Fantasy Baseball Today - Dylan Cease Trade, Devin Williams Out Three Months & Deep Sleepers! (3/14 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

How far did Scott drop Gerrit Cole down his rankings (2:47)? ... Dylan Cease was traded to the Padres for three prospects and a reliever (6:26)! ... What about the prospects the White Sox received in the deal (14:30)? ... Devin Williams is out three months with stress fractures in his back (20:02). ... News (23:53): Eury Perez continues to deal with this broken fingernail. ... Let's run through some of Wednesday's spring standouts (32:16). ... On to deep sleepers, starting with Davis Schneider and Victor Scott (40:10)! ... Next up, Will Benson of the Reds and Tylor Megill of the Mets (42:54). ... Could Gavin Stone and Jared Jones make an impact (44:20)? ... Who is next up if Tanner Scott falters (46:51)? ... Michael Busch continues to be slept on (49:30). ... Brenton Doyle and Masyn Winn could provide late speed (53:02). ... Who could provide late-round power (55:45)? ... We wrap up with the rest of our deep sleepers (58:25)! Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question, email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your lead. Well, fantasy! Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Well, it's been quite the day. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Thursday, March 14th. I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers.

Today on the show, Dylan Seas, traded to the Padres. Out of nowhere, what is going on? We did get some unfortunate injury news on Devin Williams right before the show started, and deep sleepers, all of them. Well, actually, however many we can get to. A lot of them. We're going to try and be rapid fire with it.

I genuinely want to be rapid fire with them. Before, I'm going to derail us before we got a chance to be rapid fire. No. It's the only way to do it. Scott, you didn't move Garrett Cole down as far as Frank and I did, did you? I did not. No. I moved him just,

inside my top 100, this is for Roto, just inside my top 100 among starting pitchers he's 27th. I move Blake Snell down to about the same point. He's 26th. So I have Snell one spot ahead of Cole. I have the two of them in between Yuri Perez

and Chris Sale. And that's where I'm putting him. Now that that's not to say I will definitely draft Garrett Cole there. It's obviously depends on the circumstances of my build, the depth of the league. If it's a shallower league, I'm more likely to to take the shot on him as early as I can justify it.

If it's a deeper league, I might push the limits the other way, see how long I can wait for him. And just because I'm seeing you guys ranking him lower, I'm seeing others talking about him more in the 150 or even 200 range overall. It's 150-ish for me. I might be inclined to wait just for that reason to see how far, to see how late I can get him while keeping in mind that I do think the discount is worth it at that point.

So, yeah, I mean, if you missed the emergency pod, Yankees are saying at least one to two months. None of their many examinations have found damage to the UCL, but he is seeing Dr. Neil L. Trache. I mean, by the time... The new James Andrews. Yeah, by the time... James Andrews retired, so it's...

We may know more. Yeah. But it's... We at least know that it's probably not... We at least know it's going to be a while. It's going to be a while that Garrett Cole's out. I'm treating it as it's probably not Tommy Johns. If they haven't found UCL damage yet,

I guess maybe Neil Eletrage will find something that everyone else missed. But I'm thinking it's not as severe as quite as severe as that, but obviously you'll need to draft Garrett Cole with great caution because it's not totally conclusive. And even still, we know it's going to be at least, May until we see him. At least, and that is potentially an optimistic take on Garicol.

I dropped them down to SP 49, around 175th overall in the rankings. Maybe I'm just overly pessimistic. I just have a feeling this is not going to end well. Famous Yankees hater. That's exactly right. I saw an interesting exchange between a Yankee Beat writer and Aaron Boone

where they were asking, is there a tear detected? It's a very clear question. And Aaron Boone... They are very artful about how they're dodging that question. They are just dodging it completely. Like he just danced around. They asked one more time.

Has a tear been detected? Aaron Boone, so far, I don't know. And that's it. It's like the, even the reporting, which doesn't need to be as artful and is, you know, granted on the, granted on the, you know, basis of anonymity or whatever is like, no tears have been detected in imaging. And it's like, that is not the same as the. there are no tears.

And yeah, I don't know, I relayed the Walker Bueller anecdote. And it's just an anecdote. It's one sample size. But that was one where he didn't have a tear until Dr. Neil Eletrosh did an exploratory surgery.

And they figured out, oh, it was a tear. It just wasn't visible on the MRI. They did Tommy John surgery during that surgery. So I'm worried. What was that? Walker, in 2022.

Bueller. Okay. Yeah. We've got to keep things moving here. It will be fun to see how much money the Yankees wind up spending on Blake Snell because I do think that will be happening because they are not getting Dillon Seas.

Dillin Seas was traded to the Padres in exchange for three prospects, two pitchers, in Drew Thorpe and Yiro Iriarte, plus outfielder Samuel Zavala and reliever Stephen Wilson. So the Padres effectively replaced Blake Snell with younger right-handed Blake Snell, that is Dillin Cis,

who had a down year last year, a 458 ERA, a 142 whip, still provided 214 strikeouts, the eighth most in baseball. Almost everything went wrong for Dylan Seas last year. The walks went up, harder contact allowed, swinging strike rate and fastball velocity both dropped down a little bit compared to the year prior. But, but the Padres are a much better team, and this is a much better ballpark to pitch in for Dylan Seas.

The ADP is 97.8 as the SP 28 off the board. Wouldn't surprise me if that ADP starts to take up a little bit. bit here, Scott, whenever there's a player in the news or a big trade like this, it just seems inevitable that ADP starts to tick up a little bit, which if that happens, then we're talking about Dillon Cis going in that Justin Steele, Uri Peres range of the draft. Do you plan to move Dillan Cs up in your rankings at all? I don't, and, you know, it's not like it's a huge venue upgrade. I don't even know that it's a huge supporting cast upgrade.

I wasn't, maybe Cecil would be what gets the Padres in the playoffs. I don't know, but I didn't have him as a playoff team before then. It's a little bit better in both areas, I would say. But I don't think it matters in Cease's case. You know, Case controls his own destiny here. Because the stuff is so overwhelming. And it's not like his problems have been home run related anyway. He's always been good at preventing those.

It's just got to throw strikes. I think CIS is probably going to have a pretty good season, ERA and Whip on the high side, ton of strikeouts, really like his 2021 season where he had a 391 ERA, 125, whip, 226 strikeouts. That's what I think is going to happen. But he could have an amazing season. That wins into the SIE Young.

He could have a really rough season that wrecks your ERA and whip and you rue the day you drafted him. It's such a wide range of outcomes that I don't really think this trade matters for fantasy purposes. it's just really comes down to what kind of Dillon C's are we getting this year. Early returns of the spring have been great.

I think it's suspicious. Maybe that's not the best word choice. But I think it's telling maybe that the rumor mill for him started to heat up right after that big, was it a nine strikeout effort or eight strikeout effort against the Reds the other day? Like once he started making headlines with his performance, this spring, the trade market heated up for Dylan sees, as if teams are starting to feel optimistic about him again. And I will note he's thrown 83% of his pitches for strikes this spring.

