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Second Base and Shortstop Tiers! Draft Jose Altuve Early (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 podcast)

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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You're going to want to target an elite second baseman early on in your drafts. Shortstop is a much deeper position. You can get standouts like Willy Adames, Carlos Correa, Wander Franco and Tim Anderson later on in drafts.


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0:00.0

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Slack.com slash DHQ. Let's hit the middle infield tiers up next on Fantasy Baseball

0:35.8

to day in five. Welcome into FBT in five. Today is Thursday, January 26. I am Frank Samphold

0:43.1

John by Scout White and we'll start off with the second-based tiers. And that brings us

0:48.6

to the Elite tier. Jose Altove, Marcus Semi and Ozzy Albies with an ADP from 30 to 53.

0:56.8

That's right. No second-based from being drafted before pick 30 and Scout. That's exactly

1:03.1

why this is your favorite tier to draft from. Yeah, it's a high priority. In fact, that's

1:08.3

say my highest priority in drafts this year is to get a second-based from this tier,

1:14.0

whether it's Altove or Semi and preferably. One of those two, Albies more of a fallback

1:19.9

option. You say Albies ADP is outside the top 50. But all the drafts I've done, these

1:25.4

three have gone in quick succession, all three in around three. And so that's where I'm

1:34.3

looking to take one. I haven't even had gone to do it yet. It's my top priority. But every

1:38.6

mock we've done, they've gone in such a sport short span of time that I didn't have a chance

1:44.2

to react, which makes you want the tiers to exist so that you know when to react when

1:51.8

a tier starts depleting. I'm just warning you now, you're likely not going to have that

1:58.4

opportunity at second base. Yep, that is fair. I think second-based, third-based, you really

2:04.1

want to put a priority on both of those positions early on in your drafts. Let's run through

2:09.9

the rest of the tiers at second-base. The near elite is just one player, Jazz Chisholm,

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