Fantasy Baseball Today - Redrafting the First Two Rounds! A's Promote Tyler Soderstrom & Zack Gelof! (7/13 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: July 13, 2023

The first three picks seem pretty obvious (3:46)! ... Jose Ramirez over Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts (12:05)? ... Corbin Carroll gets drafted seventh overall (18:15). ... These next two picks might surprise you (23:36). ... We finish out the first round with a trio of outfielders (28:50). ... The A's are promoting both Tyler Soderstrom and Zack Gelof (32:50). ... The second round starts with three exciting young players (37:35). ... Nobody wants Bo Bichette anymore (45:20)? ... When should Trea Turner be drafted (49:10)? ... We finish out the second round with three corner infielders (53:11). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. It's time for one of my favorite podcasts of the year. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Thursday, July 13th.

I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. today on the show, we are redrafting the first two rounds for the rest of the season. Love to do it, fun exercise, and I'm very much so looking forward to it. The A's also promoted two of their top prospects, Tyler Soderstrom and Zach Geloff. We'll talk about that a little bit later on. Shout out to the Welsh, we did the top impact prospects

for the second half of the season. We talked about like 12, 15 names the other day, and he brought up both of those guys. So shout out to the Welsh for getting ahead of that. Before we get started, Please like this video and subscribe on YouTube if you haven't already. And if you're listening on the audio side, download, follow, and leave a five-star rating on Apple or Spotify.

I've got to let everyone behind the curtain a little bit here before we get started. We're talking beforehand, as we usually do, right? I'm stalling because I need some more time. And I asked the guys, well, what do you think about my new Yankee hat? Scott hated it. He's like, it looks like a second grader, put your hat together with all the clip bars. and I was like, I don't know, when. This is not a unique take of mine.

When this line of hats was introduced and it was making its way through the twilight, that was like the consensus point of view. It looked like, so it's a regular Yankees hat, but it has just like an image of the Statue of Liberty on it. I don't know. It has a few other New York related images on it. So I hate this hat for a different reason. Well, we know why, Chris, because you're a Yankees hat.

Because you're a hater. Well, I said, and it's not just your hat specifically. It's a whole line of hats that was released that are, you know, they have images like that related to the city around, you know, just plastered onto the normal team's hat. And I said it looked exactly how it would look if you assigned a second grader with the task of, oh, make an alternate Yankees hat that, you know, has, that shows a connection to the. city. What they do is they'd go and find clip art images of like the Statue of Liberty and just stick it on the Yankees hat. And that's that's exactly what has been done with this line of hats. And I'm surprised. I'm surprised you went for it, Frank. I'm a little surprised you went for it. More than the Statue of Liberty, it's, I really like the hats with like the World Series

patches and on the back it has two World Series patches on it and stuff. But well, I know what I'm not getting Scott for Christmas basically. So there you go. I just, I wish. A Braves hat has like a peach on it or something. I wish the Welsh was on here because there's an I think you should leave Skit that I really want to I want to quote this skit so bad but I can't. You guys don't know about Dan Flashes. You probably

can do it and I'm sure a lot of people... Very aggressive patterns. A lot of people out there would probably know what you're talking about but... You pay so much money for the aggressive patterns. Well, anyway, let us know what you think of my hat. Do you agree with me or do you agree with Scott? Let's get into redrafting the first two rounds for the rest of the season. This is

for 5x5 Roto. But we can make some points along the way about players who might be higher in head-to-head points leagues maybe a little bit lower. So, of course, we will do that. And Chris, you have been gifted the first overall pick. I wonder where you're going to go. I mean, I think it's the number one pick in either format. It's Ronald Acuna. He's just having an absolutely absurd season.

And we talk about it a lot. We probably don't need to talk about it on this podcast because there's nothing actionable about Ronald Acuna. at all right now, but he's the clear number one player in fantasy. He's not the best player in baseball because Shohei Otani exists, but he's doing a real good job of giving Shohei Otani a run for his money. I mean, it's about as good a run as Shohei Otani could get. And look, I don't think Ronald O'Cunia is going to keep heading 330. I think he'll probably slow down.

I don't think he's going to score 147 runs, probably won't drive in 95, runs or whatever he's on pace for. I think there will probably be some slowdown. On the other hand, he is actually based on expected stats, one of the biggest underperformers in baseball right now, which is just bananas. His expected batting average is 350. And like, that's a stat expected batting average that's supposed to like moderate the extremes. You know, you're not supposed to see an expected batting average that high ever.

And part of the reason for that is he's cut his strikeout rate in half. Yeah. Like, he's made improvements with strikeout rate in the past, but this, this strikeout rate is almost exactly half of his career best strikeout rate. He's striking out 12% of the time in addition to all the impact he's having with power and on the base paths. I don't know. Maybe he'll hit 3.30. I'm not. Yeah.

I said that more confident than I actually am because he's, look, I mean, this is the kind of thing we talked about coming into the season where like Ron Acuna Cune may not make the Hall of Fame. He's got a long way to go. But the start that he's on his career is 100% a Hall of Fame start. Like if you look up any comparable players, basically all of them are going to be in the Hall of Fame except for like, I think Tony Caligliero always should. shows up for these guys. Like, if you compare them, he had a great start to his career and then got derailed. I think that's who I'm thinking of. But everyone else. Yeah, it's like he was always a very, very good to bounce back. We're talking about an elite, elite, elite, young player, especially. He's amazing.

He walks a lot now. Yeah, he's just incredible. Last point on Ronald de Cunia, 441.5 fantasy points on CBS. the next closest hitter is Shohei Otani at 383.5. So that's nearly good season. Nearly 60 points less than what Ronald de Cunia is like doing right now. 441 points is like if you do that for a whole season, that's like a top 100 player.

I always love a good, uh, Chris grabbing the cat in the middle of the screen and throwing it on the floor. The, because you're going to hear it. We haven't heard it in a couple of weeks because we changed the, feeding time, but the feeder is going to go off in about a minute and she knows it. And she's being annoying anyway. She's manipulative. She's trying to get fed. And just wait, the thing is going to go off. She's staring at it now. It's fine.

