Fantasy Baseball Today - LIVE 12-Team Roto Auction! Nominations, Strategy & More! (3/10 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

Frank Stampfl, Scott White and Chris Towers are doing a live 12-team Roto auction draft! This is a real league that we're playing out, not a mock draft. We talk through nominations, bidding, strategy and much more! 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

Hey there, just a quick heads up that we only put the first two hours of the auction on the audio podcast, but I did attach our team recaps at the end so you can hear how things turned out. If you want to see the full auction, head to YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. Now, on to the show. 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.

With fantasy! Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. And here we go. Welcome into fantasy baseball today. You are listening to this on Tuesday, March 10th. I am Frank Stample, joined by Scott White and Chris Howard. It's a day on the show. It is our annual live 12-team Roto auction draft.

And we'll give you some details of this before we get started. Obviously, again, this is standard 5-by-5 categories with the standard Roto lineups. We have two catchers, one of each infield position. five outfielders, one corner, one middle, one utility only. Not utility only, utility. You could play whoever you want there. And then nine pitcher spots. We have a $260 budget, and this is going to be a lot of fun.

It's always a good time, the live auction. It's going to get crazy. Have we said an over-under on when Scott starts to tilt? It sounded like we were getting some pre-draft tilting. That's not a good sign. I definitely heard a, oh, I should have just done a spreadsheet from Scott. So, I mean, look, I'm, it's been, I don't know, 12 months roughly since I've done one of these live at least. Because we did one last week.

Yeah, you did one with me. Not doing it on the podcast. Not with divided attention. It is a distinct difference because, yeah, the divided attention, I've got, you know, a pretty decent size monitor. It's like 29, 29 inches or something. It's a pretty big monitor. But now I'm like, I got to have the podcast here. I got to have the draft room, but I got to have my values.

Because I got to keep the World Baseball Classic on the second screen. So everything important has got to go on the one screen. So it's really, it's going to be a process. I'm a little worried. There is a lot going on already. Yeah, we've got the WBC, USA coming on in a couple of minutes here. We've got a couple other games going as well. Before we get started, shout out to our.

league champion, Greg Lathrop. I mean, this guy is just dominating us. It's a dynasty. Four championships in seven years. He took it down again last year. And it was actually a low-scoring roto year. He won with 82 and a half points. I finished second 80.5. Chris, you were in third, 78.5.

And it was down to the wire, man. I remember going into the final week. We had no idea who was going to win that thing. So it was really up for grabs, you know, going into that final week. But unfortunately, you and I. Four was six and a half. points out of first place. It was a very, very close league for us. And this is going to be a pretty long episode. So get cozy, grab yourself a drink, whatever you need, because we are

streaming the entire thing here on YouTube. The first two hours will be on audio only, but then we will finish it up here on YouTube. So if you want to catch the rest, that's YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball. Today I do have one more thing to quickly promote before we fire this up here, Scott. And I'm just going to keep reminding people all week long, just so they don't forget what's going on. But we have the mock draft mega stream coming this Thursday, March 12, 3.30 p.m. Eastern time. We will have four drafts all live streamed in a row. The first one will be a 12-team Roto Draft on CBS with special guest Vlad Sedler. At 5 p.m. We will have a 12-team Roto categories on 12-team headhead categories, excuse me, on Yahoo with Joe O'RICO. At 630,

we will do a 12-team head-to-head points on ESPN with Ariel Cohen. And then at 8 p.m. Eastern time, it is our nightcap, the Roto Wire online championship over at the NFBC. That will be the one that Scott, Chris, and myself are sharing together, which will be. be, you know, all three of us trying to decide on a pick will be, I'm sure, lots of fun. The mock drafts, by the way, the first three, they're all open to listeners. So if you'd like to be in one, hit me up on Twitter X at Rodo underscore Frank. Let me know which draft you'd like to be in and attach your email address. So I will send that over.

All right, Scott, it's about time. No more jibber jabber. It's fire it up. All right. Here we go. Hitting the start button. And. Remember remembering correctly, was jibber jabber the name of a

cartoon shark. That sounds right. Was that street sharks back in the day? I don't know if it was street sharks, but there was definitely a show. Oh, go. Oh, Bobby Witt. Okay. Maybe it was Ninja Turtles?

It might have been Ninja Turtles. I don't know. Bad guy? One of the bad guys. Bobby Witt Jr. is the first name nominated here. We are all the way up to $45, $46, $47. Yeah.

Mm. Yep. It is. Okay. It has been true historically. that the most high-end players go for more dollars than they're projected for. Kind of, there are always a few in the league who want the super studs and are willing to accept more duds.

And I think that's reasonable. This is on the shallower end of a roto league being just 12 teams. But obviously, you can win in other ways, too. Cal Raleigh is up now after Bobby Witt went for 47. $47. And our consensus of values here have Bobby Witt at 44. So he did go a few dollars over, as you mentioned there, Scott. And Cow Raleigh is closing in on 30.

Scott said not so fast. So I, the reason I was pre-tilting is because I didn't have a plan. And I always have a plan. Oh. Or at least I used to see, we're both quoting Joker from the Dark Night here at the start of episode. It's the only way to do it. I have come around to the idea

and here I get Cal Rolley. All right, Scott! Big dumpa! Big dumper, big power. So basically I just want to get as many high-end players as I think are undervalued and construct a plan on the fly from there

because I don't think given the way the knowledge curve has flattened as we've talked about a lot. I don't think I can get as much of an advantage with the low dollar players as I used to be able to. And so I don't want to settle for as many of them as I used to.

I want as many high-end as I can get, but I want it in higher quantity rather than like, you know, being the guy who gets Aaron Judge or Bobby Witt for $48. Fair enough. And we just got our first pitcher off the board. That was Paul Skeens.

Chris, you and I were in there. We were in around 35, but he winds up going for 30. a little bit more than I was looking to spend on my SP1. So I backed out a little bit there. I was more aggressive in my valuations than you guys. So I actually do have them as a $38 player, so that's fine. I just, I'm feeling it out right now.

By the way, it was Jabberjaw. Was the name of the cartoon shark. Not jibber jabber. It sounded right, though. I apologize to the audience. It sounded right. All right, scoble's got to go for even more, right? That's what they say

That's the way that works Let's just Let's just do it Let's make it let's force it Let's make it happen All right Terrick scubal will go for more than Paul Skeens All right easy enough, boom

The guy who won Paul Skeens is currently the high bid Okay He's no longer the high bid for Terik's Scoobal But that would have been very interesting He might jump back in there You can't count him out Oh

Gareth Atkins is his name Not the former Rocky's third base though. And that is what is so interesting about an auction draft is that you can go with whatever build. You could do things in an auction that you can't normally do in a snake draft, like getting both Paul Skeen's and Terrick Scuba on your team. Obviously, it comes at a cost because we'll see what the rest of its pitching staff turns out looking like, but obviously two of the three best pitchers in baseball right now. It's just a very interesting way to start your team. So we'll see the way how that one turns out.

Scoobel for 40 and Skeens for 37. Now I'm going to nominate Addison Barger. I like to throw out a lower end player early in the auction to kind of get a feel for the room how aggressively they bid on them. I have Barger as I have Barger as a $1 player. Same. So he's up to four. I think Frank really likes Barger though because the average is two.

I don't know. Where's that's that coming from? Yeah, there's an argument that he could be more. Both at a dollar player. Certainly. Some people really like him. And that's why I throw him out because I didn't really want to win him. If I won him for a dollar, it would have been fine.

But I didn't really want to. You don't want to go so low that you're for sure going to win the guy for a dollar. And it's like, oh, you used up one of your 23 spots on a bad player. Barger ends up going for $4, which I think is not crazy aggressive. Like sometimes you throw one of those players out there and he goes up to $9. You know, like people are just bidding. insanely on him. Yep.

I pulled a similar approach here. I put Shane McClanahan out there for $2. Frankly, I'm not 100% sure I would even want him for $2, but it'd be fine. I could live with that, certainly. But definitely hoping to pump the price up a couple more dollars, and he ends up going for $5. I don't know. Maybe that works out.

He did pitch today, and it was kind of the same. same as what we saw the previous start. He maxed out around where he used to average. The stuff plus ratings were all fine, but nothing that suggests immediate acehood for McClanahan. So, yeah. I'm happy to see him go for a couple extra dollars there. Yeah, we'll quickly mention the start.

I know you were just talking about this, Chris, but three earned runs over two and a third innings allowed a homer, three strikeouts, and the velocity's still down quite a bit. Fastball down 2.6 miles per hour there for Shane McClanahan compared to the last time that we saw. Still has some time to get built up here, but yeah, it's down quite a bit from what we're used to with our boy Shane O'Mac. And lost a couple of inches of IVB on the fastball, so yeah. Yeah. Ronald Acuna was the next name up, and I think we were all pretty active on that one. I don't think Scott was, but at least Chris and I were. and winds up going for $46 to neither of us.

That's what I have him for. So that's fine to me. Yeah, I think we're just, because I have Acuna for 38. So it's not like an anti-A-Cunia bias. I think I just had my first rounders value lower than you did. I think that's the case. And they tend to be, the bidding tends to be especially aggressive in this league. So yours are probably going to be more in line with what actually happens,

which is why I'm probably going to load up on a bunch of second rounders. who will be disproportionately undervalued by my. And you already have one of them, rankings. And I already have one, Cal Raleigh, who I got for $3 less than I marked him for. The big dumper.

Whoa. All right, I was going to bump it up to 47. Otani goes up. He's not, it's always so silly when we do Otani for $1. Yeah. I mean.

Because it's like, we're not going to plus one this one up to 50. Let's, let's get that going. So someone bumped it up to 49, it looks like. I usually like to throw a player out for half of what I think they're worth.

So we could at least start it at a midpoint and, you know, it can go from there, not throwing Otani out for a dollar and then slow play it. So, you know, if I was throwing out Otani, I'd throw them out for like 25. And like, all right, let's speed this up a little bit. Speaking of which, Otani went for 51 and now Aaron Judge is out at 48 bucks. Hmm. Still going up. This is at 49.

Will he pass Otani? Chris is, okay, now Frank, you guys bidding against D. other here. He has now reached Otani levels at $51. Will he be the highest price player? Frank goes in for 52 on Judge. We have a new number one. Oh, 53. We're still going. He's $2 better than Show Hey Otani. I'm out. You're out. Doug Roe. Will he win Aaron Judge at 53? He will. Push me to my limits. Wow. Has your plan been exploded here. It has been exploded. It's all gone. Here you go. Judge Otani, $50. That's right there on the notepad and won't be getting either of those. So there goes that. And here we are,

Jackson Merrill. Very different tier of players. So we'll see how much he goes for. Yeah. We're kind of bouncing all over the place. I love it. This is the way to do it. Now, I am the low guy on Merrill, probably within the whole industry. And I've met $15 and he's searching past that. So that's, I mean, that's about right. This is one of Chris's guys. I mean,

I'm the high guy and I have him for 18, so that's, uh, he's already up to 19. I'm going to hold off on that. But defending champ, Greg Lathrop wins him for 19. He now has Ronald de Cunia for 46 and

Jackson Merrill for 19. So we'll keep a close eye on how he is building his team. And speaking of Ronald de Cunia, he just went yard in the WBC. How about that? All right, and Garrick Crochet is thrown out. So the last of the top three aces.

So he should exceed 35. Yeah. Yeah, Scheme's one for 37. Scoobo one for 40. I would say. In fact, I'll jump it to 35 right now. I jumped it to 36. Nah.

Might get him, Chris. Oh, Frank. Frank jumps in. His plan got exploded. He doesn't know what to do. I've got money to spend. I've got many to throw at other positions now. He's going for crochet.

He got him. I got him. So I did want one of the top three pitchers. That was, I wanted one of the top two hitters and one of the top three pitchers. So I was trying to go. Okay. Not full stars and scrubs, but, you know, I just kind of wanted one stud at each spot. But wound up getting Garrett Crochet for 37, which I think was $1 more than schemes or right around the same price.

So, yeah, same price of schemes and $3 less than scubal, which I think. think makes sense. And Jose Ramirez is out now. Scott is the leading winner right now, 45, and now he's at 47. Because you did me up, Frank. One thing I do want to say, I was listening to a podcast last week, and they were reviewed. No, he's not. He jumps in at the last second. This podcast was reviewing all of the NFBC auction championships from last year. And the average pitching staff was over $100 for the winning teams. So that was interesting because typically I think the consensus is you should spend less than that on your pitching staffs. So Frank, I was talking about this with Frank the other day. I feel like the expert class of

drafter, the kind that, you know, shares analysis with audiences. They play in so many leagues now. that they don't care about loot like they like it used to be if you had to have a good showing in the league especially if you were an expert and now it's like who cares if if my early round pitcher tanks in that league whatever i got all these other leagues i can win instead there's no longer shame attached to a poor finish in a league so you're yes of course having a good pitching staff helps you win a league but it's dangerous and most it's most people want a good experience when they're playing playing fantasy. When they're only playing with the team or two, if one of those teams goes belly up because they made too many risky early round investments, that's a bad experience.

