last week we looked at AL players whose playoff performance might change their 2025

fantasy value this week Fred and I are going to look at in L players in the same sort of genre

next on the road of Wire fantasy baseball podcast. Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinky.

As always, we are brought to you by the Draft Kings pick app Fred one last hurrah we're uh it's our last podcast of the

24 season uh last week we cover the a L but we got some a L news right off the top that

we're going to talk about before we start breaking down our 2025 NL changers here.

Jackson Job, getting the call for the Tigers.

Yeah.

So we're talking about baseball's best pitching prospect as per our own James Anderson,

as per MLB pipeline as well. So consensus on him as baseball's best prospect, pitching prospect, is getting the call, yeah, for the Tigers is going to work out of the bullpen down the stretch. And then if things go well in the postseason. And this is someone who, like for fantasy this season isn't going to help. Like it's, it's even too late in NFBC leagues and a lot of leagues even to pick them up. And realistically out of the bullpen, like, it's probably not going to help. Like, it's, it's even too late in the NFBC leagues and a lot of leagues even to pick them up. And realistically, out of the bullpen, like, it's probably not going to get you, get you much down this week. But he could significantly influence the A.L. Wildcard race. And obviously, next year, he's someone who's going to be drafted in every league. Yeah. If you have like some weird in week fab and it's a keeper league all of a sudden you might have a guy you can pick up if you like not allowed to pick up guys that until they get called up something of that nature there so hey pay attention the last week of the season you never know who's going to get the call yep our. Our own Yahoo Friends and Family League has Wednesday pickups, Wednesday night pickups. So if someone wanted to have some fun with their team, they could add him at him midweek just to see what he does on the weekend. But anyways, yeah, this is someone who, like I said, like baseball's best pitching prospect. I wonder how like how high he'll go next year.

It depends, I guess, honestly, whether he comes out of the out of spring training with a

rotation spot. I have a pretty good feeling that he will come out of spring training with a

rotation spot. And I think he's going to be, if he had a rotation spot, round 10, no, maybe that's aggressive, 12, what do you think?

Where would Paul Skeens have gone this year if he had a rotation spot when you did the main event draft?

I would say 10-ish, probably, and he went around 20, as it were.

I think Job's just a little bit later than that.

Yeah, because I think Skeens was a more hyped, better prospect going in.

Now, it's easy for me to say that after Skeens is dominant hit at the major league level,

that I can retrofit my analysis like that.

But I think that's true that it is the case.

Yes. And by the it only takes one theory, uh, that will drive his value up. Like it only takes

one drafter in round 10 to say, you know what? I'm taking Job. He's someone who could,

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