Below The Radar Bulls

Disclaimer – Feel free to use this to prep for your upcoming fantast draft / auction but the writer bears no responsibility for player’s being hurt, released or bad at baseball. At a certain level, predictions are very easy to make. Prince Fielder, Albert Pujols and Roy Halladay are going to be pretty good this year. Kyle Kendrick, Yuniesky Betancourt and the Houston Astros are not. The players below represent some of the more interesting names for this season, players who I think might just produce a nice little season even if the chances of any of them making an award ballot is minimal. All of them have shown something in the past which might indicate a good 2012 or at least an improvement on last year. Alex Rios Rios was horrible last year, struggling to a .227/.265/.348 line leading both Fangraphs and Baseball Prospectus to adjudge him to have that rare distinction – a negative WAR. Rios was so poor last year that there is likely to be a reasonable amount of dead cat bounce  abo...