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0 Subject: Daily Blurb - July 3, 2012

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 11:04

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"There's other guys that have pitched great, too. You can't make everybody happy. No matter who (La Russa) picks, there's going to be arguments. It's kind of like the BCS stuff. No matter what you do, it's going to be bad." -- Milwaukee pitcher Zack Greinke, on not being selected for the NL All Star team

Daily blurb
There was a time earlier this season when Josh Hamilton was the dominant hitter in virtually any fantasy scoring format. But for the past 30 days, in some formats he’s not even ranked within the top 100 hitters. That still puts him in the top five in most formats (and at #1 in some), although the competition is very tight, with guys like Carlos Gonzalez, Jose Bautista, Joey Votto, Ryan Braun, andAndrew McCutchen all crowding the top of the sortable stats. No surprises there. Kemp and Tulowitzki are notably absent, but those are injury-related. Miguel Cabrera, who was generally the consensus #1 draft pick in the spring, ranks as high as #5 in some systems, but closer to #10 in others. And Albert Pujols, in spite of tremendous improvement lately, still only barely cracks the top 10 just for the month of June. I suspect he dug himself too deep in a hole to ever get his YTD stats into elite territory.

So who are the biggest overachievers to date? Just doing a cursory scan through the sortable stats, I’d say it’s either David Ortiz or Edwin Encarnacion. Ortiz was (on average) a 6th round pick in the RIBC drafts; Encarnacion went no earlier than late in the 9th. Yet both are generally ranked in the top 10 so far. Melky Cabrera is another possibility, generally drafted in round 13. And perhaps showing the greatest disparity with draft results is Mike Trout, who was a 23rd round pick on average, yet has now cracked the top 25 YTD in several scoring formats, and is generally second only to Bautista over the month of June.

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