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It it's still Super Bowl Sunday the eleventh. We're sitting about almost four o'clock
now, we're midway through our podcast, our our mock draft that we're doing.
I think Jason called it a guillotine for me. Yeah, I thought
it was. I thought it was glad Eator. Okay, tell me you
ready to You went on pause it. Yeah, I'm ready to go.
You're ready to make your pick. I am ready to make my pick.
So okay, as I need that, I need batting average him, and
I need a shortstop, so I'm going Carlos Correa. He's saying these I
thought it was a safe pick. I mean, I've gone pretty wild here
with very young, with Corbyn, Carro, Gunner, Henderson, Wyatt,
Langford, Jaron Duran. So my I need I need some stability here,
some guy that's I know that's going to get some batting average. So that's
why I went with Carlos Korea. Yeah, good, good, solid back.
After Core goes Ryan Pepio, then followed by Heimer, Can Candelaria,
and then Peter Chriiser goes with h Emmonaga and then Tim is on the clock.
Tim Is just review Tim's team, Soto, Michael Harris, Randy Rose,
Arena three solid outfield picks, and I actually went in I think one
of my dinasty leagues in that order with a league, So I kind of
like what Tim did there. And then went back to back closers, which
boy shocked everybody. Uh, so we all decided that we had to go
closers and get that second closer giving the format. Uh And then he goes
Torko send Cassis back to back for a basin, which is pretty interesting,
the back to back pictures Musgrove, Montgomery, then Ezekiel Tovar, then bow
nailor than Bailey over than Estoc Paratus, and then he goes Suarez. Tem
Yeah, I started like the genius for as in Arizona this year. I
think he can get back to the thirty thirty home run mark and he's gonna
hit in a good spot in the order. So again a little a little
bit of counting stats in the in the home run department. I did mention
no Christmas card for me. I had plans for him. Em and Aga
and Peter Snipe sniped me. So I'm still sitting I think at two starting
pitchers, so I guess I'm I should probably look at taking another one fairly
soon. I would think that would be that would be wise, Tim,
to take you need this is a five by five, not a five by
one, So yes, I would I would agree with that having fun with
it. How about you? You're like your team so far right here,
Timmy, I mean, I'm so busy trying to get people on the air.
I don't even know. I mean, I I just you know,
it's not it's it's more about just trying to create entertainment as opposed to trying
to win a league. But yeah, I mean it's okay. I mean,
I I like my first pick, Cord and Carroll the seventh sleventh Hall,
I'll take that. And I really wanted Elie de la Cruz coming back.
He he didn't happen. But then I'll take Ky, I'll take Gunner
Henderson's I like my first two picks, and then I just I was,
I stopped paying attention, So I'm sure on who I have. But uh,
there's some really good there's some good teams here, Tim. Yeah,
I haven't had a chance. I haven't had a chance to scan through too
many of them myself, Tim Tim here on the clock. Tim is on
the clock. See he just picked Euhenio Suarez. After that went to Dalton
vor Show and then Jonathan India we talked about earlier with Gary Sonifield's a really
good player. So let's see how that goes to Nick Pavetta, and then
Trevor's story goes with Sean Charles takes him and Tim is still on the clock.
Talk us through what you're thinking here, Tim, Well, a second
basement would be nice, and there's still there's still a couple of them there.
I I I sort of I'm sort of leaning it towards Horrorgate Polonco,
even though he's been hurt the past couple of years. With a full time
job hitting in the right spot in Seattle order, there could be some numbers
there. So I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Horrorgate Bolonco to fill up to
my second base slot. There it is, so let's take a look at
Let's take a look at Tim's team here. I could just go into the
rosters and take a look at Tim mclether. He is to McLeod after team
Rich, Tim is he still needs a catcher, he needs a middle infield
or two outfielders, and he needs four pitchers. Yeah it's yeah, I'm
okay with it. I'm probably gonna be a little bit late on light on
speed. Yeah that's what I'm thinking. It's yeah, it's it seems a
little light on speed, so I might have to might have to roll the
dice on a rabbit at some point in time. But considering I went so
late on starting pitching, I'm okay with it. Yeah you went, You
got Musk Grove. Who else that you get? Uh, Montgomery and over
over? Yeah. Yeah, I shall be going to pitch every fifth days.
So I'm going to go with another pitch. I'm going Brandon fat if
he falls to the time and he did and he did, and I'm going
to grab him here. So pretty I like Brendan fought this year a lot
that is very data driven guy, so I kind of like I love my
pitching staff to him. I mean, I got, uh, that's still
your team here, that's your team. I gotta go back to my team.
I've got, I got, I got the Pablo Lopez, Emanuel Classe,
Bedner, Eerie Perez, Shane Biab, Bryce Miller, Brandon Fought.
Yeah, you filled out your pitching rather nicely. Now you just got to
work on rounding out the offense. You've got what one, two, three,
four or five six slots to fill on your offense. So yeah,
no, I like your pitching too. Yeah, yeah, yes, you
know. It's it's funny because I think you can get pitching a little later
and I random fot a little later, Saint Bieber a little later. But
I also think you can fill out your your hitters a little later too.
