Okay, Queenians Society tasts everyone. It's Rich wils I'm walking too. Fantasy
Baseball Live. It is still the fourteenth of January, but now it's about
four twenty in the afternoon. Timmy, we ran long on our first podcast.
We had a delay your wonderful third base ranking. So that's what we
are going to do with this show. Ah, sounds good. Yeah,
I had fun with third base. I am just looking now at my first
first view of the of the overall rankings, and yeah, there's a few
discrepancies in there, but I had fun. I like doing third base.
Third base is a fun position to do because it's deep and there's a pile
of options. Yeah. So, so you've now done two drafts, or
in the middle of one draft you've already completed the other draft. I know,
when you're right up, you said what you were going to do.
But maybe you can expound on how you're looking at third base this season.
Well, I think a lot a lot depends on draft slot. Okay,
if you're looking towards the back of the board, well, hey, Riley
Ramirez, Eli Cruz, They're they're all going to go either at the end
of the first round, or very early in the second, followed up shortly
thereafter by you know, Rafael Devers, and then you get Gunner Henderson and
Aaron Otto and Kim There are a host of early options and solid options in
the middle, and lots of lots of rule of dice type prospects. So
I think you can your draft slot will dictate somewhat what you're going to do,
and you can just follow follow along accordingly. You can go early,
you can go in the middle rounds and doing it extremely well. And there's
prospect mining sitting there as well. So uh, personally, I'm going to
be I'm gonna be looking at a situation where I'm probably gonna go with the
middle tier, but I'm not going to pass up rightly to do it,
or yeah, or Gunner Henderson, which you were Yeah you grabbed right,
but he's not to play third base in your on your team, right,
he's gonna play you said, cornering field. Yeah, he's gonna be cornering
fielder, shortstop or yeah, or middle he might end up being my middle
infielder. Okay, Okay, you know I'm not going to pass up guys
that have the value. You know, where I end up. Drafting will
determine a fair bit of it. But all things being equal, if I
have the opportunity, I'm going to look to try and fill in some of
my outfield before I get concerned about third base, because I don't think there's
any reason to be concerned about third base. It's deep with lots of options,
right, so you don't have to you don't have to jump into third
base early. You don't have to overplay your hand. You know, you
don't have to move players up. Yeah, when you're looking at players like
Josh Young, you know in the teams and Spencer Steer and each paratus and
you know, hey, you want power. You know, Max Munsey at
sixteen, Jake Berger genius for it. There's a ton of options at third
base. Pick your poison, roll with it. But it's it's a fun
position, it really is. So let's let's go through. Let's I guess
him is making a statement here in his write up, he does make the
statement instead of Jose Ramirez number one, which he's still I think going as
the first the top third base went off the board at least in the NFBC.
Simmy, most drafs, you're saying, no, I'm going Austin Riley
won Jose Ramirez two. You give some kind of best best out of five
head to head battles, and Tim goes very detailed and it is defending of
the of the selection here. So Timmy, why don't you tell us why
Austin Riley above Jose Ramirez. Well, you look at the power numbers,
there's no comparison, I believe you know. All you have to do is
take take a look at Austin. Austin Riley's production. Okay, and in
the past past three years thirty seven, thirty eight and thirty three home runs.
Oh, maybe he's a lock for thirty plus home runs. The look
at the runs scored, Okay, Austin Riley last year and that vaunted offense,
he scored one hundred and seventeen runs. Okay, one hundred and seventeen
runs. Let's take a look at Jose Ramires in comparison. Okay, Jose
Ramirez scored a grand total of eighty seven runs. So you're looking at a
twenty five to thirty run scored edge at O'Riley home runs. Ramires was twenty
four. We saw what was it thirty seven? I think last year,
Yeah, thirty seven for Riley. RBI's ninety seven for Riley, okay,
Jose Ramirez eighty. There's only one category batting average I think was to eighty
two to eighty one, okay. The only category providing an edge to Ramiers
in a big way stolen bases. Riley doesn't run, but Jose Ramiris is
heading into his age thirty two season. Do you need the stolen bases from
Jose Ramirez? I don't think you do. I think he can find stolen
bases all over the place now, So that edge isn't sufficient enough in the
stolen bases to want me to push him ahead of Riley. I just think
the other the combination of the total package favors Riley, and that's why I
ranked him accordingly. I know, I know many will disagree, but I
got that's a big number in the run scoredt rbisen home runs, that's that's
a big number. I mean, look, I'm looking at his baseball Savan
Page. I mean, few people hit the ball as hard as he does.
Josey Ramirez doesn't hit the ball nearly as hard, and you know sprint
speeds at sixty one percentile, So it's not like he's a burner still,
but he makes great contact, so he's he does. Yeah, so it's
a ten point six percent strikeout rate, a ten point six percent walk rate,
so he's walking as much as he's striking out. So he's going to
help you. I think there's a chance from helping you more in the batting
average than Austin Riley. And then Austin Riley hits the ball so hard he's
gonna have a high babbit which is gonna help prop up his batting average.
So you can argue it both way ways, but it is definitely a bold
statement to take Austin Riley in front of Jose Ramirez. And I commend you
for that. Well, I think it just makes sense, okay, And
I'm all about being logical, you know that, Rich, Yeah, I
just yeah, there are people, at least in my NFBC draft, people
took Rafael somebody took Rafael Devers before they took Austin Riley. Yeah, and
yeah, I hey, I like I like GRAFFI I think he said I've
got him at number four, okay, but I am not taking him ahead
of Austin Riley. You know that's supporting cast if Austin Riley doesn't score a
hundred runs, He's he's heard that's you know. I mean, it's gotta
be a he's got to be a lock scoring. I would agree. I
would hope that Jose Ramirez, I mean, he needs a better supporting cast
and maybe Cole man Zarta can provide that and maybe a full season of bow
Nailer. So I mean you can hope that, you know that eventually he'll
get maybe Chase the Louder comes up at some point and can help. So,
but he is getting a little long in the tooth. So it's it's
a bold statement, but it's it's one that Tim, I think you defended
it extremely well. Yeah, I know, I look deep and I just
think it's time. I don't think Austin Riley gets a level of respect that
he probably should. We did spend some time with Led la Cruz when he
was when we went through your rankings and shortstop he is number third off the
board, he's number three according to the NFBC, And Tim, you're still
with his bias, bias ish approach to swing in and everything. I mean,
it still becomes to me a very very tough selection in a Fantasy League
to take l ed la Cruise and the Dynasty League, you should be golden
because I mean, the chance of him turning into something, But what year
is it all going to come together for him if it ever does? And
that's that's the question you have to ask when you take him in the second
and third round, because that's where you have to take him. Well,
yeah, and you know what, as I mentioned in my narrative for for
Devers, you know Dela Cruz is going at twenty two, Raffi's going at
twenty five. Okay, you want to if you want to pass on the
risk and move move Devers is a move them up the spot? Yeah,
I mean I don't have any problems with that with playing that game, the
game that you're you're you're betting right now on the come for Li de la
Cruz, and you know what, he could reward you handsomely or at the
same point in time, he could drag your your batting average down where you
might want to trade for Luisa rise at some point. Yeah. Well yeah,
that's it, and that's the risk. But that's the risk reward that
you you know, you've got to decide whether or not you want to take
that. They're both great players. Yeah, to me, I'm not touching
Elie Dela Cruz particularly. Have a few picks later, I can get Gunner
Henderson. I dare say if they were both on the board, I would
take Gunner Henderson. Ever, Elie de la Cruz, I think it's I
think it's safer pick and for what you're going to get from de la Cruz,
I've got dela Cruz in one league and I'm very very happy to have
him in that one league. It's D five, but it's a dynasty league.
