Very weird Green Societations. Everyone at Rich Wilson Walking Too, Fantasy Baseball Live.
Today is the twenty eighth of January, about three o'clock in the afternoon,
calling you, Tim from North Carolina. It's sixty eight degrees. Went
for a nice long run on the beach. It's beautiful here today. Yeah,
that's that's awesome. Yeah, you finally got over your cold snap and
you're moving forward. It's a bomby forty degrees here, which for January it
is bomby. Yes, snow, what little snow we have is melting and
supposed to stay mile over at least another week, week and a half.
Totally busy our winter for up here. It's you know, and I'm not
that I feel sorry for anybody from here that's migrated south for the for the
winter, but they've certainly missed, missed a good one to be staying here
because again, virtually no snow and it's been really really mild. So good
stuff, Yeah, good stuff, So Tim, today, this week has
been very hectic for me. I'm putting together all these leagues and our Patreon
site six leagues stem so two of them are winding down, another one started
up on Friday. Three more starting up this week. So if I sound
a little cranky, it's because I am well, and I can't understand why
there's nothing easier than getting seventy five to one hundred of your closest friends together
on time to do a draft. It's yeah, it's it's hard. Better.
Like we said on the intro, Yeah, you're a better man than
me because I and again that's probably why I don't commission a whole lot of
leagues, because I just don't have the patience to yeah, to deal with
to deal with with everything. You know, I'm retired from sales. I
don't have to be you want, you want everybody have a good experience,
and you know, and they're going great. I mean we've had very little
issues, but it's you know, it's people. Stuff happens to them.
You've got a hundred people. Stuff's gonna happen. So yeah, people we
have emergencies and or just they forget and it's just normal kind of stuff.
And you know, it's people. It's people, and it's as the commissioner,
guess what you got you gotta chase. Yes, the buck stops with
you, mister Wilson. Yes, it does I be honest, I was
the first couple of draft of the first two drafts. I was really into
it the first few rounds, and then I started putting together the other ones,
and then I have completely forgotten who I'm drafting and I have no idea
anymore. Chaos is your is your new friend? Said Maxwell Smart or something
like that. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's nuts, but a lot
of fun. People seem to be really grooving on it. Good. About
four rounds a day, which is pretty good. That's very good. That's
very good. Yeah. So we're around fifty and one and forty five in
the out there, the other one another, the third ones just getting started.
I think we're coming up on round six. But yeah, so it's
we're gonna be done in two weeks and a day or two. That's pretty
good. That's round for Yeah for a dynasty draft. Yeah, that's awesome.
There's been some comment and feedback on the discord chat room, so that's
cool as well. Well. It's a good feedback that Wilson guy runs a
terrible league. No, no, no, it's again, you know,
the odd questions popped up and no, it's everything's good, Okay, it's
nice. It's nice to see the level of activity picking up with the discord
sites. I every time somebody contributed to something, I get an automatic pop
up on my laptop, so I can just sort of scoot over there if
I'm at my computer, which is where I normally am for about eighteen hours
an ay, give or take when I'm not driving. So yeah, no,
it's I'm happy with the discord site. It's wing it. As a
matter of fact, Bob put up a blurb not too long of about ten
this morning, apparently the Tigers reaching an agreement with Cole Keith. Did you
catch that? Then we'll be talking about that, Tim, But before we
do that, just just this quick little I had a conversation with your buddies
up at fan tracks. Okay, just with the big wigs over there,
just saying, hey, truth, I truly love what I'm doing. To
timmy one of the doing one of the drafts with CBS. Honestly, it's
like it's like going back in time. I mean, is it is that
different between what fangraphs is doing. So what they have done is they've set
up a little link that it's fantracks dot com Forward slash Prospect three sixty one.
So if you want to set up a league, just go there.
I don't know what you get, but we get credit, Timmy. I
don't know what that means. There's no financial transactions involved, but I think
it's just a track, you know, our listener base that they can make
the site better and so forth. So I'd encourage if you've not signed up
for fan tracts or starting new leagues, just go there and it just says
I think it just says you're here and you just do normal stuff. So
so I just wanted to throw that out there, Tim, that's cool.
That's really nice to them. My only problem is every time I get credit,
I exceed it and they charge me interest. So true, and it's
truly bastards, oh all of them, I tell you, truly. The
software is phenomenal. It's just phenomenal. It just was. I did a
first Year Player Draft podcast this week and I mentioned it there that you can
actually and I've got all the files now ready to give to all the Patron
subscribers where you can actually preload import excel files or CSV files with your rankings.
So I've got all of the first year player drafts. All of the
guys that I have ranked loaded and ready to go, and you just simply
go import and then in one of the panels comes up your rankings in the
draft room, so you can you can go buy your rankings, which is
great. Or if you want to do it from fan do it from fan
Grafts or something like that. You just download them, manipulate them around and
then you've got your own customized list. It's just it's great, it's absolutely
great stuff. Yeah. Their customer service is very prompt. You know,
you're not on hold for six hours or anything like. Now now you can't
get them on you can't get them on the phone. It's all email now,
so you oh okay, yeah, I mean I've tried calling a couple
of times with some critical issue and now it's just I just email them.
They get back to you. So okay, cool. I'm glad it's working
a well, it really is. So anyway, I encourage everybody to go
out at fangrafts dot com, formar slash Prospect three sixty one. So Tim,
yes, yes, I'm coming on the air. I saw the Tigers
in fact, signed Colt Keith. You since you never listened to me.
I will tell you again that I was. I was. I had in
my queue my NFBC draft. Oh by the way, have you heard what's
going on with the n n f f C, the you know, the
sister Yeah, I have, and it's it's awful. It is. It
is truly awful. Yes, it really is. And so what I understand
everyone, So the guys who run the NFBC and the n f f C,
and they're great people. It's really well run organization. They had a
tim I guess a rogue employees all I can figure, who was working in
cahoots with some players who was changing lineups after the game had started. And
uh, yeah it was it was one just one player, just one player.
Yeah. And obviously I don't know if I'm assuming it's criminal activity,
I don't know. But anyway, bad stuff went on there, and Greg
and Brossa did the right thing, came out totally transparent, said hey,
we had this issue and they're cleaning it up. And I wish him all
the best. I mean, it's I've I've had to be the tip of
the spear and situations that are very very unpleasant when you've got something public facing
and it's no damn fun. So I I all, all my thoughts are
with him. It's not well, well they are. He's doing the only
thing that he can do, and you know, the employee is obviously gone.
Oh, the the person that was involved playing the game is gone,
and he's gone to an external lot to go back over absolutely everything, yep,
and tear it all apart. And it's it's just a shame that,
you know, twenty years of his life, basically twenty twenty five years of
his life is now called into question because of this. At the same point
in time, maybe some of those controls should have been in place in the
first place, because there is a lot of money involved. So there's it's
a it's a learning there's a learning lesson, I think for for all concern
moving forward. I don't have any qualms about the NFBC or NFFC. I
absolutely totally agree, totally agree with you there. They're good people. I
don't know them personally. I've had a lot of conversations with us, and
maybe I do a little bit. I've always enjoy playing the I don't play
the NFFC. I did play one year, but I play the NFBC A
lot, and it's good stuff. So I would encourage everybody, you know,
keep with him. I mean I am at least so uh and uh
give him a chance to recover. Hopefully it's this will all be behind them
shortly. Yes, I believe they're not going to issue any more statements until
after the audit's finished and move forward from there. It could take a while
too, I mean, it's it's a lot of stuff to audit. So
by the way, everyone, I just realized my microphone wasn't turned up very
loud, so I might be blowing the speakers out now, so I apologize
on that. I've now pushed it up to where it should be. But
anyway, tim, as I was getting ready to say in my NFBC when
the trade with Michael Bush occurred, I had Michael Bush sitting at the top
of my queue. I moved him up because I really wanted Michael Bush,
because I thought he'd be a full time player. I've always liked the player
and the guy before me took him. I was like, ah, and
I said, okay, well I'll yeah, I'll show him. I'll take
Colt Keith right, So having hope I mean that he would see some playing
time this year and timmy I had a grinned from ear to ear. As
it was announced today the Tigers sign him to a very team friendly contract six
years, twenty eight million dollar guaranteed with a couple of club options if it
works out. It's kind of reminds me of the Ozzie Alby's deal, kind
of a very low, very small contract. So hopefully it works out for
cold Keith. Hopefully works out for the Tigers. But I like Cold Keith
a lot now for twenty twenty four, Yeah, as do I. I
think the base amount on the six years is twenty eight six with another fifteen
million incentives that can be earned, and then there's three pretty hefty club options
and thirty thirty one and thirty two. So I think the total package could
be somewhere around eighty million, depending on how everything breaks down. So it's
a good deal, I think, and I totally agree with you. I
think this pushes his arrival date up. Whether it's second base or third base
will be third he's it was going to be second or first, it's he
can't. He can't play third base, No cannot, Well, I mean
he can, but he's not going to be good enough to be a to
play for a contending team. So he's best at second base or first base.
And it sounds like I would assume he'd be at second base because this
isn't Spencer Torkleson at first. Yeah, Spencer Targlesen's at first. But the
reason I thought about third is because the Tigers have a second basement in the
miners who's at double A and is moving veryly quickly. And Jase Young,
where does he fit is he? Is he a third baseman? I think
he's a second basement too, Yeah, I mean yeah, So again,
somebody's gonna have to move to third base because I have to do not believe
it is Cold okay, because Keith and Young obviously both fit into their plans
for the future well, and Cold Keith fits in a lot more now because
he's got the money. So it's a good player. And it's funny because
they're comparable players. I think Jay Shung and Cold Keith cole. Keith is
a little bit further ahead and they're all I think upside of Josh Young.
If you're looking for cops, that's it. It's just it's just unfortunate.
Mean, Cold Keith just doesn't have the arm to play there, but you
know, I mean, maybe he plays there for a little bit, but
long term, I just don't think it's going to be a third base.
Okay. Yeah, it's a good problem for the Tigers to have either way.
