Fantasy Baseball Today - Final 12-Team Roto Mock Draft with Sam Wirsching! (3/19 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

Frank Stampfl and Scott White are joined by Sam Wirsching to do their final live 12-team Roto mock draft! We talk through all 23 rounds of picks and then recap our teams afterwards. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sptfy.com/QiKv⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow our FBT team on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@FBTPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CPTowers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@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/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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. 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 and Chris. Hello and welcome into Fantasy Baseball today. You are listening to this on Thursday, March 19th.

Happy March Madness Day to all who celebrate. I am Frank Stample joined by Scott White, and we have a special guest here to help us with our live 12 team Rhodo mock draft. Welcome to the show, first time ever. Sam Wershing. What's going on, Sam? How you guys doing? So great to be here. Thanks for having me.

I'm just living my best life in the Northwest, man. I got home from Tout Wars Monday at like 10.30, 11 o'clock, and just still buzzing off my first trip to New York. It was such a good time. How are you guys doing tonight? We are doing well, ready to draft. I will do a couple more intro-y type things here. But yeah, Sam is, he won't tell you this, but he is the nicest guy ever. We hung out multiple days this weekend for Tout Wars weekend.

And it was his first time in New York. So we had to take them all around and show them all the different kind of pizza spots. I got him a Jamaican beef patty with cheese inside. And he loved. Oh, my God. So good. They don't have those in the Seattle area ever. When you first talked about that last November, I was like,

what on God's Green Earth? are you talking about. And now I just, I can't wait for another one. It was just so delicious. So, yes. And Sam is a contributor over at the Palazzo podcast and Dynasty Guru. He is a game show host at first pitch,

first pitch Arizona. I was actually his buzzer for fantasy feud. Just like in the flesh is in the flesh buzzer there. So great. Follow him on X at Fave game show host. And you can follow him on Blue Sky at Sam FBB. I am going to pull up the drag. Math board, quick reminder, 12 team roto mock draft, standard 5 by 5 categories,

batting average runs, home runs, RBI, and steals, ERA whip, strikeouts, wins, and saves, standard roto lineups, one of each infield position except for catcher. We have two of those, one corner, one middle, five outfielders, one utility bat, and then we have nine pitcher spots. Scott is picking third, I am seventh, and Sam is 11th. And just a heads up, Chris Tower is not here. he's dealing with some real life things, not fantasy things that he's got going on right now. So we do send our best over to Chris.

He'll be off the pod for the next couple of days. All right, Scott, I think we are good to fire this thing up. Let me pull up the draft board here. And we'll get it going. Here we are. Here we go. Scott, how we doing tonight? Doing fine.

Doing good. I'm picking third. I presume I'm getting Bobby Witt. Aaron Judge is the first off the board. Show Hey, Otani's second off the board. Wow, how did you predict that? You know, it's like I've been drafting for months now. And so I'm going to go Bobby Witt.

It's something I haven't had the opportunity to do yet. And I feel like the players I'm most interested in at the two, three turn, you know, Trey Turner, Francisco Lendor, that probably takes them off the table. And we'll see what is available to me there. Yeah, I've just wondered what that would be like if you would feel a bit hamstrung because you filled your shortstop spot right at a point where a couple others

are likely to go off the board in subsequent rounds. It is something that I struggle with where, I mean, obviously we have a middle infield spot but then filling it early, it kind of takes away some of that flexibility later on in the draft. So even though Lindor or Trey Turner might be your best player available at the 2,000, three turn. It creates decision points there. The first six drafted here, pretty much the top six we

see a lot in a roto draft. It's Judge, Otani, Bobby Witt, Juan Soto, Jose Ramirez, and Ronald Acuna. We did not see Jose Ramirez fall at all in this draft. He's been dealing with that shoulder thing, but they kind of downplayed it. They said it's not really a big deal. Oh, I'm on the clock. I should probably make a pick. You guys talk about these picks. Well, I mean, this has become like the consensus top six, at least in standard rotos. Sometimes you'll see Terrick Scoobull sneak in there if somebody wants to go, if somebody wants to go pitching heavy right away. But usually it's those six hitters.

Frank, you ended up taking Kyle Tucker. Seventh, which is what I endorsed, though, his ADP 10, 75 spots lower than that for some reason. How do you feel about that, Sam? I think that that's perfectly fine. I'm actually looking that I missed out on Julio. I was hoping he was going to fall to 10. and really surprised that scoble and skeins are still on the board.

I thought for sure there'd be a little bit more pitching drafted. And as such, I'm going to take my first share all year of Garrett Crochet. Okay, because Scoopold just went to pick before you, number 10 and you're taking crochet at 11. Yeah, I like, I like skiing skills better than crochet. I just think that crochet is going to have a mammoth workload over him if he's healthy all year. And so I want those stats. So I did wind up taking Kyle Tucker when I realized. had 10 seconds left to draft.

So this is earlier than we're used to seeing an ADP and an NFBC drafts, but we've talked a lot about this all offseason. The one thing Sam we're going to need you to do is just turn down the volume in your draft room, if that's possible. But yes, Kyle Tucker, we are in on him as a top 10 pick in drafts this season. Ellie de la Cruz went next, then Julio Rodriguez, Terrick Scouble, Garrett Crochet went to Sam, and then Paul Skeens there at Pick 12. We are into round two.

For those who are only listening to this podcast and not watching, you cannot see that Sam is wearing a Mariners jersey, but he is the biggest Mariners fan I know. That is why he wanted Julio Rodriguez. And maybe the reason he will select Cal Raleigh right now. You know, so I'm super tempted as a homer. I really feel, yeah. Not just that he's a mariner.

The jersey you're wearing says big dumper on the back. It's super obnoxious, kind of like me. I'm staring at Cal Raleigh, and I don't feel like I can pass on either Henderson or Carol at the spot, but... For what it's worth, Raleigh is my top player available. So it wouldn't be, from my perspective, it wouldn't be an insane thing to do. Sam, Sam, just make the pick. I know who you want to take. So I'm going a different way since I've been taking him all season, every chance I get.

So I really like Corbyn Carroll. I think that his injury concerns with his hand are overstayed. I think he's going to have a really good season still this year. Well, we actually have some evidence of that because he just today here on Wednesday, he batted lead off for the Diamondbacks, was playing DH, but he homered. And it was one of two batted balls over 105 miles per hour, which is a very good sign. Nice. And I think you're probably right.

I mean, I probably need to move Corby and Carroll back ahead of Cal Raleigh, just in light of that. Just in light of second game back in the lineup, first time using his normal bat. In fact, because he was using the axe handle one in his first game back. And he hits two balls over 105. And also stole a base. So it doesn't seem like he's taking it easy out there. I think very encouraging game for Corbyn Carroll here on Wednesday. Agree.

Yes, we're into round two where Fernando Tatis went at pick 13. Then Corbyn Carole, Gunner Henderson, Cal Raleigh, the big dumper, goes at 16. Then Vlad Jr., I selected Jackson Trio. And Jr., Cominero. Junior Caminero goes that pick 19. I had a decision there. You know, I haven't been drafting Camerro much this offseason.

I was tempted to take him over Jackson. You should have. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I like Truroo a lot. I am higher on Truro than others. I realize that. I know his stack cast doesn't, you know, wow anybody.

I don't really care too much about that. The age to level production, the stuff that he has done to this point in his career, I think he goes 25, 25 this year. Good batting average. Good Brewers lineup. But man, Caminero looks so good in the WBC. Yeah, I mean, Cominero tends to go earlier. He tends to go pretty much right at the start of round two.

A lot of its third base scarcity, and we'll see if you end up struggling to fill that position. It is the thinnest position this year. But Churio gives you an element of speed that Cominero doesn't, obviously. And I don't think the exit velocities are anything anybody should worry about at this point. It was the same for his rookie season, and he followed up with nearly identical numbers. All that talk, though, about Cheerio. Caminero is just so delicious as a fantasy player. I am so excited for his season this year.

So I was curious. I'm glad you asked the question, why Cheerio over Camerro? Because I think I would have gone the other way, especially for position, scarcity, and all that good stuff. The one thing that stands out, Sam, with Camerro, and it's a slight concern. And it might turn out to be the dumbest concern that has ever existed for a place. but him going back into the trop where some players have struggled to see the ball there with the lighting and everything. We just don't have a big sample of what Junior Camerro looks like in Tropicana field.

And so if I'm taking a player in the second round, I really just don't want to worry about anything with that player. And it just gives me ever slight concern over him. But again, it might be a dumb one. I don't know. No, I think it's fair. you did bring up age to production for Cheerio and Camino. That's pretty good for Caminero, yeah. Six or seven, six or seven.

Don't do that around Scott because then you're going to open up a whole can of worms and he's going to be doing it all night. Oh, gosh, here we go. I think it's died down too many guys like me. Too many old guys like me started to say it and lost its appeal. The kids have told me that kids still say it in class, but you could tell their heart isn't in it anymore when they do. And I am outnumbered on this podcast.

because Sam is a dad, Scott is a dad. So they could just go full dad jokes all night long here. And I'm outnumbered. There's nothing I could do about it. Dad power. After Truro and Camerro, we did get Jazz Chisholm, Francisco Lindor. Nick Kurtz went to Scott. And then we got Trey Turner, Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

We are into round three with Catele-Marté and Pete Alonzo. So, Scott, you are back up. You have Kurtz and Bobby Witt. Yeah, so first time picking Bobby Witt, wasn't sure how that was going to go. also first time picking Nick Kurtz, who I had been avoiding just because I like the next tier of first basement. I like the next tier of first basement so much.

It's a deep tier, Freddie Freeman, Matt Olson in it. I decided to take Kurtz over Schwabber because Kurtz at least gives me some hope of batting average. Obviously, if for a good one as a rookie, people doubt his ability to repeat it because the strikeout rate was so high. Maybe the strikeout rate gets better. I don't know.

Nobody in professional, baseball has been able to stop Nick Kurtz yet. But, you know, normally a high strikeout rate like that does concern me. I went ahead and took Kurtz, though, over Schwerber, and it turns out Schwerber made it to me in round three. So I went ahead and took him here at 27 overall. I'm beginning Bobby Witt, Nick Kurtz, Kyle Schwerber. I feel really good about that.

If Cattel Marte had lasted a couple more picks, he went to 25 first pick of round three. If he had lasted to me at 27, I might have gone that route. instead of Schwaber. It's hard to say. I like the thought of filling that weak position with an actual stud in round three. I don't want to reach in round two, but I'd do it in round three. But Schwerber, I mean, Schwerber tends to go mid-round two. So I can't complain about the value here at 27 overall. And how funny is this, Scott? In the last two roto drafts that we have done live here on the channel, you and I had picked three and we started with the same exact team. Remember last week during the mock draft megastream, I had picked three. I got a

Bobby Wood Jr. I took Kyle Schwerber in round two and then Nick Kurtz made it back to me in round three. That's funny. How about that? That is like that. That's funny. Hive mind going on with you too. Just, you know, the big brains. By the end of draft season, Sam, it's like all of our rankings and thoughts and sleepers and breakouts. It's just this one big mind meld. Well, and I've done so many 15 team drafts. I'm really trying to be cognizant of having that heightened need to have more value at the beginning that I really want to stick to ADP versus veering off as much. At the start of drafts, you're saying? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, after around eight or ten, it's all a crap shoot. You know, people start going everywhere, but.

You know, for those watching, you saw me react. I wanted Manny Machado here. Kind of boring veteran, but you get that third baseman. You don't have to worry about it the rest of the draft, but he goes one pick before me. I am debating a pitcher and a hitter here. Those are the only two types of players I can debate at my pick. And I will take Christopher Sanchez. And we'll see if I like the way this turns out taking a pitcher in round three. Usually, wait a little bit longer. But some helium on Christopher Sanchez.

And he is my SP5, happy to do it here in the middle of round three. So we'll see. I was actually going to take him. Nice. I'm bummed. Sam's an emotional drafter, I can tell. Sam's an emotional person. I mean, I can relate to having big reactions in draft, as the audience well knows.

Scott White tilting is something everybody looks forward to. That's a real thing, huh? Yeah. After Scott selected Kyle Schumer, we got Yoron Alvarez, so we got the back-to-back U-Till only guys there. Brian, woo, Mani Machado, I selected Christopher Sanchez, Wyatt Langford, up to 32 in this draft, then Matt Olson and PCA. Pete Crow Armstrong, Sam, you are up. Yeah, and I would never draft this player normally

just because of my extreme dislike for his team and not wanting to root for a player that's going to make my competitors better, but I'm excited for him, and I think at that point I really need to take them the home runs and the stolen bases that high upside for both of them. I just wanted to capitalize on.

