Fantasy Baseball Today - Our First 2022 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft of the Offseason! (11/16 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: November 16, 2021

We just had our first 2022 mock draft of the offseason. Any obvious themes or takeaways (2:15)? ... News and notes: Eduardo Rodriguez is headed to the Tigers (5:30)! ... First round: is there a consensus top seven picks (13:30)? ... Second round: did Luis Robert go too early (20:02)? ... Third round: Francisco Lindor (23:48)??? ... Fourth round: too early for Alex Bregman (33:47)? ... Fifth round: Charlie Morton is a value (36:00). ... Sixth round featured the steal of the draft (40:55). ... Seventh round: is this a good range for Cody Bellinger (44:23)? ... Eighth round: too early for Jazz Chisholm (50:05)? ... We wrap up recapping our teams (52:37)! '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

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Now here's Frank Scott, Chris and Adam. All right. We've officially reached that point in the offseason. It's time to recap our first 2022 mock draft. This should be fun. fantasy baseball today on Tuesday, November 16th. Frank Stanfield, joined by Scott White, and Scott, does this mean that we're doing a mock draft every week until the season starts? Because I feel like that's what we did last year.

No, no, that doesn't start till January, Frank, after football's over. Okay, we've got some time. Nobody really knows what to do with themselves. We just start doing, no, really, it's two drafts a week from about late January till late March. Oh, yeah. And we get crazy with it too. Everybody gets tired of me annoying. Like, yeah, I need to like, I need to bring some intern in just to send out emails for mock drafts and set them up. Because I spend so much of my time doing that in February and March, that might be better spent elsewhere.

But no, mock drafts are always a great resource, particularly when they're done by people you know and trust, which may include some of the names in this mock draft. Hopefully at least Frank Stample and Scott White, but many others as well. I was going to say, I'm definitely not one of the people you trust on that list, but no, it's fine. It's also especially fun when we're doing it with the 2021 rankings still in the CBS draft room.

So obviously, like, things haven't updated yet on the site. It's going to take some time, but it definitely makes for drafting for next season very, very tough. Unless you've already put together rankings. Yeah, I crushed these early mock drafts, Frank. Well, we're going to find out a little bit later on. We're obviously going to break it down in depth in just a bit.

But did you have a major takeaway, Scott? Maybe a theme that you noticed in this first mock draft? Major takeaway that, well, we've been talking about it a lot throughout the offseason, just particularly in a roto draft, a five-by-five draft like we did here, less emphasis on starting pitching than last year, closer to, the traditional emphasis in starting pitching. There were still, let's see, only one went in the first round, right? Correct.

Only one went in the first round. There were still six going in the second round, which maybe isn't quite all the way back to the traditional approach at starting pitching, but clearly it wasn't as people weren't selling out for them like they did last year, and they shouldn't based on. how the landscape changed last year with the deadened baseball and then the foreign substance crackdown. It went from making starting pitcher a position that stands out for its poles

to one that stands out for its equator, if that makes sense. Scott, you're talking to the wrong guy, man. I don't know anything about pop culture, movies that were made before the 90s, geography. That's not a reference to either. So you don't know much of anything. No, I know, like, a few things about fantasy baseball and fantasy football, and that's basically it. Like, I don't, I don't know.

This industry goes under. You are entirely unemployable. I've got nothing. That's what you're saying. I was, I was a bartender in like a local Irish pub before I kind of broke into doing this. So I guess that's always a possibility. But, yeah, no, I just made you worried, didn't I? Yeah, right?

Like, now I got to really start thinking about, like, you just in case, you know, what's the backup plan? Scott isn't lying, by the way. I mean, the waiting on starting pitching and the fact that it feels deeper this year than before, and we talked about that with Nick Pollock, though, you know, he defended, you know, last, the last full season that we had. There was a bunch of pitchers that went outside

the top 200 picks that were also very valuable. But Scott did not take his third starting pitcher in this mock draft until round 13. So that's a nice little tease that we'll get into. I didn't? My third was in round 13? I believe that is correct. Let me scroll through. I didn't notice that.

Yep. I think you took two in the first five rounds, and then you didn't take your third until round 13. Yeah. I will say when we talked about it when we were doing the starting pitcher recap, I said, I think I'm going to want like seven of my top 55. You know, in past years, I might say four of my top 35. That's kind of the direction I was going.

So I still, you know, I still want to be ahead of the curve, but more in the middle portion of the position than at the high. end of the position. So I wanted seven of my top 55. I did get seven of my top 55, but five of those seven are toward the end of the top 55. And full disclosure, Scott texted me halfway through this draft. He said, dude, I am crushing this. I was like, all right, well, let me go look at Scott's team. And then I saw his pitching and I'm like, all right, Scott, we've got to have a talk. We'll do it on the mock draft. But before we do that, let's hit on a few news and notes. We did have, I guess our first major signing. It's not a major signing, but it's kind of a big deal.

is signed with the Detroit Tigers. Five years, 77 million. It could go as high as 80 million, I guess with incentives in there. And this past season, it wasn't a good year on the surface for Erod. 4.74 ERA, 1.39 whip, but the underlying numbers were much, much better for him. 3.43 X-FIP, 3.64 Sierra, 3.55 expected ERA. His 20.4% K-minus walk rate was tied for 15th among starting pitchers with at least 150 endings pitched. That was tied with Lance Lynn and Jose Burrios. So that's pretty good company to be a part of.

Now he gets a better park, much better division to pitch in. I'm not saying he needs to be ranked inside the top 50 starting pitcher, Scott, but I'm kind of excited about this move for Erod. Honestly, I don't think it matters much. It can only help. It can only

help to the extent that you know, Thinway Park is traditionally considered a tough place. for left-handers. Over his career, Eduardo Rodriguez had pretty even splits home in a way, but he wasn't very good at Fenway Park this past year. And, you know, Comerica is just generally considered a better place to pitch.

Better division, as you mentioned, division that isn't full of hitters parks. That's good. That's good. But ultimately, Eduardo Rodriguez is 22. will come down to how much of a fluke is is 2021 is. And you pointed it out the disparity between his ERA

and all his ERA estimators, the XIP, the XERA, the FIPP, the Sierra. Those definitely say Eduardo Rodriguez was a different pitcher than the ERA suggested he was. And they say he was pretty much the Eduardo Rodriguez we've known throughout his career,

who was more like a number three guy in fantasy. He doesn't have ace potential. but he'll give you more than a strikeout per inning with a not terrible ERA, not terrible whip, eat a lot of innings, win a lot of games potentially. No, number three guy in fantasy.

