WEBVTT - 13 Undervalued Players That You Need To Target with Ryan Bloomfield (EP. 764) 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:10.040 What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros MLB. I 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.559 am the Welsh. There is no Joe Psipia here today, 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.760 but I have got a great replacement. He is my 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.400 dear friend, Ryan Bloomfield. The Bloomer is in the house 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.360 as we're going to be discussing the thirteen most undervalued 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.520 players that you guys have got to target. Most might 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.360 be a little contrite. Actually it just thirteen undervalued players 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.159 that we've targeted, and we're going to talk to you 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.320 about why are they undervalued? 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So 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.399 doing well, man, Shout out to your Hillsborough Hops hat 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.120 by the way, that's just up the road from me, 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:37.960 and let's. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.280 All, yeah, yeah, thank you. Actually, I get like I've 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.440 got a couple collection of hats that get the most attention, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.520 and the two are the Hillsboro Hops and the Savannah Bananas, 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.160 so I'm just trying to collectively. I've got one that 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.360 I haven't unveiled on camera yet. It's the Lake Elson 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.040 or Lookouts, but it's the one with the eyes, and 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.160 I think it's gonna weird everybody out if I have 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.760 two eyes looking at everybody, but I'll try it on 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:01.640 an episode. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.320 You won't know until you try. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.280 Yeah, switch it out mid mid episode and see who 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:07.560 notices that's right. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.640 Well, this is gonna be great. This is awesome having 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.200 you here. Bloomfield is one of the best. You can 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.320 find him over at Baseball HQ and on one of 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.239 the hottest podcasts in the land, of course Joe and Myself, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.360 but Bubba and the bloom k C Bubba, Deer Casey, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.280 Bubba who does some writing over here Fantasy Pros and Bloomfield. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.760 You guys have been rocking the podcast, and I imagine 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.680 you guys have probably hit on, like conceptually this interests me. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:39.639 Sleepers and undervalued and breakouts. They're all kind of terms 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.200 that have like slight variations from each other. And I 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.320 imagine you guys have had these conversations when you think about, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.120 like undervalued, how does that differ from sleepers or breakouts, 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.160 even if it's just like a minute little you know instance. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.520 Yeah, it's tough to it's tough to tell. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.600 Like what I what I think of undervalued is I'm 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.720 looking at average draft position at ADP and just comparing 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.639 guys to certain positions going you know, right around them, 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.880 and you take a cluster of three or four players 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.720 at the same position, say which one do you like 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.919 kind of out of that group going roughly at the 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.959 same time in the draft, and that would be my 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.160 quote unquote undervalued player for there, So. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.160 I mean and that makes sense. So we've got thirteen. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.480 We've got to buzz through them. If you guys like it, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.840 go down and check into the comments and tell us 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.400 who's your favorite undervalued guy. When you do so, you 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.560 got opportunities to win some awesome stuff. We were talking 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.440 about the Jazz Chisholm Jersey last week. I gotta be 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.320 honest with you, I don't remember if when you're listening 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.840 to this you're still eligible. But there's always great prizes 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.040 that are out there, so make sure you're commenting on 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.080 the videos below because you never know what you're gonna win. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.240 So let's get into this. Let's talk about undervalued player 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.040 number one. You actually came up in our atc Ario 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:57.520 Cohen Projections episode. How about Xander Bogarts. Xander Bogarts coming 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:01.480 in with an overall ADYP, which is great about Fantasy pros. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.480 You can go and check out the ADP across all 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.360 the sites. It creates a collective ADP pulling all the 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.920 data in and the ECR he has got a rank 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.280 of ninety five, and he's actually got an ADP of 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.720 ninety six, so it's almost outside the top one hundred. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.760 This was almost a twenty twenty guy last year. Projections 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.960 like him just about the same twenty twenty with high 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:27.039 batting average usually isn't a lower end to top one 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.760 hundred range. It's usually in the like seventy five plus. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.360 So talk to us about why Xana Bogart's if and 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.039 is undervalued in your mind. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.680 I think he is just because, like what one of 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.880 my crusades so far through through draft season has just 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.760 been prioritizing batting average as much as I can in 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.800 the kind of the early and early mid rounds, and 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.560 Xander Bogart's like totally totally delivers that last five years 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.600 batting average three or nine three hundred two ninety five, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.720 three h seven two eighty five across a boatload of 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.320 played appearances. The power is not, you know, great, but 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.760 like you said, could go twenty home runs at nineteen 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.960 last year. I think the question is and whether Bogarts 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.560 returns his returns of profit here is at stolen based 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.640 total eight stolen bases in twenty twenty two nineteen last 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.479 year in twenty twenty three for San Diego. Was that 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.520 taking advantage of the new rules, a different organization philosophy. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.000 Not sure, but I think despite that kind of variance, 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.039 and we don't know what the stolen base total will be, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.279 the batting average, the runs he can play every single 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.680 day that he can. He's played hurt last year, He's 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.120 played hurt almost throughout his entire career. Kind of a 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.560 nagging risk thing, but he continues to deliver throughout. So 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.080 really like Xander Bogart's I kind of comp him to 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.000 Danceby Swanson going a little bit later at the same position. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.000 Both rock solid shortstop options for you if you need 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:47.679 some stability up the middle. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.200 But the different stands be pretty you know, significant drop 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:51.960 in batting. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.400 Average, different types of players. Yep. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.320 Why do you think you're honing in and targeting batting 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.000 average so much? Because I don't want to go too 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.800 far in this, But what I think is so interesting 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.440 is there was a couple of years ago. If people 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.960 are new to the fantasy baseball space and don't follow 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.840 like the trends or listen to a lot of the podcast, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.479 there was this and I was kind of with this, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.520 I liked it, and our friend who was just on 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.080 not too long ago, Justin Mason, kind of started this like, Hey, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.920 I'm gonna punt batting average and this is like three 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.919 or four years ago, Like I'm going to like actively 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.000 go and punt batting average, And a lot of people felt, hey, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.159 this is the POSI this is the spot that I 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.520 think I could punt in a Roto league, I could 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.719 actually start to punt batting average. Well, then in first 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.520 Pitch this year, there was a presentation I believe it 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.279 was Scott cho was talking about that batting average was 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.640 the most difficult position to pick up off the waivers 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.240 in season. So is it that versus the priority that 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.440 people don't really put on bat Like is it because 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.760 people don't prioritize batting average and you can take advantage, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.800 or it's so hard to make up in season? 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.000 It's it's it's the most scarce, like stolen bases get 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.719 talked about all the time. Is maybe pre rule change 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.760 as the scarceest category batting average. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.520 Batting average with. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.159 The ability to do other things like bogarts can is 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.560 the scarcest modity out there. And I listened to Scott 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.400 Chow's presentation at First Pitch Arizona and kind of prove 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.600 that out during the season. It is very difficult to 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.240 uh to replace batting average. And I also think in 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.360 these later rounds, having a batting average cushion, having a 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.920 batting average floor on your team opens you up to 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.320 a lot of different options later in the draft. And 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.360 so I just like having that flexibility later in the 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.120 draft to be able to take you know, adult and 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.080 var Show or you know an Anthony Volpi or you 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.280 know whatever, those types of players. There's there's it seems 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:33.920 like there's a lot more of those, and you can 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.360 do that with a good batting average. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.400 Here's a quick break in the action. MLB draft season 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.840 is here, friends, and the easiest place to play fantasy 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.960 baseball is a underdog Fantasy. 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Actually, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.240 everybody's very excited about the other Minnesota pitcher, Im Pablo Lopez. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.040 There's another guy that we're gonna talk about later that 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.680 I like, we're all like with baited breath, looking for 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.000 data on Chris Paddock to see what it looks like. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.400 But Joe Ryan jumps out as an undervalue guy. Really 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.840 low walk rate, career, low walk rate into the five's 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.600 K percentage went way up. The strikeouts were there because 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.480 he added the split finger. This is one of those 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:07.720 pitchers that his return on value versus his rank ADP 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.880 really doesn't quite mesh, because this is the type of 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.640 player you would think would be twenty or thirty spots higher. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:15.240 So talk to us about Joe Ryan. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:16.160 I think Joe Ryan. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.079 So you mentioned the splitter that was fantastic and a 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.920 nice compliment to one of the best fastballs in the game. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.520 I think Joe Ryan from an actual fifth percentage on 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.000 the four steamer was like fourth best. He's definitely top 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.880 five in baseball last year, so he now has that 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.640 second kind of putaway pitch along with the fastball, and 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.920 the skills just soared last year. I think Joe Ryan 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.640 is being undervalued in the market because of the home 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.600 run problem. And there's two things to a home run 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.760 problem for a pitcher. There's the ground ball fly ball, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.280 which the pitcher can control, and Joe Ryan does give 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.600 up a lot of fly balls fifty percent fly ball 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.120 rate last year. But there's also the home runs per 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.480 fly ball that is not as sticky year to year, 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.360 and Joe Ryan just got hammered down the stretch in 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.880 the second half. Had a twenty one percent homer to 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.680 fly ball rate league average on that is like twelve percent, 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.160 and so that's really what drove Joe Ryan's six 'oh 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.640 nine eer in the second half. And I just don't 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.559 think that home run variance is that sticky from year 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:10.839 to year. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.480 I think if we get Joe Ryan with the league 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.160 average homer to. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.800 Fly ball rate, the strikeout and walk skills are just fantastic. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.480 And you alluded to Minnesota Welsh. They know what they're 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.079 doing as an organization, and I think they can they 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.720 can get Joe Ryan to ascend to an even higher 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.320 level than he's at right now. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.199 A real oddity is like the fastball got hit up 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.360 more from a batting average standpoint one seventy four against 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.080 in twenty twenty two two forty, But the expect bio 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.240 would point out that's like a huge gap, but the 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.320 expected batting average against was actually closer year over year. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.720 But he gave up nine homers against the forcing fastball 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:50.320 in twenty twenty two, gave up nineteen this past year. So, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.400 you know, having a big adjusted pitch change, especially a 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.120 split finger, which isn't necessarily Nick Polck talked about it 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.040 on the Pitching Guide episode isn't viewed as like a breakaway, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.679 punch away pitch. It's kind of the setup pitched everything 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.920 that that fastball fastball became a little bit more vulnerable. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.160 Be interesting to see if maybe the sweeper kind of 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.360 takes a tick up or something like that. That's year, 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.360 so the fastball doesn't get hit up so much. But 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.080 the low walk rates make him pretty exciting. And I'm 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.560 down with this one coming in at number three. This 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.600 guy has a new team, and this team is quite exciting. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.040 He does not cost inside the top one point fifteen 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.199 as far as ranks go. According to Fantasy Pros. Lookame 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.400 across the board and his ADP is almost one thirty 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:37.319 across all of the sites combined. New Dodgers Taoscar Hernandez 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.960 is who we're going to be talking about as an 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.440 undervalued player. Hit twenty six home runs last year in 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.080 a not great pitching environment, goes to a much better spot. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.040 The bat x actually has him projected as the most 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.800 homers with twenty eight at least versus ATC I could 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.520 see him easily going over thirty in that really really 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.200 strong lineup and good hitting environment. How undervalued is Taoscar 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.640 When you think about the scope of where he is, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.440 the lineup protection, and really who he was lot. Even 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.160 in that environment last year, dude still hit twenty six homers. 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:07.960 I know, I know. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.920 It's just absolutely you know, it's a perfect landing spot 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.960 for Taioscar because he's going to play every day in 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.920 LA and he's probably hitting behind like a Freddie Freeman, 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.319 Will Smith guys who it's perfect to hit behind those 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.000 guys because they don't really hit a ton of home runs. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.840 They just get on base consistently, so there's always gonna 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.439 be ducks on the pond for Taoscar. He's also going 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.760 at a point in the draft, at least where I've 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.560 found so far in kind of feeling out, some of 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.480 my early drafts feel like around this time of the draft, 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:36.520 power starts. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.520 To wane a little bit in the player pool. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.040 And Taoscar is one of one of the last few, 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.400 Like Anthony Santander's another guy kind of going a little 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.640 bit later that I like too, But I feel like 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.720 Taoskcar is one of the last few guys who not 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:52.600 only gives you that power but doesn't really have deficiencies elsewhere. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.160 A lot of projections have ta Oscar hitting right around 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.360 two sixty. And again the runs and RBI, those kind 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.000 of hidden counting stats that are so hoorton and fantasy. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.560 Are you know the floor for that in la Is? 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:10.160 I think just just massive, so perfect landing spot, especially 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:11.920 compared to Seattle last year. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.480 I mean, and it's still like an above thirteen percent 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.040 barrel rate. It was top ten percent tele in a league, 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.640 hard hit percentage, love all of those things. He's still 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.160 getting the ball in the air. The batting average you 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.480 expected batting average. If you're somewhere between two fifty and 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.160 two seventy for Taoscar, you're really in a great spot. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.600 And you know you said something that's really important. I 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.240 was asked this question just the other day about like, hey, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.079 what's your early round prioritization if you were looking for categories, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.520 and I said, you know what, my surprise people, it's power, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.000 because speed usually is that answer. That's why you say 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.240 that batting average might be one of those. It's kind 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.800 of a pseudo one, but like power, I want power 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.040 throughout the draft because I feel like we have a 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:54.640 bigger gap between supreme power versus like stolen base Obviously, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.400 like if you had Ellie and a story Ruiz that 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.240 might change the whole game on speed, But you can 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.240 catch up speed every where you're mentioning we get to 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.280 the top one hundred or outside the top one hundred, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.959 there's only so many more real power bats that can 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:10.040 maintain some average, you said, Anthony Santander. I would say, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.280 like ta Oscar and Jorge Solaire are like two of 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.560 my big options. There's a couple corner infielders. We're actually 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.520 going to talk about one in a second. But chasing 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.440 power a little bit later is still something you have 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.080 to pay attention to and do. And outfield gets it 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.160 wanes out a little bit, like are you in the 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.560 camp that outfield absolutely gets away from you? Or do 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.720 you think that narrative is kind of getting overplayed? 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.920 So I just drafted the Labor Mixed League Tuesday night, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.960 and it's a fifteen team mixed league, and did I 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.720 had one outfielder in the first twelve rounds. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:42.680 And man, I was nervous. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:48.760 I was very nervous when outfielder, outfielder, outfielder rounds thirteen, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.080 fourteen to fifteen, because I could kind of see the 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.760 writing on the wall that this was starting to fade quickly. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.320 So I feel like I got out just in time. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.240 But I think you do need to kind of keep 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.600 track of where your outfielders are at, because once you 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.280 start to get into that, like those late teens rounds, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.640 it's it starts to get pretty tough. It's a lot 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.440 of just like older platoon bats, and you kind of 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:11.960 don't want that. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.360 Yeah, there's some guys I like, like, I'm into Jared 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.520 Kellnick this year. I'm into Jared Durant and stuff like that. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.840 But again, if you're focusing in on power too, there's 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.680 only so many. Who was the one outfielder you did 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:21.880 get in the beginning. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.040 It was Brian Reynolds's core piece. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.880 I love that. Yeah, my tout I actually started with 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.960 Corbyn Carroll. But that's my only outfielder so far. But 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.280 draft and hold, we're like six rounds in or something 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.080 like that, So shocker that I got Corbyn Carroll. Let's 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:40.880 go into the fourth undervalued player and we're serving up burgers. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.160 He is Jake Berger. Definitely heard this name a whole lot. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.920 We know the hard hit numbers through the roof. He's 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.840 outside the top one fifty ECR ranks over on Fantasy Pros. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:55.080 His ADP is even lower. Let's talk about Jake Berger 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.920 and those obscene hard hit numbers and why he is 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:58.680 so undervalued. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.280 That's the main part. Art we all know Jake Berger 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.960 has power. I think it's I think it's elite power. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.240 I think it's elite power, and what we saw from 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.800 Jake Berger and I try not to go too much, 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.480 especially for hitters, into like first half second half stats 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.000 that much, but in Jake Berger's case, with the context 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.600 of kind of honestly just getting kind of jerked around 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.880 in the first half of the season with the White Sox, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.840 inconsistent playing time, playing different positions, that sort of thing. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.000 Berger finally, once he went to Miami, settled into a 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.320 role and not only kept the thump, kept the power, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.480 but severely cut down on his strikeout right to the 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.160 point where, like I do think, maybe not as high 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.360 as like a Taoscar batting average, but I think Jake 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.720 Berger can hit two fifty. I don't think this is 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.920 just a power bat who's going to hurt you in 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:48.440 batting average. And so for all those reasons, Berger is 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.120 a very much target for me. And third base too, 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.360 just looking at kind of a macro level at that position, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.960 you're a couple guys after Jake Berger, you're starting to 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.000 get in trouble at the hot corner. So Jake Berger 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.080 is just at the time of the draft and the 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.640 power batting average foundation that he provides, I think it's 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.240 a great fit for pretty much any team. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.159 Yeah, I want to second this. Ariol Cohen beat the 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.800 Shift podcast. They just had me on and we did 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.359 a draft using Fantasy Pro's Draft Wizard. I had a 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.880 good team, but I tanked third base. When I say 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.280 I tanked it, I just at every level I was like, oh, okay, 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.080 I just missed him. We'll just wait for this guy. Oh, 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:34.920 we'll wait, and then all of a sudden we were 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.439 no longer waiting. I completely tanked it. Jake Berger was 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.520 one of those targets and I completely messed it up. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.040 But I would remind everybody Fantasy pros check out the 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.040 Draft Wizard. You can even import your own cheat sheets. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.680 You can take my ranks, multiple people's ranks. You can 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.200 really customize it however you want, and you can experiment, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.760 you can play around with it. You also can set 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.160 priorities in drafts in the Draft Wizard, like third base, 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:00.840 you could say I want want to make sure I 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.000 am taking third base what that mock looks like and 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.119 the suggestions that gives you. So go and check it 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.399 out today. Fantasypros dot com slash Draft Wizard. Download the app, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.680 start drafting. Download the app. Like my, uh my best 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.520 friend Justin Steel who has a Draft Wizard on his 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.800 phone and he likes the draft a guy, Yeah he does. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.920 We we we were just hanging out. As I told 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.919 the story, people are so sick of me and I apologize. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.320 But he found out I worked at Fantasy Pros and 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:24.760 he was like, are you serious. He's like, I love 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.080 Fantasy Pros and I was like, okay, let's give me 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.760 some extra credit at my job. And he pulled up 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.560 the Draft Wizard. He had the Draft Wizard on his 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.080 phone and we had a great time. So he might 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.960 have some swag come in his way, but be like Steel. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.320 Moving him up the rings. Now. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:42.640 I have used I have used the the mock Draft 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.800 tool and it is awesome, but the experimentation you get 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.280 to knock out a mock draft very quickly and just 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.880 play with different different types of bills and that sort 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.080 of thing. But yeah, to go back to third base. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.639 In labor, I was in the same predicament as you 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.600 well did not take Jake Berger. I was actually a 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.879