WEBVTT - Top-10 Late Round Sluggers: Target These 20 Undervalued Hitters! (Ep. 612) 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.720 Late round power. Let's talk to the pros. Welcome in 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:08.080 everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.760 It is be Joey p joe Pisapia, and today we're 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.240 going to take a look at the late round sluggers. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.680 That's right. Everybody likes power on their teams, but sometimes 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.119 you don't want to pay for it. You want a 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:19.760 little bit of a discount, So we're going to give 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.400 that to you today. Looking at some of the players 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.360 outside the top two hundred ADP that fit that bill. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.800 We've gone pretty deep on some of these names. Some 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.319 will be familiar, maybe a few still we have to 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.520 sell you on. But regardless, these are the top twenty guys. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.800 We've each made a list of ten. And joining me 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:37.680 today on the show as always my good friend the 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.680 Welsh Chris Welsh. He has got his sexy voice to 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.280 today because he's a little under the weather, but to me, 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.239 that makes the show all the more appealing. 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.159 Yeah, that's good if it's a little sexy voice. A 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.280 little bit deeper everybody. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.960 Hello, Yes, this is my co host Tom Waits. For 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.320 the next hour. Now, it's not even going to be 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.080 that long, folks. It will want to be an hour show. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.000 Can we talk some sluggers though? Please? 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:05.000 Like the Snuggers and the ADP. I love Tom. Tom 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.880 Waite should do a sports podcast now that I think 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:08.759 about it, and maybe I'm dating myself with the. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.240 Tom Wains, I didn't do it. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:19.720 What do you think of JD. Martinez? He's classic. I 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.600 think he's timeless. But anyway, let's get to some of 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.240 these names on the list before we do. Just a 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.760 quick reminder too, The Wizard is open for business. That's right. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.520 Your letter to Hogwarts is waiting around the corner and 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.240 a trip to the championship. But it all starts now. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.200 You have to use the wizard. The twenty twenty three 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.160 MLB Draft Wizard is open so you can get all 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.520 your mock drafts on go to fantasypros dot com s 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.040 last Draft Wizard. We'll just get the Fantasy Pros app 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.200 to and you can do all of your mock drafting 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.360 till you're The cows come home and I don't know 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.840 where they've been, but they've been out late. They've probably 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.120 been drinking, but ten minutes, have some fun, run some 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.960 mock drafts. Start your preparation now, start to see the board, 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.680 because the board in January is going to evolve into 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.680 February and you're gonna see some of these names start 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.160 to change. So it's good to start preparing again an 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.400 idea of where some of those ADPs are. And speaking 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.640 of those ADPs, let's kick off with Welsh's number ten. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.400 Outside the top two hundred, where you might find a 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:11.280 little bit of pop. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.720 You know, we talked about this guy, I think in 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.600 the last couple episodes, and when you're looking outside the 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.240 top two hundred ADP, there's some interesting names. There's some 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.640 really good hitters. Overall. I'm not the biggest on this guy, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.760 but if we are going to make any definition of 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.240 like sluggers looking for fifteen or more homers post two hundred, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.240 I do think it is still hard to deny kateell 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.520 Marte Fantasy Pros ADP, which I just want to shout 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.639 out there is not a lot of ADP out there. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.840 There is NFBC ADP, which is a little bit of 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.720 a different beast. ESPN just opened their product. It's a product. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.840 I guess, it's a thing. We just did a mock up, which, 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.200 by the way, I want to point out something I 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.960 wanted to add to your read. We hooked it up 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.920 to the Draft Wizard and hilariously, I loved my own draft. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.760 You hated my draft. You hated my draft that I 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.600 put together in a twelve team It was a twelve 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:00.080 team one. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:01.840 But that's one of the great things is you get 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.639 all the insights, and if you're a Premium member, you 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.720 get even more insights. And you can put your keepers 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.120 in the Draft Wizard stuff, which is so cool. So 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.000 if you like yeah, but round you have them in 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.440 like it. It's pretty sophisticated. I don't think people out 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.600 there still realize just how sophisticated this product is, especially 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.320 when you are upgraded your membership from free to something else, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.640 because especially in these baseball leagues, we have all these 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.720 keepers and rounds attached to them that you can run 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.840 these drafts with. With those players in there, that's invaluable. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.919 But continue on about my hatred. Yes, I'd like to 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:28.160 hear more. 