Rank your MI flyers...

[amcg]

5x5 MLB

This player will fill your MI slot. Who do you pick?

DeJong
Arcia
Semien
Swanson
Peraza
Beckham

[revo]

Arcia
DeJong
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Semien
Peraza
Beckham
Swanson

[Gregg]

5x5 MLB

This player will fill your MI slot. Who do you pick?

DeJong
Arcia
Semien
Swanson
Peraza
Beckham

Arcia
DeJong
Semien
Beckham
Peraza
Swanson

[amcg]

Two votes for Arcia over DeJong. Interesting...

[chancellor]

I'll give the dreaded "It depends" answer. If you review your hitters, and you're power-light, I'd take DeJong. Need some speed and don't want to put BA at risk, take Arcia.

Want both power and speed, and are safe in BA? Then I take Semien. Of the three, he's the most likely to deliver 20 HR power with 15-20 SBs, but you take about a 25 point BA hit with him.

[DMT]

I'll give the dreaded "It depends" answer. If you review your hitters, and you're power-light, I'd take DeJong. Need some speed and don't want to put BA at risk, take Arcia.

Want both power and speed, and are safe in BA? Then I take Semien. Of the three, he's the most likely to deliver 20 HR power with 15-20 SBs, but you take about a 25 point BA hit with him.

Good advice.

[amcg]

Random follow up question. Add Odubel Herrera to that list. Consider position to be irrelevant. Where does he sit?

[Hornsby]

I'm on the Semian bandwagon, I think that he's a legitimate 20/20 plus candidate this year, and there's nobody else in that area other than Arcia. I don't trust DeJong after seeing the Diaz implosion, and how the Cards handled it. According to fangraphs, DeJong ranked 211th in BB/K rate (0.31) and 160th in average exit velocity (86.4). That doesn't inspire me with confidence that he's going to be able to repeat what he did last year.

[Ken]

I don't trust DeJong after seeing the Diaz implosion, and how the Cards handled it.

I used to be in the same camp with some skepticism. The long term extension that the Cards gave DeJong makes that comparison no longer relevant IMO. They aren't going to handle him the same way knowing that they are committed to him with a long term contract now.

That doesn't inspire me with confidence that he's going to be able to repeat what he did last year.

I agree. To be certain he won't repeat the average. If you are paying for the average then you are overpaying. I think you have to discount his BA down to the .250-.260 area and then compare.

[Gregg]

5x5 MLB

This player will fill your MI slot. Who do you pick?

DeJong
Arcia
Semien
Swanson
Peraza
Beckham

I think you meant to write "Rank my MI flyers" because if we were writing about mine it the list would look a whole lot different.

Brad Miller
Ehire Adrianza
Troy Tulowitzki
Jose Iglesias
Taylor Motter
Adeiny Hechavarria

[Ken]

I think you meant to write "Rank my MI flyers" because if we were writing about mine it the list would look a whole lot different.

Brad Miller
Ehire Adrianza
Troy Tulowitzki
Jose Iglesias
Taylor Motter
Adeiny Hechavarria

Puke. No one wants to see yours Gregg. Put those things away. This is like when I get home from a long day of work and sit down to eat and my wife turns on My 600-lb Life.

[Gregg]

Puke. No one wants to see yours Gregg. Put those things away. This is like when I get home from a long day of work and sit down to eat and my wife turns on My 600-lb Life.

Nicely played.

[Sharky]

Puke. No one wants to see yours Gregg. Put those things away. This is like when I get home from a long day of work and sit down to eat and my wife turns on My 600-lb Life.

Biggest Loser says hi too.