Evaluating Spencer Torkelson and Taj Bradley! (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Let's talk about players we haven't spent enough time on. First up, Spencer Torkelson. Is he a first base target for Chris? Next up, Taj Bradley. What went wrong last year and and how can he get better?
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| 0:00.0 | Which players haven't we talked enough about find out next on fantasy baseball today in five? |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome into FBT and 5 on Saturday, February 17th. |
| 0:13.1 | I am Frank Stample, joined by Chris Towers. |
| 0:16.2 | And look, it's hard to talk in depth |
| 0:18.3 | about every single player. |
| 0:20.0 | So we'll be using these bonus FBT and five episodes |
| 0:23.4 | to discuss players we haven't talked enough about. |
| 0:25.8 | I polled Twitter. |
| 0:26.9 | I got many requests, but multiple for these two players. |
| 0:31.6 | Spencer Torkelson and Taj Bradley. |
| 0:33.7 | Let's start with Turklson here Chris. |
| 0:35.3 | Former first overall pick he figured things out last year. |
| 0:38.8 | He popped 31 Homer's 94 RBI, raised a launch angle, hit more flyballs, started pulling the ball more last year. |
| 0:46.0 | The expected stats offer some hope, a 253 expected batting average, a 487 expected slug. The problem is that he plays in Detroit where his home splits were very, very bad. |
| 0:57.4 | So that will probably limit his overall upside, but even with that, if it works out you can hit 250 with 30 plus |
| 1:04.6 | homers what do you think about Torkelson? Yeah I mean we saw in the second half of |
| 1:09.6 | last season in particular this big step forward for Spencel Torquison. |
| 1:14.0 | The batting average only jumped from 228 to 238, but after hitting 12 home runs in 376 |
| 1:20.6 | plate appearances to start the season after the all-star break he had 19 in |
| 1:24.7 | 308 and this was a case where the underlying metrics all screamed by Spencer Torkelson, he's going to be better and the skeptical case was, yeah, but his home park's going to hold him back and that didn't happen in the second half. |
| 1:41.0 | I don't think batting average is ever going to be a strength for Spencer Torkelson, but his strikeout rate is high, but not outrageously so. He hits the ball very hard. 94th percentile and hard hit rate, 89th percentile barrel rate, 87th, and average eggs of velocity. |
| 1:57.0 | I think this is a legitimate 30 Homer guy. |
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