WEBVTT - The 10 Most Undervalued Hitters in 2025 (Ep. 922) 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.280 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is the 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.480 Fantasy Baseball podcast. It does be Joey p Joe Pisapia 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:13.800 with me as always, my best friend the Welsh and 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.000 you hanging out here on our channel. Don't forget to 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.480 subscribe to Fantasy Pros MLB so you don't miss any 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.840 of the content we've got going on all draft season, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.439 all in season. Leading off is going to be back 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.079 in just a couple of weeks if you can believe it. 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.160 Pictures and catchers are arriving to spring training. We are 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.760 getting started here, and it's time to look at some 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.800 guys that are undervalued on the hitting side. 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All right, let's talk 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.160 about some underrated hitters right now, Welsh, and the first 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:58.400 one is a guy that a lot of us had 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.280 expectations for last year, and I feel like this happens 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.480 a lot right We get our expectations up, we get 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.720 very excited about a player, and then injuries or issues 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.320 or underperformance kind of all of a sudden stymy that excitement. Well, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.359 Tristan Cossas of the Boston Red Sox, there's still a 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.560 lot to get excited about. This Boston Red Sox team 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:16.680 is on the verge of a rebirth year with some 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.720 of these prospects they've got coming through the organization last 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.920 year and this year, we expect more and it seems 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.120 like things are finally on the upswing in Boston. When 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.000 you watch Casas, he is a big guy, power hitting, slugging, 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.600 old school kind of first base and there's a lot 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.440 to like here when it comes to Cassas. Currently, he's 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.360 going around player one POH one in the consensus ADP 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.000 thirteen homers last year in just sixty three games. Again, 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.639 that's the problem, just sixty three games. So I think 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.080 we expect some bumps here and there from Tristan Cossas 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:49.040 in twenty twenty five. But the power and also the 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.640 top heaviness of the position at first base to me 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.359 makes him a really intriguing player in twenty twenty five. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.239 Yeah, and he is, I will say he is sandwiched 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.000 in kind of an area where there's a couple of 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.680 really good play. But the problem with that is having 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.880 a few of those players usually pushes somebody out. And 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.720 it's kind of been Tristan Kassas, who in many years 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.120 past has been somebody that everyone want to jumps in on. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.840 But you know, as you mentioned, in a short period 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.040 of time last year, it was still fine, Like he 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.680 missed a bunch of time with injury and then his return, 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.320 it was okay for most people. But when you look 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.240 on the underlying you still see, you know, some elite 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.040 pieces that are being put together. Thirteen percent barrel rate 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.160 last year with a forty five percent hard hit rate. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.680 Those two, especially the barrel rate, really elite stuff. With 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.920 a big, fast bat you're talking about, he's just this 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.040 like big dude. Well, he registered well above and the 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.360 top like fifteen to twenty percent tile of the league 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.280 in bat speed. And this is for like a six 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.360 foot five, almost two hundred and fifty pounds two first babe. Yeah, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.200 huge first baseman. It was almost around seventy five seventy 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.680 five miles per hour on the fast track swing, which 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.160 is well above He just barrels of ball generates, you know, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.160 such incredible force to it that he's a thirty home 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.160 run threat really at all times. Problem was the the 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.920 bat of ball like quality kind of dissipated last year 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.720 thirty one percent strikeout rate, which was an over six 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.120 percent increase from the year before, and is expected batting 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.839 average from his two forty actual it's expected was under 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.320 two twenty. So like, those are the worries, and that's 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.839 what's suppressing some of the value. But you know, you 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.279 come back to it and you see a healthy Cansis, 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.280 You see a healthy lineup by the way of Devers 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.120 and Jared Durant has taken that next step, and you 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.960 see RBI opportunities through the roof. Projections are in a 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.080 really interesting spot too. I'll just pull up all the 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:38.960 big dogs are out. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.159 I see the atc ones right now. Twenty seven homer, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.240 seventy four runs, seventy nine RBI for him. I think 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.680 that's as a pretty strong baseline, especially when you consider 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.479 he'ything third in this lineup projected. That's to me, what's 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.839 so appealing to is that lineup projectability in the third spot, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:55.800 there's a lot of runs, a lot of rbi, all 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.560 those countexats that you're looking for in fantasy. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.840 Well, what is the batting average on ATC, Because I've 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.880 got the bat up from Derek Cardy, so those are 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.000 too good to bounce. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:07.200 Out of the ATC batting averagesement two forty two, which 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.000 is all right. If he could somehow get up to 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.760 two fifty two fifty five or something like that, I 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.800 would dance a jig. I'd be very excited about it. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.040 Well see, and that's a great point. So on eighty 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.159 on the bat looking at Cossas, it's excuse me. Also 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:25.359 two forty two, twenty seven homers, eighty four rbi in 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.560 around one hundred and forty three games. So the suppression 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.440 is some of that batterball quality. It's like the strikeouts 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:38.200 were there, the XBA wasn't there. But Barrel hard hit great, 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.920 big fast bat speed and hopefully health is the thing 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.400 that's going to push him into like a much much 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.000 better direction. And he's one of those guys. Even from 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.320 last year he hit better against lefties as a lefty, 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.280 struggled against righty's. I think there's a lot of things 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.320 that are working in his favor. He also did, they 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.320 are small sample sizes, but in a first half registration 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:00.880 of the end of the year he was better. You know, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.880 he was hitting two forty two. So if he's a 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.680 two forty hitter, thirty homers are in tow. But if 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.360 he bounces back up, and this is what makes him 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.839 truly underrated, if he's closer to let's say the year before, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.359 is a two to sixty hitter, legitimately might be a 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.400 thirty plus homer. So back to the first thing I 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.919 said was he is sandwiched in this range where you 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.160 do have the Cody Bellingers of the world. You've got 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.080 Christian Walker, who I really like. But when he pushes 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.840 outside the top one hundred, I do think he is 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.039 one of those guys that, whether it's first or even corner, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.200 if you want to build a little bit of a 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.440 stockpile on that big power corner infield, he is a value. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.320 I think he's a good choice to put on the 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.719 undervalued conversation because there's a lot of other people that 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.400 we're talking ourselves into and it really isn't cost us 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.080 at first base right now, Well. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:47.080 The next guy I want to talk about it. I 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.320 have him higher in my overall ranks than I do 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.400 Causus and another player too that we had high expectations for. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.840 He was a darling of mine. Last year, injuries really 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.840 just kind of derailed him. He did get up there 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.200 for forty three games with the race, but unfortunately fell 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.600 little short. It's Junior Caminaro coming in at one five 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.400 overall in the current consensus ADP and Fantasy pros. This 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.520 guy is only twenty one years old this year, So 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.680 let us pump the brakes and let us just step 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:14.760 back for a moment and take a breath. Because when 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.560 you go back and you look at the minor league 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:21.000 track record of Junior Camonaro three oh seven, three seventy four, 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.120 five forty eight slash with a nine to twenty one 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.200 ops in two hundred and eighty two minor league games 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.720 as a child as a child, basically, okay, he is 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.280 turning twenty one, and I think this is the value. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.560 This is the buy back in and another position here 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.280 in the corners where you're looking for more help. You're 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.480 looking for a guy who's got huge upside and I 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.760 think is just a better pure hitter than Cosses. Cosses 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.280 might have a little bit more power this year, ready 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.160 to go. I understand that. I get that, But if 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.920 we're talking about total package overall of hit tool, it's 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.040 Junior Camonaro. And I'm also super excited to see what 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.559 he looks like getting out of that Race ballpark because 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.960 now that they're gonna be playing in that Tampa situation 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.480 and there, I imagine some of that humanity is going 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.520 to make that ball fly a little bit more. Sure, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.440 there's gonna be some weird rain delays and some issues 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.000 and some other stuff they're not used to dealing with. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.520 I can't imagine what that's going to be like in 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.800 Tampa and Florida where it goes well like every couple hours. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.520 It's going to rain at some point in time. But 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.080 I think it's gonna be fascinating to see because historically speaking, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.240 that has not been the greatest ballpark for hitters. The 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.800 batter's eye has been a problem. So hopefully this opportunity, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.560 now that they are outside of that venue could even 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.040 push Kamana up further than our expectations. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.600 So I think on the surface, this is like fantastic name. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.440 I think the only thing that pops up is there 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.319 might be an argument to like, is he really going 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.440 to be undervalued because there is a camp of people 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.160 that have been involved in drafts and whatnot, you know, 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.079 for over the last month or two that would that 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.280 would probably argue the phonetics of it, like, well, are 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.720 you sure you know I'm not undervalued because people are 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.840 seeing him go in some instances inside the top fifty 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:57.000 and some NFBC drafts. Yet the ADP across the board, 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.880 still in an early state, really hasn't caught up with 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.800 Junior Camonaro. Because I mean, as we're pointing out, the 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.760 consensus ADP on Fantasy Pros taking multiple sites is outside 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.320 the top one hundred, So by that virtue it is 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.440 I do think this is one of the dicey ones. Again, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.080 we're not calling him a sleep or anything like that. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.280 Or it's undervalued for the player. He is ninety four 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.680 right now on Fantasy Pros by the way, an NFBC 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:19.640 on the consensus there. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.200 Okay, yeah, so he's even moved up a little bit more. 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.280 So I just give that caveat to people. But in 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.800 like a total sense, Junior Camenaro is a prime example 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.400 of this. It's just we know that young rookies are 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.680 going to boost up. He also is just coming off 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.280 of playing in the Dominican Winner League where they won 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.640 a championship. He's getting interviewed. He got interviewed yesterday about 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.160 how like what was it? I think it was a 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.360 foul territory. He was interviewing Camonaro and his agent saying like, 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:50.040 do you think you alone just created this opportunity where 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.200 Poolholst wants to now be a manager because he was 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.640 managing the team in Camonaro this monster homer. He was 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.480 phenomenal there. So he's got a lot of buzz that's 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.240 going on, and it's warrant. He hit two seventy six 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.959 in the miners last year. He's had his stint in 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.400 the majors, which you know, it didn't blow any doors off, 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.920 but he almost hit right around two fifty. He had 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.600 an expected batting average in that general area. And then 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.000 when I talk a lot about that, like just you 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.319 know the underlying metrics eleven percent almost twelve percent barrel, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.480 forty five percent hard hit rate. Those two things are 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.520 phenomenal while also striking out a pretty low amount. He's 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:24.880 going to get the ball in the air a little 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.840 bit more Cam and arrow is. If he was like 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.079 prospect eligible, he would be your al favorite rookie of 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:33.520 the year. I think right now, I don't even think 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.600 that's a good question. Projections are a little torn on him. 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.400 I believe I don't have ATC up. I believe ATC 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:46.000 is very aggressive on some of the offensive projection sides. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.400 The bat is a little bit suppressed. They've got him 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.320 at two sixty four, twenty two homers, five stolen bases, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.559 around one hundred and thirty games. I want to say 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.800 there is a projection system or two that's got him 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.959 closer into the thirties. But he has just a really. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.480 Really murr is at twenty nine. I think that's the 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.079 one you're thinking, Okay, what is ATC Adam on Fangrafts. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.760 ATC has but twenty two. So ATC is actually a 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.440 little bit more on the conservative side for him. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:11.680 Yeah, they're light of the bat. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.240 Again, I think sometimes with those younger players, the ATC 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:16.240 tends to be a little bit. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.360 More like Yeah, And the last thing I just say 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.000 is like throughout the minors he has been a guy 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.839 that does not have big strikeout problems, makes a lot 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.000 of contact. This is another one of those. Just like 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:31.559 big fast bats. He registered one of the fastest overall 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.520 bat speeds in baseball. It didn't register last year, So 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.160 like you go and take that with that pure raw power, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.040 thirty home run potential at a corner endfield spot when 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.280 it's going around one hundred, and also sky's the limit 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.319 with a young player, Yeah, he is undervalued. I do 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.400 think looking into the future March type of things, if 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.600 people are watching this after he might not be so 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.720 much anymore. But we're telling you right now he is 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:55.800 and it's going to jump. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.880 Yeah, I do believe that. But look, this is if 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.040 you're doing best balls early. Things like that take advantage, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.000 right because still people want to see what it looks like. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.000 And I think there's a little also question mark about okay, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.360 how does the ballpark play? You know, we know what 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:09.880 it looks like in spring, but we don't know what 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.160 it looks like in June, July, August. We don't, so 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:13.760 it could be fascinating, just like we don't know with 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.640 Oakland too. Necessarily we have but major league players into 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.840 that kind of environment what it exactly looks like in Sacramento. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.160 Let's get to another guy who is a perennial twenty 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.160 twenty guy, four straight years of twenty twenty, yet he's 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.120 going outside the top one hundred. And I understand the 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.760 concerns because you know that study that came out about 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:32.880 the Mariners ballpark. He started diving in and saying, Oh, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.559 maybe the Mariner's ballpark between the humidity issues, slash, the 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.559 weather concerns there at times the batter's eye there, people 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.160 are saying, oh, maybe this Mariner's ballpark is just really 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.640 tough to hit it, and that's why Julio struggling, or 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.040 it really just didn't have a line a lot of protection, 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.199 and they haven't had a lot of great hitting period 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.360 in the last couple of years, and that could also 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.960 be why some of these numbers are extremely down. It 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.079 does feel a little chicken and egg. But Randy Rose Arena, regardless, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.839 is still a twenty twenty guy. And I think when 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.520 you you know, you look at this yvon Page, he's 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.120 still above average in exit velocity above average, and hard 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.959 hit rate above average and walk right by a country mile. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.120 I know it was a down year for him. I 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:15.160 get that the Babbitt was to two seventy five. That's 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:16.880 the lowest he's ever had. He's never had a Babbitt 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.400 in his career, by the way, under three hundred. So 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.080 I'm looking for a bounce back from a Rosa Raina regardless, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.600 And I think it's a perfect time to buy on 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.320 a guy where you know what the baseline is well. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.719 But at the same time, if you could just kind 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.359 of get that batting average back to at least respectability, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.240 Arose Arena is absolutely gonna crush this return on investment. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.360 Yeah, I think he borderlines like I think he has 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.840 the potential to be a massively underlying undervalued player. Is 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.000 he quite in the like screaming undervalued? I'm not one 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.559 hundred percent sure yet. But to your point, he's had 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.040 three straight twenty twenty seasons. He did it last year 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.319 with just a really really bad average, and every think 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.000 he's got worse. Essentially, when you go to Seattle, Seattle's 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.040 worst ballpark factor in all of Bay Ball, and when 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.320 you talk about the jump from like you know, four 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.480 to five or one two to one has the same 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:13.120 difference of thirty to twenty nine right now, which is crazy. See, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.080 and so you know the number one ballpark to the 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.920 worst Seattle is bar none. The worst kind of across 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.480 the board. So that's not good necessarily long term for 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:27.840 a rose Raina's offensive upside. But you see still in 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.440 his game that one massive thing kind of carried him 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.160 down and pushed him down and struggled with his expected 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.840 batting average was fastballs. He hit like one seventy two 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.800 against forcing fastballs last year. That's a little bit of anomaly. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.960 Something I've done a lot of looking on is when 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:48.760 you see extreme struggles or uh just domination against forcing fastballs, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.560 that usually doesn't carry over. A guy that hits like 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.240 three point fifty against forceeams all year, that's going to regress, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.920 but also guys that hit like one seventy one sixty 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.080 that's also going to positive. He regrets the year before 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.520 he had hit two fifty four against forcing fastballs. He 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.200 hit one seventy two this past year. So you're locked in. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.280 You got a little bit of a better lineup. Maybe 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.200 your home run power isn't going to quite be there. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.360 I'm hoping he sells out for a little bit more average, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.640 because he did have a depreciation in his barrel and 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.920 his hard hit, but he walked a little bit more. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.800 He's gonna be at the top of the lineup, and 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.560 he's a twenty twenty guy. So Randy A rose Arena 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.400 I'm in. I do think he floats in the undervalued 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.960 but it's kind of a little bit yet to be 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.080 seen of what this batted profile we saw last year 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.920 in Seattle's gonna look like we just need some major changes. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.280 But maybe that's gonna pop with you know, playing with 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.280 guys like Victor Robliss at the top and playing with 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.520 Julio Rodriguez. So for twenty twenty, like lock twenty twenty 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.800 guys that you get outside the top one hundred, he 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.440 is that. So by virtue of getting twenty twenty, Yeah, 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.400 Randy rose Rein is undervalue. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.360 One hundred percent degree. And look, even if he repeats 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.480 what he did last year and that's what it looks like, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.240 it's still pretty good for what you're getting outside the 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.680 top one hundred. So I'll take that, and I'm hoping 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.200 and looking to a bounce back. I'm hoping that's the 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.360 anomaly because the things it's not like he is an 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.600 old player by any stretch of the means or something 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.080 like that. Right, he's twenty nine, he's in his prime. Actually, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.080 these should be his best seasons coming up. Next guy 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.880 on our list coming in at one, twenty six Washington 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.680 National second baseman Luis Garcia, who is starting to become 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.600 I don't know this year's Jaron Duran for me, like 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:25.880 last year, so that player or. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.200 Talked about player he is, I think he is. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.320 Well, I mean, what's not to like here? I mean, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.840 we're talking about a guy who is, you know, entering 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.560 his twenty age twenty five season, right, he always had 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.440 good contact goes in the minor league's two eighty five 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.400 batting average there. Now i'd like to see the OBEP 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.400 be a little higher. But he's got good speed, right, 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.560 So twenty two bases last year, eighteen homers. I'm just 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.360 I just can't wrap my mind around a situation where, 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.640 you know, when people were drafting jose A l twov 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.160 to try to hope for let's I mean we had 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.080 twenty twenty and two eighty Well, okay, that sounds great, 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.040 but that also sounds like basically the season Garcia gave 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.560 me last year, one hundred picks later, Lily, one hundred 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.520 picks later. And I don't get it. So and you're 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.560 talking about a younger player, you're talking about a young 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.560 team that really is starting, I think, to emerge this year. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.120 And of course young teams will have peaks and valleys. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.600 But while right now this player is at one twenty six, 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.680 second base is rough. It's rough out there at the 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.600 second base streets. I think, so, yeah, that's the guy 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.280 that I keep coming back to and keep landing on 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.520 because I would like to see him move up in 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.040 the lineup, potentry a little bit. I know there's some 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.159 questions of where he might hit this year, but what 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:29.960 you saw last year, to me, I don't think was 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:31.919 a fluke. When you look at the minor league track record, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.080 a guy who makes good contact, got batting average, GOP speed, 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.679 He's got all that that you're looking for. And I think, 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:40.960 you know, once again you're talking about twenty twenty players 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.640 like a rose arena. Well, here's a twenty twenty guy 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.200 in the infield. That's a nice thing to have post 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:45.840 one hundred. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.159 Yeah, and this is another one of those guys. You 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.240 know this This video is also going to serve as 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.800 like a time capsule of players that are going to 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:54.800 rise in value. We're going to talk about that throughout 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.399 the year of like, who are players that have been 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.280 on the rise and experts are drafting. Everybody loves Luis 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.160 Garcia because of the twenty twenty potential. And the wildest 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.360 thing too, is, you know, I saw him years ago 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.480 in Arizona Fall League, and this was at the height 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.119 of him being this very slap hit ory guy. He 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.640 had a swing that just came across his body, had 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.920 no launch angle whatsoever. Yet I remember I was in 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.320 some sessions of BP and he was crushing stuff in 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.879 the Surprise Stadium over on the pull side, or actually 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.119 was in Peoria. It's very impressive what the power was. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.720 And then he did make the change. It's one of 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.920 those things we look at those high contacty type of guy, 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.840 the Louis Rises, maybe the Jacob Wilson's and we go man, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.439