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Speaker 1: guys that are undervalued on the hitting side. Now, just
Speaker 1: as a precursor to this show, this doesn't mean they're sleeper.
Speaker 1: These are guys that you've had on your teams. You
Speaker 1: already know they are going outside the top one hundred
Speaker 1: currently as of recording this though, and as guys that
Speaker 1: we think might be just a little bit undervalued based
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Speaker 1: about some underrated hitters right now, Welsh, and the first
Speaker 1: one is a guy that a lot of us had
Speaker 1: expectations for last year, and I feel like this happens
Speaker 1: a lot right We get our expectations up, we get
Speaker 1: very excited about a player, and then injuries or issues
Speaker 1: or underperformance kind of all of a sudden stymy that excitement. Well,
Speaker 1: Tristan Cossas of the Boston Red Sox, there's still a
Speaker 1: lot to get excited about. This Boston Red Sox team
Speaker 1: is on the verge of a rebirth year with some
Speaker 1: of these prospects they've got coming through the organization last
Speaker 1: year and this year, we expect more and it seems
Speaker 1: like things are finally on the upswing in Boston. When
Speaker 1: you watch Casas, he is a big guy, power hitting, slugging,
Speaker 1: old school kind of first base and there's a lot
Speaker 1: to like here when it comes to Cassas. Currently, he's
Speaker 1: going around player one POH one in the consensus ADP
Speaker 1: thirteen homers last year in just sixty three games. Again,
Speaker 1: that's the problem, just sixty three games. So I think
Speaker 1: we expect some bumps here and there from Tristan Cossas
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. But the power and also the
Speaker 1: top heaviness of the position at first base to me
Speaker 1: makes him a really intriguing player in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he is, I will say he is sandwiched
Speaker 2: in kind of an area where there's a couple of
Speaker 2: really good play. But the problem with that is having
Speaker 2: a few of those players usually pushes somebody out. And
Speaker 2: it's kind of been Tristan Kassas, who in many years
Speaker 2: past has been somebody that everyone want to jumps in on.
Speaker 2: But you know, as you mentioned, in a short period
Speaker 2: of time last year, it was still fine, Like he
Speaker 2: missed a bunch of time with injury and then his return,
Speaker 2: it was okay for most people. But when you look
Speaker 2: on the underlying you still see, you know, some elite
Speaker 2: pieces that are being put together. Thirteen percent barrel rate
Speaker 2: last year with a forty five percent hard hit rate.
Speaker 2: Those two, especially the barrel rate, really elite stuff. With
Speaker 2: a big, fast bat you're talking about, he's just this
Speaker 2: like big dude. Well, he registered well above and the
Speaker 2: top like fifteen to twenty percent tile of the league
Speaker 2: in bat speed. And this is for like a six
Speaker 2: foot five, almost two hundred and fifty pounds two first babe. Yeah,
Speaker 2: huge first baseman. It was almost around seventy five seventy
Speaker 2: five miles per hour on the fast track swing, which
Speaker 2: is well above He just barrels of ball generates, you know,
Speaker 2: such incredible force to it that he's a thirty home
Speaker 2: run threat really at all times. Problem was the the
Speaker 2: bat of ball like quality kind of dissipated last year
Speaker 2: thirty one percent strikeout rate, which was an over six
Speaker 2: percent increase from the year before, and is expected batting
Speaker 2: average from his two forty actual it's expected was under
Speaker 2: two twenty. So like, those are the worries, and that's
Speaker 2: what's suppressing some of the value. But you know, you
Speaker 2: come back to it and you see a healthy Cansis,
Speaker 2: You see a healthy lineup by the way of Devers
Speaker 2: and Jared Durant has taken that next step, and you
Speaker 2: see RBI opportunities through the roof. Projections are in a
Speaker 2: really interesting spot too. I'll just pull up all the
Speaker 2: big dogs are out.
Speaker 1: I see the atc ones right now. Twenty seven homer,
Speaker 1: seventy four runs, seventy nine RBI for him. I think
Speaker 1: that's as a pretty strong baseline, especially when you consider
Speaker 1: he'ything third in this lineup projected. That's to me, what's
Speaker 1: so appealing to is that lineup projectability in the third spot,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of runs, a lot of rbi, all
Speaker 1: those countexats that you're looking for in fantasy.
Speaker 2: Well, what is the batting average on ATC, Because I've
Speaker 2: got the bat up from Derek Cardy, so those are
Speaker 2: too good to bounce.
Speaker 1: Out of the ATC batting averagesement two forty two, which
Speaker 1: is all right. If he could somehow get up to
Speaker 1: two fifty two fifty five or something like that, I
Speaker 1: would dance a jig. I'd be very excited about it.
Speaker 2: Well see, and that's a great point. So on eighty
Speaker 2: on the bat looking at Cossas, it's excuse me. Also
Speaker 2: two forty two, twenty seven homers, eighty four rbi in
Speaker 2: around one hundred and forty three games. So the suppression
Speaker 2: is some of that batterball quality. It's like the strikeouts
Speaker 2: were there, the XBA wasn't there. But Barrel hard hit great,
Speaker 2: big fast bat speed and hopefully health is the thing
Speaker 2: that's going to push him into like a much much
Speaker 2: better direction. And he's one of those guys. Even from
Speaker 2: last year he hit better against lefties as a lefty,
Speaker 2: struggled against righty's. I think there's a lot of things
Speaker 2: that are working in his favor. He also did, they
Speaker 2: are small sample sizes, but in a first half registration
Speaker 2: of the end of the year he was better. You know,
Speaker 2: he was hitting two forty two. So if he's a
Speaker 2: two forty hitter, thirty homers are in tow. But if
Speaker 2: he bounces back up, and this is what makes him
Speaker 2: truly underrated, if he's closer to let's say the year before,
Speaker 2: is a two to sixty hitter, legitimately might be a
Speaker 2: thirty plus homer. So back to the first thing I
Speaker 2: said was he is sandwiched in this range where you
Speaker 2: do have the Cody Bellingers of the world. You've got
Speaker 2: Christian Walker, who I really like. But when he pushes
Speaker 2: outside the top one hundred, I do think he is
Speaker 2: one of those guys that, whether it's first or even corner,
Speaker 2: if you want to build a little bit of a
Speaker 2: stockpile on that big power corner infield, he is a value.
