[SPEAKER_02]: All right, welcome back to another episode of the baseball America fantasy podcast.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is your host, Jeff Ponce alongside me as always is my co-host from the Great White North.

[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody in the fantasy world's favorite blue jays fan.

[SPEAKER_02]: No disrespect to those out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: But this is Dylan White.

[SPEAKER_02]: The man that was at game one of the world's series, watching that shellacking, propelling Addison Barger's Homer

[SPEAKER_02]: Dylan, how are you feeling today?

[SPEAKER_02]: Blue Jays read a two is recording this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Feel a lot better than after the 18th inning of game three that heartbreaking loss.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nice to see the bounce back by the Jays for the last two and just add us and barge her how him just showing up on the map of all these maybe casual fans and he hits the grand slam in the first game.

[SPEAKER_00]: He made that diet and catch yesterday.

[SPEAKER_00]: steel and base he made that incredible throw to get Freddy Freeman like I'm just sure people are like who's this adolescent barter guy and he's a third base slash head field if you're a fantasy player you already knew that and he has a really good bad speed so

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're a fantasy player, you already know who he is.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're a casual baseball player who's just tuning into the world series, now you're, now you're really paying attention that's not us in barger guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: With three kids at the age of 25.

[SPEAKER_02]: There you go, it's a busy man.

[SPEAKER_02]: How was the world series experience?

[SPEAKER_02]: Because I've experienced a lot of baseball things over the course of my life.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been in a lot of interesting games.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been at what some people consider a top 10 moment apparently in the history of baseball, which would be the Otani striking out trout to end the WBC.

[SPEAKER_02]: Those that would not be on my list, but it was on somebody's list recently.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've never been in a world series game in person.

[SPEAKER_02]: What was that like?

[SPEAKER_02]: What was the atmosphere like, especially game one in Toronto?

[SPEAKER_02]: It's been, you know, what 32 years since there was a world series there in your game one.

[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously a big blue jays win, but just generally like what was the atmosphere like before the game in game, you know, on TV I'll say from from my couch, it sounded really, really loud.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was, yeah, so the game's, the first pitch was eight, a late, we had heard Ferrell was gonna do some big thing at seven, and so we wanted to get there.

[SPEAKER_00]: At the early, so I got there at 630, and it was just like bands and drummers and stuff all around, it was teeming.

[SPEAKER_00]: heavy police presence already because just it was just everyone was kind of descending onto the dome.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was also, I think, a leaf game that night, or a raptor game, so it was a whole congestion thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: But everyone was in a good mood.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was by and merch like every merch.

[SPEAKER_00]: outlet or whatever you call it on every level was just had to line up, even at like six o'clock, six, 30 before the game.

[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't as loud like deafening loud as I thought it would be because like watching the games and all that it felt like it was really loud.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was boisterous, everyone was in a good mood, everyone's high five each other, everyone's standing up on two strikes, even in the 500 levels.

[SPEAKER_00]: everyone's yelling when a what looks like a close pitch from a kilometer away.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's called the ball.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, come on, get your head in there, blue.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so the whole atmosphere was great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I got the barger home around the grand slam on my phone.

[SPEAKER_00]: I caught that on video.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just said, you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a big moment.

[SPEAKER_00]: Paces loaded.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to like start recording every pitch and I got the barger home run and uh, everyone was going nuts.

[SPEAKER_02]: You and David Schneider's dad.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't wearing the virtual reality glasses or anything though, but yeah, no, it was great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was in a great mood.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was horse the next day walking out of the dome at like we hung back after for a bit and so I left maybe you know 15 minutes after kind of the big crowd.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they were still like everyone in throngs at like front street is right there and just like the police had blocked off a street and just like people are having like a party on the road.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was it was fun it was very fun it was very fun.

