Fantasy Baseball Player Notes
2021 Fantasy Baseball Draft Notes
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1.
J.D. Martinez
BOS
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2.
Nelson Cruz
FA
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3.
Yordan Alvarez
HOU
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4.
Jose Abreu
CWS
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5.
Jorge Soler
KC
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6.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
TOR
Guerrero Jr. comes into 2021 with fantasy managers asking the same question they asked the year before: can he stop hitting the ball on the ground so much? A 49.6% ground-ball rate was bad in 2019, but a 54.6% ground ball rate in 2020 was downright egregious. Guerrero Jr. hits the ball really, really hard. He was in the top seven percent of MLB in average exit velocity (92.5 MPH) and hard hit rate (50.8%). But until he learns to stop pounding the ball into the dirt, his power upside will be limited. There will be some fantasy manager in your league willing to bet on the upside, so if you want Guerrero Jr., you're going to have to draft him before his numbers say you should. This may indeed be the year that everything clicks. But you'll have to pay to find out.
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7.
Austin Meadows
TB
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8.
Luke Voit
NYY
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9.
Michael Brantley
HOU
After a few hours where it looked like Brantley was heading to the Blue Jays, he'll instead return to the Astros on a two-year contract. Despite his advancing age, Brantley remains one of the safest players in all of fantasy, batting at least .299 in each of the last six seasons in which he played at least 11 games. He both walked and struck out more than usual last season, but given that he played in just 46 games, there's little reason to draw any firm conclusions from that data. The bigger issue is that Brantley excels in only batting average, and although he'll offer something in each of the other four rotisserie categories, he won't be a difference-maker. Draft Brantley in the middle-to-later rounds if you need an average boost, but there's little upside.
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10.
Tommy Pham
SD
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11.
Franmil Reyes
CLE
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12.
Nick Solak
TEX
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13.
Carlos Santana
KC
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14.
Renato Nunez
FA
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15.
Rowdy Tellez
TOR
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16.
Shohei Ohtani
LAA
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17.
Miguel Andujar
NYY
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18.
Avisail Garcia
MIL
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19.
Miguel Cabrera
DET
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20.
Khris Davis
OAK
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21.
Shin-Soo Choo
FA
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22.
Daniel Vogelbach
MIL
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23.
Omar Narvaez
MIL
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24.
Edwin Encarnacion
FA
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25.
Zack Collins
CWS
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26.
Yandy Diaz
TB
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27.
Ji-Man Choi
TB
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28.
Albert Pujols
LAA
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