Fantasy Baseball Today - Fantasy Baseball Today Reunion! Fact or Fiction & Fantasy Feud (1/13 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: January 13, 2022

Welcome back, Nando Di Fino and Adam Aizer for our FBT reunion show (1:00)! ... Let's play some Fact or Fiction, starting with Joey Gallo and that batting average (4:40). ... We've got some wacky Fact or Fiction items (9:36). ... Did Aaron Civale average more FPPG than Lucas Giolito last season (14:34)? ... Why did Giancarlo Stanton score so few runs (24:30)? ... Is Adolis Garcia being underappreciated right now (32:07)? ... Does Gary Sanchez have anything left in the tank (38:20)? ... We had a fun listener email (45:12). ... We wrap up with some Fantasy Feud (50:46)! ... Email us at [e-mail]. '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 Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ 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/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday 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

This is Fantasy Baseball Today from CBS Sports.com. Welcome, everybody. It's our third base preview on Fantasy Baseball Today. Adam Azor, Scott White, and Nando daffino. Hello, guys. Adam? Mike Trout or Miguel Cabrera? Nando, you first. Mike Trout. Why not? Kind of depends head-to-head and rhodo for me, but more likely Trout. 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. Welcome in to the fantasy baseball today. A reunion show on Thursday, January 13th.

I am Frank Sample, joined by a wonderful cast of characters. First up, we have the greatest fantasy football podcast. In all the land, it is Adam Azer with a 10 o'clock shadow. What's going on, Adam? I hate watching that stuff, man. I really have uncomfortable watching that stuff. Yeah, true story. I went on YouTube today, and I just wrote Adam Azer, Scott White, Nando Defino,

and that was like one of the first things that came up. That was the best you could come up with? I thought it was pretty good. You asked Nando a question about Mike Trout. He goes, yeah, Mike Trout. Why not? Why not? I'm sure there was some context.

You know, Adam Mazer stole that job from someone who's more famous in all of us right now. Ooh, fact or fiction, I guess we'll find out a little bit later on. Noto Nafino, what's going on, buddy? I'm bringing. How you doing, man? You are wearing a winter jacket. You are podcasting from your garage. So I know it might be uncomfortable for you, but I appreciate it.

No, this is great. I'll take it all if you want me to. The babies are asleep. I can only do it in the garage. Yeah, it's like 30 degrees outside. So please don't take off your winter jacket. Scotty dubs. What's going on, Scottie? Yep, yep, I'm here too. Believe it or not.

Fact. That is a fact. All right, you can already tell. Today is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to have some factor fiction. I've got a multiple choice question for Adam a little bit later on. And if we have time, I have no idea what's going to happen throughout the course of today's show. But we'll try to get to some fantasy feud. We'll wrap it up a little bit later on with the Nando de Azer family going up against the Scott White family. So you guys have two against one. It's a handicapped match. Scott White, like that show that you just showed, anytime we had a game or a bet,

Scott White destroyed all of us. Even Al. Poor Al took a volleyball to head once because Scott White beat him in a game. For those who are listening or watching, who have no idea who these gentlemen are, these are guys who used to host this podcast. And for the OG fantasy baseball today listeners,

you obviously know who these guys, guys are. I actually feel quite bad. While I was making the rundown, I was like, I should have had Al Milkier on this as well, but it's just like, how are we going to fit five people on a podcast? I don't know. Like, whatever. I love Alan. Next one. Just have Alan George Sedano on the next one. Make sure everyone follows Adam, of course. Follow him on Twitter at Adam Azer, A-I-Z-E-R. Follow Nando on Twitter at Nando. DeFino, who is currently drinking something that I cannot pronounce. Tu-A-Tu-A-T-A-A, yes. He, of course, is the co-host of the athletic fantasy baseball

podcast. I just listened to your most recent podcast, Nando, so good job. I like the team that you're putting together there. It's good stuff. Thanks, Frank. For that ringing endorsement. Oh, well, all right. Do you want me to say that I hate it? I don't know. Yeah, you got to be honest.

If you didn't like it, go ahead. No, I enjoyed it. But Ian Con will take that to heart. We had Ian Con on recently, and he was great. We had him and Ariel Cohen on together, so it was actually a great podcast. podcast. Let's jump in to Factor Fiction. This is going to be a combination of things. So really- I don't think you introduced Scott, did you? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm here.

He said a few things. No, they know. Yeah, no, I need no introduction. That's right. What we're going to do here for Factor Fiction is we've got a wide range of random things that might be true. I do have some baseball related items. I have some Yankee related items, which, you know, some of the listening audience, you're probably tired of me and Adam talking about the Yankees for years and years. but I knew that Adam was coming on and the only team that he follows, the only team I know he follows is the Yankees because we text each other quite a bit

throughout the season, basically just yelling about the team and how much we hate them. So let's start with this. This first one is for Nando and Adam. And it is a Yankee related item. Joey Gallo joined... I'm texting Adam right now.

I'm not paying attention to the show. Joey Gallo joined the Yankees on July 30th last season from that point forward. His 160 batting average was the lowest among qualified hitters. Adam, you're up.

Oh, I think that's fact. Nando? I'm gonna say fact. It is a fact. Joey Gallo, 160 batting average. The lowest by far, Carlos Santana was second during that stretch, with a 175 batting average.

Joey Gallo had a 38.6% strikeout rate during that time. The ADP on Joey Gallo, I'll point out this is the lowest that it's ever been. So I guess if you want to, buy-in on the bounceback. Now's as good a time as ever to jump back in on Joey Gallo, the ADP 183.3. Since December 1st, he's going just after Nelson Cruz. Let's get Scotty back in here. Scott, do you have any interest in Joey Gallo at that price? Yeah, yeah, I would say so. I think

that's putting too much stock in what he did with the Yankees. I mean, the thing about Joey Gallo is he strikes out a ton. He's a high variant. player. So he's going to have two months stretches where he basically disappears. And that's been true throughout his career. But, you know, his 95 games with the Rangers, he had an 869 OPS, 25 home runs

in those 95 games. So we're talking about, what, like a 40 homer pace? Like, I don't think he just broke when he went to the Yankees. I think he just slumped in the way in the way that players like Joey Gallo

can do that, abnormally bad way. But, you know, still still a big source of home runs over a course of a full season. Yeah, and apparently he has some kind of weird ritual with putting his jersey on. So I don't know, people like the New York media was giving him crap about that. There's a real story about it. So go check it out. Nando, Joey Gallo is going right after Nelson Cruz.

Who would you rather have between those two? Oh, Joey Gallo, 100%, man. Oof. You know, Nelson, I'm not a believer in Nelson Cruz every year to my own detriment. So that's probably the wrong answer. but Joey Gallo, there's still a small chance that he'd give you some position flexibility. You know, he'd come back angry.

I don't know. I just, he's younger. I just like his home runs more. I don't know. Nelson Cruz just feels to me like he's going to break at some point. And I know what's happened for like the last five years, but I still feel like it's going to come. I don't want to have him the year that it happens.

