\n| Jered Weaver<\/td>\n | P<\/td>\n | $26.56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n Jacoby Ellsbury is the clear fantasy MVP, hitting for power, average, and stealing bases.
\nCurtis Granderson had even more power than Ellsbury, but his .262 average keeps him from being the Roto MVP.
\nJustin Verlander led the AL in wins, WHIP, and (barely) ERA, but starters don’t get saves, so those are the only three categories where he contributes. Hence Ellsbury is clearly worth more, and even Granderson, despite the rather mediocre batting average, has a little more value. Jose Bautista led the league in HR and had a .302 average, but trailed Granderson significantly in SB and RBI. Next come a pair of power-hitting first basemen with quite similar stats, Adrian Gonzalez and Miguel Cabrera. Gonzalez was worth a tiny bit more, as his edge in RBI outweighed Cabrera’s 3 more HR and better batting average.
\nDustin Pedroia contributed across the board, like his teammate Ellsbury, but was a little worse in each category. Robinson Cano just missed becoming the first second baseman to lead the AL in RBI since Brett Boone in 2001, but added a .300 average and 28 HR. Then came Ian Kinsler, whose .255 average was poor, but who added 32 HR and 30 SB.
\nJered Weaver rounded out the top 10, finishing 2nd in ERA and WHIP, and tied for 3rd in wins.
\nNow the 5×5 top 10:<\/p>\n \n\n| Player<\/th>\n | Pos<\/th>\n | Price<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Jacoby Ellsbury<\/td>\n | OF<\/td>\n | $37.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Curtis Granderson<\/td>\n | OF<\/td>\n | $34.66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Justin Verlander<\/td>\n | P<\/td>\n | $33.93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Jose Bautista<\/td>\n | 3B\/OF<\/td>\n | $30.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Dustin Pedroia<\/td>\n | 2B<\/td>\n | $29.94<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Ian Kinsler<\/td>\n | 2B<\/td>\n | $29.67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Robinson Cano<\/td>\n | 2B<\/td>\n | $29.63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Miguel Cabrera<\/td>\n | 1B<\/td>\n | $29.37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Adrian Gonzalez<\/td>\n | 1B<\/td>\n | $29.23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Jered Weaver<\/td>\n | P<\/td>\n | $25.96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n The same 10 players occupy the top spots, but they’re more closely bunched. Granderson led the league in runs by a wide margin, and so is much closer to Ellsbury in this format. Verlander remains 3rd, and clearly the top pitcher, as he led the league in strikeouts along with wins, ERA, and WHIP.
\nIan Kinsler gets the biggest boost from switching to 5×5, as he was 2nd in the league in runs, and gained over $2 in value to move up to 6th. As with the NL, switching to 5×5 brings down the prices of the very best players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday I showed the RotoValue NL top 10 for a 10 team league with 23 starting players per team (2 C, 3 corner, 3 middle, 5 OF, 10 pitchers). Today I’ll doing the same for a similar AL: also a 10 team league, but now with 24 starters (adding 1 DH). \u00a0I assume a… Continue reading 2011 AL Fantasy Top 10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | |