Fantasy Baseball Today - LIVE Roto Salary Cap Draft Part 2! (3/17 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 17, 2021

Here are the salary cap draft results if you want to follow along! Adam Aizer remains on with the boys as they travel well into hour two of their roto salary cap draft. When did Framber Valdez get nominated? Why are all of the mid-round hitters going for cheaper than they should? How much did the Utility-only bats go for? Who did Adam snipe Chris on!? We answer all of these questions and more in part two of our live roto salary cap draft. Join our FBT Bracket Challenge for a chance to enter the 'For the People' league: http://cbssports.com/FBTbrackets Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday '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, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday 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/ 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

Howdy, everybody. So because we went so long during the live Roto Salary Cap draft, we decided to make it into a two-part podcast. We're picking things up here about an hour and 15 minutes into the draft. Enjoy. Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. I drive. Center field.

This is magnificent. Got a fantasy question. Email Fantasy baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. With fantasy. Now here's Frank Scott. This is a bold nomination here. I love it.

I love it. Somebody jumping for two. See, yeah. I thought he was going to get him for a buck and like, that's free. You know, like, if he's, if he gets 110 innings, you're going to be thrilled with a dollar bid for him. Yeah.

Yeah, we still don't know how, I mean, obviously the, it looks like it's going to be a season-ending injury, but he's trying to figure out a way around that. And if he is able to pitch, through it, the broken finger and pitch effectively. And obviously, like, even at $2, it's hard for that to be a problem for you. Oh, boy. I love that you're giving Scott a heads up that Cabrion Hayes is being bid on while he's talking.

He's playing, he's batting pretty much exclusively second in the order for the Pirates. And, you know, it looks like right now the top of the line it's going to be Adam Frazier, Cabrion Hayes, and Brian Reynolds, which. You know, one of those players is very good. Yeah, I like the $11 Hayes went for. I got to third basement already. How much? Did I want to fill my utility spot with Hayes?

Yep. That was kind of the issue there. How much do you guys, and I got Rendon? How much do you guys think Louise Castillo is going to go for? Jack Flaherty for the last of his tier, right? Right, yeah. I would say so. So I think if he's less than 30, that's a great value.

Whoa. But I don't want to be less than 30. We just got one of those infamous jump bits. there that went from like 8 to 27. Got a nice little friendly FBT battle going on here. I forget you guys. I'm not going 35 on Castillo. He had to be more than Max Scherzer. All righty. So like I said, Adam, I knew it was going to happen.

You said, oh, I'm going to be able to bully everyone and get all these discounts. It's not happening, man. I spent $35 on Gellito, $34 on Luis Castillo. Well, that's still high tier guys. Yeah. You got two like borderline. second round picks in most drafts. It's going to be on the middle tier, guys. It's going to be like on the Carlos Correa's the Max Muncie's. You know, that's where you're going to see the discount supplied.

Unless one of them gets nominated right away here, well, people still have some money. Oh, Chris, Chris, your boy, 6'O Sanchez is currently being thrown out. Let me just remind everyone again. This is a standard five-by-five rotissory salary cap draft. So we are playing with two catchers. I don't think a single catcher has been nominated yet. five outfielders, a corner infielder, a middle infielder,

nine pitcher spots with a season long 900 innings pitch minimum. So that might sound weird for some people, but if you play in Roto, you have to have some kind of season long endings minimum, or else people are just going to use relievers all year and have these super low ERA and whips, which kind of throws everything else off for the rest of the thing. To be clear, in 2019, the average Roto team had 1300 innings, 13.05, I think is what it was. Did you say there was an innings minimum? Yeah, 900.

since when? That's always been the case. That's always been in play. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. I mean, I lowered it last year, obviously, because it was two months. I lowered it to like 300.

Let's get a catcher here. 900 is, uh, is traditional. What do you think, what do you think Rayoomuta is going to go for? 20 plus. Um, I think I'll go under 20. People are hesitant to bid on catchers in salary cap drafts. It seems like they just, they just don't want to devote their money to that, even the, Even the top guy.

Chris, you wound up with your boy, Sixthel Sanchez, at $11. So a little bit more than you have, Matt, but I do think just pitching in general is going to be pushed up a little bit more, as we've seen. J.T.R.O. I have him at 11, I think. I see it at 9. Unless I'm, yep, I'm in Roto.

So. Interesting. Might need to update that bad boy there. J.T. Real Muto, up at $17 right now. I may not have hit Publish. I think that's what happened. 18. Come on. Let's get to 20. Let's get that money off the board.

And is it going to happen? We each have him at... I have him at 21. Scott has that 21. I think 18 is exactly what he went for last year, and that's what it goes for this year, too. That's a really... My turn to nominate a player.

That's a good price for J.C. RealMeeseo. I don't spend up on catcher, but if you're going to do it, to get him at 18, I think you feel really good about that. I've seen too many people win in this format with lousy catchers. There's just too many players and the catchers, I don't know, they just don't.

I'm going to have two one-dollar catchers almost maybe at most I'd say $4 on my two catchers. I have two, though I will point out last year's winner, Dan Richards of pitcher list. He invested in two catchers. I believe he got Rio Muto and he also got Gary Sanchez. Sanchez didn't even work out that well. But obviously there's more than one way to do things. Who were your catchers? Because you were second.

Oh, Hendricks. Oh, man. That doesn't make you... $12 a nice price for Hendricks. Really good one. That must make you feel not so great about James Caroncheck at 13, huh? Adam. You know what?

Shut up, Frank. Your team... It does. I agree with you. My catchers as the second place team... Sorry, I thought it was pulled up right then. Now, Carson Kelly and James McCann for a combined $4. Obviously, Carson Kelly not so good.

James McCann for a dollar. That was pretty helpful. I just got the Cubs leadoff hitter for half of my suggested salary, so I'm pretty thrilled about getting A and Hap for six. I think that's actually a good price for him, Chris. So good work there. Alex Bregman is thrown out right now, and we'll see how high he goes.

How much did you... I think it was 27 on Rendon, right, Scott? So I think we would assume something similar for Bregman, who made his spring training debut on... Tuesday. Tuesday, yeah. Yep. Something tells me he's not going for 27.

Yeah, I don't think so either. But we'll see. He's up to 20 now. We're creeping up. By the way, Jacob de Grom came out, and I think like none of his first 10 fastballs were below 99 miles per hour today.

He's just ridiculous. And he averaged 98.6 last year, but so far in spring, it actually seems like that might be even higher. Who was that? Jacob de Crom. I was watching that game. Oh, yeah.

So, Frank, you get Bregman for 23. That's work. Oh, that wasn't part of the plan either. The plan is gone. I have deviated from the plan. You got to throw the plan out. That's it. There's no reason to stick to a plan so dogmatically.

Chris Brian is currently at $7. So, Scott talked about that with his Toward Wars team. You guys are both going through that. All three of you guys are gone. through that with your salary cap teams. Yeah, I mean,

the plan was, the plan was obviously burned once, you know, the high end guys were going for 50 to 55. Yeah, that obviously changed things.

But there are still, there are still remnants of the plan. Seeger was my plan at shortstop. Hmm. Yeah, that's about the only thing that's coming according to plan. No,

uh, no discount for Chris Bryant. No. 14. Chris Brian. That's what I have him as, and I'm almost certainly at least a couple of dollars higher

on him than anyone else. Yeah, I got him going for nine, but he went for 14. Let's check it on everyone's team and see how things are going right now. Chris, we'll start with you. You got Mani Machado at 29, Jose Ramirez at 43, Ozuna at 25, Buckson at 9, Mercado

at 1, half at 6, so some bargains there in the outfield. And then you got Granky at 19. Oh, I missed that one. Scherzer at 33 and 6-0 at 11 Yeah, Scherzer and Granky is kind of becoming my pitching strategy. I've done this in a couple of leagues. There's another one where I had Garrett Cole in addition to the two of them.

Obviously like that more, but yeah, I think Scherzer and Granky, I have very few concerns about them despite their age. And I want to lock in about 800 innings that I feel really, good about is kind of my approach right now. So, you know, I'm halfway-ish there with cranky and Scherzer. Witt-Meryfield is going to be a steal currently at $23. And that's where it ends. And he goes for the same price as Alex Bregman. So, Scott, who would you rather have

at the same price, $23? With Merrifield or Alex Bregman? That's a good question. Probably depends on, you know, if we're talking to draft context, I see them both as third rounders and it probably depends on whether I have a bat already or not and whether I have stolen bases already or not. I think I technically rank Bregman higher,

but I'm more disappointed about missing out on Merrifield, in part because I already have two third baseman. But, you know, I got Trent Grisham for $16, so I already got a head start there in steals. I don't know. Yeah. No, I may regret that one.

