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Now here's Frank Scott, Chris and Adam

Welcome everybody to fantasy baseball today Wednesday April 22nd

I was going to start to show off by saying back to back days we have everybody here on the podcast, but what do you know the NFL draft is this week?

So Adam Azer is leaving his good old fantasy baseball today friends behind, but I still do have Chris and Scott here with me.

Chris, how's it going, man?

Yeah, you know, I'm working on some NFL draft content, you know, I am the the senior editor for CBS fantasy. So that includes football. So unlike Adam though, you know, I can do both

So I'll be writing a quarterback prospect piece and making an appearance on the fantasy baseball today podcast because that's just the kind of dedication that I have to the craft.

Look at the dedication from Chris towers. Scott is here as well. Scott no NFL content for you, but

Scott is dedicated. Yeah, well, Scott's dedicated just, you know, to baseball, which is what we respect here on the show. Scott, how's it going?

It good, good. It wasn't too long ago. I was writing about football too, but I think I think the baseball audience demands more for me. So this is a very good thing that I'm here full time for them.

I think it's a great thing that you are here for the people fantasy baseball today on today show we're going to deep dive Nick Senzel.

Interesting player just because looking at doesn't really have a everyday role in the lineup as of now unless, of course, we do have these universal DHS that's the thing that can help Senzel. And this is one of those players that we were requested via Apple podcast review to deep dive. So we'll do that.

And we'll also do another one of these general strategy discussions, which I really enjoyed our conversation on trading last week today. We're going to really dive into auctions. I want to hear as much about how you guys attack auctions as possible from the preparation to, you know, once you're in an auction.

You know, how do you set up your auction values. These are all things that we've got questions about things that I'm just in general excited to hear about. We will answer your questions no matter what when we get to the 50 minute mark. I'm going to play Stone Cold theme song and that means everyone stop talking and we're getting to emails fantasy baseball at CBS I dot com.

But let's start off with that deep dive from Nick Senzel average two and a half fantasy points per game last season and head to head points leagues his ADP right now.

Outfielder 63 pick 224 off the board. He hit 256 with 12 home runs 14 steals 55 runs scored in 104 games. That's a 155 game pace of 17 home runs and 20 steals. So in your 2020 player. He has some pop.

He has some speed. You know, the stack has numbers are not great, but the one thing that stood out to me was that his sprint speed was in the 96th percentile and, you know, was regarded as one of the top prospects as a hitter the past couple of seasons with the Cincinnati Reds last season was great against left handed pitching 897 OPS against varieties a 689 OPS.

His minor league numbers show that he was actually much better against right handed pitching. So I don't think this is something to the effect of like Gavin Lux for example, because he has a history of not being great against left handed pitching in the minors.

And then from May through July last season, the first three months that he played, he hit 285 with an 821 OPS from August on, he hit just 188 with a 554 OPS and he was dealing with like an elbow thumb injury during that time.

Scott every year, there are players who are quote unquote blocked or we have questions about their playing time heading into the season.

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