The last several seasons have seen a sharp decline in the highly sought after fantasy baseball players who hit at least 20 HR's and steal at least 20 bases. We have not seen a 30/30 player in several years, let alone 40/40. Last year, there were just 4 players to reach the 20/20 plateau in MLB:
Manny Machado: 35 HR, 20 SB.
Paul Goldschmidt: 33 HR, 21 SB.
Ryan Braun: 25 HR, 24 SB.
AJ Pollack: 20 HR, 34 SB.
Close but no Cigar:
Starling Marte: 19 HR, 30 SB.
Justin Upton: 26 HR, 19 SB.
Mookie Betts: 18 HR, 21 SB.
2016 Steamer Projections do not have any of these player repeating the feat. Steamer projects just one player in all of MLB to achieve the 20/20 goal: Carlos Correa, the SS from Houston. Betts and Marte are close.
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Yes, but did steamer project any of these guys to accomplish the 20/20 feat in 2015? Projections are notoriously conservative, wouldn't you say?
ReplyDeleteAlso, doesn't Trout have the 20/20 thing going for him??
... Hmm, guess those SBs fell off after the first year. Wouldn't put it past Trout to re-master spoken bases sometime in his career..
Don't hold your breath on Trout every becoming a big SB threat again. My own rule of thumb is once SB's fall off, they don't come back.
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