[SPEAKER_02]: That sounds like a blast.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I wanted to hear a little bit about that because, you know, obviously unique, and it'd be there as a fan too, which I don't get to experience many baseball games as a fan in a longer.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, I know Treasure and appreciate those experiences, but I am in no way complaining about the opportunities and all the baseball games and experiences like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a dream come true and I don't want to come across that way, but at the same time, I can appreciate your experience and, you know, what that's like as a fan.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, I'm happy for you.

[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, I got a J's fan in the house and I covered the team.

[SPEAKER_02]: So,

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, deep down.

[SPEAKER_02]: I want the jays to win.

[SPEAKER_02]: I also did pick them prior to the world series on the Prosthmic podcast.

[SPEAKER_02]: Part of it wasn't in one of them said all my jays readers, but you know, I had a little, I had a little hope that maybe this could happen baseball's funny like that, man.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think people will also forget.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Grant, there's

[SPEAKER_02]: a lot that goes into records and all that sort of things.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't think it's an end all be all, but Jay's didn't have about a record in the Dodgers this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think just drew a mind people that.

[SPEAKER_02]: So did you play in the major leagues, you know?

[SPEAKER_02]: This isn't some small team from, you know, the Mexican League coming and playing in the world series.

[SPEAKER_02]: These are both MLB level teams.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Triple A team didn't come up.

[SPEAKER_02]: play these games but yeah so a lot of exciting stuff what we're going to talk about today is Eric Cross well known out there in the fantasy baseball community I don't think I'm saying a name that folks it was in this podcast probably are familiar with if you aren't go check out Eric Cross and he you know has his tool shed podcast and believe that's the name of his patreon or sub-stack I forget which one he uses

[SPEAKER_02]: He's running in a mock draft, some industry, his luminaries in this, so myself, Chris Klegg, our colleague Matt Eddie, of course, James Anderson, who's always in these leagues.

[SPEAKER_02]: Some new blood as well, of course, Eric's in it, back from Dynasty dugout, the Welsh is in this league, Chris Blessing, our old friend Matt Thompson from prospects live,

[SPEAKER_02]: Ross Jensen, the dock, the dock, the dock holiday, where he calls himself.

[SPEAKER_02]: He is, he is in this as well, Tim Canak, who's a talented newcomer, doing his thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was in his podcast a couple of weeks ago.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, a stack draft, folks that know their stuff, and

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been out here making quality fantasy prospect content for a bit, so I drafted at the turn here, I had pick 15 Dylan, which means as you go through by Andy the 80 P track and rank and sheet.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can now, which throws out there, you guys don't get access to this.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is inside stuff.

[SPEAKER_02]: But you can see my teams are marked green amongst the sea of red.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it is also a great bookmark because it shows you the end in the beginning of the next round.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you kind of know when the rounds are ending and starting, just based on my picks.

[SPEAKER_02]: So can I, before we get into the draft, I just wanna go on a tangent here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have been doing these industry drafts now for close to a decade.

[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I don't think I've ever picked the Bub 9.

[SPEAKER_02]: I swear to God, I don't think I have ever had a pick within the top like eight picks.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think like one time.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's an industry conspiracy.

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Every time I get one of these drafts, I could set like clockwork, I'm like, I'm going to be between 10 and 15 and more than likely it's going to be 13 14 or 15 I prefer 15 to 9 or 11 10 don't like those.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, it's fun being on the wheel because you get to kind of.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can reach and people say, oh my goodness, this guy reached because you didn't think that guy would come back after 30 picks on and you kind of control the pace I like it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, I also, um, I also like that I can make two picks at a time.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's, it's an honestly picking at, you know, the wheel there is, uh,

[SPEAKER_02]: the auto draft.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I loaded up my queue.

[SPEAKER_02]: I had my rankings out, finish those, you know.

[SPEAKER_02]: loaded those up in chunks at a time.

[SPEAKER_02]: And there's a reason I have a four second average draft time deal, I'm very proud of that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that is because I've used the auto draft the entire time that I've been in this drafts.