Yeah, you're having a talented minor leaguer and obviously they feel strongly about
Keith, which is good. Yeah. One thing that I found that was
rather humorous is, you know, I did those two drafts that are now
completed, and we covered through off on them. Right. Well, the
second one started, oh, both three weeks or so three and a half
weeks okay after the first one. Well, in the first one, my
miners consist of Tyler black Cold, Keith Mason, Wynn, Jackson, Curio,
and Jacob Marsey. Okay, it's a lot of a lot of a
lot of premium prospects there that could that could make a difference this year.
In the second in the second draft that started three three and a half weeks
after the first one, I didn't get an I didn't get any of those
guys. They were they were all gone before I I had an opportunity to
even really consider them. So it's what I found interesting was that that span
of three weeks, Cole Keith, Tyler Black, Churio. They were,
Hey, they're all on the radio, they're all in the radar, and
they're moving up fairly quickly. So again you start looking at ADPs and you
know where should I jump in on some of these guys. Well, you
know, Cole Keith just moved himself up probably five rounds yep. So,
and you got to stay abreast of all the current current news because everything happens
so quickly in this game. It really so if I can put on my
prospect three sixty one sales and marketing cap, this is why this is what
we do well, Timmy. We talk about players before everybody else is I
mean, and people are jumping to whether they're Asian players, whether they're prospects,
whether they're you know what. That's what we do for a living.
Everybody knows Ronald Kune here's really really good. So well, yeah, exactly
right, and yeah, I do my in season waiver wire and I'm looking.
I'm always looking a couple of weeks out in front, exactly exactly.
And that's that's what you that's how you have to play the game. As
far as I'm concerned. Yeah, you're you're either uh, you're either leading
or you're following. Right. Yeah. I think it was MLB dot Com
when they when they produce their fantasy players to watch this season and they announced
that Bob with Junior was a breakout Canada and probably going number two three overall.
It's like, really, you know what they've done is I I sort
of feel sorry for the for the kid They've hired a ninjurn Okay, he's
never played fantasy baseball, okay, and so he plucked some names in here,
okay, and yeah, I've I've seen some. It's it's garbage.
It really really is their top ten rankings by position that they've been mean,
it's just it's subject to ridicule. I know why they do it. There
was a I think it's this Alana something or another. She's a she's a
personality there. I don't watch it, so I just don't watch the MLB
network anymore. She put up the ten best players in baseball currently and Sholley
Otani was not one of them. I don't even understand that, Like,
yeah, no, I yeah, it's it's fogger for ridicule as what it
is and maybe it's just here to get clicks and get people to talk about
it. But stick with us guys and some of the more deeper podcasts and
that that'll that'll serve you well. So anyway, I think we're both pretty
high on Cold Keith. I mean, this is not Jackson Curio. You
can just take a look at the difference in the money these guys got paid,
right, I mean, Jackson Curio got eighty million guaranteed and Cold Keith
got twenty eight million dollars guarantee. But that shows you where the market is
on these two players. Yeah, but at the same point in time,
Cold Keith could be a really nice asset if you've moved early on him.
Yeah, And you know, I hate would you be shocked if he hit
twenty home if he played all year he had twenty twenty five home runs and
drove in sixty five to seventy five. Now, I think it'll be perfect.
He's a perfect middle endfielder. This year, maybe he'll probably have both.
He'll probably have corner, middle, second, and third, So it's
gonna be it'll be a really nice, uh you know, kind of roster
flexibility. Again, there's no stolen bases. I think eventually he's got to
hit. You can never tell in the first year, but I would be
disappointed if he doesn't hit twenty home runs. Well, he played a full
season at Triple A last year as a twenty two year old. Yeah,
and he had a good season, so I think he's ready. Yeah.
Hey, you're right. Sometimes players don't succeed that first goal round, but
that doesn't mean you stay away from everybody that first score round. Some will
for sure for sure. Yeah, I mean, let's take a quick break.
We're already at eighteen minute mark and come back. And there's a bunch
of other smaller trades we need to talk about for signing. So in doing
my research over the winter, I guess it still is the winter, but
I'm done with all my research, so I'm totally ready. Reese Hoskins really
came on my radar based on like how hard he hits the ball and you
know how much he walks. I just think he's a really, really nice
player, and he didn't play all of last year, so I was actually
really interested to see who would sign him. And I have to tell you,
attempt two years and thirty five million dollars to the Brewers. I absolutely
love this deal for the Brewers. I think Reee Hoskins could be a real
steal because he's going very late in drafts. What say you? Yeah,
I like the signing, you know, thirty four mil. It's really not
a huge a huge contract. And he's got an opt out after the first
year, and I think there's an option on the third year. Yeah.
I think it's a good a good deal all around for both the Brewers and
for Reese Hoskins. And you know, when you start looking, you know,
I kept looking at the Brewers, okay, and saying myself self,
can can they really be looking at Jake Bauers. Is their full time first
basement. No, that's not to slight Jake Bauers. It's just jeez,
it sure does a slight Jake. He's not that good. Yeah, but
again I kept looking at Jake Bauers. There's got to be another option,
and they went and pursued it. And again, if he has a good
year, he'll opt out. If he has an okay year, it's a
two year deal and the third year is an option. So I think it's
uh, it's not long term commitment, so it's perfect for the Brewers.
Yeah, it gets gives him a chance to come back and show everybody that
he's fully healthy. You don't play for over a year. Teams are not
going to give you a big contract. It's not going to happen. So
this is a really nice situation for him. It's you can consider that in
a walk here. Many times guys do very well in a walk here.
I think it's all set up. I really like Reese Hoskins this season.
Yeah, now that you signed, I do as well. I was starting
to get a little bit concerned, though, I really was, and looking
at the Brewers, you know, and looking at that division. Yeah,
Reece Hoskins makes a difference to that team, Okay, as as Will Black
if he gets called up early enough. And yeah, I think what it's
done is when you start looking at players like, yeah, Devin Williams and
Corbyn Burns. Yeah, what happens to Corn Burns? Because it looked like
they were going to move him Now, I mean he is in his contract
yere right, So does he stay the whole season? I don't know about
the whole season. I think a lot of what will transpire is going to
depend on what they do in the first half, okay. If the team
is If the team is contending, okay, and they've got a shot at
the playoffs, I think they'll take it. On the other hand, if
they're struggling and they're fifteen games out at the All Star break, they can
still dismantle as nice and easy. They can move Hoskins. Oh yeah,
yeah, it's another chip they can potentially move to a contender, along with
Burns and possibly Williams. So you know, they've set themselves up for I
think the best of sort of both worlds. If it works out, great.
If it doesn't, they still have time to make the make the trades
that they could possibly have made earlier. So yeah, I like what they've
done. I really do. Yeah, I think it's I like what they've
done as well, and I think that's a mean look that National League Central
is very winnable and I think they've stepped up. So good to see another
interesting sign, another small sign. No Blake Snell signing yet, or Cody
Bellinger or anything like that, but the Rangers signed David Robertson to a one
year, eleven and a half million dollar contract. My question for you to
me is very simple. Break down the safe situation for Texas. For me,
Oh okay, if I have to break it down right now, I
gotta say, Josey Leclerk is the quasi incumbent. Okay, I think he
will get He will get first opportunity. I think the lice will be incredibly
short after that. I Hey, Robertson's got a history as just Kirby Yates.
So I think we got a buzz about Kirby eates On. You know,
the Discord site, the Patroon site, justin Hugheses Baseball three sixty five.
Everybody seems to like Kirby Yates. Well, he did save the last
time he was fully healthy. I believe he saved forty one games. Okay,
uh, he had more saves last year than la Clerk did. Yeah.
Yeah, you mentioned by one five to four. Yeah. So I
think they're hoping that the clerk can do the job, and I think he
gets first shot. But if you're looking for handcuffs, both Robertson and Yates
have proven in the past they can get it done. So so why would
Robertson, I mean Robertson, they I mean they sign it for a lot.
It's eleven and a half miny dollars, not chump change. It's a
lot for a closer, right, given that Josh Hater signed for fourteen or
fifteen per I think something like that. So why why is it ten million
years not ridiculous for a uh, you know, for a proven relief guy,
and he is that. Yeah, I mean I think it's pretty good
for really, I mean that's my point. I mean, he's paid like
a closer because if you take a look at the big guys, I mean
big guys are just a few million dollars more than than what Robertson's getting paid.
So I kind of you can say, you can say the same thing
about the world as Chapman with the Pirates giving him what eight and a half
or nine million? Yeah, yeah, it's in the same Yeah. But
Bedner is way better then jose Le Clerk and Andrew Herbs, Yes, there
is. I would be shocked if if a rold As Chapman takes over the
job. But I mean, first of David Robertson wasn't that good last season,
so there's some of that going on as well. But in Texas safety,
he's saved eighteen games. Yeah, but he lost glorious jump at the
end of the season, didn't heh Yeah, it's yeah, it wasn't a
it wasn't a great year for Robertson, but again he didn't totally collapse.
Yeah yeah, So I I think what the Rangers did is they wanted to
beef up that that bullpen have some more options. Uh hater, hater was
off the board, So let's get somebody who's a veteran presence and move forward
from there. They've got they've got three arms in the clerk, Robertson,
Yeates and swarts Is is a pretty good uh good pitcher as well. Abe.
They improved their bullpen, and I think that was very astute of them,
you know, going in putting a lot of eggs in the jose Ler
clerk basket. That's that would have been a little dicey for me. But
again, I think it's a good move, solid plant. I like Robertson
to see the bulk of the States early on. I don't know if he
keeps the job. I mean he is, he is older, and you
obviously something something broke last year. But but we'll see, Timmy. You
like La clerk. I got David Robertson with obviously Kirby Yates in the background.
The Dodgers also signed James Paxton, and it appears, I look at
roster resource, I can't bring up roster resource for some reason at the moment.
Doesn't look like it's it's working, probably will be for you. But
appears that Emmitt she Emmitt Sheen is the odd man out. Well why would
he be the odd man? Oh, whomen's the last time that Paxson pitched
a full season? Well that's my other point. So now we got Tyler
glassnow who has pitched a full season since win. You got Yama Moto that
I mean, look, maybe he's great, totally unproven in the major league
base So I got Walker Buehller coming back from second Tommy John surgery. I
mean, what what are the and that? Now it's it's it's it's James
Paxson. What what are they doing? Tim? I mean, they're they're
signing these famous guys besides Yama Mode, I'm gonna clump him in the same
same light. They all got talent, but no one's been able to stay
healthy. Bobby Miller has and I'm talking about the guy who's they've signed,
not Bobby Miller, and Emmitt Shean and some of the other young kids.
