Fantasy Baseball Today - 03/28 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: DeShields, Ryu, Players We Avoid

Episode Date: March 28, 2017

We've got all the latest news as Delino Deshields continues to dazzle and Hyun-Jin Ryu is in the Dodgers rotation. Are they worth drafting? What do we make of Daniel Norris' terrible start and Ivan Nova's great Spring? ... Which players do we find ourselves passing up on in drafts regardless of our rankings? Does Francisco Lindor fit that bill? ... A lot of talk about late-round upside, and of course it's Team Name Tuesday! ... Your emails at [e-mail] 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

May March 28th, and it's draft week. Got one tonight, podcast league tomorrow, podcast for the People League on Thursday, and Scott White is back, and we have surprised him with, I guess, some pretty bad news for Scott White. Scott, not into team scam, co-owning a team with me, and I'm a little hurt by this. It's nothing against you, Adam. If there's anyone I have to co-own a team with, I'd probably choose you. I don't like co-ownership in fantasy baseball. I like having, like, the whole dream is control over your own baseball team,

and if you have to share that control, then the dream is shattered. Scott, were you an only child? No, I was a middle child with three. Okay, that makes sense. That doesn't make any sense. He always had to share. His older sibling was taking things from him. He was always being told he had to share things with a younger sibling.

He's resentful and does not want to share anymore. I just like feeling like, like, I have direct control over the outcome. You know what? Managers and general managers have to work together. They do. Under the guidance of owners. They don't if they start a fantasy baseball team.

One of us is the manager who makes the lineup decisions. One of us is the general manager who makes the roster decisions. Yes. That is ridiculous. The general manager will have about 80% of the responsibility. How easy is it to set a lineup every week? Well, Chris has already told me that he's not coming to the draft, so I'm pretty sure I'm whatever I want. I have plans Thursday now.

I'm sorry. Team Kreeh. Team Kreeh is already splintering. See, Scott? We're going to have better chemistry than Team Kreth. No, because he and I have, we're on the same page. The best thing that could happen for our chemistry is Chris not being there. Yeah, it doesn't really, well, it doesn't really matter for them because they just have the same answer to everything.

Like, they are of one mind. So, you know, they're interchangeable, basically. It doesn't matter who's drafting. It doesn't matter who's making the moves. Here's what you got to do, because I, I, I co-owned a team with Nando. We missed you too, Scott. Yeah, welcome back.

I co-owned a team with Nando a few years ago, and it was one of the worst things for our friendship. Draft Night was almost the end of our friendship. You have to put a few players on your veto list where, like, okay, you like him, I hate him, and no matter what, we are not drafting this guy unless it's, like, amazing value. And I did that with Josh Hamilton that year. Nando was loving Josh Hamilton. I was like, no. Josh Hamilton's done.

No chance. He drafted Josh Hamilton and I like lost my mind. I got so mad at him and we made it through it, luckily, but we didn't have very good team, I don't think. And I will blame the Josh Hamilton pick. Now, Sky, there is something that you can control and it does kind of go into our email of the day. Let me tell everybody what's coming up on today's show. We're going to look at yesterday's spring training stuff. Bad start from Eduardo Rodriguez.

Great start from Ivan Nova. Max Scher was dominant yesterday. C.J. Crohn stole his third base. whatever that means. We'll look at the Diamondbacks lineup. Daniel Norris, dreadful yesterday, nine runs in three and two-thirds. Interesting comments from Brad Osmiss after that start. Heath is going to tell us which players have better value and worse values on other sites if you're drafting on ESPN or Yahoo compared to CBS. Chris is going to look at rotisserie leagues and what would have won you a category last year in a 12-team league, so like a target of home runs

and steals and batting average. And this email from Doug, also more email, But this from Doug and Astoria, when do you expect teams to start sending injured players to the official DL? I'd like to stash some dorks like Houston Street and Wilson Ramos in my DL slots. Any other DL-bound bad boys you recommend? And this is what I was going to say. I proposed something in a league that Scott is the commissioner of yesterday. I'd like Scott to do it.

I think Scott as commissioner, I think all commissioners should put players on the DL for owners. You can do that in CBS leagues. If we know for a fact that they're going to be on the DL, guys like Jason Kipnis, guys like Wilson Ramos, Scott, make it happen. I have traditionally done that in my longest standing leagues. But the leagues we do here at CBS, I'm like commissioner of 12 leagues, Adam. I can't make a full-time job of moving players to your DL spots for you. What happened?

It's not going to work. It's already taking up too much time in the leagues I do. What happened over the weekend, Scott? You're in a crabby mood. I'm in a crabby mood. I mean, I was in a car for four days out of five. Well, that would explain it. That didn't help.

But I was at my sister's wedding, if you must know. Oh, you should be in such a great mood. It was a joyful occasion. That was the good day of five, yes. That was a good one. I gave a toast, a 10-minute toast. Wow. I've been scared for weeks of making.

So I can relax a little now that that's over. 10 minutes. Turn my attention to other things like baseball season. Like the fact. All right, how's this for news? Yeah. Baby White number two is coming in September. Whoa.

That's right. Hey, all right. Standing, Baby White joining the team, getting a cup of coffee right at the end of the season. That's awesome, man. Congratulations. Thank you. That's great. I don't have any big news, guys.

No, but not. But not to pivot. I'm sorry. That is like, I feel bad like going into baseball, but we haven't really to talk that much about baseball. I do recommend people do that, though, allow some people to free up roster spots. Because, you know, you could have to field an illegal roster in week one, you know, in certain cases if you have too many guys, or not an illegal roster, but you might have to

start guys who are on the DL, and I just recommend that. Now, Heath, tell us about average draft position on other websites and what we need to know if we're drafting this week on Yahoo or ESPN? Well, I started thinking last week that we talk generally either about CBS ADP or we talk about industry ADP, and that's really helpful on a macro level, not so helpful when you have an individual draft on Yahoo or ESPN. So here are, in my opinion, the best values will start with Yahoo. Andrew McCutcheon is going at the end of the fifth round. Mark Trumbo in the eighth round, I think is a phenomenal value.

Yeah. Jose Batista in the ninth round. Carlos Santana 10-11 turn. Dexter Fowler is in the 15th round. Yeah. He was a good steal on Yahoo last year, I remember, Dexter Fowler. We can kind of talk about those guys because I feel like the next group needs to be sorted into a different tier. Because they're all have an ADP over 300.

