Fantasy Baseball Today - H2H Categories 12-Team Full Mock Draft

Episode Date: March 14, 2026

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All right. Just the two of us, Joe. How's it going? Good to see you, buddy. Just the two of us. Yeah, it's good, man. It's really a crazy, hectic time of year, but it's the most fun we have all season. Drafting our teams, doing the live streams, updating the rankings, the sleepers, the bus. Things kind of calmed down in April. It gets more exciting in a way because we have real baseball, but things are a lot calmer from a content creator perspective. People always ask, like, oh, the season's starting. This is the tough part for you. And it's like, no, man, it's. Once the season starts, it's routine. It's the last three weeks when I'm doing like drafts every single night. I've got Tout Wars on Sunday. So I am, yeah, it's tougher right now.

But we're in this Yahoo draft. And, oh, boy, I'm trying to just figure out how to make sure I, where do I click? This is a new format for me. I haven't played a Yahoo draft in a while. So this is, there should be a draft button, right? If you click on the player's name, then it should give you something. It should. We're going to.

There it is. Just in case. That draft button was hiding. I didn't have my screen wide enough because I'm trying to see the chat. I would like to, I will try to show the draft board as we are talking, but obviously it's going to be tough because I'm trying to draft. And I did try to open up a second room to share the draft board, but it did not let me. me. It shut me out of that. So you can't do that. But we are here. We're in the first round. Aaron Judge goes first. That's the way I rank it. But in a league with two utility spots,

it does make it a little easier to manage the Shohe Otani Util only. He is my pick at number two. We had Bobby Witt, Juan Soto. Ellie De La Cruz at fifth overall. I think that's a certainly not the consensus pick. But Joe, how do you feel about Ellie this year? I think that he is going to be really good. I just don't know if he's a first round returnee in terms of value. A top five would be asking a lot. Now, we have seen stretches where Ellie can hit for batting average and in that park, maybe the power comes around more so. And also, we have to remember that he was dealing with an injury in the second half last season.

So he could definitely be a better version of himself this year. That being said, I don't know if I could take him as high as fifth. That feels a little bit rich for my blood. Yeah, for me, it's, I have Ellie a little higher than the consensus, but it is after Ronald Acuna. It's after Jose Ramirez. It's after Juan Soto. So in this one, he went ahead of Ramirez,

ahead of Acuna. I do think we saw a breakout from L.A. de la Cruz in the first half of last season. He cut the strikeout rate to like 24%. He was hitting for more power. He was on a 30-40 pace. And then he had that quad strain in late July that I think really messed him up.

He didn't take a single day off, but it was a grade two quad strain that he was playing through. So that's really tough. Then we had Ronald Acuna 8th, Terrick Scoobel 7th. Kyle Tucker 9th to you, Joe. How early are you taking Kyle Tucker? I think that's about it for me.

I did debate going with one of the pitchers. I thought about Crochet or Skeens, but I think because it's a 12-team league, and I am more so accustomed to 15s, that I'm willing to wait a little bit more on pitching just because there will be more value later on in the board. Whereas a guy like Kyle Tucker, you're not finding him later on, a guy who could go 30-30 over the course of a full season.

And the last couple of years have been washout. It's maybe not 20, 25, but he was playing hurt in the second half. We didn't get the full Kyle Tucker experience. I think over a full season in that lineup, we could see 30, 30, 100, 100, and hopefully in batting average, close to 300 as well. Yeah, I think the concerns about Tucker with the injuries are overblown. We've talked a lot about it, but it was a fractured shin that got misdiagnosed, and then a fractured hand that also got misdiagnosed last year.

It seems unlikely that he will suffer a third misdiagnosed fracture. I'm not saying it can't happen, but that's been the issue for him the last two seasons. But we've seen a level up in terms of his plate discipline. He's a 30-30 guy. And we mentioned it during the first draft, hidden behind Shohe Otani in front of Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. There aren't many better spots in baseball history than the one Kyle Tucker's going to be in in this year. So I think there's a really good chance, like you said, 100, 100, 30, 30, batting average close to 300. That's real hard to replicate.

There are Fernando Tatis is capable of that, of that. Gunner Henderson is capable of that. But there aren't a lot of guys who can do what Kyle Tucker is capable of. So I'm a big fan. He usually goes around 15 in ADP, Fantasy Pros Consensus ADP. I wrote about this yesterday. I think has him right at 15. or so. I think a top 10 pick is pretty easy for Tucker. And I don't know if the prices are

reflecting that yet. Even in FBC, I don't think he's a top 12 guy yet. Yeah, I think he gets there sometimes depending on the room, but consistently you are getting him at the back end of 15 teamers. You know, the first couple drafts I did of the season were second round Tucker shares. And I don't know if we're going to get that too consistently. But another point is that the Dodgers around him are getting quite old. I mean, Freddie, Freddie, Mookie, Muncie. Will Smith. These guys are all on the wrong side of 30 and some of them well onto the wrong side of 30. Tucker feels like a guy where as long as there is no health nonsense again this year, 150 plus games does feel like it's pretty likely. Yep, yep. That is one thing about the Dodgers purported reign of terror over Major League Baseball is these guys are old. And look, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Shohi Otani. I don't think there's a single Hall of Fame voter who shouldn't vote for any of those three guys, right? Like these are. inner circle types. But I think Freeman is 34, 35, Betts is 31, 32, Otani's 31, I believe. So, you know, they're all on the wrong side of 30. So it's not impossible to see how things go

wrong. Let's update picks so far in the set. Well, it's, we had Paul Skins and Gary Crochet go in the end of the first round. Corbyn Carroll sneaks in at 12. Vlad Guerrero, Julio Rodriguez, Jr. Commonero, Gunner Henderson, Fernando Tattis, Nick Kerr. Kurtz, a little early, we saw Kurtz go later in the draft. We just did 27th overall, I think. I love that price. Then we have Kurtz going a little earlier this year. That's 18th overall.

I prefer the 27. Yeah. But look, the season he just had as a 21-year-old with very little professional experience was outrageous. There are concerns about him and how he lefties. There are concerns about the batting average. there is a chance Nick Kurtz just emerges as kind of the good year version of Matt Olson

in perpetuity. And the ballpark helps. Where are you at on Kurtz? Closer to 18 or closer to 27? If I could get him at 27, I would be tempted. He has been a fade for me at ADP, and I think that's part of it is just I'm a sucker for a longer track record.

It doesn't need to be a decade, but just a couple of full seasons. And Nick Kurtz, it wasn't even one full season. Now, he replicated a full season's worth of stats in three quarters of a year. But I worry about the strikeouts. I worry about the contact rate more than anything else, though. 76% in-zone contact. It's almost 10% below league average.

The swinging strike rate is still high. And I think the buffer there is that he is still in a minor league park. And even if he does struggle a little bit, we can still see 30 home runs. But if you're taking him, you're choosing between him and guys like the Churios of the world, maybe Jazz, Schwabber, one of those elite starting pitchers. I don't love him. I think if he falls to the third round, I could be talked into it, but at his ADPI, I don't think I can't. Yeah, that's mostly where I am.

I took him in TGFBI because he fell to 25, and I'll do that every time. You know, that's pretty easy. But I do think both him, Vlad and Pete Alonzo, I think that top tier of first baseman, they should be ahead of the Matt Olson, Bryce Harper, Raphael Devers group, but it's pretty close for me. in a way that is not reflected in their prices. After Nick Kurtz, we had Kyle Schwerber, who, again, in our roto talk earlier, I had some concerns about taking him in the second round. That's only one utility spot, though.

When you have a second utility spot, being util only matters a lot less, because it increases your flexibility throughout the rest of the draft. So I think Kyle Schwerber is perfectly fine there in this format. Jackson Churio goes next. Trey Turner, Kyle Raleigh, Jazz Chisholm, Pete, with the last pick of the second round, then first pick of the third. Zach Neto, Francisco Lindor,

Catal Marte, Matt Olson, Christopher Sanchez, Yoshinova Yamamoto, and the seventh pick is up. And we see that second tier of starting pitchers start to go in the third round. I prefer when they go in the third round to the second round, because I think Yamamoto's ADP is closer to 24. In the NFBC format,

I think Christopher Sanchez went in the first round of one of the main events already. That tends to, you'll see guys get pushed up at starting pitcher there. Who is your number four SP for 2026? It's Sanchez for me. I disagree a little bit with my co-host, Paul Spor, and Justin Mason, we go back and forth on this a little bit,

but I think it's kind of a big four at the top of drafts. And I think that Sanchez is a slight notch below the other three, but getting him two rounds farther back, I mean, I'm taking that all day. I had Sanchez in my Tout Wars League. I've taken a bunch of shares so far. It feels like a really nice consolation prize if you want an early pitcher, but you don't draft in the 7 to 11 range where they typically go.

Sanchez is a nice fallback. And a fallback, I think he could still be an ace. I think he is an ace, but not quite being drafted on the same level as those other guys. Yeah. For me, it's the 4 to 12 tier is very closely grouped. I think Sanchez is in there. I actually go Logan Gilbert in that. There's another draft where I'm not going to get Yordon Alvarez, unfortunately.

And this is a league where he's outfield eligible. So that helps even more. He goes, Manny Matrata goes 3-7, Yordon Alvarez, 3-8. So I think that's a little later than he went in the previous draft. I think he went 25th in that one. I would take him there, but I know a lot of people are scared off by the injuries. My thing with Yorda-A-Vres and would love to get your take on him as well, I think there are like maybe three or four hitters who could hit.

