Over the last two weeks there are seven players tied for the most home runs in MLB with five.
- Carlos Delgado
- Jayson Werth
- Vernon Wells
- Shin-Soo Choo
- Kelly Shoppach
- Miguel Cabrera
- Ty Wiggington
Today, I want to focus on Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo. And I want to do this for a number of reasons. First, and foremost, is that he’s available in a lot of leagues right now. I just signed him in one of my most competitive leagues. And he’s going to help immediately.
- Over the last week he’s 11-19 with four runs scored, three home runs, seven RBI, and has slash stats of .579/.619/1.158.
- Over the last month he’s 30-81 with 20 runs scored, five home runs, 18 RBI, one stolen base, and slash stats of .370/.452/.716.
To put last month into perspective he has a higher batting average than Ichiro, more runs scored than Manny or Albert Pujols, and more home runs than Ryan Braun. I’d like to see any fantasy baseball roster where Choo’s numbers over the last month wouldn’t help.
Terry Pluto, with the Cleveland Plains Dealer, just recently had some interesting things to say about how the Indians felt about Choo and some insight into his future value.
You haven’t heard a lot about it, but the Indians are becoming very enamored with Shin-Soo Choo. They mention how he has only 222 at-bats heading into the weekend, but his 31 extra-base hits were fourth on the team — only Grady Sizemore (66), Jhonny Peralta (60) and Ben Francisco (40) had more. They talk about how he missed all of spring training and most of the first two months of the season as he was coming off elbow reconstruction surgery — and how he’s hitting .287 with a .911 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) after the All-Star break. They see him as a 15-20 HR guy batting close to .300 with lots of doubles.
You could do a lot worse that Choo for a late season waiver wire pick-up. And at 26-years-old, those of you in keeper leagues might want to pay extra attention.
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