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Here are some of the most interesting players to draft outside of the top 300
You say my Sleepers 2.0 were too obvious, my Breakouts 2.0 too well known? First of all, rude. But I aim to please, and to that end, I say we take things deeper.
How deep? Deeper than I'm comfortable going, honestly. The draft pool has been chewed over so much by this point that you can't expect to find anything of sustenance outside of the top 300. You're just hoping to get lucky.
Casting a wide net makes the most sense, then, which is why I couldn't bring myself to whittle down this list beyond 40. While these are the players I'm most looking to target if the drafts extends that far, I wouldn't say I'm pounding the table for any one of them (well, maybe Bryce Eldridge ).
And when I say outside of the top 300, I mean in the last week, which I can only determine using NFBC ADP. I don't want to pass off some recent riser as a deep sleeper because nobody was onto him in late February, skewing his ADP. With that criteria in mind, here are some players who I might have been able to call a deep sleeper at some point during Draft Prep season, but I know longer can:
- Braxton Ashcraft, SP/RP, PIT
- Michael Burrows, SP, HOU
- Chase DeLauter, OF, CLE
- Jordan Lawlar, 3B, ARI
- Sean Manaea, SP, NYM
- Riley O'Brien, RP, STL
- Andrew Painter, SP, PHI
- Cody Ponce, SP/RP, TOR
- Grayson Rodriguez, SP, LAA
- Will Warren, SP, NYY
And that's too bad. I like Burrows, Lawlar, Ponce and Rodriguez, especially.
But in the interest of giving you some truly deep names that you may not have considered drafting yet, here's who I've had to settle for instead.
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