Keep or Kut – Pete (@PeteBBaseball) and Chad Young (@chadyoung) just finished up a keeper league draft with 10 listeners and take some time to go through interesting picks and keeps.
4:13 – Chad and Pete pick 1-2 and the first tough calls of the draft came because Pete was “stuck” with a util-only bat at 1.1.
10:44 – Right off the start, you get guys being taken over ADP – even in the first round. But because of keepers, team structure and more, it’s less a reach and more a pick that makes sense.
20:01 – Did Matt Heckman jump too early on Wyatt Langford? And how do we feel about a second round keeper price on Cal Raleigh?
23:11 – Third and fourth round keepers are high priced but generally make sense once you have context.
27:34 – George Springer is a great example of old guy value and he comes with real upside even at a high cost.
30:04 – We move into the fifth and sixth rounds, and Chad jumps into a mini-closer run, because he was committed to chasing saves because he kept a first closer.
37:40 – Eugenio Suárez is a solid pick with real upside and a deflated ADP because we don’t know where he will land.
39:28 – Moving into the seventh round, we start to see teams reach for big upside and long-term keepers for the first time – and it might be happening earlier this year than last.
52:12 – Onto the ninth and tenth rounds where the draft swung back to old boring guys, but there are still a few names – even among the old guys! – with keeper upside.
59:05 – We move into the 11th and 12th rounds, and we’re all reaching now, plus maybe we over-drafted closers early?
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