In other words, you can just wait to the end of your Yahoo draft to draft these guys. and in my opinion, they're all going to help your team. That's Carlos Gomez, Jason Hayward, Lance Lynn, Dylan Bundy, and Tommy Joseph. Okay, awesome. Write that down. I'm actually doing a Yahoo draft tonight, so that will be very helpful for me. And then, do you just want to jump straight to ESPN? Unless you want her to do bad value on Yahoo, but yeah, whatever you want.

I don't have any of those. All right, then, yeah. Joey Botto is going at the end of the second round. What? The reason I think that matters, specifically on ESPN, is a lot of times, I feel like in the middle of round one, I'm left with the choice of, do I take Donaldson, Machado, Bryant, Aeronado,

or do I take Goldschmidt or Rizzo? And I generally choose the third baseman. And I think you should on ESPN if you can get Votto in the second round. I'd rather have that combination, one of those elite third baseman and Joey Votto than one of the elite first baseman, and then you're going to choose an outfielder or a pitcher or somebody in the second round. When you say late at second round for Votto,

Are you... His ADP is 23rd. So you're using our 12 team standard. Right. Okay. Right. Okay. I feel like ESPN generally writes for 10 team leagues, so I just wanted to make sure.

So that would even be a third round pick. Right. Yeah. Which is ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to bring that up too. I do think ESPN typically skews towards 10 team leagues. But yeah, we've actually talked about that a lot, how the first baseman that you could get in round two

would influence which corner infield spot you take in round one. But, you know, also the short stops were in that. that mix. I don't know if you have it open, but do you know where Corey Seeger and Carlos Correa are going? I am only looking at the list that I put together for you. Okay. Chris Davis is following the 82nd overall, so either the end of the 7th and a 12 team or the start of the 9th and a 10 team. All catchers go late on ESPN, so I don't want to just populate the list entirely with catchers. But Jonathan LeCroye is going 89th overall, well behind Posey and Sanchez,

eight, nine turn if you're in a 10-team league. I think that's phenomenal value. I get, if they're all 10-team leagues, people aren't as worried about filling one catcher slot, but LaCroy is still a lot better than everybody else that's available. Okay, Carlos Correa and Corey Seeger are both going between picks 16 and 19

on CBS, ESPN, and Yahoo. So no major bargains there and no big differences. A couple of starting pitchers going in the 100 to 120 range, Cole Hamill's at 100 overall. Danny Salazar at 120 overall. I don't need to take him as early as I've been taking him. Apparently, you can get him at the end of the 10th round of the 12th team league. Is that a bargain?

12th round. It's not a bargain according to Scott. That's exactly where he has him ranked. A couple more on ESPN. A Ledmus Diaz, 151 overall. It's ridiculous. Wow. Aaron Nola 190.

James Paxton, 191. Lance McCuller, 198, Taiwan Walker 285. It is worth noting with Aledmas Diaz. There are four sites listed on Fantasy Pros, ADP. He is 148, 149, 149, and 87. The 87 being CBSSports.com. And I don't know, maybe we're all just dumb and can't see what everyone else does not see in Eladmis Diaz. that seems

a little weird I don't know why everyone's down on Ledmus I did have that when I was when I was talking about

my Tau Wars team and I think I took a Ledmus Diaz in round eight or nine something like that of a 15 team league mind you it may have actually

been round seven of a 15 team league but I felt it was great value and I got a lot of blowback like is that really good value I don't understand I mean

I'm happy with them at that point I'm happy with them at that point. point in a 12th team league. I think he's the last of the potentially first-tier shortstop. So, well, I don't know. I guess Addison Russell is potentially a first-tier shortstop, Jose Parraza,

but ones who have already performed at basically a first-tier level. Yeah. I mean, I can understand thinking that 80th or so is a little early for Diaz, 87th. Not to say that I think it is, I guess I can understand it. But I can't understand 150th. That's wild. Anything else, Heath? That's all I got.

All right. I wanted to ask you guys, we're doing this low draft, I mention it every day. And I took Jonathan VR. I took him 60th overall in a points league, and he walks a lot and shortstop. And this is a 14-team league. I actually was pretty surprised at how much my draft strategy has changed in a 14-team league compared to a 12-team league. I really have gone with position scarcity.

I've factored it in much more because I was sitting there before the Polanco injury. do I take Polanco? Do I take VR? Polanco or VR? And I took VR, and I wouldn't normally do that, but position scarcity. But VR, even though I drafted him on 60th I thought was good value, he's just a guy that I don't really want to draft. So I want to know if there's anyone, multiple players, I'm sure, that unless it's just unbelievable, amazing value, he's just not your guy and you are not drafting who? Rick Porcelo, Kyle Hendrix, Jonathan V.R., Jean Seguura. Okay, the usual suspects.

Yeah, you're just basically going off your bus list there. Francisco Lindor at his current price. I just, I never seem to be able to justify a current late second round value. What about early third? Even that, like, he's pretty good, but he's just kind of. kind of pretty good across the board. I feel like in a lot of our drafts, he falls to the end of the third, though. And then I feel pretty good about it.

I have the same, I mean, I'm kind of in the same place as Chris with Lendor because I feel like, well, I know I like Gene Segar and probably Jonathan V.R. more than you guys do. And then there's always Aladdin M. Diaz to fall back on even beyond that. Like, I just don't, I don't think Lendor and even Bogart's even more so for me. I don't feel like they stand out enough from the rest of that group to justify a third round pick. Now, if it was fourth round, that's when I might start thinking about it, but it rarely is. Someone I follow on Twitter, someone who follows us on Twitter, sent, I think Heath and IMS yesterday. Oh.

Comparing Jose Ramirez and Francisco Lendor. I was about to say that. They're like, I was about to say that. Jose Ramirez is going like 90 spots later and he hit four fewer home runs. Yeah. Well, I like Jose Ramirez. I guess the issue there is when Dors done it, basically. two years in row and Ramirez won.

But, you know, I agree, relatively speaking, Ramirez is the value pick there, for sure. Scott, anybody that you're just not drafting? Well, Bogart's is legitimately one. I've skipped him over in my rankings a few times. I don't know. Adam Jones, I think I'm to the point where I'm not really drafting him.