So that's where I come down on that. I mean, it just depends what you're doing. If you're a high roller, you've got a gambler's mentality and you're going to play in a ton of leagues and you don't care if some of them go wrong, then fine, you know, invest early in pitching. But if you're, I think the majority of the audience just has a couple leagues they play in, and they want a good experience ultimately. Catching people up, Jose Ramirez did go for $48, by the way, and that went to Sean Millerick, so it was down between him and Scott there in the end.

And then we got Mickey Moniac for a buck. That one snuck on by, our first $1 player of the auction. And then, Scott, you're back in. Kyle Tucker. That's one that just had no interest in going $2 on Mickey Moniac, and I don't think I was alone there. Kyle Tucker for $39 went to you, Skadi. Yeah, Kyle Tucker, that was my pivot from Jose Ramirez.

And I got him for six less than I was going to spend on Ramirez. So I think that's fine. We'll see what Soto goes for. I didn't mean to nominate him, but it's all good. Yeah, you got to pay attention, kind of multitasking here. I almost missed out on Tucker because I was going off on that whole spiel about everybody plays in too many leagues now. there's no shame in losing anymore. It hurts me when I finish in the bottom half of the league.

That is the league I'm sweating the most, you know? And I just think the mentality of a lot of advice givers these days is just so different from that. And Juan Soto goes for $46. So again, we are seeing a lot of these kind of top half of the, first round players go for like 45 to, I guess, 53, somewhere in there. Mid-40s to low 50s. Yeah. Which is more than we're used to, but again, like you said, Scott, it's a shallower format

where it is more viable to pull off Sars and Scrubs if you want to go that approach. All right, I'm nominating Grayson. Grayson Rodriguez. Strategy is so interesting. Are you going to get them for a buck? I just, I'm optimistic. I'm hopeful. I don't know if I'm ready to go $2 on Grayson Rodriguez. Sean Miller did. So he denies me on Jose Ramirez and he denies me on Grayson Rodriguez. It very well could work out with Grayson. I certainly think, I mean, the upside is certainly there for $2 because the upside required to be worth $2 is pretty minimal.

But there's a lot of pitchers that you can say that about. I want to test where we are at on Spencer Strider. Oh, geez. I don't know if you saw in the first main event of the year at NFBC. Yep. Scott, I don't know if you've seen, Frank, I'm sure you did, but would you like to guess where Spencer Strider was drafted in the first main event of the year at the NFBC?

15-teen league. That's a $1,750 buy-in, by the way. 100th I don't know fifth round somebody shooting big for upside in a not gonna be me yeah yeah I mean again that's the gambler's mentality where

like I only care about the upside case for this player or this team yeah if you're I think if you're the kind of person who's playing you know $1,800 leagues you probably have more than one I would guess and you are willing to take that chance

because you're playing for the overall title there I think that it is probably more justifiable to push a Spencer Strider up there just because he's such a high variance guy that if he hits, you know, that could be hugely impactful in an overall tournament context. It's just I can't justify it in most leagues. Spencer Strider who went for $10, by the way, yes. That's fine. Which I think is where we have him in our consensus value. He had $10. I had him for seven, Strider.

So I probably had him for 10 before I moved him down when I added him to bus 2.0. Oh, Scott, you need speed. Here's your guy. I got Kyle Tucker. I might be okay. Brent Rooker went for $23, by the way. And Brent Rooker, pretty popular player around the industry this year. And projections love him.

And I think people are really buying into just the A's hitting in that Sacramento environment, just being really, really good for that entire lineup this year. Frank said, Scott, you need speed because Pete Crow Armstrong was nominated if you weren't in on that joke because I keep getting Peacrow Armstrong everywhere, even though I hate him. And guess what? I just got him again. I hope you don't have him on a bus list this year, Scott.

In my, not a public one. What does that mean? Internally, I think he has a lot of bus potential. Yeah. Oh, what a difference a year. makes, huh? Last year, we were all out on PCA. Now he's, now he's Scott's most drafted player. I love it. I mean, I have him as a $30 player and I got him for 25. So I'm trying to put personal feelings aside and just go, just get the most efficiently drafted team I can. And I'm the one who set those auction values. So if I think he's worth a $30 player, even though I have

concerns about him and I get him for five dollars I mean you do a lot with five dollars so uh so yeah i'm gonna gonna take piqueur armstrong again between him and tucker I have a good amount of steals Julio Rodriguez the next off the board at 41 dollars which seems right in line with what the other first rounders Chris are they gonna let us get everybody anybody or uh or what there's still a couple of first round caliber players no need to no need to worry Oh, you know what? I forgot I had Garrett Crochet, so maybe that's a good thing that I did not get Julio Rodriguez. I was the $40 bid.

He went for 41. Yeah, it looked like I was going to get him for 29 or 39 for a second. Ah, you know who's up next? Caminero up to 32, 33. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Come on, Scott.

I know you want to go. That's pretty much right what I have. I know you want a good third baseman. Come on. I do want a good third baseman. That's why I went so hard after. Jose Ramirez. And that's a fine price for Commonero,

but it's not the discounted price I'm looking for. Which, by the way, Kyle Tucker, I got a 39 wasn't either. That was pretty much right where I have him. But it was a chance to get a first rounder for right where I have them in a league where they're being inflated by four or five dollars. And the thing is getting a,

you would much rather pay face value for a first rounder than pay face value for a 10th rounder. Right. Absolutely. I think you'd rather overspend $5 for a first rounder than pay face value for a 10th rounder. And I don't know when it's going to happen, but it happens, I mean, it has to. There is a finite amount of money that could be spent in the auction. There will be a part of the draft that comes for cheaper. We don't know when that will be because obviously the first round hitters are all going for more than we expect them to. So it could be, you know, the $5 players go for $1. It could be the $15 players go for $10. But at some point, there will be a little bit of evening out here. And some players going for cheaper than we expect them to.

Trey Savage, by the way, did not really go for cheaper than we expected. He went for $10. Same price as Spencer Strider. Lots to talk about him being slow played early on in the season. He's going to have some three and four innings starts to begin the season. but I think by the time we get to like May, June, and when you really need him down the stretch, I think he'll be fine.

So I was in at like a low cost there on you Savage, but I wasn't willing to go $11 on him. Next up is Jazz. He's getting up there too, man. He's getting pumped up here. So you get some steals, you get eligibility at the two weakest in-field positions, third and seconds.

He's up to 37. That's five more than Cowellie. That's four more than Junior Common Air. I think he tends to get drafted after both those guys, right? So, yeah. Chisholm, popular beyond his ADP. That's the sort of thing an auction can reveal to you. Everybody kind of colors with inside the lines on a snake draft.

They get an auction and their true feelings come out. Which is why it's hard to buy a trendy player. It's, you know, the promise of an auction is you can get whoever you want, but these days everybody kind of wants the same guys so i i'm taking the approach of it's it's not strictly this because i do want guys i like but it's it's sort of like i end up targeting all the players everyone else doesn't want and just trusting uh trusting in the more the more disciplined process of of collective wisdom than getting pulled by my emotions, favorites, disfavorits, et cetera.

That is the way to do it, Scott. But of course, I was just- It's less fun. I was just in on Ben Rice and got sniped at the last second. So that was the sucking of the teeth there from me. Pain, pain. $22 for Ben Rice. It's a big price.

It's a, no, no, no, yeah. It's a big price for sure. But I was willing to spend around 20 to get them. I'm kind of, now. I'm kind of spiraling because I accidentally erased a name from my spreadsheet, and I cannot figure out who it was. And so I've just got a blank in there, and it's throwing my spreadsheet off, and I'm really struggling right now, guys.

This is what happens when you rely on technology. Michael Bush out there. We're about to go for 13. Yeah, I'm tempted. I just moved him up in my rankings and it got his value to $15. I probably had him more like 10 previously, but just decided I was undervaluing him, especially since it sounds like he's going to be a true everyday player. He ends up going for 13.

I couldn't pull the trigger on 14. Mm-hmm. I just think there are going to be some bargains in that range later. And I like it to. Big bigger than $2. I've talked about Michael Bush a lot this offseason as, you know, kind of being a last resort, not last resort, but like, you know, I would be fine with him as my starter after all the other higher-end first baseman go. But this is part of the auction dynamic, which is interesting because there's so many other higher-end first baseman that are still out there that I want to see if I could get one of those guys, but I like Bush. So I didn't want to press press there with him when I know there's still a lot of other really talented first baseman.

It's tough because. That price is going to be fine. 13 for Michael Bush is probably going to be fine. Someone better at first base will go cheaper. That's just kind of always the way it works. And you're still imagining this early on what could be. And I may look back and regret not going 14 on Michael Bush. Yeah.

Meanwhile, Chris gets Corbyn Carroll for $33, which I imagine is a price you're thrilled with. Who even needs a ham eight bone, Chris? He's going to be ready for opening day, it sounds like. And that was a $40 player before the injury. So I'll take on a little extra risk to save $7. Yeah, that seems reasonable enough. Yeah, I mean, certainly could work out very well there for Corbyn Carroll at 33. Has started hitting once again.

And Gunner Henderson is the player that's up now. I think we're all quiet because we're all kind of paying very close attention to see what happens. Yeah, Chris is the leading better for 33 on him. He might get another. here. No, Frank Johnson. I was watching. I was watching. We had to let Frank no. Come on, Chris. Get back in there. 35. Yeah. Gunner Henderson for $34. Let's go. Bounce back. Gunner.

I'm sorry, Chris. Yeah, the bidding has been getting a little more restrained here. Yeah. Let's see. Let's see what happens with this guy. Nick Kurtz. I'm going to throw him out there. I'm going to say at least 35. three. Yeah, I think what? Caminero went for 32, so around there. Should be go for about what Cominero did.

Commonero went for 33. Yep, yep, so that makes sense. Chris jumps it to 28. Now it's up to 30 on Nick Kurtz, who should be the most expensive third, well, first baseman. I guess Vladimir Guerrero's in the discussion too. He's at 31, 32.

Can we get one more dollar out of Nick Kurtz? We can. There it is. So you're going to surge past junior, commonero or are we getting 33 is the going rate for a second round bat that seems to be the case because curse joins with common arrow i got cow rally remember for 32 so he was right in that range as well second rounders much more affordable than the first rounders in this draft yeah yeah i i think to the point that i'd rather i'd rather get three three

second rounders than two first rounders, you know? Yeah, and there was a little bit of strategy behind me nominating Gunner Henderson because I look at him and Ellie De La Cruz and they're both kind of late first, early second round, short stops, and I knew that I wanted one of them. So I nominated Gunner Henderson hoping that maybe I get him for a little bit cheaper than Ellie,

and we'll see how much Ellie ultimately goes for here. But there was a little bit of strategy behind me nominating Gunner Henderson when I did. And Kyle Swarber is up and he is going for 33. So Scott, 34. Oh, he breaks the $33 barrier. All right. He's popular in this draft.

I like it. 35 now is what Kyle Schwerber's up to. So a little bit more than Cominero. Oh, 36. Yes. That's $1 so far less than Jazz Chishol, more than Kurtz, Carol, Camerero, Gunner Henderson, Cal Raleigh price looks real nice at 32

when you see some of the guys ranked behind him who are a little more expensive. That's because our consensus has him as the 14th best player. Uh-oh. And multiple players behind him have gone for more expensive. I want to see a bidding war between Scott and Chris. Haraldo Perdomo is up.

I am going to take a quick break. And when we return, we'll talk here and catch you up on what happened with Haraldo Promo will do that right after this. Welcome back in Fantasy Baseball today. It's our annual live 12-team Roto Auction. There's a league that we're actually playing out. It's not just a mock draft.

Shout out again to our champion. Greg Lathor from last year. And Geraldo Perdomo is the name currently being bid on. And Scott is the leader at 19 bucks. I do have him as a $19 player. Scott, I think you have them a little higher. And you will not get him for 19. Yeah.

It's a tough one. But will he go to 21? Sean has kind of been the bane of your existence so far in this auction. He listens. I know that. Sean and Chris. But you know, if you're getting a bidding war on Geraldo Pardomo, it kind of defeats the purpose of Heraldo Pardomo. That's fair.

Yeah, I think the whole thing is that I think he's undervalued. So, yeah, I was happy. I jumped in at 18 with a bid. I'm happy to jump out there, though. So Sean Millerick, I let him go to him for. $22. I had Perdomo valued at 23, but I know I have him also very high in my ranking.