I'm wondering if at the end of the season it's gonna be Yamamoto, Bobby
Miller, Emmitt Shean, River Ryan and at all are going to be the
guys that are pitching for that team and not some of these other guys they
brought in. Dustin may be in the mix too, Dustin may can't stay
healthy. Yeah, exact exactly what the what the Dodgers have done is they've
they've bought themselves another piece, okay, that they're hoping can they can extract
value from very short term and paid. Might work out, It might not.
I wouldn't. I wouldn't bet on packs and staying healthy. He hasn't
been able to say it's much the same as as Glasnow. Okay, there's
some serious issues there, but at the same point in time that they've got
the depth, they're all in. They're going for it. If if that's
what they believe is going to make a difference. Yeah, Hey, I
got no problems with it. Do you think it's going to make a difference.
I think if they can get half a season other Packs and yeah,
will I don't like it. I don't I don't know if they will,
but yeah, it's much the same as Glasnow if it is high water marks
one hundred and twenty innings, you got to have some insurance for that.
You simply have to. And who knows, Hey, they might offered Gershaw
something to come back in the second half, and there's another guy that's uh,
that's injury. I don't I mean, I get what they're doing.
I don't think it's start to work. I think they've got too many broken
down players. And in the end, it's the game is about young players,
right, And it's like, you gotta get the guys like Emmett she
and hopefully Bobby Miller is gonna get a full run. You got to give
these these young arms that are appear to be ready. You need to get
them some time up in the big leagues so that when August hits and all
their veterans are hurt, these guys are ready to go. And I do
worry that some of the young kids won't be ready. And also then they're
gonna get to September of the postseason and Bobby Miller's gonna be run out of
gas. Yamamota could be out of gas and they're gonna be toast. Well,
you know who the third youngest pitcher behind Bobby Miller and Amachian is on
their roster. It's it's probably Yamamoto. Yeah, it is at twenty five.
All the rest of them are seasoned, some with a little more spice
than others, veterans. So yeah, I think what they're counting on is
they're counting on and they paid for Yamamoto to be an ace and to lead
that rotation, and based on what he did in Japan, they're scouting.
I'm not gonna argue with the Dodgers, Okay, So let's go with the
thread that, yes, he's going to be an ace. He's going to
pitch like an ace. Don't you think it's a little unrealistic to expect a
guy who pitched once a week to come in with a shorter season, to
come in and pitch one hundred and sixty two games once every five games.
Then a long postseason for him that's going to be two and twenty thirty forty
innings. No, I have any problems with it. Okay, I'm going
to mark the I'm here because I don't get it. I just don't.
I don't understand how you're an organization that's spending this much money on your team
that you can go, Hey, let's put this all on a twenty five
year old who's five foot ten, who's never had that workload and making my
ace. I just I don't understand. That doesn't make sense to me.
Well, let's just take a look at his workload the past three seasons one
hundred and ninety three innings, one hundred and ninety three and one hundred and
sixty four. He has started twenty six games two of the past three years,
twenty three last year. I don't think he's going to have any problems
upping his workload by ten percent, which brings him to thirty games plus the
five gonna be twenty three what twenty three twins? That's that's twenty yeah,
no, two years of twenty six. The two years he pitched one hundred
and ninety innings, I okay, down, he was down a little.
And then that's and then all the postseason stuff, and yeah, he pitched
the years he pitched one hundred and ninety three in Japan, they had post
seasons too. He's he's a he's a two hundred inning horse. He really
is five horse. I'm not buying it. I'm not not buying it,
so I don't have to tell you I'm not buying. Yeah, that's that's
fair enough. Might either be proven or won't right, and my bullshit,
my bullshit meters sky high at the moment. It's something something doesn't feel right
to me. It's just like not, you know, it's just I just
this whole Yamamoto stuff. I just it, but it's something about it just
bugs me. I just think this is going to end. Well, that's
because you drafted in the first round a few years ago. It's just I
mean, I get the stuff, and I get the splitter, and I've
done enough research on splitters to realize how major League Baseball players will Anybody can't
hit a splitter a good one, so if he has, he could be
very very good. But I don't know's I've just seen this story too many
times where guys come in that that are young and you expect them to lead
you to the promised land and they just wear out. And guys like Garrett
Cole go, I'm good, I'm good, I'm ready to go. Yeah
yeah, I hey, only time, I'll tell the full story. Try
to figure out what to do with. Okay, we're back, so Timmy,
the next thing on the agenda is drafting the first three rounds of a
fantasy league. Are you ready? You got the first bike. I'm going
with Ronald Acuna. I found with the first round. It's pretty straightforward here,
So I don't know how much time will spend. And everybody knows we're
on Acunie is. He's really good. He is really good. He really
is. And again we've said numerous times, you don't have to you don't
have to do a lot of thought. Just take them. It's simple.
Okay, who do you got, you're on the clock. I'm gonna take
Bobby Witt Jr. I think so. Again, even though outfield is light,
you believe Bobby Witt is too alluring at the second pick? Yeah,
yeah, you're talking about the guy that's got thirty fifty potential. Yeah,
he can't pass that up, at least I don't believe you can. Yeah,
you got Julio Rodriguez, you got Corbyn Carroll. If you could take
them second, I've got no problems with that. I just prefer Bobby Witt.
It's yeah, I'm not gonna argue with you if you want Julio Rodriguez
or Corbyn Carroll. I might even put Kyle Tucker in that group as well.
Yeah, Kyle Tucker's really good. I think to raid it. So
let's uh, I'm on the clock here, I'm gonna take let's take Ill
went to Cooliard of Rodriguez just because of all the discussions that we've had,
like the end of the season with with Corbyn Carroll. Was it was he
injured? Was it was he worn out? I'm not sure anybody has the
answers to that. Yeah, I think it's a good pick. Yeah,
I think Rodriguez is safe. I think what you see is what you're gonna
get, and it's pretty darn good. Yeah for sure. Yeah. Uh,
what do you got, Tim Well, I'm I'm I'm sticking to I'm
sticking to my story and I'm gonna stay away from Corbyn Carroll. I'm gonna
take Kyle Tucker. Wow. I just think what we've seen is a progression
over the past three seasons to where he is one of the elite players in
the game. And and I don't have a lot of concerns with Kyle Tucker.
I think you you pick him up, you pencil in twenty five to
thirty home runs, thirty stolen bases, the runs excuse me, the run
scored now up there. So there's there's no real deficiencies in his game,
and he's proven it over the past three years. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
play safe, go with Tucker. Let's Tucker. Let's take a look at
his Baseball Slavant page. Oh no, I know why. Uh it still
continues to be the uh my mouth doesn't work right unless the uh. I
just can't bring up anything unless the stupid skype is illuminated, so I can't
take a look at the baseball savant stuff. So I'm gonna have up.
No, that's okay, that's okay, we'll keep going. I'm so Kyle
Tucker, I'm gonna go Mookie Betts. Temp's second base outfield is too alluring
to ask that up, So that is the direction I am going. So
I'm gonna go Mookie Bets. So you get Kyle Tucker. I got Mooki
Bets. So yeah, the first uh, let's say it. Ronald Cunye,
Bobby WoT Junior, Jhuliar Riguez, Kyle Tucker, Mookie bets. Corbyn
Carroll still on the is still on the uh list in Fernando Tatis, et
cetera. Who do you got next? Yeah, we're playing chicken here,
aren't we. Yeah, I'll take Corbmick Carroll if you're not so, I'm
not gonna let them drop that far. Yeah I am, Yeah, I
am. The guy that I was considering over him is fairly far down the
list. I'm gonna have to go with Corbyn Carroll. Yes, yeah,
it's and hope that whatever ailed him is that stretch in July is not continued
into twenty four. Mm. Look, I agree with him. He's a
very very good player, talented player. He went. He was top five
guy in every one of the Dining Sea leagues that we've done so far.
Hey, I don't think he dropped so uh. Ronald Acune has been number
one overall on all of them. Okay, but as Bobby Whippen number two,
he was definitely he was definitely number two and one of them. Let's
see here, let me bring bring him up here. Okay, let's see.
Yeah, probably crash my system here trying to do this. Yeah,
so this this is working fine? All right, Let's see, this is
d L two. Bringing up the list here anytime now, maybe I need
a faster computer. Okay, here we go. I know, maybe I
got I got Bobby Witt, I know with the I got Bobby with with
the fourth pick in d L two. So when Acuna, Carol Rodriguez Wit,
uh, Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, that's that's and then Fernando Tatis
then Mookie Bets. I think Bobby Wit might have gone number two in the
other one. So so yeah, I mean they're they're top five players.
You know, they're all young, and I guess it depends on who you
like better. I mean when it gets right down to it. So well,
yeah, and I don't know. If I'm looking at Dynasty, I
Mookie Bets, I'd have down a little bit lower. But maybe that's just
me because of the age factor. Yep, totally agree, absolutely, totally
agree with you. So but that was where I had them on my rankings,
down a little bit. But yeah, people, people do whatever they
want, So it's just which is fun. Okay, Uh, you took
Corbyn Carrol. Let's see where I'm going to go here. Let me look
at my list. Uh now, it's everything's tight up because I was trying
to go okay, uh Frana Tatis, I'm gonna go one sot. Yeah,
that's who I was debating with Carol. He's the only player that I
might have moved up into that spot. I like one soda, I really
do. And I think he's gonna do very well in New York. Yeah.
