Fantasy Baseball Today - Live Roto Salary Cap Draft Part 1! Early-Round Bids & Strategy (3/22 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 22, 2022

Finally, it's time for a live Salary Cap (auction) draft and we're playing this one out! How much did the first and second round players go for? Were their costs inflated? Did Scott win Salvador Perez? We'll break it all down in hour one of this live draft. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. All right, let us draft. Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today.

Frank Sample joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. And I would say welcome into a mock draft edition. But this one is for realsies. We're playing it out. 12 teams 5 by 5 standard roto. Salary cap draft, also known as auction, with the standard $260 budget. Scott, are you ready?

I'm ready. I'm actually not totally sure I'm ready. I feel like I could have done more to get ready. But I did a lot, which, you know, I've done, I've potentially done enough at least. I would say that I'm ready as well. but I have four positions on my sheet here that are not filled out. So I am not ready. Hopefully Chris Towers is ready.

He's definitely ready. What's up, Chris? I'm not ready, guys. Where's your red shirt? Come on, dude. I didn't, yeah, I didn't get the memo on the red shirts, apparently. Thanks, guys. I really appreciate that, you know, we're supposed to be a team.

And I show up wearing this mustard yellow Henley. And all of a sudden, I look like an idiot. That is exactly mustard. You are right about that. Well, you know what? You guys wore plaid yesterday without me, so take that, Chris. Who are the participants in this draft? Obviously, Scott, Chris and myself.

Then we have Raymond Alderton, Atherton, Brandon Myers, Jason Austin, Garrett Atkins, Tim Kannick, R.J. White, Chris Mitchell, Tim McLeod, and our defending champion, Greg Latherb. And the way that this is going to work on the podcast side of things, we're going to break the first two hours into two-part podcasts. We'll keep it running a little bit longer after that on. YouTube, but this draft is going to take something like four hours. We're not going to draft all four. We're not going to broadcast all four hours, but we're going to broadcast a decent amount of

this thing. If you are here watching live, thank you. We appreciate it. Like this video, if you have it already, and subscribe to the channel. If you are listening to this, come hang out. Watch us on YouTube. Subscribe. YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. All right, Scott, I am ready to go. I probably should shut off my volume there so it doesn't come out here on the podcast. But yeah, I'm ready. I'm squared away. Start it up.

I'm getting the start button. We're going to get our first nomination here from R.A. Just to clarify, not a former Colorado Rocky top five rookie of the year finisher, Gerdakins, different Gerdak. Oh, well, that changes everything now. Okay. Wow, did he get thrown out for that price?

Yep. Witt-Meryfield got thrown out for $24. And RJ's going to take it. RG White. is going to sneak away with Whitmeryfield for $24. Second base and outfield eligibility is Whitmeryfield. And of course, has extra value in this format because he will provide a decent amount of speed. And again, this is the 5 by 5 standard roto.

Salvador Perez is up. Should get interesting for our guy. For one of the guy, Scotty Dobs. I do have what Merrifield is a $28 player. I just, when someone throws him out there at that price, you get kind of gun shy. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Which like we talked about on Sunday's show, you know, you get, you get these situations.

This is, this format is as much about psychological warfare as it is drafting players. And so, you know, that might have saved RJ a few bucks on Whitmerryfield. All right. Let's see. Salvador Perez is up right now. And no surprise, Scotty is in on the bidding. Salvador Perez now. No savings here.

$30 for Salvi. and Greg Lathrop jumps back in. Scotty, going to 32. Let's see. Will you win one Salvador Perez for 32? Sold to Scotty Dobs. I got him for 32. I budgeted 30, but I'm usually for the top end players willing to...

It's already gone sideways. Willing to push the budget by a couple dollars to make sure I get who I want. So I think I'm pretty good about that. I promise you 47 minutes from now, Scott's going to go. God, I wish I hadn't done 34, 32 for Salvador Perez. I don't think that's going to be the one. No, there will be somebody I say that about, but I don't think it's going to be that.

I actually regretted when we did the head-to-head points version of this the other day, not exceeding my budget on Salvador Perez after it was all over. So, Trey Turner now is up to over 40, unsurprisingly. Trey Turner up to $42? This will be a good litmus test for a true first-round type play. Are people going to really blow out the budget for him, or are they going to keep the bidding more or less reasonable? I have him as $41, a $41 player.

He's up at 44 right now, so we're just a little bit over. Yep. But the bidding continues to go up. Slowly creeping up. And just for context, I think we all probably have our, is Turner the number one player for all of us now in this format? He is for me. Scott's right.

I have him as a $41 player. Scott has him as a 41. Frank, I'm not sure what you have. I have my 40. I have three guys at 41. I can't remember who's the top of those three, though. But Turner is one of them. It is. You have Vlad, number one, Scott. You have Vlad, Turner, and Jose Ramirez, each for 41.

And Trey Turner is sold for $49. All right. So that's a pretty, you know, that means people are going pretty aggressively after the high end guys, at least the ones who steal bases. Oh, yes. Again, this is the standard five-by-five format. So batting average, run. scored RBI, home run, steals, and Trey Turner goes off the board at $49.

Now up is Ronald Acuna, who Chris throws out there at $20. All right, recent good news on Ronald Acuna, or at least we think there was a tentative plan announced where apparently he should be ready to go by April 21st, so he would miss the first two weeks of the season, but then would return, play DH, and maybe he would. maybe a month after that, play the field. And no discount. No discount. Ronald Coonion, now up to $38.

Pushing. I mean, I've got him ranked 14th. 16th and as a $31 player. So now I just went for $38. That is basically, I mean, for context, I have the Boba Chet, Mukie Betts, Mike Trout tier as 36. And that's kind of tier three for me. me.

Whoa there. I love that. Someone threw Otani out for a buck. It's just, you know, it's weird to do that because you know he's not going to go for a buck. But anyway, then he just shoots up to 35, so that was great. And now Scott is in on the bidding at $36 for Otani. And now 37. All right, Sky.

All right. This is, this is, um, no, Whitmerfield probably the only, um, bargain. Otani O'Tani goes for $1 less than Ronald Ocuna. Interesting. So Atani,

I actually had at $37 and so that's one first round caliber player who Not a premium. Yeah. Item 36, so 37 is right there too. Yeah.

