Fantasy Baseball Today - 03/29 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: More Spring Stories, Draft Takeaways, Over/Under

Episode Date: March 29, 2017

We cover Spring Training winners such as Byung Ho Park and Byron Buxton and Spring Training losers like Zack Greinke and Aaron Nola on today's show. Which Spring stats matter? ... Teams are filling out their MLB rosters as Matt Boyd earns a spot, the Reds have a guy named "Rookie" in their rotation and Cameron Maybin appears to be holding off Ben Revere in LF for the Angels ... Over/under on Bryce Harper's stats, Billy Hamilton's batting average, Charlie Blackmon's steals and a lot more ... 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

This one day before Team Scam faces Team Heath in the For the People League. We're so excited. Welcome for this show. And also the podcast league, the podcast points league draft is tonight. And apparently we have a mock draft this afternoon. Is that right, Scott? We do. We do.

We do. So tired of mock drafting. But this is the last one. The last one. People need their mock draft results heading into the second biggest draft weekend of the year. Two real drafts over the next two days. And I said, Scott, why can't we just publish the real draft instead of doing another mock draft day. We're doing the same format tonight, Scott. We might as well just

public that. We could also mind just a random draft any old users did on our site and throw it up as mock draft results. But I think the readers expect more. Okay, fair enough. We should do a Twitter poll. Welcome to the show. Apparently there was a nice debate in the office yesterday between Scott and Chris, right? Yeah, I had no part in it. Sure. You were just airing our dirty laundry publicly over Twitter. Keith is the one who started. the fight. Yeah, neutral arbitrator, Heath Cummings. But today on the show, we're going to tell you you everything you need to know. There was a lot that went on in spring training yesterday. Another interesting outing for Zach Granky with fairly low velocity. Corey Klober got beat up a little bit.

Aaron Nola is having a bad spring, but Pete McAnon is not too worried. Nate Carnes was excellent. Bungo Park continues this big spring. I want to talk about Byron Buckston. I want to talk about Mike Zanino, 12 walks to 11 strikeouts for Mike Zanino this spring. And big numbers from him. I had a draft last night on Yahoo. I think there are some takeaways that hopefully I think can help our listeners. What do fantasy owners need to know, though? Right now, what do you want to start to show off with?

Chris, you haven't talked much? Hit me with it. He has no idea. So I'm in person right now. I'm in the office. And I just came with all my energy. And I threw it right at Chris. And he was just like stunned.

He absorbed it. That was your first mistake. I don't know. I'm kind of, I was talking to Heath about this this morning. I'm kind of at a loss for new content right now. Because it's like most people have probably drafted. If you haven't, you're waiting until the weekend. But like, we're just kind of in limbo.

I just want the games to start. We're getting the final spring training games in today, I think. So we should get a look at a lot of teams everyday lineup. So that actually might be what you need to know. Is who's starting today in spring training might give you a, a good idea of where people are going to bat. You know, I just saw the Braves lineup for today's game. They are batting Ender in CRT, leadoff, Dansby-Swanson second.

So that's potentially newsworthy. Way to make something out of nothing, Chris. Yeah, he put it together. You know, I needed to, uh, I've been playing the game uncharted a lot. There's a lot of sequences in that game where he's like falling down a cliff and grabs onto one ledge. And, you know, that was my Nathan Drake impersonation. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Yeah, Nathan Drake. Sure, he's great. I just wanted to mention, like, because it's great, the grapefruit and cactus, leagues are ending today, but there are still going to be exhibition games. Yeah, they'll do like in their home stadiums and stuff. All right, Scott. What are you guys? We kind of made reference

to this yesterday, and I wasn't sure yet how true it was, but yeah, it looks like if you want Greg Bird, you're going to have to pay a premium for him at this point. I think he went to the 11th round in my 12-team league yesterday. Yeah, so I did a draft last night, and it was somewhere around there also.

Somebody tweeted that me that he went for 13 in a mixed league auction as well. And I'm all right with it. I was ready to take him. He was in my queue. It was kind of like I wasn't, I wouldn't have taken him right where this person took him in round 11 or whatever. And I think it was a 14 team league in like round 11. Okay. But it was to the point where I was thinking, you know, of all the hitters that are left,

there may be some safer bets out there, but I think this is clearly the highest upside one. So I was at least starting to think about taking it at that point It may have been a round or two later when I actually did But it obviously didn't happen Couldn't happen The thing that I noticed today Because I was trying to do this morning an update of all my rankings For the next two days drafts that I am really really excited about

Yeah And a lot of the news that's coming out Is the fourth and fifth starters for teams That maybe don't have exceptional rotations We already knew the Nate Carnes news We talked about Ryu Yesterday Amir Garrett

He's going Made the rotation for the Reds He's probably I guess one of their Top pitching prospects They've also got a pitcher That is a rookie Named Rookie Davis

That's going to be in their rotation That's pretty cool That's pretty cool. I'd be even cooler If next year he changed his name To sophomore But he probably won't But perhaps even more

Noteworthy is Matt Boyd Beating out Anabal Sanchez Yeah Well I don't know You tell me which ones Amir Garrett Matt Boyd Are either them mixed league relevant and who's got more upside?

What do you think? I could see taking, I'd be more likely to take Boyd. It would have to be a deeper mixed league. It'd have to be in the reserve rounds. It'd have to be late. Garrett, I think, is somebody you watch his first starter to and see. But in NL only, for sure, you go grab them. Yeah, he had like a, Garrett had like a 150-ish ERA at AA last year.

Went to AAA and it was a little shakier. but definitely a prospect. They're both outside my top 100's starting pitcher, so I think kind of the same range you're talking about Heath where maybe a deep mixed league is somebody to fill out your pitching staff Boyd first and then Garrett. All right, yeah, well, you don't need a Jeff Danabal Sanchez. Cameron Maven's apparently going to be the Angels starting left fielder.

We'd been sort of keeping track of that because Ben Revere was having a much better spring. Ben Revere is just going to be backing up all the outfield positions. We got more of those types of news and notes. I think what fantasy owners need to know right now is that I got to line order shields in a draft last night and in our auction league where I was hurting for speed. I put on an $8 bid for him out of $100. And I'm very excited. So this is obviously like a later version of Greg Burr just in terms of draft Riser. And I don't think the overall upside is quite as high.

You're basically just drafting a steel specialist who, you know, it helps you bat's lead off for a good lineup. it helps that he'll probably have better on-base skills than most pure speedsters. And he's also like, it could be two weeks and all of a sudden he's in a platoon and you're dropping it. Could be. It's possible. Could be. But, you know, people are hurting for speed. Sure.

