Sleepers, 2025

This column will help you target batters who may be undervalued heading into draft day and have the potential to take a significant step forward in 2025. In many leagues, they can be considered breakout targets.

Let's try to find the most appealing breakout targets by looking at highly-skilled bats who earned modest value in 2024.

These bats have the best projected skills among those who generated less than $15 last season:

PlayerLgTmPosADP bb%ct%Eye PXSpdBPV
Mike TroutALLAACF 121 14%69%0.58 18212995
Kyle TuckerNLCHCRF 14%81%0.89 1308284
Byron BuxtonALMINCF 233 7%69%0.26 17710669
Jung Hoo LeeNLSFCF 237 6%90%0.78 7010867
Christian YelichNLMILLF DH 110 15%76%0.76 11710964
Christian WalkerALHOU1B 95 10%74%0.45 1507562
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