You know what happens to these lefty hitters that go to the Yankees? These guys like, like, uh, Jason, Jean. The guy. Well, Mark DeShare. Brian McCann and Joey Gallo. I mean, they fall in love with right field, and they hit like crap.

I don't know if that's exactly what happened here, but it does happen. Their batting average is plummet. They get very pull-heavy. I'm sure Gallo's always been kind of pull-heavy, my guess, anyway. But I think they get a little seduced by it. Maybe it gets in their head a little bit.

So he's not the first lefty to have, to, I guess he would have needed more home runs to really fit the description. He was just bad all around. But, I mean, he might have an even lower batting average unusual with the Yankees. Frank,

you're saying that Nelson Cruz and Joey, because I prefer Cruz to Gallo, even though he said that Gallo was a good value there. You're saying they're both going outside the top 180? That is correct, Scottie. Who are people drafting? What's going on?

A couple of hitters that are going just ahead of them. Robbie Grossman, Alex Kiroloff, Evisao, Garcia, Anthony Rizzo, Hunter Renfro. Ryan McMahon. How can anybody take Gallo over? Sorry, Nando. How can anybody take Gallo over Cruz?

Is it eligibility? I think that's part of it. I think Nelson Cruz is 41 years old. There's also a chance that he just retires. He did. He did like, he wasn't. He showed his first slippage really in years with the race. So, I mean, it's possible this finally brings about the end.

But, you know, I'd rather gamble on him on that not being. I know the track record. I called Nanda. Remember how Jose Batista fluttered out? I mean, I just remember the end of careers for a lot of these people, and it comes quickly. It's a bit of a miniature progression with a little signs, but when they crash, man, they go from like 270, 35 home runs to 220, 22 home runs very suddenly. So I don't know.

I'm just worried about that very suddenly part. At least Joey Galli, you know, you know, what you're getting to a degree. No, you definitely know what you're getting. I mean, if there's something to be said for consistency there, I think if you're building a roto team, you almost have to know going in that you want to draft Joey Gallo so that you can kind of perch up your batting average for when you actually do select him.

Let's move on to some of the wacky stuff. This one is for Scott, and I was provided this by Nando. All right. Adam Azer lives in Sleepy Hollow, but has never seen the movie. Is that, this is factor fiction? Fact or fiction. Well, I actually did read the book. You went very millennial on me, Frank.

I had to. You know I didn't read the book. I know. I'm going to say this is fiction. I actually don't know the answer, so I guess Adam reveal it. I saw it as a kid. I'm sorry. I got the wording confused.

I meant to say you hadn't seen the movie. I have seen the movie. I have. So I got it wrong. I saw it somewhat recently, and it's dreadful. I didn't remember how bad it was. It's not watchable. Unsurprisingly, I haven't seen it.

but I haven't seen any movies. Don't. We just watched a movie, by the way, I'd like to give a recommendation. I'll be giving it on the Fantasy Football Today podcast called The Dry. It's on Showtime. It's very good. Nice, good movie.

Just about, Adam. Go ahead. It's kind of a, it's, yeah. How much nudity is there? It has to be a little bit like it. It's a murder mystery. But it's a very serious, kind of dark one with Eric Banna. And it's in a, it's a foreign film.

It's in Australian. in so I needed closed captioning on because I could not understand one word they were saying. I just do that with everything. I don't know if that's an old man take. Oh, I watch everything in captions. Yeah. Yeah.

That's something everybody does now. Like they just, it's not a known thing, but everybody does it and they think nobody else is doing it. It's much more. I mean, you catch so many things. I know. You wouldn't normally catch. I know. Very important stuff.

Yeah. I want to know every thing being uttered. If I'm committing the time to watching this, I don't want to, I don't want anything to slip by me. Adam, that reminds me of the movie train spotting. I don't know if you've ever seen it. It's a great movie,

but they have very thick Scottish accents, and it is, it's pretty tough to follow along. So if anyone hasn't seen train spotting, it's also a great movie. This next one is for Adam and Scott. So both of you guys get an opportunity to answer this one. Nando and I once went to do karaoke together. Instead of singing towards the crowd,

He faced the wall the entire time while he was singing. The reason why I struggle with this is I just can't imagine him actually singing karaoke. If he did, he would definitely face the wall. Scott, I'm going to say fiction. All right, I'm confused on the wording again. This is going to be a recurring problem. I'm thinking this game for me. So fiction means he did not face the wall.

Or didn't do character. Or maybe in there, okay. Nothing falls in there, right, yeah. Okay, I'll just go the other way. I'll say fact. It is fiction. So if you asked Nando, if you asked Nando about this, it was actually me who did karaoke,

and he tells everyone that I faced the wall the entire time while I was singing. I was a little intoxicated. I might have been doing that. I don't know. Frank picked like some serious ballad. It was Say It Ain't So by Weezer. Oh, I love that.

So that's a great karaoke song. Great karaoke song. And Frank just kind of stood there like, say it ain't so. There's a bar full of people watching him and he's like grasping the mic on the side of the stage. Good old time. You got to go for it, man. That's my, that's my go-to. Yeah, say it ain't so.

That's my- Can I do a factor fiction? Go ahead. Hazer brings his own guitar to karaoke. All right. I'll just do one. I'll do one. I'll do it. This one's for Frank.

Fact or fiction. The mailman still has not delivered your wedding invitation to me. Oh, Frangie. That would be a fact. Yeah, yeah, man. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I check every day.

It's a save the date. Oh, Nando, you sneaky, sneaky devil you. That's why you're texting at him, aren't you? No. No, I was telling him I'm staring at him. Like, he doesn't know it, but I'm staring at him, like, through the screen. Like, I'm coming for you. He has no idea.

He's just like blankly staring at the screen. For our OGs, you know that there's a lot of wedding controversy here between Adam and Nando. Don't worry. We'll get into it a little bit later on. Scott White. Scott White and I were married a week apart. Oh, I found out. I didn't know that.

That's a fun fact. Yeah, well, is it you and then me and then George Sedano are anniversary. Like, one week after the other. Like, we figured that out when he was still the host of the show. I didn't remember they were that close together. But yeah, I do remember the conversation. I don't remember the precise details of it. but yes, yes.

We were at least married the same year. Yeah, okay. Don't worry, man. I'm not going to say it. No one will know our passwords. Let's go back to fantasy baseball. This one's for Scott Nando. Don't worry, Adam.

I'm not going to throw any fantasy stuff at you. It's totally fine. Aaron Savaleigh averaged more fantasy points per game than Lucas Gialito last season. Scotty? I'm going to say that's a fact, Jack. All right, what do you think, Nandu? Yeah, I'm going to say it's a fact, too.

I don't think you would come up with a stat like that and pick those two pictures like that if it was... Yeah, you figured me out. I just kind of wanted to point out. I just kind of wanted to play out. I know the psychological tricks. I realize that would happen until I was like Nando's going to read me like a book. There's no doubt about it. That is a fact.

