FBC Community Top 20 OF - #16: Alex Rios

[The Artful Dodger]

1. Grady Sizemore
2. Ryan Braun
3. Josh Hamilton
4. Matt Holliday
5. Carlos Beltran
6. Alfonso Soriano
7. Carlos Lee
8. Manny Ramirez
9. B.J. Upton
10. Carlos Quentin
11. Nick Markakis
12. Matt Kemp
13. Jason Bay
14. Carl Crawford
15. Vladimir Guerrero
16. Alex Rios

[bigh0rt]

Ri-os.

[Inukchuk]

I'm going with Ichiro here. I think he's got another good year left in the tank. Plus, he'll contribute in 9 cats!

[Dan Charette]

I vote for Rios . He's a 5 category type. I think he'll be real good this year.

[auclairkeithbc]

This one is going to be real close I think. I have Rios, Ichiro, and Granderson lumped very close together.

My vote here is for Ichiro. Though I recently read that pitching hurt his shoulder, which I am ignoring for the purposes of this vote.

Ichiro is not going to produce the HR and RBI of the other two, but neither have proven to be serious power sources nor RBI sources. Ichiro should more than make up for his deficiencies in those 2 categories with a significant advantage in SB and AVG.

If I believed that Granderson was going to steal 26 bases again like in 2007 (he only had 12 in 2008), or if I believed that Rios would repeat his 32 SB season of last year (he had 15, 14, 15, 17 in his 4 previous seasons), then I'd lean toward those 2 over Ichiro. But I don't believe either will steal more than 20 bases, Granderson might not steal more than 15.

[silverZ]

I'm going with Rios for the .300 30-30 upside.

Time to add Abreu to the list?

[The Artful Dodger]

I'm going with Rios for the .300 30-30 upside.

Time to add Abreu to the list?

Next one. Ludwick was one spot higher than Abreu on rookies' latest MDP sheet.

[MasterX1918]

I have to vote for Curtis.

[J35J]

Rios

[CadensDad]

Magz for me