It's 8 in the third innings. Any kind of strike rate could happen over that sample. How many pitches is that? It is, he's thrown 71 pitches. 71. That number's not right then. because MLB.com's box scores, if it's not a baseball savant page, they're fiction. It's a weird thing.

If you want to get into it, I can explain what's weird about it. But the thing it works is if you throw an eight pitch at bat and you get a strikeout, you get three strikes and no balls. if you throw a four pitch at bat for a walk, you get four pitches, four balls. And that's on MLB.com? That's when it's not baseball savant. So what's weird is that some of them are on baseball savant

and they have real pitch tracking and some of them are not and they do not. It's really dumb. They also will do something where if you get five strikeouts in a start and they're all recorded via swinging strike, the final strike, they will say you got 15 swinging strikes in that start. Why are they doing?

Is it just a bug? I assume it's a bug. So mad. No, this is the way their system works during spring training. It's so dumb. But they call it number of pitches. I don't understand.

And how do you know this? How do you know this? Where did you get your info? There was someone posted something about Spencer Strider getting like 21 swing and misses on 60 pitches or whatever was the other day. and there were some talk about it on Twitter and someone pointed out that no, the pitch data on

I don't know what percentage strikes Cease is thrown, but he's been really dominant this spring in the market. 14 strikeouts, two walks and eight and a third day. That's what you need to know, basically. Chris, do you plan to move up Dylan Seas at all? I was really genuinely surprised to look at the rankings just now

and realize I am the low guy on Dylan Seas. I will fully admit, I just moved them up like a few spots. I think from 28 to 26. So I have him at 97 overall. I don't know. Maybe at starting pitcher, I have him 28th. Okay, so in the same range.

But yeah, I technically have him lower. And I feel like I've drafted him more than you guys this year. So maybe I have to move Dill and C's up because I'm pretty optimistic. It's kind of the opposite of Blake Snell where I'll draft Dillan C's when he's coming off a bad season and I'll fade him when he's coming off a good season. I think that's your expectation like, like Skok. Scott said should be close-ish to what he did in 2021 with 220 strikeouts. That's probably reasonable. That's the one thing you can count on.

Barring injury, of course, because that's always the downside risk for every pitcher. But the downside risk for Dylan Cs is still a league leader in strikeouts among the league leaders and strikeouts. I don't think, I was looking this up the other day. I don't know when the last time Dylan sees missed a start, but it's been a very long time. Now, Gara Cole is about to miss two months, so that's not actually a super useful predictor,

but he made 12 starts in 2020, remember short in season, 29 and 2019, 23 and 2018, 22 and 2017. That was when in low A. So he's been remarkably healthy for a pretty long time, which in as much as there is any reason to feel good about a pitcher's ability to stay healthy,

Dylan Seas should give you a pretty good reason to think he can. The updated Padres rotation is looking pretty good overall. You Darvish, Joe Musgrove, Dylan Seas, Michael King, and Johnny Brito as their SP5. Before we move on to the prospect package, Scott, you and I were talking a little bit about this on Twitter. Do you unload all of your fab on Dylan Seas in an NL-only league? I realize that's a very small portion of the audience, but... Yes, yes, I do. I mean, you're going to get...

Usually, I try to save almost all of that, as much as I can reasonably can for the trade deadline, but you're going to get a full season for... Yeah, you're going to get three extra months out of Dillian's six. Right, right. So I unload. Obviously, if your minimum bid is $1 rather than zero, you have to save something.

It probably makes a difference to whether your waivers run daily or weekly, mine run daily, so it's easier to come away with $0 players when needed. But the waiver wires, there's never much to it in an NL only league. I mostly feel bad for the people who've already had ALAL-only drafts at this point. So I play in NL labor. There are no $0 bids. It's $100 for the entire season.

And so I'm already thinking I can't spend all of my money. I could probably spend a good chunk of it more than 50%. But someone out there might actually go for the full one. 100% on Dylan's we shall see. Seems like the White Sox actually made out pretty well here in getting three of the Padre's top 10 prospects in Drew Thorpe,

Samuel Savala, and Yairo Iriarte. What are your thoughts on the return here? Because it feels like we could see Thorpe at some point this season. And there is a lot of hype around Drew Thorpe. He's coming off an amazing season in the miners. Worth mentioning he came over from the Yankees

and the Juan Soto trade. Now he gets shipped over to the White Sox. Scott, what do you think about this return? It is interesting to kind of mash together the two trades and figure out what the Padres traded Juan Soto for in that case. You know, they got two of their higher rotation guys and Ciss and King, so maybe it was fine. I mean, Thor, obviously he's changing leagues.

He had a pretty good chance of appearing in the Padres rotation sooner than later because it was kind of a mess there too. So I don't know that this really impacts his timetable. he is a divisive prospect, I would say, is Drew Thorpe. Did lead the miners in strikeouts last year. Did regularly work into the seventh inning, which is rare for prospects. Kept it going even after he got to double A. But it's a change up, like he has an amazing change up and not a great fastball to go with it.

So just some people are naturally skeptical of that profile. And that's fair. I mean, I think it's hard to assess any pitching prospect with great accuracy anyway. So I'm kind of open-minded to Drew Thorpe being good. But I think the more urgent development for fantasy is that presumably this means, I'm forgetting his name. Presumably, this means Garrett Crochet is in the rotation now. And he's been lighting up radar guns this spring. RP eligible guy.

Hasn't, doesn't have much experience starting. Certainly not since becoming a pro. I really not since like, I don't think he started full time since 2019. The upside is enticing enough that he's now deserving of late round consideration is Garrett Crochet. Yeah, the focus later on in the podcast will be deep sleepers, and I think Garrett Crochet fits that to a T. I mean. Correction. He has never started full-time. Garretcher has not since high school, has not made more than six starts in a season. I was going to say he's never done it in the minors either, but- Yeah, he was not a full-time starter in the in college.

A very interesting pitcher is Garrett- Crochet. He's got a big, leg kick. He throws hard with the fastball. He's got a wipe out slider. Has thrown six shutout innings this spring with nine strikeouts to zero walks. As Scott mentioned, has RP eligibility on CBS. So if you're playing a points league, could turn out to be a sneaky spark there in Garik Crochet. All right, again, the big trade. Dillon Sees traded over to the Padres in exchange for three prospects. And we will see him a little bit later on. Not in the Korea series against the Dodgers because those pictures are already set, but yeah, my guess will be the first weekend there with the Padres.

