Fantasy Baseball Today - ADP Risers and Fallers; Spring-O-Meter! (3/10 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 10, 2021

Scott is out drafting his Tout Wars team but Frank and Chris are here to hold it down. Let's start with Stephen Strasburg who made his spring debut on Tuesday (1:52). ... Which players have been rising the most in average draft position over the last month (7:13)? Has Trevor Rosenthal moved up too much. What's our excitement level for CJ Cron and Kolten Wong? ... Let's have a Shohei Ohtani conversation (21:20). How high should he be drafted in daily lineup leagues where you can reap all of his benefits? ... Which players are falling the most in ADP (26:18)? Is there a buying opportunity on Taylor Rogers? Are the Dodgers fringy pitchers going too late now? Why are mid-round starting pitchers dropping? ... Let's hit some news and notes, including David Price, Carlos Carrasco, and Zach Britton's injury (39:48). ... We have some interesting velocity readings on Carlos Martinez and Deivi Garcia (45:50). ... How excited should we be about these spring training performances on the SPRING-O-METER (49:30)? We wrap up with some prospects who are hot in the spring. ... Email us at [e-mail]. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." 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

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. I drive, center field, this is magnificent. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank Scott, Chris and Adam.

Rizers, fallers, and a springometer. It sounds like a really bad sitcom. Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today. Frank Stanfell and Chris Howard. here as Scott White is currently defending his Tout Wars crown in the 15-te-te-team roto draft. He's currently made 23 picks in this draft, and he does not have a relief pitcher. So, Chris, I think you might have had an influence on that. I'm sure he has some starters, though, if I had to guess.

He has starters. Starters a plenty, of course, Scott has. And you know what he has also a ton of? The Bronx Bombers. He has four Yankees on his team so far. so I thought we would throw one of these in here. Oh my goodness, goodness.

That's right. That's right. All the dramatic things. Do I have that one loaded up as well? Of course. Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen. Chris, have we ever seen? I don't know that we've ever done a podcast

with just us to, Chris. I almost called you Scott. There you go. We probably have, right? I feel like that's something that's happened at some point. You've been here a year. Yeah, there were,

times last year where Scott wasn't on. I'm sure of it. All right. Well, let's do it. Every episode last year. 20. He might have. Our for our 2021 debut, Frank and Chris, today on the podcast, we have 80P risers and fallers and a bunch of spring training updates and performances that we need to talk about. But let's start with the big one. Stephen Strassberg made his spring debut on Tuesday night. 1.2 endings pitch. Zero hits aloud. One walk. Four. strikeouts against an Astros lineup that featured basically all of their starters outside of Alex Spragman and Euron-Avarez because those guys have not played yet, but I couldn't find anything on Schrozzburg's velocity. He had this to say about his start, quote, it didn't

really feel any different than it has in past springs. I guess in a way, that's a relief. While we don't have much data on pitchers getting this carpal tunnel surgery that Schrozzberg had last season, I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, his procedure last just 15 minutes, according to Maria Torres, who covers the team for the athletic. What do you think about this, Chris? I'm not sure that there's much to take away from, but he recorded five outs and four of them were strikeouts.

So I'm slightly encouraged. It's better than the alternative. You know, I'd rather, absent any actual data, as far as, like, how hard he was throwing, I'm not really seeing any, like, swing and miss data. You know, the kind of things that in a, you know, 1.2 inning sample size might tell us more than just he got four strikeouts. You'd rather see him get four strikeouts on six batters face than give up four hits.

So you can't not be encouraged. I don't think there's anything actionable here, but he didn't get shelled. All right. That's good. Yeah. Strassberg's ADP, according to Fantasy Pros, is 65.4. so going right around that 5-6 turn in 12-team leagues. He's the 21st starting pitcher off the board.

Chris, if he continues to pitch like this, we start to get some velocity readings. How much do you think he moves up since that's going to be a large topic of conversation on today's podcast? Because I do think he is going to move up if he pitches well in the spring. I would think he moves up at least a little bit.

But, you know, there's... This is always something that I struggle with with these guys. I think De Nelson LeMet's another example of this where if DeNelson LeMet gets out there and makes like three, you know, two innings starts before the end of spring and looks good, he'll probably move up boards. And, you know, the risk isn't gone. Like he's currently able to pitch, which is good.

But the risk that we had in our minds with Steven Strausberg and DeNelson the Met is still there. I will say in, you know, know, Strausberg's case, because this was such a, you know, like Denelson LeMet, he's dealing with an elbow injury. So that's the kind of thing where he's healthy now, but it might not matter in a month. You know, he might not be healthy. Strasbourg, as far as we know, this shouldn't necessarily be something that becomes a recurring injury, you know, that he had, given that he had the surgery for it, obviously I don't know that for sure. I'm not a doctor. But

The hope would be that this is the kind of thing where if he's right, and if we do get some velocity readings and he's throwing 95, then I think you can kind of just move forward with Steven Strausberg, you know, being one of the 25 to 20 best pitchers in fantasy entering the season. And then that's where I have him ranked. I have him in the top 20. I just noticed that you have him SP 17 in Roto and SP 27 in head to head points. Is there any reason for that?

Type of discrepan. No, that might be one where I can move him up in points. I think the roto ranking does reflect where I am on him more. So, you know, that's one that I might just need to take a look at. Yep. And that would make you the high guy on Steven Schrozzberg. Scott and I both have Schrozzberg as SP20 in our rankings. Speaking of rankings, I spent the entire day of dating mine.

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at the NFBC, the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, you can sort their average draft position by dates. So while Fantasy Pros might be more reflective, of actual drafts because it's just, it's pulling an aggregate of so many different sources. The NFBC, I like this feature that they have where you can look at a different time period. So with the help of Chris, I mean, this guy is an Excel Google Sheet Wizard,

so I appreciate it. But basically, we looked at the ADP from January 9th through February 9th, and we compared that to February 9th through March 9th, which is when we were recording this. And we looked at basically the biggest risers and the biggest fallers.

