Key Stats: Mike Napoli started only 102 games last year, but still came out as a top 60 overall player in the Yahoo rankings. He went to the DL in June with a strained oblique, but other than that was healthy for the rest of the regular season. And the numbers showed it. Napoli hit .443 in July and .383 in the second half last season. He smashed 18 home runs after the all-star break. You could make a case given the position scarcity that he was the most valuable player in fantasy baseball after the all-star break last season.Skeptics Say: Game six of the World Series saw a pretty ugly injury to Napoli (as well as the most painful loss in Rangers history), and Napoli said the ankle still isn't 100%. He did claim that he could hit and throw fine, but that doesn't mean the injury will get worse if he pushes himself.
Peer Comparison: Although Tristan Cockcroft agrees with me, nobody else at this site ranks Napoli ahead of Carlos Santana so I feel obligated to defend my stan...
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