Speaker 2: I think he's a good choice to put on the
Speaker 2: undervalued conversation because there's a lot of other people that
Speaker 2: we're talking ourselves into and it really isn't cost us
Speaker 2: at first base right now, Well.
Speaker 1: The next guy I want to talk about it. I
Speaker 1: have him higher in my overall ranks than I do
Speaker 1: Causus and another player too that we had high expectations for.
Speaker 1: He was a darling of mine. Last year, injuries really
Speaker 1: just kind of derailed him. He did get up there
Speaker 1: for forty three games with the race, but unfortunately fell
Speaker 1: little short. It's Junior Caminaro coming in at one five
Speaker 1: overall in the current consensus ADP and Fantasy pros. This
Speaker 1: guy is only twenty one years old this year, So
Speaker 1: let us pump the brakes and let us just step
Speaker 1: back for a moment and take a breath. Because when
Speaker 1: you go back and you look at the minor league
Speaker 1: track record of Junior Camonaro three oh seven, three seventy four,
Speaker 1: five forty eight slash with a nine to twenty one
Speaker 1: ops in two hundred and eighty two minor league games
Speaker 1: as a child as a child, basically, okay, he is
Speaker 1: turning twenty one, and I think this is the value.
Speaker 1: This is the buy back in and another position here
Speaker 1: in the corners where you're looking for more help. You're
Speaker 1: looking for a guy who's got huge upside and I
Speaker 1: think is just a better pure hitter than Cosses. Cosses
Speaker 1: might have a little bit more power this year, ready
Speaker 1: to go. I understand that. I get that, But if
Speaker 1: we're talking about total package overall of hit tool, it's
Speaker 1: Junior Camonaro. And I'm also super excited to see what
Speaker 1: he looks like getting out of that Race ballpark because
Speaker 1: now that they're gonna be playing in that Tampa situation
Speaker 1: and there, I imagine some of that humanity is going
Speaker 1: to make that ball fly a little bit more. Sure,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some weird rain delays and some issues
Speaker 1: and some other stuff they're not used to dealing with.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what that's going to be like in
Speaker 1: Tampa and Florida where it goes well like every couple hours.
Speaker 1: It's going to rain at some point in time. But
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be fascinating to see because historically speaking,
Speaker 1: that has not been the greatest ballpark for hitters. The
Speaker 1: batter's eye has been a problem. So hopefully this opportunity,
Speaker 1: now that they are outside of that venue could even
Speaker 1: push Kamana up further than our expectations.
Speaker 2: So I think on the surface, this is like fantastic name.
Speaker 2: I think the only thing that pops up is there
Speaker 2: might be an argument to like, is he really going
Speaker 2: to be undervalued because there is a camp of people
Speaker 2: that have been involved in drafts and whatnot, you know,
Speaker 2: for over the last month or two that would that
Speaker 2: would probably argue the phonetics of it, like, well, are
Speaker 2: you sure you know I'm not undervalued because people are
Speaker 2: seeing him go in some instances inside the top fifty
Speaker 2: and some NFBC drafts. Yet the ADP across the board,
Speaker 2: still in an early state, really hasn't caught up with
Speaker 2: Junior Camonaro. Because I mean, as we're pointing out, the
Speaker 2: consensus ADP on Fantasy Pros taking multiple sites is outside
Speaker 2: the top one hundred, So by that virtue it is
Speaker 2: I do think this is one of the dicey ones. Again,
Speaker 2: we're not calling him a sleep or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Or it's undervalued for the player. He is ninety four
Speaker 1: right now on Fantasy Pros by the way, an NFBC
Speaker 1: on the consensus there.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so he's even moved up a little bit more.
Speaker 2: So I just give that caveat to people. But in
Speaker 2: like a total sense, Junior Camenaro is a prime example
Speaker 2: of this. It's just we know that young rookies are
Speaker 2: going to boost up. He also is just coming off
Speaker 2: of playing in the Dominican Winner League where they won
Speaker 2: a championship. He's getting interviewed. He got interviewed yesterday about
Speaker 2: how like what was it? I think it was a
Speaker 2: foul territory. He was interviewing Camonaro and his agent saying like,
Speaker 2: do you think you alone just created this opportunity where
Speaker 2: Poolholst wants to now be a manager because he was
Speaker 2: managing the team in Camonaro this monster homer. He was
Speaker 2: phenomenal there. So he's got a lot of buzz that's
Speaker 2: going on, and it's warrant. He hit two seventy six
Speaker 2: in the miners last year. He's had his stint in
Speaker 2: the majors, which you know, it didn't blow any doors off,
Speaker 2: but he almost hit right around two fifty. He had
Speaker 2: an expected batting average in that general area. And then
Speaker 2: when I talk a lot about that, like just you
Speaker 2: know the underlying metrics eleven percent almost twelve percent barrel,
Speaker 2: forty five percent hard hit rate. Those two things are
Speaker 2: phenomenal while also striking out a pretty low amount. He's
Speaker 2: going to get the ball in the air a little
Speaker 2: bit more Cam and arrow is. If he was like
Speaker 2: prospect eligible, he would be your al favorite rookie of
Speaker 2: the year. I think right now, I don't even think
Speaker 2: that's a good question. Projections are a little torn on him.
Speaker 2: I believe I don't have ATC up. I believe ATC
Speaker 2: is very aggressive on some of the offensive projection sides.
Speaker 2: The bat is a little bit suppressed. They've got him
Speaker 2: at two sixty four, twenty two homers, five stolen bases,
Speaker 2: around one hundred and thirty games. I want to say
Speaker 2: there is a projection system or two that's got him
Speaker 2: closer into the thirties. But he has just a really.
Speaker 1: Really murr is at twenty nine. I think that's the
Speaker 1: one you're thinking, Okay, what is ATC Adam on Fangrafts.
Speaker 1: ATC has but twenty two. So ATC is actually a
Speaker 1: little bit more on the conservative side for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're light of the bat.
Speaker 1: Again, I think sometimes with those younger players, the ATC
Speaker 1: tends to be a little bit.
Speaker 2: More like Yeah, And the last thing I just say
Speaker 2: is like throughout the minors he has been a guy
Speaker 2: that does not have big strikeout problems, makes a lot
Speaker 2: of contact. This is another one of those. Just like
Speaker 2: big fast bats. He registered one of the fastest overall
Speaker 2: bat speeds in baseball. It didn't register last year, So
Speaker 2: like you go and take that with that pure raw power,
Speaker 2: thirty home run potential at a corner endfield spot when
Speaker 2: it's going around one hundred, and also sky's the limit
Speaker 2: with a young player, Yeah, he is undervalued. I do
Speaker 2: think looking into the future March type of things, if
Speaker 2: people are watching this after he might not be so
Speaker 2: much anymore. But we're telling you right now he is
Speaker 2: and it's going to jump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do believe that. But look, this is if
Speaker 1: you're doing best balls early. Things like that take advantage,
Speaker 1: right because still people want to see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a little also question mark about okay,
Speaker 1: how does the ballpark play? You know, we know what
Speaker 1: it looks like in spring, but we don't know what
Speaker 1: it looks like in June, July, August. We don't, so
Speaker 1: it could be fascinating, just like we don't know with
Speaker 1: Oakland too. Necessarily we have but major league players into
Speaker 1: that kind of environment what it exactly looks like in Sacramento.
Speaker 1: Let's get to another guy who is a perennial twenty
Speaker 1: twenty guy, four straight years of twenty twenty, yet he's
Speaker 1: going outside the top one hundred. And I understand the
Speaker 1: concerns because you know that study that came out about
Speaker 1: the Mariners ballpark. He started diving in and saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: maybe the Mariner's ballpark between the humidity issues, slash, the
Speaker 1: weather concerns there at times the batter's eye there, people
Speaker 1: are saying, oh, maybe this Mariner's ballpark is just really
Speaker 1: tough to hit it, and that's why Julio struggling, or
Speaker 1: it really just didn't have a line a lot of protection,
Speaker 1: and they haven't had a lot of great hitting period
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years, and that could also
Speaker 1: be why some of these numbers are extremely down. It
Speaker 1: does feel a little chicken and egg. But Randy Rose Arena, regardless,
Speaker 1: is still a twenty twenty guy. And I think when
Speaker 1: you you know, you look at this yvon Page, he's
Speaker 1: still above average in exit velocity above average, and hard
Speaker 1: hit rate above average and walk right by a country mile.
Speaker 1: I know it was a down year for him. I
Speaker 1: get that the Babbitt was to two seventy five. That's
Speaker 1: the lowest he's ever had. He's never had a Babbitt
Speaker 1: in his career, by the way, under three hundred. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a bounce back from a Rosa Raina regardless,
Speaker 1: And I think it's a perfect time to buy on
Speaker 1: a guy where you know what the baseline is well.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you could just kind
Speaker 1: of get that batting average back to at least respectability,
Speaker 1: Arose Arena is absolutely gonna crush this return on investment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he borderlines like I think he has
Speaker 2: the potential to be a massively underlying undervalued player. Is
Speaker 2: he quite in the like screaming undervalued? I'm not one
Speaker 2: hundred percent sure yet. But to your point, he's had
Speaker 2: three straight twenty twenty seasons. He did it last year
Speaker 2: with just a really really bad average, and every think
Speaker 2: he's got worse. Essentially, when you go to Seattle, Seattle's
Speaker 2: worst ballpark factor in all of Bay Ball, and when
Speaker 2: you talk about the jump from like you know, four
Speaker 2: to five or one two to one has the same
Speaker 2: difference of thirty to twenty nine right now, which is crazy. See,
Speaker 2: and so you know the number one ballpark to the
Speaker 2: worst Seattle is bar none. The worst kind of across
Speaker 2: the board. So that's not good necessarily long term for
Speaker 2: a rose Raina's offensive upside. But you see still in
Speaker 2: his game that one massive thing kind of carried him
Speaker 2: down and pushed him down and struggled with his expected
Speaker 2: batting average was fastballs. He hit like one seventy two
Speaker 2: against forcing fastballs last year. That's a little bit of anomaly.
Speaker 2: Something I've done a lot of looking on is when
Speaker 2: you see extreme struggles or uh just domination against forcing fastballs,
Speaker 2: that usually doesn't carry over. A guy that hits like
Speaker 2: three point fifty against forceeams all year, that's going to regress,
Speaker 2: but also guys that hit like one seventy one sixty
Speaker 2: that's also going to positive. He regrets the year before
Speaker 2: he had hit two fifty four against forcing fastballs. He
Speaker 2: hit one seventy two this past year. So you're locked in.
Speaker 2: You got a little bit of a better lineup. Maybe
Speaker 2: your home run power isn't going to quite be there.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping he sells out for a little bit more average,
Speaker 2: because he did have a depreciation in his barrel and
Speaker 2: his hard hit, but he walked a little bit more.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be at the top of the lineup, and
Speaker 2: he's a twenty twenty guy. So Randy A rose Arena
Speaker 2: I'm in. I do think he floats in the undervalued
Speaker 2: but it's kind of a little bit yet to be
Speaker 2: seen of what this batted profile we saw last year
Speaker 2: in Seattle's gonna look like we just need some major changes.
Speaker 2: But maybe that's gonna pop with you know, playing with
Speaker 2: guys like Victor Robliss at the top and playing with
Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez. So for twenty twenty, like lock twenty twenty
Speaker 2: guys that you get outside the top one hundred, he
Speaker 2: is that. So by virtue of getting twenty twenty, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Randy rose Rein is undervalue.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent degree. And look, even if he repeats
Speaker 1: what he did last year and that's what it looks like,
Speaker 1: it's still pretty good for what you're getting outside the
Speaker 1: top one hundred. So I'll take that, and I'm hoping
Speaker 1: and looking to a bounce back. I'm hoping that's the
Speaker 1: anomaly because the things it's not like he is an
Speaker 1: old player by any stretch of the means or something
Speaker 1: like that. Right, he's twenty nine, he's in his prime. Actually,
Speaker 1: these should be his best seasons coming up. Next guy
Speaker 1: on our list coming in at one, twenty six Washington
Speaker 1: National second baseman Luis Garcia, who is starting to become
Speaker 1: I don't know this year's Jaron Duran for me, like
Speaker 1: last year, so that player or.