The pick was Zach Netto, by the way. We got to tell people who you, He trapped. Zach Netto with the Los Angeles Angels. So that was the hitter that I was debating at my pick. So I guess either way, there was going to be some sniping going on there. But it was Sanchez or Netto for me. I had the two outfielder, so I wasn't looking at Pete Crowe-Armstrong yet.

But yeah, Netto, a little bit of a fall lately because he's been dealing with that hand injury. But I believe he got back into a game last night. He went 0 for 3 in that one. So it doesn't seem like a big deal. I think he's all right. and should give you that 25-25 home runs and steals this upcoming season. I'm a little hesitant about the hand just because it's the same injury that cost him the final two weeks of last season. And so we're already seeing a recurrence before the next season even begins.

That makes me a little nervous. But officially, yeah, it sounds like Netto is fine. We did see Pete Crow Armstrong go pick ahead of him. I feel like the best scenario for both of them is pretty similar. and so it comes down to which do you consider the bigger risk, the hand, or the poor plate discipline that afflicts Crow Armstrong, or, you know, positional need. That's the consideration as well.

If you already have a shortstop, you might not be so keen on taking Netto in round three. But they're both going to be a hindrance in batting average, but hopefully a lot of home runs and stolen bases. I feel like we've been seeing lately Pete Crow Armstrong, even in these standard roto leagues, slide more to the end of round three when about a month ago he was going early in round three. So I don't know if just it's become sort of the group think of, again,

of him being thought of as a risky player, like people not liking some of the underlying characteristics there, the poor plate discipline especially, and just wanting to avoid him. I don't know, but it seems like late round three is more than normal range for Crowe Armstrong. After Sam's the right spot. After Sam selected Zach Netto,

we got Bryce Harper and then into round four, Bryce Terang and James Wood. Sam, is James Wood someone you typically target or is this just scooping up a little bit of a fall from where we usually see his ADP? Yeah, I'm trying to get some value with that pick. I was surprised he fell that far. I'm in the, I want to see what he does this season after the season he had last year.

But for this draft, I feel really good about taking him right there. It's a good value. All right. Catching people up on picks. We got Raphael Devers, Mookie Betts, Hunter Brown. I am back up. Not a lot of pitchers went since I took Christopher Sanchez. So not loving that so far.

I've got Kyle Tucker, Jackson, Churio, and Sanchez here. and taking a peek. You know my take on pitchers. Unless I get one of the big three, I'm not even looking at it to round four. Right, right, right. I probably should have done that. Could have had myself, Zach Netto.

Debating. Yeah, I mean, all these hitters seem a little bit high right here in round four. I mean, do I double down on starting pitcher? Probably not going to like that either. So I've got some power and speed already. Get another outfielder. I don't want to fill outfield too quickly.

So I'm going to go ahead and take CJ Abrams. It's kind of an unsexy pick at pick 42, but 20 homers, 30 steals, a little bit higher than ADP, lock in that shortstop. I mean, when it's all said and done, is he that different than Zach Netto? I think Netto's batting average will probably be a little bit higher and power will be better from him.

Yeah, definitely more power, I would say. Yeah, yeah. But give me some more of those steals there with C.J. Abrams. You know, it's just, fourth round. No one really kind of jumping off the page.

Right, not among the hitters. Right. So I probably should have taken Netto in hindsight and then would have had a, you know, would have been fine with any of these starting pitchers here. So.

After I selected Abrams, we got Freddie Freeman, Chris Sale and Logan Gilbert. Scott, you are back up. I know Freeman has been someone you often target, but you already have a first baseman. I already have,

yeah, right, I have Kurtz, so I don't. This is normally the range where I would think about taking a first baseman, but not as interested in that. I'm going to go ahead and take a pitcher.

I'm going to take Cole Regans. I would have preferred to take Chris Sale, but he and Logan Gilbert went back to back back right before my picks. I like that Reagan's pick a lot. Yeah. I was debating him at my last pick, but I felt like having wood there,

I couldn't pass up the value. But I think Cole Reagan's opening day starter for Kansas City, he stays healthy all season. He's going to be a monster. Big if, but yeah, I know, I know Frank is concerned about the injury risk. Look, there's plenty of injury risk for Chris Dale too, right? Anybody who throws the pit, anybody who throws, man, they're all injury risks. That's pretty much how I feel about it.

I mean, a year ago, we weren't thinking of Logan Gilbert as an injury risk. And then how many starts to end up making? He missed some time. It wasn't a huge amount of time. It goes around 20 that he got. Yeah. But going into last season, Brian Wu was nobody wanted Brian Wu. Everybody was worried about him.

And he started the season with like 28 straight six-inning starts. Yeah. All right. Go ahead and read off the picks, Frank, before I make my next one. Yeah, so Scott selected Cole Regans. Then we got Roman Anthony. Vinny P. Baby.

Vinny Pass Quantino. A little rise there on Vinny P. Maybe WBC aided. We are into round five where we get Jacob deGrom, Brent Rooker, and Scott, you are back up. Yeah, this is a tough one. I don't like taking two pitchers this early, but my top player is a pitcher, and I feel like the bats are kind of a reach.

So I think I'm going to go ahead and pair Max Fried with Cole Regens. I think that's a nice tandem, because Reagan's a big strikeout guy. Freed the one knock on him is his story. strikeouts aren't really up to ace standards. They're still fine by just relative pitcher standards, but not up to A standards. Very reliable source of ERA should get a ton of wins like he did last year. So yeah, I'll go Reagan's and then freed four and five and probably of well.

Okay, so right after I take Max Freed, Cody Bellinger goes, that was the hitter I would have taken. And it's one of those where like ADP, I know his ADP is. a round lower than this, but it never seems to work out that way when I'm drafting. I don't have an outfielder yet. And usually when I don't have an outfielder, Bellinger is my first outfielder. Sorry, when I don't have an outfielder in round five, Bellinger is my first outfielder. But it's not going to be the case in this draft, obviously. All right.

Let's catch people up here on round five. And after Jacob de Grom, we got Brent Rooker, Max Fried went to Scott, Cody Bellinger, Byron Buckson, and William Contreras. Sam, I apologize for what I'm about to do, but I need a first baseman. And Thickey Henderson, come on down, baby. Josh Miller is the pick. No offense to me, man. It's crazy to me how many Mariners are valuable offensively this season.

How many of them, first 100 picks, second hundred picks, third hundred picks. You can draft them all over the place. So take them. I love it. And I am, you know, a homer, but I'm over 15 steals from this year. I don't think that what he did last year was a fluke. All right, let's take a quick break when we return. We'll catch you up on the latest picks here on Fantasy Baseball today.

Welcome back in Fantasy Baseball today. We are doing a live 12-team rhodo mock draft. After I selected Josh Naylor, we got Logan Webb and the speedster Austin Riley, apparently looking to steal 20 bags this season. We'll see if that can actually happen. And Scott, I realize this is not ideal, but I do have to hop out for a few seconds. I'm going to turn this over to you.

You and Sam are, you are on the board here talking through the picks. Sure. Hunter Goodman just went off the board right after Austin Riley. Hunter Goodman at 58. So he goes ahead of Ben Rice, which is actually how I rank him, but we don't see that very often. Ben Rice is kind of a hype guy. Sam, you're up with the 11th pick of round five, and you take the first closer, Mason Miller. Yeah, I'm real excited about him this year. I think you're going to get over 100Ks, elite ratios, good save numbers like

I've seen him go in the second round of TGFBI draft. So to get him this late is, I feel like I'm stealing candy from a baby. Geraldo Perdomo is the following pick rounds out round 5, 60th overall. And when I took, when I took Max Freed at 51, the hitters I was looking at was Cody Bellen,

were Cody Bellinger, Austin Riley, and Geraldo Perdomo. and just judging by where they normally go, I thought there was a good chance. More than one of them would make it back to me. It turns out none of them do. So maybe I shouldn't have taken freed. We'll see if that becomes a lingering regret in this draft.

All right. Well, I'm drafting the player that I have everywhere. I'm absolutely in love with him. Michael Garcia, the world learns, not Michael. Yeah, Michael Garcia. We're going to have to retrain our brains to say that. It should be easier. It should be easier.

But we're used to say Mike L at this point. So Geraldo Perdomo rounded out round five. Then it was Ben Rice to start round six. Just a few picks after Hunter Goodman went off the board. And then Michael Garcia to Sam, who meets the third base need. And what else do you like about Michael Garcia, Sam? I've just been, I have a history playing Dynasty. So I've been watching them for a few years and just watching him.

continually progress. There's, you know, I look at to see if the player has moments that are bigger than him and he just seems to be the same person, whether or not he's ordering a taco or hitting a three run bomb. Like he just, he just seems to have a passion and an excitement and there's no fear. There's no hesitation. So I'm expecting even bigger things from him this year. I really like him a lot. All right. After your Michael Garcia pick, Jackson Merrill goes off the board. Then Shea Langalear is another catcher. We're getting a little bit of a catcher run here. Andres Munoz, so you kicked off the closers with Mason Miller.

Sam, Andres Munoz is the second one off the board. Then George Kirby, Edwin Diaz, another closer. Got a couple runs going on here, catcher and closer. And we are closing in on my pick. By the way, Frank took George Kirby. So Frank still making picks. Out of sight, but not out of mind. That's right.

Riley Green and we're one pick away from my pick who am I going to take I will tell you it's probably going to be an outfielder probably going to be an outfielder because I haven't gotten one yet and a couple of them

are at the top of my my rank list here A Eugenio Suarez the 69th pick so that brings an into that third base tier for me included Michael Garcia

and Austin Riley and I have my choice from a couple different outfielders. I think the one I'm going to go with is someone you know well, Sam, Randy a Roserana. Love it. The reason I'm choosing him is because only one of my three hitters so far is any kind of base dealer. Bobby Witt first pick, a good base dealer, but Nick Kurtz isn't, Kyle Schwerber isn't,

Randy a Rosarina is. Yeah, no. And Randy's a little bit of a drain on the batting average, but you know you're going to get four solid categories every year. And fun. He's just fun to watch. Yeah, for sure. Oh, we got back-to-back Durans.

That's fun too. All right. So after I took Randy a Roserena, Freddie Peralta, and then the two Durans, Jaron Duran and Yohan Duran. I love it. And then Jesus Lazzardo, who I was thinking about. Do I have?

Let's see. What have I filled here? Sorry, I'm back. I will never leave you guys ever again. Frank is back, but he's talking to nobody in particular because he's muted. You are muted, sir. Sorry, I am back and I will never leave you ever again. We are here. Thank you. I was panicking. I was scared. I literally just trembling with fear. So I did see Sam, you selected Michael Garcia. That was a fantastic pick. That's who I was looking to take. but I went with back-to-back Mariners,

so I got myself George Kirby, who I do like a lot as an SP2 this year. Scott, where do we leave off on the picks? We're into round seven. I think we're caught up. Okay. Yeah, we talked about Jesus Lazzardo. I'm just trying to decide who to take here.

I'm going to fill my second outfield spot. Not a bad idea. George Springer. All right. Who will also give me a little bit of speed, and hopefully everything else like he did last year. He's 36 years old, and it's natural to be skeptical of a career year from a 35-year-old.

But I've looked into a little more, I've looked in a little more to what he did last year to turn his career around, and it makes a lot of sense. You see it in the bat speed numbers, just swinging with more intent and rather than swinging defensively. I think the biggest concern for Springer is just staying healthy at his age.

But I'm fine taking him round seven is my second outfielder. Agreed. I don't know if you talked about this, Scott, but the first overall picking this draft is George Kurtz at the 6-7 turn. He selected Jaron Duran and Yohan Duran. So we've got to, we've got Duran Duran. Although I think I pronounce their names both Duran,

which I probably shouldn't have done. So is he naming his team hungry like the wolf? Like, is that where this is going? You don't have a choice. Sam, my next question was, what is your favorite Duran Duran song? Or Duran Duran, however you want to pronounce it. There's a number of them,

the Rio album I really like. Seven in the Jagged Tiger or whatever that album was. I also liked that one. Undone though. I think my favorite Duran Duran song is undone. Come undone. Got you. Didn't they, wasn't that song in Donnie Darko notorious?

Is that Duran or is that somebody else? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good movie. Good movie. If you haven't seen it. Frank, have you seen,

have you seen Donnie Darko? I can promise you, Frank, has not seen Donnie Darko. Oh, I know. Is Adam Sandler in it? You're killing me, Smalls. You're killing me. I actually do have, this is, people are going to find this ridiculous, the DVD for Donnie Darko, and I have never watched it. But I have always wanted to watch it because I kind of like, my movie palette is very weird.

It's stupid comedies or really messed up thoughtful movies. And so I like, you love Donnie Darko. That's why I wanted to watch it. And I just never got to it. I don't know why. The dictionary definition of, how did you put it? I don't even, I don't even remember. I said it 10 seconds ago.

However you described it, that is exactly what Donnie Darko is like. Let's catch people up here on round seven. After Scott selected George Springer, we got Joe Ryan, Framber Valdez, Kate Smith. I took Augustine Ramirez, Michael Bush, Corey Seeger, and then Kyle Bradish goes. And Sam, you are up. Let's take a little peek at your team, see what you got. and it's Michael Garcia, Zach Netto, Corbyn Carroll, James Wood, Garrett Crochet, and the top closer off the board, Mason Miller.

So let's add one of my favorites. I haven't drafted him anywhere. He's never fallen to me, but I'm really excited for Tyler Sutterstrom this year. Well, tell us why. I just think he's got a big breakout season coming in. He plays in a AAA park. He had a great season last year.

He finished strong. after struggling a little bit in the first half. And I think that the changes that he made were real. I'm excited to see what he's going to be doing. All right. Tyler Sotterstrom, someone, Scott, I know you recently moved up. You just said you had him too low in the rankings. Yeah, I decided. I did.

I foresee a step forward for Soderstrom. I mean, you could argue he just had a breakout season. Obviously went from not mattering in fantasy to very much mattering. But I think there's even more another level he can achieve there. with some of the batting average potential he put on display in the second half combining it with the power from the first half. I think there's room for growth there for sure. And I like the way the athletics lineup is shaping up. And especially for deeper roto leagues,

I like that Soderstrum is both first base and outfield eligible because there's a good chance you're going to wind up stretch to one of those areas in a deep enough roto league. And he gives you the flexibility to decide later on which it would be. I was not happy to see Boba Shek go right after him at the end of round seven. I was hoping to get him as my eventual third base option. All right. Help him batting average since I got some batting average liabilities already in round eight. Didn't it work out? Well, Yuri Perez getting taken off the board made it easy because I was debating between Yuri Perez and this guy.

Nico Horner. I like the average. I like the steals. I think the counting stats are fine. and yeah normally I wait on second base but he was pretty attractive right there so I just went ahead and took him I like it I like that gives you some batting average you know 25 to 30 steals power will be lower so you got to make sure you have that power built in but uh really good you know solid rhodo foundational piece there with Nico Horner after he goes a roldus chapman and

christian yellich I am one pick away remind people of my team. I have Augustine Ramirez, Josh Naylor, C.J. Abrams, Kyle Tucker, Jack Centurio, George Kirby, Christopher Sanchez. While I was not paying attention, uh, third base has kind of been depleted. So, yep, that has happened to me in, you would have taken Bobauchette if I didn't, and I'm sure. That has happened to me in more drafts that I would like to admit. Third base just going, uh, quicker than I realize. So how are we feeling about not taking junior common arrow right now. Ha, Commonero.

Yep. You got me, Sam. Take that. Yeah, might not be great, but man, Trio's my guy too. So it's, uh, we'll figure it out. There's still a couple third base options I like. We'll see how to. Yeah, there's some later options I've warmed up to. Maybe it just by necessity, but.

Yep. I will take a closer who I usually like to get one of the, you know, top eightish guys. And so I see that tiered pleading and I'll go with my Homer pick. That is David Bednar. I know, you know, has dealt with

some ups and downs the past couple of years, especially two years ago. The control was just awful. Last year, gets sent down to the miners early in the season, but once he came back, he was just money. And especially once he went to the Yankees, he got even better. So just viewing him as a top eight closer this year with

you know, not real, any concerns really about David Benar. Yeah, I feel like he turned a corner, come into the Yankees out of the, out of the Pittsburgh organization. He's going to be money for him this year, 35 safe season incoming. And I love that they still let him walk out to Renegade in Yankee Stadium. So that's pretty cool too.

After David Bednar, we get Jeremy Pena. So interesting round for some of the players who have been dealing with injuries. Sayas Suzuki, we know, has the sprained PCL and not quite sure if he'll be ready for opening day. But even if he isn't, I think it's probably like 10 to 15 days. I don't think he would miss that much time. He goes here at pick 89, and then Jeremy Pena at 91, who's dealing with that fractured finger. I did read earlier that he is planning to swing the bat with both hands this weekend and still thinks opening day is a possibility.

So we'll see if that is the case for Jeremy Pena. And then Devin Williams is the next pickup there. Payne is still going ahead of story even with the concerns over the finger. And the story goes now. So I was going to have a time. tough decision if Devin Williams hadn't gone. I still don't have a closer. I don't like paying for closers, but this is, that's a healthy drop there for Devin Williams of about 25, 30 spots. So I would have had to consider it. I'm going to take another guy who I don't love in theory, but he's just, he's fallen so much by ADP. And when he's good, he's very, very good. And that's Dylan Cease. The downside risk, you know, last year, 455. ERA 133 whip. That's not what you want from your third starter,

no matter how many strikeouts he gives you. But the Blue Jays have done well maximizing outcomes of veteran pitchers, and Dylan Cease has this on-again, off-again pattern, seems to do well in years where his Babbitt runs lower and good defense is being played behind him. So I hope he has a bounce back. I think around eight is not as much risk

as if you draft Dylan Cese at face value. All right, after Dylan Cs, we got O'Neill Cruz, Willie Adamas. We are into round nine where the first pick is Nolan McLean. And Chris Towers might not be here with us physically, but he is here in spirit because we can hear Sam's dogs in the background. I'm sorry you guys could hear that. I got four of them upstairs.

I'm downstairs. There is a closed door. It's like that scene from a Christmas store. story where the guy's like, those bumpus dogs! Have you seen that one, Frank? I have seen bits and pieces of it, but you know, like the little blonde kid, he just always kind of rubbed me the wrong way, and I'm like, I don't need to watch it. Frank, what happened to you as a child, man?

That is a great movie. I've seen all the other Christmas movies. I've seen, you know, Home Alone. I've seen, I don't know, name a Christmas movie. I've seen a lot of Christmas movies, I swear. You'll watch Home Alone with McCulkey Culkin, but you will not watch a Christmas story with Ralphie, come on. McCulkey.

Yeah. No, it's not for me. I don't know why. Maybe I should watch it. I'll give it a try this year, but I've got to wait till then. Okay. Nick Povettico's.

Scott, you're back up. We're in round nine. I'm going to take Luke Kishol. Oh, nice pick. Thank you. I really consider doing it in the previous one, reaching a little bit rather than taking the gift that was Dylan cease at his cost.

So I'm happy. I still get Luke Keishel. It was between him and Michael Harris, who I rank higher, who goes higher. This is for, you know, I'm often accused of being a Braves Homer with my fantasy takes. So allow this to be evidence to the contrary. I do not want Michael Harris in fantasy. I've never liked Michael Harris for fantasy, and I especially don't want him this year. Obviously, if the discount is great enough, I'll take him.

but he is, he's not what I'm looking for in a fantasy player. All right. After Nick Povetta, Scott selected Luke Keishel and we got Alex Breggman. Sam, how do you feel about Michael Harris? I love, I love Michael Harris as a player. I love watching him. The sound of the ball coming off of his bat is just chef's kiss. And I'm with Scott.

Like there's so much inconsistency. There's so much static in that. You don't know if you're getting signal or noise when you're watching him for a couple weeks because he can either be an MVP for three straight weeks or you can not get a hit for three straight weeks. And so, and I'm glad that you recognize the Atlanta bias. I am struggling. I still love my Mariners. I deny the Atlanta bias is the thing, but I'm often accused of it. Oh, I'm accused of it and I'm guilty as charged for the Mariners. Yeah. Well, you know, lots of talk about Michael Harris. And I'm going to take him, Frank. I've got, I've got two outfielders. I have a nice little theme

going on here with just like power and speed up and down the lineup here maybe could use a little bit more batting average now it's probably okay that's the thing like if if we could count on michael bit harris for batting average like his first two years okay i'll take him in round nine the the problem was that he was being drafted in like round three then when he was oh two not two 80 two 90 guy i'll take him in round three yeah uh so to me he's always just valued a couple rounds higher than my expectations for him. And it's, after the year he just had a good second half, but terrible first half. And the walk rate was historically low, which, you know, maybe he can get that up a little.

But if you're, if you're that much of a free swinger, you're kind of a sitting duck for Major League pitchers. And I think that's what we saw from Harris last year. I'm not without hope in him regaining batting average, but it's, it's entirely, speculative at this point. After Harris, we get Will Smith, the catcher. Probably don't need to say catcher anymore, but we'll just say it. Then Ozzy Albies, Drake Baldwin, and Sam, you are back up. I am in on the Kansas City Royals this year to win the AL Central. I think that that squad is just incredibly underrated. There's not any big frontrunners in that division. I mean, Cleveland and Detroit are pretty good, but I'm all in on Kansas City this year.

And I think Sal Perez is going to have another one of those, at least for the Kansas City Royals, he'll be considered an MVP for that team. Definitely interested in seeing how big of an impact the change in dimensions has on their hitters especially, but also their pitchers, because it's not like they have a bunch of batmissers in that rotation. I think that's,

I think you and I, Frank, picked the Royals to win the division last year. Obviously it didn't happen. We may have been a year ahead on that, But I think the Guardians are on the way down. The Tigers are on the way up. So I think it'll be that'll be, that's going to be the matchup at the top of the AL Central is Royals and Tigers. But I could see things going well for the Royals.

They have a lot of interesting young hitters or even old hitters like Salvador Perez that may, that lineup may look a lot better just by virtue of them changing the dimensions like they did. Look, everyone's in on Caglione this year. A lot of people like Salvador Perez and obviously they have Bobby Witt and Vinnie P. Like their lineup is formidable. And even, you know, someone like Isaac Collins, Scott, you and I like him as a deep sleeper. So maybe he could contribute something as well. I mean, it really comes. I'm not over Jonathan India yet either.

It comes down to whether or not like. I've been off for a couple years. It comes down to whether or not those pitchers could stay healthy. but man, if Cole Reagan's gives them like 160 plus this year, I mean, they should be flirting at the top of that AL Central Division. Sam, you are back up. What are we thinking here in round 10? So I think I'm going to take a picture,

and I'm really trying to debate between high floor and high shine. You know, who's the one that I think is just going to be amazing and who's the one that I think that's got the highest floor? I think I want to buy floor at this value, and so I'm going to take Kevin Gosman from Toronto. I think he's just going to be an innings eater. He'll strike out close to nine an inning, or won an inning, nine every nine innings.

He'll have decent ratios, so. That's your second starting pitcher to go with Garrett Crochet, who you took in round one, which makes sense. I mean, you're drafting a pitcher that early. You're going to wait a while to take your second. But you also have Mason Miller, the top closer. Brutal run here of pitchers, man. I was debating taking Ladolo at my last pick.

I thought it was too early. Turns out it was not too early. Nick Ladolo goes there at the turn and then we get Gosman, Cam Schlittler, Luis Robert, Joe Adele. So, another one where, I kind of wish I went with that SP3,

but I've got Sanchez and I've got George Kirby, feel good about that, and I am up. Let's see. If you sort by the rank, my rankings in the draft room, it's like all pitchers.

So now's a good time to take a pitcher. Yep, yep, yep. I do wish it was one of Ladolo or Schlitler, though. Yeah, there are, Ladolo too. Yeah. I know we just spoke about him last night, Scott, and I know that you have been

a little bit scared by him, so as Chris, but I'm gonna take Emmett Sheean, man. I still, I trust the talent here. And with everything that's gone on with the Dodgers rotation in the past, and yes, Glass Now's healthy for now, but extensive injury history, Blake Snell has already hurt.

Roki Sasaki has been a mess. All of spring training, they did just say today, he's still in the rotation. They kind of have that luxury to wait and see what Sasaki could do. Like, the Dodgers are going to win 100 games with their eyes closed this year, so it doesn't really matter. But I just view Emmett Sheen as a lock,

one of their guys steady in the rotation all season. I could be wrong about that, but I'm just buying the talent here as my SP3. I hope you're right. He is part of a trio of starting pitchers where if you go back and look at the sleepers, breakouts, stuff I was writing early on, prominent part of it,

love the skill set for Sheehan. The other two, Chase Burns, Trey is Savage. I think if I trusted their teams to just put them in the rotation and let them go, they'd be Tsayun contenders potentially, but I don't trust their teams. Those three specifically. And Shian probably the least just because of the way the Dodgers have always,

or at least in recent years, have handled their pitching staff. But Emmett Sheehan, Chase Burns, and Trey Y Savage, all three have been moving down my rankings. It's just a usage thing. How much I trust that. After I selected Cheon, we got Ryssela Iglesias, to Oscar Hernandez, Xavier Edwards. Scott, you have 20 seconds to pick.

