Speaker 1: Sleeper or pretender. Let's talk to the pros. Welcome in
Speaker 1: everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast
Speaker 1: as me Joey P Joe Pisapia, and today we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about sleepers. That's right. We've got ten very popular
Speaker 1: buzzy names of sleepers in the fantasy baseball community right now,
Speaker 1: that a lot of people are talking about for different reasons.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk to Welsh here and figure out
Speaker 1: whether or not we're sleeping with these guys or maybe
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Speaker 2: How much? How much was it?
Speaker 1: Again? It was free? Free? I know, I can't believe it. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Your Welsh and I come over, we do a private
Speaker 1: session with you. We get your focused for we get
Speaker 1: you pumped up for the for the actual draft. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a whole big thing we do.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if you and I went to like
Speaker 2: someone's house and we're drafting. Can you imagine the chaos
Speaker 2: that person with them?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, great, you know, it's like the Angel
Speaker 1: and devil on the other side of the people you
Speaker 1: I'll tell you them, don't take this guy.
Speaker 2: God opens up. We're just like, hey, everybody would make
Speaker 2: ourselves at home. We're getting in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably what we would get. But that's okay.
Speaker 1: We're used to that. That's what our families say too.
Speaker 1: So let's get to the sleepers. Let's talk about these
Speaker 1: guys that are out there. And let's start with a
Speaker 1: guy who, ironically, you know, he's in the top fifty,
Speaker 1: is right at fifty in the ADP, but he is
Speaker 1: considered a sleeper right now. He's actually somebody I drafted.
Speaker 1: If you saw the first draft show we've done already
Speaker 1: of the season, we just did it earlier this week.
Speaker 1: The worm Ryan Warmley joined us for that show. But
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, this guy had thirty home runs
Speaker 1: at one hundred and six, where he's one hundred and
Speaker 1: eight runs scored. He was a highly coveted player. He's
Speaker 1: Ozzie Albi's second basement of the Atlanta Braves. Now I
Speaker 1: do believe he's being slightly undervalued. This is a guy
Speaker 1: that's already shown you thirty twenty, if not twenty five,
Speaker 1: fifteen at the bare minimum. He is still a relatively
Speaker 1: young player too by all accounts last year obviously played
Speaker 1: just sixty four games, but Welsh he is just around
Speaker 1: top fifty, and to me, I think he is kind
Speaker 1: of a sleeper. I think he's still an elite player
Speaker 1: you're getting in a discount. So what do you think
Speaker 1: of starting this off with Ozzie Alby's Do you think
Speaker 1: he is a sleeper or is he still too good
Speaker 1: in your opinion to hit that mark now?
Speaker 2: I think he qualifies as a sleeper because I mean,
Speaker 2: and this is why people are doing it, because he's
Speaker 2: his ADPs round fifty right now and he's clumped in
Speaker 2: and I and the projections I think are the thing
Speaker 2: that are really leading this as well, because he did
Speaker 2: not have a good year last year, obviously dealing with
Speaker 2: injuries and miss time, but a lot of the underlining
Speaker 2: stuff was not there, and the projections don't feed into
Speaker 2: that because the projections are looking at not only a
Speaker 2: three year marker, but they're also kind of ignoring twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: so you're getting twenty nineteen that are put in those
Speaker 2: as well, and that's creating this bigger story of a
Speaker 2: track record for him. So the projections are bat x
Speaker 2: as almost as a twenty twenty guy this year, and
Speaker 2: he's going in the fifties and he's clumped in. I
Speaker 2: think it's kind of funny because he's put in with
Speaker 2: Jazz Chism and there's kind of injuries there as well.
Speaker 2: Jazz has been a little bit more injury prone, but
Speaker 2: people don't feel that injury thing with Ozzi Albi's yet
Speaker 2: they do with Jazz, and everyone's like, I don't want jazz.
Speaker 2: The idea is that if he's a twenty twenty guy,
Speaker 2: Ozzi Albi's could be the very top second baseman in
Speaker 2: a really bad group of those players. So when you
Speaker 2: look at top fifty players and you say, hey, how
Speaker 2: many of these guys have the opportunity to potentially return
Speaker 2: me top fifteen or even first round value overall, that'd
Speaker 2: be top fifteen in a roto Ozzi Albi's kind of
Speaker 2: still fits that mold because if you remember last year,
Speaker 2: Ozzi Albi's was the first round pick, very popular first
Speaker 2: round pick on.