I just want everybody to know that I was very happy this morning. Okay. I'm glad that you're happy. Yes. I'm having a good morning, too, Adam, because you're here. Thank you. Right next to me. Thank you.

And there's a shout out to you. And I just ate a donut. Oh, it is breakfast day, which is good. Somebody shouted out to Scott White, congratulating him. on the future child. That would be Paul. And Paul, we want to give a shout out to Paul because he and his wife had a baby this morning. Whoa.

And he is drafting tonight. So a very exciting day for him, a baby. Yeah. And a fantasy draft. Give birth to a fantasy team. And I want to tell everybody about our in-season programming. So just in case you're new to the show, we're five days a week, all season long. We review yesterday's action.

We tell you everything you need to know. We tell you who you need to add, who you need to drop. We look at the most added list, most viewed list. Give you lineup tips for the following week with two start pitchers, things like that. We grade the trade. That's our most popular segment. Grade the trade. A C is average, by the way.

Anything better than a C and you win? I think this year I want to do a little more of previewing the upcoming slate and saying something like, well, if this guy has a nice start tonight, I'm going to pick him up. Or if this guy hits a home run tonight, you know, I'm probably going to pick him up. That way people can make decisions on their own before they hear us the following day. and we'll have some DFS talk for you as well. I wanted to do this yesterday. Let's do it today instead.

Over under. Bryce Harper, home runs plus steals. Last year, Harper hit 24 home runs with 21 steals. That totals 45, quick math. Originally, I was going to say Bryce Harper, 50, but I think that's too low. 53, homers plus steals for Bryce Harper. Let's shake it up a bit. I need Chris Towers to talk.

Anyway, so he stole 21 bases last season. I'd hit 24 home runs. One thing that I think we don't talk enough about is that there probably tends to be an inverse relationship between home runs and stolen bases. The more home runs you hit, generally speaking, the fewer stolen bases you're going to get. We saw that with Jose Altuve. I think we saw it with Paul Goldschmidt last season as well. So I wouldn't expect him to bounce back in power and steal 21 bases. We saw it opposite with Goldschmidt, you mean?

He got more steals because he had fewer home runs? Yeah, that's what I mean. It's the same thing. So, like, I would expect him to steal fewer bases if we see the power increase that I expect at this point. 53. Homers plus steals over under. Over. So that just, I'm with you.

I'm over, but I'm not sure what you're. It's a lot of a whole run. Yeah, I don't think he's going to steal 21 bases, but I think he'll more than make up for it with power. I think he's got another 40 homer season. 36. Oh, 40. Yeah. Well, I mean, if he hits, if he steals 15 bases,

which I think is a fair expectation, then he needs to exceed 38 home runs to beat 53. Which is not a fair expectation. No, I think it is. I think... 38 home runs. I had a draft last night in a... I'm starting to buy back in.

Nine by nine league. That one that one of our readers invited one of us to offering a free piece that we didn't think. Yeah, it was last night. If we don't think it's the best league ever, I took Bryce Harper in this nine-by-nine league over Anthony Rizzo, which is something I hadn't been willing to do before, but, I mean, Bryce Harper's spring is just... And I took Rizzo over Harper in a 7-by-7 league last night.

And as we saw last season, when he was so good in April, when Bryce Harper's good, he just stays good for ever. But, like, it's just so obvious the storyline with Bryce Harper. When he's healthy, he's awesome. Yeah. And I just think that if I'm going to take a first-round pick, I'm choosing between Rizzo, who you Scott have continuously said, is like the safest.

Right. One of the safest players in fantasy or Harper. I'm going to lead Rizzo. Because it's not like Rizzo is only safe. He's also awesome. Right. I get the decision, though. It's probably, in fact, I think I took Rizzo over Harper, but it's possible that somebody

took Harper before. Actually, that might have happened. I would have taken Rizzo over Harper, but I think Harper might have been off the board anyway. So people do, you obviously, Heath would take Rizzo. I would take Rizzo, yeah. He's going to win MVP this year. Chris, you would take who?

Harper or Rizzo. I think I'm going to move Harper above him at the end. Okay. Chris and I both picked Harper to win MVP, so. Yep. Who did I pick? Chris Bryant I had the

lamest picks I basically just looked at last year No the only The only one we were unanimous on Was Mike Trout for Or no, no, attendee for Ricky of the Year Yeah, that'll be coming out

In the next couple of days But we disagreed on everything else All right, we'll do those picks and predictions On tomorrow show or Friday show Billy Hamilton, now we always do Billy Hamilton steals, we know he's going to steal a lot of bases Billy Hamilton's batting average Over under 260

Under push. That's his career high. He hits exactly 260. You're coming up with very good over unders here because it's like... It's only two so far. You don't know. Okay, well, the two, like, I don't want to commit to either side on Harper or Hamilton, but I think it's going to be slightly over.

I think he'll approach 270. Clayton Kirshaw's innings, 185 through 149 last year. I'll go over. Over. But if he just gets to 185, he's the number one starting. Then if you guys are going over, then Clayton-Cherstoresh. Kershaw should probably be a top five pick. Nope.

He probably should, but, I mean, over under, you're talking 50. You're making me pick. There's a binary. But if I'm drafting. If I'm drafting, there's a wide range of, because we're not going to predict. With the first round pick, if there's a 10% outcome of a negative outcome, 10% chance of a negative outcome, like, that's enough to pass him over. Five.

That early, you know. Is everybody over on Kershaw, 185? Yeah. The problem, like, is with a back issue, he thought he's going to pitch poorly necessarily. He could be pitching great, and then it could just pop up. You know, you never know. Charlie Blackman steals.

He had 17 last year. He was playing through a leg injury. He had 43. He had 43 in 2016. So that's why I put 35 steals for Blackwood. I think this is your first misfire on the over-under. I do think he'll be better than 17. I think he was one of the better early-round speed sources,

but 35 is awfully high. I'll take the under. I'm going under. I'm going under. Yeah, I'll go under, but I don't think it was that far off. I will say that he's closer to 35 steals than Billy Hamilton is a 260. Really? I mean, we've seen Charlie Blackman go over 35 steals.

We've never seen Billy Hamilton go over 260. No, but we saw Billy Hamilton hit a lot better than that, you know, in the last two months of the season, whatever, which is what I was. All season statistics are generally more break. It's what I was basic. Like, if you don't think Billy Hamilton is going to hit two, going to hit 260, then I don't know that he's going to be a breakout player. I think he's just going to be a steel specialist. He hit 260 last year, so we have seen him hit two 60.