There's good hitters towards the back end. So that's that's what I like.
Yeah, it's uh again, I don't think there's any tried and true,
true recipe. Again, I don't think it's a tried and true recipe.
But whatever plan you have, try and stick to it, don't deviate too
much from it. One of my guys just went off the board. John
dene took, Johann Roass. There was some cheap speed I was looking at
to fill out my oatfield. But there's a dream shattered. Good. Thanks,
they're good. They're good drafters here. If you're taking a look at
his team, he's got a tani he's got a little bit of speed at
Tioska Hernandez. It doesn't have any Uh, let's see, he's also got
Nolan Aeronauta that doesn't have any, Josh Young that doesn't have much, Dancy
Swanson that doesn't have much. He needed speed too, Tim, Tim Earth
to Tim, I've lost him. Yeah, sorry, he lost me there,
Rich, Yeah he did. I think we left off with he needed
he needed he needed speed. Yeah. So yeah, I mean that's what
happens everybody. You get into the later part of these drafts, that we're
in round fifteen and you're like Tim and you're looking back on I might need
a I might need a rabbit. Well maybe there's somebody else that needs a
rabbit too. So sometimes him, you jump on a guy early just because
you need him. Well, it's again, I think there's still the opportunity
for me, but they're getting a little bit lean as we as we head
into the you know, the last seven or eight rounds of the draft.
So it'll be very different for me heading into a heading into a league where
I'm light on speed because that's not usually my forte. So yeah, it'll
be fun. Yeah, South Fraelick out there still Timmoth that could provide him
some speed. You could take a wild card with like a Tyler Black and
jump on that. So Mackenzie Gorwin, he was also on my queue.
Why don't you ended my mine as well? So why don't you take us
after Johann Rojas Tell people who went after that? Okay, Robbie Theayre took.
I'm just making sure it's the right soaras, Yes, it's San Diego's
potential closer. Tyler Stevenson Wentz next, followed by Tyler O'Neill, who has
a job in Boston. Jeremy Paine. You went to Chris Hopcroft at fifteen
fourteen, MJ Melindez to Justin Hughes along with who did he pair? Mg?
Melinda's up with Aaron Savelli. Then we've got Brandon Lowell, Mackenzie Gore,
Brian Ballo, Mason Miller, Gavin Lux to John Dean, Starling Marte.
There was another one of my speed hopes gone. And then we've got
Edwin Diaz at Catcher went to cam at sixteen eight and we're still waiting to
see what Rich's got up his sleep. I might just take I haven't had
this guy on the league. This is probably the exact wrong guy for this
format, but I'm taking Byron Buxton maybe this season two. Well, there's
no I else spot in this league, so you're you're good to go.
Right there, I'm good to go. So what the heck, Timmy,
it's uh, I can give you beat and give you big numbers. If
he could get in three hundred fifty four. It's a bit iround sixteen.
Yeah, I mean it's a it's a it's turned out to be a bit
of a risky uh. I have a bit of a risky roster, Tommy
with the white Langford again, that pick says, okay, I'm going a
little risky here. Jared Durant's a bit of a risk risky pick as well.
So now I figured, well let me just let me just do it,
let's go for it. Yeah yeah, no, Hey, we're in
We're in round sixteen of a Clyde your format. Yeah, all all you
need is three hundred and fifty at bathsroom. Bucksman here is keeping in around
sixteen. Yeah. Well so yeah, let's hope. Let's cross my fingers.
I did like Starling Marte matt Lehayla took him before or hate Hate took
him before me, and that would have been an interesting guy. He's a
guy again. Do my eyes deceive me? So? Robbie thinks my chops
about which is rightfully so. But hey, sometimes you have some fun.
Let me just take a break it back and we get back. Let's uh,
let's call another Let's call another Sam. We are going to add in.
Let's see how I add this guy in. Let's see Ricardo Cardo Alexander.
There we go bring it him in. See if we could do that.
Where are we in the draft here? Tim just picked Parker Metal love
the Parker Medows picked him. That's a great pick. Well again, I'm
hoping for fifteen to twenty stolen bases and a full time job at the top
of the Tigers lineup. Before that had small relief pictures Will Smith, jose
Leclerk, Brandon Donovan to Jerry Walton and we're back to Buxton and Sean took
the ageless wonder Charlie Morton at sixteen fourteen. Hey, another another good year
for Morton. That could work out. Yeah, so, hey, there's
is that you Ricardo? Yes it is this rich Yeah it is Hey,
man, watch you turn turn turn turn your video off takes up a lot
of bandwidth and if you don't mind, Uh, you're very handsome man,
so uh good scene. So I was sharing with Tim. You're my superstar
drafter as you came in late into a Dinasty League startup, and literally,
Tim, from the moment I said I needed a guy to when he's making
his first pick, which I think was Tatist Junior's a pretty easy pick there,
but you did it like forty five minutes. It was pretty darn impressive.
