Assessing Underrated MLB Players at Third Base Position

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00:00So at the third base position, to me, you know, some people

00:03laugh at me when I say he's the most underrated player in

00:05baseball, because they're like, nah, he gets enough credit.

00:08I still don't think so.

00:09I mean, Jose Ramirez, to me, is as boring a fantasy pick as it

00:15gets and as simple a pick to click as it gets.

00:18You know exactly what you're getting at the end of the

00:20season.

00:21Then it gets a little dicey here at third base.

00:23Honestly, we got Suarez, Matt Chapman on San Francisco, Jazz,

00:28who I believe is moving off third, right, back to second,

00:31if I'm not mistaken, this year.

00:33Manny Machado, allegedly, right.

00:36Devers, very solid pick there.

00:37Guerrero, does he qualify?

00:39Sam, you'll have to check that.

00:41For Toronto at third, Ryan McMahon.

00:44Drop off here to Jake Berger, Willie Castro.

00:47I think, you know, the deeper names are who I really want to

00:50talk about here, but let's start off here, George.

00:51If you don't get Jose Ramirez, what do you do?

00:53That's a good place to start.

00:57Now, I actually think you're right, by the way, but Jose

00:58Ramirez, he doesn't get as much love as he should here.

01:01I mean, he's just a fantastic player.

01:03It was a thing that was his first round pick, right?

01:05First round pick, and once again, he's in a position where

01:08it's not that deep here.

01:09You can, you can sort of get it and forget about it there.

01:12Ramirez, I mean, Devers, I would have number two, Manny Machado.

01:16Bregman depends on what you're going to do.

01:17I think he's going to do in Boston.

01:18He's certainly there.

01:19Reilly, you brought up during the break, got hurt a lot of

01:21last year, was sort of forgetting about him.

01:23And then after that, that's my cutoff line, right?

01:25I want any of those five guys to be thrilled with.

01:27After that, Aronado, you know, Alex Baum, you know, I know

01:33you're big on Cabernet, which a lot of us are.

01:35Could be a future star here.

01:37Chapman, can he do it again?

01:39Max Muncy, going to hit you a lot of home runs, maybe not

01:41much else there.

01:42He's a guy I kind of like to get late in that Dodger lineup.

01:46You know, so Vientos, is he going to be the brand?

01:48He sort of, he broke out last year, but is he going to be

01:50that, that guy now, where he's going to have 30 plus home

01:53runs in that Mets lineup as well, and the Mets should

01:54score a ton of runs this season.

01:57So third base is solid.

02:00I think it's solid.

02:00I can find 10 guys here.

02:01I don't mind.

02:02If you're playing in a 10-team league, I'm okay.

02:0412, 15-team league, it's a little bit more dicey, just

02:06like it does at most positions.

02:08Yeah, let's dive a little deeper here to a couple of

02:11players. First, let's do Jazz, who went from Miami to New

02:15York, took on a new position because Torres refused to

02:17play anywhere else.

02:18I believe that's what happened.

02:20I think he played a capable third base.

02:22And so in fantasy, he will qualify there.

02:24But George, he's also going in most leagues I saw in the

02:27third, fourth round of fantasy drafts, which is the highest

02:30he's ever gone.

02:31It's always been health has been the question for Jazz.

02:34That was not the question for him last year.

02:36It was just moving around all positions.

02:38And the other player I wanted to mention, who's not on

02:41this list, who you just mentioned, is Nolan Arenado.

02:44I mean, we are getting close to the time where Arenado

02:46is going to have to report to Jupiter.

02:48He's not there as of yet.

02:51He's the kind of player, George, too, to me that I think

02:54is going to have to take a look in the mirror, not as far

02:56as his talent is concerned, but I think in order for him

02:58to go somewhere else, George, he's got to come off this

03:01like short list that he has.

03:05My thought with him, somebody asked me the other day about

03:07him, George, like where did you go?

03:09Whatever, you know, he's the kind of guy I think reports

03:11to camp, spends the entire time with St. Louis, and then

03:15the night before the season ends up somewhere else.

03:18They want to move him.

03:19We know that, right?

03:21They've talked to a number of teams.

03:22Boston was an option at one point.

03:24The Yankees looked like they were all that interested

03:26in taking him on.

03:27Not unless St. Louis wants to take on all that Strowman

03:29contract. The Cubs could be the open-up contacts

03:34there again, but I don't think so either.

03:36Train him in the division, too?

03:37That'd be kind of wicked, right?

03:38Something we generally don't see.

03:40So it's going to be an interesting situation.

03:42Maybe someone gets hurt at third base during spring

03:44training and that'll help them out there.

03:47So it's a problem here.

03:50I think Jazz, by the way, people like the fact, well,

03:52he's all year at Yankee Stadium, right?

03:54That's 81 home games in the short porch there that

03:56he should hit that.

03:57You said he, I guess I'm going to go a little bit

03:59of a rant here now.

04:00Good.

04:02I don't understand the Yankees why they say, oh, he's

04:04going to play half his games at third, half his games

04:05at second. If you watched the Yankees last year, he

04:08wasn't very good at third.

04:09He wasn't, he may not have been terrible, but he wasn't

04:11very good at third.

04:12All right.

04:12He forgot to tag somebody at one place.

04:14In fact, he could tag, it was weird.

04:15It wasn't very good.

04:16All right, he was part of that inning in, by the way,

04:18against the fifth inning against the Dodgers here, where

04:20he didn't make a play at third base.

04:21It wasn't an easy play, but one you would have liked

04:23to have seen made.

04:25Bad throw from Volpe as well.

04:26So he, what I'm trying to say is the Yankees who had

04:29a massive problem with defense last year, they all were

04:31terrible. Torres, Chisholm, you know, it just was

04:34terrible. Put him at second.

04:36That's where he should be.

04:37He's a second baseman.

04:38You put him at second.

04:39All right, you let him hit.

04:40Yeah, that's what the Yankees should do here.

04:41It's what they don't want to do for whatever reason.

04:43Dominguez should be your center fielder.

04:45Why do you want these young hitters to be thinking

04:46about their defense when you put him at a position here?

04:48It doesn't make any sense to me when you have other

04:50guys who can play the other position here.

04:52Yankees have no third baseman, no matter what they do

04:54here. I think, bottom line is this.

04:56I think Jazz is going to be fine.

04:58He stays healthy.

04:59Yeah, I think he might hit 30, 30 plus.

05:00He's going to steal some bases here.

05:02I think he's going to bat first in the Yankee lineup.

05:04I think that could help as well because guess who he's

05:06hitting in front of?

05:07Mr. Judge.

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