I don't think he stands out. Danny Salazar. By enough? Well, Danny Salazar, yeah, I didn't know. I didn't want to just go straight down the bus list. Yeah, I put a couple of guys on my list also, Stanton and Braun. I just haven't really been, like round four I would. And I thought, I remember doing a draft like a couple months ago, an early mock draft,

and I took John Carlo Stanton with like the first pick of round three. And I thought, yeah, I'm going to look smart. He's going to have a great ear. And he might. But I don't know. I haven't quite had the guts to pull the trigger on Stanton and Braun, who I consider kind of risky in round three, but also could make me look completely stupid. They could have enormous years. I am aware of that. I would say there's a better chance,

like, there's a pretty decent chance Ryan Braun just returns like third round value on a third round pick. I feel like there's no chance, John Carlo Stan returns third round value. Like, you're either getting like a late first rounder or like a 19th rounder. And there's just no room in between. I'll copy off Chris's homework a little bit and say Buster Posey. Yeah, all three of the Elite catchers for me. I don't say that. I say Posey just because... Right.

Just because I've taken Posey, I think twice and both times, like two rounds later, Jonathan McCoy or Gary Sanchez is still there. I'm like, crap. See, that's the thing is sometimes Gary Sanchez goes before Busted Posey. Right. I'm just going to wait and take Jonathan McCroy after both those guys are fun. I never take Felix Hernandez. Oh, yeah.

So, Scott, you haven't really been on the show that much lately, but, you know, there's some fantasy baseball today optimism. mostly from Chris about Felix Hernandez and good velocity, better, you know, it's somewhat encouraging spring. Where are you on that? Yeah, it is somewhat encouraging. I think it's a lot, there's been a lot of talk about him kind of reinventing himself for his twilight years.

I guess the velocity's been a little better than it was for most of last year, but it's still not like he's, you know, he's still lost a lot of his velocity from when he, Yeah, but he's back to where he was in 2015. There's been, I know the Mariners have encouraged him to use his secondary pitches more, kind of become. Which is what happens to all pitchers as the age. Yeah, kind of become. Did Verlianter did that last year?

Not all pitchers. But most pitchers, it was a sign of age. It's a sign of age. Most pitchers. You can't blow your fastball by. Yeah. Most pitchers throw their fastballs 65% of the time or up earlier in their career. and then as they age, it tends to kind of get right around 50%.

My stance on Felix has softened over the course of spring training because the results have been pretty good, but I don't think... I think the chances of him bouncing back to the ace level we saw a couple years ago are virtually nil, and I think a lot of the pitchers drafted in the same range have a pretty good chance of doing that. So Felix Hernandez could be fine.

He could have kind of a John Lackey type season, I guess, but I just want more. All right, we actually have a lot of news to get to, by the way. And our email address is Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. And you definitely want to stay tuned for later in the show, and it's Team Name Tuesday. I've got one. Oh, oh, all right. Hit me with it.

Great submission from a listener. What is it? It is from our good friend, Brad Altman. Oh, yeah. Open up a Canoa Whopatch. That's pretty good. Wait, is it Canoa? of or cano whopas?

Cano who pass. Right. That's pretty good. I like that. Well done. Good job, Brad. Yeah, so we'll get to those a little bit later. But the news is important today.

We got some big stuff. Jerry's Familia, according to the New York Times, his suspension will likely be less than 30 games. That's what A Rollis Chapman's was. And what does this mean for you guys? I've kind of felt for a while that people were being a little too careful with him in drafts putting him at the very back end of that giant second tier among relievers. You know, even behind like Kelvin Herrera and Cody Allen, who I don't think is going to get

as high a percentage of his team saves as a lot of closers will. Familia, I'm fine with him as my number one closer, even if he does miss 20 games, whatever it ends up being. Yeah, and we figure Addison Reed will step in in his place. And I just want to say Chapman missed him. month last year and he finished as the number six closer in both points and roto. And there's, you know, Familia, not going to strike out as many guys, but he can put up numbers like Chapman.

He's pretty damn good. He put up save totals, that's for sure. Adrian Beltrae has calf tightness. This doesn't seem serious. Good news for Carlos Carrasco. He's going to pitch the second game of the season for Cleveland, so he'll be in the rotation to start the year. Jorge Solerre.

Ouch, oblique strain. He will begin the year on the D.L. Heath. This happened like the same day they optioned Peter O'Brien though, right? I thought that was weird. Yeah, I don't think they, everything I've read is they have no interest in playing Peter O'Brien. They do not believe. Did they lose their D.H spot? Did they lose their D.H spot?

Brandon Moss is going to play D.H. That's fine. Paul Orlando will move into the starting right field spot. Probably better for the pitchers. Orlando's a much better defensive player than Solera's. I guess this probably means that Terrence Gore makes the roster and pinch runs for a bunch. I don't know. Maybe he actually gets them at bats.

I don't think that's a good idea. Oh, by the way, we're going to talk about the Liono to Shields. The Lionel to Shields, 12 steals in 12 attempts and 14 walks in spring training. So we will discuss him shortly. But Raul Mondesie will be Kansas City's starting second baseman. Let's go to our Royals correspondent, Heath Cummings, for his reaction on Raulamondisi. Starting the second basement. To be clear, I did not put these notes together for us to talk about all these royals.

But it was the highest upside play they had. I don't think the royals wanted to start Mondesty in the major leagues because now they pretty much have to send Whitmerifield down or they have to cut Cuthbert or Cologne. So they didn't want to do this. He kind of forced their hand. I don't know that. Mondesty basically has to hit like 270 because he's not going to walk at all. Well, he's a steals guy, though, right?

Well, but he has to get on base. Okay. So the only way to have a 300 on base is hit 270 probably. Is modesty worth a pick in a roto league with a middle infield spot? In the reserve rounds late, sure. I think there's upside. There's untapped upside here. They may finally be showing this spring.

I think there's power upside. You know, he has three home runs, including a big one walk off to center field the other day, right? Yeah. That almost worries me. I don't think he's going to be a 15 or 20 homer guy in the majors And so I just am afraid he starts Using the Chris Tower swing for the fences approach

I mean he's so young It's like it's such a projectable form of power Not one that's really showed up in the results yet But And he's actually said This spring part of the difference he's making Is not swinging out of his shoes Like he used to

That's not an exact quote But that was the gist of it So I feel like he's really he's really starting to mature and bring the talent together when he's just coming into his physical peak. The narrative that Dayton Moore I read in the Dayton Moore talking about it was that the passing of Yordano Ventura caused him to really change the way he approached the game and put a sense of urgency into him. All right.

About improving his game. This may be true. I kind of like him as a late round sleeper in those leagues. Raul Bond to see that we're talking about here. Okay. So another source of steals potentially and maybe more, talking to whatever. You heard what Scott said. Gregory Polanco sat again yesterday, and I guess what I didn't realize is that he's been bothered. Palanco's been bothered by the shoulder injury since like 2013 or something crazy. It's been a while. I guess it's a chronic thing for him. Have you guys seen that it's, you know, a chronic recurring issue for Polanco? And is that a concern for his long-term value? I can find the quote here, if that helps.

