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Fantasy Baseball Podcast, the Second Half edition. We ain't talking about the second
half. We're talking today. Okay, I guess about the second half.
We're not gonna do like you're the players that are gonna break out in the
second half and all that type of stuff. No, we are literally putting
our money where our mouth is. We drafted the second half. This ain't
no mock, This ain't no like good think these are guys will be good.
We literally drafted for the second half. In our home league, we
had the roto champion. We're doing a head to head with playoffs. We
did it wednesday night. This is a league that counts. We have drafted
for the second half, and we are gonna break down what some of those
results and our teams look like for a second half draft from where we are
betting players are going to be good or bad. Mister Bogman, Yeah,
it was a fun draft. Twelve people in here. It was late kind
of a late night draft for at least East Coast, and everybody showed up
too. Actually absolutely shocked that everybody shows everything we always do. This league
has been a little bit better as there was a person or two that's like,
oh look order draft. I thank god we're getting rid of more of
those people. We used to have home league issues where it was like four
or five people. That's like maybe one or two on a given year.
But zero makes it harder too. When people aren't taking the screwy picks that
make no sense every round. It makes it a little more difficult as well.
But the way that this format is this is my personal home league that
I've run for. We've done it this way. This is our second year
doing it this way. But what I do is I break it up.
First half is Rodo to the All Star break. We crown a Roto champ.
That would be bar which our boy bar which won it this year.
I believe you won that last season the first half and Barb which won the
second half last season. Which is funny because I was in a room with
half of the league and we were talking about the picks as they happened,
and Barwich is convinced that we let you win this, but they let me
win. Yeah, well, I think he was stealing your own words from
mock Draft season, right, like, how are you guys, how are
you pep letting me do this? It is so I think he was kind
of stealing your verbiage there a little bit. But I thought you had a
really good team put together. I thought our boys, Scott Gammel had some
really sneaky picks in there. I think everybody had a couple sneaky picks in
there. But it was it was, you know, fun to do this
for cash, but it's also a good exercise for us to use in the
show as well. So we figured we talked about it here. Yeah,
it's like your bets on the players that are going to get right, bets
on players have been like amazing the blah blah blah blah blah. So I'm
into it. I really like this. I'm gonna like kind of breaking this
down. So just wanted you know, it was a cool, interesting,
different episode as we are getting our sea legs back off of the second half,
and that's we're gonna be breaking down here in just a little bit if
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this League dot Com, All Star Game, homerun Derby, all of it
was, It's fine. I actually watching a national anthem was the worst of
all time. I found out she's like a big drunk and she had to
go to rehab after. It was so bad. Like I just whatever,
Like dude, I I was sitting here, you would be proud of me.
I don't watch the like All Star Game. I don't usually watch any
of it, to be honest, I do you watch it, like the
warm up and the guys coming out? And I watched everything this year because
I was also doing work and I was sitting here. This is the home
run Derby. I was sitting here doing work. I had it up and
I'm listening to her singing and I'm just kind of like I was like working
on my ranks and stuff, and I was like looked over. I was
like what. And then like I kind of came in and she's like oh,
and I was like what. And then I had to fire out a
tweet. I was like, what's going on? And then I was just
crying laughing. I'm like, this is It's so bad. I don't know
what's happening? And then she posted She's like, sure, whatever, you
know, it's funny because we were going through it in our h one of
our colleagues like, well, I can't make fun of her now, It's
like not our fault. We can absolutely make fun of her. You know,
she signed up for this knowing what she is, so it was ridiculous,
dude. Like I was watching it with my family, you know,
they like, they don't like baseball that much, but they love watching the
home run derby, so I watch it with them and my mom was just
like, what is wrong with this girl? Is something wrong with her?
Is this a joke? What's happening right now? And you could see the
crowd after it as well, and it was like, I think everybody was
shocked. So like a couple seconds after it was over, I just put
in our group me room. I was like, is it me or was
that the worst national anthem ever? And then Chatty just said ever in all
caps and then it was just a big discussion about it. I posted on
Twitter too. I mean, obviously everyone has seen it now. It was
big joke. What did you think forgetting about the national anthem? What do
you think of the new home run derby format. I was fine with it,
like I think it was cool with the like top four and then it
moves to the battles and then there's like the little bonus structure. I find
with all that. The only thing I was just like, get rid of
the pitches the whole, like you have four minutes or forty pitch. I
was over that, like I don't need that stuff. I thought it was
stupid. Get rid of one of those things. Give me forty pitches or
give me the minutes, like just get rid of one. And it was
like they were trying to combine everything that they've done, because it was like,
okay, you have the untimed round as the bonus round. And Eduardo
Perez, god bless him, could not figure out that a four hundred and
twenty five homer only foot homer only mattered in the bonus time. I mean,
Carl Raviitch explained it to him like six times or whoever. It was
was like, no, that that only counts in the bonus round. Eduardo,
you don't have to hit it in the because it used to be you
had to hit him for forty I know, like they they made it a
year so I'm you know, I'm not like killing him or anything, but
it is kind of you should explain to the host how this thing works.