I like the set up as perfect. Whether he takes advantage of it
or not, I don't know. I think nobody knows. But yeah,
so one soda as early as he's gone is six overall the NFBC, which
is pretty interesting. Three hundred and twenty one drafts. He's only gone as
high as number six. So yeah, I don't think you're losing anything with
one soda with five, you know. I know what I'm doing is I
copied and pasted the NFBC okay into a word document so I can cross names
off and keep track of everything. Mm hmm. And I don't have any
problems with one soda over Mookie Beds. Yeah I don't either. I don't
either. Yeah. So yeah, I so our top guys here, Kunya
Wit, Juli Rodriguez, Kyle Tucker, and Mookie Betts, Corbyn, Carajuan
SOA and Tim McLeod is on the clock. Well, if you wouldn't have
taken one so though, I would have taken him, and you probably would
have taken the guy I'm taking to tease Junior. Yeah he's great. Tim,
Well, he didn't have a great year last year by his standards,
But how old is to Jesus twenty five? He's still a kid. Yeah,
I'm expecting a bounce back this year. Jay is twenty five years old.
Yeah, I'm expecting. I think we've had this conversation before where I
said, so twenty three, twenty five home runs in twenty ninth stolen bases.
I mean, how is that not a good year? Well, the
RBIs were down in the seventies, or they were in the seventies. I
think run scored weren't overly high. Is that his fault? Well, it's
not so much his fault, but if you drafted him, you were anticipating
probably ninety RBIs, ninety run scored. They had the ninety run scored.
He had ninety one rb Yeah, ninety runs scored, seventy eight RBI So
I was seventy eight, Okay, I knew it was in the high seventies
somewhere. Yeah, I guess it depends what your expectations are for T's yere.
I expect thirty home runs, thirty stolen bases, one hundred rbies,
and close to one hundred run and scored. And he didn't do it last
year. That doesn't mean he won't this year. Interesting, Okay, I'm
on the clock. I'm gonna go with a pitcher. I'm gonna go with
Spencer Streider, who am my opinion to spit Basically, a one pitch pitcher
looks great to me, So I'm going to go Spencer Streder over some of
the other bats and Garrett and m Yeah, I get it. I The
only concern I have is the area crawled its way up a little bit last
year. But the strikeouts are definitely there. He's either gonna be one or
two. Yeah, pick your poison. You're on the clock, Tim oh
Well, I got I got a choice between an after hurt oatfielder, a
first basement, or a short stop. I'm gonna go with the short stop.
I'm gonna take Trey Turner. Yeah, Tree Turner again, another guy
that struggled out. Remember how good that he was in the Baseball World Baseball
Classic, and then he got off the snide really slow. Yeah, he
really He finished strong though. Yeah, I don't have any concerns with you
know, if twenty plus home runs, thirty plus stolen bases, he's gonna
score a pile of runs. I'm not discounting. The struggles he had last
year is something that's going to continue into this year. Hopefully, I am
right. But again, there's a lot of skills I think still there,
and he's playing in a real good lineup. You know, he should have
a good season. I would think this is where things get a little dicey,
Tim, So I agree. So this is just a lot of directions
that we can go in. But the big guys are off the board.
We've listed. We've got to Kunya with Junior Hulu Rodriguez, Kyle Tucker,
Mookie Betts, Corbyn Carajuan so To Tatist, Junior Spencer, Strider, Trey
Turner, one, two, three, four five. So that's ten guys.
Yeah, there's you know, obviously sitting on the the in the queue
is Freddy Freeman. You can go in that direction. Freeman is not the
spring chicken anymore. He's still great data starting to tilt down a little bit
worried about that. Aaron Judge, obviously an enormous talent, always not always
hurt, a little concerned about if he's gonna stay healthy showy o Tani coming
back from Tommy John surgery. What's that all going to mean? You know,
Jose Ramirez, you know, it's starting to get along in the two
there. So there's all of these guys start to have question marks, would
you not agree? Yeah, there's one guy that doesn't have question marks.
It's down a little bit further, I think, so, and that's where
I'm going. Yeah, you're going with matt Olsen? Ah, okay,
who are you gonna go with? Bryce Harper? I was that was?
It was either Bryce Harper or matt Olsen. Yeah, I thought it would
be. I think matt Olsen is the next Freddy Freeman. Yeah. I
won't argue with you. Yeah, no, if if how many Homer Innstry
had last year fifty fifty? What yep? Yeah, and you know it's
a great lineup continues. I mean, so that's where I'm going. Maybe
it's a little early, but I guess what I'm trying to tell every body
is if he's on. If you're at the wheel and he's sitting there,
don't don't be bad, don't don't feel bad not uh uh, don't feel
bad taking him that early. So that's that's my feeling. No, I
don't Yeah, I don't think you're taking him early at all. He's gonna
he's gone a high as a second overall pick, which seems a little crazy,
but that's yeah, that's that sounds a little insane to me. And
hey, I'm going with the guy you didn't take Bryce Harper. Yeah,
that's that's where I was going to go to. Yeah, yeah, you
know, hey, he's he's healthy. We saw in the second half what
he can do. He's gotta he's got a solid, a solid history of
producing. Uh. For me, it was there was a toss up between
between free Freeman and Harper because I've got to discount some of those other players
a little bit because of the question marks, and there are some. I'm
gonna go Jose Ramirez, uh still over Freddie Freeman. Again. I'm hoping
Kyle Mansarda makes that makes that lineup better. I love what Jose Ramirez can
still do. Guy gets on base a lot more. He walks as much
as he strikes out, so his hit tool is still there. Yeah,
the power and speed are starting to tilt down a little bit, but I'm
hoping it's going to be hang on for one more year. So I'm going
Jose Ramirez. Yeah. Could you imagine the numbers he put up if he
was in a high powered offense. Yeah, if he was with the Dodgers
or the Uh. Yeah, but he he chose to I mean it was
he signed up below a below uh was contracted whatever you want to say.
It was about market value, thank you, below market value? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, so but that's that's he chose to do that. Yes,
he did. Yes, definitely to stay in Cleveland. Ah, the
one guy that aw Man, there's a tough pick for me because it's there's
two players, and I'm gonna go with the upside and I'm gonna I'm gonna
take Aaron Judge and hope and Brace stays healthy at fourteen. Yeah, okay,
And for me, I I mean, look, he's a great player,
and I think Wan Soda is gonna make it even bet. I think
they're gonna play off each other. Maybe there's a few less rbuys for the
taking between them, but I think they'll help each other. I agree.
I think it's a it's a great signing, and I'm looking forward seeing what
he does in New York. Well, Freddy Freeman has dropped too far for
me, so I'm gonna take Freddy Freeman. So to round it our first
round, Ronald Acuna, Bobby with Junior, Julio Rodriguez, Kyle Tucker,
Mookie Bats Corbyn, Carroll Want Soda, Tatis, Spencer Strider, Trey Turner,
Matt Olsend a little bit of aggressive pick for me, Bryce Harper,
Jose Ramirez, timp didn't like that when Aaron Judge and then Eddie Freeman drops
a little bit, Tommy that take a break, come back and do the
second roalm sounds good. So we haven't watched Midsummer Murder yet. You haven't
got around to it yet, haven't gotten around to but we're watching another murder
mystery. Okay, which one are you watching? It is, Ah,
it's kind of a black comedy. It's it's uh, it's murder on in
my apartment building or something like that. It's with Steve Martin and Martin short.
Is it a movie or it's a it's a It's a series, Timmy,
that was up for a lot of Emmys. It won some Emmys.
It's ah see, what's it called, Steve Martin in the Martin Short,
It's murder. It's like murder. Oh there, it is only murders in
the building. Murders in the building. Huh, that's interesting. I haven't.
I haven't heard anything Steve Martin has done in years. So a lot
of the stuff he's done in the last few years have been really bad.
This is really good, tim I encourage her. It's on Hulu. I
encourage everybody to seek this one out. It's it's these obviously the two older
guys there. Steve Martins is a former actor that is kind of like real
life I guess, was well known for one particular role, hasn't done anything
since. Martin Short is a director that's was well known for one movie that
he directed and never anything since. And they've they're basically struggling actors and so
forth. And Selena Gomez who you know some Oh yeah, she's like the
third wheel in this and she's the young kind of millennial and they basically there's
a murder in their apartment building and they're hooked on these true crime podcasts that
are out there, and they decide to create a true a true crime podcast
to try to solve this murder. And it's really funny because it's it's fat.
I'll have to check it out because I loved a lot of Steve Martin's
early work when he when he was doing stand up with the arrow in his
head. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's good.
It's the first episode. I'm like, I don't know about this, but
then they get you. It's it's this goofy kind of humor. It's very
quirky, and then you're kind of saying you're trying to figure out who did
it, you know, because because at the same time it's this murder mystery,
so you're trying to figure out who actually did it, and uh,
and it's it. It definitely said we're going to finish the first season up
to night so uh so we're very very excited about anyway. So I throw
that one out there. Only murders in the building, Okay, cool,
all right, that's enough. Uh goofy and offs to mean, let's get
back at it. You're on the clock. I picked Freddy Freeman, who
do you got Oh, well, you know it's a long way back.
I'm gonna go with Garrett Cole. Oh sure, sure, sure up my
pitching because I know by the time it gets back to me at the at
the back of the third round, I know my options aren't going to be
that caliber. Look, I this great pick pitchers. I think Timmas said
this, and we'll probably talk about when he does his rankings next week for
starting pitching. That with all of the injuries that we saw last season,
you know, pitchers are falling a little bit just because you just don't either.
They're not first, second, third round worthy. And I think we're
seeing that. Yeah, all of it all of a sudden. You know,
when you take six or seven out of the first first three, four
rounds, okay, of your top twenty pitchers, Uh, i'd be a
little bit more risk involved. And up to this point in time, we
haven't seen Gary Cole waiver one bit, have we No? No, I
mean he's just you keep waiting one day, maybe he'll get hurt. He
just doesn't. I mean it's pretty remarkable. Well, yeah, he's a
horse. Two hundred strikeouts. The whip is always very low, the are
a I've seen projections in the three P fifty round, you know, in
range for this year, but there's not too many. I think we can
use the word trust with and I think cool is one of them. So
still on the board is Showy Atani. Still on the board is Jordane Alvarez.
Showy Atani's ADP is fourteen, Jordane Alvarez is sixteen. Like both players.
