It’s the Winter Meetings, Part 2: This Time Free Agents Are Really Signing. Starring as Eric Hosmer is Turtle!
Starring as Wil Myers is your goofy friend from high school who now works for Enterprise Rent-A-Car:
Trailer Voice, “What if all of MLB’s owners weren’t in collusion….But just the rich teams!” In the last few days, the Padres, Twins and Rays got some deals done, which is kinda like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. Some ‘perts will likely move Hosmer down in their rankings, but I always assumed Hosmer would be a Padre, and ranked and projected him as one in my top 20 1st basemen for 2018 fantasy baseball. There, I said, “Here’s what I will say when Hosmer signs, “I made the case last year that Hosmer was Joey Votto Jr. I called him Kangaroo Embryo. I just thought of a kangaroo wearing a Kangol, but I’ve never thought about an alligator wearing an Izod shirt, I’ll have to discuss this with my shrink. At one point, Wil Myers said he’d move to the outfield for Eric Hosmer to come to the Padres, and I thought to myself, “If I were Hosmer, I’d tell Myers to please not do me any favors.” San Diego is like the Trojan Horse of cities (for baseball and just visiting). It’s like this, “Oh, man, San Diego is gorgeous. What’s this, 77 degrees every day? I can get used to this!” Five minutes later, “I am bored out of mind.” Five minutes after, “Damn, can we get out of here?” Ten minutes after that, “If I see one more white person in flip-flops I’m going to readily embrace going to Tijuana.” Any hoo! Hosmer isn’t exactly a home run hitter. His fly balls were goofy low last year for a guy with 25 homers. He was the third lowest for fly balls (22.2%), fourth highest ground balls and the 29th lowest for Hard Contact. He does hit a decent amount of line drives, and feels like a 23-26 homer guy with a few more fly balls. He might be Kangaroo Embryo this year, but to emulate Joey Votto Jr. he’s going to need to elevate the ball more.” And that’s me quoting future me!” And that’s me quoting me quoting future me! Anyway, here’s what else I saw in spring training for 2018 fantasy baseball:
Jake Odorizzi – Traded to the Twins. Twins ordered eggs Odorizzi, but all I see is:
I see no discernible change from Tampa to Minny. Odorizzi’s home ERA in his career was 3.40 in 384+ IP vs. 4.35 in away games, but it’s relatively standard for a guy to pitch better at home. Everyone’s better at home — you sleep in your own bed, you’re in front of your own fans, you’re able to make eggs into boobs at your favorite greasy-spoon diner. Odorizzi is still in a tier to draft late in the top 80 starters for 2018 fantasy baseball.
Anibal Sanchez – Signed with the Twins to bridge the gap to Ervin Santana’s return. Shame the Twins refuse to give Stephen Gonsalves an opportunity, since he’s going to be 24 years old and a top 100 prospect. That should read, “Twins’ refuse to give Stephen Gonsalves an opportunity.” Alas, the Twins signed a 34-year-old with a 6.41 ERA last year.
C.J. Cron – Traded to the Rays, as they DFA’d Corey Dickerson. Um, huh? I mean, I like C.J. Cron, but the Rays DFA’d arguably their best hitter? Rays are trying to prove Marlins aren’t the only Florida team that can tank. How about this, Rays scheduled Cron job at 1B but I just C-Dick. This is great news for Cron since he’ll no longer have to fight The Sciosciapath’s worst instincts….Actually, might be The Sciosciapath’s best instinct all those years to bench Cron, which is still good news for Cron. Finally, Cron gets to become Napoli away from The Sciosciapath. In my top 20 1st basemen, I moved Cron up and his projections.
Corey Dickerson – As mentioned above, Dickerson was DFA’d by the Rays. Ya know, the Rays best hitter. Trailer Voice, “Since the rich teams were in collusion, then the poor teams decided to become…poorer!” Cut to: Rays pouring their best players out onto the curb. “Not that kind of poorer, but okay!” I haven’t yet moved Dickerson in my rankings, because he won’t be without a team for long.
Chris Carter – After trading away Cron, the Angels decided to sign Carter, aka the Wakandan C.J. Cron. Apparently, Black Panther really impacted the Angels. Shane Victorino wished they had just watched Moana.
