Fantasy Baseball Today - Top Prospect Report! Junior Caminero & Christian Scott Coming Soon? (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)

Episode Date: April 13, 2024

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Who are the top prospects to stash? Find out next on Fantasy Baseball today in five. Welcome into FBT in 5 on Saturday, April 13th. I am Frank Stamfield, join by Scott White, and let's take a look at the latest prospect report. Five prospects on the verge of getting the call up. Junior Camerro of the Tampa Bay Rays, Estuary Ruiz of the Oakland A's.

Yes, we realize he's not a prospect, but he's in the minors right now. Paul Skeens of the Pirates, Christian Scott of the Mets and Heston Kirstad of the Orioles. It's got two names that I wanted to focus on here. Junior Camerreux looks like he's close to returning from injury. And speaking of injuries, Tampa Bay continues to just rack up a bunch of those. So starting to think we could see Camerro pretty soon.

And Christian Scott, I know, has got off to a great start for the Mets. What have you got on those two? Yeah, so everything you said about Cominero, I agree with. with he is back to baseball activities close to returning from his injury and look the reason he got left off the opening day roster is just because the raise had too many options he they clearly thought he was ready for the majors they called him up last september they included him on the postseason roster it's only 20 years old but hits the ball as hard as any minor leager and just a someone who you would figure would be an impact.

impact bat as soon as he comes up, which is why he's so worth stashing. And now with this Brandon Lau oblique injury, that's one more infielder out of the way. Don't think they would stick Common Arrow at second where Brandon Lau plays, but there are enough, like just opening up the roster spot. There are ways they could find at bats for Common Arrow. I mean, D.H. Harold Ramirez. Who cares, right? Like, I think it'll be soon.

I think with each injury, the urgency to pick up in roster, common arrow, if he's somehow available in your league, it increases. As for Christian Scott, yeah, it was a tough call between him and Ricky Teetaman, who I wanted to be for, like, this spot in my top five to stash. And I ultimately went with Scott because he's been arguably the most impressive, minor league pitchers so far. I mean, he has 19 strikeouts in nine innings, throwing 69% of his pitches for strikes,

throwing with an 18% swinging strike rate, both about as good as it gets and both similar to what he did last year. So he just seems to have picked up where he left off. And obviously, the Mets rotation has problems. They tried Julio Turan to fill that opening. They've already let him go because it went so poorly. Jose Buto is probably going to fill that opening

for now, but they did move Kodi-Sanga to the 60-day IL. And the only incentive they'd have to do that is to free up a 40-man spot for someone or something. And it could be Christian Scott. It could be. He's turning 25 this year and is already in AAA. So like, even if it doesn't happen in the next two weeks, you got to figure it'll happen in the next two months, right?

So yeah, that's why I have Christian Scott here. But Ricky Tiedeman isn't far outside of the top five. to stash. All right. Well, yeah, if we were doing top six to stashed and I'm sure

Ricky Tiedman would be the next man up, five prospects who are on the periphery. These are just prospects who are doing something of note

recently. K. Povich of the Orioles, Dustin Harris of the Rangers, Darius Vines of the Atlanta Braves, Sean Sullivan

with the Rockies, and Zahir Hope with the Dodgers. Scott, I've a long been a fan of Dustin Harris, the skill set, there's power,

there's speed, It just feels like everyone kind of passed him over in the Rangers organization. Is there any chance we could see Dustin Harris finally? There's a chance because they have an opening the next two months at third base do the Rangers. And it's not like there's, you know, they got a few options. They're trying there. One could be Dustin Harris, who has, his biggest problem, the reason he hasn't gotten a shot in the majors yet is because they haven't been able to find a position for him in the minors.

but third base is one of those that he's experimented with, and it's what he's played most often this year. It's off to a good start offensively at AAA. You mentioned power, speed. It stole 41 bases last year, which is the extent of the speed, good on base skills as well. So an interesting offensive profile here for Dustin Harris.

It's just how much are the Rangers willing to deal with defensively with him because it's not going to be, it's not going to be picture perfect defense, that's for sure. but he's maybe closer to breaking through now than ever. I would say I'm also going to mention Darius Vines here for similar reasons. The Braves obviously have a big hole in the rotation with the loss of Spencer Strider. Probably going to try Bryce Elder for now, but it didn't go so well for him in the second half.

And Darius Vines is just a very stable pitcher. His change-up has good swing and miss potential. He throws a lot of strikes. He pitches deep into games. He made two quality starts for the big club down the stretch last year. So a little surprised he hasn't been talked about much with the strider injury. His second start of AAA Gwynette this year, he went seven innings. He had 23 swinging strikes, which is a huge number.

I assume most of them were on that change-up. Not saying he's going to be a big bat misser in the majors, but there are skills here for Darius Fines, and I think he's somebody to at least keep on your radar. If you want more of like a prospect, like upside recommendation here, I think Z-Y-H-I-R-H-R hope for the Dodgers. He's one of the two players they acquired from the Cubs, one of the two prospects they acquired from the Cubs in the Michael Bush deal.

Very young, in low A ball, but it's already hit a ball of 113 miles per hour this year. It's a big league power. That was a home run. And he's very fast, too. doesn't look like he has strikeout problems. Again, small sample very early in his career. But Zahir Hope is somebody I could see making a rapid rise up to prospect rankings.

We know the Dodgers know what they're doing with prospects, and they targeted him for a reason. They sure do. For more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, the Auditie app, or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball today in 5. and we will be back again next week. Bye bye.