Fantasy Baseball Player Notes
2021 Fantasy Baseball Draft Notes
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3.
Mike Trout
CF
For one of the first times since he took the league by storm, Trout is not the consensus top pick this year. It's hardly his fault, though it's fair to point out some of the negatives with his 2020 season. He batted a career-low .281, and posted his worst walk- and strikeout-rates since 2015. He also stole only one base. But Trout's move down the overall baseball rankings is due more to his competition for the top spot, rather than his numbers. He was still among the league leaders in quality of contact and every expected statcast metric, and was on pace to hit 50 home runs over the course of a full season. Trout is entering his age-30 season, so although we've seen him rebound from poor stolen base years before, it now seems unlikely that he'll ever get back to much past low-double digits. That keeps him out of the top spot in rotisserie rankings, but his incredibly high floor makes him a top-five overall draft pick.
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19.
Anthony Rendon
3B
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106.
Raisel Iglesias
RP
Iglesias bounced back from a sub-par 2019 to post an excellent 2020 season, with a 2.74 ERA, a 0.91 WHIP, and the lowest walk rate of his career. He'll now move to the Angels where he'll keep his role as a closer. Iglesias's numbers should be solid as usual, and his precise value should hinge on whether the Angels use him in more of a multi-inning role like the Reds historically did (which limited Iglesias's save totals), or deploy him as a more traditional ninth-inning option. Either way, Iglesias will be the Angels' stopper, and hence, should be drafted as a strong top-10 RP option.
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124.
Dylan Bundy
SP
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152.
Shohei Ohtani
SP
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172.
Andrew Heaney
SP
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197.
David Fletcher
2B,3B,SS,LF
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236.
Jared Walsh
1B
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247.
Jo Adell
LF,RF
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257.
Griffin Canning
SP
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326.
Justin Upton
LF
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338.
Mike Mayers
RP
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368.
Jose Iglesias
SS
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376.
Kurt Suzuki
C
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415.
Max Stassi
C
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574.
Ty Buttrey
RP
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578.
Jose Quintana
SP
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596.
Felix Pena
SP,RP
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600.
Jaime Barria
SP,RP
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