{"id":621953,"date":"2026-03-13T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/621953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:47:26","slug":"2026-fantasy-baseball-draft-prep-40-deep-sleepers-for-the-late-rounds-include-dominic-canzone-grant-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/621953\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep: 40 deep sleepers for the late rounds include Dominic Canzone, Grant Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"dominic-canzone.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dominic-canzone.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/fantasy\/baseball\/news\/2026-fantasy-baseball-draft-prep-sleepers-2-0-for-scott-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">my Sleepers 2.0<\/a> were too obvious, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/fantasy\/baseball\/news\/2026-fantasy-baseball-draft-prep-scotts-breakouts-2-0-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">my Breakouts 2.0<\/a>\u00a0too well known? First of all, rude. But I aim to please, and to that end, I say we take things deeper. <\/p>\n<p>How deep? Deeper than I&#8217;m comfortable going, honestly. The draft pool has been chewed over so much by this point that you can&#8217;t expect to find anything of sustenance outside of the top 300. You&#8217;re just hoping to get lucky. <\/p>\n<p>Casting a wide net makes the most sense, then, which is why I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to whittle down this list beyond 40. While these are the players I&#8217;m most looking to target if the drafts extends that far, I wouldn&#8217;t say I&#8217;m pounding the table for any one of them (well, maybe <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/29153551\/bryce-eldridge\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Eldridge<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>And when I say outside of the top 300, I mean in the last week, which I can only determine using NFBC ADP. I don&#8217;t want to pass off some recent riser as a deep sleeper because nobody was onto him in late February, skewing his ADP. With that criteria in mind, here are some players who I might have been able to call a deep sleeper at some point during Draft Prep season, but I know longer can: <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2931893\/braxton-ashcraft\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braxton Ashcraft<\/a>, SP\/RP, PIT  <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2932621\/michael-burrows\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Burrows<\/a>, SP, HOU<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/28920019\/chase-delauter\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chase DeLauter<\/a>, OF, CLE<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/26720082\/jordan-lawlar\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Lawlar<\/a>, 3B, ARI<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2066704\/sean-manaea\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Manaea<\/a>, SP, NYM<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2837304\/riley-obrien\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riley O&#8217;Brien<\/a>, RP, STL<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/26719591\/andrew-painter\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Painter<\/a>, SP, PHI<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2211222\/cody-ponce\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cody Ponce<\/a>, SP\/RP, TOR<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2942971\/grayson-rodriguez\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>, SP, LAA<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/29075794\/will-warren\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Warren<\/a>, SP, NYY<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s too bad. I like Burrows, Lawlar, Ponce and Rodriguez, especially. <\/p>\n<p>But in the interest of giving you some truly deep names that you may not have considered drafting yet, here&#8217;s who I&#8217;ve had to settle for instead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You say my Sleepers 2.0 were too obvious, my Breakouts 2.0\u00a0too well known? First of all, rude. 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