Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles [MUSIC PLAYING] ANDY BEHRENS: It's Andy Behrens with Yahoo Sports. We're about a week and a half into the fantasy season and we have some players off to unexpected hot starts. Want to play a little game of believe or make believe. Let's start in Houston with Tyler White. Now look, is Tyler White going to every week give you three home runs in a .500 average? No. Heck no, he's not. He's not Trevor Story. Come on, let's be realistic. But I do believe in Tyler White over the course of the full season. You look at this kid's minor league slash line. Just historically, .311 batting average. .422 on base. .489 slugging percentage. Not huge power, but he just absolutely lives on base. This is a very good hitter and he's raking right now. And I know you're worried about the arrival of AJ Reed, but it's the American League. There are places to stash a great hitter. White has played a little third base, he can DH for that team he can play first base. Plenty of spots to put him. I think he's going to be very effective all year. Again, I don't think it's necessarily going to be 30 home runs, but a nice power total, and a very nice batting average. We look at another player in Jeremy Hellickson. Off to a huge start for the Phillies. 11 in 2/3 inning so far. 11 K's. It's a solid enough brand name. Maybe you've owned him before. Maybe you've enjoyed him before. I cannot believe it, though. This, to me, is make believe. You look at the velocity on his average fastball so far. It's 88.8 miles an hour. That is not going to play over a full season. I know you like that he's in the National League, but that bullpen is terrible. He's going to be a wind challenged pitcher. There are a lot of earned runs upcoming. I do not believe in Jeremy Hellickson. Let's look at another Jeremy. Jeremy Hazelbaker in St. Louis. This is just the latest invention of the Cardinals front office. Not somebody who was on the prospect radar. Not even really a prospect. He's been in the minor leagues for seven seasons. He's come up, and he's basically like three or four hits a night. Now, he's not going to maintain this batting average. This is a .264 career hitter in the minors, but I will say Hazelbaker has a lot of speed. Very athletic player. Put up some huge stolen base totals in the minor leagues. So I believe in that one narrow lane, right. I think you're going to get some stolen bases here. I don't think it's going to be a great average and I don't think there's going to be a ton of power. But who am I to doubt the Cardinals? And the final name we need to talk about Eugenio Suarez. A lot of us liked him coming into the season for Cincinnati, right. He's eligible at shortstop. He's playing third, so now he has that eligibility. That's a pretty good position eligibility situation overall. Those are premium spots. Great power and speed start to his season. This is another case where I believe, but only mostly. Right. Like, I think the power is real. I definitely think Suarez can hit 20 home runs. We saw a nice power surge from him last season when he finally got an opportunity to play. So yeah, I believe in him in that area. I don't think the stolen bases are going to be there. You look at his minor league track record, he was a 269 hitter, so I don't think the average is going to be there. But he is hitting near the top of the Reds order, right ahead of Joey Votto. So I think there's a clear path to 20 home runs. Maybe 85 runs scored, maybe 80 RBIs as well.
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