Fantasy Baseball Today - 10 Under the Radar Prospects in Dynasty Leagues! (9/10 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: September 10, 2026

Josiah Ragsdale came over to the Cardinals in the Dustin May trade. Yostin Peña is turning heads in the Yankees' organization. Could Boston Smith be Ben Rice 2.0? Axiel Plaz has massive power upside. Who is Avery Owusu-Asiedu?Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up for the newsletter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters

10 under the radar prospects you need to know in Dynasty. Up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. Welcome into FBT Express on Thursday, September 10th. I am Frank Sample joined by Scott White. Let's take a look at 10 under the radar prospects you need to know in Dynasty leagues. And up first, we have Josiah Ragsdale from the Cardinals, who came over from the Brewers in the Dustin May trade. Scott, what do you have on Ragsdale?

Yep, yep. And just to clarify, these are. are prospects for deeper dynasty leagues. I've been able to pick them up in some of my 24 teamers. If you play in a really deep dynasty league where the prospect pool is stretched, yeah, these guys are very interesting.

Josiah Ragsdale, at AA, has put up a stat line to rival Jose de Paula, batting over 300, 24 homers, 36 steals, OPS near 1,000, because he walks so much. and pretty much kept it going since being traded to the Cardinals and the Dustin May deal.

Slash line's a little bit worse, but power speed, the speed gets 70 grades from evaluators, so with that plate discipline and the emerging power, I'd say Ragsdale is kind of a big deal. All right, what can you tell me about Cam Canarella from the Marlins organization? I think he should be the heir apparent in center field.

Jacob Marcy. It's been hot recently as of this recording, but overall, stat line's pretty underwhelming, hasn't brought a lot of value. Cam Canarella,

meanwhile, very good hit tool batting 336 between three stops. Most recently, AAA has continued to hit there. Great defender in center field, so that's not an issue.

And while his power has been in question, because he's more of a line drive, hitter and tends to go the opposite way. And the highest end exit velocities are lacking, sure. The average exit velocity is pretty strong, though. And Canarello of 15 home runs, he's shown enough functional power there that I think he could be kind of a Walmart version of Carson Benj.

All right, this next name up is one that I'm actually pretty familiar with. Yankees Twitter has been all over this one. That is Yostin Pena, 18-year-old outfielder in the Yankees organization. Well, Yankees Twitter may be all over him, but he's still not placing that. high in the actual prospect rankings, at least the latest updates out there. Maybe that'll change in the off season once everybody gets a look into him. I generally don't like hyping up 18-year-olds and rookie ball because you can end up sinking

a lot of years into a lost cause that way. But Pena has now progressed to be on rookie ball. He's gone to full season ball, low A, and has continued to slash 323, 389, 552 there in 24 games. Six homers, 10 steals. He's hit the ball as hard as 114 miles per hour there as an 18-year-old. So there's significant power. Obviously, some potential for failure being so young and so far down the ladder still.

But I feel a lot better recommending him now that he's in A ball. All right. Next up we have Brian Rincone from the Phillies organization. Scott, what do you have on Rinkone? So you kind of understand the slow buy-in here. Rincone entered this season with nearly 800 minor league at bats and had hit only 206. But he's had an offensive explosion this year.

Reached base at better than a 400 clip walking 91 times. And he's been a 2020 guy. In fact, he's probably going to end up being a 25-home or 30 steel guy. and is a great defender at shortstop. So I think there's still some hesitancy to buy into him offensively, but the two skills that clearly stand out are those on-base skills and the defense.

And with those two at shortstop, he's for sure going to get a serious look in the majors, Brian Reacon. And, you know, if this power speed, if these power speed contributions this year turn out to be even halfway legitimate, that he'll probably matter in fantasy. Next up, we have Boston Smith,

a catcher in the Mariners organization, actually came over from the White Sox in the Luis Castillo trade. And prior to that, he came over from the nationals, the nationals and the Curtis Meade deal. So he's been traded twice, Boston Smith, in the last calendar year for players we've heard of. But he's produced the best numbers of the three, granted in the minors,

but still, a thousand OPS. He's walked nearly 100 times. He's hit over 30 home runs. He kind of reminds me of Ben Rice, Boston Smith does, and that he's not getting any attention from prospect evaluators despite putting up incredible numbers. And I think part of it's just they don't expect him to stay a catcher, so it makes for a much more difficult defensive path.

but if Boston Smith continues to do what Ben Rice does, which is just mash everywhere he goes, then he'll fit anywhere, as we've seen with Rice. So the power's legit. He is especially good at elevating to his pole side and obviously takes a lot of walks too. So I like Boston Smith a lot. Let's take a quick break.

