When I refer to this year's "Bonifacio" I am of course referring to Emilio Bonifacio, Florida Marlins Second Basemen who got off to an amazing start last year in Florida. Bonifacio went undrafted in something like 99 percent of Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Leagues, then was picked up(or traded for) by about 99 percent of leagues after his hot first week. Well then, Bonifacio became..... Bonifacio and he went into a horrific slump, then ending the season hitting .252, very close to his .248 career batting average. Last year I read of managers offering up players such as Bobby Abreu, Nick Swisher, AROD(who was injured but still)..... amongst others, for Bonifacio after the first 3 games or so of the season. The crazy part!?! Some people actually rejected these trades!! Yours truly tried to offer up Todd Helton but the manager in my league luckily didn't accept the deal.
Well, this year it's my goal to help YOU all out there stay away from the trap of dropping an "impactful" player, using a high waiver, or making a trade for someone who will have one or two good weeks, then fall back to less than stellar numbers.( I have sure learned my lesson)
My criterion for choosing this player is fairly simple.....1) Someone who went un drafted in over 90 percent of Yahoo Fantasy Leagues 2) A Starter 3) Had a good Spring Training 4) Has gone relatively unseen by big league pitching, thus has a chance to surprise some teams early who do not have an accurate scouting report on him.
The "winner" : Cliff Pennington, SS, Oakland- Pennington seems a lock for winning the job after a competition with Adam Rosales. Pennington has had a nice spring(.333 BA) and seems to be making the plays he should be making at SS. Pennington was a call up last season for about 200 ab's(being mostly a utl guy) but most teams did not get much of a look at him. It looks like he went undrafted by over 98.7 percent of Yahoo leagues. All of those points lead me to believe Pennington will rock it out the first few games, thus allowing uneducated Fantasy Owners the chance to make jeopardizing roster moves in order to pick up this Flavor of the Month/ Week. You heard it here first: stay away, have a chuckle at the owners who didn't!
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