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Fantasy Baseball: Scarcity in NL Outfielders in 2010??

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By Ray Guilfoyle
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A reader recently commented that the NL outfielder is to dep to select an outfielder like Matt Kemp with the number 1 pick. He went on to say that he would prefer to take Albert Pujols or Hanley Ramirez with his first pick, then take an OFer like Matt Holliday with his 2nd pick. I am not so sure I agree. I think the NL outfield is more scarce than people think. Here's a list of the top 20 NL outfielders based on values assigned by CBS Sportsline:

Player AB R H HR RBI BB KO SB BA OBP SLG
Kemp, Matt CF LA 525 84 160 23 89 47 123 31 0.305 0.361 0.501
Braun, Ryan J. LF MIL 538 97 166 28 95 51 100 14 0.309 0.379 0.547
Holliday, Matt LF STL 507 85 160 23 96 63 84 14 0.316 0.395 0.533
Bourn, Michael CF HOU 517 87 152 3 33 59 113 52 0.294 0.368 0.402
Morgan, Nyjer LF WAS 469 74 144 3 39 40 74 42 0.307 0.369 0.388
Upton, Justin RF ARI 448 76 136 23 74 50 116 19 0.304 0.374 0.545
Werth, Jayson RF PHI 488 86 132 33 84 78 134 13 0.271 0.374 0.531
Victorino, Shane CF PHI 537 91 159 9 55 52 63 23 0.296 0.362 0.449
Ethier, Andre RF LA 529 80 149 28 94 60 100 6 0.282 0.364 0.526
Lee, Carlos N. LF HOU 523 59 160 23 88 38 45 4 0.306 0.352 0.495
Dunn, Adam LF WAS 476 74 134 35 94 102 156 0 0.282 0.411 0.557
Pence, Hunter RF HOU 500 69 143 23 68 51 88 14 0.286 0.351 0.486
Ibanez, Raul LF PHI 428 78 120 30 83 43 104 4 0.28 0.349 0.572
Pierre, Juan LF LA 337 53 107 0 29 25 24 25 0.318 0.377 0.395
Hawpe, Brad RF COL 450 73 130 19 76 66 126 1 0.289 0.381 0.513
McLouth, Nate CF ATL 411 68 107 17 59 53 79 17 0.26 0.35 0.45
Ludwick, Ryan RF STL 420 57 115 20 87 35 88 4 0.274 0.336 0.467
Diaz, Matt LF ATL 312 50 101 10 45 28 73 9 0.324 0.394 0.497
Ross, Cody CF FLA 499 69 133 21 79 34 107 4 0.267 0.322 0.467
Willingham, Josh LF WAS 360 64 101 22 59 52 81 3 0.281 0.387 0.542

Now this isn't my top 20 NL outfielders for 2010. But how many of these outfielders would you select in the first few rounds? I think that there is more depth at 1B in the NL than in the outfield with Albert Pujols, Mark Reynolds, Adrian Gonzalez, Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard, Pablo Sandoval and Joey Votto.

Who would you rather have with your first two picks: Pujols/Holliday or Kemp/AGonz??





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