1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,880 Welcome beautiful people. It is another Tuesday morning. Kenji and I are back with some baseball 2 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:24,080 coverage. We are officially one week from Games Mattering. Mattering? That's not a word. 3 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:29,960 From Games That Matter, the Cubs and Dodgers play at 4am R-Time, 6 o'clock Eastern in 4 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:35,040 Japan one week from the day this is released. That's awesome. We're going to dig into the 5 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,000 Tokyo series a little bit further, but we have a really special episode that we're going 6 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:47,000 to do today. And this is our offseason war draft. Now you're probably like, what on earth 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:53,360 are these guys talking about? I'm going to explain. Don't worry. But yeah, that's today's 8 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:58,080 episode offseason war draft. We're going to get into Tokyo series later. We know Garrett 9 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:03,560 Cole, Greyson Rodriguez news later. Today's the war draft. Kenji, how are you doing? Are 10 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:12,840 you ready to draft? I mean, I'm good. I definitely am not confident in my ability to draft. As 11 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,440 you know, and as I'm sure everybody knows, I'm still relatively new to baseball, or at 12 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:24,120 least MLB baseball. And war is a concept that I'm even more brand new to. So we'll see how 13 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:33,400 I understand it. I think I have a gist of understanding. But I'm kind of guessing with 14 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:42,360 every pick that I make. So we'll see how it goes. Okay, explain the rules. Yes. So we're 15 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:47,640 going to draft a roster. So we're going to draft a roster. So an infield and outfield 16 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:52,640 and two starting pitchers and one relief pitcher. And the winner of the draft will be determined 17 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:58,400 by war. Now what on earth is war? It stands for wins above replacement. And it measures 18 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:04,080 a player's value in all facets of the game by deciding how many more wins he's worth 19 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:09,080 than a replacement level player at his same position. So like Gunnar Henderson versus 20 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:15,440 a double A shortstop, like Gunnar Henderson is worth blank war higher than that guy. As 21 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,440 Bobby Whitmore, that's kind of how the war is calculated. It's a complex calculation. 22 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,200 It rewards defense heavily, as well as really good offensive players. So if you're great 23 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:29,160 defensively guys like Andres Jimenez, Patrick Bailey, you guys, they have really good war 24 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,240 numbers when maybe offensively they don't have great offensive statistics, but they 25 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:40,080 perform defensively. So they're rated highly in the system. So it doesn't just reward offense, 26 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,700 essentially. And that's what we were going for is we wanted to kind of dig a little bit 27 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:48,240 deeper with this draft. We've done, you know, the Homer draft and some other ideas. We wanted 28 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,880 to get creative and Kenji's won the last two drafts from all accounts. So I had to come 29 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,480 up with some sort of idea that I can maybe win at too. 30 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:04,480 So explain explain to those who have no idea what this is, what positions rack up the most 31 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,480 war and what positions are kind of useless and all that? 32 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:13,960 Well, I don't say any position is useless. But good defensive catchers rack up good war, 33 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:19,320 great defensive shortstops rack up a ton of war. Really, if you're exceptional defensively, 34 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,640 like your war will be inflated compared to somebody's average defensively. So if you 35 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:27,040 have the same offensive stats, but one is way better defensively and the others below 36 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:32,040 average, they'll have a stark difference in war. So I hope that explains it. If you're 37 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:37,080 still confused, look it up, ask chat to BT, somebody will tell you the answer. But it's 38 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,480 a measure of who's more valuable incorporating both defense and offense into the equation. 39 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:48,000 So that being said, are you looking at a bunch at GBT Kenji? You guys can't see him, but 40 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,920 he was just typing players who have war last year. Just Bob, you wait standing of, yeah, 41 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:59,040 I think Aaron, Bobby, Shohei, Juan, Gunnar, Francisco, Jaren, Doran, Jose Ramirez, and 42 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:04,600 Ellie and Chris say on the top 10. Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. That makes sense. Like the 43 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,440 best players have really high war basically is the correlation. But there are some other 44 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,960 ones. Like I said, Andres Jimenez is up there in war. Go ahead. What are you saying? Eight? 45 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:19,040 Is it because of offense? Because he was terrible defensively. Who? Gunnar? Gunnar in eight 46 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,920 war? Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was knocked down because he was bad defensively. He had really 47 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:31,000 good offensive. That's impressive. Okay. That's cool. So not only is it, we got to draft by 48 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 war, but we only people that are eligible to be drafted are those who have changed teams 49 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:41,440 in the off season. So before we get any further, Roki Sasaki counts guys like him. International 50 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:46,800 free agents count. He A's on Kim, uh, draft picks that might play a lot this year. Travis 51 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:53,000 Bazzana counts. Jack Haglione counts those kinds of guys. So, uh, even minor league callups 52 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,120 don't count, but somebody who was in a different place last year and they're going to be in 53 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:03,960 a new place this year, that's who's eligible to be drafted because Kenji is shorter and 54 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:09,240 he's won the last couple of drafts. He's going to take the first pick in this. So we're not 55 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,240 doing like positions or anything, right? We are catch our first base, second base, shortstop, 56 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:19,480 third base, three outfielders, two starters, one reliever. Sure. Let me like, I didn't 57 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:27,320 know that. I said it multiple times. Three. Oh my gosh. We're that many moves. You said 58 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:35,200 how many stories? Yeah. Two starting pitchers, two starting pitchers, one reliever and one 59 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:41,600 reliever. Okay. Well, shoot, I guess I'll go with the obvious one is probably a Juan Soto, 60 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,160 right? He's a pretty good one. He's a pretty good player. I mean, he was like, what, fourth 61 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:56,760 in war. So I guess I'll go with him. Um, yeah. Juan Soto. That's a pretty good choice. Yeah. 62 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:01,520 So I mean, I mean, it's no secret. Juan Soto with his, uh, 13 years, all right. It's 15 63 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:07,920 years, seven 65 million dollar south or a million dollar contract. Unbelievable. So it 64 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:14,840 was the guy from the Yankees to the Mets. So he did change teams, cross town Juan Soto. 65 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:22,960 Anything else you got right there, Kench with that pick? I mean, I wonder what is, um, war 66 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,680 would be if you knew how to play defense or run the vases or do anything else besides 67 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:32,520 hit. Yeah, that's a good point. So he had an 8.1 F war last year. So again, another 68 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,280 caveat for war. So there's two systems that kind of calculate it. Baseball reference and 69 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:40,920 fan graphs. They both do it a little bit differently. Uh, each one kind of incorporates some different 70 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:45,240 things in their metrics. One is called F war. One's called B war. The site that I'm using 71 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:50,520 is fan graphs. So you'll hear me reference F war. So, uh, Soto with an 8.1 F war last 72 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,280 year, that's far and away the best of the free agent class and trades. So good for, 73 00:06:55,280 --> 00:07:06,000 uh, good for one. So speaking of, uh, outfielders, I'm going to take Kyle Tucker traded from 74 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:12,480 the Astros to the Cubs. I like him in a contract here to have a really good year. Uh, I'm not 75 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,480 sure I have to find out what his war was last year. I don't have it up on this free agent 76 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,320 tracker, but Kyle Tucker still phenomenal last year. He only played, I think 76 games 77 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:26,760 a season ago and he, uh, he still had 23 bombs. So less than half a season hit 23 homers against 78 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,940 the play, the friendly confines of Wrigley field. I feel good about Kyle Tucker being 79 00:07:30,940 --> 00:07:36,800 my outfielder. I gotta have to bounce back after you take, you take one soda. I'm trying 80 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:46,160 to find his war. I can't find it cause I never looked at war, but okay. Um, I am up. I will 81 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:59,400 go. Hmm. I'll go Garrett crochet. Yeah, he was up there. Yes. And I think he'll be better 82 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,440 than he was last year by big time. So I think, uh, I'll go, I'll go with him. Uh, right. 83 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,800 What do you mean? Like, are we doing like, if he drafts a player from one team, he can't 84 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,720 drop like, uh, no. Okay. Good. I was like, ah, I was just complicated. I don't want to 85 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:20,280 make it too complex on you. Yeah. Yeah. So Kenji started with one subtle gear crochet. 