Yeah, and the price, the price we paid is it's not a
it doesn't come associated with an ADP of twenty two. Okay, Yeah,
that's just it. I mean, everybody it's excited about Elie Cruz, Eli
dealer Cruz. He could turn on Ronald Acunya. Tim. We could be
like saying, what wild on Earth did he going a pick number twenty two
last last year? Should have been the second guy off the board. I
mean, you could make that argument. The skills the tools are that alluring,
but man, it's your second pick off the board twenty two, Tim,
that's early. Well, hey, most of our leagues are fifteen j
he's going off the board in the first half dozen picks in that second round.
Yeah, it's it's an early pick, and hey, if you want
to head in that. Hey, the one thing, you know, it's
gonna be fun to watch. It might be painfully fun, but it will
be fun, right, Absolutely, Timmy again, as I said last week,
he's a guy that you stop what you're doing and watch what he is
doing because he could do very very special things. Gunner Henderson to me again,
not the same kind of upside nearly as Elie Dela Cruz. But guy
can hit. He plays in a great lineup, and you know, I
just think there's you know, in the back of the third round where you
got him again, if he would have dropped to one more selection for me,
he would have been on my team even though I didn't need him because
I already had a shortstop. I would have taken Gunner Henderson. Yeah,
I couldn't pass on that with the second pick in the third round. No,
there is so much to like from Gunner Henderson. There really is.
Yep. I totally agree this is that. That is one through five,
Timmy, five, six through ten. Hassan Kim Nolan Aeronada, Manny Machado,
Royce Lewis and Alex Bregman Nolan Aeronada, you you kind of up a
little high on him and Hassan Kim talk to me about I said, is
he bounce back in orders? Your last five words in the paragraph? Well,
they sort of forced my hand to some extent in that I guess Royce
Lewis okay, I get what he did last year. Okay. And in
the NFC they have him at six. I have him at nine, many
Machado seven. Those are the two players that I that I have pushed down
okay, to accommodate Kim and Aeronato. And the reasons for me are are
rather straightforward. My last my last sentence in my narrative on Royce Lewis,
what are the odds of seeing Royce Lewis and Byron bucks and penciled in on
the same lineup card? Okay? I love the talent that Royce Lewis brings
to the table, But when has he ever? When's he been healthy?
Riches? Yeah, he has some incredibly tough injuries. So you know,
when I look at Kim, I see fifteen to twenty home runs and I
see thirty stolen bases, and I think he put that in the bank.
When I look at Aeronado, I didn't realize until I started looking at it.
At his numbers, you realize that last year was his first season since
twenty fourteen in which he didn't hit at least thirty home runs with one hundred
rbiys. That's incredible. Yep. Yeah, you know, and last year
wasn't a great year, but he was still twenty six homers in ninety three
RBIs. Yeah, if he bounces back, even marginally, he's going to
earn that. He's going to earn that seventh spot. So again, I
dare say there are fears. Appears to be some value here with Nolan Aernato
at ninety seven compared to Royce Lewis at forty seven. Yeah, hey give
me Aeronado and I ranked them accordeyly and Manny Michaudo. The problem there is
he should be probably up at six five or six, somewhere in that range.
But again, he's he had the surgery in early October. Is he
going to be ready? Can he? You know? Hey, I know
he's going to DH initially when he comes back, but all hail the Marcus
Potter axiom. What happens if he's not ready to beat and DH come April
or actually in March, because they're doing a series I believe in Asia to
start the season. What third week of March or something. I think it
makes sense to downshift on Machado this year. I agree. I was very
high on him at the end of last season. I thought when I saw
the early rankings, I was like, why is he going so low?
But then you start to look at the missing of Juan Soto and Many Michada
maybe thinks he takes an extra few days a couple of weeks before he comes
back. I think the setup is not good for taking Many Machado early.
So I agree, And you know what, Hey, I could be all
wrong. I'm having to make assumptions here, like we all are. If
he's ready to go, Hey, he could certainly earn anywhere I think from
you know, hey, from fourth all you know, as high as fourth
in the rankings if he plays a full season. But I'm just I'm just
gonna push him down a little bit. And I think Aeronauto, Hey,
he's got another couple thirty one hundred seasons sitting there. I'll I have no
hesitation in taking Nolan Aernaudo a bit before Manny Machado. Man if I could
grab Manny Machado on the seventh round, you know something like that that I
would be all over. But like having to take him in the fourth and
fifth round, that's where it gets. You know, you just begin to
think, how much is he going to play? Is he going to do
with Bryce Harbor where he comes back too early, Tim and has no power?
Yeah, it has no power for the first three months. Yeah,
there's some risk there, and with the depth at third base, you can
avoid that risk. And I chose, I chose and will choose to take
that approach. Timmy, let's take a break, get back and do the
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yeah, I'm having fun with the discord site and there's very little discord,
very little discord. Yeah, we're got we're getting close to two hundred.
Now, we got two hundred and twenty members or something. So we're
we're pushing here, awesome, pushing our way up a little by little.
All right, let's do eleven through fifteen. Is Josh Young, Spencer,
Steer, Novell, Marte all chalk with the NFC. Tim's all in on
esac paratus far higher than the NFC, and then boring ol Alex Baum,
who just produces and done at fifteen. Josh Young, your guy, Timmy,
I agree with your statement though, if imagine what he would have done
if he would have played the full season. Well, yeah, he had
that thumb injury, a fractured thumb, and that cost him some time.
