The Yahoo fantasy baseball analysts — Andy Behrens, Scott Pianowski and Dalton Del Don — took part in a three-round mock draft. Each analyst gets four picks in the first round (to represent a 12-team league). You can see the first-round mock here and the second-round mock here.
More floor than upside at this point, but I like picks unlikely to fail.Fences coming in, and the Vlad Jr. arrow is still pointed up. You want shares of this destination offense.This is the ideal spot from which to land both the hitter and pitcher versions of Ohtani, so we'll see if that works out. Ohtani the batter has already given us a 46/26 season and the new shift rules should help him.He's a five-category hitter entering his age-25 season.
Freeman is a perennial batting title contender who's led the NL in run-scoring for three straight years.Sure, the base-stealing is gone and might never come back, but Trout still hit 40 bombs in just 119 games last season.Elite power, bubbly personality; I'm in. Alonso clearly has the potential to be the overall leader in multiple fantasy categories.The safest strikeout bet in the majors, and still in a comfortable age pocket.
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