1st Basemen to Target, 2009 Fantasy Baseball
March 20, 2009
Category: 2009 Fantasy Baseball Draft, 2009 Sleepers
I already did the catchers, 2nd basemen, shortstops, 3rd basemen, outfielders and starters to target for 2009 fantasy baseball. I skipped the 1st basemen on purpose because I don’t think you should be taking a flier on 1st basemen. You need some anchors for your hitting. Then someone commented yesterday asking for the 1st basemen to target and the course of Razzball history was changed forever, like when Marty got into that DeLorean. I haven’t changed my mind that you shouldn’t be taking a flier on a 1st basemen, but sometimes things are out of your control or you need a corner man or a Utility guy. This is a supplement to the top 20 1st basemen of 2009 fantasy baseball. If you’re feeling especially industrious, click on the players name to read more about them or to see their 2009 projections. Anyway, here’s some 1st basemen to target for 2009 fantasy baseball:
Chris Duncan – Colby Rasmus has moved above him on the depth charts, but I think Duncan still gets 300 ABs and nears 20 HRs. Unless LaRussa doesn’t want anyone coaching his pitching staff. Dave Duncan, “Muahahahahahahaha…” Pause. Duncan, “And you know that!”
Mike Jacobs – He’ll probably hit .250 and batting in the Royals order will do him no favors, but he could hit 30 HRs and have one of those lucky BABIP years and end up hitting .275. Though I wouldn’t team him up with a Dunn, Krispie or Uggla-type.
Casey Kotchman – Kendry Morales minus 3 home runs.
Kendry Morales – Casey Kotchman plus 3 home runs. See how that worked.
James Loney – Is he that different than Conor Jackson? Rhetorical!
Paul Konerko – Konerko hit 9 HRs in the month of September last year. ZIPS has him for 25 HRs, hitting .269 in 502 ABs. That seems doable. He had a very unlucky 2008 with injuries and BABIP. He’s only 33; he just seems like a non-Latin 45.
Nick Swisher – I wouldn’t shy away from Swisher because of projected playing time. I think he takes the job from Nady when Nady’s exploited for not being what he was last year. The bigger issue with Swisher is he might hit .235.
Billy Butler – Bust can refer to Butler’s major league career thus far or his moobs. I haven’t talked that much about Butler thus far in 2009. Potential for 20 HRs and a .300 average. He’s crushing the ball so far in spring training. Exciting, huh? Yeah, he crushed the ball in spring training last year and ended up demoted to the minors on May 29th. He’s still very young so we shouldn’t write him off as a March-only hitter. (George Steinbrenner once referred to Dave Winfield as Mr. May because of his early season exploits. What’s someone called who only hits well in spring training? Mr. Grapefruit. He’s not just hot. He’s not just red hot. He’s ruby red hot!) For this year with Billy Butler, I think Mr. Grapefruit can carry his tart sweetness into the regular season and not turn sour.
Tags: 2009 fantasy baseball, Billy Butler, Casey Kotchman, James Loney, Kendry Morales, Mike Jacobs, Nick Swisher, Paul Konerko
March 20th, 2009 at 11:52 am
GREY;where is konerko,nallasco,danks and nelson cruz going in early 12 team 5×5 roto`s, also whats your take on zimmerman and hanson
March 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
as for the subject at hand, i really like konerko and also look for butler to improve enough to help me out,morales dumb as he may be,looks to be a fine late pick,ive about given up on kotch,had him for past 2 or 3 years pegged to break out,with bad results
@AL KOHOLIC: Zimmerman who? Ryan? Jordan? I just did a post on both. Search on the left hand side. Konerko’s going way after those guys, so he’s the best value. Nolasco’s going anywhere from 7th to 10th round, he’s being overrated and Danks is going for good value somewhere in the 11th to 14th rounds. Cruz is being overrated by some, he also has a post on the site. Put down the nip and search.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
@Grey: sorry for the lack of research,been trying some mock draft,thanks for the direction,the left side has shed some light for me,as for the nip ,ive only had 1 beer thus far today,see im behind in more than just my research,one more question,3rd pick 12 team 5×5 roto,reyes wright,cabrera or sizemore,,kind of scared to go with reyes and pass on power numbers that early,,thanks again
March 20th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
@AL KOHOLIC: My two cents: Take Reyes. (In this order: Reyes, Wright, Cabrera, Sizemore.)