So I will pivot to something else. All right, we are getting a bit of a shortstop run here. Trey Turner is next up. And as somebody who already has Gunner Henderson for 34, I'm hoping he approaches that price. I mean, in drafts, Gunner Henderson usually goes early second round. Turner, more like a two, three turn guy. but it would make me feel better

if he went for more money. This is the first time I've ever seen Doc Eisenhower in a bidding war for a player older than 25, so that's a new... Or not named Caleb Durbin. Did he get Y. Langford? He always tries to get Y. Langford. All right. I get Trey Turner for 29. That feels like a pretty good buy. That was pretty good.

That's better than most of the second rounders have been going for. Corby and Carroll for 33, Trey Turner for 29. It's rock solid. It's a nice solid start. We'll need some power from some key positions. But yeah, that's a good start. Kind of wish I had got Perdomo now. Wait, wait, it's minute 35. Not tilting yet, not tilting yet. Just a little, a little Tim Langford for 25. Okay, there you go. Doc gets his guys. Let's nominate Caleb Durbin next. Why beat around the bush?

Let's do it. Jackson Churio up to 29. If you should pass Turner, he does pass Turner. Frank makes sure of that. I assumed Frank would get there, yeah. Yep. Are we going to keep going on Jackson? Pretty good price.

$30, Jackson Churio, and Frank's got him. That's solid. I'm wondering there are two first round players left, our first round caliber players left. And I do wonder. Borderline 3. Yeah. If that's what, Vlad?

Yep. Okay. If that's what's going to push, because we've gotten some really nice discounts on a lot of those second round players, are people waiting for the last two first rounders? I mean, talk about good discounts. Could be. And sorry, Netto was sitting at 20 as the clock wound down. I'm not a huge. It was slowing down at $15 or $16 before. I'm like, wait, someone has to jump in here. Yeah, like, Zach Netto at the same price as her older Pardomo. All right.

Yeah, and he's like 24. That feels fine. Yeah, I mean, he... 25 wouldn't be bad for anybody's listening. He usually goes pretty close to Trey Turner in some of these, like, higher stakes drafts and stuff like that. Yeah, that's pretty good. So, I just already have a... $5 less than Trade Turner is Zach.

I heard of a... A bad average problem between Cal Raleigh and P. Crow Armstrong. which was part of the reason why I wanted to go to extra dollar on Perdomo. And if that wasn't the case, I think I would have gone 25 on Netto. I got PCA for 25. He and Netto around the same price seems about right. I figured out who the missing player was. Crisis averted.

Uh-oh. Who was it? It was Mookie Betts. All right. And that's who's nominated right now. Netto went for $24, by the way. And so, yeah, Perdomo went for $4. for what, 22?

22. Yeah, it's looking a little high, given some of the other... Mike? I mean, Mookiee should probably go for close to what Pardomo did, I would imagine. Yeah. And we're up to 21, so not far off.

Yeah, it's climbing. For me, Mookie's just... I think he's a guy I need a discount on. I don't know if that's just my hang up on what we saw last year, but I just... I'm okay drafting him, but it's probably he's got to be $20, you know, or he's got to go a couple picks later than his ADP.

I'm not out, but he's definitely not an active target for me. He goes 23, which is right in between Zach Netto and Geraldo Perdomo. It's probably fine, yeah. And exactly what I have bets for. So that, yeah, Nathan Judah gets him. He's a good fantasy player too. I mean, of course, everybody here's a good fantasy. player. But yeah, he gets bets for 23. Perfectly fine. It's just hard to know exactly what you're

getting. Are you getting a good batting average? Are you getting closer to 30 homers or 20? Yeah. How much was he affected by the illness and the lost weight early in the season? I think a lot just based on the way his exit velocities improved down the stretch. But I don't know. Chris's guy, Yorda, Alvarez, is he going to get him? Is he going to get him? Come on. Come on. Let me just let Chris get your on Alvarez. Greg Lathrop knows goodbyes. And he jumped in. I wish he would say goodbye after doing that.

Oh, come on. I mean, Chris, you got to do it. You got to do it, Chris. You got to do it, Chris. Oh, come on. You have them for 27? No. I do have it.

This is just a good thing to admit during the middle of a, an auction. I have a tendency of not bidding out of spite when people do that to me. Frank, you aren't. I'm purposely muted. I'm trying to walk my wife through putting on the USA game on TV. I don't want to get up mid-podcast.

Good, good. I like it. No, that's priorities. Yeah. Chris sales up. Sales up. It sounds like Chris. Towers is debating on whether to bid on him yeah I'm just I'm trying to be pretty disciplined here and I just don't know if paying for one of the first second

tier pitchers is the move right now because I I think we're gonna see some cheaper ones than sale goes for and that's a pretty good price $23 yeah 23's fine I have a $19 player. So it's just a little higher than I'm willing to go with him. Our consensus rankings have him at 22, so. I found I have him at 25, so he went for less

than I have them for. And I found that it's in the auctions I've done so far, it's harder for me to get a discount among pitchers than hitters. Like pitchers are, I'm pretty much always spot on with them or maybe even a little under. So I think sale at 23 might end up

looking like a good buy. I just didn't budget that much for pitching that I could afford to go as much as I've marked up down for, especially having three expensive players already. If I hadn't bought anybody yet, then fine. But, you know, you only have so many dollars and I've spent almost 100 of it already. Well, and you have to think that you only have so much money to make up the batting average hole that you're in. Yeah. So you also have to be cognizant of that as you're going forward. So you probably count on me not being in on L.L. De La Cruz, right?

Who's now been nominated, I'll jump it to 30. Yeah, there you go. Let's keep this moving. Brandon Lau, by the way, was thrown out there and went for $8. So kind of a random mid-tier player throw early on here. Now that is,

I think $8 is fine. That's about, I have him as a $10 player as somebody who's higher on Brandon Lau than the consensus. But I think Brandon Lau is the sort of player who if he gets thrown out at 238 rather than 38 in terms of pick number.

Yeah, he's a $3. player. He's a $3. Exactly. Yep. I think that makes sense too. Ellie De La Cruz went for 41. So my hope of throwing out Gunner earlier and Ellie going for more actually worked out exactly as I planned there.

So I don't think that there's a $7 difference between those two players, but I could be wrong. We'll see. I do want to throw somebody specific out here, but I think I'm running out of time. So I'm probably not going to be able to. Can I get it in? Yeah. I wanted to throw out the first closer and see how much is going for.

So Mason Miller for a buck Let's see what that number gets up to Oh my goodness Yep, that's what Mason Miller should go for Around $20, he's at 19 right now Let's see if anybody's influenced by me saying Around $20, nope Greg lay through it

So the top tier closers I look back at last year's draft results earlier today Just to see how much the room valued closers And they went for 15 to 16 So Mason Miller going for $3 more compared to last year. It's interesting. Yeah. All right.

Scott throws out Caleb Durbin. Let's see if Doc is in once again. Doc somebody jumped in right away at 2 and it wasn't Doc. Doc comes in at 3 on Caleb Durbin. Who could theoretically help me in batting average? I wasn't going to be that upset if I want him for a buck. But I am happy to let him go to Chris Mitchell now in at 4. Doc comes back at 5, 6.

Come on, keep going, Doc's at seven. Go nine! Chris is at eight. Are we going to have a Jetto situation? He did. I mean, maybe Chris Mitchell loves him. Yeah, maybe he does. Wasn't just trying to bid up Doc, but.

And Doc in the chat says, he's too fancy now, Doc says. Can't get Caleb Durbin anymore. Up to $8, Chris Mitchell wins him instead. I'm going to say something that I noticed, and this isn't to like call anybody out. but I've listened to other podcasts and just talking to people about Caleb Durbin. How many people call him Chad Durbin, the pitcher from back in the day?

It happens all the time. It's really funny when it does. Same first initial. Yep, yep. Yeah. And Chris throws out. My first thought was like, that's not his dad, right? But I don't think the timing works out on that.

Might not be too far off, right? I'm pretty sure I've looked it up and it's not his dad. Chris throughout, Shee Bangaliers. See how much she goes for? Yeah, there's, I like to throw like an $18 player out at 10 because it can occasionally freeze the room. Like we talked about, you know, when I got C.J. Abrams in the head-to-head points league, I think that's what happened is our consensus value was like 18.

And I just threw them out at 10 to, you know, let's get it started earlier. But occasionally that can that can kind of freeze the room and get that guy through for that price. So Frank gets, that's something I'll case. I knew from the moment he called him Bangaliers. It was going to happen. $18. Yeah, $18. I did budget for one of those top five or six-ish catchers,

and I missed out on Ben Rice earlier. So I was happy to go 18 on Che Langaleers here. And Christopher Sanchez. I don't know if everyone listening who's in this draft saw, but he got hit pretty hard in his World Baseball Classic debut. So I don't know. I didn't watch the game, but it looks from the data, like, a lot of seeing-eye singles, right? It was extremely unlucky.

It was not. It was against Brazil, I think. Yeah. Somebody like that. $27. That is five more than four more than Chris Sale. But we are seeing that inflation on Christopher Sanchez. Chris mentioned that first main event draft that was done over at the NFBC.

He was a first-round pick in a 15-team league. It's 15-team, but still. Yeah. It's happening. Interested to see where we go with Ivan Herrera. What changed between November and March? I mean, it is one of those things where... Pitching gets pushed up in that specific format too.

But why specifically him? I mean, I think the likeliest explanation is he was picking at 15. He didn't like the potential for any of the pitchers to come back at, you know, 45 or whatever. So he just picked his favorite. It was a one-off and not Christopher Sanchez. Manches rising in general. By the way. But that will happen in the 15 spot in particular.

And we talk about this a lot where you kind of, to a certain extent when you're picking on the end of a snake draft, especially I think in a 15 team league, you do kind of have to throw ADP out to win. Yvonne Herrera just went for $12. So ain't nobody sneaking him through in this league. No. I'll be surprised if Christian Yellich goes for that much. Little, a little surprise. Yeah, I mean.

I think they both have a pretty good chance of getting eligibility somewhere else. I think Yelich has a higher chance of getting one eligibility than Herrera. But Herrera does have paths to multi-eligibility that I think Yelich clearly doesn't. All right. And here we go. Scott with the first Homer pick of the draft. Matt Olson for 22. That's not going to be in batting average.

I was going to say that's not going to help the batting average. No, sometimes, like two of the last three years, it would have. Yeah. 270 something last year, right? Almost 280. Yeah. Well, that's higher than I thought. I trust him to help more than this guy, Raphael Devers.

Yeah, I think Devers is going to be a detriment and batting average. 272. 272 last year for Olson 283 and 2023 and 247 the year in between. I mean, 2020, 23 is, that's the really. big year, right? Well, three of the last, yes, it was. Three of the last five years, Olson has hit 270 or better. Three of the last five. And then the other two, it was under 250. Yeah, that's, that's the Matt Olson experience. But yeah, 20203 was the outlier, the big outlier season for him. I did say I'm going to need to get some power and I got a very

good power hitter in Rafael Devers. And I have the, I think I have a little bit of flexibility with batting average with Turner. Corbyn-Carrar actually is a pretty poor source of batting average. So, you know, I will have to be cognizant of that as I move forward. Catching people up here, Devers went for 22. Olson went for 22 as well, so that makes sense. Same price. They usually go third, fourth round in the drafts that we do. I know ADP, other places, those guys usually last into like the, you know, fourth, fifth, sometimes sixth rounds, which is a little bit crazy.

Yvonne Herrera went for $12, which, again, kind of mentioned no discount there on Herrera. That's a nice price on DeGrom. Yeah, de Grom for 19. That feels pretty good. Yeah, $3 less than Chris Sale, $8 less than Christopher Sanchez. We've said it 8,000 billion times this offseason, but I think that second tier of pitchers are all more or less the same. So I don't really, you know, that's one where getting de Grom is probably going to be one of the lower prices of that tier. That's probably going to be a pretty good buy. And this will be interesting.

Francisco Linder is currently out for 26, another one of those hamming. bone injuries that we are monitoring the price of the auction price, the ADP costs as well. And Scott jumps in. He says, I need batting average. Francisco Linderre. Probably won't

do it, but it's a good price. 27. Yeah, he's a decent source of batting average. Not great, but not bad. Scott, how are we feeling? Okay. Okay. I'm going to have to get more discipline now for sure. I would rather have... Max bit of $1.15.