Before it happened, it was fine. Yeah, no, I agree with
that. It was all fine. It was good. I thought it was
hilarious that Tai Oskar gets a championship and all the Dodgers left, just like
they would if it was the sixth inning of a normal Dodger game in La
Ta. Oscar is doing some stuff right by the way, do you see
his wife? He is doing some things absolutely correct. Congratulations to Oscar.
Not I win the home run deerby, just on your life. You're doing
on your life. You don't want to direct things. Man. I was
rooting for Bobby though. I did a CBS I did a CBS Sports HQ
hit and I love Kenna Martin. She was the one I did it with.
And she we were like talking about the All Star Game and stuff,
and then she goes, hey, she goes so behind you. She's like,
we didn't prepare you for this, but behind you you got that Bobby
Witt junior jersey. And this was like fifteen minutes for the home run derby.
And she's like are you gonna you're going for Bobby? And I was
like, man, I am so embarrassed because I am not. And I
go through it and then I'm like I'm gonna be tailed between my legs and
she's like, Okay, we're gonna remember this. And then when he was
in the championship, I was ready to tweet her, and Lucky they had
me on the next day again and that's how we opened up. And I
was like, Kenna, I had your Twitter up ready to just be like,
I'm not worthy, I'm an idiot, I'm wrong when Bobby was.
But I when I lost all the money from all of my bad MLB All
Star Weekend bets from the draft to this, I was just like, I
want Bobby Wit to win. I just you know, it's my guy.
And it was good All Star Game and in general was It's fine. I
still I just got to say this, I hate the All Star Game jerseys.
Go back to I think they mentioned they were doing that. Yeah,
I just and I had to look it up because I've been to a bunch
of All Star Games and the only one I remember uh seeing them in not
their home jersey, was last year, and they only during COVID they started
that. So twenty twenty was the first year where they did the All Star
Game jersey at the All Star Game, which I just don't like. I
like the guys playing in their regular big lea unis. I think that's the
way it should go to moving forward. But other than that, whatever,
the game was fine. It's not as exciting as the home run derby,
the draft, anything from the draft. Real quick, you want to get
to before we go to this, we talk about that. We did an
episode, are we Yeah, you're right, don't you remember? Yeah?
We didn't remember talking about the draft? Now yeah, okay, Well I
do have one piece of really cool information that just popped. Jacob Wilson with
the A's is officially being called up. And that was something I called earlier
in the year. I actually think I put it in an article on Fantasy
Pros that I thought Jacob Wilson was a guy that was going to get called
up this year. It's actually something that A's did last year. They did
it with both Zach Geloff and Soda Strum. I think coming right off of
the All Star break and Jacob Wilson getting this move is huge and he has
had a nice little power output as of recent which is kind of not been
his game. That's been something that people are probably still adjusting to in his
overalls, said man. I was looking at Al and he's not available.
But he four hundred hitter, doesn't strike out. He's had seven homers moving
up to triple A, which has been a nice positive boost. Doesn't steal
a lot, but he's a guy that's going to hit at the top of
that a's order. I think it's a pick up across the board. He's
a must pick up in points League, and I think I'm picking him up
in a lot of other formats if that power contingent continues to translate. But
worst case, I think it might be similar to Shanwell than Nolan Shanwell,
where it was like a couple of random homers, you know, hits at
the top of the lineup score some runs like that's who Jacob Wilson can be.
But I love this call up by the way, big big, big
Jacob Wilson guy. Yeah, I know you've been on him the whole year.
Our boy Chris Young has also talked Jacob Wilson up a bunch, bought
a bunch of his cards and stuff when you were talking him up. So,
yeah, pretty good to see this guy in the A's hit like four
hundred homers that last day of the first half. It was nuts. I
think the Lawrence Butler had three, somebody else had three. It was a
lot of homers just that last day. Anyway, guys selling out because the
knew they got the break. So looking forward to the second half, hopefully
our d Backs can get in it. But let's talk about our draft.
Yeah, so this draft, So this is how it went. Bar Wich
won. So our format was our voy bar which he won the roto I
did last year. So I had the number one overall pick. He won
it. He had the number one overall pick, and then we did a
KDS type thing where we're really all of it was by the way, where
you could pick anywhere that you wanted. I ended up I remember you text
me. It was like I couldn't pick one through five, eleven or twelve,
and you must have gotten a high one because you picked the wheel.
I ended up fourth. Oh it was four. Oh no, I got
four fourth k first half? Yeah yeah really, and you moved off of
the top four. I did because I don't want to be around the guys
that won the first half of the league. Give me the back end.
