Fantasy Baseball Today - 03/27 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Draft Dilemmas, Podcast League Recap

Episode Date: March 27, 2018

Blake Parker is the favorite for LAA saves (4:30), now where do we rank him? And that leads us into some Draft Day Dilemmas (10:00) including what to do about Greg Holland, when to draft Trea Turner in Points leagues (14:45), when SP depth gets ugly (18:05) and the RP-heavy strategy in categories leagues .. We discuss which players are "Most Likely To (34:01)" break out, regress, provide great draft value, get traded and lose their jobs ... Recapping our Podcast League draft (41:45)! Four different SP approaches from the four of us, plus some surprises from the listeners. Oh, and it's Team Name Tuesday (56:12) and we discuss some players we've barely mentioned on the show (56:50) ... Email us at [e-mail] *This episode is sponsored by www.ziprecruiter.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

But he had great numbers on the road. Yes, he did, and then he went to AAA and turned back into the Scott Kingery. He'd always been. No. Yes, he did. He didn't hit for power before. He didn't hit for power at AAA. No, he didn't.

Not as much as Al-Mad Rosario did at AAA. He had double-digit home runs at AAA, didn't he? No, I think he had eight. Eight in how many of bats? And 265 at bat. That's pretty good. Unbeknownst to Scott, Heath, and Chris, I have been recording the last 25 seconds of debate. This is what goes on when they.

The cameras aren't rolling people. They can't stop talking about Scott Kingery. Now, let's start the show. Hey, real quick, Scott, take your milk for breakfast rush home. Welcome, everybody to fantasy baseball. Today, we are now instituting a no-Scott-Kingery rule. That's actually not going to be true because he was drafted. He's kind of a buzzworthy player right now.

We probably should have a lot of time. If it was Stefan Kingery, Scott wouldn't be on him. That's all it is. Well, we did our podcast league draft last night, and of course Scott White took Scott Kingery. And we have team name Tuesday today. And of course, we have a Scott Kingery team name. But there actually is a lot more to talk about. We have another closer update to give you.

And some draft day dilemmas that, you know, yesterday was really interesting for me because it was the first live draft I had done, believe it or not, even though we're pretty late in the process. And I've got three more this week. But it just brought up some interesting draft day dilemmas that I'm, looking forward to talking about today. But let's start with your quote of the day from Mr. Scott Kingery White, from Scott White. You never know how you're going to feel until you're under the gun in a league that matters to you.

Interesting words, Mr. Scott White. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's why when we get into this like, oh, you have this guy fifth, why don't you have him six? Then it's like, you know, it's ultimately it's going to depend on my mood when the time comes to take. to pick at that spot. And Scott was in a little bit of a bad mood when someone questioned him in the draft room last night. Oh, I wasn't in a bad mood.

You were snipy. No, he wasn't. No, I got your back, Scott. Wait. I thought Scott was very, I thought we all behaved ourselves most professionally. Yeah, no, actually it was a great night last night. Heath was cursing out one of our drafters, John S, who kept stealing players for him, which was terrific. But other than that, we had a really fun time.

But Scott was on the clock with the fourth pick, and he took Charlie Blackman. and somebody said, hey. Instead of Bryce Harper. I have Harper ranked ahead of him, but I don't know. I just felt a little more confident Charlie Blackman in that moment. And he was, look, the top player in this format last year, so I don't think it's anything you can criticize me for. No, of course not.

It does go to show you that. Remember, I said last week debating Carlos Correa versus Freddie Freeman, and I said that Chris, if I did 10 drafts and I had that choice 10 times, I might take Correa five times and Freeman five times. And that's part of the fun of it. You know, there's not necessarily a right answer, or there will be, but we don't know what it is now. So it's interchangeable in a lot of spots. And it gets to the inherent limitations of a one, two, three, et cetera, ranking, is that it inherently creates a hierarchy that doesn't actually exist for anybody.

Well, I think there's – that is – that is kind of the point of tiers. There's a one-two, you know. And I know that – not everybody's rankings are like that, but ADP shows there are – is a consensus one, two? And then after that, there's no consensus. That's basically what, like, that's the difference between tiers and rankings, like Keith was saying. There are points in the draft where, yes, you feel pretty confident this one player is inferior to the other, but not at that point in the first round at that same position. Okay, so a little bit of draft prep today. A lot of draft prep. Just a lot of baseball talk today.

Tomorrow or Thursday, we'll do our bold predictions and standings. The game is, the game. game start on Thursday, but we can't really react to them because we'll be podcasting before they start. But Blake Parker is reportedly the favorite for saves for the Angels. He has not had a good spring, but he showed a lot last year. Where are you guys ranking Blake Parker right now? I would guess he has a very tenuous hold on that role, so he is still near the bottom for me. I think he has top ten potential. If he's who he was last year and he keeps that job all year, then it's possibly a top 10 closer. But I'm not confident in either of those outcomes. Parker had a 254 ERA, a 0.83 width. He did struggle in September, though. But this

was a breakout year last year for Blake Parker. And then, of course, we have Cambridrojan, who has had success in the past. Jim Johnson's also there. But okay. All right. So is there any any other major news? Greg Bird's out six to eight weeks. We'll get to that later. But is there any other major news before we get into the draft day dilemmas? I did see some minor news. Can I put minor news in here? Yeah. There was an article

and I don't remember where it was. It was about the Brewers and how some players are just going to get left out in the cold. And talk about how the plan is that Ryan Braun's going to play first base on opening day. Yeah. Ryan Braun, it sounds like probably every lefty

is going to play first base. I would guess is the plan. Yes. And then there's no chance that Ryan Braun's playing more than 140 games. Yeah, I'd be very surprised. That's the ceiling. And Lorenzo Kane has a pretty good history of been right around 145, 150. So you're getting Domingo San Antonio

Santa Santa Clara closer. I mean, last night he went like in the 15th round. Yeah, no, it's about the price dropping. Like if he drops to the 15th round, then it's probably okay because he can still, he could be Hobby Baez last year, which I know you guys think is like the worst player in baseball. But if he does that, if he hits 23 homers or 25 homers and steals 10 bases and hits

270 in 500 plate appearances, he's going to be a useful player, just not one who's worth drafting a hundredth where he was being drafted earlier. And not terribly useful in the format that we drafted him last night. Points. Points, like you probably won't be. Yeah. Well, and I'm not drafting him in the points leagues anymore. Like, just not draft him.