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And that will be drafted the following Tuesday night on March 26th. Let's take our first break when we return. The rest of the news and notes here, Fantasy Baseball today. Welcome back in, lots of news to get to. Just before we went live, we got an update from Jeff Passing that Brewer's closer, Devin Williams has two stress fractures in his back and is expected to miss around three months of the season. Huge loss for the Brewers and for fantasy. Devin Williams was being drafted as the top closer in ADP, 51.8, was that Fantasy pros,

ADP. Chris, we'll start with you. Who is next in the Brewer's bullpen? It seems like there are three options here. Yoel Paiomps, Trevor McGill, Abner Uribe. They all pitched pretty well last year. Some throw harder than others, but three pretty interesting pitchers in the mix here for Brewer's saves. So it's a different manager, so we can't say for sure that the usage trends from last season are going to carry over. But, I mean, Here's the inning that Yoel Paiyamps worked in every game that he appeared in in September. 8, 7, 11, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 8. I think it's Yuall Pimes.

I think it's actually pretty clearly him. I know that Uribe throws a little harder and gets a few more strikeouts and also can't really find the strike zone with a map. He was really bad in his spring outing today, so maybe I'm being a little harsh because of that. But I think given the way that these pitchers were used last season, it's likely to be Pai-Amp's next man up. McGill very rarely threw in the eighth inning last season.

Uribe very rarely threw in the eighth inning last season as well. So I think Pai-Amp's is pretty clearly going to be the next guy up. Scott, do you have the same answer? It's the same answer. It's with less confidence since it is a new manager and since Abner, Uribe has some of that, like, closer and waiting vibe to him. But if I was forced to pick one today, it would be Yoel Paiomps. I think unless the Brewers come out and say,

this is who's going to work the ninth inning for us with Devin Williams down, I'd be reluctant to pay a premium for any of them. Like, I'd probably take Robert Suarez and Jose LeClerc, ahead of any of the brewer's options ahead of Pi-Ops, but Pi-A-A-Aps would be my guess. And we haven't even mentioned Trevor McGill, who is the brother of Tyler McGill, who also pitched pretty well last year at 363 ERA.

He actually had the highest swinging strike rate and highest K-Pron-9 of the three relievers. McGill, Eurebe, and Pi-Omps. McGill averaged 99.2 miles per hour on the fastball. So they have some options. I'm with you guys. I think it's Pi-amps first, but we'll see if we do get any

indications from the manager or the beatwriters from Milwaukee. Scott, do you think this changes the closer market at all for fantasy? Do you think maybe it, as a result of Devin Williams going out, we see Edwin Diaz and Emmanuel Class A, Josh Hader, start to push up a little bit, or maybe even that second tier of Ryssel Iglesias, Yohan, Duran, Jordan Romano. Do they maybe start to creep up a little bit as a result of losing a top tier closer? I think it'd be more likely in like a 15-team league where you're already stretching that position much thinner in a 12-team league.

I'm not expecting a noticeable difference. There are figures to be a slight difference just because you are removing one at the top there. But it is only one, and I think everybody's habits, everybody who's used to drafting their habits are going to kind of stay in place. And I don't expect a huge change in the 12th team or certainly anything less. All right, let's keep things moving here. It's not like the Marlins have had enough pitching injuries already this spring, but Yuri Perez was pulled on Wednesday with a recurrence of the broken nail on his right middle finger, and it's been tough for him to build up that pitch count since he just hasn't been able to throw so much in the games

or even, you know, in bullpens, whatever it might be. Chris, I know you were very high on Yuri Perez. Do you plan to lower him at all because of this lack of a buildup? I'm not really. Like, we knew Yuri Perez wasn't going to throw a hundred. 180 innings this season anyway. So, hey, here's a natural way to limit his innings a little bit. I don't know.

It's a little concerning because it's happening multiple times. And if you're a Marlins fan and you're my age, at least, you remember Josh Beckett's early career being not necessarily derailed. But there were some speed bumps as a result of some recurring blister issues that I think a lot of Marlins fans my age might have some traumatic memories of. But no, I don't, this doesn't really change how you're going to press down a little. Like, I moved him behind Grayson Rodriguez and Bobby Miller because I already have him. I think I have him behind, uh, do I happen behind both or just Grayson?

Just by virtue of. Yeah, I'll move him behind Bobby Miller. Sure. The, he keeps breaking the nail. They're going to have to give him longer to heal each time. And now we're on the verge of the start of the season, basically. and I don't, what happens if it breaks the next time too? You know, like it could just keep pushing him back and pushing him back and become a total headache.

So I only moved him down slightly, but I did move Yuri Perez down. Yeah, I moved him one spot down in the pitcher rankings. That's fair. Let's say you're on the clock here in a draft on Thursday. Are you taking Dylan Cise or Yuri Perez? I still have Yuri ahead of him, but it's very close. They're within five spots. my overall rankings now.

Yeah, I move Dylan C's just ahead of him in the overall rankings, and it's kind of in conjunction with both of these things happen. Moving cease-up ever so slightly because of the move to the Padres and moving Uri-Perez down just a tad because of this recurring fingernail issue. Aaron Judge is, quote,

penciled in to return Saturday following treatment on his abdominal muscles. We'll see how he bounces back. Guardians pitching coach Carl Willis said that he believes Gavin Williams will be clear to resume throwing, quote, Soon, Williams hurt his pitching elbow while throwing weighted balls during a workout last weekend. Kyle Schwerber was scratched Wednesday after feeling something in his right groin,

but is expected to be in the lineup on Thursday. Ian Hap, who's been slowed by a left hamstring injury, is on track to be ready for opening day. Kodi Sengal will begin a throwing program on March 22nd, one week later, then initially projected. If everything goes well, he could still be back sometime in May. Will Smith, the Dodgers catcher, was scratched Wednesday due to lower back tightness, and it's a little bit more meaningful when we get updates from Dodgers and Padres players now because they're already on the plane. They're ready to go.

They're out to Korea. They are playing in real games a week from today. So hopefully Will Smith will be all right to play in those games. I'm sure we will learn more in the coming days. David Bednar will throw off a mound in the coming days. He's been slowed by right-lat tightness. opening day remains up in the air as of now. Kyle Bradish threw a bullpen session on Wednesday.

His first time throwing off a mound since being diagnosed with a partial UCL tear back in mid-February. It was only fastballs, but obviously this is a positive step in his recovery. Tage Bradley will be shut down from throwing for at least two weeks due to a right pectoral strain. It sounds like the two names, although there was like five names listed. I think these two are the most likely. Jacob Lopez and Now Yuki Uwasawa are options to be the

raise fifth starter. Lopez is 26 years old and actually pitched well in the minors last year. Uasawa is a 30-year-old from Japan who signed a minor league deal with the raise back in January. And he pitched well in Japan last year just no strikeouts.

6.6 Kep or 9. I will point out that's actually roughly an average strikeout rate for the Nippon League last year. he was like 18% or 17% something like that. And that's right around average. Their strikeout rate is about three or four points lower than the MLB average. So that's something to keep in mind, but probably not a strikeout pitcher.

Do you guys have a feel or any interest in either of these names? I mean, Jacob Lopez had a good outing today. And like you said, high strikeout rate in the minors last year. I think he's kind of interesting, not to the point that I'm drafting him in standard size leagues though. Okay. Is he a deep sleeper? He's a double deep sleeper.

