What is up?

Welcome to another episode of Hacks and Jaxx.

I'm your host, Brett Ford.

As always, joined by senior analyst Scott Chu.

We're here talking hitters on pitcher list, going over Scott's top 300 hitters list,

talking up, basically figuring out how we're drafting or how we're prepping for our drafts this March.

It's deep into the thick of draft season. Scott,

how are things up your way? Not bad. I've got my first slow drafts of the year starting,

really getting into the mix, really putting my, putting my own rankings to the test,

although frankly, the leagues that have started for me already don't use

the kinds of settings that I write my ranks for. But that's the way she goes. It's,

it's fun to be thinking about players in more than just a hypothetical context. Yeah, I just

finished my first draft and hold, probably my only draft and hold, really.

And like you say, these formats are completely different.

Just so, you know, as you go through Scott's ranks, just be aware that not everything is black and white as far as, you know, the way Scott's writing it and the way that it should be

applied. Yeah. And as we talk about all the time, we'll talk about more later during this podcast,

there is no vacuum. The rankings exist in a vacuum because I don't know what your team is.

Right. But the moment you start making picks, it's the moment the vacuum goes away.

And especially as we talk

about the back end of the rankings, when you're looking in the 200s and beyond, right?

Like, the vacuum died forever ago. You know, now it's very much about what do you need? What is

your team makeup? What is it that you want from a player? You're looking for a guy who if this, if X, Y and Z happens, he could break out and be an everyday starter? Are you looking for a guy who I know for a fact he's going to play? And there will be times I've seen like in a draft and hold. There's a lot of times when you're like, just in case my first two short stops go down, I need a third

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