Aaron Savale average 14.9 fantasy points per game. Lucas Xilito 14.3 fantasy points per game. And I actually wanted to use this time to talk more about Lucas Gilito than I did Aaron Savale. And originally I wrote down his struggles. And then when I looked into Lucas Gialito, I mean, he was pretty good. He was kind of

who he always has been. I think we're kind of waiting for Lucas Gialito to take this next step. And he doesn't really have to. He's kind of like Jose Burrios with more strikeouts, which is a really good pitcher. So, Scott, the strikeouts came down overall for Lucas Gialito, but he also had a career

best walk rate. Would you be okay? Let's say you take two hitters in the first two rounds, would you be okay with Gileto as your SP1 in round three? No. Is that what his ADP is right now, round three? I would say it's likely in that range, probably three, four turn. Yeah, I am, I'm kind of, souring is too strong, but I'm not as high on Lucas Golito as I have been the past couple years because he's just not, he's not taking that next step. Like you were saying, he's still never thrown 180 innings in a season. His ERA is always mid-threys.

He's a little bit vulnerable to home runs. And I just, I don't think he's, I don't think a true ace outcome is likely for him. And there's, you know, a dozen pitchers that I'd be more willing to say have that kind of outcome than Lucas G. Alito at this point. So I have him, I think I have him around like 15th in my rankings. And, you know, ideally that wouldn't be my number one. Yeah, the ADP is 40.3.

If you're playing in a 12-team league, that's an early fourth-round pick, and he's going just after Sandy Alcantara, just ahead of Aaron Nola. Nando, what do you think about Lucas G. Alito? Do you have a strong opinion on him either way? No, I mean, my strong opinion is I'm not sure which Lucas G. Alito is going to show up. Like, I remember when he was coming up with Washington, he was supposed to be the next big thing, and he was hit the IRAs like over four in the minors, finally figured it out. The one thing that worries me now a lot is who's going to be affected by this whole spin.

And like we, you know, we saw half seasons worth of no sticky stuff and spin rates getting all messed up. Like, I really do want to figure out who's, who's going to be trash because of that now. I don't think G. Alito will be that affected. I think he's not a spin reliance kind of guy. But anyone who's taking that kind of leap after doing some work scares me a little bit. You know what I mean? Like, I'd like someone who has that progression.

Like, and this is a baddie like Tristan McKenzie to me has a nice progression. Excellent ERA and whipped through the minors, good strikeout rates. you know, struggled a little bit when he went to the majors, but he'll be fine. Gio Lito, those struggles in the minors worry me a little bit. It wasn't PCL. Washington wasn't a PCL affiliate back then. So I don't know.

Just like little blips like that worry me a little bit. So I like him. I want to embrace him, but not of that price. Golito, I was looking into the spin rates, actually, and he was the same in 2021 as he was in 2020. Obviously, it's short in season, but not really a noticeable change there. I looked from June 1st on,

his strikeout rate did drop quite a bit, but the swinging strike rate was still where it was, you know, the first two months of the season. So I think maybe he was just a little bit unlucky when it came to the strikeouts over the final four months of the year. Adam, we're talking about the sticky substances. Adam's not paying attention, man.

Look at him. I know. I was going to try to compare him to someone, but it wasn't a good comparison. He's watching the Knicks post game right now. Let's go. No, no. Yeah, he really doesn't care about the show like we do.

No, what I was going to say about Gialito is, I feel like he's got good enough stuff. and these bursts of greatness that he can't necessarily sustain, but I usually like those types of players. I feel like they're just one step away from figuring something out and sustaining that greatness. Then I was going to say, then I was like,

did that happen with Jose Barrios? I always felt that way about Barrios. I always felt like there was an elite pitcher in there that was really close to unlocking it. And I thought maybe he did it in 2021. And he kind of did. He was 9th and Sa Young, but he wasn't. He had his best season.

That's your first day you throw out? I was 9th in Saoyung. I mean, it's pretty good year. He had his best season by far. But, you know, he still had a 352 ERA. But I don't know. I just feel like, I feel like there's enough there, enough moments of greatness with Gialito, that if he puts it together, he could theoretically be a real ace.

I think it's a good point that you bring up because he is someone who is inconsistent. So you see these flashes, but he also has these games where he just gets absolutely blown up. And that's how the ERA and the whip kind of winds up where it is. but the last three years he's been pretty consistent. 341, 348, 353 ERA, 106, 104, 110 whip. So, I mean, there's something to be said for consistency there with Lucas Gileto. But that only, that led to him having fewer points per game than Aaron Savale to get back to the premise. So consistent, but consistently what?

I think. It was probably, I think second tier. I would imagine it was probably, no, it wasn't really because of wins either. Savali had 12 wins G-Lito had 11 So yeah Savali was probably going deeper More consistently I would imagine

I don't know But yeah You're right Savali did average more fantasy points per game Than Lucas Gilito All right Let's get back to the wacky stuff This one Fernando

Scott White once came to work With a ventriloquist dummy named Slappy That's fiction No that is fact Scott White Scott White did not come to work With a dummy

I bought a dummy I didn't tell you. That was Monaco yeah. Oh, geez, I blew that one.

Scott White, you had to do the dummy. Yes. I had to give the ventriloquist act using Slappy the Dummy, which I think the Slappy Dummy was a character from the Goosebumps book series,

right? Like it was just like, it was like this, you know, horror, horrifying looking dummy because it was, which,

which makes it funny, I think, that you had this prop from the Goosebump series. It's the only Ventriloquist that was available for two-day shipping, I believe, at the time. Okay. And we needed it. Yeah.

Clearly. I could probably, why didn't you find that? Why didn't you find that video, Frank? Yeah, Frank. You'll find the sloppy video. Brodsky probably put one of the greatest shit. I never told you it was sloppy.

How did you figure that out? Scott texted me. I just completely misread the text. So that's how I messed up that factor fiction. Yeah, I was going to say he once came to work with, yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, he's talking about you, Nando. So Nando came to work with a eventually. I thought I read it as Scott brought it in for himself and then he performed with it.

But either way, that sounds great. And I will be looking that up on video to see if I could find it anywhere. Next up. We had a box of fun, man. It was amazing. The stuff in that box. This one's for you, Scott. I want a girl dress up as the devil.

No, false. The fiction. Scott, you're up. Adam would only ask for a cup of water at subway to save money. Would always ask for a cup of water at subway to save money. Fact or fiction. Frank, you're pretty bad. You've got a wordsmiths here on the show, man.

You've got to tighten this up a little bit. I know, I know. I never got lunch with Adam, I don't think. So I'm not that familiar with his eating habits. I mean, that's not an atypical thing to do. So it seems like an easy lie to make up. So I'm going to say that's fiction. Yeah, it's fiction.

It's not fiction at all. Is it? Look, here's the thing. I only drink water. That's the only thing. I remember you took the cup and you wink at me and you go, that's how I save money. And then what I would go to get a soda or something on the fountain?

Yeah, you'd hold it up to the water, a little water machine. They gave me a little tiny cup and you'd hold up like this and sip it. I got busted for doing that in college, actually. I took a water cup and put Coke or Sprite in it. And they got it. No, that might be true, but it wasn't to save money, you jerk. It's because I drink water exclusively.

Why didn't you get a DeSani? Oh, that was disgusting. So I was technically right. I guess. I mean, Adano's running my life now. You wish. What an embarrassing thing to get busted for. Yeah, it was pretty embarrassed.