I may regret not going 24 on Maryfield. It's just hard to tell at this point, you know, because we're not even, we're 80 picks into a 276 pick thing. And Luis Robert goes for 17. That's a great price. I should have gone 18. I don't know what I was worried about.

We're going to see these. Dumb, dumb, Chris. We're going to see these random hitters in rounds three through six usually in a, in a rotiss redraft. I think those are where some of the discounts are going to come now. Luis Robert for 17. I haven't priced at 25.

Chris hasn't priced at 24. Even Scott, who is lower on Robert, has him at 21. So just a really good price there at $17. For me, it was just the only thing I was waffling on is I just don't know if I can afford the batting average risk with my build so far. No, that's part of it for me too. I'm also, they're like because because I only have three starting pitchers at this point and my best is Kinta Maida in my estimation.

Let's check in on your team, Scott. I need some volume among the highest arms left. Like I need two or three of those guys as opposed to just one of those guys, since I didn't get the really high-end guy or two that I wanted. So I don't, I'm kind of afraid to spend for any hitter right now. Scott has Carl's Carasco What's up Adam? Sorry.

No, go ahead. No, no, that's all right. I was just going to recap Scott's team, but you did win a player while we were talking. You won Ian Anderson for $15. Is he the first pitcher on your team? Strasbourg. Oh, yeah, Strasbourg.

Okay. And Hater and Karen check. But I mean, I only got Ian Anderson because Chris loves him. So that was. Yeah, that drops me below 50% on Ian Anderson so far, I believe. so that's a little disappointing. I think I had him. He was my most drafted player so far.

Yeah, I had him in 6 out of 12. Now it's 6 out of 13. So that is disappointing. Not for me. Javier Baez goes for $14. So another one that seems like a pretty good value. I have him at 18. Chris hasn't met 17.

And Scott has Javier Baez for $14. Currently being bid on is Raphael Devers. And I hope he goes for 23, because that is the price that I paid for Alex Bregman. Devers is up to $22. He went for more than Nolan Aeronado. We know that much for sure.

Yep. That is... I like him a lot more than Nolan Aeronado. I'm definitely the highest on Devers. I have him 28th overall. But it wasn't like a huge discount. I have him at $24. He went for 22.

Yeah. It's a discount relative to, you know, I have him right in the same ranges, is Bregman, Rendon, and Seeger, and he went for the cheapest of all of them. So in that sense, it is a relative value. I bring up the Aeronado comparison,

because that was, you know, after Aeronado got traded to the Cardinals, it was like, do we drop them behind Devers now? And I said yes, and I'm not sure the ADP data has reflected that, but just one room has reflected that. Zach Plessat currently at $18 to who? Scotty Dobs,

trying to get the fourth of his top 35 ranked starting pitchers. And it happens. At $18, Scott, we just spoke about him on, I think it was Monday's podcast, boom or bust. And I asked you if you were worried about the slow start to the spring. And you said you were not. You were not concerned for PLEASC. I mean, I'd rather not be a slow start, you know, but just trying to be consistent with my standards.

You know, I don't hear anything about his delivery being off or his pitches being ineffective or his velocity being down. So, you know, if you believe in the player and there's not any of that noise going on, then you should continue to believe in the player regardless of what's happening in spring training.

Will Smith, the catcher for the Dodgers, is the next player up, and he's up to $7. Again, J.T. Real Muto went for 18. So let's see where the bidding on Will Smith stops, because many have him as a breakout candidate at the position, and he's still going to 11.

I believe there was a roto draft that we did where Tim McLeod, let's see if he wins him. Tim McLeod wins Will Smith for $11. He actually drafted Will Smith ahead of J.T. Realmuto. So that tells you how much Tim McLeod likes Will Smith this year. Yeah, I mean, I think it's J.T. Realmuto, Will Smith, and then everyone else a catcher basically this season. Charlie Morton, next man up, nominated by Adam.

Adam, you're going to be in on this? Your boy? So, Frank, why weren't you bidding up, Tim McLeod? If you knew he liked Will Smith more than Real Muto, could push the envelope. You got the hammer right now, don't you? I don't. Do I?

I have, hmm, I'm at 108, so there's a few people that have more money than me left. I just, I don't want to get stuck with a $12. Will Smith. That's my biggest thing there, Scott. Does anybody or Adam? Obviously Charlie Morton for 14 Was good?

That's good. Ian Anderson for 15 and Charlie Gordon for 14, you're approving? I like both of them. Charlie Morton's velocity has been 94, 95 in spring. He looks like he's back. He was awesome in the postseason.

I'm pretty confident. I think I'm going to start moving him up a little more in my draft board. So can I get Scott's opinion on the Braves pictures that I just got? Do it. Anderson and Morton? 14 and 15 bucks, yeah.

I think it's fine. I don't think I would have gone any more on either, but that's right around the range that I might have paid. Ian Anderson, you got to expect there will be some workload restrictions in play there. Sorry, I have to try and figure out how I'm going to spend my money. I also noticed you called me a moron. Very fly there. He said, I don't think I'd go any moron them.

No, I mean, obviously there's a durability concern for Morton because other than 2019, he's never really, at least since he picked up velocity after leaving Pittsburgh, he's never been somebody who could log a lot of innings, except for that one year, 2019. And then Ian Anderson, you expect there's going to be workload restrictions just because he's technically a rookie now. And, yeah, obviously didn't accumulate that many innings last year.

Because nobody did. You think I'm a moron. Okay, that's cool. Blake Snow goes for $27, $2 more than Lance Lynn. So that probably makes sense based on the rankings. And of course, this is the preferred format for Blake Snow. I do think he will be better in Grotto or Categories leagues versus in Hedge. headpoints.

Tommy Edmund. Who's banging their desk? Is that Chris or Scott? Go ahead, Tim McLeod. I dare you. Go 11. As high as I'm going for Tommy Edmund. And boom.

Again, goes the dynamite for Scotty. Thoreled with Byron Buckson for nine. And I got Tommy Fam for $10. So, all right, you get a few, you get some speed out of all three of those players. Bxton for nine. I got fam for 10. Tommy Edmund there goes for $10 to Scott as

well, oh man, Andrew Vaughn. I was wondering when to throw him out there, Andrew Vaughn. This is not a good time to do it because there's so much money left on the board. By the way, Edmund has triple eligibility. Yeah, second, short and outfield. And he's obviously going, no, actually third short enough. He's going to pick up second. He's going to be quadruple eligible.

And he's been leading off, I think. It's been him and Matt Carpenter who have been leading off so far for the Cardinals in spring when they have their normal lineup in. Which makes me optimistic. he's going to get back to being a quality base dealer. I had four middle infield options written down that, you know, guys who I see meeting the speeds need that I would be willing to go $10 on. And Tommy Edmund was one of them.

He was the first one to be nominated and I got him for exactly 10. So obviously, you know, a bit of a risk there that those others aren't going to go for less than 10. But I'm assuming there will be steals desperation that, I don't know. Maybe it'll only increase as this thing plays out. But obviously there's going to be less dollars in play later on too. On that topic, I have story, Yelich, and Betts. How aggressive should I be getting a base stealer?

Not at all. Do you think I'm covered? Because Yelich is a question mark. He had four steals in 58 games last year. Yeah, I mean, if he's back to form, he'll be stealing bases again. I there are there's a question mark

there for yell it's just in terms of all around performance but if he's back he'll be all the way back I think and four steals with the OBP he had

you know in a short season that's he was on a 50 30 pace in 2019 you know before the knee injury yeah before the knee injury

I just hope I hope his career is not like well after that knee injury we'll see yeah I'm not too worried about it, but I wouldn't expect him to steal 30.

Chris, you won Zander Bogartz for $25 while we were chatting it up there. How do you feel about that price? Love it. I have him looks like, let me see, like $5 ahead of that Seeger, Devers, Rendon, Bregman range, and I got him for less than Rendon and only a couple dollars more than Devers and Bregman so I'm very happy with that.

Randy and Rosarena now. And kind of solves my batting average concerns a little bit or at least makes me have to worry about it a little less. Let's see what that batting average is looking like, Chris. I would say 275-ish for Machado, probably

290 for Bogart, something like that. Ramirez 275, Ozuna, probably 275, 280 maybe, and then Buckson, I mean, who knows, 250? 245, yeah. Riccato. I don't think your batting average is terrible,

actually, right now where you're at. No, but I need power, and I'm going to have to start sacrificing batting average for power pretty soon. Right. So I want to make sure that I have a better base there. Talk to me about this guy, Randy Rosarena. hate him because of the Yankees.

But $15 for Randy a Rosarena, that feels like too much to me. Too much. So him and Luis Robert, they go for, Robert goes for 17, a Rosarena goes for 15. And those are two of the boomer bus players that we talked about recently. I mean, there's big upside for Randy Rosa, especially a Roserina, especially in this format with a power and speed. Scott, what did you think about that price at 15? I actually have them down for 17.