I look, no one's a bigger Jordane Alvarez fan than me. I
just I just worry about Jordane Alvarez. I don't know what to say and
show you Tani. I can't do it yet because I'm gonna go with that
guy who's money in my opinion, and that's Corey Seeger. Look, you're
not gonna getting stolen bases, but this guy could hit forty five to fifty
home runs one year. It is massive raw power and he can really hit.
And I think I'll I'll take him in the beginning of the second round.
So I'm going Corey Seeger. Well, yeah, you're looking at you're
looking at parrying him up with Aaron Judge, you know, hypothetically, right,
based on what we've drafted. Yeah, it's it's it's a safe floor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's more the safe safe as safe
as you want to get. Now, I'm gonna have to get some speed
later on if I take Corey seeger there. Yeah. But so anyway,
so now we got your orders. So so where does Tim mcleoud go.
Oh, I have some concerns with this pick, and I'm I'm gonna I'm
gonna pick him anyways, because the upside is such that even in five and
a half months he could still produce some monster numbers. I'm gonna go with
Showy O Tahani. But I am a little concerned because there is a chance
that he might miss some time at the beginning of the season. I don't
think you can carve him in stone for forty twenty. I think that's what
he's more than capable of. But you know, is he going to be
ready to hit at the beginning of April? I don't know. I haven't
seen anything definitive of you. Nope. All I know is he gave a
speech last night when he won the collecting his MVP award, and he did
it all in English and it was pretty darn impressive. So that's all I
know. All I know is anything he wants to do, he is more
than capable of doing it, and he will, you know, talking speaking
in English for an award. So yeah, hey, there's nothing, nothing
that he won't he won't do if he sayds his hard to it. So
I gotta go with Otani and just hope that we we see at least a
full a full five months. But there are some concerns. There will be
until we see him on the field in what another three weeks? Yeah,
that's right. It's uh well, pitchers and catchers report on the fifteenth of
February when we have our first year player drafts, so just over two weeks.
Okay, Alm on the clock, I am. I am not taking
your day on Alvarez. I'm gonna go with Austin Riley, a guy that
I've never ever owned in any fantasy baseball league. I think that's a guy
that I always under evaluate it and he has proven me wrong. Big,
huge power in a guy feel to hit a third base is a little deep,
but he's never really been injured. I'm going Austin Riley. Yeah,
it's a great pick. If you underestimated him, he's just proven to you
know, even even with the higher strikeout numbers, he's still getting it done.
But I think your reasons to be concerned were very legitimate. He just
he's just a better player than and he's been able to survive with a bit
higher of a strikeout right early in his career. Hey, it's because he
hits the ball so hard. And that's what we're learning from all these advanced
metrics is a lot of it comes down to if you hit the ball really
hard, the ball scoots to the infield a lot faster. And you know,
and speed is not speed helps, but it's really how hard you hit
the ball. And that's why led La Cruz might with all of his strikeouts,
actually might do okay. So well, Yeah, I think when you
look at you look at speed. Hey, it's wonderful to get a kuna
with Junior Rodriguez Tucker and you know those the guys are going to steal you,
you know, thirty to forty plus bases, right, that's great,
But you don't it's not so much a necessity now that the game has changed,
okay, and more people there's a host of players that are stealing fifteen
to twenty twenty twenty five bases. If you don't get speed in the first
two rounds, you can still survive very well. It's it's not as it's
not as crucial as it was three years ago even Yeah, so hey,
if you want to go with two big boppers early, go for it.
You'll find your speed. Yeah, all right, Timmy, you're on the
clock. Oh well, by the way, on Austin Riley barrels eighty nine
percent, hard hit rates, eighty eight percent, average ex velocity ninety two
percent. It hits the ball really really hard, ninety two's loft. The
loft is thirteen point six with a ninety two mile an hour exit velocity.
It's hits everything really really hard. Yeah. Yeah, and with a twenty
four percent strikeout rate. He's probably supporting a really high babbitt. It has
to throw O three twenty four. That's average, isn't it. That's that
well, that's a smidge above average. But you know, I mean,
yeah, it's not influencing. It's not influencing the outcome in a huge way.
It's not like it's three eighty or three ninety. Nope, all right,
tim you're one o'clock. Yeah, well, somebody's got to be that
guy to do it, and this is this is a spot, so time
to time to go all in and hope the batting average exceeds two thirty five.
And I'll go with Eli Di la Cruz. Yeah, and that upside,
Yeah, I mean it's huge upside, Timmy. He could be Ronaldacunya.
It's one of the few guys on this list. I think you would
agree that could be Ronald Acunya. Yeah, he could. And what's what's
the floor? What in a worst case scenario, what are you going to
get from Eli do la Cruz. I think you'll get twenty home runs,
forty stolen bases in a two thirty batting average. That's a good floor.
I can live with that. Yeah, I think we can all live with
that. My concern was he he just goes into an incredible funk. Can
they send him down, send him down for a couple of weeks? Could
could you think you think you think it's a possibility. Absolutely, yeah,
But he's got to go into a real he's got to go into a real
funk. So you know, in the end, it could again if you
could also say, hits the ball so hard that he's going to have a
high babbit and hit two sixty and be one of the best players in baseball.
Well, yeah, he does get from first to third pretty quick,
don't he. Yeah, I mean, so I think you can argue a
potential he doesn't hit enough and he gets the mooted to. He hits the
ball so hard he's going to be just fine. And posted a high babbit
to sixty with thirty forty kind of up. So probably not the home run
yet, but eventually it's going to be there because there's no law. But
you know, with this massive potential and I that's what's there. So I
don't know. Yeah, Tim, we've lost him. Let's take a break,
see if I can go. You have me back now, let me
go, let me go find Tim and uh we'll finish on with our second
round. Okay, Timmy, are you back? Yeah? No, I
can you hear me? Yeah? Here? You just fine? Now?
So you've given us your Yeah, no, you just you just just disappeared
when you did your analysis on Elie Dela Cruz. I agree, yeah,
great, perfectly. All right, I'm gonna tose Jor Dane Alvarez slip too
much, so, uh, I love or Dane Alvarez. I mean,
it's forty home run potential guy that can hit. Just everybody be careful with
overestimating the number of it bats just because of health concerns. Yeah, we're
all rooting on no stolen bases next year for your Dan Alvarez. If anybody
should be lowy gagging it as a per se down to first base, yeah,
or Dane Alvarez is one of those. Yeah, it's just soft tissues
or the things they have to worry about, you know, spraining here,
pulled there. It's what you have to worry about with Jordan Alvarez. And
he he missed a lot of day here, day there last year because I
have him on a couple of Dynasya leagues and it was annoying. So's I
know that. So Timmy, let's you're on the clock. Oh well,
I'm I'm gonna take one of the next two in order. Probably Uh,
I'll go with Ozzie albi'son. So should I tell you? I'm gonna tell
you my Uh, do I have it up on this last Dynasty league that
I am drafting? Mm hmmm. Should I tell you my first four picks?
Sure, I'll tell you my first five picks. I'm picking in the
fifth hole. I got Juan Soto pretty good, right like it? Coming
back with the twenty fifth pick, Michael Harris, I like that pick.
Coming back in the chick you get two outfielders. That's very nice. Coming
back in the third round, Ozzy Albie's. Oh Alby's he fell that far.
I know it's twenty he's twenty seven years old. It's not like he's
old. And then I wanted a picture Tim Randy Arose Arena was sitting there
in the fourth round, and I said, Holy moly, lord, I
gotta take You're playing a five by zero, my friend. But I got
my first four picks or Soto, Harris, Alby's a Rose Arena twenty five,
twenty to twenty seven, twenty eight. And my first picture then with
my fifth pick was Max Freed. I'll take that any day of the week.
I'm thrilled with my start here. Well, you got power, power,
speed right across the board, yeah and upside and yeah no, uh,
you can do whatever you want as far as your offense is concerned from
here on out, because you've got so many home runs and stolen bases and
supporting batting average. Yep, yeah you can. You can pick and choose
and do what you want. But it's an on base percentage league, Tim
mean I got I got Won Soto's four hundred base percenta yeah, exactly,
yeah, and it could no tell them what it's going to be next year
in New York. So h yeah, it's gonna be four hundred though,
yeah, yeah, yeah. And Rose Arena is a good on base percentage
guy too, So I got lucky as funny. So I wanted to pause
there because you know, Alsie Albis dropped to a third round, Like,
what am I missing? Yeah, there's smart people. Where are we both
missing? So I went and brought up his day to Timmy and it was
okay. I mean, it's like he hits the ball reasonably hard. He's
not a big guy. There's still above average speed there. I don't know
how he's hitting thirty home runs, but he should be good for twenty five
home runs and he's a good player. Well, you know, you take
a look at the numbers last year, thirty three home runs, one hundred
and nine RBIs with a two eighty average, ninety six runs scored, the
thirteen stolen bases is yeah, yeah, you're lucky he's stolen fourteen, fifteen,
twenty thirteen. It's it's it's about right. I think he's a thirty
home run bad that maybe he isn't getting the respect he deserves, not this
dinast League startup. I don't think he got the you know, look,
it's uh, he does chase the ball too much, right, So I
mean there's there's some strike zone awareness, but once once he chases too much.
He basically has a great two strike approach because he doesn't strike out that
much, so he's chasing guy the balls out of the strike zone. But
average x velocity is thirty seven percent, heart hit rates thirty ninth so it's
slightly below average power, but he makes up for it with big launch angles,
so that's not great. It's a pull side hitter, but speed is
still at fifty four percentile. It's still a pretty good baseball player. Well,
and shall we talk about yeah the supporting cast? Yeah yeah, how
good of a hitter? Do you really need to be in Atlanta? Okay,
just to score eighty runs and drive in eighty totally great? Yeah,
Yeah, it's a good baseball player. So I think I'm on the clock
here, so I'm strolling. I got to go back to my list,
let's see back. Make sure I haven't missed anybody, all right, so
I can actually look for it. Do not like Pete Alonzo. Raphael Devers
is really really good, hits a ball really hard. He can you know,
it's not a great supporting cast there. Francisco Lindor is a really safe
player. He went thirty thirty last season. I'm gonna go with Francisco Lindor
to I mean, take the thirty thirty with him. I mean, and
it's a guy that you can get a little bit later. He went thirty
thirty. Did I mention? Yeah, yeah, no, he went,
he went thirty thirty. Yeah, it's yeah, I was debating Lindor Albi's
yeah okay, and yeah they both work. Yeah, I've got no problems
with with the only the supporting cast isn't as strong for Lindor. But he
went thirty thirty, thirty thirty. He stok got Pete Alonzo, there's he's
pretty good. So yeah, so yeah it's tim You're okay, we're gonna
we're gonna go. We're gonna go nice, nice and boring, nice and
safe and a good solid player. And Raffie Devers like RUFFI I think he's
another guy that's underrated. So Rafael Devers is uh, big power. He's
only still nice, just turned twenty seven years old, so it's not like
he's he's really old. So I like, I like the selection there.