So let's talk about some of these. And a lot of them are relief pitchers, Chris. So should we talk about the relievers? Because these are basically just guys that signed to be closers. So I don't know that there's anything like really actionable with talking about them. What do you think?

Yeah. Like, Waukeem, sorry, I'm moving up. I don't know that that tells us very much at all. Trevor Rosenthal. Like, he's up to 133. I think that's interesting that he's, moved up that high because, you know, you Scott and I have talked about him as someone that we like when he falls to us. Well, all of a sudden, if you have to take him with a 12th or 11th round pick

in the 12th team league, you know, that's a little bit earlier than where Scott and I typically like to take our relief pitchers. That being said, you know, and at least some of the drafts we've done, he's still gone more in that, you know, 15 to 17 range. I know, I know in my, tout Wars league, which is a save and hold league, so that, you know, it kind of pushed reliever prices down a little bit. He was a 17th round pick for me. And I like that because I think if last year was any indication, Trevor Rosenthal looks like he's back.

I mentioned this when we did our relief pitcher preview. Rosenthal was the best version of himself. I mean, it was 20 innings or whatever it was last year, but he was pumping velocity, getting a lot of strikeouts, and he had the best control of his career, which I think is key for Trevor Rosenthal. So he is rising quite a. a bit, but he is part of that top 10 to 12 where I usually like to grab at least one of those

closers. So I think he's actually inside my top 10. I have him up at, I think it's my seventh ranked reliever, so I'm pretty excited about Trevor Rosenthal. Let's talk about the first name here who's not a relief pitcher. And that is, well, first, CJ Crone. C.J. C.J. C. C. C. C. C.C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C.40 spots here. And that's basically just because he signed on with the Colorado Rockies. And if he has an everyday job, We don't even know that, Chris, because he's a non-roster. Invitee, there's a position battle going on between him and Josh Fuentes and Greg Bird right now. But if, it's a big if, C.J. Cron can win the starting first basement job for the Rockies.

There's no doubt in my mind that he can hit 30 home runs. I mean, he hit 55 home runs over the course of 2018 and 2019. And he was kind of one of these stack guys guys before we were really even talking about it. He's a big barrel rate guy. So what do you think about C.J. Yeah, he's someone I just realized I hadn't moved him up enough. And going in, I just moved him up to 257 overall right behind Andrew Vaughn and Brandon Belt. I think I'd rather have Vaughn.

Belt, you know, we'll see if he can get back in time for opening day because he was really good last season and had some really good. He's always had, you know, pretty good bad at ball data himself and Oracle Park played a little different. last season. So, you know, that might be a better situation. But there's a lot to like about C.J. Cron. Like you said, he had 55 home runs between 2018 and 2019. And that was not in a ton of plate appearances.

He maxed out at 560 in 2018 and then $4.99 in 2019. Corsefield is obviously a great place to hit for power. but it's also a, you know, it boosts your Babbip as well. And so it's not inconceivable that playing half his games at course field, C.J. Crone could hit 280 with 35 home runs and 100 RBI. It wouldn't necessarily mean he's a great player. You know, I think it's entirely likely that he could do that and still be like a one-win player. But for fantasy, he could be a legitimate,

top 12 first baseman. If he gets the job and if he stays healthy, which has been an issue, you know, there's a lot to like about him as a late-round pick. Colton Wong is another name here who, I guess this happened over the course of when he signed with the Milwaukee Brewers, which makes sense, but he's moved up about 100 spots in ADP, and he's all the way up to pick 251.3 over the past month from February 9th until now.

And I think we're all pretty excited about Colton, He's one of these names where if you play in a Roto League or a deeper headshead categories league and there's a middle infield spot and you need to fill steals, even runs scored. Chris, I think he's going to lead off for the Milwaukee Brewers. Their lineup is not great, but their top four or five is adequate. It's pretty good. So if he stays healthy, I can see 90 plus runs, 20 plus deals. And that's definitely valuable in Roto Leaks for sure.

Yeah, and the Brewers have been a team that's been willing to let their guys run over the last two seasons. He has 29 steals in the 201 games. 24 of them did come in 2019. So, you know, that was a clear outlier for his career. It's a career high. And it was the first time he had double digits since 2015. But, you know, the fact that he did it shows that he can. You know, it's that kind of thing where, uh, it's all about whether you want to. And he was on pace for about 12 to 15 last season. I think 15 is a reasonable expectation. He's got a 358 on base percentage the last two seasons as well. You know, Colton Wong isn't terribly exciting,

but he is like a perfectly fine middle infielder in a Roto league. Because like you said, the stolen bases, I mean, if he steals 15 to 20 bases, you're looking at probably a starting caliber player. Well, Chris, who would you rather have between, if you just compare the ADP over the last month versus overall ADP, Gavin Lux is going to pick 252.4. So that would put these guys basically in the same exact range.

And there has been some optimism for Gavin Lux, more on him a little bit later on, what he's doing in the spring. But he's been performing well, and we got this quote from Dave Roberts last week. Quote, I see him getting a good runway to play regularly. What that means, I think there's room for conversation. Roberts said he doesn't see handedness of opposing pitcher

as a big factor for Lux, quote, he's always handled left-handed pitchers. Although everything that they've done suggests that he doesn't. So who would you rather have between those two? Colton Wong and Gavin Lux. I would rather have Gavin Lux. I've looked into his numbers and I want to see if I can try to find it because I think, you know, when he had his big 2019 season in the minors

between AA and AAA, he had like a 950 OPS or something really stupid, there was a lot of talk that he had improved against left-handed pitching and that was a good sign for him. But it was still like a 31.8% strikeout rate against lefties in that season with a 400 Babbip. That was why he looked like he had improved. For his career in the minors, he's a 626 career OPS against left-handed hitter pitching. I don't know what that is, including the main.

But I can't imagine he's been great against the lefties in the majors because he hasn't been good against anyone. But he's still young. There's the potential, I think, for him to be a 290 hitter with 20 to 25 home runs. My guess is even with the, you know, we're going to give him runway to be an everyday player thing. when the Dodgers say everyday player, that's a different meaning than most other teams, and I would guess that's still sitting against quite a few lefties. Gavin Lokes has 23 plate appearances against lefties in his major league career.

