Osleivis Basabe

Osleivis Basabe

24-Year-Old ShortstopSS
Tampa Bay Rays AAA
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Basabe's 2024 season was truncated by a wrist fracture that limited him to 78 games between his rehab assignment in the Complex League and Triple-A Durham. Basabe has now amassed nearly 2000 plate appearances in the minor leagues, and does have a .301 average along with a .359 OBP as he has shown strong bat to ball skills throughout the minor leagues. The challenge has been that skill has not translated to the big leagues as he looked rather overmatched when we last saw him in 2023 and the club never did promote him last season despite his return from injury in mid-July. Basabe, with a hot camp, could beat out the anemic-hitting Taylor Walls for the club's utility man off the bench but it will have to come from his bat because Basabe has yet to prove he can handle any one position defensively. He is still just 24 years old and not yet out of minor league options, but 2025 is a make or break season for the right-hander who is only shortstop eligible on draft day. Read Past Outlooks
$Signed a one-year contract with the Rays in March of 2024.
Returns from Triple-A IL
SSTampa Bay Rays  AAA
July 19, 2024
Triple-A Durham reinstated Basabe (wrist) from the 7-day injured list Friday, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
ANALYSIS
Basabe has been shelved for most of this season after suffering a fractured right wrist back in mid-April, but he's ready to play for Durham again after completing a 12-game rehab assignment in the rookie-level Florida Complex League affiliate, during which he posted a .945 OPS. posting a .945 OPS and a 9:1 BB:K. The 23-year-old had started games at shortstop, second base and third base with Durham before getting hurt and should go back to bouncing around the infield at the Triple-A level.
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2023
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Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2022
 
 
+47%
OPS vs LHP
2024
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2023
 
 
+47%
OPS vs LHP
2022
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2022vs Left .748 31 6 0 5 0 .286 .355 .393
Since 2022vs Right .509 63 9 1 7 0 .186 .238 .271
2024vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Left .748 31 6 0 5 0 .286 .355 .393
2023vs Right .509 63 9 1 7 0 .186 .238 .271
2022vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2022vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2022
 
 
+37%
OPS at Home
2024
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2023
 
 
+37%
OPS at Home
2022
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2022Home .686 44 7 1 7 0 .244 .295 .390
Since 2022Away .499 50 8 0 5 0 .196 .260 .239
2024Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Home .686 44 7 1 7 0 .244 .295 .390
2023Away .499 50 8 0 5 0 .196 .260 .239
2022Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2022Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2024
2021
Basabe amassed nearly 1,700 plate appearances in the minor leagues before his 23rd birthday while also earning his first promotion to the majors. Basabe hit .311/.369/.432 in the Tampa Bay farm system, and injuries, as well as a .296/.351/.426 line in Durham this year, earned him that promotion. Like Jonathan Aranda, that minor league success did not translate into major league success, as Basabe looked completely overmatched at the plate against major league pitching aside a grand slam off Daniel Bard in a blowout game in late August. The switch hitter is still growing into his frame and profiles as a bottom of the order utility player until such time as his skills or opportunities improve. The Rays dealt away one of the roadblocks in his way in Vidal Brujan, so it would appear Basabe would at least inherit the role Brujan had with the club in 2023. He can safely be avoided in mixed leagues for the time being given his rather limited ceiling.
Basabe joined the Rangers as an international free agent in 2017 for $550,000. He's displayed advanced contact skills in organized ball since, striking out at under a 12% rate across 398 plate appearances. Basabe has also utilized his plus speed to swipe 19 bases in 87 games in rookie ball. Though he wasn't added to the Rangers' 60-player pool this past summer, Basabe participated in the Venezuelan Winter League and hit .360/.385/.488 across 91 plate appearances. In addition to his bat, Basabe has positional versatility, playing primarily at second base and shortstop as a professional. However, scouts also project that he could shift to the outfield at some point in his career. That versatility will be key for Basabe after he was traded to the Rays this offseason. He should spend his age-20 season at Low-A, where he will look to start tapping into some power to go with his impressive hit tool.
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Out with fractured wrist
SSTampa Bay Rays  AAA
Wrist
April 17, 2024
Triple-A Durham placed Basabe on its 7-day injured list Wednesday with a fractured right wrist, Triple-A Durham radio play-by-play broadcaster Patrick Kinas reports.
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Sent packing to Triple-A
SSTampa Bay Rays  AAA
March 18, 2024
The Rays optioned Basabe to Triple-A Durham on Monday, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
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Back in lineup
SSTampa Bay Rays  AAA
March 1, 2024
Basabe (head) is starting at shortstop and batting eighth in Friday's spring game against the Pirates, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
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Should return to lineup by weekend
SSTampa Bay Rays  AAA
Head
February 29, 2024
Rays manager Kevin Cash said Wednesday that Basabe (head) should be available to play in Grapefruit League games beginning Friday or Saturday, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
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Banged up on slide
SSTampa Bay Rays  AAA
Undisclosed
February 27, 2024
Basabe was removed from Tuesday's spring game against the Yankees after he suffered an apparent injury while making a headfirst slide into third base, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
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Latest Fantasy Rumors
Opening Day roster unlikely
SSTampa Bay Rays  AAA
January 21, 2024
Basabe appears to be a long shot to make the Rays' Opening Day roster, per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times.
ANALYSIS
Basabe received his first taste of the majors last season and had a .218/.277/.320 slash line with one home run and 12 RBI in 31 games. Jose Caballero appears poised to begin the campaign as Tampa Bay's primary shortstop, with top prospect Junior Caminero seemingly next in line until Taylor Walls is recovered from hip surgery.
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