What are we going to take Rice Luglesias? Obviously, I can't do that. I'm going to take Jeff Hoffman. It feels a little, a little bit reachy, but I don't have saves yet. And I do like Hoffman. I like him more than the consensus. I think he's going to bounce back.

He was a dominant, dominant reliever with the Phillies had some home run issues last year. But he changed his pitch selection. I think that was a big part of it. And he's acknowledged it. He wants to throw more sliders like he was doing in Philadelphia. I think it's going to go well. He still missed tons of bats for all the home runs he gave up last year as Blue Jays closer.

Strider and Trout just went back to back. Yeah. It's 2023, Colin. Yeah. Well, 2019 for Trout. It's been a while. Yeah. Fair enough.

So that was at the 10-11 turn. We're into round 11 here where Jacob Miziarowski, the Miz, who again, I don't have his sound drop loaded up. I've got to get that on track, Frank. Come on. Nobody beats the Miz. Was that a good one for you? Did that help?

I usually go with like the wrestling one. I'm the Miz and I'm awesome. And Scott, you're up. I don't know what to do here. Who are you thinking, Scott? I don't know. We're getting the Scott White Tilt round 11. That's happening.

Yeah. Even though I was just talking about how concerned I am, I'm going to go ahead and take Chase Burns. Yeah. Go ahead and take him. He's fallen far enough. Yeah, well, it is a little below ADP, about 10 spots below ADP.

And I, you know, part of it's I have three pitchers already, so it's kind of gravy, whatever he gives me. And it could be a lot that he gives me. I just think it's going to be a slow buildup to that, His last couple spring starts were two winnings. They have six guys for five rotation spots, which suggests there's going to be a piggyback situation early on. But Burns' strikeout upside is astounding.

I'm going to call it astounding. And so I went ahead and took him. All right. Especially if his arm stays attached this season. I mean, it would be a first if it didn't. But yeah, he did have a shoulder thing. for a stretch last year, right? It was shoulder.

I think it was shoulder. Oh, was the elbow. Chase Burns? Yeah. It was like a flexer thing, I think with the elbow. Elbow, yeah.

This is probably a little bit earlier than he usually goes, but I'm going to take Taylor Ward. I feel like my team needs some power. Just looking up and down here. I've already got four outfielders. That feels like a lot. We're only in round 11.

So, yeah, we'll see how that turns out. But a couple catching people up on picks after Scott selected Chase Burns. Sal Stewart, man. my boy, 124. That is...

I guess I was just... I was not gonna get him. I have him like around 160 range, so there goes that. But I think he hit another home run yesterday or today. He's had a great spring. After South Stewart,

Daniel Palencia, Danesby Swanson, I took Taylor Ward, Pete Fairbanks, Jacob Marcy. Oh, I wanted Jacob Marcy to follow me. I didn't think he was gonna,

but... All right. And... Did he need steals? at this point, Sam? Between Garcia, Netto and Horner? I don't think so. And Corbyn, Corbyn Carroll.

Yeah, you're probably, you're probably... I just like him. I think he's going to hit for more power than he did last year. Okay. I don't... Yandy Diaz was the last pick there. Jacob Marcy, by the way,

one of the years that we went out to the Arizona Fall League, Sam, he won the league MVP. He was just raking out there. He's fun to watch. He's just a fun player. I think I'm going to add to my outfield again, and I'm going to go with Paez. All right.

Talk to us about Andy Pius, because he's a player that usually all three of Scott, Chris, and myself, we just find ourselves passing on him over and over. So what do you like about Andy Pahas here? You know, a couple of years ago when he was on my Raider for Dynasty, it was mostly because he was a Dodger prospect, and they seemed to be a lot smarter about baseball than me. and he's just continued to get playing time as a young player in that organization where they're not afraid to bring in money.

They're not afraid to bring in outside voices. And so the fact that they've just let him continue to run, I have a lot of faith in him. And I think he's going to actually take a small step forward this year. So I'm expecting good things from him. All right. So a small step forward, what would that look like? 30 homers, 15 steals, potentially?

Yeah, I mean, that's high end. I'd settle for 25 and 10. Okay. But I'll take 35 and 15, 35 and 20. Like, let's go. Yep. Yvonne Herrera goes here at Pick 132. He had been falling in ADP recently, but does not fall in this draft.

He was dealing with the knee injury. And he started a catcher here on Wednesday. Yes. I was just about to pull that up and see what he did there. Oh, for two. Was supposed to play three innings in that game as a catcher, which he did. So that's good news. Yvonne Herrera back in the lineup.

U-Till only on CBS. to start the year, but we're hoping he gains that catcher eligibility with five starts sooner rather than later. Then Josh Hader, the first pick of round 12. He is dealing with the biceps injury. He will start the season on the IL, hopefully not long term for him either. And Sam, we are back to you in round 12. So I felt like I needed some more power. Brandon Lowe is going to get an opportunity at Pittsburgh. And I really do hope that he hits the 30 home runs he's projected for. If he stays healthy, he always pays. for 30 home runs. He got to 30 last year. And he got to 30 last year because he stayed pretty healthy.

Yeah, that's why I said I hope. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's perennially underrated though. So this is closer to where I rank them where you took him. Ooh, well, there goes a bunch of third base options for later in the draft. They are no longer here. Matt Chapman and Cosima Okamoto, who I should point out went to Tim McLeod, who is a great analyst and a great prospect analyst. He also covers a lot of the players that come over from Japan and Korea. And if Tim McLeod is taking Cosimo, Okamoto at 137th overall, that should tell you something. That should tell you that he is expecting big things from Okamoto this upcoming season, much like we are.

So nice to kind of have that reinforced bias there on Qasma Okamoto. I got him in Tout Wars this weekend, Sam, so I'm hoping he's good. All right, let's go. Yes. Sam was competing in the tout head-to-head points auction along with Chris this weekend. That was your first time in it. How did it go, Sam? Oh, my God.

Well, it was a great experience to have, getting to be in New York. It wasn't like you go into the room and all these players are chalked. Like, they're all really good. But it was fun. Like, I didn't feel intimidated. It was just a really relaxed morning of drafting as far as an auction draft can be relaxed. I drafted next to Ariel Cohen, who's got a huge three monitor set up and does his things. But that guy's team was just so well put together.

He is so sharp. And so I felt like I learned a lot with my first draft. And I literally can't wait for it to be March next year. Like, I really want to do it again. Is he like pushing a cart around? How does he get three monitors in there? I don't ask. I don't ask.

That man is a genius. Yeah. You said you weren't intimidated, but the next question was, well, you were drafted right next to Ariel Cohen. So, you know, he must be yelling out his prices and all different kinds of voices and cadences and all kinds of fun stuff. He's totally like the pitcher that's just messing with everything on the mound. Like he's just, he's messing up the timing. He's messing up the delivery. He's Johnny Quedo. He's the Johnny Quato of auctioning.

100%. 100%. Let's catch people up. After you selected Brandon Loud, we got Lawrence Butler, Matt. Chapman, Cosima Okamoto. I selected Ryan Pepio. Pep Boys for Life. Trevor Rogers, Sandy Alcantara.

Sandy. Sandy? Tell me about it. And then... Love Sandy. Adley Ruchman goes. And Scott, you are back up in round 12. Rushman was on the radar. I still don't have a catcher yet.

I'm not panicked about it. There are several more I like. But I think I need to address the safe. need even more since I only have Jeff Hoffman to this point. So I'm taking Amelia Paghan, who is the last in a tier for me. I love him this year. What did you say? I said I love him this year.

If this was a different league, I would have drafted a second catcher already, and he was on my list. Rushman, you mean? Paghan. Sorry, reliever. I say catcher. Yeah. Apologies.

Yeah. Okay. So that's interesting because I think most of us are wary. of Pagan. Obviously, had a great year last year, but he is looking through his career, his ERA has tended to run over for because he's so homer prone. And obviously, he's in a prolific home run ballpark. So what makes you love Paghan? What I saw last year, you know, relievers at small sample sizes each year so you can have bigger variance year to year with the relievers. But the fact that he was able to do it in Cincinnati

last year and really lock it down Cincinnati hasn't had somebody in years that kind of took ownership of that role that always seems like they've got three or four relievers that are coming through. I think he's going to close all year for him. And if, you know, ratios are important, Ks are important. He's going to get you K's and saves. Rations, you know, I agree with you. There's a little bit there. But when you were talking about he's the last in a tier, he's that last of that top 15 closers that I'm like, okay, I've got two top closers instead of one in the top 15, one in the second 15. Again, that 15 team mindset that I'm always stuck in. Yeah. I like the fact that Tito Francona is his manager too. It's kind of that old school.

He's going to ride with this guy. And he did all of last season with Pagan and they brought him back in free agency. So in that second tier, I mentioned yesterday, I moved Pellencia to the top of that tier. But if I miss out on the other names or even if I want a second, I'm totally fine with Pagan where he goes. So I'm go with it too. I like him more than Estevez. It's a big drop off after he went off the board because I think Kenley Jansen's still out there, but you get into like that Dennis Santana group of closers.

Sir Anthony Dominguez, who I like a lot because he tends to go even later, but that's the caliber of closer that still remains. All right, I have a decision. You just said a name, and I was trying to shush you so that you wouldn't keep talking about him. Should I select that player?

There was Addison, Barger, Yiner, D.S., Jonathan Aranda went to Scott, Trevor McGill, Zach Wheeler, Gavin Williams. I'm actually not. I'm going to do something I haven't done all draft season, and I'm going to buy the spring hype.

Oh, boy. I need a second baseman. Oh, okay. And I'm taking Matt McLean, who just had another three-hit game. Like, the guy just keeps having three-hit games. Look, He's hitting like 570.

He's made changes this offseason. He's got the longer bat. He's consciously trying to get two pitches on the outer part of the zone. I don't, obviously, like, this is not going to last. We all know that. But can he have his best season yet as a young second baseman who had a lot of prospect pedigree? Yeah, I think that's possible. And so like a 2020-250 outcome, I think that's doable for Matt.

I don't know that that would be his best season yet. because you look back at that 2023 rookie season, 290 with an 864 OPS, obviously just 89 games, but was pacing for even better totals than that. No, I think the stat line you lay out is a reasonable expectation. I might even give him 260, 265. If he can overcome the issue he had against Slyders Loan away last year, that's been the talk this spring.

He's made adjustments to address that. Closers. They're all going. they're all just going I think it's fine I think it's fine taking McLean here a little bit of a risk but you can understand what the kind of spring he's had

and the history of that big 2023 season yeah so here in round 13 we saw Trevor McGill Kenley Jansen did go and then Ryan Walker so we do have three closers here in round 13 and Sam we are back over to you yeah I got my my player

queued up I'm nervous about Matt McLean this year his March numbers are all and not a single game count. So I hope he continues that in April. I already said it once. I'm big on a number of these players. And I really like Chris Bubich to have a great season.

I think my pitching is just coming in sharp. Love that. I mean, he's a player we've been talking up all offseason as well. We love Chris Bubich here. He was when he pitched last season, he was basically an SP2. But he obviously had the shoulder injury, which, you know, is definitely a risk factor.

I get that, but he has pitched this spring. Velocity has been fine. He's looked like himself. So, yeah, we love that pick, Scott. And his, his ADP remains fake, Scott. His ADP is like 200, but he always goes like 150 in the drafts we do. Sometimes even 120, 130. Yeah.

Gets drafted 80 spots ahead ADP. Okay, well, it's hard for me to be as in love with Bubich if somebody's going to do that. There goes another one of the high guys. somebody heard me talking about Kansas City had to take Jack Caglione. Well, see, that's where I thought Frank was, it was almost, we almost had a redux of the mock draft megastream debacle

because you talked about drafting a hype guy here. I thought you meant Caglione again. Yeah. And you meant Matt McLean. Oh, Sam, I don't know if you saw that clip that we put out, but we were drafting an NFBC team together last week. Me, Scott and Chris, three people on one team. It's tough trying to decide on a player.

And so we're all, we're all saying like, yeah, yeah, let's take the hype guy. Let's take the hype guy. And then with three seconds left, Scott says, all right. I brought it up. Scott says, take Cags. And me and Chris are like, oh, no, we thought you meant Connor Griffin. So we got Connor Griffin. Yeah.

We're down to the last second, literally. Yep. And you know what? This is a good time for Cag, Scott. But I already have the four outfielders. So I didn't want to fill up my full outfield. And I need the second base. I didn't know that.

Look at you. Yeah. It's hard to get four outfielders this body. You must be suffering somewhere else. I don't. I didn't have a second basement. I don't have a third basement. So maybe Camerrero did make some sense early on.

We are into round 14. Because you took an outfielder, Churria. Yes. Round 14, we have Brian Reynolds, Stephen Kwan, went to Sam and then Sadan Rafael. You know, Sam, Stephen Kwan is a player. I haven't really heard talked about much this offseason. But he played basically the final.

four months of last season with a wrist injury that really kind of messed up his season. But the first two months, he was outstanding. So if he's fully healthy, I could see kind of like that bounce back season from Stephen Kwan this year. Yeah, I think he is healthy. And I love his floor.

I think he's going to have a small amount of pop. He's going to steal bases. He's going to hit for average. And Cleveland doesn't have a terrible lineup, at least in the top half. And so I expect him to get some decent counting stats, at least some run scored. All right.

third base is dwindling a little bit. And I know his spring has been pretty bad. He has been running a little bit, but somebody I still do like this year. I know everyone's been burned at least once. If you haven't been burned by Royce Lewis, are you even playing fantasy correctly? So I will take him here in round 14.

I haven't. I'm one of the people who hasn't been burned by him in the past. So I'm happy to buy in now when the price is at its lowest, basically since we've been drafting him in previous years. So he's been running a little bit this spring. He ran a lot down the stretch last year. I still think there's a lot of talent with Royce Lewis.

And I needed a third baseman. So kind of needed to fill that position. After I selected Royce Lewis, Bryson Stott, E Sok Paratus at 164. Scott, the NFBC ADP over the past week, it is a farce. It is not real. People here are still buying Esoc Paratus.

Yeah, and this 164, that's about where I rank him. He was my ace in the hole at third base. You don't have a third baseman either? I don't have a third baseman either. It's not hard to do. Oh, man, I don't know. What are you guys doing? I don't know what I want to do.

We're talking to you, Sam, about like Duran Duran and stuff like that. That's right. Hungry, like the wolf. Willie or Brayu was the next pick. perhaps some WBC helium there as well. Scott? Should I just go for it? 100%.

You should. I just go for it. Do it. Do it. I don't think Connor Griffin is going to make the team. Honestly, I was debating doing it this round as well. And we just talked about him and nobody took him.

Right. Which tells me that everyone else is feeling the same way. It is about 20 spots below his ADP over the last week. J.J. Weatherhalt is already. gone. Yep. And we haven't often seen Weatherholt go before Griffin,

but it happened in this draft. So I went ahead and took Griffin. And I think it's a little easier to stomach the possibility if I'm not making the team in a 12 teamer like this rather than a 15 teamer because the theoretical bench

I'm going to build, we're only drafted in starting lineups here, but in theory, I could probably get a decent enough middle infield fill-in on my bench there for while I'm waiting for Griffin. And there's still, there's still a chance he makes a team.

Obviously hasn't been sit down yet. There's a bunch of middle infielder after pick 200 that I'm just in love with. So it's real easy to fill that up at the end of your draft. Exactly. Exactly. So I'm going for taking a shot on upside, even as the bloom is off the rose a little bit.

Maybe unfairly. I'm not really sure what to make of Connor Griffin's Spring because so far he's hitting 194, but he has the four home. runs, he's hit some balls extremely hard. The approach has looked pretty good. It's two walks to 10 strikeouts. It's still an 849 OPS.

I know there have been some bad at balls that he's hit really hard that just did not result in hits, which can happen to anybody. But Sam, what have you made of Connor Griffin's spring so far? Do you think he is up on opening day? I think that with all the conversation that's going on, it's really difficult to get a good read on it. And so I don't have a strong opinion. I'm going to wait to see what they do with them because three weeks ago, it was a guarantee that he was going to be in that opening day roster. He was going to be playing.

And today we're now having this conversation about what are they really doing with it. He's somebody that I'm avoiding in drafts because I'm just, I don't get a good read on it. Got it. Catching people up in round 14. After Scott selected Connor Griffin, we got Nathan of all the Dalton Varsho. So he's rising up draft boards, having a big spring.

Then it's around 15. Brandon Woodruff, Alec Berluson, Scott, you selected Ian Hap. Would that have been the pick if Dalton Varsho was still there? Probably. I do rank Hap ahead, but it cemented me taking Hap now because it's like, oh, I can't fall back on Varsho, who I think has more upside. I think he could be in for a huge power season based on the exit velocity jump we saw in a partial season last year. But Hap is a nice stabilizer.

you just never have to worry about him. He's going to help in the counting stats. Runs an RBI a lot. Looks like the guy after me got autoed. Hopefully he's okay. Took Trey you Savage. It's a fine time to take you Savage. So maybe that was legit, hopefully.

But getting back to Ian Hap. So my last few picks, Ian Hap, Connor Griffin, and what was the other one? I guess it was just those two. So I want to go back a couple rounds to my Jonathan Aronda pick because I didn't have a chance to comment on that. In these roto leagues with a corner infield spot, that is one position that I tend to get left in the dust at corner infield.

And also batting average. I'm looking at my team other than Bobby Witt at the start of the draft and Luke Kishel later on. I think I got a lot of batting. average liability here. So I wanted to solidify batting average. I wanted to solidify corner infields. And I think taking a Rondo where I did, which was about 40

picks early by ADP. It's my biggest reach of the draft so far. But I think it freed me up to take the chance on Griffin and then to take Hap, who batting average is the one thing you don't expect them to help much in. All right. After Ian Hap,

we got Trey of Savage, Colson Montgomery, Bubba Chandler. So we saw a really big fall for Bubba Chandler here. at 174. That feels like a good value. I was getting ready to take him, but he went one pick before me. I like who you took.

I like who you took, Frank. So to Imanaga, the velocity remains up. He got a bunch of strikeouts on Tuesday night. He's looking good. Didn't it just get a bunch of strikeouts? He had 25 swinging strikes

on 73 pitches. Wow. I believe it was a 53% whiff rate. Overall, not on any individual pitch, overall in that game with the extra one and a half, two and a half miles per hour velocity on everything. It was against the Angels, a very strikeout prone team.

People like to nitpick when I am marveling at a performance like that. But you haven't seen every pitcher against the Angels getting 25 swinging strikes in a game like that. Very impressive what I'm gonnaag is doing this spring. And we know he's a great source of whip. So I was tempted to take him myself. I've gone, it's been a pretty pitching heavy draft for me. but I am getting really really fired up about

Shoda Imanaga this year. And he joins a pitching staff where I also had George Kirby so I think the whip is going to be pretty good on my end there. After Imanaga, Kate Horton, who had a big strikeout start recently as well, lots of whiffs in that one.

Then Michael King, Jacob Wilson. Sam, you selected Francisco Alvarez. What are you expecting there? I'm expecting him to have a phenomenal season catching for the mess. this year. I think he's going to hit 25 home runs. He's going to have a solid average. You know, he's not a source of stolen bases, but I think in that lineup, he's going to be great for counting stats. I'm excited about him. Yeah, and I know last year he was dealing with

a hand, a thumb injury, and once he, I mean, he also struggled, got sent down to the minors, but once he returned from the miners, it was, it was guns blazing. I mean, he was amazing for that final. He was a man on fire for sure. That final two-month stretch. So really, hoping that Alvarez figured something out and he's back to the form we saw when he was a rookie when he had like the 25 home runs or whatever it was. The talent is still there. He's just, he's dealt with a lot of injuries and like weird kind of approach changes over the past couple of years. So I am hopeful that we get a big season out of Alvarez as well. And then McKenzie Gore goes at pick 180 to finish out round 15. The problem I'm running into here is like all the

pitchers left are still super interesting. I just want to keep drafting pitchers, man. And this is what you keep telling us, Scott. It's like, man, I took Christopher Sanchez in round three, but it's like, gosh, I just want to keep drafting pictures at this point. I've been having the same problem. Like I said, this has been an unusually

pitcher-heavy draft for me with me having Cole Reagan's, Max Fried, Dylan Seas, and I also added Chase Burns for good measure. I'm with you. It's like, ah, I really wanted to take a Monaga with my last pick, but I just feel like I need to keep pursuing hitting at this point.

I can't pass on this. Like, I was, I love Ranger Soros. Ron Hare, Suarez. Sorry, I know he's, we pronounce his name differently. But I love the floor that he provides. I think being in Boston, he's going to be solid. He's not an elite pitcher. You know, we saw that season a few years ago where he had that elite run of 11 starts

against the perfectly put together, the perfectly manicured ending to the season. But I can't believe he fell. I was looking at him at the last turn. So, yeah. He's a good high floor option, man, Ranger Suarez. He's good ERA. The Whipple run a little high. It's like 120-ish, but good ERA.

Keeps him in games. Red Sox, good run support there as well. I'm interested to see how he does in the ALE East, but like he just came from the NL East, where he faced a bunch of good teams too, right? It's like he was always facing, you know, the Braves and who my, the Mets lineup, obviously they were really good as well. well.

Tatsuya Imai just went. Philly? Yep. That was the other player I really liked. I'm excited to see what he's going to do in Houston. They're a pitching development organization. Did they just seem to do wonders with anybody that they throw up there? They have so many off-name players that just break out.

This was like 20 spots below ADP or 25 for Amai, which is, I was going to have a hard time foregoing him if he made it to me. But I think there's another need I have to address as long as it doesn't get messed up in the next four picks. We'll see. All right. I just saw a name that I wanted to select. And here it is. It's Griffin Jacks as my second closer. We'll see.

Tampa Bay always, you know, they play their games. But Griffin Jacks is really, really, yes, the doctor. Closer. The air quotes. Closer. Okay. But he. You have seen that one, huh?

I have. Stupid comedy, Scott, of course. I've seen every Austin Powers movie. You know that. Griffin Jack's, great ratios. I think he'll probably give you at least 20 saves this year. I'm probably not expecting much more than that. But on the raise, I expect good things there from Jack's breakout season for Griffin Jacks.

But there was a huge pitching run here. There was Suarez went and Sunny Gray, Robbie Ray, Tatsuya I Mai. So a lot of those names I was talking about where, oh, I just want to keep drafting pitchers. A lot of them just went. Yeah, so I guess you don't want to draft pitchers anymore. Suddenly the top of my cue is all hitters, or not Q, but my rankings in the draft room. It is nice to just have your rankings in the draft room. I know that is not something people, most people can relate to, to have them already sitting in there just to reference.

And yet I still print out a sheet every draft and cross off names. So as an old person as the other day. dad on this podcast. I really appreciate that you have paper and pencil. It's the only way to go as far as I'm concerned. After I selected Griffin Jacks, Drew Raspison, back-to-back raise there. I was getting a request in the chat to like pull up some kind of like draft board. This is the draft board folks. I'm sorry, this is what we've got. You can see all the draft results on the side. They pop up in the chat too. But I mean, I could pull up like a roster grid. But I don't know. I don't think that really helps anybody.

I got snipe. They snipe to me, Frank. While. Helping anybody. Oh, Dalyle and Wile, that's a snite pick there, huh? Yeah, I like him. I needed some batting average. I think he's going to be a good source for that.

Yeah, should be. But I also need a catcher. I don't have any yet. And the two people after me, three of their four catcher spots are vacant still. So I better take one. Samuel Bessio. Carter Jensen, one of the players I love is already gone.

He went at the, 15, 16 turn. Samuel Bessio, I think, is probably even better. So I better take him while I can. All right, after. You guys are in on him? Absolutely. Bessio.

What do you think, Sam? I like Alvarez more than Bessio, but I think Bessio is pretty legit. And I think the fact that they're giving him catching time with Adley Ruchman already there, even in spite of his struggles, speaks highly of his bat. Yeah, I mean, the bat is just tremendous.

with Basayo. It wouldn't surprise me if within the next three years he's a top three or maybe the top catcher in fantasy, just his ability to hit the ball hard and make a lot of contact and power and batting average. I'm not sure how much he gets to that this season, but I think long term he's going to be a pretty tremendous hitter there. That is Samuel Bessio. After he goes, we get Jackson Holiday at 191. So we are expecting him to start on the IL, hopefully back some time early to mid-April. Austin Wells and then into round 17. We have Matthew Boyd and Dennis Santana. Good pick there on Boyd. We've been talking a lot about him lately. Scott, you double down on the catchers. Double down. Taking Gabriel Moreno.

It seemed like a no-brainer. He's somebody who might help him batting average, which is I think my category of greatest need right now. And what's interesting, not only is he the last in a tier for me, but two in the following tier. Alejandro Kirk and Austin Wells, have already gone.

So if I didn't take Gabriel Moreno, it was basically JT, Real Muto, or bust for that second catcher spot. Obviously, if Real Muto went, I would have just had to settle for some scrub. But I didn't want to have to settle for a scrub. I imagine Kirk and especially Wells got pushed ahead of Moreno

because of that knee issue he's been dealing with recently. But all the latest reports say he should be ready for opening day. So I'm not terribly concerned about that. And it's a nice double dip right there on that wheel. You got both your catchers filled. It's a deep position, but you're not picking that. Edgar Quero catcher, who I like in a 15 team league. Yeah.

It's scrubby by comparison. Yeah. After, and I didn't even realize how many catchers have gone. I don't have a second catcher yet, so probably should have been paying more attention to that. After Moreno, we get Rodon, Kerry Carpenter, JT, Real Muto. I am up and I feel like this guy just falls in every draft and nobody wants him

but it's Spencer Torkelson wanted to add more pop to this team so I do that getting Torquess as my corner infielder his career has been very up and down I get it it's you know two of the years have been great one of them he was down in the minors by like May or June but I mean when he's going right we're getting 30 home runs from Torkelson

and they need that pop in that lineup there's just There's not a lot of power in the Tigers lineup. So happy to take a shot on him around Pick 200. After Torkelson, Luis Garcia Jr. of the Nationals, then Edward Cabrera. Edward Cabrera got blown up today, I saw. He was the one who Corbyn Carroll hit the home run off of. Starting to get a little nervous, Scott,

about him wanting to throw that four-seem fastball more and getting rocked here. It's not great. The Edward Cabrera Truthers were, who believe in him, I mean, were pointing out that this is why he broke through last year. He finally figured it out. Sinkers. Two seamers.

It's the way to go. Ditch that four seamer. You can't locate it well enough, which is all fine and good in theory, but he has to keep following through on it. And he hasn't been this spring, the way he's talked this spring about wanting to mix in the four seamer again. And then he's getting such bad results. I felt a little silly when I put him in my bust article because I thought the cost was

actually pretty reasonable. I was making a bottom out case for Edward Cabrera. And I'm even more fearful that that bottom out case is going to come to pass. All right. After Edward Cabrera, there was Brenton Doyle. That feels like a pretty good pick at 202. I like to bounce back for him. And Sam, we are back up in round 17.

So I think people need to move them up their draft boards. I mean, we're getting in the middle of March. But I love Brian Abraeu as a late round closer. I think he's going to end up probably closing still a little bit, even with Hader when he comes back. He's just unreal in that bullpen and watching him 18 times a year as a Mariners fan. He's just crazy. I love him. He is so good, man.

Brian Abrae. We're starting to see some other closers go here as well. Sir Anthony Dominguez is off the board. No three closers for me. Yep, yep. And Abraeu likely to start as the Astros closer. and we'll see what happens with Hader, man. I mean, there's big upside for Abreu

where if Hater suffers a setback, you know, he could be the closer for a large majority of the season. And then, I mean, for where he's going, he could be like a league winner type. So interesting to follow along there with Brian Abraeu. Into round 18, and we get Shane O'Mack, Shane McClanahan at pick 205. And then...

Here comes the money. Yeah, I don't... I can't play it right now, I don't know how much money we're going to get from Shane McClain-Hen this year. I love that. Can you sing that again, Scott? That was beautiful. Here comes the money.

Yeah. Here comes the money. Love it. Hyping it up. You know, I was pretty encouraged by the last start. I know the velocity was still down a couple miles per hour, but it's been ticking up a little with each start, and the change-up looks so good. And they're...

They are not equitivis. at all when they talk about these starts after he made. They seem thrilled with what Shane McClanahan is doing. Oh, he's. His velocity being back to where it is, the way that he looks like, I really feel like we're seeing Sugar, Shane Mack again.

I love it. And your pick, Sam, was Ramon Luriano, someone who Scott likes as a sleeper this year. What are you expecting from Luriano? Lots of playing time in a decent lineup. up and he's got, he's just got high floor everywhere. He's going to give me batting average. He's going to give me speed.

He's going to give me pop. He's going to give me counting stats and taking him in the 18th round, I feel is great. All right. The next couple picks here, we got Jack Flaherty, Robert Garcia, and South Freelich with Robert Garcia. We know Alexis Diaz was recently DFAed. And so it appears that Garcia will be the first one to get an opportunity there to close for the Rangers. I need a fifth outfielder.

I've kind of ignored this for a while now. And it feels like a pretty big fall for Dylan Cruz. So I'm going to go ahead and snag Dylan Cruz. You love him. Tell me about him. I've backed off a little bit, but at 210, Scott. I mean, that feels all right to do there. It seems like you draft them.

You take them every draft we do. Dylan Cruz, look, for all the, like, the batting average has been bad so far in Dylan Cruz. and last year his entire season was wrecked by injury. He's still like 15 homers, 25 steals in his career in like 130 games. So if he could get the batting average just up to like 240, which would be respectable. Yeah, I think like a 15, 25 or like 20, 30 season

is in the range of outcomes here for Dylan Cruz. So I'll take a shot at 210, get some little power and speed. Yeah, it's not a bad gamble. just I, it's hard for me to muster any more optimism at this point. I know he's very young and of course the great pedigree former, was he the number two pick in his draft? Or number three. He was very high.

Yeah, two or three. And I just haven't seen really any reason for optimism. And even in the minor leagues, he made it up quickly, but it's not like a Nick Kurt situation or Wyatt Langford where he just steamrolled the competition on his way. It was modest production down there. So I don't know. After Dylan Cruz, we got Chandler Simpson, Garrett Cole, and Tyler Stevenson.

So Scott will go to you in a second, but this is our Yankees part of the program where I've got to talk about Garrett Cole, who made his return, his spring training debut. He threw an inning, he allowed two hits. One was a bunt hit on the first pitch of the game. I kind of thought it was Bush League, like Garrett Cole's first start back,

you're bunting for a hit and you're making him run to go get the ball and cover the baseball? Yes. It felt a little bush league in my opinion. That does seem wrong. Yeah. He averaged 97.1 miles per hour

this fast ball topped out at 98.7. Velocity was up on the curve and the slider. Look, he was amped up. It was only 10 pitches. So we've got to see if he can maintain that velocity. But, Scott, I thought it was an awesome first step for Gary Cole. Yeah, it sounds like it. I didn't see it, but it sounds like it.

I stood up to watch. I stood up to watch his start. My wife walked by. She's like, what do you do it? I'm like, it's Gary Cole's return. I've got to lock in. I've got to watch this. That's right.

It sounds like he is on a good path, but it's going to be, it's going to be May and probably later, May until he returns. So Blake's now in a couple of picks later. I think I'd take him ahead of Cole. I would take Carlos Rodon ahead of Coles. Has Rodon gone yet? Rodon is gone. And I agree with you.

As someone who does not take Blake's Nell, I would take Snell ahead of Garrick Cole as well. Yeah. Yeah. And Scott, you said something in there. You said it's going to be May. It's going to be May. That's right.

So here we are. After we saw Garik Colo go, Tyler Stevenson, Alec Bohm went to Scott, then Max Muncie, some third basements still available going there. Snell and then into round 19. Jose Caballero,

all the eligibility, tons of steals, especially early on. Brendan Donovan, and then Scott, over to you, pick 19, round 19. So I'm going to take Michael Burroughs, one of the quickest rising pitchers this spring. It's a little early, but I got to risk it for the biscuit, and he's my top pitcher ranked up. That's how far I've moved him up. But I want to say the Alec Bone pick just a few picks ago.

Love it. They were still clutch for my build. so clutch because batting average again, it's the offensive category that I felt like I needed the most. It is so hard to make up over the course of a draft. But my last couple of hitters, Gabriel Moreno and Alec Bohm, I think, are obviously go a long way to helping me. Plus, I need a third base.

And he was one of the last, I think, startable options there. The other one was Max Muncie, who went with the very next pick. I would have been fine with either, but for this specific build, Bome made more sense. All right. We're getting a little bit of a hype pitcher run because the next pick right after Burroughs is Braxton Ashcraft, who turned in a great start either here on Wednesday or Tuesday, and he's had a good spring,

and there's lots of smart people who like Braxton Ashcraft. Not me, I'm not one of the smart people. I'm one of the dumb people that likes Braxton Ashcraft. But then we got Logan Oh Hoppe, John Carlos Stanton goes off the board here, and I am back up. I am going to, I'm surprised he lasted this long. Make it happen.

223, it is time for Kevin McGonigle. I was just thinking. Yes. If I had known Kevin McGonigal would last this long, I probably wouldn't have taken Connor Griffin where I did. Yeah, so Kevin McGonagel at 223, who has also had a great spring, that doesn't include a game that he had against the Dominican Republic and exhibition, where he went three for three and hit a first pitch home run against Luis Severino in that game.

I think this might be crazy to say, I think there's a more likely chance Kevin McGonigle's on the opening day roster now than Connor Griffin is with the Pirates. I agree under present. I don't think it's weird to say at all. I think he's had a more eye-opening spring as presented fewer concerns to his host team.

It would be just less crazy on the surface. I mean, just the idea Connor Griffin being the first 19-year-old on an opening day roster since Ken Griffey Jr. would make any organization think twice, I think. Yeah. And he hasn't, he hasn't blown the lid off this spring. And I feel like he probably needed to. Connor, Connor Griffin, I'm talking about,

where every time McGonigal plays, he seems to do something that grabs a headline. Yep. After McGonigle, we got Victor Scott, Elliot Ramos, Mark Vientos, and then Sam, you selected Abner Arebe. Is that your, yeah, that's your third reliever. Do you expect him to open up as the Brewer's closer? Do you think it'll be a tandem to start? What do you see in the Brewers' bullpen?

I think if I were to guess preseason, he's probably 40% of the save, 6040. But I like his underlying skill set a lot more. And I think that there's a good chance that he flips that script and ends up saving 60% of the games for Milwaukee this next year. You know, one thing with Trevor McGill, I just don't know if he could stay healthy too. He throws so hard. He had the arm injury last year.

He's never thrown more than 47 innings in a season before. So that's part of the reason I've been kind of flag planting on Abner Arebe in the Brewer's bullpen just because I, it's just kind of a doubt of Trevor McGill staying healthy. So I think eventually Abner Aribay will just wind up being the closer for the brewers. Might not be on opening day, but I think he will wind up with more saves this season than Trevor McGill. Justin Crawford is the final pick of round 19.

And he's been running a little bit to spring. He has three steals. He's been solid. Seems like he will be the Phillies opening day center fielder. And we're into round 20 where Ryan Weathers goes. No, Scott, I think we mentioned it yesterday. But with Rodan and Garrick Cole, I mean, all this good news is coming in on them, they'll be back sooner than later.

Who gets bumped, right? Who gets bumped from the Yankees' rotation when those guys are back? I mean, Ryan, but there's will be hurt by then. Come on. Yeah. Yeah.

Wethers will be hurt by then. It's possibility. Louis Heel, too. I mean, Louis Heel just feels like he would better be a better reliever than a starter. You're asking about a month or even two into the season. This feels very much like a life finds away situation. Do the Yankees ever have a healthy fishing staff for the whole season?

Like, does that ever happen? Does anybody these days? Well, two years ago, the Mariners five starters made every start for the whole year. I mean, I realized. And the race did pretty well last year, too, with that. For the raise, especially. Yeah. Yeah.

Sam, you selected here in round 20, Kyle Manzardo. What do you like about Manzardo? Well, when he came to first pitch, a certain group of people got to interview Kyle Manzardo, and I got to sit in and watch that. Wasn't that you, Frank, that got to interview Kyle Manzardo? No, no. That was actually, I think, rates and barrels. We interviewed James Triantos.

Okay, okay. Well, I sat in on that interview, and I'm just sold on that kid, and I think that this is the year he's going to hit 30 home runs. I think he's going to establish himself as the first baseman going forward for the guardians. Like, I'm in on him. And at this pick, I'm fine.