Krispie Young – Signed with the Angels to act as a left-handed bat. With signing of Chris B. Young, Angels fans now have a reason to call Kaleb Cowart, “Kale B.”
Yasmani Grandal – Dave Roberts announced Grandal would be the starting catcher, against at least righties. I.e., the Dodgers would’ve won the World Series if they started Grandal. In my top 20 catchers, I’ve adjusted Grandal and Barnes.
Ryon Healy – Out 4-6 weeks after having a bone spur removed from his hand. Healy feels to me like one of those guys that always seems to have a chance to break out in December, then, by the time the season rolls around, he’s nursing something and fiddling-faddling up his value. Mariners have two prominent examples of this type of player with Healy and Haniger. The M’s also have the brother of the all-time king of this type of player. Maybe Ben Gamel can get Mat on the phone to tell these guys what to avoid. Since Healy was already down for less than 500 ABs, I haven’t yet moved him in my top 20 1st basemen for 2018 fantasy baseball, but I may still do it if he’s not back by end of the spring.
Eduardo Nunez – Signed with the Red Sox. Solid landing spot for him (less so for J.D. Martinez. Right now, J.D.’s at City Hall like, “Can I change my name from Just Dong to Job Damnit?” Nunez will fill-in early on for Dustin Pedroia, then play all over the field, and all over the bench when he’s filling in for Hanley, who’s a solid sneeze away from a 60-day DL stint. I haven’t moved Eduardo Nunez in my top 20 2nd basemen for 2018 fantasy baseball, because he always seems to get his stats whether he has a starting job or not.
Danny Salazar – Indians said Salazar is “a couple of weeks behind,” but that’s not true. He’s a few weeks ahead of his first setback. Salazar is in a pitching tier in my top 60 starters where I wouldn’t be drafting him, and this obviously doesn’t change that.
Seung Hwan Oh – Turned out the Rangers did not sign Oh, so I removed him from my top 500 for 2018 fantasy baseball. Guess that means it’s his *pinkie to mouth* swan Seung. I’m now back to Alex Claudio being in the lead for the Rangers’ closer job, but to say I’m confident in that is to say I’m lying to you. Sorry, you’re just so trusting.
Edinson Volquez – Signed with the Rangers. He will miss 2017 with Tommy John surgery, or as they call the surgery in Dr. James Andrews’ house, “Gimme dem duckets.”
Jason Vargas – Signed with the Mets to be their 5th starter, and will become their 2nd starter when three other currently unnamed Mets starters get hurt. It’s kinda hilarious how the Mets said Vargas will be their 5th starter. Why so funny? Count with me: deGrom, Syndergaard, Harvey, Wheeler and Gsellman. They had five starters already, but they just assumed someone was already hurt.
Gerardo Parra – Underwent hamate bone surgery on February 16th and said he’d be ready on March 8th, i.e., he thinks he’s going in for a teeth cleaning. Yo, Gerardo, your hands made of teeth? You got teeth hands that you can just clean? Seriously, three weeks for hamate bone surgery seems aggressive. Parra’s already ranked fairly low in my top 500, so I didn’t adjust him (yet).
Andrew Cashner – Signed with the O’s. It’s almost like the O’s front office is strategically putting together a pitching staff because they own a lot of Yankees hitters in their fantasy league.
Just came across your articles last night. GREAT READS. Long story short(hopefully) I played fantasy baseball once before about 8 yrs ago. Giving it a shot since I tend to do football. A friend asked if I wanted to join his 10 team h2h each cat keep 2 league and redraft. Will list categories and postions below along with who I have to pick from to keep 2 players. Thanks for any help. Still working my way through your other articles very helpful so far. Just trying to get a grasp on all of this.
C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, Util, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL, DL, NA, NA
Runs (R), Hits (H), Home Runs (HR), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), Walks (BB), Batting Average (AVG), Extra Base Hits (XBH)
Wins (W), Losses (L), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K), Holds (HLD), Earned Run Average (ERA), (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP), Blown Saves (BSV)
Tim Beckham
Brandon Belt
Charlie Blackmon
Javier Baez
Melky Cabrera
Matt Carpenter
Khris Davis
Dexter Fowler
Ryon Healy
Evan Longoria
Brian McCann
Whit Merrifield
Logan Morrison
David Peralta
Buster Posey
Trevor Bauer
Chris Devenski
Mike Dunn
Ken Giles
Gio Gonzalez
Lance Lynn
German Marquez
Addison Reed
Max Scherzer
Thanks again. Also thanks for the great articles. Do you happen to write any on draft strategy? Or lead me in that direction? Thanks.