86 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:31,320 That's pretty good combo. Pretty good one too. Um, I'm going to go for somebody who, 87 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,760 I think this position is scarce and that's why I'm going to go take him. Cause I think 88 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:39,520 there are starters that are available later. I'm going to take Willie Adamus, uh, from 89 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,960 the brewers to the giants. I took a brief look at the other short stops and I can't 90 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:49,640 wait to see who Kenji's going to take. I don't even know how you even look at that. So, um, 91 00:08:49,640 --> 00:09:03,960 we'll find out what happens. Um, yeah, yeah. That's, that's great. That's, that is, that 92 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:10,560 is so great. Here. Oh, I'll help you. I'm going to send you the link to the fan graphs 93 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:15,200 site that I'm using to track these guys. No, it's okay. It's okay. Well, if you're just 94 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,560 going to keep complaining to the people, I'm going to, I'm not going to let you complain. 95 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:25,920 I'm okay now. I'm okay now. I got it all out. I'm okay. I'm locked in. Okay. And, uh, Jimmy 96 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:38,120 Willie. Oh man. Shoot. I don't even know what we're to start, but, uh, I'll go Christian 97 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:45,360 Walker. Okay. First base. I don't know. Wait, first base war kind of useless. No, it's good. 98 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,280 I'm looking at him last year. Christian Walker had a three war last year. He had a good season. 99 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,240 Three war. Do I want that? Like for example, for reference, Christian Walker had a three 100 00:09:54,240 --> 00:10:00,200 war last year. Uh, Blake's now had a three, one war last year. So, okay. Oh, Christian 101 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:09,520 Walker. Yeah. Okay. It's a good pick. First base is also thin. There are really a few 102 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:16,120 thin positions that scare me a little bit. There really are. Yeah. All right. Who you 103 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:33,760 got? I'm going to take, uh, Corbin burns. Okay. Now I don't know. Again, I'm no war 104 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:39,560 expert, but, uh, Corbin had a three, seven war last year compared to, uh, and he was 105 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:44,760 the highest of any starter. So he was higher than really Kikuchi was higher than a Vol D 106 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,680 free Flaherty. So I'm going to take my guy Corbin burns, Oriole legend. Thank you for 107 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:56,240 your one year of service. You might start my SP one Corbin burns. It was indeed a good 108 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:01,440 year. Wow. You weren't wrong about the, uh, the shortstop position. Yeah. You're going 109 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:06,800 to be taken like Hassan Kim or something. I think he's like the only guy I have in 110 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:12,560 Anderson. Wow. Talk about being desperate. If I'm drafting Tim Anderson, Tim Anderson 111 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:18,720 has a brutal pick. That is so brutal. Um, I'm going to go jerk some profile. Okay. Okay. 112 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:27,120 He's a good glove. I didn't really watch braves games last year, but, uh, profile had a four 113 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:33,440 point three war last year. Really good. That is, wow. That's a really good year. That is 114 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,800 the third highest of the free agent class. That's higher than regman, higher than Corbin 115 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:43,400 profile had a really good war last year. I don't expect to have that good, but I'm guessing 116 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:49,160 it's going to be in the highest threes still. Yeah. Yep. All right. Who you got? Okay. 117 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:58,960 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. 118 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:07,560 Okay. I'm going to take Devin Williams. Yeah. Be my closer. Yeah. I just, I did a quick 119 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:12,000 look. I don't like any of the other relievers available. So I'm going to go Devin Williams, 120 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,520 lock down the backend. Give me the, the, the guy who broke the beard rule. Devin Williams. 121 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:23,520 Yeah. I, uh, boy, did he look ugly without a beard. I'm glad they changed it because 122 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:31,040 I'm so glad he did look horrendous. Um, but someone that doesn't look horrendous is Alex 123 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:39,160 Bregman in a Boston Red Sox Jersey. Okay. Um, I'm going to play him as third base. I 124 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:44,560 do think he's going to play third base this year. I think, I think Devers will DH. Wow. 125 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:49,520 Okay. Okay. I think they like their prospects too much. I don't know. They're, and they're 126 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:56,280 playing too good not to never sucks defensively. So give me a base is scary now. What, what 127 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,120 on earth? Who else is there? 