Buy Dylan Crews, sell Josh Jung, hold Grayson Rodriguez in fantasy baseball

For whatever reason, this feels like a season where the toolsy young guys are racing past the veterans. I looked at a few steady vets having terrible seasons as potential buys, but couldn’t talk myself into giving my stamp of approval to Matt Chapman or Manny Machado, among others. Here’s who made the cut:BuyWill Smith, C, LADThis is just my read of the vibes, but I feel like Smith is still underrated. He’s a catcher with power and elite contact skills in the league’s best lineup. What appears on the surface to be a dip in power may open a window to trade for him at a good price. While his barrel rate of 15% would be a career high by a wide margin, his HR/FB rate is just 8.2%. His Statcast expected slugging of .482 is over 100 points higher than his actual slugging of .372. The only place he falls short is in playing time — he gets an off day roughly every third game. That puts him behind the top options at the position, but on a per-game basis, he can hang with any backstop.Advertisement