- Woodruff,
David Woodruff, if you're watching this
which I'm sure you are, pitch your ass off, my man.
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That's how I saw it playing out.
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- Severay, wanna, can you lead off with the rules
that were passed last year that are now in effect?
- That's something we're gonna talk about.
- Cool.
- So, read it off.
- The next one is by far the biggest one
which is the Homegrown Player Right.
So, I wanna make sure everybody understands it
'cause it starts with next year's Minor League Draft.
- [Man] I thought it had to do with this year's.
- Well, but it impacts like, your first round pick
for next year that everybody gets
right after we finish the auction.
Your 2019 first round pick is implicated in this.
So, any guy that you originally select
as a minor leaguer and you don't waive him, you don't
trade him, he never leaves your roster,
now follows a different salary trajectory.
So, after his qualifying season that we now call S2,
he goes to H6 and you then have the ability
to keep that guy for up to six years.
(laughing in the background)
You would start off $5, S2,
then he would go H6, $5,
H5, $7, H4, $9, H3, $18,
H2, $20, H1, $22.
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- Think more than any other season
that we've had previously, this group has been super
quick to act on big names.
- 17?
- [Man] 19.
- [Player] 20.
- 20, 21 for me, 21, 21, 21
(laughing)
- [Player] 24.
- I'll go 25.
- Six. - Seven.
- 27 plus one is eight. 28.
- [Man] 29.
- [Player] 30.
- [Participant] One.
- [Man] 31, Going once.
- [Player] 32.
- So, in Fantasy Baseball there's like a strategy
that a lot of people are seem to be adapting
it's that Stars and Scrubs Strategy.
You need to go for the big,
easy to predict, reliable players and spend,
overspend essentially, on them and then
hopefully, with kind of like your leftover dollars,
you're able to find a couple diamonds in the rough.
It's a lot of, a lot of times a crap shoot anyway.
So with a 20 team lead, there's a lot less depth.
So you want to overpay for the cream of the crop.
- 45.
- Drew. - It's Drew 'cause he has--
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- Going once. - Eight plus one again.
- 45. - Plus one is 46.
(clapping and laughing)
- Fuck the system.
(laughing)
- $47, going once.
- And I'm not telling you where I'm putting 'em.
(laughing)
- 47, $47 going once.
Going twice. - 48.
- Keep going, going twice. - 49.
- (cheering loudly)
- Yeah, gimme 50.
- $49 going once, going twice.
- Plus one, 50.
(cheering loudly)
- $50 going twice. - 51.
(cheering)
- Going twice.
- 52.
(cheering loudly)
- Alright now, alright alright. $53
Dee Gordon to AJ. Going once.
(laughing and cheering)
Going once.
(multiple people drowning out each other)
- Going once.
- 55.
(clapping and cheering)
- 56.
(cheering)
- 56.
- Bob, you wanna--
- Where's the high? - $57, do you want--
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- You bitch, Drew!
(cheering)
- Drew is evil!
Evil
- Can I get a hold?
- Yeah.
(loud clapping and cheering)
- Dee Gordon, so Dee Gordon went for $60.
Whereas I paid 35 for Billy Hamilton,
but Hamilton gets more steals and that's why.
Dee Gordon went for so much.
So.
- [Interviewer] Who do you think has done the best today?
- Honestly I'm not really sure.
- I think this year everyone is doing pretty terribly.
A lot of people feel that way.
- Pretty much planning to punt to next year.
- I'm feeling bad. I did a bad job.
- I'm happy to spend times with friends.
I'm not happy with my baseball team's future.
Came into the year ready to pack it in.
Feel as if I did some good things, but overall,
I'm not the happiest of all time but I'll figure it out.
- Those are shorter.
- Go ahead, go ahead.
- Barry Stone wants $13.
- This guy blows.
- 14 to Brandt.
- Two got players.
You know the player's bad because two actual
bad players are bidding against each other.
- 15. - See.
- 15 for choice.
- Choice went for 15, he's not a good player.
- Here it comes for Brandt. - Going once.
- He wants to be in.
- Going twice.
- But he can't.
- Sold.
- Drew is 15.
- You guys should do a bet between
Nate Jones and Leon.
- I'm willing to do it.
I'm willing to do it.
Yeah, how much, 40,000?
(laughing)
Four?
No, $4.
- 104?
- 104.
- Yeah.
(laughing and cheering)
- I'm super tired
because I had my draft yesterday.
- That's how we prep throughout the draft.
- That's how we prep for my draft.
Happy where we are. - Yeah.
- I think we're happy. Right? - Yeah, still dollars left.
- Yeah, dollars left and I like where my team is.
So I think we're good on that front.
Now of course, the end game could kill ya.
Make or kill ya.
- I'm kinda gonna kinda sit on my roster
so that the next hour and a half,
I have two guys I really want.
We'll see if I can get em.
- There's no stand outs at all.
I think I've done both some of the least terrible
misses so far, so I'm happy about that.
I think my best picks are still to come
which is kinda weird with like, 30 minutes
left in the auction, but, I really like my
Delino DeShields pick at like $24.
Definitely think he's gonna have a big season,
a lot of steals and when Dee Gordon went for 60,
I feel really good about that and I've been
on the Dan Voglebach train for a couple years now
and I think this might be the year,
so he's a big target of mine.
I think I have a good shot at getting him.
I think Zhang's done a solid job. I think a lot of the
contenders kinda like last year, haven't put themselves
over the top with the great draft.
I think a lot of the people who know
they're not going to win this year have done
a good job getting like cheap, high upside guys like
Statz and AJ and I think I find myself
in between going forward and tanking again.
- [Interviewer] You guys out of everyone have
also consumed the most alcohol.
How do you think that's affecting your shot?
- I think that's--
- Well that's not true because Yudk ended up
outpacing us.
- If you put us together
- If you think Yudkin's having tomato juice
then you're grossly mistaken.
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- I'm doing good, focus is gonna be on pitching throughout.
- Focus should be on 2019.
First time you're gonna be able to compete.
- You think so?
I think we're a year ahead of that.
I think 2018 and we'll be there.
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- Frankly, hoping to trade with Gary.
He looks like a front runner potentially.
Just told me he's going for it so I might
be trying to make some moves there.
There's a couple other guys,
so my goal now is to sell my entire team
in about an hour and in exactly one year
from now, be talking to you about
how I'm going to win this whole thing.
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