Speaker 2: Talked about player he is, I think he is.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, what's not to like here? I mean,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a guy who is, you know, entering
Speaker 1: his twenty age twenty five season, right, he always had
Speaker 1: good contact goes in the minor league's two eighty five
Speaker 1: batting average there. Now i'd like to see the OBEP
Speaker 1: be a little higher. But he's got good speed, right,
Speaker 1: So twenty two bases last year, eighteen homers. I'm just
Speaker 1: I just can't wrap my mind around a situation where,
Speaker 1: you know, when people were drafting jose A l twov
Speaker 1: to try to hope for let's I mean we had
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and two eighty Well, okay, that sounds great,
Speaker 1: but that also sounds like basically the season Garcia gave
Speaker 1: me last year, one hundred picks later, Lily, one hundred
Speaker 1: picks later. And I don't get it. So and you're
Speaker 1: talking about a younger player, you're talking about a young
Speaker 1: team that really is starting, I think, to emerge this year.
Speaker 1: And of course young teams will have peaks and valleys.
Speaker 1: But while right now this player is at one twenty six,
Speaker 1: second base is rough. It's rough out there at the
Speaker 1: second base streets. I think, so, yeah, that's the guy
Speaker 1: that I keep coming back to and keep landing on
Speaker 1: because I would like to see him move up in
Speaker 1: the lineup, potentry a little bit. I know there's some
Speaker 1: questions of where he might hit this year, but what
Speaker 1: you saw last year, to me, I don't think was
Speaker 1: a fluke. When you look at the minor league track record,
Speaker 1: a guy who makes good contact, got batting average, GOP speed,
Speaker 1: He's got all that that you're looking for. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, once again you're talking about twenty twenty players
Speaker 1: like a rose arena. Well, here's a twenty twenty guy
Speaker 1: in the infield. That's a nice thing to have post
Speaker 1: one hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is another one of those guys. You
Speaker 2: know this This video is also going to serve as
Speaker 2: like a time capsule of players that are going to
Speaker 2: rise in value. We're going to talk about that throughout
Speaker 2: the year of like, who are players that have been
Speaker 2: on the rise and experts are drafting. Everybody loves Luis
Speaker 2: Garcia because of the twenty twenty potential. And the wildest
Speaker 2: thing too, is, you know, I saw him years ago
Speaker 2: in Arizona Fall League, and this was at the height
Speaker 2: of him being this very slap hit ory guy. He
Speaker 2: had a swing that just came across his body, had
Speaker 2: no launch angle whatsoever. Yet I remember I was in
Speaker 2: some sessions of BP and he was crushing stuff in
Speaker 2: the Surprise Stadium over on the pull side, or actually
Speaker 2: was in Peoria. It's very impressive what the power was.
Speaker 2: And then he did make the change. It's one of
Speaker 2: those things we look at those high contacty type of guy,
Speaker 2: the Louis Rises, maybe the Jacob Wilson's and we go man,
Speaker 2: if they just had this concerted effort to get the
Speaker 2: ball in the air, that maybe they could do something.
Speaker 2: He did that. He changed his profile. He upped his
Speaker 2: barrelry to eight percent, his launch angle almost doubled from
Speaker 2: last year. His hard hit was over forty percent by
Speaker 2: the way, strikes out sixteen percent of the time. And
Speaker 2: he just decided, I'm now going to be a runner.
Speaker 2: So it's quality contact kind of across the board. He
Speaker 2: doesn't have a pitch type. He struggles against. He's learning
Speaker 2: to get the ball in the air. I have like
Speaker 2: a preconceived this is who Luis Garcia was when I
Speaker 2: watched her in the miners, and again it was that
Speaker 2: guy that you know, I just let the ball travel.
Speaker 2: I'm going to hit across my body opposite field and
Speaker 2: that would suppress power. But he turned so that's kind
Speaker 2: of in my brain. But he's turned it around into
Speaker 2: being No, I'm more of an impact hitter. Eighty six
Speaker 2: percent zone contact rate with that barrel and that hard hit.
Speaker 2: If he progresses a little bit, he legit could be
Speaker 2: a twenty twenty five guy. I do not believe he will.
Speaker 2: But when you're floating around twenty twenty and you have
Speaker 2: a good batting average, that is the big key for me.
Speaker 2: Give me these guys this year that are gonna have
Speaker 2: solid batting averages. He hit two eighty two with a
Speaker 2: two seventy eight expected batting average, and those numbers you
Speaker 2: don't we touch talk about Randy Rose Rain in twenty twenty. Well,
Speaker 2: guess what, he doesn't come with a good batting average.
Speaker 2: Luis Garcia in some instances like this has an ADP
Speaker 2: that's lower than him. Luis Garcia goes twenty twenty with
Speaker 2: a great batting average, and that is extra valuable this year,
Speaker 2: more than ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, you look at the savon page, a
Speaker 1: lot of red. You know, we'd like see him walk
Speaker 1: a little bit more, sure, but that's just never been
Speaker 1: the guy he is. He's just more of a swing
Speaker 1: and make contact kind of guy. And again, the guys
Speaker 1: who put the ball in play have a chance to
Speaker 1: be on bass. And when you have a chance to
Speaker 1: be on bass, you have a chance to score runs.
Speaker 1: You see, That's how baseball works, kids, And I feel
Speaker 1: like people forget that. You know, you go back to
Speaker 1: the age of the Tony Gwinns of the world, and
Speaker 1: those guys who just didn't strike out, put the ball
Speaker 1: in play, good things happen. You know, That's how you
Speaker 1: win batting titles. I'm not saying Garcia's a bating title.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying like it's a lost art for him,
Speaker 1: and I'm here for it. Also, everybody who knows who's
Speaker 1: watching the show's last couple of years knows that I
Speaker 1: am not a guy that likes to chase catcher. But
Speaker 1: I also think that there's some value here with certain
Speaker 1: catchers at certain moments. And Logan will Hopy to me
Speaker 1: is another guy at one five currently that I don't
Speaker 1: think we've seen the best version of yet. And the
Speaker 1: Angels are kind of a weird, funky team where there's
Speaker 1: a lot more than I like now on the Angels
Speaker 1: than I have in a very long time. And I
Speaker 1: know that sounds of bizarre because we've had Trout, we've
Speaker 1: battle Tani, but the Trout situation every year, with the
Speaker 1: price you had to pay and the injuries, was always difficult.
Speaker 1: You look at the rest of this lineup, you know
Speaker 1: they brought in so layer Chanall is an interesting playow
Speaker 1: Netto's an interesting player, Rangifo certainly has some talent to
Speaker 1: health is going to be crucial for this roster, but
Speaker 1: there's value here on it too, and Logan O Hoppy
Speaker 1: if you look at some of those projections right now,
Speaker 1: he is absolutely a twenty home run catcher. I think
Speaker 1: there's a world you know, you look at the three
Speaker 1: eighteen Babbitt last year, Okay, you look at the ISO
Speaker 1: was a little low last year, but I feel like
Speaker 1: the stop start of you know, sometimes with the injuries
Speaker 1: that he's had, it was good. He had one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty six games last year, had five hundred played appearances.
