Fantasy Baseball Today - 🚨Gallo Traded to the Yankees! Escobar to the Brewers! - Emergency Podcast (7/28 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

We have a match made in heaven! Joey Gallo has been traded to the Yankees for a haul of prospects. What can we expect? What should we know about the prospects that went to the Rangers? We also had Eduardo Escobar traded to the Brewers. How much does his value increase? 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  CBS Sports and Westinghouse are teaming up to give away a 55" TV, portable power station and air purifier over the next month. Go to cbssports.com/homerun to enter. Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer 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/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday 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

Now here's Frank Scott, Chris, and Adam. More trades. We need more trades. Well, we got them. Welcome into another emergency edition of Fantasy Baseball today on Wednesday night, July 28th. Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White here to talk about two trades. Let's start with the main one. The blockbuster, Joey Gallo, to my Bronx Bombers. The Yankees receive Joey Gallo, who is under contract through next season and reliever John King

for prospects. Otto, Ezekiel Duran, Josh Smith, Trevor Hover, and possibly more. There's things still being ironed out here between the two teams. Wait, Scott, do you hear that? Do you hear that? Never been more relevant, our guy, Chris Towers. Great Joey Gallo song before the season. Anyway, Gallo, fantastic overall player, really good defender, should fill in in center

field. Obviously, there's a match made in heaven, Scott. Yankee Stadium, short porch and right field. Gallo was already the Outfielder 16 in Roto this season, 50th best player. And he was tied for Outfieler 22 and fantasy points per game as well. What do you think? Are you excited? Well, I mean, like you said, I know you've been asking for this as a Yankees fan. It's the ideal park for a left-handed power hitter.

And that is certainly what Joey Gallo is. so I'm not good at figuring out this sort of stuff for myself but Jorge Montanez who is at Roto Nino Roto underscore Nino on Twitter he looked at he was able to find on Stadcast how it looked like Joey Gallo would have four more home runs

this year if he was playing in Yankee Stadium versus where he's actually been playing so that gives you some idea what kind of impact that venue change could have. You know, four home runs and basically, four extra home runs and basically two thirds of a season. And it's, it's a significant, it's a significant increase.

It's a good thing. It's a good thing for Joey Gallo's fantasy value. You know, I don't know, I don't know that it completely transforms him or anything, the kind of power he has. It's going to be a lot of home runs wherever he goes. It's going to be a lot of strikeouts wherever he goes. It's going to be some cold stretches wherever he goes.

So, you know, I don't think it radically changes his value, but it can only help. Yeah, Joey Gallo currently on the season batting 223, 25 homers, six steals, so he's chipped in on the base paths as well. He has a 19% walk rate, which is first in all of baseball. and of course his barrel rate, if you look at his stackass page, it's filled with red, but the barrel rate in particular, 97th percentile, a lot like Aaron Judge and Stey, Gallo is someone that just hits the ball extremely, extremely hard. So, Yankees, they're going to hit a lot of home runs. We know that the strikeout rate is going to be massive as well.

They currently have the 10th highest strikeout rate in baseball, and that's before Joey Gallo joins the team. So we should expect a little bit more of that. I think overall it helps the other Yankees as well, Scott, just more RBI opportunities. They desperately needed a left-handed batter in that lineup. So I could see the values of Aaron Judge and John Carlos Stanton, maybe even someone like Labor Torres, G.J. LaMahue, score a few runs. I think we could see all of those guys collectively go up together.

Let's talk about some of these prospects. The ones that really stood out to me, Ezekiel Duran, he has some power, has some speed, only at high A, so I don't think he's anywhere close. Glenn Otto is interesting because I know he's someone that you've wrote about previously in the prospect report, you currently have him on your Scott White Dynasty League team. And this season between AA and AAA,

Glenn Otto has a 3.33 ERA, 1.0 to whip, 115 strikeouts in 75 and 2 thirds innings pitched. He's been really good. He has been really good. Yeah, he's had five double-digit strikeout efforts in the minors this year. Twice

twice he's gotten to 14 strikeouts in a game. All of of those were at double a he's made two starts of triple a they've been they've been kind of mad but he just got there 25 years old big fastball good breaking ball uh he had you know already 25 like i said so he he had missed a lot of development time because of injuries and i know they're the thinking entering this season is he's probably going to wind up as a reliever but given the way he's performed in the minors this year I suspect that's probably changed,

and there's going to be less competition for him with the Rangers. I think this gives him a shorter path. I also noticed that Glenn Otto was an extreme fly ball pitcher in the minors and now going to a bigger stadium, a better division for fly ball pitchers. Yeah, I think Glenn Otto only becomes a more interesting dynasty asset because of that. And yeah, this is a really good prospect.