Oh, so for the AL-onlyers out there, Jacob Lopez might be a name for you. JP France will make his spring debut on Saturday against the Mets, and if all goes well, there's a good chance he will be in the Astros opening day rotation, at least as long as Justin Verlander

is on the IL. Braxton Garrett is expected to throw a live batting practice session as soon as this weekend. He's been slowed with left shoulder soreness and will start the season on the IL. Red Sox manager, Alex Cora, said that prospect, Seidon, Raphaela, could be used some at second base.

I suggested this yesterday, Frank. You did, you did. We know Vaughn Grissom is likely to start the season on the aisle due to a groin injury. And last year in the minors, Raphaelah hit 302 with 20 homers, 36 steals, and an 869 OPS. Has flash some power and speed here in spring training as well. What do we think? Deep sleeper, Raphael? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I do worry a little bit about him just getting so comfortable there that the spot never reopens for Vaughn Grissom. Ultimately, the Red Sox want Rafael as their centerfielder.

He's amazing in centerfield. But if everybody stays healthy, and he hits well, maybe he spends a long time at second base. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, he was viewed as an elite centerfielder, but also a very, very good defensive shortstop as well. So you would think he'll be plus at second base pretty easily. Yeah, we'll see what happens with Vaughn Grissom Scott.

But to quote one of my favorite movies of all time, life finds a way. Continuing on with the prospects, Padres prospect, Graham Pauly has been told he will be on the Padres opening day roster for their two game series in Korea next week. And we mentioned Grand Pauley's name recently. He's likely to start at third base as long as Mani Machado is limited to DH. Paulie is 23 years old last year in the miners pretty impressive. It 3.08, 23 homers, 22 steals.

Kind of fits with the theme of today. Deep sleepers. What do we think? Any interesting, Graham Pauley. I believe I wrote about him as a deep sleeper in one of three deep sleeper columns that I've written at this point. Deep sleepers are fun because you just throw guys at the wall. Grand Polly gives me a little

a little Spencer Steer vibes. Okay, at this time last year where like he's not a super huge prospect. He's like a borderline top 10 guy in the Padre system and Padres aren't a great system at this point. Not a terrible one, but 23 homers, 22 steals last year. The thing he doesn't have that Spencer Steer has

is a very, very good home ballpark. Grand Polly has a pretty bad one for hitting. So that makes it less likely that he can live up to, you know, any kind of hype, but I think a 15-15-270 hitter has value in any categories. My hunch is Polly doesn't work out. That's my hunch. And so it would be a low investment in him in the sort of deep league where that's the best you could do off the waiver wire.

I'll take a shot on it. This is the kind of profile, Graham Pauley, that I think like during the juice ball era, it would sneak up on everybody because the ball traveled so much better. but I'm just not sure he has the juice in the swing to survive in San Diego in this era. All right, let's quickly run through some of the standouts from Wednesday, the spring standouts.

Louis Varland of the Twins through four shutout innings with four strikeouts to one walk. And again, kind of seems like a deep sleeper himself. Last year, the ERA and Whip, not so great, but 12.6% swinging strike rate, got some strikeouts in the minors.

Any interest in Louis Varland? Not a lot. I mean, you could call him a deep sleeper, I guess. You can call anyone a deep sleeper, like Chris said. Just throw it against the wall. See what happens. Someone who I believe is a deep sleeper for Scott is Jonathan Aronda, who went two for two. With his first home run of the spring, he is 12 for 29, batting 414 with an 1124 OPS.

And hopefully, hopefully, the raise finally give him a shot. I think he's penciled in as their DH. He does have first base eligibility on CBS. I think he might be util only on other. other websites, but yeah, hopefully this is the time, Scott. Jonathan Aronda. Yeah, hopefully. I mean, I think it's now or never. The, the rays have been pretty, uh, have made it pretty clear that they want him to take advantage of this opportunity they're giving him. And the minor league numbers are just absurd. Like,

I wish I could read them off to you, but I don't have them handy when you got to keep the the show moving. But it was something like, I mean, particularly if you take out, he's put 199 games at AAA he has a 328 batting average 421 OBP 565 slugging percentage that undersells it even because he hit like 370 over the final four months last year 339 with a 1063 OPS overall at AAA last year and the eggs of velocities are great and the plate discipline is great he is a beefier baseball boy than I thought I wouldn't say he's a beefy baseball boy but in catching a little bit of him today the beefier side. He's like a medium beefy boy. What's like a medium sized steak, Chris? You'd know this better than I would, I guess. I don't.

I got like a New York trip or something. I don't know. Yeah, I guess. Let's go with that. Sure. Jack Flaherty. Final 334 played appearances at AAA last year. Jonathan Aranda hit 375 with 23 homers in an 1163 OPS.

Average exit velocity 92.3 miles per hour, max 1113. Let's go. Jack Flarity threw four shutout innings with five strikeouts to zero walks after getting blown up in his last start. He had 11 swinging strikes on 57 pitches after what Chris told us, I have no idea if that's accurate or not. But the velocity has been up for Jack Flourty this spring

and when he signed with the Tigers, they were talking a big game that they know what to do to fix Jack Flaherty. So we'll see. Carlos Rodan looked better. He's on the road, I guess, to redemption. Baseball savant numbers in the spring, you can trust.

Okay. At least the swing is strike numbers. I have no idea if they're properly calibrated for velocity. And Justin Turner's hilarious pop fly home run today was not tracked for some reason. So there's still some kinks there. But all that rant I went on does not apply to the games that are on baseball Savant, which is like 45% of them. Gotcha.

Carlos Sordaun, as I mentioned, he looked better. Four innings, one run, three strikeouts to zero walks, 94.6 miles per hour on the fastball, which is the best we've seen from him in spring so far. Scott's boy, Chris Bassett, five and a third innings, one run, nine strikeouts with 11 swinging strikes on 73 pitches.

All right. He threw like nine different pitches today. I don't know if you've seen the... It's just the Chris Bassett way, man. Yeah, it was just like the entire kitchen, not just the sink. Your boy, Chris, 6thos Sanchez, through two no-hit innings,

apparently maxed out at 99, miles per hour on the fastball. I mean, if you're worried about Tanner Scott, the Marlins don't really have anybody who is like solidified in the back half of the bullpen. I'm just saying, six-o deep, deep, deep sleeper. The deepest of sleepers. But the stuff was, he was only like one mile per hour off his 2020 averages today. I was really surprised by that.

Michael Garcia, back-to-back days with a home run for the Royals. and he was leading off here on Wednesday. I wrote him up in Sleepers 2.0. Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out seven, but also allowed four earned runs over 4.2 innings and end his spring with an 8.38 ERA. Hmm. Let's see.

