Dominic Canzone, 2026 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper

I went back and searched my messages for any mention of the word “sleeper” until the All-Star Break. So when I said, “(player name) would be a 2026 fantasy baseball sleeper,” I wrote that with a slash. By the time I was done, if you got the Dominic Song cuts into a tree, it would have been like Tom Hanks in Cast Away if a coconut fell from a tree, concussed him on the first day and killed him. Would also have made for a much shorter film. I saw a comment to myself: “I need to write a 2026 fantasy baseball sleeper for Dominic Canzone.” Did I see something like, “How long until I can write a 2026 fantasy baseball sleeper for Dominic Canzone?” No. Do I have a, “Have I written a Dominic Canzone 2026 fantasy baseball sleeper yet?” No! By the time I was done searching for three months of daily roundups, it felt like Dominic Canzone wasn’t a 2026 fantasy baseball sleeper because of how many times I mentioned him. Normally I have giant blinkers attached to my sleepers, but I was thinking about this, and I gave you a Kyle Stowers sleeper to get the fantasy baseball sleepers going, and he was super obvious, so I thought I’d dial back the obviousness for the last hitter sleeper. (Pitcher sleepers start on Monday, unless there’s a major free agent signing.) “Dominic Canzone might not even get drafted in a 12-team mixed league, and that’s OK,” he says to an empty room, because everyone is gone after seeing the title “Dominic Canzone, 2026 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper.” Eff that, brothers, four sisters and one sister! I’m emphasizing this em-effer even though he might not be the guy to go from the top 275 to the first round. Not every sleeper is built the same. Sometimes you need a fifth outfielder to become a third outfielder. So, what can we expect from Dominic Canzone for 2026 fantasy baseball and what makes him a sleeper?

PSYCHE! All of my 2026 fantasy baseball rankings are on the Patreon. Don’t wait for the rankings to appear next month. Anyway II, the Dominic Canzone sleeper:

Dominic Canzone is already 28. I’m not sure how much of the 2020 season is to blame, but can we blame the DBags for being stupid in some areas? Canzone can hit and was in the DBags’ minor league system for years. Actually for four years. In Triple-A he went 22/15/.299 with 19 K% in 2022! Um, that’s stupid. Why waste a man like that? Because you had Jake McCarthy? Gosh. I don’t even know if that’s sarcastic. Last year in Triple-A and majors combined he went 24/6 and hit .300 in the majors with a 22 K%. Do you think he was ready? In 82 games last year in the majors he had 243 ABs and here are the Statcast sliders:

Dominic Canzone’s maximum EV was 185.9 MPH. That’s the top twenty of the competition. Obviously that’s not all, but why is it important? The reasoning is that if a Dominic can hit a ball at 115.9 MPH, Dominic can hit the ball past someone. You can’t fake that. These are the guys in front of him:

Broken record making excuses because Oneil Cruz has always been on top of these things, but his problem is he can’t make consistent contact. Everyone should know that if Oneil Cruz made contact like Canzone’s 22,000%, he would be a superstar. If you just drafted this top 19 plus Dominic Canzone, I honestly don’t think you can go wrong. How do you get Witt, Shohei and Judge on the same team? Well, I think you might be cheating.

I also want to discuss Dominic Canzone’s Statcast and Chase Rate%. He has a chase rate of almost 40%. Also in that elite company of hunters: beer, lime wedges – Sorry, wrong ChatGPT prompt. Also hunting so much? JRod, Altuve, Naylor, Goodman, Jeremy Pena, Chourio – Do you get my point? It doesn’t matter. It shows that a man is aggressive. What I find fascinating is that Canzone is swinging at balls out of the zone, making contact, and still showing a .302 xBA. Now xBA is flawed, but it says something. It says this man hits the ball hard. So Canzone can-zone or can-not-zone, it doesn’t matter.

After all, he is left-handed. Boo, platoon, right? Well, Dominic Canzone has hit lefties too. In 43 games and 58 AB’s he hit .276 vs. left-handers. He could be a bit of a platoon against the lefties, as the Mariners went out and got Refsnyder. I don’t want him to be platooned, but unfortunately I don’t make these decisions. After nearly six years of hitting for power, average and stealing bags in the minors, it’s time for Canzone to show he can do it all. For 2026 fantasy baseball, I’m giving Dominic Canzone projections of 56/20/61/.267/8 in 406 ABs with a chance for more from one of the most under-the-radar outfielders.