2023 Deep Sleepers: Pitchers
Eno and Al talk about processes for finding deep pitching sleepers, and then they discuss several pitchers whom fantasy managers should tuck away as late-round targets, especially in deeper league. They consider three groups of pitchers who may be undervalued: contact managers, pitchers on lesser teams and rookies.
Rundown
1:12 - Eno talks about the projection system he uses to identify sleepers
7:05 - Is contact management actually a thing?
9:14 - Deep sleepers: contact managers (Kyle Bradish, Tyler Wells, Graham Ashcraft, Hayden Wesneski, Nick Martinez)
30:22 - Deep sleepers: starters on lesser teams (Spencer Turnbull, Matthew Boyd, Michael Lorenzen, Shintaro Fujinami, Drew Rucinski, Paul Blackburn, Braxton Garrett, Ryan Yarbrough)
48:56 - Deep sleepers: rookies (Andrew Painter, Luis Ortiz, Ryne Nelson)
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