Speaker 1: I think that's what he needed to get under his belt,
Speaker 1: and now I feel like he's in a position Wels
Speaker 1: where he's finally ready to take another step forward. I
Speaker 1: think that twenty twenty two oz runs could easily become
Speaker 1: twenty eight or twenty nine this year. That's what I
Speaker 1: think is possible for him, especially if a guy like
Speaker 1: Trout says healthy in the lineup and there's a lot
Speaker 1: more going on offensively there. What do you think of OHAPI?
Speaker 1: Because I know we kind of it's funny that I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, let's put this catcher on the list
Speaker 1: me of all people, and then of course there's you
Speaker 1: shooting it down. So what's the downside of ohapi here?
Speaker 1: And is it just a matter of when you are
Speaker 1: comfortable taking catchers?
Speaker 2: So oh Happy? The biggest negative is he's a catcher,
Speaker 2: so that would be like the biggest thing for me
Speaker 2: is just he has that catcher position. I'm always looking
Speaker 2: for the latest catcher possible or getting a massive value
Speaker 2: on a specific target. So will Smith falling oh happy?
Speaker 2: If he fell really far. Wilson catreros would be one
Speaker 2: this year. But if we look at like the actual
Speaker 2: profile of a guy like Ohapy, first off, he checks
Speaker 2: a lot of the boxes that we're looking for. Under
Speaker 2: five hundred bats, he hit over twenty homers, great barrel rate,
Speaker 2: great hard hit like that's all there. Gets the launch angle,
Speaker 2: sweet spot over forty two percent, gets the ball in
Speaker 2: the frickin air, like you love that stuff. Well, you
Speaker 2: don't like is bad strikeout rate. And he had a
Speaker 2: decrease in his own contact percentage. And then they bring
Speaker 2: in Travis Darnelt. That's the other thing why, Like, if
Speaker 2: this is your guide, let's play him every single day
Speaker 2: as much as possible. Don't know what that is going
Speaker 2: to be yet. Maybe it's going to be more DH
Speaker 2: than anything else. But I would say inside the top
Speaker 2: one fifty, it's still really not my area for a catcher.
Speaker 2: I do think he's got the potential to up on
Speaker 2: that power department, probably not be the top guy. That's
Speaker 2: Kyle Raley or Shee Langaliers. So I guess I pushed
Speaker 2: back overall that finding undervalued catchers doesn't exactly exist, especially
Speaker 2: if it's one fifty. But Ohapi could push back a
Speaker 2: little bit more, and if he has a positive regression
Speaker 2: in the strikeouts, that comes down and he gets back
Speaker 2: to getting in the zone a little bit more. He
Speaker 2: has the potential to be a twenty five plus home
Speaker 2: run hitter for sure. So I don't see him in
Speaker 2: the valued range, but I think it was important to
Speaker 2: talk about it because you love him, You love this
Speaker 2: as a catcher, you love you some logan o'hapi.
Speaker 1: I do like him, I do, I do, and I
Speaker 1: think there's value with the Angels this year. Again, something
Speaker 1: I did not think that I was gonna have my
Speaker 1: Bengo car for twenty twenty five. I was looking ahead, actually,
Speaker 1: or should I say, looking backwards at last year's show
Speaker 1: before we look ahead to more guys and some of
Speaker 1: the names on last year's undervalue player list Willia domas Uh.
Speaker 1: We had Bailey ober On there, Ti Oscar ornandez Joe Ryan.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good list there. We had some pretty
Speaker 1: good guys, had a couple.
Speaker 2: Of I get us in there, but I'll take those this.
Speaker 1: Is duds in there. I mean, I don't think Nick
Speaker 1: Pavetta was a dud. I wouldn't say he's a. Xander
Speaker 1: Bogart's was a dud. But I think I think the
Speaker 1: the you know, the thought process I get there. The
Speaker 1: process was good, the productivity was not good. Uh, Candelario,
Speaker 1: I was one of your guys. I feel like Candelario
Speaker 1: was a Welsh guy last year.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 1: Oh and and also on this list. It's definitely one
Speaker 1: of my guys. Showta Imanaga definitely on that list. So
Speaker 1: actually pretty good. I would say nine.
Speaker 2: By the way, you like Jamer Candelario, You dumb idiot.
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Speaker 1: on the list. This is a Welsh guy. I'm saying
Speaker 1: it right now. I don't like it. He's not on
Speaker 1: my og list. I woke up this morning and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Paul Goldschmidt is in my cereal. Get
Speaker 1: out of my cereal, Paul Golgman one fifty five. Look Welsh.
Speaker 1: I think mindset that you're taking. Let's see, if I'm correct,
Speaker 1: is the Yankee Ballpark cures all ills? And maybe it
Speaker 1: does for some guys, But this is a guy in
Speaker 1: declined for three straight years. He is thirty seven years old.
Speaker 1: I know there's still some red on that Savon page
Speaker 1: in terms of hard hit rate and batrel rate, and
Speaker 1: that gets you excited that I get that, and certainly
Speaker 1: the Yankees are gonna be a much better offense than
Speaker 1: Saint Louis was last year. But I just keep seeing
Speaker 1: a player in decline who was once great and into
Speaker 1: your late thirties. I just don't know if a complete
Speaker 1: rebound rebirth is in the cards for him. I get it,
Speaker 1: it's cheaper, it's undervalued, so I guess I'll give you
Speaker 1: undervalued on it. But man, I have a tough time
Speaker 1: getting excited to draft him. I feel like Alec Bohm
Speaker 1: is around the same place, and I think I would
Speaker 1: rather just take him or another guy. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about this lists coming up pretty soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that guy maybe, but not Bom, Absolutely not Bum.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This is like clearly about it's a phenomenal ballpark to go.
Speaker 2: The ballpark factor is waited a bit, obviously by Judge,
Speaker 2: but it's like number three, I think in all of
Speaker 2: baseball and right handed home run factor. Again, Judge kind
Speaker 2: of waits out a little bit, But from an overall perspective,
Speaker 2: you love the offense, you love the ballpark. Goldie, even
Speaker 2: in his age, like he has declined, he's not that
Speaker 2: same player anymore. We didn't see, you know, some big
Speaker 2: uptick and stolen bases. His averages kind of depressed a
Speaker 2: little bit, but like you said, it's still ten percent.