And, you know, the Tigers look like they're going to be contenders this past year. They went from being 53 games out of first place, I think it was in 2019, something ridiculous, to nearly a 500 winning percentage last year. and they're going to debut with Spencer Torkelson, Riley Green probably at some point this year,

and now they got a little more rotation depth. So everything points to Eduardo Rodriguez's 474 ERA being a fluke. If that's the case, I'm not sure it really mattered where he went. He would be a lot better. Yeah, I have him outside of my top 60, actually, but I think he's a pretty good value there. Oh, come on, Scott. Let's bump this guy up a little bit. You're right about the Tigers, by the way.

and we talked about this towards the end of the season. They had 47 wins back in 2019, their last full season. This past season, 77 wins, a 30-game, 30-win improvement with AJ Hinch here as the manager. They have young players coming. And yeah, I think as soon as next year, I mean, they could be in the mix for a wild card in the American League. So a much-improved team. And to a much lesser extent than Arindola, Eduardo Rodriguez kind of has the Arirnolla thing going on, where Nola was,

really, really unlucky this past season. Same thing happened with Eduardo Rodriguez, far and away the highest bat up of his career. So I'm kind of excited about this move for Erod. I'll be looking to draft him as, you know, a late-ish starting pitcher, maybe someone I stashed on the end of my bench there. Manny Pena, big news, Scott,

signs with your Atlanta Braves. Two years, $8 million. It's not really much to talk about there, but I'll just run through. I'm bringing up Mani Pena on a fantasy baseball podcast. We were talking beforehand. And I was like, you know, I wouldn't mind if the Yankees signed them. Let's get Gary Sanchez out of here. I'm just tired of Gary Sanchez. Just run through a few more things here. Chris Taylor declined his qualifying offer and he's now a free agent. The Mariners will begin the 20-22 season with Thai France as their starting first baseman. Austin Hayes underwent a procedure earlier in the off-season to repair his core, but is expected to be ready for spring training without any restrictions. We did have the rookies of the year announced. So in the National League, we had Jonathan, India, he won the award, and in the American League, Randy and Rosarena.

So shout out to those guys, congratulations to them. I think this could matter, Scott. The Diamondbacks hired Brent Strom as their pitching coach, and previously with the Houston Astros did great work. I don't know if it was all on him, but it seemed like whoever came to the Houston Astros from a previous organization usually got turned around pretty well. I mean, Garrett Cole, Charlie Morton, come to mind. Justin Verlander basically revitalized his career.

So the Diamondbacks need all the help they could get. Is this something that will matter to you at all? Probably not because it's hard to tell other than Zach Allen, obviously. Maybe he can help get him back on track. Madison Bumgarner and less confident in that. And, you know, was it so much the, was it so much Brentstrom himself responsible for those turnarounds or was it really the organizational machine and he was just a conduit in that machine? I kind of feel like that's more likely, which isn't to say Brentstrom isn't.

a noteworthy pitching coach. He was expected to retire because the Diamondbacks were his local team. He decided to join up with them for now at least. But yeah, it's really difficult to pinpoint a pitcher on that team and say, well, maybe Brent Strom can straight him out. The Mets are finalizing a deal with Billy Epler

to make him their general manager. So good luck to you, Billy Epler. Yikes. Arizona Fall Stars game, Marlins Outfield Prospect, J.J. Bladay. Two for three with a home run. He took home the MVP honors. He had a pretty awful 2021, but he is crushing it right now in the Arizona Fall League. All right. Let's get into it. Our first offseason mock draft, 22, 12 teams, 5 by 5 rotissory, 23 roster spots. You start two catchers, a middle infielder, a corner infielder, five outfielders, and nine

pitchers, whatever combination of starting pitchers and relief pitchers as you want. It's the classic five-by-five categories that we're used to talking about. And I will probably, Reface this, Scott, with our 2022 rankings. I mentioned they're not in the CBS draft room yet. Also, I did this draft on my phone while eating birthday cake with my family last week. So when I was texting you, I was interrupting family time. Is that what you're saying? I mean, it was a complete mess, Scott, because I'm on my phone. I'm trying to draft. I'm trying to talk to people. I'm trying not to be rude. I told them, I'm like, this is my own fault because I double booked. But I was actually excited to do the mock draft. You're the one who pushed to do it this

night. I know. Like, how did I forget it was my own birthday? I don't know either. So yeah, basically, I don't like my team very much, but we'll talk about it. The people who participated in this draft, the first overall pick, our buddy, Chris Clegg from fan tracks who we had on recently, then Mike Giannella, Jake

Weiner, R.J. White, our boss, Raymond Atherton, Chris Mitchell, Tim McLeod. I had the eighth overall pick. Jesse Roche from baseball prospectus, who's ninth overall. Scott, you had the 10th pick. We had Eric Cross from FanTracks at 11 and then Nick Mamikos at 12th overall. And I'm going to do something fun here. If you're watching on YouTube, I'm going to pull up the draft board. So you go watch along here, YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. Please subscribe if you haven't

before. I'll also throw the draft results in the podcast description for those that are listening. If you want to follow along and pull up the draft results on your phone or however you're listening, computer, whatever it might be, I think that'll be fun. So you can follow along here. So let's just start with the first six pictures. So we'll go six picks at a time usually and talk it out. But the first half of the first round, it's got Trey Turner number one. Then we had Juan Soto, Fernando Tatis,

Vladimir Guerrero, Shohei Otani, and Mike Trout. I really don't have an issue with anything here. I mean, Mike Trout's probably the only pick I wouldn't have made, and I've talked about that before. You know, I think in 5x5 Roto,

lack of steals. He's probably more of a late first round pick, maybe early second round pick. But this also, seems pretty standard so far. Well, I guess, I mean, it is appearing to be the case that the consensus number one overall pick, at least in Roto leagues, is Trey Turner. This is disappointing to me because I don't think Trey Turner is worthy of the number one

overall pick. I understand why it's happening a lot of like transcendent type talents like Fernando Tatis, of course, or Ronald de Kuni, even like a Jacob de Grom who could potentially be considered number one overall, if not for the fact that they have major injury concerns heading into the new year. Now, personally, I think Fernando Tatis is kind of overblown. He was dealing with it all of this past season and was still amazing. The shoulder, I suspect an offseason of rest and rehabilitation can only improve the situation. Maybe that's looking at it with rose-colored glasses, but I think it seemed, you know, to me it seems practical.