Yeah Well, Max bed of 98 Total money is 115 115 Scott has the second lowest amount It looks like right now Yeah, yeah Yeah, because Bidon I think got

Otani and Witt Which is, that's a very typical Beaton draft out having done this with him multiple times. He loves to get two high-end Superstar caliber players Yeah And I'm trying to get

like six second, third round types. So I'm getting, I'm trying to just scoop up whatever values I see there. I had Lindor at 31. I got him for 27. But I'm going to have to be a lot more discipline now because, you know, I have five players

and a lot of holes still and 60% of my budget's gone. One of my favorite approaches in an auction is aggressive early, wait a long time until like you are the high stack again. Yeah. And then start pushing people around. That is... That's exactly what I did in labor.

I spent a lot early on and then I just waited a long time. That's usually what I end up doing. But it's tough, man. You see all these other things. You want to be involved and you just got to wait. Yeah. But I think the important thing is you have to tell yourself that the true difference makers and the true differentiations,

and the true differentiators are mostly gone by now. You know, like the difference between a $10 player in your valuations and a $5 player is not the same as the difference between a $35 and a $30 player, you know? So I think you'd rather pay up at this point in the draft than anything else, at least for me. Yeah.

Like these are the truly irreplaceable players. We did get back-to-back Martez, by the way. Kattel went for 28 and then Noelvi went for nine. So interesting throwouts there. And then Fernando Tatis got thrown out and he was slowing down around 25, 26. And I said, all right, I'll jump in a little bit here. But the price is rising. We're getting closer to 40 now on Fernando Tatis.

And Chris, you're the leader. Getting back to Chris's point, like in a league of this size, where I think the low dollar bears, like you can get some pretty good players for low dollar amounts. I would rather overdo it early than underdo it. Oh, Chris says, not today. And like, oh, God, that was dumb. He's at 40. He's in my head.

I'm at 40 on Tatees because he did the last second bid twice on me on Tatee. Come on. I thought I had him at 36. I thought I had him 38. I know. This is the problem. Who would have guessed Chris would be the first to tilt? Oh, no, no, no, no.

No? We had to take a break because you were tilting 12 minutes in. All right. What? No, I believe that was a 35 minute mark. Yeah, that was the 35 minute mark. What are you talking about? I don't remember the tilting.

Time is a flat circle. What's going on here? Wilson Contreras. Yeah, I was like, come on, man. We can't let defending champ get him for 11 bucks. Maybe everyone thought it was Wilson Contreras. He's up to 14. You know, Wilson Contreras did catch a game recently for Dominican Republic?

Did it? No, he's playing for Venezuela. Venezuela, yeah. He caught in their warm-up game, actually, which I thought was very surprising. I thought he had thrown his catcher's gear away. But he was, I believe he was behind the plate for one of their games. So that was kind of interesting. I don't think that matters, but, you know,

Something to keep in mind. Or to note. That's a great price on William Petraris. That's annoying. I threw him out because typically I like to throw players out at a similar tier at a position that I already have. So I had Langalears. I got him for 18. My hope was Contreras would go for at least 18 and he goes for $2 cheaper.

So I do not love that. Shane Boz is currently up. Let's take another break. And when we return, we'll catch you up right after this. Welcome back in Fantasy Baseball today. It's our live 12-team roto auction here. Our annual, this is a league that we are playing out. It's not a mock draft.

And we are, we're moving along. Shane Boz went for $4. And Wilson Contreras, after the William Contreras. Yeah, tried to sink him through for four. I thought you were trying to maybe just trick people, Chris, and just, Ah, which contraris is it? I don't know. But he winds up going for five bucks.

I mean, once the first one's gone, that trick doesn't really work. you know, it's like the old, there used to be like a second Antonio Brown or something in the NFL. Adrian Peterson. There was a second Adrian, there was like a tight end for the Cardinals or something. Yeah, that'd always be a fun one to throw out in your auction.

There was also the Sean Murphy, Sean Minaya debacle of a couple years ago. Oh, yeah. Yes, I remember that. That might have been the closest we ever came to like a full-on Scott White Meltdown. I was not. Kyle Braddish

A little out of my price range At 16 here Not that Buckaroos Look it's fine for him It's just out of my price range I've spent too much money Yeah DeGrom what goes for 19

I think Our average has him at 16 But DeGrom is a couple bucks ahead So that's probably fine yeah All right Kyle Bradish sticker price pretty much Because our consensus values Have them at 16 bucks

And now we're we have Cole Regans Cole Regens who got roughed up in his second start

you must want him Frank no no no it doesn't matter yeah I mean his velocity is still fine and I mean really just get through spring healthy that's the biggest thing for oh what happened a big dumper for Cole Reagan's something happened? Something happened

somebody said he is playing in the WB BBC game right now so maybe he struck out or something. Darn big dumper. I'm invested in this guy. I'll do a quick search, but I don't think. Cryptic messages in the chat room. He struck out with the bases load.

Oh, gosh, darn you. That's fine. That does not earn a curse word for me. Cole Regans went for $21 by the. Oh my gosh, Yamamoto for 22. The distractions. I was not paying it. attention, that's not correct. That's the same as sale. Yeah, it's, I have sale one spot ahead, but,

but still, I mean, usually, Yamamoto, Sanchez went for 27, Yamamoto probably should have went for a little bit more, I would imagine, but yeah. Yep, I generally think that should happen, but it's not the way we rank it. Mm-hmm. All right, Bryce Harper is up, and I was in, not anymore, $23, which is, I think $1 more than you guys got Devers and Olson for. Yeah. Yep. Makes me a little happier with the Devers buy. I think they're all the same, basically.

Yeah. So everybody, yeah, they're all going the same. I thought I was getting a steep discount on Olson, though. I had him at 28. I had Harper and Devers at 27. I guess third round first baseman are not popular in this particular room. Or maybe everybody's holding out. for Vladimir Guerrero and Mattel and Pete Alonzo.

Yeah, Pete Alonzo. The top two players available are both first basements. So maybe that's it. Well, we've seen, Scott, that in other places around the industry, those first basemen go later in some spots. So, I mean, it could just be maybe... That's an FPC. They tend to slide, yeah.

Yeah, maybe this group just agrees that those first basements should go for a little bit cheaper. Which is weird because those tend to be deeper roto leagues, and first base gets really scary later on, even more than in the kind of leagues we're accustomed to. Chris was that caught. Almost got caught price enforcing. I was going to ask, was that a remorseful bid on Barron Buxton? It was a, I think Buxton was sitting at 13.

I was like, yeah, I'll hit 14. Someone hit 14 right before me. Scott will always love to remind us. Playing with the plus one button is risky. Oh, yes. Especially when you're just trying to price and force. Yeah, that is a very good point. I mean, for anyone drafting or doing an auction online,

Just be very careful with that plus one button. It might just be better off to manually submit your bid amount and then make your bid that way. Just so if someone else jump bids, you don't get kind of caught with that plus one. Here's one that could look really good by tomorrow. That's Hunter Green, by the way. Or could be a total waste by tomorrow.

We are supposed to get some details on Hunter Green's elbow on Wednesday or Tuesday. And Scott's up to four. As somebody who drafted him in the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, I would say I'm tapped out on Hunter Green for now. So it won't be me. All right. I might have just wasted $5 or I might have gotten a $25 player. Yeah.

We'll see. Yeah, $5. You know, you can waste $5 in a league of this size. I was tempted to go six If I hadn't spent as much money as I have yet I just I gotta be so tight-fisted right now Mm-hmm

All right I'm gonna Let's get this Machado moving along a little bit One dollar Two dollars Three dollars I really gotta think about whether Manny Machado is worth four dollars Yeah right Well because it's always like

Yeah sometimes weird things happen And guys do slip through for a lot less and they should. And you know, you don't want to just bump everyone up immediately to what they're supposed to go for because that kind of. No, I get that part of it. The purpose. But it is also like. But we can throw them out for like 10 or 12 and then do it that way, you know.

People are sitting here, you know, having an internal debate about Manny Machado as a $3 player. And it's like he's going to go for 23. He's going to go for what he should. I think a lot of times it's people consulting their spreadsheets or whatever before. So you always get this eight second delay at the start where it's like, oh, my God. I might actually get him. And then he gets spit it up 20 times after that. I did get Manny Machado, by the way, for $23,

which I am happy to do. I don't have to worry about third base. That is a great feeling. There we go. Carter Jensen, Scott. There's no way he wasn't going to be sky high priced. This is the kind of player I can't get in an auction. If I like them too much, I can't get him in an auction.

If I've hyped them too loudly, can't get him in an auction. It's not going to happen. I hear that. Too much heat. Carter Jensen went for $7, by the way. And like, he, you know, if it's 120 picks later, he might go for $4.

Yeah. It's just... That's just the auction dynamic is... When is the player thrown out? Like this one right now, Matthew Boyd. It's just pretty random player to be thrown out this early in the auction, but he's slowly creeping up to five months.

Yeah, I've got him as a $5 player, but it's one that Matthew Boyd is a good player, but probably pretty replaceable. You know, there are probably 40 Matthew Boyds in the pitcher pool. And a bunch of those will go for $2. That's what's always tough. I've warmed up to him lately. I think he's really going to be a good source of whip,

which is mostly what I want from a late round pitcher. So I've moved him up just earlier today. I moved Matthew Boyd up a whole tier. He's now in a separate tier of Andrew Abbott from Andrew Abbott, who before I was linking those two together. Scott, Austin Riley. Yeah, I see it. Just making sure you know.

Matthew Boyd, by the way. I do not. Okay. I do not have a third baseman. Matthew Boyd, and this is something where you guys keep me in check. You tell me, I don't want to overreact. I don't know if I should react at all. But Matthew Boyd, his velocity on his slider has been up like,

two or three miles per hour this spring and he's been getting a ton of whiffs. It might not mean anything, but it's mildly interesting, I think. When I say I've moved him up, that is a thought in my head. That is part of the re-goes into the thinking too. It's like maybe there's a little more strikeout potential.

We've seen it from them in the past. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I mean, if you're old enough to remember, Matthew Boyd's slider used to be a wipeout pitch. It's actually kind of weird that he's an effective pitcher now, and his slider is not really a big part of that. Because that was what we used to get excited about with Matthew Boyd. And now it's, you know, this fastball changeup combo more.

Also, Riley went for $16, by the way. Matthew Boyd for five, and now Vlad Jr. gets thrown out. And this was an interesting one. Again, timing-wise, he's a, you know, early to mid-second round player, but he's getting thrown out pretty late here. And Chris, you get him for 30 bucks. That's my corner infielder, so it's not like... Are you going stars and scrubs, Chris?

I might be backing into it, but I just, you know, $30, Vladimir Guerrero is a pretty good price. I nominated Vladimir Guerrero there because I had a sense, I had a feeling that maybe the bidding was restrained on some of the mid-tier guys that I can't afford anyway. Like, I'm not going to get those guys. I don't have enough money. So I just wanted to get them out there so that hopefully people will be more aggressive in that mid-range where I think the bidding's

been a little suppressed so far. 30 for Guerrero, that actual bid, though, seems perfectly fine. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like, it wasn't part of my plan. I already have Raphael Devers at first base. So Vlad is my corner infielder, and that's now four players of at least $29 for me. So it's going to take some managing the rest of the way, but I feel confident in my ability to not hit click for about an hour. Let's see if I can actually do that. Because that's kind of the only way you can make Stars and Scrubs work is you have to really... You cannot live in the mid-tier. You just can't. Yeah, you just got to...

You got to just assume that the difference between the 100th player and the 180th player is not worth as much as the impact you get from those big guys. it's a viable approach. It just, it's a little bit of a tightrope walk. And I'm almost certainly not going to get an ace pitcher now. Yeah, we did just have an ace pitcher. Brian Wu go for $23, which I think that was one more than Yamamoto or right around the same price. Yep.

One more. All of those. That tier of SP4 to 14 has kind of been going in that, you know, $20 to $23 range so far. Everybody, everybody except for Christopher Sanchez. that's the one outlier. And DeGrom went for $1 less, yeah. Yeah. So, and Matt McLean goes for $5 having the huge spring here.

See if it matters in the long run. Yeah, I mean, his ADP in March is up to like 175. So we're starting to see the movement. Uh-oh. I wrote about this for today's FBT newsletter, but, you know, kind of looking at like Mick Able and Matt McLean, kind of, I think the two big performance risers so far, this spring. It's a lot easier for me to buy into McAbel because he's going from a 450th player.

You know, McLean, 200 is where he's mostly been this spring. And I think that's fine. And 175 is probably not bad, but it is like you are starting to reach a point where like, that's serious movement. You know, Matt McLean has probably moved up 40 spots since January now. Yeah. Yep. That's fair. seven really good games, seven really good partial games. I'm not saying there's nothing there, but it's tough, I think. Bryce Terang got thrown out, and I wondered, would Scott White get in on his guy? Of course he would.

And he did. I did for about $5 less than I have him for batting average. I think he will help with batting average. And he'll just so happen to help with steals, and he'll do it at a very weak position. So I was able to rationalize that in my head very quickly. And I could afford that kind of purchase. I could afford to spend $20 on a position still. But can't do it.

