Good morning fantasy baseball nation today will be part 1 of my advice for fantasy baseball sleepers. I will be talking about my favorite 2010 fantasy baseball sleepers that are pitchers. The key way that I determine what a fantasy sleeper is, is by looking at their BAA which is Batting Average Against. First let me explain why I feel that this is one of the most important statistics took watch when you are searching for Fantasy Baseball Sleepers. When a pitcher has a low BAA this means that it is very hard for batters to get hits off of them. Now, this statistic does not take into consideration the walks or pasted balls and things like this. This is the very reason why the small amount of pitchers with a low Batting Average Against are not being talked about in the top fantasy baseball rankings anywhere.
However, this brings me to what I can say is one of my specialties, that is, finding fantasy baseball sleepers which I determine using this strategy of looking at the BAA. One of my top sleeper pitchers is Clayton Kershaw. Clayton had a Batting Average Against of .200 in 2009. If you are saying okay what does that mean, let us compare this number to the number one ranked fantasy pitcher in baseball for 2010, Tim Lincecum, he had a BAA of .206 last year. So this proves batters had a much harder time hitting pitches thrown from Kershaw then from Lincecum. The problem here is that Kershaw does have a high tendency to walk a lot of batters. However, if he can cut down on the amount of free passes he gives up during his season I believe he has a great opportunity to become one of the elite pitchers in baseball, hence one of my top fantasy baseball sleepers for this up coming 2010 baseball season.
This concludes part one of my fantasy baseball sleepers on the pitching side. Tomorrow I will be talking about the offensive side of baseball. Like what is all the hype about Carlos Gonzalez? Why is he on all the top sleeper boards across the internet and plastered all over the fantasy baseball magazines? I will explain some of my reasons why I think Gonzalez is exploding into the fantasy baseball sleepers scene. You may be surprised by some of things I have to say about him and some of the other top sleepers that are being talked about this early in the 2010 fantasy baseball season! Don’t hesitate to read some of my other posts to see where I am coming from.
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Good advice. very interesting