If Trey Turner is going to be the consensus number one overall pick, like this is not the year to have the number one overall pick, I would say, because I don't really think he stands out from six others who could potentially go in that spot. I would just take Tatease myself if I had the first overall pick. But if you're thinking in terms of like Kentucky, Kentucky Derby stuff, draft order where everybody picks where they pick. I don't know that number one is a spot that should be a high priority when you're determining, when you're selecting your draft spot.

I agree with that wholeheartedly too. KDS, by the way, Kentucky Derby Style. It's something used often on the NFBC. I think a few other places use it as well. But yeah, it's where you could basically choose the order of the draft picks that you want. So you rearrange all the numbers, whatever it might be. But I agree with you, Scott. I think, so we'll keep moving on here.

Number seven was Bobichette. Number eight, Jose Ramirez, fell to me, who... I think that there's a very clear top seven picks in five-by-five roto this year, Scott, unless something changes. But you basically take Mike Trout out, and you have that group of Turner, Soto, Tatisse, Vlad, Otani, Bobichette, Jose Ramirez, totally fine with any of them. Like, if you told me you wanted to take...

Jose Ramirez first overall. I don't think it's completely crazy. You know, I still prefer Trey Turner or Fernando Tatis. But I think that top seven is very clear. And whatever order you like them, so yeah, if you just want to take the last of that group, if you want to take the sixth or seventh pick and get a Boba Chet or Jose Ramirez,

I have no problem. I think it's a very clear top seven group. I mostly agree with you, but I would make one swap in that top seven. I would have Bryce Harper in and Bo Boshet out. I actually have Beau Bichette 9th. I have Mike Trout 8th. So, you know, I would put Bichet behind Trout as happened in this draft.

But I would also have Harper in there instead. I will point out to you, by the way, Scott. We do have some NFBC ADP that's rolling in. There's some drafts that are already being conducted. There's five drafts that have already taken place. And Fernando Tatis has been the number one pick in all of them. That is NFBC where you're encouraged to take bigger swings. Sure.

because you have to beat what thousands of other teams as opposed to just 11 yeah so worth pointing out but yeah that's that's I like to see that all right so after I took Jose Ramirez eighth overall then we saw Ronald de Cunia and I mentioned there's five drafts that have already taken place and his range is between four and 19 so no consensus here I think it's going to be all over the place and it's going to change based on the news that we get in the off season and obviously there's a lot of time for things to change. So once we get more news?

I did move him down in case you guys didn't catch this podcast. I think the one Chris Clegg was on. Yeah. I was originally stumping for Acunae to go second overall until we learned at some point in October that he himself is only aiming for May. So he's not aiming to make it back for opening Dave. And who the heck is aiming for him to do that? So I now have Ocunia 18th overall.

I don't have him even in my first round, even though he happened to go in the first round in this mock. All right, let's finish out the first round. We had Bryce Harper go 10th overall to you, Scott, and then we had Kyle Tucker, which I'm actually totally fine with. If you wanted to extend that top seven to nine and include Bryce Harper and Kyle Tucker in there, I have absolutely no issue with that.

And we finally see our first starting pitcher off the board with Garrett Cole at Pick 12 overall. And based on last year... So you're taking Tucker ahead of Trout. Yes, in Roto, yeah. Okay. I still, look, I think Tucker's an awesome player. He's probably going to chip in 12 to 15 steals.

And even with that Asher's offense, he's going to give you awesome counting stats, runs, RBI, good batting average. And I'm just kind of worried about the injuries the past couple of years for Trout. So maybe it's overblown. You know, if I'm sure, you know, you probably still like Trout as a mid-first round pick. I wouldn't, you know, I don't think I could really beat up on anybody for wanting to do that. It's just, I think it's personal preference. Garrett Cole, by the way, I mentioned 12 overall. Last year, there were three starting pitchers drafted in the first round,

according to Fantasy Pros ADP. So far in this first draft, only one. But you took Bryce Harper at 10, Scott. Yeah, he's fine. Yeah, I was happy to get him. Like I said, he is in my top seven. He will contribute some steals. I think he's one of the better bets for like a big home run total

as opposed to just a pretty good home run total among this group. And yeah, I mean, he really, he really, he feels, I feel less confident taking Harper in the first round as I have probably since his MVP season. The second round, Freddie Freeman goes 13th overall. Then we see Corbyn Burns, our SP2 overall here drafted. And then 15th overall, Scott, you take Moogie Betts.

You start your draft with Harper and Betts. I think that's great. You get two outfielers out of the way and both are going to contribute some level of power and speed. They're not obviously going to hurt your batting average. So I think it's a great start. I mean, I don't even recognize what I'm doing here because not only have I not taken a starting pitcher yet, but I've taken two outfielder's to begin my draft. I feel like typically I'm the guy defending why I don't have any outfielders yet in round nine, you know.

It's crazy. Yeah, yeah, definitely a change of pace. than where we were at last year, for sure. Jacob de Grom goes 16th overall. He was the third starting pitcher drafted off the board, and he went to Jesse Roche, who took both Jacob de Grom and Ronald de Cunia. So spicy, living on the edge, Jesse.

I was about to say I like it, but it's pretty risky. It's pretty scary. I mean, if we still had hope of Acuna being back for opening day, I think I could get behind it. Yes, you know, I mean, potentially he got, the best hitter and best pitcher in fantasy with his first two picks. But we know Okunia is not going to be the best hitter in fantasy because he's going to miss at least a month of the season.

At least, you know, that's the way it appears right now. I took Luis Robert 17th overall, and I start my draft with Jose Ramirez and Luis Robert. And I took him over Raphael Devere's, Ozzy Albies, and a bunch of other starting pitchers, Max Scherzer, Walker Bueller, Brandon Woodruff, Zach Wheeler. What do you think, Scott? too early for Luis Robert?

