Mike Stanton Called Up by Marlins
While it isn’t official quite yet, it looks like Mike Stanton is being called up by the Marlins and should join the team shortly. Stanton isn’t playing in Double-A today, and MLB.com’s Joe Frisaro says that he will be with the club on Tuesday.
Stanton, one of baseball’s top prospects, hit 21 homers in 240 plate appearances for Jacksonville. He posted a line of .313/.442/.729, with a wOBA of .449. Stanton had a career high walk rate (18.3%), and kept his strikeout rate around 22%. Stanton is only 20 years old, yet he should be able to step right in for the Marlins and at least hit for power.
For those of you who don’t like the fancy things we call numbers, Stanton is even built like a power hitter. Hitting right handed, Stanton is 6-5, weighing in around 235 pounds. While I’m not a professional scout, and I don’t evaluate hitters nearly as well as pitchers, Stanton just looks like a power hitter in the batters box. Our very own Marc Hulet said ” Stanton obviously has massive power potential as a future MLBer, but it will be his contact rate that dictates just how big of an impact he has.”
Before the season began, no one could figure out where Stanton would fit into Florida’s lineup. Now, with Cameron Maybin struggling, it looks like Cody Ross will move into CF and Stanton will man RF. The club wouldn’t call up Stanton to have him sit on the bench, so look for him to be in the lineup more times than not. He’s probably not worth a spot in standard re-draft leagues, but if he’s available in a keeper league, snatch him up.
Thanks to Michael Jong for the information about what the Marlins lineup will probably look like.
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would you consider starting him in deeper mixed leagues?
Not right away. Let him get adjusted first. Of course, this depends on who your other options are.
If you’re in a deeper mixed league your options are probably limited. Like in my 14 team h2h w/MI,CI,4 OF, 2 UTIL I have the always wonderful Mike Sweeney occupying a UTIL spot (trust me, if there were a better option, he’d be on my team) with Stanton in waiting on the bench.
Why wouldn’t you take the gamble that Stanton starts off hot and insert him?
im sitting him in favor of drew stubbs and seth smith. right call?
Seth Smith looks to be facing a few tough lefties this week. I might look to sit him.
His first week matchups are daunting. Halladay, Shields, Garza…
Mixed League roto, counting BA/HR/RBI/R/SB/D+T of Boesch, Stubbs, Carlos Lee, & Stanton, which 3 would you have active for this week?
Boesch Stubbs Lee more playing time
You’re crazy not to start Stanton. He will fly out of gate like Posey, yet he’ll cross the plate walking. Predicting for the week….375 avg…3 HR…5 runs….9 RBI…
Jay Bruce, anyone? Remember how he came into league. We’re about to see it again.
What’s your basis for predicting this? It’s not a big deal, but I’ve never heard of a way to predict which guys will start their rookie season hot and which will not, much less predicting which will start hot before slowing down later in the same season.
It could be that the hot starts capture our attention, whereas a prospect who starts off slow is merely following the pattern we expected. Who generated more hype last season – Chris Coghlan (B- from Sickels) or Colby Rasmus (A- from Sickels)? The answer is pretty obvious…
What kind of OBP should we expect? Curious b/c I’ve heard him mentioned as a batting AVG risk, but my league uses OBP.
At What Time Can I Pick Up Mike??