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Ryan Raburn, DET:<\/strong> He is not especially well-known outside of Detroit… but he will be at some point. \u00c2\u00a0In terms of his fantasy productivity in 2010, his performance was diminished by the fact the Tigers couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t decide where they should play him \u00e2\u20ac\u201c at second base or in the outfield. For that reason, he had only 117 AB in the first half…\u00c2\u00a0as a result,\u00c2\u00a0his numbers\u00c2\u00a0lagged due to his sporadic opportunity. He was given consistent ABs after the all-star break and hit .315 with 13 HR.<\/p>\n His hit percentage for the year was high (34%), but his BABIP was only slightly above league-average, so it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily seem that his .280 batting average was heavily influenced by luck… his xBA was .269. \u00c2\u00a0He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t walk a lot (6.6% for 2010) and strikes out a bit too much (22.4%), but his other peripherals are solid.<\/p>\n As the Tigers head to spring training, Raburn is their starting left fielder, which means you can expect 500 ABs, a decent BA, and 20+ HR for your investment.<\/p>\n James Shields, TB:<\/strong> Many of the comments made about Masterson the other day are also applicable to Shields, except that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not likely to get him in the 22nd round of your draft or as a $1 flier at the end of your auction \u00e2\u20ac\u201c although you could.<\/p>\n He was 13-15, with a 5.18 ERA and 1.46 WHIP in 2010\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 pretty ugly numbers for a guy who just two years earlier went 14-8\/3.56\/1.15 for the American League champions. While his BB\/9 increased slightly (to 2.3) his K\/9 jumped significantly (to 8.3), allowing him to maintain an impressive K\/BB of 3.67 (good for the tenth-best mark in baseball).<\/p>\n Like Masterson, Shields was also the victim of some bad luck last year, as evidenced by his .344 BABIP\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and like Masterson, the differential between ERA and FIP (4.24) was one of the highest in the game (0.94, 3rd in MLB).<\/p>\n The Rays lost lots of players through free agency this winter and the re-building process has begun. They will need Shields to re-discover some of his past glory if they are to have ANY chance\u00c2\u00a0of competing with Boston and New York in the AL East this season. His performance is likely to be much better, although it is a stretch to think he will approach his 2008 level of success.<\/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":[47,21225,12875,589,270,21227,1568,12876,2314,12877,191,42,12878,588,12879,259,12880,12913,12881,12882,12883,2257,12884],"class_list":["post-10977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-history","tag-bosox","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-fenway-park","tag-higs-tickets","tag-james-shields","tag-jimmy-fund","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nesn","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-1-fan","tag-red-sox-nation","tag-rotisserie-baseball","tag-ryan-raburn","tag-sox-1-fan","tag-sox1fan","tag-sox1fan-comment-contest","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-wrko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977","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=10977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/james-shields-300x210.jpg\")
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