Fantasy Baseball Today - Top Prospect Report: Junior Caminero Rehab & Nick Yorke Coming Soon? (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Junior Caminero is working his way back. Let's talk prospects up next on Fantasy Baseball today in five. Welcome into FBT and 5 on Saturday, July 13th. I am Frank Stanfield joined by Scott White. Just a heads up. We're recording this a few days in advance. So if Kobe Mayo gets called up, you know that we probably had something to do with it. Five on the verge.

Starting point is 00:00:22 Kobe Mayo of the Orioles, Max Meyer of the Marlins, Jacob Wilson of the A's, Junior Camerero of the Rays, and Nick York of the Red Sox, Scott. Caminero went on a rehab assignment. He's working his way back from a quad injury. And Nick York, a new addition to this list. Yeah, yeah, they are the new additions here. Junior Cominero, of course, was the mainstay in this list earlier in the year.

Starting point is 00:00:49 He was probably the most stashable prospect when things started. But then he didn't do all that well at AAA, and the race had a bunch of injured players and didn't call him up. up and then he suffered the injury. And it's kind of been out of sight, out of mind. Well, things have gone poorly for the race during the time he's been out, a bunch of their hitters who made a good impression early on, have come back down to Earth.

Starting point is 00:01:15 Richie Palacios, Jose Caballero, Johnny DeLuca. They've shown that they probably don't deserve everyday bats anymore. And so that creates a new opportunity for Junior Cominero, who in spite of his middling production to AAA, still hits the ball as hard as any minor leaguer without major strikeout issues, and it's just the sort of hitting prospect that you expect a superstar outcome from.

Starting point is 00:01:40 So once he gets his feet back under him, you know, probably about the time the trade deadline comes, maybe the race ship out some other players who might serve as roadblocks for Junior Commonero. I think we do see a lot of them over the last two months and it might be worth stashing him again. I will mention also that Max Meyer, last week I pointed out that he upped his slider usage,

Starting point is 00:02:06 got it back closer to where it was. And those three Major League starts where he looks so good, which seemed to signal a transition from development mode back into competitive mode. And his latest start also along those lines. He went six innings, his longest start since being sent to AAA. and his previous start was his second longest start since being sent to AAA.

Starting point is 00:02:29 So it seems like they're stretching him out again, ready to invite him back into the rotation. And I think that's going to happen for Max Meyer, perhaps at the start of the second half. The five prospects on the periphery, these are some prospects doing something of note as of late. And we have Justin Crawford and outfielder with the Phillies, Ignacio Alvarez, a shortstop with the Braves,

Starting point is 00:02:51 Austin Peterson, a starting pitcher with the Guardians, Demetrio Cresontes, a second baseman with the D-backs, and Cole Carrig, who plays a bunch of different positions with the Rockies. Which names would you like to touch on here, Scotty? Well, if I could backtrack just a little bit, because I did want to talk about Nick York, who got moved into the five on the verge, because he is a name that you may remember from 2021,

Starting point is 00:03:18 at a breakout season in A-ball, got a lot of hype, moved into pretty much every top 100 list. it disappeared after that, came back down to Earth, but this year, Nick York, second basement for the Red Sox, has come back to life. Particularly since moving up to AAA, he has hit well over 300 with power and speed and exit velocities. I have exit velocity data for Nick York now that he's at AAA,

Starting point is 00:03:47 and it's most impressive. Average exit velocity over 92 miles per hour. max exit velocity, a little less impressive, but still decent, 109 miles per hour. This is a guy who genuinely hits the ball hard,

Starting point is 00:04:02 and I think could play especially well. The production could play especially well at Fenway Park. The Red Sox have had trouble filling second base all season. It may be time for Nick York to get a look here.

Starting point is 00:04:17 Now touching on a few of these other options, Justin Crawford, outfielder for the Phillies, is the son of Carl Crawford, and looks like you could have a similar skill set. It's a difficult needle to thread because you have to be an elite base dealer and an elite source of batting average

Starting point is 00:04:31 with this kind of profile. But so far it's played that way for Justin Crawford and the minors. And he's put the ball in the air a little bit more, gotten to a little more power this year. Still mostly a ground ball guy. You probably want him to be a ground ball guy with that kind of speed. But if he can, like his dad, be a 10 to 15 homer guy,

Starting point is 00:04:50 that makes the path easier for Justin Crawford. And finally, I'll touch on Ignacio Alvarez, better known as Nacho Alvarez for the Braves. He is a hit over power guy, for sure. He spent most of this year at AA had no homers there, but since moving to AAA, suddenly he has a handful of home runs. And it seems like if you look at the tool set, it looks a lot like Vaughn Grissom to me, where high batting averages, decent power, good speed, but the raw power and speed characteristics aren't actually that good. But it's played up for Nacho Alvarez,

Starting point is 00:05:35 enough that you could see him entering into the Braves' plans in the near future. It may be an even more fitting comparison than Wang Grosom, going back a little further in Braves' history as like a Martine Prado. So I don't think Nacho Alvarez has stud potential, but I think he could be I think it could be solid enough if he produces high batting averages to matter in fantasy.

Starting point is 00:06:00 All right. For more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, the Odyssey app, or anywhere else podcasts, are found. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball Today and Five, and we will be back again next week.

Starting point is 00:06:16 Bye-bye. Thank you.

Fantasy Baseball Today - Top Prospect Report: Junior Caminero Rehab & Nick Yorke Coming Soon? (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)

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