The defintion of "sleeper" is one of the harder things to pin down given the wide variety of fantasy baseball formats available. Without knowing what a sleeper is, how can you spot places to prospect for them?
One way to do so is look for opportunity. Is there a posistion manned by an injury-prone veteran i.e. Mark Kotsay in CF for Atlanta?
Whether banking that the injury-prone player is any more likely to yield a sleeper than the the most injury-resistant player has not been demonstrated to my statisfaction. After all, isn't that injury-rpone veteran starting because the team didn't have a better option?
One place to look are positions on teams that do not have a clear-cut favorite. Here are a few examples that could yield a full-time surprise in the 2008 fantasy baseball season.
- 1B New York Yankees
- 3B Florida Marlins
- 3B San Francisco Giants
- 1B San Francisco Giants
- SS Baltimore Orioles
- 1B Kansas City Royals
- CF Minnesota Twins
- 2B Chicago White Sox
- OF Oakland A's