Thank you for the con words, Tim, Thank you. I'm always
full of my master, the realsted agent. So I have a lot of
free time. I'm not sure that's good, right is it? There's no
inventory right right? And the rights are still a little bit high right now?
Yeah? Yeah. What what part of the country do you live in?
I'm in Atlanta? Oh okay, wow. If Atlanta is slowing down
from your real estate standpoint, that's that's really that's really disappointing because that's that's
an area that's been growing for years. It has been. So let's let's
take it. Where are you picking here? You are all the way okay?
Oh you got a Yankee flag up there? All right, Well he's
a Yankee guy. He snaped snipe me on Mackenzie Gore. So like,
I tell you, no Christmas card for you this year? All right,
so you went, Oh so you went to Aaron Judge. Of course,
as was that just a homer picker? Did you like him in the first
round? Well? I did like him in the first run. I know
that he's a little bit injury prone, but if he is healthy, I
think he's a top five player. I would agree with that, tim,
right, I mean this is Aaron Judge. Yeah, hey, you could
you could be looking at you could be looking at fifty to fifteen, one
hundred and twenty five RBIs one hundred plus run score. Yeah, he's the
top five player if he's Kase Ellie. Yeah great. Obviously health is the
biggest thing. And the next pick you went with Trey Turner. I mean,
that's that's a strong start. I yess what I needed was some speed,
and at the point in the drivet, I thought that that was the
best play speed in also powers. All right, so let me let me
I'm gonna do I'm gonna yeah, you're you're coming up here, rich You
got forty seconds left hand oh I'm on the clock. Oh yeah, sorry,
yeah, you got thirty thirty seven, thirty six. All right,
I'm just gonna take a guy that's in my que So this is why my
team stinks. All right, let's let's get back. Don't let Ricardo get
off on it. So you've already got two catchers in Raleigh and Francisco Alvarez.
Then Pauli Goldschmid, Edwardo, Julienne Royce, Lewis, Trey Turner.
What do you think of Julianne this season? Be honest with you. I
was kind of surprised he was still there, and you know, with the
trade off Hawaii Polanka this past week opens up his spot for him, so
I've they're very very happy to get him there. We'll look at that,
Michael Bushwen, that's the guy should have taken as opposed to Josh Bell.
Tim What am I thinking? Well, you're thinking that you had thirty five
seconds left and you're multitasking and didn't know it was your pick. I'll pay
attention from here on in and let you know what it's got. Okay,
seeing it's outfield, you've got Aaron Judge, Josh lo and you were oh,
he just took a pick. He just took uh Novill Martelle. I
love that pick. Even though there's some concern about some playing time in Cincinnati.
There is concern, but I'm believing that, you know, the Sea
is going to be the I'm looking for at least twenty stone bases from him
this year. All right, Timmy, let's take a look at his starting
picture. Were you surprised that the great Tim McCleod started a closer run that
had everybody scramley because you got jose Iglesias and Craig Kimberl, So that's that's
pretty good. You also got Bassett Verlander and then mackenzy Gorg kind of like
your pitching staff, oh, Logan web as well. Beyonest with you,
I'm not actually happy with my starr and staff though. What I want it
was like a little bit higher number one pitcher, So why didn't you get
a higher number one picture? So I think what happened was, Hey,
so the draft I kind of got on caught out there, and so you
know, I wasn't able to ask you take the guys on that I wanted.
You can't always get interest. It's different when you're playing on a sixty
second glove. Yeah, his his pick is coming up, so we're gonna
let him think. Timmy, let me, let's review this real quick,
and we'll come back to me after you. I love that. Michael Bush,
good job. Matt Lehay can't pronounce his name to me. Willie Castro,
then Alex Lang with the Robbie Thayer takes him, Hunter Harvey d'vill Marte,
Carlos stvs Andrew Vaughan. Matt Brash comes in at this Matt Brash doesn't
have the closer gig there, right, No, he doesn't have a closer
gig, but he's next to next in line to Munios. And based on
the strikeout rates we've seen, you gotta have. You gotta have three three
bullpen arms. I think to make this work, he's gonna get some saves
and he's can generate a hundred plus strikeouts. So I started like the pick,
and then he comes in, and then Ricardo comes back with REDT Marsell.
But Joseph Erlander's solid bassettist, solid Logan web I mean, yeah,
who I know, you'd want to have Spencer Strider, but you got Logan
Webb. It's still not a bad bad alternative there, it's not. And
the one thing about Web is that Web pitches on two hundred in is every
year, So definitely like that. Great. Great, So what's your favorite
format to play in? So right now, I play in a lot of
simulation leagues and the like stimulation keeper salary leagues. Tim, have you ever
played in a simulation league. I've never done that. I pretend a lot
of my regular leagues are simulations. Guys. You see some of the results,
Rich, That's fair. That's fair. Wow, that's cool. Well,
look, so how did you like the Dynasty? How did you like
how your team turned out? Actually, lighting my team up a lot.
I think my team is more for for the play for this year though,
I didn't really get any big prospects, so I'm trying to win it this
year. I hope it works out for you, all right, ricarda good
luck with everything in Atlanta. I hope the real estate market turns around.
