Comments on: 2009 Fantasy Baseball Minor League Prospects

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:57:39 +0000

Volquez’s name came up near the end of our NL only league auction in 2008–10 or 11 teams, went for $12. Probably would have been lower if his name had been put out earlier.

By: BeeZee

BeeZee — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:21:01 +0000

$14 for Volquez last season? Was this an NL-only prospects league, or a league that started in June? By May, he was 95% owned in leagues that I have research on. Remember, Volquez was the no. 5 starter on the REDS when the season started. If Bronson Arroyo wasn’t drafted in most mixed leagues last year, I can’t imagine people actually drafting Volquez. Bum rushing the waiver wire to add Volquez, sure, but drafting him? C’mon. You are right about the whole rookie thing, but Volquez did get votes for NL ROY – so if the “experts” who vote for postseason awards thought he was a rookie, you can’t blame us for thinking the same.

By: Anti Dashing Dan

Anti Dashing Dan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:55:58 +0000

Dashing Dan-Are you serious? You think NO ONE drafted Volquez last year? I was in auctions where he went for $14 bucks! I don’t know what leagues you were in, but unless they were a 6 team league there was no excuse for not taking Volquez in a draft. Plus, if you did your homework you would know that Volquez could NOT be on this type of list last year anyway. He was not considered a rookie.

By: BeeZee

BeeZee — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:52:01 +0000

we just booked dan a flight to the dominican republic, where he should become a full-time scout for FBD. that way, there’s no doubt we will actually start producing fantasy baseball sleepers for all the experts. believe it or not, a lot of people that play fantasy baseball turn it off in their brains from september – february, and pay no attention to the minor leagues. we’re not those kinda guys, but surely some people will read this and not be familiar with these prospects.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:33:18 +0000

There’s no such thing as a “sleeper”. I dont know what Nate wants some “sleeper” from South America that some secret double agent flew down and scouted? Anyone who researches fantasy baseball/sports knows everyone who has the potential to be drafted late and produce major value.

Good post, i see big things from wieters, possibly SOTO type production, i’d have to say a bit less, SOTO had a monster year for a rookie catcher…. Which i took in the 13th round in my league because like i said “there are no sleepers” you take those types of names early or you’re not getting them…. Josh Hamilton went in the 7th round in my league…

P.S. I would have drafted Volquez or Cueto because I knew about BOTH of them, but YAHOO did not have them in the system yet! Luckily they loaded VOLQUEZ first and I burned my waiver priority before he pitched a game just because I wanted both. I think I got the better of the two, at least for the first half of last years fantasy season.

By: BeeZee

BeeZee — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:19:37 +0000

nice response dan. full disclosure – i bailed on geovany soto last season before the games started in one league, and paid for it down the line.

By: Dashing Dan

Dashing Dan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:10:22 +0000

Just because a name is commonplace does not mean that a player is going to excel in fantasy in their first year.

I’m sure anyone could have told you about Edinson Volquez who went 14-2 with a 2.55 ERA in Double-A and Triple-A in 2007, but did anyone draft him in 2008 fantasy? Nope. Geovany Soto was drafted in approximately round 16-20 in fantasy leagues, and people had certainly heard of him.

The idea of this article is two-fold: (1) to highlight minor league stars to fantasy baseball owners who are not ardent followers of the Bush Leagues and (2) to predict what prospects we think could have fantasy value in 2009 instead of being the next big-name, no-game guy, like a Homer Bailey.

I guarantee there will be a number of fantasy owners who will have wished that they would have drafted Matt Wieters instead of passing on him a dozen or more times.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:47:43 +0000

Thats it??? Good job posting a bunch of well known prospects. Anyone could tell you about those guys, find some real sleepers.