I have him going a little later in round two, but no, I don't think it's too early. I think it's perfectly defensible. If you take his stats at face value, okay, don't take his stats at face value because the batting average was, what was it, 350? But you give him just a

you know, 290 to 300 batting average and take everything else at face value, then I think I don't think he's reached at this point. It's just based on a lot on a fairly small sample from an inexperienced player who saw a big drop and strikeout rate. Can he sustain that and keep the gains? I hope so, but you're more committed to him doing that by taking him early in

round two as opposed to late in round two. After Luis Robert, we see Rafael Devers go, Ozzy Albies, and then we get this run of starting pitchers Max Scherzer, Walker Bueller, Yerdon Alvarez is mixed in there, and then Brandon Woodruff and Zach Wheeler. So four of the last five picks of round two starting pitchers. And I think once you get up to that Luis Robert level, I think I wouldn't mind all those pitchers going in the mid to late second round. I think it's a perfectly fine place for all of them to go. Was there anything there that Sadatis, I feel like it makes sense for all those pitchers

to go in that range. I agree. In fact, the first two rounds are comprised of the players I, expect to go in the first two rounds. I think the only exception is Ozzie Albis went in round two instead of Shane Bieber. I would take Bieber

in round two and bump Ozzy Albies to round three. And Albies went in the middle of round two. So, you know, I guess that's that's the one exception to the first 24 players taking in this mock versus the first 24 I would take. Obviously the order of the names

is different. But just in terms of who the players are, pretty much on point. All right, let's move on to the third round. We see Manny Machado and Starling Marte start off this round. So that means Chris Clegg started his team. Trey Turner, Zach Wheeler, Mani Machado, which I like that quite a bit.

You knock out third base too. You don't have to worry about that position because it's one of the most scarce this season. And then I believe it was Mike Giannella who had the second overall pick. Yeah. So Mike Giannella starts his team with Juan Soto, Brandon Woodruff, Starling Marte.

And I kind of like it. I mean, I think if you are in that back end of round two or you have an early first round pick, if you could start with two hitters and one pitcher, just get that anchor to your staff and then maybe you load up in the middle rounds. I like this start quite a bit. I feel like the early third round hitters are really, really good,

specifically in five-by-five roto. Do you agree? Yeah, I think it's fine. If Juan Soto continues down his power trend, that he's shown so far. Like, he's, he's among the first rounders doesn't quite measure up in the home run category to this point, which isn't to say he's not a power hitter. You just got big home run hitters going in the first round, by and large,

and he's not quite one of them. So if he doesn't improve in that regard, and then you invest your third pick in Starling Marte, who's, you know, might not even give you 20 home runs, then you're having to make up ground in the home run category, I would, say. And, you know, that's not me really faulting the Juan Soto pick at second overall. I think that's perfectly fine. Obviously, he does a lot of

other things well. But Starling Marte in round three, you know, I rank them at about this point. I don't want to have to be the guy who gets that, who really sells out for stolen bases with an early pick and at the expense of other categories

because it's, you know, power does so much more for a hitter's overall output than steals does. Yeah, because every time you hit a home run, you obviously get a hit, which goes towards your batting average, you get a run, you get an RBI, and obviously you get the home run. So I get what you're saying, but I do think

that if you're going to sacrifice power in your first three or four picks, you have to get someone who either excels in batting average or steals or both. And, Juan Soto, I think we could all say, confidently. He's going to hit over 300 as long as he's healthy. Stalling Marte could hit 280 plus with 30, 35 steals. So if you are going to benefit the batting average as well. Yeah. So if you're going to sacrifice power, you know, you just have to make sure that you're covering batting averages

or speed and or speed. And that's exactly what those players do. Number 27 in this draft was Shane Bieber. He was the eighth starting pitcher off the board. Then we see Cedric Mullins. 28th overall. That's right. If you were wondering where he might get drafted this year, seems like he's going to be a third round pick. Marcus Semyon goes one pick later. And then Francisco Lindor, Scott, 30th overall. His early NFBC ADP, again, only five drafts done, so it's a small sample size.

But his ADP there is 49.2. Either way, I thought that we would get a better discount. I don't know if this is, you know, where it's going to land, ultimately. He's probably going to be more of like a fourth or fifth round pick. But even there, towards the end of the season, I talked about how I might be in on Lindor, but I thought we were going to get more of a discount, honestly.

Yeah, I mean, time will tell if that holds. I have Francisco Lindor ranked 87th. So, yeah, I will not have much Lindor either if he's going to be third. I don't think he's going to be a third rounder, but even if he's going to be like a fourth or fifth rounder. Yeah. For this draft specifically, I think him going in the middle of round three, you know,

was a testament to what you were pointing out that the draft room rankings still show what they were heading into 2021. And not everybody is working off their own personalized rankings yet, you know? It's that we're dead in the middle of fantasy football season. Yeah, so some wacky things are going to happen, right? And again, like we're not doing this to call out people's draft picks. Like we realize, you know, it's going to be,

the first couple of mock drafts we do, they're going to be weird. And even some of the picks I made myself were very weird. So again, just to preface everything there. Marcus Simeon, I actually got it wrong earlier when I said there was only that, the 24 players were the top 24 were the 24 I would take in the first two rounds. With that one exception, there's actually another exception. I would not take your Nalvarez in round two. I would take Marcus Simeon instead.

Yeah, I think that makes sense. If you wanted to, if you swap them in this draft, I think that probably, looks a little bit better from a five-by-five roto perspective. Matt Olson goes 31st overall. Pete Alonzo went in round six. I talked about this in our first base recap. If we're getting a three-round discount on Pete Alonzo versus Matt Olson, I'll take that every day of the week. And then Sandy Alcantara, 30-second overall.

Maybe a little bit earlier, early, but I took him here. He was the SP-9 off the board. And so I start my team, Scott, Jose Ramirez, Luis Robert, my first starting pitcher here with Alcantara. it's probably a little bit unproven. But I was going to ask you, would you like that start more? Or if I took Max Scherzer in round two and say I took a hitter like Zander Bogarts here, right?

So Ramirez Robert Sandy versus Ramirez Scherzer Bogartz. Which three would you like better? Hmm. I don't have a strong preference. I think maybe Scherzer in round two and then Bogart's in round three, especially since you already have a healthy number of steals in round one with Jose Ramirez. Darn it.

But, I mean, the way you did it with Robert in round two and Alcantra in round three, that's the higher upside play. So, you know, I don't have a huge preference for either, to be honest. Wander Franco goes 33rd overall in case you were wondering where he might wind up in ADP, NFBC ADP to this point, 45.8. So maybe, you know, late third, fourth round pick. That's where we might settle in for Wanda Franco. Scott, you take Austin Riley, 34th.