I think moving forward, barring more thumb injuries, I think he's a thirty
ninety type player. I'm all in on Joshua On. I think he's a
great young player, and hey, I like Steer, Hey, Marty's got
huge upside. All these guys in here, I don't have any problems rostering
any of these guys for any number of reasons. The guy that I think
in this stretch here that I would have the most concern about is a Novill
Marte. I mean I partially that because, first of all, we talked
at nausey about the Cincinnati Reds and how many they've got, maybe four or
five too many players, And you do worry if Neville Marte gets off to
a tough start what that's going to mean for him. And he's still very
very young, and did okay in his first call up, but it was
wasn't like great. Yeah, I don't think he disappointed though, No,
and I I am. I'm sorry to disappointed now that I read my narrative
because I forgot to add the great in front of rich Wilson when I was
doing my narrative because I included your quote in there. Oh let's say I
didn't read. I just did it. Let's see what Rich Wilson has to
say a word. He's going into double plus power, but speed will become
less part of his game as he fills out. I think he hits with
a chance to be a full time record the impact potential that works for me.
Yeah, I agree with that. I just don't know if it's gonna
be the season. Oh gosh, darn shattering all my Spencer, ste you're
just looking at his data. To me, he doesn't hit the ball all
that hard, so just good speed, doesn't hit the ball hard, and
of course at decent strikeout rates. But a thirty seven hard hit rate is
not great. No, it's not great in that roster though, and at
the top of I think it works. Okay, I'm not convinced. Okay,
So and your your guy, esuc Pertes. He was my guy last
season. He's too expensive for me this year. I've moved on. But
I I mean, he had a great season last year. Another guy doesn't
hit the ball all that hard. No, again, a loft guy,
right, I'd have to go and take a look at it. Why you
tell us why he's this position, why you got him a little higher.
I will take a look at what the data says. Well, when you
take a look at what he's done over the past couple of seasons, you
know, he's only twenty four years old, by the way, turning twenty
five this year. But yeah, in three hundred and thirty at bats in
twenty two, he had twenty home runs with forty five RBIs. I got
him under the radar, strikeout sixty seven walks, forty four. Last year
he sort of exploded and moved to the next plutch oh thirty one home runs,
ninety eight RBIs. Hey, the Rays need that bat in the lineup
and they need him hitting for power, and hey, I will be very
disappointed if he doesn't hit at least twenty five twenty six home runs with close
to one hundred RBIs this year. I think I think, I think he'll
be disappointed. Okay, his heart hit rates at six percent. That's six,
that the number between five and seven. He has an exit velocity of
eighty six point nine league averages eighty eight point four. That ranks in the
lower thirteen percent of the league. Obviously, never he really strikes out,
so and he's got a good hittal, but it feels more like a doubles
guy to me. He is a huge launch angle guy, as Tim was
mentioning twenty two twenty two degree launch, which you're not going to find much
higher than that. So he's getting all of his power by stepping in the
bucket and trying to hit everything up in the air and get it out.
And it worked last year and thirty one home runs was thirty one home runs.
But it worked the year before too, So that's two years in a
row. It's worked twenty Yeah, I mean it did he even he went
from a sixty percent launch angle to a twenty two percent launch angle. Let's
see what his Uh, let's see what his Yeah his, his hard hit
rate went even further down, so as did his average ECUs alossie. So
maybe he'd realized that the batspeed was not there, so he just kept loft
in it to get it out. I don't know, it's Tim, It's
it's I think you'll be disappointed. I don't think he hits over twenty home
runs. I'll take you over, okay, twenty home runs. I got
the twenty and under for rich Tim's got twenty one and over. There we
go done like dinner. We'll never remember that. No, justin w's justin.
Yeah, you gotta write that one down. Uh, that's we should
go back to doing our steak and liquor bets. They're they're fun. So
yeah, they are all right? Where and now I'm lost like a totally
flummoxed here with the steak and liquor bet Alex Timmy, there's absolutely nothing wrong
with Alex bowm no, no, hey, and yeah you put you put
him, as I mentioned in my narrave, you know, I put him
in that high power Phillies offense. Yeah. All he's got to do is
hit, and he's gonna drive in some runs. Yeah he's and he's going
fifteenth off the board with an ADP of one sixty if. Yeah, I
got no problems. Plus he's first base eligible to boot. Yeah, you
know, I like I like, I like him a fair bed. I
was sayingft and hold leagues, Timmy, first base gets really light when you're
looking for some backup guys. So getting somebody that maybe you're gonna play at
third base who's got first base eligible not a bad play in a draft and
hold league. Yeah, I won't disagree. Yeah, you gotta start looking
at guys like counting on Ryan Mountcastle to bounce back. You know, there
are some options down a little further at first base, but with those options
come question marks, right, Yeah, for sure. I mean when you're
starting to look at Carlos Santana as your backup first baseman, tim you know,
and Jake Bowers, you know you're in trouble. I mean, that's
that's what it is. After you know, after you're done your primary selection
process. That's where you are in these draft and holes. I mean it's
and there's nobody in the minor leagues, right that's gonna come up and help
those guys. They're just not there. No, that's that's where you look
at Brandon Jury and say, yeah, he's he's a stud. Yeah.
Yeah. Even guys like oh, the San Francisco guy, outfitter, first
baseman, hits at the top of the lineup. Oh help me, Tim,
San Francisco, San Francisco. Look look at Brosto Resource, the guy
who says, yeah, that guy plays first base. He becomes very interesting,
very in the late twenties. In a draft and hold league, you're
thinking of JD. Davis No, no, no, no, no,
no no, no, J Wade Junior. Yeah, LaMonte LaMonte Waite.
Yeah, he has value, Tim, because you get get him at first,
you get him an outfield. Those are those are that's a nice bench
slot to have, particularly in a draft and hold league. Well, in
draft and hold leagues, you have to you have to extend value to multi
eligible type players. Yeah, you know you're gonna deal with injuries and you
can only roster so many. If you can get a guy that covers off
a couple of spots and he stays healthy, yeah, that's a big asset.
I will say you're Zach McKinstry. Conversation we had last week, we
talked about second base. I think this will a shortstop or whatever. I
mean, that's what led me. I mean literally second third shortened out.
Feel, that's a godsend in a in a draft and old league. He's
gonna play full time. He'll hit some home runs, he'll steal some bases,
but it covers a lot of ground. Yep. And when you're when
you're sitting in August and you have two death spots because you you ran out
of guys, having somebody that you can flip around like McKinstry, that's like
a good deal. So anyway, my favorite draft, my favorite and draft
in hold Rich is when you draft three catchers, okay, to back up
your two and four of them are on the IL. Yeah, I just
I draft I won't I have one backup catcher. That's it. If I
lose my catchers, I lose my catchers. I'm just like, okay,
I'll just move on. Here's sixteen through twenty. Max Munsey, Jake Berger,
you, Hineo Suarez, my buddy, your buddy, Ryan McCann,
and keep Brian Hayes, which I still continue to be bullish on. Tim
is not so any comments to make about Max Munsey. Hey, in this
group, if you're looking for power and low batting average, it's there.
