We (me) have gone over the catchers sleepers, 1st basemen sleepers, 2nd basemen sleepers, shortstops sleepers, and 3rd basemen sleepers, because I have to do everything around here! Look at me, throwing shade like a beach umbrella! That makes sense…if you don’t think about it! That’s what I want my bumper sticker to say, “That makes sense….if you don’t think about it.” Okay, so this post is all the outfielders that are being drafted after 200 overall that elicit uber-sexy feelings. There’s guys like Wyatt Langford, Riley Greene and Jordan Walker that I would draft everywhere, and wrote fantasy baseball sleepers for the latter two and fantasy rookie posts for Langford, but they’re going before 200 overall, so not presented here. Uh, except for here here. Now, this is a (legal-in-all-countries-except-Canada) supplement to the top 100 outfielders for 2024 fantasy baseball. All Steamer hitter projections and all 2024 fantasy baseball rankings have been updated. Click on the player’s name where applicable to read more and see their 2024 projections. Anyway, here’s some outfielders to target for 2024 fantasy baseball:
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Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (NFBC 221) Lou-Gu-Ju is exactly the type of hot, sexy name I love to start these target posts off with. “Who’s next, Kris Bryant? Mark Canha? Don’t stop at the Lou-Gu-Ju guy! Go full boring-ass outfielder! Tell us how much you like Seth Brown, you ding dong!” Well, I did write a Seth Brown sleeper last year, but if it’s Brown, flush it down now. So, Lou-Gu-Ju isn’t the sexiest of names. Though, if you write his name as Gurrrrrl, like you’re a gay man, it would imply an actual girl, so maybe sexy? On the Player Rater, Gurriel was the 134th best player and 35th best outfielder last year. That’s rosterable in all leagues if he just repeats.
Jarred Kelenic (NFBC 212, ESPN 277, Yahoo 258) Basically, the exact opposite of Gurriel. Jarred Kelenic is actually exciting and has produced as much as Nadir Bupkis. He’s still young enough to catch on, and the new environs should help. He really needs to make better contact, which has made rostering him tough sledding. There’s next to no indication he’ll be better on that either. The crazy thing is Snitker usually doesn’t platoon anyone — Snitk or swim, beeyatch! — but even he thought Kelenic was a disaster vs. lefties, which you can take as a negative. It’s not. Kelenic shouldn’t be facing lefties, but you’ll have to platoon him on your team too.
Tyler O’Neill (NFBC 226, ESPN unranked, Yahoo 206) I was going to give props to Yahoo and ESPN for putting Lou-Gu-Ju in their top 200, but ESPN didn’t even rank O’Neill? C’mon, man. Any hoo! Back-to-back guys with new teams, who should benefit nicely from the new home. O’Neill now has a giant wall 50 feet out that he can drop donks like Cardi B drops badonkadonks in a song called, Watch Me Twerk. If you would’ve told me O’Neill would go to Fenway, have an everyday job and be drafted after 200th overall anywhere, I’d think you were eating crackers and they were going straight to your brain. He’s a 34/15/.285 hitter! Don’t believe my exclamation mark? He’s already done that line in St. Louis! Dubya tee eff, seriously.
Parker Meadows (NFBC 287, ESPN 264, Yahoo 252) Legit think I might be underrating Meadows in my rankings, but rather go down a litany of reasons why I am slightly off him, like his weak contact and how he hits too many fly balls when he should be hitting the ball on the ground mimicking Cedric Mullins in the worst of ways, I will instead highlight that he’s young and should be hitting leadoff. I won’t mention how it’s a terrible lineup and even the optimistic projections only have him down for a 13/13/.230 season. Nope, I will focus on the positive!
Leody Taveras (NFBC 275, ESPN , Yahoo 296) And the polar opposite of Meadows, similarly to how Lourdes was polar opposite to Kelenic. Leody has already given great value last year and I see no reason why he can’t again, but he might be a bit boring.
Sal Frelick (NFBC 277, ESPN 284, Yahoo 255) Already gave you my Sal Frelick sleeper. He’s prolly one of the biggest misses I see with early drafters, ignoring Frelick. He’s a 12/25/.280 hitter, pretty easily, and should be hitting in the middle of the Brewers’ lineup. I projected him for 16/32/.283 and I think I might be being conservative.
Matt Wallner (NFBC 317, ESPN unranked, Yahoo 335) Sucks that he’s a lefty, because Baldelli plays next-to-no lefties vs. lefties so that’s gonna hurt his bottom line, but everything else for Wallner is terrific. Strikes out some, but he gets into the ball quick-fast when he makes contact. His barrel% is elite, his exit velocity is elite, his hard hit%, his max EV, his everything. From the window to the Wallner, I am singing as he hits it over the Wallner a lot in 2024.
Jackson Chourio (ESPN 201) I’m sorry, how is he after 200? They have Victor Scott II at basically the same spot. Here’s my Jackson Chourio fantasy. JC is perfect, that works if you’re a churchie too. Let’s talk about Vs2 instead. Where’s he playing? Center? Okay, what if Edman returns on April 15th? Carlson just never plays? Burleson just disappears? I hope so, but that’s a lot of what ifs Vs2 needs to overcome. Does VS2 have 70+ steal speed? Yes, but his over/under for MLB at-bats is currently at 150. Sorry, put me in front of a radiator because I’m a wet blanket.
Chase DeLauter (NFBC 650, ESPN 233, Yahoo unranked) Saw his ESPN rank (around same spot as Victor Scott II by the by) and figured I needed to look at DeLauter. I don’t know what ESPN knows, but no one else I’ve talked to thinks he’s breaking camp. Earliest ETA is June, and a lot can happen between now and June. With that said, I don’t mind a flyer in your last round if you want to stash, but you’re going to get hit by injuries, and need to drop him by April 7th. Sorry, this Magic 8 Ball I bought at Spencer’s Gifts is so freakin’ accurate.
Ceddanne Rafaela (NFBC 354, ESPN unranked, Yahoo 316) When I wrote my Ceddanne Rafaela fantasy, he was one of the guys I was most excited about. Then, it seemed like he lost his job with trade of Grissom, now Ceddanne is back in the starting lineup. He could be one of the biggest early waiver wire pickups.
Jasson Dominguez (NFBC 436, ESPN unranked, Yahoo unranked) So, I could also told you about Jose Siri (power/speed), James Wood (insane upside, could be up by June), Alek Thomas (everyone loved him last year, not so much this year), Johan Rojas (very underrated), Brenton Doyle (Coors, speed and cut his K% in spring), Eddie Rosario (literally undrafted and was the 45th best outfielder last year on the Rater), and Mickey Moniak (leadoff and hit .280 last year). There’s so many outfielders. Jasson Dominguez? Could be a top 20 outfielder as soon as he returns. When will he return? He’s already working out.