I love it. All right. So first overall was Ronald Acuna. We probably talked about him for way too long. Scott, you're up with the second pick. Never can talk about Acuna for too long. I am going to go with who I think is the one player with the chance. of supplanting Acuna rest of season. I don't think he will, but he's the one player with a chance of doing it. And that is Fernando Tatis, who was a little slow out of the gate coming back from all the surgeries and the suspension. Let's go.

There's the cat feeder. Let's go. Tatis was a little slow out of the gate, but then he really turned it on in June. and since the start of June 7 homers 9 steals batting well over 300 looking basically like the Fernando Tatis we saw before all the surgeries and the suspension and for having missed that first month of the year

he's already at 16 homers 14 steals is outfield and shortstop eligible which comes in handy probably starting him in the outfield at this point to be honest but it's nice to have that extra eligibility and yeah, I think he's, for me, the clear number two choice. Fernando Tatis is currently the 19th overall player in Roto despite missing, despite playing 20 less games than everybody else. 3.9 fantasy points per game.

That's tied for eighth best among all hitters. Like Acuna has cut his strikeout rate so far this season. The only thing I think he needs to do and hopefully, you know, could pull this off in the second half, is lift the ball a little bit more. His barrel rate is down a little bit so far. this season compared to his career mark, but if he does that, I think he can get back on that normal Fernando Tati's pace. I mean, that's the thing is that he's on a 162 game pace of

288 batting average, 120 runs, 37 homers, 102 RBI, and 34 steals. And he really hasn't been that good. Like, relative, like, he's playing below the level that he's previously established in the majors. Like, I was all in on him. He was a top. 10 12 player for me even with the suspension. I'm really happy with what he's done. And yeah, I think he's going to be even better at the second half. All right. Number three pick goes to me and I will take Shohei Otani. I think there's a pretty clear top three. Maybe you can argue Tatis versus Shohei Otani. I think the draft probably starts here with the fourth pick. We talked about Otani yesterday and

what he's done leads baseball with 32 home runs this season while betting 302, 63 runs 71 RBI, 11 steals. He also has the fourth most strikeouts. in baseball as a pitcher, 132 strikeouts so far this season. A quick question to you guys, do you think Otani gets traded? No? The Angels are too competitive to even consider trading him. Yeah, I don't think it happens either. I do want to say, you know, it's obvious to all of us, but it probably needs to be said.

If we're drafting for a league with daily lineups, Otani is easily the number one pick. The number one overall pick The only problem with him being so good as a pitcher and a hitter is it just makes it all the more frustrating that you can't get both of those contributions from him in the same scoring period. But if you're setting your lineup every day, then you pretty much can.

You miss the hitting stats he delivers on days he's pitching. But otherwise you pretty much get it all. And that is nobody comes close to making the impact he can in that scenario. I will say like, You can make the case to take him ahead of Tatis, probably. But I do think there's a danger in drafting a player right when he's at his very hottest because he had 15 home runs in June. He basically had half of his season total in June.

Heading into June, Shohei Otani. His numbers were good, but they were more typical of a Shohei Otani season. They weren't like the amazing. style line he has now. So he entered June batting 269 with 15 homers, seven steals, and 882 OPS. Still numbers that would justify a first round pick, especially given the possibility

of being able to use him as a pitcher when needed. But I think his numbers are a little overblown right now because he just had such a ridiculous month. So we'll see if that holds true, but I don't know if

looking back we're going to see him as an obvious top five pick in weekly lineup leagues. Chris, you are up with the fourth pick in the draft, the first three, Acuna, Tatis, and Otani. And I think this is where it gets really, really difficult. I'm going to default to Jose Ramirez, who I just, there are probably sexier picks that I could make.

And there's one in particular who has kind of been an even better version of Jose Ramirez so far. Well, I guess there's two that I could think of. But Ramirez, the track record, the really, really high floor. And I think, like, we haven't necessarily seen a crazy month from him yet. I guess his June was very, very good, seven home runs. But we haven't, like, we haven't seen him go 10 home runs in a month with, you know, a bunch of steals.

He had seven and four in June. He was really, really good. But I just, I think he's probably underperformed a little. And you're still talking about a guy who's on a 25 homer 15 steel pace. and we'll probably improve on both of those numbers. Jose Ramirez currently the 23rd overall player in Roto, the ninth best hitter in head-to-head points leagues. And you were right.

He first two months kind of slow start for Jose Ramirez, then exploded in June. You know, I mean, I guess explosion, a relative term, compared to someone like Choha Tani. But 3.30 with seven home runs, four steals, a 1030 OPS. That is a very, very fine month for Ramirez. Frankly, a little surprised that you went with him, Chris. I think there are other high floor.

type options that are similar. You left me with an easy one here. It depends on, like, if we were talking about projecting 2024, there's one guy in particular who I would consider taking over Jose Ramirez. And then you're talking about Freddie Freeman, right? Scott, that's your intake? Yes. That's the one I'm really struggling with because.

He has more stolen bases than Jose Ramirez. That's the thing that's wild. He's slow. Freddie Freeman is slow of foot now. He is 36, 32nd percentile on sprint speed, but he's been a very good base runner over the past few seasons, had a career high in stolen bases last year as a 32-year-old. And now, even though he's slower,

he's on pace for 25 steals. I just don't know how real that is. Oh, he's won away. Consecutive years of doing it. And he's both of both since like, it coincides with him joining the Dodgers. And this year where he's on pace to double the career high he said last year, basically,

it coincides with a significant rule change that improves base dealing. So he's shown himself to be somebody who, A, is running more with the Dodgers, B is happy to take advantage of this rule change. And I don't have reason to think it's going to change and that Freddie Freeman, I don't know if he's going to get all the way to 25. but if you're setting the over under at 19,

I think I'd take the over. You know, he's already got 12. And like the thing is you could justify picking him here even without the speed element. That's just a nice bonus. He's the safest bet for batting average in baseball. He's on pace for 131 run scored, batting second in the Dodgers lineup.

And after slumping to 21 homers last year, he's on pace for 30 this year. So any whiff of decline as a power hitter, I think, has been removed. And he's just been he's been as safe of a first round hitter as you can think of. I mean, I think he's overtaken Mike Trout. I mean, we don't think of Mike Trout as the first rounder anymore. And Freddie Freeman is still sticking around there. So he's been as reliable of a first round pick as anybody over the past, what, decade?

