Alfonso Soriano's Injury a Blessing to Fantasy Owners?

[quitesanemax]

My report comes from Spring Training however you can find some info about his legs at CBS. However I am not supposed to provide links to other sites. So says the management. They say thats a no, no.

Draftaholic

Really? Why wouldn't you be able to post links to your sources?

[KronJon]

The problem with your logic here is that it doesn't account for Soriano getting a lot more AB's hitting leadoff than he would hitting cleanup. All those extra AB's result in extra HR's.

I do not agree. What batting order was he in when he was hitting when he went 40/40?

Draftaholic

How could you not agree? What I said is FACT. There is no argument here. Hitting leadoff results in more at-bats. More at-bats result in more homeruns. It's common sense.

As for his 40/40 season, he hit predominantly leadoff. 39 of his HR's that year came when he hit leadoff, and when he hit 3rd in the order his BA was just .153, further enforcing what I said. So I have no idea what you were getting at but you are clearly wrong.

[bauermj]

The problem with your logic here is that it doesn't account for Soriano getting a lot more AB's hitting leadoff than he would hitting cleanup. All those extra AB's result in extra HR's.

I do not agree. What batting order was he in when he was hitting when he went 40/40?

Draftaholic

How could you not agree? What I said is FACT. There is no argument here. Hitting leadoff results in more at-bats. More at-bats result in more homeruns. It's common sense.

As for his 40/40 season, he hit predominantly leadoff. 39 of his HR's that year came when he hit leadoff, and when he hit 3rd in the order his BA was just .153, further enforcing what I said. So I have no idea what you were getting at but you are clearly wrong.

Easy there. Hitting leadoff will hurt RBI numbers significantly, probably with a small to moderate increase in Runs. And your point about hitting leadoff giving a ton more HR opportunities...Well, you need to speak in terms of Plate Appearances, not AB.
The last few years, Soriano hits a HR every 20 PA or so.

[bauermj]

As far as getting "a lot of extra AB" (should be PA): Jose Reyes played 160 games (765 PA) from the leadoff, David Wright played 160 games in between 2/3/4/5 and had 711 PA. So, same team, same games played, and 54 PA.

That big of a deal for 2-3 HR in Soriano's case?

[redwings122]

UPDATE if you haven't already checked this out.

Feb 29 Soriano's feeling healthy early in spring training and looks forward to using his legs on the basepaths this year, the Cubs' web site reports.

[kemper5]

I see a 36 HR, 106 RBI, 108 Run, 27 SB, .289 Ave healthy type year out of Soriano..I see the Cubs as a force on offense this year and winning the division..