All right. I am up. I need a second catcher. I need a util bat. I need two more pitchers. I am scanning the pitchers now to see who's there and you know what I'll take the old vet

had himself a nice WBC Aaron Nola Even year Nola baby here we go It's an even year you know he's gonna be good Hashtag analysis not Look last year wrecked by the hamstring But this spring his velocity has been up I don't think he gets all the way back

to the pitcher he was before but you know a mid to high three ZRA 120-ish web pitches on a good team should get a lot of chances that wins as your SP6 in round 20 fine with it not a sexy pick but fine with it Aaronola goes right after

I mean sorry Zach Gallin goes right after Aaronola I feel like those two are they're like tied at the hip right Scott yeah exactly the the old standbys who fell off quite a bit last year but are both showing renewed velocity this spring.

So maybe. And you know, the one I was debating was kind of the upside play, Kodi Senga, who goes three picks after I selected Aaronola. And his velocity... Kind of in the same category, yeah. His velocity has been way up this spring. We'll see if he could stay healthy.

You know, he always has issues with control and things like that. But, man, like three years ago, must star pitcher. And then in 24, he's drafted as like a top 20 starting pitcher. So we'll see if he could tap back into that upside. Scott, you are. up, round 20.

And I don't know what I want to do. Let's see. I might just take Andrew Abbott here. I've got so many high strikeout pitchers. Hopefully Abbott could just help to stabilize the ERA and whip as he has so far in his career. Always a kind of an enigma as a fly ball pitcher who pitches in a prolific home run park, sort of like Emilio Pagano, who was talking. I got a couple of those guys now.

But we contact, and obviously it's worked for Andrew Abbott so far. So I think it's fine to take him here. Mike Nelson in the chat said he thought I'd grab Joe Musgrove. A couple weeks ago, I would have. I was excited about Joe Musgrove, but. Coming back from Tommy John's surgery, him having trouble bouncing back from starts and them surprisingly having to put them on the IL to start the year,

I'm definitely concerned about how viable Musgrove is going to be this year. Yep, so we got Andrew and Musgrove back to back, then Trent Grisham, and we are into round 21, where we got Mickey Moniac. Love that pick. What do you love about it, Sam? I'm not usually big on Colorado Rocky players, but he just seems to have that it factor in Colorado.

I think that it's really hard for players to adjust playing in elevation and not all the time. I think that they screw with their prospects a lot. Pardon my French. No, you just screw it's fine. Okay. I don't trust that organization at all. But Mickey Moniac, since he's gone over there, is just like, he's just too dumb to care. Like, he's not dumb.

I don't mean to say that. but like he just doesn't, he's just going out there living his best life. So I'm excited for him this year. I've heard some of the hype on him and I'm all in. I think specifically in a roto league with five outfielders where I mean, if you just set it and forget it and like look up at the end of the season,

it could be 25 homers, 10 steals, something like that. I think if you play in a daily lineup league, that is the perfect format to draft Mickey Moniac. Because, man, you play him in course. All Rockies. In course field against right.

handed pitching, that is going to work out very well for you with Mickey Moniac. After he goes, we got a little bit of an outfielder run here. The last four picks, Grisham, Moniac, Evan Carter, and Carson Ben, who you selected Scott, who I'm starting to think is going to be the opening day right fielder for the Mets. Yeah, the problem with that is that they brought in Michael Talkman, Mike Talkman, on a minor league deal, I think, and he can opt out. out on March 25th if he hasn't made the wrong. I think it's March 25th. They got to make a decision with him. He's always been an underrated player great on base skills. So they might want to keep talking around. I saw one Mets beatwriter the other day saying, well, why not both? The old

El Paso meme. Why not both? And I think that makes a lot of sense. Benj's look good this spring. Basically, I had one pitcher spot available in about eight different pitchers that I wanted to fill it. And so it's like, well, I rank all those pitchers higher, but I have these two outfield spots. And I think Carson Binge by far meets my team's needs the best potential batting average stand out there. So I went ahead and took him. And hopefully he makes the roster. If he doesn't, then I'll have to fall back on somebody else. After Jordan Beck, we got Miguel And Duhar, Bryce Eldridge, Munataka Morikami went to me, then Boehler and Tanner Bybee. I have not drafted Morikami at all this offseason.

I have a little bit of FOMO with Morikami like just in case it happens and everything clicks here. But at 247, I mean, he's way past ADP. If it doesn't work, he's my utility bat. Drop them for, you know, someone who has the right matchups or gets off to a hot start this season, who could be a breakout type. But Morikami himself could be a breakout. So, yeah, I'll take a shot on that power upside this late in the draft with Morikami. he at the World Baseball Classic?

He, I believe he was. I can't remember if he wanted to stick around in White Sox camp or not. I just, look, my gut tells me that's going to be a wasted pick. Obviously, wasting a pick in the 240 range is not unusual. I think most of these picks will turn out to be wasted in some way or another. Yep. But I cannot. I understand he was a star in Japan and the power is huge.

I just, I just, as much as he struggled to make contact over there, I think it's going to be, I think that it's going to be untenable against major league pitchers, how much he's swinging and missing on pitches in the zone, especially. Yeah, he did play for Team Japan. He went four for 21 with a homer, two walks to five strikeouts there from Morikami. Did want to pull up his,

just his fan graphs page real quick to see what his strikeout rate has been so far in it's in spring it's five strikeouts and 17 plate appearances so less than 33 percent yeah I mean I guess it's a small sample just because like he is at the WBC so we don't have much data on it after Morikami

bow nailer Tanner Bybee Jacob Lopez all right Lopez rising up draft boards Owen Casey went to Sam and then Louisa Rice who is our resident batting average help this late in the draft Sam what are you seeing here with Owen Casey should have a real

with the Marlins? Spring training hype. I liked him as a Cubs prospect, but he seems to be able to get run in Miami. And I know it's a pitcher's park, but I have a feeling he's going to play 140 plus games a season for them. I don't think he's going to platoon.

I'm excited for him to have a breakout season, this season. He's somebody I'm excited about. This last pick, I want to quickly talk about. Matt Svonson, first pick of round 22. I tweeted this out earlier today. The Cardinals' bullpen usage, mind you, a spring game, but I mean, it could be what they go to on opening day based on the way it laid out,

but they had a one-run lead going to the sixth inning. They used Ryan Stannock. He gave up a run. Jojo Romero came in in the seventh with the game tied. Matt Svonson pitching the eighth with the game tied. Cardinals took a three-run lead in the top of the ninth. Matt Svonson came back out for the bottom of the ninth. So no Riley O'Brien.

I didn't see any reports about if he was available or if he was warming up in this game. I mean, it's pre-scheduled spring games who pitches. And Svonson did work two innings at a time fairly often as a rookie last year. So I don't know. It's been the last couple of drafts we've done, I feel like we've seen Svanson go ahead of Riley O'Brien.

I don't know if Riley O'Brien's going to go at all in this draft. I think he's better. but, you know, O'Brien was pretty good last year, too, and he and Jojo-Romero Splint saves almost 50-50 after Ryan Housley was traded. He was slowed early this spring, but I think it was a back issue Riley O'Brien was. And so maybe, like, it's hard to read anything

into relief pitcher usage in spring. It's, I think it's pretty close to meaningless, as a matter of fact. But we have seen Fonson's name floated as part of the close. of their committee when that wasn't true. Yep. At the end of last season. Yeah. And I think there's a huge difference between the jumble that we're dealing with in St.

Louis, for example, than the jumble we're dealing with in Milwaukee. I want nothing to do with St. Louis bullpen arms before the season. Like I'm, I'm real nervous about choosing the guy that's going to get even 30% of the save opportunities because that could be a three-headed monster. After Sponson, we got Shane Bos who went to Sam, then Matt Walner, Grayson Rodriguez, Moises by Asteros. I selected Kyle Teal here, who I know has a hamstring injury.

He's going to miss the first two to four weeks of the season. I would imagine it could be the whole first month. If we were playing this league out, I would probably just pick Edgar Carrow in the reserve rounds and have him fill in for Kyle Teal while he's out. Absolutely. Yeah, I mean, to get Kyle Teal like a week ago, he was probably going like 100 picks higher than this, like 160.

Now I'm getting him at 258. He's going to miss a month. I get that, but it's, you know, whatever. You can fill that in in the meantime. So Scott, you good? Tilted in round 22. Well, you know, as I said when I made my last pick going ahead and taking Carson binge because there was about eight starting pitchers I was deciding between.

I think they've all gone now. The latest being Shane Smith. Yeah, Shane Smith was on that list. Grayson Rodriguez. Shane Boz, Jacob Lopez, Tander Bybee. One after another, they went here. Yep. Well, let's go back to Sam for a second while you make your picks got and figure that out.

Sam, you took Shane Boz, gets traded from the race to the Orioles this off season. You know, I'm just kind of higher, I guess, or more excited about race pitchers going back into the trope. So I was a little bit bummed to see Shane Boz get traded over to the Orioles. But maybe it's a good thing. Do you like it, the move from Tampa Bay to Baltimore? I do. Nobody beats the boss. Nobody beats the boss.

Shane Baez is going to an organization that's going to actually let him pitch. And if his arm doesn't fall off, I know I've said that earlier. But if he's allowed to pitch, I love his skill set. I think he's finally going to pitch 150 to 170 innings. And this late in a draft, like he could be their SP2, SP3 if everything works out. I love that value. All right. After we left off with Parker Messick, Scott, you selected Ryan Nelson, then Kate Navali, Marcus

Dillon Dingler, Ryan Jeffers, and Scott, your backup for your last pick. I love that Ryan Nelson pick, by the way. It was either him or Shane Bos that I was debating, and I went with the boss. It's probably a better fit for my team because I think whip is the pitching category I'm most concerned about. And Nelson had a 107 whip last year, 103 whip in the second half of the year before, which is kind of where he turned the corner to become a useful fantasy option. So he does appear to be a legit whip standout. Does Ryan Nelson.

My last spot to fill is outfield. It's between Josh Lowe, who just had a big game with a home run and stolen base coming back from injury or chase to Latter. No, Scott, you know what to do. It's Josh Lowe, baby. All right, I'll take it for you, Frank. Yes. I'll take it for you. That is love.

That is love. I spent so much time addressing batting. average, which I think DeLauder would help with, that I, I'm concerned I need a few more steals here. So it was a close call between those two. And actually, my gut was leaning more DeLotter because when in doubt, I chased the upside late. But, you know, Lowe has, Lowe is an upside case himself, right, based on what he did two years

ago, going to a great hitter's park with the Angels. And like I said, just had a huge game. So I got a huge game, sock and a shoe hit a couple of balls really hard. So Josh Lowe is the. Sock and a shoe. I think that's the first time we've said that this spring. Let's go. Let's keep it going.

Baseball is happening. It's going to happen. You know, it's crazy? Right now, we are a week away from baseball actually happening. Like opening night, Yankees Giants, one week from right now on Wednesday. How about that? Let's go. That is the best news I've heard all day.

It's flown by, man. I know this is the earliest opening day in history, right? So that's part of it. is just like we had to ramp up like about a week sooner than we're used to it it kind of caught us by surprise then too but it's it's crazy that I've already like we're this is our last mock draft this we have a we're doing the podcast drafts next week one of them will be on the air but that'll be a legit league true pure mock draft this is the last one I'm doing yeah how about that uh yeah we are head to head points listener league mock draft uh not mock draft

Real draft, listener league draft, will be on Monday night and we will be live streaming that one. So that will be the last streamed draft that we do here on the channel before the season starts. But yeah, last mock, look at us. Last round, how about this?

This draft has flown by. Scott used to like to Josh Lowe. Then we got Robert Suarez, Max Meyer, Jason Dominguez. I took Riley O'Brien. Sorry, Sam, I know Cardinals are reliever, but as my third reliever, I'll take a shot here

and see what happens in that bullpen. Ryan Weiss of the Astros, Roki Sasaki, Noah Cameron, and Sam, we're up to you for your last pick. So I'm debating between two pitchers. I already know who I'm going to take,

but I'm curious if I were to ask you to, Molly or Aregetti. Oh, Mali. I don't think Arrogati has a job. He could be if it's a six-man, but I would take Mally. I like him pitching those home starts in San Francisco.

Exactly right. I was just looking at your guys's expert projections on things. And Erigetti's got nice projections if he does start. And I think that he will find his way into probably 20 to 25 starts this year for Houston. Sure. But I'm, I'm so excited to see Maley pitch for the San Francisco Giants. It's just going to be sweet. Yep. And then Mr. Irrelevant, last pick of the draft, Carlos Correa. All right, here we go. This is probably the fastest we've ever finished a mock draft here on the podcast side of the, or any mock draft that we've done. True degenerates.

