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Ty Wigginton: Fantasy Baseball Sleeper


Ty Wigginton

Ty Wigginton - Fantasy Baseball Sleeper

Last week, I compiled my fantasy baseball sleepers at the third base position.  And, the more I thought about it, the more I liked my 13th pick of Ty Wigginton of the Phillies.

Wigginton can play and he isn’t just coming to Philadelphia to be insurance and play on Sunday afternoons after a late Saturday night game.  With Ryan Howard out early in the year, Wigginton is going to have more opportunity to play.  It may be that Wigginton plays third base and bumps Placido Polanco over to second with Chase Utley moving to first base.  Utley played 21 games at first base during the 2004-05 seasons.  It may also be that Wigginton offers more power than Polanco and the Phillies platoon the two if Wigginton hits well early in the season. One thing is for sure: Polanco, Utley and Howard have shown to be injury-prone over their careers. Therefore, Wigginton can be a 400 at bat guy in 2012.

Take a look at Wigginton’s stats over his career.

Year Age Tm G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB BA OBP SLG OPS
1998 20 NYM-min 70 272 39 65 14 4 8 29 11 2 16 .239 .284 .408 .692
1999 21 NYM-min 123 456 69 133 23 5 21 73 9 12 56 .292 .373 .502 .875
2000 22 NYM-min 122 453 64 129 27 3 20 77 5 5 24 .285 .319 .490 .809
2001 23 NYM-min 89 297 35 76 16 0 7 25 4 3 36 .256 .340 .380 .721
2002 24 NYM-min 104 383 49 115 26 3 6 48 5 3 43 .300 .366 .431 .796
2002 24 NYM 46 116 18 35 8 0 6 18 2 1 8 .302 .354 .526 .880
2003 25 NYM 156 573 73 146 36 6 11 71 12 2 46 .255 .318 .396 .714
2004 26 NYM-min 2 8 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .375 .375 .375 .750
2004 26 TOT 144 494 63 129 30 2 17 66 7 1 45 .261 .324 .433 .757
2004 26 NYM 86 312 46 89 23 2 12 42 6 1 23 .285 .334 .487 .821
2004 26 PIT 58 182 17 40 7 0 5 24 1 0 22 .220 .306 .341 .646
2005 27 PIT-min 72 280 53 82 18 0 14 52 8 5 45 .293 .390 .507 .897
2005 27 PIT 57 155 20 40 9 1 7 25 0 1 14 .258 .324 .465 .788
2006 28 TBD-min 2 8 2 3 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 .375 .375 1.000 1.375
2006 28 TBD 122 444 55 122 25 1 24 79 4 3 32 .275 .330 .498 .828
2007 29 TOT 148 547 71 152 33 0 22 67 3 4 41 .278 .333 .459 .792
2007 29 TBD 98 378 47 104 21 0 16 49 1 4 28 .275 .329 .458 .786
2007 29 HOU 50 169 24 48 12 0 6 18 2 0 13 .284 .342 .462 .804
2008 30 HOU-min 3 9 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 .111 .385 .333 .718
2008 30 HOU 111 386 50 110 22 1 23 58 4 6 32 .285 .350 .526 .876
2009 31 BAL 122 410 44 112 19 0 11 41 1 2 23 .273 .314 .400 .714
2010 32 BAL 154 581 63 144 29 1 22 76 0 1 50 .248 .312 .415 .727
2011 33 COL-min 2 7 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 .286 .444 .286 .730
2011 33 COL 130 401 52 97 21 2 15 47 8 1 38 .242 .315 .416 .731
10 Seasons 1190 4107 509 1087 232 14 158 548 41 22 329 .265 .325 .443 .768
162 Game Avg. 162 559 69 148 32 2 22 75 6 3 45 .265 .325 .443 .768
NL (7 yrs) 694 2294 300 605 138 12 85 303 35 12 196 .264 .328 .446 .773
AL (4 yrs) 496 1813 209 482 94 2 73 245 6 10 133 .266 .320 .441 .761
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 2/15/2012.
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2 Responses to “Ty Wigginton: Fantasy Baseball Sleeper”

  1. chris Says:
    February 17th, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    that guy looks an awful lot like jonathon papelbon.

  2. ballparkbob34 Says:
    February 19th, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    Haha. You’re right. Working too late at night. Thanks for noticing. I think we have the right guy’s picture up now.

    – BallparkBob