Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market - AL

August 12, 2010 @ 12:45:00

By Nicholas Minnix
Edited by Tim Heaney

Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market - NL

Fantasy baseball waivers and the acquisition of fantasy baseball free agents can make or break your season. Your fantasy baseball cheat sheets won't help you after spring training. If your team remains the same after opening day, you will have trouble competing in your rotisserie baseball league.

Do you need to replace your fantasy baseball busts? Which fantasy baseball players can you ignore? KFFL.com's Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market gives you fantasy baseball tips and insight to sort through the masses quickly.

Key

Acquire	Add player (in most circumstances)
Consider	Add for speculation or because of need
Watch	Track player, consider if trend continues
Pass	Do not add player (in most circumstances)

 

Catchers

Brayan Pena, C, Kansas City Royals

Kendall has company

Manager Ned Yost vowed to get his backup backstop about 15 games' worth of PT the rest of the way. That doesn't sound terribly exciting, but Pena, 28, still has some overlooked upside. He may not be KC's long-term answer behind the plate, but he has a shot.

Pena is hitting .173 this year - in 52 at-bats. He could very well be suffering from "I don't play much, so when I do, I have to show 'em something" syndrome; he's posting by far the highest strikeout rate of his career. It has to be a little disappointing to expect a chance to grow, only to sit, nearly all the time, behind the aging Jason Kendall.

Last season, in 165 at-bats, Pena batted .273 with six homers. There's a glimmer of evidence that he still has some upside, and he's approaching the age at which middling catchers typically begin to show power improvement.

Shallow mixed: Pass

Deep mixed: Pass

AL-only: Consider

Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market - NL

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Nicholas Minnix

KFFL's baseball editor plays in LABR and Tout Wars and won the FSWA Baseball Industry Insiders League in 2010.

The University of Delaware alum is a regular guest on Sirius/XM Fantasy Sports Radio and Baltimore's WNST AM 1570. Follow him on Twitter.

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