What did they do to you? They got really mad at me. I don't remember exactly, but they were pissed. I really kind of gave it to me. You know what's the absolute worst thing that could happen? happen at the Soda Fountain is you click on Sprite and you get Seltzer. That's the worst thing that could happen. You go to drink it. You're expecting like this lemon, lime, sugary goodness and you just get fizzy water. It's gross.

That's not very flat, like flat Sprite. Yeah, that's not too good. That's not good. You're right. I hope I'm not offending our Seltzer drinking audience out there. Well, now the Fountain drinks, they got, they got them coming out of like the single tap, you know, so everything just tastes like every soda mixed together, and it's just like... That's why I say... I'm exactly right. I'm going the out of mazer route.

Yeah, the water tap is probably very sanitary and clean. I'm sure they pay really good attention to that. It's separate, though, you know? You don't have all the syrup. Every night they clean the water tap, I'm sure. All right, so let's get back into... I got another baseball one here. This one's for everybody.

43 players hit 30-plus home runs last season. John Carlos Stanton's 64 run scored were the lowest among that group of 30 plus home run hitters. So let me say it again. 43 players hit 30 plus home runs. Staten's 64 run scored were the lowest of that group.

Adam, you're up. Fact or fiction. You know, it's very specific. I'm sure he's among the... I'm sure he's near the bottom. I'll say it's fiction, but it makes sense. It doesn't really do much else

just hits home runs. Fiction. Nado? I think I'm going to say fact because in my brain, I mean, I don't watch all the games like Adam does. Right. But you don't really see Junk Carlos Stanton standing up on second base taking his batting gloves off waiting for someone to drive him in.

And that Yankees lineup was messy last year too. Like random dudes were getting at bats. I'm going to say it's actually, that's fact. That seems like a fact. Well, I think Adam's right that it hinges on, you know, whether he's the very lowest in that run scored. category versus being very low, you know. And I know his ADP, judging by the rest of his production, not his ADP,

his points per game average, but judging by the rest of his productions was shockingly low and not what you'd expect. Really, the Yankees have a lot of players with high OBPs, but not many run scores. That lineup was very weird, was very weird last year how that played out. I'm going to say fact, like Nando. All right. is fiction. Don't sell yourself short, Adam.

Look at you. You're the only one who got it right. So he did score 64 runs. Fran Mill Reyes was lower. He had 57 runs scored. He had exactly 30 home runs on the nose there. John Carlos Stanton managed to stay healthy for 139 games last season. Steamer has him projected for 138 games.

Adam, over under, 138 and a half games for John Carlos Stanton this season. Under. I'm not even going to get into it. Not complicated here. I don't trust him to stay healthy under. All right. Fernando.

And I'm sorry, especially because he played a lot better in the field last year, as I recall. He did. And I just don't trust him to stay healthy if they're going to play him in the field. Nono, the ADP for John Carlos Stanton is 94.7 sneaks just inside the top 100. Would you be comfortable with him as your outfield two? Maybe outfield three if you're aggressive? Yeah. the fact that he has off the eligibility

probably pushes into the top 100 for me. I still like, yeah, you know what? I'd probably jump on them. The problem is the way I build my teams when I'm sitting around like that 90 to 110 area, that's when I'm building out SP2, SB3, SB4 area. So, okay, like in a multiverse, some form of Nando would love to take John Carlos Stanton there.

Yes. All right. It's a good price. It's good price for anyone, not just for me. As the DH last year, he hit 267 with an 843, OPS. He played 16 games in right field. He hit 279 with a 968 OPS. 10 games in left field. He hit 343 with a 1065 OPS. So yeah, he was better when he played the outfield last season.

Why can't I find team batting stats with runners in scoring position? I feel like the Yankees were among the worst. Why don't just pay attention to the show, man? This is relevant. This is why they all had high OVPs and didn't score runs. I don't know. That's, I don't know where it is. I'm looking on baseball reference. I didn't score runs because they didn't hit doubles because the park is too small to hit doubles. Yeah, that,

they had Joey Gallo in their line. They've never had a good lineup. They've never scored a lot of runs the history of that ballpark. Good call. No, they scored a lot of runs off of home runs, though. All right, who thought. All right, you know what? You want to play the stats game?

I'm going to look up stuff too then, Adam. Yeah, I can't look up any. I don't know what I'm doing here. All right. What is RISP? I'm looking for runners in scoring position. Oh, man. I'm actually, I'm trying to let you guys stall long enough to see if I could actually find this. But are you looking for like batting average with runners in scoring position, Adam?

Sure. That week. The Yankees ranked, oh, they're low. 26th in baseball, 238 batting average with runners in scoring position last season. Yeah. It's pretty bad. It is quite bad. So I would say, look, I think Stanton, if you could stay healthy, I think the run scored will be better.

but he obviously is very slow. And yeah, just kind of keep that in mind that, you know, maybe he's not a pure, you know, three category contributor. Maybe he's like a two and a half with like an okay batting average at this point. Next up, we have a question for Scotty. Not a question. Fact or fiction. Adam once asked out the daughter of the man who owned the local dry cleaners

by the Fort Lauderdale office. Fact or fiction. I'm trying to read Adam's expression. That sounds fiction. like very fictional to me. So I'm going to say fiction. I have no idea. It's very much fiction.

It's ridiculous. Is it very much fiction? Yeah. What are you talking about? Of course. What are you talking about? I don't know what it was about this girl, but he just made up this story,

this relationship that she and I had basically. And he would talk about it all the time. It was so weird. And by the way, it was right next door to the subway. that I apparently, you know, gickle and dived for free water. Yeah, so you couldn't ask out anybody there because you already made yourself. You know what? She and I went out.

I took her to subway and I got her a glass of water. There you go. Now, if that story you just told about Nando making up this whole scenario and, you know, continually going back to it for the year and a half you work together or however long it was, if that was the fact of the picture. Two years. I would have totally said fact I saw that play out time and time again

By the way Guess who was last in the major leagues In doubles last year The Yankees The New York Yankees Yeah that sounds about right It's just a bunch of guys going up there Trying to swing away for the fences

So that would include Dwight Gallo and Stanton I probably could have found that's that Oh man Let's hit a quick break when we return. We'll get to a few more fact or fiction questions, statements here on fantasy baseball today. All right. Next up, we have this one's for Nando and Scott, another fantasy related item. Adoli-Scarcia finished 53rd overall in 5x Vroto Value last season, which was higher than Randy Arosa Rana.

Scott, you're up first. Adoli-Scarcia, 53rd overall, higher than a Rosa Rana. I could see that being true. I think a Rosa Rana's performance was overvalued, and Adolice Garcia, I mean, obviously it was very front-loaded, but the numbers, you know, there were great numbers. He had some steals in there, more home runs than a Rosarena. I believe it's possible enough that I'm going to say fact.

No? I'm going to say fact. I think it's the steals. I think people underrate Garcia's steal ability. So I think that's what pushed him over the top. All right. Orozarena. That was fiction.