Okay, I think that's very funny. I'm gonna give you a rim shot
on that because it's funny and true. So that's that deserves Jake Berger is
definitely power, no batting average, right, and you look at Max Munsey.
Okay, what did I say, amode Schwarber level BA? So yeah,
but yeah, it's not quite Schwarber level BA, but it's in the
same area code for sure. Yeah. You know, hey, months,
he's going to hit a pilot home runs, driving a mess of runs.
I think Burger Burger is going to do the same thing. Not the RBIs
won't be as high as Munsy, but he's I wouldn't be shocked if Jake
Berger found a way to hit forty home runs. I would shot when when
I did the research after he was traded. I was shocked at how how
hard he hits the ball. I didn't realize that to him because every I
tried to see in the minor league, he was always he was always sting.
Yeah, he is barrel rate ninety eight percent, hard to hit rate
ninety one percent. He's his mats ex y Velossiti is one eighteen point two.
That's top one percent in the league at that late. Yeah, that's
only Di la Cruz. He's like like crazy EXI velocity. I mean that's
a big boy power there. Yeah. And you know, you get to
Suarez and I you know, when you look at the the NFBC numbers,
they got him at twenty four. I've got him at eighteen, Okay,
And I put a lot of thought into this. When then I started like
where I have him slotted, because yeah, he really enjoyed his time in
Cincinnati, not so much in Seattle. Now he's moving to Arizona. Good
young team, lots of young players, and it's back to you know,
you start looking at Chase Field in the Great American they're in the same area.
So I think we could see a rebound for Suarez based on park factor.
And I moved him up accordingly, so we'll see how it all shakes
down. But you know, again, Muncie Berger Suarez, I think they're
all capable of hitting thirty home runs with little batting averages. And then you
get into McMahon and Kimbrian Hayes, and one has been a bigger disappointment than
the other, but not by much. Jose that Yeah, Ryan mc I
don't know what else to say about it. He's I haven't a DL five
everybody. I think everybody knows wo's listening to this. It's it's I don't
like him. I don't know what to say, Timmy. He's disappointed me
his whole career, and I there'll be two weeks that he looks like he's
a good player, and the rest of the time it's just lousy. I
don't want to spend any time with them. I love Ryan Hayes. I
think you're too low on all. Yeah, I could be, but he
hasn't shown anything yet. He's a data guy, so I'm waiting for the
data to to turn into production. To me, I think he's rough on
the cusp of something happening. You and your Star Wars, it's all about
Star wars. You know, it's uh, gotta go with the data.
Eh. Ey, it's really it's a ball, really hard. The speed's
kind of dwindling a little bit, but it makes great contact. I don't
know, this is one of these guys. I look at the data.
I don't understand what's happening. So yeah, but you know when you look
at both those guys, McMahon and Hayes, right, McMahon's at nineteen,
you're gonna get you're gonna get low twenties homer in power with seventy RBIs and
seventy runs score. And Hayes you're gonna get mid teen's power, mid teen
speed sort of thing. Right, that's nineteen and twenty off the board.
And you know you just said you you know you you believe I'm low on
Hayes, and I could very well be. But that's nineteen and twenty.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. And and from twenty to thirty,
it's to thirty fun times, fun times, one thousand percent agree with
you on twenty one of take a quick break and come back and speak about
that, because we could spend the next half hour. It's twenty one to
thirty seven questions A non base more related question for you. Tell me it's
at our beach house. We do rent it out in the summertime. Don't
know how much longer we're going to do that. We have wonderful, wonderful
people that rent our place out. They rent almost every year. But I
think this is getting a little too much. We came When we came back,
two things were a bit surprising. One, you know those curegg machines.
We didn't have one because we're cheap right there, like one hundred and
fifty dollars I've got I've got a cure egg machine. Whine, Well,
you're a big shooter. On of our one of our guests brought a cure
I'll be one of our guests bought a cureg machine for the house and just
left it here, like, like, who does that? I would?
I love my curreate machine. I don't use the pre bought pods. I've
got plastic pods that I use and I rinse some out. But it's perfect.
You get a fresh cup of coffee all the time. If you know,
you're the old with the old glass thing that sits there and burns burns
a but Jesus out of it and by the time you get halfway through that
pot of coffee and you know it tastes like something they should be redoing the
roads with. Man, those days are gone. Curate is that's hey?
You could? You could? You could take my stereo record collection and my
car, but I steal my curve. Man. Wow. Anyway, so
we got a cure now here. Here's the weird thing. So we come
in place, got four bathrooms to it. And as soon as we come
in from the long ride of the car, rd to jump in and get
to the first floor bedrooms bathroom. I go in and I realize that the
toilet seat has been changed. It's not only been changed on that bathroom,
but another bathroom some one of our guests to because we've talked to the to
the management, they have no record of anybody changing out a toilet seat.
They replaced our toilet seat. Who does that? I busted if I busted
to day. Okay, that's what we're thinking. They busted it. But
I'd probably look at my fat ass and say it's time to lose twenty pounds
and I'm not going to fast up, so I'll just replace it, right,
But I'd replace it with the same one. Okay, they replaced it
with a cheap el, cheap O one. I wouldn't want to get caught.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to get Can you imagine explaining that to your
landlord. Yeah, I'm sorry, I broke the toilet seat. Instead of
the nineteen ninety nine model, I got the fourteen ninety nine No, no,
I want to I want to keep that between me and me, right.
The ones we had to me are those ones that when you lower them,
they slowly go down. So I'm done, lift up the seat,
I'm done, and I close. It went bang because it's one of those
big, heavy wooden ones. What is that? That's what led me to
investigate what was going on? So I don't know. So somebody replaced our
toilet seats. I've never had a toilet seat with HYDRAULICSS real neat. I
can tell you about our toilets one day, Timmy anyway, number twenty one
through thirty. There's some great names here. Jordan Westburg, I did draft
him. Junior Caminario, loved Junior Caminara, Heimer Candelaria, Lewis Rahifo,
my guy. I'm very disappointed. Tim has got him so low Michael Garcia,
Matt Chapman at twenty six, Tyler Black Big Tyler Black Fan, Matt
Vierling at twenty eight, Ezekiel Durant at twenty nine, who also plays all
over the place, Colt Keith, and I'm gonna keep going, Timmy Wilmer,
Flores, Brett Battie all the way down to thirty three. Tim has
moved him up thirteen slots. Well done, Timmy, Michael Bush. Not
sure what to start here, but Jordan Westberg and your Cameron. First of
all, Jordan Westbrook better hit. But Junior Caminarrea, Tim I like.