Can't do it much more. Yep. Starting to add up a little bit here. Yep. Yep. James Wood is currently for a lot. I have plenty of speed. I feel like I'm getting there on batting average.

So like in terms of balancing category, I think I'm doing okay. It's not like I'm in a real desperate spot there. I don't have a pitcher yet. But this is where you like to be, right, Scott? If it makes you feel any better, I don't really have a pitcher either. Chris has a hundred. Chris has half of a picture.

You were saying, how did you put it if you're going to go stars and scrubs? You probably can't afford to be the one who splurges on Hunter Green. Well, it might work out. $5 is a splurge. I mean, like I was thinking more like you can't go nine. on a player you really want. You just have to let it go. James Wood goes for $21, so back-to-back $21,

for him and Bryce to rang. And we do get another top-tier closer thrown out, Andres Munoz. I believe the only one was Mason Miller for 19. Does that sound right? That sounds right, yeah. Okay. Oh, big old jumpid, up to 17 for Andres Munoz.

Went from 12 to 17. and that'll get it. Boom. All right. That is an example of the jump bid working out quite well. From 12 to 17. That is the final

bit. By the way, while we're on the topic of auction drafts, did you guys see Justin Mason in, was it tout? That was the labor 12 team mixed.

This labor mixed. Auction spent $9 on his pitcher, on his starting pitching staff. Scott, nine total dollars Nine total dollars on his pitching staff. $1 for each pitcher.

I didn't get a closer. Well... I think he got Taylor Rogers, so... Yeah, not a good one. He might have gotten Victor Vodick. Did he feel like job well done, or was he tilting? I'm pretty sure if you do that,

it's probably something you planned beforehand. Yeah, I think... Probably. Yeah. Oh, geez, that is a great price on Hunter Goodman. Okay. Better call Saul? I am beating myself up for...

for Chey Langaleers at $18, my goodness. Yeah, I mean, look, the price was fine, but yeah, the... I mean, this is now where we're starting to see some of those kind of top-tier catchers are going for a little bit cheaper than we expect. Maybe. Scott and I aren't allowed to bid anymore. No, I only have one catcher. No, no, I just mean in general.

You and I both need to save some money. Hunter Goodman went for 16, so same... I might have a few tricks of my sleeve still. 16 for Goodman is a discount, but... Scott, those are very short sleeves. Not that it is, yeah, I'm wearing a short sleeve shirt. Goodman and William Contreras went for 16 each. And $2 less than I spent on Langalear.

So that's, um, take that's, take that, that is the risk being the first person. The risks with tiers are the first person to draft or the last person drafting a tier. You can, it's very easy to overspend in those two. specific instances. The problem is only one of them you know you're going to have to overspend. Man, Sean Millerick is kind of the master of the one second bid just getting that in right before and kind of throwing everybody off and he winds up getting Edwin Diaz for $19. Sean Millerick, a newcomer to the Memorial Magazine League, the one newcomer this year.

Everyone else is returning from a year ago. This is your last year playing because you keep bidding at the last second. There you go. A classic nomination of a guy they know everybody on the podcast hates. I mean, I'll take it for... I'll take him for two bucks. Yeah, two bucks is.

I'm not going to let him go for a dollar. I would be totally fine with it. I would have taken him for two. You'd be two. Oh, he's at three now. Okay. I mean, at four... At four bucks, it still might not be bad. No, I mean, I've got him as a $2 player,

but his consensus values four. Yeah, I'm going to get it for four. I'll do it. Do it, Frank. I'll do it. I mean, you might not. Who cares what Chris thinks. Yeah.

Alandra Kirk. Come on down. Be me up. Four bucks. I'll take it. It's fine. It's only just fine, you know. Oof.

Bryce Terang just missed a homer. Your boy, Scott. You're a little ahead of me. All right. Well, should I not say anything then? I don't want to ruin anything for anybody else. I'm about seven seconds, mine. Well, most of, you have to remember most people.

are listening to this about 12 hours later. You know what, Chris? You're absolutely right. So if you're spoiling anything in the World Baseball Classic game between USA and Mexico at 8 p.m. on Monday, that's kind of on you. You gotta watch the game at that point. Yeah.

Can't listen to a podcast beforehand. We've got ourselves, Roman Anthony, one of the hype guys right now, fantasy baseball. And he's getting up there, $21. Same price as James Wood. Same price as Bryce Terang. very good price for James Wood by the way. I kind of missed that one at that point.

Speaking of Roman Anthony, just got thrown out of the plate. How about that? So Anthony for 21, Olson, Olson endeavors, again, were 22. Durang was 21. Yeah. James Wood was 21. I should probably nominate some much.

Predomo 22, Merrill White 19. All guys in that same. Anthony, a hype guy. So I guess that's another example of his auction value getting pushed up. Everybody, everybody came into this draft, or at least, you know, a handful of people came into this draft thinking they were going to be the ones to get Anthony. Mm-hmm. And only one can. All right, so a bunch of the other catchers have gone for 16. Let's see with Augustine Ramirez,

who brings that rare out of category speed. So if you guys really wanted to be jerks, I could have just, I could have won Augustine Ramirez for a dollar as my utility bat, because I've already filled my two catch response, but, again, I'm just trying to get catchers off the board. I feel so bad for you, Frank. Yeah, for a dollar, right? But that's why I did. I'm like, you know, look, Augustine Ramirez is going to go for money,

and I've already got my two catcher spots filled, so I'll throw them out there, get some money off the table. Agustin Ramirez goes for 15, by the way. Okay. And here is Freddie Freeman. I thought Freeman already went. No, we've got, we still got a few first baseman left. Is he the end of the...

No, there's... He's got Alonzo. There's still Alonzo. There's Josh Naler, Vinnie P. Baby. Did you nominate him, Scott? I did. Mm-hmm.

All right, getting up there now. Up to 18 for Freeman. Scott, will he do it? You let him go. It seems like it skipped the last second there at the end, but probably for my benefit. I came in wearing the Freddie Freeman shirt. Is that a Dodgers one?

It is a Dodgers one, yeah. Oh, all right. Um, so I'd hope to get him. And 18's a fine price for him, but I, you know, I got too many other needs. Yep. Would have helped with batting average, but I have Olson at first base and other needs. Uri Perez is thrown out, another one of those kind of hype pitchers right now, and he's up to 15. Oh, oh.

$16 for Yuri Perez. and I mean that's what Kyle Bradish went for Yeah That's kind of That's probably okay Yeah

That's the height Pitcher price right there Maybe It's a little higher Than we have him for But Yeah It's okay

People like them For good reason If people just hear Gutterall sounds Coming from me By the way That's again It's

I'm reacting to To the WBC So I apologize What a professional I am Gavin Williams That's one of

Scott's guys It's true. We haven't seen many pitchers from this tier yet get thrown out. Yep, nope. He does not help with whip. I also have not really seen anything about him in spring. His velocity's been down a little. Okay.

I've noticed that. Not enough to raise alarm, but enough that I've noticed it. Still nine strikeouts, one walk. That's not bad in eight innings. Yeah. He goes for $9, which is right what I have him for. Mm-hmm. I haven't for nine as well, yeah.

Logan Gilbert, is he the last of the Aces? No. There's still Max Reed, Hunter Brown. Yep. They're probably the last of the Aces. Gilbert up to 17, 18 for Chris. He should go for close to 25, I would think. That magic number has kind of been that $22.23 range.

22, 23. Ooh, almost one for 20. Frank jumps in, gets it up to 21. Seems a little bit too cheap for Logan Gilbert. I got to enforce that one a little bit. Now he's up to 23. Yep, which is where he should go. We'll see if anybody jumps in at the end.

Nope, that's the number. That is the number. It is funny how a certain tier at a position, a deep tier, you'll see players go for the exact same number. And speaking of the tiers, perhaps one of the last in that third round tier of first baseman is Pete Alonzo

thrown out right about now. Who some would tear separately. It seems like by ADP, he goes, some would say he's more than Nick Kurt's Vladimir Guerrero tier. So he should approach 30. He's definitely sped by Matt Olson, Raphael Devers, Bryce Harper already, up to 25. It's stalling out here, though.

Might stop at 25. It does to our defending champ. That's where. And that seems like it makes sense. You know, that's not. Just looking at our consensus, we have, in order of our consensus rankings, we have Lindor, Yorna Alvarez, Pete Alonzo, Pekar Armstrong. They went for 27, 26, 25.

25. So the price for Alvarez actually matches where other players in his tier are going, just not, not necessarily at first base. But I think this is, you know, he's right between Vlad at 30 and Devers and Harper and Olson at like 22. I think they all went, basically. Yeah. That's, that's more what Alonzo should be going. He's got to see who was the first to 23 on Hunter Brown. It is B-Dahn and he wins him for 23. That is just put out a Logan Webb for 23 and he's yours. So it was at 21 and it was about to go and I jumped in at 22 on Hunter Brown and had immediately had like a sinking feeling like, oh, I can't afford that. So I was relieved.

B. Don gets both Hunter Brown and Logan Gilbert for $23. Mm-hmm. I'm solid. I wonder if he had any other high-end pitchers. You mentioned he had the two 40-plus-dollar hitters in Otani and Witt. Those are his first two pitchers, Hunter Brown and Loki Gilbert. Otani, but yeah, that's... Interesting that Yohan Duran gets thrown out at this point and goes for 19.

The same price as Mason Miller. I think $1 more than Edwin Diaz. Not really the end of a tier either, because you've still got Kate Smith out there. You've still got... Is that the last of that tier of closers? because Edwin Diaz I mean you mentioned Kate Smith is still there

and yeah there's like David Bednar is still out there so if you tear him there some people might not I think he's a clear tier below

those other guys Bednar at least All right let's see if the Homer could get his gay Oh no Sean Mellarick He does it again

He's out of here Max Reed The Marlins fan steals your Homer pick He is out of here that Sean Millerick. Last year, Sean. Yeah, I did

won Max Fried as my SP2, but it's all good. I was a $20.00, baby winds up going for 21. And now we get Will Smith of the Dodgers. Which means by the standards of this league, this auction room, Max Fried is a little less than an ace at 21 versus 23.

Yeah. I have him ahead of some of the 23 guys, but... 80P kind of reflects that as well. Yeah. But yeah, it does feel like maybe you're a little bit higher on Freed, Scott, overall. Yep. There's just, the one thing I can't get past with Freed is just like,

is that forearm slash elbow going to be a problem at some point? It's so interesting because I was scared of him last year because of that, and you guys were on him, and now Chris, we've reversed. Well, but I think the difference is last year he was going like a hundredth, and now he's... That's fair. You know, a couple rounds more expensive. So one thing that did kind of calm my nerves was just the fact that the Yankees signed him to the biggest contract for a left-hander ever.

Yeah. It is a little scary that his velocity was up in his first season with the Yankees, too. Obviously, they put, you know, they're not agreeing to that deal unless, obviously they conducted a physical. And I imagine a thorough one, given the history of freed with the forearm. Yeah. All right, Scott, you need your batting average. Here comes Boba Chet. Shortstop eligible now?

Should you have a third baseman, Scott? He does not have a third baseman. Don't, of course, I can't slot. I'll have to draft one. Whoever drafts Bichette will have to draft a third basement separately because he's not eligible there yet. Whoever drafts Bo Bichette. And it's me, a.k.a. Scott.

$16. That's exactly what I budgeted for him. Nice. So it's a dollar more than I have him for, but it fits the need. categorical and positional. So I'm fine with it. And that's probably the last hitter I'm going to spend on. All right.

Let's take another break. Logan Webb is currently up to $19. We'll see how much he goes for. We'll do that right after this. Welcome back in Fantasy Baseball today. It's our live 12-team Roto auction. This is a league that we're playing out. It is not a mock draft.

And it appears we've had our first snafu of the day as Logan Webb went for 19 but there was an accidental plus one click. Well, I don't know if it was a plus one. We'll redo it for him. He's saying he accidentally clicked. He didn't mean to bid at all. Oh, okay.

So we'll redo Logan Webb. I know Brandon. Yeah, okay. We got him up. 18. Atkins is the lead bidder. Is somebody going to, somebody else going to go 19 on Logan Webb here?

Didn't seem like anybody else wanted. too. Yeah. He, I mean, it's just relative to the rankings. That's a good price for Logan Webb, $18. But he presents a complication in building a roto team because, you know, the whip's probably going to be over 1.2, which is a bad whip. And it's, you know, his main strength is innings.