And it's one who steals bases also, but you know, who are confined to playing at DH, which is a little problematic. And there's, you know, we've talked about it. There's injury risk there. More so than your typical hitter. Yes.

All right. Freddie Freeman is up. And, ooh, we went from 25 to 34. Now, Scott, he's in on the bidding. $35 is Freddie Freeman. Again, Otani went for $2 more than that. And now Freddie Freeman up to $36. All right.

And will he go for $36, I think? So yes. Freddie Freeman goes for $36. So $1 less than Otani, $2 less than Ronald LeCunia. So that's more reasonable. You know, a late first-ish type player, late first round type cost there for Freddie Freeman. Yeah, I think that's more reason.

I am at $34, but $2 over that is, yeah, I think there just may be certain players that people were especially, motivated to pick. Now Aaron judge is up and so we'll see if he goes for some kind of discount with the concerns over his vaccination status and what that might mean for his availability. And he does.

He goes for the same price as Whitmeryfield. Scott has judge at 27. I have met, each of us have judge at $27. Yeah. I just, I couldn't pull the trigger on it. Like my, my assumption is at this point that they're going to

lift the mandate, but I did see recently that I think the case rates, the case rate doubled in recent days. So, you know, in New York City. So, you know, if that trend continues, it's going to be, I think, much less likely that they change the mandate. So that is something to keep in mind. And there's certainly some risk involved there. All right.

Jose Ramirez is the next player up. Currently being bid on for $46 and sold for $46, $3. less than Trey Turner. And I think we all kind of have about right. Have them in the... Those two relative to each other anyway. But I had originally made out a plan

centered around Jose Ramirez. And based on the price that some of the other first rounders are going for here, I'm glad I didn't hold to it because that would have been a big bite out of the budget. All right. Next up, we have

Kyle Tucker is up and currently being bid on for $32. Now to 33, Chris jumping in. Scott jumping in. Oh, ho. A Chris versus Scott bidding war? Will we get it?

No, he's going beyond what I'm willing to pay. I guess I shouldn't say that as I'm in the middle of bidding. We have 36 was right around. Oh, he's up to 38. So yeah, this is, I've got him as a $34 player. So what we're seeing so far at least is, At least for my values, pretty much everyone except for Judge and Merrifield has gone for at least a few dollars more. Ramirez and Trey Turner have gone for about $8 more than I have them for.

So, you know, that is consistent with an inflation on first and second rounders and perhaps, you know, a little more reasonable on everyone else. Or, you know, but we'll see where it goes from there. All right. Next up, we have J.T. Romuto. he is going for 14 right now, up to 15, 16, 25. Holy. That's a big jump. Wow.

Yeah. Jason Austin wanted him some J.T. Real Muto. I think he's going to get him at 25. Yes, he is. And just to put that in perspective, Scott again got Salvador Perez for $32, and Salvi is typically, you know, a third or fourth round player. And J.T. Real Muto goes for 25. typically goes like two rounds later than Salvador Perez.

Fifth round, somewhere around there usually. Mike Trout is the next player up, and he is currently up to $39. $39 for one Mike Trout. Now this is where the regret starts creeping and seeing Trout. He's at 40 now. Feeling like I should have gone 37 on Freddie Freeman, in retrospect.

Right, because I guess you're expecting a somewhat similar skill set, right, between Trout and Freeman? Yeah, I feel like those are two players that get paired up at the turn often if we're talking about a snake draft. Trout and Freeman, difficult to decide between them. And Trout goes for $41. Scott has him at 36, I have him at 34,

and Chris has him at 36. So about $5 over where we have Trout budgeted for. So since we're seeing all these high-end guys who are all being nominated early, it seems, haven't had a, haven't had like a sneaky nomination yet. And they're all going for several dollars more than we've budgeted for, or that we projected for anyway. You know, that tells you that those dollars are going to come from somewhere later on.

Some range of players is going to go for less dollars in response to this. Is it going to be the mid-tieres? Is it going to be the lower-end guys that we end up with a bunch of one-and-dollar, one-and-two-dollar players in this auction? All right. Guerrero is the player that is up right now and he is climbing fast. He's up to $42. Again, Mike Trout just went for 41.

I would say... What we've seen is like we've had a bunch of top 15 players. Basically, the only ones are Judge Ramuto and Marrifield and Perez who aren't top 15 and pretty much all of them have gone for some kind of premium and you know, J.T. Raumuto also went for a premium.

So yeah, this is consistent with the idea that there are presumably, well, there have to be some values at some point. The question is whether, you know, is that going to be the 10th round type of guys? Is it going to be the fifth round type of guys? Is it going to be just the late round guys, all go for a dollar? It's going to be interesting. But Scott is the only one of us who has a player, right? Right?

Yeah. Yeah, so, I mean, Chris, I was just about to ask you, I mean, at some point, when you're seeing players go for this consistent inflation over what we have them listed for, do you just say screw it and you jump in and you also overpay for an elite type player? Yeah, that's the hard thing because like you never, I don't want to tell people you should overpay because that is inherently saying that you are overpay. I know, complicated analysis. But yeah, the, the reason that those guys, if all of the first round type guys get inflated, you're going to have to either pay up or you're not going to get the first round guys.

And you can make up for that by getting like, say, you don't overpay for a first rounder, but you end up getting two second rounders or something like that. There's value in that, but the first rounders, their production is irreplaceable. What you get from one lineup spot, in theory, shouldn't be replicable from multiple spots.

So that's the tough thing. And there's a reason the first rounders are the first rounders. It's not just upside. It is upside, yes, but it's also how confident, are you in them living up to their potential? So it's, you know, it's easy to say, oh, well, I'm going to draft Nolan Aeronado

instead of Jose Ramirez. And, you know, I know I'm still going to get 30 home runs, 100 RBI, whatever, but there's also a lot more confident that Aeronado bottoms out. Like Aeohanioswara's last year, for instance. Oh, I got a big power bat at third base. Well, kind of got a guy you didn't really want to start at third base, as it turns out.