He has a 39% strikeout rate and a 358 OPS, which really does not mean much. It's not what you want. It's 23 played appearances, so you can't take much away from that. Yeah, like he could be Austin Meadows. I think Austin Meadows probably has a little more pop but that is kind of a best case in error. He had a thousand,

28 OPS in AA and AAA in 2019. 30 home runs, 12 stolen bases in 151 games across those two levels overall in his career. So yeah, really good. Yes, Gavin Lux. He's been awesome in the minors. Let's get that man playing every single day for the Dodgers. that have moved up quite a bit.

Mark Malanson, of course, he signed with the Padres, Wilson Ramos signed with the Tigers, so he's a starting catcher. NFBC drafts are predominantly Roto, so I don't think there's much to talk about there. Andrew Vaughn, let me just ask you, Chris, because I updated my rankings today, and I couldn't tell if I was too aggressive.

I moved Andrew Vaughn all the way up to the 19th ranked first baseman just behind Miguel Sineau and Ryan Mountcastle just ahead of Christian Walker and Carlos Santana. Tana. Is that too aggressive? That is higher than I have him, but I'm looking at some of the guys ahead of him and like it's Yuleiguriel and Jared Walsh. I think I'd probably rather have Vaughn over those guys.

I'll move him up. Then I start looking at like Christian Walker, Hunter Dozier, Joey Votto. I think that's pretty close. I'm, I'll move him in their range, I will say. But I still have him ranked higher than his ADP over the last month. Of course, Andrew Vaughn, one of the top prospects in all of baseball and the top prospects for the Chicago White Sox. And I can tell Scott has updated his rankings because he has Andrew Vaughn all the way up at 171 overall in his rankings. I have him at 192.

So, man, he's got me beat. All right, I'll move him up. Andrew Vaughan. The reason why is they're talking about Andrew Vaughan can break opening day with the White Sox as they're starting D.H. If not opening day, they'll wait the two weeks, gain the extra year of service time, whatever it might be. Although, with the new CBA coming up,

they might completely change the rules on service time. So maybe teams will be more aggressive because they're thinking things are going to change. And I just like, I don't know, I think teams overthink that. Like, remember Chris Bryant, you know, how that was such a big deal? And there were rumors that the Cubs were thinking about

non-tendering him. This year, like, this was the year that they, like, risked making him mad and having him file a grievance over. And they nearly non-tendered him, apparently. So it's like seven years is a long time. I think more teams should do what the Mets did with Pete Alonzo. But, you know, we'll see. Amir Garrett has moved up, but a bunch of relievers again have moved up in this format. In his case, that's not because he signed.

Yes. You know, that is just general enthusiasm about Amir Garrett improving. And Lucas Sims, Lucas Sims getting hurt, I think helps the enthusiasm there for Amir Garrett. Kirby Yates, I don't know if he signed within the past month, but again, I think that's- I don't think so. That's one, I don't, I don't know, we'll see.

I'm kind of making Jordan Romano a priority in the later rounds. Like in TGFBI, I think I just took him. If not, I hope my next pick comes up before. this podcast comes out because he's definitely someone, I did not take him yet. So, shh. Nick Whitgren, but Jordan Romano is at the top of my queue. I have three, two picks until I go.

So by the time you listen, Jordan Romano will be on my TGFBI team probably. Last two names we'll hit on here. And maybe these two are Chris Towers driven because you have been talking up your boy, Eugenio Suarez. And while this might not seem significant, it is because he's moved up

almost an entire round. His ADP from January 9th to February 9th was 78.3 and it is now all the way up at 69.9. So he's moved up almost an entire round. I don't think that anything has happened Chris to warrant that

outside of the fact that people realize that he was undervalued and he could be a pretty safe bet for a 250 plus batting average and potentially 40 home runs. Yeah, I mean there was the like he lost 15 pounds in the offseason thing I don't know that shape of his life that shouldn't be why he moved up 10 spots but maybe it's part of it uh but yeah I think he was

obviously pretty undervalued uh and I think he's moving into the right range I have him right around uh 70th overall I do have you know him and Anthony Rendon basically neck and er uh sorry, Nolan Aronado, basically neck and neck, whereas Nolan Aronado is still going 28 picks ahead of him. So Suarez is still one of my favorite third baseman to draft if I'm not taking one of the early ones. The other name I wanted to highlight here, Shohei Otani, who has moved up from 231 all the way up to 207,

and I think this has... Got to keep climbing. Yeah, this has to do with how he's looked in the spring. He's an awesome hitter. Honestly, yes, it is great that he's a two-way player, and he is a spectacle, and he is awesome to watch baseball, but man, if he was just an everyday hitter,

he might be drafted in the top three rounds in fantasy? Like, I think he can be that type of impact bad if he just played every single day. When he pitches, he's awesome too, but I do have lower expectations there. Yeah, he's all the way up to 207. You said it should keep rising. How high do you think this should go, Chris?

I mean, I guess I do have lower expectations for him as a pitcher, but I will say I think he's a more talented pitcher than a hitter, which is not a knock on him as a hitter. He was considered a much better prospect as a pitcher. He's just such a good hitter, man. It's crazy. Right, but we're talking about a guy who, you know, throws 100 miles an hour and has a slider and a curveball

and his splitter might be one of the best pitches in baseball. True. So, you know, there are reasons to be, you know, concerned about whether he's going to, you know, be able to stay healthy one and pitch at that level. But I think he, I mean, he is 39th in weighted runs created in Major League Baseball

since the start of the 2018 season. And that was much higher before 2020, which was just kind of, that was just a mess for him. Yeah. All in a way that I think you can, I don't know if you want to say you can just write it off. But, you know,

the fact that he, was struggling so much coming back from pitching clearly seemed to impact him. As a hitter, he was 22nd in weighted runs created plus between 2018 and 2019. And he steals bases. Yeah. He has 29 steals in 266 games. It's not crazy. He's an 843 OPS.

