Ivan Herrera's Surprising Start with the Cardinals: A Deep Dive

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00:00That's Yvonne Herrera, the catcher on the St. Louis Cardinals.

00:05Catcher generally gray, not a position if we have you on for the next 25 weeks

00:10that we'll talk about maybe even ever again after this week.

00:13But is anything to this legitimate?

00:17Is this just a very hot, random start?

00:20And Herrera only has five home runs the rest of the season.

00:23This dude hit three in one game, followed it up with another home run again.

00:27In draft season, didn't really hear his name a lot as like a top five catcher at all.

00:32Is he like what's going on here?

00:36Yeah, you know, it's actually what's kind of funny with Herrera is also on the Cardinals.

00:42Wilson Contreras was being drafted in the top three for catchers

00:47because he was going to play every day at first base.

00:50So that was really where everyone's money was going in auctions.

00:54And everyone was thinking Contreras was going to be the guy.

01:00And then you have Ivan Herrera come out of nowhere and really just light the world on fire.

01:05Right now on the Ras Ball seven-day play rater, he's in the top five for all players.

01:12And the top five is like the Aaron Judge, Kyle Tucker, Seiya Suzuki,

01:21all the really big names that have started off hot.

01:25And then it's like Ivan Herrera.

01:29But to your question, can this continue?

01:32I don't think so.

01:34I'd be really shocked because right now, I mean, his batting average is 400.

01:40That's ridiculous.

01:41I mean, he's not Ted Williams.

01:44You know, the power, while great, it was three homers in one game.

01:49So when you have only, you know, six or seven games total,

01:55and you have one game with three homers,

01:58it's going to outweigh, you know, the sample size so largely that it's like,

02:02okay, well, yeah, I mean, maybe he hits like three homers a month,

02:09which would still be great.

02:10Don't get me wrong.

02:11For a catcher, 18 homers is solid.

02:15But 18 homers over the course of the season,

02:19when you get down to it is like, it's okay.

02:22What is that?

02:23Carlos Santana, the baseball player, not the singer.

02:28Yeah, you know, it's like, it's fine.

02:30It's okay.

02:31But it's nothing really to write home about.

02:33So if anyone is biting in your league, like, you know, and you can sell high,

02:39I would absolutely sell high.