Reyes could/should get you 15 HRs. So that’s, say, 20 HRs, less than Wright or Cabrera. Significant.
He’ll steal 60 bags, which is 40 more than Wright and 50 more than Cabrera. More significant.
You can make up the 20 HRs elsewhere much more easily than you can the 40 bags.
March 20th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Where did you get the info on Rasmus passing Duncan? I think Duncan may be considered the starter?
@AL KOHOLIC: I agree with the Baron.
@Pete: From St. Louis Dispatch, “If Skip Schumaker makes a successful conversion to second base while Joe Mather holds down third, the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.” Rasmus fits better in as the ninth guy in the order rather than Duncan. Duncan appears to be the fourth OF. Obviously not set in stone as of right now, as spring is still underway.
March 20th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
grey i got my 2nd draft this sunday this is the only league im in where strikeouts count against you with that being said where would you rank ryan howard?
@mikey boy324: Somewhere in the third round.
March 20th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
@Grey: thanks the reasurence was needed,cant wait for the draft@Baron Von Vulturewins: good to here,i wanted him but wasnt sure if in these deaper leagues i`d regret it@mikey boy324: tough call,im in one where k`s count against hitters,the guy with howard usually will then load up on power numbers and forget the k`s cat.
March 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
@Grey: “The opening for Rasmus appears to widen.”
I challenge every novelist in America to include this sentence in every novel written for the next 100 years.
@Baron Von Vulturewins: All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
@”The opening for Rasmus appears to widen.”
…on the same team as Pujols, no less. Zing! Can I get a little Asdrubal?
March 20th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
@Grey: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, as the opening for Rasmus appeared to widen.*
*Yes, tense variations are permissible.
@Baron Von Vulturewins: I’m your worst nightmare. An 8 year old with a badge. The opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
EDIT: Misquote.
March 20th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
@Baron Von Vulturewins: From Salinger’s locked-up manuscript:
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.”
March 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
lolol!!
March 20th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
“We were somewhere in the desert near Barstow when the drugs began to take hold, the opening for Rasmus appears to widen”
Parting is such sweet sorrow as the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
@agarthered: I think that’s how the actual book really goes. I’m sure Mr. Gonzo saw a few openings widen on that trip.
A simple pill can increase the size of a certain part of the male body as the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Mr. Lebowski, this is Fred Dynarski with the Southern Cal Bowling League. I just got a, an informal report, uh, that a uh, a member of your team, uh, Walter Sobchak, drew a loaded weapon during league play– as the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Maybe this isn’t the best time to pump up Butler……..but now that the hype has diminished he’ll probably deliver
You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips
And there’s no tenderness anymore in your fingertips
Your trying hard not to show it baby
But baby, baby i know this
You’ve lost that loving feeling, whoa that loving feeling
You’ve lost that loving feeling as the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
@Rudy:simply righteous
March 20th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Hello!
Is it me you’re looking for?
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile
You’re all I’ve ever wanted
And my arms are open wide
Because you know just what to say
And you know just what to do
As the opening for Rasmus appears to widen
They see me rollin’,
They hatin’,
Patrolling they tryin’ to catch me Rasmus appears to widen dirty,
Tryin to catch me widen dirty,
Tryin to catch me widen dirty,
Tryin to catch me widen dirty,
Tryin to catch me widen dirty.
March 20th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
… I didn’t even have to use my AK
Today was a good day
As the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
@ Doug: Maybe this isn’t the best time to pump up Butler……..but now that the hype has diminished he’ll probably deliver as the opening for Rasmus appears to widen
March 20th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
niagra falls .
slowly , i turn ,
step by step ,
inch by inch ,
and ,
“the opening for rasmus appears to widen” .