So I don't have a problem with 15. Kyle Tucker is currently on the board and I think Scott wanted to make his answer short and sweet because I saw he was bidding on him so let's see how... Yeah, I was. How high Kyle Tucker goes. Everybody's bidding on him.

He's up. He's to 20 now. And I have him down for 24. Yeah. Oh, this is a great price. I just don't think I can spend anymore. We're starting to get to the deflated part, especially for hitters. I think all the hitters pretty much

at this point are going to go for less than their expected price. Does Conda have all-star potential or, you know, top five? Does he have superstar potential? I think so. Tucker, I think so. There is 30-home or 20 steel potential there, maybe 25 steel. The batting average and the plate discipline haven't been great,

but they were much better in the minor. So, you know, it's possible he takes a step forward and has a peak season where he hits like 285 with 30 homers and 25 steals. And, you know, that's entirely possible. I'm a little bit more skeptical of the batting average on Tucker. Not that I think it's going to be bad. I think he's probably going to be between 260 and 270. He hits a lot of fly balls.

So normally, you know, lots of fly balls can lead to a low babb. He should strike out a little bit more than league average. So if I'm just projecting batting average for Tucker, it's probably 260. Yeah, that's just talking like best case scenario. I think he could be someone who gets his batting, his strikeout rate around the average or maybe a little below it. But, yeah, no, he's definitely not a guarantee for a good batting average. So Tucker went for 22. I had him for 24.

Eloy Jimenez just went for 20. I had him for 21. So we're still almost getting to what I project them for. You know, I might be a little low on Jimenez compared to people in general. Yeah, I'm for 20. So I'm there with you. We're still almost there, but you can tell people are more hesitant in their bidding

because they know they got a lot of needs to fill still. Ozzy Albies, who is maybe the best hitter available, just got thrown out here. Yeah, number two for me. Let's see what happens here with Ozzie, who we have for quite a bit more than he is going for at this point. Eloy Jimenez in the meantime went for, I think Scott mentioned he went for

20 bucks Ozzie Albies So I probably shouldn't have gone 10 on Tommy Edmund, huh? I feel worse about that. So the other three guys, I'll just name them. The other three guys I was considering word Dylan Moore

who may go for more. Ozy Albies goes for 19. Those are three great prices in a row. Borderline third, fourth round, That one's great, for sure. 19 for all these. And I thought about getting in, but I have a lot of positions to fill too. Me too. $41.41 left. How much do you have?

I have over 100. 108. I have the least amount of money left. I'm never in this position. This is really strange for me. Gosh. sucks. Let's see how much Tim Anderson goes for, throw them out here. There's still a few short stops, I think. Glaver Torres is out there still as well.

But for anyone who needs speed, Tim Anderson's probably going to be a popular candidate at this point. And batting average. I think that's the one that's going to gnaw on me the rest of this thing, is Edmund for 10. Because if I didn't spend 10 on Edmund yet, I could have definitely gone 20 on Albies, you know,

and plan to spend five on that middle infield spot instead of 10. Albies is going to give me steals too, right? Yep. Maybe, you know, a similar amount. Yeah. I know the projections are more like 15-ish for for admin, but, you know, it could be, could certainly be a lot. And that's what I'd project all B's for too, but, you know, it's possible he goes crazy and steals 25. Possible either of them do.

Hey, I have a random question. Is Isaiah kind of for Leffa going to play catcher anymore? Probably not. No. I would, I would take the under on four and a half games at catcher this year. so he will not gain eligibility. I don't think he got a single one last year, did he? I would take the under on one.

Yeah, I think they're done with that. Okay. I mean, maybe he'll get one. But for the audience, if you play in a Yahoo League, he is catcher eligible there. All right, this is where the salary cap draft begins. Shohei Otani, another day, another dinger. He hit a bomb off of Shane Bieber on Tuesday.

Straightaway center field, over the batter's eye. Just a mammoth. He had two home runs on. on Monday as well. The guy is crushing it in the spring. I'm just going to talk him up as much as I possibly can. He's looked awesome when he's been on the mound. He's throwing 97 to 100 miles an hour.

Splitters looked great. The sweet sounds of Scott's phone. I missed that. Adam, did you text Scott on purpose so that his phone would go off in the middle? No, it was actually my sister texting me about this. So she's going to hear us talking about me receiving the text. I was like, what is that strange yet familiar sound?

Oh, it's cold. Oh, Shohei Otani, he's up to 12. Come on, Chris, I know you want him. That's too much for me. Too much, too much at this point. Yeah, I mean, if we did this a month ago, I think he's probably under $10, but the spring has been pretty exciting for one, Shohei Otani.

So we'll see. On CBS, of course, he has both pitcher and utility eligibility, but this is a weekly league, so when you set your lineup before the week starts, you have to figure out where do you want to put up? Utility or at starting pitcher.

You can't reap both of the rewards at the same time unless you are in a daily league. Oh, Taphab AMC, we're back. We're back. Yeah, James Paxton. $1. James Paxton, who...

Oh, B-Dod. Oh, RJ. Well, I'm definitely not going $4. No chance. James Paxton has yet to make his spring training debut. He has pitched in some simulated games.

Seriously right now? James Paxton is going to go for four, at least. That's just too much for me. He should be a $1 player. I've got him for three, but yeah, I wouldn't push.

He's somebody I really feel like I need to see pitch. With radar gun readings and not what you're getting in a sim game. While we were talking before Tim Anderson, I threw him out

and I knew that I wanted to win him, but I did not bid on him until it was the very last bid. So that is, at times when I know that it's, you know, one of the last players, one of the best players available that are left, and I know that I want to be in the bidding on that player. I will throw them out and then I won't get in on the bidding until it really starts slowing down just to kind of make people think that I'm not in on them. So, yeah, I wind up with Tim Anderson at $20,

and now Kyle Hendricks is up. James Paxson wound up going for $5. Let's see how high this bad boy goes. Kyle Hendricks. Oh, man. No discount on pitching. What other pitchers are left? He was...

He was... ...year-old instead of 31 years old. Right? I mean, it's just surprising to be that he was only 31 because it just... He throws so softly that he's like Jamie Moyer out there. Okay, so that was the case where I nominated the guy, I wanted because

he was my Hendricks was my highest ranked healthy pitcher available and I like I had to know how much I was going to get him for so that I could know how much I had to spend on whatever hitters were going through now and Andres

Jimenez is that other middle infielder I would have considered he's up now I would have considered instead of Tommy Edmund he goes for four to Frank so I'd much rather have him for four than Tommy Edmund for 10 but I try to put five on there I don't know what but can you go back? No, I think your max bid is $4 at him.

That can't be true, right? 28. No, it's 28. Screw you. Oh, man. Yeah, so I had, what did I write down, Anders Jimenez for? I had him for around eight, so I got him at $4, and I get him at that middle infield spot, and I'm getting some speed now.

I needed some. I pick up Tim Anderson and Anders Jimenez now as my middle infielder. He does have third base eligibility if I want to throw him at corner as well, and Jimenez has just been crows. rushing it in the spring. So, looks like he will be the everyday starting shortstop

to begin the season for the Cleveland Indians. That would be the number two hitter. Yeah, I saw a lineup that resembled something similar to opening day, I think, for Cleveland either yesterday

or on Tuesday. And I think he was batting sixth or seventh. So we'll see. Yeah. We'll see for Andres Mennes. Yeah, I think the last couple of days

he's been lower in the lineup, but he was batting first or second for a while. Could have just been trying to get him you know, extra, extra plate appearance or two. Springer goes off the board for 19. So again, another one of those late third, early fourth round hitters going for that

18 to 22 range. Springer went for 19 again. I got Tim Anderson for 20. Ozzy Albies went for 19. Eloy went for 20. Kyle Tucker went for 22. So all that inflation up top has led to some really nice values here for those mid-round hitters.

And now Luke Voigt, Adam, there's a Yankee on the board. This is one of the Yankees I don't want. Why is that? Talk to us. I think he's going to be really streaky. He's kind of an all or nothing player. And so when he has two months of production, I wouldn't surprise me if he had a month that was terrible. So we'll see what he goes for.

But I think to me, based on the other prices, he's like a $12 player. I know he's at $12 right now. Now he's at $13. Yeah, I don't know. I just don't really feel the need to have Luke Voight. And of course you are buying him off of a career year, a shortened season, where he led all of baseball in home runs. Luke Voidt did he at 22 home runs. And he is up to $15 for Scott. Is he going to get him? Is he going to get him?

And he does. Scott, you get Luke Void at 15 and you have him priced up at $22. I believe you also got him in Tout War. So Scott, doubling down on some Yankees. Let's go. Uh-huh. Are you okay? You don't know. You don't sound very happy about it. I don't know if I'm okay, honestly. I don't know. It was not part of the plan, but... Do I have a second baseball out or what? You just really wanted to get a player there?