Speaker 2: Barrel hard hit was around fifty percent, which we love
Speaker 2: to see last year. He's still hitting the ball on
Speaker 2: average ninety one point two average exivelocity, so he's still
Speaker 2: putting quality contact in there. He's just again depressing a
Speaker 2: little bit, like he can round two forty two to
Speaker 2: fifty against fastball and breaking pitches. So I'll take that
Speaker 2: in that ballpark with the potential run support, I just
Speaker 2: think it works really well. And what you said before,
Speaker 2: it's undervalued. That's all that this is. He's going outside
Speaker 2: of the top one fifty for a first baseman with
Speaker 2: that pedigree, with that profile. Because this didn't work out
Speaker 2: for Anthony Rizzo one hundred percent agree with that. It's
Speaker 2: not even just work out for anybody. But I think
Speaker 2: this puts him in a really good spot where he
Speaker 2: is super cheap, and this is one of those guys
Speaker 2: that he doesn't even have to be your first base
Speaker 2: and he can be a corner infielder. I think there's
Speaker 2: a legitimate, like ninety RBI opportunity with twenty five ish homers,
Speaker 2: and if he's twenty five to ten and he's like
Speaker 2: even eighty eighty, that would be I just don't think
Speaker 2: we're getting one fifty.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. Let me just put that out there.
Speaker 1: But I don't. I like him more than Goldman. Look
Speaker 1: I like Bolm. We can say what you want. He's
Speaker 1: a guy's gonna hit two eighty every year and driving
Speaker 1: ninety plus runs. And he's got at two years in
Speaker 1: a row, ninety seven runs driven in two years in
Speaker 1: a row. Goldschmit's not sniffing that number last couple of years.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I know you gotta have guys get
Speaker 1: on base. I get that in front of you. Hopefully
Speaker 1: the Yankees can fix that for him, but I'm just
Speaker 1: not sold. I am sold, however, on the next guy
Speaker 1: at one sixty four Jerks and Profar who last year
Speaker 1: really kind of changed his profile in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And I love the landing spot with the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is why the Braves are the Braves,
Speaker 1: and I hate it as a Mets fan, but like
Speaker 1: I saw that signing and I literally just threw my
Speaker 1: hands up and went, well, that's quick essential Land of Braves.
Speaker 1: You let the market kind of come to you, you
Speaker 1: find a terrific value and in you crush life. And
Speaker 1: Profar last year playing for San Diego, had a great season.
Speaker 1: Scored ninety four runs, hit twenty four homers, eighty five RBI,
Speaker 1: stole ten bases for good measure. At two seventy nine,
Speaker 1: it was all there. It was a career year, the
Speaker 1: best we've seen from him. And it's funny he's been
Speaker 1: around for ever Welsh, but he's only thirty one years old,
Speaker 1: so I don't think he is past the prime. I
Speaker 1: think he's still kind of in it. Do I expect
Speaker 1: a complete repeat? I gotta be honest with you, I do.
Speaker 1: And I think that this is a tremendous value for
Speaker 1: a guy that not only can give you some power
Speaker 1: and average, but also is going to give you some
Speaker 1: run score depending on where they hit him in the lineup.
Speaker 1: And I think there's gonna be some opportunity for him
Speaker 1: to move up in that lineup too, if he stays hot,
Speaker 1: a little, stolen bases, to a little of everything. And
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think at this point I'm just
Speaker 1: in on Jurreks and Profar, especially at this value. How
Speaker 1: where are you at with him? Yeah?
Speaker 2: One hundred percent agree. I mean, you were talking about
Speaker 2: the Bati profile, which I'm always like, I always go to,
Speaker 2: but they were like career highs across the board. Barrel
Speaker 2: hard hit was career highs, close to career high in
Speaker 2: K percentage, and a walk percentage career high. Expected batting
Speaker 2: average he hit. His expected batting average was better than
Speaker 2: his actual batting average, which is really incredible for him.
Speaker 2: Great eighty seven percent zone contact rate. This profile just
Speaker 2: feels so good. And then guess what hitting both rightis
Speaker 2: and lefties well, and you're getting out of one of
Speaker 2: the worst ballpark factors in general, and you're going to Atlanta, where,
Speaker 2: by the way, he hit like two ninety seven at
Speaker 2: home past year in San Diego with fifteen of his homers.
Speaker 2: So now you're going to go into a better environment
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, tons of run support, a team that loves
Speaker 2: to run as well. I love love this move for profile.
Speaker 2: I think he is the I'll tell you this when
Speaker 2: you put this list together, and then I made some
Speaker 2: adjustments to some of them. This was the one, Well,
Speaker 2: there's one other guy, this guy, and then a shortstop
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about in a little bit. They
Speaker 2: were exactly what I thought about when we were thinking
Speaker 2: about undervalued hitters, and they were the quintessential players. I
Speaker 2: think Profar is that he might, like you said, hit
Speaker 2: a little bit lower in the lineup, but I legitimately
Speaker 2: think we are in the twenty ten baseline area for
Speaker 2: his stats, and maybe the average ticks up a little bit.
Speaker 2: I really really do love this signing, and I love
Speaker 2: this pick.
Speaker 1: Here three eighty OBP last year and if you look
Speaker 1: at the fifth percentage, you know, the walk percentage, Okay,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, it is bright red. I mean we're
Speaker 1: talking to the ninetieth percentile there everywhere. If he maintains
Speaker 1: that level, Welsh, he is not gonna be hitting in
Speaker 1: the bottom of that lineup all year. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, people up towards the top, especially especially to
Speaker 1: start the year, because Akunya is not going to be
Speaker 1: at the top of that lineup, probably in the opening,
Speaker 1: and if Profar is up there and they have success
Speaker 1: with that, they might step back and go, you know,
Speaker 1: let's leave Profar somewhere into the top. We could drop
Speaker 1: a Michael Harris down, we could drop somebody else down.
Speaker 1: Don't be shocked if that happens. The May.
Speaker 2: That point is actually key because of what I was
Speaker 2: gonna say was the Braves are not afraid to make
Speaker 2: those moves. They've moved Albe's up and down the lineup,
Speaker 2: They've moved Harris up and down the lineup. I mean,
Speaker 2: profile has been to be like a number two hitter.
