FBT Express - Marcelo Mayer Promoted by the Red Sox & Waiver Wire Adds! (5/27 Fantasy Baseball podcast)

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	The Red Sox promoted Marcelo Meyer this weekend.
0:02.6	Let's discuss on Fantasy Baseball Today Express.
0:06.4	Welcome in to FBT Express on Tuesday, May 27th.
0:10.3	I am Frank Stamfield, joined by Chris Towers.
0:12.5	Hope everybody enjoyed the Long Memorial Day weekend.
0:15.7	Let's talk about the Red Sox promoting Marcelo Meyer.
0:19.2	It actually happened because Alex Bregman went on the IEL.
0:24.1	He's dealing with a significant right quad train and could miss 50 plus games, something like that.
0:30.4	So a big loss for fantasy.
0:32.4	But as a result, we are getting Marcelo Meyer, who's 22 years old, a first round pick back in 2021.
0:38.6	He was hitting 271 with nine home runs and 818 OPS.
0:42.2	He's up to 62% rostered.
0:44.7	Chris, do you think that Marcelo Meyer is a must add in fantasy?
0:48.6	Yeah, and I think a big part of it is that there is a fairly long runway here.
0:53.4	That's not to say Marcelo Meyer is just up for good forever because we've seen more talented prospects
0:58.8	struggle and get sent down in their first taste of the majors than Marcela Meyer, and
1:03.8	it's certainly possible that it happens for him, but he's got the opportunity here because
1:08.5	of the Bregman injury, which Bregman himself compared to
1:12.3	a quad strain he suffered in 2021 that caused him to miss 58 games. That's not to say that it's going
1:18.1	to be the same thing, but I do think we're probably talking about at least a month here based on what
1:23.2	they've said so far. And after that, you know, if Breggman comes back and Marcela Myers hitting,
1:30.4	there could be somewhere for him to play because we've got Trevor Story's been very
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