We never seen him hit over 260, is what I said. And we never seen him hit over 250. I mean, I don't know. It was probably there was another decimal place. They're very well could have been. Actually, and 19 at bats as a rookie, he had 368. Boom. He didn't qualify.

Full season. No, but he did, he did start hitting the ball on the ground more often last season. And that's a. But you guys. just made Bryce Harper your MVP, and we're moving them up in our rankings because of a great spring, and Billy Hamilton's been atrocious again. Aren't we contributing to the fantasy baseball today drinking game? I am a... Two minute Billy Hamilton conversation breaks out. Do I contradict myself, Heath? Yes, I contradict myself. Very well, then. All right, Sunny Gray. Sunny Gray's ERA, over under

340. Over. Really? Yeah. I'll take a little over. Well, if he's not going to be a strikeout guy and he's going to start the year on the DL and he's not going to have a 340 ERA, why am I drafting Sunny Gray? You probably shouldn't be. Yeah, I'm not sure I have him ranked as draft worthy. I've got him as a last run pick. I mean, you're taking him on a hope. Okay, I did draft him yesterday.

Great. Nelson Cruz's home runs, 40.5. Under. Yeah, where was he at last year? He's three straight years with 40 home runs. That's all I know. I would probably go under, but it'll be close. Yeah, I agree. Under, but close.

Michael Brantley's home runs plus steals. Brantley's home runs plus steals, 37 and a half. You have to take the under. Yeah, I would have to take the under. You don't have to take the under. There's a 45% chance he gets hurt again. I'm to the point. Even like one three-week D.L.

Stent makes it more likely that he goes under. And I think it's more likely that he doesn't run. Like, he's trying to stay healthy. You've got all the firepower. It's an arm injury. It's an arm of injury. Well, yeah, but you slide head first. I'm to the point now where I want Michael Brantley.

Every time a draft begins, I'm going in thinking, I hope I get Michael Brantley. Yeah. I'll still take the under here, but not by much. I think 30 might be. 33, 33. Homer's plus steals. I'll still take the under. 30 be what I hope for.

And if he exceeds it, great. All right? With a good batting average, right? Yes, hopefully. Which would be maybe his biggest value to you in a categories league. Next over under, I don't know why I went with this guy, but Corey Dickerson, 800 OPS. He had a 761 OPS last year. Corey Dickerson, 800 OPS over under.

I'll go under, but I like where your head's at. I do, like, I can't stop thinking about Cory Dickerson. Write about him. I wrote about him in the... I think he's got a chance to have a nice bounce back season. He wasn't as bad as the... Finish strong. He wasn't as bad as the baseball courts.

Well, no, he wasn't as bad as, I think, the perception of him last season. He wasn't. He didn't live up to his draft position. But beyond that, I mean, his line drive rate went from 29 to, like, 17. I don't think that's course field related. He was having some- He started hitting a lot more fly-balls. He got into a slump early and he did a lot of tinkering, like choking up and doing all sorts of changes to his swing. And then they got a new hitting coach in September, and he told him to just do what he does.

and he hit 3.30 with a 9.25. You know, the previous hitting coach should have just told him to do what he does before. He should have instead of tinkering with him. I agree. Yeah. So I did a 12-te-to-head categories draft last night on Yahoo. A lot of people will do this format. Catcher, first base, second base, third base shortstop, three outfielders, two utilities.

And then two starting pitchers, two relief pitchers, four pitcher spots, and like a six-man bench or something, maybe seven-man-man. It was about 25 rounds. And Outfield was so deep late in the draft. Like, if you're – and Dickerson was the kind of guy. You look, you probably want him as a bench guy. But you might throw him in there. Who knows?

But Mitch Hanager was my last pick. 25th or 26th round or something like that. Yassio Puig went in the second to last round. I don't even know if Carlos Gomez got drafted. I think he did, but really late. One of the big takeaways, if you're still drafting and you're filling out your roster and you feel like kind of weak at a position or something and you're just wondering how long you can wait,

you should probably sacrifice outfield. It's just, it seems to me by far the easiest position to just get somebody that you can plug in. And maybe have some others. I would even say late in a draft, you've still got guys that, like, we're completely almost riding off, like Jacobi Ellsbury or Brett Gardner

that should still be productive, useful players. Carlos Belchon, too, is much better than them, but he goes super late. Yeah, I feel like, and Dickerson, like, he's had a great spring. You know, he had the whole weight loss thing coming in. There's, and like I said, the line drivery, there's reason to be, to have some optimism with him. But there's not really, in a standard mixed league, there's reason to have optimism, but there's not much reason to draft him.

I did, I wrote a story yesterday, it should be up today, 10 spring developments that have kind of flown under the radio. and one of them was Cory Dickerson. Really, all ten of them. I think they're interesting. I think they're players who could end up being impactful in fantasy, but they're all the sort of players. Like, you don't actually draft. You just, you know this about them going into the year,

and if they have a good first week or two, then you think about picking them up. Yeah, that's important. Give me a few more. Well, Delano DeShields is actually one, obviously, Steele's situation and may be different. Jun Riu is one, Bionho Park, who looks like he's going,

to be the D.H in Minnesota and had some like some really good power peripherals. We don't draft these guys in a 21 round draft. Or even, but like, but I, DeShields, I think if we did that, if we did a roto league, 30 team, 30 30 man roster, he definitely got draft. That's what

I picked him up in yesterday. Right. He's the one of the 10 who does have who I think is draftable in certain mixed leagues. I think in a 30 roster spot draft Chris has taken Bionho Park too. I took Corey Dickerson in that league actually. Yeah.

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I don't hit the ball often. But when he did, boy, you love that. Boy, he hit the ball real hard. He had some of the best, uh, batting ball, like, eggs of velocity numbers in baseball. The, the raw power is real. Average 417 feet on his home runs, the 12 he hit. And he had nine home run, nine of those 12 in his first 98 at bats, I think it was. Yeah, I wrote a, uh, I wrote a whole thing about him, like in late April about how the power's real. Bionho Park is.

The power is real. But he had injured wrist that he eventually had surgery on. And there's just like a lot of strikeouts. But I could see Bionho Park becoming like a better version of Chris Carter. That's what I think the upside is. Let's talk about his teammate. We really surprisingly have not spoken much about Byron Buxton since I'd say the start of spring training. And he's having a pretty good spring himself.

