Navigating Fantasy Baseball's Most Dropped Players

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00:00Joseph, it is time to talk about the most dropped players.

00:03There's one player who's already gone down to AAA.

00:06There's another player who's been suspended.

00:09So let's have this conversation.

00:10Where do you want to go first?

00:12Well, let's talk about Bednar here,

00:14because Bednar was supposed to be the closer for the Pirates

00:17going into this year.

00:18That was a little tenuous.

00:19And, well, the first couple outings did not go so great.

00:23So they ended up opting him to AAA.

00:25So in the meantime, Dennis Santana and Colin Holderman

00:28are the top candidates for saves.

00:29Now, I watched Holderman pitch.

00:31He didn't look great trying to hold the eighth inning

00:35against the Rays last week when I watched him.

00:37Santana ended up coming in and getting the save

00:39in that game eventually.

00:40So Santana seems to be, like, the guy for now.

00:43The question is, do you hold Bednar

00:44as he tries to get right in AAA?

00:47That becomes the big question.

00:49I think the answer is no.

00:50I'm not holding on to him.

00:51If Luke Jackson's available, if Santana's available,

00:53I'm just making this straight move personally,

00:56because Bednar going into the season

00:57was already a little rough.

00:59If you start to look at the deeper numbers on him,

01:03they haven't been very good.

01:05If you're looking at the trend lines,

01:07they've all been going in the wrong direction.

01:08And Bednar at one point was a pretty cost-effective closer,

01:12right?

01:12A guy who's like, oh, he's the closer of the Pirates.

01:14You know, you go back all the way to just a 20-23.

01:17Pretty solid.

01:17A two ERA the year before that.

01:19A 2-6 ERA, 2-23.

01:20He's always been in that range.

01:22Not a dominant strikeout guy, but a guy getting out.

01:24And then last year, that ERA ballooned to 5-7-7.

01:28So that was over a whole season of 57 innings as the closer.

01:32It was not good for him.

01:33He blew a lot of saves.

01:34So I think they were trying to give him

01:35the benefit of the doubt going into this year.

01:37And so far, it's just been doubt now.

01:39And now they've moved to a AAA, and it

01:41seems like Bednar is going to, until he figures things out,

01:44not only does he have to figure things out

01:46to get better to move back to the major leagues,

01:48but then if Santana, let's say, is dominant in that role,

01:51why are you making that pivot?

01:52What are you doing that for?

01:53Bednar would just work the eighth or somewhere else.

01:55So it's not a guarantee he even gets that job back.

01:57So I'm a drop of Bednar.

01:59But I'm curious, in this competitive save landscape

02:04that we're always looking for saves wherever we can get them,

02:06is Bednar a hold for you?

02:07Or will you be dropping him to the waiver wire as well?

02:10Joseph, let me answer you in song.

02:14I'm sorry, Luke Jackson.

02:16I am for real.

02:18Never meant to make the Rangers cry.

02:20No, no, here's the thing, dude.

02:21David Bednar's in AAA.

02:22And if you love David Bednar, and you drafted David Bednar,

02:25and you don't want to drop David Bednar,

02:26I want to be in a league with you.

02:28Because here's what I do.

02:29I find out the David Bednar manager, and bam,

02:31I'm dropping a trade on him now.

02:33I don't know when he's going to trade in April,

02:34but still, some of these people panic.

02:36No, I'm not holding on to David Bednar.

02:38You mentioned Santana, Holderman, Luke Jackson.

02:41There's so many guys out there.

02:43You can stream saves.

02:44Don't knock yourself out.

02:45Don't pull your hair out over something like this.

02:47He'll end up looking like Joe.

02:48And the problem with that is you'll

02:49never be as smart as him.

02:51And that's the thing.

02:51Now, you're just, you're ugly and you're dumb.

02:54Now, what are you going to do?

02:54All right, you're not ugly.

02:55You're actually a very handsome man.

02:57You give great face.

02:58Very good.

02:59Talk to me about this next outfielder

03:01that has been mulched around.

03:03Well, we started the whole show with Jerickson Profar,

03:07who, 80 game suspension.

03:09And in 99.9% of leagues, it's really difficult

03:13to hold this guy, because you can't IL him.

03:14He's not on the injured list.

03:15He's just taking up a bench spot.

03:17So in shallow leagues, you absolutely cut him.

03:19Deeper leagues become a little bit more of a conversation.

03:21But if you're looking around at who's out there,

03:23the Victor Scott's of the world, you know,

03:25we talked about him last week on The Wayward Wire.

03:27He's all the way up to 71%.

03:29Still available in 30% of leagues.

03:31If you're looking for Mangum of Tampa Bay,

03:36Roden on Toronto, there's a lot of guys out there

03:40in the outfield that you can start to speculate on,

03:43that even a couple other players we're going to talk

03:45about coming up too, that I think are far more worthy

03:48of a roster spot than waiting on Profar

03:50halfway through the season.

03:51If you really like Profar and you want to get back

03:53into the business, drop him now,

03:56and then hope that somebody else doesn't pick him up.

03:58I don't think they will.

03:59And then eventually you try to, you know,

04:02somewhere around June, pick him back up

04:04and hope that you can stash him again as he's coming back.

04:06That's the best case scenario for Profar.

04:08But Matt, he's just a terrible anchor

04:11on your roster at this point.

04:12You can't do it, right?

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