The wait for 40 home runs goes on. For the third frustrating season in a row,
Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton had a large chunk of his season
interrupted due to injury. This time it
was a serious groin pull in mid-August that shut Stanton down for a majority of
the rest of 2016 as his owners were once again left without their big home run
weapon when fantasy baseball leagues were being decided. Prior to the injury, Stanton was having a
somewhat rough season as his home run rate was behind his 2014 and 2015 pace
and the batting average became a major liability as he finished with a shaky
.240 mark. With a near-neutral BABIP of
.290, no luck could save Stanton’s average after he put up an insane K/9 rate
of 29.8 percent and combined that with a 10.6 BB/9 that was his lowest number
there since 2010. In other words,
Stanton was hacking like never before and while the 27 home runs were very helpful
indeed, the rest of his offensive package was not very good. Right now we have to accept that Stanton is
not the first round pick that he was the last two years given the average
troubles and rampant injuries. Also the
brief burst of steals from 2014-15 seems gone for good as well. There is not a better pure home run hitter in
all of fantasy baseball though than Stanton but he simply can’t be counted on
for a full year of at-bats which calls into question what you are willing to
pay at the draft table this season.
2017 PROJECTION:
.255 34 HR 92 RBI 88 R 1 SB 
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