Speaker 2: Don't be shocked if he was a number two hitter.
Speaker 2: And I mean, you know, Michael Harris would be great
Speaker 2: for that spot as well or Alby's, but I just
Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked if Profar they wanted to throw him
Speaker 2: into that spot. So I really like this pick.
Speaker 1: Okay, a couple more guys love to talk about one
Speaker 1: seventy five Mason Win of the Saint Louis Cardinals at shortstop.
Speaker 1: This is the guy that Welsh and I both like
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Last year. You started to get a
Speaker 1: taste how good he was, just twenty two years old,
Speaker 1: fifteen homers, eleven steals at two sixty eight. They played
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty games, So it was a really
Speaker 1: strong full season for him, his first full season in
Speaker 1: the big League's player again, who's got so much ahead
Speaker 1: of him? So this one puzzles me of why he
Speaker 1: is so low here because of the profile. I don't
Speaker 1: know if people are just expecting the Cardinals to be bad,
Speaker 1: which okay, that's fair, But there's also a world where
Speaker 1: Aeronatto bounces back and Jordan Walker, who is still much
Speaker 1: younger than people realize, maybe starts to turn things around,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, maybe the Cardinals offense isn't
Speaker 1: quite as bad as people might project it to be.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Mason Win?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the reason that he's still down is
Speaker 2: like in that entire season last year, it was still
Speaker 2: fifteen eleven, you know, so, like as much as like
Speaker 2: some of the profile is fun, he didn't put up
Speaker 2: this big counting stats season. He's been working all off
Speaker 2: season building more body masks. I mean, you know you
Speaker 2: always want to hear like were they a drive line?
Speaker 2: You know, that's your where did they go to?
Speaker 1: Jared?
Speaker 2: It's did they go to drive line? That's what you're
Speaker 2: looking for, And he's one of those guys. He's been
Speaker 2: working on that just physical build body mass, which you
Speaker 2: know would generate more power, and that's what we're absolutely
Speaker 2: want to see out of him. The profile is still
Speaker 2: a little bit like really low barrel rate that's usually
Speaker 2: two more contact based hitters, not a great hard hit rate.
Speaker 2: He actually went down year over year. But the reason
Speaker 2: to get excited is he gets the ball in the air.
Speaker 2: And we have seen a ton of hitters be able
Speaker 2: to just maximize c. J. Abrams, Hassan Kim. They've been
Speaker 2: players that you know they don't have like great barrel
Speaker 2: and hard hit, but if you get the ball, you know,
Speaker 2: you square up the ball and you get it in
Speaker 2: the air. Mookie Betts has done that for a decent
Speaker 2: amount of time. Then all of a sudden, you can
Speaker 2: just start, you know, getting fifteen twenty homers. Win can
Speaker 2: also steal and that that's the thing I think could
Speaker 2: take a big jump up as well. As this team
Speaker 2: is completely retransforming who they are, I will say as well,
Speaker 2: he is actual like hitting profile eighty to eighty six
Speaker 2: rise in his own contact percentage, So now getting into
Speaker 2: elite zone contact, he's generating more that body mass, which
Speaker 2: I am hopeful is going to put some more power up.
Speaker 2: I think most people see him as like a fifteen
Speaker 2: to fifteen guy. I think there's twenty twenty upside, especially
Speaker 2: if he gets a hit higher on the lineup is
Speaker 2: there just getting rid of all their pieces. Mason Win
Speaker 2: and Jerkson Profar with the two guys that jumped out
Speaker 2: to me as like prime candidates. One seventy five consensus
Speaker 2: ADP right now is crazy. He is like my number
Speaker 2: one middle infield target across the board. Pair him with
Speaker 2: a Corey Seeger or a volatile like if you call
Speaker 2: Ellie volatile, apparently whoever you want, you're getting a little
Speaker 2: bit of everything. And I think there is upside for
Speaker 2: Mason Win. And I do think he could be one
Speaker 2: of those guys that his profile as a hitter jumps
Speaker 2: up this year.
Speaker 1: Next guy might be a little bit of a leaf
Speaker 1: of leap faith. At one eighty four, Estak paradis now
Speaker 1: with Houston and I'm here for it. He is one
Speaker 1: year removed from a thirty one home run season where
Speaker 1: he had two fifty Last year just to thirty eight.
Speaker 1: The home runs dropped to nineteen, the lowest total in
Speaker 1: the two previous years, for sure. And I know, you know,
Speaker 1: you dig deeper, and some of the deeper numbers aren't good.
Speaker 1: I keep coming back to the same thing, which is
Speaker 1: certain organizations. I always perk up right when Atlanta goes
Speaker 1: after somebody. When the Tampa Bay Rays sign a pitcher
Speaker 1: that's kind of, you know, cast aside from somewhere else.
Speaker 1: They see something. And Houston's one of these teams too,
Speaker 1: so they have a really good eye for what they
Speaker 1: look for, and I think their scouting departments very good
Speaker 1: identifying players are going to play well in this environment,
Speaker 1: and Parades does. Now. We're still waiting to hear on
Speaker 1: Bregman as of recording this and seeing how all that
Speaker 1: shakes out. But in the meantime, right now, Paradis looks
Speaker 1: like a guy that if you take those numbers and
Speaker 1: you copy and paste them to Houston last year, that
Speaker 1: home run total is not nearly as over underwhelming. So
Speaker 1: I look at this guy is a value at the
Speaker 1: corner spot. Again, not a guy I want to start
Speaker 1: as a third baseman, but as a corner guy. I'm
Speaker 1: very intrigued by him in this situation with Houston. What
Speaker 1: do you think of Paritis in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: Well, check this out. Baseball Savant has a category you
Speaker 2: can check where you can see if this player played
Speaker 2: all their home games in a home ballpark, what their
Speaker 2: home what would the actual homer in total be that's
Speaker 2: misleading a little bit, but it tells you about the ballpark.
Speaker 2: He hit nineteen homers last year. If he were in Houston,
Speaker 2: Houston represented the number one most homers he would have
Speaker 2: hit in a single place, twenty six for Houston. No
Speaker 2: other ballpark would have been more beneficial for East sac Praidies.
Speaker 2: So I think the reason you throw him in here.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that are not great about profile.
Speaker 2: But remember what I just said about Mason winn It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: it doesn't hit the ball hard. He doesn't really barrel
Speaker 2: up the ball. Sometimes it's more of a contact approach.
Speaker 2: How can you maximize it? Pull fly balls, that's Pradies does.
Speaker 2: He has one of the highest launch angles twenty two
Speaker 2: degree launch angle. And the way we get to extrapolate
Speaker 2: this is just look at what he did in Ten Bay,
Speaker 2: where he was able to pull those fly balls and
Speaker 2: had a little bit of gimme. In twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: he hit two fifty with thirty one homers with a
Speaker 2: not great profile. He went to the Cubs. He's stunk.
Speaker 2: Now he's going to the best place that's built for him.
Speaker 2: We have a baseline for what that would do, and
Speaker 2: that baseline is thirty homers in the two fifty range.
Speaker 2: You hope that continues. He's got tons of support around him. Listen,
Speaker 2: this is about undervalued guys. If we get ninety percent
Speaker 2: of what he was in Tampa Bay, mind you, this
Speaker 2: is a better ballpark for him, with incredibly better offensive
Speaker 2: pieces around him exactly, then there's no doubt that him
Speaker 2: going around one point eighty four right now and is
Speaker 2: overall ADP. He is not the most most undervalued, but
Speaker 2: he is close to it if that ballpark really does push.
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Speaker 1: Last guy in the list is a guy I actually
Speaker 1: drafted yesterday, Jeremy Pania of the Houston Astros. It's funny
Speaker 1: because the NFBC number for him is like one to
Speaker 1: sixty five. I looked at it before one ninety and
Speaker 1: some other spots. They're depending on what you believe and
Speaker 1: our expert consensus rankings. Right now him at two seventy eight,
Speaker 1: which is absurd.
Speaker 2: It's because there's one site that doesn't have him registered
Speaker 2: or we're not picking up. So yeah, I put this
Speaker 2: note in here. The ADP is two seventy eight. It's
Speaker 2: incorrect if you just take let's.
Speaker 1: Go on two hundred. Let's let's with the difference. Let's
Speaker 1: call it two you know, you know what, Let's call
Speaker 1: it one ninety. I'll even go there. Let's call it
Speaker 1: one ninety. Still absurd, still ridiculous, Still a value coming
Speaker 1: off a season last year where uh, this is the
Speaker 1: player that honestly you were in before anybody else a
Speaker 1: couple years ago so I want to give you credit
Speaker 1: for that, and I hate giving you credit, but I
Speaker 1: have to because you were like the og Jeremy pinya
Speaker 1: guy twenty two one runs in twenty twenty two. Then
Speaker 1: the home runs ticked down a little bit to ten,
Speaker 1: came back up to fifteen last year. He also had
Speaker 1: a twenty steals, establish a good basemine of two sixty six.
Speaker 1: He's just solid. He's going to probably score eighty runs again.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at him and saying, well that late.
Speaker 1: If I'm looking for a middle infield guy, he fits
Speaker 1: the bill of exactly the kind of player I want,
Speaker 1: strong benchmark, room for more, and I know he's not
Speaker 1: going to hurt me necessarily either. Well.
Speaker 2: Listen, Also, they lost Kyle Tucker and I theoretical Alex Bregman,
Speaker 2: so that changed. I mean, obviously they brought in you know,
Speaker 2: Parades and Christian Walker and whatever, but like it opens
Speaker 2: up potential in the lineup. If you remember, they were
Speaker 2: toying around a lot with Jeremy Pania hitting in the
Speaker 2: leadoff spot. They wanted to see him as a leadoff
Speaker 2: hitter because you were starting to see and last year,
Speaker 2: by the way, I wanted to look here at he Yeah,
Speaker 2: he really. They took him out of that. His primary
Speaker 2: spots were at five and six, but he was hitting
Speaker 2: out of the one and two spot that could come
Speaker 2: back up. And the reason behind that and why they
Speaker 2: had put them there before is he does make a
Speaker 2: lot of contact. This is another one of those guys
Speaker 2: eighty seven percent zone contact, so if the balls on
Speaker 2: the zone, he's making quality contact. While his strikeouts have
Speaker 2: gone down seventeen percent strikeout rate last year, while some
Speaker 2: of the hitting profile was starting to increase just a
Speaker 2: tiny bit. But really I think the key is like
Speaker 2: he is becoming a better hitter. He is still stealing bases,
Speaker 2: which is something I wasn't sure if he was going
Speaker 2: to do. He has increased his stolen bases for three
Speaker 2: straight years fifteen twenty two sixty six batting average this
Speaker 2: past season. Now he could be put in a few
Speaker 2: more prime spots he expected batting averages two sixty. What
Speaker 2: I'm getting at is if you can get fifteen twenty
Speaker 2: five or twenty twenty and he has a high batting average,
Speaker 2: that could be worth exponentially more than a one ninety
Speaker 2: eightyp A two hundred adyp A one to sixty EIGHTYP
Speaker 2: a position that can fall off a little bit outside
Speaker 2: the top fifteen. Jeremy Paine is one of my prime
Speaker 2: targets for middle infield, or if I really really screwed up,
Speaker 2: I think the baseline of what he does makes a
Speaker 2: ton of sense, and he is. He is very undervalued
Speaker 2: because of no huge, big breakout. But I really do
Speaker 2: like Jeremy Payne, and you know Luis Garcia talk about
Speaker 2: Louis Garcia and everyone's excited. Luis gars the marker between
Speaker 2: Louis Garcia and Jeremy Peneas statistically it's not that far off.
Speaker 1: It's not eighty eighty p is adp is. And he's
Speaker 1: a little older too, so maybe you will see a jump.
Speaker 1: He's twenty seven years old right turning twenty eight, Like
Speaker 1: you're in that spot where if he is going to
Speaker 1: make a jump and become something else or build off
Speaker 1: of what he's been. This would be the window of
Speaker 1: time typically where you're going to see that a couple
Speaker 1: of years into the league. So we'll see if Jeremy
Speaker 1: Payne is ready for a jump again. The undervalued guys
Speaker 1: in our list Tristan Calasas Junior, Caminaro, Randy Rose, Arena,
Speaker 1: Louis Garcia, Junior, Logan O Hoppy, Paul Goldschmidt, Jerks and Profile,
Speaker 1: Mason winn Esak Parius and Jeremy Pina. Who is your
Speaker 1: most underrated player coming into twenty twenty five? I want
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