PT TOMORROW: AL West—Fluid 1B outlooks
Feb 21 2019
Shohei Ohtani's (DH, LAA) most recent ETA pronouncement from the front office is "sometime in May", leaving us to guess as to how often he will DH while rehabbing a valuable right arm from Tommy John surgery. But once he's activated, Ohtani's astonishing 2018 production vR (1.043 OPS in 223 AB) suggests he'll face them as often as possible—along with some of the LHP he'd begun to solve last September.
Obviously Ohtani's return will take AB from Albert Pujols (DH/1B, LAA), whose 2018 ended in August courtesy of a balky knee that wasn't helped by playing more games at 1B (70) than he had over the previous two seasons. Pujols's 19 HR/.245 BA (over a five-year low 465 AB) was marginally serviceable in deep leagues. But...
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