Captain Obvious and The Value Kid

[DOUGHBOYS]

I just listened to a half hour of a fantasy baseball talk show on Sirius.
It was like going to a dentist.
First, I don't think that any fantasy baseball radio personality can go 10 words without saying "Value".
If it were a drinking game, we couldn't fill the cups fast enough!
Not only do player have 'value'.
There place in the lineup is a 'value'. Their team is a 'value'. Their park is a 'value'. Their round is a 'value'.
Would it kill them to broaden their vocabulary?
Do they think their audience is so stupid that 'value' is the only thing understood?

Did you know Michael Brantley will have no 'value' in April or May, but plenty of 'value' afterwards?
That Corey Dickerson lost 'value'.
NO SHIT!
Sorry, I don't usually swear, but these guys are Captain Obvious and they bring along their sidekick, 'The Value Kid'.

Captain Obvious and the Value Kid will tell us repeatedly what we already know.
As soon as we read about Michael Brantley and his surgery, we dropped him on lists.
As soon we heard about Corey Dickerson moving from a mile high to sea level, we moved him down our lists.
No brainers.
Brantley and Dickerson are still the same players. Their circumstances have changed.
Have they lost value?
I guess we can put it that way.
But that is like having and loving a dog. Then coming home with your favorite shoes ripped to shreads, with the sole in your dog's mouth.
We'll say "BAD DOG!"
Not once do we think, "That dog has lost 'value'."
Shit happens and we adjust.

Now, let's get off the subject of Captain Obvious and The Value Kid and talk about one of these players.
Corey Dickerson, in my mind, ws being taken too high by drafters anyway.
He was hardly punished at all for having an injury riddled season last year.
Coors Field has a way of doing this to drafters.
Over the years, Tulo and CarGo have easily been forgiven for injuries. And they've had many.
Still, there taken in the first five rounds.
Tulo has even changed parks and leagues and is still taken in the first five rounds.
The love for Colorado hitters linger.

Before the trade, Dickerson was being taken in the fifth round of most drafts.
I didn't draft him once. I like Coors hitters as well as anybody, but there has to be limits and the fifth round was too prohibitive for me.
Even the sixth.
I entered a draft today, partly to see where he would be taken now that he is with Tampa.
I wouldn't take him in the first nine rounds.
Tampa is not a good destination for hitters.
Even Longoria has been their best hitter forever.
And he's just not that good.

Tampa management hardly LET a hitter be a good hitter.
Almost automatically platooning them.
It may work well for the real game.
But, for the fantasy game, we like to see our hitters playing in 150 games.
Not, platooning and coming off the bench to pinch hit.
My bet is that Dickerson does not get a chance to play against a lot of lefties.
He only has four homers in his career off of lefties and hits just .246 vs. southpaws.
A prime candidate for platooning.
The Rays have platoon-type outfielders coming out of their ears. They just got another.
Kiermeier being the only one that will start every day, because of his defense.

So, Dickerson is a player who not only lost a good park.
He'll most likely lose at bats to boot.
In his career away from Coors, he has 454 at bats and this line...
.249/52/15/46/3
I'd suspect with a trip to the disabled list thrown in, that his numbers may be very similar this year.