Speaker 1: What's up, Friendoza. Welcome back to Fantasy Pros the Baseball Podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm your friend Chris Welsh the Welsh. You can find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter at is it the Welsh and today
Speaker 1: in this special episode, we're talking about the five high
Speaker 1: upside base Steelers heading into the season. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of room to think about what that can be. Am
Speaker 1: I saying the top five leading bass Steelers?
Speaker 2: No? Not necessarily.
Speaker 1: Am I saying the top five base Steelers at the
Speaker 1: top of your draft?
Speaker 2: No? Not necessarily.
Speaker 1: The upside when you're taking the players already in the
Speaker 1: first round might be kind of built in. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna look around all different spaces of the fantasy baseball spectrum,
Speaker 1: some inside the top one hundred with further upside growth,
Speaker 1: and some deeper. I've got five high upside base Steelers.
Speaker 1: I think we're looking at twenty plus on all of
Speaker 1: these players, and maybe pushing thirty. So you're gonna wanna
Speaker 1: lock in. But before you do start implementing some of
Speaker 1: this into your draft strategy, I want you to think
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Speaker 1: my friends, I've got a need for some speed. One
Speaker 1: question that has kind of inserted into this entire thing,
Speaker 1: and something to think about overall, is how baseball is
Speaker 1: going to change as far as the base dealing goes
Speaker 1: with an advantage that teams have. The base paths are
Speaker 1: now about two two and a half inches on each side,
Speaker 1: closer pitchers can't throw over as many times anymore, and
Speaker 1: overall shifts have changed. So what is this going to
Speaker 1: do baseball season? Advantage for base stealing managers do? Maybe
Speaker 1: more guys are gonna run, Maybe the elite guys are
Speaker 1: gonna run more, so you might see an overall uptick
Speaker 1: in stolen bases in general, but that doesn't mean you're
Speaker 1: not going to want to focus. And these are players
Speaker 1: that I think even as the tides rise, they're going
Speaker 1: to be the ones that look the biggest because these
Speaker 1: are some of the most impressive players. And coming in
Speaker 1: at number five, I'm gonna tell you about the highest
Speaker 1: player on this list.
Speaker 2: Jazz Chisholm. I know this is the top fifty guy.
Speaker 1: Where's the upside? Well, Jazz is coming off of a
Speaker 1: year where he only still twelve bases because he played
Speaker 1: only sixty games in twenty twenty one. Though he's still
Speaker 1: twenty three bases in one hundred and twenty four games.
Speaker 1: He was out pacing that marker this past year before
Speaker 1: he got hurt so much so as well, you'd like
Speaker 1: to see him get caught less. But he attempted thirty
Speaker 1: one stolen bases in one hundred and twenty four games.
Speaker 1: You can play around with basic math, essentially every fourth
Speaker 1: game he attempted to steal a base, which if you're
Speaker 1: on the right side of it, that could be two
Speaker 1: stolen base attempts in a given week, which is a
Speaker 1: big deal if you're playing in head to head. The
Speaker 1: past year where he only played sixty games, he had
Speaker 1: seventeen attempts, so.
Speaker 2: That was going up. Again.
Speaker 1: The stolen based numbers looked like they were going up.
Speaker 1: The attempts were going up before he got hurt. Plus,
Speaker 1: you're gonna tag on some more power than probably anybody else.
Speaker 1: Another thing working in the favor, Derek Carti's the bat X,
Speaker 1: which was the number one singular projection system, has him
Speaker 1: as the third highest stolen based projection in all of
Speaker 1: baseball in twenty twenty three, and that's in only one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two games.
Speaker 2: The mind can wander.
Speaker 1: My friends Jazz Chisholm, even though he's a top fifty player,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of upside on his return, and he
Speaker 1: might be one of the few twenty five to twenty
Speaker 1: five guys on the Earth coming in at number four.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go way further down the list, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna stay relatively at the same position. Actually, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite players that I watched early on in his career,
Speaker 1: and this will only be really truly his sophomore season.
Speaker 2: It's cj Abrams.
Speaker 1: Cj Abrams on the Fantasy he Pro's ADP, which you
Speaker 1: can go and check out. It's got all the major
Speaker 1: sites on it has an eightyp currently that's sitting.
Speaker 2: At two point fifty three.
Speaker 1: He's a starting shortstop for Washington. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: room to grow and a lot of upside. Projection systems
Speaker 1: have him around nineteen anywhere from sixteen to nineteen stolen bases,
Speaker 1: which is pretty dang good.
Speaker 2: But cj.
Speaker 1: Abrams one of the fastest guys in the league. Actually,
Speaker 1: of all baseball players.
Speaker 2: Had the twentieth technically tied.
Speaker 1: For twentieth, which really would end up putting him around
Speaker 1: like the eighth because there's many players that were tied,
Speaker 1: but he comes in at twentieth as the fastest sprint
Speaker 1: speed to ninety feet tag on top of it. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, between his time in TRIPAA with Washington,
Speaker 1: San Diego and the major leagues, he stole twenty one bases,
Speaker 1: which was just under one hundred and thirty games played.
Speaker 1: His numbers have come down, but he had an elite
Speaker 1: sprint speed when he was a rookie. He's only going
Speaker 1: to be twenty two years old.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 1: They've got a manufacture runs. He might be hitting at
Speaker 1: the top of the lineup and this is how he's
Speaker 1: going to impact the game.