He's actually been Austin Meadows, basically. Why do you keep bringing up? You can't just compare everyone to Austin Meadows. It's not on purpose. But in this case, between 28, in 2019, they were separated by four points and batting average, one home run, eight runs.

Otani did have 17 more RBI, but he also had five stolen bases more. That's pretty dang similar. I'll take your word for it. Show Hey, Otani. Let's talk about just the pitcher ADP for now. Would you rather have him or your boy, Tristan McKenzie? I know you like both. Otani.

I assume you'd rather have Otani over Keikl. Yes. How about Chris Bassett? Yes. David Price? Yes. You would rather have Otani there? Otani, yes. Yes to Otani for all of these.

This is probably where it gets closer. I would say Otani versus Frankie Montas. I have Frankie Montas higher. Okay. I have, actually no. I have Otani hire. I just moved him up the other day. I have Otani 155th overall,

and that is as a hitter and a pitcher. because you can use him at both in CBS Sports Leagues. But yeah, I mean, I think if you get 120 innings out of Shohei Otani, I think he can be a top 15 starting pitcher on a per inning basis. I really think he's that good, especially after he showed, you know, the stuff is back. Last year it wasn't. But in his first start, you know, he was hitting 100 miles an hour. He had the splitter.

He had multiple breaking balls. I probably got a little too excited about him, and I wrote a piece last Friday with the headline, Can Shoha Otani be back to Buryk Fantasy Baseball? Obviously, that applies more in leagues where you can use them in both, specifically daily leagues. But, you know, if everything goes right, and he gives you 400 plate appearances of Austin Meadows

and 120 plate appearances of a 3-3-ERA and 10K per 9, that's probably a top 20. player in fantasy if you can use him in a daily league, maybe higher, maybe the best player in fantasy? I don't know. Speaking of that format, Chris, in a head-to-head in a daily league where you can

play Otani at both utility and starting pitcher, so you can reap all of his benefits at all times. How high would you be willing to draft him? Top 125? Yeah, I think it's even higher than that. Yeah. I was thinking he's probably like a top eight or like in the round

eight to ten range. Yeah. I mean it's largely speculative. We've never seen it happen and it's fair to wonder whether he can do both things at the same time at the major league level and be a star caliber player. I have no questions that he has the ability to. All right, let's hit some of these biggest followers over the past month in NFBC ADP from Bervaldez.

And so this was happening even before the injury because the injury has only been around for the past. week. So he was dropping already, which I find interesting. We still have no update on Framber Valdez. He's dealing with a fracture to his ring finger in his pitching hand. The team has since signed Jake Oteresey. So it doesn't sound good. There was a report from John Heyman that he might miss the entire season. So we're still waiting for for confirmation on that. He's down to he's down to 292 over the last week. Scott just got him at 383 in Tao Wars. Does Scott have a relief pitcher yet? unless Frambervaldez is relief pitcher eligible. He made 29 picks. Scott doesn't have a relief pitcher. It's just... It's a viable strategy.

We're going to have some fun on tomorrow's podcast, and the rest of the team looks pretty good. He says he has no relief pitchers. So we'll talk about it all on tomorrow's podcast. Jonathan VR has dropped around 45 spots and makes sense. He joined the Mets. He's going to be a...

super utility type player. Maybe he plays three or four times a week, but I don't think you could really project much more playing time than that for Jonathan VR. So I think that makes a lot of sense. Taylor Rogers has dropped 41 spots. But Chris, I know you like Taylor Rogers. So does this create a buying opportunity for you

in leagues where you still play with saves? I guess even in saves plus holds, it makes sense. Yeah, and saves plus holds. I did want to see. I know he pitched today. I don't know if they had the stack cast. system up, but he got a strikeout in one inning. He's hilarious, by the way.

I was watching that game and he was on the broadcast. He did an in-game interview. He's a really funny dude. Nice. It was averaging 94 miles per hour with his fastball. That seems all right. Yeah, look, I think there's a lot of assumptions that he's not going to be the closer,

but that certainly hasn't been confirmed yet. And if he does end up the closer, you know, that could be a really good value. So they asked him about it. The broadcasters asked him that exact question about, you know, did you talk to the manager, Rocco Baldelli, about who's going to get saves? And he said, no, there's no reason to talk about it.

Like, we all know that we're going to split time, and it's just whoever he wants to use that day, and we've all accepted it. And so they basically just admitted that it's going to be a closer by committee. And no one cares. There's no egos in the Twins bullpen. Look, if he gets 15 saves, at his current price, that's going to be a good value.

Yeah, could be. Dustin May has dropped around 41 spots, uncertainty between his, about his role this year. You know, he's probably going to bounce between the bullpen and potentially be a starter at times. He'll be a follower for some people as well. So I guess that makes sense. Haseung Kim, who is, who signed with the Padres,

he came over from the KBO, just put up massive numbers last year in the KBO. And he's in the prime of his career. 25 or 26 years old. He has dropped 40 spots. His ADP is down to 225. What do you think about that, Chris? Would that make you more excited

about drafting Hatz-Yung Kim? There really hasn't been any reports that I've seen that indicate that he's like less likely to get playing time than we thought he was a month ago. So I don't know what's driving that specifically. I think part of it is

I think the first projection system that came out was Zips that had him looking really, really good. 22 homers, 18 steals, 267 average, 93 runs, 103 RBI.

The rest of them since then have been, you know, mostly not giving him everyday plate appearances. You look at the fangraphs, projections, ATC only has him for 94 games, 392 played appearances.