Overall, you start with three hitters in your draft. Bryce Harper, Mookiee, Betts, Austin Riley. Let's just round out round three. And then you could talk about it. Julio O'Reas goes 35th overall. He's the 10th starting pitcher off the board. And then Trevor Story, 36th overall. Scotty, no pitchers.

Three rounds. I know. I know. Yeah. And I surprised myself by taking Austin Riley as early as round three. but now that I've put together my third base rankings and just how quickly I become uncomfortable at the position, I just really didn't want to be in a spot

where I had to hold my nose and take a third baseman. So to me the drop-off is after Nolan Aeronado, at least for this format. It looks a little better in points leagues because you have some high walk guys at third base. But for this format, the big drop off is after Nolan Aronado, who is my fifth ranked third baseman.

Austin Riley's my fourth ranked third baseman. Noel Naradado didn't go until round six. So if I had known I could get Aronado in round six, maybe I don't take Riley at the end of round three here. Maybe I take, well, I wouldn't have taken my first starting pitcher because my top ranked starting pitcher, Robbie Ray, at the point I took Austin Riley here late in round three. I ended up getting early in round four.

Right. So I probably I don't know what I would have done instead Maybe I would have taken Robbie Ray And then just taking a second pitcher in round four I don't know Yeah I mean that's part of the reason why I took Alconsoor too Because I didn't really love any of the hitters available

At the end of the third you know Wander Franco Austin Riley Trevor Story And then to start round four we had Whitmerfield Zander Bogarts They're fine But I don't know There was no one that was really screaming

So I was like I'll just I feel like, and maybe it actually begins in late in round three, but the way I worded it in the write-up for the draft is that basically round four is like three, four rounds long. Round four to round seven, I feel like you could mix that up in a thousand different ways and it wouldn't look. It wouldn't look so crazy, you know?

Yeah, let's take a quick break. When we return, we'll talk about round four. We'll try to get to as many these rounds as possible. and then we'll tell you how our teams turned out ultimately at the end of the draft. We'll take a quick break right now. We'll be back here on fantasy baseball today. All right, so let's jump into that fourth round. I already mentioned some of these picks. Whitmeryfield goes 37th overall. Then Zander Bogartz. Scott, you take Robbie Ray. He was the SP 11 off the board. He was your first starting pitcher.

Salvador Perez, the first catcher off the board, 40th overall. And then I took Tayasca Hernandez, which surprised myself a little bit. I really debated Hernandez. versus Aaron Judge here. And, you know, I think it's kind of like a coin flip. You know, you want some, a few more home runs. I think you go with Judge, a few more steals. You go with Teoscar. But at this point, I'm like you.

I only have one pitcher through my first four picks. And I have Jose Ramirez, Luis Robert, Sandy Alcantra, and Teoscar Hernandez. So a little bit of power and speed from everybody. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Looks pretty good to me. All right.

Let's keep moving on here. Freddie Peralta, the 12th starting pitcher off the board at Pick 42. Aaron Nola, SP 13, no discount. You thought you were going to get a discount on Aranola? It's not happening. People still like Aaron Nola quite a bit. Then we see Lucas G. Leto as the 14th starting pitcher

off the board at Pick 44. A lot of pitchers here. Lance Lynn, Chris Sale, and then we get Alex Bregman at Pick 47 and Aaron Judge at Pick 48. I thought the judge pick was really strong to get him at the end of round four. Alex Bregman seems a little bit too early, Scott.

Well, yeah, I have Aeronado ranked higher, and Aeronado doesn't go until round six, as I mentioned. So seeing Bregman in round four, I don't even think I could get behind that in a points league. And I've long been a Bregman backer. So I'm surprised there could be anyone on Earth who likes Bregman more than I do, but maybe Mike Giannella does. Yeah, I just don't see him. I just don't see him. I can't imagine him ever hitting 40 home runs again like he did in 2019. while I want to take 30 homer season off the table,

I would say that shouldn't be the expectation either, that he's probably more like a 25 homer guy with excellent plate discipline and probably a pretty good batting average. But, you know, more of a points league specialist going forward. All right, let's move on to the fifth round here. And there's a lot of interesting starting pitchers that go in this late fourth, early fifth round.

You know, if you start off with two hitters and then you want it to double tap starting pitcher. I don't think that's a bad strategy here, or three hitters and then take two pitchers in a row. But starting the fifth round, we had Jack Flaherty, and then Kevin Gosman. We see Corey Seeger and Tim Anderson go back to back 51st and 52nd.

Both of those seem like great values. Christian Yellich, we'll come back to that in a second. He went 53rd overall. And then Luis Castillo as the 19th starting pitcher off the board. Again, like, I think these are all fine values. use in this part of the draft. Scott Christian Yellich, his early NFBC ADP is 96. He goes 53rd overall.

I wouldn't be surprised if he kind of winds up somewhere in the middle. You know, maybe he's 75, 80, somewhere like that. But fifth round seems a little early for him. Yeah, it does. Again, I can't help but wonder if that would have happened if the rankings in the draft room were updated because, you know, you see later in this round by in Buxton go.

Oh, yeah. Aloi Jimenez doesn't go until the next round. George Springer doesn't go until the next round. I just don't really see a justification for taking Christian Yelich over any of those outfielders.

Even if you're an optimist, I mean, yeah, that's giving up, that's giving up talent that I think the consensus is a much higher. And I have Yelich as only the 100th player in my rankings heading into next season. And even if you're optimistic

about Christian Yelich, just knowing, playing the value game, just knowing that you can get him two rounds later, definitely at least one round later, but I mean, you could probably get him two, maybe even three rounds later, and just knowing that, you know, be aggressive on where you know that he's actually going to be drafted, which I guess we don't know as of now. But let's move on to the 55th pick in this draft. Will Smith, the second catcher off the board. I know Tim McLeod loves him. It seems like he drafts Will Smith every single year. that we do these mock drafts. 56th overall, I take Byron Buxson.

But, again, I was drafting on my phone. I didn't realize I was on the clock. And so you click on a player's name. The same button to add them to your cue once you're on the clock is to draft the player. So I wasn't going to draft Buxen yet. I was trying to add them to my cue. I was actually going to select Charlie Morton,

but it's fine. I think this is an okay range for Byron Bucson. And I get my third outfielder already. another one, power, speed. His early 80p is 70.8 over at the NFBC, and if that's the case, I think that I'm going to have a lot of Byron Bucks in this year. Liam Hendricks, the first closer off the board, 57th overall.