All right. people up, a couple of players going here. Chris, you want a player, you got Juan Soto at $44. Then Tim Anderson went for 23. I think what we're seeing is right now those third round players are going for very fair values thus far. Tim Anderson went for 23, judge went for 24. Of course, he has his concerns. And then Whitmeryfield was the first player thrown out exactly at $24. So those guys all went for either around their price or even maybe a little bit below what they're expected to go for. Mookie Betz goes for $38.

All right. Chris, you are up to nominated a player, and I'm surprised you didn't go after Mookiee Betz. I know you already got so down. I did, but 39 was tough to justify, so I didn't want to push all the way up there. I was hoping Mookie would be one of the guys

who slipped through. It doesn't seem like as many people. are as optimistic as I am, but he ultimately ended up going for just a little bit more than I had him for, which is in keeping with, you know, kind of what we've seen so far.

And I just threw out Key Brian Hayes as a $3 bid. And, you know, my thinking there was I've got him as a $2 player. I'd be happy to get him as a $3 player this early, but he got pushed up as well. So, you know, I just want to test the waters there on sea. No, that's interesting because now you wonder if it's a situation where people are just going to bid on anything,

not literally anything, of course, but anything that looks halfway interesting, they're going to fight for it because they haven't really calibrated for, you know, they're so calibrated for that bidding war early on that they'll just have a bidding war for anybody. And I thought, Brian Hayes was an interesting one because I like him.

You know, I think as a sleeper, I think it's weird that, you know, his price is very similar to what it was last season when he, you know, was bad last season. but that's also, you know, that's not to say I don't see the appeal potentially, but it was one where, you know, I wanted to see if people were just going to back off

of a non-difference-making player, and they didn't. So I'm happy to let him go as well. All right, Bobby Witt goes for $16, and each of us have him for between $12 and $15 in this format. So right around where he's expected to go. a slight overpay, but Bobby Witt, obviously the top prospect in the game, arguably, with Julio Rodriguez heading into the season, but someone who could be up on opening day. All right, Jared Wallis gets thrown out there for a buck by Scott. And all right, very cool.

Scott going with the guy he doesn't want. Yeah. Yes, as anybody who listens to the podcast could tell you. Now, I do have him as a, how much do I am for, $6? So he's up to five now. Yeah, I've got them at six, but I wouldn't go for that price at this point. So what's interesting about Witt and Hayes both going for $4 more than I projected them for is there, at least in the minds of some people like buzzworthy players, players. There are some people out there who are genuinely very excited about them.

I am more so with than Hayes. So, you know, the fact Jared Walsh goes for $5, actually $1 less than I've projected him for would tell you maybe it was a case. case of people just being eager to bid on Witten Hayes specifically. But. To just anybody. You know, I will say given what we've seen, Walsh at 5 is probably more than he would go for later. You know, even though we have him as a $6 player because more dollars have been allocated

for players than we have allocated for them before, you know? So you would expect that given that's the case, somebody low. end would be cheaper. And, you know, I guess it's fair to say that Scott and I, um, and probably Frank, I don't know what your dollar value is, but we're lower on him than the consensus. So, you know, his consensus price might be more like eight to ten dollars, in which case it still does look like a, a discount. All right. Our first starting pitcher went off the board. Garrett Cole for $38. And that's a pretty fair price. You know, about two, three bucks more than what we have him budgeted for. So, uh, our first, uh, our first

starting pitcher. It's interesting, right? Like, no other pitchers before then. He was the 19th player nominated. All right. So Bobby, not Bobby Whit, Bobby Whit already went. Boba Shett is the next man up. And he's currently being bid on for $40. And sold for $40. That's reasonable. It's a couple more dollars than Mokey Bats, which is more than I have. I have him in the same tier at the same price. But I'm higher on Mokey than most. So it's in keeping with what we've seen so far. It's in keeping with what we've seen so And it's also $1 cheaper than Mike Trout. So just to put that in perspective, again, a mid-ish first round type player in Boba-Shit

going for $40. Yeah, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to pivot here to something different than I've planned for because the quality of players I hope to get for around 35 is now basically gone. And Bryce Harper is the next player up here. mostly going in order. We had a few random stragglers thrown in there,

some third rounders, a Jared Walsh. Bryce Harper now up to 40 bucks. Will Scottie get him? Will Scottie get him? Nope. No. Last second, Jason Austin jumps in

with the $41 bid. And sold. Bryce Harper, $41. Oof. All right, Scotty. So you pushed limits a little bit there with Bryce Harper. Yeah, I did. I did. I'm not sure what I want to do now, to be honest. I shouldn't have gone 32 on. Fernado Tatis is up. All right, so this will be an interesting one as well. Let's let me pull him up in our top 300 and see what we have him for.

And, oh, I bid. Scott Bitt. Did it count the bid? Uh-oh, I don't know. It looked like the draft room froze. Scott broke it. Okay. We'll reset it.

That's fine. All right. Wow, how convenient. After the way that Monday one went, it's going to happen a few times. Just bear with us, everybody. Yes, indeed. For those watching along, listening along, thank you for being here.

I'm going to refresh. Let's see what happens. I think I just saw Fernando Tatis went to someone, so we might need to throw him back out there and get a fair bidding on one Fernando Tatis. All right, so we each of us have Fernando Tatis out of the top 100 in our rankings. But I did see him go around the seventh round

in a draft that did earlier today. It was a shallower roster Yahoo type of draft, but maybe around the industry he's not quite that low. Oh, come on. Yeah, I'm going to look up his ADP from the NFBC over the past week. The news was announced one week ago today that Fernando Tatis was hurt, and that should give us some kind of idea of where people are at on him. 10 seconds.

Oh, I got to mute that. That's got to go. All right, Fernando Tatis, the ADP is 55 over the past week, with a min pick of six, so someone still drafted him in the first round. and then a max pick of 1-11. Okay, so yeah, we're all lower than even the lowest pick so far in NFBC. So maybe we've got to adjust our expectations, or maybe we're just uniquely brilliant. Or, yeah, maybe the other way.

Probably not that one. Fernando Tatis up to 17 and sold. Sold. I'll take it. To Scott White, 17 Buccaroos. Yeah. I think I needed a little upside there after missing out on the true first round type bats that I wanted to get two of and I got zero of. And are we frozen again?