And they've been less bullish on his hitting as well, if he hits the, you know, 550 to 600 plate appearance, you know, range, I think he's going to be a very good value here. And he is someone who I like quite a bit as a sleeper. And, you know, if he's starting to fall, given what we're paying for guys like Trent Grisham and Cabin Bigio, like, I think he could be that kind of player. You know, I think there's 2020 potential. And if he's 15-15 and playing 70% of the time role, that's still a pretty valuable player. Again, that is Hacian Kim with the San Diego Padres. The ADP over the last month is

225.8. Tony Gonselin has also dropped similarly to Dustin May. And Chris, I know that you've mentioned you brought up the strategy of you can have the Dodgers entire rotation and your team will probably be awesome. But how about just specifically about handcuffing? So if you draft a Walker Bueller who comes with some risk, obviously, or a Clayton Kershaw who has age and some back injuries, are you more likely to take a

Dustin May or Tony Gonselin to pair up with one of those guys as a handcuff in case they get hurt or whatever they're managed? No, not necessarily. In fantasy football, I'm not big on handcuffs anyway. I think you want to draft, especially when you're talking about within the top 200, you still want to go for upside. And handcuffs are upside plays, but they're also safety plays.

And the problem with drafting someone like Dustin May around 150 where he was going over or 180 before where he was going before is there's a decent chance you might end up dropping that guy before he actually gets that opportunity. And then once he gets that opportunity, he's on someone else. else's team and he's awesome. You know, I don't think you want to do that just for, uh, because you have Clayton Kirshall and Walker Bueller. I think you want to grab those guys because you think they can be really good and they're starting to become a lot more cheap. Gonsland 263. That's basically in the, he might not get drafted range. That's,

that's a great last round pick. Yep. Lots of upside with Tony Gonslin. Really excited about him if he earns an opportunity at some point this season with the Dodgers. I wanted to ask you about four middle round pitchers who are dropping, which I found interesting. Zach Plesack has dropped from 66.4 to 76 over the past month. Max Fried has dropped from 66 to 75, so he's dropped about around 9, 10 picks there. Dylan Bundy has dropped an entire round from 108 to 120,

and then Sunny Gray has dropped about half a round from 66 to 20. is 72. So four names there. Pleasak, Freed, Dylan Bundy, Sunny Gray. What do you think about those four mid-round pitchers that are dropping right now, Chris? With the exception of Sunny Gray, I think I'm probably lower than the consensus on all three of those guys, so I'm fine with them. I think I have Plyzac in the 100 range, maybe. So this is still 125. This is still quite a bit higher than I have him. and I still wouldn't take him at 76. Freed, I think 75 is still a little bit of a reach. I have him outside of the top 100 overall.

I'm lower on pitchers overall than the group as a whole. And Bundy, you know, now he's starting to get pushed into the range where I would be okay. You know, if he goes in the 11th or 12th round, I think that's a fine gamble. Sunny Gray, I like him more than I like Pleasack or, uh, or freed, frankly. So I'm fine with him dropping, and I'm a little bit more likely to draft him there. Yeah, Dylan Bundy,

I wrote him up as a bust last month because the ADP was right around 100, and I just thought it was too high. And today updated the rankings. I dropped Bundy a little bit more, and he wound up 120th overall. So based on this ADP, if he continues to drop, then there might be a buying opportunity there for Dylan Bundy.

It's all about, again, we play a game with values, right? Yes, I have some concerns over, you know, will Dylan Bundy be able to replicate what he did in the first four starts, I think it was last year? And then the rest of the starts were not nearly as good. I do have my concerns, but everyone has a price. So if he continues to fall, yeah, I could be interested there on Dylan Bundy.

Chris, is there anyone else on this list of fallers that you wanted to hit on before we get some news and notes? I think it's a little interesting the Kentomaieta's dropping Julio Reyes as well has fallen about 10 spots to 128.9 I think I like him a little more than Bundy and then Denelson Lemette has dropped

eight spots in the overall ADP I think that makes sense 98th overall is still too high for where I would want to take him but I think he went 119th in my TGFBI Draft and I want to see I have the last week

right at 100 over the last week so it hasn't really changed much since then. That's still not worth the risk but it's closer. I have my hundred and twenty third overall. I do want to promote a few more things. Our 2021 fantasy baseball draft guide is now live

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Let's hit some news and notes. This one's from yesterday. Didn't get to it, but David Price, who opted out last season, is apparently not a lock for the Dodgers rotation, but I kind of feel like it's being taken out of context. Manager Dave Roberts said he expects Price to be built up enough to be in the opening day rotation, but added that Price is willing to fulfill, quote,

whatever role is best for the Dodgers in 2021. Price made his debut on Monday against the White Sox. He pitched one inning without giving up a hit or a walk, and he had one strikeout. So Chris, are you buying this at all? Your mic is muted. No. That's the kind of thing that happens sometimes where,

you know, I'll pitch in whatever role they want me to or I'll play. And like, that doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to be used. as a reliever. I think it means that it's the Dodgers and occasionally he will be pulled out of the rotation and they'll juggle guys. But I would still think you're probably going to get 140 innings from David Price

at least if he stays healthy. But it might be more like Kenta Maeda's usage. Yeah, I think we have to worry a little bit about how much they'll use David Price this year coming off of a year where he didn't pitch at all. So they might be a little cautious with the workload there again with David Price. there is apparently no timetable yet for Carlos Carrasco's spring debut per Mets manager Luis Rojas.

Carrasco was a little late arriving to Mets camp in Port St. Lucie, Florida, due to additional medical checkups related to his 2019 leukemia diagnosis. So, Chris, at what point do we start to worry? Because he's still pitching. I think he's throwing some bullpens that I read, but he isn't actually pitching in games, which I think matters, but does it? point do we start to worry with Carrasco? I mean, as far as we know, you only really start to worry if it affects his ability to be ready for opening day. But even then, you know, assuming he gets

a couple of outings in spring, he should be fine, even if he's limited the first couple of turns in the rotation. It's a long season, you know, assuming that there's no issues. Yeah, let's hope so. Carlos Carrasco, someone we're all pretty excited about. He was the player that I loved on Valentine's Day. So come on, Carasco. Let's do it. Alex Reyes, former top prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals, will work as a long reliever this season.

The goal is to get him to 100 innings. I'm really interested in this. I plan on writing something about this tomorrow if I can get to it. And I think, you know, this kind of usage could be super valuable this season. not if you have to pay a 15th round pick for it, or especially even higher than that, but in Alex Reyes' case, if you can get him in the 25th round or the 24th round,

you know, a guy who you can just throw in your lineup occasionally, if he's, you know, he was throwing 96, 97, 98 today, if he can be the guy that we hoped he would be, a really, really good strikeout pitcher in a hundred, innings and get 120 strikeouts and a 3-5 ERA. I get the feeling that could be pretty valuable this season. I want to dive into the numbers and actually see, but I'm very intrigued by this. Yeah, we're still waiting on Alex Reyes.

