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Jed Lowrie, BOS:<\/strong> It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to find a true sleeper on a team like the Red Sox or Yankees because of the exposure players on those teams typically receive and the hype surrounding the respective franchises\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but I think \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jedi\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a sleeper for 2011.<\/p>\n He has spent much of his brief big-league career on the Disabled List, but the Sox front office l-o-v-e-s him. He will play frequently during the 2011 season. Initially he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a super-utility guy while incumbent SS Marco Scutaro begins the year as the starter\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but I believe Lowrie will finish the year playing between Pedroia and Youkilis. He missed the first half of the 2010 season, but hit 9 HR in part-time duty (171 AB) after being activated from the DL in July.<\/p>\n If you have a vacant MI position late in your auction\/draft, you could do a LOT worse.<\/p>\n Justin Masterson, CLE:<\/strong> Disclaimer: As many of you know, I am friendly with Justin and therefore may not be the most objective analyst when it comes to his performance, but I am convinced he is going to have a breakout campaign in one of these years. <\/em><\/p>\n His 2010 numbers were somewhat ugly (6-13, 4.70 ERA, 1.50 WHIP), but his peripherals suggest those numbers were more a product of bad luck and questionable defense than anything else. His BAA was league-average (.261), his OPS-against (.725) was 18 points under league-average (.743), his GB\/FB (1.47) was nearly twice the league-average (0.79) and his BABIP (.309) was 10 points higher than league-average (.299).<\/p>\n Folks, there is some potential here! His FIP was 3.93 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c more than three-quarters of a run lower than his Earned Run Average (that placed him eighth in all of baseball in differential). When you consider that the Indians scored a half-run per game less than league average in his starts, it is not difficult to imagine that he could have been 13-6, 3.93. Once again, you could do a LOT worse if you need a starter late in your auction\/draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Different editors\/writers have differing definitions of the term, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sleeper\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The concept has been watered down in the current fantasy baseball lexicon, probably because there are writers who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be bothered to do the analysis required to uncover real \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sleepers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. In my opinion, rookies have no place on a sleeper list. They aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sleepers. They are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47,21225,12875,589,760,21227,1568,12876,12903,12877,12904,191,42,12878,588,12879,259,12880,12881,12882,12883,12884],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-history","tag-bosox","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-fenway-park","tag-higs-tickets","tag-jed-lowrie","tag-jimmy-fund","tag-justin-masterson","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nesn","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-1-fan","tag-red-sox-nation","tag-rotisserie-baseball","tag-sox-1-fan","tag-sox1fan","tag-sox1fan-comment-contest","tag-wrko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/justin-masterson-300x208.jpg\")
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