Scott, you cheater, you took Charlie Morton from me. You get him as the 20th. You told me when it would happen. I would have backed it out and did you take Morton? No, it was fine. You told me after I took Morton. It took me a couple of seconds to realize what happened, and then a couple of picks already happened.

So I was like, all right, whatever, it's fine. I was sweating that pick too because Morton, you know, I only had Robbie Ray at this point, and Robbie Ray isn't the, you know, the most confident, not somebody you can pick with a ton of confidence anyway, right? Just given his history. I think it was fine where I took him, but, you know, that's kind of a shaky number one, obviously. I feel like Charlie Morton was the last pitcher of his tier, the last pitcher who I felt at least pretty confident could deliver. true ace numbers. Yeah.

I was sweating that pick. I was, you know, I was fearing what my number two would look like if I didn't take Morton there. It sounds like you were thinking the same thing. Yeah, basically. So through five rounds, you have Bryce Harper, you have Mookie Betts, Austin Riley, Robbie Ray, Charlie Morton. Looks pretty good to me. What happened if I did take Charlie Morton, Scott? Who would you have taken?

This was a few days ago, so let me try and put myself back in that mind. but I don't think I would have taken a pitcher. I think I would have taken George Springer. Okay. Or wait, no, you know, I probably would have taken who I took with my next pick because he went, I took, I opted for Jose Altuvae in round, early in round six over George Springer. So I probably would just have taken Altovae earlier. Yep, that makes sense.

Maybe taking Altuve at the end of round five in Springer at the beginning of round six. Ooh. I would have really liked to see what your pitching turned out to be if you actually did that. Josh Hader, by the way, goes 59th overall. He was the second closer off the board, which makes sense. And then Randy Rosa Raina to round out the fifth round, which seems very fair in Roto, a 2020 candidate again here in 2022. Let's move on to the sixth round of the draft and roll along here for those watching us on YouTube.

And starting this round, we had Max Freed. He was the SP21 off the board. Eloi Jimenez, I thought that was really good value. Scott, you take Jose Altuvae 63rd overall, so you have four hitters and two starting pitchers with your first six picks. Pete Alonzo, 64th overall. I absolutely love this pick.

And then I did the same thing in round six. I made the same mistake. I tried to add Catelle Marte to my cue, and I just, I wasn't paying attention. But I actually don't mind this pick. You know, second base, outfield eligibility, provide some batting average. But yeah, I took Catele-Marté.

So through six picks, I have one starting pitcher, just Sandy Alcantir, which is probably not enough. I don't know that I would recommend doing that. And then Jose Ibray, who goes 66th overall. What do you think, Scott? Catelle-Marté. Does this range make sense, two picks after Jose Al-Tuvae? So we're at pick 65 overall, just trying to see where I have Cotel-Marte ranked. I have Cotel-Marte ranked 64th.

All right. Not so bad. About where I say to take them. Now, you know, some that I rank ahead of Catelle-Marte, I don't think have gone off the board yet, but let's not be so nitpicky. The point is, your two botched picks, Cotel-Marté in round six and Byron Bucks did in round five.

I think we're more or less appropriate. All right. Very nice. All right, let's get to the next picks here. 67th overall, Blake Snell, as the SP-22 off the board. Then we see Adelberto Mondesie. Some people might be wondering, all right, where does Mondesigo this year? So he winds up in the middle of round six. His early NFBC ADP is 45.8.

So this is pretty good value. This is more than 20 picks past that. Alec Menoa, SP 23, off the board. And then George Springer, Nolan Aronado, and J.T. Real Muto, the third catcher off the board, last pick of round six. Scott, I think Springer was probably the steel of the draft. I love this pick. If I realized myself that he was there,

I would have taken him over at Catelle-Marté, and that would have given me, I guess, four outfielders with my first six picks, which isn't the smartest thing to do, but it just seems like he was the best player available in this round. Yeah, I think it's the best pick up to this point. And we talked about it in the outfield recap. I think Springer, Aaron Judge, and Jordan Alvarez,

the projected outcome for all three is, I think very similar. maybe Springer has the lowest ceiling of the three, but not by much. Maybe he has the most injury risk of the three, but that's pretty close to. So to see him go this much later, I mean, your Navarez went in round two.

Your Springer's going to round six. Again, it was between out two-vain Springer for me early in round six, and I ultimately decided to go with the infielder, because when in doubt, that's usually what I do, infielder over outfielder, but it was a very close call. And I mean, look at the last three picks in this round. Springer, Aronado, Real Muto.

I feel like any of those hitters here at the end of round six, if they went in the middle of round four, nobody really bad an eye at it. So that's kind of what I was getting at earlier. Yeah, and I think you could say that about some of the players who went in the seventh round as well, which is the point that you're getting at. Nick Castiano's 73rd overall.

It could be a steal. Let's see where he winds up in free agency. He obviously had drastic home road splits in Cincinnati this past season. Paul Goldschmidt goes 74th overall. He's someone that I was looking at in the sixth round as well, along with George Springer and Cattel Marte. Logan Webb is the SP 24 off the board. He goes 75th overall.

Javier Baez in Roto, you know, 25 homers, double-digit steals. I think it's a very fair value on him. Cody Bellinger, now this is an interesting one. Scott, 77th overall. The early NFBC ADP is 81.2. Is this enough of a discount for you to maybe jump back in on Bellinger? Let's say he kind of winds up as a seventh round pick here in 12 team leagues. I like it more than the Yellich pick.

I think the same guy picked both. I think you're right. Yelich in round five versus Bellinger in round seven. First of all, I prefer Bellinger outright between the two. This is what, the 87th pick? No, the 77. 77, yep. So it's still like a round early for me.

I have him 94th, Bellinger, but it's not egregious. All right. Then we see Brandon Lowe goes 70. Brandon Lowe goes 78th overall. Jose Berrios as the SP 25 off the board. And then I take Frankie Montas at 80th overall. He's my SP2 with Sandial Concerra. Definitely not comfortable with that.

Sounds like Frankie Montas could be pitching somewhere else next season too because the Oakland A's are looking to fire sale. I trade everyone away. So we'll see where Frankie Montauss winds up next year. Tyler O'Neill, 81st overall, Scott. I thought this was a great value on him. You wind up with Max Muncie. That gives you five hitters and two pitchers

through your first seven picks. Joe Musgrove at SP 27 off the board and then Dillon Sees at SP 28, the last pick of the seventh round. And I do think this is closer to where he's going to be drafted. I think there's going to be a lot of helium on Dillin C's this year. And you have,

him at SP 39 in your rankings, the early ranks, and he goes SP28 here. So, you know, there's a little bit of a disparity there. Yeah, there is. Yeah, it just, it kind of depends on how much you prioritize him among that group. Let's see, who hasn't gone yet? Verlander doesn't go till round 11. And I have Verlander ahead of cease, I think pretty clearly, unless there's some kind of setback between now and then.