So you're getting that 120 whip weighted heavier than even for the average starting pitcher. Yeah, the food is bad and the portions are really big. Yeah, that's the problem there, yeah. Yeah, I mean, look, I don't want to poo-poo everything because, like, Logan Webb gave us a bunch of strikeouts last year. It's a 2002 strikeouts, right? It's a good ERA. But, again, you've got to be careful with that whip

because he gives you so much volume of innings that that whip is actively detrimental to your team. So you just got to play it the right way. Garrett Atkins does have a pitching staff that should be able to survive that. anything, you might be going a little too heavy on pitching because this was the drafter who had skeins in school for $77 combined. Oh wow. Also has Logan Webb for 18, Yuri Perez for 16 and Spencer Strider for 10s. Oh, that is a lot of expensive pitching staff. Look, it can work. Yeah, there are lots of different ways to win.

But that's an unorthodox for sure. And if I were doing, you know, pocket aces essentially skeeens scubel, skeeons crochet, whatever it is, I'm trying to go as cheap as possible with the rest of the pitching staff, but that's not the only way to win, certainly. Also, Salvador Perez for $10. Nice bye. I'm just going to stop throwing catchers out. I keep doing that because my catchers are filled,

but they're all going for good values, and I'm getting more frustrated the more that they go. And so Salvador Perez for $10, I hate slash love it. I love it because I think it's a good price. I still like Perez this year. I hate it because I got Languiliers for 18. You hate that it didn't happen for you. You double hate it. You triple hate it because Greg Lathrop,

defending champ, four and seven years. He's the one who got Salvi. Yeah. For $10. Will Smith, do we bypass Will Smith a few picks to go for 13? 13. Pretty good price, too. Yeah. Yep. All right, I thought there might be another bargain on CJ Abrams,

but he's going to go for about what he should. Yep, up to $19 for C.J. Abrams. It's a steal, apparently. coming to get maybe they're coming to get Greg for that Salvador Perez one. It's always, it's always good timing for that.

Let's see. I don't know if I want to do that. I threw out O'Neill Cruz because I don't want him and I want other people to bid on him. But I originally had it for a $5 nomination and I figured he

wouldn't go for less than five. But I really didn't want to end up with it. So, uh, I throw him to $10 immediately, and it might just end at 11. It looks like it is. That's pretty surprising. Now, Chris Mitchell is the one who won him,

and Chris Mitchell is also the one who took O'Neill Cruz, I believe it was in round four of the head-to-head points league. So Chris Mitchell is still a big believer in O'Neill Cruz. Yeah. I wonder if I would have went one more buck. Maybe I could have squeezed a couple more out of him. No. You want to play the price enforcement game here, Frank?

It doesn't always end well. I wouldn't have been upset with a $12.0. Neo Cruz. I just assumed he would go for more than that. Nick Povetta, interestingly, he's dealing with that arm injury that his manager, Craig Stammon says is not serious. But I guess it does throw a forearm fatigue, right? A little bit of doubt in there. I think they just said arm fatigue, but yeah, it's. Yeah, Nick Povetta himself said like,

this wouldn't be an issue during the regular season and he's going to be pitching then. But you know, you can dismiss that if you want. I think it doesn't sound serious. I'm winning Nick Pavetta for $7 as the first member of my budget pitching staff. And it's pretty good. Yeah, I got a lot of PCA. I got a lot of Pavetta this year.

One of my favorite busts last year and one of my favorite busts this year. They are. That is the state. of drafting in 2026 where sometimes the best sleepers are the ones everybody's skeptical of. All right Josh Naler is up to 15 bucks. Pretty good price. Anybody, anybody, there you go. I'm going to let you have that, Frank. It was too good. Come on, Scott. Still too good. $16. Come on. 2030 guy at first base. Oh gosh. And then Sean comes in with the last second pit again. I can't bid on him.

I want to, but I've spent too much money on hitting. I got to buy all the Nick Povettas of the world. 17 is what Josh Naylor goes for. Yeah. Dollar less than Freeman, so from that perspective, is probably fine. But Freeman went for too little, too. Yeah. These kind of second-tier players, I think the values have been terrific.

Luis Robert is now thrown out with the New York Mets. I don't believe he's appeared in a spring game yet. Did I make that up? I know they've been kind of slow playing it. with Luis Robert? I don't think he has not played in spring games. I do not believe yet. There is, looks like the most recent report,

he could make his debut on Thursday, which should give him enough time to get the necessary reps. But I am very skeptical of the Mets plan to keep him healthy. But maybe. Yeah, and it's not really anything against the Mets. It's more so just Luis Robert. like can he stay healthy himself you know Chris Mitchell wins Louis Robert

for $9 he is building like the all the all power speed bad plate discipline team yeah the all athletic but with major hit tool questions team between Robert Cruz I mean C.J. Abrams kind of in that category as well I thought Jacob Wilson had a really good hit tool

does he have Jacob Wilson no Scott said all athletic oh Anytime you have to explain a joke, that's when you know the joke really landed. Yeah. I mean, I'm pretty sure you just have to explain every joke to me. What happened to my game? It went off.

Gosh. Chris Mitchell's got Augustine Ramirez, too. Not that I think he has a bad hit tool, but even an athletic catcher. Yeah, I think Augustine Ramirez is good hit tool. Byron Buxton, Noel V. This is Chris Mitchell's team. He's got a tight, man. Yeah, good, good hit tool, bad play discipline, I think is the Augustine Ramirez.

He swings a lot. Yeah. Riley Green for $13, which is a little bit of a bargain. Yeah, that's pretty good. I know Frank and I have him as bust anyway. Yeah. I mean, it's definitely lower compared to what his ADP is. Yeah.

I'm very interested to see where Nella McLean goes. He's sitting at 12. That's right where our. consensus is. I don't know if there's enough money around right now to get Nolan McLean up where he probably needs to be. I was the $12 bid and I would have been happy with that but now he's up to 14. I jumped in 13. It didn't even have a chance to show up because Chris Mitchell got him for 14. Yeah. Chris Mitchell kind of. That's what's going to happen.

Chris Mitchell living in that mid tier just grabbing a bunch of these, you know, 10 to $15 players right now. Mm-hmm. Ooh, all right, all right. Who has the fewest players of the three of us so far? I've got six. I have eight. Two, four. I have six as well.

Okay. There's got to be some people who don't have anyone then, because there's 95 picks and you do the math. Average would be about six, right? No. Yeah. Seven. These bids are creeping on Joe Ryan.

Yeah. People are taking, making this one real slow. Yeah. Has Joe Ryan pitched this spring? I don't think he has. I think he was dealing with that back injury. What could go wrong?

It's still pretty cheap, Scott. I can't let you get that. Yeah. Yeah, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go 14. Do I want to do it? I don't know. Yeah, I'll do it. Yeah, I did it.

He did it. I'm not sure I'm sad about it. 15 is right where I have Joe Ryan, so I'll let you have him for 15. Yeah, I have him for 18, so I'm good with it. Let's just, let's hope that back is okay. Yeah. There you go, Frankie. Cody B.

Oh, no, that's not what I was referring to. Oh, Cody Bellinger? No. Did something happen in the game? Yeah. Yeah, my TV went off. I don't know what happened. Did Scott just fall?

Did he just get up and like run away without saying a single thing? I hope everything's okay. Scott, you're right? He doesn't have his headphones on yet. This is a mystery. I hope everything's okay. Hi, Scott, everything okay? Yeah, everything's okay.

I just heard noise and then you're gone. Scott fall? A kid was up and I had to. Okay, I figured it was a kid. Addressed that. Uh-oh. Oh, man, this is a good price for Bellinger. Yeah, yeah.

Frank jumped in at the last second to get him to 15, and he takes him down at 15. Yeah, I can't. I'll do it. It's a good price. I can't spend any more on hitting, though, unfortunately. I hear you. I had budgeted for Bellinger coming in.

I thought he would be my top outfielder. Okay, good. Good cheap catcher to throw out there. Edgar Caro. He is a decent number two catcher, but probably not too much more decent. I will say he hit for more power in the miners than he did as a major leaguer. And I do think there's at least some mild breakout potential for Edgar Caro, who's the kind of, is he a backup?

I don't think he's a backup for the White Sox. Him and Kyle Tealer are basically going to be in the lineup every day. Mikel Garcia. Edgar Carroll. You need a third baseman. You need batting average. You need stolen bases. Edgar Carroll Winford Buck, by the way.

Yeah. Mikel Garcia. I love him. I love him, but I already got Machado. So I'm out today on Mikel Garcia. Yeah. Not your Cal Garcia. Oh, 16.

Pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah, that's right where I have him. I like that. All right, Frank, you got a nomination here. I'm going to switch up from Catcher and throw out a third basement, since I've already filled my third base file with Mani Machado. I'll throw out Alex Bregman, a third baseman I don't really want.

But if I win him for a dollar, which I won't. Here is our 100th pick. So only two-thirds of the draft left. Wow. We're approaching break time here. Yeah, when do we break, Scott? Usually around 125. Take a little 10-minute break.

Makes sense. We won't shut down the podcast. We'll keep it rolling. But I am going to have to go pick up a Diet Coke. I'm fading a little here, guys. Yeah. Yeah. Scott's got to get his mound due.

Sure. That does sound really good right now. Breggman for 10 bucks. That's fine. Not a bad price. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. I thought about going to 11, but it's just...

Our consensus values have them at 11. Mm-hmm. All right. Let's do this. If I get it typed in time. Yeah. Is that how you want to do? Scott? Yeah. Nominating Jack Lighter for a buck. Seeing if I can tempt someone to go to and I do

be done of Razball who has spent a lot of money already and he's got a $2 jack lighter. Got to grab some some cheap guys. Yep. Jack Lighter really good down the stretch of last season. And implementing a new cutter I believe Chris. Jack Leiter? I think that sounds correct. Yes. not a bad player to gamble on let's get this guy out there uh jacob Mizirowski you know what they say about the Miz

I don't have it loaded up on my soundboard gosh what a fail because I'm the Miz and I'm awesome right yeah but it would have been better if I had it already go I think it's from season I think it's from season seven of the real world shout out to the Miz man

I'm going to make that my personality I'm going to be the guy that anytime the Mizz comes up I'm only going to know him from real world I'm going to have no clue about the fact that he's a multi-time W.W. champion. Jacob Mizzierowski went for $7.

I was on the real world New Orleans. You know what? He can't be that awesome. He went for seven. A lot of those hype guys were going for like 15, 16. Nolan McLean went for 14. McLean, sorry. And the Mizz went for seven. So that's a pretty good price. Yeah.

Yeah. Chris, I just got the game on at the perfect time. I don't know if I'm way behind or if I'm, this is happening live. But Roman Anthony, I just saw a three-run number. Yeah, just got a Roman bomb for Team USA. Okay, Vinny P, no real discount there. He's going to go for 15 or maybe 16. He goes for, well, he hasn't gone for 16, but Frank bids him up to 16.

16, so you get Vinny P and you get Cody Ballinger, right, for a combined 32? Is that how it worked out? 31. 31. 31. Ballinger was only 15. Yep. VP!

I like that. I like the Bellinger one especially, but Vinny Pee, not bad. That's 16. Yeah, I like what Frank's got going on right now. Thank you, man. Got the catchers filled out, got some Vinny P. Oh, man. Owen Casey for a dollar.

Good dollar player. I just can't bring myself to go $2 on Owen Casey. Did you see him hit the home run into the Canadian flag during the WBC game? I did not. That's phenomenal. Yeah, he hit a home run to right field and the person who caught it had the Canadian flag. It landed right in the middle of the flag. It was awesome.

Sean Millerick, I believe he blogs or podcasts about the Marlins. Yes, he is a fellow Marlins fan. Yeah. So he I think it's a podcast I think he has a podcast right Marlins after dark Forgive me Sean if I'm not

citing it correctly George Springer kind of a slow burn right now That's a good price Yeah it is 13 Come on Greg Greg coming in I've been a little aggressive lately on these $15 players

I think maybe I gotta slow it down a little bit Or else I would probably be in here You could have done it with the $25 players like I did. Yeah. Or the $30 players like I did. Yeah, I mean, 16.

People seeing all different kinds of strategies here between us. Springer for 16, one more dollar than Bellinger. It's making me a little nervous. I know some of the first round types went for quite a bit more than my projected values. But we're consistently seeing players go for less now. It kind of makes me worried about the end game that the values we're accustomed to seeing there. They won't be quite as plentiful or...

Yeah, but we're at Pick 107, and there's only, I think, four teams with $100 left. So there's not going to be a ton of money to throw around. Okay. Weatherholt's an interesting one. Probably too early to get him for anything reasonable. Just homered again today. Yeah. He's at four to Doc?

That's not bad. And I'll get him. That wasn't bad. Yeah. I mean, I have Weatherholted, too, just because that's where he comes out in my rankings. But, you know, more upside than guys ahead of him. He's kind of a FOMO guy, too. Yeah, I just wasn't paying attention, honestly.

