🚨Reds Promote Top Prospect Elly De La Cruz! - Emergency Podcast (6/6 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The Reds have finally promoted top prospect Elly De La Cruz (1:00)! What's his upside for Fantasy? ... Is he a must-add in every league, regardless of format (7:10)? Where does he rank at the shortstop position? ... What should you look to get in a trade for Elly De La Cruz (10:35)?
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| 0:00.0 | Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:05.6 | We've been waiting and waiting, but finally the Reds are promoting top prospects, Ellie |
| 0:11.7 | De La Cruz. |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome in to an emergency edition of Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, June 6th. |
| 0:17.6 | Frank Samful joined by Scott White and let's get right into it. |
| 0:22.0 | Ellie De La Cruz in 38 games at AAA this season was batting 297 with a 398 OBP, 12 home |
| 0:29.9 | gamers and 11 steals. |
| 0:32.1 | Scott we know he got even better in the month of May where he had nearly as many walks |
| 0:36.2 | as strikeouts. |
| 0:37.2 | And notice we haven't done an emergency podcast for other top prospects. |
| 0:41.3 | I think Ellie De La Cruz has kind of elevated himself to another level, right? |
| 0:46.1 | It seems like he has the opportunity to be very special. |
| 0:49.3 | He's six foot five, 200 pounds power speed. |
| 0:52.7 | The plate discipline is improving. |
| 0:54.6 | He's already penciled into play third base in his debut. |
| 0:57.0 | He's batting cleanup for the Cincinnati Reds. |
| 0:59.0 | Scott, I'll start you off with two questions here. |
| 1:01.4 | What are you expecting and how good can Ellie De La Cruz be? |
| 1:05.9 | Well, I guess let's start with the second one because I think my thinking on this was |
| 1:15.2 | about what's similar to yours where I've kind of been downplaying most prospect callups |
| 1:21.5 | this year because we've gotten burned by so many in recent years and I think we're just |
| 1:26.3 | in a phase right now where the learning curve for reaching the majors is just especially |
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