Top Prospects to Stash! Charlie Condon Coming Soon? (07/02 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

We have a new name at the top of the prospects to stash list. Find out who up next on Fantasy Baseball today, Express. (upbeat music) One man to FBT Express on Thursday, July 2nd, I am Frank Stanfield here with Scout White. And we have five prospects on the periphery. These are five names who are making some noise as of late. We have Max Anderson of the Tigers. Bo, you know, I wrote Bo Anderson, that's not true. And if not his name is not Bo Anderson, it is Bo Davidson. Keep going, Frank, just keep going. Keep this all in there. Bo Davidson, someone else at it's it now, so I don't want to give him too much work. All right, let's do it. And three, two, and one. We have a new name at the top of the prospects to stash. Find out who it is up next on Fantasy Baseball today, Express. Welcome into FBT Express on Thursday, July 2nd. I am Frank Stanfield, join by Scout White. And let's start things off with the five prospects on the periphery. We have Max Anderson of the Tigers, Bo Davidson of the Giants, Bryce Rayner of the Tigers, Andrew Fisher of the Brewers, and Henry Lallane of the Yankees. Scott, what do we have on this group? - So Max Anderson is batting 308 in the minors this year, upper levels of the minors. After hitting 296 at the upper levels of the minors, last year, this is a second basement, 24 years old. And you may have noticed the Tigers have had an opening at second base most of the season. Gleipratoras keeps going down with an oblique injuries on the IL again with it, Mr. Month earlier with it. Recently, a player of some prospect stature himself, how you Lee has been filling in, but not particularly well. And so with Anderson hitting well, Triple A, I think this opens a lane for him. Now, is he that great of a prospect? I would say not, despite having, I think, pretty clearly a good hit tool. And, you know, he's home at 11 times this year, 19 times last year, he's delivered power, but the eggs of velocity readings are pretty weak. 87.6 mile per hour average, 109.7 mile per hour max. He's also not much of an on base threat and stretched defensively even at second base. So I don't know that he really has a future as an everyday player in the majors either, but he does have an interesting skill and he does have a path. I'm explaining why he's on my five in my five on the periphery rather than my five on the verge. Max Anderson though, somebody worth mentioning right now. Let's go with Bo Davidson of the Giants who first came to light as an undrafted player who was just shredding their lower minors in 2024. And I think ever since then, a lot of evaluators have been waiting for him to expose why he went undrafted. And it looked like that may be happening early this year with the move up to AA, but his June is entirely dispelled. That idea for the month Bo Davidson hit 309 with 11 homers, seven stolen bases. He remains a burgeoning power speed threat in an organization that is pretty light on outfield talent. Bryce Rainer, former first round pick of the Tigers, spent much of his career, pro career so far injured, had surgery at the end of last year for a torn labrum in his shoulder. When he came back earlier this year, his swing was off, it was big and exaggerated and just needed to clean it up. He struck out 44% of the time. His first 31 games did Bryce Rainer, but second half of May was able to tone it down, get the strikeouts down. And then in June, he took off Bryce Rainer, slash 352, 478, 662 for the month, six homers, five steals, a strikeout rate closer to 25%, which is more palatable. I think he's gonna be in double A soon, with as good as his June was, and he's still only 20 years old. If he reaches double A at that age, I think it's still fair to call Bryce Rainer, one of the top shortstop prospects in baseball pretty clearly. Andrew Fisher is somebody who, I mean, the brewers took him in the first round this past year as the 20th overall pick. He has exploded here recently in terms of power. Another two-homer game Tuesday has brought him to 26 at the time of this recording. Three-way tie for the minor league lead with 26. Six and 11 games just since moving up to double A. So that's kind of a weed out level, and it hasn't slowed Fisher down. He's continued to crush it. He's also reached base at a 437 clip. Plenty of walks there. And he's a left-handed hitting third baseman, which I think is gonna give him plenty of runway as he moves up the minor league ladder for the brewers. Brown for Andrew Fisher is he striking out more than 33% at the time. And that's, you can get away with that and the minor's easier than you can in the majors. He's already 22, so if it comes more of an issue as he gets deeper into these levels where they throw more breaking balls, there's not gonna be much margin for error there at that age. So definitely exciting the trendfisher's on. Don't know that I'd call him a high-end prospect, yeah, but he's interesting. Finally, Henry Lelane of the Yankees. He looked like he was emerging as a prospect as a teenager in their lower levels, but then he, the shoulder issue messed him up the past couple of years, kind of fell off the map as a prospect. He's come back strong this year, just since the start of this season, average fastball velocity up two miles per hour, max up three, he's picking at 98 now as a six foot seven lefty, Henry Lelane. His most recent start, seven one hit innings with 12 strikeouts and no walks. That gives him now, I think a chance to move up. He's 22 years old, so like 22 years old at low, that's behind pace obviously, but you understand with all the injuries, and I think if he handles the next step of the latter, Henry Lelane will become a prospect you're here on a lot more about. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back, FBT Express. We are here talking prospects, and we are counting down the top five that are on the verge right now, and we will start with number five that is Zach Vien of the Rockies. - Yeah, Zach Vien continues to kill it at AAA, up to 14 homers, 14 steals, OPS has exceeded 1,000 now, the exit velocities are strong, it's walking more than ever. All of this coincides with the revelation this spring about him having some substance abuse issues prior and his minor league career. So he showed up in a better place, physically, mentally, and he's killing it. And I think because he's already on the Rockies 40 man roster, he may be the first choice to come up if and when they have an outfield opening, unclear when that's gonna be, they're pretty full there already, and have Brent and Doyle coming back for mid-July soon. But even so, Zach Vien is making his case. - Number four on this list is Luis Lara of the Brewers. It feels like we probably need an injury before he gets called up. I feel like they would have called them up already by now. - Yeah, there was a bit of a slump there earlier in June. When we last talked about him, he seemed to snap out of it with a five hit game. And since then, seven for 21. So he seems to be on the right track again, and the Brewers just need to figure out what it's gonna happen. They signed him to a seven year deal early in June. So they're paying him a major league salary to Doyle and the Miners. And obviously there are no service time issues anymore because he's already locked up to a long-term deal. He would immediately become the Brewers best defense of outfielder. I think it's just, Garrett Mitchell has hung in there so far. I don't know that he'll continue to. He doesn't have the best health track record to begin with. But for now, their content with him, any slippage though, Luis Laura's coming up. Number three on this list is someone we've heard a lot about all season that is Cade Anderson of the Mariners. When might this happen, Scott? - I think it's going to happen is the thing. It doesn't appear imminent. They're already struggling to make use of their rotation surplus as it is coming up with these hair-brained piggyback schemes that they're having trouble following through on. So there's no room for Anderson right now clearly, but he will be up this summer unless he himself gets hurt. And I think if you hesitate to add him, he's already 50% rostered in CBS leagues. If you hesitate to add him, you're going to miss out on what could be the most impactful call up this year. So that's why I'm including him here even though there's no path at the moment. - All right, Joshua Baez, move on over. [BLANK_AUDIO] It's bumped up to number two here. And look, he's one of the best power prospects at all baseball right now, but we are waiting for a spot to open up here for the Cardinals as well. - Yeah, and he's slipped a bit since that big power surge. Of course, the four-homer game standing out most of all. Past seven games at the time of this recording, one for 20 with seven strikeouts. And that strikeout rate for the season is still over 30%. Remember a big reason by as surged up the prospect rank he's last year has greatly improved contact skills. That's, he's backslid there. And Hein Bloom, the Cardinals president of baseball operations recently, comments on this, he said, big league pitchers are the best in the world at exploiting weaknesses. There's always an adjustment period regardless, but it's on us to help our players build the right foundation for success at the highest level. He's got the ceiling of an impact player and not just a one-dimensional guy and we wanna make sure he's prepared to do that. So I don't know if their convince he's ready. Nathan Church just hit a big home run Tuesday and maybe they're content with him in center for now, but bias is close and definitely has a ton of power. - The number one prospect on the verge right now, he has taken over the top spot. That is Charlie Condon of the Rockies. Scott, what is he up to lately? - So as I mentioned with Zach Veein, there's not an opening for him and it's possible Veein will be up before Condon again. The Condon, I'm sorry, he'll be up before Charlie Condon because he's already on the 40 man roster in Condon isn't. But Condon is just, it's so insanely hot right now that I feel like he has to occupy the top spot on this list just in case something happens. At some point they're gonna sell off Jake McCarthy, you'd think maybe even Mickey Moniac Condon is capable of playing the outfield just as he is first base. OPS is closing in on a thousand now since we last talked, batting average up 16 points and other four homers. He is just on fire. And if a couple injuries hit this week, you're gonna feel pretty stupid for not picking up Condon ahead of time. - All right, for more extensive fan history baseball coverage, listen to our full lane podcast, fan history baseball today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to Fan history baseball tonight's press and we'll be back again later this week. - Bye bye. (upbeat music)