I can keep ONE of the following in a 12-team standard 5×5 auction league:
Justin Upton $21
Carlos Carrasco $22
Daniel Murphy $20
Craig Kimbrel $20
Which one do you recommend I keep?
what about this one, the AL only version. same exact scoring/rosters
correa (1)
snell (12th)
morton (19th)
devers (25th)
k.davis (5th)
segura (3rd)
mancini (25th)
mostsuckass (if he goes to AL, gotta think KC nabs him now to avoid being the bar none worst offense in baseball, 10th)
kiermaier (9th)
delmonico (25th)
if multiple from same round one has to move up one round
10 team NL only h2h. keep 3 at previous season ADP prices. OBP over AVG, net steals over steals total bases added for hitters and QS over wins, holds added for pitchers. start 1 of each position, 1 CI, 1 MI, 4 OF, 1 util. 5 SP, 4 RP slots.
obvious keepers are
harper (1), freeman (2) but who’s last:
hoskins (25th)
ray (10th)
knebel (21st)
weaver (19th)
puig (11th)
Hoskins
@Grey: seems easy. wondering if building other positions made any sense, guessing with that crazy 25th round value it doesn’t matter.
@Joey Jo Jo Jr Shabadoo: also these
albies (23rd)
dejong (25th)
@Grey:
Are you down on him enough to trade him for a pitcher, in a keeper league?
Thanks
G
Sorry just seeing this comment now, you need to remind what this is pertaining to in my newest post, thanks!
Will the tier ranking sheet be out soon?
Waiting for it… Think Jay might have it…Have to see…
Grey
I am fairly deep at SS and looking to add a SP, what type of Sp should I be looking for by selling C Seager?
In a dynasty/keeper league. Top 10? Top15?
Top 10
@Grey:
Are you down on him enough to trade him for a pitcher, in a keeper league?
Thanks
G
Not really, but I guess if you’re trying to win this year and can get a SP to put you over top
JD to Boston
Follow-up to my last question, in a 5×5 dynasty league, should I deal Maikel Franco and Ryan McMahon for Jose Abreu (I get Abreu)?
Yup
10 team dynasty OBP/QS
Rendon or turner/Luis castillo
Rendon, pretty fair tho
In a 5×5 dynasty league, should I trade either of the below two packages for Keuchel? (I would be getting Keuchel)
Package A: I give up Ozzie Albies
Package B: I give up Ryan McMahon and Maikel Franco
Nope
great stuff as always grey!
As a Padres Ho(s)mer I have the opportunity to acquire Hosmer for a couple prospects.
In a 12 team dynasty points format with CI/MI spot, would you move Senzel and Morejon for Hosmer? Would swapping Hosmer for Matt Chapman in at CI be worth giving up Senzel’s high floor? I like Morejon but as the old saying goes, theres no such thing as a pitching prospect.
Current CI depth: Myers, Turner, Chapman (Bradley and Reed in the wings)
Thanks! I’d take Hosmer
I.e., keep Hosmer
In a 12-team league where we can keep players up to 3 years (with no round implication on the keepers), where do you draft Ronald Acuna? I saw you have him 68th in your rankings. How high do we think his ceiling is in the coming years?
Top 20 player for coming years
C-Dick go? But what about Jane? Are the Rays trying to get an X on their ID? Transformation has begun
Rays are now non-binary?
@Grey: we should call them the Pat’s
It’s the Martha Rays
@Grey: That’s some pufnstuf
Yo, you gotta watch Gomarra on Netflix
@Grey: I’ve seen you pushing that one. What’s it about?
Mafia show set in Italy
@Grey: Is it in American or liberal globalist subtitles?
Globalist Gary Cohen subtitles
I shit you not I have had someone tell me they dont like Netflix and those streaming services because its filled with liberal globalist agendas and was told I’m lying to make my point about watching sub-titled movies when I was younger. Speaking of sub-titled movies, dont get drunk and high and watch cinema paradiso. I did that when I was in school in London and most the class was glassy eyed by the end of the flick
Cinema Paradiso is trite globalist propaganda! Kidding, I haven’t see that flick in ages, prolly 20 years…. Gomarra is gritty and a guy’s guy show… Seriously awesome…
Like Sopranos in subtitles
I just looked and I had it on my list…Yes!