I really appreciate you joining us here. And uh, are you who you're
reading for the Super Bowl or do you care all the Chiefs? Is that
because of Taylor Swift? No, I honestly that's the only reason I'm watching.
I want to. I want to watch. I'm want to see what
the big deal is all about. Why it seems like it's more Taylor Swift
talk than there is foiotball talk. So I want to watch the two second
glimpses that we get of her. I don't know. Oh I'm on the
clock. Tim. Oh, sorry, I'm not paying attention. I'll pause
it. No, I'm good. I just took Louis Severino. He was
sitting in my cue. All right, I appreciate it, Tim, all
right, all right, thanks a lot, Tim. All right, Tim
Riccardi, we appreciate you joining us, and uh, thanks again for for
supporting us in the Patreon site and all the things. We appreciate it all.
Rich and Tim, thanks off allowed me to being in this draft.
Appreciate it. Nice meeting you take take take care, and good luck on
your year this year. All right, same you guys as well. Hopefully
he will hang up so I won't have to ricorder. Can you hang up
because if I let's see, Oh he did hang up. Good, so
I didn't lose Tim talking about that, Rich. This multitasking is tough,
it really is. I had I had Ricardo's team up. I'm looking at
his team. I'm not even looking at my team at all. My queue
is completely empty. Oh yeah, and Tim, you're on the clock now,
yeah, now I'm looking at you. Yeah, I'm looking I'm looking
at at my options. And I might have gone a little too late on
the on the pitching, but uh when in dot Now we'll go with the
Kansas City. Oh such, you should give me one hundred and fifty hundred
sixty one hundred and fifty and sixty innings. So yeah, so I don't
know what to do here, Tom, I need to outfielders. I'm pretty
light and outfielders and at the top since everybody knows we're in the eighteenth rous,
so we're started of getting pretty deep in this and at the top of
the queue, according to fantrax Is, Taylor Ward, followed by Alex Rodugo
gen Carlo Stanton to me, this is what we're talking about. This is
what happened. Yeah, it's yeah, it's yeah. Hey j D.
Martinez is still sitting there for you. Uh, is the outfield eligible because
I got my Byron Bucks and no he's no, he's not, Yeah,
no he's not. Yeah. Yeah, you got your utility slot field.
Yeah, yeah, there's there isn't much. There isn't much left kicking around
for Oakfield, is there? No, there's not, So I'm I was
thinking about Alec Thomas or Max Kepler, so those those are kind of my
options there. So and I've got just one more picture, so I'm good
and pitching in another catcher and middle Enfielder said, wow, we don't have
many more rounds left, do we. We're just about done. We're into
just making the turn heading into nineteen. Uh so we're closing in very quickly
on record breaking territory here. I think last year was two hours and we're
looking at well, the average picktime is twenty twenty seconds. So congratulations to
everybody partaking smooth sailing. I like it to me take a break it back,
And I got to call Robbie bust of my chops about my Byron Bucks.
Ye. All right, so here we've got let's see where are we?
I took Lewis Everno, then Jerry Walt took David Robertson. I love
that David Robertson pick. I think he's going to get some saves with Texas.
Brenda Drury, next Eloi Jumenez dropping pretty low it's pretty interesting. Seth
Lugo, Sean goes with a Rooker out in Oakland, Danny Jansen and Jose
Siri at the turn with Gary Sonofield, Alex Verdugo, Sean Chard picks him.
He actually waited for a while on outfield, and this is who he
got Tim three out of his five spotsors Zwinsky, Brent Rooker, and Alex
Verdugo. That's what happens when you wait on outfield and see where Tim is
going to go. He went with Austin Wells for his second catcher. That's
not a bad pick. I'm not a huge fan of Austin Wells, but
I understand why you took him. Well. He might give me a few
stolen bases, and I I didn't want to be debating. I didn't want
to be debating Patrick Bailey or Connor Wong. Yeah, it's getting you that
stage and catcher. I totally agree with you. Let's see participants. Let's
add Robbie Fay or not'll be your last guy, Robbie Robbie, Oh interesting,
I thought he was Maybe I got it wrong, Yeah, Robbie Thayer,
that's let me. Uh, I thought I had saved him. Maybe
it's just Rob. Oh there he is there, he's he's under Robbie's He's
no longer Robbie, Timmy, he is just Rob. Uh. We got
a steak in liquor bed two kind of happening here because he took Suarez and
I took Matt Sue just to play contrarianto his sorez Bix soaking liquor. Oh,
you're on the clock fifty one seconds. Would you take Alec Thomas or
Max Kepler? You need speed? I don't know what I need, no
idea. I take Thomas. I like Alex Thomas, I really do.
I think as a as a fourth fifth type boatfielder in a deep format.
I like him. Yeah, okay, well that's what I did. Okay,
Robbie says he's available, just called Robbie and uh no, no bueno.
M all right. Let's uh, let's see hopefully we can get Rob
Thayer here. He hasn't joined the call yet. Let's see. Well,
okay, Timmy, where are we at on the draft? Okay, where
we're at on the draft? Back in the upside to David Robertson, we
got Brandon Drury Eloimnez I took Logo Brent Brooker. I know the outfielder's starting.
