Hello and greetings one and all. Some of you may not know me so let me introduce myself. My name is Sky and the reason I highlighted my name with a hyperlink is because I have a super-secret alter-ego. So secret, it’s all over the internet if you wish to look. You see, I also work over on the Fantasy Football side of the Razzball universe. Over there, we yak about YAC whilst y’all babble about BABIP over here. But occasionally, there is a solar eclipse and I wake to find myself here and by ‘solar eclipse’ I mean ‘Grey throws a black hood over my head and imprisons me’ and by ‘wake’ I mean ‘coming out of my chloroform hangover’. As I may or may have not said before on this site, I’m Bi-Fantasexual. Yup, a modern day Bo Jackson minus the muscles, money and athletic ability. Trivial things. Good, we now up to speed? So now we’re no longer strangers but for the fact we’ve never met due to the internet which almost makes us Perfect Strangers. I worked really hard to weave that last part into my lead. It’ll pay off later, I promise. As an aside, I look a lot like Bronson Pinchot and if you don’t believe me, you can ask JFOH. Minus the rugged, island of Mypos good looks for sure…wait, what the hell? Yeah, Fantasy Baseball. Lost my shizz for a bit there. So let’s get on with Josh Reddick and why he’s a good outfielder to target for your deep league team for the 2014 Fantasy Baseball season…
In order to understand why furry-faced Josh Reddick is a deep league sleeper for 2014, we have to decide who Reddick is. Is he a late-blooming power hitter like 2012 suggested when he hit 32 bombs? Or maybe he’s the wash up that destroyed plenty a team who drafted him high last year when he only hit 12 dongs while batting .226? Or better yet, did he and fellow baseball messiah – Jayson Werth – merely trade places in 2013? I mean, Werth was 34 and had quite the bounce back year. Put on shades to go with that much derelicte, who could tell? As quickly as Reddick seemed to become a popular name to draft last season he became a name to avoid for this season. Fantasy Baseball is fickle like that. You don’t even get past the ‘fool me once’ saying around here. Unless you’ve got a very long track record or are extremely young, the masses never forget. Y’all a buncha Hortons up in here! Well, maybe I can’t get you to forget but I ask that you forgive this poor, grizzly soul. You see, Reddick was felled by one of the biggest power zappers any hitter has to deal with: wrist issues. Reddick did what any real life manager loves but any fantasy manager hates and played through the pain in 2013, leaving behind him a terrible end line that will leave his price at the draft table pretty depressed this season. But his price depression is your chance for penny-pinching rejoice. Oh and I didn’t just bring up Jayson Werth for beard jokes, people. You see, Werth went through a period of time – mid 2000’s – where his career was in jeopardy. He didn’t even play in 2006 and it was all because of his broken wrist from 2005. But as we all know, he came back with a vengeance in 2008 and was a fantasy draft-day discount in 2009 when he hit 36 bombs. And keep in mind, that was a broken wrist, not the strained one that Josh had surgery on in late October of last year. To quote my 80’s doppleganger Balki, Don’t Be Reddick-U-Lous and pass on Josh in your deep league drafts this year. Yes, that was the Perfect Strangers payoff. And yes, I promise never to build anticipation for something that lame again. And yes, I’m done. Peace out!
Sky Sperling is a contributor for Razzball Football and Razzball Baseball. He’s also a lover of fine beer, fine women and fine-toothed combs. You can follow him on twitter @Sky_Razzball and in your most sweetest of dreams.