Speaker 1: The wheel, like a guy like pretty much at the
Speaker 1: turn last year, and now he's going at fifty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to me, you get this guy third fourth round. I
Speaker 1: mean that's tremendous value there still. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you have to pay the cost of
Speaker 1: the wheel pick, but to see him going at fifty
Speaker 1: and like I said, I snagged him the other day
Speaker 1: in our draft too. I think he was the third
Speaker 1: round selection. For me. I was like, I can't pass
Speaker 1: them up. I just can't do it too much power
Speaker 1: speed combination, especially those leagues where you have the middle
Speaker 1: infielders you have to worry about. Speaking of middline, we
Speaker 1: got another guy here in the list who's going right
Speaker 1: around here, Corey Seeger at fifty five. His ADP has
Speaker 1: actually gone up a little bit in the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours since we put the show together, all the
Speaker 1: way up to forty nine, if you can believe it.
Speaker 1: But Corey Seeger, you know, to me, I wasn't surprised
Speaker 1: at all that the you know, the Corey Seeger first
Speaker 1: season in Texas was what it was, because when you
Speaker 1: see the guy sign the Mega deals, it's typically what
Speaker 1: it is. You saw Marcus Sime and his teammates struggle
Speaker 1: with the same thing in the first half, and we
Speaker 1: all know what happened in the second half for him.
Speaker 1: What was interesting about Corey Seger though, was that, you know,
Speaker 1: the power really started to come on there once you
Speaker 1: hit July. He had fourteen home runs between July and August.
Speaker 1: And if you pay attention to all these deep metrics
Speaker 1: about the shift, he is one of the top three
Speaker 1: guys where the lack of shift is going to benefit
Speaker 1: him in a very positive way. So, in your opinion,
Speaker 1: is Corey Seeger a quote unquote sleeper still because just
Speaker 1: a couple of years this is another player that was
Speaker 1: kind of going around the turn not that long ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's interesting you wrap the shft because that's
Speaker 2: a no that I have here. He actually last year
Speaker 2: was the tenth most shifted player with a ninety two
Speaker 2: percent shift rate, And the difference is in why he's
Speaker 2: going to benefit in what you were talking about. He
Speaker 2: had a three twenty six wOBA on the shift non
Speaker 2: shift three ninety seven. That is huge. You take on
Speaker 2: top of it that the guy for the last couple
Speaker 2: of years has completely just altered in how he hits
Speaker 2: the ball, hits it really hard. Even in all of
Speaker 2: that mess last year, like Corey Seger wasn't phenomenal or
Speaker 2: any by any of me. I mean thirty three homers
Speaker 2: was good, but only a two forty five.
Speaker 1: July and August got really hot and then just the
Speaker 1: bottom fell out in September and it really hurt the
Speaker 1: Splits overall. But there was definitely like I would say,
Speaker 1: it was a weird three act season where it started
Speaker 1: off rough, then it got really good, and then it
Speaker 1: ended poorly unfortunately.
Speaker 2: And sometimes these guys are like that. Sometimes they're just
Speaker 2: s treating players like that. But in all of that mess,
Speaker 2: think about this, this is a guy that hit two
Speaker 2: forty five. He still was top four percent in the
Speaker 2: league in XBA, which is expected batting average and top
Speaker 2: three percent and expected slug and x slug. So both
Speaker 2: of those numbers, you take the slug in the batting
Speaker 2: average and expected stats being top three and top four
Speaker 2: on top of it, is going to take a huge
Speaker 2: benefit on the shift. Corey Seeger doesn't have the stolen
Speaker 2: bases and lacks some of that you know, that sexy
Speaker 2: fantasy appeal, but he is a guy that if he's
Speaker 2: going to put up a two seventy two eighty average
Speaker 2: with thirty five plus homers, you don't usually get that
Speaker 2: at shortstop. You're not going to get the stolen bases.