I was like, all of the Sharks that just won the first half are
up at the front, give me the back. Well, my logic,
of course, I wedged myself with c K, which was not a good
stretchery. Yeah. My logic with it was like I looked at the board
and I saw there was a big six, kind of a big seven.
So that's why, like when one through five, I was like, I'll
take six. I'll just be in the middle because I felt I actually went
into this being like I'm gonna have this choice of one of these two players,
and it ended up I had the choice of two of the players I
did not expect. So I was at six, Bogman was at twelve.
Twelve team it's now head to head and here was what the first round looked
like. It started off. I thought pretty Chok Shoho, Tani, Bobby
Witt, Junior, Gunner Henderson, whatever order. I thought that was the
top three. Aaron Judge was one of the ones I thought I might get
at six. He goes four, and Jose Ramirez and Ellie are both on
the board, and that was where I was looking. I'm like, okay,
well just take who doesn't go well Jan Soto when it went five to
gamble. So I have this really tough decision, and I'm gonna tell you
Jose Ramirez is the safe option better, RBIs all the runs. He's kind
of a combo of everything. But in my brain, with my team build,
I wanted extreme. I wanted extreme homers in Judge or extreme stolen bases
with Ellie. I passed on Jose Ramirez for Ellie. It's head to head.
I thought, you know, from a weekend, week to week basis,
Ellie could win me a week solely himself, not that Jose Ramirez couldn't.
But I took a little bit of a gamble didn't win the first half
anyway. So I went Ellie at six, Jose Ramirez went seven, Julio
went eight, Freddy Freeman nine, Lindor ten, Devers eleven, and you
took Bryce Harper at twelve, which I liked the bright I thought the Bryce
Harper pick was really good. I had him in like my top ten of
players I was I would have win willing to take. I was actually so
he was fine. I mean I like Harper obviously, but I was kind
of between Lindor Devers and Harper and got three and c k on major decision
made my decision easy for me. And then I ended up taking Schooble because
I wanted a picture coming back on the end there. Yeah, I want
to talk about that in a second. The thing that did stand out is
I thought Jag took a calculated risk and taking Julio that high. I'm not
really sure Julio did not warrant going that high, not saying he doesn't deserve
to be betted on in the second half We've seen he was all big second
half and everything like that. I thought that was kind of interesting. But
this draft was built around these values of players that are like hurt and could
come back, will come back. There was so much value in the second
half, so many interesting odd things that you guys are going to trip out
about now. What you just alluded to the second round was the round of
pictures. We did not have one picture going the first round. Six pitchers
went. In the second round, you and I both took one. You
took the very first picture off the board and trek Scooble, which but that
was fine. I really thought I don't know if there was one guy I
thought was like a foreshore, whereas like there were probably four or five.
To be honest with you, I personally probably would have taken Corbyn Burns on
Baltimore as my number one, just because I think of the steadiness, the
era, a winning, a winning winning team run support across the board.
But it is a really tough division. But Burns would have been my number
one. But guess what, he went fourth on this. So what was
your idea with Scooble. I mean, I just schoobled with the strikeouts and
it just seems to be getting better and better. Do you know, I
think he's great. So I don't even think I realized I was taking the
first picture off the board, but Schooble was the top guy on my board.
Schemes went right after him. That's what I was going to lead to,
is that that was the not like it was a shocker, but as
I knew he was going to go in this range, I thought he was
gonna go in this round, but I thought it'd be closer to the end.
I was very surprised. So Skeens goes fourteen overall in the second half.
This is knowing that there could be some type of cap I mean Pittsburgh
in it head to head too. I agree that that is what shocked me.
This is a head to head to playoff format. Taking Paul Skeins over
Zach Wheeler, Corbin Burns. And I will tell you this. My number
two I got is the fifth pitcher is Chris Sale. I took Chris Sale
seventh pick in the second round. I think he's probably number two on the
two or three. It was like it really was kind of like Burns Scoobale,
Sale, like one of those three, Atlanta's going to make a run.
He's the top guy. He's good right now, massive strikeouts, all
the wins, so like Schemes over Sail was really surprising to me as well
as Burns because it scooball Schemes, Wheeler, Burns. It was like four
straight and when do When that happened, I was like, what the what
are we in for? I was pissed because I was like, great,
because there's gonna be no freaking picture back. What did you start to go
thank God or oh crap? When that started? So glad that I took
at least one because I thought we were going to get most of this round
as pictures and just spoiler alert, lots of pictures go between that pick and
my next pick. Yeah. So it when Trey Turner was the fifth pick
in the second round, which was a great pick. Now, that was
like where I might question JAG's first round pick, blew it out of the
park of the second round having Turner with him as great pairing. I bet
Chad thought he did something with me here, but did he Okay, because
I didn't, I would not have taken him in the second round. Chad
took Corbyn Carroll with the sixth pick in the second round. I wasn't taking
him in the first three rounds. I had already committed to that, so
that wasn't remotely close. Would you have even considered him coming back in the
third? In the third because I pick on the end, I absolutely would
have taken him right just at that point, it's like, okay, we'll
just take the risk. I think he went a little early. Chad likes
to bounce back. He talked about it. He said, I know wels
Is gonna think that I'm doing this like one spot in front of him,
but I just like what I saw from Carol the last couple of weeks.