Yeah, the draft room really wants to make sure whoever ends up with Fernando Tatis had to think about it. Right. Are you sure you won Fernando Tatis? He's going to be out three months, you know. Fernando Tatis? Yeah. All right, I don't have a player yet. and I don't know if that's going to change anytime soon.

Most of the elite ones are gone. So you're, uh, you got no, I guess Raphael Devers is now a first rounder. Chris, but yeah. Chris, I have an eye for elite talent. So don't you worry. I'm sure I'll get something or not. Who knows? I was in the last place for a large majority of this league last season.

I made like a, I don't know, second half push, but it only got me up to like fifth or sixth place. so full transparency. This wasn't my best league last year. Corbyn Burns is the next player up and he is going for $35. Again, Garrett Cole went for $38. So a $3 discount on Corbin Burns versus

Still no early round discounts. Garrett Cole. No, none of those. Indeed. Hmm, who do I want to throw out here? Yeah. Yeah, let's start Cedric Mullins out there for, I don't know, 15.

bucks. And let's see where this winds up. Cedric Mullins. Somebody I have not drafted a single time yet. Probably won't draft much. Cedric Mullins. But that's just me.

I know Scott still likes him. All right, he's up to 20 bucks. Chris in on the bidding here for Cedric Mullins. R.J. White. Back and forth. Scotty jumping in. All right. 24 for Cedric Mullins now.

Now the thing about Cedric Mullins is he's a chance at power and speed without a first round price tag and the only 30-30 guy last year I'm gonna go I'm gonna go 27 on him All right 27 28 Not enough

Not enough indeed All right Scott I'm not gonna tell you how much you have him budgeted for but well I didn't have him budgeted or or how much I projected him how much you have them for on the site yeah 29 is what I have him for on the site and he went for 28 yes so one dollar less and now Adelberto Mondesey is up so I've had some speed coming off the board here RJ went straight to 15 on Mondaysie just like he went straight to 24 on

Whitmeryfield with the initial nomination and kind of froze everybody with that He did it this time. Greg Lathrop came in, bid up $1. So I couldn't get a $17 bid, and that's fine. I would have gone to $17. I know Tim McLeod loves Sayas Suzuki, so I'm very interested to see how much this goes up to. Of course, signed with the Chicago Cubs on a five-year deal.

We have yet to see him in spring training, but interested eventually to see him. Montesey went for $16. And it appears... All right. He's going up there. He's exceeded my projection now. He's at the 15.

I had him projected for 12, and I think I was pretty aggressive with them. So, all righty. There's a lot of Suzuki love. Tim McLeod just pushed it to 20. Oh, my. 21. Let's see if he could get up to Cedric Mullins price here.

Yeah. He's not going to go that high. I mean, that's a near, that's a third round player, right? Because, I mean, he's at $22 now. Tim Anderson earlier went for 23. $3. Tim Anderson's like a third, fourth round player

and a 12-team Rotel league. So, oof. Lots of love for Seya Suzuki, who is coming over from Japan. Big power numbers, a little bit of speed, strong plate discipline. Scott, I know you broke him down a few times. He's got that uppercut swing,

so it should be built well for Major League Baseball. Interested to see him play. All right, Matt Olson. The next man up. New Atlanta Brave. All right, come on, someone. Throw them up there. 20 bucks, yes.

Let's do it. All right, Tim, writing in the chat that his max bid was $22 on Say Suzuki. Next bid was yours. Yeah, Matt Olson at $24. So I have more indecision here than I normally would because I budgeted 35 at first base hoping to get Freddie Freeman and maybe miraculously

or maybe miraculously Vladimir Guerrero. I probably should have just gone with Freeman for 37 instead of the 36 I budgeted, but I didn't. Can't go back on that now. Do I want to fill first base with a second-tier first-baseman, second-tier player, or do I want to divide those $35 I budgeted at first base? between several positions

or do I want to relocate it to a different position? Raphael Devers is still out there. I hadn't planned on spending that kind of money at third base, but I could. I do think Devers and Freddie Freeman project for similar numbers. You know, maybe you give Freeman the edge and batting average, but not by as much as the separation was last year. Raphael Devers was one of the biggest underachievers in terms of XBA,

which had him as more like a, 290 hitter. All right. Anthony Rendon just went for $12. I thought about going a 13. I probably could have. Well, I easily could have. I don't have a single player. But yeah, Anthony Rendon recently saying that he is 100% healthy.

The hip is all good to go. And I hope that's the case. Oh, we got a closer here. We'll see if the closer inflation happens in our own little salary cap draft here. Liam Hendricks. up to $21. Yeah, Tim McLeod jumped him up to 20 and he got a bid on top of it. So, that's, um, that's interesting.

That's 21 is what, what do you wait for? That's a pretty fair price. That's $3 more than, than I projected them for, but I, I have closers way down in my rankings compared to the... I got them for 19. So that's, uh, all right, Scott, you got to get him. Or Frank, you got to get them. Do I, though? You got to.

Do I though? All right. Rafael Devers is one of what, three, maybe four second round hitters left. Yeah, but Chris, what you're not realizing

is that I have an eye for talent. You're just not going to have any players, which is a bold strategy. Well, it worked last year just fine. So, see what happens here. Don't worry.

I got a plan, guys. I've got a plan. Rafael Devers is now up to $33. 35. So yeah. Keeping, Keeping with the theme, even a little bit later in the draft,

a couple dollar inflation on the second and first round type players. 35 is not a bad buy within the context of the rest of the draft. Freddie Freeman went for, what, 38? 36. 36. So that's Rafael Devers for 35 is perfectly reasonable. Yeah, I actually moved Devers ahead of Freeman in my rankings recently. So I'm happy with that exchange getting Devers instead here for 35.

So that gives me Devers for 35, Salvi for 32, and Tatis for 17 so far. All right. Jacob de Grom is out there. And we've had, I believe, two pitchers go so far. Corbyn Burns went for 35. Garikol went for 38. And Jacob de Grom goes for 31. Again, risk reward.