Pretty good time. I can scoop up, chase the latter off the waiver wire because he wasn't taking it all. And you know, Scott, we were talking earlier about like Connor Griffin not making the team. Look at the middle infielders that didn't get drafted here. Ezekielovar, Zander Bogars, Otto Lopez, Claibor Torres. Like, this is great. I can make do with any of them. Or they could have been like one of your reserve players.

But yeah, I mean, that's great. Yeah, right. And in reality, a draft probably wouldn't end here. You'd have a bench of some size. But, yeah, I would have filled one of those spots with one of those guys. And if this was a deeper league, somebody that I've been targeting in all my 15-teen drafts has been Cole Young with the Mariners. He has just been on fire. And I think he is going to take ownership of that second base position and play 140 games in that lineup.

I'm real excited. So for all you people that don't know me, I would tell you, Cole Young is one of my favorite after around 23, 24 picks in a 15 team league. And if we were picking reserves, he'd probably be my last pick in this league. I love that call out too. We did our deep sleepers episode the other day, Sam,

and we probably rattled off over 50 sleepers on the course of the show. And Cole Young was one of them. So happy you brought that name up there. Let's wrap up looking at our teams. And Sam, we'll look at your team first. You were drafting 11th in this one. And your catchers, you've got Salvador Perez and Francisco Alvarez, followed by Tyler Soderstrom, Nico Horner, Michael Garcia,

Zach Netto, Brandon Lau, Kyle Manzardo. Then in the outfield, you have Ramon Luriano, Stephen Kwan, Corbyn, Carol, Andy Paez, James Wood, and Owen Casey. So we'll stop there on the hitting side of things. How do you feel about this offense? You know, I don't have projections up on it, I don't know exactly what these guys are going to do, but I think I have a pretty well-rounded team. I like my power.

I like my speed, and I like my batting average. You know, I think counting stats are a little bit harder. They're team-dependent and lineup-dependent and a whole bunch of things. But I've got players from KC who I like. I've got the Mets who I like. I've got the athletics. The only player I'm really kind of, the two players I'm really kind of iffy are Zach Netto and Brandon Lowe, just because that's my own bias against those players.

but it was fun to take them and build off of that. It does feel like a pretty well-balanced, just offense up and down. I mean, you've got power and speed. You address some batting average with like Michael Garcia and Stephen Kwan should help out there. Nico Horner. Yeah, I was worrying about batting averages.

I was just glancing at it, but then I saw those three and it's like, well, Luriano. It's a good balance. Yeah, Horner too. Yeah. So that's pretty good. I like that.

On the pitching side of things, you selected Gare Crochet in the first round here or second round. And then you got Kevin Gossman as your SP2. You have Chris Bubich, Ron Hare-Swarz. You have Tyler Malley, Shane Baz, those are your starters. Then your relievers, you have Mason Miller or Brian Abraeu, Abner, Aribay. What do you, do you normally, Sam, when you take Garrett Crochet, do you normally wait this long to grab your SP2 with someone like Kevin Gossman? I haven't grabbed Garrett Crochet all season long. And once I took them, I realized I had a pretty good foundation.

And I needed to pick up hitters. There's so many good hitters in those first five rounds that it's really hard to pivot off of them. So I like my pitching. And if this was, if we played this league out, you know, I don't think my saves would be as bad. We'd have an opportunity for the waiver wire fab. And I like the, I like the shots that I took. I really, I'm a big fan of Abrao and Uribe, so those are just my guys. Nice.

Yeah, it feels really good up and down at pick 11 here for your team. Let's slide over to my team. I was drafting from Pick 7, and I've got Augustine Ramirez and Kyle Teela Catcher, followed by Josh Niller, Matt McClain, Royce Lewis, C.J. Abrams, Kevin McGonagle, Spencer Torkelson, then in the outfield, Kyle Tucker, I have Jackson Churio, Taylor Ward, Michael Harris, Dylan Cruz, and then Munataka Moracami as my utility hitter. It feels like a weird offense. It's not really one that I wind up with often.

I wonder if I have enough batting average kind of insulated in early for some of the names I took later on. But, you know, then you read off the outfield. The outfield's really good. I don't know, Scott, what do you think of it? Did you go pitching heavy too? I took Christopher Sanchez in round three. I took Kirby in round six, I think. Not that heavy.

Your pitching is beautiful, by the way. I love your staff. If Scott is asking if I went pitching heavy, that means he does not like my offense. That's basically what he's saying. It's just like, it just seems like, and we talked in the middle of the draft, how you already had four outfielders

when it was half over. And so we knew your infield was going to, going to look pretty weak. And look, there's definitely an upside case for Matt McLean and Kevin McGonigal and Spencer Torkelson, Munitaka, Murakami. But it just, there feels like fewer sure things among your hitters than for, I think, the typical 12-team, Roto team. And so that makes me a little nervous.

I mean, if maybe you have dominant pitching, I don't know, we haven't gone over that yet. Instead of McLean and McDonagel, I would have much rather had Glaber Torres and Jorge Palanco. I just love the floors that they bring. McGonigal could be a lot of fun, but I'm so nervous about drafting rookies. I'm just, I'm always just a little nervous because I've had such a prospect

bias. At the same time, it's hard to call Jorge Palanco, especially a sure thing. I like him in theory, but, you know, he spent most of the last four years injured. Yeah. Yeah, you know what? I think that goes back to like earlier in the draft, I kept saying like, man, I just want to keep

drafting pitching and pitching. I think in the rounds, I probably wound up taking too much pitching and not enough hitting here. But I don't know. Let's see how the pitching turned out. I selected Christopher Sanchez in round three. I got George Kirby as my SP2. I've got Emmett Sheehan as my three. Ryan Pepio as my four.

Shoti Imanaga is my five. Arindola as my six. And then my closers, I've got David Bednar, Griffin, Jax, and Riley O'Brien. So I love this pitching staff. I don't know about you guys, but... No, I love it. You know, I told you. I don't like O'Brien, but that Jack's pick really upset me.

That I would have rather had him than a brayu. I view those as two just high volume, high strikeout pitchers that can really do things. Jacks is just going to, has a better path to saves. Yeah. I like it, but I know, like I know you're higher on both Emmett Sheehan and Ryan Pepio than I am. Right. So I look at your team. Imanaga, I think was your fifth one taken.

And for me, he'd be my third one of this group. Mm-hmm. So. And that's the thing. usually get Imanaga as my, probably my SP4 in drafts, but it was at a point where I just, I like the pitching more. So, I mean, that's a good

lesson to take away and say, you know, maybe I didn't need like Kirby where I took him or Sheen where I took him and I could have had a more proven hitter and then Imanaga would have been my SP4 instead of, you know, my SP5. So it's a good lesson to take away there. And Scott, we will wrap up,

taking a look at your squad. You were drafting third in this one and looking at your hitters. You've got Gabriel Moreno and Sam Bessio. Nick Kurtz, Luke Kishel, Alec Bome, Bobby Witt, Connor Griffin, Jonathan Aranda. And then in the outfield, you have Randy Roserana, George Springer, Ian Hap, Carson Benj, Josh Lowe,

and your utility is Kyle Schwabber. It's a pretty awesome lineup. It's not bad. It's just high floor. I mean, Connor Griffin, obviously, has got some fun to him. Luke Keishel, you know, we've only gotten a half season out of them, Carson Benj. But I love your floor. I love Kurtz coming into this year.

I'm a big fan of bomb. Bobby Wood is a great anchor for that lineup. The double dip that you did on catchers, I love your two catchers that you were able to pick. Like, I'm interested to see steals. I'd like to see your steals That was the one thing I was thinking of I mean even though you got Bobby Witt is maybe you ignored it a little bit too much

throughout the course of the draft So I got Witt A Roserana Keishol George Springer should give me 15 to 20 Connor Griffin You know if he if he is on the roster for a while It'll be a ton of steals from him But that's a big if

And Josh Lowe He's got to stay healthy I think there's I think there's enough. Do you think there's, I think I ended up with enough batting average too, maybe.

I don't know, some of my, obviously, Witt's a great source of batting average. So that made the Schwarber and Arroserina picks easier to swallow.

Yeah, so you have Schwerber, a Rosarena, and Kurtz, all guys that could, not necessarily will, but could hit like under 250 this season.

But. Yeah, Kurtz is kind of a wild card with that since he hit over 290 as a rookie, but I understand with the strikeouts, why that's,

But you balanced it out because Bobby Wade is a great batting average. Kishel, we expect to hit like 270 plus. Boom will hit 270 plus. Aranda could hit, you know, Aranda could hit 280 plus. So I think you balance out the batting average pretty well. Yeah. Yep. On the pitching side of things, you have Cole Regens.

I didn't get to play this earlier. Cole Regens. Cole Regens, you got Max Fried, Dylan Cease. you have let's see all those simsy pitchers yeah Andrew Abbott

you've got Michael Burroughs is my fourth yeah Chase Burns oh there you go he's on the bottom so Burns is your four then Abbott as your five

Burroughs is your six Nelson is your seven that's pretty good and then Hoffman and Pagan is your two closers so you're playing the wire for a third but this is

these are more pitchers than you usually wind up with Scott I know it's kind of crazy that three, let's see, two of my first five picks and I think three of my first seven was season round seven were pitchers. I mean, don't usually do that, but I feel like my lineup came together well considering. Honestly, getting Schwarber in round three was a big, a big advantage for me.

Like, that shouldn't happen. Yeah. And I think that made it a lot easier to go pitcher, pitcher with my next two picks. You know what, Scott? I think this might be some of your best work of the offseason. So saving the best first. for last, for last, how about that? Can we play it out? Can we play this league out?

You don't have to tell anybody else, Scott. You could just play it out and not tell anybody. It is always funny with these mock drafts, particularly when we invite some listeners to join in with us. Like, they're mock drafts. We make that clear from the beginning. But then over the course of the season, you get those emails, so-and-so made an ad in this mock draft league that nobody else is paying attention to.

Yep, yep, yep. It's like, all right. So lots of fun here. Again, this was our live 12 team, Roto Mockdraft. Big thanks again to Sam Wershing, joining us here on the show. Make sure to give him a follow on X

at Fave Game Show host and on Blue Sky at Sam FBB1. He's a contributor over at the Pilato podcast and Dynasty Guru. Sam, anything else that you've got going on right now that you'd like to promote before we get out of here? Well, I've got something that we're going to be

hopefully launching this season with a different platform, but I'm not quite ready to talk about it. I just wanted to give the March pitch for everybody listening to first pitch Arizona next November. Scott, we need to see you in person in Arizona. It is, if you play fantasy baseball, you get to go to a place where there's 400 other people that all want to look at your rosters, talk to you about players. And it's the inclusivity, the friendliness, the you walk up. I didn't know Frank four years ago.

Frank and I got dinner at a place called or a breakfast at a place called the Henhouse. And you literally, you make friends. Like Frank, I was in New York this year and four years later. Like Frank and I are, I consider Frank to be a friend of mine. Like I would do things for that guy. Like I love him. So if you are here watching us, come and talk to us in November and Arizona. Make the trip.

Make the time. Come see us. That is, I'm now all my thoughts are thinking about November and what we're going to be doing out there. So, Sam, hopefully celebrating either a Yankees or. or a Mariners World Series. I think that would be pretty fun. One of those two would be just fine. Everybody else there would love if it was one of those teams,

not necessarily the Yankees. If it's the Mariners, I think everyone else would enjoy it. If it's the Yankees, probably not so much. I don't know. It's been 18 years, right? No, people still hate the Yankees, too.

There's no way. Absolutely. But you know what, Sam, I am happy you brought that up because Chris and I try to tell Scott all the time. Like, everywhere we go, People ask about Scott. I don't think that he believes us, but it really does happen. Scott, I'm personally requesting as somebody you don't know and don't have to listen to a thing I say, you, I would love to see you shake your hand, buy you a soda or a beer.

I don't know what you drink. I don't care. I'd love to just see you in person and chat with you. And that goes to all the listeners. Like, come on up. I appreciate the invite. I'm sure you can appreciate as a family and man yourself that it can be hard to get away. You know, my wife works full time.

100%. So, but I, you know, the harder people push, the more I'll have to get. I'm a home body by nature, an introvert by nature. But I'm sure, I'm sure many of you are too. So at some point, maybe this year, I'll have to make my way out there. Yeah. I'll be your safety blanket. If you were like, hey, it's too much.

I got you. I got you, Scott. I appreciate it. Once we get Scott White out by the pool at 3 a.m. by first pitch, he won't be in it. He won't be an introvert anymore, I'll tell you that. We are going to wrap there for Scott and Sam. I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning into fantasy baseball today.

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