When targeting players for runs later in your drafts you want players who can get on base and players who hit toward or at the top of the order. If you find players that check both boxes then that is even better. Here is a list of players that do in fact check these boxes. Some of these players either go late or undrafted in shallow leagues. Others definitely go undrafted in shallow formats and are, at best, fallback options for runs in deeper formats. Below is a closer look at Masataka Yoshida.
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Sleepers to Target for Runs in 2023
The following player is a sleeper to consider in the late stages of 2023 fantasy-baseball drafts.
Masataka Yoshida (OF – BOS)
Masataka Yoshida is another shallow league sleepers for runs. There is some hype starting to build for him as a report came out that the raw power would grade out at 70 on a 20-80 scale. That is elite raw power. We have seen flashes of the power in Japan but it still remains to be seen how it will translate to the MLB in year one. Yoshida is currently projected to leadoff for the Red Sox. In Japan, he played 119 games and amassed 508 plate appearances. He was able to put up a .336/.449/.559 line in the process. If the on-base skills can carry over then he will score a ton of runs for this Red Sox team.
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