I like Junior camer Ira coming in the season. Yeah, I do as
well. And you know, when I look at the options, it's like,
Okay, one to twenty, they're relatively safe picks all the way through
there. Okay, I think you got a pretty good idea. You know,
well what you're going to get, even even with Dela Cruz, Okay,
you're gonna get forty stolen basis. He'll steal forty bases for you blindfolded.
Okay, you're safe one to twenty, and once you get to twenty,
you start looking, man, there are some great young options you know
even in deeper leagues, a guy like ring Etheo. Okay, yeah,
he's power speed. He's in the leadoff spot. Somebody has to score runs
in Anaheim like, there's just so many great choices. And just to let
you know, on Michael Garcia, once he gets the power up to Louise
or rises level, I will move him up. I'm gonna give you a
rim shot on that rap baster. I'm gonna give you a rap faster that
would give me. That would so I have written, I have researched extensively
Michael Garcia. I write I've written about him five or six times at least
on the Patriots. I could be all wrong here, Tim, I will
tell you right off the bat. I could be wrong. But his speed
is top seventy five percent tile on the league. His hard hit rates are
top eighty percent of them. This guy. Few people hit the ball as
hard as he does. His problem, Tim, and it look makes good
contact he has. He is a ground ball hitter. Now here's my logic,
and I could be completely wrong. If I'm in the data department of
the Kansas City Royals, I'm looking at his one. Yeah, jeez,
that's another rim shot. I'm looking at an average ex velocity eighty seven percent,
hard hit rates ninety third percent time. I mean, it is crazy
bat speed. And I'm looking at his loft at six degrees, which was
double what he did in twenty two. I'm looking at six and I'm in
the data department of the Kansaity Royals. I'm going I'm licking my chops to
sit down with this guy and say, all you got to do is add
a little loft and his sweet spot to me. So when he does add
loft, it goes a long way. If I can prove to this guy
just to add a little bit of loft and take on a few extra percent
in your strikeouts, which is going to happen, I think he could easily
unlock twenty home runs. So I think that's what the potentialist doesn't happen this
year. I have no idea, but I want to find out. Yeah,
and you know what, it's a great argument. It really is.
Again what the Royal should do, Okay is obviously hire you okay to be
part of their scouting department and fix and fix the problems that would cause him
to all of a sudd and become a twenty home run guy and with that
hard hit rate. Yeah, you know, your argument makes perfect sense.
I just want to see it happen. I for sure do anything about it.
That's that's why I've gotten worried because right now he's a four home run
twenty five stolen based, twenty five stolen based with a good batting average type
player, and I need like he hit four last year. I think a
rise hit ten. Yeah, yeah, totally, so totally get he's got
to hit yeah. I like to look. It could be he could be
a top top fifteen third basement if he finds that power easy. Yep.
So here's here's my argument. I look for setups. It could be wrong
to me, this is one skill away from a guy that could be an
impact player. Does it ever happen? Don't know. Does it happen in
twenty twenty four? Really don't know. But I bet you there's a lot
of organizations in this in MLB that would look at this and go that's easy
to fix. So I'm hoping that the Royals will do. If the Royal,
if the Royals, if the Royals get a trade offer from the Dodgers.
Okay, that involves Garcia move him up onto your top fifteen. No,
I get your argument, and I like it. That's what I do
with players as well. I look for inefficiencies that hey, that can be
corrected, that will cause players to increase in value. And that's obviously what
you want. And I get your argument. It's solid and if it does
happen, yeah, he's gonna sore up this list. And again from a
non fantasy standpoint, you take a look at his fielding metrics. They're way
up there too. It's got a great arm, great range, it's all
sitting there and it just I want them in every one of my teams.
I'm I could be completely wrong, but to me, it is the setup
that I want. I also love the setup for Tyler Black tim big time.
I don't think he's gonna I don't think he's gonna steal fifty bases,
but that guy can hit and there's more speed there than you think. I
love the setup. I looked at Tyler Black and I've got him six slots
ahead of the NFC right now at twenty seven. I could easily have moved
him to sit right behind Junior Camanaro on this ranking. And I just kept
looking at it and looking at it. I spent more time staring at this
list than you can shake a stick at because again, there's arguments for moving
up Cole Keith, for Duran, for Tyler black Man. I love time
for Bush Bush as well. Yeah, I've already got him thirteen slots up,
and that's again what I'm looking at there is I'd be curious to see
what Bush's ADP is after the trade. I'm looking at the combined ADPs for
Bush at forty six in the NNBC. I'm sure he's up in the thirties
at least possibly higher with since the trade. I should have taken a look
at it. To me, if you want to punt third base ten,
this is just me and you. You say, I'm going with Junior Caminario,
Michael Garcia, and Tyler black I'm gonna draft all three of those guys
at the end of my draft and see what happened. I would not fault
the person for that one of those guys is going to start the season well.
Garcia is going to have a job, but the likelihood of Caminario blowing
up and hitting twenty home runs is pretty high. And Tyler black is going
to play for the Milwaukee Brewers, and he's gonna hit so well. I
I was bold on Monasterio going at forty seven. There's your competition. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, And if you look at Andrew monaster I'm you know,
hey, he made it to the big leagues. He's he's got that
job sort of, I think heading into the season, but no power and
speed. Yeah, it's everything's set up perfectly for Tyler Black to be a
full time player very early in the season. It's all set up for Colt
Keith. Well yeah, well sure it is. And you know, you
know, I've got Burlin at twenty eight, I've got Cole Keith at thirty.
You know, I've got to give it to Berlin because a bit of
an edge because he's going to start the year. But how long does he
hold onto that? How long does he hold onto the job? Yeah,
I think Detroit's going to be better than people think last year was too.
Yeah, they're going to get that pitching back and Tyler Terrek Scool is going
to be very good. I didn't like the Jack Flaherty signing, but oh
well, but I mean Casey Mice is going to be back at some point,
and I just I kind of like, yeah, matt Man, yeah,
and you know they have your bias terrible signing, but it's it's there's
some decent players out there, and Mattley Green and Torklsen Yeah, yeah,
yeah, they're gonna be fun. It's yep, and cold Keith comes in
there, Matt Verling comes back to probably the player he is. I love
the setup there. That's why I took him on my NFBC draft. I
could be wrong, but I just go on setups and hopefully some of these
things pan out that that's some of all you can do. So you know
this, you know the group from twenty to forty, I'm going to have
at least five of those guys mentioned more than once on my way for ware
this year. Does that seem fair? Uh? Yeah, there's a couple
of other guys named Brian Rocchio. It's not a bad guy. We're already
kind of doing. I guess the next thing. I mean, look,
Anthony Rondondom, he's going to play, if he's, if he's he was
one of the worst players last year in baseball, I get it. He's
going to play. Yeah, so's Nixon Zel, Yeah, so's DJ LeMay.
