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00:00You know, George, I have so much respect for the Rays organization that it pains me to
00:03say that this is my least favorite team every year in fantasy.
00:06I can never figure out who in the world is going to play on this team.
00:11And honestly, I think that they're just fooling us all along.
00:14I mean, the pitching is pretty easy.
00:15I mean, you know who's going to be in a rotation, but as far as their position players are concerned,
00:20it is a revolving door with a capital R. You got no idea on a daily basis.
00:25Now, are there three or four guys in this lineup that are going to play for the most
00:28part?
00:29But that's about it.
00:30And I probably can tell you who they are.
00:33Yandy Diaz, leading off.
00:35I'm not even sure Brandon Lau plays every day.
00:38I mean, he may come out for lefties.
00:40This kid, Junior Caminero, is going to be a star, okay?
00:42So he's in the lineup every single day.
00:44Josh Lowe?
00:45Maybe.
00:46I mean, he was once upon a time their top pro.
00:49I mean, you know what?
00:50I'm going to stop there.
00:51I'm not even sure.
00:52I mean, they also signed George, like a bunch of guys that are going to come in off the
00:55bench.
00:56I mean, this team went out and shocked everybody.
00:58They signed Hassan Kim.
00:59Remember Hassan Kim from the Padres?
01:01He's hurt.
01:02He's not going to play at the beginning of the season, but I can see him getting playing
01:05time too.
01:06Unfortunately for Fantasy Man, I mean, people feel so good in May and June.
01:10We're like, oh, I got this guy on the raise and he turned out to be great.
01:13This Isaac Paredes, oh, I knew it at the beginning of the year.
01:17Now he's gone too.
01:18So I mean, you tell me, George, like you have confidence.
01:23Caminero is one that I would want because I think he's going to be a star.
01:27So I would throw my dart there, but like they traded a Rosa Reina last year too.
01:32They don't care.
01:33They will trade anybody.
01:34They will not play anyone.
01:36I don't think there's any reliability here outside maybe of Yandy Diaz at the top.
01:41That's it.
01:42Uh, hard to disagree with you.
01:46I'm looking at and they're going to win.
01:47I'm trying to find something.
01:48And they're going to win.
01:49I don't know what they're going to win, by the way.
01:50I don't know.
01:51It's going to be a different year for the Raiders.
01:52All right.
01:53They're playing at Steinbrenner Field and that field is geared towards Yankee Stadium
01:56for lefties.
01:57It's not Tropicana.
01:58So it won't be a pitchers haven anymore.
02:00I think that's going to be a problem.
02:02Plus you're playing a lot of games outdoors.
02:03All right.
02:04Their schedule is all screwed up and weird to try and avoid the hot Florida summers.
02:10Right.
02:11April and May at home, April and May at home.
02:13And then the rest of the season on the road, which is what you have to do.
02:16We all know it rains.
02:17I know.
02:18I live in Florida.
02:19I know.
02:20All right.
02:21So it's going to be a weird schedule for a tip, but I don't like them this year at all.
02:25You already said it.
02:26When I talk to him, I think the race, all I want to talk about is Caminero.
02:29All right.
02:30How good is this guy going to be?
02:31He's great.
02:32All right.
02:33He's the problem is Craig.
02:34Everybody knows it.
02:35He's going earlier in fantasy drafts.
02:37What round is he going in?
02:38Is he going top five?
02:41Right now I'd say you're about right, but it's going, it keeps going up.
02:44Yeah.
02:45And I up by the way, about round four, the top 50 player and it's like, oh, come on.
02:49You know, I can't do that.
02:50Once again, I'm, I'm risk averse, especially my top five, four or five rounds.
02:54I'm risk averse.
02:56I'd like to get guys who I know what they're going to do and Cameron, I love, but I don't
02:59know what he's going to do, but I do think he'll put a better numbers in Steinburner
03:02field than he would have in Tropicana.
03:04So good for him there.
03:05Yanni Diaz.
03:06I'm interested in Brandon Lowe is maybe as a, uh, you know, middle in, uh, middle infield
03:11of fine, but he's another guy who could be traded by the deadline.
03:13I think he's a free agent.
03:14Never know.
03:15He can be on his way.
03:16Yeah.
03:17And he could be a part-time player somewhere else.
03:18You don't know.
03:19Uh, starting pitching a lot of strikeouts and not a lot of innings.
03:21That's the raise way.
03:22McClanahan is finally back.
03:24He missed it full year.
03:25They'll baby him.
03:26This is not going to be like Alcantara.
03:28So this is a hundred George innings or so, uh, Taj Bradley, uh, up and coming pitcher
03:32there.
03:33Same with Pepio, who they got, who they traded for a couple of years ago.
03:36Letel is a very underrated pitcher.
03:38Is this the Shane Baz here?
03:40I don't know.
03:41Maybe, but that's what everyone thinks.
03:43And then Drew Rasmussen, who is like a backend guy, I get a four or five innings, but these
03:47are all five and dives basically George.
03:49I guess the one known quantity here is that, uh, Pete Fairbanks saved 23 games for the
03:54Rays last season.
03:55They finally had somebody saving a lot of games, one guy, but then they went out and
03:59they got Fayeto who pitched really well from the Tigers last year.
04:02So I'm not even positive there.
04:04I am a Fairbanks fan.
04:05I do think he's a good pitcher, but boy, a tough fantasy team for me, man, I, I never
04:11end up with a lot of rays because I just don't know which direction they're going to go.
04:16I'm the same way as you.
04:17I won't end up with a lot of rays either.
04:19And they like to screw with you at closure, right?
04:20Oh, Fairbanks.
04:21Nope.
04:22It's going to be this guy.
04:23No, that guy.
04:24You know, they're a team that sort of goes match up, which once again, I think that's
04:27the way to go here.
04:28It's bad to fantasy, but good for the team here.
04:30So Fairbanks is the guy I would draft it, but I would be like, I mentioned the three
04:33categories of guy I'm pretty sure about guy I'm okay about the guy.
04:37I don't know the razor and the, I don't know category.
04:40Fairbanks is better than that, but I don't trust how they are now cash is going to run
04:43that bullpen here.
04:44So it's always a little scary there.
04:45I love there.
04:47Listen, I like their starting staff.
04:48The problem is you already said it.
04:49They're five and five guys.
04:50So if you're in a quality start league, good luck.
04:52You ain't getting many of them.