it's a not ideal situation.
Well it's not easy being you, I mean, but but
I do, I do really honestly feel that this is, uh,
this is problematic. I really do. I I think and
you know what I'm I'm I'm taking this very seriously.
I'm taking it seriously with Lenny. I'm taking it seriously
because you know, the fantasy baseball community is not as
(32:32):
young as spry as we think it is. No, I know,
that's what yeah, I mean, that's what I was getting
at before. I mean, some of the guys in the league,
like I feel like I'm okay, but I worry about
some of the other guys, and I don't know if
they're gonna be okay, So I mean it's not worth
it when you're when you're demographic, is you know, sixty
(32:55):
eight and older? Like, just do it online for one year.
I understand you can if you could walk, you could
walk out of your house and get hit by a car.
Like I understand there's risks in everyday life, but this
is an unnecessary risk that no one needs to take. No,
it's so true. I by the way, I just sent
to you the tweet. You are now officially hooked up. Okay,
(33:18):
I have saved you, Gray Albright. If you win, you
owe it to the mail man. It's Dr Rono. Just
know that. Will he wear his uh his mail man shorts?
You ask him whatever you want. Maybe it's a ras
ball shirt and mail man shorts. Whatever you need. Ron
is a great guy and he will help you. That's what. Well,
(33:39):
anywhere will anywhere a paste on mustash Listen to me,
you talked to ron I can't I can't discuss I'm
not his agent. Okay, you have to discuss things with
him directly. All right. Let me ask you a question
your Don Alvarez. You're starting to get worried about this
dude's knee. Uh No, actually not Uh. If if Ron's listening,
(34:04):
he's in the a L and I'm gonna help wait,
so ignore this part of the show, Ron. But now
I'm not worried about your Don Alvarez. I feel like
he's young enough. And what does he do, Uh he
has to sit on the bench and and take you know,
twelve swings a game. I'm not worried, honestly, I'm worried
(34:25):
more about like, oh, Blink's worry me, uh ribs, Like
with Aaron Judge, that worries me. But me's on your
Don Alvarez. I'm not worried. How about backs with Gary Sanchez?
Does that worry you? Yeah? Yeah, Gary Sanchez worries me
because you know, you think about the you know, the
(34:45):
whole process of catching uh a hundred and fifty two
pitches a game. It's it's not it's not easy on
the body. So yeah, Gary Sanchez would worry me. Plus
I don't draft high catchers. Ron, if you're listening, I don't. Alright,
all right, I'll tell you what great can you want
to stay for another segment because I want to I
we didn't ask you, ok, Baseball, we just talked about coronavirus,
(35:08):
which is not as important to our to our listening. Faithful,
all right, you want to come back for another little
segment here? Sure? All right, and then you can tell
Ron what you want and what you don't want. I'm
sure he's taking copious notes while he's listening to you.
But Gary Sanchez, right now, does he drop? Does it?
We have thirty seconds real quick. Do you think he
drops from like round four to round six? Do you
think it stays same? No, I mean maybe it will drop,
(35:32):
but I think it should stay the same. I'm not
worried about your down outbreast at all. I'm really not
all right. We'll take a little time out. We'll come
on back with my friend Gray Albright from Razball dot com.
I am Dr Rhoda will be back with you right
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We're back. It's Dr Rhoda here with my man Gray.
All right for another segment of Fantasy Baseball Talk here
(36:37):
on full Time Fantasy and uh Gray did one? Gray
k Kite? Greg Kite, tell people what you did? You
you did one of the things that people tell you
not to do. There was there was a big email
where the person who wrote it said, please just reply
directly to me, and Gray was like, uh, I'm replying
at all soccer And now all of a sudden it
(37:00):
opened the floodgates to to about twenty seven emails in
my email box. So thank you so much, Greg. I'm
spending my afternoon going through the emails. I really appreciate it. No,
I'm usually the I'm usually the first person who says,
you know, if someone if there's a mass email, just
respond to the person who sent the email. But this
is a very specific case where I feel like you
(37:23):
don't want to tamp down discussion. You want people to
be able to discuss freely what's on their mind and
how they're feeling. Like you shouldn't be saying to someone like, oh, yeah,
come to New York City where it's ground zero for coronavirus.
