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Michael Toglia 2025 Player Outlook: Big-Time Power Leaves You Wanting More
3 hours agoColorado Rockies first baseman Michael Toglia has prodigious power and he put it on full display in 2024, blasting 25 home runs on the back of a 98th-percentile barrel rate of 17.3%. Combined with a HardHit% of 50.2% and an average EV of 92.1 mph, both of which are above the 90th percentile, fantasy managers can expect more of the same in 2025. However, with the big power comes big swing-and-miss, as the former first-rounder notched an unsightly 32.1% K% (fourth percentile) that led to a .218 batting average. On the other hand, the switch-hitter drew a walk 11.8% of the time last season, ranking in the 92nd percentile, but that number tells only half the story. Before the All-Star break, Toglia walked at just a 7.8% clip, but after, he drew free passes at a 14.7% rate – fifth-best in baseball during that timeframe (min. 200 PA). Still, ATC projections see the 26-year-old making only a modest BA improvement to .228 in 2025, and with as much power as he provides, you'd hope for better counting stats to go with it, which is why RotoBaller ranks the UCLA product at 195 overall, 10 spots below his NFBC ADP of 185.