He's available at pick 200, and you won't take him. No, I've got questions about the playing time. And I feel like his particular skill set, like, I don't think he's one of those guys who can just roll out of bed and hit, you know? Like, if he hits the crap out of the ball. He does hit the ball very hard, but he also misses the ball a lot. And if, like, the less consistent at bats he gets, I feel like there's a chance it could just completely unravel on him. I'm sorry, guys. I must confess.

I just received an I am about something work-related. and I don't know if you're talking about Domingo Santana or Javier Baez or something. Yes, we're talking about Domingo Santana. The answer to that question is yes. Okay. The other thing I will say is there is a non-zero chance that Ryan Braun is out for two months within the first month of the season. Yes. Yeah.

Right. Sure. But as long as him, Kane, and Yelich are healthy, they'll get the occasional day off. But all three of them, maybe you guys disagree. but I think all three of them are just flat out better players than Domingo Santana. So there's no reason for them to lose playing time to him. Yeah, the only one I question who's better is between Thames and Santana. Well, Santana's better than Thames.

I don't think so against Ritey's. Eric Thames still crushed Ritey's last year. Yeah. But I'm not investing in Thames either. Sure. So. Yeah. So, okay.

Santana went very late. He went to the end of round 16 in our 12-team league last night. He was definitely in my queue. but they're just so, and this is a draft takeaway, there are so many outfields. He's got more upside than guys who are on the waiver wire now after the draft like Dexter Fowler and whatnot, but, you know, it's...

Does he have more upside than David Dahl? And is his path to a full-time, everyday job, any less murky than David? Yeah, I think it's less murky. Okay. He's in... He goes to Santana. Hate needs to stop.

Yeah, I think it's really good much. He was really good last year. Last year was the first year he's been really good. There are a lot of, he's just a boom or busty player. I don't see any reason to view him any differently than Hobby Baez. Hobby Baez actually probably has a clearer path to playing. Hobby Baez has never shown us 30 and 15 with a 12% walk rate. If he got as many plate appearances as he wouldn't walk that much.

He wouldn't walk that much. So great. In points leagues, I guess Domingo Santana gets an extra 30 points from those walks, but that's not really like that matters a little bit. It does matter. That matters. It matters a fair amount. But it's a big gift, I feel like.

It's asking a lot. All right. The other minor news maybe is that Matt Carpenter apparently not going to play much third base, according to a beat writer. This is the post dispatch, I believe. And he said he probably won't play there enough for it to be something to gnaw your fingernails about, blah, blah, blah. He's going to mostly play first base.

That was... I would guess if you ask five different people close to... to the team, they would give you five different answers to this. What I'm seeing is that Matt Carpenter has played third base more than any other position this spring. Okay. And I just, whether it's something to gnaw your fingers off as a Cardinals fan is very different than as a fantasy player where he only needs to get there five times.

Sure. And the question and the answer was really also about his defense at third base, and we don't really care about that. And that was in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, yes. Okay, then. Draft Day Dilemma. So we talked about Blake Parker. people want to know where to rank him.

And so my first draft day dilemma for you is what to do right now about Greg Holland, but also the Diamondbacks bullpen, you know, and the White Sox, I guess, to a degree as well. But the Diamondbacks, like, you could have a really good closer there on a very good team. And what about Greg Holland? I took Greg Holland with the fourth to last pick of our 21-round 12-team draft last night. Yeah, I might drop him very quickly. I'm not even sure. Yeah, I don't see any reason to draft him at a...

except in a roto league with benches. You would need a bigger roster than the 21-man 12-team league to be willing to feel like you can pass over the options that are going to be emerging on waivers in a league that shallow to continue to wait out this Holland timetable, which who knows? Was Brad Brock even drafted last night? No, I might drop it.

I doubt it. Let's say Greg Holland signed today. What's the first day that you would feel comfortable thinking he gets a save? Week three, I'd feel pretty comfortable. Yeah. All right. So leave them from deeper leagues. Leave them from deeper leagues, I guess that's the point.

What about Archie Bradley and Brad Boxberger? Who are you taking first? This is a real opportunity here. This isn't like the White Sox situation. White Sox is going to be terrible. You could have a really good close. And it's Bradley. You could have one of the best closures in baseball in theory.

Yeah. I don't think it's going to be Bradley. So I'm not drafting either, except in really deep leagues where obviously every potential safe source is held. and then I'm more often drafting Boxburger because I like the value of that more. It'd be great if it's Bradley. I don't have any shares of Bradley.

Let's not write off Yoshihisa Hirano as well. Still in the mix. Very much still in the conversation. I've watched him a little bit. He's looked okay. He throws pretty hard. He can dial the fastball up to like 95. The good news is we're not going to speculate on this very much longer.

They plan on naming a closer before today's game. Really? Really? Absolutely, yes. That is in AZCentral.com. I will go with Scott and say something that could look foolish by the time this is out in the public airwaves. Are you saying that Scott says things that could look foolish regularly? Okay.

I say things they already do. I don't think it'll be Archie Bradley. I think his versatility, his ability to work multiple innings probably makes him more valuable outside of that role. I'm going to say it's a Toronto. Yeah, okay. I would have been on Boxburger. I'm not going to say anything. Is drafting Manny Machado kind of annoying?

Here's a draft A dilemma. If you draft him, if you draft him to be your third baseman, fine. If you draft him to be your shortstop, you know, all you have to do is wait one week and he's shortstop eligible. But you also have to draft a scrubby shortstop late in the draft probably. Or why invests in two short short. Which was draft Manny Mchato as his shortstop and then draft Kari Seeger as his shortstop. Right. But also, you then have to draft another third base.

at some point, who you're going to be moving into third base as your starter. So let's say you want to take a third baseman kind of early and have Machado it's short and like Anthony Rendon in the fifth round or something like that. Well, Rendon is currently in your utility spot in your league. So now you have to draft a utility spot. You know what I mean? It is a little annoying, isn't it? I haven't done it where I've drafted Machado to be my short stop. Yeah, a little annoying.