300 with 50 homers and I think Yaron Alvarez has the skill set for it. And so like I just think he's truly, I think he's third in WRC Plus over the past five seasons. I think he's truly just one of the special special hitters in baseball. But the injuries are tough.

I totally agree. Like if we could play in an MLB, the show fantasy draft, he would be a top 10 pick pretty handily every time. The thing that worries every everybody is the varied injury history that he has at this point. There are just so many things. Last year was almost a full washout.

He was my first round pick and tout wars last year in the OBP format. But I think he's more of a target if he falls. Like at his price, and I play a lot of NFBC too, so that colors the way I think about things. He's utility only there. Where he's outfield, that makes it a little bit easier. I just think if you are going to take him, you need to have a stable first couple of rounds. If you have a Vladdy or a Bobby Witt Jr. or a guy that you can almost, right down in Penn, they're going to play 160 games,

then I feel a little bit more willing to take on the risk of Alvarez, maybe only playing half a season. If I'm taking him with guys that are a little bit riskier in the first couple of rounds, like say Ronald Acuna and Fernando Tatis? Yeah, that's a little bit too rich for me. I mean, the upside there. It's bonkers. Easily be the number one team, and I wouldn't be surprised.

But there's a lot of risk as well. If I'm taking him, I more want him to be a backup option for the Bobby wits, the Vladis, I mean, Patis, I think is pretty safe from a games played standpoint, but there is still some risk. Gunner Henderson, even in an injured year last year, played a lot. So I want to have a stable 600 plate appearances at least, if not 1,200 before I take Jordan Alvarez, ideally. Our number six starting pitcher comes off the board right after Yordon Alvarez.

That's Chris Sale. Wyatt Langford, who that's a little rich, but I do really like White Lankford this season. I think the degree of difficulty that he did last season in having 22 homers, 22 steals in 131 games, I believe, while playing through four different oblique injuries. Obviously, look, if there's something about him that makes him more prone to oblique injuries, that's tough because, you know, we did have four last year. But, man, doing that with four oblique injuries is really tough because that's, the oblique is all the rotational speed that you have as a, as a player is in your oblique. So it can really disrupt seasons. So I think

34th overall, a little rich, but I can certainly see it. Then we have Bryce Harper, Brent Rooker. Corey Seeger goes higher here than we're normally used to seeing him. Another guy, I think he's one of the three best hitters at the shortstop position. But he doesn't steal bases. He misses a lot of time. It's been a lot of hamstring injuries as well. I will say his biggest absence last year was an appendix. I'm not a doctor. But once you get your appendix removed, my understanding. There's only one. There's only one. I haven't had any appendix issues since I was about 13 once I got it removed. That tends to fix the appendix issues. So that was what he'd missed the final month of the season with. He had a couple of IL sense with a hamstring injury as well.

He's very injury prone, but could be a big hit there. P. Kerr Armstrong. Bryce to Rang, Logan Gilbert. That's my number four, but I think that tier is right. Brian Wu goes right after him, two Mariners in a row. Jaron Duran goes a little higher than we're used to. That's one that, man, if he, he's hit some absolute bombs off of lefties this spring and in the World Baseball Classic. Where are you at on Jaron Duran while I try to make my pick? He's one of my flag plant guys this year. And that has been on the NFBC where he is going a little bit later. It's a little bit surprising to see him go quite this early. But just last year, Jaron Duran was an early second round pick and it was justified based on what he had done.

2025 was a little bit of a disappointment, but you've still got 86 runs, 84 ribbies, 16 and 24. I think the batting average is where some people worry because it fell down to 256 and the expected batting average was 248. But I think when you're looking at a guy who has hit 295, he has hit 285, I think we can get to 260, 270 type of range. And like you said, he is crushing the ball in spring training. I don't worry about him being platooned or anything of that nature over the last. last two seasons, Duran 157 and 160 games respectively. So the Red Sox are going to play him. I know it's a bit of a crowded outfield out there.

But even if he wasn't hitting lefties, I still think Jaron would be a really nice pick. But if he is able to start hitting lefties now, he could absolutely smash. And maybe by next year we're looking at him as a second third round pick again. Yeah, he's such a weird player because he's relative. Like he's, this is like his third full season, 2023. He had like a partial season where he was very good. he is 28 or 29 already so it's it is one of those ones where it feels like he's probably probably feels like he should be younger than he is but we're in the peak seasons for jaron

he's a good five category player it's a great ballpark um it's the lefties thing because i've been worried that there might be some playing time risk in a crowded boston outfield but if he can hold his own against lefties then i don't have that concern at all it was just a problem for him last year after durand we had muki bets then roman anthony again a little earlier, although not too much. Cody Ballinger, Rafael Devers, one of my absolute favorite players to draft this season. I think he's just way undervalued

relative to some of the other first baseman. I took James Wood, who I added to my bus list for 2.0 this week. He was the lead. I can't get past the 40% strikeout rate in the second half, but that's when he's going, I think his ADP is around 30. I got him 47th overall. it's a lot easier to stomach when you get a round and a half discount. So I'm okay with that.

Our number one overall pick team goes Hunter Brown, Logan Webb. So good volume there. You'll have to, you know, I guess, well, no, they were both 200 strikeout guys last year just because Webb gets so much volume. Then I go Jacob de Grom as my first starting pitcher with the second round, second pick. Jackson Merrill, another guy I really like. Cole Riggins. we had a long conversation about him in our first draft. Freddie Freeman, Max Freed, I think that's probably the end of the SP tier for me.

I think this is where we see the drop off. You know, if I look at my SP rankings, I think I have freed at 12. And then there's a little bit of a drop off there. I really like Cole Regens. Then it's like, then you have Dillon C's Logan Webb, Cal Braddish for me, where I do think there's a little bit of a drop-off. Are you going to be, Joe, the person who's the first player to take a reliever? That happens here.

Middle of the fifth round, seventh pick, Mason Miller goes off the board. Are you typically aggressive when it comes to drafting your relievers? I don't know in the many years, 12, 13 years I've been playing fantasy baseball that I've ever taken the first closer off the board in the room. I tend to be the guy who waits for the second and third names to go because there are maybe six or seven guys that I feel really good about at the top end there. The Diaz is the Duran's, the Cade Smith. So let the first couple go. And then I am going to take Edwin Diaz here and lock in that first absolute shutdown guy who could save. The upside is like 50 saves for the Dodgers this year.

I don't expect that, but I think you're looking at a 30 to 35 floor with 100 strikeouts and good ratios. Yep. That's, he's been a little inconsistent from your year. He is one of those guys when you look at the stats, it's in every other year is a sub 2 ERA, and then it's like a 3-5 or higher. He's not an even-year-odd-year, though. You have to remember, he missed that whole 20-23 season after blowing out his knee, so it's not quite even-year, odd year, Edwin Diaz. It's just been every other year. We do see him go off at 9 to you, Joe, then Josh Naler with the 10th pick of the fifth round, George Kirby, with the 11th pick, and then Cade Smith. So a little bit of a closer run here, three of the final six picks in the fifth round.

Is Cade Smith, do you think he's just in that elite tier, basically? I think so, yeah, not to be too Canadian biased here on the stream. I did see some love for Canada in the chat, though, with how our team is doing. I wish Cade Smith was there representing the team right now. But I'll take a healthy full season of Cade Smith. What he's done over the last two seasons is just phenomenal. And now we get the full run of him as the closer. there's no Clause A in the mix anymore.

These surface stats are amazing, but then when you look below the surface, like he did a 293 ERA, but a 195 FIP, almost 30% strikeout minus walk rate. The stuff is phenomenal. I think that somebody could take Kate Smith as the first closer off the board. And I might be a little bit surprised, but I wouldn't be shocked by it. I wouldn't think it's a bad pick or anything. I think he's just as elite as all the other guys up there. The team context is not quite as good, but his talent is as good as any reliever in the sport, I think.

The one thing I would say about the team context is, yeah, the Guardians are a worse team than the Dodgers, certainly. I was going to say Padres. I don't know. That's going to be close. I think the win projections there. But the Guardians just always rack up huge save numbers. It was three straight years of Emmanuel Class A leading the American League in saves. He came, I think, one save short of leading the majors in saves for three straight years, which I don't think has ever happened.

major league history. If you combine Cade Smith and Emmanuel Class A's save numbers from last year, I think they got to 40 as well. The Guardians just, they have their closer and they do not deviate from it. They are not one of these teams that plays any games with it. They win a lot of close games and their closers are really good. Cade Smith has the best FIPP of any pitcher in baseball since he debuted. It's like 212 or something ridiculous. So great strikeout pitcher, great command. He's really good. I think he absolutely belongs there. He was the last pick of the fifth round. Then we go Byron Buxton.

Herald or Pardomo. I like that. I know that's controversial. Bo Bichet. Remember, he is third base, well, will be third base eligible probably by Wednesday of the second week of the season. Austin Riley and then Freddie Peralta

goes off the board. One thing we haven't talked about yet is the Yahoo format here. So Frank introduced it. Pretty typical. one catcher, first base, second, third, shortstop, three outfield spots, the two util spots, which is an interesting wrinkle, and then the pitchers is where it gets really interesting because you've got SPSP RPRP, and then four pitcher spots that you can throw any. This is where, if you see the Marmol strategy, it tends to be in the Yahoo format when you've got those four pitcher spots. does that change how you approach pitching with just four pitcher spots to deal with? In a league like this, not really.