I think the fact that he's had trouble staying on the field from time to time does affect his value. Yeah, I don't know. We're not doctors. We haven't seen the MRIs. I have not been able to examine his CT scans. So it's really hard to say. But it's really hard to project him for 155 games.

He's no Andrew McCutcheon. He, okay, this is according to the Post Gazette, Polanco, the shoulder has bugged Polanco on and off since he heard it diving for a ball in 2013. Wow. And it actually affected him last year. He had to sit for a few games and be a pinch hitter. So that is interesting. Okay. Can I go back one second to Raoul Monashy?

I was searching for something that I had seen on Royals Review.com. six of Raulam Odyssey's 17 hits this spring are bunt singles, which doesn't seem like a sustainable pace. I don't know. We were just talking about that with Billy Hamilton. Why doesn't he just bunt every time up? Yeah. And then he has 18 at bats against pitchers

either projected to be in a major league starting rotation or as one of the top three relievers out of the bullpen. He is three for 18 with seven strikeouts. Wow. So. Good for Royals. review. That's a pretty nice time. He's done really well against non-major leaguers. It's worth noting only because usually that kind of small slicing, I think, is kind of pointless, but

because he's never actually hit in the majors and because he looked completely disastrously lost last season. It is worth... Has he ever hit in the minors? More than he did in the majors. He had like 145 last year, I think. Yeah. All right. That's enough for Alamondi talk. Tampa Bay acquired Peter Borges from the White Sox for cash. It doesn't really matter. So my our injuries for the Cubs. Ben Zobrist has a sore neck. Addison Russell has a sore back. Jose Burrios was sent to AAA. Tyler Duffy could make the Twins rotation. A year ago, we were kind of excited about Tyler Duffy. Is anybody still excited about Duffy? No. Nope. Nope. I still don't hate the idea of a late, late pick on Burrios. I'm not sure

he'll be down there for a long time. And Andrew Triggs and Raul Alcantara are in the Oakland rotation. Triggs was terrible yesterday against those mighty royals. He had a good explanation for it though. He was working on his change-up, which is his fourth best pitch, and he says, what happens when you're

emphasizing your fourth best pitch is you're going to fall behind a lot in the count and give up a lot of hits. So it seemed to make sense to me. Well, is Triggs fantasy relevant? Yes. At least in head-to-head points leagues, because

of his relief pitcher eligibility. I mean, I like Corbyn more, but Triggs is in that discussion. The race for the Mets fifth starter spot is on, and that is Zach Wheeler, who had a very good start yesterday, five scoreless innings, and Seth Lugo also pitched yesterday in a split squad game, and he had a bad start. So Wheeler wins yesterday. It doesn't mean he's going to get the job. Apparently he has a 120 innings limit.

He has not pitched in the big leagues in two years. What's your take on the Mets right now? I don't have much interest in Wheeler even if he gets the rotation spot. He's very similar to Matt Moore in that, you know, very hyped prospect, throws hard, has good stuff, but the results lagged a little behind because of efficiency, because of control issues. If he has 120- inning limit, I don't know, he could be useful in head-to-head leagues when he's pitching, but I'm not targeting him.

He only has a year and a half of big league experience, to be fair. And a three-five ERA over that span. It's not like he's been... He hasn't been bad, no. But Matt Moore had similar results before his Tommy John as well. But it was a lot of... Matt Moore is also like the 45th starting pitcher off the board or something like that. So, I mean, is Wheeler going to be an ace this year?

No. I think he's a good deep sleeper. Yeah. And I'd actually... Honestly, I'd prefer if he wasn't in the Mets rotation to start out because he would go to extended spring training. You could stash him in a DL spot. And then once he did come back, you wouldn't have to worry about him getting shut down all of a sudden.

Also, even more prepared for season, too. He'd be throwing those innings in extended spring, though. Well, no, they'd hold him back. The whole idea of that plan would be to preserve his innings for later in the year. By the way, he did have a decent ERA, 342, 354, but Wheeler had a 136 whip and a 1-33 whip into. two seasons. So he's got to get that control, you know, controlled. Now, Hyun Jin Ryu, let's go to Junjun Riu guys. Probably shouldn't have waited 28 minutes to talk about him. He's in the Dodgers

rotation, and let's remind you about Riu. Riu is 30. In 2016, last year he pitched four and two thirds innings, and he missed all of 2015. So he's basically, like Wheeler, has been completely gone for two years. 2013, Rew was 14 and 8 with a 3-ERA and a 1.20 whip. 2014, he was 14 and 7 with a 338 RA and a 1.19 whip, and did a little bit better with the strikeouts, 139 in 152 innings. Is anybody interested in Junjin Ryu on your fantasy rosters? I see Amour as a guy to monitor at the start of the year. He puts together a couple good starts at the beginning,

then he becomes an attractive waiver claim. His velocity isn't all the way back yet. He's not a guy who has big velocity in the first place, so maybe it's not as big of a deal as somebody like Matt Harvey. But the results have been good. Obviously, he was a fantasy mainstay before he got hurt. Don't think we're to the point of drafting him in a mixed league yet, but I'm keeping an eye on him.

Okay. Ken Jin Ryu, and finally, oh, by the way, Alex Wood's going to begin the season on the DL. So Brandon McCarthy, not Alex Wood. Scott Casimir. Casimir. Yeah, it's between McCarthy and Alex Wood, the fifth spot. Yeah. And Alex Cobb is a back injury, but it's not really an injury.

injury, he will be fine. Here are three random questions from Adam to you. I feel like we love Yasmani Grandal. Am I right? Chris definitely does. I just like him. I'm kind of, I don't, I never draft him because one of these two guys gets to him before me. I think he kind of is who he is.

So he'll be on team Kreef, not team scam. Well, Chris isn't going to be there at the draft, so we'll probably have Jonathan McRoy. I don't think Grandal necessarily is who he is Because I can't What I can't understand with Yasmani Grandal Is why he's been such a bad batting average guy When he doesn't You know, he doesn't have a terrible walk-to-strikeout ratio

Like I just don't get why he hits 220 And two years ago He was having a great year And then he finished with like four hits in his last 80 at bats Because he got hurt He got hurt Yeah, he got hurt two years ago in 2015 he was hitting 295-5-12 on August 4th.

That's insane. And then he hit 072 in his last 32 games. His batting average is going to be relatively low because he doesn't hit a lot of line drives, because he hits a relatively high number of fly balls. Those things would tend to drive your Babbup down. But I still think he was a 250 Babbup guy last year. His career is 275. If he just had a 275 Babbat last year, he probably hits 250.