It wasn't a lot of hard contact. Especially the first, I think he had two bad innings. The first one was just like 86 mile an hour singles to right field over and over. It wasn't, he wasn't great, but I'm not too worried about it. Bryce Elder gave up five earned runs over four and a third innings

and has an 8.25 ERA. Kind of feels like Ronaldo Lopez might be trending towards that SP5 job for the Braves. Christian Javier threw four shutout innings with four strikeouts to one walk. It's really good so far in the spring. Let's see. Luis Severino, same thing.

Four innings, one run, three strikeouts. And he has a spring ERA of one with a .56 whip. Let's take our final break when we return all of the deep sleep. here on fantasy baseball today. All right, let's talk deep sleepers. I am using NFBC draft champions ADP over the past week. These are 15-team 50-round drafts.

So they go extremely deep into the player pool. And yes, this is the most applicable for those in deeper leagues, 15-team leagues, ALN-L-N-only. But if you play in shallower leagues, these are names that are also rapidly approaching up draft boards, and they are names that you should throw on your scout team now because they could make an impact earlier in the season. Scott, Sardos off, man,

a deep sleeper that you have been targeting recently in drafts. Davis Schneider. Talk to me. Great power numbers. Great on base skills. He got glasses a couple years ago, and he's taken off, puts the ball in the air where well to his pole side.

416 OBP-9 OPS, AAA last year, 404, and 1008 in the majors. A question how much second base he plays for the Blue Jays, but I think he'll play a lot and underrated production for Davis Schneider. The ADP for Davis Schneider is 422.7 over the past week, and looks like he will have a job somewhere for the Blue Jays, whether it's in the infield, the outfield, he can bounce around a little bit. And he was pretty awesome down the stretch last year.

Chris, over to you, a deep sleeper you've been drafting recently. Victor Scott The second Not the first one Not the first That guy's not any good Yeah no Victor Scott has been

One of the talks Of spring training So far He is hitting 367 With an 890 OPS He is Potentially an elite Defensive Center fielder

He is an elite base runner 94 stolen bases In 132 games last year Quality of contact much better than an Estuary Ruiz type. He had a 794 OPS last season, got to AA, was really good at AA. And with Tommy Edmund's injury,

it's not guaranteed that Victor Scott gets an opportunity on opening day. It's not even close to guaranteed. I would say it's probably only like a 25% chance. But I will tell you that I just as we were starting to record this podcast, saw Derek Gold. who is the Cardinals writer for the St. Louis dispatch, post-dispatch. Headline, why Cardinals should set clear path for Victor Scott to steal opening day roster spot.

That doesn't necessarily, like he's not reporting that that's what they're going to do, but I like to see that kind of rumbling from someone who Derek Gold is incredibly plugged into the Cardinals. So that makes me feel good. I've drafted him in TGFBI. I drafted him, I think in the Raz Bowl. or RASLAM. Those are deep leagues. Those are leagues where you go 400 plus in the player pool.

Rass Slam is like 580 or something. So got to be in deeper leagues, but I don't know. If Victor Scott, if we knew right now Victor Scott was on the Open Day roster and playing center field for the St. Louis Cardinals, he's a top 150 pick, right? Not for me.

Let's keep going. I'm going with Will Benson here as my next deep sleeper, who's just a little inside the top 300, I'll admit. But I don't think he's gotten nearly enough attention, especially now that there's more space with the injury to, not the injury, the suspension to Noelvi-Marte, less of a log jam there.

Last year, in only 329 plate appearances, Will Benson, 11 homers, 19 steals, strikes out too much. But still, that power speed combo for his ladies, you get them. And now close to full-time at bats, I'm in. It's my fifth outfielder. Sorry, that was rude, Chris. No, it's not rude to me. It was rude to Frank who was supposed to go next. Yeah, no, sorry, no one wants to hear my deep sleepers, but I'll give them anyway. Tyler McGill from the New York Mets. This is a picture we have had interest in in the past. Hasn't worked so far in the majors. He's made some changes this offseason. He added a new splitter that he's saying he learned from Kodi Senga. And they are calling it the American Spork, which I love. He's also, uh,

throwing a new cutter. And in the spring, he's, he's looked pretty good so far. McGill, 1.5 ERA, 0.75 whip, 15 strikeouts to two walks over 12 innings. And he might only be in the rotation as long as Seng is there,

but if he's really good, maybe he'll stick around. So I do like Tyler McGill. He's been rising up draft boards. Chris. I co-sign. I co-sign. Chris, back to you and make it quick.

Or else, or else you're muted and you can't talk. Oh, gosh. Gavin Stone, who is. is a very similar prospect to where Drew Thorpe is this year. Obviously, Gavin Stone was pretty disastrous last season, but there have been very good explanations for why he was disastrous.

He dealt with a blister on his foot that messed with his mechanics. He was tipping his pitches. He got a bigger glove this spring to help not tip his pitches, I suppose, is the explanation. This is a guy in his minor league career has a 319 ERA and a 33% strikeout rate. like Drew Thorpe, the change-up is top-of-the-line grade, and it's just a question whether he can do enough else well to get to the point where he can put guys away with it. I love betting on him, especially now that he's got a rotation spot,

pretty much locked up. Yep, Emmett Sheehan, likely to start the year on the IL, as is Walker Bueller. It looks like Gavin Stone will be the team's SP5, the ADP over the past week, 399.1. And Scott, we're back to you. All right, I'm going to say Jose C, Siri, if we want a name we haven't talked about much.

25 homers last year broke through in that regard. Says he wants to steal 30 bases this year. It's certainly fast enough to the raise in general are saying they plan to run a lot more this year, take advantage of those rules, those new rules last year. They actually put it exactly that way. And so I think it makes sense that Siri would run more. Might bring you down in batting average,

but if there's 25-25 potential, there than he is being severely overlooked. Yeah, the batting average is going to be bad, but I read a similar report about him wanting to steal bases. The raw tools are there. He hits the ball hard. He's extremely fast. I like that call with Jose Siri.

I'm going to go with Jared Jones. He's a name that we've mentioned recently. I think going to wind up being the SB 5 on the Pirates opening day roster. He's a pitching prospect for the team. He throws extremely hard. We're talking 99 miles per hour at the fastball. He's got this cutter slider hybrid thing that he also uses. Might only be a two-pitch pitcher,

but when you throw 100 miles per hour with a really good cutter slider, that might be all you need for Jared Jones. So the numbers in the miners have kind of not been great so far, and there are issues with control. But I think there is big strikeout upside here and pretty good ballpark to pitch in there with the Pirates. So I am in on Jared Jones. Chris, back to you.

