with the re-signing of Cust I sort of thought the Fox ship sailed.

I wouldn’t imagine there would be a huge market for Fox if he had a hot start to the season, but it only takes one person and I’ve seen too many examples of one person overvaluing that SSS and overpaying to completely write it off. I wouldn’t keep Fox over McCutchen personally because at this point Fox looks like a bench guy. But if Fox was the last guy on my team in a dynasty league or something, I can see keeping him around just in case he gets hot and you get something for him. That was what I meant by saying he was a good guy to have right now, not really that he had good value at this point or anything.

I agree that in fantasy players are strictly assets, I won a very competitive dynasty league last year because I used my prospects as currency to make trades for guys that helped me win. Then you just restock in the draft and repeat the process as needed. I can understand the position that McCutchen’s numbers could just as easily be a fluke as be real, but this is more like what I expected from him if not better than I expected. Nothing I can point to that explains why I thought he’d put it together and his tools would become skills, but I just always had that feeling. It’s plenty early enough I could be still be wrong on him though.

In regards to trading McCutchen, without knowing more about the league in question I would shop McCutchen but would need a great offer to move him because Fox is so low value right now you need to be getting lots of value out of the trade for Fox + trade return to be more valuable than just keeping McCutchen and calling it a day. If you can flip McCutchen for prospects it makes some sense to move him with a solid return, picks less so, but we don’t have that info here. I don’t blame everyone who said keep McCutchen and nothing else, because with the info provided there isn’t much of a conclusion you can come to otherwise.

In keeper leagues there are many an owner who will obsess over youth and potential and you may capitalize on their overvaluing of players. With that said, I think unless you get a crazy return for Cutch, I wouldn’t advise keeping him. Do you have LF, RF, and CF? Or just OF spots? Also as PaulThomas said, it is not safe to say Fox has anything locked up. Just my 2 cents.

I could see him getting a few games at 3B… I think Taylor gets some time in the Show this year thus limiting the OF PT for Fox, but it won’t be near as much as people think as Kouzmanoff is the superior defender and is an everyday player. Fox will probably get more time in RF than anywhere else with Cust mostly at DH. Barton should be starting at 1B, Gabe Gross should get some time in RF (probably a platoon situation with Fox), and Coco Crisp should force Davis (unless he completely bombs (applying to both Crisp and Davis)) to one of the corner OF spots (I think they have to give Sweeney his chance in LF after he had a solid run last year).

So if Fox is seeing 4-5 games a week it’s going to come in the OF.