Randy Orozzo Arena was just higher. He finished 50th overall, but Adolese Garcia, 53rd, as I mentioned. And overall, it was a very good season for Delis Garcia. He hit 243, 31 homers, 16 steals. Nando, correct me if I'm wrong. I feel like Adelis Garcia is a Nando guy, right? Oh, yeah, big time, man. I've had him in the Scott White Dynasty League for many, many years.

and my actually the BP score sheet league which Scott White and I are also in I think I had him and let him go like oh no I was never going to work out for him because he's been so close on so many teams they just don't believe in him so yeah but I've loved him forever uh ever since Frankie ever since we did the trick where you go to milb.com and you uh and you sort by home runs basically yeah I still did that this season I think I mentioned it to Scott or someone else at some point that's that's the trick huh I mean, I know it's childish, but like that's how I discovered Arlene Rodriguez. It does, it does sound like that could be the process. Yes, I have noticed that these obscure nando picks, they're never lacking in home runs.

I also start by steals. It's just not as much fun and they're already well known. I can't imagine that the fantasy baseball community is too excited about a guy with a 286 on base percentage. Just knowing what I know about fantasy baseball analysts. Yeah, no. They're fantasy baseballers as a whole are fading Adolius. Adolice Garcia, I have hard time saying that name. Adolice Garcia pretty hard. They're fading him pretty hard. I think too hard. I wouldn't want to pay for him like he's the 55th best player or whatever he finished last year. Obviously not. But I'll pay for him like he was the 125th best player. What's his ADP, Frank? have that handy? Yeah, his ADP right now is 167.

He's the 44th. Oh, no way, man. That's terrible. 44th outfielder off the board. And he was actually one of the biggest fallers in ADP. We didn't get to him on yesterday's podcast, Scott. But I was going to mention,

yeah, he's dropped like 30 spots since the lockout started back in December 1st. It's pretty weird because the only thing the Rangers have done since then is get better. They have Marcus Semyon and Corey Seeger. So in theory, that should help Adoli's curse of you. And to be clear, I don't, it's not like I have this like great belief in him or anything.

I think I think it's a coin flips chance. He falls flat on his face this year and never gets a chance again. But I think for the price, I'll take that coin flips chance and potentially get another 30 homer 15 steel season out of it, if not better. All right. They gave him every chance last year too. Like you know what I mean?

Like Chris Davis was coming back. There was someone else who was coming back. And every time I was like, oh, man, here, you know, dreams of him. over and they just kept playing them. And he was like he just kept rewarding them for playing him. So that that factors in for me too. Like last year they could have yanked them a bunch of times, lost patience. They didn't. Yeah, he's a freak athlete too. He made some like amazing catches in the outfield last year. I remember that. 83rd percentile in sprint speed, 85th percentile in max exit velocity. So you want to talk about just pure power and speed. Adolias Garcia is that guy.

I think people might be going too far the other way with him as well. This one's for And Orlando and Scott. Adam is a huge fan of Cobra Kai, the television show, so much so that he even owns a Johnny Lawrence, a signed Johnny Lawrence Funko Pop. That is the falsest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. I don't know. Is that true, Scott? And Adam used to have the drop for the best around the best. That's right. That is fact. That is fact. There's no way he ever got a Funko Pop in his entire life. I could see Adam liking the show. I mean, A lot of people like the show. It's just, does he have an autographed Funko? Like, I feel like if he did, it would be because Nando bought it for him. So the fact Nando saying fiction...

Actually, Frankie's more of a Funko guy. So the fact Nando's saying fiction, I'm going to say fiction too. All right, it is fiction, and I am the one who has the signed John Lawrence Funko Bob. I knew it. That just sucks, man. That's one of the worst, cheesious corny. Okay, here we go. Come on, Adam.

I can't die. And I ruined it for my wife, too, because, like, she liked it. And then I kind of pointed out all the things I don't like about it. And now she sees them when she watches it. And she agrees. I think she agrees anyway. It's not. I feel like she's just playing a while just to get you to shut up.

No. Come on, Adam. You just have to embrace. It's so bad that it's good. That's the beauty of Cobbric. Well, I mean, the karate kid itself is kind of cheesy. At least that was 1984 or something like that. I mean, this is 2020.

Wanted to come out? 2020, whatever? I mean, come on. Be better. I haven't actually seen it, so I can't vouch for it. Oh, come on. I plan to watch it eventually. I don't understand why people like it so much.

This is the first time that I've been on the other end of one of these azare takes, and it's not a good feeling. How is this the first time? I don't know. I feel like we generally agree on a lot of stuff, which, I don't know. Is that true? I don't worry about that, Frank. I think so, yeah.

All right, this last one is we're getting back to Yankees. We're getting back to Fantasy Baseball. This one's Fernando. and Scott, though you can add some analysis in here, Adam. Despite a 204 batting average last season, Gary Sanchez hit 23 home runs, which ranked top three at the catcher position. Scott, you're up first.

Fact or fiction? Okay, so Salvador Perez, Mike Zunino. I think I've actually looked into this before, and I think, yeah, I think 23 home runs for the, I think those were the third most. among catchers. So I'll say fact. All right.

You're saying fact. Nando, you're up? I'm fact with Scott White, too. I think there are too many catchers splitting duties behind the plate now. I'm saying fiction. I'm saying fiction. Oh, Adam with another...

Adam with another slam dunk on you guys. It is fiction. Gary Sanchez is tied for fourth with Yasmani Grandaul. They both had 23. The one name you missed, Scott? Tide? That's fine.

The one name you miss Scottie was Will Smith. He had 25 home runs last season. So just ahead of Gary Sanchez. And I bring this up, Nando, because I was listening to the athletic baseball podcast, and it was okay. Yeah, it was okay. It was pretty good. And I heard you say that you drafted

Gary Sanchez, so I wanted a reason to talk about him. He had a 776 OPS in May. He had a 1035 OPS in June. He had a sub-650 OPS every other month of the season. He's a very frustrating player, Nando. Yeah, but I mean, like,

The power's there. He's still just, you know, he's kind of young, upside. I just, I don't know, he had a track record that I thought was good enough. I know a lot of these young catchers come in. They want to learn the staff and their average struggles because of it. He was struggling all over the place. But I don't know, I still got a glimmer of hope that he can turn it around. You know, Ron Chandler, you don't lose his skill.

So I haven't lost faith in him completely yet. And I needed a catcher at that point. So, you know, it's a 50, this is a 50 round draft where, you're kind of in the dregs at a certain point. There was a big drop off after Gary Sanchez. I could use the power. So I took them. All right,

Adam, this is a meter that you are not familiar with. I don't think. I could be wrong. Josh Van Meter. Josh Van Meter. I'm familiar with that one. Where does Gary Sanchez rank on the Dunzo meter?

Ten being this guy is cooked. He's done. I think Adam should put his hands up when you ask him questions. Well, I just can't look up. Let me just Google Dunzo meter real quick. Dunzometer, he's an eight and a half.