It's starting to get even thinner than thin. Uh moving moving along,
uh Danny Janssen, Jose Siri, Alex Verdugo Wells and apparently I snipe Peter
on that when he took Kirk instead of the Jays counter Crawford went to Corey
Peoper MacArthur. Another potential Saves candidate went to Jerry Walton. You took Alex
Thomas, h Crawford and uh so Goo went to Mattlahee. All of all
the San Diego candidates are, they're all been drafted, they're all gone,
and then goes for his brother Yan Gums. Okay, I think Rob is
on the line. Robie out there? Rob Hello? Rob? Hmm,
I saw him. It says he's on, so Rob, maybe, yes,
you turn your his volume up there he is, says he's on,
Rob. I can't hear you. So all right, Timmy, let's Paul's
real quick here. Well, Timmy, doesn't look like Rob Thayer is gonna
be able to join us. Upid. It says he's out there, so
we'll keep him on. Hopefully we'll be able to figure out his uh,
his audio problems, bummer them on the on the app and I'm in the
call. Yeah, I know I see him, but I don't hear him.
Do you hear him? I don't know. No, I no,
I hear lots of voices, but not Robbie. Sorry. Yeah, he's
no longer Robbie. He's just Rob. Yeah, he's dude. I like.
I like Rob a lot of plays on a number of leagus. Oh
there he is. Oh my gosh, there are miracles. Did you use
it? Oh? I I closed it out and came back in. It
is Tim mccleoud. Excuse I've heard them all. How are you? Mister?
You're already busting my chops about picking Byron Buxton. I'm fantastic. Dreams
come true. Mom, I made it. I really shocked me after hearing
years of your your opinions on him. I know it's it's crazy. I
mean, sometimes, you know, opportunities present themselves. I don't know what
to say. I mean, I needed a I needed a guide, didn't
have any time to think. I looked and there he was. Well you
know what rich who says, you can't teach your old dog's nutricks? Right?
Absolutely? Yeah, so so Rob let's it's Robbie no longer. It's
Rob no longer Robbie. Yeah, I think it's I think Roberts have the
cycle of you know, Robbie is to Rob to Robert to Bob's you know.
But either way though, I go by Rob. Okay. So,
so, first of all, congratulations for the birth of your is a daughter's
son. I'm gonna guess daughter son, and I blew it. It's only
been like a month right right on, about a month and a month and
change. Enjoying the lack of sleep, oh, I constantly feel like a
little buzzed, Like that's from the lack of sleep. Yeah, so no,
I we we're very blessed healthy baby. Mom's doing great, that's yeah,
she's the one that's doing all the work. But I totally I remember
those days, Tim, but you just don't get any sleep. It's funny,
my my kid, they got a night nurse and all kinds of help.
I'm like, what are you doing? Like, I mean, I'm
taking this day this time. I don't lose my drug. Robbie's trumping at
the bit to take it from me. I can tell. Yeah, we're
we're on grand baby watch. Rob My my daughter in law is about to
give birth. In fact, I was afraid that we're gonna have to delay
our our show today because of because I think she was She's due this week.
So but we're all good. So, oh my goodness. Congratulations in
advance, Thank you appreciating us. Talk about your team. I love Fernanda
Tattis Junior at the eleventh pick. Well, I mean that's right, that's
a good pick. That's what I think. Yeah, and you come back
with Bryce Harper, then Nadley Rutschman and then Yamamoto. Come on, well,
tell me, tell me the love for Yamamoto. It's again everybody.
Everybody trusts Tim McCloud. Nobody trusts me. I get it. You know
what, I don't know if it's the love for Yamamoto as much as Mike
Cue just getting absolutely decimated after that Rushman pick. But I also I figured,
you know what, between him and Bobby Miller are playing on the Dodgers,
if I'm gonna kind of scatter my pitching, you know, hey,
I think I have four pictures in my first fifteen pitch or something like that.
If I'm gonna do that, then I might as well play play for
wins play for ratios and yeah, yeah, just it's fun. It's fun.
It's a free it's a freely rich is putting up one hundred dollars and
taking out of Tim's salary. By the way, I don't want to say
all of a sudden that sucks. So where's draft button? Yeah, so
I do. I'm looking at your team. Let's see. So, I
mean, you gotta love those first two picks, and you got many.
Machado sounds like he's gonna be ready. And then he went Jackson Holly,
a little dicey pick in a in a league like this. But I went,
Wyatt, h whyitet RP so uh whatever that is? Yeah? That
that white? Yeah, he's in Texas. That's true. Let's take a
look at this pitching Yamamoto, Bobby Miller, love Bobby Miller, Barrios.
And then you went you got hung out on TAM's start of his closure draft,
his closer push right because you've got Suarez and Alex Alex Lang yep,
I went swore as Miller laying back to back to back playing the three closers,
trying to hopefully they get fifteen saves made to them. That puts me
somewhere midpack, and I'm not you know, I'm not completely punching the category,
but I with when I just can't take Ryan Howsley in the sixth round,
or or some of these guys who are going as early as they do.
