2025 National League Cy Young Futures: Top Picks & Long Shots

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00:00All right, let's move to the National League for Cy Young 2025 Futures.

00:05Paul Skeens at the top, plus 220, deserves to be there.

00:07Then there's Zach Wheeler, Blake Snell, Chris Sell, Corbin Burns, Yamamoto, Alcantara.

00:14You and I are going to have some names here, and then I'm going to throw one that isn't

00:17on this list.

00:18Let's go.

00:19Who's your favorite?

00:20Who's your long shot?

00:21Yeah, I'm going to fade Skeens.

00:23I love Paul Skeens.

00:24It's a great story.

00:26He's super exciting.

00:29Everybody's watching.

00:30Will he have Tommy John at some point?

00:32Probably.

00:33I mean, all these guys are 101 miles an hour due, so I don't want to put that evil on Ricky

00:37Bobby or anybody else, but I just feel like it's something you've got to really consider.

00:41So instead, I'm going to pivot to the guys that are getting it done.

00:44And two guys that I love are the favorites here, getting massive, massive value on, is

00:49Zach Wheeler and Blake Snell, plus 700 and plus 800.

00:52That is a huge return on investment.

00:55You sprinkle a unit on both of these guys here, and to me, it's a better investment

00:58than just going straight into Paul Skeens.

01:00I like this so much better because, you know, these guys are going to be on teams that are

01:04going to win more than 85 games, probably more than 90 games.

01:08Wheeler's been at the top of this list for a while, trying to crack it, and Snell's already

01:13won this award a few times.

01:14So we're talking about Blake Snell now on the Dodgers with all that support, all that

01:19bullpen.

01:20How does he not come close to 20 wins?

01:22I don't know.

01:23So I think those two guys are really at the top for a reason.

01:27To me, that's my major focus.

01:29If I had a long shot, it would be Sandy Alcantara plus 4,000, but it would be him being traded

01:35to a team in the National League and continuing to be better and kind of carrying that team

01:41in the second half.

01:42But for now, I'm looking at those two guys, Snell and Wheeler, and I'd rather bet both

01:47of them than any other favorite or long shot.

01:50It's great logic, as it always is from you.

01:52Lest we forget that Shohei Otani could start pitching in May and then just run away with

01:56this thing, because why not?

01:58So I think that Paul Skeens is the chalk here at plus 220.

02:01I'm not saying you'd wager on it, but sometimes there's just some obvious things.

02:04And I think Skeens, knock wood, has a rubber arm.

02:07I really do.

02:08I'm hopeful that he doesn't fall into this category.

02:09I want him to break the trend of all of these guys having Tommy John.

02:13My long shot, though, is on Justin Steele at plus 4,000.

02:17I think the Cubs should score runs.

02:19I think Imanaga takes pressure off of Steele being a one, and I think Presley gives you

02:23win equity.

02:25Justin Steele's the kind of guy that can make people go, oh yeah, him.

02:29Joe?

02:30I love Justin Steele, and not just because he's a big fantasy football guy and he's come

02:35on shows and hung out with us.

02:38It's because he's one of the most underrated pitchers in fantasy baseball.

02:42If you want to talk to currently, let's pull up his ADP.

02:45Steele right now is the 37th pitcher going off the board.

02:49Spencer Strider's going after him in the next pick, but Steele's going to be there for six

02:53months.

02:54Strider's going to be there for what?

02:55Three at best?

02:56I don't understand that.

02:58He's in that same grouping as Grayson Rodriguez, Hunter Brown, Justin Steele, Joe Ryan, Carlos

03:04Rodon.

03:05To me, this is a real sweet spot of pitching, and I'm somebody who likes to go early on

03:08offense in my drafts, and this is the reason why.

03:12It's because you're getting value of all these guys who could pitch like number one.

03:16Steele's capable of going out there and being a one.

03:18Hunter Brown, throw out April.

03:20Hunter Brown was one of the best pitchers in baseball, so there's a lot of value here.

03:24Outside of the top 30.

03:25In fact, let me rattle off this list here.

03:27From 30 on, Spencer Schwellenbach, Zach Gowan, a guy who has competed for Cy Young's before,

03:32Sonny Gray coming off a great year, Sazaki, I think that's a little inflated personally.

03:37I'm just not quite there yet.

03:39Joe Ryan, Grayson Rodriguez, Hunter Brown, Justin Steele, Carlos Rodon, Senga, Jack Flaherty,

03:44and then you got Otani, McClanahan, and Spencer Strider in this grouping too.

03:49You can build a rotation by taking a couple of these guys in those rounds and still mount

03:55an incredible offense.

03:56The problem is if you go early pitching, you're missing out on those big offensive players,

04:01and it's much harder to make up ground there than it is in the rotation.

04:03Well, let me ask before we go to break, is there, I mean, to me, I would reach for schemes

04:08if I have anything after like nine or 10, I would reach for schemes, but beyond that,

04:12there isn't a reachable pitcher.

04:13Maybe we could talk about that on the other side, Joe.

04:16Maybe Scooble is reachable, but to me, again, I'd rather have those offensive players.

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