He's arguably the worst player in baseball if he factor in his defense. So I just don't think it's going to take much for them to bench him quite honestly. And he's eight and a half on the Dunzometer. Still has that potential, which we saw, as you mentioned, for a month where he was incredible. But I'm looking at the points per game now, though,

or the points, and he finishes a top 10 catcher. That's not hard to do. I know, but he scored as many points as Christian Vasquez. And, you know, good last year. Right. But Sanchez missed some time, too. So I still think he's worth drafting.

But I think he's a lot of time. Yeah, I mean, I think, well, I, you know, I kind of feel like the Yankees would have non-tendered him if they were that close to giving up on him. I kind of expected them to non-tender him, actually. So that they didn't, I think is heartening. But, yeah, I think if you approach Gary San. Manchez the right way, kind of like a Mike Zunino. You know, Mike Zunino had a career year last year,

but just like if you approach him like normal Mike Zunino, he's going to give me 20 to 25 home runs with a bad batting average. You know, hopefully he'll start 50% of the time. That's still, you know, a borderline top 12 catcher. That's still somebody probably worth drafting in a one catcher league. I just, I don't think it's realistic to hold out hope for him being, you know, the 33 homer guy. we saw a few years ago

who was arguably the number one catcher in fantasy. The ADP for Gary Sanchez since December 1st, 253.5. He's the 16th catcher off the board. He's going just behind Sean Murphy and Mike Zanino and really, you know, all three of those catchers do a lot of the same thing. It's going to be low batting average.

It's going to be a lot of pop. So if that fits in with your team context at that point, then yeah, sure. I think it makes sense to draft Gary Sanchez. It's just frustrating because last year I kind of went out on a limb, for Gary Sanchez. I'm like,

this is the lowest as ADP has ever been. And then he rewarded me like that by hitting whatever, 204. He was quite bad.

Top 10, man. Top 10, man. Top 10. Your guns, Frank. Yeah. I think I'm done. I think I'm done with Gary Sanchez. Maybe he was hurt.

Maybe he was getting some bad coaching. What's this? He's hurt. Everybody's hurt. We do have a new hitting coach. So maybe that'll help. We. There's an entirely new coaching staff.

Except for the one that mattered. Yeah. Unfortunately. You know it's bad. I was hoping that the Yankees are trained. He looks like Aaron Boone. He goes to me once. Do I look like Aaron Boone?

A lot of people say that. Fact or fiction. He did say, he did use to say it looks like Ryan Braun. Yeah. No, that was Licks, Ryan Braun. You got that mixed up. Oh, okay. What?

People have told me I look like Ryan Broad. You do kind of look like Ryan Broad. Multiple people have told you that. It has happened before. No way. We absolutely not. Same class. Not we didn't have.

a class together, but we are the same age and went to the same college. I mean, we, people mistook us. Like, you know, on campus, they mistook you for Ryan Braun? He did it really, but yeah, that is the joke I try to think. Yes. I think, apart from the three

people I'm talking to now, I don't know multiple people who know what Ryan Braun looks like. So that's what makes that stance hard to believe. I honestly have been told that I like Ryan Braun. I've been told by multiple people, Adam, that I look like Evan Fornier. Is that true?

Yes. You do, but you look more like Dean Blandino. Team Blandino is by far the most random one that I've ever got. But yes, thanks Adam for that. Adam, let's stick with you here. I got a multiple choice question for you. And it goes a little something like this. Lars Neutbar is a blank.

Dutch soccer player, protein bar, Cardinals outfielder, MLB team general manager. Oh, he's got to be a Cardinals outfielder, right? I know. This was too hotfielder. obvious, but I thought it was... Come on, Frankie. I thought it would be fun.

I was like, what kind of things can Lars Neupar be? It's the impulse buy at the checkout line at the IKEA. Oh, man. I like Lars Neupar, too. We had the Welsh on a couple of months ago, and we did an AFL recap, and Lars Neupar apparently was tearing up the Arizona Fall League, and the DH, hopefully coming to the National League, you know, a lot of people are hopeful that Juan Yuppez is going to have that opportunity with the Cardinals, but I actually kind of like Lars Neupar.

So I think a name in deeper leagues, NL only, you know, 15 team roto, some of these drafting holds, a name to pay attention to Lars Newt Bar. Nando, do you have any interest in it, the Newt Bar? No, you know, I obviously saw his name, like, I'm gonna look at check this guy out.

It just didn't do it for me. You know me, I like big home runs, steals OBP. Yeah, he does a little bit of everything, but I guess not enough of those things for you to like him. Also, I think his name is going to make him jump like 30 or 40 ADP spots. that happens. It happens real life.

I have two drafts that I've concluded already. One is a draft champions, one is a best ball. You're right, Adam? Okay, thank you. It's a little late for you, Adam. I want to make sure you're all right. Eight. Please. I don't know the last time. I'm watching Showtime original movies.

We got an email from Ryan McGarry, and he actually tweeted at us and said, make sure you read my email. So I had it on the rundown even before that. For the reunion show, can I just tell the three stooges how much I used to love calling in to the live internet show during my lunch hour. Or the live chats.

They were the best. Can you please ask Scott White what he thinks about Nando introducing Adam to his now wife, yet he was not asked to be a groomsman or even an usher or a program hander-outer at his wedding? Scott will be unbiased in his analysis.

Well, I have heard about this before. This is a common thing that comes up when Nando and Al-Wan, Adam are together. I stopped bringing it up after a while because Adam made a bingo card out of the things I bring up. So I've got to find all new jokes. It is funny. It is funny.

I mean, I wonder like, because, of course, his wife had a lot of say on how the wedding party was put together, I assume. And there was probably a limited number of groomsmen. And, you know, Nando may have just been bumped, you know. He may have gotten pushed out by a pure numbers thing. and I think that's forgivable if that's the case. Yeah, it is the case. I already had more groomsmen than she had bridesmaids. I had to make some cuts, you know?

Yeah, there you got. I did. He was the next guy in. There were two girls in one of him, but he was the next guy that would have been in. Azer was kissing up to his Hollywood screenwriter friends and putting them in the wedding party, even though they barely talk anymore.

Oh, that's, I talked to my husband. Hey, man. I talked to him. single day. He texted me five minutes ago while we're out of the air. Every day I talked to him. How do you know that? If you're paying attention to the show, how do you know your phone's going off? It's right in front of me.

It's a good question. Somebody texted me something very immature and inappropriate and his name is Nando, so I'm not going to read that one. The end of the email goes a little something like this from Ryan. For real, those three plus Al are, in my opinion, the Mount Rushmore of Fantasy baseball for my generation. And I thank them for the years of entertainment. I am either driving to or from work with you guys just about every day. And occasionally maybe, occasionally,

maybe you're even taking a shower with me. Much love. That's a little TMI there. Like Azer and John Jay. Wait, you guys don't do that? I listen to podcasts in the shower. I listen to podcast in the shower. I've tried to.

I can't get a setup that work. Like you need like actual speakers in there in the bathroom to make that work, right? I want to know how to do it. Yeah, you just get a little Bluetooth speaker. Yeah, that works or... So I have a little window cut out in my shower and there's a... Don't take this the wrong way,

but I have a beer holder in my shower. So I just throw the phone in there and then it just, it emits pretty loudly while I'm showering and that's how I do it. I just need to invest a little something in making this happen. I don't know. I don't know about like...

