Fred Zinkie does his own set of projections, and insists that he'll be walking away with Garrett Crochet on many of his teams. He and Jeff Erickson discuss Crochet, Trea Turner, and five other players revealed from his projections. 

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00:00 3-3-25 MLB Podcast

00:30 News & Notes

00:50 Sean Murphy

06:00 Luis Gil / Giancarlo Stanton

11:00 Gunnar Henderson / Jordan Westburg / Felix Bautista

15:15 Jose Quintana

17:45 Javier Assad / Ben Brown

20:30 FanTrax

21:30 Tough LABR Questions!

22:05 Ronel Blanco is Jeff’s SP3. Is that good enough?

26:00 Does Jeff have enough steals?

29:00 Fred loves Jeff’s Matt Wallner pick. So good vs. RHP. Going to hit leadoff.

29:40 Fred took 4 Phillies hitters in the initial 11 rounds. Is that a problem?

31:45 Fred has one closer and no one else who is even a possible closer. Last year, there were few emerging closers in the first half of the season. 

36:45 Crazy to have any faith in Nolan Gorman? Fred has him in LABR and Tout

40:00 Too high on Jasson Dominguez? 

41:30 NFBC

42:30 Fred’s Projections Article

43:30 It’s remarkable how much a few innings moves a pitcher. 

44:10 Hard for pitchers to climb up the rankings if they don’t have a rotation spot. How many IP can one assign to DJ Herz? 125? Similar situation with David Festa, Kumar Rocker etc.

48:20 Downgrading SGPs away from steals this year.

50:00 Fred also artificially lowered the value of wins this year.

54:15 Garrett Crochet

55:55 BlueWire

56:00 Closers are much shallower than expected.

59:15 Ketel Marte and Marcus Semien

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