Speaker 1: Hello, friendos, I'm Chris Welsh and welcome into Fantasy Pros
Speaker 1: today on the YouTube channel. I've got our first edition
Speaker 1: of trade Targets. We're gonna be discussing five players to
Speaker 1: trade four or trade away, and this very very early
Speaker 1: point of the season, but that does not mean there
Speaker 1: are not opportunities for you. Before we do, though, I
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Speaker 1: up because I want you to win. But I also
Speaker 1: want to talk about some trade targets. I've got five
Speaker 1: for you here, and first up is a trade four.
Speaker 1: It's San Diego Padres starting pitcher Blake Snell. Now Blake
Speaker 1: Snell went four and one third. Not great, especially for
Speaker 1: the quality starts crew. He also gave up three earned runs,
Speaker 1: really not good in under five. He also took him
Speaker 1: ninety three pitches, which is less than optimal, but he
Speaker 1: had nine strikeouts with twenty whiffs on swings in that game.
Speaker 1: The change up, which we all hate for him to throw,
Speaker 1: was about ten percent usage, but it had an eighty
Speaker 1: six percent whiff rate, which is crazy. His curve also
Speaker 1: an eighty percent whiff rate. Both had fifty plus csw percentages,
Speaker 1: which is very very good. He was a little too
Speaker 1: heavy on the fastball. It was cold, kind of rainy,
Speaker 1: and I think that's going to obviously have effects across
Speaker 1: the board. But Blake Snell has big stuff and he
Speaker 1: shows it. Twenty whiffs on swings early on, it's whatever
Speaker 1: point on. That is a phenomenal number. And he did
Speaker 1: it in four and one third. So if he can
Speaker 1: get together, obviously we can also get out of the
Speaker 1: cold weather, good things are gonna come. Blake Snell is
Speaker 1: a guy that is not cheap necessarily, but that going
Speaker 1: under five is really going to trigger people, and he
Speaker 1: might be more acquireable than you think. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good time to jump on it because the big
Speaker 1: strikeouts are there, and I still think he has the
Speaker 1: opportunity to be the number one pitcher out of this
Speaker 1: rotation that's including you, Darvish. So go and poke around
Speaker 1: and see if you can get yourself some cheap blakes.
Speaker 1: Now know what I'm saying, you can do that. Coming
Speaker 1: in at number four is New York Mets starting pitcher
Speaker 1: code I sanga. Now, I'm not gonna mask the good
Speaker 1: results when I say trade away. He had eight strikeouts,
Speaker 1: which was good. He had his first win, which is great,
Speaker 1: and he only gave up one and run. My concern
Speaker 1: is what happens when the league catches up to Senka.
Speaker 1: His fastball command was pretty spotty early on. He caught
Speaker 1: it a little bit later. That can, of course be fixed,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be It's gonna be a table center
Speaker 1: for him, especially with these other pitches, especially the ghost fork,
Speaker 1: because the ghost fork did everything. Eight of his nine
Speaker 1: total whiffs came off the ghost fork. So here's the
Speaker 1: number for you. Fifty eight of his eighty eight non
Speaker 1: ghost fork or fork pitches, if you will, he douced
Speaker 1: only one swing and miss. That's not good. The concern
Speaker 1: is when the league catches up to the ghost fork
Speaker 1: and stops offering it up at it as much. What's
Speaker 1: gonna happen? How is he going to adjust? And with
Speaker 1: body fastball command, it makes me a little bit more concerned.
Speaker 1: Though it is a big, big fastball, it might be
Speaker 1: at a big level of adjustment overall. But it's worth
Speaker 1: gauging the temperature in your league after an eight strikeout
Speaker 1: performance on a very very hot name pitcher, and some
Speaker 1: might not look as deep after that eight strike up performance,
Speaker 1: and you might be able to take advantage if you're
Speaker 1: like me and you're a little bit concerned what the
Speaker 1: numbers are going to look like when the league adjusts.
Speaker 1: And here's one thing I can promise you, the league
Speaker 1: always adjusts. Coming in at number three, we're going back
Speaker 1: to a trade four. We're going to Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies
Speaker 1: third baseman, maybe sometimes even first baseman, Alec Bohm. Bom
Speaker 1: has been hitting the ball hard while finding good early results,
Speaker 1: which you love to see. Through Monday, as we're recording this,
Speaker 1: Bom had a sixty six percent hard hit rate with
Speaker 1: a four to sixty seven batting average, also had a homer,
Speaker 1: and on Monday had a three hit game, which you
Speaker 1: love to see he had a four ninety two WHOBA,
Speaker 1: which is holding up the batting average. Even though things
Speaker 1: are early, things are trending in the right direction for
Speaker 1: a big year, especially that you're seeing that ball get
Speaker 1: hit hard. Fun fact too, going into Monday, Alec Bohm
Speaker 1: had one hundred percent hard hit rate and he had
Speaker 1: an average exit velocity of ninety nine. That's absurd. That
Speaker 1: came way down obviously when he started topping a few
Speaker 1: more balls, but even when he wasn't hitting the ball
Speaker 1: hard on Monday, he had three hits out of it.