Speaker 2: But if you get four cat, if you get three
Speaker 2: elite categories with a fourth solid and you sacrifice stolen bases,
Speaker 2: he's going to be a second round player. The only
Speaker 2: bummer is that he's boosting up. I mean literally when
Speaker 2: I put this together, like what three days ago, he
Speaker 2: was fifty five ADP and it's already changed as people
Speaker 2: are going, or fifty five ECR and he's moved up
Speaker 2: inside the top fifty. That's the bummer as far as
Speaker 2: the sleeper goes. The more that he moves up, the
Speaker 2: more that you're kind of just taking out the top
Speaker 2: end of value. But regardless of the point, this is
Speaker 2: a guy that looks like he is going to be
Speaker 2: able to rebound and benefit. You hit thirty three homers
Speaker 2: with a two forty five batting average, you click back
Speaker 2: into some of those expected stats, and no shift probably
Speaker 2: going to be on the top end of a really,
Speaker 2: really good return as far as the statsco at the
Speaker 2: short stop position, which is pretty deep. So yes, I'm
Speaker 2: not the biggest Albi's as a sleeper, but I am
Speaker 2: a Corey Seeger as a sleeper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see. This is like the ADP that I'm
Speaker 1: not buying, right, I bet you dollars to doughnuts whatever
Speaker 1: that means that you are going to get Corey Seeger
Speaker 1: slipping in drafts. I think a little bit past this
Speaker 1: fifty ringe would love it because I think there'll be
Speaker 1: some people that are just a little hesitant, or they'll
Speaker 1: be reaching for outfield or reaching for pitching. I think
Speaker 1: we're in those actual drafts. I think you're going to
Speaker 1: see that happen potentially, and you've seen it like you've
Speaker 1: seen them as worse as seventy, best as twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna lot to see a lot more
Speaker 1: shares of him closer to seventy than to thirty.
Speaker 2: Well, and one of the reasons behind that, too, is
Speaker 2: because this position is so deep. You just did a
Speaker 2: fifteen team mock on in this league, and we were
Speaker 2: past one hundred and you still had Wander Franco Jeremy
Speaker 2: Pania still out there the mock that we did right
Speaker 2: here in Fantasy Pros, you guys can go and check
Speaker 2: out I've got wan A Franco at one fifteen. The
Speaker 2: position is so deep that I don't think people feel
Speaker 2: the need to jump in. Who are the guys that
Speaker 2: you feel the need to jump up on, guys that
Speaker 2: also give you those stolen bases. Oneil Cruz I think
Speaker 2: has a better possibility of jumping Corey Seeger, and if
Speaker 2: you can take care of your stolen bases in other spots,
Speaker 2: which is totally doable this year, Corey Seeger falling backwards, it's.
Speaker 1: Going to be a huge value Onnel Cruz at eighty
Speaker 1: one right now in the overall, so not that far off.
Speaker 1: But that guy like that, You're right, it's going to
Speaker 1: get smaller spills, especially if he has a good spring.
Speaker 1: That's going to change. Villa pass Quentino, first baseman for
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Royals, heard George Brett on the other
Speaker 1: day talking about him. So when George Brett saying nice
Speaker 1: things about you, I think everybody you'd pay attention because
Speaker 1: that guy knows a thing or two about hitting. Last
Speaker 1: year in Triple A at eighteen bombs seventy ribies at
Speaker 1: two seventy seven, came up at two ninety five over
Speaker 1: seventy two games, ten dinger for him. I know this
Speaker 1: is a polarizing player. He's gonna be twenty five this year,
Speaker 1: But to me, I still think that this is a
Speaker 1: player that tracks in that sleeper range ninety four overall,
Speaker 1: that feels about right if you miss out on the
Speaker 1: elite first base, and I think it's worth taking a shot.
Speaker 1: But are we running the risk here? Is this the
Speaker 1: next Luke Voight or the next sleeper that really becomes
Speaker 1: a thing more like a Pee Alonzo.
Speaker 2: Well, the Luke void thing. That's interesting, but no. I
Speaker 2: mean the reason that everyone's so excited about him is
Speaker 2: a what he did in the short term of last season.