I'm going to uh, we only have two pictures off the board. I'm
not gonna take a picture here, Tim, I'm going Marcus Simeon again,
a little bit older player, plays in a really good system with the Texas
Rangers. Twenty nine home runs last season with a four to seventy eight slug
hits the ball hard. There's a lot to like with Marcus Simeon, and
he's getting you know, he doesn't have the speed that he used to have
because he's thirty three years old. But I'll take that as one of the
second best second basemen in the game. Yeah, I totally totally totally agree.
I don't think he gets the respect that he deserves. You know,
he had that month and a half slump. I guess two years ago there
was there was no month and a half slump last year. Yep. I
think we can we can discount that as whatever you want to, but no,
he's he is a really good player number. You're on the board with
number pick number twenty six, so you got Oh, this is where it
gets tough, tough, tough, tough. The NBC on the board is
on on the board of Still Corbyn, Burns, Pete Alonso, Lewis Roberts,
Junior, Zach Wheeler, Kevin Gossman, my buddy Gunner Henderson. Who
do you got them? Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna move this guy up
a bit because I think he's gonna earn it and I don't don't take him.
Don't take him from me? Tim Uh what? What is a fighter
pilot known as a gunner? I gotta go Gunner Henderson. I'm gonna move
him up. I like everything about Gunner Henderson and I think he better his
last season, and last season was pretty good. Yeah the yeah, I
mean, and look, his data is shows there's more speed, there's big
boy power coming. I totally agree with Timmy, that's the guy you were
looking at. I assume, uh two, I was gonna either take Gunner
Henderson just so everyone else. Average EXI velocity ninety first percent percentile ninety fifth
percentile and hard hit rate sprint speed eighty fifth percentile eighty fifth and sprint speed.
Yeah, so there's more speed there than you think. So I thought
I saw him visually play. I went down to watch a game with the
Orioles this year, and visually he didn't look like he had great speed.
So, but the data says there is speed there. So so what direction
are you going to be heading in? I'm gone the same direction both of
us have gone in and drafts. I'm going Michael Harris. Yeah, that's
how I was gonna call that one. Yep, yep. It was if
you took Donnor Henderson, I was taking Michael Harris. And again you might
say, well, she Wilson and Mcloudy, all these great players on the
board, Michael Harris has a chance to be a great player. He is
already a very good player. Got off the slide very slowly last year,
but Timmy ended well. And what team does he play for again? I
believe it's the Atlanta Braves. Yeah, I mean, what you know?
I think you can pencil him in for multiple twenty twenty seasons starting this year.
Yeah, I think I think twenty twenty will be his his floor and
base for an extended extended period of time. I like the kid a lot.
If I'm in a fifteen team league and I'm picking one, two,
three, or four, I'm not gonna let Michael Harris slip by me on
the second round. I'm just not gonna do it. Yeah, No,
that makes total sense. You got tim Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
back up the board a bit. And because you know with that first with
that first pick, you got plenty of speed, and we know you can
find speed later on. And you also should have yourself a pretty good batting
average because you're gonna need it if you're taking Pie Alonzo. I just can't
pass up that taking Pee Alonzo. Yeah, I can't pass on that fifty
home un potential power. Yeah. Again, I worry about the body type
with Peter Alonzo, but the power is ridiculous. I agree. And it's
a huge launch too, So yeah, I mean it's it's it's a safe
pick. It's dare I say, a safe pick if you're counting on a
two to ten batting average, two twenty batting average. Yeah yeah, I
mean, but you're gonna it's forty home runs though, Yeah, I think
you can put that in the looking at what he's done historically, Yeah.
So again, Hey, I looked at a picture, I looked at another
bat, and I just feel I just feel more comfortable right now with Alonzo.
I'm going to picture Tim, and I know Corbyn Burns people like him
a little bit better than the guy I'm going to pick. But I've studied
the data. I like Zach Wheeler. The stuff is really really good.
I'm going Zach Wheeler with the second to the last pick in the second round.
Yeah, I don't I haven't studied the data in depth. You know
you've said you have. I don't have any problems with Wheeler Overburns. No.
I think we're into a group of pictures right now that are all very
much alike. Yeah, there's something that bothers me about Corbyn Burns as well,
And it's just that whole situation in Milwaukee, how it didn't really get
resolved last year, Tim, as you know, Yes, and I expect
if he would have gotten if you would have been traded by now, I
would have felt a lot better about Corbyn Burns. But now sudden they they
you know, they make this trade for ree Hoskins, They sign Jacksonurio to
the big contract, and it feels like they're going to keep them, and
I I don't know Tim, I don't know well. And let's face it,
when you start looking at there's still a chance and I'm not going to
say a good chance, but there's still a reasonable chance at least that Burns
gets traded at some point in time this season. And we know historically when
players are traded, it doesn't always mean good things, does it. Yeah.
Yeah, you get to uproot the family. You know, there's there's
a million things that can go in there that can take your mind off of
your job. And it's the same with everybody. You know, you yourself
when you were working, if they offered you a transfer somewhere, your kids
are in high school. You know, Laurie's got a job, you know
what I mean. You've got a million things other than your job that can
go into you know, your day to day, your day to day living.
And not every not everybody, not everybody does well with that. So
there's a risk that Burns is traded, he might not be as successful as
he is in Milwaukee. Yeah, it's my same kind of use my Lenny
Meloni gut feeling, my same gut feeling about the Dodgers and what they're doing
and with Yamamoto, and it's it's everything points to like Yamamotive being a great
picture. Everything points at Corbin Burns being a great picture, and they are.
You know, It's just something there bugs me about both of those situations,
and I just have I get it. I have a bad feeling about
I have a bad feeling about the Dodgers and how they're building that pitching staff,
have a bad feeling about how this is going to end for Corbyn Burns
and the Brewers, just because it was so bad last year, Like at
the beginning of the season, he did not look motivated him on a dynasty
league and it was not. It was hit or miss most of the season,
and he kept wondering, is he just pissed? Is he still really
piss He was pissed, Yeah, he said he was. I'm sure he
is. He isn't He isn't He hasn't forgotten a lot, Yeah, you
know, it hasn't gone away, has it. No, He's yeah,
And you can say that, Look, he's a he is a great picture,
there's no question. But sometimes the sometimes the setup might not just be
right there. And that's my only concern about Corbyn Burns, and I do
have him in the league, so on root for him. It's not like
I and I'm not going to trade him because he's really good. So but
I do have some concerns. Yeah, I think it's I think it's fair
right to me last, very fair last pick in the second realm. Yeah,
we're already into the question mark stage of the game, aren't we,
And everybody you're looking at has some Uh. I'll go with Lewis Robert Jr.
Hoping that he repeats what he did last year. Yeah, so you
didn't say that with confidence. Well, one of the reasons that, you
know, when I look at all of the options available in here, there's
all questions. There's a lot of question marks there. The White Sox aren't
a better team than they were last year, and Robert's going to have to
be part of that. Okay. You know, you look at we just
discussed Corbyn Burns as an option. Yeah, you could look at pitching,
and there's some fine pitching options, but I think I'd rather have take my
chances on the bat and come with a pitcher on the way back. Yeah.
Yeah, you look at you know Vlad Junior. You know he's been
in decline since his big season three years ago. Yeah, jose Boba,
SHOT's on ceiling bases anymore. Yeah, jose l two bays a year older,
still a fine player. But again, this question marks all over the
place with virtually every pick that we're going to make and in this round.
And I can, I can, I can see if I can see moving
moving some players up in this round. I think it's the perfect situation a
lot. Well, let's let's take a quick break it back, and let's
do as much of the third round we can in ten to twelve minutes,
and then we're gonna call it second round. When Garrett Cole, Corey Seinger,
Sho hay O, Todi, Austin Riley, Elie de la Cruz,
Jor, Dan Alvarez, Ozzi Albi's, Francisco lindu Or, Rafael Devers,
Marcus Simeon, Gunner, Henderson, Michael Harris. Two guys that Tim and
I like, both back to back there, Pete Alonzo, Zach Wheeler and
Lewis or Robert Junior. I am on the clock, Tim. This is
where it gets really I agree with, it gets very very interesting. I'm
just not I mean, Kevin Goussman's a really good pick there. But and
glad you we talked of at Boba Schet. Something tells me, No,
cj Abrams, I think it's still a little a year or two early.
I'm either I'm gonna take a picture. It's either gonna be George Kirby or
Pabolo Lopez. I've done the research on both players. I like Pablo Lopez
a little bit more. That's where I'm going Pablo Lopez. Yes, And
I don't have any problems at all with that pick, and you aren't going
to have any problems with my pick as long as you don't take the guy
that I want. Well, I probably am because you just brought them up.
Yeah, yeah, Well I love George Kirby. I I think he
has top ten starter potential. Man, I think we're going to see it
starting this year. I you know, my criteria for bitching, and it's
relatively simple. Throw strikes, throw strikes, don't walk them. And how
many did he walk last year? Man? It was ridiculous, it really
was. I do Baseball Swant breakdowns for our patron subscribers, and somebody asked
for a breakdown on Braxton Garrett have you seen how many guys he walks.
He don't walk anybody either. Yeah, oh yeah. Last year at one
hundred and ninety innings, Kirby walked nineteen, yeah, nineteen. So what
happens everyone is with guys like Kirby and mentioned Braxton, Garrett There's and Garrett
Cole. You could say, yeah, they're going to give up some home
runs, though some guys are ground ball pictures, won't won't do it otherwise.
