Fantasy Baseball: ADP Movers

by faketeams on Jan 29, 2009 12:00 PM EST in Baseball Comment 1 comment

Mock Draft Central provides more than a great mock drafting platform and ADP reports. It also proves a Fantasy Trend report that helps see which players are hot and which are not.

I typically use the report to see which players are hot and which players are breaking on to the fantasy draft scene. Below is a list of the former.

After seeing Chase Utley climbing, I next noticed most of the top movers occurred in the double-digit rounds. What I take away is the awareness that my "sleepers" will need to be grabbed a round or two sooner than I originally projected.

Additionally, Texas Rangers' 1B/3B Chris Davis is not a sleeper. Two weeks ago, he was being taken in the 7th round. Now he is being taken in the 6th. I doubt he can rise much higher than that given the quality of players he would have to surpass. The twelve players being taken ahead of Davis are SP Cliff Lee, 1B Carlos Pena, OF Adam Dunn, C Geovanny Soto, OF Magglio Ordonez, OF Bobby Abreu, SS Rafael Furcal, RP Brad Lidge, 2B Dan Uggla, OF Jacoby Ellsbury, OF Nate McLouth and OF Corey Hart.

Do you agree?

Pos	Player	Team	ADP	Up Trend
RP	Matt Lindstrom	FLA	176.63	25.3%
2B	Chase Utley	PHI	17.9	23%
OF	Pat Burrell	TB	147.29	20.1%
C	Mike Napoli	ANA	151.82	18.8%
1B	Chris Davis	TEX	71.33	15.4%
RP	Trevor Hoffman	MIL	184.31	14.7%
RP	Brian Fuentes	ANA	116.43	14%
C	Matt Wieters	BAL	127.14	12.9%
OF	Nelson Cruz	TEX	130.37	11.5%
C	Chris Iannetta	COL	141.87	10.8%

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I agree for the most part but have the following comments:

Utley: [move down] a first round talent in 2009 – hip surgery raises questions.
Burrell: [move up] still has has one of the most consistent skill sets you will find.
Napoli: [move up slightly] if he can eliminate his contact problem he should have amazing power numbers, moderate health risk though.
Wieters: [move down] not as good as Napoli and I don’t see a lot of upside
Cruz: [move down] if he just had a batting avg to go with that power….
Iannetta: [move up slightly] Napoli has better skills… but Iannetta could be top 5 if he gets in the grove for the whole season.

by redmeatfreak on Jan 29, 2009 3:03 PM EST reply actions 0 recs