And I think the most encouraging thing, the main thing you're looking at is the plate discipline. You know, four walks, 11 strikeouts, and 44 at bats. You want to see more walks, but, I mean, only 11 strikeouts. Last spring, three walks, 20 strikeouts, and 56 at bats. So that's pretty encouraging, and Buxden is slugging 523 this spring. What I would say is you'd like to see a lot fewer strikeouts than that even, if he was the guy that we thought he was going to be, which is this light, slap hitting, get on base, and re-cavick guy.

but, you know, from what I've heard, the twins, and I believe Paul Molliter's acknowledged this, that they, they've basically acknowledged that they kind of screwed him up in bringing him up and trying to develop him as a slap hitter, get on base, put the ball the other way, bunt for hits type of guy. They tried to do that? That's horrible. Yeah. And apparently, a big part of his late season success last year was they were just like, just do your thing. Just do your thing. the same hitting coach as Corey Dickerson. Exactly. But no, he had a 47% pool rate. He hit for power

last spring or last September. Is Bucks in a late round, or mid to late round power source now? Is that what we're expecting from him? Oh, that's the thing is that. I always thought he was. But that's not a steels guy anymore. I don't think I was expecting that coming up. And I think it might be, he could be a really, really good player who's not the guy that I think maybe we thought he was. I mean, he didn't get to be the top prospect in baseball because he was a slap hitting. Speedster. Yeah. You know, there was a well-rounded skill set there.

He just didn't hit for much power in the mine. Nine, what, he had nine home runs in September or something. Yeah, he's, the strikeouts are the biggest issue for me. He's on my breakout list, which I guess is like, I feel like that can just speak for itself. So maybe that's why I don't talk about anymore. But he's among those, you know, you get to round 14 or later. If he lasts that long, he's an upside outfielder. I'm looking to draft.

Okay. You take in Mitch Hanager or Buxton? Buxton. All right. So look, we're going to find out tomorrow night when we do the For the People League draft that we don't have all that much in common sometimes. I don't know. But I will say one thing that we all have in common. We all have the Seatgeek app.

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when I'm off the air. So I kind of like, you know, live, the podcast life always. All right, we got a lot of news and notes. Gary Sanchez is going to bat second for the Yankees, and it looks like Ronald Torres is likely to be there starting shortstop while Vigorius is out. Toreas is an A-L-only guy.

Sanchez is mixed league viable, I think. Yeah, I think you could take him. Now, he should get plenty of bats, and that's good. But it looks like Ellsbury is going to hit fifth. That's a terrible idea. Yeah. And not sure how long that lasts. Is that a terrible idea?

It's a terrible idea. A low walk guy. I feel like low walk guys with little power should bat behind the power hitters. Behind the power hitters. He drove it a run. He drove it a run with a ground out yesterday. And I thought to myself, wow, that's probably going to happen a lot this year. Yeah.

But Holiday's going to bat fourth. Heath has deep sleepers for every team in baseball on the website right now. I want to talk if we can today. I want to get to the American League side. And, yeah, that'd be fun. So let's see, we covered Matt Boyd, we covered Cameron Maibon, Amir Garrett, and Rookie Davis in the Reds rotation. Anthony Rendon has a calf injury. Don't think it's very serious.

Lorenzo Kane was scratched with tightness in his side. That's not good. No. Like, what would you do if you were drafting tonight? Would you be afraid to draft Lorenzo Kane? He's falling a long ways as it is. Like, we're in our 14-team slow draft right now, and we're at pick 126. and I am not really concerned about him being selected anytime soon,

so I'm just kind of waiting on my third outfielder. So, yeah, I don't think you're going to have to rush out to get Lorenzo Kane anyway. Are you taking Buxton or Kane? Kane. Mm-hmm. All right. Kane is one of those guys. And I don't know, maybe you shouldn't be at his value now.

Remember yesterday we talked about players, we just never draft? Right. I just, I'm not going to have any of Lorenzo King. There's five outfielers. I'm probably higher on a couple of these guys than everybody else that have just been sitting there for like two or three rounds at the top of my queue. Stephen Piscotti, Dexter Fowler, Lorenzo Cain, O'Dobel Herrera, and Michael Brantley. Yeah, I think I'd go Brantley in that group.

Ian Desmond's still there, too. Ian Desmond's still there. So I'm like, I don't know, there's no reason to take an outfield until a couple of those guys disappear. But it does go back to your point earlier of the value available in the 11th round. In a 14-te-te-te-league. Well, it's the ninth round of a 14-time. team league. I was using, pick 126.

He applied to conversion himself. But I do want to say that in these 14 team leagues, it's sometimes hard to take an outfielder when you've got to fill catcher, shortstop, and you know it's a deep league. And position scarcity really factors in. Well, it's easy for Chris because he just doesn't take any pitchers. So you can fill all the hitter positions. Actually, I realized that my last pick that I have as many pitching spots left in my

starting lineup as hitting spots. How many pitchers do you have through nine picks in a 14 team league? Three. And who are they? McCullors. McCullors, Pax, and a Duffy. That's not so bad. Of course, I've got three, too.

I have DeGrom. It's just I don't have one of the high. I don't have one of like, my fourth. Yeah, I don't have one of the like, you know, quote unquote safe guys. You do have my A. L.S. Young pick, though. Who? Carrasco?

No. DeGrom. No. Who? Marcus Stroman. Oh, Strobin? Oh, yeah, I saw that. That was a silly thing.

Yeah, he's going the Rick Porcelo route. I've got my AALS that Young Choice. I've got Sale Price and, of course, Wade Davis. Wade Davis isn't in the AL anymore. That's true. All right, back to the notes. Cincinnati claims Scooter Jeanette. Does that matter?

No. It should be noted that Aaron Judge is not necessarily going to be the Yankee starting right fielder. It could be Aaron Hicks. And it could be a platoon. How would you feel about that as a person who likes the Yankee? Yankees. Better defense, I suppose. Is that really your first thought? I feel like you got to just let Aaron Judge play. Judge is not striking out as much as he used to. He actually had a good spring. He has had a good spring. He hit a ball, I think, over the scoreboard in left field earlier in the

spring. He's been going the opposite way for a couple of home runs. He's having himself a nice spring. And he struck out a ton last season, 44% of his played appearances last year and 95 at bat. I believe Giancarlo Stanton in his first 95 plate appearances struck out like 39% of the time. So it's not necessarily a death now. John Carlos Stanton was four years younger than Aaron Judge. So that's, but that's the most common comp for him. You know, just let him place. Yeah, I think they will.