That's basically the price you're going to pay for a late second round player. In Jacob de Grom, $31 is the final cost there. I mean, he can be the number one. player in fantasy baseball this season. It all just comes down to his health. If he throws 150 plus, I think he's in the running for a number one player in fantasy baseball. All right, next pitcher up, Walker Bueller going for $27 and now 28. All right. Walker Bueller, the again, fourth starting pitcher out there. DeGrom just went for 31. What do you guys have Bueller for? I have him for 32. He's up at 30 now. Yeah, I have him for

29. Chris, you have him for 26. 26, yeah. So I'm a little lower, but hard to argue with 30. That's a fair price. You know, $1 less than Jacob de Grom. It sounds about right. It's a fair price. I just didn't want to spend that much on any pitcher, really. It would have had to be a ridiculous price for me to do it. Mr. Velocity himself, Mitch Keller, thrown out for a buck. This is a very, very smart bid, because I would love to have Mitch Keller for a dollar and even two isn't terrible, but there's no way I can justify $2 for Mitch Keller. He should be a reserve round pick.

Yeah, he should. He got him. He got him for a buck. So he didn't. He was smart. He didn't catch any, anyone eager to, you know, over eager to reach for Mitch Keller, just because. And that's what you do when you're talking about a late round flyer this early is you can just, you know, throw them out there for a buck.

And if you get them for a buck, you're happy about it. And if not, you know, someone else probably spent a dollar more than they needed to. I would advise doing that not, I mean, I would advise not doing that with like your favorite $1 targets because your favorite is very likely to be someone else's favorite to. And you're pretty much guaranteeing you don't get them for a dollar if you do that. If you do it too early. It's possible you could get Patrick Sandoval in a salary cap draft for a dollar if he just falls long enough. but doing that early is a certainty

that you're not going to get him for that price. All right, while we were talking, Adley Rutchman got thrown out for eight bucks and that's exactly what he went for. It's worth mentioning.

I know Tim McLeod loves him some prospects, so I'll throw that out there as a prerequisite. Tim McLeod is the one who won Adley Rutchman. Lots of upside, but dealing with a triceps injury

is Adley Ruchman and maybe delays him a little bit more than we were expecting this season. Austin Riley is out there now and currently up to $23, which again is the same price that Tim Anderson went for earlier, which is about a third or fourth round player.

So... So... More than I wanted Riley for, but again, reasonable. 23 is reasonable, yeah. I actually haven't met 27. I know I'm the highest of the three of us on him, but it doesn't seem like an overpay. Rushman, though, for $8.

I mean, I have him at, I had him as a $1 player. So, you know, you can understand him getting pushed up just because of the buzz of top prospect. Oh, he's probably going to be up in the first half of the season. But that's definitely an indulgent bid paying $8 for him. All right. Luis Robert is the player that's out there now. He's up to $26, $27. 24 years old, Luis Robert.

Lots of excitement this upcoming season. Now it's a 30 buckaroos, 30 bucks, 31 to Chris Towers. $31 for Luis Robert, 32. Where is this going to go to? 33 for Lubbob. It's not shocking. I mean, this is first round upside here, people paying for that kind of upside. Like we've been seeing this whole time,

it's a little more theoretical in Robert's case. but you can certainly see it. Oh, Frank, you ended up jumping in at the end there, getting your first 35. Frank, you had to. You had to. No, I, look, Louise Robert is written down on my paper. Luis Robert and Kyle Tucker.

Let me see that number. Let me see that number. Oh, it's nowhere. It's nowhere close to what I have. I mean, look, I've got him for 31. That's consistent with what we've seen. All of the, you know, Raphael Devers went for 35.

That's actually, you know, a little bit of a better. value than actually no I have him for 31 as well so that that is in keeping with what we've seen so far yeah and I have Louise Robert for 33 on the site and I want him for 35 so I'm I'm good with that stalling Marte thrown out there for 19 and now he's up to 20 so I got my guy Luis Robert I don't have I didn't have any shares of Luis Robert in the drafts I've done yet this all season so happy to get him all right Starling Marte dealing with an oblique injury has not played in a spring game yet.

Really struggling with Starling Marte. I dropped him a decent amount and he's still like this is still a discount. He's going to go for 24, it looks like. I have him for 27, but I think I need to move him down because I just, I couldn't bring myself to get close to putting in a bid for him. Maybe I'm too scared, but he's 33 years old. He's dealt with a ton of injuries in the past. It's the Mets.

So, you know, whatever, it's hard to get the Mets off of you when you're there. You know, things tend to go wrong. So, you know, obviously that's a joke. But it's just, it feels like he could age poorly. I mean, he's already aged really, really well. He's coming off arguably, you know, one of his best seasons ever. But it's not hard to see things going wrong. Yeah, he led baseball with 47 steals last year, did Starling Marte,

but also missed a large chunk of the season. season with an oblique injury, which is what he's dealing with now. So not great there. And, you know, he's someone that typically deals with a lot of these nagging injuries. And it's not good that he already has one and has not played in a spring game yet for the New York Mets. Yurton Alvarez goes for $29 to Tim McLeod. Yoron Alvarez is the guy who could make the Vladimir Guerrero type jump this season. Oh, yeah.

He could represent the, you know, that. next true four category player 300 batting average 35 plus homers just awesome counting stats so lots of love there with yurdon alvarez i need to make a point of drafting him at some point i don't think i've done it yet all right max i was max yours where is the next one up here i was willing to stretch the budget there for yorden alvarez i actually went 28 when i have him projected for 27 just because i thought okay well here's a guy who has first round upside potentially like you guys were saying. And I missed out on those first round guys.

But then somebody went 29 on him. So, you know, even like the third round range of hitters, they're seeing their, they're, we're seeing the bids pushed up on them beyond what we've projected. So there are gonna be a lot of discounts later on. Oh, yes.

Pitchers are cheap right now. Yeah, you just got- to everything else right now. Yeah, you just got Max Scherzer for 33. And Walker Bueller, again, went for 30. Jacob de Grom went for 31. So, you know, it's just... Shurzer as a $33 player.

So that's actually the first player, I think, inside of the top 20 for my rankings, who hasn't been more expensive than I have them projected for. It's a good point. Yeah. I like Shurzer, too.

I was in there with you, Chris, but I don't know. For some reason, I didn't want to go 304. I thought you were going to push me, for sure. I've got the money. I could have, but I don't know why I didn't. I don't know. I guess I'm saving it for a rainy day.

