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The fantasy baseball season is only a couple months away from officially kicking off and all those long nights of obsessing over rosters is about to pay off. As usual, there are plenty of sleepers and busts to keep an eye on in this year’s draft. So as you build your draft strategy and make cheat sheets, here are my predictions for the 2014 fantasy baseball season.
|
Fantasy Award |
Player |
|
MVP |
3B Miguel Cabrera |
|
Cy Young |
SP Clayton Kershaw |
|
Best Sleeper – Stick |
1B Adrian Gonzalez |
|
Best Sleeper – Pitcher |
SP Danny Salazar |
|
Deep Sleeper – Stick |
2B Jedd Gyorko |
|
Deep Sleeper – Pitcher |
SP Sonny Gray |
|
Breakout Stick |
3B Nolan Arenado |
|
Breakout Pitcher |
SP Masahiro Tanaka |
|
Biggest Bust – Stick |
3B Josh Donaldson |
|
Biggest Bust – Pitcher |
SP Bartolo Colon |
|
Comeback Stick |
OF Josh Hamilton |
|
Comeback Pitcher |
SP Matt Cain |
|
Best Prospect – Stick |
3B Xander Bogaerts |
|
Best Prospect – Pitcher |
SP Taijuan Walker |
|
Injury Concern – Stick |
SS Jose Reyes |
|
Injury Concern – Pitcher |
SP Clay Buchholz |
|
BA Average |
2B Robinson Cano – .329 |
|
HR Leader |
3B Miguel Cabrera – 48 HRs |
|
RBI Leader |
3B Miguel Cabrera – 132 RBIs |
|
SB Leader |
OF Billy Hamilton – 86 SBs |
|
Win Leader |
SP Adam Wainwright – 21 wins |
|
Strikeout Leader |
SP Yu Darvish – 255 Ks |
|
ERA Leader |
SP Clayton Kershaw – 2.03 ERA |
|
IP Leader |
SP Clayton Kershaw – 238 innings |
|
Save Leader |
RP Craig Kimbrel – 51 saves |
Adam McGill is the Senior Fantasy Sports Writer at Rant Sports. Follow him on Twitter @adammcgill83, like him on Facebook, or add him to you networks on Google here or here.