If it was a points league and I could use starters in the reliever spots, then I could game the system a little bit. Then it would make a little bit of a difference in a head-to-head categories or a roto format. It doesn't really change much for me, though, if I'm being honest. Yeah. Yeah, I think you can do the Marmol strategy. I think it's especially viable in a head-to-head daily lineups league because then you can really get aggressive with,

okay, I don't have any starting pitchers going. I'm just going to put a bunch of relievers in there. You can go with non-closing relievers as well. So it is viable there, but it's falling out of fashion for a reason, I think. All right. I am up and I am going to go with a pitcher that I like very much, who I drafted in the Roto League that we just finished. That is Kyle Braddish as my number two SP.

I just think I've made the comp about an hour ago. It feels like Terrick Scoobble coming out of 2023. When he threw like 80 innings, he had the best FIP in baseball. He had a 30% strike rate. And it was like, if what he did was real, he's probably the best pitcher in baseball. Now, Kyle Bradish wasn't quite that good, but it was like 12.9K per 9, good control. Home runs could be an issue, but since the start of 2024, he has like 12.6K per 9 and a 250 ERA. And so it's just, one, is that real? And two, can he stay healthy?

But if he does, I think Cobradish is going to be a top 12 starting pitcher. Yeah, I think some of the innings concerns, I'm not as worried as I was just going over my offseason research. When we first started drafting and I was looking at 39 innings and then 32, in my brain I'm thinking they're going to play them with. kid gloves this year. He's only going to throw 110, 110, 115 innings or so. And then just going through some other players, and there's not a direct comp here, but Drew Rasmussen through, what was it, 40 innings, 28 innings. And then 28 went up to 150. So different type of pitcher, but we see teams that are willing to go from a very small workload to a larger

workload. I don't think that Braddish is necessarily going to be capped at 110, 120 innings. I don't think he'll throw 200 innings, but I think even 150, 160, with the skills he's displayed will more than pay off at his draft price. I prefer him as a two the way you got him as opposed to my ace. I've seen some people building him, building their teams with him as the ace. And I think that's a little bit too risky for my blood. But as the SP2 on a team, I think that's a great pick. Yeah. Let's catch up on some more picks. I'll have some more thoughts on Kyle Radish. But finishing off the sixth round, we had Dylan Cise, Yon DeRont, Doreau, Michael Garcia, love that pick in the eighth round. A. E. E. E. E. Jouhanio Suarez, big power. Framber Valdez

with the 10th pick. I went Kyle Braddish. Very different approach. with Braddish and Framber. Big volume for Framber per inning not quite as good, but you're going to get your 200 strikeouts in the end of the season. It might be a little headache inducing along the way because he'll have those months where he just can't throw the curveball for strikes and can be very frustrating, but the end results are always really good. Riley Green, Andres Munoz to start off the seventh round, I went William Contreras with my with the first, my pick in the seventh round, the second pick. I had him queued up. It was deciding between him and Braddish.

I went with Braddish, happy to get William Contreras back. One catcher league. So the one thing I run into is there is going to be a point in like the 18th round where I look at the queue and there are many good catchers available. There are more than 12 catchers I like this year. So in a one catcher league, how are you approaching it? Are you willing to take an early catcher or are you just waiting as long as you can? I'm willing to.

I took Ben Rice in a mock draft yesterday. I would prefer to wait if. possible, but I think William Contrera is a very good chance. He ends up as the number one catcher again like he was in 2024. He was playing hurt the whole year last season. I think that Cal Raleigh is going to regress a little bit. So I wouldn't rank him number one. I think I have him number two currently. But getting a guy with a clear path to number one in his position, even if you could maybe, I don't take the value 10 rounds later. I think it's a good pick. I love William Contreras. A five category contributor from behind the dish. It's just not something you come across very often. And if you're punting, you're still get some good names, but you're not going to get the high batting average necessarily, the speed. the good lineup. So I like the pick. I like the pick. You're going to take a sacrifice somewhere if you're waiting at catcher. Like I really like Carter Jensen, but is he going to play as much as William Contreras? Probably not. Is he a safe batting average bet? Probably not. Is he going to steal bases? Probably not. So, you know, that's Augustine Ramirez. He's going to steal a lot of bases. He's probably going to play every day. I actually think the fact that Augustine Ramirez is a

pretty bad defender actually works in his favor because I think the Marlins can just stick him in DH not even think about it. We'll worry about him losing catcher eligibility in 2027. He's going to have catcher eligibility no matter what. But there's some batting average concern for Augustine Ramirez. It's not a great lineup. So that's the thing.

If you're not taking a catcher early, you are taking on some added risk. After William Contreras came off the board, Alex Bregman, Hazus Lazzardo, Joe Ryan, Vinnie P. coming off his three-homer game, first of his life apparently. I thought that was

a fun quote. CJ Abrams, Hunter Goodman, Nolan McLean, Shohei Otani, the pitcher. Where are you drafting Shohei Otani as just a pitcher? Because Yahoo is one of those formats that does split them apart. Yeah, I think he's like 23rd or 24th for me right now. I took Nolan McLean one pick ahead of him. And he's not a guy that I've taken a lot, but I'm starting to fall in love with Nolan McLean a little bit. I don't love the price, but I'm willing to mix and match here a little bit and experiment with a different build. But Otani, You know, we know he's going to not pitch to start week.

Like, that's never going to happen. But even 24, 25, 25 Otani starts is still potentially like a Cy Young caliber pitcher, as we saw a couple years ago. The guy is just superhuman. If he threw a 2.2 ERA this year, I don't think anybody would be shocked by it. Now, the thing with the risk with the pitching Otani is that if there is any kind of injury or any kind of ailment, pitching is probably the first thing that will go. And having him just as a pitcher there, like that could be a tough drop in the seventh round. if there is some kind of arm problem in May or something.

But I think the risk is probably worth a reward at that point of the draft. Yeah, I think that's the right spot. He was followed by Tyler Sotom and Michael Bush, so a couple of guys who could hit 30 homers. Nico Horner, I think is pretty much always a good value. Yeah. Not huge upside, but like, man, 280, 35 steals, a bunch of runs. That's a pretty good player.

And the batting average is always helpful. Nick Povetta, it's a little. little earlier than I want to go with Nick Povetta, even before we learn that he's dealing with some arm fatigue, which it doesn't sound like as super concerning. But for me, it's just kind of, you know, it's kind of like the, the Jedi, you know, meme where it's like the dumb guy on the right, the bell curve where it's like the dumb guy on the left, the Jedi on the right and the guy in the middle. And it's like, the dumb guy's like, don't pay for a 34 year old coming off a career year. And the guy in the middle is like, yeah, but it was a new ballpark. And the peripherals and then the

guy, the wise man is like, just don't pay for a 34 year coming off a career year. You know, like that's, that's kind of how I feel about it. Yeah. George Springer goes, that's another 35 year old coming off a career year, although he tends to go a little cheaper. That's one that I'm a little more into just because you will see George Springer drop to like 140 sometimes. And for the season he had, I'll take 80% regression at, you know, if he goes outside of the top 100 here. He goes a little more expensive, so it's harder to justify or to

make the case that he's a great value. I think it's fine. You go with Michael Harris. I know there are some people who will just never draft Michael Harris again, but I think the thing people forget about sometimes with Michael Harris, because he's been around so much, it's been so up and down. He is 24 years old. Yeah. Like he made his major league debut as a 20-year-old straight from AA. The plate discipline's terrible. It's led to a lot of inconsistency, but he is so talented. There's a chance that he levels up. Are you hoping for the level up for Michael Harris? Yeah, well, if he does what he did last year, again, I would be pretty disappointed. But even still, like last year, it was almost a joke how disappointing Michael Harris was, and yet he still

went 20-20 with 80s to RBI. In a horrible season with an 83 WRC plus, I don't know if I'm expecting the 137 that he had as a rookie, but let's say it's 110 or 115 like he was in 20. 23 where he's hitting for a good batting average, giving you something that resembles 20-20. It might be 18 and 21 or 21 and 17 or something like that, but you're going to get that power speed mix with the ability to hit for a good batting average. Now, the only thing is that this team seems a little bit cursed over the last few weeks with all the injury updates and jerks and pro far and everything. But as long as nothing else happens, I think this team, and again, I feel like I'm slipping over

the banana peals, Charlie Brown style, but they're due to rebound this year, as we've been saying for three years now. So I'm expecting better things from the Braves as a whole. And maybe the profile suspension leaves room for Harris to move up that lineup a little bit. I'm not expecting him to hit second, but it's a possibility if he hits the ground running this year. Yeah, he's a great athlete for sure. He hits the ball really hard and he makes a lot of contact. The problem is he just has some of the worst swing decisions in baseball.

But you can squint and see, you know, look at Pekker Armstrong and compare him to Michael Harris. They're pretty similar players. You know, I think Peter Armstrong better bet for 30 homers, better bet for 30 steals. But as we saw in the second half, he is also, you know, prone to some pretty ugly slumps. So I think the gap between Michael Harris and Peacro Armstrong, it's reasonable. It makes sense. But I think you can make a case that Michael Harris is the better value. After Harris, we got David Bednar, so starting to see some of those second tier closers go off the board.

Say a Suzuki, another guy who I'll sometimes see fall a lot. Randy Rose Raina, Devin Williams, Trey I Savage. I know you're a Blue Jays fan. I see the, is that a gold Blue Jays hat? This is from the 1991 All-Star game in Toronto. It's a replica. It's not from the actual game. But a secret Santa gift from a couple of years ago that I tend to wear on a lot of streams. Love that.