It's really that last series whit two point fifty, right, I mean he's
in two twelve still, he's not stealing enough days. I want to be.
The power did start to tick back up. He obviously had that two
homer game, and you know that those are all big positives. Maybe the
break is like I'm open to the positive. They could be a big thing,
and I think that is why he ended up being here. And that's
you know, it's a coin flip. It's not the thing I would have
done. But I get no, especially when the rest of the round hit
or wise your n Alvarez went nine, Ozuna went ten, and al Tuove
went twelve. In between that I took sale at seven, Emmanuel Classe went
in the second round, and George Kirby to John there's even hitters in the
third round. It just didn't make sense to me. But it could be
a big buyback, and he was gifted. I think I think I gifted
him Josier Ramirez like I probably should have from a safety perspective, taken Ramirez
and if it was Rodo, I would have. But with the head to
head thing, if I get the right good Ellie on the back half of
the playoffs. I mean, he's gonna win it for me alone, but
he also might lose everything for me if he's not hitting and not steeling.
So one for seventeen with fifteen strikeouts in the playoffs, that's which he's done
a better job at not doing. He had a hit in the All Star
Game, but you know, to that point, so where like he took
he was gifted Ramirez, you can maybe take the risk with Carol. I
like the class A pick in there too, but there were still some kind
of glaring things that didn't happen. So the third round, so Barwich went
Altuve and then he got Tucker, Kyle Tucker. I was like, yea,
his son of them because I liked that Tucker pick because what I started
to look at were these guys that could come back right off of the break,
and I ended up taking one. Glass now was on my list.
He went third, so John got Kirby and Glass now with wit, which
is ridiculous. Jerry Duran went to Barrow, good pick Logan Gilbert Pablo Lopez,
and then I took Fernando Tatis Junior and boy I was gifted Today Thursday,
he got a clean MRI report, which did not have when we did
this draft, which he's already been doing some swinging and he should be back
hopefully very soon. Mason Miller. Awesome pick by Chad went seventh pick in
the third round, followed by Vlad Luis Castillo, Garrett Crochet, Sneaky as
hell, Corey Seger. That furiated me. You took Adley Rutchman, Corey
Seger going to c K one pick in front of me. He was the
next player on my queue after I took Scooball, so he was the next
guy I wanted. I waited all the way before, and he went one
pick in front of me. Put me completely on tilt. As soon as
that happened, I was like, Nancy, he's gonna fall through the cracks
here. I'm gonna get him in the third He's gonna be such a big
advantage. And c K got him one pick in front of me. So
I went with Rutchman and then Marte for my back to back picks. Kind
of regretting Rutchman, I would have too maybe what I really just, you
know, hindsight being twenty twenty, I should take a Garret Cole that is
absolutely what I should have done. I should have taken Garrett Cole or Reagan's
who you ended up taking in the next round, Like I should have taken
a picture to pair with Scooball, and I kind of panicked and I took.
I don't think Rutchmand's a bad pick by any stretch. I still think
he's fine, but not something I would have done if I got a mulligan
there. I think one thing I would have done if I were you in
this situation, and this is a little bit of hindsight, I think you
left stolen bases on the table pretty bad. I mean, you do have
Jazz and you got Kim and those might hold you up. But like you
had taken Aprams in the with the third pick, you could have done Abrams
Yelis, but like Abrams and Riley or Abrams and Cole. Yeah, I
think those would have been what I would have done to pair with that,
and then that might have opened up some of the opportunities a little bit later.
I mean the Marte one Marte has been absolutely insane, Like you're not
gonna fault Marte, but relative to you took Adley in the third. The
next catcher didn't go till the eighth round, and it was William and will
Smith and just a quick look, I got Wilson Contraras in the twenty third
round. Yeah, so like something that I preached preseason two and I complete.
I just was one hundred percent fluster. I think I might have almost
autoed. So Adley was my guy there and hopefully he has the best second
half that a catcher has ever had in the history of baseball. I will
send you from Adley. Let's go doing a draft like this. I had
multiple moments where I kind of freaked out. It actually happened to the eighth
round where I wanted to I wanted to do something, and then I talked
myself out of it and I went I last second, did something else,
and then I got sniped on that player and it was so brutal. So
the fourth round you took Marte, it went Yelich, Abrams, Schwarber,
Riley Cole, I got Reagans. I ended up getting Reagans. What was
that one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine ten. I got him at SP eleven, so I thought
that was good value. I paired him with Chris Sale. Then it went
Trout, Imonaga, Nola Reynolds, and Aglacias. So some things started to
open up here. A Glacias ends up being the second closer off of the
board in Atlanta. I get, I get what Barwich was doing there,
but the Abrams or the Trout thing really kind of stood out because that was
Gamble taking a stab that Trout is going to be back sooner rather than later.