By the end of March, I've got to have at least one share of J.J. Weatherholtz. Eugenio Suarez. We saw Riley go for 16, I believe. Suarez should go for at least 15. Might go for 14. All right. So, Scott, so far there have been $2,142 spent on 107 players. Our consensus values had those players worth 2032.

So we are seeing about, it's only about 6% inflation, which is not a huge number. for this point in the auction. I would think you usually see a little more inflation among the top 100 guys. So yeah, there will probably be more money left over than we're used to at this, you know, the rest of the draft. Yeah. Yeah.

Suarez went for 13 bucks, by the way. And now we've got George Kirby. Kirby who is throwing a cutter this spring and has a, traditional change-up that he's throwing now. Last year, he struggled with the feel for the splitter, kind of ditched it, went back to his old change-up a little bit. He's leaning on just the change-up this year.

And I just look at it and, you know, we don't have the arm-angle data, but the way I look at George Kirby is, I'm not even saying he's bad because I don't think he's bad. The one thing I would say is the George Kirby that we know before 2025, I think is a different pitcher now. And I'm not quite clear if he's a better pitcher. I think he's a better strikeout pitcher because he lowered his arm slot, got more lateral movement on his pitches. But we did see worse results on balls and play. We saw worse walk rates.

I don't know yet. I think Kirby's still good. Uh-huh. But I'm not sure that he's the ace. I'm waiting to see the arm angle because my understanding was it wasn't intentional, lowering the arm angle. His shoulder was hurting him. And so his arm started dripping.

Yeah. I haven't seen a quote from him either way. Ditching the splitter. In absence of data confirming whether the arm angle is back or not, ditching the splitter would seem to suggest he's more remaking his, arsenal for the arm angle he has. Yeah. As opposed to getting that old arm ankle back, which makes me nervous. It's why I was fine letting him go to Frank for 15. Yeah. Um, the $135 million man only up to $12. That's a nice discount for Hazers Lazzardo relative to what the Phillies just

agreed to pay him. Yep. Five got a big extension. Five years, $135 million is the extension. I, um, that extension is probably fine. That is probably what he should get. I would not want to be the team that gives him that extension personally, but that is maybe my own bias having watched him for years as a Marlon. I didn't realize. I didn't realize Aaron Judge Homer tonight, Chris. Yeah, that's what I was trying to tell you about earlier. Thank you. I ended up winning Luzardo for 14. By the way, $1 below Kirby. I haven't ranked ahead of Kirby, so I'm fine with that. He's, he's, going to be my most expensive pitcher. All right. And the $15 range has been treating me very well. I got Kirby for 15, Joe Ryan for 15, Bellinger for 15, Vinnie P, 16. But I'm kind of cooling it on pitching for a while. So I threw Freddie Peralt out there to get some pitching money off the board right now. And he is going for 12.

We are going to take our final break and we'll catch you up right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today, and this is our live 12-team Roto auction here. We'll be live streaming the entire thing here on YouTube. We'll do about the first two hours on the audio side, and then we'll finish it up on YouTube on video. And Freddie Peralta went for 14. Same price as Jesus Lizardo. Yes, that seems about right, especially Kirby. You got going for 15.

It seems like we have an established range for this. this class of starting pitchers just outside the ace tier which is about 27 pitchers deep Scott you threw Andrew Painter for a dollar was that with the hope of winning him or for him to go for more than a dollar I could live without Painter I'd be fine with him for a dollar I didn't see myself going two dollars on him

Doc Eisenhower who loves the youths he ended up winning Andrew Painter for exactly two dollars All right. Let's do this. Chris, it's your knob, not. And I have been the master this year in the auctions I've done at throwing out a player for $1, who then goes for $2. That is not always in a way I appreciate.

Lawrence Butler. I've seen some really, I've seen an extreme amount of caution around Butler. Yes. I thought I ranked pretty conservatively. He hasn't at least he didn't today did he hasn't appeared in the spring game yet No coming back from the surgery I haven't seen anything that he's like Definitely out for the start of the season, but it's a little concerning that we haven't That we haven't seen him in the spring game yet

Yeah, no, I I think he's supposed to appear Okay, you get him for seven Frank I was thinking about it I think he's supposed to appear like They've set mid-March for his spring debut so I I don't think there's a lot of concern about him not being ready for the start of the season. And it may be a great time to buy on him now. Yeah. The problem is he had surgery in his right knee for a torn pataller tendon.

And he had a PRP injection for tendonitis in his left knee. For a guy who, you know, presumably relies a lot on his athleticism is definitely concerning. He did talk about how the knee pain he was playing through. last year and it was pretty early how it kind of it he basically stopped running because he was in a lot of pain it sounds like and that also puts a different perspective on the season he had that maybe it was afflicted by injury that's more than just variance or him regressing to the mean it was just he was playing hurt it's all theoretical right now though we don't i think it's valid theory

But particularly given that he's not playing in spring games yet, and we don't know if just the recovery is going to impact him at the start of the year, Butler is turning out to be what we worried would be the case for Ozzy Albies. Ozzy Albies is looking fine. It looks like he's not going to feel any lingering effects from his surgery on his hand. He's playing, he's homering, he looks great. And so, you know, it even furthers the theory that Ozzy Albies was a disappointment last year. because he was afflicted by the wrist injury from the previous year,

the way he's looking at spring. But Butler, it's a similar situation just without the same assurances. All right, catching people up here. Jaron Duran went for 14. Chase Burns just went for 12. I got Lawrence Butler for 7. Andrew Painter went for 2. So those are the last four.

Chase Burns at 12. How do you guys feel about that? Fine. I would like to get him at 11. I probably would have gone at 12, but I couldn't do 13. Aaron Ola, thrown out for a dollar. Almost went for a look. I thought about going to 13 for Chase Burns,

but with no other starting pitchers on my team except for Hunter Green, I can't really. You probably shouldn't just have a staff of Reds pitchers who have had arm injuries in the past, like, 12 months. Yeah. I love Chase Burns. Like, he's a breakout pick for me. I think he is going to be one of the best strikeout pitchers in baseball,

certainly on a per inning basis. But I find I'm reluctant when Bush comes to shove to actually take him. And I think I'm going to regret it. I think I'm going to look back when the season's over and say, oh man, look how affordable he was. Why didn't I do that? it's it's just i i even have i even have a slight concern he doesn't make the team just because of the tone the red staff is taking every start he makes this spring where it doesn't it hasn't

gone well um and they say well you know he's learning um he's their their their perspective seems to be he's got a lot to learn still we can't expect him to be a finished product and yeah And so I don't know, I don't know exactly what that means for his, they have, they have other contenders for the rotation. Obviously, if the Hunter Green injury ends up serious, it's a bit fewer the number of contenders, but they have a number of them rat louder, especially looking good this spring. Catching people up here. Bobby, which just made a real, real nice play at shortstop. That was, that was real cool, real cool. Oh, yeah. Very nice. Danesby Swanson went for six

Christian Yellich for 10 Aranola for two so we're getting some I like both of those prices Yelich for 10 and Swanson for six I struggled not laughing I thought about it yeah so I couldn't process it I was in on both but you know

it's hard to talk and think at the same time about something other than what you're talking about I hear that speaking of Ozzy Albies he's up and we all like him let's not speak about Aziolvi Ozzy Albiz. Up to 10.

Do you get to 11, Chris? I probably shouldn't, no. Do it. Yeah, I can't do. I'm not going to do it either. I mean, I would have been happy with... Our consensus is 10. I would have been happy with Albies for 10.

I got Terang for 21. And what's kind of throwing me is I have middle infield filled already with Boba Schett, but of course the plan isn't actually to play him at middle infield. So I still need a middle infielder. And I probably should have gone seven on Swanson. Maybe should have gone 11 on Albys.

But you can't put guys in your reserves. No. I don't have DH filled so I can stick a middle infielder there. Cheap price for Seeger, man, thinking about it. But, oh. There you go, Scott. Do it. I'll do it.

Spend the money for us. A little bit of discount. Stop your. belly aching. Get your middle infielder. There you go. There you go. You got him.

Corey Seeger for 12. It's a good price. Our consensus values have them at 16. I need these last two teams that are still over $100 to start spending. I'm trying to wait until I'm the most money left before I get back in aggressively. How much do you have left? 101. I mean, you're one of the top ones, though, right?

I'm third. Okay, I think you could jump back in. Josh, Hayter, up to 12, despite the biceps injury here. Yeah, that's a little steep, I think. Yep. He is expected to throw off a mound sometime this week, I believe. So, could end up being fine, but yeah, it's a little scary. Mm-hmm.

And this is just the way that I draft. I'm not saying everyone else has to do this, but if I won Josh Hader, I would make it a priority to get Brian and Preyu on my team as well. I may have just added that guy to my cue to see if we can bump that price up. Randy, Rosarena, get that.

Yeah, get that price up. Come on now. I got Bellinger for 15. Yeah, this is looking good for a Rosarena. Yeah, Roserina. Everything's kind of stalling out at 11 or 12 right now. That mid-tier, everything in that mid-tier is going for cheap right now.

Hmm. Mm-mm. I don't know. I don't know if I should have gone 12 on Seeger. I mean, it's a great. It's a great price, Guy. We'll see how the rest of the team turns out. It is.

I am. I am spread thin. Are you dollar days yet? Not quite. I have $45 left in one, two, three, four. Thirteen spots. Yeah. Yeah.

So a little more than $3 a spot. David Bednar up right now. He's at 12. I'll go 13. Do you like to get? I'm clearly not buying a quote unquote safe closer. That is not. No.

That is not in the cards for me. Yeah. Which I don't mind. I feel like, yeah, that's pretty typical of your strategy. Yeah. I did get David Bednar for 13, which I'm happy with. It makes a huge difference, whether it's 12 team rotor like this one. or 15 team roto how casually you can treat closer um scott are we planning on taking a break right now

uh let's get this last yeah 125 yeah oh geez garrick cole is who i nominated and immediately people jumped on that it's up to three all of a sudden i am pretty low in money too i i have 33 so that is that's me and you are pretty low down there scott i actually have 12 dollars less than you do so in it four docks back in at five I was well that was might have been a dumb thing if I had gotten Garrickle after already having Hunter Green yeah uh oh dangerous yeah all right we're gonna go on a little bit of a break here we'll look at our teams though talk about some we're just taking a break from the action yeah what we will do here is we will sign off the audio side of things and then we'll keep things rolling on the YouTube side so we can go over

our teams but we'll take a little break from the nominations for now and then we'll get back into the auction so let's wrap things up taking a look at each of our teams and we will start with chris who on the hitting side has yiner diaz and francisco alvarez as his catchers then rafel devours auto lopez matt chapman trey turner jacob wilson and vlad junior and in the outfield we have Fernando Tautice, Corbyn Carroll, Michael Harris, Ian Hap, Justin Crawford, and the DH is D.H. is Dalyle. So definitely spent up early, Chris, on some big names. And then, you know, you waited a while. You filled it out pretty nicely here. How do you feel? I think it came together okay. Um, there are obviously some weak spots. But in looking at the

whole lineup. I think the only one where I don't have a player who I think will be a starting caliber player is maybe second base. And even then, I like Otto Lopez enough that I, you know, we talked about it earlier. I could see a 270, 15 to 20 homers, 15 to 20 steals outcome pretty easily from him to a point where, you know, he's probably not like a must start guy, but he could sneak into the back end of the top 12 fairly easily. So, For, you know, the sacrifices I had to make to get the high-end stars that I did, I think it's a pretty good team or a pretty good offense, at least. I don't think there's any huge category misalignment here.

I guess home runs I'd be worried about, but batting average and steals both look really good. I need a good Vlad season, I think, in home runs to feel better. But yeah, I do have a couple of... 30 to 30. Yeah, I do have Crawford and Wilson as guys who, you know, might max out at 10 homers. And then Dale and Lyle, I don't quite know. I think there's 15 homer potential there, but, you know, it's not a great bet. So, yeah, power could be a little tougher to come by.

But I am, I do think Francisco Aver has figured out a lot last year. One thing we haven't talked about, he changed his batting stance when he was down in the minors and he kept it this spring. He lost a little bit of weight and he had a 940 OPS after coming back from AAA last year. So if Francisco Alvarez lives up to my expectations, if Raphael Devers is the 35 homer guy, I think, I'm pretty happy with this. All right. On the pitching side, you don't have a pitcher more than $12 on your team, but you pretty much live. lived in the mid tier here. You have Framber Valdez for 12,

Emichion for 12, you have Sandy Alcansara for nine, Ryan Pepio for eight, Luis Castillo for five, Hunter Green for five, Andrew Abbott for two, Casey Meis for one, and then Pete Fairbanks is your loan closer

for eight bucks. Yeah, I've got... Is this the plan, Chris, coming in? Oh, no, of course not. I've got three pitchers who I need to move to the IL to open the seasons. So I'm going to be shopping in those early waiver wires for primarily potential pop-up closers early in the season. There will be someone who emerges as a closer in the first week of the season that we don't expect or see coming.

