A Ramirez or Peralta and other blog preferences

by journeymen on Jan 12, 2009 11:06 PM EST Comment 5 comments

I know this is supposed to be a minor league blog, but my problem is that I haven't found other sites with as many intelligent and serious fans as this site. So, my first question is: what blogs are out there with good discussions with reasonable and reasoning fans of major league baseball. And the specific question I pose is who would you rather have - Alexei Ramirez or Jhonny Peralta? In my case I have a fantasy league with the following categories: avg, hr, rbi, sb, bb, & fielding percentage, and they'd be at a price where I could keep them for up to three years or so. That's for the poll, but for the sake of discussion, let's not limit it to fantasy baseball, but real baseball with the various parameters in real life...

Poll

For a fantasy team for up to three years, would you rather have Alexei Ramirez or Jhonny Peralta?

Alexei Ramirez

65 votes

Jhonny Peralta

30 votes

95 votes | Poll has closed

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Ramirez

not even close. Especially if you’re talking about a keeper league! Also, www.faketeams.com is a pretty good site (if you’re signed up on minorleague ball, which obviously you are, you just click a button to sign up for faketeams).

by rmarx01 on Jan 13, 2009 9:43 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

I can’t look past Ramirez’ SB. His OBP is worrisome, though.

FWIW, I am curious where Peralta hits with VMart and Hafner back. He spent most of last year hitting clean-up. If he stays there, I think he could surprise with his first 100+ RBI season.

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by faketeams on Jan 13, 2009 7:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Peralta

Ramirez is going to disappoint a lot of people.

He was way lucky last year. He had a 1.000+ OPS with RISP and a .720 OPS in all other situations last year.

That obviously can’t continue. Plus he only had like a 60% success rate in steals so it’s not like he has much upside there.

Peralta had a great season even with down seasons from VMart and Hafner (who may be done, but still). Peralta is still younger and has much more power.

And it’s sad, but Peralta also has more discipline

by Galt on Jan 13, 2009 11:55 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ramirez is more likely to stay a SS

by Daniel Berlyn on Jan 13, 2009 1:10 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

This is simply for fantasy baseball purposes. Shapiro has stated that DeRosa is slotted in at 3B and Peralta will be at SS for this season. He’ll be SS eligible for this season so staying there in the future doesn’t matter (unless its a deep keeper league or something).

by hans on Jan 13, 2009 2:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs