Eno’s “Sleepers”
Short but simple piece right here. I just finished drafting my 12th league, so with an “n” of 12, let’s see who I like. The simplest way to do this is to list the players I own most. So, here we go.
Time to see how close I play my favorites.
Lucas Duda — 7
Jaime Garcia — 7
Matt Joyce — 6
Nolan Reimold — 6
Logan Morrison — 5
Jason Kipnis — 4
Chris Sale — 4
Daniel Hudson — 4
Juan Nicasio — 4
Sergio Santos — 4
Frank Francisco — 4
Greg Holland — 4
Andre Ethier — 4
Brett Anderson — 4
Mike Minor — 3
Matt Moore — 3
Kerry Wood — 3
Mike Napoli — 3
Joe Mauer — 3
Dee Gordon — 3
Jordan Walden — 3
Addison Reed — 3
Joel Hanrahan — 3
Jon Lester — 3
Derek Holland — 3
Josh Willingham — 3
Jay Bruce — 3
Jed Lowrie — 3
Zack Greinke — 2
Jose Altuve — 2
Joey Votto — 2
Josh Hamilton — 2
Freddie Freeman — 2
Ian Kinsler — 2
Cory Luebke — 2
Henry Rodriguez — 2
Tim Hudson — 2
Brian Matusz — 2
Matt Garza — 2
Brandon Beachy — 2
Johan Santana — 2
Carl Crawford — 2
Drew Smyly — 2
Albert Pujols — 2
Yoenis Cespedes — 2
Geovany Soto — 2
Aramis Ramirez — 2
Clay Buchholz — 2
Justin Morneau — 2
Yovani Gallardo — 2
Tom Wilhelmsen — 2
Jarrod Parker — 2
Yunel Escobar — 2
Alex Rodriguez — 2
Kevin Youkilis — 2
Troy Tulowitzki — 2
Nelson Cruz — 2
Yeah, you coulda called a couple of the top guys if you’ve been following along. Remember that these are all different leagues — from scoresheet to linear weights — so some of the relievers, in particular, might make sense in some leagues and not in others. It’s a little embarrassing how often I own Lucas Duda, yes. At least I mixed it up a little?
With a phone full of pictures of pitchers' fingers, strange beers, and his two toddler sons, Eno Sarris can be found at the ballpark or a brewery most days. Read him here, writing about the A's or Giants at The Athletic, or about beer at October. Follow him on Twitter @enosarris if you can handle the sandwiches and inanity.
I have no less than 8 of these sleepers in my standard Yahoo fantasy pool. I paid in the 40s for Votto, but the next highest was Santana which I overpaid at 11. My team is either going to make everyone snap out of their slumbers, or continue to hibernate through the whole summer.
DUDAAAAAAA
I’ve got Duda in my only league that matters, but he’s a backup at 1B/LF/RF. He’s backing up Lomo though, so it’s possible he’s my opening day LF. Hoping for big things!
I don’t have Duda in my league, but I’m a Met fan, so: Go Lucas Go!!!
I traded away Dunn and Liriano for Duda and Beachy. Hoping that works for me.
Yikes
I recently replaced Tabata with Duda as my OF5. Good luck to all fellow Duda owners.
Those 2 are in my rotation as 5th OF’ers. Love it!
Why are you so high on Reimold this year? What kind of numbers do you proj?
.275 20/10 seem within reach.
Nice list – funny I literally just did this same exercise for my 12/13 teams and was going to post a similar list/breakdown over at mastersball. Way to beat me to the punch bro! Well – I’ll likely do it anyway since it took a couple hours to go through all those teams : )
Interesting. Might have to do one of these.
chris parmeleeeeeeee!!!
duda!!!! goldy!!!!!
no lorenzo 30/30 cain.
duda 25/100/.300
hmmmmmmmm alex gordon 29/20/.301
Simple question: is Duda better than Belt?
He’s assured regular playing time, something Belt can’t claim.
i love this idea for this article. question though–what was the mix of leagues in terms of auction/snake?
Good question, and maybe I should have broken that down for the top guys. Let’s see, I’m in 12 leagues and six of them were auction.
i was drafting Duda like crazy. I also picked up Franky Frank, E5, Ike Davis, and Santos quite often
then u are doomed