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Kyle Bishop profiles Orioles outfielder Cedric Mullins as a potential waiver wire pickup and free agent add in deeper leagues for Week 3 of the 2021 MLB season.
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ROSTERED IN: 31% of leagues
ANALYSIS: In the current environment, any player who can steal bases piques the interest of fantasy managers, especially if they have enough juice in the bat to avoid being a zero elsewhere. Cedric Mullins' above-average speed allowed him to swipe seven bags in just 153 plate appearances for the Orioles last year, and he also popped three home runs. That came on the heels of a 2019 campaign in which he hit 10 homers and stole 33 bases across multiple levels of the minors, the third time in four years that he'd gone 10/20 as a prospect.
Mullins has been serving as the center fielder and leadoff man from the jump in Baltimore, and has hit safely in all seven games thus far. He's sitting on a gaudy .448/.484/.655 line with a homer and a stolen base already banked, and while the .571 BABIP will obviously regress, there's a lot to like about his early Statcast metrics. Fantasy managers with a need for speed would do well to pick up the 26-year-old, who's currently free to add in seven of 10 leagues.
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