Fantasy baseball sleepers to help you win your league on draft day. Who you should be targeting late in your draft to help fill out your roster.
With only a few weeks left of spring training, fantasy baseball drafts are in full swing, and while we can all agree that picking Mike Trout or Christian Yelich is a great first step towards having a strong team, winning fantasy baseball is all about uncovering the diamonds in the rough; The guys who aren’t expected to be stars, or produce at all.
As someone who likes to draft extremely safe in the early rounds, I rely heavily on finding good value in the lower rounds. Well drafted (and if necessary, stashed) sleepers are what tends to separate the cream from the crop.
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Players become sleepers for various reasons.
Sometimes, they’re prospects who don’t quite pan-out right away, other times they’re veterans who are deemed “over-the-hill” a little too early, they may also just be guys who needed a change of scenery and found a new home (and a revamped lineup) to be beneficial.
Every year, fantasy stars come out of nowhere to win categories and break hearts.
After a subpar 2018 season, Rafael Devers set the world on fire to the tune of 32 home runs, 115 RBIs, and a .361 OBP. Jorge Soler exploded on the scene and hit 48 homers (10 more than he had hit in his entire 4-year career, combined).
If pitching is more your thing, how about Mike Minor winning 14 games and striking out 200 batters for a hapless Texas Rangers squad?
Those three probably won’t catch anyone by surprise this year, but the question is, who will?
As you move through this piece, we’re going to give you a diamonds worth of sleepers; guys who we expect to provide better value than the spot that they are projected to be drafted in.
Ignore these sleeper picks at your own peril…