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Most fantasy baseball owners love to load up on power-hitters. A home run is one of the most exciting plays in sports and there are only so many players in fantasy that truly have 30-home run potential.
One slugger that has yet to hit his prime is OF Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins.
At six-foot-six, Stanton is absolute monster in the batter’s box. The 24-year-old has smacked 117 career homers and he has crushed some of the longest home runs in the majors over the last couple seasons.
Stanton only played in 116 games last season, though. He suffered a strained right hamstring in the middle of the season and was on the shelf for five weeks. It was the second consecutive season in which the slugger was forced to miss a large portion of the fantasy season and it has started to add credence to the buzz of him being injury prone.
So far this year, though, Stanton has looked healthy. He is really coming around at the plate and the young power-hitter is seeing the ball very well right now. In the first four games this season, Stanton has already amassed one home run, two doubles, and seven RBIs. He has a .375 batting average and an unthinkable .444 OBP.
Stanton is one of the best power-hitters in fantasy and he is one outfielder that has lived up to the hype so far this season. He seems primed to have a career season and the Miami Monster should easily hit reach the 30-HR plateau in 2014.
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.