Jordan Romano is the next one up here. I believe he is the second closer. Yep. Hendricks went for 21. Romano is at 14 right now, 15. Make it 15. So Hendricks starting to look a little better by comparison. But Ramano, we haven't talked about this in relation to Kenley Jansen being signed now. He looks more secure in that role for the Blue Jays than when we've talked about him previously.

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Again, the CBS Sports app, download it for free. Will Smith, the Dodgers catcher, is up to $21. And I believe Real Muto went for 25. 25, so that's, I've got Will Smith a couple rounds ahead of Ramoso now. So I love that. All right. Potential value, safety. with Will Smith the catcher there.

Yeah. All right. Scotty's up. A little nomination. Yeah, I'm going to throw Taylor Rogers out of the twins. Somebody who could be a very cheap closer. Is he going to go for very cheap this early? That's what I'm aiming to find out.

All right. Testing the waters here. Taylor Rogers. I believe he made his spring debut on Sunday, and I think he struck a, out the side is what I saw. He was very good last year. Numbers were all great for Taylor Rogers.

You know, I want to go back to Jordan Alvarez for a second, just because I'm looking at his overall numbers so far through, I mean, effectively two seasons and really one and a half. Here's his 162 game pace so far in the majors. 290 batting average, 42 homers, 42 doubles, 106 runs, 129 RBI. Wow. I mean, if Jordan Alvarez just does what he's been,

he's going to be a first round player. I mean, that is... Now I wish I had gone 30 on him. That's what you... I mean, yeah, that's now I... This is, I need to... Yeah. He's fun.

Look. He's coming off of like a down season relative to his incredible rookie season, and a down season for him was honestly, basically what Raphael Devers did. You know, not quite the same counting stats, but yeah, no, I need to make him more of a priority, for sure. Jason Austin just jumped the bid on Julio Arreus from like $10 to $24, and he won him. So, I mean, Chris, you were saying pitchers are going for less relative to other positions,

but he just did a huge jump on Arreus, and I don't know if he did so with the hope of winning him, but that's what ended up happening. By the way, Taylor Rogers went for $10, which give him. Even the uncertainty surrounding his role seems like a lot to me. Yeah, I agree with that. As great as he pitched last year, we don't know for sure that, you know, will he have to close a role to himself? I know Jorge Alcala is another name in that bullpen who's looked really good at times.

A couple of years ago, Taylor Rogers. Jerk. Rogers got to 30 saves back in 2019, and that was with Rocco Baldelli as his manager. So there's that. and yes i love that one scotty gets brian reynolds he's hyped 16 bucks i'm mad mad at scott that was a jerk move

jerk we don't talk enough about what a jerk scott is it's true uh you always gets away because he's like oh shucks i'm scott and it's like no just mean just rude ruthless right david betnard thrown up there jumping in there you thought he was about to say

sold or What does he say now? Gone. Gone. Gone. David Bednar is out there. He's currently up to seven bucks. So, no cheap.

Throw out fringe closers right now because they are all getting pushed up. Wow. Oh, yes. I don't even think he is going to be the closer at the start of the year. I think it's going to be Chris Stratton. I don't know how long got to last.

Bednar's better. But, yeah, $8. That should be a one or $2 pitcher right there. All right. All right. David Bednar goes for eight. Again, Taylor Rogers went for 10. And George Springer thrown out there for 22 bucks. Definitely not looking at anybody on this specific podcast to see what he does here on this bidding. But I don't know. Let's see. I don't think anybody really likes this guy. No, definitely not. All right, he's up to 25 bucks for Scotty. 26.

We got ourselves a good old fashion. Scott versus Chris. Bidding. war. Chris is currently winning at $28. Will Scott go? And he won't. I won't. I won't. Chris got him.

Chris got him. That's what I have Springer valued for, which is, I'm higher on him than anyone else. He's a top 24 player for me. But, you know, obviously would prefer to be able to get him for a little cheaper. It felt like a challenge, really, is what that was. I felt like Scott was calling me out Tilling Flores

currently out there for three bucks Yeah I wish I had jumped straight to three After he went out there for one I went in there for two I can't pay four for Dill and Flora I mean that's somebody obviously I targeted more in the end game And I was hoping to get him for about $2

$3 I could live with this early but four Sometimes it's just worth leaping over the next dollar Yeah, that's one of the things you always have to think about is like, if you want a guy for $2, you know, it might be worth paying that dollar. All right, Teoscar Hernandez is the next man up here. It's up to $23. RJ versus Scott. It's the current bidding war. Scott has Teoscar for 25 and sold. All right. I'm glad I backed off joining. George Springer. I'd rather have Tay Oscar at 25 than Springer at 29. Take that, Chris.

No, I mean, Chris got Springer for 28, so a little different. Only a little different, but I, I, um, I almost talk to myself. I have, I have, I have, I actually have Hernandez ahead of Springer in my ranking. So a little bit of steals there that Springer is not going to give you. Uh, yeah, same. I have Teasker as my eighth ranked out there. I have Springer up at, uh, down at 15. Not down. I mean, look, he's a top 15 outfielder. Joey Bart, out there for three bucks. Again, this is a two

catcher league. This is a standard 5x5 roto lineup, so two catchers. One of every other infield position. One corner infielder, one middle. Five outfielders, a utility bat, and then, of course, nine pitcher spots which you can divvy up however you'd like. Six starters,

three relievers, seven starters, two relievers. Joey Bart went for three bucks, and Riley Green, thrown out there, currently going for $5. He was the next guy I wanted to throw out there as a $3 player and see what happened.

So I wasn't going to get him. He looks like he's going to go for $7 here. And I mean, look, if he's on the major league roster to start the season, that could end up being a reasonable buy. It could be, but I doubt anybody has him at $7. Projected auction value. So we're still seeing,

Even, you know, whether it's Taylor, Rogers, or David Bednar, or Riley Green, or even Joey Bart going for three, like, everybody is still going for more than we project them for. So there's not going to be enough money to go around later. That's abundantly clear. I get frustrated when exciting players, like, cheaper, exciting players get thrown out this early because it always feels like they go for more money than they should. Yeah, no, I agree. and right now Pete Alonzo is out there for $25 and Will Scott win him for $25?