[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, I've been managing the cue back there.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been in the draft a lot of the time for my desk.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's fun to kind of look at what's going on.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been tracking it for my own personal usage in terms of ADP and all that sort of thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the general rankers out there are rank and some of these guys, and obviously we have, especially if you get after like pick 150, I feel like everything goes out the window, and it's really like what do you prefer, you know.

[SPEAKER_02]: So what were the, what are the parameters you have to take a certain amount of pitchers and to fill positions that I just just 3333 picks 33 picks you could take all pitchers I think all all all or all hitters it's totally up to you.

[SPEAKER_02]: I kind of stayed away from the posted players that would be honest with you.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you had to be under your limit.

[SPEAKER_02]: So like, it wasn't service time based those like guys like Marcel and Meyer, Rogi Sasaki, others that, you know, Jason Chase Burns, others that graduated on service time and are not rookie the eligible next year, based on the 130, 130 at bats and 50 inning hard counts, they are under those.

[SPEAKER_02]: So they still qualified for this draft, so you'll see some of those guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's jump into it, hey, what do you say?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let's do it, Dylan.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you want, we can talk a little bit about my first two picks.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead.

[SPEAKER_02]: So Edward Florentino, I took at 15.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then Bryce Eldridge, I took at 16.

[SPEAKER_02]: Dylan, quite honestly, I have Florentino as a top five prospect right now at Fancy.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I love the production.

[SPEAKER_02]: I love the pottery left handed swing with like easy sort of loft.

[SPEAKER_02]: like just, you know, kind of an opera cut swing, but it's not a ton of effort and it's a long bat path in terms of it's in the zone for a long time, which is why he has great zone contact numbers.

[SPEAKER_02]: The swing decisions are pretty good.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of a good balance of aggression and approach.

[SPEAKER_02]: The EVs are good, especially for age and level.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, easy to forget this guy is a 18 year old, you know, left handed header.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I mean, it's a young town to play with easy lefty power.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's some speed to steal some bases there.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think this is potentially like a real middle of the work bat and it's pretty explosive.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm kind of all in on Florentino, so to get him at 15, I felt pretty comfortable looking at the general rankings out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody has him at 15.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe some updated boards might, but I know like, you know, Cleg has him inside his top 30 Anderson inside his top 20, like I said, I have him, I haven't, I'm at top five.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I really am buying into the the floor and Tito hype, so to speak.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you think he was going to fall to you?

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you think there's a good chance for you?

[SPEAKER_02]: I had a stimulant based on kind of doing the ADP work of just where rankings were at.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I know how common Chris and James's rankings are, even among these groups of experts, it's really easy to go on to wrote a wire and check James's list against what's available in the league.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a really useful tool and has been for a long time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, you know, the scout, the stat line guys post a lot of their lists, I kind of know who they're on, you know, like when he drafted Frank one audience, it was not a huge shock to me that Ross grabbed him because they know how much Ross likes him.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so you know, I think you kind of have a temperature of the room.

[SPEAKER_02]: I had a feeling, Florentino had a chance of getting to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was a little nervous that Cleg might swipe him at 12.

[SPEAKER_02]: He ended up going with 80 Miller, which is a good pick.

[SPEAKER_02]: Guy that I haven't side my top 10.

[SPEAKER_02]: I actually thought Bryce Eldridge had a better chance of going.

[SPEAKER_02]: head of this and then like have the two of those guys back to back in my rankings and I just kept them in line in order of how I have them ranked up.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I have I have a floor in Tino and my personal rank is a five I have Eldred in 11.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I feel like at least from my own personal value both of those guys were pretty good values even though it was only a couple of spots.

[SPEAKER_02]: They were players that I would have targeted at higher picks.

[SPEAKER_00]: How many bats do you think Bryce Eldridge gets in 2026 in the majors?

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll set the over under it 350.

