Speaking of strong finishes, I hope you have one for your 2025 Fantasy Baseball season. And if you are not, I hope the real-life team where you have one for their 2025 MLB season. There is nothing like a real one or pretend to be a pennant race that comes to the last weekend, or the last day, and then finally the last inning, pitch or bat of what can look like an unbearably long 162 game season. Let’s all enjoy the last weekend of the regular seasonal baseball before we close the books at 2025, regardless of what we still rooted for, while we also remember that it is never too early to think of 2026. In that area we will look at what (relatively) under the radarhitters who have had an impressive and/or productive end of the season. I will use statistics and property rates of one of our own Fantrax RCL competitions, which, as you probably already know, use a 5 × 5 roto, daily change format. For our purposes I will remove the six most valuable batters in this format – go back a full six weeks of games so that we have more than a small sampling size – which are owned by less than 65% of the Fantrax competitions. (With all those daily change competitions and schedule that choren there, the levels of ownership are usually much higher than on other websites, so I actually had to scroll a whole way to find boys who come in under this threshold). Let’s see who we find here, and then we have the entire offsean to think about whether these strong finishes can give us some of these players to bump into our 2026 trekking signs.
Mickey Moniak. Ah, Mickey Moniak. Just like an old friend you see every so often, enjoy hanging around until you are suddenly not, because you realize that you are fed up with him, don’t see for a long time, hear how much pleasure your other friends are hanging around with him and decides it is time to catch up again. I feel that he will be one of the more polarizing players on his way to 2026, with many who have been teased by him time and time again, and others realized with retroactive effect how help he gave them in 2025 when they pulled him off the distance wire and he went on a tear or two in their active line -ups. Is this smoke and mirrors again and he is Michael Teglia next year? Or is Michael Teglia Michael Teglia next year? Or do we all just have to stop drawing up Rockies -stroke people while we dream about their home park and realize that it is probably not going to train? I will bite for the right price next year, but I now realize how important it is for me to think about what that price is now, so that I am not influenced by the sound or the lack. Depending on what I decide and how the market settles on him, I saw myself regularly drafting him or completely fading him.
Daylen. My Spidey Sense tells me that there will be a lot of love for lile from our gang in Razzball on the way to next season, so I already wonder if the rest of the fantasy world will be so high for him if I suspect that many of us will be. I think the only reason that his property is low enough to make this column now, the fact is that he crashed against the outfield wall last weekend and probably fell by many owners, thinking that he was ready for the year. It turns out that he was not, and in general he has been a real fantasy assets of five categories since he debuted on 23 May. In his 88 games, he hits .296 with a .343 OBP, with 7 homers and 8 steals. He is also only 22. Although it is certainly possible that he will be exposed next year and completely failed, I probably want a few shares on the way to 2026, and a few more if I consider him undervalued as a design season.
Jared Triolo. Well, this was a surprise. I now realize that Triolo is firmly nestled as Pirates’ third Honkman since they were Ke’bryan Hayes overboard and it turns out that he plays very, very well. He is certainly a bit of light on the power, but he still checks in as a threat to 5 categories during the six -week period we are looking at: .306 on average, 21 points scored, 4 gay, 11 RBI and 7 steals. I am still intrigued enough by fellow Pirates-Infielder Spencer Horwitz to have it for next year on my deep-like competition radar, in front and adversity, and I can add Triolo to that mini list. In competitions with a threshold of 20 games, he qualifies in the beginning, short and third on the way to next season, which is nothing.
Austin Hays. Another surprise, because I really did not know that Hays had played so much in the last six weeks, because it seems like I was trying to pick him up this season in a mixed competition, he was immediately injured. I think here we can use that ‘5-category’ label here again, although Hays had 121 with bats EN .298 during those six weeks with 16 with 16 scored points, 5 gayers, 20 RBI and 3 Steals. He missed four games in a row while I type this and appeared in only 102 in the season. Although he has had a few solid pieces of production this year and seems to bloom in Cincinnati when he is healthy, I cannot say that the strong finish of the 30 -year -old De Naald moves a lot when we look to the future. That said, he is the embodiment of a man who is a complete side issue in standard mixed competitions, but can make my concept queue in certain sizes at certain times. There is absolute value here for the right price in a 50-round concept and hold, or only NL-Type League.
Harrison Bader. We can say much about the 31-year-old bader we just said about Hays, especially his likely status as a player that your standard fantasy-line-up will not sniff, but can secretly be useful in some competitions. There will never be anything exciting to set him up, but his production in the late season since the landing in Philadelphia has at least put him on the rankings of the Outfield concept for deeper competitions when we go in 2026. He is the first player on this list who has not made a major contribution in all five categories, because Bader has only one steal over that time. Much of his value in the late season comes from his flashy .353 average in the last six weeks, although he also scored 24 points, 4 gay people and 13 RBI. Again, he is certainly not a player that I will actively focus on any size next year. But this is a good memory that having a deep stable of veterans such as this one on a deep competition selection can be a very useful thing, because you never know who comes through if you need it the most during the dog days of the summer.
Jeremiah Jackson. We end the week and the season with a player who is a real fantasy assets at the end of this year. He had a somewhat surprising breakout second half for the Orioles, with 5 gays and 20 RBI alone in the last six weeks. There is no speed here at all, because he has no stolen basis in his 45 games/162 in bats, and it is also worth mentioning that he will only qualify in most competitions in most competitions. My gut instinct is that Jackson tends to be overvalued next year (at least for where I would like to set him up) if it seems as if he will play a regular role in the Os, but he is a difficult player to analyze. You can read about a non-durable hard hit rate with him, although a non-over-Grheat running speed in the minors is the even greater problem for me. On the other hand, many player have overcome a number of potentially worrying analyzes and found enough major League success to translate to help in the Deep League Fantasy World. I feel that Jackson is a player who could appear on both sleepy and bus lists next year, and he is a player whose value can change considerably with a good or bad spring.
Fortunately last weekend of the regular season for everyone! Thanks to everyone who reads, and especially everyone who has checked in and responded this season!
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