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prospects are loaded. Let's

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break them down Fantasy Baseball today

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in five. Welcome

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to MPT in five. Today is Friday, November

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twenty fifth. Hope Thanksgiving was fun

1:10

for everybody. I am Frank Sanford joined. By

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the well, she'll make sure to follow him on Twitter

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at Is it the welsh?

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Let's start off with our top Shortstop

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prospects specifically for redraft,

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leagues

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this upcoming season. and

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that includes Ezekiel Tovar of the Rockies,

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Anthony Voalte with the yankees, Jordan

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Lawlor with the Diamondback,

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Elie de la cruz with the reds, and

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Oswald

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Paraza also with the yankees. We'll

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start off top with Ezekiel Tovar.

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Well,

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I don't think that he has the most upside

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of this group, and that's not why we rank him number one

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here. It's because he's probably the most

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likely outside

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of Paraza

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to start with his respective team. Yeah.

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I think you said a bet. I think he's got the least offensive

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upside across the board. I mean, it's a good

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batting average. He had a great minor league season

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even though it was kind of stunted by injuries, fourteen

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homers, seventeen stolen Baseball, hit close

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to three twenty and he got Major

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League Time suffering off of that injury,

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which is something I never expected. But

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you're right, this is more about playing time

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because he's the only guy on this list who currently

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on roster resource is set as a starter,

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unfortunately hitting nine. But, you

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know, he does have some of those qualities. He

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had in two hundred and eighty fiveabouts put

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up those fourteen homers and seventeen stolen Baseball.

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So your mind can start to wonder

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in what you would wanna project on him, especially

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being in Colorado. He continues to

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steal and he shows the ability to hit

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like he did in the minors, which he didn't do

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at the majors. He had thirty three at bats. He

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did hit one homer. Didn't steal any bases

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and hit two twelve. If he

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adds on like he's done in last

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two years, Tovar is,

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of course, the only guy you're gonna get real production

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out of, but it could surprise a whole lot

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of us, and he's coming at pretty good cost. I think right

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around three hundred eighty p on early NFBCs.

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But yeah, he's the only guy with the actual guaranteed

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playing time. With the rest of these are all big

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major questions. Alright. Well, talk to me about

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the two yankees on this list. Anthony Voamy

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and Oswald Paraza. Paraza

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we saw towards the end of last season, They still

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have a lot of names on the roster. They have kind of FIFA.

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They have Glabor Torres. So it's no guarantee

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that he is the starting short stop for the Yankee's.

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And then Voalte No.

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I think he has a little bit more seasoning at triple

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a, but he could be up at some point. Maybe it's second,

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maybe it's third base. Let me know what

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you think about both of those guys, Vozy and Paraza.

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Yeah.

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From a talent perspective, I'm all about Anthony

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Voalte. I'm way higher on him

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even compared to what he did last year. He had

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a really great second half. where he

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started, you know, under two hundred, the first two months,

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the next three months, he ended up putting close

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to three hundred batting average seasons or

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stats and he ended up with a really,

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really great counting stats across the board

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for what was considered kind of mediocre

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season. He ended up getting spanning average back up to

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two fifty four I think he's five tool

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player. I think he's a face of this team.

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Like you said, it's kind of far off right now.

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Paraza would be the guy you would bet on. if

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you're trying to get production now. I think

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the offensive upside is better for VoLTE.

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But at the end of the day, we do have to see what do the

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yankees do during the off season. is

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Laborator is really on the trade market?

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Do they go and try to

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maybe sign one of these big short stops that

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are out on the market? that's gonna be telling,

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if labor gets traded and they don't try

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to go after any of these guys, I think it's open

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season, both of these players are gonna

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be up sooner rather than later. I think Paraz

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is a guy that gets the early run, but Vopi,

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I think I really think Vopi has a potential

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to put up video game type of stats

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once he gets to the majors. That's how highly I

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think about him. Speaking

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of video game type stats, that brings

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us to Jordan Lawler and Ellie De La Cruz.

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Lawler with the diamondbacks, De La Cruz with the

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reds. Both of those gents got up to

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double a as twenty year olds this past

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season. The upside is massive

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for both. I think we're gonna be talking about

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both of these names for a while for

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Fantasy Baseball purposes. The

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problem is, you know, maybe their

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second half of the season kinda guys,

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June, July, August, something like that. So

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the upside is sky high. I just have no idea

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when we're gonna see these guys. Yeah. I mean,

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they're probably better for like draft and

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hold and redraft right now if you're playing

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in those like, you know, fifty fifty

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player roster things or best

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Baseball, anything like that, that's probably the way

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to go. If you have minor league spots that

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you can stash, I think they're great stashes

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for the year. Otherwise, there probably gonna be

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players you're gonna be paying attention to once

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May and June start to click in. Lalor

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moved four levels. With the Diamondback, she

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touched four levels, dominated all of them, hit

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fifth with the AFL, much I think has

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been really telling, and I think they're gonna push

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him really hard. But I just don't know

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if it's going to be in June or if

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it's gonna be closer to September,

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like what happened with Corbin Carol, elevated

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the cruise, I think, has a little bit more seasoning

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to go though. They did send him out to the Dominican

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Winter League. and he, I

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expect, that could push triple a. I think

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both of these guys could start triple a. Think

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the diamondbacks have the better

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potential to push further, but the

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reds just got a stop gap,

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short stop and Kevin Newman to come in.

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But if they're winning any games, They're not

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any rush. They've also got JoseBreo, both

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both really, really talented

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offensive upside players but with

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just not a full line

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of sight on when they're gonna be there, we

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have to put them in this spot. They're gonna

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get plane time. I think both are gonna get two thousand

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twenty three plane time don't know exactly when it's

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gonna happen. You know

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what? We could say the same thing about Royce Lewis.

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Who is still prospect eligible for

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the Minnesota Twins? and unfortunately has

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now torn his ACL twice in

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a two year span. But

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when he played this year, he flashed that

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upside. He's got hour. He's obviously got a

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ton of speed. The problem is we

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probably don't see him until June or July. What do

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you think?

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Yeah. I think you're right. That's kind of the timetable

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that's going on right now. but I you wanna

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think about, like, how this team views him. It's

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part of the reason why Carlos Kray has gone. You know,

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Carlos Kraya is not back because Royce

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Lewis can be the face of that short

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stop position. And if he's not, he's super

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versatile. He played every other position but short

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stop when he played in the NFL the prior

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year their speed, there's power,

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the leg kick he got figured out.

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It's just the injuries that are holding him back.

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So he's in a interesting spot where

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he actually might be have a better upside

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in redraft this year than Lalor and Elliot De

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La Cruz and Voalte if he

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returns sooner. All those guys come up

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in August or September, Royce really

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could probably be the number two on this

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list, but we just don't know what that timetable is

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gonna look like. He could be ready for June.

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maybe that's just ready to start working out.

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So

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cross our fingers. Alright. For more Fantasy

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