I just, the only thing that worries me about that is like nobody knows him better than they do. And they don't really seem near as exciting about him as all the rest of us do. Yeah, I think Hicks will get in. They'll sit, Gardner, they'll sit Ellesbury from time to time. They'll sit judge. This is my take. He'll be the fourth outfielder, and he'll play a little bit. Carlos Rodon, and let's talk about Rodon and Matt's.

They both went very late in my draft last night. Nobody wants to touch them. But Rodon, no structural debt. Actually, both of them, I would say. It seems like got fairly good news. Rodon's going to be on a two-week throwing program, and then he'll be re-evaluated. So, look, he might be out for most of the month. Matt's might not.

I don't know. He threw on consecutive days, which I guess is rare for somebody with an elbow injury. But Rodon and Matt's are not guys that you have to just completely ignore on draft day. You might get good values for them. Right. It's not even clear. Mats will begin on the D.L. I moved them down last night, finally since I was away.

I moved them down to 44th and 45th in my starting pitcher rankings right behind the like John Gray, Robbie Ray, Shamanai upside class for me. Sounds about right. They're still ahead of, like, boring guys like Hap, Roark. And I don't think this changes their outlook all that much because I think they were both pretty risky coming into the season. Anyway, Stephen Matts especially, it just increases the risk. Yeah, okay. So, look, I did the draft last night,

and I wanted to see if I could come away with some takeaways that I thought would be helpful for owners out there. Again, it was a head-to-head categories league. It was seven-by-seven. And, all right, a few things. David Price went 123rd overall. He just keeps on falling and I don't know. I wanted to draft him, but then it's like I'm looking at,

that's so stupid. I'm looking at David Price and James Paxson. Like, how could I justify taking James Paxon over David Price? And I didn't. I actually didn't end up getting either of them. But I think Paxon went before Price. Well, David Price isn't the left-handed Noah Sindigard. It's just like 123 overall.

Like now it's getting crazy. The justification is you take Paxton first so that you can get both, I guess. But I still don't think Paxson should be going ahead of price. I don't think he should either. But I do, I find myself drafting price a lot now. I was actually Al Melchior. Our friend Al Melchior was in one of the Tout Wars auctions this weekend, I think mixed. And those are 15 team leagues.

He got David Price for 11 bucks. And I was reading his write-up on Almelkior.com. And he was, he was like, unhappy with it. Like, oh, I shouldn't have gone that dollar on price. I just didn't think anybody would value him that low. I think people are... I think that'll pay off for him handsomely. I think people are...

I think everybody's probably a little concerned that David Price has a setback. Yeah, Tomi John surgery, and they have a total bust. There is concern. There's definitely a chance that he just doesn't pitch it all this year. Like, it's a small chance at this point, but... Right.

And it's just, you know, it's weighing risk versus reward, like every other pick you make. And I feel... If he wasn't coming off a fluky high ERA season where all the rest of his peripherals looked fine, he'd probably be going a lot higher. Another thing I wanted to say in this format where you start two starters, two relievers, and four pitcher spots that you can use on any type of pitcher. I tried to get foreclosers.

I did get foreclosers. Balancin, Giles, Familia, and Fernando Rodney. Now, Rodney's going to help me with saves, but, man, he's going to really hurt and whip. luckily he's then pitched that many innings, but, you know. Did you take Rodney before, like Camber Trojan was already gone? Rodney was, I think Madsen, I'm not sure about caps. I think Madsen was the last one left. I think, other than like maybe Iglesias, but I think Rodney was one of the last closers.

He was one of my last picks. And I probably waited a little bit too long because I didn't want him. He'll be one of the first closers to lose his job. To who, though? I know. That's, you know, like if he had Carter Cass behind him, maybe, but... If he's as bad as I think he could be,

they'll find somebody. But in a daily lineups league where any pitcher on your roster, you can throw... You don't have to start and sit, you know, every week. You can throw any pitcher on your roster. It helps to have more closers.

Yeah, it does. To win those categories that the closers help you in. So I have four, and we're expecting familiar suspension to be less than 30 days. Addison Reed actually went pretty early in this draft. And Kyle Schwerber's catcher eligible on Yahoo, so that's big.

Jose Reyes is shortstop eligible. You know, Eduardo Nunez and Jose Reyes went almost in the same spot. Nunez was one of the latest fallers yesterday. Didn't seem like anybody had any faith in him. Yeah, I get it, but I'd rather have him than Jose Reyes for sure. He went before Reyes, but it was interesting to have Reyes as part of the shortstop pool. I'd rather have him more than Reyes in that format for sure. and a points league, it might be close.

Yeah. All right, and I don't want to bog this show now with my draft. So let's talk about yesterday's spring training storylines. The good and the bad. First, the good. Another good one for Felix Hernandez. Only two innings, but one hit, one run, no walks, and four strikeouts against Arizona.

And he said, quote, I feel stronger. I feel much better with my legs, my mechanics. And like you see, all the pitches I throw are down in the zone with a good break. So that's Felix Hernandez talking about his off-season. routine, which was a little bit different, and this sort of puts a nice finishing touch to a good spring. Yes. Yeah, I feel very nice about Felix Hernandez is my number three starter. Felix or Price?

Price. I mean, I'm the downer on Hernandez, but I'm still have price. I still have Price ranked higher. There's more upside there. Nate Carnes. Heath, last two starts, 12 innings, nine hits, one run, one walk, 16 strikeouts. He had a 736 ERA before that. that in the spring, but Carnes has turned it on.

Is he becoming mixed league relevant? I know. Like, he's somebody that you're probably going to stream occasionally, but I don't think you're going to be drafting Nate Carnes. And I would expect he's going to have two or three starts like this a month, and he's going to have one or two bad starts a month. How many appearances do you need to be SPARP eligible last season? 10?

10. If he'd gotten three more relief appearances last year, I'd be very interested in mixed leagues and head-to-head. Yeah. We talked about Bionho Park and Byron Buckston. Adam Duval, Homer, twice. Duval or Buxton? Duval or Buxton?

Duval, Buxton. To break the tie? Duval for sure in a Roto League, I'd probably go Duval. But in a head-to-head points league where this is probably a fourth outfielder I'm looking for upside with, Buxton. Man, head-to-head, Duval still might be better because he might strike outless. Yeah, but they're both going to be plate-discipline victims, for sure. Mike Zanino. Chris, you've always kind of liked Mike Zanino. He's batting 351 with four home runs, 12 walks, 11 strikeouts.