We don't. I still don't know if we have like a really clear
timeline. And that was the trickiest part. Players that look like they're going
to come back right off the All Star break versus players that have some type
of a timeline between late July and early August and what that act. That
was what was so fricking tricky. So Trout was like in my brain,
but not in the fourth round. I mean, I wasn't thinking about him
yet. To be perfectly honest, it could be a very sneaky pick by
Gamble there, but it's seven weeks, seven weeks to the playoffs, seven
weeks and then three weeks of playoffs. That's all you have here. So
taking a player to put on the injured list for a little bit, even
though we have five spots in this league, you know, taking someone specifically
that you know is going to go on the eel could be dicey, especially
that early, so I don't know. Barwich kind of did the same thing
when he took Kyle Tucker in the third, So you did it with Fernando
Tatis, right, so that there are you have to do it at some
point, I think, or you can choose to do it at some point,
but you really you gotta be on point after you take that pick.
So well, but I think the timelines the timeline was clear clear err with
Tatis, clear ish, even though it's still a little bit muddy with Tucker.
The Trout one is just it's muddier. It's a lot muddier here.
They're hoping for the end of this month, so we'll see. Yeah,
and there's still a lot of questions in this round. I mean, I
think Marte, Abrams, Riley and Reynolds at that were all like those were
just core easy guy. I thought Reagan's too, was easy to get.
I will tell you I wanted Reynolds later. I didn't think you'd go in
the fourth, so that one was really frustrating. The fifth round, Barwich,
Barwich by the Way is one of two teams going into the fifth that
has not taken a starting pitcher, and he will be the only team to
leave the fifth without a starting pitcher. He went with the homerun Derby Champ
Taskar Hernandez, so he went Otani, Altuve, Tucker Iglesias and Hernandez.
John got Matt Olsen, who really fell and he's paired. You know,
Reynolds, Olsen and Wit with two pitchers, this pretty freaking good start.
Beryl took Helsley, Spencer Steer went to Jesse Severe, Grayson Rodriguez in front
of me, and I took Ozzy Albi's. Both Ozzy and Simeon were both
there and I was I was given a lot of thoughts to maybe even taken
both of them, but I took Ozzie Albi's. Chad took Luis Robert,
Max Freed went to Jag O'Neil Cruz went ninth pick in the fifth round,
Christial Walker Peede Alonzo and that's where you got Jazz Chisholm with some stolen bases.
So did anything stand out in this round? Obviously? This is also
a first base round, with Alonzo, Walker and Olsen also going I honestly
think for value, this is the best round that we've had so far.
Yeah, I think you might be right the fifth. There's just I don't
think there's really a miss here. I think all these are pretty good picks.
Maybe Will taking O'Neill is a little bit risky, right, but that's
the only risky pick in this round. But also it was pretty solid.
He kind of like in a playoff format, he took Schwarbert and O'Neil Cruz,
he can you could just kind of punt batting average, and that's what
he did. And it's like, hey, if they're both on and I
get those crazy homers, like I'm kind of locked in. And he also
had that with Freddy Freeman. Yeah, I think there's a lot of value
in here. Like Roberts really played slow. But if Robert dude with Chatty,
if he he this is the team of bouncebacks. He took Carol Cole
and Robert in the first five rounds. If those guys bounce back to pair
with Mason Miller and Jose Ramirez, I mean he might he might roll.
He might really roll. Uh. You took Adolie s Garcia to start the
six and when Dylan Cees, Naylor, Gallon, Baby Clay Holmes. I
took Josh Hater, so that was like the fourth closer. Marcus Simeon went
right after me, Logan Webb, Brian terrang, Alec Bohm broke my freaking
heart. I wanted him coming back so bad. And then Evan Phillips so
Barwich is double taped closer and he's the only one to do the double closer
thing yet so he has not taken a starter, but he went double closer.
Uh. Talk to me about Adolies though. So you're you're playing the
bounce back for Adolice Garcia. I am. I'm playing the bounce back.
I'm hoping it happens. But honestly, the outfield values were bad at the
spot. And you can kind of tell because I went Jazz and Adules.
When was the next outfielder to go, Not until the seventh round, and
both the outfielders that went in the seventh round were reaches. So I took
Adules, two others went, and then I took another one when we get
back to my pick. So I was just sitting there at that point.
