(Also: Hanley Ramirez BOS, Adrian Gonzalez LAD, Albert Pujols LAA) SECOND BASE - Rougned Odor TEX: His 13 HRs are fine, but he’s been struggling to stay above.200 Mendoza line. (Also: Willson Contreras CHC, Russell Martin TOR) FIRST BASE - Miguel Cabrera DET: Missed a dozen games but, even with his recent hot streak, still well off pace of last year’s. MID-SEASON ALL-DUD CATCHER - Jonathan Lucroy TEX: A top-five catcher pre-season, his four HRs hitting at Arlington as baffling as they are disappointing. (Also: Robbie Ray ARZ, Ivan Nova PIT, Gio Gonzalez WAS, Luis Severino NYY, Chris Devenski HOU). Michael Taylor WAS) PITCHERS - Jason Vargas KC: Waiver wire retread already has 12 wins and a career-best 2.22 ERA Alex Wood LAD: Has allowed one or zero runs in eight of 11 starts after opening season in relief. (Also: Marcell Ozuna MIA, Avisail Garcia CHW, Aaron Hicks NYY, Aaron Altherr PHIL. 1 player … Corey Dickerson TB: Finally showing he can hit for both power and AVG … Michael Conforto NYM: From bench guy to everyday indispensible by mid-April. OUTFIELD - Aaron Judge NYY: A longshot to hold on to his opening-day RF job, he’s now arguably fantasy’s No. (Also: Jake Lamb ARZ, Miguel Sano MIN, Mike Moustakas KC, Joey Gallo TEX).
(Also: Chris Owings ARZ, Zack Cozart CIN, Elvis Andrus TEX) THIRD BASE - Travis Shaw MIL: Playing half his games in Miller Park is doing wonders for his stats. SHORTSTOP - Andrelton Simmons LAA: Finally putting power/speed package together. (Also: Jonathan Schoop BAL, Starlin Castro NYY). (Also: Eric Thames MIL, Mark Reynolds COL, Logan Morrison TB, Trey Mancini BAL) SECOND BASE - Chris Taylor LAD: Utility player has provided power, speed and AVG getting everyday ABs as an injury fill-in.
(Also: Tyler Flowers ATL, Martin Maldonado LAA) FIRST BASE - Ryan Zimmerman WAS and Justin Smoak TOR: How can you pick one over the other? Zim has the slightly more spectacular stats but Smoak was on more waiver wires to open the season. MID-SEASON ALL-STUD CATCHER - Alex Avila DET: After two years of barely hanging on to a backup job, he’s hitting. And again, we’ve left out anyone who began the season in the minors and was ineligible to be drafted (sorry, Cody Bellinger owners) as well as most players who have missed more than a couple of weeks with injuries. The duds, conversely, were mostly high picks who have disappointed. Most of the studs were mid- to low-round picks in fantasy drafts who are delivering unexpectedly strong numbers. Once again, the names listed below are not the best (or worst) at their positions, but rather the ones who have delivered the best value when factoring in their pre-season ranking. With most teams about to pass the 81-game mark this week, time to identify our mid-season fantasy studs and duds.
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