Hot buys at shortstop

Source: fantasyassembly.com --- Thursday, February 01, 2018
If you’ve been reading the site lately, you no doubt have a good idea of who to stay away from or outright avoid in your fantasy drafts coming up. Here, let’s complete the gap in your fantasy Baseball knowledge (because this is clearly the only place you need to go for fantasy news and analysis) by giving a few hot buys at shortstop. The nature of fantasy is not always just picking the best guy, but spending the right amount to maximize return. So I could just give you a list of the five best shortstops in my opinion. However, I think the consequences of that are short reaching and negligible. Instead, we’ll look at what guys have lower stock than they deserve – whether it be from a down year, a hot year that people have overstated the regression, or simply players we’ve been sleeping on. So enough with the pleasantries, here’s my list: Xander Bogaerts Not exactly a hot take here, but there is decent speculation around what the future holds for the former top prospect. He’s had a couple of All-Star caliber years, and then in 2017 he fell to just “above average.” His wRC+ went from 111, to 115, to 96 this past year, helped in part to a 21 point decrease in batting average without any power benefits (ISO dropped 22 points). There is warranted concern about his ability to get and keep the ball in the air, something that’s going to limit his power going forward unless he can fix it. Bogaerts is still just 25 years old, and it’s impo ...

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