Yeah. And as somehow getting even better because he's added this element of speed. Yeah, not counting 2020, he's on pace for the second best batting average of his career after last season. The second most home runs of his career. Sorry, the third most home runs of his career. The most steals, the most RBI, and the second most runs. And he's 33 years old. It's remarkable.

I'll add another, to add another note to this, because, you know, specifically since we're talking about a roto draft year. I think there's a tendency to think of Freddie Freeman as more of a points league specialist since for most of his career wasn't a stolen base standout and he's always had good plate discipline and all that. He is currently

the number three overall player in roto leagues. And here I am taking him fifth in our draft year. Last year he was also the number three player in roto leagues, even with the diminished power and even with him not stealing as many bases as he is this year. So, like, yeah, I think he's an obvious top five choice now in fantasy.

And it only helps that first base has a pretty big drop off after the top five, six, seven at the position. So it's become a nice position to fill early too. All right. Number six pick for me is I'm going to go with another high floor player, someone who has exploded over the past couple of weeks. That is Mookie Betts. He's currently the fifth best player in Roto, the third best hitter in head-to-head points leagues,

batting 276 with 26 home runs, seven steals like Freddie Freeman. The counting stats are insane right now. On pace for 130 one run scored, 112 RBI, and there might actually be room for the batting average to climb. He's got a 285XBA, the highest barrel rate since 2018, so Mookie Betts has been awesome.

Doesn't run as much as he used to or maybe as much as we want him to, but the home runs, the counting stats certainly make up for that. Whether it's roto or head-to-head points, I am going with Mookie Betz sixth overall. Just to recap the first half of the first round, Acuna, Tates,

Shohay Otani, Jose Ramirez, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betz, and Chris, I don't know if you have a cat to collect or anything, but if you're ready to go, you have the seventh fifth. These cats are acting a fool. Yeah, I think Corbyn Carroll's the pick here. I would have taken him fourth actually or I guess no sorry I would have taken him fifth I had the chance I would have taken him fifth after Jose Ramirez so I would have taken him ahead of Freddie Freeman and you know partially that's just what Scott was there Frank was talking about there the anti bias the bias against the 34 year old is a little unfair and you know Carol I think two weeks ago Scott when you wrote your redrafting the first two rounds.

Corbyn Carroll was third. Your number three pick. Yeah. And I'm at a vote tonny even. And I think the shoulder scares have dampened the enthusiasm just a little bit.

I think it's not that we think he's going to be bad the rest of the way. It's just it's introducing an element of risk that I would say so. I think even, although what they've said is that it really wasn't worrisome at all. That it was just scary at the moment. He had like a, the way he flexed, it was just like a nerve thing is what they said.

They've had to say that twice in the span of a week. So now every time Corby and Carroll swings, I'm expecting something bad to happen. Of course he came back and he might be too. And he might be too because in both instances, I mean, he just walked off the field. He was, you know, we were thinking season ending injury on this previously surgically repaired shoulder that, you know, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he. He does not seem confident in it himself. And I know they've had MRIs to rule out. I wish they'd give us more detail.

Like they've been, they've said it's not an issue, but they haven't really gone into more detail than that. And, you know, if they were using terms like scar tissue or something, maybe I'd feel better about it. But they haven't actually said that, I don't think. So, yeah, I mean, and we've talked about, you know, is now the time to sell on, Carol? Well, I've said I think you still need to get a first round return.

for him. Everybody else knows. Right. Everybody else knows. So I don't think you can necessarily get a first round return for him. But this is why we're saying you still need a first round return for him. Because I would have taken him with the next pick if you hadn't taken him here at what, seventh overall.

Yeah. I will say there are non-injury reasons to bump him down just a little bit relative to Jose Ramirez, Moogie Bats, and Freddie Freeman, who are just so proven. I mean, those two guys are two of the best hitters or three of the best hitters of the last decade. You know, I think Jose Ramirez is the only one whose track record isn't quite a decade long of being an elite fantasy option, but he's been outstanding for a long time. Carol obviously doesn't have the track record of those guys. And the underlying numbers just aren't quite as good for him. He has a 389 Wobah, 346X Wobah.

Because he's so athletic and because he's so young, I think that one, you expect him to out. perform the expected stats and to get better. But on a pure as a hitter, he's more, he's closer probably to like, I'm trying to find the right comp that won't make people mad. More like Boba Chet than Freddie Freeman. I think that's fair, but the combination of the power and the speed, it's like, oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

And that's why he's going as high as he is. And frankly, if I wasn't worried about the shoulder at all, I think he probably should be the fourth overall pick. He should probably go after the top three. And I have this written down in the notes too. I'm not really worried about the expected stats because A, he was arguably the top prospect coming into the into this season. And I just, I don't want to bet against that. So I'm willing to be wrong about it. A huge standout at every level.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, that's, it's a, it's more just when you're comparing him to Freddie Freeman. and Muki Betts and Jose Ramirez, guys who have been top-tier hitters, not just fantasy players, but like elite, elite hitters at the major league level for such a long time. You know, I think that it's mostly just, you have to split hair somewhere.

I'm already hedging on guaranteeing Freeman will be in my top five next year. I guess I'm really counting on Otani not being in my top five because I think Acuna Tatis judge and character. will have to be. Acuna Tatis. Bats. Judge. Ramirez, Judge.

Allie De La Cruz. There's room for all of them, isn't. Even with Otani. There's room for Otani and Freeman. Never mind. Never mind. We'll keep going. Well, Scott, you have the eighth pick.

But first, we're going to take a break. So I'm going to give you a couple of seconds to think about it. We'll do that right after this. Welcome back. And a quick reminder to sign up for our fantasy baseball today. Newsletter. It's free. You can find it at CBSports.com.

slash newsletters. And I know Chris, you've been doing a good job sending it out this week, sleepers, breakouts, and bus for the second half. So again, you can get all that delivered right to your inbox every single day, CBSports.com slash newsletters. Or if you're watching us on YouTube, scan the QR code in the top right corner. That will bring you right to the website where you could sign up for free. Scott, you were up with the eighth overall pick. I'm going to go against what I did in the article a couple weeks ago. I was trying to be more of a measured analysis in that, that, you know, the article,

which is a bit more, it's of a bit more permanence, I feel like, than a podcast, which people are just going to listen to once and never listen to it again. So, I'm going to go crazy here.

