First off, we’re taking me out of the equation…[removes earth skin, ghost-like figure sits in spinning office chair, saying, “Wheee…” Sees another ghost, “Oh, wow, you got a bedsheet? The eye-holes are so perfectly cut! Damn, and a mouth hole? That’s amazing. Hey, where’d you get that bedsheet? Is there like a ghost bedsheet check-in desk where you can get your own bedsheet? You’re a dead Klansman? Oh, I see,” awkwardly moves spinning chair away from dead Klansman] …So, taking me out of the equation, however not taking off earth pores and skin, has me taking a look at Steamer’s projections. Their Rafael Devers projections are 93/31/92/.270/4 in 560 ABs. FanGraphs’ Depth Charts projections have him at 97/32/100/.269/4 in 598 ABs. Stepping myself again in, I’ve him projected for 95/27/89/.277/5 in 542 ABs. His stats final 12 months have been 87/28/83/.272/3 in 525 ABs. Wait it will get much more boring! His 2nd half stats have been 25/5/22/.244/1 in 209 ABs. Yo, severe query, is Rafael Devers now Ty France? I see London, I see Ty France, I see Rafael Devers and he seems to be like Ty France. Name him Rafael Depardieu. Put him on a bicycle drunk sporting a beret with a quiver of baguettes, and make stinky-stinky-poo-poo face as he smells his personal armpits to see if it’s him who smells. It’s. Rafael LePew that [waving smell away] 2nd half of the season. Positive, there’s a shoulder damage that was hampering him, so…[finger to earbud]…I’m being instructed we don’t know if his shoulder is sweet now. “Can Rafael Devers solely face Gerrit Cole?” Sorry, I’m not asking you, I’m asking who that is in my earbud. Whats up! Earbud! So, what can we count on from Rafael Devers for 2025 fantasy baseball and what makes him overrated?
One thing occurs with fantasy baseballers (<–my mother’s time period!) the place they repeatedly rank and draft a selected participant on the identical spot (a lifetime ADP? Somebody ought to provide you with that idea.) and because the participant is at all times drafted and ranked there, they’re drafted there even after they shouldn’t be. Final 12 months on the Participant Rater, Rafael Devers was the sixth greatest third baseman, and 53rd total. He’s at the moment being drafted and ranked round thirtieth total, as he at all times is. I’d contend (for the Gentle-Gentle-Gentle Heavyweight Title) that Devers shouldn’t even be drafted round 53rd total, as he ended final 12 months, due to how dangerous his 2nd half was, however that will not less than make extra sense. The 2nd spherical the place he’s being drafted? Cease being daft together with your draft. Symmetry factors!
In his 64 ABs in September, Rafael Devers’s Arduous Contact was 22.7%. Can be concerning the 4th worst in baseball if over the course of the 12 months, and identical as Luis Arraez. Have a look at his exit velocities by month:
Positive, certain, I do know! Buh-buh-buh-buh-but his shoulder was bothering him so he’s positive now. Once more: How are you aware that to be the case? Pay attention, if he have been the kind to have a 30/20/.300 profile usually and he might offset a few of the shoulder-is-still-hurting threat, then I’d be huge whooping right here. I’d be Mr. Large Whoop huge whooping all the way in which to the financial institution if he might have 20 steals, as nicely. But when he does have a 27/.270 season with no pace, as a result of he has no actual pace, then what are you drafting as your 2nd rounder? Nolan Arenado? Isaac Paredes? A poor man’s Burger? Is Devers an em-effing White Citadel square-burger? ACKSUALLY, I like White Citadel, and I don’t like Rafael Devers.