I think it's criminal like this. It's just it's so tough for me
to pull the trigger on that. So I'm playing that the throat the cast.
What kind of dog you got? Oh, I gotta I gotta take
a pause for the cause here right back, You and Rob or Robbie can
continue on second. So that's not your dog, that's not my dogs.
Okay, Now I've got the dogs who drive me insane, but they're wonderful.
So let's take a look. So you're pitching staff, you like,
how do you feel about your pitching staff with Yama Motor Miller leading it off?
I like it. I mean, I I mean I have no idea
what to expec from. No, I mean I could. My thought process
was Stanga can make that that transition as well as he did. Motor being
from what from what I've read and heard, a more highly todded guy coming
over. I feel good with him and Miller. I think it's relatively safe.
I know that's probably you disagree with that. No, I don't,
actually I don't, but I don't know what to expect. I mean,
that's that's part of my problem with Yamdo. I mean, I get it.
I've seen the pitches. I've also seen the fact that he's five ft
ten. I just that's what scares me, Like, long term, what
is this guy going to be? I just don't know. Long term?
I agreement, and he had those those two or three really hot peak years.
I don't know. Yea, And again you said it your free league
ri Rich's putting up one hundred bucks, why why not take him as as
my ace? And then but coming back with Burrios the logic area thirty two
starts every year, and then in a league like this where there's no stubs,
you have to get I mean, I think you guys were going over
who won last years glad in a league and it was like, here's a
guy who I basically the most health Yep, Yeah, that's that's it.
And this I loved your I loved your cheerio pick, I mean absolutely loved
it. Thank you. Yeah, I'm I'm a big fan this year it's
all set up for him to have a great season. So do you think
he makes it? Uh? Makes a team out of camp? Absolutely?
What's your next question? I mean, I'm that cop. I mean I
would They're not paying him that kind of money that they're playing in the minor
leagues, right, I mean, that's not gonna happen. So all right,
Well my next question would be, why is why is he going?
Why he going the eighty seventh round whatever? Why is he? Why is
he going till lately? Yeah? Tim, can you talk to him?
Why? I try to find somebody to put Yes, you're on the clock,
rich, Yeah, thank sorry sorry about that, guys. I had
I had to escape. I've been I've been dog sitting, dog sitting this
weekend, and the person who has the dog just dropped by to drop me
off some Laura Sea cord oh shortbread with milk, chocolate and a card,
but very very very very nice. So I had to get to the door
the dog I'm I'm looking at. I was dog sitting two dogs this weekend.
That was that was Tim's dog barking, not Rob's dog. Oh I
got it now O. Yeah, that's why I had to escape because I
was looking after a second dog. Rich, Yeah, I was dog sitting
two dogs this weekend, and the uh, the owner of the dog that
I was looking after at their house, uh just dropped me off a nice
little card in the presence. So I've been just about dogged out this weekend.
The dog days of February. He's on the clock. Let's see what
he does, Timmy, he would pick he would pick Buxton, but he's
already owned by yours. Truly, I would and Suey the same thing.
Who he's already lost a steak and liquor bed to me on So why is
as good a myth? I think I'm gonna take my utility hitter right here.
Yeah, you already have Jared J. D. Martinez. Oh yeah
Martinez. Yeah. I was like, that's why it's an illegal pick.
This is an expert drafter here, Robert his brand news his first draft ever
to one. Yeah, top of top of my cue, and he's gotta
take him. Oh, dear lord, all right. I like I like
Marcus Stroum in this season, I really do. I think he's I love
the I love the team he's gonna play for. He's a ground ball pitcher,
I mean the setup is there for it to work. We'll see.
Yeah. Yeah, as long as he stays healthy, right, that's it,
that's the key. Yeah. Another another another short guy, so h
J. D. Martinez. No concern Rob that he's gonna he's gonna get
a job. No concern now he I mean, I know he was more
primed during this point, but how how long ago was that? Four or
five, six years ago when he was he waited I think into spring training
when he signed with Boston A mistaken but I think he's gonna go to bat
in the middle of the middle of the lineup of in some contending teams lineup.
So no, I'm not concerned that he's gonna that he'll be joblessed along.
Okay, very very good. All right, So let's so, did
you tell us where you lived? I forgot what state do you live as,
like Seattle or something. I haven't. Southern California, the great Greater
Los Angeles area. I'm from the Central Valley and I moved out in here
for college and then you know, got married, had a kid at all
that stuff, so I ended up staying down here. So I love Southern
California. I mean, did what about the weather. Wasn't the weather crazy
earlier this week? Or yeah, last week? Oh my gosh, it
was like ten inches of rain or something in southern California. Yeah, our
little our back you, our area was flooded. I was wearing rain boots
in my car. It was ridiculous. Wow. And how long you've been
playing fantasy baseball? My first my first league was twenty thirteen, so okay,
over a decade. Yeah, I've been been with you guys. It's
funny. I've been listening and playing leads with you guys for the last six
five or six, So truly, you you only listened to the half of
what Tim says, right, good? Yeah, okay, he doesn't listen
to anything I say, so exactly. Look, man, you've been I
was. I was going when I forgot that I had Jamie Martinez. I
was going with Tyler Black, So what one of your guys as well?
