2009 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers
Fantasy Baseball Dugout has done it again. We’ve scooped everybody with our list of the premiere 2009 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers.
These guys probably won’t get a lot of action in September, but they are awesome prospects likely to be impact players in 2009. If you are in a keeper league and you are out of it for this season, now is the time to pick up these 2009 fantasy baseball sleepers on the cheap.
Nate Schierholtz, OF, Giants — He’s the guy who ran over the Chinese catcher in
the Olympic games. Schierholtz hit .304 in 100+ AB’s last year for the Giants.
David Price, SP, Rays — Price is the 6′ 6″ first rounder out of Vanderbilt last year who has blistered through the minors this year. He won his first 11 starts!
Matt LaPorta, OF, Indians — The former Florida Gator was drafted 7th overall by the Brewers in 2007. This dude has power. 12 homers in his first 30 games in the minors and LaPorta also hit a homer in the bronze medal game for Team USA.
Matt Wieters, C, Orioles — The Sporting News claims Wieters could be “one of the
top five backstops by this time next year.” Wow, some claim. Has anybody told Ramon Hernandez? Wieters is a big time slugger. He is not, however, expected to get a September call up and will play in the Arizona Instructional League.
Scott Elbert, RP, Dodgers — A 2004 first rounder who has great stuff. He’s 3-0, 1.46 in his last ten games with Jacksonville. He’ll be limited to one inning per game with the Dodgers.
Dallas McPherson, 3B, Marlins — McPherson leads all minor leaguers with 42 homers this year at AAA Albuquerque. Unfortunately for McPherson, he would have been up earlier, but is blocked by Jorge Cantu who has been the Fish’s best player this season.
Tony K. Gwynn — OF, Brewers — He will likely steal some bases for the Brewers 
coming off the bench in September. His Dad was a pretty good player too.
Matt Gamel — 3B, Brewers — Gamel was hitting .384 in mid-June, but has slipped some since to .329 when he got the call up to the Brew Crew. Gamel will challenge Bill Hall for the Brewers third base job next year.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:17 am
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September 4th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I’m out of it this year in my Chicks Dig the Long Ball League in Elyria, Ohio. So, I’m picking up Schierholtz for next year’s season. I stayed up until 4 am to watch him in the olympics. Anybody who plays that hard can have a spot on my team any day.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:04 am
If you follow prospects even a little you will realize that none of these guys are sleepers….i’m pretty sure that almost every semi-involved fantasy baseball manager full well knows who these guys are
January 16th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Thank you for your comments, but keep in mind that this was written in September. Maybe semi-involved fantasy baseball managers know full well who these guys are today. But while the season was still underway last year, there was definitely some who were unaware of these guys.
January 18th, 2009 at 11:34 am
The definition of a sleeper isn’t necessarily guys noone has ever heard of before they break out. It’s guys that will have better years than their current draft position dictates. Like last year, for example, Mike Mussina could be considered a sleeper, even though everyone knew who he was. He way outperformed his draft position.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Thanks Michael. The team at FBD totally agrees with your definition of a sleeper – and that’s how we try to define who a sleeper is in fantasy baseball.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
No way sleepers
March 29th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
We are in the process of writing about sleepers on a positional basis now. You will see some rookies and some veterans in there. Mostly, however, we look for players who are not as well known and will project higher stats than the year before.