I thought the price was right, and I didn't have a first basement yet, and, you know, I got my... I got five starting pitchers I feel good about, so I'm not as concerned about that. I don't know. I guess I had some money burning a hole in my pocket for a hitter. RJ is repeatedly screwing people over with his jump bids

It's like every time He does like a $5 jump bids Someone bids immediately after And it's been like Five or six players in a row I feel like Yeah So

That's fun Matt Olson Oh there you go There's that power hitting first baseman Are you going to get him at him? Do you have a first baseman? No I don't Okay, I'm in

All right you're in You're in. Let's see. Thank you for notifying me. I'm happy to do so. I'm going to... Yeah, I mean, I think... No, now I feel like it's so expensive.

So tell me, how much should Dominic Smith go for? Because he's... I've heard you talk about him a lot. I have... I can tell you... $10, I think. His valuation has been all over the board throughout this draft process.

Yeah. Like, oh, that's a good price. Just the way that... Wait, you're saying $14 is a good price for Matt Olson when I got Luke Voigt for $15. I agree with that. No, no, they're both. I should have jumped in on. I should have jumped in on either one. I have Voight ranked higher than Matt Olson. I was, I mean, there's a few of the first basement. I don't mind as fallback options. But those, I think both are good prices. I like that. Yeah. I have, I have Voigt for $20 myself and I have Olson at, at 18. So Denels, DeNelsa Lemette's going out. He's up to $10 already, which is kind of more than I thought he did. go for it because now we know

he's, we're pretty sure he's not going to be ready for the start of the season. So that's just another concern piled on top of the others. But he goes for 11. You know, it wouldn't have been me, but I understand spending that much on him. Yep.

So what were we talking about before the Olson bid went through? It was something interesting. Well, you talk about first baseman. I asked about Thomas Smith, but we should probably talk about which positions are getting thin, where it's like, well, I need to get one of my, I don't have a third basement. I don't have a first baseman right now. Do we have to start making sure we have one of the top X amount at the position? Does it not respond? I think we're down to the last two of that group that we're, that we all kind of agree that top 13. I think Marcus Simeon may be. be starting to get pushed into that group and making it a 14. I don't know how you guys feel about that.

But shortstop's definitely getting a little thin. Second base is in pretty good shape. There's still five or six guys who I'd be pretty happy with as my starter. So I think we're okay there. Kevin Vizio just in pretty good shape. Kevin Bizio for 10 days. None of us are fans of, we both, we all have Kevin Bishio.

I believe we all have Kevin Vizio as a bus this year. but for 10 bucks Scott you have my price out at 17 Chris has him at 14 I haven't I'm at 13 I was thinking about jumping in there because I feel like I could use some more steals too it just didn't really fit what I needed right now

I mean I guess you can always you can always use when I see Tommy admin for 10 come on Scott gosh there's always there's always one thing that happens and everyone in the salary drafts that just

it eats me up until until the result start being put up in the league. Just going to beat myself up over it. Is this going to happen, Chris? Are you going to get Pete Alonzo for 18? I was hoping I could get him for like 15, but like I said earlier,

I needed a power hitter. He's clearly the best one left and maybe the best one in baseball. Especially in a year with a, we think deaden ball is what they've, They've rumored. Oh, I got to throw someone out here. Sorry, nominate a player real quick.

Let me throw this guy out here. Adam, if you want to jump in. Pete Alonzo, yeah, so if there's going to be a deaden ball this year, I think someone who probably will not suffer is someone who just has as much pure power as Pete Alonzo. Yeah. It's not, I don't think that that should affect him. Yeah, so Liber Torres is who you nominated. And I have Trevor Story and I have, you know, very little money left.

So I'm probably not going to, but I think Torres is going to bounce back. the thing is he's not second base eligible. He's only shortstop eligible. I would love to get a middle infielder that's eligible. Well, I have Jay Croninworth, so I guess I can, but then I need a second basement. But anyway, yeah, I don't want story and Torres because I'd like to have a little position flexibility. We haven't talked a lot about that, but I think it's pretty valuable once you start getting

injuries and you look at the waiver wire, there's just not much there to have players that can play second or short or you can move them around. So I don't want two short stops who are only eligible at short. You know who's perfect for that, Adam? Tommy Edmund. Coming back around. Who I'm just learning about. He's on my team.

I keep looking at him, and I hate that he's on my team. Like, I just made it. Jake Cronenworth. Oh, right. I just made it. Like, wow. Whatever.

That's fine. What did he ever do to you, Adam? Come on. It's just, it's like, who is he? I don't, because I don't know what to expect. I don't know how to evaluate him. What the hell do I have in Jake Cronham? I think he could be a batting average that won't hurt you.

I don't know that he's going to play every day. He's probably going to be a super utility guy for the Padres, but double-digit home runs, maybe close to double-digit steals. He's a fine player. Okay. Well, yeah, whatever. I know everybody else at my team. That's one of my first qualification.

Do I know you? That's usually how I start my draft. Glaver Torres went for $15. $10 seems like a fair value. No discount for Wilson Contreras. Wilson Contreras goes for $8. Will Smith went for, I believe it was 11. By the way, that $15 price for Torres,

that was compared to Javier Baez for 14, and I believe Carlos Correa was 13. Yep. Yes, he was. Those are the three mid-round shortstops I lumped together, and they all went for about the same. Well, Mr. Adam Mazur is snoozing over there, and he just got Dom Smith nominated. So how much...

Is he going to play today? I think he is. We don't know. That's the hope. But I don't know if he can play every day in the outfield. They got a couple of defensive-minded outfielder's who bat right-handed, so you get a little nervous. I have Dominic Smith as a $12 player,

but based on the way this salary cap draft has played out, like, I'm not going 12 for him here. Because I don't think more than nine. It's worth pointing out. He's been good two seasons in a row, but he doesn't even have 400 plate appearances. So, like, if, I feel like if this were a guy coming off 400 good,

or 396 good plate appearances in a single season, I'm not sure he'd be going, you know, top 100 like he currently is, or right around there. So, you know, that's not to say he shouldn't, but, you know, that's worth taking into account.

I like Dom Smith quite a bit. I like the skill set. He makes a lot of contact. He hits lefties well. People don't realize this. He's younger than Pete Alonzo. And he has prospect pedigree. You know, it didn't work out at first,

but the past two years, he's been really good. 139 games since the start of 2019 for Dom Smith, a 937 OPS. So when he's played, he's been awesome. I think they're going to find ways to get his lineup in his bat in the lineup. nice buy Adam I think it's really important

to have especially in a league well in any league I think it's really important to have boom or bus players on your team that's how you win you know yeah that sucks but you can replace them if they boom then you know then $9 could be

a bargain it's just you have to take some chances you have to have upside to put it in the context of a salary cap draft if you get $200 $160 of value for your team in 2021, you're probably going to finish the sixth place. Chris, you might want to pay attention. Yeah.

I love that we all know each other's favorites and Chris's is Marco Gonzalez. Chris, you might want to pay attention to Marco Gonzalez, who's being bid on right now. He's fine. I mean, he's kind of like a lesser Kyle Hendricks and Kyle Hendricks went for 22. Yeah, he's, I mean, Gonzalez, I have him as a $7 player, so it's not like I like him that much. he's someone I've liked a lot more in years past relative to everyone else. This year I'm not drafting him as much as I expected

because there does seem to be someone who likes him more than I do and at least every one of my drafts. So in between Dominic Smith and Marco Gonzalez was Dylan Moore, who I nominated. And he went for $11, which was even more than I paid for Tommy Moore. It was even more than Kevin Bigeo went for, which is kind of why I threw him out here. It was another case of nominating a guy I want just to get it out of the way.

No, if it's realistic I should be holding out for him or not. And I found out it wasn't. So now if there's another Cabin Bigio for $10, I can be in on it. So I bid on Gary Sanchez just now at $7, and he went one more at $8. And I just, I don't know if this is the right mindset to have. But with knowing that Wilson-Kuturas went for $8, I just couldn't bring myself to bid anymore on Gary Sanchez. it's just, I would feel so bad about paying more for Sanchez than I would for Wilson Contreras. So I figured I stopped the bidding at seven. And I probably shouldn't have even gotten seven for being honest.

David Price for two bucks right now to Chris. Marco G. went for $8. Dylan Moore went for 11. So some steals there with Dylan Moore. He goes one more dollar than Tommy Edmund. Scott, we just have to compare every player to Tommy Edmund at this point. So would you rather have, would you rather have Dylan Moore at 11 or? or Edmund at 10, where you got him? Probably Edmund at 11, but, you know, I couldn't do it once I had been 10 on Tommy Edmund. I didn't have that much money I could devote to it. But just seeing that Kevin Vigio then went for 10 later, I was hoping I could get Dylan

more for like six or seven. And it didn't happen. That's fine. Let's see how much this should be interesting. Vladimir Guerrero. Oh, my gosh. No discount on Vladie. Did RJ just do that?