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.680 Yeah yeah, no, Well, and also, like these sites, projections 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.880 are wild, so it was good to kind of stabilize 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.000 it with Fantasy Pro. So I just wanted to throw 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.440 that out there as well, but they don't have ADP, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.720 and so I just want to point out it is 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.720 great that there is ADP information out there on Fantasy Pros. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.240 You can just type in A good thing to do 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.560 is you know Fantasy Pros Baseball ADP, and it'll pop 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:49.880 up and you can start to take a look. And 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.840 one of those that jumps out is kateel Marte, and 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:57.760 Katel's offensive upside seems a little bit staggered right now. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.200 But what I would say this, it's always hard it. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.000 Bat X projections have him at eighteen homers. He's touched 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.440 thirty before. He's going to be the number three hitter 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.560 for Arizona, which is going to be a little bit sneaky, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.560 and you're gonna get fifteen plus homer power from him 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.360 with I think more potential upside and more RBI and 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.920 it's post two hundred Fantasy Pros current ADP two twelve 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.040 that you can get him right now. So you want 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.039 to talk about some late sluggers, maybe this isn't the 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.640 traditional slugger. This is a really good homer value of 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.920 fifteen plus post two hundred. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.919 At a really crappy position, by the way, and he 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.960 just actually showed up on our previous list, which is 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:35.960 kind of interesting. Where you are not a huge fan. 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.960 Yet here we are, and it just goes to show 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.920 you we're all about business here on the show. It's 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.240 not about personal preference. It's about winning. That's it. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.679 That guy that's my guy, by the way, on my team, 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.400 like I want to vote for I want to root 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.800 for him. His value is what makes him so exponentially 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.000 interesting right now compared to where you ever had to 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:53.560 pay for him. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.960 Now, the next guy on my list, number ten, uh, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.479 maybe a guy who you want on your fantasy team, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.880 but you don't want inner fantasy league. It's Jock Peterson. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.200 That's right. You want Jack Peterson for that little bit 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.760 of extra power that he provides. Last year twenty three homers. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.480 Right now, the current ADP of Jock Peterson is sitting 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.800 around two twenty four to twenty five depending on the hour, 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.200 and look left handed power bat, he is just thirty. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.680 I think people forget that. You know, it's been around 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.560 so long. Last year at two forty seven ISO. You 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.680 look at his high water mark for home runs, it 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.600 was thirty six just in twenty nineteen with the Dodgers, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.920 and you know, going back here with the San Francisco 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.279 Giants last year. To me it's all about playing time 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.839 for him. One hundred and thirty seven games in twenty 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.919 twenty one combined with two teams one hundred and thirty 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.279 four last year, there's no reason not to think that 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.240 he is going to be, you know, somewhere around that 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.080 mark as well. The thing with Peterson is they do 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.680 come in bunches, which makes him a tough sell in 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.880 any head to head format. But in this roto season 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.200 long you set it and forget it. I think it's 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.680 at least a minimum of twenty five in that range, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.160 with upside for more, especially since you know, I think 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.919 when you go out you bring in another bat like Canfordo, 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:04.400 who we're going to talk about in the second I 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.280 might as well just talk about because he's my number nine. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.480 Confordo is another guy at two thirty three who I 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.680 think also fits that bill. My concern is a slow 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.560 start for Conforida, who did not play all of last 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.200 season with injury for the New York Mets us with 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.839 the shoulder surgery. Nobody signed him, so a year off 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.400 is a little concerning. If he has a regular offseason 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:26.800 at this point, and he was healthy at the end 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.880 of last year, some teams were considering signing him. This 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.000 is a guy that you know some around twenty eight 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.000 and a half home runs is kind of his average 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.000 from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen. Is a great opportunity. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.080 Both these guys left headed sluggers, so there might be 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.520 some stretches where they're facing tough lefties and those head 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.640 to head formats with daily transactions, you might want to 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.760 pull them out. But overall, I think if you draft 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.920 these two guys in San Francisco, you have a good 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.760 chance to probably get fifty plus homers between the two 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.839 of them. And I do believe that even if Canforida 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:58.560 is a slow starter, this is a player that if 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.560 you don't draft him, you could certainly try four two. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.279 Give me your number nine guy Welsh on your list 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.279 of late round sluggers. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.400 Yeah, this is another guy I think is just a 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.520 really good value right now. If you're looking at again 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.040 another position that isn't great. Second base is in great, 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.200 third base isn't great. He's got an ADP. This is 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.600 in the higher two hundreds of two point fifteen, though 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.840 on Fantasy pros it's Josh Young with the Texas Rangers. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.679 Josh Young hit five homers last year and around twenty 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.920 six games, missed a ton of time. This is a 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.320 big power bat, a big contact bat that gets into power. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.320 It's kind of reminiscent of like I always use Goldie 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.480 as a gold standard of players, no pun intended of 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.400 like dudes that you know, tap into power that are 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.240 not trying to. That's kind of how Josh Young is. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.560 Also a little bit faster current projections Steamers at nineteen, 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.960 bad x is at seventeen. This is only over one 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.240 hundred and twenty games if they're building an injury. If 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.000 there's not, and you get a whole full one fifty 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.240 out of him, you're looking at twenty plus across the 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.720 board at not a good position. One of the better 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.760 young bats that still exist out there, and that would 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.600 be vying for Rookie of the Year. You know, we're 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.240 talking about Henderson and Corbyn, Carroll and all those guys, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:06.040 but don't forget Josh Young is still technically rookie eligible 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:07.840 and he'll be one of those guys that gets full 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.840 season run on probably a pretty good team. So I'm 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.360 not I'm not a big anti Josh Young guy. You know, 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.080 the big outlier is he struck out thirty eight percent 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.920 of the time in major leagues and twenty eight percent 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.120 of the time in Triple A. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:20.600 This year. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.680 He had never gone twenty three percent of the time 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.400 in his entire career, and we talked about it. He 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.160 just missed so much time. There was so much time 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.200 that was missed in there, so good contact bat tapping 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.520 into power. Showed the power at the major leagues even 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.079 with the strikeout rate. I think he's going to be 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.000 twenty plus and he's post two hundred on Fantasy Pros 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.000 ADP and. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.240 Is a good thing. We like that. Next on my list, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.160 he is an ADP of two thirty five. So, as 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.320 you can see, in this kind of two twenty to 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.079 two forty range, there's some bats here that you get 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.760 get some pretty good value on if you're looking for 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.560 some utility bats or some outfield depth. This next guy 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.920 is corner guy Tristan Cassis of the Boston Red Sox, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:01.240 now again just twenty three years old, so this is 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.600 a little bit of a reach. I think fifteen is 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.560 in his grasp as long as he keeps his job 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.640 and plays every day in the Boston Red Sox at 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.280 this point have no reason not to do that. And 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.959 continue to turn the page and look to the future 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.960 because they are not quite a contender this year. In 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.480 my opinion, I don't care where anybody's trying to sell 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.120 me on this Mondesty trade, like all of a sudden, 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:18.840 that's going to be the cure all for the Boston 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:19.599 Red Sox. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.160 Because that's not the guy. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.280 And left handed power in Fenway Park traditionally a good thing. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.280 So you look at you know this Lugan percentage four 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.839 eighty five in the minor leagues. But again a young player. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.360 This is a kid drafted out of high school, so 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.720 you know this is a guy that will continuously grow 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.560 into that power. So I think fifteen is a good baseline, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.080 but I do think twenty is possible if things break right, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.440 maybe a strong second half, maybe some strong work at 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.320 home in those splits. That's something to pay attention to. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.240 This is a player too, I think you pay a 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.760 lot of attention to in those daily transaction formats where 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.679 you're putting guys in out of lineups. If you think 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.680 it's a good matchup or if he's on a hot strike, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.559 you play him. If he's not, you sit him. But regardless, 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.360 I think this is a player of talent. This is 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.000 a player they're trying to build the future with. So 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.520 even if he does struggle, kind of like Kansas City 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.959 with Bobby Witt last year, just leave him alone, leave 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.400 him alone, let him figure it out, give him the 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.160 confidence to continue on, and I think if everything breaks right, 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.079 he can get over that twenty mark. You think I'm 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.640 reaching here, No, I would have had him on my list. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.280 I would have had him on my list had you 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:21.679 not put him on here, one hundred percent. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.000 Look, see we do him higher too. We don't care 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:25.080 what the draft wizard says. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.760 I actually want to point out I would have had 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.439 him higher than you have him on this list had 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.080 you not picked him, I probably would have put him 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.360 at like five or you know, four or five on 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:32.839 this list. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.960 Well, the only reason is, you know, with the young players, 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.640 we do get that thing where we get excited they 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.840 come up there and then they just flatline. And that is, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:43.920 as my friend Derek Brown likes to say, in the 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.120 range of outcomes. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.480 Yeah, but in the range of outcomes, we're also talking 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.679 about guys that are post two hundred, post three hundred. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.640 These are players that are immense values. And this is 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.960 what this round in these rounds sometimes consist of questionable 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.959 playing time around young players, are un proven young players, 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.640 and then kind of stinky veterans, you know what I mean, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.520 like the adom de All's of the world and stuff 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.280 like that. So you've got to take your shot. So, yes, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.920 there's a wide range of outcomes that exist with these guys, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.400 But if you're looking to hit a home run, these 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.839 are the type of guys that get you there, especially 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.200 these young bats that people are just you know, there's 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.400 prospect fatigue, they're not quite sold on completely. Tristan Cassas 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.160 is the prime example. I think of his conversation. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.760 Love it all right, So Tristan Cassis, guy, we both 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.280 endorsed two thirty five ADP number eight on my list. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.760 Let's go to number eight on your list? Who is it? Uh? 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:34.280 This one? 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.880 It's not a cheat. I'm not trying to completely cheat here, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.920 though I was trying to cheat behind the scenes with Joe. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.600 I kept being like, can I get this guy who's 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.520 not quite a slugger blah blah blah. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.160 Guy and he's you know, he's one ninety nine or 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:49.880 defined slugger. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.000 Slugger was more of the question because I think there's 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.679 there's some good value hitters, and one of them at 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.320 a throw out to you is not a traditional classical slugger, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.360 but it is Oswald Perros with the New York Yankees. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.760 And there's a couple of reasons behind this. Ooswalt Parraza is, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.160 for all intentsive purpose, is going to be given the 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.680 gig in New York. He has a chance to lose it. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.880 He has a chance. Obviously, he's been given the opportunity 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.960 to take it. What's interesting about him in the miners 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.679 in twenty twenty two hit nineteen homers with thirty three 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.360 stolen bases in ninety nine games, comes up to the majors. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.240 Hits a homer, a couple stolen bases, hits three hundred, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.800 No big deal set to play this year, projections if 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.000 you go and look, he'll only be seven homers, ten 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.720 stolen bases or eight homers ten stolen bases, depending what 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.000 projection system you look at. But the games are in 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.440 the sixties seventies, so if he is a full time 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.480 player this year, projections all but guarantee. He is a 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.360 fifteen to twenty guy, little bit of a smaller build 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.800 type of player, six foot two hundred at shortstop. But 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.199 he's got a big power swing and I wouldn't be 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.000 shocked if he tapped into twenty, especially in New York's environment. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.320 But if we can define sluggers at fifteen, you're also 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.040 going to get a little bit of a sneak. You're 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:03.960 gonna get the sneak, you get the stee sneak. And 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.840 maybe about batting average exactly. And guess what the biggest 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.439 thing I didn't tell you on his ADP four forty 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.640 four on NFBC. Yeah, and if no, I'm sorry, Fantasy 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.160 pros ADP NFBC is probably way way lower. And this 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.599 is the potential New York Yankees shortstop. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.560 Yeah. Look, Yankees have some talent coming through. There's no 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.959 doubt about that. I got to watch because now the 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.840 local affiliate here fifteen minutes from my house turned over. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.680 Used to be the Independent League Summerset Patriots. Now they're 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.560 the Double A Yankee. So I got to see Vulpi 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.080 a few times playing personal. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:35.959 You and I chatted about when you got to see Vulpe. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:37.160 He had home run the. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.199 DAYO was there, Actually no, he hit a ball off 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:40.439 the wall that should have been a home run the 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.640 day I was there in a in a park that 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.160 didn't have a wall that was five hundred feet high. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.240 But very impressive player too. This one is impressive. Also. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.600 They've got the Jason Demingez. People are polarized on him 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.880 what they think of him, But there's a lot of 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.439 makings of another, you know, turnover into the Yankees, and 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.079 that's going to be fascinting to see just how fast 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.320 that happens and what the need is for that, because look, 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:03.720 you could see some of these guys at major league 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.800 level continuing to be okay or glaber Tours. Does he 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.079 revert back to bad glabor tores this year? Like there's 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:09.960 a lot of the trade him there. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:11.360 There are a lot of trade rumors around here. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.679 They could look. I give Cashman credit. How he's been 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.880 GM this long in that organization is stunning to me. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.400 In New York in that city. Well, and without winning, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.200 that also matters, but you know, they put a good 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.400 product on the field. It is all the matter. They 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.040 haven't won the big one, but they do win a lot. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:31.000 That's the difference. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.160 I guess, you know, what do they do convinced Baseball 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.200 to give those cheat balls to Aaron Judge for the 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.240 home runner. I mean, they've done some really good selling 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:37.520 out there. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.840 Jude, that's a good thing. I mean, heck, I could 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.680 use some of those right now. All right, let's get 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.720 to the next guy on my list. Number seven. It's 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.480 Lane Thomas, outfielder of the Washington Nationals. Now, this is 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.040 a volume play Boys and Girls. I don't love Lane Thomas. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.680 I'm not completely buying what I saw last year with 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.080 the seventeen home runs. But can he get you fifteen 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.960 to twenty again this year? I think the answer is yes. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.600 Is it going to come with a two forty batting average? Probably, 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.640 Like you know, that's probably what we're looking at here. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:07.800 But when you're looking at the guys who and roster 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:09.480 resource has him hitting at the top of the lineup 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.920 right now in Washington, when you have the extra at bats, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.360 when you have the extra moments, there sometimes that volume. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.160 You know, just like in baseball and football, the same thing, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.800 volume can be king so getting more opportunities in those 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.440 head in those season long rotal leagues where you're looking 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.680 to compile a bit, players like this who are very 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.640 cheap are worth a look at that. He is right 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.520 now the ADP of two sixty one there's some players 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.160 going after him that I think are better players that 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.360 I'm going to talk about. But this is another one 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.920 where I think it's more of a volume play than anything. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.320 For me. I'm curious. What are your thoughts on Lane 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:42.240 Thomas real quick? 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.360 Yeah, I've always liked I mean, Lane is one of 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.440 those when he gets to lead off, you know, if 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.320 he's put in that position again, it's just sneaky runs 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.080 actually talk to when he needs to play with the Cardinals. Yeah, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.680 I think he's like a you know, a low end 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.760 homer guy that's going to get I think he has 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.560 the potential to be at up words of a solid 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.720 three category player, maybe pushes four, and it just depends 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.440 where you're going to step off from. I like this one. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.280 I like that you did it because I think he 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.000 fits more like my Oswealt Parrazza, where this is not 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.640 a traditional slugger. This is a good hitter that my 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.479 tap into fifteen homers later in rounds. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.000 Yeah, and he is over at let's see three seventy 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.680 seven where he's at right now. So I think that's 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.280 that's a pretty darn good value there at that moment. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.400 All right, let's get to the next guy on your 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.720 list who's number seven for some late round sluggin. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.480 So I've got some trends here, and I'm gonna throw 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.480 a lot of these younger guys out here because you're 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:42.120 getting big adp values and this one isn't immense unless 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.000 he's starting. And we're in this really weird space right now. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.840 It's funny enough. I'm gonna be doing a rookie panel 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.240 more for twenty fourteen on our Friends of Our Pitcher 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:52.040 list for Pitchcon. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.880 Also be appearing on Pitchcon on Friday me and I'm 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.320 doing a panel there. I'm the host between a fight 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.720 between Nick Pop like an Ino Saris regarding pitchers, I've 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.640 heard of those. I don't know if they're they're new 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.679 to the baseball world, but there. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.440 Should be a good time. They're blessed. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.199 I believe it's two o'clock or three o'clock. I got 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.680