And then all of a sudden, he looks a lot better. All right, that's question the first. Question the second. Question the first. I like that. It's from The Simpsons. Name that episode, Scott. Question the first.

I don't know. I thought it sounded weird, too. It's when Lisa wants to go to the exhibit at the museum and she takes the bus. She asks the comic book guy if she could sit next to him. And he's like, yes, if you could answer me, these questions three. Question the first. And she just walks away disgusted. So there it is.

Let's get those lightsabers out, Chris. Delano to Shields. Delano to Shields, again, 12 steals and 12 attempts. 14 walks, should he be drafted? In Roto Leagues, I think he should. Because steals are so scarce and because it sounds like he's the Rangers lead off hitter. Like, he came in. they asked him coming into this season to

make an effort to get on base and be aggressive on the bases like he was two years ago. I think last year he got kind of caught up trying to build up as more of a power hitter. I think he slimmed down in the offseason. I think I remember reading that. And obviously the results have been exactly what the Rangers wanted. So it sounds like he's going to be a lead off hitter. Obviously two years ago as a rookie, he mattered in Roto Leagues.

So do you think ProFar is just out? Yeah. Or he's going to be in his utility. guy. DeShields sounds like he is the left fielder and lead off hitter of a deep lineup. I mean, even apart from the steals, that counts for something. I actually think DeShields and Mondesie both to go back to him. I'm writing a piece today. The

spring training storylines that haven't gotten enough attention spring training developments that haven't in both of them. DeShields and Montessy are on that list. Oh, how about that? Would you rather have the shields or Brett Gardner? I'd rather have to shields. I'm not sure what Brett Gardner really stands out in anymore. Yeah, being bad. Like somebody dropped them in our Memorial Magazine League,

which is 12 teams, 30 roster spots. And I'm like, oh, I got to pick up Bright Gardner. And then when I really started looking at who I'd have to drop for him, I was like, I guess I don't have to pick up Brett Gardner. That's a pretty deep league, 316 players. Yeah, I still think Brett Gardner's probably the top 60 outfielder, though. Yeah, I think he's... Yeah.

All right, would you rather have Yasio Puiger to line order shields? Yes, yeah. Pug. I'd rather have Pueig. All right. And finally, question the third. Should Hararado Parra be drafted? Maybe get like a few weeks out of a Colorado hitter.

Should he be drafted? I don't think so. I think he can be drafted. I'm not... I think I have him like $290. Here's the thing You say a couple weeks If Herodopara starts well

This was a battle During spring training Did I say a couple? I think I said a few weeks Even a few Like I don't think Herato Parra Is just destined

To go to the bench As soon as everyone's healthy Well yeah What was weird about him last year He's never going to walk much His strikeout rate went up But he only had a 297 Babbitt playing for the Rockies

This is a guy with a 320 career babbip you would expect a 320 career badbit to play up to like 3.30, 340. And if not higher. Yeah. And so, you know, there's a chance that he could be a 290 batting average guy in Colorado. I'm just not sure what else he'll be, you know? Yeah. And I don't rule out the possibility, like Heath was saying.

It ends up being more than a couple weeks. They don't just immediately turn the job over to David Dahl. But I'm not sure. if what he provides will be attractive enough. All right. That's Herardo Parra. So I'm guessing you, if you were picking up one, you'd pick up the shields over Parra? I would.

That makes sense. Yeah. Okay. So, Chris, let's talk about rotisserie. People want to know, hey, how much do I need in each particular category to win? So what did you find? All right. Let me pull that up.

I looked at the results of CBS Sports 12-12-team mixed leagues last year. not necessarily. If you have a games played limit, your numbers are going to be lower. But do you want me to just go through every category? Yeah, sure. Okay, to get first place, the average first place last year. Before you start into this, can you kind of explain the methodology? I don't know if that's boring to listen to, but I just wondered how you arrived at these numbers. I have a spreadsheet with the results of every CBS Sports.com.

league last season. I averaged, I took the average of every first place, the average of every second place, and so on down the line. Okay, and then just in case people aren't clear, the way it works in Roto, let's say the category is batting average, and there are 12 teams. If your team has the best collective batting average, you get 12 points. If you're in second place, you get 11 points, all the way down to one point for finishing in last place in each category. So Chris is going to tell us the number that one...

And you were just... This was just for 12 team leagues? Just for 12 team. And I posted on Twitter, AL and NL only, for 12 team as well. At C-Tower or CBS. This is 12-team. And at CVS fans. Okay.

But this is 12-team mixed, 5 by 5. Batting average, first place average, 281 last year. 332 home runs. Actually, let's do this. Chris, let's do what first place average and let's do what's 6 place average. So you know what they'll have a pack. is 281 for batting average was first place 269 for 6th place 12 point difference yes home runs 332 for

385 for second place or 6 place it's 47 dogs yes 111 105 runs was first place 1,002 was 6 place that's a lot 100 103 runs uh yes 1088 was first place in rbii 980 for six place. Stolen bases, 173 to 120. So, 53. Yeah, one. Billy Hamilton. One Trey Turner could win you, could move you from six to first.

That's huge. Yeah. One Billy Hamilton could move you from like ninth to first if he has a good season. Wins, first place was 107. Sixth place was 88, so not that big of a gap. 19 wins. ERA 331. to 3-78.

Strikeout, 15-02 to 13-12. Ooh, that's almost... 190 strikeout. That's almost 200. Wow. WIP, 1.14 to 1.23 and saves

119 to 82. So I think what you see is that in the counting numbers, basically like one elite hitter moves you from first to sixth place. So... I'd be curious... And I mean, you could go through them.

I don't know if we want to do that, but, like, because that's a big gap between one and six. For most of those categories, the gap seemed large, and a lot of times, I mean, you don't win Roto League by finishing first in every category. You win by win by finishing fourth in every category, or maybe a little higher than that, maybe a little lower than that. That's generally how it works. So you don't, like, if you're aiming for first, right, you're probably over-killing in one

area and underdoing it in other areas. That's how the results turn out too a lot of times. The person who wins home runs may win it by more than they needed to. Yeah, I looked at one of the Roto leagues we did last year. I actually finished first in home runs with like 360 and I was 40 ahead of second place. Right. That's a situation where I could have definitely sacrificed some power. It's an excess dongs there.

