Nick Kurtz is an awesome player.

I know, stop the presses, right?

But I do feel the need to state that as clearly as possible before I do something like consider where to call him a "bust" for 2026, because people tend to misinterpret that tag. Good players can be busts. Great players can be busts. Last season, you could reasonably argue Gunnar Henderson was a bust as a first-round pick, despite having what would, for most other players, be a pretty good season. To a lesser extent, Vladimir Guerrero was a pretty big disappointment, finishing as the No. 47 player after being drafted with an ADP of 12.9 a year ago. They weren't bad ; they just weren't worth what you paid to draft them.

And that's what I think we're heading for with Kurtz. He had a historically great rookie season, fi

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