We had a film class when I was in London. It was great. We watched a lot of movies but I mostly recall CP and we also watched Kirosawa’s Ran, which was fucking amazing.
Have you watched homicide hunter on Hulu yet? Best re-enactments ever
Hmm… I don’t think I’ve watched that yet… I have 4 episodes still to go on Gomarra, gots to pound that out first… Film class sounds like such a study aboard type class… Um, yeah, watch movies and discuss them while partying to 5 AM on a Wednesday.
Class was actually on Tues and Thursdays. Also had public speaking as a class. When I actually showed up to class.
Sounds like everyone’s schedule… It was like Tues. and Thurs. from 11 AM to 12… What a joke, ha…
I failed two classes got a C in one and an A in another
The Dickerson DFA is the strangest I can remember there must be something behind the scenes there
It is a bonkers move… Maybe he fought behind scenes with management, but haven’t heard anything
@Grey: I read somewhere it’s the Span signing. They’re trying to save $ and can’t move him, but C Dick could be moved. Absolutley crazy, but since they are stuck with Span they said Fuck it and figured they can play Mallex more.
I hope this means Jake Bauers is up sooner
Tallion, Clevinger or Hader. dynasty H2H points.
Taillon
@Grey:
Thanks!
No problem
C. Pitching staff, plus Conteras, Bellinger and Hoskins for young guys.
C
@Peacecoast: I don’t know what is wrong with me today, my broswer is acting up
fuk all yall
Keep calm and carry on, Peacecoast
I need some help, Razzballers. I’ve been offered my choice of one of three orphaned dynasty teams. 14-team 6×6 OPS instead of BA. Which do I choose?
Team A:
Wieters
Alonso
Baez
Seager
Bregman
Harper
Stanton
Benintendi
Castro
Swanson
Eaton
Wacha
Stroman
Nola
Snell
Glasnow
Rodon
Team B:
Flowers
Bryant
Dozier
Ramirez
Cozart
Ozuna
Springer
Pollock
Souza
Thames
Keuchel
Iglesias
Godley
Wood
Salazar
De Leon
Holland
Wilson
Team C:
Contreras
Bellinger
Cano
Shaw
Seager
Hoskins
Blackmon
Pham
Cespedes
Happ
DeJong
Kluber
Scherzer
deGrom
Lester
Price
Jansen
Trainen
Rodney
@Bryan: Team C
@Bryan: I think I’d take A
None are great, C seems all right if you can trade one of those SPs… A otherwise
@Bryan: Team A
Maybe Black Panther can help Ron Washington land another manager position? One can only hope
Ron would be Sterling K. Brown in Black Panther
Grey-always grateful for your advice.
I’m in a 16 team dynasty with 30 minor leaguers and my team is probably 2 years away. I’m considering trading Rendon to a contender for Soto, Andujar, and Vilade. Is that a fair haul for rendon or am I shortselling myself? Will Andujar see 3b with his shaky defense since I would need someone there.
Thanks Grey,
T
I’d want Rendon
Thanks
No problem
Hey Grey! Getting excited for the season! Those eggs Odorizzi looked kind of saggy.
On to the business… last keeper spot for my team, 6×6 deep mixed auction league. Quality starts is the added category for pitchers. $3 Cobb, $7 Snell, or $10 JA Happ? Thanks dude!
Those are some dirty eggs…. Snell
@Grey: Haha… definitely sloppy eggs. Thanks for the help!
No problem
Billy Hamilton available, so is Albies, XBoggie. Need speed. Need 2B and SS. Hammy DHs. But thats a one cat win every week in H2H. Where do I go?10 Keeps, no contracts.
Bogaerts
Grey,
I’m in a 5×5 Roto keeper league. I can keep either Alex Reyes or Blake Parker in the final round. Who should I keep? Thanks.
Reyes
Grey! I feel like a stranger after not having commented in so long, but work is making me… you know… work. UGH! Any the whoooo… I got keepers in for two of my 3 leagues and I know you and I both know that keeping a ton of pitching is two crays with a dash between them, but on a team when I hold onto 13 players, I’m about to keep 7 pitchers! I know it’s insane but this pitching staff is dead sexy. It’s Dexy!
