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    Quote Originally Posted by Southcack77 View Post
    Just one by one:

    Albies - he's not going to hit 50 HRs, but it no longer unlikely he hits 20. He's proved the concept of power and XBH ability. So somewhere between last year and this year's start, which is a well above average hitter.

    Acuna - He's crushing every ball he touches and if anything seems a little unlucky at this point. The Ks are at 27%, and they could go either way. We'll have to wait and see what pitchers have for him second time around the league.

    Freeman - He's been better than last year's final numbers, but nothing about his star looks like a seriously hot streak. It's been slow and steady and injury would by your one concern here.

    Markakis - sure, he isn't hitting .330 with 25 HRs. But there isn't any real reason to expect his re-found power to go completely away and he's been a fairly steady performer. This should regress, but we should be looking at something maybe a little better than last year to finish and that should have him with one of his best seasons to date. Injury again being a concern.

    Flowers/Ruiz - I think expecting similar production here is entirely reasonable.

    Flaherty/Bautista/Camargo - Overall production here hasn't really been that great despite Flaherty's start. If this position is upgraded, as it should be, then you should expect better production. If it isn't, there is still a reasonable chance that you get more out of it going forward than you have so far in May.

    Swanson - Going from a 60 wRC+ to a 107 wRC+ is certainly a big swing, but I'm not sure that makes it unsustainable. Who is this guy Swanson? Is he the the guy he's shown twice in shorter stints, or is he the worst hitting regular in baseball? I'd lean towards him being something average or better at the plate and his defense took a major step forward.

    All in all, I think this groups profiles as still above average even accounting for hot starts. But best in the majors is probably asking way too much.

    That will put more stress on pitching staff that thus far has been up to the challenge as run production has gotten a little more iffy.

    Much more worried about Newcomb being an Ace holding up than the hitting.
    Your take may not be as safe, but seems more realistic and not overly optimistic.

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    https://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/hi...egura-rosario/

    Some numbers were crunched here about Albies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mfree80 View Post
    In other words... Take the worst case scenario with each player and predict that. You are bound to be right about one or two.
    Hardly the case. Worst case scenario involves big time injuries.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Southcack77 View Post
    https://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/hi...egura-rosario/

    Some numbers were crunched here about Albies.
    Same thing I've been saying for weeks...

    Albies simply doesn't hit the ball hard enough to sustain such a high HR/FB rate.

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    I think the bullpen has been fine.

    Viz, Carle, Freeman (when he doesnt pitch every day), Minter, Winkler is a good core. Could probably use another arm but i wouldnt consider this a major weakness.

    Offense has probably overachieved, dont think our C platoon stay like this all year, nor Nick hitting like a top 5 hitter in baseball and 3B is an obvious concern.

    I think the Nats unfortunately probably get hot, like they are now and run away with the division. But in general the NL is pretty wide open this year. If you get in a playoff series all bets are off.

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    When they actually win a playoff series.

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    Who is saying that Albies is going to hit 50 HR, because whoever is, isn't being realistic.

    I'm only simply continuing to say he's not going to see a 2017 Ender like balance out when the shoe finally drops on him, because he doesn't have as little power as Ender does.

    Heck, statcast backs that up:

    Ozzie Albies: 87.5 EV
    Ender Inciarte: 81.9 EV

    Does that mean Ozzie is going to hit 50 HR, or maybe even 40 or higher than 30? Likely not but he's not going to go on a long stretch which would average out to less than 10 HR over a full season, like Ender last year.
    Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.

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