That's right. Hey, yeah, what do you want from a picks
in the thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven range, there's three full
time players. Zach McKinstry at thirty nine is a full time player. Wilmer
Flores is a full time player at thirty one. Yep, Brett Beatty at
thirty two, Oh man, yep. Loaded, that's all. It's it's
loaded. All right, I'm gonna take another break back and the hard questions
are going to start to come out now. I saw him giving up a
Curtis need either, well, no, And you know, further down the
list, you know, you know who's a full time player at forty nine.
Abraham Torrel. Yeah yeah, Kiner full off is going to get at
bats in Toronto. John Birdie is a full time player at forty five at
shortstop. Chris Taylor is a great pick. It's yeah, it's yeah.
I think I think that signing though of Ti Oscar kind of hurt Chris Taylor's
playing time a little bit. He'll play all over the place, but I
was hoping he would have a full time position, but I don't think that's
going to happen. Well, and that's why the NFBC has him at twenty
nine. I've got him at forty one. Yeah, I think he's going
to be dropping, so I agree. Yeah, and that's why, Yeah,
I dropped him on my rankings because of the playing time issue. But
yeah, Curtis Mead at fifty one, and then you got Brian Ramos in
Chicago. He could very easily find his weight into being a full time player
at some point in time this year. And he's at fifty three. I
mean, Kobe Mayo's at in Tripa and waiting to get a shot, and
I have no idea what shot he gets, but yeah, exactly. But
that's that's a good player to the third base. I'm totally in agreeing with
him. It is. It is pretty deep here. So okay, Timmy,
Yeah what guy? Let me go back to my notes. Always mess
this up. Which player not in the top ten has a chance to move
there next year? And it's gotta be Josh Young, right, because that's
what you talked about thirty nine. There's a there's a there's a whole raft
of them. Pick one, Well, you gotta give me two, and
then yeah, you gotta tell me the two that are not gonna not gonna
be there. Let me see, So, Hasson Kim's probably not gonna be
third base eligible, neither's gun or Henderson. So uh so you gotta give
me three guys that are gonna make it up, because you've got to tell
me the guy that's not going to be there. Okay, Well, I
gotta go with Josh Young. Uh and I'm gonna go way out on a
limb here, Junior cam and Arrow right answer, and Tyler Black, Wow,
Tyler Black, I'm gonna go cold, Keith. But yes, all
right, so yeah, the kids, Yeah, they could fly up the
board, quick, quick, quick, quick quick. Elie de la Cruz
is not going to be at third base. Gunner Henderson is not going to
be at third base? Is Hasson Kim? Where's he playing shortstop? He's
going to start the year at third base? I think in Oh, uh
met Mechado's so he could have third base eligibility next year. Okay, So
so Elie de la Cruz and Gunner Henderson, they you can't tell me who
the two guys falling out of the top ten are going to be. So
so give me give me a couple of guys that are not going to be
in there. Ryce Lewis mm hm oh man, I look at the Yeah,
the only one that I have an easy time with is Ryce Lewis.
If Nolan Nolan Aronado, If what we saw last year is the beginning of
a trend and he doesn't bounce back, it's possible for Aeronato, but for
the rest of them, or could it be could it be could it be
Alex Bregman just because I mean he's on the cusp. Yeah, but I
don't see Bregman moving down very far. He might not move down because of
performance. It might be just other people have moved ahead of them, if
you know what I mean. Well, yeah, it's so deep. Yeah,
and and that again makes a position even richer heading in next year,
doesn't it It does? Indeed. Yeah, Okay, give me a couple
of sleepers, Tim, I mean you've already given me a ton, but
let's formalize it. Well, Yeah, for for me, the guy that
I traded for him in d O five and I've got him in the first
redraft of the league. Yeah. I got to mention Tyler Black again because
I love that. I love Tyler Black. I I haven't given up on
Brett Bady Okay, Yeah, he's coming up on my on my uh baseball
savant breakdowns at the Patreon site. I gotta haven't formulated a thought on there,
so tell us why you haven't given up on him yet. A pedigree,
the skills, I think there's I think there's some skills there. I
think they're slow developing. But again, the position is so deep. Guys
like Brett Baby and you know, further down, you know, hey,
Ren don't get bounce back. Yes, I totally agree with you, Tim,
Yeah, and it would not surprise me if he if he plays,
you know, one hundred and thirty games and hits fifteen home runs, then
it hits well, it would also not surprise me if he hits he gets
fifty at bats. So I mean, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.
The one guy that I think is a sneaky pick that I think is
going to be proved to be a worthwhile pick is Brian Raymolds Oh from Chicago.
In Chicago. Yeah, that's that's that's sneaky good. That's really good.
I agree with you. Yeah, but again, there's so many names.
Yeah, it's yeah, it's like a kid being in a candy store
looking at them all right now, right, Ezekiel Duran, if he plays
full time all year, he could be one hack of a ballplayer. You
look at the numbers, you know if are they going to take him under
the d D spot to bring up Langford or is Langford going to be replacing
uh one of Carter Leordi Tavers. You know Duran could move up here.
Well, you know, nobody's stopping Langford, right, I mean, assuming
he hits and he's healthy, he's he's gonna be up soon. I like
that guy's really good. Yeah, I agree with that. There's there's so
many sleepers here. I mean, Michael Garcia, I'll just give my I've
already given my argument there, Junior Caminario, that guy could be really good.
Look, Jordan Westberg to me, Yeah, we haven't talked about him.
He's the skills are really good. He hits the ball hard, there's
a little bit of speed. But unfortunately Tim, he's gonna have a very
small window and hopefully the pressure won't get to him because he's got a hit.