No, because I bid 26. Sorry, Scott. Feel free to go 27 if you want him, but... I was thinking about it, but I spent too much time thinking about it. All right, I got two players on my list. So far the plan is working out. I got Pete Alonzo and I got Luis Robert. So, yay.

It's an interesting start. Fun. You know, some power, a little bit of speed from Luis Robert. Not sure about, you know, batting average first two hitters. But we'll see. All right. Another fringe closer thrown out there. Scott Barlow.

Next one. I did jump straight to three this time, unlike Dylan Floro, but he's going to go for more than that. Yeah, how much is the question? He's there. Oh gosh, you have to $8. So I'm probably going to leave this draft without any closers at this point. Just based on what we've seen, there hasn't been what I would consider a good value on a closer yet.

You know what? Maybe we should stop nominating them and wait until nobody has any money. Yeah, I think you guys should do that. I'd rather other people spend their money on closers. You know what? At this point. I'd rather have more money, relatively speaking. for more impactful players.

The most fair value for closers to this point, oddly enough, might have been Liam Hendricks at $21. Yeah, I think you're right. To get the top closing. Relatively, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to be the one to spend 21 on him, but. Oh, RJ with the jump bid on Charlie Morton.

Is RJ a Braves fan? I think he is, right? Yes, he is. Yes, I just chatted with him today. He was wearing a Braves polo. I did end up with. I waited on closer or on starting pitcher in a draft I did earlier today with some NBC Sports Edge folks.

And I ended up with Charlie Morton and Max Fried is my two top starting pitchers, which, you know, not the ideal one and two, but I guess I'm a Braves fan now. Go Braves. And Charlie Morton goes for $22. It's fine. I've got him at 19.

Chris has him at 18. Scott has him at 24. Scott, did you... Yeah, but I didn't want to spend that much on a pitcher. Yeah. All right. And it looks like since they're all going for about what we projected them for

or slightly less that kind of everybody's plan Let's see, is he going to get in my queue fast enough to pull from my queue? I dragged them to my queue. Scott did you just auto-nominate? I don't know, did I? It says the draft is suspended. Okay, there we go.

Marcus Semyon is up. And what were you saying, Scott? I feel like you were making a point. Just based on the way pitchers are being bid on or not being bid on, it looks like everybody kind of had the same plan at starting pitcher, which was to not pay up there so much. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at Scherzer at 33, and I'm feeling even with the relative values,

you know, I'm feeling pretty good about it just because I did lock in one of the high-end guys. You're locked out again? Come on. Yeah. Bidding isn't working? Yeah. Yep, I was trying to go to 22 on Simian. All right, so we're going to have to reset Simeon there. But Chris, I believe you are a proponent of the hero starting pitcher strategy, right?

You want to try and get one ace and then kind of build around that? Yeah, I think one or two aces is the ideal way to go. So in the context of a salary cap draft, I think you'd probably look at it as two high-end starting pitchers for $55 to $60, but 50 to 60 some range like that. And then, I mean, ideally the rest of my pitching staff would probably be no more than $30. So, you know, I think that's the way I'm, my ideal approach would be. All right, Marcus Semyon thrown back out there. We had a little hiccup in the system where he went for 21, but now he's back up to 24.

And he is one for $24. We're locked out again, it looks like. Oh, geez. It's kind of like the same issue we were having with Tatis. I did hit 25 for Simeon, and then I was happy that it didn't register it. Don't tell anyone that, Chris. Oh, it's... All right. Are we going to do it again?

Everybody knows now. Yes, we're going to try one more time with Marcus Simeon. Okay. Third time is the charm, as you wrote in the chat here. As fun as this is to participate in, I'm sure it's even more fun to listen to. Oh, yeah. Stick with us here. We appreciate you.

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That should be where it happens. And gone. All right. That's official. Mark Semyon for $25. That's a decent value. You know, one of the only, one of the first, like, third round types who hasn't been a few more dollars than expected, at least for me.

All right, Kevin Gossman's out there. It's up to 12, 13, 14. Looking down at my sheet, I couldn't remember if I wrote if I wrote down Kevin Gossman or not, but I didn't, so I will not be involved here. All right, Scott is bidding on Kevin Gossman. Up to 20 bucks.

20 bucks, 21 to Chris. Yeah, I'm not. Insult. I had hoped. He was one who I'd hoped to sneak away with for 20. I'm not willing to go over budget for Kevin Gosman. That's what I was trying to figure out if you were willing to go to 22. Because I wanted him for 20, and that's what I have him valued for.

So there I have my two aces and Max Scherzer and Kevin Gosman for 54. As I just mentioned, that's kind of my approach. And Ozzy Albies is the next one up here. He is all the way up to 29. top hitter available, right? I guess there's Manny Machado too. Yes. Top hitter available for most people, I would guess.

And Ozzy Albies goes for $30. Yeah, there you go. That's another second slash third rounder who's not a couple more dollars than I have him projected for at least. So yeah. It's a goodbye. I've got them at 31. Chris, you have him at 30. Scott has him at 29.

Jason Austin tried to sneak away with another dollar pitcher here. Nestor Cortez, who's one I like a lot. Somebody bumped it to three. Jason Austin came, or somebody bumped it to two. Jason Austin came back in for three. So I wonder if he cost himself a couple dollars by nominating Nestor Cortez now, as opposed to in the end game.

And I believe Nestor Cortez, yeah, he made his spring debut on Monday, two perfect endings with two strikeouts. I mean, he looked pretty good. I was watching that one. Following up Jason, Jameson. Does he ever look that good? He looks funny. Whoa.

Does he ever look that good? Wow, Byron Buckson just thrown out for $25 by Jason Austin and no one bids. You know what? I've got him as 27. I know I'm higher on him the most, but that's the kind of thing like RJ did early in the draft. I can't remember exactly who it was with, but it was one of the first players out there that he, with Merrifield, where he jumped it up to 24. and ended up getting him for within the context of the draft at the time and within the context

of the draft now looks like a pretty good value. I get the psychology of that, but the psychology of me is, I wonder if I had done that for 21 instead of 20. Yeah, if you had jumped it up to 20, would it have also worked is certainly a fair question. All right. A manual Class A is out there. He's currently up to 14 bucks. and 16 16 for a manual class A

and I believe Romano went for 14 Yeah sounds right So I think that's a pretty fair That sounds about right $16 for classing I hit the bid button too late Because yeah

Given the context of the way The rest of the draft has gone With the low end closers Especially getting pushed up Like It it makes your class A for 16 is a is a good buy. Goodbye.

