Top 5 Trade Targets: Week 2 Buy Low, Sell High

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want to talk about some trade targets. I've got five for you here, and first up is a trade four. It's San Diego Padres starting pitcher Blake Snell. Now Blake Snell went four and one third. Not great, especially for the quality starts crew. He also gave up three earned runs, really not good in under five. He also took him ninety three pitches, which is less than optimal, but he had nine strikeouts with twenty whiffs on swings in that game.

The change up, which we all hate for him to throw, was about ten percent usage, but it had an eighty six percent whiff rate, which is crazy. His curve also an eighty percent whiff rate. Both had fifty plus csw percentages, which is very very good. He was a little too heavy on the fastball. It was cold, kind of rainy, and I think that's going to obviously have effects across the board. But Blake Snell has big stuff and he shows it. Twenty whiffs on swings early on, it's whatever

point on. That is a phenomenal number. And he did it in four and one third. So if he can get together, obviously we can also get out of the cold weather, good things are gonna come. Blake Snell is a guy that is not cheap necessarily, but that going under five is really going to trigger people, and he

might be more acquireable than you think. I think it's a good time to jump on it because the big strikeouts are there, and I still think he has the opportunity to be the number one pitcher out of this rotation that's including you, Darvish. So go and poke around and see if you can get yourself some cheap blakes. Now know what I'm saying, you can do that. Coming in at number four is New York Mets starting pitcher code I sanga. Now, I'm not gonna mask the good

results when I say trade away. He had eight strikeouts, which was good. He had his first win, which is great, and he only gave up one and run. My concern is what happens when the league catches up to Senka. His fastball command was pretty spotty early on. He caught it a little bit later. That can, of course be fixed, but it's gonna be It's gonna be a table center for him, especially with these other pitches, especially the ghost fork, because the ghost fork did everything. Eight of his nine

total whiffs came off the ghost fork. So here's the number for you. Fifty eight of his eighty eight non ghost fork or fork pitches, if you will, he douced only one swing and miss. That's not good. The concern is when the league catches up to the ghost fork and stops offering it up at it as much. What's gonna happen? How is he going to adjust? And with body fastball command, it makes me a little bit more concerned. Though it is a big, big fastball, it might be

at a big level of adjustment overall. But it's worth gauging the temperature in your league after an eight strikeout performance on a very very hot name pitcher, and some might not look as deep after that eight strike up performance, and you might be able to take advantage if you're like me and you're a little bit concerned what the numbers are going to look like when the league adjusts. And here's one thing I can promise you, the league

always adjusts. Coming in at number three, we're going back to a trade four. We're going to Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies third baseman, maybe sometimes even first baseman, Alec Bohm. Bom has been hitting the ball hard while finding good early results,

which you love to see. Through Monday, as we're recording this, Bom had a sixty six percent hard hit rate with a four to sixty seven batting average, also had a homer, and on Monday had a three hit game, which you love to see he had a four ninety two WHOBA, which is holding up the batting average. Even though things are early, things are trending in the right direction for a big year, especially that you're seeing that ball get

hit hard. Fun fact too, going into Monday, Alec Bohm had one hundred percent hard hit rate and he had an average exit velocity of ninety nine. That's absurd. That came way down obviously when he started topping a few more balls, but even when he wasn't hitting the ball hard on Monday, he had three hits out of it.

That's got to make you feel pretty good. His comfortability is also showing, as he has a seventeen percent first swing first strike you first pitch swing percentage, where usually he sits in like the thirties, and he's done that throughout his career. So he's getting a little bit more patient, getting deeper into accounts as he becomes more comfortable. Alec Bahum has the upside of a top one hundred player right now, but I think he can still easily be

had outside the top one fifty. Have not caught up, but I think you should and you should poke around, and I think you can get him for pretty cheap. Go try to get yourself some malec bom. Why not. It's not gonna hurt you and it's not going to cost too much. Coming in at number two is San Diego Padres shortstop Xander Bogart's Xander someone actually kind of liked in the preseason that offense is so powerful, as you know, and we don't even have Fernando Tatis Junior

back yet. There's also been good early on as well. Two early homers while he's hitting over four hundred. Xander's XBA and x LUG are both about one hundred points lower than his current average. But again, you know, like we acknowledge, those batting average numbers are really huge. His hard hit percentage, though, is the lowest it's been over the last three years. Xander has only hit more than twenty five homers once in his career. He's also showing

no signs of running. Take all those things together, low hard hit percentage and the fact of what the trajectory of what he's always been in the homers and maybe the stolen based department, especially with all the stolen based numbers up, it doesn't give me crazy optimism that he's going to break the mold be a top five catcher.

So that's why I want to check in with the league and see if someone's willing to pay kind of a premium shortstop price on him, because shortstop hasn't been as fluid as everybody thought it was in draft season. It's one of the best offenses out there, so you should check in and maybe you can bolster your lineup with another position, or maybe you can snag a two for Masataka Yoshida and maybe a relief pitcher. I think

that's more than fair. If you can pull it for Xander Bogart's I would give it a shot and go and check in right now and coming in at number one. My favorite trade target is Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Pablo Lopez. A lot can be made about small sample sizes. My friends, we've got to be careful for the good or the bad, whichever direction they end up leaning. But we've also got it at some point end up taking our shots with these players, and Pablo is the one I want to

do that with. Early in his first start, he was able to strike out eight in five and one thirds. What was the most impressive thing about that was the fastball. Velo had an increase of around a mile and a half, so ninety three and a half last year over ninety five in this start. The other added edition was his sweeper. He's throwing a new pitch. This sweeper accounted for twenty two percent of the pitches he threw and it had a seventy two percent with rate, which is really really great.

Now the book is going to get out, the league is going to catch up, they're going to understand the shape, they're going to know what this is all about. But he had the confidence. The results were there, and what we really really wanted were the changes. Those were there as well. Pablo was a really late pitcher added to most rotations. So I don't think the cost is going to be something where people are holding on. It's not like Redebt Meers, who wasn't the best in his first start,

but you know, Redebt Meers had all the buzz. Jeffrey Springs had all the buzz. Papa Lopez did not have all of the buzz. In fact, there's a lot of people that are just not in on the Twins in general. So I think he can come at even fair market value, and I think that's still a discount. I think there's

a lot of upsides still. I'm going to go poke around, try to get Pablo Lopez, whether he's an additional added piece or I can just get him on the cheat maybe moving some other depth, because I think what he's showing is the potential to get back into that Pablo Lopez we remember in the past, which could be a top twenty five sp So go and poke around, my friends. It ain't gonna hurt you. And there you have it.

Five trade targets for you to trade four or trade away, whatever you want to do or whatever situation that you're in. Who do you think we should be looking at trading? I know you guys have got names, so let's hear them below. Comment in the comments section. You'll even have a chance to win a premium account with Fantasy Pros. But make sure you're subscribed so you can get all these videos. You can get the trade videos as well as Joe Pisapias Waiver Wire ads video, which is going

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