I did have some excess dongs. And the whole point of this was I was thinking about Billy Hamilton and whether he's worth drafting. And I think he is because he's one guy that you can just. You can invest one roster spot in Billy Hamilton, and if he hits, plays 150 games, I think he's probably going to steal 75 or more bases. That's basically, you can just not worry about steals all that much for the rest of your roster and still end up in pretty good shape just because of him. And VR stole 62 bases last year, and if you recall the research I did like a month ago, a month ago, at least, it's rare for a guy to steal that many bases and not steal. 40 the next year as long as he stays healthy. So as much as I don't really want VR, I kind of feel like he's going to steal 40 bases or more.

And he's not a bad pick. It's just like a personal thing. For me, I just... It'd be fine if he was going in the fifth, sixth, seventh round, but when he goes in the third round, I don't even... Well, I don't want to take him in the third round. The format I want VR the most in Adam is the one we're drafting together on Thursday. So are we going to be budding heads over VR? And in a 16-team league, I will take him in the third round.

There was only one correct answer there, Adam. Are we going to say, yes, VR. Well, yes, VR. But that's the thing. Like, I don't really agree. See, this is the problem. Like, if Scott and I were doing a head-to-head points league or even a standard roto league together, I think we'd be okay. I do not agree with all of Scott's theories on the head-to-head categories, which is what we're doing together, which is what the podcast for the People League is.

Maybe you can calm him down a little bit this year. Well, no, I just don't need calming down. Maybe I'm exactly right. I don't know. You're obsessed with categories. I know this is changing the approach because the record was so bad last year. You're obsessed with categories, though. That's the thing.

Like, you're going to take... Well, it's a categories league. But you're going to take VR over a better overall player, and for the purpose of one category. Yeah, I mean, if the purpose is to win categories in a given week, you need the kind of players that can win new categories in a short span of time. But if he's the guy who's going to win you... 60 bases, do that.

Guys who steal 15? Not so much. But if he's the guy who's... Please do a podcast with just the two of you during the draft on Thursday night. If he's going to win you category and lose you categories, he's not. He'll hit his many home runs. Like the comparison that we made in the mock draft earlier that for this format had to head categories that spawned this whole conversation was Francisco Lendor versus Jonathan V.R. I mean, in all likelihood, Fierr is going to Homer as much as Lendor does too. But Bogarts.

Bogarts. Like, that's the one I would struggle with. If you wanted to take VR over Bogarts, it would, you know. We're going to have a problem here because you don't like Bogarts. And I really do. So maybe we'll just take a short stop at another point of the draft. We'll see. Let's not count our chickens before we hatch.

Okay. All right. I think we can, like, now that I've been forced into this position, I think we can make something magical together, Adam. Okay, good. I'm excited. And then the real issue is going to be like, you know what I do is I watch baseball and a lot and I make a lot of add drops. And I don't know how that's going to go. Like, I'm going to have to text you a lot.

But you go to sleep probably because you got a kid. You probably go to sleep before I do. So I don't want to wake you. No, I don't go to sleep that early. All right. Well, that's good. I get up pretty early. Okay.

Well, we can talk in the morning. Although I don't want to talk that. That's weird. You know, I co-managed a team with you last year, and I don't remember you really being that involved. Football is different, the baseball. Actually, Adam, my greatest weakness is a fantasy play right now is just the, you know, the number of leagues I'm in. Like, I can't go through all those leagues every night. I tend to save my ad drops for one day of the week and just do them all together across the board.

So I miss out on some of those midweek pickups. So if you're doing that and, you know, you're just texting me for approval, which is fine. It could be the best of both worlds. Rivening stuff. Absolutely. I mean, the podcast listeners are hanging on by the edge of their seats trying to figure out. This is really phenomenal. All right.

All right, let's do something more interesting then. Well, I'll let you decide. Should we do favorite formats? Should we do over or under for this year? We could also save any of these for tomorrow. Oh, crap. I forgot about yesterday's spring training stuff. And team name Tuesday?

Oh, we got a lot. All right, we're going to save favorite formats for tomorrow. Let's talk more nitty-grady baseball stuff. No, it'll end up being long. Trust me. Yesterday's spring training stuff. So let's do some bad performances, and you guys tell me what you're concerned about, if anything. Eduardo Rodriguez, he gave up four runs in the fourth inning,

and John Farrell said he had a lack of focus. And he came in with a 2080RA, got beat up yesterday by the Orioles, Eduardo Rodriguez. Daniel Norris, 13 hits, nine runs, and three and two-thirds. He was dealing with a dead arm. Brad Osmus said, you've got to battle through that. I believe the quote was, my arm feels like it weighs a million pounds. Oh, well, that's a lot of pounds.

See, Colin McHugh had dead arm too, right? And they just shut him down for like a month? He had general dead arm. General dead arms. This is just heavy down. This is corporal dead arm. Right. Private friends.

A debit dead arm. But dead arm happens. It does, and I guess we shouldn't panic over Daniel Norris. Osmus, and neither Osmiss or Norris seemed worried in a long run. But I think it's horrible timing for Norris, because Boyd has been the Tiger's second best pitcher this spring. And Anabel Sanchez, since making a mechanical adjustment, is like no-hit everybody. So I don't know that we can be 100% sure Daniel Norris has a rotation spot, but he probably does. All right.

And the other one that was bad in quotes, Carlos Martinez, he's got a 1380 RA. That's great. Six strikeouts and 13 innings. This is a guy who, remember we read that article that he might get away from striking batters out to go deeper into games, Carlos Martinez, and he struck out eight per nine last year,

which isn't very good for an ace. So six strikeouts and 13 innings for Carlos Martinez, your thoughts? Blue Jays are going to trade for him. He, yeah. I mean, the fact that he's talked about pitching the contact more, look, it's hard to complain about the results, even without the strikeouts last season.

But, you know, I think the strikeouts are what could push him into the legitimate ace territory. And so that's what I'd like to see him do. And it's not happening. Not yet. We'll see. All right, good stuff. Trey Turner and Bryce Harper, both homeward twice against the Mets. Max Scherzer.

did walk three batters, but two hits, no runs, seven strikeouts in five innings against the Mets. Albert Pujol's having a nice spring, got a 9-81 OPS batting 343. C.J. Crone stole his third base. Mike Trout stole his fourth base. I'll stop there, and we'll do a few more after this, but we got Trey Turner and Harper homering twice, Scherzer with a good start. Pujols, Cron. Anything? Pujol's has had really good springs for, like, the entire time during his decline phase. and it's making me wonder like what is it about the spring that like because he's hit for batting average in the spring as long as well with power and then once the season starts he stopped hitting

for batting average and just wonder like is that just like teams are playing worst defenders they aren't instituting the same kind of defensive shifts against him in the spring he's not tired of that that kind of stuff that's what i the second one is it's kind of what i what i guess i mean i don't have any information on it but i would guess in spring training they're not really going all out with the the infield shifts, and I feel like that's been the biggest detriment to Pujols' batting average over the years. I think he's just been resting for three months, and his old body isn't tired. He doesn't usually get off to good starts, though, in April. We've got tired.