I'm trying to give Frank a preview of what his life is going to be like, but the shower is the only... Only moment of calm in my life with two little kids. And we all have two little kids. So I am not interested in any podcast or any music or anything. I don't want a damn thing bothering me. But I'm finally by myself away from the screaming madness of the house. You don't like your kids?

Love them. That's how I read that. Yeah. I just stay up a lot later than everybody else. That's how I get around that. That's a good way to do that. All right. I take showers.

God bless you guys for. you know, obviously having kids. I don't know how you do it because I can barely take care of myself. I have a cat. You know, that's about the extent of, you know, people that I can be responsible for at this point. So thank you, Ryan, for sending in the email. And like you, I agree.

I would have Scott, Adam Nando, and Al Milk, you are on my fantasy baseball Mount Rushmore as well. These are the guys that I grew up listening to. So it's pretty awesome to actually do this podcast. And some alternate universe, George Sedano's on that Mount Rushmore. Yeah. Frank is perfect for this show, by the way. He's an amazing job.

He's a great host. So you are moving right in. New face on Mount Rushmore. Five presidents now. Yeah, I mean. Have a rat tail. That's true. I have some,

like I don't know that people can, can you see this? Yeah. I have a little thing going. I have a lot of hair underneath this hat. That's why I wear a hat all the time because there's a lot of hair underneath this thing. So I don't usually reveal it.

And I think I'm probably going to cut it off rather soon. Let's end here. Fantasy feud. I don't know how much of this that we're going to get to. but whatever. We'll have some fun with it. And we will start with this. Real basic stuff, you know, Adam, I think even, you know,

you'll be able to contribute something here. I do believe that. We have the Nando de Azer family going up against the Scott White family. Five players in 40 plus home runs in 2021. But Adam. All right? I totally missed the question. I did too.

That's okay. Go ahead. Lladimir Guerrero. Vladimir Guerrero is correct. He is tied for the number. number one answer. You get to choose pass or play. Let's play. All right. Five players hit 40 plus home runs in 2021. The number one answer on the board was Vladimir Guerrero with 48. Shohei Otani. Shohei Otani hit 46. The number one, number one and number three answers are off the board.

Oh no, he did not hit 40 home runs. Is that an answer? Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is incorrect. He hit 39. He was off by one. Oh my God. How many home runs was? It was 40. 40 plus. 40 plus. I didn't think Judge even came that close. I'm going to say Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper is incorrect. I believe he also hit 39. Oh, this is not fair. Come on, man. Oh, Marcus Simeon.

Marcus Simeon. I will allow the Marcus Semian answer, not the Dominic Smith one. That is, Marcus Semyon is correct. 45 home runs. You have three answers off the board and two are left. Boyce. Is it possible, Nando, that... No, it's not. Boba Shett didn't hit that many home runs, did he? Is that your...

I'm asking Nando. No, I don't think... No, no way, man. He was like 32 tops. All right, then, no, I don't have any more guesses, Nando. Bryce Harper hit 35 home runs, by the way. Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed Bryce Harper. That was a dumb waste.

Oh, man. I'm, uh, my brain's not there yet, Frank. I'm still in football season, but... Yeah, this is bothering me. I'm trying to go through every single team. I wish I had him in front of me. No, you should eliminate us. We're taking two.

I'm stuck on Boston. Well, why do we all? Let's play. What a great idea. We got three of the answers. I don't think J.B. Martinez really did it. You know, I'm trying to- eliminate us.

All right. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Austin Riley. Austin Riley, I will accept that answer, and it's not correct. He hit 33 home runs, but was not far off. All right, so you guys got Vlad. You got Vlad, you got Vlad Otani and Semian.

The Scott White family is swooping in for the steel. And I got an answer here that I'm confident is right. That answer is the record-setting home run total from Salvador Perez. And that is correct. 48 home runs tied for first in baseball with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. The question I wanted to ask regarding this group, Nando, would you feel comfortable using a mid-first round pick on Choha Tani this year? Oh yeah, 100%.

I love them. I mean, I know every league's a little different if you can move them back and forth, but I love him anywhere. Pitcher, if they're like, you can only use them with a pitcher, fine. Only's a hitter, fine. It's not like he's doing that two days off every week now. He's like, he's playing. I love him.

All in. All in. All in. All right. Did we get all the answers between us or were there any? Oh, one more. There was one more. The number five answer on the board, Fernando Tatis hit 42 home runs.

Oh, yeah. Okay, he did get there. Yeah. That's crazy with the injury that he had. Like being injured and being out and then also having to play with that injury? That's insane. His pace numbers are. insane. I think he really should be the first player drafted, despite everybody's shoulder concerns.

Yeah, he did that. 42 home runs, 25 steals, and 478 at bats. It's just absolutely bonkers for Fernando Tatis. Next up, eight starting pitchers had 220 plus strikeouts. Eight starting pitchers had 220 plus strikeouts last season. Gary Cole or Adam, Gary Cole. I will accept that answer. That is the number three answer on the board. Can we please pass this? Scottie Scott has a chance to get one and two. So you are passing. No, no, this is how it works. You got a chance to beat us and oh, oh, okay. All right. So I'm going to say, uh, Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray was first in baseball, 248 strikeouts. Scott, would you like to pass or play? I'm going to pass. All right. He'll rue the day, Scott White.

So we have Robbie Ray. I'm stuck on the Orioles again. The number one answer with 248. Garrett Cole, the number three answer with 243. Team Nando de Azer. You are on the clock. DeGrom didn't get there, did he? I know he missed a lot of time.

Is that an official guess? I'm asking a guy. He's not a lot of talking about here. There's no way to Grom. He didn't play enough to get 200 strikeouts. All right. We won't use him then. Or did he?

I think we should guess. think we should guess him. Is that your official guess? No, he missed too much time. Shohayotani. Is that a real guess? No, that's not a real guess. Come on.

Why not? How many do you think you had, Adam? Not that. I should have played just for the good of the show, right? I know, right, yes. Exposing ourselves a little bit here. I know. Our first guest is going to be

Jose Barrios. Jose Burrios is your first guest. and it is wrong, but not far off. 204 strikeouts, we're looking for 220 plus. There had to be someone on the Reds. I don't know anybody on the Reds. I know. You have to carry the load here. Wade Miley.

Oh, I've got one. Is that your, is that your, is that early, no, no, no, no. How about Max Fried? Can we try Max Fried? How about Max Scher? Only, like the more obvious Max. Is that an official? That's an official guess. All right. Max Scherzer is correct.

236 strikeouts, the number four answer on the board. I just remember Max Fried. I think he started game one with the Braves. Strikeouts aren't really his thing, though. Oh, that's... Come on, dude. Yeah, even Scott's trying to help you out here. He's on the other team.

What's wrong with you, man? So there aren't going to be any raise. They don't pitch enough. Padres, Blake Snell wasn't good enough. You Darvish didn't play enough. What is that? Come on. Just name pitch.

You've done like 10 drafts already. Who goes early? I don't know. I don't pay attention to that, really. I get an email when it's my turn. Oh, Walker Bueller. Walker Bueller, yeah. Walker Bueller is a great guess.