[SPEAKER_02]: I really do think he's going to see.

[SPEAKER_02]: a fair amount of time, obviously they have to kind of figure out how that's all going to shake out with Rafi Devers.

[SPEAKER_02]: If Devers is going to be the DH and Elders, the first basement and that's sort of thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I do think that he's probably within their plans.

[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that he's already been up in the major leagues is just 21 years old as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I mean, it was only 10 games and obviously not great numbers, but that was some injury stuff.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I'm back in next year and, you know, he's 21 all of next year, like he, he, he just turned 21 10 days ago.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, it's, it's, I think for some folks it's maybe hard to keep in mind just how young Bryce Eldridge is, but from a dynasty perspective, in fact, he is 21, he is 21, all of next year is in the major leagues, has the power that he has, do I wish he was in Cincinnati, or, you know, Milwaukee or a place where, you know, left handed power just plays a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm still going to I'm still going to take the the value that comes with that kind of quality of contact and I think that's you know kind of a guiding principle you'll see with a lot of my hitters is I kind of lean on you know like x will but like expected outcomes etc because that's looking at swing decisions looking at contact it's looking at good angles and power.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like it so then you're picking it the back of.

[SPEAKER_00]: Round three and four and while waiting, three FYPD guys came off the board.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's nothing and as first, K-D Anderson, then Eli Willett's just before you, so that you made your two picks, which were host work in Zales and Jojo Parker.

[SPEAKER_00]: Were you, I see you have them ranked higher than 45 and 46.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, you're happy to get these guys where you got them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you have your eye on other guys that you thought might fall through?

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so like, you know, one of the guys that I, I really like, and I just, I have no concept fully in terms of like how other people are going to rank these guys, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: So I was looking at somebody like Orion wall smit and was kind of hoping like, is there any chance that like wall smit falls to me, you know, with my third pick, um, that of course did not happen, um, but

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Joe Swar wasn't too far off.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really high on him.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I would say a majority of the guys taking above him.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have him ranked some of them pretty handily, like significantly higher.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, top player in the Dominican Summer League with the data and scouting reports to back it.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have five years of history on those guys now, and they all have hit Jackson Cheerio as one.

[SPEAKER_02]: Junior Cameron Arrow is another.

[SPEAKER_02]: This year it was, you know,

[SPEAKER_02]: hazeous modding like those guys become dudes pretty quickly.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it's pretty easy to see when the production, the scouting reports and the underlying data are all saying the same thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I mean, you know, I think it's a speed, contacts, he'll grow into some more power, but really good hit tool, and I think just overall it's going to produce

[SPEAKER_02]: good numbers.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I want kind of young with these picks.

[SPEAKER_02]: Next pick to me is is now my my number one player in FYPD and that's Jojo Parker.

[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like when you look at the combination of power and hit tool particularly in this draft, there's just

[SPEAKER_02]: There's not a lot of guys that fall into this category.

[SPEAKER_02]: I also tend to trust prep hitters and then having more upside than the college guys.

[SPEAKER_02]: This wasn't a particularly strong college class and the position side.

[SPEAKER_02]: The other guys are all pitchers.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've kind of flipped flopped on that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I always thought that was really close.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I have Anderson now at three who did go ahead of them.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've E-Light will us down at seven.

[SPEAKER_02]: I just, you know, I think well, it's a good player, a good real-life player.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's really hit tool driven.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I just wonder about the speed and how much power projection there is, you might hit the ball hard and a lot of line drives, so I think go hit for batting average and get on base, but it might be a little bit more Jacob Wilsony, which can be really, really good, but

[SPEAKER_02]: That's a tough profile to hit like the percentages of those guys that turn out to be like Jacob Wilson wasn't the first half of the season are rare.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I just am more apt to bet on the guy with the 60 hit 60 power or 55 hit 55 power.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think Parker has that I also have some confidence right now in Jay's player development.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think they've done a really good job with a lot of players in that system.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's probably the most high-end prep hitter that they've drafted in a very long time.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that includes Argentimals who obviously is still ranked fairly highly.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, I felt really good coming away from that.

