Player Caps are Live!!

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February 28, 2018

Our annual Player Caps went live on the site yesterday for your viewing pleasure! The bulk of players profiled have both a Profile and Quick Opinion. The former dives into their skills and outlook for about 200-250 words while the latter is more of a fantasy baseball focused summation of the player, often including direct fantasy advice about investing in them (or not). Some players didn’t really need a full on Profile so they only got the Quick Opinion and in many of those cases, there is no particular advice because they aren’t fantasy viable regardless of league type.

It will default to 2018, but you can click through their catalog of previous profiles, too. Here’s what you should see when go to a player’s page with a profile:

Oh, here’s Mike Trout’s profile! Look who wrote that one, well I’ll be a son of a gun!

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One of the best features of the Quick Opinions is that they’re viewable from the projections pages if you mouse over the little icon as you can see here:

The caps are still being updated. Some didn’t transfer over in the initial run through so they are being added in. When we started these Ohtani didn’t have a player page so he wasn’t included. I’m actually finishing his right after I post this. Others of unsigned players will be updated once they finally land. And finally, notable prospects will be updated using Eric Longenhagen’s team reviews for the profile followed by a Quick Opinion from yours truly so if a team isn’t done yet, they won’t have a profile.

Big thanks to the Rotographs staff and special contributors for getting these done in a very timely manner and to Darren Schienbein for editing them! Eno also contributed with 21 player caps, including some of his favorites regularly mentioned on the podcast as well as a host of starting pitchers. See if you can find all 21!

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Paul is the Editor of Rotographs and Content Director for OOTP Perfect Team. Follow Paul on Twitter @sporer and on Twitch at sporer.

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BiscuitMember since 2016
7 years ago

Excellent work guys. This is a tremendous undertaking and one of the reasons I subscribe and support this site.

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buckb-2Member since 2016
7 years ago
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Yes, very happy to see the profiles are back. Last year I bought the BP Annual, Shandler’s book and one of the Fantasy mags – and I really believed the Fangraphs write-ups were the best of the bunch!

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