But well you got about that. I was. I do listen to you
as well, I wouldn't I listened to so he very good? You still
got five picks? Rich, You're okay. So Rob's gonna be on the
clock here now, so talk us through your your pick here, Rob,
and then we'll let you go. Alrighty, Well, I'm gonna go from
my corner endfield. Pick here. I'm gonna go with some some upside a
guy that I think is gonna get four hundred four and fifty bats. I'm
gonna take Kyle Manzato here. Wow, it's great. Pick love it,
Yes, sounds like a great Yeah. This is a guy knows what he's
doing, he knows what he's look makes up for his Robert right, Yeah,
that's true. Now you don't think about that. Do you think Robert
Swarz is not going to get the save opportunity to send? You think it's
going to be the guy's name I can't pronounce it. Sounds a little if
he goes suck. Yeah, Matt, you think he's the guy? Yeah?
I think Matt he's okay, yeah, okay, what's that? I
disagree? I think the Padres are gonna are gonna want to use their lefty,
their high leverage lefty, and in the eighth inning and the seventh inning,
you know, whenever the Freeman's and O TWI has come up. I
think they got kind of ham strung in with Josh Hater last year. You
know, only pitching the ninth. So yeah, I think the Padre's philosophy
is gonna lean more towards using their lefty and in the highest leverage role.
I agree with you. I I think that Suarez is going to be the
guy there. But what do I know. I'm just a dopey prospect guy.
So okay, Robert, what's that I've never gotten first place in the
league, So I'm not the one that I don't know if if this is
the you know, the greatest platform for me to be talking on you,
You're on the cluck, You're on the clock rich so so, so all
right, I'll ask Rob since he's a he's a he never won a league.
This is not good. So but I'm gonna ask him anyway. Jordan
Westberg or Tyler Black from my middle endfielder, Tyler Black the upside over Jordan
Westburg. All right, that's that's what I'm going with. Because Robbie has
never run in a league. So that's just another reason for another reason for
me to hate both of you. Because he was just the top of my
cue. We had teach Rob how to lie man, he shouldn't be telling.
We had like twenty thousand people to listen to this broadcast, so getting
him by into leagues, it's true, and then maybe people will continue to
front my my dudes like this. Oh that's true. That's true. Hey
man, Rob. We really appreciate we really appreciate you coming on. Appreciate
all the support you give us and the leagues he's playing. You're a lot
of fun and we wish you all the best. Oh, guys, thank
you so much. I'm truly an honor to be on here with you.
Guys. I'll talk to you all later. Okay, if you can hang
up, that would be great. We'll see you guys. Thanks, Sorry,
take care all right, he's gone. What a nice guy, Yeah,
he is. All five people we talked to just tremendous people. Oh,
just really really good people. So that's what we get to me.
Let's take a let's take take another break and get back and do the last
round then get out of you. That sounds good to me. Oh,
Ted goes with one of riches pick jobs. Before that, you picked Keaton
win Timmy. I tell you, I don't know if he's a starter reliever,
but it looks like he sure looks like he's got a pretty good arm.
So good on you for bringing that to our attention. Yeah. Oh,
and all I got left is a middle infielder unless I can move somebody
around. That's what I'm checking real quick here now. I don't see anybody
I can slide around. I obviously decided to position flexibility. Who's not important
in this exercise. Yeah, I've got I've got one more guy. I
mean, I could an outfit. I could go with Seth Brown, but
I'd have to check to see I have enough batting average to take his low
batting averag, which I got. Michael Conforta, who I've always liked,
I've got him. I got g and Carlo Stanton if I dare Yeah,
and uh, I know what about Oh? What about uh the guy in
Seattle? Oh they just got just signed a recent contract. Uh came back
from injury. H he's probably so far down on the list. I can't
not Ty France. No, he might not have been signing. What Dylan
Carlson's there could come back for a bounce back. Put him in my queue.
I could go with a wild card here and just swing for the fences
and go somewhere. Tim, I could do that, and you're on the
clock, So Tim is contemplating his last pick. Yeah, I need a
middle infielder and it is ugly, it really is. Well. Twenty five
seconds left him that Matt Chapman went and followed by JP Sears, Gary went
with his second catcher and Connor Wong. Uh so yeah so oh Jung hou
Lee went to pick number twenty two. I think it's a really good pick.
Ten picks. Durant Ezekiel Durant. He was I was contemplating him for
my outfield as well. LaMonte Way Junior is another guy from my last position.
Yeah, he was in my He was in my Acusman sitting there for
a while because he's gonna play. Yeah, and I got Will You're a
bray is a possibility. Yeah, so okay. So finishing up, we
got Josiah Gray, Wilmer Flor as always Corey the guy who won last season.