128 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:09,680 Hey, Jorge, Polanco. Oh my gosh. Uh, Keke her name. Oh, your own. Kata's not a bad 129 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:25,280 guy. I'm not doing no Kata. Holy cow. Holy cow. This is about to be bad. Yep. So what's 130 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:36,880 you got? Oh, this is bad. This is not good. Oh boy. I shouldn't have gone. Actually. Well, 131 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:42,800 there is one guy you could take. There's one guy who could take her. You think? Yeah. He 132 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:49,520 got, I'm like, I'm not going to tell you that though. I'm going to tell you because I don't 133 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:54,280 want to help you out. One guy. There is a guy that you're missing that moved this off 134 00:13:54,280 --> 00:14:07,240 season that plays third. I'll think about it. Uh, I'm going to go, man, this is, I thought 135 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:14,520 I knew what I was going to do. Now I don't. I'm going to go Gleyber Torres. I think actually, 136 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:19,640 well, what is his war last year? Yeah. I'm going to go Gleyber Torres. I think he runs 137 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,320 the bases a little bit better. I think he plays better defense in that park. 138 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:29,920 What was his war last year? 1.7. Oh, but he's projected to have a three this year. I would 139 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:40,240 love a three war from him this year. I guess, uh, I guess we'll see if he does. Yeah. Yeah. 140 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:57,040 Okay. All right, man. I'm getting cooked out here. Man, I'm going to go, uh, let me just 141 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:03,200 look up one thing. Oh, let's make sure this guy is actually going to start. If he's not, 142 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:12,680 I'm not going to pick him. So let me, uh, let me just double check. Okay. Okay. Um, 143 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:19,800 because of how slim this position is, I'm going to go, uh, but it's so bad. Uh, no, 144 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:30,880 nevermind. I changed my mind. I was, uh, man, this, this isn't fun. This is tough. This 145 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:36,000 is no, this is, this is fun. This is good. It was making me, my brain hurt, but, uh, 146 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:42,560 I'll go, uh, Anthony's saw it on there. Damn. Damn. You filling out the outfield, huh? He's 147 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:52,640 like the only position that moved this year. I was watching him. That's too bad. That's 148 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,440 too bad. Okay. The, but your office locked up now so I can wait. 149 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:09,880 Yeah. You can go ahead and take Tyler O'Neill and Jesse Winker and Michael Conforto as you're 150 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:14,840 going to show you Tyler O'Neill will join my team at some point. Oh, I don't doubt it. 151 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:22,040 I'm going to take Blake Snell. Okay. There are other good pitchers that moved, but burns 152 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:25,240 and Blake Snell with Devin Williams, I think is going to be better than whatever you tried 153 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,240 out. Wanted to lock that up. 154 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:33,720 Frieden crochet. Frieden crochet. Man, you just go with the AL East. Who's going to be 155 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:54,440 your closer? Kinley Jansen? No, I got a guy in mind. Let's see. Hmm. Who do I want to 156 00:16:54,440 --> 00:17:12,520 pick? Hard. I'm kind of stuck at the moment. Yeah. These positions are pretty rough. Like 157 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:19,240 shortstop and catcher is like, what do I, what do I do? Like catcher, I guess I got 158 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:26,120 to catch her. I'm looking at it. I mean, it's either Darno or Elias Diaz for me. Okay. 159 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:30,520 Because he has yoga is going to split time. Yep. Carson Kelly. I don't even know where 160 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:37,400 he went. Went to the cubs. And I don't even know who the other guy I'm Oh, you're probably 161 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:44,520 going to take Gary Sanchez on. I'm not going to tell you if I'm going to take. Well, I'm 162 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:52,920 not taking Gary Sanchez. So it's okay. But, uh, I'm gonna go Elias Diaz to be your catcher. 163 00:17:52,920 --> 00:18:00,760 His war was a point, 0.5 last year. Ooh, it's pretty bad. But he wasn't all star last year. 164 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,840 Actually, no, what am I doing? I'm going to go Travis Darno. Oh, they're going to know. 165 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:10,920 Yeah. I mean, Elias Diaz was my only fantasy catcher my first year, no idea who he was. 166 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:20,840 And I mean, that guy got me a good trade. So I don't have anything negative to say about 167 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:27,240 him. Okay. Okay. You're up now. I'm looking at catcher too. I got a guy in mind, but I 168 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:34,920 don't need to go catcher now. You've kind of blocked me. I guess we kind of blocked 169 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:39,640 each other. So I know I just need to fill out positions because you're not going to 170 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:49,880 mess me up anywhere else. True. Let's see. First base is interesting because for me, 171 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:56,520 it's down to Carlos Santana, Jake Berger and Nathaniel Lowe. Jake Berger is a good pig. 172 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:03,560 I like Jake Berger. Can I put Berger at third? Yeah. I mean, he's technically a third and 173 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,880 first baseman. Who are you going to say was the third? I'll take Jake Berger to be my 174 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:14,840 third baseman. Who are you going to say is a third baseman? Esau Karate. Oh yeah. That's 175 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:27,000 good. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. He's going to hit a ton of bombs there. Okay. Yep. 176 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,080 That's where you're going. That's where I'm going. You're going to take your arm now? 177 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:43,160 No, I'm a... We're doing prospects too, right? If they just got drafted, yeah. Oh, so it's not like 178 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:48,760 they're coming up in the farm system or anything? No, no. Oh, that's unfortunate. I was going to 179 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:57,880 draft the Red Sox rookies. Nah, you can't do that. It's too late. Oh man. Are you sure? Yep. 180 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:04,680 That's no fun. Them's the rules. Oh, shucks. I would have taken different players had that 181 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:10,120 been a different rule. Oh my gosh, dude. Second baseman shortstop is brutal. Yeah. You're going 182 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:18,760 to... Hassan Kim and Jorge Polanco. Welcome to Kenny's team. Gosh. I'm going Tyros Strada. Oh, 183 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,240 Tyro. Rocky. 184 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:33,000 Tyro. He's now, I think... He'll hit well there. He'll hit well at course for sure. Again, he was 185 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:40,760 another fantasy monster for me two years ago when I first played. No idea who he was and he was an 186 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:48,440 all-star I think. Yeah, yeah. He's pretty good. We'll get the job done. We'll see. Let's see. 187 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,200 Santana had too good of a year last year. 188 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,880 You only have one outfielder, right? Yeah. 189 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:17,800 I'm going to take Tyler O'Neill. Yeah. I mean, I had to. New Oriole is going to be my guy. 190 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:26,440 He's got biceps the size of my forehead. Not even my forehead, my entire head. He's terrifying. He's 191 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:32,360 chiseled. Looks like he was made out of stone. A Greek god. Tyler O'Neill is the dumb man. 192 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:36,440 And he's got all the players wearing sleeveless cutoff shirts now and everything too. 193 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:43,400 Yeah. I saw him warming up with his tank top on. Yeah. Oh, there's cutoffs. I was like, 194 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:50,280 holy cow. It's crazy. He's roped. How are you natural? I bet the league is sending in 195 00:21:50,280 --> 00:22:02,440 drug tests on a weekly basis. Okay. I don't know if this counts, but is it Heise on Kim from for the Dodgers? 196 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:08,600 He's playing second base for them. He's playing shortstop like half the times in spring training. 197 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,480 I don't know what to tell you. He's playing second base for them at the big leagues. 198 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:17,000 But he plays shortstop. Let me look at their spring training. Roster resource. I'm just 199 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,520 saying I promise this guy's played like half of his time at shortstop. I've watched games 200 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,600 at him at shortstop. It has he saw him gameplay in second base. I see on the 201 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:32,440 finger of the second base slash shortstop. It does say second base slash shortstop when you click on 202 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:40,120 his profile. All right, fine. Yeah, he saw him at shortstop. Perfect. 203 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,720 F off. If not, I would have just drafted Hassan Kim for second base. Anyways, 204 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:52,840 if you want me to do that, I'll switch them. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 205 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,200 you're fine. You told me double Kim's I'll do double Kim's. You're good, dude. 206 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:01,720 So it's a strata. Goodbye. I'm doing a high sun and Hassan Kim in my, there you go. 207 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,920 We should have added more pictures. There's a lot of names here. There are. We can add one more if 208 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:15,160 you want another starting pitcher. Yeah. Why you pick this one and I'll pick a starting pitcher 209 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:22,840 next and we can add one. Sure. I won't take Max free here then because I know it's your guy. 210 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:30,840 Thank you. I need, I need outfield. I need first base. I need my catcher. 