I'm going to take the guy who I've loved for so long, who I've always thought had a first round outcome, and is finally delivering on that. I'm going with Corey Seeger. Corey Seeger with Pick A, not wanting to miss out on him because he has been

he has been everything he was destined to be here finally combining those elite line drive skills the consistency of the 300 batting average basically turned into that Freddie Freeman caliber hitter that we've long compared him to and now it's only taken place over like two thirds of the schedule that everyone else is played so that you know it's a smaller sample size we're working with here but he's batting

over 350 is expected batting average is 334 so it's also it's it's about as ridiculous as a kunyas is and he has that seeger has the advantage uh that we're that that so many rangers headers seem to be enjoying where that lineup is just it's so prolific that everybody's rbi and run totals are just they're just enormous up and down the lineup it's crazy how much runs an RBI are elevating every ranger's hitter in addition to having the ridiculous batting average and being the best power source at shortstop other than tauties and bets seeger then you know that's just that's just elevating him all the more he actually has more fantasy points per game than Freeman so far this year so yeah i think see your in round one makes sense all right well

for me there's not really a clear-cut hitter that i'm excited to take here so i'm just going to ahead and break the ice and take the first starting pitcher, who is Spencer Strider. He's my number one pitcher ranked for the rest of the season. He's the top pitcher in Roto, excluding Otani, because they count his hitting stats as well. 344 ERA, a 109 whip, 166 strikeouts for Spencer Shreder. By far the most in baseball. He's first in K-minus walk rate, first in Sierra by a mile. By every metric that we look at, Spencer Shrider has been the best pitcher in baseball this season.

some inconsistencies in the first half, velocity fluctuating a little bit here and there, had some games where he gave up some home runs, but I think he's the best pitcher in baseball right now. I'm going to go ahead and take Spencer Strider 9th overall, and Chris, you are up with the... Scott? If I could comment on Strider,

I think it would be a lot easier for me to say he's the best pitcher in fantasy rest of way if he threw 200 innings last year. He threw 130 innings last year. And so, you know, he's already over 100 now. I don't think they're going to shut them down in any point, but a lot of times

when pitchers are entering unfamiliar territory with the innings, we see them kind of lose something. Sammy Planoe last year. Exactly. Exactly. And he won to be the first. You know, obviously

Strider relies so much on just getting maximum velocity that, you know, I wonder how September's going to go. So I definitely see the justification for making him the first pitcher taken. I probably would not be the one to take it.

But somebody has to. So thanks for taking that one for the team, Frank. I think that the best way to phrase it is not, it's not that Spencer Strider is suddenly going to be bad in September. It's just an unknown. It's an unknown variable. And that works. both ways, right? Because we're at the point, I think, after that first six or seven maybe,

yeah, I think after the first seven, it opens up. And next year, if everybody continues a pace, I think it'll be eight. I think Aaron Judge will be there and it'll just be that eight. That'll be really easy. And then after that, I think it opens up. And that's why we have Corey Seeger and that's why we have Spencer Strider. And so it's, it's just to say that there are a lot of sure things here. and Spencer Strider, as good as he is, is just a little bit less of a sure thing, then certainly the guys who went ahead of him. However, if he gets to the end of the season

and he's thrown 190 innings and ends up with 300 strikeouts, I mean, if he, like, if that's the pace that he's on, even if it's a 344 ERA in this environment, in this economy, like we talked about yesterday, if he does that, he's probably a first round pick. And he might make that group of eight a group of nine. So it's just a, it is right now an unknown. Yeah, fair enough.

All right, let's keep it moving here. Chris, you're back up with the 10th overall pick. And this is where I think it gets really, really tough. I think I want to just say Aaron, Judge. So I'm just going to do it, even though we don't know when he's going to be back. And we don't know what it's going to look like when he's back. and all of those things. But he was arguably

certainly almost as good as he was last season. He was having a season that very much backed up the season he put together last season. He probably wasn't going to hit 62 home runs, although that was actually the pace he was on. But I think just as a hitter, Aaron Judge is clearly the best right now.

I mean, Freddie Freeman is a little, more well-rounded. But like, Aaron Judge is now going on a two-season stretch, if we call this a season, where he's basically been an 1100 OPS hitter. We haven't seen that since Albert Poole's at his best. I don't think Mike Trout even ever did that. So it's pretty wild what he's doing. Obviously, there are huge question marks.

But if Aaron Judge had no health concerns, is he the number two pick? I think so. Either him or... Yeah, he's in that mix. I think the top three becomes a top four. I think it becomes, in some order, Ronald Cunia, Tatis, Shoha Otani, and Aaron Judge. I think that's a top four, if he's healthy.

The latest update that we have came out on July 4th, and apparently he did some hitting off of a tea and taking soft toss, and he had this, quote, quote, doesn't feel great. Surgery after the season is a possibility that was per Pete Caldera of the Bergen record. So we'll see what happens with that. Aaron Judge still kind of up in the air with that toe injury, but when he played, he was amazing. Scott, you were up 11th overall.

If I wasn't originally going to make this pick, I'm reacting to Chris's pick. If Chris is already taking Aaron Judge, then I should probably take the other player who would be an obvious first rounder if he wasn't injured. But he actually has a clear timetable as first return, unlike Judge. And that is Jordan Alvarez, who is set to begin a rehab assignment as he works his way back from a strange. oblique. So I think we'll see him before the end of July. And I mean, he was doing Jordan Alvarez things before he got hurt. He's averaging 3.96 points per game, which is actually more than Corbyn Carroll, for instance. Obviously, that's a points league measurement. And Alvarez doesn't provide the speed. Carol does. But the point is he's super insanely productive. And yeah, should be back soon. So Yorna Alvarez is the pick. Jordan Alvarez in 57 games this year, hit 277 with 17 home runs, and 55 RBI.