Yeah, Savage feels a little early here inside the top of hundred with all the restrictions and they're going to slow play him and two-inning outings. And even as a J-SPAN and as a guy who fell head over heels in love for Trey Savage, watching him dominate the Dodgers in the world series, I just can't do it in the top 100. Yeah, I agree. I took him in our previous draft, but it was 160th. That felt like he fell too far because the way I'm looking at it,

and I said this in the stream already, but I'll just repeat myself. Who cares? It's going to be frustrating in April, and you have to know what kind of fantasy player you are. If you're the person who every April, you draft Francisco Lindor, and every April you're like,

what's wrong with Francisco Lindor? Can I drop him? Do not take Trey a Savage because it's going to be frustrating in April, for sure. But I think you are very likely to get to May 1st and be thrilled that you have Trey a Savage on your team. So it depends on the round. I think it's more like the 13th, 14th round,

but I'm absolutely willing to take him there because I think I can survive April, especially like April's the time of year where you're going to have your chance to hit on some breakouts. So yeah, you know, it's, it's going to be hard because you probably just need to stash him on your bench for a month, right? Like, that's just, I think, the thing with, uh, Trey Savage. But by the time May rolls around, I think he'll be more or less fully stretched out.

And I think he's going to be really good. So that was a little early, but I think the overall concept is fine. We had a rolled as Chapman. I took Christian Eilich, and I want to highlight, it is funny. that Yahoo is the format that gives the second utility spot and gives you extra flexibility there and is also the format where Christian Yalch is Alfield eligible. And Yorna Alvarez is outfield eligible. So it's like you have the flexibility and they're the most generous with their positional eligibility requirements. So it's actually much easier to take Yardan Alvarez and Christian Yelich, whether

you have the second utility spot here or not. Yelich, we had a nice bounce back season from him last year. were some slippage of the contact skills, the strikeout rate, I think was a career high last year. But the back injury seemed to help. He stayed healthy. He was really effective when he was out there. I like the lineup. I like the ballpark. So I'm fine with Christian Yelich here.

Then Jeremy Pena goes with the last pick of the eighth round. That's one that before the finger injury probably would have been fine. I think there's probably a little room for a discount. But he might be ready for opening day. They have not ruled him out yet. So that's the thing with Jeremy. Pena, Yondi Diaz goes at 9-1. I think that's fine. I'm a little higher on Yandi than I think most people are. I don't know where you are at on him, but I think you're going to get good RBI,

good batting average, and it's just do I get 15 homers or 25 homers? You know, that's the question. Yeah, we've seen him hit 20 at the trot before, and I think it's just that late batting average that once you're getting a round pick 100, very few players have the potential to lead the league in hit it, right? And he's a guy who has a, I think of the 330 is the highest he's hit in his career. probably not going to get there, but 315 is definitely within the realm of possibility, a guy who could win the batting title. And, you know, I worry about the trop a little bit, but for a guy with a tried and true track record like Yeti Diaz, it worries me less with him than a guy like Junior Camerro.

Yeah. Yeah. My concern with Camerro is I don't think the road home splits last year matter. I think that, you know, people are looking at it and saying, like, you had a 950 OPS at home and a 740 on the road. it's almost entirely Babbitt. His strikeout rates were very similar, the quality of contact. For me, it's just some guys can't hit at Tropicana Field.

Willie Adamas just could not see the ball there. I don't know if Junior Kamenaro is one of those guys. So that's concern there for me. I went with one of your guys, Blue Jay, Kevin Gosman, he is my number three starting pitcher, but I'm drafting a lot of Kevin Gosman this season. I thought he really figured it out as the side. second half went on, especially. He got the feel for the splitter back. And he was excellent. So I think

he's a undervalued volume play. And then we get the opposite side of the spectrum with Yuri Perez as the next pitch of the third round or the ninth round, third pick. He has so much upside. And I think he's going to be great. But this is a guy that's probably maxing out at 150 innings. And so you really need those innings to be excellent. And I think they will be. But he's still trying to figure out the mix of secondary pitches. The fastball's incredible from his height and the velocity throws with. But, you know, he's working on a sweeper, curveball, slider, change up. He's got a lot of different options, but nothing has quite, he hasn't quite figured out what the right mix is. So I, your presence of player, I have trouble drafting. I don't know where, where you're at on him.

I really like him. Obviously, I'm a Marlins fan. But I'm just a little worried that it's not going to happen this year, even though I do think it will happen eventually. Yeah, one of my bold predictions for the year is that he's a top five starting pitcher. And I think it's well within the realm of possibility. Like at the 425 ERA, I think people will look at and think it was maybe a little bit of a disappointing season. But coming back over 20 starts after T.J, I think the last thing that typically comes back is command. And he did have a little bit of a struggle there at points, but an 8% walk rate with a 105 whip in your first. time returning from TJ at 22 years old, I'll take it.

You know, the ERA was a bit inflated, but a 324 XERA, the FIPP was 367. My personal favorite of those stats is Sierra, and that's where he's not quite as good at 380, but with the stuff running up the way it is, the stuff was actually better post-surgery, and I think as the command continues to come back, the only question really for me is how many innings the Marlins will let him go. And projections range from 117 to 154, so they're not even 100% sure. but I think, you know, if you're penciling in 140 and then anything beyond that is gravy, I think you're not going to be disappointed.

He's a guy where next year if Yuri Perez is one of those guys where somebody took Yuri Perez in the first round to the main event and he's the second round pick, third round pick all drafts season. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. I agree with that. I think he's very likely to be a top 12 starting pitcher in drafts next year, even if he doesn't quite finish as a top 12 starting pitcher this year. He is, I want to say he's something. like 18 months younger than Nolan McLean.

And Yuri Prez debuted in 2023. So that's how young he is. He debuted like a month after his 20th birthday, I think. After Yuri Prez, we had Nick Ladolo, Shei Langalears, Jose Altuve, Jacob Mizirowski, so we're seeing that kind of, Yurupres isn't a second year pitcher, but we'll throw him in that group with Chase Burns, who goes a little bit after, Trey is Savage, Nolan McLean, who you took a couple rounds ago.

you were the one who took O'Neill Cruz. I don't like O'Neill Cruz. But I think the price is okay there. He usually goes inside the top 100 in categories and roto leagues. That's where I'm just like, I can't do it with a guy who hit 200 and maybe can't hit lefties, you know? I totally hear you. Outside the top 100, 40 steals, 20 homers, maybe room for growth. I can see the case for it.

There was a podcast earlier this year where I said to Welsh that he might be in Korea in a few years if he doesn't figure things out. And that is like the extreme end of it. But the other end of it is that O'Neill Cruz puts it all together and he gives you a 35, 35 season. I'm not expecting that. He's not a guy that I've taken. This might be the first time I've taken him in draft season, real draft or mock draft. But the upside, I think, is still immense. And a guy who's still, he's 27 years old.

He's entering into those ages of his peak years. The thing with him is just raised the ball. Just raise the darn ball. So far in spring, it's a very small sample size, but he has a 15-degree launch angle compared to the 8, 9% it's been the last couple of years. If he's 15% consistently, I think he's going to be a star. And maybe that's too fine of a margin.

Maybe if he's closer to 16, 17%, which might be asking a little bit too much. But all he needs to do is raise the ball. I mean, the contact rates are a concern too. But even if he does give you a bad batting average, if he's a 220 guy, but he's 30-30, I'll take it. And in a 12-team league where there will be higher replacement, level value on the wire, I think you can take a chance if he falls outside the top of 100 picks. It works out. It's phenomenal. He was like a second round pick last year. If it doesn't work

out outside the top 100, you already have your foundation built at that point. I think that's a good way to view it. All right. Let's try to catch up. Chase Burns goes with the 10th, Cam Schlittler. So just all those second year pitchers. Zach Wheeler, last pick of the ninth round. I just have no idea. I had hoped we would see him on a mound by now. It sounds like they still hope he can be ready by mid-April, even though he hasn't pitched in a game. For me, it's just I don't know who he is anymore. He's coming back from blood clot that led to thoracic outlet surgery. He was a top three pitcher as recently as whenever the injury was announced. So it's, I'm going to go a little off the board here with J.J. Weatherholt, just because I want to highlight something that I noticed here.

One, we said it earlier. I took him in the previous draft. J.J. Weatherholt, I think, is just their second, the starting second basement for the Cardinals. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Nice thing about Yahoo is they've just given him second, third, and shortstop eligibility. I don't know how we determined that. He played all three of those positions in the minors. so that maybe that's just how we're determining it. But I can slide JJ Weatherhold in at third base.

And if you look at both first base right now and third base, not a lot of great options available to pick at either of those positions. I have second base filled with Jazz Chisholm. I have Francisco Indoor. But that third base is like Matt Chapman, I think he's fine, but not much more than fine. J.J. Weatherholt could be, you know, a 20-20 guy with a good batting average as a rookie. So I'm going to go with him here.

It's maybe a little bit of a reach, but that flexibility is really nice, and I wanted to highlight that that, J.J. Weatherhill gets that. Let's catch up on the 10th round, Lukitiel. Ozzy Albies, who I think is just one of the most undervalued players this season, I think as long as he stays healthy. We saw him hit a 410-foot bomb for Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic. That was nice to see as a lefty. It was harder hit than all but two of his batted balls as a lefty last season,

so that was cool. Reisel Eglacius, Ryan Helsley, Spencer Strider, ooh, I don't know, just no idea. I'm hopeful. I'm not optimistic, is the way I would say it about Spencer Strider. Carlos Estevez also not optimistic there. His velocity was down about five miles per hour on his fastball. I'm going to go ahead and take a first baseman here, Wilson Contreras.