[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that he was the fourth, oh, excuse me, the fifth FYPD guy off the board was a little surprising,

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I'm confident in what, you know, my evaluations are of the amateur guys just having some history with them and having worked the draft and all that sort of stuff, um, you know, firsthand.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, um, yeah, I mean, you know, Ethan Holiday, fine player.

[SPEAKER_02]: I do have months on the top 10.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think you do need to be concerned with the lack of contact and approach.

[SPEAKER_02]: Seth Hernandez, it's still a high school pitcher that throws really hard.

[SPEAKER_02]: If he falls, I'm into it, I have an eight, a gab, is a top 10 guy in the FYPD.

[SPEAKER_02]: So don't dislike him, but just not there.

[SPEAKER_02]: I won't argue at all with the Kate Anderson pick.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've kind of gone through the Eli Willets pick and how I feel on that.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I was really happy with this top four and frankly, my third and fourth rounds might be among my favorite in this very deep draft.

[SPEAKER_00]: EE, you sparked my interest when you said the blue jays played development, and so I'm going to go off, off book here for a second.

[SPEAKER_00]: If the draft started to date, and you're sitting there at, round, a backpack around one, Edward Florentio Barça, Elgitian, tray of savage is still on the board.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you change your picks?

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you pick tray of savage there?

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I think you could maybe talk me into taking a savage over

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, man, it was an incredible performance, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Three weeks ago, I feel like we were saying the same thing about Camp Schlittler and like sure like you savages a couple of years younger, et cetera.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's probably going to be overpriced unfortunately and that doesn't take away from the player.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's really good.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's somebody that you do want to roster and fantasy, but paying a top 10 pick

[SPEAKER_02]: Like a top 10 prospect price, I think just might be a little bit much, you know, because I can't definitively say that I'd rather have him over a Nolan McLean in 2026.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, not fair enough, fair enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I would have, I would have agreed with you before yesterday and then.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now it's just, you're actually obliged to say this, yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, just his play as postseason performance.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course, when you throw in the 12 strikeouts, no walks, all that stuff, his postseason performance is more than his regular season performance.

[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, and it's like 38% strikeout, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's just ridiculous, like to point three nine Sierra, like and it's against very good lineups, like I don't I don't dispute that at all, I just think that he is a guy the first time a league sees him.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's going to be an adjustment.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very unusual arm action.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like those combination of traits are unique.

[SPEAKER_02]: And when something is unique, it takes a little time to hack it and figure it out, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, if he's able to continue to make this work and it's just this is so unique that no one can ever figure it out fully.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yeah, I mean, you doesn't have anything that goes like glove side at all.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it's this really bizarre arm action.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a ton of ride from the foreseen and the velocity across the pitch mix is good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Don't create the location some days are better than others.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, especially with splitters, like you're going to be very up and down, like, whether you have that picture not.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, we kind of saw two games just in the series alone where his footer looked like

[SPEAKER_02]: not a different pitch, but was a sharper pitch in game five than it wasn't game one.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I mean, I think that's where like the headwinds are right now, and that's where the buzz is, and I understand the sentiment, but at the same time, I don't know if I want to pop them into my top 10, just yet.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that he is like a 13, 12, 11, like he's on the cost of it, but there's still a lot of good hitters.

[SPEAKER_02]: maybe some higher ranked hitters and other lists like Sebastian Walcott or like Leo de Vries.

[SPEAKER_02]: Who I think are good players, but they have a little bit more risk, versus not to say that Florentino and like Eldridge don't, but like Eldridge certainly there's less risk there at this point.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think when you look at the underlying stuff with foreign TNO, I think it's just they could potentially be really special, you know, and what we see what junior camera and arrow is done this first full season in the big leagues.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm inclined to trust that, you know, Gunner Henderson, Roman Anthony the guys that check the boxes that Florentino checks are worth more than a tray of savage like are you trading Roman Anthony today for a tray of savage.