Speaker 2: Had ten homers in seventy two games while hitting two
Speaker 2: ninety five and had a higher walk percentage than his
Speaker 2: strikeout percentage. So we take a rookie with that and
Speaker 2: the big physicalness that he is in general, he had
Speaker 2: eighteen homers in the same amount of games by the
Speaker 2: seventy or seventy three games in Triple A, so he
Speaker 2: hit twenty eight homers across, you know, essentially a full
Speaker 2: season in Triple A in the major leagues. You take
Speaker 2: all of that with the plate discipline, and people get
Speaker 2: really excited about it. Another thing we got to go
Speaker 2: back to the Corey seeker thing. He was the eighth
Speaker 2: most shifted as far as percentage player goes. Last season,
Speaker 2: ninety three point two percent of the seventy games he
Speaker 2: was shifted on. And this is another one of those
Speaker 2: three sixty two wOBA on the shift, four twenty two
Speaker 2: Whoba on non shift. So you take great plate discipline,
Speaker 2: you take potential power, you take great contact skills. A
Speaker 2: guy that hit two ninety five in his debut and
Speaker 2: then you say shift big one. So this is a
Speaker 2: player at ninety four that people are like, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: you get a drop off after Matt Olson. I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people see a potential, you know, top
Speaker 2: fifty overall return. The divisiveness, though, Joe is about projections
Speaker 2: this year because Steamer went through the roof, people got
Speaker 2: excited to seventy five twenty one homers. The Batex poured
Speaker 2: water on it. Sixteen homers with a two seventy batting average,
Speaker 2: and he's kind of low in RBI and run totals
Speaker 2: no matter what, which is why I actually fade a
Speaker 2: little bit. I think based on this ADP, I do
Speaker 2: think he's kind of a he is the potential of
Speaker 2: the sleeper, but I'm fading because the team context is
Speaker 2: also not good. I think I said this a whole bunch,
Speaker 2: Like I'd rather have jose A Bray you at about
Speaker 2: the same cost than Vinnie pas Quentino. But you can
Speaker 2: see why he is such a sleeper and the cost
Speaker 2: has jumped up like a lot of these other guys.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that logic. I think he's a
Speaker 1: sleeper in the right spot. He's a good one to target.
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna get jose A Brew in that
Speaker 1: same area. I know some people whole concerned with some
Speaker 1: of the drop offs in some of the stats last
Speaker 1: year with the Breu, but dropping them there with Houston
Speaker 1: in that lineup is pretty good. Not that not that
Speaker 1: the White Socks are a bad lineup, but god, they
Speaker 1: had so many injuries last year too. It's such a
Speaker 1: like weird season for them.
Speaker 2: The Royals too. He played seventy two games, pass Quentino
Speaker 2: did in twenty six RBIs. He had ten homers twenty
Speaker 2: six RBIs in seventy two games. It's really hard when
Speaker 2: you look at this team to figure out where are
Speaker 2: the run and RBI opportunities going to come from. Overall,
Speaker 2: so as good as he can individually be, you can
Speaker 2: probably find more boring players. Nate Low CJ. Krohn, Christian Walker,
Speaker 2: who are just gonna overall put up bigger counting stats.
Speaker 2: They might give you the average, but you're probably gonna
Speaker 2: get more at homers, You're gonna get more runs in RBI,
Speaker 2: and that's almost guaranteed, probably on all those players I
Speaker 2: just listed. So that's why he is a huge sleeper name,
Speaker 2: but he's not on like my sleeper list all right.
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Speaker 1: your voice heard and you've got a good voice in
Speaker 1: the industry, not like me, terrible voice. How I ended
Speaker 1: up on hold a cold easily and h Jeffrey Springs
Speaker 1: He's not the worst. His ADP fluctuates as well. Uh.
Speaker 1: The ECRs at one eighty three on him, the best
Speaker 1: at one sixteen, the worst at two seventy four. Now,
Speaker 1: again it's very early, but this is a player. Last
Speaker 1: year Welsh one hundred and thirty five innings gave up
Speaker 1: just one hundred and fourteen hits one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four strikeouts to just thirty three walks. Their very solid
Speaker 1: performance at two four six ERA. Why isn't this guy
Speaker 1: getting more buzz? I almost feel like I do believe
Speaker 1: he is a sleeper. What's holding this guy back? Right now?
Speaker 2: With ADP, I agree, I would say one of the
Speaker 2: biggest reasons why he's held back is because of how
Speaker 2: the Rays have used him in the past. You know,
Speaker 2: this was a guy that was kind of in that
Speaker 2: pretty much Drew Resmussen was kind of like an opener. Like,
Speaker 2: I think there's that feel that forever and always Jeffrey
Speaker 2: Springs is going to be held back from being a heavy,
Speaker 2: dominant innings type of a pitcher, and I think that's
Speaker 2: one of the biggest reasons behind it. Also just raised
Speaker 2: in general that they're going to ever unleash him. This
Speaker 2: is one of mine, I think Jeffrey Springs, I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people agree. One to seventy is a steal.