So I've got the brothers, the brothers Contreras here at catcher in first base. catching up. Sunny Gray was the seventh pick of the 10th round. Teoska Hernandez. Augustine Ramirez, 25 stolen base potential from your catcher. You love that. Joe Adele coming off a big breakout season.

I went JJ Weatherholt. Then Kyle Stowers goes with the last pick of the 10th round. Josh Hater with the first pick of the 11th round. That's enough of a discount. I think. I know he's going to start the season on the IL. He's got the biceps injury. You could get nothing out of Josh Hater.

Yeah. the thing. I mean, it's I.L. Or it's Yahoo. So you figure there's a few IL spots assume so you can take that risk. If I were that guy, I'd be backing it up with Brian Abraeu ASAP, but I think that it is enough where it's probably worth it in an IL format. If there's, if it's a league without I'll spots, I think I'm just crossing them off. But I can understand taking the discount in a league where you can stash them for a while. I'm trying to figure what is the color coding system on this draft board? Is it just all infielders are red? Is that no? It's not. Not.

Short stops. Okay, it's corner versus middle. No, but Kattel Marte is red, too, and so is Bryce Terrang. So it might be infielders are red. But then Bobby Witt, the shortstops are all green, but then all the other infielders are red. That's all right. And then the outfielders. Yeah, I can't figure out.

All right. I went William Contreras with the second pick of the 11th round. Daniel Palencia with the third. Sounds like he's just the closer for the Cubs, as long as he can keep the the walk rate under control. Michael King, he's someone that I think is being overlooked, but he did. I know he missed a ton of time last year. It was a nerve issue in his shoulder and then a knee or a hamstring, something like that.

But he signed a $75 million contract this offseason for a Padre's team that is pretty worried about money, so they seem to have some faith in him. Ryan Pepio, one of my favorite breakout candidates at pitcher going back to Tropicana. I think that fastball is going to play up again. Jeff Hoffman, Scott has talked a lot about he really likes his bounce back potential. Luis Robert, where are you at on Luis Robert with the Mets? I'm kind of excited.

I mean, maybe Andrew Vaughn has got me too excited about thinking once you get out of Chicago, it's like being released from prison or something like that. And Andrew Vaughn turned into like a Prince Fielder, Albert Pooholz type of first baseman down the stretch, hitting 300, giving you a ton of power. The thing with the Brewers is they're always underrated. He's going to be in the middle of that lineup without any playing.

time concerns qualifying at a poor position. And I think that, you know, that is something that gets me interested in Andrew Vaughn. And then Luis Robert, it's kind of the same thing, just getting out of a terrible, terrible, terrible environment where he didn't seem happy the last couple of years. I know that there had been talk about, you know, he had some disagreements with management. And I think it's just a good fresh start for a guy who has in his career more than 30 home runs in a season. He has stolen more than 30 bags in the season.

And he has a season where he's hit. I think it was 284 was his high batting average. I'm not saying he's going to do all those things at the same time, but if he puts it all together in 2026, Luis Robert could return like a second ground value. If he's a 25-25 guy in the middle of that order, hitting 270 or something. And maybe that's asking too much of him,

but this price for Luis Robert is, I believe, the lowest that's ever been, or going back to maybe his rookie year, it's the lowest that's ever been. So he's another guy where I will take the fall on him. It's maybe, I don't know, it's kind of a cross between a boring pick, and a little bit of an exciting pick at this range.

He's not a steady veteran, but he's not a young guy necessarily. But there feels like a lot of upside, especially in the 11th round with a guy like Louvob. All right. We follow him up with Nathan Avaldi, Will Smith, the catcher. I think we're at the point. We don't have to specify. I don't think anybody's drafting Will Smith the pitcher. He might be retired.

Salvador Perez, Emilio Pagan, so we've seen a lot of closers the last couple of rounds. I think I'm going to punt closer, because this is the, weekly head-to-head categories where you just you're just going to 10 categories per week right so if I can not have to worry about saves I I think I can I can manage that but it's always risky daily Chris daily even worse or better thank you Frank Trevor McGill goes with the last pick of the 11th round Joe Musgrove with the first Pete Fairbanks another closer Tyler Glass now Horace Polanco who I really like that's a

little early, but I do rank him around 150, actually. So that's only a little bit of a reach for me. Yeah. He's going to be first and second eligible this season. He's third base eligible for Yahoo as well. Those are the two weakest positions and first base runs out fairly quickly as well. So I like that flexibility. Colson Montgomery. This is another one that I think it's a little bit of a reach, but I'm surprised at how cheap Colson Montgomery is. And I think he's a good example of something we talk a lot about in the show where fantasy baseball has gotten a lot harder to play because a decade ago, Colson Montgomery has, what, 22 homers and 70 games as a rookie, top prospect, former first round pick.

That dude's a top 150 pick for sure, maybe a top 100 pick this time a decade ago. And now we're able to look at and say, well, the whiff rate was really bad and the minor league track record was not very good. And so we have reasons to believe that he's not going to be good. So he goes outside of the top 200 in a lot of drafts. And I think that goes too far. I think this price is a little too high. But I think as a general rule, he's a pretty good value this season.

Brandon Woodruff, his velocity is down again this spring. He's going to be ready for opening day. I have no idea if it matters that his velocity is down. What do you think about Brandon Woodruff? Because his velocity was down three miles per hour last year. and he was phenomenal when he was healthy. Yeah, the thing with Woodruff last year, I worry if we're going to enter into the same realm as last year,

where we're waiting for him to return. He's going to be back next week. Oh, it's next week. And then when he, 21 rehab starts into the season. And it's like, where were you ever going to see Brandon Woodruff? He comes back, he looks great, but then he ends the season not healthy again. It's a lot of risk to take onto your team, I think. We're going to, you know, I've said this a lot.

Everybody said this a lot. You're going to get so many injured players, specifically pitchers throughout the season. and do you want to start stockpiling them in March? I personally don't. I think if he falls closer to pick 200, I'd be willing to take Woodruff. I don't know if people are going to let him fall that far. I just really don't want to be taking anybody who's going into the year hurt. And that's why I'm not a huge Blake Snell guy.

Anybody who has anything that's not even necessarily significant, but just anything that pops up in March, I worry in the back of my head that that's just going to be a problem for the entire year. And maybe Woodruff, just the way it happened last year, has colored my thinking a little bit. Maybe he will be fine starting in the middle of April and give you 160 innings, but I bet closer to 60 than 160. Yeah, I think that's all fair.

And it's it's frustrating because he was really good. The thing that I really struggle with is he has the shoulder injury. He has the shoulder surgery. He misses basically two and a half years. And then he last March, it's like, oh, is Brandon Woodruff going to be ready for opening day? Maybe, but probably not. and his just his rehab process was really rocky. And he doesn't end up returning until, what, July?

And then he gets through 60 innings and suffers another lat injury, so not quite a shoulder injury, but it's near the shoulder, certainly. And so it's just, it's tough to expect him to remain healthy and effective at this point in his career, unfortunately. He's followed by him at Sheehan, Matt Chapman at third base, Christian Walker, Sandy O'Conra, who I'll take. the Homer one on that one. I expect Sandy Alcounter to be very good. I think he figured it out after the All-Star break. It was a 313 ERA. He was pitching six or seven innings every single time out.

I think he's going to be great. I went with Bubba Chandler, then McKenzie Gore, who's a very popular breakout pick after that trade to Texas. I mostly believe in it. I think he needed a change of scenery for sure. And so I'm pretty hopeful that Trevor Rogers is going to figure, sorry, McKenzie Gore is going to figure something out. Gavin Williams, we're on a big starting pitcher run here the last round or two. I really like last three rounds. It's just been a ton of starting pitchers. I mentioned in the last draft, but you do reach a point outside the top 200

where, boy, it feels like the pitchers are just so much, obviously, more interesting than the hitters. And so I'm inclined to go a lot more hitter heavy in the top 100 than pitcher heavy, just because, I mean, this round, Gavin Williams, big breakout in the second. half, huge stuff. Trevor Rogers was arguably the best pitcher in baseball on a per earning basis last season. I think we're going to get a lot of regression, but

it might still be a mid-3s-R-A pitcher. That's what the peripheral suggested last year. Ron Herr Suarez, Kenley Jansen as a closer, I think he's going to be the Tigers closer. Tanner Bybee was a top 25 closer or starting pitcher going into last season. Drew Rasmussen, we know he's phenomenal, and it's just you're probably only getting 150 innings out of him

at the best, but Drew Aserson is going to put up phenomenal ratios. Xavier Edwards, Kazima Akamoto, let's get the Blue Jay fan perspective. I think my expectation for him is like those post-course field Nolan Aronado seasons, where it was like 260, 270 batting average, 25 to 30 homers. Maybe that's a little higher end, but 25 homers, good contact skills, good RBI skills as a result. of that. And I think there's a chance Kazan Akamoto ends up eligible at multiple positions. He's

going to play a lot of third base, but I think he's going to be their primary backup first baseman. There was some talk about playing him in the outfield. There was some talk about maybe a second base trying him out. I don't know if they've done that in the spring, but I think he does have experience playing multiple positions in Japan as well. So I think that super utility thing could really work out for Cosimo Okamoto. Yeah, Rosser Resource has him slotted in hitting 7th and I think that

even if that does play out to start the year, he's a guy who could be hitting second pretty easily. And that might switch around depending on the lineup. The Jays would really like to play their matchups as everybody saw in the playoff. John Schneider is pulling every lever possible. So there will be some mixing and matching. But Okamoto hitting second, I think

is definitely possible. And if not second, then fourth or fifth. I don't know if they're going to hit him behind Hazu Sanchez. I don't know if Dalton Varsho is going to hit second necessarily. I think this lineup is still going to move around a little bit, as I will take Sadane Rafael here in our draft. But Kazuma Okamoto, my floor expectation is like 20 homers, 60 runs, 70 RBI with a good batting average. He's not going to steal, but getting eligibility at first and third, I think is going to be really valuable.

