Fantasy Baseball Today - FBT Express - Players Scott White Keeps Drafting! (3/22 Fantasy Baseball podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Who are the players? Scott keeps drafting. Find out next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. Team Express on Saturday, March 22nd. I am Frank Stample, joined by Scott White. Let's take a look at the players that Scott keeps drafting, and we will start at the very top, the player that you have drafted the most, and we'll work our way down. Scott, who is that player? All right, so these are the 11 leagues that I'm playing out. Three more to come, but 11. so far. And in of those 11, I have drafted one player seven times.

Starting point is 00:00:35 It is Chris Bubich. One of my favorite sleepers, a pretty deep sleeper. 267ERA 102 whip 11.2K per 9 in relief last year. Moving back to a starting role, has a much improved arsenal from when we remember him as a starter.

Starting point is 00:00:57 And I think it'll translate well to this return. So I've been drafting a lot of Chris Boobich. I have two players that I've drafted on six of those 11 teams, Jerks and ProFar and Nick Martinez. So let's start with Martinez first. He is a relief pitcher eligible starting pitcher like Boobitch. So that makes him attractive in points leagues.

Starting point is 00:01:21 And then for Roto, a whip standout. He certainly was last year with greatly improved control. The Reds obviously bought into. it hard, offering him a qualifying offer this off season, which he accepted. So he's making $21 million this year. And if they buy into it, I'm buying

Starting point is 00:01:41 into it too. So I like getting Nick Martinez outside the top 300 to bolster my whip. As for Jurekson ProFar, I thought he was under value to begin with. He started to climb a bit once he signed with the Braves, and it looked like he was going to bat high in the lineup for him. And then there was

Starting point is 00:01:57 that wrist injury that scared people away. He returned to the lineup here on Thursday, two for four with a hard hit double. Looks like he'll be ready to go. I'm glad I took advantage of the even further discounted discount for a player who was, it was an elite outfielder. I understand we're skeptical the, the repeat season for ProFar, but as late as he's going even now, it's not like there are a ton of safe options there.

Starting point is 00:02:28 So I'm particularly in five outfielder leagues and then three outfielder leagues. and then three outfielders points leagues. His skill sets well suited for that. So I wind up drafting Jerks and ProFar a lot. The NFBC ADP over the past week, Jerks and ProFAR 182.3 is the 44th outfielder off the board. Nick Martinez at 313.1.

Starting point is 00:02:48 A name that goes much higher in Head to Head Points Leagues because he does have that RP eligibility, but he should. And he is the name that you can target if you are looking for a spark in that format. All right, Scott, let's keep working our way down. You just left off with ProFAR and Nick Martinez. Who else is on a lot of your teams? All right. I'll start with the five's, five shares for Brandon Nimmo and

Starting point is 00:03:11 Cody Bradford. Bradford, all those five happened before he suffered the elbow injury. I liked him as a whip standout. It doesn't sound like this is going to be a, like a serious absence for him. He's going to miss some time for sure, maybe like a quarter of the season. But if, if I, if I do have IL spots more than two, let's say. I'm going to try and keep Cody Bradford stashed away during that time because I still think he has a chance to be impactful this year. And then there's Brandon Nimmo. Very similar situation to Jerks and ProFar where I thought he was undervalue to begin with

Starting point is 00:03:47 some health issues this spring caused people to shy away from him more. But he's back and he looks like he's going to be ready to go. And he's generally a top 20, top 15 outfielder, five category potential. great in both formats, I feel like, especially points. So I got a lot of shares in Nemo. A few players I have four shares of, Ozzie Albiz, Dylan Cruz, Justin Steele, Calvin Foschet, Sean Murphy, Mike Clevenger, and Andy Pahas.

Starting point is 00:04:20 So very mixed bag there. Let's start with Foshae and Clevenger, because I can kind of tie them together. they are sketchy closers on bad teams, but they're front runners on those bad teams, clear front runners. And this is, the sort of leagues I have them in are deep rotisserie leagues

Starting point is 00:04:43 where everybody with a chance of getting saves or even approaching saves is drafted. And there's always a high demand for newcomers on the waiver wire. So I want saves, obviously. I just hate paying the premium for them. So I tend to invest in this sort of closer a lot and just hope it works out. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't.

