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Way Too Early 2025 Sleepers Including Parker Meadows & Andrew Painter! (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 podcast)

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 9 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.

It's never too early for Fantasy Baseball sleepers. Parker Meadows could go 20-20 next season. Could Evan Carter and Nick Lodolo bounce back if healthy? What's the upside for the returning Andrew Painter?


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0:00.0

Is it too early for 2025 sleepers?

0:02.5

It's never too early.

0:03.9

Let's discuss on Fantasy Baseball

0:05.7

today in five.

0:07.2

Welcome into FD Team Five on Saturday, October 12th.

0:11.3

I am Frank Sampled joined by Chris Towers and let's talk. on would tell everyone to sign up for the FPT newsletter where you could read about these even more in depth.

0:25.4

But Chris, we will start with Parker Meadows, part of the Tigers and this fantastic post-season run.

0:31.9

Yeah, and he's been a big part of why the Tigers have been so good in the second half of the season.

0:38.0

Remember, Parker Meadows came into the season with a little bit of hype and I went back and forth on whether I wanted to include him or

0:44.8

Carrie Carpenter as a sleeper because I think there's a lot to like about both but I think Meadows

0:51.2

has a little more of a fantasy friendly skill set and we saw that when he came back from his demotion of the miners and then a hamstring injury.

1:00.0

Remember he played I think three games and then came back and didn't miss a beat hit 300 over his final 50 games

1:08.6

23 Homer 19 stolen base pace and I think the biggest thing for me is he started 49 of the final 54

1:16.5

games that he was available for so he was not the part-time player that we thought he would be

1:22.0

early on the season.

1:24.2

There will be some skepticism about what he's done. I think the biggest thing is

1:28.7

233 expected batting average is pretty alarming, but he's got power he's got speed he seems to be growing

1:36.4

into a lineup that is getting better and I think Parker Meadows is someone that if you

1:42.0

can get as like your number four

1:43.3

outfielder you're gonna be in a really good spot next season.

1:45.7

Let's talk about Christopher Morel. This one's pretty surprising Chris and because obviously

1:49.8

you got traded to the raise we thought all right maybe they'll work their devil magic once again it did not happen. trade it

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