Sizing Up Your Options: Grady Sizemore Out for the Season

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· June 6, 2010

It’s a strange feeling losing Grady Sizemore for the year because for all intense and purposes he never really showed up. His name alone had him owned in upwards of 90% of leagues entering Week 9. Yet in 128 at bats Grady was hitting .211 with only 15 Runs 0 Homers 13 RBIs, and 4 stolen bases. To put things into perspective Kyle Blanks in 103 at bats had 14 Runs 3 Homers 15 RBIs, and 1 Stolen base (he also hasn’t played in 2 weeks, and is currently in the minors). Being the optimist that I am I ask myself what it the upside to this loss? This was a blessing in disguise, and literally picking up ANY other starting Outfielder will give you an immediate boost. That’s not good enough though, you want the best available player on the wire to fill your void.

There are 2 things you can look at:

Best Available Outfielder covering the 5 major offensive statistical areas (R-HR-RBI-SB-AVG)
Your team has 1 pressing need and consistently loses 1 of the 5 categories above, so you grab the best player excelling at that category.

Let’s take a look at who makes the most sense to pick up covering both these perspectives.Option I (Well Rounded Starters)

H/AB-Runs-HR-RBI-SB-Avg

Drew Stubbs 42/178-31-6-26-12-.236 Cincinnati Reds
Corey Hart 43/167-23-14-35-3-.257 Milwaukee Brewers
Jason Kubel 37/163-15-6-31-0-.227 Minnesota Twins
JD Drew 53/193-33-6-33-1-.275 Boston Redsox
Cody Ross 61/205-27-5-30-3-.298 Florida Marlins
Jose Guillen 51/209-33-12-34-1-.244 Kansas City Royals

Option II (Single Stat Upgrades)

Runs

Seth Smith = Scored 19 times in the last month, huge beneficiary of Dexter Fowler’s demotion.
Fred Lewis = Scored 18 times in the last month, Leading off for a team full RBI machines.

Home Runs

Corey Hart = has 11 HRs in the last 30 days. Enough said.

RBIs

Delmon Young = He may not have the pop we would like, but he still drove in 18 over the last month.
Hideki Matsui = More like a Gecko than Godzilla, but still hits 5th on a very good team driving in 18 over the last month.

Stolen Bases
Juan Pierre = 22 Swipes this year
Nyjer Morgan = 12 SBs in 2010 so far, and heating up

Average

David DeJesus = 33 for his last 94 (.351)
Chris Coghlan = 36 for his last 113 (.319)

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Sizing Up Your Options: Grady Sizemore Out for the Season