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NEW. The entire baseball world is excited to see dual-threat phenom this season, and there's good reason for that. For the first time since Babe Ruth, Major League Baseball has a player who can be both an elite starting pitcher and one of the better sluggers in the game. Two years ago (his last healthy season), he hit 22 bombs in 104 games, had a slash line of.322/.416/.588, and went 10-4 with a 1.86 ERA 11.2 strikeouts per nine innings in 20 starts.It's been about a century since we've seen something like Ohtani, and we've certainly never seen anyone like him in fantasy baseball. Howver, dealing with a dual-threat player is complicated, and there are enough reasons to consider avoiding him in season-long drafts this year.Ohtani's Average Draft Position (ADP) of 73.22, per the, makes him an early sixth-round pick in standard 12-team drafts, meaning he'd be the sixth player selected for most teams that do take the plunge. Below are three reasons why that is way too soon to be adding him to your roster.
Usage RestrictionsThe three main fantasy baseball websites are all choosing to feature Ohtani in different ways, and these distinctions are important., owners will be able to draft him once, and he will have dual eligibility as a starting pitcher and outfielder/designated hitter. On days in which Ohtani is scheduled to pitch, though, his hitting stats will not count. So, if he goes 3-for-4 and hits two home runs in one of his starts, those stats will not count. On days in which he's a DH, any pitching stats accrued during those games (it's unlikely, but still a possibility) will not count, either. Are handling him pretty much the same way.This isn't such a problem if you are allowed to swap out starters every day, but for leagues in which your starting rotation needs to be locked in at the beginning of the week, you won't be able to use him as a hitter.
This is fine if he's a really good pitcher, but part of the allure is that he can do both., they have split Ohtani into two separate players, a hitter and a pitcher. You can use him in your lineup as both a hitter and a pitcher on the same day, but you will have to draft him twice to do so. That means using two draft picks on one player, and likely two early-round picks. That's a steep price and one not worth paying.It should be noted that in all these formats, your fantasy commissioner can find workarounds to make it less complicated, such as crediting Ohtani with batting stats at the end of the week and adding them in manually, or making sure that whoever drafts Ohtani as a pitcher in Yahoo! Leagues also gets him as a hitter. The Angels' Six-Man RotationHere is where there are stronger arguments against selecting him.
The Angels say in 2018, at least to start the season. While this may prove beneficial to Ohtani, who threw just 25.1 innings last year due to, it means he'll make fewer starts than most regular starters.More often than not, if the Angels stick with a six-man rotation, especially with a number of off-days in the first month of the season, most weeks will feature only one Ohtani start. That's how he was used in Japan, where all teams pitch with six-man rotations.It's possible the Angels will abandon the six-man rotation at some point, and when they do, Ohtani's value as a starter will increase. But as of now, fantasy owners should consider themselves lucky if they get more than 25 starts out of him this season. In fact, 's projects only expect him to rack up 135 innings of work this season with a 3.60 ERA and 1.17 WHIP. How Many At-Bats?One of the possible benefits of more time between starts is more games played at DH on those days off.
However, the Angels say, which means at least 2-3 days a week where he will be on the bench.Again, this isn't a big problem if you're drafting him later than the sixth round, but at his current ADP, will he get enough at-bats to warrant that selection? There will also certainly be a period where he must learn to adjust to big league pitching, and failing to get at-bats close to every day while also learning to be a big league pitcher could eat into his effectiveness.projections think Ohtani will accumulate 355 plate appearances and hit.252/.313/.438 with 14 doubles, an OPS of.751, and a weighted on base average (wOBA) of.318. ConclusionOhtani is a much more intriguing play in DFS, where players don't have to worry about restrictions on the number of starts or how many plate appearances he will accumulate throughout the season.
When he's in the lineup, players should be excited to use him based on matchups. And when he's scheduled to start, he'll be a fascinating arm to purchase, depending on the price.In season-long leagues, though, owners typically want surer things at the end of the fifth round or early in the sixth round. If you're someone who likes to take a risk, then Ohtani may be the player for you. But if you're an owner who likes a little more certainty with their early-round selections, then you should stay away from the Japanese phenom, who will probably be a better asset in real life than he will be for fantasy baseball.
“Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark like muscular animals overgrown beyond all reason. Every space is filled with life: delicate, poisonous frogs war-painted like skeletons, clutched in copulation, secreting their own precious eggs onto dripping leaves. Vines stragling their own kin in the everlasting wrestle for sunlight.
The breathing of monkeys. A glide of snake belly on branch. A single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. And, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. This forest eats itself and lives forever.Away down below now, single file on the path, comes a woman with four girls in tow, all of them in shirtwaist dresses. Seen from above, they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Later on you’ll have to decide what sympathy they deserve.”Alternately profound, beautiful, and terrifying, The Poisonwood Bible is the story of a Baptist missionary who brings his wife and four daughters to a village in the Congo in the 1950s so he can convert the heathens.
If you’re backing away in apprehension now, don’t worry. The story is told through the changing viewpoints of the wife and the four daughters, none of whom really want to be there.
It’s an incredible and eye-opening read, and I especially appreciated how Kingsolver seemed to cover all the lessons and subjects Chinua Achebe tried to in Things Fall Apart, only she does it so, so much better. Yes, I know Achebe’s book is supposed to be the more valid read because he’s a native of the country he’s writing about and not a white imperialist etc etc, but I don’t care. When it comes down to eloquence and storytelling ability, Kingsolver wins by a landslide. Everyone should read this book. They should read Things Fall Apart only if they really feel like it.Chinua Achebe can suck it. He got beat at his own post-colonial game by a white imperialist American lady writer. Bet that’s gotta sting.Verdict: four out of five stars.