Look, it's missing the high-end talent at pitcher for sure. But if Alcantra and Framber stay healthy, they're really good volume anchors, who I do expect to pitch pretty well. I know Alcantra, I'm kind of on an island a little bit there, but I think he figured it out in the second half. I think he's going to be a load of mid-3 ZRA guy with a pretty good whip over, you know, potentially 200 plus innings.

So then you have, you know, kind of upsidey guys like I'm at Sheehan, you know, maybe Andrew Abbott, maybe Ryan Pepio. Yeah, so I think it's okay. it's not certainly not the best pitching staff in the league um but i think it could be good enough to stay afloat and then i think it all kind of hinges on hunter green right if this ends up being a serious elbow injury i'm probably screwed uh or at least i'm definitely not going to have a great pitching staff if hunter green is backed by may and pitches like himself or even june i think this pitching staff could be pretty good.

Yeah. In the reserves, you got Justin Steele. Again, I have five AL spots in this league. You got Ernie Clement, Jojo Romero, Alexis Diaz, Bryce Miller, Dylan Beaver, Cam Smith. So taking a few of those, you know, just closer darts, reserve rounds. Yeah, a couple closer darts. Go along with your Pete Fairbanks. Yeah, and then, look, Bryce Miller, all indications were the arm was feeling good this spring.

And the velocity was there. he had the side injury, but he's already backed pitching. So hopefully Bryce Miller's back after a week or two. And Justice Steele, I mean, that's a total wildcard, both him and Hunter Green. I have no idea what to expect. But they're, you know, a $5 flyer and a reserve round guy. So I think it's okay. It's not the ideal way to build a team, I think.

But the star power that I have can go a long way and covering up some of those flaws, hopefully. All right. Let's slide over to Scott's team and we'll take a look, see what we've got at Catcher, Cow Raleigh and Austin Wells, continuing on with the infield Matt Olson, Bryce Tarang, Max Muncie of the Dodgers, Francisco Lindor, Boba Chet, Spencer Torkelson at Corner. Then in the outfield, we have Kyle Tucker, Ramon Luriano, Pete Crow Armstrong, South Freelick, Carson Benj, and the DH is Corey Seeger. So lots of high-end talent up there, Scott,

and then you kind of filled in a lot of the blanks with some three to $5 names there. Yeah, I really like it, though. I think the categories are balanced very well. And other like Carson Binge for a dollar, I don't know if he'll make the team. So that might be a spot that I have to fill. But otherwise, I would just expect to continue to start these players.

Maybe Max Muncie. if the playing time is less than I'm thinking it'll be. But by that point, you know, soon enough, I'll be able to slot Boba Chet, move him over to third base, and then I can move Corey Seeger from D.H. to middle infield. And so then I could stick whoever I want at D.H. And I got a lot of high upside young bats sort of in the Carson binge mold on my bench. And hey, Jordan Lawler having a great spring. Yep, he's one of those high.

The dream is still alive. It is still alive. whether it's third base or outfields or wherever I need him. He was my second pick in the reserve rounds. I should not have any trouble on offense. I think this is really good. All right. On the pitching side, you have Sunny Gray, Kirby Yates, Nick Pavetta.

Let's read him in order of how good they are. I was just going down the line. I had to turn down the team. I'll read it off. I'll read off. Jesus Lazzardo, Nick Povetta, Nick Lodolo, Chris Boobich, Sonny Gray,

and then three, Ryan Nelson, so that's six starting pitchers, and then three relievers, Sir Anthony Dominguez, Ryan Walker, and Kirby Gates. So I went weak on pitching like Chris did,

but I think maybe I wish I had some more strikeouts. That would be the biggest gripe I have with my pitching staff. It's hard to imagine that I'm going to finish, you know, top three or four in that category. I don't know. I mean, Sunny Gray, how many, did he get to 200 last year? Luzardo and Gray should get close to 200 if they're healthy.

Povetta wasn't far off either. Health, I mean, health is always a question. But like, whip, there are no whip problems here except for maybe Sunny Gray, but as good as everyone else is at whip, like, I think I'm going to do really well in that category. Lazzardo. It's pretty straight years of a whip over one. Yeah. But if we do. eliminate the two starts where he was tipping his pitches.

It was a 11-wit, I believe. Are you going to know when to bench him for those, Scott? Well, I just, I would hope he's not going to tip his pitches again. Less than learned, right? I mean, he's got his bag now, so now he can tip his pitches. He doesn't care. Well, no, but it wasn't just last year. Even his good year with the Marlins in 2023 was a 122 whip.

Yeah, I understand. He's a high-ish whip guy. My assumption, though, and I think everybody's assumption based on how he's being drafted, is that he broke out last year. It was a breakout year that was warped a little by those two. Warped a lot, actually. Those two stars were so bad. Yeah, otherwise, if people didn't believe that,

there's no way he'd be drafted as high as he is based on the 390 ERA and the 125 whip or whatever the full season marks were. So, you know, I know Chris is not as high as the consensus on Lozardo. I think I'm maybe a little. a little higher than the consensus on Lozardo, so opinions may vary on that one. But I feel pretty good about my pitching staff other than strikeouts. And saves could become an issue if it doesn't work out for Dominguez and Ryan Walker. But I think it's a good starting point if you're going to go cheap at, if you're not going to pay for saves, you're going to go cheap there.

And you're willing to play the waiver wire, which I think is totally viable in a 12-teamer. hopefully I have enough here you know Yates a wild card not really expecting much from there but hey if he's getting saves for the angels even better and then your reserves you have Cedric Mullins Isaac Collins Jordan Lawler Spencer Schwellenbach

Moises by Astero's Chase the Water and Bryce Eldridge so shooting for some upside names there on the bench outside bats yeah only one pitcher and it's Schwellenbach and pitching was probably weaker for me going into the reserve rounds than hitting. I'd say definitely weaker for me because

why do I need all this hitting? What was I thinking? Should you draft more pitchers in the reserve rounds? They just weren't that appealing to me, honestly. And I think obviously I'll be spending more of my fab dollars, especially early in the season. I think you'll probably have to make a call on one of those DHS

pretty early on. And then obviously you get Schwellenbach on the IL, so you'll have a at least two waiver wire things. things to play with. Maybe if Benj doesn't start the season, maybe three. Yeah, maybe I'll drop him or any of them. If any of these rookies, if they don't start the season, that could free up a spot.

Isaac Collins, I don't think he's so high in that I couldn't drop him. Same as Cedric Mullins. So I'll be playing the Waver Wire for starting pitcher a lot. And there are always starting pitchers emerging early in the season that we don't see coming. So that is my plan moving forward. But I definitely think I can make this teamwork. All right. let's wrap up take a look at my squad here and a catcher i've got chae lango leers and

alexander coortino bryson stott mani machado gunner henderson trevor story royce lewis and then in the outfield i've got uh jackson churio cody bellinger lawrence butler dlyn cruz carry carpenter and my d h is kyle mansardo so i did not grab as many uh high-end names as uh you guys did and i'm just scrolling up and down I think it seems pretty balanced. I mean, what I said towards the end was like maybe the batting average is not so good. But I could see that. I think your strongest source is batting average is probably Machado, maybe Gunner Henderson.

And there are definitely some. Kirk, I guess. I don't know. Alejandro Kirk, yeah, relative to other catchers for sure. Oh, and Jackson Churio. I mean, the thing that you have to keep in mind with any team with Jackson Chirio is like, if all he is is what he's been the last couple of years, he's pretty good. He is what, 22, 23 and very clearly has room to grow 21.

He hasn't turned 22 yet. So that's great. That's one that could really bump your team up if, yeah, I want to say his birthday is like right after opening day. That's why technically Churio did not debut as a 19 year old. but he, yeah, March 11th. So two days from now, Jackson Churio will turn 22, which is pretty nuts. Yeah.

And he's someone that, look, for $30, you kind of are banking on him getting better. And obviously, like, we need the counting stats to jump up for, for Chorio for him to pay off this value. So the power speed is there. He dealt with the hamstring last year, but definitely need those counting stats to come up. Yeah, I think maybe batting average is a little bit light, but I feel pretty good about, I think the power and speed across the board there. Then on the pitching side, I definitely spent a lot more money on my pitching staff.

I've got Garrett Crochet, followed by George Kirby, and Joe Ryan. I also have Robbie Ray, Mike Burroughs, and Tanner Bybee. And my relievers, I have David Bednar, Griffin, Jacks, and Wiley O'Brien. So, I mean, it's a good pitching staff. It's just, you know, did I spend too much? on pitching where it kind of like hampered my offense a little bit too much, you know? That's the question. Maybe.

You're asking more to go right on your offense is what stands out most to me. Like, yes, if I paint a best case scenario for your hitters, then the categories are balanced well, maybe with the exception of batting average, and it could be fine. But it's fewer sure things. It's a lot fewer like, okay, I'm just barring injury, this guy is set in this spot, and I never have to touch it again. But that's what happens when you invest less money in it. He has three pitchers who are probably better than anyone on either of our teams, right?

Kirby, Crochet, and maybe Joe Ryan. Well, I do rank Lazzardo ahead of both Ryan and Kirby, but opinions may vary. Sure. Yeah. All right. Well, we might be good trade partners later on in the season. We'll see. Reserve rounds, I've got Merrill Kelly, Andres Jimenez, Jake Berger.

Corbyn Burns, throw him on the IL. I've got Braxton Ashcraft, Clayton Beater, and Junghulie. So I tried to pick up, you know, varying skill sets of hitters on the bench. So like one batting average guy, one speed guy, one power guy with Berger, Jimenez and Jungoo Lee. Some Merrill Kelly, I think, is just annually undervalued. Braxton. Rock solid.

Yeah, Braxon Ashcraft, I think, has a good amount of upside. And then one more closer dart with Clayton Beater. So it feels all right. I like the reserve picks. I think it worked out pretty well there. I was happy to get Merrill Kelly. I mean, he was someone I was looking at for like a dollar in the auction. And then he made it all the way to reserve.

So happy, pretty happy about that. All right. Any final thoughts, guys, before we wrap up? I'm looking at Greg Lathrop's team. Oh, I mean, we could do that. He is. His pitching looks great. His hitting.

The defending champ. He's won four the past seven years. I don't know if you guys have heard, but he hasn't won three out of the last seven. Yeah. Let's see. He's got Salvador Perez, William Contreras, Pete Alonzo, Marcus Simeon, Alec Boe, Ezekiel Tovar, Brendan Donovan, Sal Stewart, Oscar Hernandez, Taylor Ward, Ronald Acuna, Tyler Soderstrom, Jackson Merrill, and Josh Lowe.

It's kind of like spent up for Acuna, but then, well, yeah, also has Pete Alonzo. Yeah, but Alonzo, what was Alonzo like, 23, 26? He did a very like TGFBI approach to this, right? He got the two catchers. two high-end catchers. He spent more at pitching than I think the average player in what we're used to. He's been more than pitching what we're used to in our kinds of leagues. And so you look at the hitting roster. And it's sort of like yours frank, where it's like, well, that's not a sure thing.

That's not a sure thing. You may have to go patchwork here at some point. But, you know, if enough of the hitting comes through, if he's able to patch things, up the holes that develop, then you look at the pitching staff, and it's like, well, he's going to have an advantage there. Yeah, I didn't even read off the pitcher, so I couldn't let some people know here. He's got Brian Wu and Jacob de Grom as his top starting pitchers. He's got also Zach Wheeler in there, Carlos Rodon, so some injury stashes, Matthew Boyd,

Jarasmoson, good whip pitchers, ace reliever and Mason Miller. Nathan Avaldi, you missed Nathan Avaldi, Nathan Avaldi. Nathan Avaldi in there, too, so. Yeah. Mason Miller, Kenley. Jansen. Yeah. It's a good pitchy stuff.

Yeah, for sure. May have strikeout issues just because of some of the health risks. Yeah. But I don't know. We'll see. Maybe this will be one of those years he doesn't win it. Wouldn't that be nice? Maybe one of us will win it.

Hey, you know what? We were close last year. We've got to win one of these years. I was. But I did win two years ago. So, you know, six and one, a half a dozen of the other. Yeah, but I mean, two years ago. That does. It's two years.

Yeah, it's old news. All right. We're going to wrap there. Blacks don't fly forever. For Scott and Chris, I am Frank. Thanks, as always, for tuning in to fantasy baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a five-star rating on Apple or Spotify. And we will be back again tomorrow with our buddy Nick Pollock for talking pitching.

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