BALLER MOVE: Draft target ~pick 130
CURRENT ADP: ~154 overall
ANALYSIS: Justin Turner projects to a tasteful .355 OBP to go with a noice .457 SLG that combines for the eighth-best OPS among 3B in Steamer's spreadsheets. I know the hammy has you worried, but JT gave us hope a few days ago talking about a very healthy season being ahead of him. Just what we needed to hear. Turner is as old as they come, can't lie about it. That said, who are the Dodgers going to throw toward their third bag not named Justin? Zach McKinstry?
Steamer has JT projected to a 3B-8 finish next year. Not unheard of considering he's coming off a top-six finish in 2021 in which he endured a career-low BABIP (not counting 2009-10 as he just logged 40 combined PA) but still was able to post a good .278/.361/.471 slash line. The BB% and K% stayed solid and stable, and although Turner is not the 0.85+ BB/K-man of years past, he's still posting marks around 0.60 or higher (0.69 in 2020, 0.62 last year) that call for action come draft day.
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