Fantasy Baseball Today - Mitch Garver to the Mariners! Will the ADP Rise? (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:03 How should we value Mitch Garver now that he signed with the Seattle Mariners? Find out next on Fantasy Baseball today in five. We got some catcher news. The Mariners signed Mitch Garver to a two-year, $24 million deal, and not sure he'll actually play much catcher, but he has catcher eligibility for fantasy. Obviously, the Mariners have Cal Raleigh and Sebi Savala as their catcher tandem there as well.

Starting point is 00:00:26 But I think an everyday DH role, maybe he kind of mixes in as like a second or third. catcher on the Mariners here there. Playing D.H should actually help his value. I think he'll get more played appearances than the average catcher. Garver, the problem is health. I mean, it's not a matter of like how good he is. When he's on the field, he's really good.

Starting point is 00:00:46 I mean, he hit 270, 19 homers and just 87 games this year. He has a career 825 OPS, 123 WRC Plus. He just has not played more than 87 games since 2019. So I like the skill set. It's just can he stay on the field? Greg, what are your thoughts on Mitch Garver? to the Mariners. Yeah, I agree with you.

Starting point is 00:01:06 And it was weird. When I was looking up his numbers, he only hits like 217 when he's the DH. It's like he hits higher when he's a catcher. So, you know, some guys, that's just, you know, as he gets used to it, hopefully he'll acclimate to that role. And he can, and of course, they've got Edgar Martinez up there. You can come in spring training and kind of talk him through some of that stuff, how to stay prepared.

Starting point is 00:01:26 Yeah, you know, from where he's going. And anytime you can get a catcher, a catcher eligible. player that's not going to be catching for the most part, then you're thinking you're doing well. So I'm not sure how much this will drive up his ADP just because of all of the risk issues. But, you know, in that range where you were talking about in our show notes about where he's going to go, I mean, he's a pretty alluring option, especially if you're waiting at catcher, which a lot of people like to do. Yeah, the early ADP for Mitch Garver is 203.17 catcher off the board.

Starting point is 00:02:01 I think he'll climb up a little bit. We usually see once players sign, they kind of get a little bit of a boost. And I was looking at like the 170-ish range where you see names like Bo Nailer, Jonah Heim, Logan O'Hoppy, Kaber Ruiz. Do you think Mitch Garver deserves to be in that range or maybe even ahead of some of those names? No, I think that's a pretty fair place to get them. And again, now it's Bill thing, you know, if I'm looking to get, I do like O'Hopi. So that would be a tough choice between the two of them.

Starting point is 00:02:30 But that's not a bad thing. Like if those two are in my queue and one of them goes, I can have the other as a fallback option. That's not a bad place to probably grab your first catcher in that little pocket you were referencing. And I think they can have similar skill sets too, Logan O'Hoppy and Mitch Garver. Middling batting average,

Starting point is 00:02:47 maybe like a 250 kind of guy and really good power from both of those as well. The White Sox signed Martine Maldonado to a one-year deal, which doesn't really matter for fantasy. But it'll be interesting to see how their catcher situation works out. They also traded for Max Stasi. They traded for Corey Lee during the season.

Starting point is 00:03:05 So they do have some options here. I guess we'll find out which of those two winds up on the active roster here on opening day. But again, Martine Maldonado to the White Sox. The Blue Jays have made some moves. They signed Kevin Kiermire to a one-year deal worth approximately $10 million, slated to be the starting center fielder once again for them. And they also signed Isaiah Kinear-Flefa to a two-year $15 million deal. My guess is ICF super utility role, something like that.

Starting point is 00:03:33 They have Davis Schneider at second base for now, Kevin Vigio at third base. So not really anyone that's either proven or has been great the past couple years. So maybe IKF works in a little bit. My guess, Greg, is that the Blue Jays are probably not done this offseason. They've got another move up their sleeve here. Yeah, their fan base were pretty upset if this was it.

Starting point is 00:03:55 Yeah, for sure. The Guardians acquired outfielder Esteban Floriel from the Yankees in exchange for Cody Morris, so a swap of former top-ish prospects. I don't know that either of them was really a top prospect, but they were prospects. So maybe it could work out for either one. Again, Florial to the Guardians,

Starting point is 00:04:11 Cody Morris to the Yankees, and the latest on the rumor mill, the Dodgers, who have signed or traded for everybody this offseason, are interested in Teoscar Hernandez. So could potentially be their corner outfielder because we know he's not going to DH, they have Shohei Otani. but if to Oscar wound up with the Dodgers,

Starting point is 00:04:29 that would be a pretty big boon to his value, so we'll see if that actually winds up happening. For more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, the Odyssey app, or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball Today and Five, and we'll be back again next week in the new year.

Starting point is 00:04:48 Bye-bye.

Fantasy Baseball Today - Mitch Garver to the Mariners! Will the ADP Rise? (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)

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