Major League Baseball : Ask Rotoman
The new one is up, with looks at a risky but potentially rewarding late-season pitching strategy, Shawn Chacon, sidebets for fantasy baseball, and a survey of recent transactions and callups.
Except for one: I meant to include Jeremy Hermida, the Marlins’ No. 1 prospect according to Baseball America. As I write this, after Wednesday’s games, Hermida has a career ML OPS of 5.000, the highest possible, and is on pace to drive in about 40,000 runs in his career with 10,000 homers. Hermida has been nursing a wrist injury recently, but apparently he’s getting over that.
Hermida was first round pick in 2002 and had a fine season in Double-A this year. Most notably he walked 111 times with 384 AB, for a .451 OBP. He isn’t expected to see much playing time this month unless someone gets hurt, but he’s here and already setting records. Who is going to tell him it’s all downhill from here?