March 20th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Haha, you guys made my day after a particularly stressfull one. Thank you all.
March 20th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
@Grey: Daniel Murphy is tearing it iz-up nephew. Would waste a waiver claim on ‘em? H2H Points League.
March 20th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
It was the best of Rasmus, it was the worst of Rasmus. We had everything before Rasmus, we had nothing before Rasmus, – in short, the opening for Rasmus appears to widen, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
@BigFatHippo: Mind the Gap, the opening for Rasmus appears to widen larger than it appears.
@Juice: No.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
@Grey: March unleashed a torrent of rainfall after an abnormally dry winter. The opening for Rasmus then descended and was held in place by a swirling wind that appeared to widen the Gorge from Eastern Oregon.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
With this,
the great seriousness commences,
when the proper interrogative mark is set up,
the opening for Ramus appears to widen,
the fate of the soul changes,
the hour-hand moves,
and tragedy begins…
Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend
Grendel who haunted the moors, the wild
Marshes, and made his home in a hell.
Not hell but hell on earth. He was spawned in that slime
Of Cain, murderous creatures banished
By God, punished forever for the crime
The opening for Ramus appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I did love you once.
Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so
You should not have believed me….I loved you not.
I was the more decieved
Ophelia, the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
Ofeelya own crotch for a change, you creep
March 20th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum as the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul the opening for Rasmus appears to widen
March 20th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
@Freak: @Doc: This is getting completely out of hand, I love it………….
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bind the opening for rasmus, that appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
LOL outta control
March 20th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Twas the Kings Castration day and the King was giving a ball
One of his own
The counts, no accounts and discounts were all sitting around
shooting the camel shit,
for in those days, bullshit was unheard of.
David approached the King and said King
where’s the Queen?
The Queens’s in bed with diphtheria.
That little Greek bastard?
For this, David was thrown to the lions den
whereupon David replied
Oooh, that tickles, and the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
What tickles?
Testicles tickle, for the lions were licking David’s balls.
For this, David was summoned forth
whereupon David slipped on a lion’s turd and came in 5th.
The turd flew at random, but Random ducked and the turd hit the King square in the face.
The King yelled “SHIT”
and 40,000 loyal Subjects squatted in strain……..
For in those days, Kings word was Law.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Call me Ishmael. Some Years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the opening for Rasmus that appears to widen.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Do you guys expect Rasmus to get the full time gig as the season goes on?
March 20th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
just stone cold loco shizz….lol over and over again…thank you boys.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that the opening for Rasmus appears to widen, thank you very much.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
@James: It has been said that the opening for Rasmus appears to be widening.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen the gap for Rasmus.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
There are many reasons for visiting Razzball. Widening the opening for Rasmus appears to be one of them.
March 20th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered – not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.’
Then the bird said, `the opening for Rasmus appears to be widening.’
March 21st, 2009 at 8:16 am
Trade Morneau for Mauer and VWells? Morneau is at Util and I would be replacing Napoli at C. Is Mauer’s injury something to be worried about? I also have Weiters.
@Yak: I wouldn’t make that trade.
March 21st, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Karma works in mysterious ways, and the opening for Rasmus appears to widen.
Think we had something to do with this?
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/commishs-hot-stove/commishs-hot-stove/cardinal-beat-updates/2009/03/no-longer-on-tilt-rasmus-wrecks-nats/
March 21st, 2009 at 5:33 pm
@BigFatHippo: Aaron Miles was the last Cardinal to get 5 hits in ST. Hahahohohehe. That can’t be a good omen.
March 21st, 2009 at 6:52 pm
@Freak: Miles was a fan favorite though, we loves us some utility players……………..
March 26th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQg0qESxVG4&feature=related
@Doug Ault: Was that a Hippo playing the opening for Rasmus appears to widen? Nice.