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2009 Fantasy Baseball Designated Hitter Player Rankings & Projections

(By Mike Inglett of Sport Fanatics - Developer of the Sport Fanatics Projections)

 

The rankings are based on projected statistics for the 2009 season. The player rankings were determined for a typical 5 X 5 rotisserie league by using batting average, runs, runs batted in, home runs and stolen bases for hitters.  Final Spring Training update April 4, 2009

 

Catcher   First Base   Second Base   Shortstop   Third Base   OF (1-90)   OF (91-180)   DH

Starting Pitcher (1-100)    Starting Pitcher (101-200)   Relief Pitchers (1-100)   Relief Pitchers (101-200)

 

DH Rank PLAYER TEAM AGE POS FP AB  1B  2B  3B  HR  RBI  BB  SB  BA  OBP  SLG  OPS 
1 David Ortiz BOS 33.3 DH 287.2 493 93 140 71 38 0 31 108 83 95 1 .284 .387 .550 .937
2 Jim Thome CHW 38.6 DH 231.8 453 83 115 62 23 0 30 88 85 138 0 .254 .372 .503 .875
3 Travis Hafner CLE 31.8 DH 176.8 405 65 104 64 22 1 17 75 70 98 0 .257 .366 .442 .808
4 Rocco Baldelli BOS 27.5 DH 124.1 301 45 79 48 18 2 11 42 23 77 4 .262 .315 .445 .760
5 Cliff Floyd SD 36.3 DH 114.2 275 36 75 50 14 1 10 45 34 59 1 .273 .353 .440 .793
6 Matt Stairs PHI 41.1 DH 88.5 215 30 56 35 12 0 9 34 26 51 1 .260 .340 .442 .782
7 Gary Sheffield NYM 40.3 DH 87.3 205 30 51 33 8 0 10 31 30 36 3 .249 .345 .434 .779
8 Tug Hulett KC 26.1 DH 53.1 150 22 40 29 7 1 3 16 16 39 2 .267 .337 .387 .724
9 Craig Monroe PIT 32.1 DH 52.6 155 22 36 22 9 0 5 25 12 43 0 .232 .287 .387 .675

 

AGE - Age of player as of April 1, 2009.

POS - Position(s) players are eligible for if they played in 20 or more games at the position in 2008. If a player played in less than 20 games at a position, than the most frequent position played was used to determine position eligibility.

(FP) Fantasy Points - Formula derived by Sport Fanatics using the 5 scoring categories to determine player rankings. Also a good tool to use to compare value to other positions and determine tiers when there is a drop off in fantasy production for each position.

At Bats, Runs, Hits, Doubles, Triples, HRs, RBIs, SB and BA (Batting Average) - 2009 projected statistics.

OBP - On Base Percentage. SLG - Slugging Percentage.

 

 

 

 

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