But, you know, most drafts are set up that you can draft a bench player before you fill out your lineup. So that kind of solves the problem. You know what's not annoying? What? $2.90, 35 home runs, 100 runs, 100 RBI, maybe 10 stolen bases. And a contract year. Off the cuff mini Machado projection for you. Plus, that second half where he gets to play half his games in Yankee Stadium.

That's going to be awesome as well. No, I do think that maybe we don't talk about or it's still a little bit underrated positional flexibility. Depending on the league, especially in a roto league, where you have several different types of positions to fill. But my team I drafted last night, I've got Paul DeYoung at second and short eligible. I've got Manny who's going to be third and short. Will Myers is going to be first and outfield. Dee Gordon's going to be second and outfield. You know who I like because of the positional eligibility?

A guy that doesn't have it yet? Yep. Skag-kangery. Domingo Santana. I like that about Nick Castiano's third base and outfield eligible. And Eduardo Nunez. I think Chris Taylor's super handy because of that. Yeah, and more important in deep leagues, too, so something to keep an eye on.

I think it's really important in head-to-head categories leagues where you change lineups daily, and you want to have a bench full of like four or five pitchers to just rotate them in and out. You have that one guy like Eduardo Nunez sitting on your bench that can fill in for three or four different players. Okay, next draft a Derecter dilemma. When do you draft Trey Turner in a points league? This can be quick here. When do you draft Trey Turner in a points league? I thought about taking them in that four spot.

I am really stuck after Trout and Altovae go. And that's partly why I ended up going out of rank and taking Blackmun ahead of Harper because I don't feel like there is a clear standout in a points league at that third spot. And then in the fourth spot, I don't feel like there's a clear standout in a Categories League, but that's a different discussion.

Trey Turner was the best shortstop in points, in our standard points scoring on a per game basis last year. and it wasn't particularly close. And that was with an awful line drive rate, a worse than expected batting average, less power than we think he's capable of. I did have a tinge of regret when I didn't get, when I had to take Elvis Andrews in round six.

What if I had just taken Trey Turner in round one? The one question I do have about him that we kind of touched on maybe a couple weeks ago, but it is worth bringing up again, I think. He's going to bet second. And stolen bases, tend to, stolen base opportunities tend to go down as you move down the lineup. It's also a question I have about Byron Buxton batting 6th.

But with Trey Turner batting 2nd, he's probably going to run a little bit less than he has as a leadoff hitter, right? I would think so. I do think, like, the Red Sox talked about this last year, was putting Bogarts at 6th because that was kind of the end of the run of the lineup and they were okay with him running down there. So I think for Buxton with bad hitters behind you, it's okay. I'll credit, I think Derek Cardi pointed out that I think only three players in the last 30 years have stolen 30 plus bases out of the six spot. I am sure that's right. But that probably has a lot to do with how lineup is made out.

I've always liked the idea of sticking your biggest base dealer behind all your high OBP guys. But more specifically to Turner's case, I'm going to borrow what's happening with the Rangers lineup, which didn't seem to be. seem to make much sense to me because Jeff Bannister, when he anointed Delano DeShield starting left field or leadoff man, said we think he can steal 50 bases. And then he's, since then, he's talked about batting Joey Gallo second, who, you know, most of his hits are home runs where a stolen base won't matter. He walks a lot. So emptying first, you know, taking the risk of opening up first base would seem like a bad move strategically. But the reason he likes it is because he feels like they get DeShields on, he steals second base,

suddenly they can't put the shift on against Joey Gallo. So, like, that's something I'd never thought about. That is interesting. All right, so I took Trey Turner 9th, and I was very happy. And, yes, if he had played 155 games last year, he would have scored 46 more points than Francisco Lindor. That's huge. And Lindor was the number one shortstop in points leagues last year.

So that's why I think Turner maybe. maybe underrated in points leagues. I took them ninth. Okay. Starting pitcher depth. This was something that came up yesterday in the draft. At what point does starting pitcher depth become kind of scary? Scott and I were talking yesterday during the draft and was like, whoa.

Man, these starting pitchers are terrible. And it was, for me, it was like round 17 out of 21. It was maybe about 75 pitchers in or so. What do you guys think? It's not unlimited depth at starting pitcher. the first rounds. It's all relative. You can still find guys

with a ton of upside at that range. You can still, I mean, I'm not sure exactly where the likes of J. Hap or Marco Estrada went last night, but it probably wasn't much earlier than that. That was basically the cutoff for me.

It was I had Marco Estrada in my queue. It was when Miles Michaelis was at the top of my available starting pitchers. And that was the case for like the last five rounds of a 12-team league. You know, full disclosure, I had to, I had to leave the draft for about five rounds last night because there was an inconsolable baby situation. And I just told Adam, it was like the middle of the draft.

It is a good band name. It was like the middle of the draft. And I told Adam, you know, just keep drafting starting pitchers from my rankings. Just go down my starting pitcher rankings list, keep drafting starting pitchers. And he did. And I was relieved that that's how, like I may not have done that. if I was actually sitting there, but I was relieved how it turned out because there was no, and maybe it's this points league specific thing, but it was tough to get excited about the

starting pitchers that were left those last five rounds. I think it's something that you have to keep in mind if you're still drafting, and it's tough to count the amount of pitchers that come off the board, but I was just kind of comparing our draft last night with Fantasy Pros ADP, and I think it's about 75 pitchers or so, and then it's going to be a personal preference thing of when you start feeling kind of queasy like Matt Harvey is the 77th pitcher off the board, but Jake Oteresey and Zach Davies are going ahead of him, and I don't really want them.

But then I go down, and I can still find... Yes, you can find some. However, I would say that there are players who are being drafted in the top 75 that you wouldn't want. Like, Alex Cobb is kind of scary because he's in a terrible ballpark and he was awful on the road. Michael Waka, I don't think you want. Tyler Chattwood, I want him.

Tyler Chattwood, I want for sure. I want Michael Waka. All right, all right, fine. So I don't want Jordan Montgomery, some people do. These guys are fine. They're streamers. They're fine for two starts. I just, I don't know that I want to draft them necessarily.