I've got a first basement, I got a second basement. I got a
catcher, and I have one picture. I don't have anybody in the outfield,
and we have five outfield spots that have to be filled. So I
just took the guys that I thought were the best value at that point.
And that's an important thing to also mention is like this was five outfield I
guess I didn't give the structure. It's pretty standard. It's like three RP
spots, starting pitchers, five outfielders, util corners, like all that type
of stuff was just streak it up. Yeah, it's nine. It's nine
spots that just kind of break it up between four starters, three relievers,
and two picture spots. So still nine. Yeah, but but well yeah,
I don't even think that matters to tell you guys how many it is,
how many picture spots. But what's important is the relief side because a
lot of people don't play I'll just play straight pitcher spots. But these leagues
you have to have three relief pitchers. Now you could do the punt saves
and you could go with starters in that spot. You know, guy like
Garrett Crochet qualified at relief pitchers has Yeah, so those would be guys that
would be like the spark type of thing that would make sense. But so
like bar Wich goes heavy in two closers into this territory, and what that
ended up doing was, let's see might go in the right range. Yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah. So he went Phillips down there, then you
took by the way he went Phillips, and then he took Swar Yeah yeah,
so he ended that. So then he did something no one expected.
He went three closers. So before anyone has a second, he takes a
third. So now he's got Phillips, Iglesias and Suarez master plan because you
go big winning teams to take closers. Then it went a Rosarina Machado.
Mookie Betts was a really tricky one. I was ready to take him that
round, even though there's kind of a diceiness, but Jesse took him and
that was unfortunate. Bregman went, I went second closer, and I went
with Kimberl, same strategy. Kimberl's been great this year, Baltimore winning.
I went with winning closers. Edwin Diaz went next, Freddy Prault to Johann
Duran, Joe, Ryan, Justin Steele, and I know you were feeling
the closer thing bogged because all those freaking closures went and you took Camillo Davall
with the twelfth pick in the seventh round. Yeah, and I wanted Duran
just to peel the curtain back. Will got him a couple spots ahead of
me. I thought that was a really good pick, so I went Camilla
do'vall and then you know, so I got my first closer, and I
really was feeling the heat. I did not want to take closers here.
I think, you know, I don't know. I just think closures are
overvalued a little bit, and I think they should go later. But I
got to follow the run, especially being on the end, and I think,
specifically with hindsight being twenty twenty, I would not have put myself on
the end. Again. I wanted to get away from the guys that won
in the front of the league, so I'm like, okay, well put
me towards the back end to get away from those sharks. It didn't matter
where I picked here, everybody sharks, so I I probably would have put
myself closer to the middle, so I didn't feel the pressure of those runs
afterward. But yeah, I mean I felt like I had to take one,
so Devall was the best one left pay. Also the values are just
so different, you know, like I don't think like if we're we're being
honest, Like your Crochet shouldn't have fallen where he fell like he fell to
if I got here's a lot of that. Yeah, six seven, eight
nine ten, he was SP eleven. I got wait one, two,
three, four, five, six seven eight nine he was SP ten And
it calls, by the way, was O Reagan's was SP twelve? He
shouldn't have been there. He was the number one SP in the first half.
But like the tricky stuff is, so where do you buy? So
if you guys are wanting to also comprehend some of this for like your leagues
in the second half, like that was about the value was SP ten for
Garrett Crochet because there are some concerns about how much will he play second and
a half. I would have put him up closer to I probably would have
taken him after Glass. Now I actually would have probably taken him before Kirby,
and I love Kirby, like SP seven, So you can get an
understanding by looking at this draft is like that was the value of Crochet.
But strategy aside. Valuations are really tough here round eight. We're not gonna
go every single round, probably up to ten, and just talk about a
couple of values after. I will tell you this though, This is where
like the first real snipe happened, and it was you. I wanted Anthony
Santander. His numbers are so absurd right now. I think he's gonna have
a big second half. I think he's gonna hit over forty homers. And
you took him first pick in the eighth and I was like, come on,
dude, that one frustrated me. Yeah, I mean it surprised me
a little bit because he's not hitting two thirty seven this season, but he
has twenty four homers, he's driven in fifty eight runs. You know,
he's he's a lot of thumb. So yeah, I just you know me,
I want the power guys. So taking Santandero was kind of easy.