He's dealt with so many injuries, a lat injury. He had Tommy John surgery, and the ADP for Alex Reyes is 365.8. So it'll probably move up a little bit. but he's basically free. I don't think we're going to get to that point that you mentioned Chris where he moves up to like the 15th round or anything like that. So could have some legitimate value this season.

Zach Britton might not have any value this year. It's scheduled for arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone chip in his elbow. Apparently he won't be ready for game action for the next three to four months. He's shut down for the next six weeks and then obviously he has to ramp up after that. Chad Green is now the next man up behind a Rollis Chapman.

So remember that. Chapman has to be able to be. has not been a chore thing the past couple seasons. He's dealt with a knee injury at times. So we've seen Zach Britt and filled that role. If anything happens to Chapman, Chad Green is the next man up for the Yankees. George Springer is day-to-day with left abdominal tightness.

Zander Bogartz, who is dealing with a shoulder injury, is close to 100%. Alex Bregman, who is dealing with a hamstring injury, is not close to 100%. Apparently, he will not play in any games for the foreseeable future. So, all right. We're getting a little bit closer to the season. Come on, Bregman.

We've got to see something happen. How about his teammate? Yurdon Alvarez, apparently he could make his debut early next week. Definitely paying attention to that because the ADP on Yerdon Alvarez is 81.4. I think there's still a good amount of risk with him, but the upside could be that he returns first round value. Yeah, I like drafting Yordan Alvarez in that like 6th, 7th round range if he goes there. Jonathan Hernandez, reliever for the Texas Rangers, has a UCL injury, so apparently he will not pitch for at least the next month,

and it could last even further than that. So I don't think Jose LeClerc is very good, but this makes his grasp on the Rangers closer role, I guess, a little bit better. I have been a DeMarcus Evans fan for the past couple of years. Awesome minor league numbers. He walks everybody, but he also strikes everybody out. So that is the name that I would pay attention to.

Yes, if you're drafting today and you want some cheap saves, I think Jose LeClerc is the guy, but to Marcus Evans, just remember the name, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point this season, he has worked in as the closer for the Texas Rangers. I do have some velocity readings from Tuesday's action. Carlos Martinez, I saw you tweeting about this, Chris. He averaged 92 miles per hour on his fastball on Tuesday. He averaged 95.8 miles per hour back in 2019,

but that was when he was mostly being used as a relief pitch. The last time we saw Carlos Martinez as a full-time starter was back in 2017, and he averaged 95.6 miles per hour on his fastball then. So I... Yeah, this would have been the lowest fastball, average fastball velocity for any outing of his career. You know, in the regular season at least, obviously he's working his way back. But, you know, we saw how bad he was last season when he was averaging like 93.3 miles per hour with his fastball. Um, you know, I was eyeing Carlos Martinez as a potential, you know, very late bounce back candidate, but, you know, unless he gets back into that 94 mile per hour range at least, uh, it's going to be pretty hard to get excited about him.

He was never a big strikeout or swing and miss guy. He was always, uh, you know, around a strikeout preening maybe a little less, but did a really good job of limiting, uh, hard contact. it's harder to do that when you're throwing three or four miles per hour or less. You know, when you just said that, it reminded me a lot of Sandy Alcantara's profile. I think that is where Sandy Alcantara wants to get, right? To what Carlos Martinez was in his prime. And I think it's possible.

I don't, it's completely random, but that's just what I thought about. Oh, that's fair, yeah. Davy Garcia, who was battling for the Yankees' fifth starter job. That's pretty much what Sandy Alcantara was last year. Thanks, Chris. Yeah, he could, yeah, he was 22%. strikeout rate right around average, a little higher walk rate than average. But if he can do that,

he could be a low 3 ZRA guy. Sometimes, sometimes, barely. I make good points. That's a good, good pull. Nice. Davy Garcia, he averaged 93.6 miles per hour on his fastball Tuesday. And last year, that was at 92.3. So that was up about a tick and a half. And he pitched three shutout innings with five strikeouts. It did come against the Detroit Tigers, which when Chris analyzes Zach Plesack has pointed out they are not very good. They were bad. They're bad.

But five whiffs on 37 pitches for Davy Garcia. I mean, I hope he wins the fifth starter job. I guess there's a chance that they go with a six-man rotation. They brought that up. He's battling with Domingo Hermann. But I kind of like Davey Garcia, Chris. Yeah, me too. I would rather see him get the fifth starter job than Domingo Armand for a couple of reasons.

But, you know, primarily it's because I think Davey Garcia is a really interesting pitcher. First of all, he's five foot nine. And you just, you, you, you want to see a dude who's five foot nine pitching as a starting pitcher and, you know, blowing guys away. Last season, he was in the majors and he pitched pretty well. The ERA didn't reflect it. But, uh, the biggest thing was he, he had, you know, really good control. And that was always the issue for him, uh, coming up as a prospect was wildness. If he can keep that, You know, be a 2.5 to 3 walks per 9 guy and be a 10K per 9 guy, I think David Garcia can be really, really good.

He is definitely a late round sleeper for me. Davey Garcia's ADP is 306.2. He's going just behind names like Madison Bumgarner, who looked good in his first spring outing, Mackenzie Gore, Casey Mize of the Detroit Tigers. So Davey Garcia, if you just want to bet on talent, he's basically free right now in your drafts. The spring o meter.

What does this mean? I don't really know. I think what I'm going to do is... Are these things happening in the spring? Is that what you're asking? Yeah. Yeah. No, that's not what I'm going for, Chris.

Basically, it's how excited are you about these things that are happening in the spring right now? So we're going to do this rapid fire style and that is code, Chris, for... Let's do it fast. Boy. You ready?