But also, don't discuss it with anyone else in your league,
and let's just see what happens. All right. When you
(37:44):
put it that way, then I don't mind you getting
into my email box. I'm fine with that, all right.
My man, Max Scherzer, who is in the NL only league,
has an ailment on his right side? Is this a
mild latch drain? Are we worried at all? Now? This
(38:04):
is the kind of thing where I'm totally worried because
I don't know. This is interesting to me, Like, don't
it feels like a mental block for some people when
they when they start doing their drafts the following year,
Like they don't really consider what happens the season before,
Like it was so obvious to me. Max Scherzer could
(38:25):
not throw in the playoffs because of his back, like
and then this off season he went and tried to
tweak his uh, his wind up in order to take
make some relief for his back. So this is like
obvious to me. I don't know why it wasn't obvious
to others, But it's obvious that Max Scherzer was injured
(38:48):
last year. Why would you be drafting him in the
top five starters like he was so off the board.
For me, there was no way I was ever drafting
or round. The mailman also was not going to draft
him as by property. So here is the question. If
Scherzer is like at fifteen dollars, do you say sixteen
(39:08):
or is there no value for him on you for
your roster. There there's a price for everyone for sure. Yeah. No.
If if Ron's sitting in the draft room and he
sees Max sharser come up for fifteen, I I take
go to sixteen. But at a certain point he's not
worth it anymore. I'd have to look at my values.
But I would guess shares are becomes he goes at
(39:31):
it after twenty dours, I think he becomes too pricey. Alright.
Michael Confordo dealing with a side issue as well. I
kind of like this guy. But he's going to see
Dr David Allcheck, never a good sign. He's actually flying
to New York by the way from Florida, I'm just
on that. Can Conford Town draft for me and Pat
(39:53):
words Well, Ron is gonna be upset about that, But
maybe conforda will draft for you now that he's up
in New York. Now are you okay? Are you okay
with Conforto who had an imri in Florida but now
he needs to be evaluated further? No, I would totally
stay away from Conforto at his previous a DP. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't necessarily stay away from him completely, though, if
(40:16):
his price comes down. I'll tell you the with the oblique,
you have usually a case where guys gonna be out
for three to five weeks roughly. So I took from
my projections, I took Conforto down about eighty at bats,
which is about three weeks worth of a bat. So
that feels about It feels conservative, but about right. So
(40:38):
I think Conforto was at around seventy five eight five
overall for me, and now he's around a hundred and
fifty overall. Oh wow, that's a big drop, dude. Yeah,
he dropped down from like I think the best outfielder
to about the forty second beat outfielders. So seventeen outfielders
(40:58):
have become better than them. Now are we liking Jake
Marisnick a little bit? I mean, is there anybody in
that Mets outfield that can pick up the slack? Yeah?
You know what? Actually, Marisnick is really interesting to me
because he's got some speed. So in like an NL
only league where Ron will be drafting, you have Marisnick
(41:19):
who could give maybe five, no more like maybe seven
to twelve feels at a price of like zero dollars.
And now I'm not saying in a mixed league Marisnicks
off the board because he's just not that good. But
then then now, only if you can get seven or
twelve feels for a dollar or less, that's pretty good.
(41:41):
As we like to call it a mono league. If
you will, uh no, no one says that, Yes they do.
You just you're not not in your crowd. It's not
in l A. It's it's an East coast thing, not
a West coast there, all right, Willie Calhoun, will he
all right, I'm going two d and fifty fat it's
over on, John Willy Calhoun. I'm gonna go over by
(42:06):
about a hundred and fifty bats. I'm not that concerned
with Willy Calhoun as long as he doesn't get the
yips from you know, from the broken jaw. I think
he'll be back within like, I don't know, I want
to say, fifteen to twenty days of opening day, so
that's a roughly like three weeks into the season. That's
(42:27):
not bad. I think he's the every day guy in
the outfield and he's probably you know, roughly four hundred
and five at bats, maybe three five. Yeah, it's I
go way over on two fifty, really way over. You
don't think that, Uh, you don't worry about him staying
(42:49):
getting too close to the plate anymore, feeling that I'm
gonna get smack to the head. No, I mean, well
that's the risk now that he never really comes back
from that. But I don't know. I mean, I think
it takes, you know, it takes a little bit of
crazy in the head slash bravery to stand in the
(43:09):
box at a nine fans blood it is, so you
would assume he's he's able to get back in there.