And that was you know, we were getting into that point where I said
the specifically with the outfielders, there's like a lot of there's just a lot
of I don't know, like, are these guys cause the next guys to
go just to pull pull the curtain back Riley Green went after that, so
that's a fine pick. But it was Meryl but a big first half,
but who knows about the second half? Rooker, same thing, Doyle who's
a breakout. Profar who's a breakout in this round. So it's all kind
of breakouts or guys that didn't perform up to snuff. There were other guys
that went later that I thought were better. Kwan Nimo. Your pick of
Lane Thomas in the ninth round I thought was outstanding. So there were other
guys, but it kind of you kind of got into I don't know what
a right value is here, so just give me the guy with the most
power, and that was Santandero. Well, also in a head to head
format, like if you're not gonna compete heavy in steals, which you kind
of weren't, like you should lean into the power. You should lean try
to win those categories, like that's what you can do. Like in rodo
never gonna promote trying to punt, but you could punt stolen bases if you
want, and if you do it right on hitting runs, RBI homers,
that's three of the five categories. If you're competing in batting average, which
you got like Harper and Kutel. You might be you might have brought that
down a little bit with guys like Santander and Garcia, but those are huge
power plays. You could win three of the five offensive categories, so I
thought it was an interesting play. William Contreras will Smith were the next picks
after you labored Torres, Riley Green, Jackson, Merrill was a snipe for
me, and it slowed me down. Here was my moment of the draft.
I wanted Stephen Kuan. I felt I had opened myself up a little
bit on the batting average front with Ozzie Tatis and Ellie, and I was
like, I'm gonna make up for this with Kwan. But then I was
like, I don't know if anyone's looking at him. I decided to go
the third closer, last second to lock in. We had three RP spots.
I wanted elite closers and I took Andres Munos. It goes Gossman,
Lugo, Rooker, Doyle Profar, I'm safe. I did want Rooker at
some point, Okay, whatever her which take Stephen Kwan with the first pick
in the ninth round, and I was like, you have got to be
crap, and I was so pissed about that. It then went Nimo Morell
rafaela framber. In the ninth I took Lane Thomas, as you mentioned,
lots of stolen so now I'm really leaning into my stolen bases. That's a
big thing that I want to do here Lodolo. Then it goes Jansen Bednar
how Coo I wanted next round, didn't get Suzuki. And then again you
must have felt the weight where you took Alexis DZ because the close that was
about the marker when you took Alexis ds where the closers were about to end.
I thought Kirby Yate should have gone higher, but that was kind of
about it, and you got your second closer in. Yeah, dude,
I mean it's you know, after that, it's questions. It's Hoffmann,
who's kind of new to the role, seawalled, I guess, is still
locking it down in Arizona for now. Kirby Eate's, as you mentioned,
kind of wentley, but there is just not a lot on the board.
And again I'm on the end, I have so much time between picks,
so yeah, I felt like I was really feeling the pressure, and I
had to take Alexis to Yas the tenth round. You got Ranger in the
tenth So again that's that whole like people buying into the second half. I
mean, that's wildly down there. Sp Willia Damas, Tyler O'Neil, George
Springer, Jeff Hoffman, Hunter Green. I thought I got super sneaky on
everybody here, and I really think I did. Took Wyat Langford seventh pick
in the tenth round, and I think because he had been injured and missed
time and also the struggles early, he just didn't rank very well on here.
But if you'd been paying attention, he's been amazing that last month he
was incredible. So I was so excited about that. Pete Fairbanks, Korea,
Cayl Raley, Kyle Finnigan and Westbrook that finished out the top ten rounds.
It's one hundred and twenty players. Some crazy stuff that happened later.
Devin Williams to Barrow in the eleventh round. Great pick. Love the sneakiness
of that. I got Michael Harris, another one of those guys that was
traveling with the Braves. He could be activated off. That was I thought
a sneaky one. Kirby Gates went in the eleventh. I got Luis Heel
in the twelfth, and I know it's scary because he could get really shut
down, but maybe it's an early shutdown and he's good for the playoffs.
I needed it because I only took two sps, so I took the risk.
But dude, I got him outside the top one twenty and he was
one of the best pitchers in baseball. Michael King was a super sneaky one
by Barrow in the twelfth round that I liked. I got Xander Bogarts in
the thirteenth, as did Boba Schett go right in front of me and Royce
Lewis that was kind of this weird Jesse Severe Gammel and then me of interesting
values. I'm just going through a couples and then you can think them out
here. Churio went in the thirteenth, Brandon fought you took in the fourteenth,
which was really good. We had Lordis go right after me in the
fourteenth, which I was super pissed about. And then one that garnered some
conversation in our group. And again this was another one I thought everybody forgot
about. I took James Wood in the fifteenth round, and I think everybody
just forgot about him, and I know that got some chatter in off.
That was the chat. That was the point at where bar which is like
we're letting Welsh win this league is when you took James Wood, everyone was
upset. I thought that was a really go there for it. I thought
the pick right before you might have been just as good when Gamble took Justin
Verlander one pick ahead of you. You know, if he's back quickly after
the break, that could be an insane value. So we'll see what happens
there, of course. But and there's the cat feeder. Thanks Welsh.
Yeah you guys didn't hear him say it, but his face was saying it.
