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Three Hitters Who Will Be Tough to Rank In 2025! (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 podcast)

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🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Download and follow Fantasy Baseball Today in 5! You can find FBT in 5 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the Audacy App and wherever else podcasts are found.

Kyle Schwarber is one of four elite DH-only hitters in 2025. Royce Lewis managed to stay healthy in the second half but was quite bad. What do we make of Jurickson Profar for next year?


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0:00.0

Let's take a look at three hitters who will be tough to rank in 2025.

0:03.8

Up next on Fantasy Baseball today in five.

0:06.7

Welcome into MVP 5 on Saturday, October 5th.

0:10.8

I am Frank Stample joined by Scott White. Let's take a look at three hitters who will be tough to rank for 2025 very early on in the process here Scott.

0:20.0

First up is Kyle Swarber who is coming off a fantastic season.

0:23.5

Completely changed up the skill set.

0:25.1

You change the launch angle, not as much power,

0:28.0

but hit for much more batting average.

0:30.1

And he will be, along with many other names, utility only on CBS here in 2025.

0:36.0

Yeah and that's really the reason why Kyle Schwerber is so difficult to rank those DH-only types get downgraded because of the lack of

0:45.6

versatility and I think it might happen even more because there are going to be

0:49.3

so many and in addition to Kyle Schwerre have show Shoey O'Tani of course,

0:53.0

likely the first Trump egg.

0:54.0

He's not being downgraded at all.

0:55.9

But then you got Marcel Lozuna, you have Brent Rooker,

0:59.6

you have several others.

1:01.4

And I think people are going to delay taking them

1:08.0

just because they don't want to fill up that spot too soon.

1:10.6

By the pure numbers, actual production, I do think

1:14.6

Shwarber landed in a more palatable place an additional 40 points of

1:19.4

batting average in exchange for 10 fewer home runs basically but still 38 home runs still one of the best

1:25.2

sluggers I think that's an easier fit for most lineups but only DH and unlikely to gain

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