How could no home games affect the fantasy value of Rockies players?
Yahoo Fantasy’s Scott Pianowski and Vlad Sedler of Elite Fantasy discuss how potentially playing games at neutral sites will impact how owners should draft Colorado players. Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
Video Transcript
[MUSIC PLAYING]
SCOTT PIANOWSKI: Now, I know that we're flying blind on a lot of stuff. Again, we were recently auctioning in some leagues together with the [INAUDIBLE] record circuit. And I was asking myself, I don't really have good answer to this. What should I do with Colorado players, knowing that maybe they won't play a Coors Field? Should I have different approaches for younger players, for players coming off injury?
I'm just curious how your, in general, how your valuation has changed, because we have a truncated season, and maybe a radically altered format with scheduling with ballparks, that type of thing.
VLAD SEDLER: So to know exactly how this is going to play out and know the framework is going to really be helpful, because, as you know, I do my own projections. I started creating those back in December. And obviously, it all grinded to a halt. And I'm not really ready to kind of go back and dig into the numbers until I know.
I do know that if these teams are not playing in their home stadiums, and for whatever reason, to me, it just feels like that's not going to happen, at least not for the early part, not for the next few months, just because of all the chaos and I think some of the issues with testing and traveling.
So I do see them playing in some of these neutral locations. And to me, that is definitely going to affect how I feel about these teams and extreme hitters and pitchers parks. So as you mentioned, these Rockies hitters, who, you know, you look at somebody like Trevor Story for over the course of his career, and then specifically last year, has been extremely drastic splits at home and on the road, more so than almost any other players.
He's almost doubly productive at home than on the road. You look at almost everything, from his isolated power, his on-base average, absolutely everything. And then you take that player out of that scenario, you're no longer looking at a late first round pick, even though he does steal bases and whatnot. And at that point, you figure out, OK, so is he more of a second round guy, a third round guy? Like, where are the comps with somebody like him?