Right. Brandon Woodruff thrown out there. See where this winds up. Approaching 30. Approaching 30 for my blood. Approaching 30 fast. Oh yeah. He's going to go for right about the amount he should. So still not any obvious discount.

here. Yeah. And I have it right now. Oh, no. I don't. I will not. 33 is what he's up. There you go.

He's going to go for the same I paid for Scherzer, it looks like. Yeah. And I think that makes Walker Bueller the best bargain at this point. I think Bueller went for 30?

32. 32. Really? 32? Yeah. I thought he went for less than that. I could be wrong. All right.

You're right. You're right. 30. Yeah. I haven't projected for 32. That's what I was thinking. Sorry. That's goodbye. So Walker Bueller looks like the

fairest value of the top two round pitchers thus far. All right. Alias Diaz thrown out there. Again, this is a two-catcher format and he goes for $4. We are approaching the one-hour mark. Thanks for everyone.

Watching along, following along. Got 200 people watching us live right now. Appreciate you. Hit that like button if you haven't already. Carson Kelly, up to two bucks. We're seeing a lot of $1 catchers go for more than $1.

Yeah. I don't know what the savings are going to happen somewhere. It's a lot. We got four hours of this. Right. Yeah, we're only 62 players in. But there's a lot of, there's a lot of inflation right now just across the board.

It's hard to stay patient, but. Yeah. A long way to go. And Manny Machado is thrown out there again. Scott, I believe you won Raphael Devers, right? Yeah, for 35. For 35. All right, so it would be interesting to see how close Wichato gets that.

If you trust in the underlying numbers, you know, the stat cast data in particular, Machado was basically the same guy as Raphael Devers last season. both were about a 290 expected batting average great power um and machado stole 10 based 14 bases last year so you know it's i think you can make an argument that he's a little undervalued that's fair yeah look the stackass numbers were great he he underperformed a lot and chris you win manny machado for $32 so yeah i've got four of my top 24 players i don't have a lot of money left. I mean, I've got $102 left for $17 spots. So, you know,

I'm going to have to find some bargains at some point, but we think they're going to happen at this point. Yeah. So the key for you is probably going to be resisting the urge to jump in on another stud. Because you do enough money there to take advantage of the bargains. Oh, thank God. Chris through Trevor Bauer out there for a dollar. Yeah. At this point, I think it's more likely he doesn't play at all this season than that he makes 20 starts.

Yeah, he recently got his administrative leave extended through. It's for the first two weeks of the season. It's for the month from last Friday. Yeah, I think it's through April 21st. I think that's the date. I think it's more likely. I think it's more likely he makes, he doesn't play this season than he makes one start, frankly. It might be.

Yeah, I mean, Dave Roberts last week, there was, you know, we never saw the actual quote, I don't think, but Rich Eisen of the Rich Eisen show. So that turned out, that turned out to not be true, Chris. I was like, oh, okay. Completely Fugasey, apparently. Huh, weird. Yeah, there was like a follow up afterwards and they were like, he never said such thing. Like, I don't even know. Maybe someone just, like, tweeted out the wrong thing from their account. I have no idea. But it turned out it was not true at all. Okay. All right. No. Oh, you almost had Trevor's story for 21 there, Frank. And I was going to say that looks like a pretty good buy.

I wasn't there for the emergency pod, you guys reacting to this. But the more I looked into it, the more I liked the prospect of story at Fenway Park. And it's the best place he could have gone. Yeah. If he wasn't returning to color. Yeah. And that's where I wind up with Trevor's story. I did go one higher.

I win him for $23. I agree. Outside of 24. Outside of Coorsfield, I think that was the best landing spot. Obviously, you know, you have the green monster there, right-handed hitter, hits a lot of fly balls. If those don't turn into home runs,

could help the Babbib. Those will turn into either long singles or doubles. You know, he's still fast enough. So potential... Actually, interesting. Babib has been higher at Fenway Park over the last, I think, three seasons combined than Corse Field.

Now, the Rockies have much, much, much, worse hitters than the Red So, you know, all other things being equal, I think Coorsfield would probably have the same Babbap. But yeah, it's, that's interesting. It's, it's under, I think that's the, the aspect of Fenway that gets underrated is the impact it has on batting average. So I just threw out Tyler Stevenson thinking, you know, we're seeing all these one dollar catchers go for four to five bucks. Stevenson might go for 12, you know, and, and he ended up only going for five. So I guess people end up, you know, they think of him as being in the same tier with an Adley Rushman or even like a Joey Bart.

Yes. That is. I am people. Yeah. No, I am too. I just, I gathered he was a more popular pick than that. All right. Yep.

Tyler Stevenson went for five. And Zach Wheeler is currently out there. An interesting player right now to draft or bid on because, you know, dealing with a show. shoulder concern, but throw a bullpen over the weekend, 35 pitches. Sounds like everything came out right. And there you go, Scott. Not 24 months. Not clear how much the shoulder is a concern. Because he missed his first spring start. And obviously when you know that he was dealing with shoulder soreness early in the off season, that sets off alarm bells. But he apparently was because of the flu. That's the official story. Anyway, I don't know if you want to be a conspiracy theorist.

I don't. And so as far as we know, It's a relative non-issue. Yeah, I'm willing to gamble on it. I'm getting a lot of shares of Zach Wheeler while this saga's playing out. I just won him here for $24, which is four or less than I have him projected for. It's four more than I wanted to spend on my top pitcher. I wanted my top pitcher to be 20, but I thought it was worth, I thought it was worth breaking the budget a little bit for a guy who, before the shoulder issue came up,

we all thought of him as a second rounder. All right, yeah. I think it's worth pointing out that Scott has two of the more risky players, you know, relative risk, but Fernando Tatis and Zach Wheeler thus far. So interesting. Yeah, I mean, discounted both, but...

Yeah. And Paul Goldschmidt was the next player that went for $25. And here's what we're going to do. We're going to sign off Hour 1 on the podcast. side of things and then we're going to come back with our two but don't go anywhere we'll be right back