I think they're streamers. And I think, like, where I probably differ is we get to that point of the draft, and I'm not really, like, Chetwood's an exception, because I think he does have upset just because he's pitching for the Cubs, and we haven't seen him a full season outside, of course. But I get to that point in the draft, and I'm drafting Sean Newcomb, Renato Lopez, Brandon Woodruff.

I'm drafting guys that I might drop two weeks into the season, but I want somebody that has a chance to actually be a difference maker. Because you're probably going to drop Michael Walker when he has a bad outing, too. Here's the thing. You drafted Sean Newcomb in round 16. So the sixth to last round, you were having to draft Sean Newcomb. And Marco Estrada went the round before that. I mean, it was to me kind of shocking,

because I feel like those are guys that are usually available in like the very last round of the draft and it was kind of scratching my head what happened here? Did people just go heavier on the SP DEF? It was heavier on... It was Chris's fault. Like you always Mr. Wade on starting pitcher and you drafted like four elite starting pitchers and screwed

everything else up. Everybody else went the quantity quality quality. I drafted three starting pitchers and two good starting pitchers and two good relievers was my strategy yesterday. But I, like Robinson Canoe went in the ninth round yesterday. Roudnett-Odor went well after. that.

So I think it was that starting pitchers just went earlier here, which is what you should, it shouldn't be surprising to see that and I had to head points league. Which is why I took almost all hitters early in the draft, just because I, every time it got to me there, it wasn't good pitcher value available. Yeah, but don't you have to sort of adjust when your league is doing that because you're never going to get good pitcher value? I'm going to fill all those roster spots. I'm going to get points for my hitters too.

Yeah, you're going to get points. But there are so many good hitters throughout the draft. That's the thing. Like hitting is just deeper than pitching. Yeah, there's really good hitters on the waiver wires. Ruegnet O'Dore went in the 18th round, by the way. Well, the funny thing about O'Dore is that, you know, for a lot of people that probably was, is he a starter or a bench player for whoever has it? Had to be a bench guy.

That's the thing. Do you want Rootnet O'Don? That's my team. I'll let you know. Do you want Rootnet O'Dore? Because I kept looking at O'Dore. And while I think in a points league, first of all, he doesn't have that much points league upside because his plate discipline is so bad and he never walks. But even, like, I do want Rootnet O'Dore.

but in a points league, your utility is probably going to be a first basement, a third basement, or an outfielder. You're probably not going to have a second baseman. So drafting two, I don't know about it. You know what I mean? Ruegnet-Odorf specifically, we're just kind of hoping he gets back to where he was two years ago, right? And he was the ninth second baseman in this format two years ago. I mean, that's obviously, if he gets back to that in your top 12 second basement, yeah, somebody should be using him, but I don't know that he's a game changer.

Right, but he won in the 18th round, which is, which is, it's less about the specific value of Ruegneedoran about the fact that the, the reason that starting pitcher ran out earlier than your perception of it is that it didn't. It's just that hitters didn't go as early. No, I see. The pitching depth was there. I guess I'm arguing the way we drafted than in this particular league was more appropriate for the format. Sure.

Yeah, maybe. But I think it's a matter of like, you talk about the guys that, that Heath has, right? You mentioned Sean Newcomb and who are the other Brandon Woodruff. How many of them do you want? If you have, let's say, this league, your entire bench, you want to be just upside guys? And, like, there wasn't really much choice. I would much rather have one of those guys on my bench than somebody that I'm expecting to give me a 4-5 ERA over 180 innings,

and that's what he's done for four years in a row. Like who? Yeah. That's not a good picture. I wouldn't want that. Well, we're not taking good pitchers in the 18th round. That's the point. There's two types of pitchers left at that point.

There's bad pitchers and there's upside pitchers. He's hoping to, you know, agreed. He's getting a lottery ticket and hoping to be able to cash in. I assume maybe on one or two of these five that he took for a thing. I expect I'm going to drop half those guys. I mean, Carlos Verdon's going to the DL and then we'll just had another spot. And that's, that's the way, like, I almost don't like when my bench is too good, particularly in a shallower league like this,

because I want to be able to have that maneuverability the first couple weeks when, you know, maybe it's Jake Junis. Maybe he continues this crazy strikeout rate from spring training in his first couple starts and looks like he's going to be a breakout pitcher. I want to be able to have the flexibility to drop somebody for him. And I don't have, I don't feel like a ton of upside in my starting pitchers that are actually in my rotation.

So that's another reason why I went more upside with the bench guys, because I feel pretty confident in what James, in Tyone, Taiwan, Walker, Kintama Aida, those guys are going to be, but they're number four-ish starters. And I don't have a lot of hope that they're number two starters. Yeah. You have an interesting rotation. In fact, all four of us have very different pitching staffs in this league. I thought it was an interesting draft, and wasn't my personal favorite.

All right, final draft A dilemma. We got our Categories League draft tomorrow, and there's been so much talk. Heavy win three categories, ERA saves and whip. What if a lot of owners do that? You know, because usually, I feel like in the past, one, maybe two owners do it. But it's becoming popular now. What if a lot of owners do that now? Nips.

Yeah, then you pivot. But the problem is it might be hard to tell. It might be hard to pivot with that particular strategy, too. Well, it's got, I actually wrote about this in our last mock drift, which was a roto, not of categories, but I had kind of gone in with the same type of plan, except I said, I want to start with hitters my first five picks and then see if I can still build a good high-upside rotation. And you can.

Starters are going to go later in this format, and you will see, like, before the Garrett-Coles go, you will see that closer run starts. In what, the head-to-head categories? And Roto, both. So you'll get an indication by how early the top closers go? When those guys start, and I wouldn't say, it's like, Kenley-Jansson. could go in the third round, and there's not going to be a closer run. It's just one guy that wants to do that.

But if you start seeing Kimbril go off in the early fourth, and all of a sudden Chapman's gone in the fourth and... Like guys like Garrett Cole, Luis Castillo, James Paxton, those guys are still going to all be there. And you can just start instead pivot to building a high upside rotation with a lot of those guys. If you can get a lot. But they kind of go in the same range, and you may only get one or two.

So that, like, I'd still feel good getting a true ace in that format, even if I'd plan to go the relief pitcher strategy, which I've never done before, so I'm not exactly an authority on it. How are you starting up the league? And the relief pitcher strategy is not all relief pitchers. We've gotten some emails about that. It's not, don't draft any starters. I agree with Scott.

