Potential Playing Time Concerns for Braves and Orioles Prospects
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00:03 The trust factor is not there.
00:04 There are also a couple different ways he could lose playing time inside of this
00:09 Braves lineup.
00:11 Michael Harris II, who we actually should have talked about a little bit earlier,
00:16 could move up the order.
00:17 Jared Kelnick could play more, although Jared Kelnick,
00:21 not that good in spring training.
00:24 In fact, they ended up re-signing Adam Duvall to a one year,
00:28 I believe $5 million contract year old friend, Adam Duvall,
00:33 to basically be the break glass in case of emergency plan.
00:37 If Kelnick can't hit, I would not be one of those people.
00:41 Certainly he looks like a pretty good buy at this ADP.
00:45 I think Mullens looks pretty decent.
00:47 I think one of the things you could be concerned about with Cedric Mullens would
00:51 be that he ends up losing a little bit of playing time,
00:57 because the Orioles are so deep.
00:59 They have so many different guys who are so talented that he could end up,
01:03 instead of getting 600 plate appearances, he could end up getting,
01:07 in fact, he's had over 650 in each of the two last seasons where he stayed healthy.
01:12 But he could be more like a 450 plate appearance guy,
01:16 in which case you are not nearly as stoked to have him on your fantasy
01:20 baseball team.
01:22 Of course, we have the shiny young toy.
01:26 We have Wyatt Langford here, who is a very young man.
01:30 Well, we just touched on him a little bit.
01:32 I mean, he is 23 years old.
01:34 He is Baseball America's number five prospect baseball prospectuses.
01:38 Number two prospect, I would have to lean on you a little bit more in terms of,
01:44 do we think that he's with the major league team day one?
01:47 Do we think that he's leading off day one?
01:50 His minor league numbers are absurd.
01:52 He basically never struck out.
01:55 I guess the one concern I would have about his minor league stuff is,
02:01 is this a guy who is going to almost be kind of a better real life player,
02:06 maybe, than fantasy baseball player where he hits 310 and he drives in the runs and
02:11 he scores the runs, but he doesn't go nuclear in kind of the home runs and
02:16 the so on.
02:17 Maybe even kind of like Miami Marlins Christian Yelich in a way like that.
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