Darvish hasn't gone yet. I would definitely take Darvish overseas. But after that, it's kind of a cluster of 8 to 10 pitchers that I think you could move C's to the top of. I have him near the bottom. But if you're going to see the glass half full, you're going to predict another big step forward for him next year, then I think it's not too much of a stretch to put him here.

I think you did great taking Montas here late in round seven as your number two. I actually prefer him to Max Friede, who went early in round six. so to get him almost two full rounds later, I think that makes up for some of your misses at the position earlier, and I think he's perfectly fine number two. Of course, I'd prefer him as my number three, but, you know, you can't have everything. So I like the strikeout potential with the splitter,

him emphasizing the splitter more than ever down the stretch last year, and we just saw his swinging strike rate, his strikeout totals. We just saw everything blow up for Frankie Montas, and I think it's a good pick. I'm not less sure about my Max Muncie pick. See, this felt like the end of a tier at first base, specifically. I already had second base covered with Altuvei. But Max Muncie here in round seven, I didn't want to get,

I didn't want to have to settle for a not-so-great first basement. So I took Muncie here in round seven. What in my, I'm not sure we're going to get to it. So I'll go ahead and bring it up now. What in my mind was the steel of the draft was Joey Voddy. in round 13. I don't think there's a six-round difference between Muncie and Votto. I understand you don't want to draft Votto's numbers at their face value because he's, what, 37?

And he appeared to be on decline before that. I think he made some changes that justify the big increase in power. I mean, that's what he talked about to him before the season. So I trust his process with that. But, you know, just given the age, can you really expect him to do that again, to hit, to approach his career high in home runs? I think it's fair to wonder, but, you know,

when you get that kind of production in round 13, that's crazy to me. I feel like there's only be like a two-round difference between him and Muncie, not a six-round difference. Yeah, I think most people probably just prefer Joey Votto as their corner infielder. It might just be like an optics thing where, I don't know, you don't want to look at your team and see Joey Votto, I guess,

starting at first base, but he was awesome. It's just a matter of how much you trusted, right? So, yeah, look, if he's going to go that late, and like if you draft Joey Votto as a corner infielder, then who does that put as a starting first baseman? Yeah, yeah. Josh Bell, you know, there's only, there's only so many quality first baseman, so many top, so many first basemen that are,

worth putting in the top 12. Well, maybe Reese Hoskins could be one of them. I got him in round 12 as my starting first baseman. And I like Reese Hoskins quite a bit. I mentioned that on our first base podcast. Let's run through the eighth round here and try to get through a few more. And then we'll take a look at our teams. Austin Meadows goes 85th overall.

Chris Bryant then goes, Scott, you take Carlos Correa. You now have six hitters and two pitchers through eight rounds, which is, again, it's very different than we're used to. Carlos Rodan, SP 29, goes 88th overall. I take you Darvish. It just doesn't feel great. I guess it's okay value. I was drafting using your ranking, Scott.

So, I mean, full transparency, but I just don't have my own rankings yet. So he was the 30th starting pitcher off the board. He's my SP3. It's fine. I just, I don't love it. The very next pick, this actually broke my heart when I saw this.

Jazz Chish went one pick after I took you Darvish, and I just love some jazz chisham, man. Especially in Roto. Five by five, you don't have to worry about strikeouts, although strikeouts were not, they weren't really that bad

this past year. I just love the power speed combination for him. And the rest of the eighth round, we saw Trent Chrisham go, then Anthony Rendon, J.D. Martinez, Trevor Rogers,

Jesse Winker, and Pablo Lopez. Any picks that stand out to you in this round, Scott? What do you think about Jazz Chisholm? Is this a fair range to get him in Roto,

the eighth round? To be honest, I don't love it. I don't love it. I wouldn't call it the biggest reach of this round. I prefer Jazz Chisholm to Austin Meadows and Trent Grisham, who also went in this round. I think have bigger questions about whether or not they deserve to be considered high-end players. I mean, Jazz Chisholm at least is on the right trajectory, unlike Meadows and Grisham. But he's not there yet.

I mean, comparing him to J.D. Martinez or Jesse Winker, even the pitchers who went here, Darvish, and, you know, I'll put Pablo Lopez in there. I just feel like they are, they have proven to be difference makers already. Well, Jazz Chisham, you know, he's injured a lot. He kind of faded in the second half. You do like the power speed combo, dual eligibility. All of that's nice, but I just don't think, I just don't think he compares to most of the players going in this round yet

in terms of how confident you can be and that he'll be, that he'll live up to the price tag. Let's take a look at your team overall. You can run through the offense. Tell us maybe what you like, what you don't like, and then do the same thing for your pitchers. Okay. Do you want me to name the names or just?

Sure. I mean, I haven't pulled up here on YouTube. I can name them if you want. No, that's fine. So I ended up with my catching tandem of Dalton Varsho and Joey Bart. Varsha was my 11th round pick. I got Bart very late. My infield is Max Muncie, Jose Altuvae, Austin Riley, Carlos Correa.

My middle infield spot is Jorge Polanco. So that's pretty high-end middle infielder, obviously. Corner infielder, Luke Voight. I got him very late. But we know he has big potential if he winds up being the Yankees starting first base, which is very much in question. My outfield is Bryce Harper, Mookie Betts, Kyle Schwerber, Robbie Grossman, and Joe Adele. My D.H. is Frank Schwendell.

Oh, ho. If it wasn't, we kind of think he dropped too far, right? Where did he end up going? Schwendell went in round 20. Oh, that's amazing. I love it. Yeah. If he wasn't available there, I would have taken Yuleiguriel.

Yuleiguriel, I think, was the best player who wasn't drafted in the 23. rounds won a batting title obviously a deep lineup yeah but not a ton of power for his position so you can't understand that all right the pitching staff this is what everybody wants to hear about Robbie ray Charlie Morton those were the early picks my third pitcher taken in round 13 was Ranger Suarez and then Adam Wainwright is my number four Zach Granky five Aaron Savale six Patrick Sandoval seven And then I also happen to take Mike Soroka late. My only closer is Emmanuel Class A, who it took in round 12.