We don't want to overreact to spring training stats, but Tanner Scott has yet to finish any of his four innings that he has started so far this spring, which is pretty bad for a guy who before last season had never been able to throw strikes consistently. I am targeting some Marlins pitchers in the later rounds of deeper leagues, and Anthony Bender is the guy I'm looking at as the most likely potential alternative to Tanner Scott. Remember, 2022 before he had Tommy John surgery, Anthony Bender was the Marlins closer for about a month. I think he's the most likely to step up if Tanner Scott struggles,

given that he's had that opportunity before. 290 ERA, 1.16 whip, 88 strikeouts, 80 and 2 thirds innings at the major league level through his career. Tanner or Anthony Bender, excuse me. Yeah, Tanner Scott, I wrote him up in Bus 2.0. Not that spring matters completely because we saw Carlos Estevez was awful last spring

and then went on to save 31 games last year. So maybe opening day comes and Tanner Scott just flips the switch, but big, big, walk issues in the past. I'm with you. I think Anthony Bender, Andrew Nardy is a name to pay attention to there as well. Scott, back to you,

deep sleeper. I'm going to say, Thai France is a deep sleeper. And obviously, we liked his production. We thought he had underrated production about 2021, 2022, disappointed us last year,

went to drive line this off season because he saw how much it improved J.P. Crawford's game last year. And so hopefully they worked as magic on him and at least Thai France can get back to those 20, 21, 20, 22 levels. If that happens, he's a discount. If he exceeds it, then even better. And the ADP is just outside of the top 300 for Thai France.

And he's locked into a job. He's going to play, right? He's always had good contact skills. If he can tap in to the power a little bit, then I do like that call as well. Another name that we've talked a lot about recently, but again, I just want to reiterate so everyone has him on their radar

is Ryan Weathers, who looks like he will be in the Marlins rotation, at least to start the season. They're dealing with injuries to a lot of their pitchers right now. We know Braxton Garrett is going to start on the IL, and Ryan Weathers has looked awesome this spring. He does have some prospect pedigrees.

His velocity is up. He's hitting 99 miles per hour this spring. He's so far got a 132 ERA, 0.8 whip, 17 strikeouts over 13 and 2 thirds innings. And it's a really good ballpark to pitch in in Miami. So maybe a name you pick up, see how it goes early on in the season. Maybe he turns into a streamer, whatever it might be. Ryan Weather is a name of interest.

Chris, back to you. Michael Bush, third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. I'm surprised he's going this late at this point. He is Scott White's number 32 prospect for fantasy baseball, hit 323 with an OPS of almost 1050 at AAA last season. There is a little bit of playing time risk in Chicago. And I think he got hit by a pitch either yesterday or today, but I don't think it was significant enough even for him to leave the game.

So I don't think there's any concerns there. But Michael Bush, very good quality of contact metrics, very good plate discipline. I think there's a lot to like there in what should be a pretty good Cubs offense too. Michael Bush, the ADP is 356.3 over the past week. Scott? Yeah, I feel like Michael Bush is the ultimate deep sleeper. I want to go ahead and include Jonathan Aranda. And this, even though we already talked about him, it's kind of redundant.

But I just wanted to make sure people knew he is one of the deep sleepers I'm highest on. And at least by Fantasy Pros ADP, he's not even listed. That's how little Jonathan Aranda's being drafted. If I could talk about a new one, and this probably isn't so much the case in two-catcher, not in those Champions Leagues that are so deep, but Ryan Jeffers. Ryan Jeffers doesn't get talked about much among catcher picks because there are so many high upside guys at that position that go be,

it continues well beyond the one catcher league range. But Jeffers is not far behind them. He last year with the twins had an 858 OPS, 14 home runs and just 335 plate appearances. I do worry, the reason I don't have, include him like with the Luis Camposanos of the world is because the twins of like remember Mitch Garver remember how it went for him. They just refused to give him regular bats and I kind of think it's

playing out the same way for Ryan Jeffers. But if it's two catcher league and all that top 17 is all gone. Jeffers is one of my higher choices. All right. I'm going to give you Jordan Westberg from the Baltimore Orioles who is currently projected to be their starting third baseman. This is a name with big prospect Pedigree was the 30th overall pick back in the 2020 draft. Last year in the miners hit 295 with 18 home runs, six deals, and a 939 OPS. He played 68 games with the Orioles, added three homers, four steals, hits the ball decently hard, 90.2 average exit velocity. Really good zone contact rate, too, as a rookie, 85%.

I like to see that. The only thing that might hold him back is the fact that he's a right-handed hitter in Camden yards, but, man, I just like this Orioles offense, man. all these guys kind of coming up together. You know, while we're talking about Westberg, I'm going to throw Colton Couser in this mix, too. I had him a little bit lower down the list, but... Let's throw Kobe Mayo in there.

Throw Kobe Mayo in there, too. Well, you know, if Jordan Westberg doesn't hit, Kobe Mayo is probably going to be right on his tail. So Colton Couser, post-hyped sleeper, former fifth overall pick back in 2021, fell flat on his face last year. His first taste in the majors hit 115, over 61 at bats. He is having a monster spring,

11 for 26, four homers, one steel, Not sure that he's going to have a chance to play early on in the season, but things happen. Injuries happen. Cedric Mullins is dealing with that hamstring. Sounds like he'll be all right. But yeah, if Colton Couser placed his way onto the roster, he's one injury away from being an everyday player, I believe. Chris, back to you.

How about a guy who could conceivably hit 15 homers and steal 30 bases? And we pay a lot of money for guys who can do those, except if their name is Brenton Doyle. And now the reason that we don't do that with Brenton Doyle, It's because he struck out 35% of the time and had absolutely horrific quality of contact metrics last season, which is a pretty bad combination, and that's how you have a 593 OPS at course field. On the other hand, he might be the best defensive outfielder in baseball. And he is super fast.

And he hit 10 home runs and stole 22 bases in 438, 4131 plate appearances last season. So if he can get his strikeout rate down to like 30% and hit 240, I think Brenton Doyle can be a really useful fantasy option. Fully endorsed the Brenton Doyle. I drafted him in NL Labor as my fifth outfielder. His ADP is 345.9. And I read an article this offseason about how he's focused on cutting down the strikeouts. His K rate so far this spring is 15% in 33 plate appearances.

So encouraging so far in a small sample for Brenton Doyle. Scott, you're up. Let's see. I am going to It's a little high by the NFBC standard But I'm gonna say Louis Severino is a deep sleeper And he's somebody I find myself drafting more and more He apparently had a tipping issue with the Yankees

That helps to explain why he was so bad last year Even though the velocities were still good And he looked They looked like he was back in 2022 So we're real disappointing last year but the Mets thought it was an easy fix, and so far this spring, the results back it up. I am going to go with Mason Wynn,

who is a post-type sleeper. I actually wrote him up in Sleepers 2.0, and he will be the Cardinals starting shortstop. Defense will keep him in the lineup. He might have already the best arm in the infield in all of baseball, and I do believe there's offensive talent here as well, even though he didn't show it in his first 37 career games last year with the Cardinals.

He was great in the minor. hit 288, 18 home runs, 17 steals across 105 games at AAA. He did that as a 21-year-old. So age-to-level production, that is pretty damn impressive what Mason Wynn did. He only struck out in 19% of his played appearances with the Cardinals, and he's really, really fast. Ninety-second percentile sprint speed. I think Mason Wynn can hit 10 homers with 20 steals and like a 250 batting average.

