Outfield is a funny position this year. It’s deep if, and this ‘if’ is the size of the entire galaxy plus other galaxies you don’t know about, let’s call a galaxy you don’t know about the Nilky Way. It’s not the Milky Way galaxy, it’s another galaxy called the Nilky Way, where planet Nearth is located. On planet Nearth, everything is exactly the same as Earth, but there is an N in front of every word, unless it’s a word that starts with M, then the N just replaces the M. So I’m Ngrey, you’re Nyou, and your mother is Nom. For unstints, I talk on Nearth about how Nroman Nanthony is not appreciated. Now, back on planet Earth, where outfield is a deep position with a if that’s the size of the Milky Way and Nilky Way, that if is that big because it’s only deep when you need three outfielders. On planet Earth and Nearth, if you need five outfielders or five noutfielders, the position isn’t deep at all, which makes it especially difficult that I keep going back to outfielders and noutfielders as the most overrated. First off: Wyatt Langford overrated and Pete Crow-Armstrong overrated or Nwyatt Nlangford and Npete Ncrow-Narmstrong. Which brings me to today’s overrated outfielder, Roman Anthony also known as Nroman Nanthony. He is currently ranked 55 overall and is just ahead of Jackson Merrill, Jarren Duran, Riley Greene, Cody Bellinger and are you picking up on what I’m putting here? How is Roman Antony not overrated? Or, I guess, what should we expect from Roman Anthony for 2026 fantasy baseball and what makes him overrated?
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In his first taste of the majors, Roman Anthony went 8/4/.292 with a 27.7 K% and 13.2 BB% in 71 games, 257 ABs and 303 plate appearances last year. His projections (ignoring me):
So 17/10/.258 in 514 ABs. (By the way, you can find all the hitter projections that aren’t mine right there on that page. Go crazy.) If you’re ignoring me for his rankings, here’s where he sits on the Auction Values page:
A player worth about $13 and ranked 110th. He goes for around 50 total in drafts (or about a $20 player). So without me even talking about myself and my projections, he’s overrated. Plain and simple, like what your friends say about your sense of style.
[waving my hand, waiting to be called on, teacher finally does] Thank you! What do I think of Roman Anthony? A sexy perk is hard to refuse. I hate to turn it down. Dude drips with appeal. The park is great, and it was built for it. As a 21-year-old he could get ahead all year long and as a rookie he had a pretty ridiculous HardHit%. He hit 43.7% Hard Hit and that’s crazy. The tops in the majors last year: Judge (45.6%), Schwarber (45.3%), Ohtani (45.3%), Soto (44.5%), Goodman (43.8%) and then Anthony. After that, everyone really only follows a few names: Pete Alonso (41%), James Wood (40.8%) and Bobby Witt Jr. (40.4%). All those guys had bigger sample sizes – she said that mockingly – but you get the idea. Anthony makes incredibly good contact. The problem is that his GB rate was 51.1%. The hardest contact that comes with a ground ball rate over 50%? Yandy Diaz (53.6 GB%, 38.5 HardHit%). Weft. James Wood was close with 49.7%. Roman Anthony’s launch angle was 6.9. He could hit 30 home runs, but that would require some luck or adjustments.
Roman Anthony’s .292 average was accompanied by a .404 BABIP and a 27.7 K%. Fenway is going to solve a lot of problems. Fenway is a mitigation factory for high BABIPs. However serious, a .404 BABIP is quite high. If that comes down to .340, he’s going to hit .270-ish. That’s why most projections put him at a lower average. So realistic ceiling projections: the best it’s going to do is 25/15/.280. If he had hit 25/15/.280 even once, I could easily beat him into the top 50. I love James Wood and he’s not that different. However, Wood has done it before. That’s a huge hurdle. Do it once before you go crazy. But even a 25/15/.280 (best case scenario) is basically last year’s Brandon Nimmo. On a positive note, it was Tyler Soderstrom. Nimmo’s ADP is 145; Soderstrom is 90. Roman Anthony plays checkers like he’s done it before and “it” was something no one is even sure he can do. Get the pie-in-heaven projections back into the sky with the pies and out of your eyes! (I’m a real poet.) I won’t compose it. Stamp him schmohawk and avoid!
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