Fantasy Baseball Sleepers 2012: High-Profile Sleepers Not Worth Your Time
If you haven't seen their names by now, you will. These are the fantasy baseball sleepers being flaunted as prizes when they are really just garbage.
It seems a bit odd to consider any sleeper as overvalued, but such is the case with ubiquitous season previews and every last baseball fan posting an opinion online about their favorite sleepers.
This means a flood of players who should be more warning sign than target of value show up all over the place.
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Well, we have had quite enough and are here to slam the players who should be the last people you pick on draft day.
Buyer beware of these failures posing as high-value sleepers.
Ah, yes. We start with the kind of player who is, at best, a means to satisfy a couple categories and, at worst, a one-dimensional hole on your roster.
I am willing to take Bourn when his batting average dipped like it did when he left Houston for Atlanta. His power was down and his strike-out rate was far too high than is acceptable.
Steals are one thing, but not at the complete detriment of the rest of your categories.
Colby Rasmus
He may have a new swing and a fresh outlook on life in Toronto, but this is still that same player who was just dreadful to end the season in 2011.
In just 140 plate appearances for the Canadian team, he batted .173 and hit just three home runs. I am running frigid on Rasmus entering spring training.
Aroldis Chapman
We come to my favorite player to flirt with every draft day, and the one who gets bandied about everywhere you look.
The fact is, Chapman has the sickest stuff I have ever seen, and it's hard to separate a triple-digit fastball with movement and the fact that he can't throw it for strikes or deliver the endurance needed to be a starter.
Unless he has a ridiculous spring training wherein he proves that he can indeed throw six-plus innings every five days, he is still a season or so away from being the ace we all think he can be.
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