Starting point is 00:05:06 But the investment isn't very big, especially for Clevenger. He's even in those very deep leagues, somebody you can get at the end of the draft, basically, people not buying into him at all. So I've done that a lot. On the higher end here, we have Ozzy Albiz, Dylan Cruz, and Justin Steele. Ozzie Albiz. I see him as durable. Others see him as an injury risk, I think. And the disagreement there is because it's broken bones that have sidelined him two of the last three years.

Starting point is 00:05:42 So not the normal nagging stuff, just kind of freak injuries. When he doesn't break bones, he plays 150 games, 30 homers, 15 steals, tons of runs, tons of RBI, very reliably all of this. So if he last pick 60, I'm pretty much always getting Ozzie Albiz. Dylan Cruz, I've come to see as having, for all the upside, you know, the talk is usually the upside. High-end prospects, getting a chance to shine. I think there's a lot of, there's not as much downside as you think. I think he's a high floor upside play because the play discipline is so good and he's so prolific of a base stealer. We saw that during his time in the majors last year.

Starting point is 00:06:19 I think even if he hits like 240 with 15 homers, he's. still going to be close to must start, batting second for the nationals because of what all the other numbers are going to look like. I love Justin Steele. I think he's been a great bargain this whole time. The stat line, like he was basically as good last year just looking at ERA whip K-per-9 as two years ago when he was contending for the Cy Young Award. He didn't win his many games and he missed some time with injury.

Starting point is 00:06:51 So I don't think people look at it the same way. but just the top level numbers for Steele, virtually identical. And I think he's been slept on this whole time. Yeah, Justin Steele is a player that I think I have drafted on three of my teams as well for a lot of the reasons that you mentioned. It just seems like an undervalue to pitcher that nobody else wants to draft, and so he is falling to a very fair price this upcoming season. Scott, any other players here that you've drafted on multiple teams

Starting point is 00:07:23 that you'd like to just give a shout out to. So I mentioned Andy Pa has this one with four shares, and I did want to highlight him because even now that we know he's the Dodgers centerfielder, like they've played regular season games with him in center, and people are still just ignoring him in drafts. Sophomore with a lot of power potential could break through in his second season, especially since he's in the Dodgers lineup.

Starting point is 00:07:50 You know, like this just seems like clear jackpot potential to me, you can get him as a reserve outfielder in a deep roto league. I tend to do that a lot. Corey Seeger, every year he seems to be on this list. This year, it seems like, A, he's a points league standout. Might be the second best shortstop in that format. Others have a claim, but he might be. And then in Roto, he's like the perfect pick in round three or four

Starting point is 00:08:16 if you need to catch up in batting average. Jack Flaherty tends to be undervalued. I found people just not buying into his breakout season. But what encourages me is the team responsible for that breakout, the Tigers, they're the ones who got him on the free agent market. So they believe as strongly as any team. And I think they can make it happen again. Isak Paretis, I have three shares of him, one of my favorite players to draft this season.

Starting point is 00:08:45 I think his swing is perfectly suited for the Astros home park with the Crawford boxes and left. He just is going to wear those out, hitting the ball, pulling the ball to that side. I think the numbers for Paretis are going to be, much like the numbers Alex Breggman put up as the Astros third baseman in the past couple years. Some really low-end targets. David Hamilton, who's had a great spring, stole three more bases Thursday. It's up to eight. This is a guy who, even if he's just a super utility player, probably going to approach 40 steals. and there's a chance he's the starting second basement.

Starting point is 00:09:22 And then Chris Bassett, who I'm getting very late, wasn't good last year, obviously. I think people think he's getting old. But it was mostly because he was walking too many guys. It was out of character. It wasn't like a stuff issue, though. Previous three years, Bassett average 14 wins, 341 ERA, 113-1-13 whip, 8.5K per 9. If he bounces back to that, it's going to be a coup there, getting him at the end of those really deep drafts. All right, again, those are the players that Scott keeps on drafting,

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Fantasy Baseball Today - FBT Express - Players Scott White Keeps Drafting! (3/22 Fantasy Baseball podcast)

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