We downgraded Pujolz in early February because we weren't sure if he was going to be healthy. He's healthy now, and every year he still hits 30 home runs. I feel like he's being a little undervalued. Yeah, that's what I thought, too. But, you know, Scott, you haven't really waited on the talk of the spring training. Greg Byrd, would you rather have Greg Byrd or Albert Pooholtz? I'm going to have more shares in Byrd. I draft Poohulls first, though.

You know what? Somebody tweeted me yesterday. Greg Bird and his draft went in the eighth round or the seventh round or something like that. And Hanley Ramirez went two rounds later. I definitely think it's realistic that we're going to start seeing somebody in every draft or most drafts, many drafts, whatever, reach for Greg Bird. and I kind of feel like he'll go ahead of Albert Pooleholz now. Yes, I agree. I've done three drafts in the last week.

They're the only three where I drafted Greg Bird, and I got him in rounds 18, 19, and 20, respectively. I think that's the – and I'm – there's a way you can look at ADP just over the last week. And I'm curious what it is, because I feel like that's the exception. I could be wrong. That surprise? Versus going to look at the right. I'm just saying that's why I haven't like...

Well, but in a vacuum, who do you like better, Poo Holes or Bird? I'd still take Poo Holes if it came down to it. Yeah. I mean, there's a chance Greg Byrd does end up sitting more against lefties than we think he's going to. I'd much rather have Bird. Like, Poo holes, if he's healthy, you know you're going to start him every week, and he's going to be... I mean, as much as you can say for anybody in their mid-30s, he's going to be fine. Well, here's Poo-holes finish at first base.

the last three seasons. Two, second and points, third in Roto. Sixth in points, eighth in Roto. Eleventh in points, tenth in Roto. So he's gotten worse every year. Yeah, and I just look at him in Roto. He's just a two-category guy, and they're not necessarily difficult categories to find. All right, let's go back to yesterday's spring training stuff.

Yvonne Nova is having a really good spring. 129 ERA, one walk, 13 strikeouts in 14 innings. Vince Velasquez had a great start against the Blue Jays Shelby Miller did fine I guess Four and a third five hits two runs Two walks and four strikeouts And Jabari Blash hit his seventh home run of the spring So Nova Velasquez

Shelby Miller Jabari Blash Anything to say about those guys I've come around to Velasquez a bit I know Chris has always been at the forefront I've been leading that parade But At a really good spring Strikeout rate's been off the charts.

He's been working on his secondary stuff. One bad outing, basically. He contributed very heavily to the legend of Greg Berggrowing. Greg Berg brought two massive home runs off of him. I liked him so much going into last season. If it seems like he's making improvements, I should just kind of forget about last year. It's kind of interesting to me, though.

What? The pitcher I think he's most similar to, or will end up being most similar to in the long run as Danny Salazar, who you despise. It's not so much that. that I despise Danny Salazar. Like if Danny Salazar was valued like Vince Velasquez was, I'd probably like Danny. Well, no, I just mean like when he looks good, he's going to look like the best pitcher in baseball.

And when he doesn't look good, he's going to miss his spots by three inches and get crushed. Yeah. But, you know, when I wrote about Vince Velasquez earlier, it was actually the fastball's there. He's got an incredible fastball, racks up a ton of whiffs with it, really good results. The secondary pitches are all kind of middling. He's got three just kind of like decent secondary. It's Vince Velasquez. If he can get one of them to be plus and another one to just be average, he's got ace potential.

I want to ask you, Chris, about Shelby Miller because you've expressed some enthusiasm for him recently. And I don't know that, I don't know how I feel about Shelby Miller. He's been throwing really hard this spring. Yeah. I feel like last year was such an aberration that it's hard to take serious. And he may be being undervalued in that general sense, but at the same time, that same league I was referring to earlier were 360 players that rostered. I was dropping him for Patrick Corbett the other day. Yeah, but they didn't like that.

He's, Creeth did not like that. Oh, neither of you liked it. I didn't, I don't know that I didn't like it. I think I just egged Chris on a little bit. Oh, okay. Well, I don't know how to distinguish between the two. We're talking about guys at the end of your draft that you're taking a flyer on. Yeah.

You know, the Lance Lynn comparison was one that I've made. Patrick Corbyn's another one. These are guys that have shown the ability to be above average pitchers who, for whatever reason, haven't been or weren't last year. The thing with Miller is that he's basically going undrafted across the board. He's got a 401 ADP right now. I think his ownership's like 20% in CBSSports.com leagues. Well, can I just speed it up and ask, would you rather have Shelby Miller or Yvonne Nova? Shelby Miller.

in a mixed league where there were options to fall back on all i'll take the higher upside i might say nova just because i'm like i think they're both probably streamers earlier in the early in the year it's just i mean and i'd rather stream nova it's just to give a different answer like to really complicate this i feel like there's a better chance of von nova is the one who's a fixture on people's rosters mid-season. Yeah. Like, Miller could just completely blow up by end of April. Nobody ever touches them again.

That's an upset. And Nova, I feel like, he's going to be reliable, just boring. Okay. All right, let's do Team Name Tuesday here. This is from Ryan in Tampa. He gave us three. He actually gave us five. I only picked three.

Marte McFly. Very good. Cesar Saladino, or Caesar Saladino. Sorry. No. I'm sure I follow that one. Not at all. Caesar salad.

Caesar salad. And in honor of the movie, Deadpool. Deadpool hitter. I like that one a lot, actually. That's very funny. Greg from Massachusetts. Shake Yasmani Maker. I like it.

Yeah. It's almost as good as Yasmani. Money Tomas' troubles. I don't know. I don't know that Yasmani's name translates. enough well enough to anything. Yeah, you always have to kind of think about it, which is never good at the team name. It's too much of a stretch.

Kyle from Hoboken, Grandolph the Grey, as in Gondal and Gray. Yeah. Dali Lama, like David Dahl. Or Dali Lama, Dahlia. Dali Lama. I like it. All right, this one's from Stephen Milwaukee. U, G, L-Y, you Fegli.