Did he just jump it? I don't think it was RJ. No, someone else. Yeah, Vlad looks, oh, he's going for 19 right now. That's more than Pete Alonzo. It's, yeah, and he could be absolutely worth that. He's been hitting the ball really, really hard in spring, and the launch angle is up.

It's double what it was in 2019, his highest so far out of his two seasons. So, you know, if Vladimir Guerrero is going to be a 13. degree launch angle guy, he's probably a superstar. I actually don't, I think it's that simple. If he's elevating the ball consistently,

he's going to be one of the best hitters in baseball. So, you know, it's too much. $19 is too much. I have him for 16, but it could really work out. Yeah, people...

I've had some second thoughts about calling Vladimir Guerrero a bus this year. Yeah, I definitely, Yeah, I wouldn't call him a bust. I think he's... It's the same way that we... It's the same way we called out for me last year. Yeah, it's just a...

It's a risk-reward thing for him. Like, I have him for $16 or $17, whatever. I don't think he's going to be worth that. I think he's either going to be worth like six or 37. Again, that is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Some optimism with him in the spring thus far. Yoron Alvarez just went for $12. So.

Yeah. And I want to jump in. It's just, I need to save my money for other things at this point. I don't have a first basement. I don't have a second basement. I don't have a, not that I'm going to invest much. Would you like big Croninworth? No, thank you, sir.

So I like the price on Alvarez. I believe Nelson Cruz went for 13. So far those util only bets sitting in that low teens range, $12 and $13, respectively. Charlie Blackman up to... I feel like Greg Lathrop is just bidding on every player.

How much money does this guy have left? Charlie Blackman up to 12. And that's where he's going to stop. So... Could be a good value there. Adam, I know for years you've loved Charlie Blackman. I thought I was going to get him for $2. And then somebody bid.

Yeah, I like Charlie Blackman. He's good. You've heard of him. I know him. I have him as an $18 player. So, yeah. I would have been happy if I had gotten him. And I was in the bidding, but.

So I look. 50 picks ago, you would have been happy to get him for $15. Yeah, 15. If he had gone, gone out as the 30th player, I would have been thrilled with it. I think that you could do one of these salary cap drafts, skip the first hour, and come back and have a kick-ass team with the Vladimir Guerrero's and the Nick Castellanos is being nominated now, and Charlie Blackmonds,

you're now like all these guys, you know, and you still need superstars though. And there hasn't been, yeah. Yeah, I personally agree, maybe I would get one and then I would leave for an hour and try it. Because I just think there are so many good players that are still left. It's incredible.

It's so many guys that are still in your top 12 at every infield position. and you could have, you know, I don't know what I'm going to be strong, but you're not going to be weak. What I think would be a really interesting strategy, and I think Scott should try this at some point, is like $120 on your hitters.

And just like, that's all you're going to spend and the rest goes to pitching. That's kind of the opposite of how things have typically worked in a salary draft. But, you know, that's the kind of thing. that I think could, it would be really interesting to see, given the way this draft is going,

where, you know, in this 10 to 15 to $20 range, the hitters are so much better than the pitchers. Yep. Yeah. You know, you could get, you could have an offense built around, you know, Pete Alonzo and Charlie Blackman and Vladimir Guerrero and guys like that. Glaver Torres.

Well, it's like the equivalent of taking starting pitchers with your first four or five picks in the points league, right? And that's basically what I've done in the head-to-head points league. Obviously, it's easier to justify in that format than it would be in this one with all the hitter spots

to fill and with a need to diversify categories for hitters. But that's, I mean, that's the rationale I've made in a head-to-head points salary cap league the past two years where it's just like there are so many quality hitters to go around that are going to go for very little because everybody's spending $50 on pitchers.

So I mean, the same rationale might may apply. And for what it's worth, my most expensive hitter is $31. I don't think I'm going to have a $20 one otherwise. So I'm kind of doing that even now. Yeah. I think what's going to end up hurting you is steals. That's where you're going to really struggle. You might have to spend a lot of money on, like, Tommy Edmund or something.

No, you're going to have to pay up for some steel specialist. We used to do with Malik Smith or something like that. Sorry, I accidentally clicked out of the window. And so I had to try to get back into the draft room just in time. Are you going to go another bid on Kesson Hira? No, no. I was happy with him at 11. I'll let him go at 12.

I thought you're going to get him with that with that, oh, no, bid. He was going for 10. I just want to be clear. I wasn't trying to hold the clock out that I legitimately click on a bookmark link on my browser and had to frantically press the back button. Chris, you don't need to apologize, man. I am okay with the last second bid. But I'm not, Frank. But there's psychology behind it, man.

Exactly. And I hate that psychology. It's definitely strategy. I do it quite a bit on play. Like a lot of the times when I'm getting ready, when there's a player nominated that I know that I want, I will wait until the bidding slows down a lot and I will not jump in until it's under five seconds left.

Yeah, I have, I have ADHD. So it's really hard for me to wait an extra 10 seconds. It's just like, it really, it really grinds my gears. It gets under my skin. in a real way. In a way that I admit, it's a weakness of mine in this type of league.

Adam, it is your turn to nominate a player. There's someone I want to nominate, but based on what happened with Paxton, I just don't think it's the right time yet. So let's go with this Jose Barrios fella. I know him. Man, pitching is looking a little barren right now, so we'll be interesting to see

if you get a bit of a discount at this point for Jose Burrios or not. But... There's still some guys. After Barrios goes on the top of my list, there's Sonny Gray who should start the year on the IL. Max Fried is still available. Hazardos, some names there.

Yeah, there's some pretty good pitchers left. I mean, if you're just starting to build your staff now, you've got a problem, but... It's not the best, right? If you're filling out your fourth, fifth starter, even your third, I think you could maybe get away with it. Still no discounts on starting pitchers. Jose Berrios is up at 15.

I will pull up, pull up our values to see how much we have. I got them at 12. You have them at 12, and I have Berrios at 16. Scott has Berrios at 15. So, all right, not bad.

15, yep, no discount. I mean, that's probably what Berrios should go for. He was the first picture. He probably would have gone for 25 an hour ago, but still. That's right. Yep. Yeah, there hasn't been a pitcher

nominated for a while. Marco Gonzalez went for eight. David Price went for $3. I guess some uncertainty about his role right now. He should be a starting pitcher, but there was a report that he's willing to do whatever for the team. I don't think that really matters much. Max Muncie up on the board.

Scott, you need a second basement? No, you don't. You have Edmund. But he plays everywhere. He plays first. He plays third. I like it. Adams is in on the bidding here as well.

Not anymore. I was on in five. now it's eight for Muncie. Again, this is a batting average league, so Muncie takes a bit of a hit here. Better in OBP and head-to-head points. But I was about to say, but at $9, it's not bad,

and then Scott gets sniped at the last second. And that will go final. Max Monty goes for $10 to be Don. And let's catch people up out. There were some other hitters that went in the meantime. After Blackman went for 12, Nick Castellanos went for $4. 14, Joey Gallo went for 12, who's having a big spring thus far. Kessenhero went for 12.

Yosmani Grandal, another catcher went for $7, so $1.00 less than Gary Sanchez and Wilson Contreras, Jose Barrios for 15, and Max Muncie for 10. Tray Mancini is up, and he is already up to $6. Come on, Scott. Trey Mancini is one of those guys that I know just based on when he's nominated. I'm not going to have a shot at him. Like that's somebody I want for the end game. And you can't control who's actually going to be available there at the end game. So, yeah, I mean, $6. That's for him with the question marks there.

That's not something I can justify. I also want to encourage people to continuously look at the amount of money that everyone else in the league has. You don't want to lose sight of that. You could just kind of get lost in your own team. But you always should know where you are in relation to everybody. So I still have among the lowest amount of dollars left, but it's starting to even out. So I, you know, in 20 more picks,

I might be in a much stronger position. And always look at the max bid as well, is that that's indicative of your strength. Aye, aye, yie. A simple rule I have for that. Oh, no, Frank. Is that too much? There are $12 on Anthony Rizzo.

You're getting into a bidding war. Don't have him when there's no bidding words left. I'm not bidding anymore. For hitters at least, yeah. Well, I like Rizzo. I think he's going to bounce back in a pretty significant way, but I have him for 12. Yeah, I had him for 12 as well. You were right to let him go.