Speaker 1: That's got to make you feel pretty good. His comfortability
Speaker 1: is also showing, as he has a seventeen percent first
Speaker 1: swing first strike you first pitch swing percentage, where usually
Speaker 1: he sits in like the thirties, and he's done that
Speaker 1: throughout his career. So he's getting a little bit more patient,
Speaker 1: getting deeper into accounts as he becomes more comfortable. Alec
Speaker 1: Bahum has the upside of a top one hundred player
Speaker 1: right now, but I think he can still easily be
Speaker 1: had outside the top one fifty. Have not caught up,
Speaker 1: but I think you should and you should poke around,
Speaker 1: and I think you can get him for pretty cheap.
Speaker 1: Go try to get yourself some malec bom. Why not.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna hurt you and it's not going to
Speaker 1: cost too much. Coming in at number two is San
Speaker 1: Diego Padres shortstop Xander Bogart's Xander someone actually kind of
Speaker 1: liked in the preseason that offense is so powerful, as
Speaker 1: you know, and we don't even have Fernando Tatis Junior
Speaker 1: back yet. There's also been good early on as well.
Speaker 1: Two early homers while he's hitting over four hundred. Xander's
Speaker 1: XBA and x LUG are both about one hundred points
Speaker 1: lower than his current average. But again, you know, like
Speaker 1: we acknowledge, those batting average numbers are really huge. His
Speaker 1: hard hit percentage, though, is the lowest it's been over
Speaker 1: the last three years. Xander has only hit more than
Speaker 1: twenty five homers once in his career. He's also showing
Speaker 1: no signs of running. Take all those things together, low
Speaker 1: hard hit percentage and the fact of what the trajectory
Speaker 1: of what he's always been in the homers and maybe
Speaker 1: the stolen based department, especially with all the stolen based
Speaker 1: numbers up, it doesn't give me crazy optimism that he's
Speaker 1: going to break the mold be a top five catcher.
Speaker 1: So that's why I want to check in with the
Speaker 1: league and see if someone's willing to pay kind of
Speaker 1: a premium shortstop price on him, because shortstop hasn't been
Speaker 1: as fluid as everybody thought it was in draft season.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best offenses out there, so you
Speaker 1: should check in and maybe you can bolster your lineup
Speaker 1: with another position, or maybe you can snag a two
Speaker 1: for Masataka Yoshida and maybe a relief pitcher. I think
Speaker 1: that's more than fair. If you can pull it for
Speaker 1: Xander Bogart's I would give it a shot and go
Speaker 1: and check in right now and coming in at number one.
Speaker 1: My favorite trade target is Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Pablo Lopez.
Speaker 1: A lot can be made about small sample sizes. My friends,
Speaker 1: we've got to be careful for the good or the bad,
Speaker 1: whichever direction they end up leaning. But we've also got
Speaker 1: it at some point end up taking our shots with
Speaker 1: these players, and Pablo is the one I want to
Speaker 1: do that with. Early in his first start, he was
Speaker 1: able to strike out eight in five and one thirds.
Speaker 1: What was the most impressive thing about that was the fastball.
Speaker 1: Velo had an increase of around a mile and a half,
Speaker 1: so ninety three and a half last year over ninety
Speaker 1: five in this start. The other added edition was his sweeper.
Speaker 1: He's throwing a new pitch. This sweeper accounted for twenty
Speaker 1: two percent of the pitches he threw and it had
Speaker 1: a seventy two percent with rate, which is really really great.
Speaker 1: Now the book is going to get out, the league
Speaker 1: is going to catch up, they're going to understand the shape,
Speaker 1: they're going to know what this is all about. But
Speaker 1: he had the confidence. The results were there, and what
Speaker 1: we really really wanted were the changes. Those were there
Speaker 1: as well. Pablo was a really late pitcher added to
Speaker 1: most rotations. So I don't think the cost is going
Speaker 1: to be something where people are holding on. It's not
Speaker 1: like Redebt Meers, who wasn't the best in his first start,
Speaker 1: but you know, Redebt Meers had all the buzz. Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Springs had all the buzz. Papa Lopez did not have
Speaker 1: all of the buzz. In fact, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are just not in on the Twins in general.
Speaker 1: So I think he can come at even fair market value,
Speaker 1: and I think that's still a discount. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of upsides still. I'm going to go poke around,
Speaker 1: try to get Pablo Lopez, whether he's an additional added
Speaker 1: piece or I can just get him on the cheat
Speaker 1: maybe moving some other depth, because I think what he's
Speaker 1: showing is the potential to get back into that Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez we remember in the past, which could be a
Speaker 1: top twenty five sp So go and poke around, my friends.
Speaker 1: It ain't gonna hurt you. And there you have it.
Speaker 1: Five trade targets for you to trade four or trade away,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do or whatever situation that you're in.
Speaker 1: Who do you think we should be looking at trading?
Speaker 1: I know you guys have got names, so let's hear
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