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Oakland Athletics infielder/outfielder Tony Kemp is a fantasy baseball waiver wire pickup and add heading into Week 13 of the MLB season.
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ANALYSIS: From Vanderbilt to Houston to Wrigley to Oakland: Tony Kemp has gotten a taste of some of the more unique baseball systems in the game on his journey to/through the MLB, and it's starting to pay impactful dividends surpassing even his 2018 season with the Astros. Other than a couple of nice stints here and there and some quiet power/speed numbers, Kemp's MLB career reads rather pedestrian; but as of this past Friday, Kemp has eleven XBH (seven doubles, two triples, two home runs), three steals in four tries, and a .275/.392/.417 slash in 120 AB for the 2021 campaign, split pretty evenly between the outfield and second.
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Kemp isn't an intimidating presence in the box, but he knows exactly what to do with each pitch and batted ball to manifest offense. His 16.6% strikeout rate and 15.9% walk rate are bounds superior to the league average, and while his hard hit rate and average exit velocity won't garner an invite to the HR Derby, his 63.4% combined line drives and grounders maximize his odds of finding open grass, and then his base-running takes over to take extra bases, swipe bags, and score runs. With an excellent BA/OBP safety net, defensive versatility, and aggression on the base-paths for a first-place team, Tony Kemp is a sneaky addition with room to burgeon in deeper leagues.
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