So yeah, I'm okay with them. I don't think the uh,
you know, I think Nick Solak is interesting as like
a round flyer in a twelve to fifteen team mixed league.
(43:29):
But I feel like he might be a utility guy.
I want to get too crazy about Solac. I love
Dick Solak. I mention that, Yeah, I mean I like them,
especially especially in tout wars. I mean, if Ron, if
Ron was doing an a L league, his O b
P a verry high. Yeah, well, Ron won't be doing
in a L And now you're just crowding Ron's mind
(43:52):
up with stuffing doesn't need to know. All right, let
me ask you about when you take David Donald the Rocky.
You're talking about him batting leadoff. This is a guy
who can never stay healthy. But what if what if
David Doll stays healthy? Are we buying? Oh? Yeah, no completely.
(44:13):
I actually already got him in the Labor and L
only um, which I drafted. Uh. I wanted to say
that was like two weeks ago. I had no problem
flying then by the way, Uh yeah, no, I drafted
David Doal for twenty dollars in twelve team and L only,
and I would do it again in the second. If
(44:33):
Ron's listening still, is there speed with David Doal? Because
at one time he had some speed in the minor leagues.
But it never translated to the majors. Now, you know,
I think David dog bet bet honestly is to try
and go out there and get four seventy plus at
bats without without running hard, without like tweaking anything, like
(44:58):
just like go super see on the base path. Don't
just like get twenty two to homers, hit to eighty
and maybe one or two steals, like, don't push it.
We're trying to steal though. All right, I'm with you.
Let me give you a guy, Mitch Keller. I like
the picture, I hate the team. At what point do
(45:21):
we draft good pictures on horrific teams? Uh? Well, everyone's
got a price, like I said before, But you know,
Teller to me feels like a guy who is is
basically gonna go in like the two D and fifty
overall range of snake drafts and like a you know,
(45:43):
a three to five dollar flyer in auctions, which is
a totally correct price. I mean, I would take the
fire on him. I don't have crazy high hopes though,
that he's gonna be able to do much. I think
he's probably in for a bit of an up and
down seas then, uh, you know, because it's just hard
for rookie pictures. I think if he if he has
(46:06):
a under four year ray, it would I would count
that as a success for him. Really, you don't think
he can do better than that now, you know. I
think Keller is probably like and he's in a good
park too, But it's just so like rookie pictures are
just so iffy. As I've said before, you know, if
you look at Clayton Kershaw's rookie year, he wasn't good
(46:29):
in his rookie year, like a lot of guys just
aren't good when they first are when they first get
a you know, a run around the league. So you know,
I don't know Keller at this point as forty eight
major league getting he had a seven year ray. It's
not I mean, he didn't have a great time of
it last year. I don't think he's suddenly gonna be
(46:49):
great this year. He could be, and at some point
I do see Keller being good, but it may take
two to three years. You know, you never know how
long it's a the picture to really start clicking. Do
you like Joe Musgrove, Yeah, I do. Actually, Joe Musgrove
(47:09):
is one of the guys I wrote a sleeper post
on him. He's one of those guys where I feel
like he could potentially be and under the radar number
three uh late late in drafts like around say, you
know he's going around like I think overall, so he's
going in a in a range where I think it's
(47:31):
it's assumed he's gonna be a fifth the sixth fantasy starter,
but I think he could be a three like I
expect him to be eight plus k per nine and
a high three low four. Yarr, all right, Greg Albright,
thanks for sticking around, my man, talk to you soon,
stay here alright, alright, guys, Dr Roto right up against it,
(47:54):
timped out to put away the insurance card, put away
the cope. The office is close. My friends. Want to
thank great Bright for hanging out for two segments. Hope
you enjoyed it. Thank my man, Sean and the booth.
We are back tomorrow with remember p G A DFS.
It's the Players Championship. Somebody's gonna win a million dollars.
I hope it's you if it's not me. All right
(48:14):
back tomorrow with more of this is Dr Roto saying,
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