{"id":612159,"date":"2026-03-07T20:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/612159\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:01:27","slug":"sal-stewart-is-a-perfect-late-round-fantasy-baseball-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/612159\/","title":{"rendered":"Sal Stewart is a perfect late-round fantasy baseball steal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early rounds of fantasy drafts<\/a> are about minimizing risk. You draft proven producers and establish positional strength to form the heart of your roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But championships aren\u2019t won in the early rounds, they\u2019re won later in the draft when you\u2019re building out the depth of your roster. Titles are won by managers who find the breakout candidates, overlooked contributors and youngsters with upside in the late rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cincinnati\u2019s Sal Stewart played in 18 games last September, hitting .255 with a .839 OPS and five homers in just 55 at-bats. He had eight RBIs, 11 runs, struck out 15 times and walked three times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among players with a minimum of 25 batted-ball events, Stewart\u2019s 95.4 mph average exit velocity was the second best in the majors (tied with Aaron Judge<\/a>), according to Baseball Savant. His 52.5 percent hard-hit rate was in the top 30, and his barrels per plate appearance (12.1 percent) was the sixth-best mark.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Post may be compensated and\/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,684,138,49,2561,50,28,4,722,12683,185,430,428,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-612159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-betting","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-cincinnati-reds","14":"tag-fantasy-baseball","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-mlb-betting","17":"tag-roto-rage","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus","21":"tag-white-sox","22":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116189678009964521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}