And a guy who has been NFBC, Yahoo, it doesn't matter where you're drafting. He's been kind of an afterthought. His price is trending up a little bit now, but he was outside of the top 200 picks, even well after he signed. So I think he's a really solid draft pick this year. Hi, Frank. Hey. Hey, what's going on?

How's everybody doing? How's the draft? We're good. We're moving. We're midway through the 14th round. We'll catch up. Jack Flaherty was Joe's 13th round pick. Willie Adamas, Drake Baldwin.

Great value on Drake Baldwin. That'll happen in the one catcher league. Brian Reynolds, Chandler Simpson, Taylor Ward. Blake's now in the 14th round. I have no idea. you know, maybe he's back in May and is awesome, but I have no idea. And then Joe, you took Sidna, Rafael. He's someone that I think is a pretty bad value in NFBC.

Like, he goes like 110, 120 there. And I think the hitting skills are just really weak to justify that. And I think part of it is a lot of these are like drafting holds where having second and outfield eligibility is pretty valuable. But I worry about it. But I think the value there is fine. you got him with the 160th pick. So that's a lot closer where I have him ranked.

Caleb Durbin follows him up. It sounds like he's the starting third baseman for the Red Sox. Robbie Ray, Shodhi Minaga, Frank. I know you're buying the Shodini Managa bounce back. And then Connor Griffin in the 14th round. Good value. Hard to complain. I think even if he doesn't start the season in the majors,

which I still think there's a chance, you're not going to complain about getting him in the 14th round, given the upside. Frank, you want to take the lead again? I will take the lead, Chris. I appreciate you and Joe holding it down while I was out eating some dinner. Chicken wrap. It was great.

It is dinner time. It is almost six. I was like dinner. It's too early. Now it's six o'clock. You know what? A lot of nights I eat dinner like eight or nine. It's so good.

I eat late. Hey, Joe. It's not on purpose. He just kind of like loose track of time and everything. But I do know that Joe has to run. We appreciate you being here, Joe. So I'm going to just remind everyone. to follow you on X at Joe Areco 99.

Again, you can find his work over at Fangraphs, Fantasy Pros, and FtN Fantasy. Joe, we appreciate you hopping on. Are you ready to be dominated in the World Baseball Classic on Friday? Oh. It's on, baby. You know what the ultimate irony is, is you guys beating us at hockey and us beating you at baseball? That would be fun. That would be really a fun angle, yeah.

That would be pretty funny. That's a revenge game. Yeah. It means the simulation is very much broken. Anything else you'd like to promote for you, hop out, Joe. Just check out the Twitter. We're doing a lot of podcasts at Fantasy Pros.

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Hopefully you guys sign up, too. Let's get some competition going. But great to be on here, guys. I really appreciate the invite. Thanks for drawing us, buddy. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. All right, we are continuing on here with the mock draft mega stream.

We are in the midst of our 12-te-to-head categories mock draft here. Again, this is the Yahoo standard format, Daily lineups here. And let me take a look at how you're doing here, Chris. You've got, oh, you've got the contraris. I doubled up. I got the contraris. You got both of them. William and Wilson, you got Jazz at second, J.J. Weatherholt at third.

Francisco Indora at short. James Wood in the outfield. Christian Yellich. outfield eligible on Yahoo, very interesting. Frank, you might have to make the pick. Do I? Now that you've joined the draft room, it's not letting me pick. Oh, who do you want to pick?

Tatsui Imi. Did you not want to take Luis Castillo? Did I miss that? That's fine. But if you might have to leave the draft room in order for me to take back control, unless you want to draft. I just joined in so I could tell people to draft faster because we have to fit. Well, close it out.

It's not letting me draft. I took you, I took Tatsuyaemi for you, but I will hop out. now. So you're back in control. You might have to refresh it, but there you go. But I won't be able to like scroll around to teams. I don't know. It's fine. It's fine. You can read off the draft picks and everything and I'll just react to what you've done.

I have to be in charge still. Okay. I took Lars Castillo with the second to last pick of the 14th round. Before that, it was Brian and Brayu and Marcus Simeon who went after Connor Griffin, then Jacob Marcy in the 14th. Kevin McGonigle at the top of the 15th. So the big three shortstops or gone. I did take JJ Weatherholt what round was that?

That was, yeah, that was the 10th round, so that was early, but I wanted to highlight, I wanted to do that to highlight something, Frank. JJ Weatherholt, second, third, and shortstop eligible. On Yahoo. So that is super valuable. That is two of the weakest positions. I've got

him slotted in at third, but if anything happens with Jazz Chishol, I can move him there. Anything happens to Francisco Indora. might have to start JJ Weatherholt if Lindor is not ready, although it sounds like you will be. So that was my thought process there. I took Tetsu Yumae with the second round of the seventh, second pick of the 15th round.

Andrew Abbott, Griffin Jacks, Ryan Walker, Andy Paugh has Addison Barger with the seventh pick of the 15th round. And we've got the number eight pick on the clock. So Connor Griffin just want to highlight that again, 164 in this draft. He went 140 in the previous one. So pretty good price tag there just comparatively to where he went in the first draft. Also, 80P in March, I think he's like a top 140 pick. So pretty good value there on Connor Griffin based on where he's been going. I see the Brian Abraeu pick.

Did he go to the same team that drafted the Joe Tater? No, Josh Hader went to the first team in the 11th round. And then Brian and Brayu. Looks like that guys got a couple of, yeah, they've got four relievers. So they're going the opposite of what I'm doing because they're drafting a lot of relievers. Marmola coach, baby. Marmull strategy. I have not taken a reliever. I have seven starting pitchers so far.

They are Jacob deGrom, Kyle Braddish, Kevin Gosman, Bubba Chandler, Trevor Rogers, Louise Castillo, and Tetsu Iemi. So I like the talent. And it is a daily league, so we'll be able to swap out when guys aren't starting. but, you know, I'm kind of punting saves here. Which is the starting line. Very easily do in a head-ed categories league. Where are you at on Emai? He hit 99 miles an hour with his fastball in his most recent spring start.

What I was reading is that the one thing about Tattoo Yamai is he averages about 94-95 with his fastball, but it fluctuates a lot from start to start. He apparently struggles to repeat his mechanics. So some starts, he's like 92-93. and then some starts he's 96-97. But it was interesting to see him hit 99. I think the weird slider and splitter combo is going to take a lot of hitters by surprise. I think Tetsu Yemi could be like Shoday Minaga where that first year is really good.

And then, you know, it's a little shakier after that. But I think the first year for Tetsu Yuma should be pretty successful. after Addison Barger, we had Chris Bubitz with the eighth pick of the 15th round. So a little bit of a discount from where he went in our previous draft, but much higher than his ADP. As Scott said, Chris Bubich, that ADP is around 200 doesn't ever seem to make it that far. So if you want Chris Bubich, I think you do have to be a little more aggressive to make sure you get him. I think we'll be able to get him tonight because it's really the NFBC drafts where he lasts way too long.

So hopefully nobody who's drafting against us is listening right now. now and then we could draft Chris Boowich. How about that? Hopefully they've never listened to us because we talk about Chris Boovich a lot. Stephen Kwan, Shane McClanahan, Dennis Santana, finish out the 15th round. Alec Bohm, Noel V. Marte is really slipping in a lot of the drafts we're doing lately. He was in my bus 2.0 column that I published earlier this week, but that's with an NFBC ADP of around 130. And I think that's probably, I think he's third base and outfit eligible.

there. So I think dual eligible players get a real boost in NFBC, especially a lot of those draft and holds, like I mentioned with Saddam Rafael. Then Jacob Wilson comes off the board. And Aaron Nola, we are all caught up. Noelvi Marte has ADP in March over at the NFBC 136. So that's too high for me for a guy who you brought it to our attention, me and Scott, that there's a chance that Noelvi Marte is not an everyday player. Yeah, his, his, there was a quote from Terry Francona earlier in the offseason where he talked about, you know, who he'd like to go to for the number two spot in the lineup. And Vlad mentioned this during the earlier draft, but it's probably going to be Matt McLean.

But it was, you know, he mentioned specifically Matt McLean as a possibility, but then he was like, yeah, but he was so bad against lefties that I'm just not sure I can do it. and he's a bad defensive player, at least a developing defensive player. Maybe he figures it out, but it's been rough out there this spring, and, you know, you're a bad hitter against lefties and you're bad defensively. Well, that's kind of like, well, why don't we just start Will Benson or something? You know, I do, I don't think it's likely that Noel V. Marte doesn't make the team. I think he will.

But I think there's more playing time concern here. than you typically see for a player drafted, again, 130th or so in the NFBC format. And we just saw Jack Caglione come off the board as well here. And that is what the third to last pick of round 16. Yeah, that was 190th overall. That feels pretty good on Cags. I like that. I've moved him into about the 160, 170 range.

We see a couple injured guys go. Lawrence Butler and Jackson Holiday. Big upside on both, you know, potential 2020 guys, but doesn't sound like either's going to be ready for opening day, right? Who are those? Just blank. Lawrence Butler and Jackson Holiday. Yeah, Jackson Holiday.

I saw an interview yesterday. He was on foul territory and said that he most likely will not be ready to go for opening day. Lawrence Butler, I was reading an article on MLB.com just yesterday. he has had 30 live at bats on the back fields and like some minor league type settings. He has yet to play in a spring training game. They're hoping that he makes his debut next week, but they are slow playing him because he's coming back from offseason knee surgery, which I don't love because, you know,

we're depending on him to give us 20 plus steals this season, and he's coming back from knee surgery, and they're slow playing him. So do they let him run early on in the season? I think that's a legitimate question. But I think there are other things that, that Butler is still good at, especially if he can tap back into the player.

He looked like two years ago where he hits the ball hard. It's a great ballpark. It's an improving lineup. So even if he gives us, you know, 10 to 15 steals, can he get the power up to like 25 home runs? And there's a little bit of a tradeoff.

I think it's possible, but yeah, there is a little bit of risk here with Butler. But he fell. He fell in this draft. You know, he's close to 200. I think that's pretty appropriate for him.

Yep. I took Brenton Doyle, 194 after Jackson Holiday, then Edward Cabrera, who was in my queue. We are down to the last seven or so rounds in this draft. We should be good by 630 to close this one out. I took Yvonne Herrera as my util. He is already catcher eligible at Yahoo, I believe.

Yeah, and that's a huge advantage on Yahoo. You just wait in a one-catcher league and grab Yvonne Herrera. That's awesome. I mentioned it to Joe, but you aren't on, but it's, it is funny that Yahoo is the the league scoring format that gives you the second util spot. And they're also the most generous with position eligibility. So it's like it doesn't even matter really that you get that second utile spot because you have so much more flexibility, right?

JJ Weatherholt, triple eligible. Yvonne Herrera already catcher eligible. Yarnon Alvarez and Christian Yalich, who I drafted. Christian Yalich, that is, are outfield eligible. I think there are only three true Util only players on Yahoo. Otani, Marcelo Zuna, And I think Andrew McCutcheon. That makes it because Stanton played a little outfield last year,

so he probably got it. I think it's like a percentage of your games played have to be at a certain position is how it works for Yadu. McCutcheon has outfield eligibility. Okay, there you go. Catching up on some of the picks, Max Muncie of the Dodgers. Don't really have to specify, but why not? Luis Ruiz goes off the board, batting average star.

Power hitter. when he's wearing Vino Tinto, when he's in the Venezuelan uniform. But I think the number was he has like five home runs in his last like nine games in the WBC or something. He has more multi-homer games in the WBC representing Venezuela than he does in his entire Major League career. It's so interesting, man. Like you used to hear this about Ichero, that if he wanted to be a power hitter, he could have just because he had such incredible bat control. And, you know, he could have just opted. and pulled the ball more

and for trying to hit for more power if you wanted to. It's interesting that I feel like a rise has that good of back control to do that, but it's probably not going to happen so much in San Francisco. No. I will say on the Ichero thing. I went to, I covered

a Marlins game once close to whenever he was there, so close to a decade ago, I think. Yeah, I've been in New York for six years, so yeah, it has to have been almost a decade ago. And I watched his batting practice. And he does hit more home runs than anyone else in batting practice.

They're all two rows up. Oh, yeah. Like, it's just, he is just peppering the same exact spot two rows up in right field. So it's like, uh, the bad control is incredible. I'm not sure he could actually have done it in games, you know? Yeah. No, that's good. But catching up on some picks, Brandon Nimmo, Willi are Brayu, Dalton Varsho.

We love Dalton Varsho on this show. Alex Burleson, nice batting average source. Carlos Rodon in this league, you're going to have IL spots to play with that you can wait on him. Jonathan Aranda, Sir Anthony Dominguez. So I think the last player, Team 12,

has drafted, is that the only two? Three relievers so far. Braxton Ashcraft is the next pick. Frank, I know you like him a lot. Issa Paredes. I think that's a good value. Abner, your Rebae, in a daily league, even if he's not the closer, he's going to be very valuable. And then your boy, Sal Stewart.

That was a very frank run. I love that. Yeah, I like Jonathan Aronda a lot too. So that's, yeah, that's a nice little run of some interesting bat. I like Alec Berluson who went there as well. This is a good value here on South Stewart. We see a lot of drafts now where he's only like the 160 to 175 range. So to get him now, I think we're past 200, right?

That feels really good for South Stewart, who he's first base eligible to start the year, but he's been playing second and third this spring. I think they're just going to move him all over the diamond. to get his bat in the lineup. And some people worried about whether or not he'll play every day. I think he will. Will it be the same spot every day? Probably not.

But first base, D.H, second, third, I just think South Stewart, they value his bat a lot and he's going to be in there every day. As long as he hits, right?

Like, that's the only, but I don't think there's a world where South Stewart's as good as we think he will be, and he's only playing two-thirds of the time. I just don't think they have enough guys for that. And I know it's a dangerous game, having this much confidence in a young player

who's only played, you know, 18 games in the majors, but I have so much confidence, Chris, that he's a really good hitter. Just between his plate discipline in the minors, his pitch recognition, he hit all different kinds of pitches in the minors last year. The walk rate was high.

The strikeouts were down. He hits the ball extremely hard. 30% pulled air rate last season in a small sample in Great American Ballpark. Sky is the limit for that guy, man. I am very excited about South Stewart. I think there's a lot to be excited about there. I just took Dail and Lyle.

Love the value there. That is 215th. I have him ranked around 170, 175. So love the value on Dalyle and Matt McLean also goes. He's pushed up. I think his March ADP and NFBC is like 170 or so. So Matt McLean has been arguably the biggest riser among hitters. Good value here, though.

Yeah, great value there. I'm fading the top 170 pick, but 215 is great. Brendan Donovan goes with the last pick of the 18th round, then Shane Smith, the first pick of the 19th. And I'm up coming off of my phenomenal Dail and Lyle pick. I've got my two RP spots and I've got three bench spots to play with. Every other starting lineup spot is filled. So I'm going to start picking from some of these spark options that I can throw in there. I was wondering if you would just completely punt, really.

and just take some spark guys. I think that's what I'm going to do. It makes sense to do it. In theory, it would have been Shamaniah before seeing some of the, was that today that he was throwing like 88? Yeah, make that pick. With his fastball. I'm going to do, well, it's Andrew Vaughn instead because I ran out of time.

That's fine. Live TV, baby. We do like Andrew Vaughn a lot too. Yeah, I think he's just being undervalued. People are kind of treating him either as if what he did after getting to Milwaukee was completely fake, which, okay, that's reasonable. Or as if he's going to have some kind of playing time concerns. I think there's zero playing time concern.

I guess Jake Bowers is having a good spring. I wouldn't put it at zero, but I think it's minimal. Like maybe they platoon those two guys, but I think Andrew Vaughn's going to play a lot and could be really good. And it's another one of those ones. If he hits like he did in the second half last year, there's not going to be any playing time concerns. Yeah.

I mean, he made huge improvements with the Brewers last season, hit the ball really hard, lots of line drives. He really just got off to a terrible start with the White Sox last year. But if you look at what he did previously before that, he was just kind of one of these steady, boring corners. 260 average, 20 homer kind of guy. And I think he can get to that again. And I think what he showed with the brewer is there's a little bit of upside,

maybe some untapped potential that the brewers are helping him get to. And he's going to hit in the middle of that lineup. And that's a really good lineup too. I agree. After Andrew Vaughn, Jose Caballero, a ton of steals. he's great for this format because you can move them all over the place whenever he might actually

yeah he might be eligible literally every position no he actually has the same eligibility at Yahoo as he does at CBS and he's a category dominator with the seals so Carrie Carpenter Carter Jensen I mean this is the 18th round we had Yiner Diaz adly Rushman

and then Carter Jensen in the 19th round the thing about Yahoo especially because you get Yvonne Herrera as a catcher eligible player as well in a one catcher league you can wait so long. Like I took William Contreras, I think in the seventh round. Yeah, seventh round. And every time I take a catcher early in a one catcher league, even if it's a great value, I regret it. Because there are just so many good guys still available. You took William Contreras earlier

and you wound up getting Yvonne Herrera at a great call you later. But like, Gabriam Moreno is still available. Francisco Alvarez is still available. I love both of those guys. So it's catcher in a one catcher league is just so stupid deep. It's hard to figure out too because In a shallower format, you want to have that advantage over your opponents. But again, it's the opportunity cost where you're using maybe a top 10 round pick on a catcher where you can boost another position. And you can still wind up with a starting worthy catcher in round 20. But I think the distinction with William Contreras getting him in the seventh round is like, one, he was the number one catcher two years ago and was the consensus number one catcher in drafts last year. And two, I think even more so than Cowrally, he's actually a five category guy.

Raleigh, even last year, I think he only hit like 260, right? He did steal 14 bases, which was surprising. But, you know, William Contreras, you're going to get a good batting average. You're going to get 20 or so homers, maybe more. Great RBI and run numbers because he's been in the lineup a ton. He steals like eight bases every year. He's a true five-category catcher. Catching up.