Kluber, Strasberg, Carrasco, Severino, Nola, Ray, and Diaz to close out.
AMIRIGHT? I could get rid of Diaz and keep Cespedes, but in H2H Cespedes feels risky compared to an RP who could push 100K’s in a league that counts Saves and Holds.
It’s nice to be back.
@mcmi11ions: Nice to see you! Keep Yoenis
I’m a Royal’s fan this sure feels like watching your girlfriend ride off with the guy in the Ferrari while I get back on my scooter. Hey scooters are fun too right?!
Hosmer’s front loaded contract is just too good to pass up.
With Dickerson leaving does that get Mallex Smith any more plate appearances or increase his value much? Is he worth a look in AL only leagues?
@sport: Sadly, the Royals don’t even have a Scooter Gennett… Mallex was moved up by Rudy, I kept him where he was, which was still with 2/3 ABs — yup, AL-Only leagues…
Few weeks ahead of his first setback….fantastic
Hopefully Parra being out gets Dahl in lineup and he can hold a permanent spot.
@The Great Knoche: Hopefully on Dahl
Will Krispie be “acting as a left-handed bat” because he had a better platoon split against right-handed pitchers? Or maybe since he’s replacing Cron, he’s going to be acting as a left-handed bat because like Cron, he won’t be allowed to hit from the right side anyway? Or (part II-The Return of Or) is Ohtani working on his bean-ball game against lefty-hitters and Kole Calhoun’s bruises are starting to add up as the only lefty around to take BP against Ohtani?
@Dat Bum: From what I read, he’s going against lefties, but maybe he won’t… He’s a platoon guy either way… Pujols is winding down, Calhoun’s bruises and other random instances where he can hit, he’ll prolly see 175-250-ish ABs
Need league setting advice: we have always had a 7×7 league with obp. There is chatter in our league to change obp to ops. Is ops a better stat for fantasy? The only knock I gave is that it doesn’t have a common denominator (AB vs PA) so slugging is worth more than obp when that’s not the case in real baseball. What is your take?
Also, if you like OPS, what are some players you would stay away from in OPS leagues?
@Bob: what are the other categories?
@Curious George Springer:
R,H,HR,RBI,SB,AVG,OBP. One person suggested TB instead of hits as that’s similar to AVG. The main complaint of a handful is we don’t reward extra base hits.
@Bob: having hits and avg is mostly redundant, we used to have that in my league until i crunched the numbers and saw that like 95% of time whoever had more hits had higher avg that week. its basically giving an extra point. we ended up switching from hits to obp as our extra cat in our 6×6
@Bob: Why do they want to change?
@Grey: To reward guys that get extra base hits
TB does that no?
Damn I had Dickerson on my radar for later in the draft, suppose I still should depending where he lands. But seriously? 282/27/84/62 last year leading off what in the holy fuck? Is this just a sell off? How does DFA save them money?
Anyway my fav part of your post:
“He’s a few weeks ahead of his first setback”, hahaha
@Peacecoast: I think when they DFA him another team can take on his contract, so they save the $6M or so he’s going to make.
How about you Peacecoast, I’ve seen you around here plenty lately, any interest in joining an RCL with a bunch of regular commenters? If so, drop me a line: trussellm at gmail dot com
@MattTruss: honestly I play in a league with daily lineups and weekly FAAB. It takes most of my time. And from what I hear RCL has waiver wire pickups any time right? I could not keep up with that and compete the way I would want to. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Nope, you are correct. If you don’t have the time, it’s not the best of leagues to join. No worries.
@Peacecoast: Thanks! It’s crazy town they DFA’d him… Even if they wanted to play someone else, they could’ve, and just platooned Dickerson
What’s crappening Grey? My slow dynasty draft starts today so I figured I should look at something…..and I missed you! Going to be in Jersey Wednesday night for work.
Noisey – You want in on the FCL this year? If so, drop me a line: trussellm at gmail dot com
@MattTruss: Hey Truss! How soon do you need to know? I’ve been slacking this offseason, would need to catch up to even be competitive.