I'll try. All right. Joey Gallo hit his fifth home run of the spring and apparently has changed his batting stands based on Scott's spring training notebook, the spring o meter. One, you don't really care. Ten, you're really excited about this. 10, because it would be really boring if I just said five to everything,

which is my actual answer. Joey Gallo is in my Rankings Rizers, or, yeah, Rankings Rizers column, but that was mostly, you know, he was undervalued. And he is a great, great value right now. you know, 120 something in an ADP, I think. I really like Joey Gallo at that value. 152.7 over the last week. Draft Joey Gallo.

Yeah, last year in NFBC ADP, Joey Gallo was being drafted at pick 86. Which was, that was a little silly. Yeah, and I was never in on that because the guy could potentially hit 200, but when he's going between, I've seen him bounce around a little bit, but even between 130 and 150,

If you need power at that point, that's a really, really good pick. Joey Gallo there with the Rangers. Nick Senzel is 4 for 11 in the spring with two home runs. He hit his second home run on Tuesday night against Dodgers pitching prospect, one of their top pitching prospects. Josiah Gray, one to 10 on the spring o meter. Please don't just say 10 sarcastically. Nine. No, I am excited about this. Nick Senzel, you know, when you're talking about, again, that Cabin Bageo, Trent Grisham, where you're spending a top 75 pick for someone you're hoping can hit 20 homers and steal 20 bases. If you look at Nixon-Zell's career so far, he has been a pretty big disappointment. He's also not been that different from those guys, at least in terms of batting average and home-run paces. Per-162 pace so far as 18 homers, 21 steals with a 245 average. I thought you were getting ready to say.

That sounds a lot like Trent Grisham. Well, that's what I said before. You just weren't listening. I tend to do that sometimes. Nick Senzel is somebody who I do like as well. There was a report earlier in spring that he is going to be the everyday center fielder for the Cincinnati Reds. Former top prospect.

I think there's a lot of upside. The ADP for Senzel is 271, especially in those five outfielder leagues. Remember the name. Thai France. Thai France with the Seattle Mariners is a middle infielder who could potentially give you some pop. He is eight for 13 in the spring with three home runs. and zero strikeouts.

One to 10 on the spring o meter. This is one where, if you're not as excited, that's fine. No, six. And it's not necessarily because of what he's doing

in spring training as much as it's just like, hey, remember Thai France. He has 32 home runs and 101 career games at AAA. His minor league track record overall isn't quite that good.

But he hit 27 home runs in 2019 between, actually 34 between the majors and the minors. 22. in 2018, yeah, he could absolutely be a 25 homer guy who doesn't kill you in batting average, and

he's multi-eligible, I think. On CBS... He is only second base eligible right now. He did play four different positions last season, but that's the only one he's eligible at. Sorry. Again, that is Ty France, who can give you some pop from the middle infield if you need it, and he

is free. So a name to pay it to two. And he could end up, you know, first, second, and third eligible during the course of the season. He played at least four games at all three of those positions last year. The ADP is 355.5.41 Thai France. Jack Peterson, we already talked about him. I'll just mention his line. He's six for 14 in the spring with three home runs. How about Gary Sanchez? Four for 11 with three homers himself. And I've been watching some games. And his batting stance looks like it's changed a little bit. He looks slim down.

Looks like he's in better shape. Chris, the Springometer, Gary Sanchez. Five. Oh, you're not excited? No, I mean, yeah. Yes and no. I just think for guys who struggled mightily last year, you'd like to see the performance.

It's like Steven Strzberg. It's better than the alternative, but it doesn't change my view of Gary Sanchez. We've got a long enough track record that we know he can get blisteringly hot. And Scott drafted him. him in his Tout War's draft in a 15-te-team league in the 13th round in this draft. So the hate has gone too far on Gary Sanchez.

Yeah. Willie Castro for the Detroit Tigers, expected to be their starting shortstop is six for 14 with three home runs. Another middle infielder that could potentially give you some pop here. Chris, Willie Castro. Six. I appreciate that you haven't said below five for any of these. well they're all playing good um yeah he he's interesting you know the power speed combination potential

there um you know a j hinge was talking him up earlier in in the spring doing the kind of you know the ball sounds different coming off his bat thing so you know he could be someone who who's ready to take a step forward sure kentemayda we spoke about a little bit earlier as well so i will save you there five shutout endings this spring with uh one hit allowed and seven strikeouts. He flashed a new curveball. He only threw it one time in his Tuesday start. It wasn't a great curveball,

but worth mentioning. Some prospect. Wait, can I put two up on the springometer? Yeah, what do you got? Josh Rojas, leading off pretty much every day

for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He's hitting really well. Has six batted balls over 100 miles per hour. That is tied for the spring training lead. They actually have, searchable batted ball data

on baseball savant now for spring training. So that's kind of cool. You will see Derek Hall has nine batted balls over 100 miles an hour according to that. There's something going on

with the numbers. He only has three. So Josh Rojas playing well. Cattel Marte. Also, six batted balls over 100 mile an hour. Three over 110 miles an hour. That is

he's the only player with more than one so far. Catele-Marte, he hit zero home runs last year or one. Two home runs, sorry, last year. Still hit 287. Still didn't strike out much. I think Ctele-Lamarte is, I don't think there's much difference between him and DJ LaMahue.

I think the main difference is DJ LeMayhew is in a better lineup, so runs an RBI will be better. but I have Cateau-Marté ranked 45th overall. He's my number four second baseman. I have 45th overall in Rodo. I don't think there's a big drop-off between him and the top tier of second baseman. I might just include him in the top tier of second baseman. He was dealing with a wrist injury last year that he did play through.

I think that played a part. But the underlying numbers, how hard he hit the ball, you know, was not that far off from his breakout. remember in 2019, he had 32 homers, 10 steals, and a 329 average. I think Catele-Marte could be a legitimate top 25 hitter this season. I'm very excited. I love that he's hitting the ball this hard early on. And I am more excited about Cotel-Marté than I was when we did our second base position preview. I basically said, why would you draft him when you can get Hosei Ltuvae two rounds later?