211 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:39,880 I have a catcher in mind. This first base tricky though. There's like one guy, man. There's like 212 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:45,480 one dude that I'm like, okay, maybe Paul Goldschmidt. You got, you got, you got, you got, um, 213 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:49,720 Bellinger. 214 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:56,440 Would you rather have Bellinger or Goldschmidt? He's gonna play outfield. So technically he's 215 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,520 gonna have a higher war. That's a great. Thank you for your 216 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:06,440 picture. Yeah, you're welcome. Give me a Cody Bellinger is my outfielder. I got honestly should 217 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,760 think of Bellinger, but by the time I noticed, I had already drafted my whole outfield. Yeah. 218 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:15,080 Totally forgot he got traded. Good for you for helping me with that. You're welcome. I'm such 219 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:21,000 a nice guy. You are. Your girlfriend should give you a kiss for that. We'll see. All right. Well, 220 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,920 of course I'm taking Max Fried and then we can add another SV if you want. Okay. Fried 221 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:43,640 is the pick for Kenji. Two good rotations. Can't lie. Well, if we're doing another SP, 222 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:44,840 I'm going to go Roki here. 223 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:57,160 Hmm. Sasaki. I just think, uh, yeah, the rest of this is still good. There's good players there, 224 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:02,520 but I'm going to burn snow Roki. Nobody's nobody's hitting that top three. 225 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,680 We'll see. Yeah. Travis Darnold is going to stop me. 226 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:15,240 Yeah. Just wait, just wait, just wait. I'm going to go with a little bit of a weird pick. 227 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:21,000 I'm going to go Clay Holmes as my starting pitcher. Three. Yeah. Starting pitcher three. 228 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:28,200 Wow. I'm going to buy into that eight strikeout performance spring training. I don't think Clay 229 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:36,600 Holmes. I am shocked because there were guys like, uh, I mean, Matthew Boyd, Jack Flaherty still 230 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:42,120 there. Jack Flaherty is still there. Kikuchi. Kikuchi, I saw Pavetta. I didn't. Terrible. 231 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:49,960 That's about it. All right. Buy in. He's drinking the Clay Holmes Kool-Aid. I'm taking, 232 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:58,200 I'm taking a shot of it. I want Danny Jansen to be my catcher. Ew. Gross. He's going to bat 233 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:04,760 fifth for the Rays. No way. Yeah, he is. There's no way he's going to bat behind Kevin. He's 234 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:11,960 way he's going to bat behind Kevin Arrow. That's a joke. Shut up. I'm looking at the roster resource. 235 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:18,680 Yandy, Lowell, Yandy, Brandon, Lowell, Kevin Arrow, Josh, Love, Danny Jansen. Did that guy 236 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,200 end up hitting at the bottom of the line? But in the year, did you watch him last year? Yeah, 237 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,080 I couldn't cause he was in the dugout the whole time. Cause he strikes out every time. 238 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:34,520 I don't know what to tell you, man. Danny Jansen. I'm so anti-Danny Jansen. I can't stand watching. 239 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:40,200 He had 0.5 war last year, but he didn't start every day. He's projected to have two war this 240 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:48,120 year. He's not that great defensively, but it's okay. Give me Danny Jansen. Alrighty. Well then 241 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:53,320 from my bullpen guy, I'm going Jeff Hoffman. Yeah, Toronto. Gonna be the closer for Toronto. 242 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:59,800 And I think he'll be, I think he'll be pretty good. So I know he's got arm issues and all that, but 243 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:06,040 I think it'll be okay. I would have taken Tanner Scott, but he's just not a consistent closer. 244 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:15,800 And I just couldn't take that chance on him. So give me Jeff Hoffman. Okay. Now this is my 245 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:28,840 last pick of the draft. Indeed. You want out of utility spot? You want out of utility spot? 246 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:33,720 Yeah. You want a utility spot? You want to draft one more player out of this crop? 247 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:40,280 This crop? Yeah. This crop. Who else got traded this year? So I'm curious. 248 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,040 Relevant wise, it's really, he's pretty slim prospects. 249 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,320 I'm shocked you didn't go Ryan Presley for your reliever. 250 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:02,280 I'm not a big fan of Ryan Presley. I think he's washed. I probably should have gone Gavin Lux in 251 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,760 the infield at one point, because he could have played second base or third base because he's 252 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:12,840 starting third base this year for the Reds. Yeah. He would have been not too bad. Good glove, but. 253 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:18,600 So I need what? First base? Yep. I thought you had Bellinger. 254 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,560 I guess I can move Bellinger to first and take an outfielder. 