Nearly an RBI per game. That's wild. Crazy stuff there for Yordaun Alvarez before getting hurt. Hopefully we see him very soon here in the second half. I am up to round out the first round, 12th overall pick, and I think I'm going to make it back-to-back Astros. And I'm going to go ahead and take Kyle Tucker, who is currently the 18th overall player in Roto. He's the 15th best hitter and head-to-head points. He's betting 288 with 13 home runs and 15 steals.

The pace is a little bit lower than you'd like. 23 homer, 26 steel pace. He had a rough May that kind of derailed the numbers. But since the start of June for Kyle Tucker, he's batting 318 with six home runs and eight steals, nearly as many strikeouts as nearly as many walks as strikeouts. Good average exit velocity. Obviously that plate discipline helps him a ton in points leagues as well.

So back-to-back Astros there to finish out the first round, and I'll just recap that. The first six picks, Acuna, Tatis, Otani, Jose Ramirez, Freddie Freeman, and Mookie Betts. And then the back half of the first round, Corbyn Carroll, Corey Seeger, Spencer Strider, Aaron Judge, Yordon Alvarez, and Kyle Tucker. We're going to take a little break from the draft.

I want to quickly talk about the A's promoting two of their top prospects, and that is coming on Friday. Tyler Soderstrom, 16% rostered on CBS. He's actually first base eligibility. He's played more games at catcher in the minors this year, but last year he actually played more games at first base. And I think that's where he projects to play moving forward. Obviously, they have Shay Langalears as well.

So I think we'll see some first base, DH, maybe backup catcher here there for Tyler Soderstrom, former first round pick back in 2020. 69 games at AAA. He was hitting 254 with 20 home. home runs and really good stat cast numbers. He is hitting the ball really hard down there. Scott, your interest level on Tyler Soder Strong.

It's pretty modest. I'm going to be honest. I became, I was very excited when he was drafted. I became less enthusiastic about him, basically with every move up the ladder. And in the upper miners, he was supposed to be a patient hitter who drew a lot of walks. And it couldn't have been further from what actually happened

once he got to the upper miners, the strikeout to walk. ratio is pretty bad. He does hit the ball hard enough that maybe he's able to overcome that at the major league level, but for a bad team, you know, kind of hurried to the majors as a 21-year-old. And the fact he's first base only on CBS, it makes it harder to give him the benefit of the doubt, I'd say. Now, if you play somewhere else where he's catcher eligible, that changes things

quite a bit because obviously it doesn't take much for a player with catcher eligibility to be a deserving starter in fantasy, particularly when he's getting a lot of it bats at some other position. So if that's the case, if you can use

Soder Strom a catcher, then you probably just take a flyer on the power and hope it works out. But if it's not like that, if you can only use them at first base, maybe pick them up in leagues where you have a corner infield spot to fill, but otherwise I'd take a wait and see approach with him.

By the way, I wouldn't rule out him potentially picking up catcher eligibility along the way. I don't think he's going to unseat Sheaangaliers as like the primary catcher, but could he make five appearances there? At some point over the next few weeks, could that happen? That could happen, so we'll keep an eye on that. But as of now, on CBS, Soder Strong, first base only. Soda stream? In leagues where he does have catcher eligibility, Scott.

Would you take Soderstrom or Henry Davis? Henry Davis. What about versus Alvarez? Francisco. Alvarez. He's behind them. I might dump Melendez for Soderstrom in one catcher league just because trying to get something going behind the plate.

It's not there with Melendez. Yep. That's fair. Just trying to figure out where he would kind of slot into the catcher rankings if Tyler Soderstrom has catcher eligibility on CBS. He doesn't. He does actually have it on Yahoo. So keep that in mind.

if you do play over there. Zach Gelloff is the other prospect getting called up for the Oakland A's. He's only 3% rostered, second base eligible, a former second round pick in 2021. He's a little bit older, 23 years old. He was batting 304 with 12 home runs,

20 steals, and a 929 OPS at AAA. Really good walk rate, 13%. Also strikes out quite a bit. Chris, any interest in Zach Gelloff as a, let's say, middle infielder in Rodo, Yeah, if Sotom doesn't have catcher eligibility, I might be more interested in Gelloff. The statistical profile is pretty similar. Sotrstrom probably has more power.

Certainly the underlying numbers suggest that. However, the production at AAA actually tilts towards Gell off and he brings speed to the table. And so if you're not worried about specifically having a catcher, I think I'm more interested in gel off but honestly I'm not particularly interesting either given the lineup given the park I think both are likely to be pretty draining on your batting average if either hits 250 the rest of the way I think you probably consider it a success so I don't love either of these guys but I actually think gel off because of the speed uh what is it 21 stolen bases and 81 games at triple a i'll give him a little bit of an edge let's take our final break and when we return we'll finish

out the second round of our rest of season draft. We'll do that here on fantasy baseball today. Welcome back and we have about 20 minutes left to make 12 picks. So you guys are on the clock. Chris, you're up first with the first pick of round two. And you are muted, sir. There's two guys I want to take. I'm going to trust Scott to go by his previous one. Chris, do it for the brand. I'm going to take Julio Rodriguez. No, that was the wrong answer. I don't know what the brand option would be, but we'll see if he comes back to me, the other guy I'm talking about at 15 overall,

but I'll stick with Julio Rodriguez, who has had a disappointing season and is also on a 25-home-or-40-stolen-based pace because it seems like everyone's on a 25-home-or-40-stallon base pace, or at least the 40-stallon-bases early on. So he's very good. The underlying numbers suggest that he's been a little bit unlucky. They also suggested he was a little lucky last season,

So the underlying numbers are actually very similar to last season. There's another guy I want to take whose underlying numbers are much better than they were last season. So we'll see if I get to take him. If not, we'll talk about him at some point anyway. But yeah, Holy Rodriguez, elite talent, bet on youth, bet on him improving from what he's been, both just because the underlying numbers suggest he will and also because bet on the 22-year-old, incredible athlete who had a superstar rookie season. bet on him figuring it out after a somewhat rocky start to his second season.