But it is wrong. He had 212 strikeouts. Is that 3 strikes for us? That is two strikes. You got to come up with a government. Only 221 more to go. Giants. No, Giants were more statistically inclined last year.

Yeah, they don't statistics teams don't like strikeouts. Milwaukee. Oh, Milwaukee. Um, uh, oh my God. Oh, yeah, Brandon Woodruff. Uh, no, uh, the other guy. What's his name? Uh, Corvin Burns. Josh Lindblum. Corbyn.

Is that an official answer? Yeah, Corbyn's. All right. Corbyn's correct. You have 234 strikeouts. He was the number five answer on the board. So, Mr. Burns. So we have. Oh, Shane Bieber. Shane Bieber. Is that, is that a real guess? Yes.

All right. Shane Bieber, guys. just letting you know through 96 and 2 thirds innings last year for 134 strikeouts. And... Okay, well, that's Njo's fault. All right, it's a rape, though.

I was just saying names. So the number 1, 3, 4, and 5 answers are off the board, Scotty. You have a 50% chance of getting this question right. I think I got number two. I think number two is

Zach Wheeler. And for the win? You are correct, and the winner, Scotty Dobs. Good answer. Good answer. Thank you. That was a predictable outcome, I think, having watched you guys work just now.

No worry, we're a great team. Zach Wheeler, 247 strikeouts last year, number one in the National League, second baseball behind only Robbie Ray. The other answers we were looking for. Number six, Kevin Gosman, 227. There was a pitcher on the Giants, Nando. So you were right about that.

Dylan Cease, seventh in baseball, 226 strikeouts. Number eight, despite the unlucky season and terrible ERA, Aaron Nola, 223 strikeouts last season. I feel like I dropped Dylan Cease. No, I couldn't. You possibly did if it was like a 12th team had to head league. It was our Roto League. It was our auction league.

It was pretty up and down. Yeah, he was a little rough early on. Wasn't there another White Sox pitcher with a senior initials? who was similarly kind of an okay prospect. Are you talking about Michael Kopeck? No, no. It was like Dylan Cici. He was a DC.

He was a DC? Yeah. I don't know. That's David Creeze. That ring is a bell, Nando, actually. Hold on. I'll look at up. I think it was David Cope's statistics.

All right. Do we want to play the third and final one? Just S for S's and G's or no? Up to you. Let Scott White win. Every time Azer looks at this. computer of bell rings. I think I've already won, technically.

Yeah, technically Scott already won because he got two out of three. But yeah, let's play this last. Scott has seen enough family few episodes to know that nobody has won. Until that scores are triple. They triple the points. I love it, but it makes no sense. And they have the worst prize. It's car that nobody ever wins.

They will go walk away with like 500 bucks. Okay, go ahead, Frank. I'm sorry. We've been playing possum all this time. Six players had 30 plus steals last season. I'm not cheating. I'm just texting. Scott.

All right. The Major League leader was Starling Marte. That is correct. He had 47 steals. Pass or play? I think everybody wants to see them play. I'm going to pass. All right.

We have Adam and Nando. Five more players had 30 plus steals last season. We got this. Did Atabeltz or Mondi? That guy, Mondi. Did he do it? Is that an official guess? This is me asking Nando

if this should be an official guess. Yeah, go ahead, go for it, you know? Yes, modesty. All right, Adelberto Monassie had 15 steals and 126 at bat. So he was well on pace to shatter that. But, yeah, that answer is incorrect. I got a crazy guess. All right.

Why have a crazy guess? Why not like that? Miles Straw is correct. Whoa. 30 steals on the nose last year. You know why that's a bad thing, Nando? Because that was maybe the only one that Scott wasn't going to get. So now we have a third strike.

No. That was good. Good job. Nice one. So Trey Turner did not do this? You tell me, did he? Yeah, go ahead. Guess it.

Trey Turner. Trey Turner did do it. He had 32 steals. There we go. All right. You might have Scott White on his heels now. Oh, man. There was a random 30-30 last year.

I cannot, like, tip my tongue. What about Marcus Simeon that he didn't do it, did he? I don't know. Nando, are we accepting Marcus Semyon as an answer? Yeah, this is going to bother me who this 30-30 guy is, so Adam can do whatever he wants, so I'm racking my brain on this. What about Bichette?

Do you want to guess Marcus Semyon or Bobauchette? Nando which one. Bichet, man. Marcus Simeon's a little old. Bichet. Long in the tooth. Bichet had 25 steals last year. Just missed. That is your second strike. You have the number one, three, and four answers are off the board.

Nanda, what about Billy Hamilton? Oh, what about that outfield on the Oridels that had that great year? That was it. Cedric Mullins. Cedric Mullins is correct. 30 steals, the only player to go 30-30 last season. A damn azer. Yeah, man.

I don't think I can pull any magic out anymore. There are two answers left on the board. Man, I feel like Enrique, how about this? What about Tatis? Well, I think I revealed how many steals he had earlier in the show. Yeah, and he also said there's only one 30-30 guy. Oh, okay, true. So, pass.

I don't know anything. I can't do any more, Nando. I'm out. All right, Nando, we're dependent on you. We, the team Frank de Azer team. You with us now?

I'm with you. Unfortunately, I can't give an answer because I know all them. Maybe Tim LaCastro? I don't think you played enough. Is that an initial answer? He probably had a good rate. Yeah, you know, we're going to go down

with Tim LaCastro. All right. Tim LaCastro for the win! And he had five steals in 64 games. way, Frank, you need to get yourself the, where is it? Sorry. Yes. I'm lacking, I'm lacking production here. Scotty.

So I'm not confident in this one, actually, but I'm going to go with the easiest answer I can think of. Not confident in it, but I'm going to say Whitmerfield. And Whitmerfield for the sweep. Is correct. Oh, damn it. Oh, okay. Yeah, Adam played that prematurely to throw everything off. But yeah, you're right.

He had 40 steals, so he was second in baseball, by an only starring Marte. The other answer you didn't get tied with Cedric Mullins and Miles Straw, Tommy Edmund had 30 steals last year. I was going to say, no, no, say. That's who I was speaking of. Not simple Castro, Tommy Edmund. Just off.

Oh, man. This was a lot of fun. We've gone well over now. You're not pace for 50, to be fair. It is Nando. It is Adam and Scotty Dubs. Nando, you are hosting the Athletic Fantasy Baseball podcast right now under the radar with DVR, Derek Van Riper, and Ian Kahn, is there anything else who'd like to promote while you're here?

No, that's good. Oh yeah, you know what? Check out Tuwaka. I think it's wrong. I have no idea. All right, well, we appreciate it, Nando, and for you suffering through the cold of your garage. I do appreciate it. I have to read it. I'm getting text messages, actually. like they're awake. Yeah, yeah.

I think we gotta cut this off. Adam. Too loud in the garage. Adam, we appreciate you, buddy. Thanks, guys. Great to be here. We're gonna wrap there for Adam, Nando, and Scott.

I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching. Fantasy baseball today will be back again on Monday. Bye-bye.