Matt LaPorta, 1B/OF, Cleveland Indians

March 12, 2010 @ 00:00:00

By Tim Heaney

2010 Fantasy Baseball Projections

AB	R	H	HR	RBI	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
201	23	50	8	26	1	.249	.305	.433	.738

Toe and hip surgeries cloud Matt LaPorta's Opening Day status, but timetable isn't bleak. Reports credit his expanded use of all fields late last year, but he'll probably have growing pains in his batting eye. LaPorta's contact rate isn't terrible for a hacker, though. Will probably start in left field but will also see time at first base, in all likelihood. Draft the power and consider everything else a bonus; he's an end-gamer in deep mixed.

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