[SPEAKER_00]: The trace average from yesterday.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if he does that for 32 starts to use the best picture in the world.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I just I don't see that happening.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to get some hate mail from Jason fans now for this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think Florentino kills up the stat sheet power and speed and probably batting average as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I get that.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a very fantasy friendly.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pictures are always risky.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's definitely defensible, but it's like steamer had his ERA, like 3.7 before the postseason, and then he's only, you know, outperformed and against like the best competition like he said.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just can imagine that is projection will be much worse than like a 3.45 ERA type of thing and that age 22 that's that's pretty that's pretty good but everything you said like he only has three pitches and ours at all and like the slider kind of looks like the splitter in a way kind of moves the same way which is not as much.

[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it'll be very interesting, very fascinating to see how it plays out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's also going to be a come down from being a world series, like dominating in the world series, and then now having to play the Chicago White Sox in May, like if you're going to be, there's a bit of a let down, I would imagine.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no 100% so we'll speed this up a little bit.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let's do a couple more picks, but first we're going to take quick break.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right, and we are back talking the tool shed mock draft and more specifically my picks some of the early round picks here next round I went chased a loter at the end of the fifth round and grab more so a mile.

[SPEAKER_02]: at the top of the six.

[SPEAKER_02]: Both guys would technically with some major the experience at this point, both in the 40-man roster.

[SPEAKER_02]: Both guys that have dealt with a ton of injuries, both guys that were highly touted and probably at points in time over the last two years would have gone 25 to 30 picks higher than this.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am okay taking the discount at this point.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because this is pick 75 and 76.

[SPEAKER_02]: The risk for me with the lotter at 75 is out.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, that's at the point where I'm starting to like look a little cross side at some of these guys as to like, you had top, what a prospect, you know.

[SPEAKER_02]: So to get to a lot of here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I've always been a long time fan of chase to a lot or I was on the ground boots in the ground when you broke out in the cape and he's always been good on the on the field and you know, the expected outcomes are awesome.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a 370x.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, but like

[SPEAKER_02]: He's in the big leagues.

[SPEAKER_02]: If I get lucky and he's healthy for 75% of the games over the next three years, that's a big one.

[SPEAKER_02]: Marcelo Meyer.

[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't a great debut.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it's quite as bad as the numbers scene.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's still some underlying stuff to appreciate he was dealing with some injuries.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have seen the power output look better than it did in the major league.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that will show up.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's just a guy that was gonna take some time to get his C legs, I'm Durham.

[SPEAKER_02]: The big question with him is he's always heard at the end of the season.

[SPEAKER_02]: So once again, couldn't finish the year.

[SPEAKER_02]: This was a little bit more of a freak thing and I think he was starting to kind of figure it out.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was not the biggest Marcelo Meyer guy at pick 76.

[SPEAKER_02]: I will take that to the bank and approximately draft all day long.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like it because the last two picks you had were host war in Jojo who were kind of spec high ceiling guys, and then here with the Lutter Meyer and sort of like post-type proximity guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I like that balance from a roster kind of construction type of thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you kind of have them all kind of right in the same area, like on your own personal lesson, that kind of 40s area.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it seems like no brainers for the Lutter Meyer there.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think I might actually have a lot of above Jojo, but at the time, you know, like sometimes just strategically, you look at what the rankings are, what the room is, and I was like, I want to see if the lot of will make it back to me here.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because it's a mock draft, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's no, the risk.

[SPEAKER_02]: In a real draft, it probably would have done the same.

[SPEAKER_02]: I do like the gamble like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's fun, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Especially when it hits, then you're like, big fist pump, like it got my guys.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I was happy when he landed with me, but I had a feeling

[SPEAKER_02]: just based on the emotions and feels and all that vibes that he would probably come back to me it picks 75.