Speaker 2: I think Jeffrey Springs is on the precipice. If the
Speaker 2: team does just allow him to go and unlow code,
Speaker 2: this is going to be a big positive. This past year,
Speaker 2: he had one hundred and thirty five innings, and like
Speaker 2: that's what I'm talking about. Can you I a think're
Speaker 2: gonna go to a one fifty? You know, like they
Speaker 2: really hold these guys back as far as those innings go.
Speaker 2: Maybe they didn't plan a hand. If you can unleash
Speaker 2: him over a full season, you're gonna have two hundred
Speaker 2: plus strikeouts. He had a two four six ERA this
Speaker 2: past year. And check this out. He had a three
Speaker 2: three two Sierra. So people pay attention to the Sierra
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more of a realistic look at
Speaker 2: what There's so many era predictors now, you know, you
Speaker 2: can look at X FIP or FIP, and then Sierra
Speaker 2: tends to be more commonly like a better predictor of
Speaker 2: what your actual era would look like. So two four
Speaker 2: six cra a three three two Sierra. That three three
Speaker 2: two Sierra was tied with Zach Gallon. Zach Gallen had
Speaker 2: the exact same Sierra. Then you go to his K percentage.
Speaker 2: She had a twenty six point two K percentage last
Speaker 2: year that was higher than you, Darvish and just behind
Speaker 2: Zach Allen. So I'm not trying to say that he
Speaker 2: needs he's going to be Zach Allen. But I'm saying
Speaker 2: he's got you to pick up. If his innings push up,
Speaker 2: he could push two hundred. It's a pretty good team context.
Speaker 2: I love Jeffrey Springs. I think he's a massive sleeper
Speaker 2: in value post one point fifty.
Speaker 1: All right, next, got on the list here, Lars newt Bar.
Speaker 1: He's going around pick one to ninety right now on
Speaker 1: the expert consensus as of us recording the show last year,
Speaker 1: fourteen bombs, forty ribbies, and one hundred and eight games.
Speaker 1: If you look at the minor league track record, though,
Speaker 1: it's a player with an ops of seven eighteen over
Speaker 1: two hundred and nine games. I have a tough time
Speaker 1: with this one. I know he is a very trendy name.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a sleeper. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be in on this year. What are your thoughts on Nudbar.
Speaker 2: I'm very much gonna be on Lars Newbar. Loved him
Speaker 2: since the AFL where he was being used as kind
Speaker 2: of a leadoff hitter. You go and look at his
Speaker 2: Baseball Savant page. It is red. It is the red sea,
Speaker 2: and it's not parting because it's still red the entire
Speaker 2: way through. Ninety percentile and average exit velocity. What's one
Speaker 2: thing I really look Ninety one point seven was his
Speaker 2: average exit velocity with a one thirteen max TV. You know,
Speaker 2: MaxV is what a lot of people pay attention to.
Speaker 2: But to be able to hold it that high is
Speaker 2: very solid. Eighty nine percentile max exit velocity. Hard hit
Speaker 2: percentage was in the top eighty percent x woeba eighty
Speaker 2: two percent. He is just a strong ability as far
Speaker 2: as a leadoff hitter goes. He can run, He's gotten
Speaker 2: bigger this past year. He's very pull heavy to watch,
Speaker 2: but high walk percentage, good contact rate. He's a good
Speaker 2: leadoff homer, stolen base com I think he'd be a
Speaker 2: five tool player. I'm very very much into large new part.
Speaker 2: The only problem is he is one of the highest
Speaker 2: moving up players as far as like the last month,
Speaker 2: as far as drafts have gone, he's moved up maybe
Speaker 2: more than anybody as far as ADP.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a guy. I'm just not in on
Speaker 1: again that you've got to prove more to me in
Speaker 1: the minor league track record a cup of coffee up
Speaker 1: here Onredan. One hundred eight games is a good sample size.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, man. I'm looking at the three
Speaker 1: seventy three careers lugging in the minor leagues. That's not
Speaker 1: super impressive. The three forty five OVP that's not super
Speaker 1: impressive for the leadoff guy that I want. And two
Speaker 1: fifty seven batting average again, two hundred games in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues. Look, players are with Maryfield was a mediocre
Speaker 1: minor leaguer who then took the world by storm and
Speaker 1: had some great seasons. We'll see if he's the next one.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Miguel Vargas, next guy on the list
Speaker 1: at two ninety three Welsh. Do you think Miguel Vargas
Speaker 1: is a sleeper or not?
