Loopy how Alex Bregman reached free company and Kyle Tucker approached it and the Astros determined to enter full punt/rebuild mode. Fairly pathetic of a dynasty dismantling when all of the Astros wanted to do was hit up the Lowe’s and get a louder trash can. Don’t boo me! Boo them! Wanna hear one thing much more pathetic? Going the opposite manner is Hayden Wesneski, Isaac Paredes and Cam Smith. Wait, that’s not even the pathetic half but! I heard Isaac Paredes was going to Houston and I considered how that’s not dangerous for fantasy, as a result of the Crawford Packing containers are so good for his swing and Minute Maid, simply on the whole. So, I began to craft a joke about how Isaac Paredes was gonna eat in Minute Maid, uh, drink? Eat oranges? Ya know what I imply, so I began to analysis Minute Maid and that’s after I discovered the Astros are rebranding! Minute Maid is changing into Daikin Park, and I consider that was after I had my first boomer-screaming-at-kids-on-the-lawn second. What the eff is a Daikin Park? Are you attempting to say daikon? Just like the effin’ radish? Did you go from the Juice Field to the Radish Field? What are we doing right here?! I suppose Isaac Paredes is gonna eat in his new dwelling. Eat freakin’ radishes! Any hoo! Kyle Tucker is superb wherever he goes. If he didn’t return on the finish of final yr, I would’ve been decrease on Tucker, however not solely did he return, he hit nicely. He clocks 30/30 yearly and he’s solely 28, so I don’t see a motive to not count on the identical. Final yr, really seems to be like he was on tempo–“Did you name me?” Hey, Mr. Prorater. “What’s up, Coolio my most important Foolio?” Nothing. “You wanna know what Tucker would’ve achieved final yr if not for the flukey harm?” Certain, okay, sure. “40/30/.290.” That does sound pretty, and I’d take it or: 2025 Projections: 106/36/97/.296/23 in 569 ABs. Anyway, right here’s what else I noticed within the offseason for 2025 fantasy baseball:
Isaac Paredes – Radishes! Dubya tee eff! So, Parades in Houston is a constructive. It recovers his worth from Tampa completely. Paredes about to be a 45-homer hitter in Houston together with his batted ball profile that is sort of a skeet shooter. Ya know, pull, pull, pull. Wrigley was twenty third for righties final yr for homers and twenty ninth for wOBA. Houston was eighth for homers and eighth general for righties. Eat them radishes! 2025 Projections: 81/31/77/.253/2 in 532 ABs
Matt Shaw – Already gave you my Matt Shaw fantasy, however, with Paredes out of there, I upped Shaw’s projections and taking part in time in my rankings, that are already on the Patreon.
Hayden Wesneski – Gained’t make the Astros’ rotation except they commerce away some arms. If Wesneski makes the Astros’ rotation, he may grow to be their most tough reclamation undertaking of all-time. He gave up a ton of homers in Wrigley, he would get killed in Radish Field.
Carson Kelly – Cubs signed him as a sign to all of the individuals who had been like, “Rattling, the Tucker commerce exhibits the Cubs are actually a severe baseball group.” Not so quick, suckers!
Devin Williams – Yankees acquired him, and my Malcolm Gladwell-Blink ideas on it was that is one of the best commerce the Yankees have achieved in a decade. If they’d’ve retained Juan Soto, I would suppose that deal was price Michael King, however I can now not say that. Let me make clear, I really like top-notch closers from an actual baseball standpoint. No group is profitable something with out a lights-out man pitching the ninth. Guys can step up and be The Man who don’t have the observe document, or simply get scorching in October, just like the Dodgers with Treinen this previous postseason. However somebody must be locking down the ultimate three outs, and nobody is healthier than Devin Williams. For fantasy? Yeah, SAGNOF and eff that. He seems to be like prime Mo on paper, although. My God, his stats are ridonk.
14.2 Okay/9, 1.93 ERA — 2022
13.4 Okay/9, 1.53 ERA — 2023
15.8 Okay/9, 1.25 ERA — 2024
And who can overlook 2021 the place he ended the yr by punching the wall! Or missed final yr’s 1st half with again surgical procedure. Okay, so he has some pink flags, however who doesn’t? Edwin Diaz ends each recreation with a limp-wristed handshake as a result of he’s scared if he celebrates an excessive amount of he’ll re-injure himself. Once more, I’m not drafting Devin Williams, simply laying out to you the nice and dangerous. The great outweighs the dangerous by quite a bit. His pitching is really must-see TV, assuming he hasn’t punched the TV already. 2025 Projections: 3-0/1.66/0.95/89, 41 saves in 60 IP
Nestor Cortes – Traded to the Brewers. This had some to do with why I favored the deal a lot for the Yankees. Brewers suck as a result of, not like the White Sox or Marlins or Angels, they may really be good they usually hold buying and selling away their finest items. Additionally they bought Caleb Durbin who profiles as Joey Ortiz, who the Brewers simply traded away Corbin Burnes to get. Only a actually irritating group. Any hoo! One way or the other, the Brewers will flip Nestor Cortes into an ace with a 11 Okay/9. Checked out his stats from final yr, and I remembered Nestor being a lot worse, however I used to be solely recalling his postseason with the elbow harm, which, ya know, negates the good-ish season he had from April by means of August. I’m out, however hopefully the Brewers know greater than me. I might’ve most well-liked Aaron Ashby of their rotation. 2025 Projections: 8-8/4.18/1.28/133 in 127 IP
Caleb Durbin – Traded to the Yankees. Oh, they usually have Oliver Dunn, Joey Ortiz, Tyler Black, Brice Turang, Sal Frelick–Freddy Peralta is totally going to be traded this July for Luisangel Acuña. There is no such thing as a query about it. So, Durbin is 5′ 6″ and appears as much as Altuve, actually. He has 1,216 minor league plate appearances, which is absurd. Why do the Yankees even draft gamers? Simply ask different groups what they need them to develop. Durbin prolly would’ve been higher than Gleyber final yr, however Yanks refuse to advertise anybody. He went 10/29/.287 with a 9.9 Okay% in 310 Triple-A at-bats. My guess is he’ll fall right into a platoon with one in every of their seventeen different center infidels. 2025 Projections: 41/8/40/.271/15 in 302 ABs