Really? Now, yeah, now look, he had a very similar slash line because this season in spring training, 1367 OPS. Two years ago, 2015, 1287 OPS. Obviously, didn't really translate. But that year, he had seven walks, 14 strikeouts in spring. This year, 12 walks, 11 strikeouts. Mike Zanino, anybody?

isn't it was a 4A all-star. He is. He only hit 207 last season in the majors, but walked a bunch, hit for power. There are worst number two catcher options out there. Is he like the new Chris Ioneta, you think?

I think he has, like, we've seen he has probably 25 homer upside. He has changed his approach at the plate. He's not swinging at everything. He still strikes out a lot, but now it at least comes with, you know, he still seems to have the power, and it comes with a few more walks.

So, yeah, I think Mike Zunino is a fine number two catcher. I do want to clarify, when you said he only hit 207 last year, it sounded like that was a down year for him. His career batting average is 195 over 1,200 plate appearances. So that was better than his career mark. Like, that's just so bad. How are you a 200 hitter? He's also.

He's not a 200 hitter. He's just shy of. He's also a guy with, who had a lot of pedigre was one of the top picks in the draft, got rushed through the minors. I think there's a chance he's a late breakout. It's also, catchers take a long time to develop. You know, with the exception of Buster Posey, basically, every catcher is a late bloomer, and he's only 26.

He did lead the league and hit by pitches in 2014. All right, you're not taking Mike Zanino very seriously. No. Would you rather have Derek Norris or Mike Zanino? No, I don't necessarily disagree with what Chris said, that as a number two catcher, if you just wait forever, he's not a bad one. I wouldn't seek after him as my second catcher.

Well, you can probably get him with your last round pick. That's fine. And he's a catcher with 20 to 25 homer upside. I remember, 205 for a catcher isn't going to hurt you quite as much as 205 for a guy who plays every day. Because he's not going to be. And he walks a lot, so you're probably only looking at like 350 a batts for him. Yeah, might not hurt your batting average quite as much as you think. All right, bad yesterday in spring training, Zach Granky.

So three runs in four innings on six hits, no strikeouts, no walks for Granky, but I guess he topped out at like 91 miles per hour. Yep. Yeah, this is another guy I can't see being on my team. Which was another increase, right? Like, he's slowly building himself up. I think he's been topping around 91 for the most part. Well, Brooks baseball, I don't look at this yesterday.

He's been averaging. Do they have 2017 numbers for him? I thought he was like 89 average. but he had been averaging a little more than 91 over his last few starts. So Granky here we're talking about. Yeah. Have you dropped them in the rankings or what? So on March 18th and March 23rd, which was the last two Brooks baseball recorded,

he averaged 91.1 and 91.2, which is about a mile per hour lower than he was in March of last year. But March of two years ago, well, actually April of two years ago when he was doing great, that he was about that velocity. So I don't know. I mean, it's, I don't find myself drafting him a lot either because after the year he just had, I wanted to see like a lights outspring from him

to really assuage me. Right. Like, instead he's had this kind of bumpy one with some velocity concerns. It may end up being much ado about nothing. Give me a round in a 12-team league for a Granky. 10? Yeah.

Yeah, I will be dropping them down. McCullors? I'll be okay with like eight or nine. I think I'd rather have McCullors at this point, yeah. I'd rather have Paxton than Grinky. Wow, you got to move down. You got to do some rankings adjustments here. Yeah, I'm not.

Michael Fulmer or Granky. Grinky. Grinky. All right. We do have some breaking spring training news. Ned Yost has announced his starting lineup. No, thanks. We just talked about the Braves lineup.

We can talk about the Royals lineup? Why is the Braves lineup? Yeah, but we only did that because I had no other words. When is the Marlins lineup segment of the show? I want to point out I was not the one who read off the Braves lineup. What's the line? Alice Gordon, Mike Mustakis, Lorenzo Kane, Eric Cosmer, Salvador Perez, Brandon Moss.

That's pretty much it. Why is he batting Alice Gordon lead off now? Like, not when he was the extreme on base. Have you seen spring training? He's got like a 450 on base. Spring training only matters. Ned Yost definitely hasn't seen his spring training on base. Bryce Harper and Zach Grinke.

Corey Kluber had a bad start. Another one. He's had kind of a bad spring cluber. Francona says he's fine. His arm feels good. He's fine. He's fine. He's not Bryce Harper or Zach Grinky.

Jonathan, VR, I just want to bring this up. Four walks, 14 strikeouts. And I looked at the last four seasons, it's almost identical. Right around four walks, right around 14 strikeouts every single spring for Jonathan VR.

But he wasn't really a good walk guy until last year. Now, four years ago, actually 10% walk rate, but then 6.6, 7.8, and then last year, 11.6. I guess what I want to know is, one of the reasons why I have a little bit of faith in VR is because he did walk so well last year, and of course, stole all those bases. Are we feeling that he's going to, that VR's going to get on base a lot again? Well, no, because he's probably not going to hit 285 or whatever. He was going to walk again. Yeah, I think he's probably going to walk a decent amount. I think the way I kind of look at him is I just, I don't look at his,

last season numbers. My expectation for him is what he's done in the majors as a whole, which is about a 760 OPS. I think that's probably what I'm expected. Okay. And last guy on the bad list here is Aaron Nola, terrible start. Seven hits, five runs and an inning in two-thirds. Gave up two home runs to a good Blue Jays lineup. But Nola has an 838 ERA in the spring. 28 hits in 19 and a third. Seven walks, 23 strikeouts, 19 and a 3rd. Pete Buchanan said, sorry, Chris, that his velocity is way up,

his arm is healthy, the command just isn't there from Nola. Isn't that kind of what happened last year? Yeah, I don't... This is one where, first of all, the 23 strikeouts in 19 and the third innings

is not impressive because he has a 1.81 whip. He's facing like seven batters for inning, so the fact that he's striking out a batter per inning or more isn't very impressive at all, actually. Yeah, I look, I get the reasons why we should draft Aaron Nola because mostly just because where he's going. Like he's just, he's like 170, 180 at that point, why not take a flyer on the upside?

I just, he's a very popular breakout candidate on Fantasy Pros. I think 83% of the experts there have him ranked higher than his ADP. That's fine. I get it. I just, I think there's a, I think there's a lot of risk with Aaron Nola. there's a chance he's just not good. The spring has kind of worried me. Like every start, he's given up more runs as the spring has gone on.

