Fantasy Baseball Outfielders

Listen to Fantasy Baseball Dugout editors Bob Bentz and Jonathan Bentz on Spadora on Sports and ESPN Radio from April 17, 2010.

There’s always one highly-touted MLB prospect that rocks the fantasy baseball world during draft season. Sure, there are pitchers too, but they are typically the victims of overhype because we all get to see them audition against Major League hitting during the stretch of the previous season (Joba Chamberlain and David Price, anyone?).
Hitting prospects who [...]

Placido Polanco is a natural number two hitter.  Over his career, Polanco has struck out just once per 17.5 at bats which ranks him first among active major leaguers in being most difficult to strikeout.  Polanco’s contact ability is a great addition to a powerful Phillies lineup that can hit for power, but also strikes [...]

Last Wednesday, the Arizona Diamondbacks locked up Justin Upton with a 6-year contract extension. With that type of investment, the D-backs clearly believe Upton’s 2009 production is going to become the norm.
In his breakout season, Upton batted .300 with 26 home runs, 86 RBI, 86 runs and 20 steals in 138 games. Early 2010 projections [...]

Grady Sizemore’s offseason has been eventful. Besides his run-ins on websites like PerezHilton.com thanks to a bunch of picture messages he sent to his girl Brittany Binger where he wasn’t wearing many clothes, he also conceivably trained his ass off recovering from hernia surgery.
By Sizemore’s standards, his 2009 season was kind of a letdown against [...]