Fantasy Baseball Today - FBT Express - Top 5 Prospects to Stash! Andrew Painter Has Entered The Chat! (5/29 Fantasy Baseball podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Andrew Painter, welcome to the Prospects to Stash. Let's discuss on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. Welcome in to NBT Express on Thursday, May 29th. I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White, and let's take a look at the top five Prospects to Stash, leading off with the new number one, Jack Caglione of the Royals, followed by Roman Anthony of the Red Sox,

Starting point is 00:00:23 Bubba Chandler of the Pirates, Logan Henderson of the Brewers, unfortunately for that one, and Andrew Painter, a new edition here from the Phillies. Yeah, Jack Caglione. I'm sure this isn't a surprise to people who pay attention to baseball because the world is a buzz with Jack Caglione hype. So he got to AAA recently, obviously made a big splash at AA, got to AAA,

Starting point is 00:00:54 and homered five times in his first six games there. So, I mean, the royals are saying all the things you'd expect them to say. They don't want to rush them. They want to see sustained success, all of that. The royals have a small window of contention by virtue of being the royals. They're back-to-back AL championship teams, won one-win the World Series. It was a two-year thing, and then it was over. So that kind of exemplifies how they need to act when they're good.

Starting point is 00:01:24 And they're good right now. They're over 500. They were in the playoffs last year. I think they have the pieces in place to get there again, but what would really put them over the top is another big bat. And he's waiting right there at AAA. Jack Caglione, legitimate 80-grade power bat. He hit a ball over 120 miles per hour this year,

Starting point is 00:01:45 a number that only five major leaguers in the entire history of Stacass have reached. He's hitting 440-450-foot home runs with regularity. And it doesn't seem like he wasn't challenged a double A, doesn't seem like he's any more challenged to AAA. He's been playing a lot of outfield. I know he's a natural first basement. The Royals outfield for like they're good everywhere except the outfield. Their outfield is the pits.

Starting point is 00:02:09 Drew Waters is the only outfielder with better than a 700 OPS. And he's probably not going to sustain that because he's Drew Waters. So between Jack Caglione forcing the issue with his performance and fitting the royals needs exactly during one of their few windows of contention, this has got to happen. I don't know if it's going to happen in the next week or two, but it could. And when it does, you'll be glad you stashed Caglione ahead of time. All right, let's talk Roman Anthony. I think there's a path here potentially because they have been,

Starting point is 00:02:43 the Red Sox have been introducing Christian Campbell the first base, where they have an obvious need without Tristan Kossis. I thought that would clear a path for Marcello Meyer by freeing up second base. Turns out Marcella Meyer, Myers playing third base because Alex Bregman's out for a long time. But they're still moving forward with Campbell to first. They're planning to start them there for the first time this weekend. And that would still free up second base.

Starting point is 00:03:09 For who? David Hamilton? At least in the short term, yes. But I don't think in the long term that's the idea. Whether the Red Sox know it or not, putting Campbell at first base is going to ultimately clear Anthony's path to the majors by sending Cey Don Raphaela to second base. They prefer his defense in center, understandably,

Starting point is 00:03:27 but he can play second base. And it's malpractice to keep Anthony in the minors forever. He's just too good and he can do too much good for the Red Sox, especially compared to somebody like David Hamilton. So that's why Anthony's now up to second, the Campbell to first base situation. Chandler's fallen to 30 year. He had been first for a few weeks.

Starting point is 00:03:49 He's fallen to third. Part of this is just stash fatigue. I've expected him to get called up all of May. it's basically June now and he's still not calling up. He still hasn't been called up. And by the way, the pirates, each of the last two weeks, have called up some other pitching prospect instead. Last week, it was my Burroughs.

Starting point is 00:04:09 This week, Braxton Ashcraft. Granted, Ashcraft called up to work out of the bullpen. We don't want Chandler working out of the bullpen. So maybe that's fine. But just by having Ashcraft there in close proximity, that gives them another possibility to fill a rotation opening. And at this point, it's pretty clear they're just not that motivated to call up Chandler. And so maybe they're going to wait another three or four weeks till they're past the Super 2 threshold, the expected Super 2 threshold, and wait to call them up then.

Starting point is 00:04:40 It's not the level of urgency they were showing even with Paul Skeen's last year. And I do think it's worth noting Chandler's walks have been kind of high lately past four starts, 13 and 18 in a third inning, 13 walks in 18 and third innings. only thrown 60% of his pitches for strikes. Like there may be performance reasons why they're holding Chandler back for as good as he looked early on. But the bottom line is, look, it could still announce tomorrow

Starting point is 00:05:12 he's on his way up. That wouldn't surprise me, but I'm losing faith that's going to happen for Chandler. Logan Henderson, back in the minors. Very disappointing. They did this after his debut, remember a dominant six-inning start.

Starting point is 00:05:25 And that was disappointing enough. He comes back, has three starts just like that debut. You feel like he's there to stay. And they send him back down anyway. Beat Rider, Adam McAulvey of MLB.com, cited three reasons for, one, an urgent need for relief help, two, the impending return of several injured starters, and three, a need to manage Henderson's innings. He only threw 81 in the third last year.

Starting point is 00:05:49 I don't know. I guess those are all valid reasons. I'd still rather see him in the majors. obviously by having him as the fourth best stash here. I think we will at some point soon-ish. But it is true that the brewers have a lot of pitchers coming back from the IL very suddenly here. It just happened for Aaron Savale. He just joined the rotation.