Getting one ace to go with those relievers is a good idea. How are you setting up the head-to-head categories league? Just P slot, just pitcher slots, no SPRP? I have not changed it from last year, and I believe it was all P. Why are you guys giggling? You're like four. I would have kept it together.

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Everybody should do that after. Have you done that? In which league? Any of ours. Well, most of ours are five. Okay. Good. I don't see the reason to increase it for five.

Points. Yeah. Our points league is only two, right? I'll look into that. Tyler Austin might start against lefties. Neil Walker, maybe it gets right. We'll see what happens with the Yankees' first base. Arizona signed Coutelle Marte to a five-year, $24 million deal.

And I'm going to read you something from a person I respect very much. And he likes Cotel Marte quite a bit this year. And he wrote about it in a column. And he said, big gains and walked strikeout in hard contact last year, got ripped off on his Babbup, so gains were masked. Could be greater than sign Simmons if he steals again. And this guy that likes Cotel Marte is the same guy who loved Jose Ramirez last year. And he is Al Melchior.

and you can read all about it on fan tracks today apparently his Bull Predictions column is coming out. Alan loves Catelle Marte. Does anybody else? I have drafted Cotel Marte in a lot of leagues lately, including the one we did last night. He is my starting shortstop. That was the last roster spot I filled. I think he's a good value. He is a swing change guy.

And there are some concerns about that with the Humidor, but the important thing to remember about the swing chains is it's not necessarily all about hitting fly balls. It's about hitting balls in the air and line drives count two. There is, there was a piece on fan graphs. I want to say early in the offseason, looking at some of his batted ball data, stat cast, that showed that he actually has more raw power than his game might make you think. There are some really good indicators with him.

I would love to see him run again. He ran in the minors. he has not done it at all in the majors, but he's got that in his back pocket too. There's a lot of hoping for outcomes here, I feel like, and you do that at shortstop. You know how I drafted how I picked up Scott Kingery for $17 in our 12-team rode a league yesterday? I'm pretty sure Cotel Marte was the one I dropped. If it wasn't for him, it was for somebody else. All right, which rather have...

Because we're not hoping for anything. Well, pass. I'll take Catelle Marte to score more fantasy points this season than Scott Kingery. And his ADP is 355. His CBS ADP is N-A. He doesn't have one because he hasn't been drafted in Netflix. I got him in the reserve rounds of that draft. You guys weren't on him then.

All right, Catel Marte or Ahmed Rosario. Katel Marte or Ahmed Rosario. Rosario. Yeah, why wouldn't you not take Rosario? And he's going super late. That's the thing. It would be a pretty deep league, I think, before you have to get to Catel Marte. Okay.

Rafael Devers' day-to-day with a bruise knee. Michael Conforto will begin the season on the DL. When do you expect to see Michael Conforto on the Mets? That could be pretty soon from the sounds of it. I mean, they were discussing having him available on opening day to serve primarily as a pinch hitter and a bench bat. So that tells me that they're not ready for him to play in the field, but a couple of weeks.

You know, would it be surprising if he's up before Ronald Ocuna? No, I don't think it'd be surprising. I'd give it even odds, in fact. And he's got legitimate top 10 outfielder upside. You know, you look at, he had a better Wobah last year than Nelson Cruz. Conforto. Michael Conforto. Who would you rather have, Conforto or Acuna?

You'll have to draft Acuna earlier. Yeah, I'd rather have Acuna. So, yeah, you'd probably rather have Acuna. Acuna. But that's mostly just because you have to draft him earlier. I don't actually feel that confident that Ronald Acuna is going to be better. Michael Conforto was really good last year. He was really good.

If this had never happened, if his shoulder injury had never happened, I said on the podcast a couple days ago, he'd be between 15th and 20th in my outfield. What he did last year wasn't that different from what Cody Ballinger did last year. He's not the type of prospect, but the batted ball data all backs it up. He hits the crap out of the ball. There are some concerns about whether he can hit lefties enough to, being elite header, but he's very good. Michael Conforto.

Michael Conforto. All right. A tweet of the day comes from Marty Lagasy. Legassie. He says, Scott Kiggery, a true friend of the crown, Dilly, dilly. And then he has the crown and beer mug emojis.

Very funny. Now, new segment, most likely to, it's time for yearbook superlatives. Most likely to bounce back, Trevor Story or Rognetodor? Rognadador. I'll take Coorsfield. I'll go Rugi.

Okay, two votes for Rugi. Most likely to turn into a pumpkin. Quit Merrifield or Chris Taylor? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Isn't it bad when they turn to a pumpkin? I don't know what it's a reference to the... The carriage is... It turns into a pumpkin in this context.

At midnight. Yeah, but whose value is... Would you want to be inside of a pumpkin? Would I want to be inside? I don't know. It's pretty gross. Well, this is weird veins. Whitmeryfield.

He's older, he has less prospect pedigree. Chris Taylor, I think the skill sets a little better. Chris Taylor, he had a lot more bad at ball luck than Whitmerryfield did last year. Yeah, I'm going to go with Taylor too. And I think the Dodgers have more escape routes also. All right, so more likely to turn to a pumpkin, Chris Taylor wins two to one. More likely to break out. or more likely to break out, I guess.

Lance McCullors or Aaron Nola? I kind of feel like Nola already broke out. I think, you know, I rank him higher. I have a lot more confidence in him holding up over or him pitching a high, an ace number of innings, at least start by start. So I guess I'll say Nola, but, you know, I kind of feel like it's on a fair question.

Lance McCullors is a better pitcher, but he's probably not going to throw as many innings. Aaron Nola is not, I think so, yeah. Aaron Nola is not as safe as his. I think he said this on Friday. He's not as safe as the profile makes you think because he's had elbow issues each of the last two years. I'm going to take this question literally and say breakout is do something they've not done before. I don't know.

I don't know. I'm going to say Lance McCullors. I think Lance McCullors is more likely to be what he was for two straight years for the 3-2-2-E-R-A and just throw an extra 20 innings. Okay, McCullors is the winner of the most likely to breakout part one. Most Like It to Breakout Part 2. Luis Castillo or Trevor Bauer? Luis Castillo. Yes.