He was, I mean, he's one of the last starting-ish caliber first basement. There's a few other guys that don't mind, but he was one that I was eyeballing there. I don't mind it for $12, but once he went to 13, I was, I was talking to go again. starting-ish first baseman. So the point of the rule I have kind of the point of no return for balance, how much money you have left versus

Mac. Like when you're balanced, the amount of money you have left is twice what your max bid is, I'm basically just stopping and jumping in for $2, jumping in for $3 on a player I really want at that point. Like that's the cutoff for me. Twice as much, okay, I'm done. I've spent all

I'm capable of spending. and I just want to make sure I'm not reduced to nothing but $1 bids because that's where you really get screwed in one of these is if you got nine spots to fill with $1 bids and you're just going to keep getting all your nominations are going to get bid up every time and you're left with the scrubbiest of the scrubs at the end. So are you at that?

You have $39 and your max bid is $28. Yeah, I'm not there yet. Okay. So you still feel like you can be fairly aggressive? I wouldn't say aggressive. No, I probably have a couple of medium-sized buys left in me, and that's it. So I need to do it selectively. $9 max Muncie, I would have been fine with that because I actually do have a hole at second base. Tommy Edmund isn't eligible there yet. But I couldn't go 11. And Eric Hosmer goes for six. He almost got him for five, Chris. Yeah, I would have been happy with him at five. He's going to, he would have to be my DH. And that's why I wasn't willing to keep pushing it. But. Um, Eric, $6. Eric Cosmer. I, I love that value.

John Carlo. Noncipo. John Carlo. Noncipo. He is on the board and he will see how much he winds up. Oh, wait, hold on a second. I kind of hit it for here. I was like, this can't happen for $3.

It's not going to happen. All right, so Stanton is up to 10. Alvarez went for... Where I needed to be. Alvarez went for about $2. 12 and... I think 10. I think RJ's got it at 10.

Yeah. So I have $6... No, I have $84 left. My max bid is 64. But I still have a few holes here. I have three more outfielder. I have... I only have two pitchers.

So this is part of the strategy side of it is... Of course, I would love to have Stanton at 11, but you kind of have to pick and choose your battles at this point. Yeah. Here's a battle you're going to pick. Awesome. I mean... Come on, Chris.

Feel good about Dominic Smith at $9 when Stanton went for $10? Yeah, I mean, they're, you know, they've both got risk. They've both got upside. I think Stanton's upside's higher. But, you know, batting average is harder to find, and Dominic Smith could be legitimately helpful there. Whereas Stanton, you're kind of looking at Stanton, you know, in a best case scenario as not hurting you in batting.

I got it. Frank, you might get them. I definitely have Stanton, you know, Stanton's like $4 more than Smith for me. I'm done. Which is, I think, fine. Not Frank.

I even felt bad about going 14. Why? I got him for 15. Yeah. It's a good price for Meadows and I love them. But again, I just, I have so many needs and it's,

there are still some other positions that I need, I'm going to need to get more pitching. So I only have two starting. A couple better outfielders left too. I mean, I go cheaper. I see what Frank's. I see Frank's pitching looks like.

I only have two pitchers. I have Gialito and Castillo. I mean, that's, that's pretty great. Those are two great pictures to have, but you got to step up here for Greg. He wants J.D. Martinez nominated.

All right, yeah, so let's pause this. All right, well, let me see. I will suspect his, he's already filled his DH spot. Yeah, he can't nominate him. Uh, let's just restart, I think.

Let's just restart the draft. Uh, so Stanton went for $10. Uh, Eric Hosmer at six. Sunny Gray, I wanted to ask you guys about. Sunny Gray went for 12. So, oh, wait, so he can't nominate.

He can't nominate J.D. Martinez. Sunny Gray at 12. Scott, is that enough of a discount? Would you rather have Sunny Gray at 12 or Jose Barrios at 15? Good question. Let me see here. I would rather have Jose Barrios of 15. Had to consult my values. I actually have Sunny Gray as only a $9 player now

because that's how worried I am about the back. Yeah, Charlie Morton at 14, I would rather have. Obviously, we know he's going to miss, what, two turns at the start of the year, at least Sunny Gray, and just we saw the back kind of limit his effectiveness when he was dealing with it last year. He may be fine. It may end up, you know, $12 and it turns out to be a good buy, but more risk than I want to take on for that price. I should have saved more money for this part of the draft, man. Just all my favorite guys are being nominated right now. So you got to spend your money.

Don't fall into this trap of like, I have a lot of spots. You have a lot of spots that you have to fill with guys like Joe Musgrove. I'm not going to do it. Yeah, it's, I have this problem every time. Like, I want, I look at this range and I'm like,

oh my goodness, I could have had player X for $3 less than the one I actually got for $4 less. And it's just like, there will never, be a salary cap draft where you got maximum efficiency out of all your dollars. That just will never happen. So, bully right now.

Frank has... You have to... Oh, you're going to nominate a player. All right, I'm going to get auto nominated here. I was too busy. Crying about Joe Musgrove. You guys were talking about J.D. Martinez, I think potentially getting outfield eligibility.

Is that going to happen? Yeah. He's played a few games here in the outfield in left field for the Red Sox. I think it's more like, I mean, it's more likely for him than York and Alvarez and Nelson Cruz. Stan and Martinez, I expect

both to pick up outfield eligibility at some point. I don't know how early it'll be. Man, he could really be such a bargain. If the game video thing was really the reason for it. So tempting. 11 right now for Martinez.

I think, I'm going 11. I think you talk Scott into that one. I think. He will turn 34 in August. So, you know, it's not, it's certainly not guaranteed either way. Well, then he'll be fine. Trade him in July. He struck out on a third of his plate appearances this spring for whatever that's worth. Probably nothing, but I will put it out there.

Not nothing. Very little. He went for 12, which is the same that, is that the same Alphros went for? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. And then Cruz went for one more. Yep. And Stanton went for what, 10?

I mean, I like the price of all of them. It's just I know I know sluggers is not where I can devote my money. I need speedsters and pitchers. You know, maybe if I hadn't already bought an $18 a of any of Suarez, but that ship has sailed. So what do people like about Dylan Carson, who's now a $4 bid? He's young. I like that. Potentially a power speed guy with good plate discipline.

He's only had one really big season in the miners as a price. prospect, but he's been young for his level at pretty much every stop. And, uh, you know, his one good season in the minors was really, really good. And it was in 2019. Thank you for pointing out that he was nominated at him. I had no idea. And I just won him for five bucks. My pleasure. So I have Dylan Carlson as a breakout. Chris is a little bit more skeptical. But, you know, that last minor league season that we saw from Carlson, he was a 2020 bat. I'm not necessarily expecting that from him, but 20 to 25 home runs, double-digit steals,

I think is attainable for Carlson. Really struggled at the beginning part of last season got sent back to the alternate site and then the final couple of weeks and even in the postseason looked like he bounced back. So I am buying the breakout for one, Dylan Carlson, especially if I box.

I think for me I just don't, I don't quite buy the power. But, you know, that's not necessarily. doesn't necessarily mean he won't hit for power. I just, um, you know,

average eggs of loss. He was only 87.4 miles per hour. Um, so, you know, but $5 is a nice buy. Oh, let's go back to nominating closers. Gior,

G. Rochelle goes for $6. Uh, same price as Eric Hosmer. And, and those seem like good discounts for corner infield type bats at this point. Uh,

Brad Han. nominated by Scott. Yeah, Rochella is somebody I probably would have been to had dollars on if he got nominated at the start. Yep. He's been it, so he goes for six to someone else. We are deep here in the weeds

of this salary cap draft for those that are listening on the podcast or if you are still watching live, we appreciate you for being here. And I realize we have gone way longer than I actually thought we were going to. So might break this bad boy down into two different podcasts.

and create a little bit more content out of it, more listenable. I don't know if people are going to sit down for three hours and listen to one thing at once. So we shall see. Frankie Monsas nominated and looked good in his debut, spring training debut over the weekend. I listen to three-hour podcasts all the time, Frank.

I don't know what you're talking about. Have you ever listened to hardcore history? It's like five hours long. Well, there you go. I really don't understand. Like, I don't know how the typical podcast listener operates, but usually when I listen to podcasts, I queue one up, I start listening to it. I pause it whenever I'm, there's no more time for listening.

And then I just go straight back to it. Most people don't operate that way. No, I, well, as I've been listening to your podcast, I have to find excuses to drive. The only time I can do it. So, yeah, it takes me four or five car rides to get through a position preview. Yeah, I can't, I can't listen to podcast while I'm working. I just, I can't listen to someone talking while I'm writing.

It just doesn't work for me. I need like loud, loud music. So that's definitely been a downside of the stay-at-home era. It is much less time for the podcasts. Hello, David Bowie. How are you doing today? Hi, David. Get out of here with your butt.

Yo, Moncada, up to 10 bucks. and he was, that slowed down at around five or six. And I saw both Chris and Scott get in there. It's just sometimes you have to price enforce. Even if, even if you don't love a player, I mean, Montcadhafer. I don't consider that price enforcing. I would have gladly taken him for six or seven dollars. And I don't necessarily mean price enforcing in a negative way.

