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Fantasy Leagues => News Feed => The Bullpen => MLB News => Topic started by: Colby on April 08, 2013, 11:30:35 AM
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Tyler Flowers that is! In our first Hot Pickup of the season, we have chosen a catcher who has been in the majors for part of the past four years, and who now enters his fifth season as the White Sox :CHW: starting catcher. He was a distant 33rd round pick of the Atlanta Braves :ATL: in the 2005 draft and hasn’t seen much playing time with Chicago until this year.
He is barely owned in most leagues but we suspect that will change over the next several days or once managers get familiar with his potential as a Sleeper candidate. Flowers hasn’t found it easy getting substantial playing time as the ever durable A.J. Pierzynski has seen the majority of action behind the plate since Flowers’ arrival in the bigs.
Not one to hit for average, even in the minors, Flowers has impressed with his propensity for hitting the long ball and hitting rockets at that. His home runs last year averaged 420 feet!! Although a limited sample, Flowers has had 280 career at bats for the White Sox and has belted 14 homers for an average of about 1 HR for every 20 ABs. Already this year, in just 7 at bats, Flowers has crushed...
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