2k19: Byron Buxton

[cavebird]

I want to believe. Just give me 500 healthy PAs and an AVG that doesn't totally crush me. His glove and speed will do the rest.

His ADP is 181st in NFBC, the 47th OF off the board. If he's there I am all over it.

Since Jan 1 it goes:

43 Billy Hamilton (nope, I'd take Buxton)
44 Nimmo (yup, I'd take him over Buxton)
45 Bader (on the fence, would probably take Bader)
46 Renfroe (nope)
47 Buxton
48 Meadows (yup)
49 Laureano (yup)

I think I'd take all of those guys over Buxton. Hamilton is like Buxton without power, but he'll definitely play and he'll steal 50 bases. He's consistently boringly bad, but useful in fantasy. I'd take Bader, too, but it's closer--he does have bust potential, also because of trouble making contact. Renfroe I also think I'd take, but it depends on what the Padres do the rest of the offseason---signing Harper makes his playing time disappear, I would think.