How many innings do you guys think we're getting from Castillo this year? I don't see any reason why he couldn't throw a full season if he just avoids injury, which is true of every pitcher. I'll give him between 160 and 180. Okay. And another most likely to break out after I tell you about draft. Okay, we had a draft last night. I got one tonight. I got one Wednesday.

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Back to the yearbook game. Most likely to break out Gregory Polanco or Yassio Puig. Did Puig not break out last year? Yeah. I'm not expecting much more than he did last year. So I think he's better than Polanco, but it's kind of like the argument he was making McCullors v. Nola. The counting stats should be better. We expect him to hit in a better spot in the lineup,

especially with Justin Turner out to start the season. We only got 570 plate appearances last season. You're talking about Pueig. Yassiel Pueek. Yes, he was the number 25 outfieler in points number 31 in Roto. I don't know that he broke out. He only hit 263. I think batting average is really where he needs to make up.

But like Chris was saying, he batted eighth for a good portion of the year. So just, like, it's misleading where he placed in the rank. I will say Gregory Polanco because he's never actually been that good. Right, that's, yeah, Gregory Polanco is the answer because Yassio Puig already broke out. Most likely I have a big season, Polanco or Puke? Pukeg. All right. Most likely to return late round value. Drew Pomeranz or Sean Mania?

Mania. Mania. The guy who's not on the deal currently. Most likely to get traded. Brad Hand, Alex Colomé, or Felipe Rivera. Alex Colomey. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. And finally, while we probably don't think either will happen, but most likely to lose his job, Sean Doolittle or Roberto O'Suna. Do little. Do little. Do little. He'll do too little.

And he's got a little competition there. I think that's some good, good R piece. All right. A little commission advice for you before we recap the podcast league and read some emails and do team name, Tuesday. Week 1 should be 11 days. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. And you should combine the All-Star Break Week with the following week. And if you are a CBS Sports Commissioner, you can just go to league schedule and your commission tools. And within five seconds, you can change both of those things. You can make Week 1 11 days. It might default to that, I'm not sure. And combine the All-Star Break Week with the following week. It doesn't. I had to sort this out to write the week one preview columns. The default setting is the four days. And that's going to be kind of annoying because everybody who does the 11 days, and right now it's only like 20% of leagues are set up to do 11 instead of four.

Oh, come on. But everybody who does, like, we're going to talk about week two, and it'll still be week one for them. We're going to talk about three, week three, and it'll still be week two for them. Like, they'll be a week behind all season long, which will be frustrating for everybody involved. Yeah, that is a – well, so then how many weeks are there, Sky? They're usually 26, but if you make week one a four game week, does that mean they're 27? 27. Yep.

All right. So I want to get back on the 26-week schedule. But then actually... Aren't you going to be 25? Yeah, I am going to be 25. Dave, you're combining the All-Star Break. You know what you should do that would be super fun is just combine the first four seasons with that half week from the All-Star break. The first four what?

Or what? Just the first four games of the season. The first four days. With that All-Star Break Week. Yeah, like an eight-day week. That's fine. You don't know the results. It's like when a game gets rained out, a tie game gets rained out in the seventh inning or whatever. Yes, and you've got to finish it at the All-Star Break.

Yeah. You still don't know who wins. Also, last note, very important. If you're doing a league that had members in it last year and you're just keeping the league, delete all the rosters before your drafts because yesterday we showed up to the draft and the four of us had teams. Nobody else did. So delete the rosters. Don't be an idiot.

Don't be an Azer. All right. Podcast League recap. It started out, you know, pretty conventional, I'd say. With the four aces going in the first round, Kershaw, right? Yeah, where did Scherzer go? Yeah, Scherzer 6, Kershaw 8, Kluber 10, Sale 11, and no major surprises with the first two rounds, really, except Severino went fifth pick of round two.

But, you know, other than that, pretty much stuck to the script of mostly hitters in the first two rounds, and then your little starting pitcher run in round three. My team started exactly how I wanted. Trey Turner, Chris Bryant, Jacob de Grom. I was like, that was exactly what I wanted to do. I want to get a top 10 pitcher after two hitters. Everything got a little wacky, though, because the listeners had different strategies. One owner drafted Kenley Jansen and Craig Kimball in rounds four and five.

one owner went very hitter-heavy early and really screwed me up by taking Carlos Santana as a DH, and I basically punted first base. So, you know, we talked about starting pitcher depth disappearing kind of quickly. But yeah, it was kind of an interesting draft. What were your takeaways? Scott, why don't we start with you, the king of the head-to-head points format, who had the fourth pick. The rest of us drafted late.

I had 9th, Chris, 11th, and Heath 12th. I haven't won this league in two years, Adam. Oh, it's a drought. Yeah, so my biggest takeaway was what happened at starting pitcher there. And my ace actually is Robbie Ray in round five because, like we've talked about more recently, there is a big drop-off that happens at hitter too.

And I feel like after that drop-off, there's more interchangeability with hitters to last the rest of the draft, basically, versus a pitcher where there continues to be tier drops. So I kind of went heavy on the second third tier pitchers instead of getting an ace. But that allowed me to start off my team with Charlie Blackman in round one, Anthony Rizzo in round two, late in round two,

Brian Dozier, round three, and Reese Hoskins in round four. Yeah, and I was just very surprised that you took Dozier over, like, DeGrom, Strassberg. I don't know if Straussberg was on the board, but that whole, you took Dozier ahead of Strasbourg, Verlander, Granky I know you like Granky, I was surprised by that pick. Yeah, and I'm not sure. It's the first time

since I reconfigured the tiers so that Dozier was tiered on the same level of Jose Ramirez. And actually the inspiration for that was kind of Daniel Murphy's injury because once you take Daniel Murphy out of what was Brian Dozier's tier, Dozier seems too good

relative to what's left. So I tiered him higher. And, you know, I kind of gotten used to falling back on like Scooter Jeanette type second baseman or even like Maryfield who went around eight in this league. You know, we think it was more of a roto guy, but he was, you know, fifth best second basement on a per game basis in this format last year. So I kind of gotten used to drafting those guys at second base. Now instead I have Dozier who obviously has a higher ceiling.

