 Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman, joined today by Jim Sannis of Fandle and Jim. Spring training is in full swing, so let's take a look at some of the player awards that you can bet on right now over the Fandle Sports Club. What's going on? Yeah, it's a fun time of a year because for the most part guys aren't hurt yet. So I could talk about John Carlos Stanton and pretend that this will work out. So I'm in a good mood. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastically. I'm excited to talk about baseball. We're not talking about NASCAR this week, so plus for me, let's get into some of these awards and we'll begin with the NL MVP. I really like this first one that we're chatting about, and that's especially yellow issues, plus 1,200 right now at the Fandle Sports Book. And this is a guy that is a former MVP, the former best player in the league. And last year, in that small sample size of a COVID year, he had a really tough season. And he's dropped down fantasy draft awards. He's obviously only 12 to 1. He was a great number. And he's already proven he could do it. It's not like he's old. He's the prime of his career. I think Christian Yellish is a fantastic bounceback candidate. And you're getting about a fantastic number right now at the Fandle Sports Book. Yeah, to me, there are three things that align really well for Christian Yellish. The first thing is that, as you said, it's a very small sample. So it's tough to overreact. The second thing is that there at least was an element of bad luck in that small sample for Yellish. You go back to last year, his actual weighted on base average was 343. His expected weighted on base average, according to Baseball Savant, was 375. So there was some bad luck, at least partially contributing to that down year for Yellish. The other thing that really ailed him was strikeouts. He struck out a ton. And that's really weird for Christian Yellish, about a 30% strikeout rate, up 10 percentage points from what it was the previous year. But he did get to his plate discipline data. That's because he just was not swinging. He was so patient at the plate that he was actually actively hurting himself. That's a tweak. And it's a known thing that I would assume that he has been working on the solid season, trying to be more aggressive at the plate, trying to put the ball in play and not strike out as much as he did last year. I think that when you have a situation where it's a small sample, there's some bad luck involved, and there's a pretty easy fix. It's easy to get excited about buying into a guy who we know has tremendous upside, as you said. Now the Brewers are a team, I think are going to do pretty well this year. I think that we talked about them on the Division Betting Show as a team that I like to win the NL Centro plus 380. Part of that is tied into the fact that I think that Yellish will rebound. And if he does, if he can get the Brewers to the playoffs from the NL Centro, he'll have a pretty good shot to win this award. So Christian Yellish, I think an easy guy to talk yourself into, 12-1 definitely not the longest odds by any mean, but with the upside that he has, the potential that he has for what could be a good team, I'm going to take that every day. Absolutely. I commend the Brewers for always going forward, and it's a team that you imagine is going to be there at the end of the year, or at least competing, which is what you're asking for from Christian Yellish. And a lot of it's going to be because of Christian Yellish. Not needing a total revamp, just a little tweak, is why you can really like Yellish right now at the Fandal Sportsbook at 12-1. Let's talk about another player that's already won this award, well, AL version of the award. And that's Blake Snell to win the AL Cy Young. Snell is 20-1 to win this award. And what I like about him is the fact that he's healthy right now. He's in San Diego, which means I imagine they're going to let him go deeper into games, and they'll raise it. Snell is already proving that he could be one of, if not the best pitcher in baseball. So going over to the NL, there's no DH. A lot of like here about Blake Snell. He had to remind me there's no DH. This is very upsetting. How dare you do this to me, Greg? But regardless, I think that Blake Snell is a good bet to win the NL Cy Young. We talked about this on the show last year. We had this exact same show, and I was all over you, Darvish, to win the NL Cy Young. And Darvish, interesting once again this year. And actually now Blake Snell's teammate, which is fun to say out in San Diego, but Darvish is 13-1, whereas Snell is 20-1. And I'm going to take that for sure, because Snell, as you said, showed last year he was healthy. And he showed that the 2019 season, where his ERA was over four, was pretty fluky. I think you could have seen that based on his underlying data from 2019 that, you know, things are going to regress. And they did in a big way. And you look at the numbers for Blake Snell. And that small sample last year, he excelled in the numbers that stabilized quickly that we could buy into over a small sample. Specifically, he had a 31% strikeout rate with a 15% swinging strike rate. Those numbers almost identical to 2018, the year where he had a 1.890 ERA. And if we're trying to bet a guy to win Cy Young, probably a good thing if he had identical numbers last year to what he did back in 2018. Blake Snell is on a team that's going to get a lot of attention this year at the Padres, being a very fun team to watch, and an