Sleeper Draft Targets: Tony Kemp (2023 Fantasy Baseball)

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 Tony Kemp.

Sleepers to Target for Runs in 2023

The following player is a sleeper to consider in the late stages of 2023 fantasy-baseball drafts.

Tony Kemp (2B,OF – OAK)

Now we are getting to the territory of being desperate. The Oakland Athletics offer little upside as a team in general but one thing they consistently did was let Tony Kemp lead off against RHP in 2022. This should continue leading into the 2023 season and Kemp can be serviceable for runs in your AL-Only or very deep leagues. He also had a little juice in the second half in general. Limiting strikeouts the way he does can only help Kemp. But there is little reason to believe in upside or potential for difference-making numbers. To reiterate, this is more of a desperation target.

Among qualified hitters in the 2nd half, Tony Kemp had the 3rd lowest K%: 7.1%

He also had a 126 wRC+, 5 SBs and a .278 BA. Even sprinkled in 5 HRs

Still projected to leadoff for the #Athletics (should vs RHP again if anything)

I have other players I like more at cost though pic.twitter.com/YJI3HLAneD

— Mike Kurland (@Mike_Kurland) January 4, 2023

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