Starting point is 00:06:10 It should happen for Brandon Woodruff and Jose Cantana in the next week. Quinn Priester appears to be ahead of Logan Henderson in the pecking order for some reason. He'll be out once those guys are healthy. But that's just another hurdle. another name Henderson would have to leapfrog Quinn Priester D.L. Hall just came off the IEL.

Starting point is 00:06:30 He was called up to work out of the bullpen, but he has starting experience, and that's what he was doing on his rehab assignment. So that's another possibility. Tobias Myers, still kicking around in the miners. Nestor Cortez should be back at least after the All-Star break.

Starting point is 00:06:44 So, I don't think any of these guys are as good as Logan Henderson, but it seems like the Brewers are going to give them priority at least to start out. And if we're having a hard time getting Henderson and his 117 ERA in the major league rotation, I don't know what it's going to take for Jacob Mizorowski to get in at this point. That's why he's been removed from the five on the verge, and Andrew Painter is in instead.

Starting point is 00:07:10 We always knew this day was coming for Painter, but Dave Dombrowski had been saying July-ish for his debut. So I've held off on putting Andrew Painter in the Five on the Verge, just because I didn't want him to occupy one of those five spots forever. Well, now it's Juneish. It's not quite Julyish, but it's Juneish. So I think we have to start the countdown now for Painter. He's been throwing 70 plus pitches at AAA.

Starting point is 00:07:33 It looked pretty good. And obviously, has an elite prospect pedigree. All right, Scott, let's quickly go through the top prospects on the periphery. These are just some names doing some interesting things in the miners lately. Kyle Teal, a catcher with the White Sox. Trey is Savage, a pitcher with the Blue Jays. Ryan Ritter, shortstop with the Rockies. Jonathan Long, a first baseman with the Cubs,

Starting point is 00:07:56 and David Davalio. David Davalillo, that's a tough one, starting pitcher with the Rangers. So Kyle Teal is just doing quietly exactly what we expect him to do at AAA. He's slashing 296, 397, 494, 7 home runs. Actually, four steals too. He's an okay base stealer for a catcher. White Sox, of course, have already called up a catcher prospect

Starting point is 00:08:22 Edgar Cantero. Edgar Carrow, excuse me, Edgar Carrow, who's doing pretty well. But they're the White Sox, and they don't have anybody occupying the D.H. Spot or needs to occupy the D.H. spot full-time. They could swap the two catchers back and forth just to get another decent bat in. I think we're going to see Kyle Teal pretty soon, and he'll add to the catcher surplus. Trey is Savage of the Blue Jays, the 20th overall pick in the draft last year. He was the fourth best pitcher in my first year.

Starting point is 00:08:52 player rankings behind the obvious top three. And he's more than living up to the billing. So he already has four double-digit strikeout efforts, and his last outing was nine strikeouts and four one-hit innings. And the outings have been short like that. So he's getting double-digit strikeouts with short outings. That means his K-per-9 rate, particularly in his last seven starts, 17.6 K-per-9. You have two strikeouts in an inning, a 23% swinging strike rate for Yee Savage during

Starting point is 00:09:22 That seven-star stretch. Just insane numbers. He's a 22-year-old who may be overpowering younger hitters with a deep arsenal. But even in those cases of a pitcher being over-leveled, you don't see numbers like that. I think Trey A Savage is a really good batmissor. Ryan Ritter, 24-year-old shortstop for the Rockies at AAA. He's slashing 293-405-613. Has 14 home runs down there already.

Starting point is 00:09:48 No major plate discipline issues. A lot of the power comes from him pulling. the ball well, but the exit velocities are still good. And the play disciplines, like Ryan Ritter, his best tool is defense. So I don't understand why given that the offensive profiles look good and given that he's good at defense at shortstop, why Ryan Ritter isn't getting more prospect love. Obviously, the Rockies are building around a young shortstop already in Ezekiel Tovar. So I don't know what the future holds for Ritter, but he's a 24-year-old kill in AAA.

Starting point is 00:10:17 So I feel like the future's going to begin soon, whatever it is. Jonathan Long is a first base prospect for the Cubs also at AAA, so he's close. Batting 349 there. And it's kind of a weird 349 because he's striking out too much 25% of the time. But for the second straight year, his line drive rate is just through the roof and with good eggs of velocities. Because he's limited to first base and because the Cubs have a couple of young options they could use there out of them, I don't know what the future holds for Jonathan Long either. But a guy hitting 350 at AAA with good exit velocity of this, I think is worth bringing up.

Starting point is 00:10:49 And then finally, David Davila Leo, L-I-L-O, David Davila for the Rangers. He has a .92-ERA, 0.71 whip at high A. Great K-B-B ratio. And they were over short starts at first, but his last three starts have gone six innings or more, and he's still dominated. The stuff doesn't blow you away for David Davalillo, but he earns high marks for having a deep arsenal plus control, just an overall good feel for pitching.

Starting point is 00:11:25 Pitchers with that profile tend to go far, even if they don't become outright studs. So David Davalillo with the consistent dominance, named Adel. All right for more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to our full-lane podcast, Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball Today Express, and we will be back again tomorrow.

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Fantasy Baseball Today - FBT Express - Top 5 Prospects to Stash! Andrew Painter Has Entered The Chat! (5/29 Fantasy Baseball podcast)

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