Navigating Fantasy Baseball: The Unpredictable Rays

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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.

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