WEBVTT - The 2024 All-Sleeper Team (EP. 770) 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.600 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.880 Baseball Podcast. It is me Joey p joe. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:14.120 Pisapia, and today we've got another all star team for 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.320 you today it's the All Sleeper Team for twenty twenty four. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.360 Get excited, everybody, It's me, it's the Welsh, it's you, 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.720 and everybody has a different definition of sleeper. And to me, Welsh, 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.160 when I think about sleepers, I just think about guys who. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:27.000 Are being undervalued. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.400 And sometimes it's young players, but sometimes it's also veterans 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.280 who continue to produce and yet still nobody wants them 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.520 because they're another year older. But sometimes these veterans can 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.519 continue to be steady productive players in your fantasy lineup. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.400 Do you have a definition of sleeper before we kick 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.240 things off with our All Sleeper Team of twenty twenty four. 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.040 Yeah, it's it's kind of like, uh, because there's breakouts 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.080 and there's sleepers and rebounds and blah blah blah. They're 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.480 they're all in the same family. So sleepers, in my 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.120 mind are players that are being taught about less than 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.840 Because we just did the Breakouts episode and that episode 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.240 is designed these players are ready to take this next step, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.880 and they're usially not like in the higher level, I 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.280 do think sleepers can still be Like there could be 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.640 a guy that's ranked like fifty if I think he 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.360 can be the first overall player. Michael Harris. Michael Harris 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.920 isn't a sleeper technically. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.280 No, but in the depth be a sleeper of the 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:23.800 first No. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.520 No, but in my definition of like, if that's a 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.000 guy that's like a third rounder, that I can be 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.560 a first rounder, Like, that's kind of that undervat. So 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.920 it comes back to your undervalued conversation. My definition in 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:37.480 this episode is players that get talked about less because 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.959 the community is so much bigger, there's so many more 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.240 people in voices, it's hard to find sleepers and deeper. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.280 So I'm playing these deeper names because I do believe 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.720 there's handfuls of players that are still in the top 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:53.120 one hundred that are sleepers by being undervalued. But these 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.200 are much further down. These are further down guys we're 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.600 sleeping on that in some cases aren't really being drafted, 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.840 could then end up jumping in and being valuable starters 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.600 across the board. So I will kind of join you 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.600 in all all that stupid crap. I just said in 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:13.440 that it's like it's undervalued. These are undervalued players discussed. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:14.960 Sleep is the key for you. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.200 I like it when you said under discussed because I 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.880 think you know, there's certain guys we've talked about so much. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.040 You know, we've talked about the Reagans and the Michael 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:23.639 Kings and the Kaminaro, like, we've. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.040 Talked about those guys, and we love those guys. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.000 But I think it's important to start to give some 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.240 love to some players that nobody's talking about, or maybe 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.400 people are tired of talking about, or even worse. Take 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.079 for granted, and I'm looking at just so happens. All 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.960 of mine are ADP's outside of the top two hundred 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.560 save one who's at one ninety nine currently, So I'm 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.400 talking about guys that are buried. I'm talking about this 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.400 is towards the end of your drafts. So again for sleepers, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.720 it's a mixture. For me, and I'm gonna start here 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.919 with our catcher, and for me, it's Mitch Garver, who 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.360 I don't think people are paying enough attention to now 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.960 when you look at fangrafts, he is slated to hit 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.359 four in this lineup. He qualifies at catcher, but he's 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.320 also going to DA so you're gonna get more at 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.600 bats out of Mitch Garver. Mitch Garver last year had 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.960 a pretty solid season. He's still going to give you power, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.680 which I think that's something that is forgotten too much. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.239 If you're in deeper leagues and you're looking for somebody 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.560 with RBI potential, somebody with power potential, or in the 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:15.600 two catcher league, Mitch. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:16.880 Garver becomes really intriguing. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.040 He is right now currently the fifteenth catcher going off 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.880 the board and Welsh I don't think we're taking enough 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.760 into account his position in the batting order, which means 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.679 so much. He's got Horidy Polanco and Julio Rodriguez hitting 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:29.960 in front of him. Those guys are going to be 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.160 on base. He's gonna have RBI opportunities. I think Mitch 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:34.560 Garver is one of these guys that you could take 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.760 as a deeper league utility guy. I think he's a 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.440 great bench bat. I think he's a great deeper league 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.800 catcher or in a two catcher league. Mitch Garver is 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.960 somebody you should pay attention to because, like I said, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.440 he is going to qualify there and He's going to 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.240 get at bats in the middle of that Seattle order, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.120 and I think Seattle is going to be challenging for 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:52.080 that West this year. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.360 They're my pick to win it. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.720 I know that's not always the popular pick, but I 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.720 think from the board right now on the betting side, 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.120 it's a really intriguing one. Who is your catcher that 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.000 you think is in your all sleeper team this year? 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.080 Yeah, I want to point out I probably would have 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.000 picked Garver here of all the position I was also say, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.600 all the positions that we're gonna talk about. I do 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.480 think the line between breakout and sleeper and like favorite 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.680 player to draft, they're really close in this because, as 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.160 I've said to a lot of people, I like late catchers. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.040 I don't want any of the guys on the top end. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.479 So could I have picked Gabby Moreno here, Yeah, I 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.320 put him in the all breakout team because I think 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:31.800 he's going to take a next step one of your 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.200 guys Logan, Ohoppy, I could have put him here as well. Garb. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.400 I think I'd breakout because I think he showed you 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.400 enough last year where you're like, Okay, you give this 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.840 guy one hundred and you know twenty five games, he's 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.719 gonna hit thirty home runs, like that's a breakout. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.680 But he's also a sleeper at catcher. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.599 Fourteen he can be You're right at sleeper at catcher. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:52.040 He's still technically a sleeper as well. But you got 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:52.640 another name. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.160 On this, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was just kind 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.760 of lining all those up because I think the line 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.280 is very thin. The guy that I picked is the 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.640 ninth adyp catcher, so it's not too too far down there. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.800 It's Wilson Catreras. And one of the reasons behind putting 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:09.440 Wilson Contreras there is constant twenty three straight seasons now, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.520 he has put up at least twenty homers, gets a 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.719 handful of stolen bases. Batting average is actually ticked up 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.200 over the last three years. I think that Cardinal team 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.400 is gonna kind of rock back out this year this 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.239 coming year. His XBA was the highest of his career 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.560 this past year, two seventy nine versus his two sixty 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.760 four batting average. Hard hit numbers are pretty solid, almost 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.360 forty seven percent hard hit Baseball Savant. You go and 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.720 look outside of his chase rate, you're kind of top 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.960 twenty percentile and ex wOBA X slugging in a really 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.240 good offensive lineup that I think, like I said, Aeronaudo 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:45.960 Goldie are going to have a bounce back and at 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.360 catcher nine. Really the sleeper aspect of this is I 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.760 don't think anybody talks about him. People talk more about 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.920 his brother. People focus on the top end. I think 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.640 Catres can easily be a top five closer or catcher, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:03.280 So I think he definitely defines the high end offensive 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.719 upside that I want from catcher. So Gabby Marino breaks out, 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:11.159 Ohapi breaks out, Garver is killer, but Contreris can be 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.040 a top five catcher easy with those offensive stats, and 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.160 that is why we are sleeping on him and he's 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.400 my all catcher sleeper. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.200 Let's take a quick break in the action and tell 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.680 you about underdog fantasy. MLB draft season is here, and 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:23.719 the easiest. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.280 Place to play fantasy baseball is it underdog Fantasy. We've 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.240 already been active in their best ball FORMATT fantasy drafts, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.400 where you draft your team over twenty rounds at the 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.760 best score from your team that you drafted becomes your 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.600 score for each week in the MLB season. 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All right, who is 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:20.000 sleeping on at first base? 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:20.280 Welsh? 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.320 Because your name is somebody that I just took in 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.240 our Underdog draft. I think with all the new rookies, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.720 were kind of leaving him out of a lot of discussions. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.120 So let's talk about your selection. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.600 Yeah, so you were saying like all your sleepers are 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.640 outside the top two hundred. Contrast is technically because of 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.080 the NFPC, I have two other players that are inside 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.400 the top two hundred that I'm designing as sleepers. This 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:46.520 is one of them Christian incarnacion strand huge hard hit 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:51.480 numbers this past year average one to eleven almost essentially 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.600 one to twelve ev, which is killer. Over ten percent 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.160 barrel rate, which is great, almost a fifty percent hard 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.920 hit rate which is phenomenal, forty eight point four percent. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.160 And let's go back to the batting average stuff. His 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.800 expected batting average XBA it was the same as his 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.960 batting average which was two seventy. So their strikeout issues. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.320 But what does he do in my book, hits the 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.559 ball really hard. He also barrels the ball, he gets 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.120 it in the air. And now he's got more opportunity 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.840 with the Nuelvie Marte situation in the best hitting ballpark 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:28.000 in baseball, best ballpark factors, So now we're less worried 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.320 about any weird playing time stuff. He's going to be 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.079 handed this first base job. So why is he a sleeper? 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.560 Because he is being massively undervalued, which could have been 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.480 a big piece because of this weird situation with too 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.760 many players, and this might start to change. But at 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.120 one fifty seven and ADP the nineteenth first baseman on 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.480 the Fantasy pros, ADP, he's a sleeper he's the top 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.400 one hundred bat Christian and Carnelcion Strand. I love Tristan Kassis. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.600 He's my all breakout team. I all whatever, I want, 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.719 every share of him. Strand could put up top ten 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.439 catcher numbers this year and he's almost going into the 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:03.319 first base numbers. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:03.840 You mean first base? 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.640 Oh yeah, yeah, first base. I'm catcher closer. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.600 You tried to have a catcher close and now you're 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.400 like catcher. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.559 Closer is as an enunciation thing between it. I screwed 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:13.920 up all the time. I don't know how I turned 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.120 him into a catcher. The good thing is he's got 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.720 a position. It's first base. Those power numbers are real 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:22.040 and there's a thirty home run potential, uh with Cincinnati 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.560 with all of that playing time. So I think Strand 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.440 we have been sleeping on him, and we might not 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.720 be so sleepy anymore because of the Nouelvie Marte situation. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.400 But he's my pick for the all sleeper first baseman. 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:35.880 I've got one from Cincinnati. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.360 And also, you know, if you watch the show last week, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.080 we did the breakout Team and I was talking about 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.040 Michael Garcia Thurbe. I was also talking about Nuevee Marte. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:44.640 That was my main guy. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.960 And of course the pd suspension came like hours later 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.600 after we finished that show, of course, but because of 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.200 that same suspension, I've got another guy in Cincinnati who 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.200 he's gonna get more playing time for sure. Now it's 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.640 johnmer Candelario of the Cincinnati Rights. Last year, coming off 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.680 a season where he had twenty two homers the RBI 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.280 seventy runs, he say, okay, well, that's not really exciting, 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.480 but you know what, it's exciting enough when you're hitting 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.320 in the middle of his order in a good offensive ballpark, 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.360 on a good offensive team, and in those mixed leagues, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.080 those deeper leagues where you're looking for help in your 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.400 corner spots. He qualifies at first, he qualifies a third. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.320 The dual eligibility is great. I'm putting him here at 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.360 first base on this team because, again, middle of the order. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.920 I keep coming back to how important lineup placement is 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.440 in fantasy and right now, Strand is looking like he 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.640 could be hitting eighth according to Fangrafts. That's where he's projected. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.079 Candelario hitting cleanup right now. Now, that could flip flop 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.720 by May. But at the same time. I think you 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.760 have to pay attention to Candelaria. He is a player 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.240 that I don't think gets enough credit. Another guy too, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.480 He qualifies at second base. He qualifies a couple of 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.400 places as a Brandon Drury of the Los Angeles Angels. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.560 He is the twenty second second baseman going off the 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.600 board two twenty and ADP currently and this is another 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.320 one Welsh. I just don't get it. I keep looking 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.560 around and I keep saying to myself, why does no 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.280 one want Brandon Drury qualifies at first qualifies a second 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.240 two straight of twenty six or more homers, twenty eight 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.240 homers in twenty twenty two, twenty six last year. Again, 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.480 I understand the runs and RBI fell short a little bit, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.959 maybe have expectations, especially the runs last year, down from 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.880 eighty seven to sixty seven, but he's still at two 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.280 sixty in both of those. I'm looking at just the 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.320 profile of this player, and I think, because people are 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.000 so sour on the Angels, and rightfully so, that his 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.880 ADP has been suppressed further than it should be, because 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.600 if you're just talking about a projectability of a twenty 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.439 eighty eighty player, and that's what he is with a 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.960 two to sixty batting average. I think that's better than 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.800 two twenty at eightp I just think that's far more valuable. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.400 You know who the player is. I understand that first year, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.760 maybe you weren't buying all the power, you weren't buying everything. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.959 But when he basically repeated it year over year, what 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.360 do you have to lose with this player? 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:43.760 Nothing. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.800 I don't think we've done one show where we talked 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.240 about him. I've started drafting him. I drafted him in 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.079 the raz Slam. I drafted him in a couple other 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.040 best ball situations. We just did the Underdog Draft. I 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.640 drafted him there too. He's going late, he's got pop, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.720 he's got at bats. To me, this is another player 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.320 that I'm going to lock in terms of batting order. Also, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.439 that's another thing where okay, where's he gonna hit in 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.720 the order. We know Trout's gonna be, you know, towards 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.400 the top of the order, but right now he is 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.600 slated to hit sixth in this batting order. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.040 That's a good situation there. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.640 Anthony Rendome is never healthy, so he could easily flip 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.440 into that four or five spot without a doubt. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.720 So that's my guy's second. Okay, so Drury is the 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:19.360 guy for me. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.839 Welsh, You've got another guy at second base on your list, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.760 also on the same Angel squad. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.640 I'm gonna stay with it. It was funny. I actually had 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.520 a Bill smile when you when you put dry on 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.000 here and you said Drury because I'm going on that 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.360 other side with Luis Ringifo as a super super deep 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.280 sleeper here two sixty six ADP right now, as far 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.200 as second base goes, he's ranked twenty eighth on the 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.160 Fantasy pros ADP when you look at it now, numbers 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.120 last year pretty solid. He's he increased his barrel percentage 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.680 career high barrel percentage into the sevens. His hard hit 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.720 rate continues to tick up. It was actually a career 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.720 high thirty six point nine percent. But the guy at 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.640 LEAs sits around that two fifty batting average marker does 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.520 not strike out a whole bunch. We've seen some power 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.520 seventeen and sixteen homers respectively. He's also hit the same 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.480 batting average two straight years. But the talking about him 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.400 leading off, and that's something that I really know pun 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.720 intended to our show. That's something that I really like 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.360 if he's going to be able to lead off, even 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.880 if it's in a split situation, if it's like him 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.679 and then Shan, well, if they're going to go back 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.440 between that, it's going to create run opportunities. Everything that 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.600 you just said about Brandon Drury lives with Rin Gifo 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.360 as well. He's probably going to score more runs than 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.320 he is RBI batting average anywhere from the two fifty 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.080 to two seventy range. He's going to steal some bases, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.680 we might get into double digits with more opportunities, and 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.440 he qualifies at a lot of different spots. So he's 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.120 kind of one of those super utility markers. So Luis 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.120 ring Guifo is going to be my sleeper second baseman. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.520 Now I mentioned this name on the Breakout Show, and 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.720 you've carried him over to the sleeper list because I 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.920 think it's a great spot. So with third base, as 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.760 a guy in Kansas City who who might be flying 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.200 to the top of the batting order because he's having 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.600 such a good spring. We talked about him last week, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.680 Michael Garcia, So Walsha, I want you to talk about 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.520 him some more because this is a player that I 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.120 kind of, you know, was alluding to maybe there's a 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:13.800 breakout there. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.760 Not the biggest slugger. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.560 You look at the minor league numbers, you know, not 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.760 a lot of power there, but maybe there's a little 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.560 bit more pop. Maybe again the run score, the stolen bases, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.520 maybe all that is enough here if he makes enough 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.520 contact to go from the nine hole to the one hole, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.400 and that would be huge for his fantasy value coming 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:29.400 out of the gate and opening day. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.200 Yeah, and I want to point out too that one 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.160 hundred percent was putting Candelari on this list. You got Candelario, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.480 this was my third base guy. You already talked about him, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.840 but he is a one thousand percent all sleeper team guy. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.160 But the other guy that was floating around, like you said, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.760 was Michael Garcia. It's not a big power play and 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.600 sometimes playing like out of traditional stats. Bagman and I 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.520 did this episode on ITL about a month or month 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.280 and a half ago where it was like what do 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.440 you need out of your positions, Like what are the 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.760 average stats of the starters you need? And third base, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.120 Harry's a lot of big power. So if you're gonna 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.840 take perceivably if he was gonna be like your starter, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.720 you're missing a lot of power and you're gonna have 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.440 to make up in other spots. That marker goes down 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.040 when you start to look at a player that you 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.360 can put for your middle or corneringfield. And that's a 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.920 cool thing about Michael Garcia is he could qualify at 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.560 third and short in some places. ADP's around two point 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.960 fifty big hard hit number last year fifty point six percent, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.160 and he had over four hundred and sixty at bats, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.640 So that's nothing to just scoff at. Problem is he 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.360 hasn't gotten the ball in the air. It was around 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.120 a four percent barrel percentage. But he doesn't strike out. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.200 He walks some and he steals tons of bases. He's 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.080 stole twenty three this past year. I've seen him a 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.680 bunch in camp. Looks like he's gotten bigger over at 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.520 Royals camp. If he is leading off, there's run arby 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.320 run opportunities. There are tons of stolen base opportunities that 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.560 you're getting out of position. If that power can come up, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.920 kel Garcia could be a low key CJ. Abrams this year. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.200 If he can get to twelve to fifteen homers, Yeah, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.360 and he could push thirty stolen bases and you could 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.000 have that at third. Michael Garcia is one of my 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.720 big sleepers, and we're putting him here at third base. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.160 He's projected already on fangrafts to lead off. Now that 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.160 was not the case last week when we talked about him. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.800 So there's you look at some of the spring training lineups, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.760 keep looking at where Garcia is hitting when you get 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.200 into the next week or so spring training, as Welsh 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.280 alluded to, as a player who's making a step up. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.080 And he is so cheap right now, I mean two 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.720 forty seven, Welsh, that's just absurd. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.640 And it's it's late stolen bases, and it's late stolen 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.600 bases just to throw out. So it's like you, you know, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.200 he qualifies in a couple of different spots. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:34.680 He's cheap. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.360 You're trying to chase your stolen bases. This is the 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.560 guy to chase. My guy is somebody that's been around forever. Literally, 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:43.680 he's one hundred and forty two years old. He's being 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.840 drafted outside the top two hundred. He's at two to two. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.120 He's a twenty first third baseman being selected. And I 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.760 get it, you're not excited about drafting Justin Turner. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.120 I get it. Okay, last year, what did he do? 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.720 He at two seventy six, eighty six runs, ninety six 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.560 twenty three homers. He played one hundred and forty six games, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.320 which is great. I know in twenty two he only 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:06.800 played one hundred and twenty eight, but he did play 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.720 one hundred and fifty one and twenty twenty one. So 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.080 when you're drafting Justin Turner, you have to realize you're 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.240 probably at best getting some around one hundred and thirty games, 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.040 like that's kind of what your peak is. But he 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.320 continues to show you that he's still gonna probably drop 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:19.920 twenty bombs and there he's gonna drive in runs. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:20.400 And guess what. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.439 Guess where he's hitting Welsh in the order for the 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.800 Blue Jays this year. He's slated to hit cleanup. Now, 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.160 I've just given you four straight guys being drafted outside 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:31.720 the top two hundred who are hitting clean up for 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:36.720 their respective teams. Mitch Garver, Candelario, Drury and Turner. Are 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.359 they the most exciting guys on the planet? No? Are 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.080 they going to be productive if they stay in that 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.440 cleanup spot? Yeah, they are outside the top two hundred. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.640 To me, Welsh, it's a win. People are just bored. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.960 They're concerned with the age, and I get it, but 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.280 he is still a live bat. You look at the 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.040 second half of the year, the stats are still there. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.399 All he does is hit the baseball. That's basically all 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.240 he's done his entire career. After being a utility player 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.240