I actually like him more than Reisel Eglacius. I actually haven't ranked ahead of Oglacius, but it might end up with a lot of Class A, if that's the case. If that's the Clace, right? No, no. It's okay to be wrong, Scott. I mean, Ricell LaGlaeus is awesome. Yeah.

Yeah. So, I mean, look, I... I need Robbie Ray and Charlie Morton to come through, right? There's a lot of risk in my next five pitchers, Ranger Suarez, Adam Wainwright, Zach Granky, Aaron Savale, and Patrick Sandival. A lot of risk, a lot of upside. And that's kind of why I want to go heavy on that middle tier

at pitching, at pitcher, and just hope that two or three three of the five workout. I don't even need a 50% success rate. If two workout and my two early guys work out, I got a really solid four starting pitchers there that I think could take me far. And if more happen to work out, great. Hopefully I have a surplus.

I would like a better number three than I ended up with. I would have loved to take Verlander where you took him Frank in round nine, right? Yep. as my number three. But I feel pretty good about how this turned out. All right, yeah.

I mean, that's exactly what I was going to say about this pitching staff is, I think if you had just a little bit better SP3 and four, and then you kind of took some shots with these guys later on, like to get Savali in the 17th round, I actually think that's a really good value.

Patrick Sandoval, we saw a pretty good amount of upside this past season. Is that something he can carry over returning from injury in 2020? and it remains a question mark, but that's why you get them as late as you do. So I like some of those guys that you got later on. I think you've got to get a better,

at least SP3, maybe SP4 as well. You know, Ranger Swarres, you probably want as like your SP5 or later, in my opinion. But, uh, oh, I love Ranger Suarez,

though. Oh, yeah, I know. I know you're all over Rangers Swares. And look, if Adam Wainwright just keeps doing what he did in both 2021 and 2020, I'll point out. Yeah.

I mean, he's a top 10 pitcher last year, regardless of format. And I don't rank him is that. I rank him as like 45 or whatever. But still, I think at that point I took him, that there's no risk at that point. You know, I feel like I'm going to have a lot of Adam Wayne,

right, just because nobody else wants Adam Wayne, right? And that's going to make him a no risk sort of proposition. All right, I'll run you through my crappy team here. My catcher tandem is Mitch Garver and Travis Darnow. Yuck. Reese Hoskins is my first basement.

I'm actually all right with that. Cotel Marte, Jose Ramirez. Bobby Witt is my starting shortstop, which we don't know if he's going to be on the opening day roster or not, but I got him in the 11th. 11th round, and so that would make him pick 128.

His early NFBC ADP is 77.6. So that's very high. I don't think that I want to take him that high. But yeah, if I'm getting him outside the top 100 in a roto league, then yeah, I think he has a pretty awesome upside. But between Verlander and Witt, I feel like you got the two players with the most potential to see their value skyrocket in spring training. Yeah.

I think those are the two. By the way, for what it's worth, Kellnick went in round 10. Sure. Witt in round 11. So, at least in this draft, Kelnick went first. So I had the Welsh ringing in my head. Once I saw Kelnick go off the board, I'm like, all right, I'm taking Bobby Witt with my next pick.

Brandon Crawford is my middle infielder. I don't really know what to expect for him, but I got him. Super late. Josh Donaldson's my corner infielder. Blah, whatever. My outfielders are Luis Robert. I got Taska Hernandez. I got Byron Buckson.

And then I got Eddie Rosario. Pretty late. I think I'm okay with him as like my fourth outfielder. You know, if he can stay healthy this year, he's been awesome every other year that he's been healthy. I got Ramon Luriano as my fifth outfielder. He's going to miss the first 27 games because of a suspension next season. So keep that in mind.

He was like the only. name that I recognized later in the draft. So I took for Ramon Luriano. I got Nelson Cruz as my utility bat and I got him in like the 13th round. Yeah, Nelson Cruz, always always there for you. Yeah. I do think after he was traded from the twins to the raise, he showed maybe some signs of decline. I mean, the production wasn't that good with the raise. No, it wasn't. Underlying numbers were still pretty similar to what he did previously. I think he struck out more. But, But, you know, in terms of hitting the ball hard and everything, you know, maybe, maybe the decline is overstated. But I am a little more leery of Nelson Cruz than I have been in the past few years.

I agree with all that. I think he was probably a seventh or eighth round pick last year. So you're getting a, you know, five or six round discount on it. Oh, definitely great where you took him. Yeah, he's turning 42 years old. Like anything can happen. But, um, yeah. We have to see if he's even coming back to play baseball.

We don't even know. The pitchers that I wind up with were Sandy Alcansara. I got Frankie Montas as my SP2. I got U. Darvish. I got Justin Verlander, so that's my top four. And then I get Logan Gilbert as my SP5. And Eduardo Rodriguez, he was one of my last picks as my SP6.

And then I got Ricely Iglesias, Camilo Duval, and Dylan Floro as my relief pitchers. We don't know for sure that DeVal is going to be the closer for the Giants, but I think so. He looked awesome down the stretch, and he was filling that role for a team that was competing

for a World Series. Right into the postseason, yeah. Even with McGee healthy again. So what do you think, Scott, of my team overall? It's kind of a weird team. I think I should have passed on taking both Darvish and Verlander where I did. I think just taking one of them would have been fine,

and then maybe getting another solid hitter. You know, maybe at like shortstop or catch- I don't know. I mean, I definitely like your pitching better than my pitching. Yeah. There are certainly ways it could go wrong. You know, maybe Darvish is just toast at this point. It's possible, but I doubt it.

I don't know. I think it looks pretty good, Frank. I don't think it's a bad team. I like my hitting more than you're hitting. Understandably, I've invested a lot in it. But I like your pitching more than my pitching. Maybe you're a little light on power. and that's like that's that's the that's what I don't want to be light on in my

hitting core is power I want to get I want to out homer everybody that's that's my new that's my new goal with hitting in five by five leagues I suppose it should have always been the goal but I feel like this year taught me that you could never have too much power all right slugger Scott going for the home runs here in 2020 We are going to wrap there. For Scott, I am Frank. Thank you for listening

and watching fantasy baseball today. We'll be back again on Thursday with Greg Jewett here to recap the relief pitcher position and take a look ahead to Scott's 22 ranks. We'll do it here on Thursday. Bye-bye.