But that means I was passing up Donaldson, Bellinger. other hitters like you said. The thing is, I just, I don't feel like I'm weak at those positions. I guess, you know, I ended up with Mustakis at third base. So I guess that's not entirely true. Donaldson would have been obviously a big upgrade from Mustakis. So it's, I guess I probably wound up with Dozier and Mustakis instead of Donaldson and Scooter Genet. Right.

All right. I feel like Donaldson, Souter Jeanette has more upside, honestly. And Ryan's never been your, you're. utility right now. Yeah. And I don't know if you love that. I'm fine with it. I'm fine with it.

You did go very heavy on starting pitcher after not drafting one until round five with Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray, Alex Wood, Trevor Bauer, Charlie Morton, Luke Weaver, Danny Duffy, Jake Faria, Aaron Sanchez, Miles. Michaelis Sanchez, I read a glowing article about him yesterday. Yeah, as my eighth starting pitcher, I feel good about that. So, all right, so Scott takes a slightly different approach on what I thought he would do. But as we have said, you miss out on the aces, you make up for it by grabbing more starting pitchers in the next tiers, and that's what Scott did.

Chris, you had the 11th pick. What was your takeaway from the draft? So I'm not sure if I love the strategy that I ended up going with, which was actually taking two of the very good relievers. I didn't get Craig Kimberl and Kenley Jansen, but I did end up with Corey Knebel and Roberto Ozuna. Those could be, and I think you guys have them pretty much ranked right around the top five, right? I think I am lower on Knable than most, but yeah, right, top eight. And it makes me feel a lot better about my team at the start of the season.

And that is what I was running into with all my head-to-head leagues, where I was waiting on relief pitcher, maybe grabbing a spark, is that I end up looking at my teams and I kind of hate them. Not hate them, but I just, I'm weak specifically there. And it feels better right now. But in a month, if Corey Canable has lost his job or one of them gets hurt, it will feel really bad because I invested a lot in those guys when I probably could have taken another starting pitcher instead.

So that's the one thing that I changed in this draft that I'm not sure will work out. But if Canabel and Ozuna are good, my team's going to be really good, I think. Okay. And the rest of your team, you are two Yasmani cooks. Two Yasmani cooks for now. I'll change it at some point, yeah. All right, you have two catchers and two second basemen. That's very strange.

I had to, well, Rayl Muto fell to a point where it was like the third. 13th round, the second to last pick of the 13th round. At that point, even though he's opening the season on the DL and he's on the Marlins, that's too good value for a guy that we think is one of the better hitting catchers in the game. But I had to take a second catcher because he's opening the season on the DL. So I'll have to live with Jorge El Faro for a little while, and I don't mind that. It's El Faro from ideal. Oh, that's why he was a catcher.

Okay, because he's on the DL. All right, I get it. I get it. And then Robinson and Kano and Rugenet her door, they both. just fell too much. And I, at some point, you just have to take good players. Someone's going to get hurt. I'll be able to play them somewhere. Right. That makes sense.

That's the logic there. And then I've invested heavily in starting pitcher, which I don't normally do, but I like it. And, you know, you guys said there's a big drop-off after the top three for me. I have Chris Sale, James Paxon, and Carlos Carrasco. I love that. Yep. Mike Leak and Julio Toron, there is a drop-off, but they're both guys who are going to throw a lot of innings.

They're both guys that aren't going to be disasters, I think. Hulu Yeran wasn't good last year, but before that, he's been pretty consistently good. So I have a question for you. So you have Cotel Martte as you're starting shortstop. Yes. It's obviously on paper looks like a weakness. Do you think you regret taking the relievers where you did and not maybe replacing, well, let me see where you got Ozuna. Okay, let's say you replace him with.

I think when I made... A better shorts. Didi Rigorius. What did you say? I think when I made those picks, the short stops that I like were gone. You could have had Didi. You don't want Didi? Yeah, I think he's probably fine.

I would have had to pass on Cori Knavel and Roberto Zuna to take Didi. And I just, I don't know if there's that big of an advantage in this format. Well, no, you could have had one of them. You could have had... Right, right. I would have had to pass on one of them, but I wanted to... good relief. Okay.

And I just don't know if D.D. Gregorius gives you enough of an edge relative to what those relievers could do. He's probably safe. Okay, so Heath, you have the 12th pick just after Chris Towers. And you guys both have to change your team names, by the way. It's an unwritten rule.

You cannot have the same team name two years in a row. But you are for the moment. I've already decided I'm going with Maeda Adam Cry or Maida M. Cry. Maeda Adam Cry is better, and that's very funny. Yeah, Maeda, Adam Cry, because of my turn at the 13, 14, I believe it was, when I got Will Myers, and Adam didn't have a first baseman yet,

and Kent to Maida. Yeah, that was it. Again, Myers, I will probably put in the outfield because I already had Paul Goldschmidt. It was interesting. I hate the 12th pick, especially in a league like that where it's all podcast listeners, because I did not have any illusions that an ace was going to make it to me.

And they didn't. So I took Paul Goldschmidt and Mandy Machado. And then for some reason, Corey Seeger fell to the end of the third round in the points league. I really didn't have any bones about just taking him and playing Machado at third. Again, I gave you what I thought Machado was going to do this year, and that's still a top three or four third baseman. So that's fine. I really feel like my lineup is just – it may be the best one I've drafted this year.

Let's hear it. Let's hear it. I've got Yadier-Malienet catcher. Paul Goldschmidt, D. Gordon, Mani Machado, Corey Seeger, Andrew Benintendi, Lorenzo Kane, Billy Hamilton, Will Myers, and Paul DeYoung on my bitch. It's terrific, yeah. And then your starting staff is not, is... Your starting staff is not bad, actually. I think your team's pretty good.

You just don't have any aces. Your best pitcher would be Quito or Sunday, right? I did not take a starting pitcher until the seventh round. So that makes it difficult to get an ace. I would say that I don't have a number one. I've got a number two in Johnny Quedo that I feel pretty good about. I've got number three and Sunny Gray. I've got several number fours.