But that means that their era and their whips are going to be naturally
lower because if they give up a home run or if they get a couple
of hard hit balls, nobody's going to be on. So their eras and
the ratios are going to be lower kind of by definition. And that's the
and that time is right, that's that's why you look for guys that throw
strikes. It's just higher floor players. Well, and you take a look
at Kirby last year, you could say the strike oats are a bit low
one one hundred and seventy two and one hundred and ninety innings, okay,
but the year before he was a little bit better than the strikeout for inning.
So I think looking at at those numbers. I think he closes in
on two hundred strikeouts this year to go along with the great era and whip
that you know, like you said that the whip is always going to be
low simply because he can allow a hit per inning and still have a one
oh four one five whip because he doesn't doesn't let anybody sneak down to first
base. I mean, it's a fastball, fastball ninety six mile an hour
average fastball with a twenty two hundred spin rate, which is great. His
problem, Timmy just doesn't have the great secondary pitch. His slider is a
twenty two percent with rate, curveball is a fifteen percent with rate. Here
could be the thing that that if he can continue to work on it.
In twenty twenty two, he threw a splitter zero point four percent of the
time. Last year he threw it six percent of the time, and he
got a thirty six percent strikeout or whiff rate with it. So if all
of a sudden, he's throwing that splitter, which is you know, his
what he's replacing his change up with all of a sudden, If he can
throw that now fifteen percent of the time, which seems potentially all of a
sudden, you're going to see a huge upcrease in and uptick in the amount
of strikeouts and a guy that's gonna get even better. So there, it
just looks like a growth stock to me. Yeah, and you know,
if that splitter doesn't work out, maybe the knuckleball will. He threw it
one time, but very successfully about one time. Yes, yeah, I
mean it's it's other what what you look for in this everyone, we're looking
at the data. You're saying, well, Chan, I don't see high
wiff rates on any of his secondary pitches, But all of a sudden you
see him introducing a new pitch and he usually don't go from zero to throwing
at forty percent of the time. You usually ease into it, and it
feels like he's easing into it, so just FYI. Yeah, and you
know what, sometimes he's using that uh, those secondary pitches to set up
his big pitch and it's working, isn't it. He's pretty damn good tim
He's only twenty five years old, so I think, yeah, yeah,
and the fact that you don't doesn't throw, he doesn't walk anybody is a
good thing. Okay, We're I got to get back to I'm on the
clock, right, I'm going Randy. I'm going Randy a Rose Arena,
Thank you very much. I'll take the I'll take the twenty twenty. Huh.
I don't blame you. I don't blame you one bit if you didn't
take him, I know who else was going to Yeah, yeah, no,
I think you can pencil in twenty twenty and put it in the bank.
Yep. Now again, he doesn't have Wanda Franco anymore on that team,
but hopefully Caminario is going to be a nice replacement there, so he
needs he can't be all by yourself. So I don't know how good the
Rays are going to be this year. By the way, I don't know
what you think, but it feels like a bit of a rebuild. You
know, all their pictures are hurt. Uh hey, bos Is coming back
and McLanahan hurt. Mm hmmm, yes, having Tommy John surgery. When
is there going to be an investigation as to what the heck the Tampa Bay
Rays are doing wrong that seemingly all their guys have Tommy John surgery. Well
yeah, and you know, when you start looking looking at that that team,
does it really matter? Because keep finding people. Yeah they're good.
Okay, Yeah, how's Zach Eflin doing really really good? Much the same
as Springs and Risbondson did. Okay, And then you take a look and
I really like this pick up, big job. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
so you know what, even with Spring actually picked okay, but but that's
because all their guys are hurt. All of the US are hurt. Well
yeah, you got but Clenham rests in Springs all on the I l with
DJ but you know, you look at the the offense and Josh is a
fine player in the fourth spot, and y Andy Diaz stepped his game up.
Okay, You'sach greatest? Is? I think? Yeah, I'm not
as confident based on based on how already hits the ball. But again,
he's a good little player. He fits well into their you know, into
their plan. And if you camin Arrow is isn't too far far off and
Josh, like you know what, You look at it and you say it's
it's going to be a down year. But somewhere in the back of your
mind you say, well, Tampa Bay always manages to pull it off,
don't they They do they do? Yeah, okay, Tim, you are
on the clock. We've got uh, Pablo Lopez, George Kirby, Randy
Hero's Arena. Who's the great Teneta? Well, I think it's I think
it's time for a picture, as much as I don't want it to be.
And looking at everybody sitting there right now, I'm going to move somebody
up the board. Zach gallup. No, I'm gonna move a hitter up
the board. Oh, I thought you're gonna pick the guy. No,
a guy that I was totally wrong on and a guy that you were totally
right on. H I'm gonna move a doles Garcia up. Yeah, he's
currently going in the towards the back of the third round. I'm gonna move
him up about seven or eight spots because I you know, he's getting better
to h Yeah. Yeah, he can't do it again. He can't do
it again. Well, he's done again three years in a row. You
look at the numbers, and I mean the speed is the speed is dwindling.
But he's becoming a better hitter. Yeah, speed's riddling. He's becoming
a better hitter. And he hits he hits a all mile Like would you
be surprised if Adolas Garcia had a better year than Luis Robert Junior. No,
no, not at all, or or some of the other bats taking
the bit. Yeah, he just hit hits the ball of mile eye.
I'm not gonna with the pitching that the way it's shaking, shaking down.
I'll take the bat before the picture. He had thirty nine home runs last
year. Yeah. Yeah, abatras A velocity is ninety three percentile, hearted
rate ninety three percentile. He strikes out too much, okay, which but
look, his walk rate is now up to seventy fourth percentile. This is
a guy, Timmy who walked in twenty twenty one five percent of the time.
He's doubled that now walking ten percent. He's becoming a better player,
and he produced pretty darn good numbers for our purposes. Yeah, back back
then, you know what I mean. Yeah, Yeah, it's yeah,
it's not as if he hasn't. I'd be very very curious to know how
many people had him rostered, like in the Dynasty for all three leagues,
for all three years, and how they've done overall, because I have a
feeling I have I've had in every Dynasty league time. So yeah, and
you've done well. Yeah, he's been great. And after that first year,
it was I gotta tell you, I was like, oh my gosh,
it just doesn't all on base percentage league except for one. It's like
he just doesn't walk enough. I mean, it is killing me. And
then all of a sudden you look down. It was a two to ninety
one base percentage, and then in twenty twenty two it was a it was
a three ten. You're going, Okay, it feels better than last year
was a three thirty, and you're feeling a little bit better. And all
of a sudden you just see him getting better and you're like, oh,
the stolen base, So what he's still hitting thirty nine home runs? Correct
me if I'm wrong, Tommy, Like, wasn't he the best player in
the postseason last year? Yeah? Until he until he hurt himself. Yeah
yeah, crazy good. Well, yeah, he was pounding the ball all
over the place. So you know, hey, you fool me once,
fool me twice, fool me thrice. So I think that's how I wrote
him up. Yeah, you know, one hundred and seven RBIs last year
run score. Yeah, it's it's good. He's a good player. Yes,
totally agree with you. Tim so it's I think we have to comment
that both Doleys Garcia and Randy and Rose Arena are off the board. Both
the Saint Louis Cardinals had in their farm system and essentially gave them away.
Yeah, they've done well giving away outfielders over the years, sevn't they.
Yeah, it's talk about investigation. I don't know how that guy keeps his
job. I don't. I mean, at some point it's like, what
are you doing? Like it was not so twenty twenty. I think it's
when the Tampa Bay Rays kind of blew up and had a great run in
the postseason. Remember Randy Rose Arena was like crazy good and I think it
was a John great. John Dean was telling to be the best player on
the world. Remember all that, and then three years later, Adolis Garcia
basically pulls a Randy A. Rose Arena looks like the best player on the
planet. Yeah, I think there's another one involved as well. It's not
just those two. There's a little bit. I think there's another player that's
made a move. It's just not coming to mind, Butler O'Neil. They
moved him to Boston now, so I'm expecting a big year, but no,
there was someone else I think moved a couple of years ago. What
I'm waiting for is him to give up on Dylan Carlson. Carlson trade him,
Okay, at which point in time I will be adding him in every
league I can possibly add him in. I think you have to. Okay,
Timmy, a couple more picks. I'm gonna go Kevin Gossman. Look,
Kevin Gosman still a really good player. Wrote him up on the He
was another baseball savant request really really really good splitter. I mean it's he's
a two pitch pitcher. It's a fastball and a splitter, and it's a
splitter that looks to be unhittable. So uh, which is again, yeah,
yeah, going, Yeah, it's it was the Orioles could not develop
and this was before Alias got there. They could not develop him, and
he turned out to be one of the best pitchers in baseball. It's yeah,
it makes you wonder how these guys well, I guess, uh what's
his face didn't keep his job in Baltimore eventually got fired. But it's like
some some organizations just can't do it. So Tommy, you're on the clockets.
Do three more picks. Okay, Corbyn Burns, it's time time for
him to disappear off the board. Oh yeah he was. I should have
picked him. Yeah, I forgot Corbyn Burns. Yeah, him in the
middle of the third round. That's that's that's value you there. It's a
good pick. Mister McLeod, I'm gonna pick one more guy. Let me
take a look back. I just Law Junior worries the heck out of me.
Shit, Hosyl t V. I love Hosyl too, cj Abrams,
h Tyler Glass. No, no, I'm going to go and just just
know I'm gonna I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Vlad Vlad Guerrero.
Yeah, it's the right spot. Yeah, it's drops a little bit.
I think there's some value there, but uh, I'm sorry, I'm just
not taking Tyler Glassno. I think Tim and I have talked about that and
I wish him nothing but the best. And I was looking at I think
CBS they crazy because you know that comes up where you're drafting it. It
shows what their projections are. It's like eighteen eighteen wins and you know,
like he's not gonna bitched off to get eighteen wins? What are you crazy?
So was that that was CBS? Oh for who for Tyler Glass?