[SPEAKER_02]: Meyer was more of like, he's here and I can't ignore what this is.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and these mock drafts people like to like plant their flag so delotter and Meyer, those which I have a guy said fall.

[SPEAKER_00]: just to solid, but like you're not flashy now because we're kind of fatigued a bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: So just for the listeners after your Jojo pick some FYPD guys who went in order where Liam Doyle, I've our cat, then I'm going to talk about a kami from Japan and then steel hall just to give an idea of how the FYPD's going.

[SPEAKER_00]: So then your next two picks, you went

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so the pictures had gone, I think, heavily in a couple rounds beforehand, I tend to stay away from those guys, like the first six rounds of these like prospect builds.

[SPEAKER_02]: I just feel like you can typically get really good value, like after pick 100, like to pick 300, like there's a lot of good pictures that are going to fall.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, my first crop were guys that are kind of just outside just on the custom, my top 50 guys, I think could date you next year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and guys that throw over the hard one is Louis Parallis or the red socks if you return to AFL was been good.

[SPEAKER_02]: The stuff is back.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, you know, there's some questions.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe I'm like, how many innings?

[SPEAKER_02]: He'll have next year.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think there is a chance that he's starting games for the red socks sometime next year, pretty early.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to be, you know, on the active roster, I don't know if he'll break camp in the active roster or not.

[SPEAKER_02]: Could it start in the bullpen and then he gets stretched out potentially kind of okay with that?

[SPEAKER_02]: Because I do think the plan long term is this guy is a starter and he's just his stuff's too good for them to shy away from that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think on a talent basis, people have long preferred him to totally and con the early, even though he was hurt and it was like,

[SPEAKER_02]: Pete Parallis could be this though, you know, and he's the hard throwing right hander that I think they kind of need to have among that mix, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Other one is Carlos Lagrange.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's apparently how it's said, not Lagrange, but anyway, hey, he sits 100 miles per hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've said this to Mark before Giroli or editor,

[SPEAKER_02]: I just think if you sit 100 miles per hour, or they're about to as a starter with a vanger breaking ball and you have some semblance of command.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna gamble on that every time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because like those incremental improvements in terms of strike percentage and zone percentage and all that sort of thing, that I think will come if you just have enough foundational command.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that we've seen like Ron Lagrange has enough foundational command to make this work.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's the same with the we per hour as that.

[SPEAKER_02]: There was potential number two type of upside with both of those guys that you know,

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you're 30% strikeout rate guys with sub 10% walk rates or they're abouts and, you know, help you in ratios and just eat.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, those are the guys that can potentially become aces in my opinion.

[SPEAKER_02]: You have to have, especially at this point in time, you have to have that hard throwing component and I think you need to have at least a plus breakable both those guys have that if not better breaking balls on that so.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I, you know, maybe I don't know how the consensus feels about Louis Parallis at the moment.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, he is well within side of the top 100 for both James and Chris Clyde two rankers.

[SPEAKER_02]: I already trust colleagues in mine for a long time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Clyde has him at like 78, I think, in James at 66.

[SPEAKER_02]: So...

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they're both guys that are ranked inside the top 100 for them as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're a little higher for me.

[SPEAKER_02]: I happen in the 50s.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I like these picks again.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, once again, it was for me value, whether that's perceived by the greater group.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, but I'm going off my own rankings for obvious reasons.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, paralysis was like one of the top Robocil guys in 2024.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then you went to see him pitch and that's when his arm blew out very excited.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, tell me, oh, he looks because, you know, Robasco loves this guy and then tragedy be fell him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of we are kind of going long here, but just again for the the listeners, if I P.D.