Yeah, yeah, you Fegley. Fegley. Yeah, that's there. I'm going to guess that's a team name where you don't actually own the player that you're named your team after. It's like an AL-only two-catcher league. Jason in Toronto has a terrible team name for us, as he said. Never Nervis Jan Hurvis. For Nervis Pervis?

Yeah, and Never Nervis Pervis is the worst actual sports nickname in sports history. For Purvis Ellison, just terrible. And finally, Steve LaFleur. You can think of worst nicknames to Purpose Ellison. Never nervous. Purvis? Think of a worst nickname. I mean, it's going to say it.

It's pretty easy. No, an actual one, like a real nickname that somebody actually had. That's worse. Oh, yeah. If you did give Purvis a. I always called Purvis Ellis something else. I don't know. What do you call, Scott?

Like, it's not like it's anything that would have to be bleeped out. It's just mean. You call it a pervert? That's not cool. The perv. The perv. The perv. All right, all right.

Last one from Steve LaFleur. Bup, but Ben and Tendi and the Betts. I like it a lot. Yeah. Actually, we had a couple people submit that one, so go for it. All right, here we go. Emails, Fantasy Baseball. It's DBSI.com.

This is from Vincent. I've been using the RP strategy in a head-to-head categories league. for years. Even used it and won in a 40-innings minimum league last year. The only way to defend against it is to only throw your best starting pitcher matchups. So your opponent doesn't have starting pitchers. You're likely to take wins and K's, even if you don't use your full complement of starters. By only throwing your best matchups, you put the pressure on them and ERA and WIP to be perfect.

That's a good idea. Yeah, that's pretty interesting. You get like one pitcher who goes seven innings, five hits, no runs. You know, that could be huge for you. If you get two, then, that's amazing. All right. Jonathan in New Jersey. Hey, Ron, Ben, and John Ralphio.

Parks and Rec. Yeah. I drafted Manuel Margo and Jose de Leon with the 294th and 295th picks of my draft yesterday. Do you expect them to be with the big league club on opening day? Manuel Margot and Jose de Leon. I do not expect Jose de Leon. Is Manuel Marco hurt? He was.

Manuel? Manuel? He was hurt. He played yesterday. I'm almost positive. I'm not sure if he's going to need extra time to get ready for the season. I mean, I understand he's playing now. It's up in the air.

You've got to let Jabari Blas swing the batterly in the year. Yeah, and he's a little redundant with Travis Jankowski for now. So it wouldn't surprise me if Margot isn't there at the start of the season. And I think Jose de Lone is expected to open the season in the minors. Yeah. I thought he got sent to the minors. Yep. That would be why he's expected to, Adam.

I think so. I'm not positive. It's not official until they name him 25-man roster. No, some people get options. I think he's in minor league game. All right, yeah. There you go. Omar and Buffalo, 14-team category keeper league.

My starters are Quato, Tanaka, Hendricks, and John Gray. Quato, Tanaka, Martinez, Hendrix, and John Gray. Could have some trouble with strikeouts there. I need to add one or two guys for depth. Please rank the following free agent options. Geo, Hellixon, Skaggs, Norris, Daniel Norris, Tillman, and Hobby Garah, Junior Gera. I'm going to go Geo and Norris.

Yeah, those would be the two I would target. I think I have Helixen ahead of both. I think I have Skaggs ahead of both, too. Okay. I think I have Gera ahead of both. Scott's so contruring. Well, when Kreef speaks first, then, yeah, Scott's get chariot. If Scott speaks first first, then Kreth would be.

This is an email from Patrick in Pliadal, Ray, California. He says, Dear Hank, Bo and Paul. No idea. Yeah, they're from the 89-90 Loyola, Marymount Lions. Hank gathers. Outstanding team. That was so much fun to watch. Yeah, I don't know.

We wouldn't know, old man. You don't remember them? I was five. Yeah, it was two. They scored like 120 points a game. One of them, and I'm going to get in trouble now, I think it was Hank Gathers actually passed away. Yes.

And so one of the other ones shot his free throws left-handed in his honor throughout the tournament. Oh, no kidding. Yeah, it was a fantastic story, but I was like 10, so I don't remember all of it. Oh, that is a good story. Okay, so here's the question. A more late round picks here. Starting pitchers, who has the highest ceiling? Mike Fultenevich, Jared Eikoff, Daniel Norris, Joe Musgrove.

I call. I would say Norris has the most upside. I think... Fulty. Shock has the most upside. Absolutely shocking. I think they all have similar upside, though. I'm just going to lean toward the guy who throws 100 is having the most upside.

All right, that's actually, oh, Scott, perfect email for you to end the show with, ready? Okay. Nick in Shoreview, Minnesota. He says, dear Ken, Bob, and Felipe, those are baseball dads. Oh. I first want to thank you for your fantastic podcast. I've been listening for three years. It makes my hour, daily commute, enjoyable, and educational.

I have now recommended four of my friends who I know listen on a regular basis. I am emailing you because my wife recently said I am spending more time preparing for my fantasy baseball. League than for the upcoming birth of my son. So to justify my consumption of your podcast, can you give me some advice on becoming a new dad? Yeah, Adam and I have to sit this one out. Advice on becoming a new dad. I mean, I could give a lot of advice on becoming a new dad.

A lot about the day in general, the day specifically you become a new dad. I was going to take the long-term focus. Okay. Well, let's go ahead and tell you. take the long term focus. Let them cry. Let them cry. Like when they're little babies and they're trying

to go to sleep, let them cry themselves to sleep sometimes. When they get to be toddlers and they want something and start cry about it, let them cry. Like the hooty and the blowthage. Oh, you stole the hooty reference from me, Dan. Let her cry. Let them cry is my piece of parenting advice. And they become much more self-dependent. I take all of my life advice.

Darius Rucker. Yeah. The dolphins make me cry. The Gamecocks. Yeah, he was a game cock. He was crying at the game. I'm not sure if the actual... Like, the baby mechanics is the same from baby to baby, and, like, I've only dealt with one myself.

It's the same basic anatomy. Like, I've never had a baby, but they're all going to have mostly the same parts. I think a sleep schedule is very important, both for the baby and your sanity. but, you know, the baby doesn't cooperate. What are you going to do? That is just... Let him cry. Let him go back to my place.

Okay. It's all connected. Sleep is... That's what you want to tell him? Is that it? That's fine. That's what you want to tell them. Like, I'm not...

I'm trying to relate it back to fantasy baseball. Don't. Just give him a... Put on a little... Dylan. Sitting on a fence. All right. Said a lot of things.

You asked me what I meant by. This show is over. Goodbye. Pudy the Blowfish. forever.