Joey Loperfido's Rise as Houston's New Baseball Star

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00:00All right, this next guy we're going to go to here.

00:05You mentioned before we came on that it's a conversation more so about moving on from

00:09another player than it is about taking advantage of a guy down in Houston that's been raking

00:15Sugarland.

00:16So talk to me about a Joey Lowe from your neighborhood.

00:19Hey, my people, Joey Lowe Profito, Jose Abreu has not been good folks for the Houston Astros.

00:25I think that is an understatement.

00:26He's hitting around a hundred right now and last year was a bad year for Jose Abreu.

00:29Here you go.

00:30Look at the stats for Lowe Profito.

00:31They've been terrific.

00:3264 ABs, 21 runs, 19 hits, 10 homers.

00:36That's right.

00:3710 already.

00:38Double digits heading into the weekend.

00:39Two steals hitting 297 with a 397 OBP and an 1194 OPS.

00:45Lowe Profito is just crushing the ball right now as a strong left-handed hitter.

00:49Lowe Profito has obvious power, will be a great lineup to drop him into.

00:54And it's unfortunate because Jose Abreu is a player that's had a really great career.

00:57In fact, from a fantasy perspective, I don't know if there's many players that were as

01:01consistently good every single year for a period of time as Jose Abreu.

01:06And then when you dig deeper into his stats, he got hit against lefties, he hit against

01:09righties, he hit in the first half, the second half at home on the road.

01:12He was always Jose Abreu.

01:13He was always spectacular.

01:16That age, I guess, has caught up to him.

01:18Perhaps he's a little older than we might realize too.

01:19You never know sometimes with the Cuban imports, just exactly how old everybody really is.

01:23But that's a story for another show.

01:25Lowe Profito is going to be a guy, I think, that is going to be an opportunity sooner

01:29than later.

01:30So therefore, I would be adding him.

01:32Singleton is not the answer there.

01:34Jose Abreu is not the answer.

01:36The Astros need some more help, and Lowe Profito, I think, can provide it.