255 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:29,720 That's probably what you want to do, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I'll take an outfielder. 256 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,040 I mean, it's slim pickings though. Like Jock Peterson. 257 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:43,320 Jock is a DH. You can't put him in an outfield. Michael Conforto. That's a good pick. Harrison 258 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:50,760 Bader. I don't know about that. Tommy Pham. Max Kepler to Philly. He's not going to play every 259 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:56,760 day. I don't think. Yeah, he is. He's starting. Starting left fielder. Give me Michael Conforto. 260 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,120 Michael Conforto. 261 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:10,840 And this draft is finally over. We're done looking at this crappy crop of players. 262 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:19,720 So. Is that alliteration? I think it is. That's well said. So I'm going to read off these lineups. 263 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:27,080 Kenji, I need your gut reaction after hearing both. Okay. Okay. For Kenji Squad, behind the 264 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:33,160 dish is Travis Darnode. First base, Christian Walker. Second base, Tyro Estrada. Shortstop. 265 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:41,720 High Song Kim. Hiei Song Kim at short? Second base. And who's at short? Ha Song Kim. Oh, 266 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:48,520 okay. So no Tyro? No. Okay. So the Kim guys at second and short. Yeah. Alex Bregman at third, 267 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:54,120 Juan Soto, Jirikson Profar and Anthony Santander in the outfield. Led by, led the rotation, 268 00:29:54,120 --> 00:30:00,280 Garret Crochet, Max Fried, Clay Holmes and Jeff Hoffman closing games. Give me a gut reaction. 269 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:06,200 How do you feel about that? I wish I would have taken Ballinger considering I thought about him 270 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:13,720 early, early on. But, you know, you just screw the pooch sometimes. 271 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:19,640 Sometimes you screw the pooch kids. Sometimes you just screw the pooch. I would have much rather 272 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:25,080 have had a think Ballinger than Santander just because he sucks at defense. I think it's harder 273 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:30,760 to hit in Toronto. Yeah. Your defense is questionable at best. I don't know. I mean, 274 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:36,520 I got a Gold Glove second baseman first. Okay. Outfield defense. Soto, Profar, Santander. 275 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:42,760 Yeah. Who's a who plays center in that scenario? That's a great, Jirikson Profar. Jirikson Profar 276 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:49,320 is my center fielder. Wow. Hey, former top prospect, right? Maybe like 12 years ago. 277 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:57,800 Gucks. My team, Danny Jansen behind the dish, Cody Ballinger at first, Gleyber Torres at second, 278 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:03,240 Willie Adamis at short, Jake Berger at third, Kyle Tucker, Tyler O'Neill and Michael Conforto, 279 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:09,800 man the outfield rotation is Corbin Burns and Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki. And closing out the games 280 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:16,920 is Devin Williams of the Yankees. I feel pretty good. I feel pretty good about that squad. My 281 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:23,080 pitching, I think I feel is better. Yeah. Hitting is marginally better. I will say you should have, 282 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:29,960 put Cody in outfield, put Jake Berger at first base and then drafted Esau Prairie at third base. 283 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,880 And I think that would have made your team even better. Makes sense. I mean, you're like 284 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,640 Conforto. Conforto have the bottom of the Dodger order. I like it. Yeah. But you know, you're 285 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,840 wasting Cody Ballinger at first base when he, he's going to have a way higher war at center field. 286 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:51,480 And I think he's, we'll have a higher war than a Conforto will. That's true. I can see it, 287 00:31:51,480 --> 00:32:00,520 but yeah, your pitching staff's great. I feel pretty good. Okay. That's all I got. Anything you 288 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:07,560 got, Kenj? No, just unfortunate news around the league, but we're going to touch on that 289 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:13,720 in the next episode. We're going to go through all the injury bugs and what it means for baseball, 290 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:21,720 but congratulations. Everybody. We're a week out from games that actually matter. We made it. We're 291 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:27,000 a week away. So excited. When do the Cubs and Dodgers hop on the plane? I think they got on today. 292 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,920 Today? They're probably flying right now. I think one of them did. I can't remember if both of them 293 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:36,280 did or not. Okay. Last year I think they went at different times. Yeah, that makes sense. But gotta 294 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:43,960 get them acclimated. Can't wait, man. We got real games coming. Pretty awesome. All right. Well, 295 00:32:43,960 --> 00:33:10,040 that's it, everybody. Thanks for listening to the episode and we will catch you all on Thursday.