There wasn’t really any reason to know who Dean Kremer was coming into the 2022 season. He was never a top 100 prospect. His fastball only topped out at around 93 MPH. And he was absolutely brutal last year – the single hardest hit pitcher in all of baseball as measured by barrel percentage – surrendering a whopping 17 home runs in just 53 innings. Unless you were a Team Israel WBC superfan, your life wasn’t missing anything due to a lack of Dean Kremer awareness.
There was some reason to know who Jorge Mateo was coming into the 2022 season, but only if you had a kink for faded former prospects who once missed out on the Futures Game because they were rude to a Yankees front office executive (though now that I see it written out like that, I concede that that’s not such a bad kink to have).