Speaker 2: I do simply be and this one is going to
Speaker 2: be a little bit easier for you. This one, I
Speaker 2: think is simply just about him not having a lockdown job.
Speaker 2: I've moved him way up in my ranks. I think
Speaker 2: based on where he's being drafted, he's a sleeper. Because
Speaker 2: he looks all but having the second base job in LA,
Speaker 2: and this is one of those guys I was actually
Speaker 2: looking an interesting thing about him. He hit sub one
Speaker 2: hundred against fastballs in his major league debut, and that
Speaker 2: actually shows a lot about the player that he is.
Speaker 2: He's a very patient, high OBP type of guy that's walking,
Speaker 2: and he was cheating in his debut to try to
Speaker 2: hit off speed stuff, and I think he ended up
Speaker 2: hitting breaking pitches over three hundred, but it was sub
Speaker 2: one hundred against fastballs. Getting more time and getting locked
Speaker 2: in at a major league level, I think he's going
Speaker 2: to click. You're not going to hit sub one hundred
Speaker 2: against fastballs. He's going to make good contact. He's going
Speaker 2: to have that second base gig, which is extra availability.
Speaker 2: I think he's had code homers and he'll hit lower
Speaker 2: in the lineup in there, but it's an opportunity. And
Speaker 2: he's way in the two hundreds. I think he should
Speaker 2: be closer to a top two hundred, and once he's
Speaker 2: been given the job, he will skyrocket, like all of
Speaker 2: these rookies will in general, once they're confirmed. Everyone's just
Speaker 2: a little bit nervous. So Miguel Vargas this is a
Speaker 2: little bit more of a mean one, Joe, But I
Speaker 2: think he is a sleeper here, especially on his current ADP.
Speaker 1: Storry Ruiz at three seventeen that this is the guy
Speaker 1: who's kind of blocked in that Padre system. Now with Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: do you see a clearer path for him to I
Speaker 1: guess return to this sleeper status that people want to
Speaker 1: put on him.
Speaker 2: Well, the sleeper status is all about the stolen bases.
Speaker 2: That's about it. The Oakland A's are maybe the most
Speaker 2: embarrassing roster to look at. It's really it's it's bad
Speaker 2: for baseball, it's embarrassing, But for fantasy players, it breeds
Speaker 2: opportunity and cheap opportunity because who wants to a who like,
Speaker 2: name a A that you want? There is none, there's none
Speaker 2: that you actually want to maybe rumin Lariano. That's like
Speaker 2: past one to fifty as Stury's got the ability to
Speaker 2: lead the league in stolen bases, and he's also got
Speaker 2: the ability to potentially lead off for this team. So
Speaker 2: that's why he's such a sleeper for late round stolen bases.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I buy it so much, but
Speaker 2: guess what are they going to give up any early
Speaker 2: and they they need to manufacturer runs. Yes, all of
Speaker 2: those first no, and then yes, they're not going to
Speaker 2: give up on him early. Yes, he needed manufacturer runs.
Speaker 2: So he's a sleeper for stolen bases. I don't get
Speaker 2: super excited because I don't like to hedge my bet
Speaker 2: on like super late dudes that get you stolen base.
Speaker 2: I want even players that do well things, not a
Speaker 2: one trick pony. And that's what I think he is.
Speaker 1: All right, Will Myers seems like a perpetual sleeper every
Speaker 1: single year. If only gets to be healthy, if if
Speaker 1: if Will Myers, if if this oh career has been
Speaker 1: if three twenty eight is the current adp right here
Speaker 1: for Will Myers. So let's talk about him in terms
Speaker 1: of your thoughts. Do you think that being in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: this year makes him a sleeper that is truly sleeper
Speaker 1: worthy of investment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if some candy's and nuts, we'd all have a
Speaker 2: merry Christmas. That is what Michael Clark Duncan said to us.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm in on Will Myers. I think it's
Speaker 2: simply the team context. He's going to be given opportunity.
