Mixed 5×5 10 team league. What is your take on Durazo and his return?
Yahoo! Sports: MLB – Durazo activated, takes over starting job at first
He’s back. The big question is what is he going to do?
Baseball Prospectus seems to think that he can do no wrong, though he’s 28 years old and hasn’t had more than 200 AB in a season.
I can’t really argue in good conscience that he’s going to flop. He’s got too much power and too much discipline to fail completely, and with Mark Grace clearly in decline, the Diamondbacks don’t have other apparent options.
But clearly Ruby (as Bob Brenly calls him, and why not) is brittle boned, and clearly the Diamondbacks weren’t convinced he was going to be a big league every day first baseman (or why would they have signed Grace?).
In the RotoWire magazine I projected him to hit .287 with 20 homers and 74 RBI. He’s got three-quarters of a season to do it, rather than the whole year. If he makes it he’ll be worth more like $18 than $13, especially in today’s desultory offensive climate.
As I said, I don’t think he’s going to flop, but I don’t see him as the second coming of Jesus or Abraham or whoever it is BP compares him to.