I don't know if it always has a negative connotation, Scott. But just because, you know, just because you're price enforcing a player that you are, you know, iffy about, you could still feel really good about getting him at. five or six dollars. So there would be nothing wrong with that if you if you actually did get Moncada, but he wound up going for $10 there. Frankie Montas went for nine. Brad Hand, another closer went for nine dollars. I think Kenley Jansen went for eight or nine early, earlier. So, uh, we all have Brad Hand ranked higher than Kenley Jansen. So that seems like, but I have a relevant thing. Okay. So I was considering going 11 on Moncada. Obviously, I don't have a lot of money

left, but Jose Ramirez, Machado, Bregman, Rendon, LeMayhew, Devers, Aeronado, Biggio, Suarez, Montata, Muncie, Urchella, Bryant, Ki-Bryan Hayes, Tommy Edmund. They're all off the board, Andres Jimenez. Those are all the third-based eligible players. Are there still third-base eligible players that are starters? Matt Chapman is available. Donaldson. Yep. These guys home. You're okay with them as your starter? Maybe Austin Riley. Well, Chapman I'm definitely okay with as my starter. Donaldson, I'd be nervous,

but obviously he has starter upside. Boom, nah, I wouldn't be thrilled with him as my buddy. It depends on your team build. Like, if you've got someone that you expect to be better than the average shortstop, it makes it a little easier to live

with a third baseman who's a little below average. So, you know, that's also relevant. And Josh Bell went for $9 while you guys were talking and I was in on the bidding there. I don't have a first basement yet. And he goes for the same price as Max Muncie. So

Muncie looks like a great buy at this point. And I'm going for $8. Matt Chapman for $8. That's that could be a potential steal as well. Yeah, all these, we said it earlier. You know, post-180p

guys are just going for way cheaper than they should. Kevin Galsman went for $10. I could see. I could see Matt Chapman's one of those guys. If he won an MVP award this year, I wouldn't be stunned. Obviously that, a little less relevant for fantasy because he, you know, is probably the best defender in baseball.

But he would have to hit real. Like, I could see him having the Josh Donaldson career path. Well, you know, I would take the over on 30 home runs for Chapman, if nothing else. The one that surprises me is Josh Bell for nine right before that, which I, you know, I, I call a bell sleeper this year. I like him at the

discounted price, but I actually have him as a $7 player and not the nine he went for when like basically everyone else going in this range is going for less than I project them for. So that was interesting. I wonder if it's let's see Tim McLeod won him if there's

some desperation at first base there. Now he already had Matt Olson. He already had Vladimir Guerrero. Yeah, that was interesting. Patrick Corbyn goes for $8. So we are into that $8 to $10 range for starting pitchers. We're seeing a lot of guys go.

Austinola. That's an interesting one. I just looked at Chris Mitchell's team, and I really like it. This pitching staff is very good. Let's see what he's working with. He has... His offense isn't terrible.

So at this point, he has... Wow. Yeah, he spent a decent bit here, but he has Aranola for 33, Jack Flaherty for 31, he has Chris Paddock for 21, he has Blake Snell for 27,

Jose Burrios for 15, so. He's been $141 on seven pitching spots so far. So it's, you know, he's paying for it as well. Also got James Paxton for five and Brad Hand for nine.

So you hear often people talk about a pitcher hitter split. You spend, how much did I spend on hitting versus pitching. Should I spend 65% of my budget, 70% of my budget on hitters because you have to fill more hitter spots. I mean, it's

really, it's up to you. I don't know that there's like a set way to build your team. I mean, it's if you want to go pitching heavy, I don't think you have to follow a set pitcher hitter split. What do you think, Scott? I've never approached it like that. I look for where the scarcities are where I'm going to get the most

impact for my dollars, whether that's a a player with a unique skill set or a scarce position, these days, obviously, it's more starting pitcher where, you know, I devote more money to that than I might have in the past. And let's see, I filled five pitcher spots, all starting pitchers, of course. And how much is that add up to?

46, 71 plus 33, 104 on five pitcher spots. So, yeah, not quite as much. is Chris Mitchell spit there. I'm going to leave, Frank. That's all good. You've been here for a long time. Why don't you remind everyone where people could find you, Adam? Will you want, like, my address? Yeah, sure.

We'll send you some Chef Boyardee. Oh, God, still, I actually think it finally threw it out. I am on Twitter at Adam Azer, A-I-Z-E-R. I'm on the Fantasy Football Today podcast. Chris and I are going to be doing Fantasy Football Today in five tonight, when this salary cap is done. We will talk about Marvin Jones and things like that.

Oh, and gosh, the Patriots, geez. People know how to find me, Frank. Yeah, I was 100% being facetious, but I'm happy that you went with it anyway, and you continue to tell us. You can find me upstairs, watching some basketball for the rest of the night and finishing this,

and for some reason, I have Dylan C's on my team. I don't know why I got him. Go Nick. Go, Nix. Go, Nicks, go. Let's go. All right. See you guys.

See you later, Adam. Appreciate it, man. See, Adam. I don't know how to leave. Oh, leave. That was probably the best exit of all time from Adam. And we'll... That's a decent buy there.

Max Fried for $12. I like that. I don't love Max Fried, but I need another starting pitcher. I was tempted to go 13 there, Frank, even with five starting pitchers already. Oh, my gosh. I don't like Freed much either,

but I haven't meant as an $11. player. So at this point, the way the starting pitchers have gone, that's relative steel. I would take free to $12 versus Jose Barrios who went for 15, so I feel alright about that. Yeah, I have them right in the same range,

I think. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Adam, just because you left doesn't mean you could just throw whoever you want out here. Austin Riley is the player he threw out, by the way. Yes, I should, I'm hosting a podcast, I should mention that. Austin, I'm not going to do it. I think there's a few other corner infielders.

I like Austin Riley a lot, but there are a few other corner infielders I think might even go for the same price later on just because there's not as much money to go around. So Austin Riley goes for $2. And Adam is angry in the chat. Let's do a little roundup of our teams and it will probably wrap this bad boy up.

So Will Myers is thrown out right now and let's move on over to, let's see how you're doing, Scott. You got Austin Nola for $2, who does have a fractured finger, and probably will not be ready for the start of the season. But if he was healthy, he probably would have went for, my guess is $5 to $7, somewhere in that range. You got Luke Voigt for 15. You got Anthony Rendon for 27, Corey Seeger for 31, Tommy Edmund for $10, A. E. E. Hennio Suarez for $18.

And you also got Trent Grisham for $16. and you just won Will Myers for 10. So he is your second outfielder going in on the Padres there. So before we get to your pitchers, why don't you talk to us about your hitters, Scott, and how you're feeling and what you think

you need to, what needs you think you need to fill the rest of the way? Well, I feel good. I technically don't have a second baseman yet, though hopefully within the first week I'll be able to move Tommy Edmund there. But I'm going to need a second middle infielder either way. Look, I got

Seeger and Rendoner going to be batting average standouts. Edmund might help with that as well. I've got a lot of power. In addition to Seeger and Rendon, I got Luke Voight, Suarez, and I got three potential steel sources in Grisham, Edmund,

and just now Will Myers. I was willing to go 10 for Will Myers because I think he is a pretty good bet for 15 to 20 steals in addition to power, big power. So I think there's, I like the balance there. You know, I'm going to have to, I'm going to need a cheap middle infield option.

I'm going to need a couple cheap outfielders. But there's always cheap outfielders to be at. I feel good about it. I like it. AJ Pollock went for $2 to RJ White, and it seems like the bidding is slowing down for Marcus Semyon. And Semyon winds up going for $6. So Scott talked about the hitting on a team.

Let's look at those pitchers. We know Scott loves his pitchers. And Carlos Carrasco at $25. $1, $1,000, Kyle Hendricks at 22, Kent Mieta at 24, and Zach Plesack at 18. So, Scott, you do achieve the five of your top 35 ranked, but none of your top 11 ranked starting pitchers. So you don't have that bona fide ace,

but you do, it spread a little bit more evenly here. How do you feel about this pitching stuff? Yeah, it could be a lot worse, considering the most I spend on anybody is 25. I got five of the 35, if it was a drive, that would mean I spent five of my first 10 picks on starting pitchers, which is what I aim to do. If I do trust in the ability of all these guys,

kind of if you on Bundy, fair. But I think there's a good chance he's really good and eats a lot of innings. So, and, you know, the reason I go five is because I guard against one or two of them collapsing. I think it's fine. I think it's fine. I wish I could have gone like you Darvish for 30 instead of a might for 24, but that was not realistic. And I think I made the most of what was available to me and getting five guys that I still think are basically high end. Josh Donaldson wound up going for $3 to add him, which I actually think is a very good buy.

