The Sharp & The Fish: Round 11
A series where we pick out the best and worst picks in each round
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We have a polarizing group of players here. At this point in the draft, we start seeing some high-upside, low-floor guys show up. As nobody feels super confident about these names, but nobody wants to let them fall too far either.
Here are our fifteen names:
SHARP: DYLAN CREWS
After yesterday’s article, you know I considered Drew Rasmussen here! But no, I’m hunting for a post-hype breakout pick in Dylan Crews. My reasoning is pretty much fully summarized here:
Crews has fantasy-stud skills. And most MLB teams would agree, or at least they would have three summers ago when there was a debate between him or Paul Skenes to be the #1 overall pick.
His adjustment period has been delayed by injuries. He played just 85 MLB games last year. So he’s only 450 PAs into his MLB career. I think this is the year he makes gigantic strides forward.
FISH: TREY YESAVAGE
This one is pretty simple, bro! If Yesavage hadn’t made those handful of impressive postseason appearances last year, we’d be talking about him as a post-250 sleeper.
But he looked sharp in the postseason, had some big moments under the brightest lights, and burst onto the season for 2026 drafts.
What we have now is a kid who hasn’t played a full pro season yet (he was a first-round pick in 2024). And to make the ground even more unstable, from what we saw in the bigs last year, it looks like his fastball might suck. It was just an 8.3% SwStr% and a 49% Strike% on the pitch in his regular season work.
He has a truly great splitter, and that will keep some spike starts where he looks like an ace coming. But with splitters come high highs and low lows. And it doesn’t tend to work very well if you don’t have a solid fastball to go with it. Even his teammate Kevin Gausmaan has rough patches every year, and that guy has an elite heater. So there’s work to do, and I think Yesavage could be in for a rude awakening in 2026. I’m passing this year.