ichiro batting 3rd now

[fantasyfiend]

This is not a temporary move, bob melvin had a talk to ichiro about the potential batter order change, and ichiro will be batting 3rd from now.

what does this do to his fantasy value?

decrease in steals and runs? more rbi's?

[G-Man]

will hurt his SB's but boost RBI output (probably only marginally b/c of the lackluster seattle offense). from a real baseball standpoint probably not a bad move.

[AstrosAlltheWay]

this hurts his valuable cause the guys in front of him arent that good and SB's will go