Corner infielder goes for super cheap there. And then Chris, you get your guy. You say Kukuchi, I appreciate it. Stick to your guns. You got to get your guys. Jorge. I'm mad about it. You threw them out for two.

Were you expecting to get it? get him for two? I was hoping to get him for two. I would have been happy to get him for four or no, I guess five was my only chance. Jorge Salar almost went for three. Yeah. That was that was getting that was making me nervous. We're going to get some real discounts here. Jorge Saler. Oh, and Chris jumps in with the six. Horace Saler up to seven dollars. Joey Gallo went for 12. I don't think they're dissimilar players if they both say healthy. And it stops there. So, Salare at $7 versus

Joey Gallo who went for 12. Chris, let's take a look at your team. We'll start with your offense. You don't have any catchers yet. You have Pete Alonzo for 18. You have Mani Machado for 29. You have Zander Bogarts for $25. Jose Ramirez for 43.

Marcel O'Suna for 25. Byron Buxton at 9. Can't let this happen. Trying to bid. Oh no, RJ White bid. Okay. Sorry, I got distracted. Danji Swanson's going for way too cheap.

Oh, man, do I want to do this? All right. Let's talk about Danji Swanson first because we're all kind of in the middle of a bidding war here. He's up to seven. Chris was trying to get him. Oh, goodness.

Oh, my goodness gracious. Dansby Swanson for $7. Can't do it. Oh, God. That's another one too. I just, I have Andres Jimenez in my middle infield. I have Tamanderson. It's just, it's a great buy.

It's a great buy. As good of a buy as Jorge Solera, I think. I think it's better. I have them both at $12. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I like Swanson a little bit more here. Gosh, every time I want to talk about your team, Chris, an interesting player pops up. Okay, we can talk about my team.

All right, so go over the players that you have unless you want to bid on Jesus Lozaro and tell us what you're thinking. The offensive players that you have, and then we'll get to your pitchers. I've got Pete Alonzo at 18 at first base, Mani Machado at 29, Zander Bogartz at 25. Jose Ramirez at 43, Marcelo Zuna at 25, Byron Buxton at 9, Oscar Mercado at 1, and Ian Hap. So among those hitters, I think all but Mercado are inside of my top 120 overall. and Alonzo, Machado, Bogart, Ramirez, and Ozuna are all inside of my top. I want to say 60, maybe 50. So I'm really happy with that start on offense.

And, you know, I've got a little bit of speed, but I probably could use a little bit more. I've got, you know, a good power base with Alonzo, Machado, Ramirez, and Ozuna. I don't, I think I'm okay in batting average and I don't think I need to sacrifice it for home runs moving forward. But, you know, if I could snag someone like Jeff McNeil, it would make having someone like Miguel Sinoa a little easier to stomach. So, you know, I'm still still building, but I'm pretty happy with that start so far. There's a lot of star power in my offense. I like your offense quite a bit. I think it's well-rounded.

You mentioned you think that you need more steals. I think you look pretty good right now. I think Machado's 10 to 15. Bogart's probably 10 to 12. You have... Yeah, I just... I don't love being in the 10 to 15 range for most of my stolen bases,

just because, you know, there's a very thin line between 15 and 5. I hear you, but you also have Jose Ramirez, who's going to give you 20 plus. I feel very strongly about that. Buckson, he stays healthy, I think we'll give you 20 plus. Mercado can give you 10 to 15. So I understand the risk with taking too many of the 10 to 15 guys, but if you're going to go that route, you might

as well get as many of them as you possibly can. And even Ian Hap will probably give you 5 to 10. And Mercado's the only one who's like mostly a steel specialist. Everyone else I think are just good hitters. So I'm, I'm happy with that. I haven't had to sacrifice for steals yet. And I am just, I'm going on a bidding spree right now. And I just, All right, so I won Jesus Lazzardo at $11. I won Raisal Iglesias at 8, and then I won Salvador Perez at 7. So Perez...

All around. Perez went for cheaper than Wilson Contreras by $1. He went cheaper than Gary Sanchez. I wrote down, I want to spend $8 or less on both of my catchers, so I wanted to get one of my top 10, and then I'm going to get a $1 catcher later on as my second catcher. So let's take a look at your pitchers quick here, Chris, and then I'll quickly recap my team

and we'll get out of here because this has been going for quite a bit. Zach Granky, you got at 19, you got Max Scherzer at 33, you got Sixtho Sanchez at 11, and you have Yusay Kukuchi at $5. So you have... Yeah, Kukuchi was...

That was just me getting frustrated and overreacting, and I shouldn't have done it. I should have just been okay, not getting him rather than spending the five. I wish I had one more 190 inning guy.

Sandy Alcantara went for a dollar less than what I've got him for. I really wish I had Sandy Alcantara on this team in addition to the other guys I have. That would make me like a $9. Sandy Alcantara, who I think is a good bet to throw 180, 190 innings

and is one of the handful who I think really legitimately could throw 200. I would feel better about that if I had him. him on my team and there aren't a lot of guys like that left. Lance McCullors went for $11 so he goes for the same price as

Jesus Lazzardo. Chris, who would you rather have at the same price if it's Lazzardo versus McCullors? Oh, I like Lazzardo more. I've got Lazzardo ranked higher. Yeah, I do too. Buy a few spots. Nothing crazy. We are, uh, who's going to wind up with Jeff

McNeil here, Chris? You and me, buddy. And am I going to get him? and I get him for $9. So money's going fast. I only have $32. I have a $23 max bid. He is my starting second baseman likely.

So let's, I do not want Devin Williams. So it gives me some time to talk about my team. So I'll just quickly mention, I got Salvador Perez at seven. I got Jeff McNeil at $2. I don't have a first baseman yet. I got Alex Bregman at 23. I got Tim Anderson at 20. Andres Jimenez at $4.

Mike Trout at 50, Tommy Fam at $10, and Dylan Carlson at five. So, it's not bad. I think it's pretty well balanced. I wanted to get McNeil there because I'm going to have to grab a few more power bats that's going to bring my batting average down. Trout's going to help batting average. Tim Anderson's going to help batting average. Bregman should be...

You're really light on power, I would say. Yep, yep. So I know I'm going to go for power. So I... But that's probably what you can get the easiest. Yep, that's the plan, hopefully here. Maybe it's with Mike Moustakis, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, let's see.

Sneaking here with a little $3 bid. Oh, man, this is... Who's going to be my starting first basement, man? This is not the best. You hate to see it. Is it going to happen? And... Okay.

All right. Got some power there. Goodbye. With the moose. All right, so I get Mustakis at $6. and he might gain third base eligibility. Suarez is playing shortstop. They're talking about using Jonathan India at second,

their prospect there. So I knew I need some power. I need some more power, obviously. So I'm going to be, that's something I'm going to pay attention to for the rest of the way. I don't have a lot of money left. I have $26.

I still need a catcher and a few more outfielders here. Corey Kluber just got thrown out. But I think my, I think my offense is well balanced now. I feel pretty good about it. I wanted Jeff Big Neal there for sure. to be my starting second baseman.

At pitcher, I currently have Lucas G. Alito for 35. I have Luis Castillo for 34. I have Max Fried for $12. And I have Jesus Lozardo for 11. My first takeaway is that WIP could be quite an issue here with this group of players. But I feel good about strikeouts. Endings should be okay,

maybe a little light with Freed and Jesus Lazzardo there. Yeah. I will look for another just innings eater whip kind of guy that can help me out to fill out the rest of this rotation. I do have one closer

in Ricelli-Glasis. I wanted to get one of my top ten guys. I have them ranked inside my top five. So, feel pretty good about that. All right, Cory Kluber goes for seven bucks. That was to Adam. No surprise there.

He got Devin Williams for four. So Adam gets Devin Williams and Josh Hater. He handcuffs the relievers there. So if Hater is traded, he will have the next man up. in Devin Williams. You could just get 220 strikeouts

out of the two of them anyway. That would be, I was going to say it could be crazy, but it really wouldn't. It really wouldn't, based on the talent level there. Anything else you guys would like to say? Any closing thoughts here before we wrap up this extravaganza? I wish I had been more

aggressive on some of the early starting pitchers. That's the biggest thing for me. I wish I had been willing to do. Sorry. Four bucks. Sorry about that. I think it'll be about pitching in April. It's not bad.

Mike Soroka there. So you get a little bit more depth on your pitching staff. All right, we're slowing down here quite a bit. So we'll wrap it up here. I don't know how we're going to break this into two podcasts. But if not, you're just going to get one really super long, nearly three hour podcast. Thanks for. everyone who watch along the way.

If you want to find the rest of the results, they will be on the website as early as Wednesday morning when you are hearing this podcast. And I will go back in and put the draft results in the podcast description as well. So thank you all for sticking with us for this long. For Scott and Chris, I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.