2025 Fantasy Baseball Steals Recap: Juan Soto runs wild, Shohei Ohtani puts on the brakes
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2025 Fantasy Baseball Steals Recap: Juan Soto runs wild, Shohei Ohtani puts on the brakesImportant stolen base news and trends from the 2025 season.
ESPN's Jeff Passan reports that the Pirates "are strongly considering giving" SS prospect Konnor Griffin "the opportunity to win their big league shortstop job."Griffin is the top prospect in baseball, according to MLB Pipeline and many other rankings sites. He's just 19 years old, but he hit .333/.415/.527 with 21 home runs and 65 steals in his first professional season after Pittsburgh drafted him 9th overall in the 2024 MLB Draft. As Passan notes, the last teenager to debut in the majors was Juan Soto back in 2018, and the Pirates are certainly not a win-now team, so it feels unlikely Griffin will actually open the season as the team's shortstop, but he may not be that far away.
Blue Jays could be MLB's biggest offseason wild card, with a potential run at Kyle TuckerThe Blue Jays have been looking to swim in the deep end of MLB's payroll pool, but just missed out on big names like Shohei Ohtani and Juan Soto. Could Tucker become Toronto's latest major free-agent target?