Julio Rodriguez is currently the 21st overall player in Roto. It's really everything looks pretty good except for the batting average. He's batting 2.49. He's actually hitting the ball harder this year than he did last year. He's just got to hit it in the air a little bit more. And I think that will lead to some more power here in the second half for Julio Rodriguez. All right, Scott, you are up with the second pick of round two. So here we are in round two.

there are two players, well I guess there are actually three players remaining from my own personal first round when I did the written version of this a couple years ago. I'm not interested in the picture though. You mean a couple of weeks ago, Scott? Yeah. You said a couple of years ago. A couple of weeks ago is what I meant. It feels like a couple of things. It was a very, very accurate rankings from two years ago. Okay, so it's between a shortstop and an outfielder.

I'm going with the outfielder, it being the scarcer position, and I'm going with Juan Soto. who since May 1st is slashing 295-441-524. Very reminiscent of the Juan Soto we knew with the Nationals, the Juan Soto we knew prior to last year. He was awful in April, and I think that stands out in everybody's mind, but since then he's been great. I think the power production is still a little less than, even since May 1st, it's still a little less than I want it to be.

but that's kind of always been true for Juan Soto, right? Like, what's his career high in home runs? It's... Has he hit 30? I don't think he's hit 30. I think it's 29. Oh, he had 34 in his second season. Yeah, that's what I thought. I thought he broke 30 once. Now, I mean, during the 2020 season, he had 13 and 47 games, so maybe that would have been another 30 homer season.

But the thing is, like, with him, you're expecting high batting average, lots of runs. good power provides a little bit of speedy. He has six stolen bases. I think he's fine here. I think he's good here. I think he's going to be better from today forward than he's been so far. Yes, absolutely. And better

in points. I think you probably bump him up four or five spots in a points league. And I that was the pick, Chris. That was the brand once. Yeah, that was the other one. But just like, I got to say, like, I don't know if it's that people feel like he was overhyped

or what, but like the real action that people have to Juan Soto, like in the comments and on Twitter, it's just like, it's so far afield from what the player he actually is. And maybe that's our fault. You know, maybe we kept saying the best young hitter since Ted Williams, which is objectively true, but fine, if you want to be mad about it, whatever. I feel like y'all listeners really underrate how good this guy is. Like, he had a miserable April, but since then, it's like 100 runs, 100 RBI, 30 homers, 300 batting average, 10 plus steals. Like, he is an awesome, awesome player and underrate him at your own risk.

I think if everything clicks for Juan Soto, he should be Freddie Freeman in the outfield, right? That's what we're expecting at the 300 batting average, solid power, 10 plus steals, good counting stats. The problem, and it's not entirely his fault, though, you know, he's part of the problem, is the Padres lineup has led us. us down this year. Machado was hurt. He got off to a terrible start. Bogart's has been playing hurt all year. They missed Tatis for the first month of the season. It hasn't all clicked together. But if at some point that happens in the second half, we could just see massive counting stats from that entire team. So. And I do think it's worth pointing out. It's not even really a hypothetical. He could be Freddie Freeman of the outfield if everything breaks right. He already was for. He has been

that. He has been that. Several times. Yes. But the thing is we haven't seen it, I guess, for what, the past two years. So that's, it's, you know, we're talking about what the 20, 21 season at that point. So it has been a little bit since we've seen it, but that's what Wonsoto should be, hopefully moving forward. He's, he's Joey Votto. Like all the conversations that we're having about Wonsoto being underrated and people getting mad at him and all that. It's just Joey Votto 10 years ago. That's fair. The third pick of round two, I think I'm going to take the other name here that you were referring to, Chris. And might surprise some people, but I am going to go ahead and take Bobby Witt Jr.

Who is quietly on pace for a near 2550 season right now. He is hitting 257 with 14 homers and 27 steals. And the expected numbers are much better. 290XBA, a 515 X-slug. He's already the 11th overall player in Roto, 21st best hitter in Headtad Points Leagues this year. There is a chance that Bobby Witt Jr. Explodes in the second half.

If he could come anywhere close to those expected numbers, I don't know if it's going to happen because the ballpark is kind of prohibitive there. It does seem like Royals players consistently underperform their expected. But in his case, he was right on his expected numbers last year. Like, he didn't disappoint. He didn't underperform in that regard last season. So, you know, I. He's, he's such a weird player, Bobby Witt, because like it feels like such a 1980s stat line where like this guy,

Like the standout players of the 1980s, oh, look, he's hitting all these home runs, he's stealing all this bases. His on-base percentage is horrible. Yeah. Like his real-life value is far less than his fantasy value, Bobby Witts. But, you know, stolen bases are worth what they're worth. And he's delivering a ton of, even in points leagues. His production is high because he's just giving so many stolen bases. And if he hits to that 290XBA, all of a sudden the on-base percentage is going to look okay.

Yeah. You know, that's the biggest thing for me is just if I didn't think he had taken a step forward, I'd be fine letting him go until the end of the second round. But with the underlying metrics being what they are, you know, the average X velocities jumped up almost a full mile per hour. The barrel rate is up a couple ticks. Like it's all, it's all mostly seeming to come together for Bobby Witt in a way that I think, yeah, there's going to be a huge second half. He was one of my breakouts in the FBT newsletter today. and yeah, I think he's going to have a big second half. All right, let's keep it moving.

We've got about a minute per player left here. Chris, your backup, the fourth pick of round two. Oh, I don't want to make a pick now because Bobby Witt was clearly the best player available there for me. And I'm annoyed now because I think I'm going to go Boba Shett. How the Mighty have fallen. But it feels boring. Is there someone? You're getting Boba Shep this late in your mind?

Yeah. Is there, well, the biggest thing is that he's actually taken a really nice step forward as a hitter. He's been a better hitter than he's ever been before. It's just where are the steals? Only three stolen bases. His sprint speed is down to 44%. And like, I don't think Boba Chet is ever going to be the 950 OPS guy. I think he's more like a Kyle Tucker type where it's like he's a good hitter. He's not an elite hitter. And when you're not, when you're still, if you're just talking about, if leaving out all those OPS leagues, which hard leagues. Sure, sure. If you're just talking about batting average, Bo Bichette is clearly as stand out. Yes, he's very, very good.

Yeah, I'm underselling him a little bit. And that's probably also true with Kyle Tucker. They, they stand out more in fantasy as hitters. They're not, not like Bobby Witt. They're not better in fantasy than they are in real life. They're exactly as good in real life as they are in fantasy. It's just the shape of it is more. conducive to fantasy production.