Speaker 2: Though no projection has him.
Speaker 1: Over twenty I think there's twenty five plus in CJ
Speaker 1: Abrams game this year, and you're getting in post two
Speaker 1: point fifty. That, my friends, is upside. Coming in at
Speaker 1: number three is actually the guy the furthest down this list.
Speaker 1: If you look on Fantasy pros, he's got a five
Speaker 1: hundred ADP because across all the sites he doesn't even register.
Speaker 1: He only registers on a couple. Those are around the
Speaker 1: three hundreds. And we're talking about a starting outfielder in
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: It's Jose Siri.
Speaker 1: Jose Siri in a one hundred and four games last year
Speaker 1: had fourteen stolen bases. Every projection system bat X ATC
Speaker 1: if you want to look at an aggregate, has him
Speaker 1: for more seventeen on ATC. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: we go back over to that ninety foot sprint speed
Speaker 1: Jose Siri. Though he comes in at quote number twenty nine,
Speaker 1: he's tied with CJ Abrams three point eight two seconds.
Speaker 1: He is fast and he is cheap. He's got to
Speaker 1: get on base. His strikeout numbers are a little too high,
Speaker 1: but he seems to have that locked up and is
Speaker 1: one of the cheapest sources of stolen bases you can
Speaker 1: find out there. So even if it only steals fifteen
Speaker 1: when it's free, there's upside there.
Speaker 2: Number two is.
Speaker 1: My favorite, and if you know me, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. It's Corbyn Carroll. This is another top
Speaker 1: one hundred player ADP of eighty three according to Fantasy Pros,
Speaker 1: but we've seen him go higher in some spots.
Speaker 2: This is the fastest.
Speaker 1: Player in Major League Baseball. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: when you go through the sprint speed to ninety feet,
Speaker 1: you see point zero one differences at every corner except
Speaker 1: from number one to number two, where there is point
Speaker 1: zero eight. It is the single biggest gap of any
Speaker 1: player going next to each other in all of baseball
Speaker 1: is Corbyn Carroll. It's point three sixty six, which is
Speaker 1: number one in all of baseball. He stole bases in
Speaker 1: the minors. Carrol between his time in Double A TRIPAA
Speaker 1: and the majors in twenty twenty two, still thirty three bases.
Speaker 2: And not to mention his twenty seven homers.
Speaker 1: As a guy that makes a lot of contact, he
Speaker 1: is wildly underprojected on all projection.
Speaker 2: Systems the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1: They had two to twenty plus base Steelers last year
Speaker 1: in Josh Rojas and Jake McCarthy. I think Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 1: could lead this team while he might also be leading off.
Speaker 1: Let's make a bet for upside on the fastest player
Speaker 1: in baseball on a team that was top five in
Speaker 1: base stealing attempts in twenty twenty two, Corbyn Carroll. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of upside there. And number one on the
Speaker 1: list is a player that put up an almost ridiculous number,
Speaker 1: to say out loud, stolen bases in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: across the miners and a little bit in the majors.
Speaker 1: It's a Storry Ruiz, who.
Speaker 2: Is now with the Oakland A's who stole.
Speaker 1: Eighty six bases, Yeah, eighty six bases at every I
Speaker 1: mean the majors. He only played a couple games he
Speaker 1: stole one base, but he stole twenty five in Triple
Speaker 1: A with Milwaukee, twenty three at Triple A with San Diego,
Speaker 1: and thirty seven with San Diego at Double A. Absurd
Speaker 1: stolen base numbers. How about in twenty twenty one when
Speaker 1: he stole thirty six twenty nineteen when he's still thirty
Speaker 1: four or twenty eighteen when he stole forty nine. He
Speaker 1: steals bass, friends, I think you get the point. He's
Speaker 1: on an Oakland team where he's gonna hit, probably higher
Speaker 1: on the lineup. Even if he doesn't. They need to
Speaker 1: manufacture runs. It's atrocious.
Speaker 2: This is what he is built for.
Speaker 1: This team traded for him, and you, my friends, can
Speaker 1: have him.
Speaker 2: For past two point fifty.
Speaker 1: Yes, his ADP according to Fantasy Pros is two seventy six.
Speaker 1: I usually don't like to chase stolen bases as far
Speaker 1: as my drafting goes. I like to be balanced. But
Speaker 1: guess what you miss out? You don't miss out a story.
Speaker 1: Ruiz might have the most upside in baseball. When's the
Speaker 1: last time we had a good fifty to sixty stolen
Speaker 1: base guy. It's been a while. There's now an advantage
Speaker 1: to stealing bases on a team that needs to create runs.
Speaker 1: Who traded for this player who stole eighty six the
Speaker 1: year before, across.
Speaker 2: The miners and in the majors.
Speaker 1: I would say it's pretty safe to say the highest
Speaker 1: upside stolen based player in all of baseball this year
Speaker 1: is a story. Ruiz? What do you think that I
Speaker 1: miss anybody. Probably I didn't say Mond to see.
Speaker 2: God knows how many he plays, but he'll.
Speaker 1: Probably steal a bunch. Who do you like out of
Speaker 1: this list? Who are you drafting?
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for hanging out with me. I
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