It would not surprise me if we get that from Mason-Win this season. back over to you. Off the top of their head, does anybody know Anthony Santander's ADP? I think it's inside of the top 200. It's 145. Off the top of your head. How would you like Anthony Santander,

but 230 picks later? Wow. Who is it? Sounds like a pretty good deal, right? Well, Hunter Renfro's ADP is barely inside the top 400. I know he didn't have a great season last year, but this is a guy that in 2021 and 2022 hit 31 and 29 homers.

Last year he hit 20 and 548 plate appearances. One of the better bets for power over the last decade, Hunter Renfro has been. I know it's not a great park. I know it's not a great lineup. Hunter Renfro might be batting fifth for the Royals. And if he just bounces back to 2021, 2021, 2022, he's going to be a huge value. Chris, I will give you four other names that I had written down later on that I think can provide

25 home runs that are going just extremely late in drafts and I get it for multiple reasons. Mitch Hanager Jesus. I love him to Mitch Hanninger for sure. Hazu Sanchez, Jack Peterson and Michael Conforto. Jack Peterson got a one year like $10 million contract. He's going to play.

He's going to be in the middle of their lineup. Conforto is getting paid by the Giants. He's going to play. Hazu Sanchez, the Marlins just don't really have options and he's showed flashes of being able to hit the ball hard. Mitch Hanager, two seasons removed from hitting 39 home runs for this very team in this ballpark for the Seattle Mariners. He has played just 118 games since due to multiple injuries.

He still has 17 home runs during that span and has hit the ball hard. 91.5 average exit velocity over the past two years. So Hanager, Sanchez, Jock Peterson, Kenfordo, I think you get some late round power from those guys. I got a couple other power hitters that I'm targeting as fifth outfielders in Roto leagues. They go a little earlier than that, but more around the three. 300 to 325 range. And they are Brent Rooker and Matt Walner. And we've talked about Walner some on the podcast,

Three True Outcomes guy for the twins. May sit against lefties. We haven't talked about Brent Rooker as much, and he might be an even safer bet. I mean, he hit 30 homers just last year. It's not like the athletics are going to, it's not like he's getting bumped from that lineup for anybody else. So Brent Rooker,

Nice choice to fill out your outfield if you're looking for power late. Chris, back to you. Yeah, I'm trying to narrow it down. How many more do we think we're going? I don't know. Four or five more rounds on this? Yeah, we've got, I don't know, five minutes left. Let's go with Brett Beatty, who I assume is still being drafted late enough to qualify this.

Yes, 372.9, huge raw power and has not struck out much in the minor, certainly not for a guy who swings as hard as he does. he's never hit more than 21 homers in a season because his swing has not been optimized for pull contact in the air. But Brett Beatty has talked to this offseason about wanting to hit the ball to right field, wanting to hit more line drives and fly balls to right field. It's exactly what you want to hear. No guarantee that he does it, but this is a guy who was viewed as a very similar prospect to Tristan Kossis this time last year.

Obviously, they've gone in slightly different directions since then, but I think Brett Beatty still has absolute star potential. How about two speedy outfielders in the similar mold of Brenton Doyle, who we mentioned earlier, Jose Caballero, who is projected to be the starting shortstop for the Tampa Bay raise. He came over in that trade with the Mariners involving Luke Rayleigh, and he only hit 221 last year, but he had 26 steals in 104 games. He's a really strong fielder, which you know the Tampa Bay Rays are going to value,

and he was 90th percentile sprint speed last year. That is Jose Caballero. The other name is Garrett Mitchell, who is part of a crowded outfield in Milwaukee, but he was a popular sleeper last year, and he missed most of the season with a left-shoulder sublixation. This is a former first-round pick back in 2020. Has put up some solid numbers in the minors. He is extremely fast.

94th percentile sprint speed could even lead off against right-handed pitching for the brewer. So two speedy names there, Garrett Mitchell, Jose Caballero. Scott, we're back to you. you. Tim Anderson is still being drafted ridiculously late and we have a little more insight into what happened to him last year. We theorized about that knee injury he suffered early on. This is what he had to say after signing with Marlins. The injury took a toll. You're talking about the front side of an MCL sprain. I had nothing to hit up against. It led to a lot of ground balls. No excuses, et cetera, et cetera. He offered like a mechanical explanation for what the injury did to him that

I think makes a lot of sense. And if so, Tim Anderson outside the top 300 could be a huge value for you. Yeah, he was hitting through the first 10 games before that knee entry. Very small sample says, I know, but 318 with five steals in those 10 games. He was Tim Anderson until he got hurt. Chris, take it away. Continue on. Okay.

Well, we'll do two corner infielders who could score 90 plus runs this season. DJ LaMayhew, lead off hitter for the New York. York Yankees. They want him to hit lead off. And it sounds like that's going to be the case. And Nolan's Shanuel for the Los Angeles Angels. Did you see the home run he hit the other day? I think I actually did.

He looks like he's doing Shohei Otani Coast play. Like he looks like he's just doing shit. Like he's not that good. I just thought that was funny. Shanuel was the first player from last year's draft to make his major league debut. They rushed him up after like 20 games in the Terrific plate discipline. I think he had 70 walks and 17 strikeouts or something as a final year in college,

walked more than he struck out last year as a pro. Not going to be very much power, but he's hitting second in front of Mike Trout for the Los Angeles Angels. And I think he could actually pretty easily score 90 runs this season if he stays healthy and hits at the top of the lineup. It is legitimately amazing to me that the player projected to bat in front of Juan Soto and Aaron Judge is giving as little attention as he is,

DJ LaMayhew. And he's been bad the last few seasons, but he hasn't been unplayably bad. He was much better in the second half, too. Sounded like he kind of figured something out. I think if Anthony Volpe takes the step forward that a lot of people think he will, then maybe LaMayhew doesn't last very long

at the top of the lineup because Volpe's slots there, but I mean, that obviously didn't work out last year. All right, I'm going to give you three brewers, two are deep for like a 12-teamer and one is deep for a 12-teamer and two deep for like a 15-teamer. Sal Freelick is one of them. I'm amazed how late I get him.

I think people aren't giving his steals potential enough credit because he didn't run a ton during a short time up last year. But he's fast and he ran in the minors and he's a ton of batting average potential and he might have triple eligibility because he's been playing third base and second this spring. And then the other two are,

also guys who could play second or third base for the brewers. One is Joey Ortiz, or Joseph Ortiz, as he's known on our site. Great exit velocity readings in the miners. And I think a lot of untapped potential there. That's obviously why the Brewers targeted him in that Corbyn Burns trade. And also even deeper sleeper, Tyler Black. A lot of speed, a lot of on-base skills. I doubt, I mean, it doesn't seem like he's going to be on the opening day roster,

but he may not be down for long. I'm going to continue on with three prospects as well. And Justin Foske, looks like he could be the starting first baseman while Nate Lowe is hurt. 25 years old, former first round pick back in 2020. Last year hit 266 with 18 home runs, 14 steals, and 862 OPS. More walks than strikeouts. Now, the quality of contact wasn't great, but, you know, if he's starting every day in the first month of the season for the Texas Rangers,

then I do think there's some upside there. A name we haven't talked about is Chase DeLauder with the Cleveland Guardians. I don't know that he's going to be up that early in the season, but he's having a really big spring so far, hitting 467 with two homers. He played in the AFL where he looked really good as well. He had five home runs, five steals.