With Boba Chet, too, similar problem to Juan Soto is the counting stats this series on pace for 82 runs and 93 RBI. It's not entirely his fault because the Blue Jays have kind of underperformed. Vlad, Dalton Varshow, those guys haven't really come through. So as a result, it's keeping the counting sets down for Boba Chet so far this season. Scott, you are up with the fifth pick of round two. Well, I was hoping to take Boba Chet. So I think the drop-off at hitter here is pretty big.

I didn't want to take a pitcher because I don't believe in taking pitchers early. But I do think it'll be down practice if we don't have Garrett Cole going in our first two rounds. So I'll just go ahead and take him. I do think he is not as dominant as he used to be. Otherwise, he would have been a slam dunk first rounder. But he is still a workhorse who gets, you know, strikes out hitters at a nice rate that the total is. going to be impressive. Not on Spencer Strider's level, but on basically anyone else's level.

I did have this as a discussion point, but we got to keep it moving here. We'll save it for another day. I think there is a case that Kevin Gosman should be drafted ahead of Garrett Cole moving forward, at least based on the strikeout numbers, and even the service level numbers are a little bit better than Garrett Cole as well. But we'll save that for another day. The sixth pick of round two, oh, that means I am up, huh? so I've got to figure this out very quickly.

I'll go with another shortstop. I think this is fine. I know we spoke about him yesterday. He's kind of fallen off a little bit over the past couple months, but just the shape of what everything Wander Franco has done this season, I think he's certainly worthy of this pick, batting 278 with 11 home runs and 28 steals. Surprisingly, the counting stats are a little bit lacking for Wander Franco.

I want to see that batting average pick up a little bit here in the second half. Will he continue to run as much as he did in the first half? I think that's a legitimate question mark, but this is, this was a huge talent. And so far this season, he has kind of lived up to that. And I am taking him here with the sixth pick of round two. Chris, you are back up, the seventh pick of the second round. Yeah, the concern I have with Wander Franco is just if the steals slow down and he had the one huge month, 14 stolen bases, I don't know how, how he fits in this range. But I don't really.

I'm not too worried about that. Oh, now it's like which surefire first rounder from before the season who's been really disappointing, do I want to take? Do I want to take one of the power hitters who's been disappointing? Do I want to take? I'll rip the bandage off.

I'll go with Trey Turner, who has been miserable this season. There's really no defense of it. He's no longer been a stolen basis stand. out. He's on like a 35 steel pace. He hasn't been a standout really in anything so far. But it's Trey Turner. I think he's going to figure it out.

He is 30 and maybe he's just lost it. But like, he was really, really good last season. He drove in 100 runs. He scored 100 runs. Obviously, Philly's lineup, not quite as good as the Dodgers lineup, but it's not a bad one. I, at the very least, I feel pretty, confident that Trey Turner's going to hit like $2.90 the rest of the way.

So I don't have Turner in my top two rounds anymore. I think that's totally real. I cannot make an affirmative case for it. I can't make a like look at all these things that Trey Turner's doing. It's just look at the name. Yeah. And then I was with you for like the first couple months. But I think what the turning point for me was that like such a big part of his

value in the past was that he was a stolen base standard. out, even if he gets back to running like he did in the past, he won't be a clear stolen base standout anymore. There are a lot of other players, Wander Franco included, who are even more of a stolen base standout than Trey Turner was. Like he hasn't kept up with the times as a base stealer. And then on top of that, you need his batting average to bounce back in an enormous way. And I just don't see all that happening.

So I'm happy to leave him out. I was hoping you'd reduce some of the clutter here at first base because there are four first basemen who need to go before this second round is done, I think. And I'd rather not be forced to pick the first of them, but I will go ahead and take Vladimir Guerrero here, who has been the least productive. The least productive of the four has the best underlying stats, has the best single season in the past, the recent past of any of them.

And so, you know, we're kind of doing this all last year, too, waiting for Vladimir Garrow to bounce back to that 2021 production. I think at the very least he's going to bounce back to his 2022 production. That'll be worth a late second round pick. There's a big difference, I think, between last year and this year. And it's that last year he played

to his expected stats. This year, he's massively underperforming. He's been one of the biggest underperformers in baseball. He's expected Wobus 395, his actual Wobus 342. So, like, I get it. Oh, he only hit well in the minor league park and all that, like.

Actually, his expected stats look a lot like that 21 season. XBA 545 X-slug. Yeah. So Vladimir Guerrero Jr. goes with the eighth pick of round two. Oh, that means that I'm on the clock. So I should probably figure out who am I going to take? And I'm looking up and down here.

There's a name that has performed. He was really good in the first couple of months. Do I want to do it? He's kind of falling off. It's kind of a boring pick. I'm going to go ahead. with the first basement and maybe it surprises people here, but I'm going to take Matt Olson, who is the seventh overall player in Roto right now. 29 home runs, the second most in baseball.

Crazy counting stats with the Atlanta Braves. And it feels like every couple of years, we kind of swap the production from him and Pete Alonzo. And he's doing something similar to what we saw Pete Alonzo do. We know it's going to be a lower batting average, right? It's, you know, 240, 250, but we're looking at a near 50 home run season with 250 combined runs in RBI. That's a really, really valuable player there with Matt Olson. So I'm going to go ahead and make him the ninth pick of round two. And Chris, you are back up.

Yeah. This is my last pick. That it is. You got to make it count. Are you guys going to do it? I'm not going to do it. Someone's got to do it. I don't think we have to do it.

I don't know what it is. Oh, I know what it is. I'm not going to do it. No. I don't want to be the one to do it. You know, if you want to happen, if you don't like you have to be the one. Don't worry about what the people think.

You never have to look them in the eye. I haven't brought myself to the point where I have Ellie Dela Cruz ranked inside of my top 24. So I'm not going to do it. So I will take... He has performed like a top 24 player on per game base so far. It's worth pointing out. He's been outstanding. Even in points leagues, he's been really awesome.