So he didn't, like, his first start was good, but others have all been bad. And it was, like, at the start of draft season before spring training started, he was a guy I consistently targeted in the middle rounds as like my fourth starting pitcher or whatever. And as spring has gone on, I haven't so much. it's just like I'm less enthusiastic about him. I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm not sure the... I'm not sure anything's really changed.

I mean, good players have bad springs all the time. It's just for one who had, you know, who finished on a down note and isn't all that proven to begin with. And needs location. I mean, he's not, he's kind of like ranking. And I think one thing with him is he,

I think he might just be, because he works in the zone so much and doesn't have swing and miss stuff. Last season, he threw 48% of his pitches in the strike zone. It was one of the highest rates for any starter, but he had the second lowest swing rate in baseball, so guys just weren't swinging at the pitches he was throwing in the strike zone. That feels like a very thin line. Like, if you can walk that line,

you can get a lot of called strikes and be a successful strikeout pitcher. But if you can't walk that line, you're going to get hit really hard if guys start jumping and being more aggressive. I watched what I assume is Chris's favorite movie yesterday for the first time. Moneyball? It's a good movie. It's a pretty good movie. Kind of a lame ending, though.

It doesn't even end with baseball. I don't even remember how it ends. She sings to him, right? Oh, yeah, he listens. No, she read a CD for him. He decides to stay with Oakland. But it doesn't end with a game or anything. There's no, like, there's very little actual baseball.

He goes, he meets with John Henry. That's how the book ends, too. Let's be clear. He should have gone to Boston. Yeah, he should have gone to Boston. But he wanted to stay. Because then he could have gone to the Cubs right after. He wanted to stay near his daughter.

Yeah, it's pretty low on the sports movie. Oh, come on. It's harsh, strong disagree. Come on. It's not my favorite sports movie. It's the best. Moneyball's your favorite sports. It's my favorite sports.

What's a better sports movie? What's a better sports movie in the last decade? How many Oscar nominations did it get? It might be the most decorated sports movie. When did a miracle come out? No, Miracle is not better. Miracle is absolutely better. What was the Keanu Reeves movie you brought out the other day?

That one's really good. That's not as good as money. It's better than Moneyball. No. Hardball is better than Moneyball. I love Hardball. He has no authority on movies with that statement. Scott, you have no authority.

You just said Moneyball is your favorite movie. No, it's definitely. There aren't that many good sports movies to be perfectly honest. Again, false. What is with you? What is in the world? How many Oscar nominations did Moneyball have? You can't say it's not a good movie.

I just saw, the Oscars mean nothing to be anymore. Actually, I also just. Creed might be a better sports movie in the last decade. But that might be the only one. Creed wasn't that good. Creed was phenomenal. So you like it better than Major League? Yes.

Better than Bull Durham. Yes. Better than Rocky, which won best picture? They're going for different things. You know, I have trouble with movies. Better than remember the Titans? Yeah, definitely better than remember the Titans. No, I go to remember the Titans.

Yeah, for sure. I mean, Moneyball wasn't really that sportsy. Better than varsity? Blues? Oh, for sure. No. No way. The money ball wasn't that sportsy. Like, it changed the book changed the game. No, no, no, no. It was very, it just, it wasn't really, like, like, Little Big League had more baseball than, than, uh, than Moneyball. It was, it was a lot of

behind the scene stuff. It was a good movie, but it wasn't, like, Billy B himself wasn't even watching the game. So what do you expect? I know, that's fine. It was the start of Chris Pratt's run as a, as a box office monster. And a first baseman. You've got Jonah Hill's first Academy. me award nomination. Jonah Hill's great in that movie. It was closer to draft day than Major League.

Yeah, I agree. It was closer to draft day than Major League. I'm going to fight out of here. You know how people think. Team Heed them. You know how people think we all hate each other? Now we do. All right.

Good stuff. So let's see what we got here. Oh, I just wanted one more guy, Jake Arieta, 579 R.A. this spring, but only four walks. Three of them came in one appearance. 17 strikeouts. Any thoughts on Areietta? Just whatever?

You need a top five or six starting pitcher. That's my thought. Let's read emails now, and then we'll end the show with sleepers for every American League team. Tomorrow we'll do sleepers for every National League team. Email from Cody and Biloxi, Mississippi. Dear Arnold, Gerald, Harold, and Stinky. I like it.

Who is it? One of the great children shows of all time. Hey, Arnold. Oh, okay. In a head-to-head categories league on-based percentages that are batting average. Who do I add of this group? Again, it's head-to-head Categories League OVP. Reyes.

Cesar Hernandez. Delano DeLino DeLino. Ernaz. Easy choice. Delino? Say-Zar! I think probably DeShields at this point for me. Cesar.

How many steals do you honestly expect from Cesar? 25 to 30. Gosh. Yeah. I don't, but okay. Heath has talked to me to Cesar Hernandez. I would expect more from Perez. I would really like to know what the plan is for Perez's playing time.

The only one of this group, well, no, we know Cesar's going to play regularly, right? But we know Reyes, not the start he's going to play with it. And everything I see shows Cesar are leading off for the Phillies. I mean, I know we kind of, I mean, Reyes is batting lead off for the Mets. I do feel like Reyes is being, like, just because he's not officially the Mets' third baseman, but he's obviously going to be a member of the Breson this year. I feel like Reyes is being kind of undervalued. just as a whole.

I just don't know, like, that Reyes was surprisingly. I was so surprised at how well he played last year. Yeah. I thought he was done. And I, in fairness, I think a decent amount of that was just the fact that he hit a couple of home runs. Like, he hit eight home runs and everything else was kind of bad. Yeah, like, I just like, do we. It has occurred to me.

Do we think, no. He had a very normal Jose Reyes line. He was at a 24-homer pace. If we think Jose Reyes is a 25 homer guy, sure. But it occurred to me like a few times when I've thought about drafting Reyes. Like he might just not be good. Yep. But all these guys, you have to say that.

Except for size of her names. That's why they're late. Yeah. Brent from Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Hey, Derek, Daniel, and Chuck. Ioki. What? These are Norai.

What? These are Doris. I completely sold out for speed in all of my rotodrafts. Who are some cheap sources of dongs that can be targeted in free agency or trades? Pyongho Park. Travis Shaw. There are a lot of... A lot of cheap sources of dongs.