So but I thought, I thought, my I thought Willie Castrow was
such a good pick for me. This dude was an all star. He
qualifies a second third, short and outfield, and he steels bases. I
got him and Kim, so I thought that was a decent pick for as
late as I got him. Yeah, And what I think was what really
stood out is interesting to me is valuations outside the top ten round. Maybe
we could even post this board on Patrion Hines went in the sixteenth. Well,
that's kind of like what I'm getting at is like the players that went
outside the top ten that people don't buy into really. So Helio Ramos went
in the fifteenth round, he went to James Wood. People kind of forgot
about Vinnie Pasquentino in the seventeen I thought Nick and Zalez so I took it
nineteen. People kind of forgot about. I took Brandon Marsh in the nineteenth
round. He's almost a double digit homer and stolen based guy Wilson Contreras fell
in there. You know, there were some really cool values that happened later
that that might mean some Jose Miranda that was what I really wanted. Barbich
got me on him too. That because he's dealing with a little bit of
an injury, people forgot. But like I went in the twenty first round
in here, So it might be worth taking a look at this board if
you want to like have some concept of where some values moving forward are.
Because these are people that all paid money. This is a played out league
that we just drafted based off of the valuations right now, and there are
plenty of guys that aren't necessarily being given their benefit. But then there's guys
like Paul Skins, who it's like, I don't care if he's going to
be held down. He was the second starting pitcher taken overall. And I
mean, you know this is just me. But like you know, Adolies
went two rounds before Merrill, and you know Rooker went after guys like Adolies,
and Rookers is playing as good, you know, So the valuations are
really really interesting, the rosters just as we end here. So this is
what I'm going in with Wilson, Catreris, mount Castle at first, Ossie
at second, Elliott third, xanderit short. I took David Frye as kind
of a complimentary player. These are my starters, by the way, William
Brew, Langford, Tatis, Slaine Thomas, James wood Marsh. But I
have Max Munsey, Evan Carter, and Michael Harris on il in a head
to head for the playoffs. So if I can put Muncie in at corner,
get fry on the bench, Carter in for a bray, you and
Michael Harris in uh probably like U till I think my starters are good.
And then I got Reagan's Ron Don Radon, I mean sale stone Fetti,
who I think is going to get traded, Paveta, Luis Heel. I
also took Jordan Montgomery and Yamamoto for a playoff run to go with Hater,
Kimberl and Munio's Like, I feel really good about this team, but I
can't have too many of these guys sitting on the il and not get production
because I do have to make the freaking playoffs. That's what's important here.
Yeah, it's it's a sprint to the finish. Like I said, seven
weeks is the very end. My roster from top to bottom here Rutchman,
Harper, Cattel, Nolan Ernato at third, Hawsome, Kim, Matt Vierling,
Nick Gonzales, Jazz Chizolmadolas Garcia, Jack Peterson, santanderra Tolia, Jake
McCarthy, Willie Castro and Dalton Varshow are on the bench. My starters are
Sunny Great, Treek, Schooble Ranger Random fought with Zach Eflin, Jose Soriano,
and Jordan Hicks. And then my closers are Alex Diaz, Alexis Diaz,
Camillo, Duval, James MacArthur Jason Foley and I took Copeck, so
I got a bunch of closers at the end as well for some dark throws.
I thought it was fun again and it's I highly suggest people maybe check
out doing something like that, and I wouldn't. I don't know if i'd
be into, like I only play a second half league, but I just
like the idea of the structure, and I also think it sets up a
good understanding of what valuations look like in the second half, especially for trades,
because it's fun to do the like, hey, you know this is
a breakout guy and stuff like that, and I do that work. Look
over the last thirty days forty five days and you can start to play some
of that. But this really put it to the test and how I felt
about values. And you know what I learned about myself was I value Stephen
Kwan think higher than I had him ranked, and I changed that on my
Redraft ranks. I think his value of what he provides for the structure of
a team, especially a head to head way higher than I was giving it
credit for. Also Ellie, I moved Ellie up because you know there's some
roto risk maybe with both of those guys, but from a head to head
perspective, win your league, man. I put him as top six,
top six and rest of the season ranks because he has been so good.
So hopefully you guys dug that. Maybe we'll put the draft board over on
Patreon if you want to check it out. Next week we are back to
normal. We're going to get back to it in our final sprint. Probably
a lot of trade talk that's going to be going on, a lot of
trade rumors that are floating around. His baseball kicks back here on Friday,
so hopefully we'll have some of that to talk about as well. You can
catch me over on a cool thing for you guys over on Fantasy Pros.
I mean, it's not cool that Joe is tapering back a little bit,
but I'm going to be doing some shows with Casey Bubba and Joe Rico,
so be on the lookout for that. They'll be joining leading off on a
couple episodes. So go to Fantasy Pros and check that out. Is it
the Welsh and Bogmann Sports. Good luck every buddy, and we will talk
to you next week for the second half of the MLB season. Peace out,
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