That'll happen when you're on an 80s steel pace. I will go with the other... He's not a first baseman, but the other early round, pick who has been disappointing, but the underlying numbers are very, very good. And that's Rafael Devers, who actually has the second highest expected Wobah of his career, has the second highest hard hit rate, second lowest strikeout rate, third lowest strikeout rate, sorry, excuse me, fake news. Rafael Devers, it's been disappointing and yet he's on 130 RBI, 37 home run pace. And it's really just the batting average hasn't been there. The batting average will be there. He's

going to hit 280 the rest of the way, and Rafael Devers is going to be an obvious second round pick next year. All right. Scott, you are up your last pick in this draft and the 11th pick of round two. So I think we both need to take first baseman. Maybe you'll disagree, Frank. But I will take Pete Alonzo, who I would actually take ahead of Matt Olson. It's worth pointing out. I do think Ellison deserves to go in round two, but the reasons I prefer Alonzo over Olson still, a much lower strikeout rate. And kind of like I was saying for Shohei Otani, I feel like we're assessing Olson now right after he's been the hottest he's been all year.

He had a huge June like Otani. And so his pace numbers look better than I think he can live up to. And meanwhile, Alonzo is kind of the opposite end of the coin. He's coming off one of his coldest stretches of the season. So his pace numbers look worse than they're probably going to end up being. I think the one potential equalizer is that the Braves lineup is so much better than the Mets lineup. So maybe that's why Olsen finishes ahead. What is it?

He came back really, really quickly from that wrist injury. Like that was, they talked about that as like a three, four week thing. And he was back at the minimum, right? He was back in 10 days. And so that also coincides with him being pretty bad. I don't know if it correlates to it. but it certainly happened around the same time, and one does wonder.

But I think he'll be fine. I think he's right. Him and Matt Olson, it's very much Spider-Man meme, but Alonzo's been much more predictable over the course of their careers. Yeah, I think specifically for this exercise, drafting for the rest of the season,

I am a little bit worried about this risk injury. Since he's returned batting 147 with a 611 OPS, I'll be happy to be wrong. Hopefully, Pete Alonzo, you know, these last couple days off, gets him right. Lost the home run derby. Big red flag.

First time in his life. I don't know if that's true. I think he lost the home run derby last year, right? He didn't win it. I don't know if he participated. I think he lost last year. Didn't he lose to Julio? No, he lost to Julio this year.

Lost to Julio. I don't know. They've lost him both years. Maybe. I can't remember either. Anyway, hopefully Pete Alonzo was healthy coming out of the break. did lose to Julio Rodriguez last year.

The wrist injury has been a little bit of a problem there for him. The last pick of round two. I think that there are two pretty obvious names. People are going to be so upset. We didn't draft Ellie Daler Cruz. I'm, I'll go with Paul Goldschmidt. I'll take the kind of boring old veteran player here. The Cardinals, by the way, it sounds like they're going to be selling pieces off here

ahead of the trade deadline. Gulchmidt, the 34th overall player in Rodo, hitting 284 with 15 home runs and eight steals. and not to the same extent, but kind of like the Padres, their whole lineup hasn't clicked together at the same time. So if at any point, Lars Neupar gets going and Tommy Edmund is healthy. They're going to trade out of them away before that. That is true.

Jordan Walker, Nolan Aeronado, Goldschmidt, if they all get going at the same time, I think, you know, this lineup could see some better days here in the second half. But Paul Goldschmidt, as safe as they come, really, really high floor play. I want to say between those four first base, in round two, Guerrero, Olson, Alonzo Goldschmidt is the order we drafted them in. I have no clue what order those four are going to finish. And I keep rearranging them in my rest of season rankings, just hoping I can find an order

that feels right, and it never feels quite right. Just to point out a few names who didn't make the cut, obviously, L.A. LaCruz, and I'll say this, if he continues to do this for the rest of the season, then yeah, I think he's probably going to push and be a first first. round pick next year, but it's still such a small sample. It's only been 30 games. If we do this in a month, and maybe we just need to revisit this in a month, it's either going to be Ellie Dale Cruz as a first round pick or he's not in this discussion. I feel like that's one, he's either going to, like, he's either going to keep doing what he's doing. And it's going to be like, oh,

you idiots, what were you thinking? Of course he's a first rounder. Or it's going to be like, the strikeout rate spikes. He can't hit lefties. He can't. He can't. keeps hitting 60% of his hits his ground balls, and all of a sudden it's like, oh, this is a little scary. And by the way, if I'm putting money down, I'm putting it on him continuing to do what he's doing. I just afforded the opportunity of hedging here because there are a lot of other good players. So that's what I'm choosing to do for this exercise. Yeah. But again, if he keeps this up, I think we're talking about him as a first round pick heading into next year.

That's L.A. Dela-Cruz. A few other names that I have written down here who I think just missed the cut. Shane McClanahan kind of seeing how healthy he is in the second half. Sounds like he should start this weekend. Hopefully he's dealing with some back stiffness. Marcus Semyon, he's still 20th overall in Roto. The counting stats are amazing. He's on pace for 19 home runs and 16 steals.

That was surprising to me. That doesn't really sound like a second round player to me. Kevin Gosman has been really good. Zach Gallen, I think is in this conversation. And then Mani Machado is red hot. Francisco Indoor is hitting well over the past. month, but you know a name that we haven't mentioned. What's that?

Ozzy Albiz. Yeah, that's fair. He's the number 17 players so far. There are a couple players ranked in this range who like, like Josh Young is the number 18 player in Roto. He's, he's not a second round pick. I think even if he finishes as a top 10, 20 player, we're not going to draft him that way. But Ozzy Albies is the one that stands out.

Like, Lane Thomas is a top 20 player. Nobody's going to pick him there. But like, I think you can make a case for. Randy Rosarena. Yes. Luis Robert. I would have put it past Austin Riley to have a top 20. Sure.

Yeah. Adolice Garcia, too. Adoli Garcia is a top six player in Roto. We didn't mention him at all. And I think that's the end of the list. Francisco Lendor has been a top 15 player, which is kind of remarkable. We basically just drafted the first three rounds. Bryce Hart.

Oh, there. Chris, you kind of muted yourself mid-sentence there. That was impressive. Bryce Harper's in that discussion, absolutely. All right, we're going to wrap there. Who do we miss? Let us know in the YouTube comments or tweet at us and yell at us and let us know who did we miss today in the redraft for the rest of the season. For Scott and Chris, I am Frank.

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