Nico Hoerner Rises Top 60 For The First Time | MLB DFS Preview
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00:00 Mookie Betts is in the first round of every draft.
00:02 He's at four.
00:02 There's a little bit of a drop off there to Ozzy Albies at 20.
00:07 Marcus Simeon is at 27, followed by Jose Altuve, who's coming off a huge year and a contract extension, Davis, by the way.
00:14 So the Astros feeling really good about him.
00:16 At 36, he's an Astro for life.
00:18 And then Nico Horner jumps inside the top 60 for the first time ever up about a hundred from where he was a year ago.
00:25 So those are sort of the first five.
00:27 There is, you know, we'll talk about Horner, you know, extensively, I'm sure, because there's some risk involved there, but he's coming off a fantastic season with the Cubs.
00:34 He is coming off of a fantastic season.
00:37 I would say, obviously, he carries the most risk of any of these guys up in here.
00:42 He was, I mean, to be clear, he was amazing last year.
00:44 43 stolen bases actually helped you in the batting average.
00:48 I mean, that's so rare for a guy who you draft for stolen bases to be a positive in the in batting average.
00:56 But 283, 281, the most recent two years, didn't even get past 83 strikeouts last season.
01:04 And to be fair, I mean, the projection stuff is very bullish on him.
01:08 His composite projection, 10 home run, 63 RBIs, 32 stolen bases, a 280 batting average.
01:16 I mean, if I'm sitting there on the clock, Craig, I probably am scrolling down a little bit at second base past Nico Horner.
01:23 I probably prefer Glaber Torres.
01:26 I probably prefer Spencer Steer at what they cost to Nico Horner.
01:30 I mean, it's just kind of, that's more personal preference than anything else.
01:34 And really, no one is better set up at second base than Ozzie Albies.
01:39 I mean, all this guy has to do is just show up and do kind of the bare minimum of what he has done in the past.
01:45 And he just is going to run in to such great numbers.
01:48 I mean, a great example would be his 2021 season.
01:51 He hits 259, 30 homers, 20 stolen bases, but he gets 103 runs and 106 RBIs in like a good season,
02:00 but not a great season because he plays for the Atlanta Braves.
02:02 Like he plays in, actually better than the Dodgers, honestly, like the best lineup in the National League,
02:07 probably actually in all of baseball.