I saw a few plate appearances while I was out there and just total control over the plate. Like great plate discipline. Looks like he's ready. And obviously the Guardians could use some offense. And Justin Henry Malloy with the Detroit Tigers who has played some third base, some corner outfield in the miners, and he has another name where he doesn't have like huge tools.

I don't know that he's going to give you a big power or speed really, but he's going to get on base. I think he can hit 20 homers, maybe 5 to 10 steel, something like that. And because of his position versatility, I think we might see Justin Henry Maloy pretty early in the season here with the Detroit Tigers. Chris, back to you. I don't know. Just throw as many my way as you want as we start to wrap up.

Okay. D.L. Hall starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. I believe he's relief pitcher eligible on CBS. Gigantic, gigantic stuff. He's got just, I mean, he could be a Dylan C's type. The control is worse. But if he can figure that out and keep the walk somewhat in control, I think D.L. Hall has huge upside. I know everybody loves Edward Julian, but Brooks Lee still has a chance to make the opening day roster for the twins, I believe. I don't think he's been sent down yet. I look that up. I know they reassigned a bunch of players this year day. Maybe it happened today or yesterday,

but I hadn't seen it yet. Top 50 prospect for the Minnesota Twins was their number one pick, number eight overall in the 2022 draft. Brooks Lee is someone that I'm looking at as a deep sleeper. Joe Boyle, I know the command has regressed over the past couple starts in the spring. So I think there's gigantic strikeout upside. Orion Kirkering, we think that the Phillies are not 100% in on Jose Alvarado as the closer,

not because he's not good, but because they might want to have some flexibility in how they use him. Orion Kirkering has struck out 37% of hitters since turning pro. Legitimately might already be the best slider in the majors, based on what we saw last season. I think that's a great way to spend a late round pick. and Jack lighter what's super super deep draft

remember he was the number two pick in the 2021 draft he's been awful 537 ERA across two seasons but his velocity has been up significantly in the spring about one and a half miles per hour at least last I saw it I didn't see his most recent outing. That could be a sign that he's starting to rediscover some of the form that made him,

you know, one of the most high pitching prospects of the decade when he was in college. And, you know, there's definitely still a need in the Rangers rotation. So Jack Leiter, super deep sleeper would have to be one of these deep, deep draft and holds. It does not look like Brooks Lee has been reassigned or optioned yet. I didn't think so, yeah. We'll see.

Scott, how many can you rattle off in a minute? Not enough, especially since I am not off to a fast start here. Okay, let's go with Kyle Mazzardo. If he's not on opening day roster for the Guardians, he won't be down long. Did you already say him? No. No. Okay.

Let's also go with... Okay, Frank, you noticed it too, right? Did Scott just freeze and then talk really, really fast after that? Is that what happened? Yeah, like, is he frozen right now? He's frozen again. Yeah. I think Scott's internet is kind of crapping out on him.

Are we in? Am I good now? You were frozen with a great face on too. Yes, you're here. Okay, Ricky Teetaman. He won't be down. He'll eventually be in the Blue Jays rotation. He'll get a lot of strikeouts.

Reese Olson. Yep. Look good this spring. And I think he'll, you know, he should be in the tiger starting five to start out. Emmett Sheehan's being pushed down so much with his, injury news that I think he's now a candidate for this. I still think the stuff is terrific,

and I still think he'll make enough starts in the Dodgers for the Dodgers that you'll be glad. You stashed him away. Gavin Stone, his teammate, I guess who's probably going to take his spot to begin the year, is also a deep sleeper. I mean, some of the players we talk about a lot meet the threshold for this discussion, like Eric Fetty, like Joe Boyle, like Frankie Montas, who I think is going to be the Reds opening day starter, I think, is all that. Yep.

like Chris Paddock. J.P. Sears has kind of caught my attention this spring. That's going quite a bit deeper, though. We talked about Sadan, Sadani Rafael, Parker Meadows as a power speed guy who should play a lot for the Tigers. I think fits the description. Alec Berluson, we talked about him some recently.

He's going to fill in for Lars Neupar to begin the year and I think has a really good hitting profile, hard contact and a lot of contact. Elehirus Montero. Yeah. Let's go. My starting corner infielder. Regular bats for the Rockies.

Not that it's a given. Rinaldo Lopez, I'd call a deep sleeper. AJ Puck, we've talked about him a lot recently. Yeah, I don't think he qualifies anymore. Yeah. In the last week, we still have Jackson Meryl going around 400. though. I think I saw some people tweeting about his ADP

since he was named to the opening day and he's now like firmly inside the top 250. Okay. So that's still a nice value but not necessarily deep sleeper anymore. Yeah. I think that's going to, oh, you know what? One more name.

Oh. Victor Scott. He's on my list. I feel bad the way I did that to Chris. Literally the first name I mentioned. I was going for the laugh, but it just felt dirty. I feel bad.

Victor Scott is very fast and he's been batting lead off a lot and he hits the ball hard for what looks like a slap hitter profile and I wouldn't put him in the top 150 if he was a shirt of a job that that I meant that when I said it but he'd be in my top 250. Yeah.

For sure. Can I make one more name? Yes, you can. To make up for Scott being so rude to me. Yon Moncata. Ah, I had him on the list. I didn't get to it. giving up on him, but he's outside of the top 360. He's going to hit second

for the White Sox, it sounds like. He had an awesome September last year. Yeah, we'll see if he can, I think he's a free agent at the end of this year, if I'm remembering correctly. So a little contract year incentive there for you. Yeah. And if anybody

wants any more deep sleepers that we haven't got to, I know Chris has written multiple articles about this already. Scott has an article coming out on Friday, Scott, deep sleepers. If the breaking news will stop. I will have that out on Friday. Like now and Jordan Montgomery are definitely signing tomorrow, aren't that?

It'll either happen on Friday or next week. So there are deep sleeper articles on the site. There are more coming. And I will wrap up with just a few pictures I wanted to mention. Garrett Whitlock, Tanner Howick with the Red Sox. Both of them, I think, fit this description. Zach Lattel, a name we never talk about. He's the number three starter in the race rotation.

He's a spark on CBS, made 14 starts last year, 341. ERA 105 whip during that time. Just doesn't really get a lot of strikeouts. And Kyle Hendricks, boring, but he was good last year. The pitcher who will get the first save for the White Sox this year, Jordan Leisure, book it. We're going to wrap there for Scott and Chris. I am Frank.

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