Now that's what? Oh for Tyler Glass? Oh sorry, yeah, okay,
that's what they were projecting him at. I mean it's like what yeah,
yeah, no, he's going forty two right now off the board in
the NBC. And yeah, I don't think I want him at sixty.
Yeah, we'll see when, we'll see when I put my rankings together next
week. But how do you one hundred and twenty innings that's his high watermark?
I no, no, no, no, no, yeah. I
can try to find what they're project can't find it, but I was pretty
sure eighteen wins. I'm like, give me a freak. Yeah, okay,
tim last guy, Okay, well it's going to be a picture one
or two guys. And being that I've got him rostered in a couple couple
of dynasty leagues, I'm gonna I'm gonna make this a homewerk pick and go.
Is that Gallon? Yep? He's very solid to me, somewhat yeah,
underrated. So in the third round we got through half of it.
Pablo Lopez, George Kirby, Randy Roseriina Doli Scarcia, Kevin Gausman, Corbyn
Burns, Vlad Guerrero, Zach Galen tell me thirty eight players a lot of
fun. Yeah, it was, and for the most part, the only
player the only players left in the top thirty eight that we didn't touch were
Luis Castillo, Boba Schett, Jose Altuvez, CJ and CJ Abrams. Let's
talk of the only the only ones that we passed on. Okay in Arthur
top thirty eight, all right, so let's let's take a break, come
back and talk about this for and then wrap this puppy up. Sounds good.
They're all great players down and hose al Twovi in particular. I know
CJ Abras. People could suggest that, I mean that guy's just starting to
put some things together. I don't know. Man in my in the third
round, do I do I take a gameble of CJ. He's going to
see a lot of basis of the floor's kind of high. I guess I
get it, but I don't know if I've got the courage to do it.
With your thoughts, Well, I look at the four that we didn't
pick, okay, and then I look at the four we did pick,
George Kirby, Pablo Lopez I think struck out two hundred and fifty last year,
Adolas Garcia, and Randy or Rose Arena. I think it's fully defendable
to take those four over the four that we that we didn't choose. You
know, I don't have any Bobashet really concerns me. He's concerned me for
a long time. You've talked about his It just goes up hacking away.
Yeah, I mean, yep, Well again, you look at the numbers
from last year. He's not I don't see too many twenty stolen based seasons
in his future. And hey, there's nothing wrong with jose l to be,
but he's getting a little bit older. Abrams is young. What do
we expect give me, Give me a Dolas Garcia and George Kirby and Randy
or Rose Arena before. I've got no problems at all. And let's face
it, Luis Castillo, who we didn't we didn't pick, is going to
go with one of the next We went on with this saying he'd be one
of the next two three picks off. So just so twenty twenty one,
Bobaschet ranked seventy fourth in sprint sprint speed. Yeah, twenty twenty two fifty
three percentile, last year forty three percentile. At what point do we start
to get concerned that this is not going in the right direction. Well,
and if I'm not mistaken, last year he dealt with with a knee injury
for a bit. Again as as he ages, is he going to be
wanting to take chances on the base mass? Yeah? Yeah, I I
like I said, I just don't think we're gonna see too many twenty stone
based seasons moving forward. He does. He does hit the ball really hard,
so there's definitely power there. But Tim's been saying for years he chases
at everything for four fourth percentile, that's the number between three and five in
walk rate. That low, that low. Wow, Yeah, let's see.
So he needs to lose is a little bit of bat speed and he's
gonna be in trouble, isn't he one hundred and thirty five games to me,
he walked twenty seven times. That is a two followed by a seven,
So that's once a week. He's walking once a week. There are
twenty six weeks in the season. He's walking once a week. If you
would have bet me or tossed this right now, it's a steaker, steak
and liquor bed. Who who walked more? Okay, last year, Adolas
Garcia or I would have gone. I would have gone Boba Chet but I
wouldn't even have thought about it. And then yeah, data and it's it's
not No, they've somewhat gone in opposite direction. So yeah, there's there's
a good sucker bed for everybody out there. So so why would I take.
Explain to me why I would take Bobachett in front of a Dola's Garcia.
I don't. I don't get it. They both, Yeah, I
don't. I don't get it either, which is why we took Why I
took a DoLS Garcia early and you took Randy and rosa Arena. Yeah,
yeah, doles garcias make up more, got more power. He's faster than
Bobachette. Yeah, Bobachett doesn't strike out as much, but but Dolary Garcia
gets on base more. He plays in a on a better team. Yeah.
That pick mystifies me, It really does. Yeah, I can see
c J. Abrams. Okay, you're you're betting on what we saw last
year. Is going to be replicated this year. Okay, he's young.
He showed a big uptick. Yeah, you know, if he posts another
twenty twenty forty plus stolen base season, yeah, he's going to earn that.
So I can see the potential for it, but I just don't see
it with bashed. Yeah, you can argue with L two B he could
have a he could have a thirty twenty season and earn every penny of that
thirty six draft slot. I don't have any problems with L two B.
But yeah, enough said. I guess about bubashit Yeah, yeah, I
mean, uh, it's yeah. If he dropped to the fourth round,
I'd be all over it, Yes, as would I in the hopes of
a bounce back type season, you know, elevating his stock. But I
don't see I don't see a bargain at thirty five. I think the potential
is there for more of a bargain from hose L two bay. Yeah,
yeah, I agree, and OSEL TV stole some basses in the last couple
of years, so it's it's yeah, he's been a little bit more aggressive
on the base path, so agreed. Uh. I want to share something
with you, which is pretty interesting. So we talked about Colt Keith at
the beginning of the show, right cold Keith a week ago in one of
my Dynasty League startups, Where did the heck come on? My machine is
so slow? How high did he go? He went? The just just
went in the one that's starting up. He went with the first pick in
the sixth round, and I bet you before that he went in the fifteenth,
sixteenth round. So so talk about recency bias. It's yeah, it's
alive and well, so I wish, yeah, I wish I could bring
that up. Oh it's just hung up. So well, I was going
to say, yeah, in your standard Dynasty League up until this news,
I would think he would be somewhere in the teen rounds yep. Okay,
definitely not in the sixth yep, yep. He's he's gone way up.
So everybody's I mean, look, this is really has happened today. He
gets signed three hours ago and he's already off the board, which is pretty
fascinating. So well, you know it'll be interesting Rich and me. You're
gonna let us know next week where does Tyler Black go? Because I like
Tyler Black as much as Cole Keith. I got Tyler Black in one of
the Dynasty leagues, and I don't remember where I got him. I can,
yeah, I will tell you next week. So so at third base,
Cole Keith went in front of Nolan Arenata, Alex Bregman, Hassan,
Kim Spencer Steer. So yeah, he's he's yeah, he's gotten some uh,
he's gotten some helium. Just a tad. It's it's fine, you
know. Hey, I hope it works out for whoever picked him. So
that's awesome. So, uh, Timmy, what's for what's for dinner?
What's for dinner? We're not gonna do the Giants today, Nope. Okay,
they keep getting pushed, Timmy, We've been on for almost two hours.
I'm done. I gotta get drafting, okay, Jenner tonight chicken farm,
oh wow, chicken farm in pasta. Wow cool chicken farm pasta and
starting pitching rankings for dessert. Yeah, that'll be good. So, Tim,
we were also doing a on Super Bowl Sunday, probably a little earlier
in the afternoon, maybe two. We're gonna be doing a mock draft and
Tim is going to be pulling that together. So I don't know how you're
gonna be advertising it. So but wherever Tim is, you should be out
there bugging him. Well, I can tell you that. If you're on
the Discord site, just leave your name and your interest. We're looking.
I believe it's a ten dollars entry with one hundred for first fifty per second.
That sound reasonable. Yeah, So it's a it's going to be a
gladiator style league. So it's a mock draft that we're playing out. We
did it last year and Tim and I did not win, and somebody else
won. Yes, yeah, no, I don't even think I was in
the game. I'm not real good at drafting holes because I like too many
break shiny babbles. But hopefully I can change that this year. So if
you're you know, if you're on the Discord site, drop me a line
there. Otherwise Tim underscore l no, no, no, no, no,
do not do that. Uh huh to cut you off there. No,
people are not going to get Tim McCloud's email address. This is this
is not good. So Tim will find you somewhere. So you go out
to baseball look for something on the Baseball three sixty five page and the information
information will follow. Okay, yeah, I'm thinking about that now too,
rich. Yeah, I just saved you. Yeah. Yeah, Tim Glory
made a you probably have never had this before, a low country boil.
I don't even know where to boil it. So what you do is you
can put all kinds of stuff in it, but most people put shrimp,
so you kind of make a like a roue or a little sauce of You
can make it as spicies you want, but it's garlic butter pretty much garlic
and butter. You throw potatoes into it, you throw shrimp into it,
you throw a sausage into it. Little pieces of corn on the cops.
So take an ear of corn and either cut them in half or cut them
in thirds, throw them in there. What else is in it? You
can throw anything you want, and then you basically steam it. Cook not
steam it, but cook it over the stove for an hour or so and
just let all the juice and everything get in there. You don't put the
shrimp in there that long. But and Timmy, it's it's heaven. It's
a big thing here in the South. Yeah. I was going to say,
the terms that you're using are very Southern, aren't they. Yeah,
because I've never heard of them before. When you talk about a boiler,
low country is like here on the coast where it's the low country, so
swampy things like that. That's where the name came from. And then so
this is definitely a thing. People in the Carolinas, Georgia kind of along
the southeast will know what a low country boil is. Anyway, she made
that last night. It's leftovers, and I'm I've been dreaming about this all
day. It's fantastic. Yeah, I was going to say that that don't
sound like leftovers to me. Yeah, it's really really good, the real
meal deal, good stuff. Good well, Tim, thanks for staying a
little bit longer. We're already at the hour and forty eight minute mark,
so people should be happy with us. They got a very long podcast.
And Tim and I will be next week Friday, hopefully, if everything cooperates,
we'll be back finally doing our last prospect podcasts of the year. Till
will be interviewing me on the American League West and the Giants possibly throwing.
Will throw the Giants for good measure. Tim, that's it, my buddy
and my friend. Take care, be safe, be well, and we'll
catch on Friday. Richard