Mike Ford

Mike Ford

30-Year-Old First Baseman1B
Seattle Mariners
2023 Fantasy Outlook
There was no outlook written for Mike Ford in 2023. Check out the latest news below for more on his current fantasy value.
RANKSFrom Preseason
$Signed a one-year, minor-league contract with the Mariners in January of 2023.
Shifted to minor-league camp
1BSeattle Mariners  AAA
March 24, 2023
The Mariners reassigned Ford to minor-league camp Friday.
ANALYSIS
Ford put together a decent spring training, going 5-for-25 at the plate with six RBI. He will likely return to Triple-A for 2023, where he slashed .248/.380/.363 over 137 plate appearances last season with four different organizations.
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Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2021
 
 
+14%
OPS vs LHP
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+36%
OPS vs LHP
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+72%
OPS vs RHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2021vs Left .662 39 4 2 4 0 .216 .256 .405
Since 2021vs Right .581 182 11 4 11 0 .175 .302 .279
2023vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2022vs Left .778 27 3 2 3 0 .259 .259 .519
2022vs Right .571 122 6 1 7 0 .192 .311 .260
2021vs Left .350 12 1 0 1 0 .100 .250 .100
2021vs Right .603 60 5 3 4 0 .140 .283 .320
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+7%
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+36%
OPS at Home
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+133%
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2021Home .576 95 8 4 8 0 .157 .263 .313
Since 2021Away .614 126 7 2 7 0 .204 .317 .296
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2022Home .740 54 7 3 5 0 .213 .315 .426
2022Away .545 95 2 0 5 0 .202 .295 .250
2021Home .362 41 1 1 3 0 .083 .195 .167
2021Away .845 31 5 2 2 0 .208 .387 .458
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Ford's scorching close to the 2019 campaign led some hot takers to suggest he could challenge Luke Voit for the Yankees' first-base job in 2020. Instead, Voit blossomed into one of the league's premier home-run hitters while Ford took a huge step back, ultimately spending the final weeks of the regular season at the team's alternate training site. Statcast tells the story; nearly all metrics indicative of power -- including barrel rate, launch angle, average exit velocity and hard-hit percentage -- showed moderate-to-steep drops, leading to an over 100-point dip in Ford's xSLG (from .501 to .395). The lumbering first baseman's flyball rate dropped from 44.3% to 30.5% while his groundball rate rose by over 13 percentage points. Ford doesn't strike out much (19.0 K%), and his low .140 BABIP is bound to come up, but he'll need to rediscover his power stroke to maintain a big-league role.
You could look at the season Ford put up at the majors last year and make some assumptions, most of which would be incorrect. The lefty hit more homers off lefties than righties last year. He hit 10 of his 12 homers away from Yankee Stadium. He looks like a softball player, but his Kevin Maas-like performance moved the needle on some fantasy rosters down the stretch when he hit 11 homers and drove in 23 runs while scoring 23 runs over the final two months of the season in part-time duty. His average exit velocity was equal to Matt Olson's last season, and he hit 35 homers between Triple-A and the majors with strong walk and contact rates. He appears to be a bit of a late bloomer, much like his platoon partner, Luke Voit. Perhaps Ford can take over the full-time job if 2019 was the real McCoy. It was a significant step forward from a rather mediocre minor-league career.
Ford was one of the few hitters selected in this winter's Rule 5 draft with a chance to be fantasy-relevant this season. The Yankees, who might have the most minor-league depth in the game, especially in the upper levels, left Ford unprotected and the Mariners selected him with the 11th pick. The 25-year-old first baseman went undrafted out of Princeton but has raked at every stop in the minors, most notably walking significantly more than he struck out (72:94 K:BB) while hitting 20 home runs in 429 at-bats between Double-A and Triple-A last year. The Mariners traded for Ryon Healy to handle the first-base duties and they hope to carry 13 pitchers for much of the season, so Ford will have to really impress this spring to make the roster. However, he hits left-handed while Healy hits right-handed, so it seems he will either make the team and start against righties, or be offered back to the Yankees after spring training.
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Inks minor-league contract
1BSeattle Mariners  AAA
January 13, 2023
Ford signed a minor-league contract with the Mariners on Friday.
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Outrighted to minors
1BLos Angeles Angels  AAA
October 3, 2022
The Angels outrighted Ford to Triple-A Salt Lake on Sunday.
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DFA'd by Halos
1BLos Angeles Angels  AAA
September 28, 2022
Ford was designated for assignment by the Angels on Wednesday, Jeff Fletcher of The Orange County Register reports.
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Out of Sunday's lineup
1BLos Angeles Angels  AAA
September 25, 2022
Ford is not in Sunday's lineup against the Twins.
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Racks up three hits
1BLos Angeles Angels  AAA
September 20, 2022
Ford went 3-for-4 with an RBI in Tuesday's 5-2 win over the Rangers.
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