Spencer Torkelson with the sixth pick of the 19th round, Glaver Torres, Kirby Yates, Dylan Cruz, Merrill, Noah Cameron, J.T. Raumuto. Coming back in the 20th, Jake Berger, Ryan Weathers. Mike Trout in the 20th round is crazy. I am all out on Mike Trout, but man, at that point, why not? Yeah, like, you're looking at like Mike Trout and Nolan Shanuell went in consecutive picks. Look, Nolan Shanuel is not a worthless player. He's a pretty good player, but he's a little different than Mike Trout. Yeah, Mike Trout, right? Like, I know he had a bad season, but like, he did stay healthy and hit 26 homers.

It's not like he was terrible. I brought this up on yesterday's podcast. We were doing position preview updates. And Mike Trout in a game this March has hit 30 feet per second on the sprint speed, which is something he hasn't done since April of 2024 before all of his knee injuries. So I'm not saying he's necessarily going to run more, but that tells me that he's healthy. He feels good. He's moving well.

And overall, I think that's good news for Mike Trout. I'm still not targeting him. But I think overall that lets me. you know that Mike Trout's feeling pretty good this spring. All right, I got my first R.P. I go Joey Cantillo. Let's catch up. Parker Messick with the fifth pick of the 20th round. Quinn Priester dealing with that wrist injury, but, you know, if he's, if he's okay, that's a pretty good pick. Royce Lewis, love the value. Chris Bassett, Brandon Low, great value for Brandon Lowe.

First, cheap pop. Mutataka Murakami, I like to pick on the 20th round there as well. 238 overall. Joey Cantillo, to me, and then I think the person picking behind me is watching my cue because he takes Reid Dettmer's, one of the RPs that I had. He said it's Debtors first. Cued up. Then Alejandro Kirk, and it's back to me. I'm going to go with, I don't even know if he's going to be in the rotation.

Let's take a chance on Kyle Harrison and what we've seen lately from him, which is fastball velocity is still up right around 95. It's where he was last year. But this new kick change could really change things for him because he's always had. pretty good fastball, especially if he's averaging 95, but he throws it like 70% of the time, 60% of the time. His only other reliable pitch has been a slurve, which is a very good pitch. If the kick change can be something that Kyle Harrison can truly rely on, that could really change his whole outlook. So I'm interested in that with Quinn Priest's injury.

He could be in the brewer's rotation. We followed that up with Samuel Bessayo, Izzygio Tovar, Matt Shaw, just, I, I, I was interested in Matt Shaw as a sleeper coming into the season. It just doesn't seem like there's anywhere for him to play. It seems like a super util type that will be used to give people days off here or there. Maybe he's the short side platoon at DH with Moises by Astero. If Byesteros struggles, maybe Matt Shaw just becomes the everyday DH. That is a possibility.

And I don't think they're completely out on him just because he was their top prospect. And they still have a lot invested in him. He's so young. I think their moves this offseason kind of. tell you how they feel about him at least a little bit, right? Like bringing in Alex Breggman to take over that third base job. Long term, too. A lot of names in the outfield, too.

So it does, it seems tough to, to project a good amount of played appearances here for Matt Shaw. But I guess in a daily lineup league, you could just throw him in there whenever he's playing. We followed that up with Bryson Stott, who Frank, I know you're drafting a decent amount this season. Just super boring fallback option is at second base. Yeah, just boring guy. Again, someone for steals, 25 to 30 steals, 10.

the 15 home runs. You know, a lot of leagues that we play in, you can't be good everywhere, Chris. You need to have kind of one weak spot in your lineup. And a lot of times that's been second base for me. And if that weak spot is a guy who's going to play every day and at least stand out somewhere, which he will with stolen bases, that's perfectly fine. We've got Carlos Correa after him, Ramon Luriano, good value there, Roki Sasaki. And then there you go.

Francisco Alvarez, the 10th pick of the 21st round. That player also did already have a catcher, but hey, you can, get a second catcher. Cody Ponce, we love that one. Robert Suarez. I really like Robert Suarez just as a later round flyer. I think he probably typically goes around 200 or higher. So to get him with the second to last pick of the 21st round is great,

or the last pick of the 21st round. Followed up with Gabe Spire, Jack Lighter, Shamaniah, another spark, Jose Soriano. if the Angels had anything better than the worst infield defense in baseball, Jose Soriano could be pretty good. Elite ground ball pitcher, but he's just like Zachary Nettos not a very good shortstop. They've got big question marks at second base. Is Christian Moore,

do we still think he's the starter at second for them? I have no idea. I have not heard anything about him. On Brissom and they've been on its other players this offseason. So that feels like a position battle this spring. I'm not sure that it matters all that much. Gabe Spire, someone I just wanted to mention here, like in this format,

head-to-ed categories with the daily lineups, this is where you start to see relievers who are not going to get saves, still be drafted because they give you good ratios, good strikeouts, maybe grab some wins here or there. So Gabe Spire, typically in a Roto League, just would not be drafted. But in head-ed categories,

you could just kind of lock them in there all the time and continue to rack up some strike-outs and ratios. Yep, we've got, But Justin Crawford, who I love there, sounds like he's the starting center fielder for the Phillies. Big stolen base, big batting average potential. Might not be a total zero in power. He does hit the ball pretty hard. Trent Grisham, 22nd round for 34 homers last year.

That's pretty good. Robert Garcia might be the closer for the Rangers. Jason Dominguez. Seems like he's going to start the season at AAA. Although, I do think he's having a pretty nice spring. So it's not a fate accompli that Jason Dominguez starts at AAA, but it does look likely. I think it's going to happen, but I mean, look, Stanton gets hurt every single year. There will be opportunities.

I think Dominguez could wind up being a pretty popular waiver wire pickup at points throughout the season. But to start the year, I think he's probably going to be at AAA, which sucks. Spencer Jones is having a big spring too, but they've already reassigned him to minors camp. All right, we're going to take another spark. I think it's going to be Nick Martinez. That's boring and gross, but maybe. Actually, yeah, we'll do it. I think that's fine.

He's solid. It's Tampa. It's at Tropicana. You know, I was watching Spencer Shreder and Nick Martinez pitch the other day. And the thought, the overwhelming thought I had was, if you told me one of these two guys was the best. pitcher in the world two years ago. I would not have a strong sense of who that was just watching them now, which is not a

mark in Nick Martinez's favor. I took Nick Martinez with the second pick of the second to last pick of the 22nd round, Jacob Lopez. I like that flyer with the last pick of the 22nd round. Ernie Clement there, a lot of positional flexibility. My last pick, we're in the 23rd round. Grayson Rodriguez, just a total flyer. but I think we've seen some decent stuff from him this spring.

Will Warren having a really good spring for the Yankees. Elliot Ramos, Will Vest, Casey Mize, and we are on to the last six picks of the draft. So we've made good time. We've got a little bit of time before your next draft. That's what we wanted to see, right, Frank? That is perfect. Yes, I was in the chat and frantically telling everyone,

please draft quicker so that we can make sure. Maybe next year we just spaced these drafts out a little bit more. It sounds like a 15-minute buffer. Yeah, you know, we can recap our teams afterwards, and it gives us... Catch our breath. Yeah, a little bit of a chance to catch our breath and stuff. But we are making good time here. We still got about six minutes until the next draft starts,

and this draft is pretty much widened. Go over my team? Yeah, let's go for it. I've got the Contreras Brothers, William at catcher, Wilson at first base. I've got Jazz Chisham at second. J.J. Weatherholt at third. Francisco Lindor at shortstop.

My outfield is James Wood, Christian Yelich, and Brenton Doyle. Don't love the Doyle. one. I think I'm just going to mentally put Dalai Lyle in there. Shohei Otani is my U-Till 1. Yvonne Herrera, my U-Till 2. I've got Dalaile and Andrew Vaughn on the bench. Pitching staff, Jacob deGrom,

Kyle Braddish are my two starting pitchers. Joey Cantillo and Kyle Harrison are my two quote-unquote relief pitchers. They will both be starting. Hopefully Kyle Harrison's in the rotation. My pitchers, Kevin Gosman, Bubba Chandler, Trevor Rogers, and Luis Castillo. On my bench, I've got

Tetsuya E. Mine, Nick Martinez, and Grayson Rodriguez. So I've got three guys to swap through those RP spots. And then I've got eight starting pitchers to put in my RP, my SP and P spots. I think it's pretty good. Yeah, I definitely like the upside that you wound up with on the pitching staff. Lots of interesting names there on the bench and guys that you could cycle through. I think it's an interesting strategy too, just from a head to head category's roster building perspective is just punting saves, right? That is something that you could do in a format like this where, you know, saves are a standalone stat category.

They're not affected by anything else. It's not like home runs, affect runs in RBI and batting average. Saves are all alone. There's nothing else that really, you know, is correlated with saves. So if you want to punt that category, it's completely feasible.

And drafting a bunch of upside at starting pitcher, even with a couple of aces up top, I think that makes a lot of sense as a viable strategy. I'm looking at the projections. Number one projected in K's second, no, first and wins. Last an ERA. I mean, that'll happen. Yeah.

So that's where I'm at. We're done with the draft. Let's talk about those last few picks. It was Otto Lopez, Bryce Eldridge. Love the last round, Bryce Eldridge. Luis Garcia, Cotei Senga. His velocity's been up this spring. Jordan Lawler has actually hit well this spring.

There's still some strikeout issues, but he's walking a ton. He's hitting the ball hard. So still has some upside there with Jordan Loller. and I'm going to stop sharing my screen.