Because there's a gazillion guys waiting at Triple A, including that Holiday kid,
that are gonna be chomping at the bid. If he doesn't hit,
and that's my only concern there, mm hmm. Yeah, and it's it's
a legitimate concern because he might not hit. I'm betting he will, but
again, he's a young player on a team that won't exercise. If this
was two years ago, it wouldn't have been a concern, but now it
is. Now they're not building for the future now the futures arrived, right,
Yeah, look at Colton Kowser, I mean in him, he gone,
you know, it's like, you know, it's it's just it's just
the stage that the Orioles find themselves in that they're a really good team that
they cannot do what they did with Gunner Henderson and let him struggle for six
to eight weeks before he gets it. That's just an unfortunate situation. Yeah,
it's like Alex Bregman, Okay, he totally went the bed when he
came up, I think, I absolutely yea, yeah, exactly. And
at that point in that stage in the Astros development to that program, they
could do that. If Alex came up three years later and did what he
did, you know, he would have had a plane ticket back in a
week, week and a half. Yeah, Jackson Holliday will be interesting with
the Orioles because he could come up and really struggle, because there's always a
good chance that guys come up for the first time and it'll be interesting raft
When was he drafted, by the way last year. We're twenty twenty two,
so I'm still yeah, you know, so he could come up and
not play well for the first hundred of bats, and the Oriols could go
publicly he's really young, he's twenty years old. Who's gonna ge him a
little bit more time in the minor leagues? And no one would say anything
if they did that, right, Yeah, the Race could do the same
thing with Camon Arrow, except everybody would cry follow because they're just being cheap
again, right, But the Race could do the same thing. And you
know, yeah, man, with any young player. But I think I
think the Rais knee Cam and Arrow a lot more than the Orioles knee Jack
and Holiday. Yeah, the window and it's the same situation in Milwaukee,
yes, yeah, yeah, you know that's they can afford. Both those
teams can afford a month's worth of adjusting per se. Yeah, And and
I'm telling you losing wander franco Is a big deal for the for the Tampa
Bay Rays. That's ye paper that that guy's paper. That guy's a very
very good baseball player. Human being won't leave that aside. But he's a
very very good baseball player and the best baseball player on the team, and
they lost him and they have to make up for that if they want to
compete this year. Yeah, they they based their future. Their plan has
been shattered because of that situation. That's right, it is, it's it's
gone. Yep, they gotta they gotta rethink it. There was nobody who
had who had who had gained that at what happens if we lose Wander Franco
for potentially the rest of his career. Nobody was thinking. They couldn't have
been. I mean, why would you even go through that scenario? Yeah,
exactly. So I love Junior Cameran and again I'm with Tim on Tyler
Black that I just want to make sure this is a hit or first,
a little bit of power and good speed. This is the player, don't
draft. I'm thinking you're gonna get twenty five home runs. To me,
that is not the game. That is Junior Caminario's game. Yeah, but
what you could get from Black is you could get a batting average to eighty
five. Plus, you could get a pilo runs scored. And I think
you can bank thirty stolen bases. Uh yeah, I don't know about banking
thirty, but bank twenty to twenty five. Yeah. I think that he
walked more than he struck oled last year. Yes, yes, yes,
yes, And not enough people are talking about that skill at least. I
don't think enough people are talking about Tyler Black other than the two of us.
I totally agree with you, Timmy. I mean it's and again,
let's let's who's who's who's playing third base again? Monasterio? Yeah, yeah,
Andrew Monasterio. I'm sure he's a swell guy, good dancer, but
he better watch out so you better get off the slide quickly as well.
So, yes, very much. So there's a and again, I will
say, I don't know a lot about Zach mckinstram, going a lot on
what the great Tim McLeod said, better player than I am. But if
you're in a draft and hold league, I'm towny, second short, outfield
and third base. Tim that's money, man, that is money. And
he's got a full time job. Yeah, The only thing I like about
Zach mckinstrm is that when I'm setting up my rankings, I got to move
to four different pages to include him. That's true. That's true. This
is I want you to give me two guys that you are not going to
be drafting. I know one of them because I'm not gonna be drafted.
I'm just gonna tell you it is Manny Machado. I hope he becomes the
best player in baseball, wins the MVP. Not gonna be in my team.
I'm scared to death of the injury. Yeah, I won't have Machado
ros rostered anywhere unless he drops a couple of three rounds, and then I
would consider it. Well, I probably I'll probably pass even if he does,
because I'll look at Jake Berger, you know, one hundred picks later
and say, hey, I get I'll get some power there and some RBA.
Yeah, I'll get some power, a good piece, A better player
than Jack Berger though, come on, so all right he is. But
I think the depth at third base allows you to say, I'm not gonna
draft Elie Delacruz, or I'm not gonna draft uh Manny Machado or Royce Lewis
because I don't have to. So Lewis is your other guy you're not going
to draft. No, I'm gonna stay away from Royce Lewis. I'd be
much happier right now with Josh Young okay at a pick slot of one oh
one versus Royce Lewis at forty eight. Yeah, I totally support that.
Yeah, and you look at the guy like, you know, even Alec
Baum okay at one sixty. How many more RBIs is Royce Lewis gonna produce?
Yeah, he'll produce. He could produce fifteen to twenty home runs.
He's not gonna run because of the knee. I don't think he's gonna ever
run Ryce Lewis. So, you know, is there that much to gain
from Royce Lewis one hundred and ten picks or so ahead of Alex Baum.
Yeah, I don't think there is not. For six seven rounds worth of
value. That's a lot of value you got to you gotta pull from a
guy like Royce Lewis. Yeah, it's shame because I like Royce Lewis.
I think the upside is I know too, but it's you know, you
gotta listen everybody listen to him. He speaks from great experience to me.
Let's take our final, break it back and wrap this puppy up. We've
gone an hour talking about third base. Tim's wrong about Michael Brooks. How
to say that we did? It was just taken like a bead on somebody.
It wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't even as Ryan Hayes. No,
it was paradis. Oh, paradis. Yeah, the twenty home runs.
Yeah, I've got him. Uh, I've got him as the next
Babe Ruth and you've got him as the next Mike. I don't know,
mant wow. Oh the last the last shot at the barrage of the book.
I want to be right on I want a Garcia to prove be right
because I want the data to not have lied. It probably won't work,
but I wanted to be true. But you know what, those those are
the picks that you like to make because you've spent the time, you've analyzed
the data, and you've got everything logically explained it. Hey, I do
it all the time. That's part of my process is looking at players that
can you know, that can fix something or improve or whatever, and you
know, what. It's a lot of fun. It's one of the most
fun aspects of scouting or analyzing data and players is trying to find those gems
that nobody else is really searching out and they become your player. And that's
that's cool. It's it's an important part of our game that I think more
people should really spend time on. You know, it's trying to trying to
find those gems. So I can't recall the listener whose wife played Fantasy Baseball
for the first time and she drafted Estra Ruwez because I recommended him. It's
probably Robbie Robbie Thayer, Yeah, because in somebody that you recommend it and
they did well. So if it's Robbie Thayer's wife draft my Garcia, thank
you for it, and you'll you can thank me later. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, but no, that is it is fun, isn't it.
Yeah, it is it particularly. Yeah, sometimes the players don't cooperate,
and sometimes organizations don't cooperate by by having him increases his loft. But that's
that's that's what you hope so well, exactly, and as long as you
have some way to logically support your argument, it's a good argument always will
be. You know, I poke fun at you about Garcia, but I
agree one hundred percent with your approach. Yeah, yeah, you can't.
You can't argue with that. Everything's in place to see a different player.
