Joey Gallo is looking the part of a late bloomer. He's quietly on his way to a career season thanks to a career-best contact rate that has been supported by improved swing decisions.

Joe Ryan's improved secondaries and firmly elite four-seam fastball have helped drive his command sub-indicators into elite territory.

Whit Merrifield's days of being an upper-tier contributor might be over given his growing swing-and-miss and poor batted ball quality.

Alek Manoah's slow start to the season should send him to your bench given his complete lack of hope for a turnaround anytime soon.

Ke'Bryan Hayes' early struggles are hiding another year of swing plane improvement and high-volume hard contact.

Chris Sale's bad start to the season has been driven more by bad luck than bad skills.

The intriguing underlying skills of Alek Thomas makes him an excellent early post-hype speculation play.

Pablo López's increased velocity and tweaked pitch mix has helped him unlock new skills early in 2023.

Kyle Stowers showed excellent batted ball quality and improved contact in 2023, making him a good early stash in spite of his lack of an everyday role.

The growth in Braxton Garrett's skills last season makes him a very intriguing early stash, regardless of his role to start the season.

Cristian Pache made some gains in 2022 that flew under the radar given his ugly overall stats. He has continued that momentum into the spring, making him an intriguing post-hype target in deep leagues.