Speaker 2: There is a growing sense of people that I think, actually,
Speaker 2: you're kind of liking Jake Freeley, so I want to
Speaker 2: throw that out as well, that one of those guys
Speaker 2: would pop. But Cincinnati we saw it with Brandon Drury
Speaker 2: this past year. Will Myers should actually be one of
Speaker 2: the team leaders on there. And outfield really stinks and
Speaker 2: he qualifies at outfield, so that's one of the biggest
Speaker 2: reasons behind it. You might get twenty plus homers, and
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are building that in
Speaker 2: for that. Really just again, this is kind of like
Speaker 2: the age. It's not a good team, it's not a
Speaker 2: great team context, but he's a great ballpark to hit
Speaker 2: in and Will Myers has stolen some bases before, has
Speaker 2: twenty power potential pop. So if he stays healthy and
Speaker 2: he goes this is why he's a sleeper, and he
Speaker 2: is down on every single drafting format. Everywhere you play,
Speaker 2: he's way down the list and you can sneak up
Speaker 2: for it is your fifth outfielder. He's absolutely free all right.
Speaker 1: Last two guys here, James Outman of the Dodgers at
Speaker 1: three seventy one, the ADP Michael Massey at four seventy one.
Speaker 1: Massy to me is very interesting especially in terms of
Speaker 1: playing time potential like a swing like the lefty bat,
Speaker 1: second base is open for him. There talk about Outman
Speaker 1: and Macy, these two guys here, one for Kansas City,
Speaker 1: obviously altmen for the Dodgers, and what their impact and
Speaker 1: be in some of these deeper leagues when you're looking
Speaker 1: at the deeper sleepers, do these guys qualify in your opinion?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they both qualify for it. So James
Speaker 2: Outman is interesting because this is a Dodger. It's actually
Speaker 2: baffling to me. I gotta be honest with you. I
Speaker 2: am shocked that the Dodgers are really showing the comfort
Speaker 2: level of going in with their outfield of James Outman
Speaker 2: and Trace Thompson that's Klay Thompson's brother. They would be
Speaker 2: willing to go into the year with these guys. Autman
Speaker 2: hit the ball pretty hard. He struck out a ton,
Speaker 2: but it's fifteen plus power, maybe ten plus stolen base
Speaker 2: if they give him. This is one of the situations,
Speaker 2: this is opportunity. If James Outman is actually going to
Speaker 2: be a starting outfielder, He's going to hit eight or
Speaker 2: seven or something for the Dodgers. But in that lineup.
Speaker 2: In general, you're just spattered with great players across the
Speaker 2: board that there's going to be running RBI opportunities. So
Speaker 2: if you're inn every outfield for the Dodgers, that's better
Speaker 2: than probably the second outfielder for the Colorado Rockies. And
Speaker 2: I don't think that's weird to say. So this is
Speaker 2: about the opportunity that outman would get. Plus he has
Speaker 2: shown the ball. He's shown the ability to, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of strike on the ball, kind of like actually
Speaker 2: a large new par He's.
Speaker 1: Actually he strikes on the ball. He also strikes out.
Speaker 1: He's the perfect draft. You have a good April May
Speaker 1: where he's read hot before he gets figured out. You
Speaker 1: trade him about him about real quick.
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, strike out right and everything. But I would
Speaker 2: call Outman like Walgreen's large new bar. Michael Massey is
Speaker 2: way down the list, like four hundreds, but he's the
Speaker 2: last pick in a lot of places because it looks
Speaker 2: like he's been given the job. Actually, just got some
Speaker 2: video from a friend that was at a batting session
Speaker 2: where he was. He looks kind of jacked and he
Speaker 2: looks like he's going to be given this overall gig
Speaker 2: with the Royals, and this is just a back to
Speaker 2: kind of opportunity. He's power speed under two hundred plate appearances,
Speaker 2: he had a Cup, four homers, three stolen bases, batting
Speaker 2: average around two forty three. Might move up in the lineup,
Speaker 2: maybe they can hit him two, makes really good contact.
Speaker 2: This is going to be a team that is still
Speaker 2: going to run. And I think Massey has the potential
Speaker 2: to get fifteen plus stolen bases this year. And again
Speaker 2: you're just looking sometimes to fill out a spot. Second
Speaker 2: base stinks and you can get him post four hundred
Speaker 2: right now. Michael Massey, especially in deeper, deeper leagues or
Speaker 2: NFBC date based stuff, is definitely a sleeper.
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