Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market: Allen Craig

September 20, 2011 @ 11:25:50

By Nicholas Minnix
Edited by Tim Heaney

Your fantasy baseball cheat sheets are no longer of use. KFFL.com's Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market series gives you tips on fantasy baseball players available as free agents, on waivers or for your FAAB dollars in your rotisserie or head-to-head baseball league. It's time to replace your fantasy baseball busts.

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)

 

Corner infielders

Allen Craig, St. Louis Cardinals

An unwanted Holliday

A Cardinals source told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the club has its doubts about whether Matt Holliday (inflammation in middle finger of right hand) will play before the end of the regular season. The poor fella has dealt with an assortment of ailments this year.

Craig, an oft-endorsed player - nee, a KFFL fav - has been filling in regularly. If you'll recall, it's his glove work that has never been sound; the 27-year-old is a commendable batsman.

He of the career .307/.369/.516 slash line in the minors, plus power and above-average BA skills has batted .307 with a .354 OBP, 13 doubles, eight home runs and 32 RBIs in 193 plate appearances with St. Louis this season. In the past six days, he started five games and went 4-for-19 with a pair of getty-goners and four driven in. He should continue to pick up the pieces in left field.

Shallow mixed: Consider

Deep mixed: Consider

NL-only: Acquire

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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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