Evaluating Zack Gelof & Merrill Kelly! (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Zack Gelof offers power and speed but does have issues with plate discipline. Should he be going 70 picks after Matt McLain? Merrill Kelly had an improved strikeout rate last year but will that carry over into 2024?
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| 0:00.0 | Two more players you want to hear about Zack Geloff and Merrill Kelly up next on fantasy |
| 0:07.7 | baseball today in five. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome into FBT and five on Saturday, March 2nd. |
| 0:13.4 | I am Frank Stample joined by Scott White |
| 0:15.8 | and let's start this off with Zach Geiloff, |
| 0:18.6 | who last year came up Scott and Woudus, |
| 0:21.4 | wound up hitting 267 with 14 homers and 14 steals. |
| 0:25.8 | He added 12 homers and 20 steals in the miners. |
| 0:29.0 | So for those counting at home, 26 homers, 34 steals between the majors and the minors some |
| 0:35.2 | questionable plate discipline under the hood Scott how do you feel about |
| 0:40.2 | Zach Galoff this season. |
| 0:44.3 | I feel good. |
| 0:46.1 | I feel better than it seems like most people do. |
| 0:50.5 | And it's kind of funny that it turned out that way because as that |
| 0:54.0 | Zach Geloff was was debuting last year obviously performing well I was among the |
| 1:00.9 | loudest skeptics I said, he has to slow down, |
| 1:05.0 | look at how much she's striking out, |
| 1:06.4 | look at how bad his zone contact rate is, |
| 1:08.9 | it's below 80%, which is among the worst in baseball. |
| 1:14.2 | So if you're swinging and missing that much, |
| 1:17.2 | and you're doing it as somebody who doesn't generate |
| 1:22.0 | like high-end exit velocities, that's a mismatch. |
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