I mean, it’s just a free RCL, if you finish last we’ll just call you names in the comments section, haha. It’d be nice to get it filled in the next week so we could nail down a draft date. I’ve just been asking random frequent commenters, so first come first served. Shoot me an email if you decide you want in. There are 3 spots left I believe.
@Dr. Kenneth Noisewater: Good to see you, Doc! Where in Dirty Jerz?
@Grey: Mt. Laurel? Driving in Wednesday, meeting Thursday, and driving back that night so I’m gonna be chilling really.
How’ve you been? Oh…(3) I got those Diadora and Raekwon “Purple Tapes”. Remember those joints I posted.
KEEPER LEAGUE NEED TO DROP 1 PLAYER HERE
Austin Hays Bal – CF,RF
Ryan McMahon Col – Util
Adrián Béltre Tex – 3B
Josh Hader Mil – RP
Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF, Util, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL, DL, DL, NA
Batters Stat Categories: Runs (R), Doubles (2B), Triples (3B), Home Runs (HR), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), Batting Average (AVG), On-base + Slugging Percentage (OPS)
Pitchers Stat Categories: Wins (W), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K), Holds (HLD), Earned Run Average (ERA), (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP), Strikeouts per Walk Ratio (K/BB), Quality Starts (QS)
@mrbasketball: if you have 3b option, then I would perhaps drop Beltre and keep younger players with upside
@mrbasketball: it would help a lot to know who your other keepers are.
We keep 10 – Here are the rest – round 11 is where we start
Ian Desmond Col – 1B,
Jonathan Schoop Bal – 2B
Manuel Margot SD – CF
George Springer Hou – ,RF
Yoenis Céspedes NYM – LF
Álex Reyes StL – SP
also – Lorenzo Cain Mil – CF
16 TEAMS ALSO
@mrbasketball: When do you have to decide? I’m between McMahon and Hader
They are going to want to draft in a week or 2 for sure = McMahon could be the next Aaron Judge ????? I do have an NA spot if you think he is the real deal – You did make a nice call on Judge last year
Broken clock is right twice a day, huh? McMahon could be a keeper, but I’d wait another week or two depending on how long you can… Rockies are the type to sign CarGo out of nowhere
I have spot #9 in 5×5 12 team roto league for upcoming draft.
I think my 1st round might come down to choice between staton and Mookie betts, maybe Bryce Harper. I believe Grey had them as Harper, betts and Stanton.
Just looking for other opinions as to how you would select and why. Love Stanton for the obvious power but Betts looks attractive for perhaps 5 tool player.
Thoughts??
Damn I had Dickerson on my radar for later in the draft, suppose I still should depending where he lands. But seriously? 282/27/84/62 last year leading off what in the holy fuck? Is this just a sell off? How does DFA save them money?
Anyway my fav part of your post:
“He’s a few weeks ahead of his first setback”, hahaha
@Peacecoast: oops how did this end up here? Anyway please ignore this.
@Earl: Do you have any keepers? How are you building your team? I think Grey will say anyone in the top 17 is fine to take. Personally I am keeping Dee Gordon so I would lean more towards elite power in my first round pick.
I would go Harper myself. Seems to be more speed than people give credit for later in the draft this year.
@Peacecoast: I am in a 5×5 redraft, no keeper or dynasty
@Earl: I’d go Harper, Stanton, Betts. It’s really Personal preference though. Harper is in a contract year and gives average and pop. Stanton is hitting in a murderer’s row and should have a huge year. Betts is only guy that gives you a chance for 5 categories.
Edwardo Nunez gets 1/$4M with a $2M buyout and Hosmer gets 8/$144M. That makes zero sense to me.
@Louder than feeez: Okay
I’m higher on Wil Myers now because of this signing, definitely more counting numbers to come and finally has some protection in the lineup!
Random question Grey:
I was scrolling through your rookie outlooks post for this season and one guy caught my eye and I hope you can speak on him in a future prospect this offseason. Austin Hays.
You have him projected for334 ABs, but if he wins a job out of spring training and you prorate your projections for him out to 600 ABs, this is his line: 97/30/120/.270/10
Those are elite numbers and would instantly make him a must have in any format. Anyways thanks for the hard work Grey and I look forward to your future content!
@RJ: I meant future podcast* my bad lol
@RJ: Thanks! I know with Austin Hays, maybe he’s this year’s Trey Mancini… If he does have a starting job, seems favorite for AL ROY