Hopefully we do, hopefully don't. It'll it'll be time. And I think
that's just kind of what as we go through all of these you know,
all of these positions, I mean, that's what we're looking for. We're
looking for those. Everybody knows that Austin Riley and Jose Ramirez are really good,
right, I mean, like, do you take one of the first
round of Do you take Austin Riley over Jose Ramirez? Tim says, yes,
you can make probably as Tim was saying, you know, best out
of five. So I mean the other two arguments is Jose Ramirez should go
in front of But you can't really go wrong with either one. If you
want to take early on a third base, Yeah, no you can.
And you know when you're saying, these players always hold a special spot in
your heart. At least they do for me. Like I don't care if
I ever draft Josh Oatman again or James Oatman, whatever, I always get
the chance. Yeah, you know, but you pick somebody and they're successful
and always brings a smile, and that's important in our game. It really
is. Yeah, I agree with you. But the thing that Tim and
I are trying to I think provide here, if I can be so bold,
is the guys that you can target later or which position to wait on.
And third base is a position you can wait on. Now if gun
doesn't falls into your lap, you want to play them a third by all
means, get it. Jose Ramirez drops to the middle of the second round,
Grab them, you know. Don't don't say well, I gotta get
Michael Garcia because Wilson said, I got to get almost your guy, uh,
Tyler Black, Tyler Black, because because they're gonna be no. If
the opportunity presents itself, take it and just you know, save it for
another day. You know the recommendations. But if you find yourself like deciding
between a third basement or an outfielder, probably want to go with the outfielder.
Yeah, I would. I would think that's a very very safe play.
Yes, because once we get into the outfield, which will be happening
in a couple of weeks, we'll find fairly quickly that finding a total of
seventy five of them is a handful. Seventy five you want, I should
say, is a handful. Yeah, I will tell you my four to
five. I got one, one, two, three, Good for me.
I got Michael Harris, Michael Trout and all the Cheerio Jackson, Cheerio.
Okay, My four and five Tommy. Guys that I like are Max
Kepler and Michael Conforto. But there are four or five almost five number five
outfielders now, So that's how shallow he gets towards end. It's not a
very deep. Uh. Outfield is not deep at all. No, I
am. I'm looking at what's left in my league, and there are some
decent options. If you've already got three outfielders, you know, Happ is
there, and Yashida and Lars Newt bar and Carrie Carpenter, Dalton Merser not
household names. But after that group goes, then you're looking at Alex Verdugo,
Yeah, Chris Bryant, self, Rey Lake, Tavares, Austin Hayes,
Max Keppler, there's all. They all come with question marks. Every
six you know, there's a question mark. You can't look at a fourth
outfielder unless you go very very early. You can't look at a fourth outfielder
that doesn't have some sort of concern. There's no such I don't think there's
a safe pick after that. You know, after your third outfielder, there's
just a pile of question marks. And then you know, even Riley Green,
I like, I love Riley Green long term, but this year,
you know, coming off the injury is a bit of a bomber because his
stuff will yellow. He looks like he could break out at any moment,
but the injury kind of that he comes in with this to the season with
a little disconcerting. I agree with you there, Yeah, he's not expected
to be ready for the start of the season with you know, coming off
the TJS. Yes, yeah, that's a problem. It is. And
again I learned everybody firsthand with Bryce Harper, who's a right and he came
back too early and it wasn't good. I know, he finished the season
great, and he's gone to the first round. I get all that,
But when I took him, I took him in like the fifth or sixth
round, thought I had gotten a bargain. Last season, I can assure
you it wasn't until late or mid August that you finally started to have a
return. That was tough, tim Well, yeah, because when you factor
in the replacement player plus Harper for two months, what did you actually get
out of it? Could you have taken an outfielder in the sixth seventh round
a couple of rounds later that provided better value and allowed you to sleep a
little bit better at night, for sure? And I think I shared this
already, but I'll share it again because I think it's important. You had
to play Bryce Harper because he's Bryce Harper and you were I was so worried
and right, I think rightly so that I take him out of my lineup
and I miss out on four home runs because that's what he could do.
But it never happened until the end of the season, and then he was
more Bryce Harper again. Not only did I have find a replacement level player
for him for the first six weeks to two months, that allows the player
for two months, well, yeah, you're counting stats didn't go through the
room for two August. Yeah, exactly. And it was tough to take
him out of the lineup, right. I did a couple of how are
you how are you gonna feel? Okay, you know, you've put up
with a week and a half, two weeks of Bryce Harper struggling, and
you take him out of the lineup, then he's going to hit four home
runs because Murphy's Law always kicked. That's right, right, that's right,
and it didn't happen. And you know, hindsight, yeah I should have
taken him out, but you just you can't. It's tough. At least
it is for me. Maybe I'm not a good player. It's tough to
make that call. So sometimes it's best just to leave the guy for somebody
else. And when we say that's leave that to somebody else's problem, that's
that's what we're talking about. Me, Andy Machado. Let's hope he comes
and does thirty one hundred hits two eighty. Great for him. It's just
there's there's so many flashing lights up there. It's like buyer beware, what
happens if he doesn't get his first at bad until May first? Yeah?
Absolutely, or first bat at May first. It's not me and even Shota
until August first, yeah, yeah, it's And again going back to third
base, it's not like you don't have options. Yeah, you brought up
Chris Brian. I saw Chris Brian sit at the top of the queue for
round after round and everybody who's afraid of him, and he's Chris Bryan.
He's a was a great player. But it's like, I mean, when
is that plan of fasciit it's going to get better. I mean the foot
problem has been a problem for a couple of years now, and it's just
like, I mean, at some point everybody has value and a draft,
but you know, it's sometimes it's just best to like I just don't want
to deal with it. Yeah, exactly, Well, we'll find another road
to go and let somebody else, like you said, worry about that problem.
To me, it's not you, it's a rap. So we are
not doing outfield next week? Huh oh No, I can't have outfield ready
bye by next week. There's there's simply to too many of them, and
I've got them all ranked the same, they're all they're all, they're all
seventy five to one hundred. It'll take me, it'll take me a week
and a half to sort the sort through the oat field. It'll all be
in your performance review, Tim, Just well, what I'm concerned about is
the running the running count on rat bastards go off, So we'll have to
find Hopefully there'll be a big trade or two over the week. If it's
quiet week, to me, it could be a very very short show.
So but we will figure something out. But that's a wrap, Tim,
good job, thanks for hanging on for an extra half hour. And we'll
get to the San France. Maybe that's all. We'll do it. Next
week. We'll finally do to the San Francisco Giants. It's number one on
the list. Okay there, Timmy b Well, have a good week.
I'll knock then i'll knock the dust off my notes. We'll be to be
saved. Be well, have a good weekend. We'll catch you next Sunday.