2008 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: First Basemen

By Tim Dierkes [March 2, 2008 at 3:49pm CST]

Sleepers, undervalued, profitable players, call 'em what you will. In general, some guys who may not be getting enough respect in your mixed league.

With this position, it seems the undervalued players are likely to be youngsters. Certain younger types would have to break out beyond normal projections to achieve a big profit. Guys like James Loney, Ryan Garko, Joey Votto, Casey Kotchman, Billy Butler, Chris Duncan, and Conor Jackson fit this mold. A lot of these project to be worth just a couple of bucks in a mixed league, but .290-25-100 wouldn't really shock you for any of them.
From the veteran set, it's slim pickens. Adam LaRoche, Nick Johnson, maybe Aubrey Huff. Travis Hafner could be a touch undervalued coming off a down year; he played 11 games at first in '07.
The position doesn't appear to be stacked with good sleepers, but we are all just prognosticating at this point.

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