Hall for Joey Gallo. I don't know if the market got set by the athletics trading Jesus Lazzardo straight up for Starling Marte. But this is a legitimate hall. Ezekiel Durrana had just written about in the most recent prospects report. And he has just a really good all-around hitting profile. Great numbers at high Class A this year.

He's already 22, so he could move quickly. I think we could see him as early as next year. and those are probably the ones I'm most interested. Trevor Haver, I think is how you say it, Trevor Haver. Just an incredible on-base percentage, this is his first year as a professional, but he's on the older side too. He's already in his 20s. And he's still in low-class A, so he has a ways to go.

But, you know, he's kind of an interesting dynasty asset, too. Yeah. So, yeah, the Rangers made out really well here for Gallo, I think. They didn't necessarily get a superstar prospect, a huge name, but a lot of depth here. So nice return there for the Texas Rangers. Last thing on Joey Gallo, Scott, I know you probably haven't updated the rankings yet to reflect this move, but just eyeballing in, I'm trying to figure out how high Joey Gallo moves up. I could see getting him up to 20, 21, just behind.

Cedric Mullins, Cotell Marte, George Springer? I mean, I think I have all of those. I think I have, I think I have Mullins and Springer higher than you do. But let me pull up where I have Gallo now. So I'm 28th currently.

So you have... Yeah, I mean... He could probably get ahead of Austin Meadows, is what I'm thinking. Well, there was an argument for that anyway. Yeah. I mean, the thing is, Gallo is still going to disappear for very long stretches, and we don't know

there being, you know, how many weeks are left in the season eight? Yeah, we don't know how we don't know how present he's going to be. Of course, not literally, but statistically, we don't know how statistically present he's going to be rest of season. That's the thing you have to keep in mind. It's Yankee Stadium, yes, it's a good venue for him. It's a good venue for every hitter. someone like him specifically

but it's it's you know it still relies on him making quality contact at the plate and we can't predict exactly the timeline for it over what's just a fraction of the season

we'll have all of next year to see how Joey Gallo does at Yankee Stadium and that'll be a fair sample size to assess it I'll move them up some I'll move them up some but it's

it's because it's less because I'm I think he's going to be that much better with this move than because I think there's

you know there's there's there's just not a clear a clear reason to have him behind those other guys yeah that makes sense it was such a cluster already I can see

maybe he doesn't disappear as often or for as lengthy periods of time in Yankee Stadium. It still hinges on Joey Gallo making contact, but it could be a lazy fly ball that gets out in Yankee Stadium that might have not been the case when he was playing in Texas. The other trade I wanted to mention, Eduardo Escobar, went over to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for infielder Alberto Cyprian. He is an 18-year-old prospect currently at rookie ball,

and outfielder Cooper Hummel. He is a 26-year-old outfielder with a very high OBP in the minors. Escobar this season, Scott, ranked top 10 in both head-to-head points and Roto at his positions at second base and third base, 65th overall player in Roto for Eduardo Escobar. And he joins a park that is great for left-handed power. So I think he sees quite a boost as well. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, we've seen players like that achieve new heights in Milwaukee, of Miller Park. So is it called Miller Park anymore? I'm not sure that's called Miller Park. I don't think it is. I think they changed it recently. They get this comfortable and then they go and change it.

Yeah. Now we've seen that from players like him. That would be American Family Field. You know, it does create an issue in the infield, right? Where Luis Arias, who is kind of coming around and become a bit of a fantasy asset. Mm-hmm.

probably doesn't get to play that much anymore. Maybe he'll steal some starts from Colton Wong at second base. But less than full-time duty for both of those guys means they're probably not that useful in standard mixed leagues anymore. So that's the downside to it. But Eduardo Escobar is a better player, a better fantasy player, and it's good that he's moving to a smaller park and a better lineup. Very nice there for the Milwaukee Brewers,

getting someone that can man third base, Eduardo Escobar. All right, we're going to wrap there for Scott. I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching this emergency edition of fantasy baseball today. We'll be back again later on. Bye-bye.