But I have been very encouraged by what I've seen in the spring. not that you want to put too much into it, but when he's hitting the ball as hard as he is, I think you can look at last year with that wrist injury and say, okay, that's probably the reason why he performed as badly as he did. Let's just wrap up quickly with some prospect updates, Chris. And someone who I moved way up my rankings today

is Brendan Rogers, who is 5 for 15 with two home runs, and he absolutely smoked one on Tuesday. He had a screaming line drive home run. I'm trying to think of what veteran second baseman they're going to sign to block Brandon Rogers for the Rockies. But if they just give this guy a shot, former first round pick,

I think that the sky is the limit for him. I'm pretty excited about Brendan Rogers. Yeah, I think he could be a DJ LaMayhew-esque hitter. He hit 296 with an 855 OPS overall. I think he could be like a more powerful version

of what DJ LaMayhew was with the Rockies where he was consistently hitting over 300. There's a little speed here. He hasn't been good in his 32 major league games, but last year he was coming back from a shoulder surgery. And he re-injured the shoulder last year too. So I'm very, very excited about Brendan Rogers getting the chance. We'll see what he does with it,

but he is still only 24 years old. so way too early to write him off and I can't imagine he costs anything. His 80P is 410. 485 over the last week. Go get Brennan Rogers with one of your last picks. I think I have him in TGFBI and in the reserve rounds. So yeah, that's, you know, if you play in a league deeper than 12, make sure he's drafted, but I think he's a viable late rounder in a 12 team league too.

Yeah, stash him on your bench. See what happens the first couple of weeks. See if he's playing every day for the Rockies. and how he's performing when he's playing. But Brenner Rogers, man, I think that there is a lot to like there. And you spoke about the shoulder injury. He might finally be healthy. Sometimes it takes a few years to get back on track after a shoulder surgery.

We saw that with Michael Kinforto. It took him some time to come back from that injury. And that's part of the reason why it's basically the main reason why I'm so worried about Cody Bellinger being drafted where he is. That's fair. I moved him down recently. I moved him below Bryce Harper at out. field and I think he's like 19th now for me.

Yes. Yes, Chris. I love it. Hello, Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. That was where I moved him. Yeah. Boom. Marrars outfielder Taylor Trammell is four for 11 with three doubles, a home run and a stolen base. And apparently he is pushing for the starting left field job former top prospect with the San Diego Padres and he came over in the Austin Nola trade last year. Do you have anything on Taylor Trammel? I'm very interested in this. This is one of those guys who's always had really good. good tools. He's always been a really highly ranked prospect, even though he hasn't produced very well. This is the thing about last season and not being able to see these guys in games is we don't know whether for Taylor Trammell, the, you know, a high prospect with a great pedigree and,

you know, whether he just figured it out last season. It's a former first round pick. He's got power. He's got speed. He's always been a good on-base guy. I obviously I would rather see Jared Klanik as the starting left fielder for the Mariners. He's got that knee injury. It's not going to happen on opening day. But I'm not upset that Taylor Trammell seems like he's going to get the opportunity to play every day. I'm extremely interested in seeing if he can be a nether in the Cabin Bigeo, Trent Grisham kind of mold where he hits 20 homers and those 20 bases. The Mariners are going to have some kind of roster crunch at some point,

because I don't think it's going to be long until we see Klinik, assuming that he's healthy, but they have Hanneger in the outfield. They have Kyle Lewis in the outfield, Taylor Trammel. They have Typhrance at D.H. They have Dylan Moore at second base. They have Kyle Seeger at third base. They've got a bit of a roster crunch. So it's going to be interesting to see. Usually, these things work themselves out. But yeah, yeah, I never thought I would say we have a roster crunch with the Seattle Mariners, but that's where we are. Giants outfielder, Helio Ramos, he went two for five with a double and a home run on Tuesday. He is now seven for 17 with three home runs in the spring, a former first round pick back in

2019. He had 290 with 16 home runs and an 850 OPS. So I remember a few prospect drafts a couple of years ago where people were excited about Helio Ramos. Just remember the name. He's performing well in spring. Yeah. There's power speed potential there.

I wonder how much he's going to be allowed to run in the majors considering he has 26 steals and 19 cot stealing. But yeah, he's one that he might have been up last year if it was a normal season. Last but not least, Bobby Bradley, who is battling it out. I don't know if you want to call us a battle, really. But for the Cleveland's first base job, he is 4 for 13 with two home runs in the spring.

Sounding the alarms, best shape of his life. He lost 35 pounds in the offseason. But Bradley does have big, top, 27 or more home runs in four different minor league seasons. He struggles mightily with strikeouts, but he might have an opportunity to play every day for Cleveland. So it's just, it's something I'm paying attention to, Chris. Bobby Bradley.

Worth paying attention to. I did think you were going to say another Bobby. Do I have this now? My thing of someone else? I might be thinking of Bobby Dalbeck. Were you thinking of Bobby Dalbeck? What's the Royal Shortstop prospect? name. Oh, Bobby Witt. Yeah, he's crushing.

Bobby Witt. Yeah, that's his name. Yeah. He's a... He had a 480-foot home run. I'm a little skeptical that he actually hit a 484-foot home run. You know, we'll see whether they had the stack cast working that day or the Hawkeye, but

yeah, he's someone to get on your radar. He's only played a rookie ball so far, but he's drawing a lot of rave reviews. He's a top 20 prospect and... Top 10 prospect in all of baseball. Yeah, yeah. Baseball America has him 16th, but he's, yeah, top 20 consensus, top 10 at baseball prospectus and MLB.com pipeline. Just, you know, probably won't see him this season, but I believe Scott has him ranked pretty high in his fantasy prospects as well and just having an awesome spring by all accounts.

So, yeah, number 13 for Scott, probably more of a 2022 guy. but, you know, it's possible he moves quickly. Yeah, if you have Bobby Witt in a Keeper or Dynasty League, get hyped. Even without Scott, we managed to go way too long on the podcast. But did we? I thought it was really good. We'll wrap here for Chris. I'm Frank. They go over listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow.

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