Fantasy Baseball Player Notes
2021 Fantasy Baseball Draft Notes
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90.
Willson Contreras
C,DH
Contreras has established a pretty decent baseline for what fantasy managers can expect over the course of a full season. He'll likely give you a floor of 15 home runs and 110 combined runs and RBI, with upside for more. Those numbers don't sound impressive, but they're enough to make Contreras a top-five catcher easily. Given his safety, there's an argument to be made to take him as high as second overall at the position. But, even so, there's no need to select him before the eighth round or so, as there's not an appreciable difference in the production of the next seven or eight catchers beyond J.T. Realmuto.
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92.
Ian Happ
LF,CF,RF
Happ has always made consistently hard contact, but his strikeout rate was simply untenable, hovering around 34% in his first two seasons. But he has cut that down to a more manageable 26% over the last two years, and he's batted .260 with 23 home runs and 58 RBI over 115 games in that span. Happ has some speed even if he hasn't shown it recently, and he'll likely bat leadoff for the Cubs, who may need to manufacture runs more than in previous years. The average probably won't help you much, but he should contribute in four categories at a relatively inexpensive price.
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113.
Clint Frazier
RF,LF
There's little reason to doubt Frazier's ability to contribute from a fantasy perspective at this point. Over the last two seasons, he has a 162-game pace of a .267 average, 30 home runs, 83 runs scored, 96 RBI, and 6 steals. He upped his walk rate significantly in 2020 (15.6%, top seven percent in the league) and hits the ball hard consistently. The only issue for Frazier is his playing time with Giancarlo Stanton healthy and Brett Gardner back in the fold. But Frazier has done enough to hold the left field job and, regardless, Stanton, Aaron Judge, and Aaron Hicks are not the product of health. Draft Frazier as a starting outfielder and don't worry about the playing time.
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114.
Nick Madrigal
2B
Madrigal had a successful 2020 debut season with the White Sox, doing what he has done best throughout his minor league career: hitting for a high average with no power and never striking out. His main assets are his speed and and ability to hit for a high batting average, and though the power may eventually come, considering he hit four home runs total in the minor leagues, it's a good bet that it won't be this year. He's slated to bat at the bottom of Chicago's order, so downgrade his plate appearances a bit, but he will be a plus contributor in the two most difficult to fill rotisserie categories.
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221.
Yan Gomes
C
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223.
Jason Heyward
RF
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261.
Nico Hoerner
2B,SS
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268.
David Bote
3B,2B
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393.
Harold Ramirez
RF,CF,LF
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438.
Pete Crow-Armstrong
CF
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450.
Brennen Davis
LF
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496.
Ed Howard
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503.
Cristian Hernandez
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530.
Alexander Canario
CF
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562.
P.J. Higgins
C
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567.
Bryce Ball
1B
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668.
Michael Hermosillo
LF
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671.
Rafael Ortega
LF,RF,CF
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684.
Sergio Alcantara
2B,SS
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739.
Patrick Wisdom
1B,3B,LF
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749.
Greg Deichmann
RF
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759.
Andrew Romine
SS
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796.
Miguel Amaya
C
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