[SPEAKER_00]: guys, since your pick of my or my or there was Gavin fine, Jamie Arnold, Dax Killby, Kayson, Cunningham, Andrew Fisher and the need to cut her out before you're your two picture picks there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sort of diverse those FWIT PDs.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like Ethan Conrad, I've seen quite a wide variance.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know DocsKillby's been getting a lot of love recently from us as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry to you could see that people are just taking the guys they like at this point now.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think you're starting to see that after my couple of picture picks there, King Kepley then goes at 110.

[SPEAKER_02]: Slater to Broncos at 114.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Tyler Bramner goes at 119 gauge.

[SPEAKER_02]: Wood goes at 128.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: I do not have those players in those orders at all.

[SPEAKER_02]: So they're even jumping like what my rankings are.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's, you know, personal preference at this point.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think rain supreme.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you know what, let's talk about my fifth rounds.

[SPEAKER_02]: We'll go to the first five rounds.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the first 137 picks or 36 picks.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that seems pretty fair.

[SPEAKER_02]: So

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me say, I kind of jumped on some silos, I'd say, here in the fifth round.

[SPEAKER_02]: Guys that I have just outside of my personal top 100, but I think two young bats that have had really good outcomes in previous seasons.

[SPEAKER_02]: And one was an injury, the other dealt with some injuries that I think impacted his on-field performance.

[SPEAKER_02]: at the end of Oh, crap.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're round as a style.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, seven seven seven and eight.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, actually seven and eight.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Seven and eight.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, one two four five six.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're right.

[SPEAKER_02]: 9 and 10.

[SPEAKER_02]: 9 and 10.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the ninth round, Chris Saute's 10th round.

[SPEAKER_02]: I took Xavier Isaac.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know,

[SPEAKER_02]: At Pick 136, I'm willing to gamble on the Isaac contact issues and then he kind of figures that out.

[SPEAKER_02]: This isn't all that different from what Matt also was like, he had some down years in the minor leagues and then kind of bounce back.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's kind of with these high school power guys, it's not a straight path in terms of development, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and especially guys that it's 70 or 80 power, you know, with some hit tool questions.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I want to take that risk because I do feel some of the guys that are going around them at this point.

[SPEAKER_02]: It just has higher upside.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like the three picks before we're like Hector Rodriguez, who I like a bit, probably would have taken over either of these guys,

[SPEAKER_02]: And then after these two picks Joseph Sullivan, Gabriel Gonzales, Marco Dengas, Josh Hammond, Johnny level, Xavier Nions, Kevin Alcantara, I really like Isaac versus that group.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like I think like, there's still some runway for this guy to figure it out and be something so.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to just tell me or like your favorite pick from the rest of the guys that you had?

[SPEAKER_02]: uh yeah i could probably do that uh really quickly take a look here um yeah i mean i got our guy ricky did get ricky teeth meant you know here's one at pick 286 i got river ryan

[SPEAKER_02]: Ryan should be back in action next year.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the Dodgers.

[SPEAKER_02]: This guy could be up in the major leagues, pitching like, you know, big innings for that team, making starts, or maybe get straight into place and starts.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think people have forgotten how good River Ryan was and how good he's looked at periods of time.

[SPEAKER_02]: So he's kind of a forgotten guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I felt like getting him outside of the top 250 with steel.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do like that river ride pick.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to pick him in my DC and someone grabbed him.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I thought he was going to be a sneaky pick.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I do like that a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was he was another Robescape guy before his injury too.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why I like him.

[SPEAKER_00]: There we go.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that was the first 10 rounds or so of

[SPEAKER_02]: My tool shed mock draft.

[SPEAKER_02]: I hope you guys enjoyed it.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's this time of year.

[SPEAKER_02]: We got some more content pumping out soon.

[SPEAKER_02]: Are you ready for the off-season stuff to begin?

[SPEAKER_02]: But I will say, I'm glad Mr. Cross put this on because it gives us something interesting we talk about, put it out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: So for Dylan Forgeff, this has been the baseball America fantasy podcast.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks everybody for tuning in.