ESPN.com: MLB – Spring roundup: Rangers name Lewis No. 4 starter
A few notes from today’s news:
Lewis has a chance to be very good, and should be a target if you can get him under $5. He is also a young pitcher who could flounder. Cheap is good.
I let Mike Hampton get away in the XFL draft, though he was one of my prime targets while he was still in Colorado based on the idea that he would be traded over the winter (the innaugural XFL auction was at Ron Shandler’s AFL festival in November). Hampton got off to a rocky start this spring but has been pitching better lately. Many have pointed out that he was never really as good as he looked during those two fine years he had, but they are erroneously concluding that that means the Colorado experience was a reasonable one for him based on his talents. He may not win the Cy Young award, but there’s no reason to not to spend $10 or less on him.
Eric Byrnes has had a good spring and is going to get a chance to start while Chris Singleton recovers. Byrnes is still a prospect and while Singleton is a very good centerfielder, he doesn’t hit like an A. If Byrnes gets off to a quick start look for his playing time to increase quickly. That makes him worth a flyer, and cause you to knock a few bucks off Singleton and Terance Long’s prices.