But now, like, after reading the last email, Reyes, Hernandez, DeShields, Perez, I feel like there are cheap sources of steals, too. Hunter Renfro. Maybe Pueg. Probably not. No, I mean, I don't think you should count on it. Obviously, there's a chance. Maybe Domingo Santana.

But just guys who you know are going to hit a lot of home runs, like Randall Gritchick. The Domingo Santana's one, yeah. Steven Sousa, maybe, hopefully, one day. These are always the most fun. Corey Dickerson. This happened to me yesterday, actually. In this category, it's a keeper league, but my first pick was Rizzo.

My second pick was Blackman. Late in the third round, I took AJ. No, in the fourth round, I took AJ Pollock. So I actually needed power, which had been sort of different for me. I usually need steals. I needed power. So Mike Napoli fell really late, and he went a few picks before I was going to take him.

But Napoli was the guy I was targeting. I don't know how much power, but I took, you know, the guy from the show with the, no, the guy from the Brewers. Oh, that we like a lot. Trevor Shaw. What, who? Trevor Shaw. No, the outfielder with the power speed. Kea on Broxton.

Kea on Broxton. Yeah, he went pretty late. Thank you. Yeah, the brewers are a bad team to do that with. Because they've got like 170 guys. It's true. All right. Next email is from Blake in...

No, I skip one. Yeah, you skip Pony. It's from Pony. Dear Ad Rock, MCA, and Mike D. Rest in peace, MCA. Everyone in my weekly team, in my weekly 10 team head-to-head categories leagues seems to have at least one high-upside guy

stashed on his bench. Please rank the following four. I'm debating between. What? Sorry, I'm just out. That's a lot more than four. Yeah, I know. rank, geez, we can't rank,

we can't rank 12 guys, Pony. I give him. Actually, Adam, we do on CBS Sports.com, if you go to fantasy players and rankings, you can see all these players ranked. All right, so just some of your favorites from this list. Swanson, Thames, Benintendi, he's probably getting me number

one. Number one. Eladmus Diaz. Number one. Glass now, Eureas, Buxton, Brockston, Byrude, Moncada, Hanager, Tommy Joseph Pueig, Bell. Let's talk about the guys we don't like from this list. Yeah, fine.

I'm not as excited about Eureas and Glass now as I am the hitters. I'm not as excited. I don't believe Mankata, at least for this year, really is on the level of any of these guys. And I'm losing excitement in Josh Bell, and I would not put Buxton with a lot of these guys. Bell got a hit yesterday. Oh, well, never mind. I was with you until you said that last thing about Buxton, but I think, like Josh Bell, I'm not targeting him in mixed leagues anymore.

And really Hanager. Get out of here. No. Why? Mitch Hanager's spying as a very late-round pick, but I'm not putting him on the same level as all these other guys in this list. Is Mitch Hanigur going to about second between like Segar? Is it going to be Segar-Hanniger? I don't think so. I don't think so.

Then Seeger, like I think he's planning on doing Dyson Segar one-two, which I mean, see how long that lasts. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know officially. That's just, that's something I remember. reading weeks ago. Okay. This is from Blake and Santa Barbara.

Could you discuss the players below before my drafts this weekend? Joe Ross, Jim Johnson, Marcus Simian, Carlos Gonzalez, Stephen Vote. Are we going to go around the room and give me one to two sentences on each guy? Joe Ross, Scott. I think he's a fairly safe mid-to-late round pitcher. It doesn't have the strikeout potential that I thought he did this time a year ago, so I'm not super excited about him. Braves closer, Jim Johnson.

Nope. Braves closer, Jim Johnson. I should have let Scott talk about Jim Johnson. I think Jim Johnson is a fine, low-end closer option, but I don't get excited about him. Marcus Simeon. A rare, cheap source of dongs at the shortstop position. Carlos Gonzalez, back to Heath.

I like Carlos Gonzalez a lot. He is very good. He's a top 20 outfielder, maybe top 12. That was like five sentences. Stephen Vogt. They were short sentences. I wish Stephen Vote could go back to the first half of 2015 when he looked like one of the best catchers in baseball.

He's not that, but he's a fine number two option. Votersanino. Vote. Okay. Last email. Brandon in the home of Publix. Love Publix. South?

Florida, right? I don't know. Somewhere in Florida. It's south, but yeah, great, great supermarket. Dear Christopher, David, Matt, and Peter. Some common names there. Look it up. Are those like children's authors?

Matt Christopher. I don't know. Last night in my 10-te-to-head categories league, I took Goldschmidt, then I took Aeronado. What? Wow. Wow. Then no one took Miggie, so I took Cabrera in round three.

This must have been one of those head-to-head leagues where everybody was drafting starting pitchers. Yeah. But he took Goldschmidt, then Aeronado, then Cabrera, and his question is, you know, was it okay to fill utility that early? Yes. Yes. When you can get three players that good, it doesn't matter what position they play. All right.

We're at the 55 minute mark, Keith. Do you think we should wait until tomorrow for the sleepers? It's up to you. You are in charge of the show. I don't think we can get through them real quick or we can just do it tomorrow. Let's do it tomorrow. Okay. Tomorrow it is.

Tomorrow it is. Good tease, guys. Tomorrow we'll do the sleepers. I mean, people have been listening to this podcast for 35 minutes because they thought they were going to get my deep sleepers. And now they're like, I'm never listening to them again. I see I'm driving to the website. I appreciate that. And tomorrow we'll do, maybe it's like some buyer's sell.

Let's do bold predictions tomorrow. and we'll do all of our MLB predictions on Friday. Is anything else I wanted to tell you guys? I just got an email from Tom Arekio. Vecchio. 15 of our 16 for the people teams have accepted their invite for the draft tomorrow night. I was wondering how many people have accepted their invite for the podcast league draft tonight. We actually had a cancellation, so I am seeking out an alternate.

I already put out an email to an alternate. He needs to get back to me pretty soon or else I'm going to look for an overall. But as everyone else accepted their. Invites? I have no idea. Have you sent the invites? Yeah, I sent the invites. I didn't send it to you because you're already in the league.

Okay, just making sure. All right, last thing, we're going on this. Does anybody have a copy of the Empire Strikes Back that I could borrow? I'd like to keep watching Star Wars before the season starts. I actually do on DVD. Let's do it. Bring it in tomorrow. Yeah, just send me a text tonight and I can bring it in.

Love it. For Chris Dowers, Keith Cummings, Scott White. I'm Adam Azer. Thanks to everybody for listening. We'll talk to you tomorrow with another edition of Fantasy Baseball today.