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2022 fantasy baseball sleepers won't be "very hyped rookie who failed to live up to hype and is now priced well in drafts." Though, how about that Brett Lawrie?! No, seriously...But what about Ian Happ?! C'mon! He had a good 2nd half. Okay, gonna stop there, since I might actually write an Ian Happ sleeper post for the fifth year in a row. So, I was looking at the top xwOBAs, which is a ton of letters to understand -- yo, xwOBAs, who do you think you are, SAGNOF? -- and I was sorting by who should be better in 2022 and
Jarred Kelenic was in no way near the top of that (213th out of 328). Then I looked at Jarred Kelenic's xBA and it was .215, and I started to hold my nose like I smelt a fart that was trapped under a dead body. Then I looked at his average exit velocity and that was hideous (87.5 MPH) and I began to think maybe I shouldn't bother with the Jarred Kelenic sleeper post. There was always Ian Happ, amiright? But I can't give up on Jarred Kelenic, not that quickly, not yet. Sure, he had the same expected stats as Alcides Escobar, but he can't be that bad, can he? Well, he was, but will he be? That's the real question, or this one: So, what can we expect from Jarred Kelenic for 2022 fantasy baseball and what makes him a sleeper?