We'll be back right after this. Welcome back, FBT Express. We are continuing on with 10 under the radar prospects for those who play in Dynasty Leagues. And next up, we have Axiel Plaus, a catcher in the Pirates Organization. Yes, we do. Axial Plaus has an OPS around 900

at high A this year. He's, and that's at age 20 for the most part. He recently turned 21. So OPS around 900, while striking out up 17% of the time, so that doesn't seem like it's going to be an issue. We don't have stat-cast data at high A, but Axial Plaus played a good portion of last season in Loe-A Bradenton, which is the Florida State League, where they do have stat-cast set up. And there, as a 19-year-old, he had an average

exit velocity of 92.3 miles per hour and a max of 113.9. As a 19-year-old. So like, this big boy power, and he makes a lot of contact. And he's a catch-old. And he's a catcher. So Axial applause, I think, very much on the rise. Next up we have Brandon Compton of the Marlins, yet another outfield prospect in the Miami organization. Yeah, and he was their second round pick last year. So people who follow the draft closely may have heard of him. But he's been very little discussed during the season, actually,

despite probably going to be a 30-30 guy. He spanned three levels in his first professional season here, up to 35 homers and 27 steals with nearly 100 walks. Now, he strikes out too much. It's a familiar problem for a player who puts up ridiculous power numbers in the miners. And oftentimes it could be a deal breaker. I'm not saying Brandon Compton as can't miss. But the upside here is readily apparent with all those homers,

all those deals, all those walks. And just to put the power in perspective, he was part of the MLB draft combine prior to the 2025 draft where he was taking in the second round. It's the fifth year of the MLB draft combine, and he hit the hardest three balls in that event's history, in that the hardest three of any hitter to come through there in the five years that existed.

So Compton, lots of power. and already on the precipice of the majors at AAA. Next up we have Carter Graham, a first basement in the Reds organization. What do we need to know about him? So he is 24 and is only a double A. That's likely to raise an eyebrow. He stalled out at High A,

spent his age 22 and 23 seasons there, didn't do much of anything. Third time was the charm this year, put up monster numbers, moved up to AA, which is a big step up the ladder. It's like a pitcher-friendly level. And he's continued to mash Carter Graham since moving up to AA. So whatever was going on with him in high A the previous two years,

he seems to have legitimately figured out after the move up to AA slashing 281, 394, 507 between the two stops, 28 homers, near 1,000 OPS, batting over 300. lots of walks, good at pulling the ball in the air, so the power should definitely play well at Great American Ballpark. He is a right-handed hitting first baseman, Carter Graham, but he has appeared some at third base and left field this year. So trying to expand his versatility,

I think has a decent chance of being a real contributor for the Reds. Next up, very fun name. Avery Awusu Asiadu of the DeBacks. And look, if this guy's going to be a thing, I've got to think of a nickname for him. Yeah, he's a fun player too. So 26 homers, 27 steals. Batting average is only around 240,

but here's the crazy part and why Ousu Asiadu is on this list. He was batting 169 as recently as July 21st and has just gone on a tear since then, like a 1,200 OPS in 40 games since. It's where he's done, hit most of his home run, stolen most of his bases. The strikeout rate has also dropped eight percentage points

during that time. Now, most of it's come after his move up to AA Amarillo, which is a very hitter-friendly affiliate. So that may have something to do with it, but he's also produced on the road there. So I think Ousu Asiadu has figured it out and should start to get some more attention as a prospect. The last name we'll talk about here today is Danielle Ortiz,

a third-based prospect in the Cardinals organization. So he's a guy who caught my eye last year. I actually drafted him in the Scott White Dynasty League. He slashed $300416-4-62 between two levels last year and stole nearly 40 bases. So I like the on-base skills, a little bit of pop there, the steals. wasn't doing much this year, missed two months with a wrist injury, and then didn't look right at the plate the following two months.

But last 30-plus games, Daniel Ortiz has come to life, looking more like the guy we saw last year. In fact, with more power, 291, 383, 600. And that's a double A now. So he is at a level where you have to take him seriously. Great plate discipline, obviously. and there's a power speed combo here from the third basement. And those are 10 underrated prospects.

Scott actually has an article out on the website, CBSports.com, with 13 no-name sleeper prospects to target in Dynasty League. So you can read about a few more in that article as well. For more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to our full-lane podcast Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else, podcasts are bound.

Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball Today Express. And we'll be back again. this weekend. Bye-bye. Mount Podcasts.