Maida, Tyone, Tyone and Taiwan. I have to come up with the team name that has to do with those two, right? James and Tyone, Taiwan Walker. Elite closers in Chapman and Reisel O'Glazius. And then all the high upside pitchers on the bench, Raynello Lopez, Sean Newcomb, Carlos Rodon, Brandon Woodruff. Okay. I think it would be a little bit of a stretch to call,

Ryssel Iglesias, an elite closer, only because to be an elite closer in a points league, you have to have a bunch of saves. And it's uncertain that he will get those opportunities. He is an elite number two closer. I have elite closers. If that exists.

And my number two is elite for number two. Okay, Adam, I changed my team name. What is it? Please check it out. I may have stolen it from a listener. I'm not sure if we got this in an email. Okay, let's see. Puego de Gaio. Puego.

Gahillard. Oh, because you have Gallo. Yeah, and Pue. And Pue. And Pue. That's terrific. Ricell Iglesias was the number 11 relief pitcher in this format last year. So he is easily. So the second worst number one close.

He is an elite number two reliever. An elite number two reliever makes absolutely no sense. Okay. So I won't run through my team. I'll just tell you that I never in my life done this. I punted first base. And I was going to take Will Myers, but he's not. rate in this format. He was two years ago.

Last year, I think he was the number 14 first baseman. I am banking on being able to find a first baseman or the guy I took Justin Smoke just walking enough to be passable. There is a guy that if you find yourself in this position in a points league where you are just stuck at first base, Brandon Belt is actually, in my opinion, a poor man's Carlos Santana. He is much better in points leagues. He gets on base a lot.

He'll hit some doubles. And he actually averaged about as many points per game as Smoke last year, and that was with a bad, bad bit by his standards. He had only 241, and he averaged what Smoke did in a career season. So it's a very good point. And also, Yonder Alonzo, I feel like, is a first baseman. If you have to go to thrifty route there, and somebody else in this league did, has Alonzo as his first base. And I'm starting to get really excited about him. He's tied for the spring lead in home runs with seven.

and what's notable, I think, is 10 for 20 with two home runs against lefties. That's the big thing for me. I don't think there's that much of a difference between him and Justin Smoke, but there's like 180 point difference in their ADP. It just comes down to whether Yonder Alonso can play every day. Even last year when he had the breakout, he wasn't good against lefties. And then just a couple more notes from my team. I took outfielders a little bit earlier.

I took Ozu... I think I had all three of them by round 10. Ozuna, Cespitous, and Eaton. And I like them, especially getting eaten. But I, you know, it kind of limited me a little bit later when there was great outfield value. But that's okay. Ozuna fell a bit, I think, right? Oh, he did.

I think I got him in round seven. I remember, yeah, I remember seeing him and wanting to. I think you took him. I got him in round five. I'm in a late round five. Yeah, I think you took him two spots before I could. Yes, you took Starling Marte. But I like, I still liked the value.

That was 50. seventh overall or something like that for Azuna. So I was cool with that. Good value. And then the last thing here, I don't really have much faith in Mike Minor immediately. He's my SPARP. He's my number two relief pitcher. I don't think I'm going to

start him to begin the year. I think I'm going to pick up maybe a Rodeus Viscayana or something like that and get a true closer and keep Minor on my bench and see what happens. I just, I don't have faith immediately in any of the SPARPs to be starting them from day one. Thoughts?

Yeah, no, that makes sense. I actually thought about taking minor the same rounds you did, which I believe was 15. And that was what I was going to do with him, too. I'm going to have to have three relievers if I take minor. Right. I thought the two best listener teams, Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzie, Rodney Briarley, got off to a very good start. He made some questionable picks on the stretch, but his team is just awesome.

And then John S., you... Took all of my players. Team name Tuesday to end the show. We got the Fisher Kingery. Sure. I'll be Brock. Yeah. The Brock Street Boys.

And Santana Claus. Sure. I'm supposed to sing this one. Pull my... You know, make sure... Twist my arm. I pull my arm. Strom in my pain with George Springer.

Very good. One time. That's right. And I Didi all for the Buki. We've had that one before, but not with Didi in there. Not with D. That's a good one. I like that.

It's good. I'm going to give you 10 players that we haven't talked about, and I want you to tell me how much interest you have in them in a mixed league on a scale of 0 to 10. Fast, rapid fire segment here. Trey Mancini. How I feel about it on a scale of one to 10. What is 10 mean? I'll give Mancini a six.

Five. Rapid Fire. One. One. Whoa. Michael Waka. Not it. Michael Waka.

We just got an email excoriating you guys for your low ranking of Michael Waka. And I agree. Michael Waka had a very good peripheral season last year. I think Michael Waka is an eight. Two. Three. Tyler Skaggs. One.

One. Zero. Andrew Heaney. Zero. If he was healthy. Three. But he's dealing with elbow issues again. Matt Davidson.

One. Zero. Salvador Perez. I mean, is he, a different question for Perez. Is he underrated? No. I'll give him a seven. Six.

Ten, I 100% want him on one of my teams. He has been a top six catcher, Salvador. present four of the last five seasons. Addison Russell. I keep just looking at him and not doing anything with it. Four. Through. I don't want to give up on it entirely.

Three. What did you say he's? Through? Through. Yes. Like 2.5. That's Edison Russell. How about Tyler Glass now? A hundred. What are we rating again? How excited we are? In a mix league. How much do you want him?

How interested? I'm a 10. There is no calibration for this game. I'm a 10. I want him on all of my teams with a bench. Four. Have you seen this beard? Eight.

Okay. And two more guys. No more Mazara. Ten. Ten. Five. Hector Nerris. Nine.

Ten. I'm going with 10. I want him on my team. Hector? I'm fine with him, but I'm not. He's pretty good. interested. Like, he's just, I'll give him, I'll give, this is your kind of guy. Hector Nairis? Are we talking about the Phillies closer? Yes. You don't take closers early.

You got to pick some up later. He's there late. But it's not like, oh, yeah, Hector Narris is playing. Right, that's the point. He's pretty good and you guys all picked Hector Narris to, or the Phillies to be second in the division, right? Not me. I don't think he's fine. He's just another, he's just another mid-delay round closer. He's been really good the last two years. All right, we're done. Thank you, everybody. Bonus one, Scott Kingery. No, just kidding. Never again.

See you later. We'll talk to you on Wednesday with Jonah Carey joining the show and more from around baseball.