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Is Will Benson a Sleeper? Can Yu Darvish Do It Again? (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)

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🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Will Benson offers power and speed and is going really late in drafts. Will he play enough with the Reds? Does Yu Darvish have one more bounce-back season in him?


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0:00.0

Let's talk about Will Benson and you Darvish up next on Fantasy Baseball today in five.

0:08.8

Welcome into FETT in five on Saturday, March 9th.

0:12.8

I am Frank Samful joined by Scott White.

0:15.0

The players we haven't talked enough about.

0:17.4

First up, Will Benson, ADP of 319.4, 73rd Outfielder outfielder off the board last year hit 275 with 11

0:25.4

homers, 19 steals, and an 863 OPS. There's power, there's speed,

0:31.3

obviously a great ballpark good walk rate 12%

0:34.4

31% strikeout rate so uh I think we do have some questions

0:38.5

Scott about the swing and miss interesting skill set will he play enough?

0:42.6

That's also a question, what do you think?

0:45.3

Yeah, so the playing time question,

0:47.2

we'll start there because that's the question

0:49.1

for every Reds hitter, basically.

0:51.9

We focus so much on the infield because that's where most of the talent is piping in.

0:56.0

But the outfield, you know, if Spencer Steer is getting pushed out there because of the infield surplus, then how is that going to affect Jake Freley and

1:07.8

TJ Friedel and Will Benson, three left-handed hitting outfielders who put up some pretty interesting numbers last year.

1:14.0

Frido, I feel like, is the most likely to hold on to his spot there, tends to bat toward the top of the

1:22.3

lineup, but I think Will Benson might be the second most likely I think he's more talented than Jake Freily and I think the Reds know he's more talented than Jake Freily and while strikeouts are obviously a potentially something that could potentially

1:37.1

derail him and also his struggles against left-handed pitchers, his work, he's trying to address one of those at least.

1:44.0

I know I read he is taking as many at bats as he possibly can against left-handed pictures

1:50.0

inside sessions or whatever else.

1:52.0

Just trying to get more looks at them

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