Uh, Corey takes Wilmer Flores, Nick Lodola before that, Austin Hayes
Tail Award. I mean, can you wait for outfield? And I've waited
a little bit on outfield, tim, and it's it's tough. Yeah,
it gets it gets thin quick, doesn't it. And there's a lot of
same sameness. I think as you get into your fourth fifth type oatfielder's just
trying to trying to nail somebody who's gonna get the playing time. So I
agree. So all of a sudden, people are now taking their time with
their last pick. Uh Clark Schmidt. Uh, and I'm going to go.
I might go will your a bray you Timmy? Just for fun.
I could go Michael CONFORDO for some safety. What would you do? Uh?
Conforido And what's the other choice? Got Conforida, Wade Junior, Seth
Brown, will your or bray you? I would go. I would go
with Wade Junior. I think he's I think he's gonna play every day.
I think he's gonna post decent numbers. Yeah, it's better than one one
base percentage league, but I'll go there. William or Braves was more fun,
But I'll go with Wade Junior. Finishing off, let's see, I
I've already done. Somebody's got the last handful of picks here, and then
we will be done as people take the time here. So what do you
how do you think think about? What do you think of my team?
Yeah? It's yeah, I'm late on speed. I think I got enough
full time players, uh saves are strong starting pitching this week. Yeah that
pretty well sums that pretty well sums it up. I don't know what I
have to I let's see. I've got I like my starting pitcher. It
took some guys at the end, Lewis Everno and Nessa Cortest. I think
Lewis Averno is going to be healthy. Then as my back of my uh
two starters at the back end, I got a terrible second catcher and Patrick
not terrible. Disappointing second catcher should have gone a little earlier than But I've
got some upside and Tyler Black Whitet Langford is he gonna play? Is he
not gonna play? So I got a bit of a wild card team here,
Tim, Yeah, no, it's you know what, in this format,
they're all wildcard teams. Eventually. What will decide the what will decide
the title is who can manage to stay healthy? And we don't know that.
We sit back and you don't need a great team to win in this
format. All you need is people stay healthy. And that's why you saw
some players draft. Obviously because of the risk factor involved. Everybody wants to
accumulate stats, and when you get no injury replacement, it gets tough,
right, Yeah, but I also went for guys that I you know,
I thought there was really good value with white Langort where I got him,
and I wanted to make sure people listen to this from mock draft ideas.
I think White Langford has a chance to come up this season be pretty darn
good baseball players. So I like him that you can get him where I've
gotten the thirteenth, fourteenth round. I kind of like that, Yeah,
you're not going to get him. You're not going to get him there in
a regular draft. Nope, after not a chance. He's going to be
gone before round ten guaranteed. So again it drove the price down a little
bit. Yeah, and you took the risk and hope yea. After Wade
Junior goes, Luke Railey, followed by John Gray, Martin reliever in Boston,
Gene Carlo Stanton, Orlando Arcia, and then Alex Kirloff was my screen
just flipped because I think the draft is over. And then yeah, Justin
Lawrence and then Michael waka Tim goes as the last pick to the great Justin
Hughes. Let's take a final break, Tim and come back and make our
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that's right, So tell me where from here? What, what's what's next
week? What are we going to do next week? Any thoughts? Well,
yeah, hey, I got to start on the relief pictures this week,
so I can I can have a first look at relief pictures and then
basically all we've got left is my rankings is DH and there's about ten names,
which will take about ten minutes if that, and the relief pictures.
So I was thinking maybe we should take an early look at relief pictures,
get the chart updated, and have it on the site so that people drafting
can get our thoughts as to what's going on in the world of closers before
they get into the real drafts in March. If that works for you,
closers next week sounds good. I'm sure they'll be this Hopefully there'll be some
more signing team who've got catchers and pictures reporting this week should be on the
fourteenth, right, so the day is the eleventh, so that'll be Wednesday.
Catchers and pictures report. Yeah, they've already started. I know in
LA there was a scrum. There was about seventy five media people there for
yeah, Imamoto throwing his first bullpen session. So you know that's gonna be
a that's gonna be a show all year. Just uh, can I leave
one quick note before we part so Rich, Yeah, just uh heads up,
there's been a there's been plenty of rumors this week about Kenley Jansen being
on the move, and if anybody is drafting in the next week or so,
if you're in a redraft league, if you're looking at a late dart
toss, I throw it at Chris Martin because if Kenley Jansen does in fact
get traded, I think Martin slides into the role. So just an fyi
for anybody drafting the next week or so, it's somebody who should keep your
your eye on, as John Dene did in this draft last Yeah, Timmy,
it's been a blast. This is always a very difficult podcast to do.
Thanks for pulling the draft together, and uh it was a lot of
fun. Exhausting, but a lot of fun. Yes, Uh, I
feel an app coming on. Hopefully you can do the same, my friend.
I gotta go buy some wings and got the football game in it an
hour, so uh, that's what we're gonna do. So I gotta let
my wife. I've next to the modems. Have to let my wife out
out of the other room so she can go do what she needs to do.
Timmy, be well, my friend, be safe, be well,
and we'll catch you next week,