exciting team as well. And I also think they're going to be a good team, which is huge for Blake Snell. He doesn't have to face the Dodgers. That's very tough. But the rest of the NL West, not all that difficult. So I think that we're going to see a better, you know, an easier schedule for Blake Snell this year, outside of the times when he faced the Dodgers, a very good park in San Diego. And unfortunately, like you said, there's no DH. So Snell really good last year, gets a better situation this year. Should have a lot of run support as well from that offense. So I think the stars are aligning really well for Blake Snell to get back into the national consensus as being a guy who is one of the best pitches in baseball. I'm right there with you. Blake Snell has a lot of opportunity in front of him this year for all the reasons that both of us mentioned the only other scary part is having to go to Colorado a couple of times and pitch at Corsfield. But that lineup is really not as scary anymore, as scary anymore without knowing our Nato in it. Blake Snell at this number, plus 2000, you're getting you Darvish at a shoulder number. I think it's certainly worth it to go with Snell, the newest Padre pitcher. All right. One final X MVP to talk about. And that's Sean Carlos Stanton going over the AL MVP this year, getting him at 40 to one right now at the fan of the sportsbook. And yes, Jim, he's not injured yet. And people kind of forget in his first season with the Yankees, he was the only one healthy. He played through a myriad of injuries that appeared 140 games that year and really helped the Yankees when Aaron Judge broke his wrist. Now, Stan can stay healthy. He's always going to be a threat, but he just hasn't shown that over the last couple of years. Why do you believe this year could be different for Stan? Well, I think that the issue with Stan is people are double counting things here. They are counting for the injury history and not, you know, betting him as a result of that. But the number you can get him at is already accounting for that. So if you pop in with the injury concern with Stanton, you're double counting that. I think that that is the biggest year because like, let's say you assure me right now, right? But as John Carlos Stanton stays healthy the entire year, what are his MVP odds? They're not 40 to one. I can guarantee you that. So if we can get a full year of healthy Stan to which something that I'm going to bank on, for sure, we would see this number be a lot shorter. Now, like you said, it wasn't that long ago that Stanton was healthy for an entire year, 159 games in 2017, 158 in 2018. That was three and four years ago. That's not all that long. And honestly, like he didn't play that poorly when he was healthy last year either. He had 18.4% barrel rate that would have ranked third in baseball had he qualified, didn't qualify because again, shocker, he was hurt. But still it is good to know that he was good when he was out there. He's 40 to one. He's on a team that should win a lot of games. And if he can stay healthy, he's probably going to contribute to that good output for the Yankees. So it's tough to bet the AL MVP market because Mike Trout is obviously going to be the favorite each and every year, as he should be. So it's not a market I want to get into unless I see it as being a massive value with John Carlos Stanton. I think that is the case 40 to one fully accounts of the injury concerns and doesn't account. I think for the upside and the possibility, he stays healthy and helps clobber himself, you know, helps clobber the Yankees to an AL East title. So John Carlos Stanton, he might not stay healthy. That's very possible. But at 40 to one, you're already accounting that for I'm going to, so I'm going to take John Carlos Stanton now good player, good team. But if you can stay healthy, we'll do a lot of damage and take into account the risk that definitely is in place here, but it's a risk I'm willing to take. Yeah, I understated what he did a few years ago. I said 140 something games over 155 games there in his first season with the Yankees. And you're right. It's simply not that long ago and last year when healthy play well in the playoffs, when he was healthy, he played well. So Stanton's as you kept referring to his price is reflective of those injury risks of 40 to one. A guy that has been the MVP before has a talent. John Carlos Stanton has on 18 like the Yankees. It's really what you're looking for is a long shot that that has an opportunity to pay off. I don't know what Aaron judges that, but I imagine it's much shorter than this. And he gets Stanton here at 41 makes a lot of sense. That'll do it for us here in the panel. Hurry up, Jim. Little disappointed there was no Nelson Cruz for MVP talk, but hey, there's always next week. We can bet home run leaders, Greg. So maybe we'll talk about Nelson Cruz that I'm still a little bit burned from last year when he lost the home run title within the past couple of weeks. So trying to recover from that, but we'll pick things up next week. Maybe we'll talk some home run leaders or other, uh, you know, league wide leaders and get some Nelly Cruz, some boomstick talk on the show as well. We can talk about Luke Voight whenever you wish, Jim. For Jim Sonos, I am Greg Sussman. Join us tomorrow when we'll talk NHL DFS with Tom Beckio. Thanks so much for watching. Enjoy the NBA games tonight. Get some bets in on the MLB at the Fandal Sportsbook, and we'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the Fandal Hurry Up.