Actual 5 Tool Players

There is lots of talk lately about “5 Tool Players.” These are the guys the general managers are looking for when they draft right? We’ll Rotisserie participants should be interested in this too.

More than ¼ of the season has now gone by. Let’s look at who ranks in the top 50 MLB players in both HR’s and SB’s to date. You might be surprised at who is on the list and who isn’t. There are only 11 who rank in the top 50 of both.

I’ve added RBI and BA to the stats of each player and then ranked them based on total points for position finish for all four each categories.

We all know that injuries and performance over the dog days of summer will both add and subtract to this list. But over the 1st 1/4 of the 2009 season, here are the players that are both hitting for power and stealing bases.

We’ll take another look at this before the trade deadline. - James Morrison

Jim (no relation to the dead Door’s guy) is a self proclaimed rotisserie expert. Jim has been participating in an serious Ultra-Rotisserie league (you can protect some minor leaguers too) at $2,600 per team instead of $260 (similar to Ultimate Franchise Baseball ™) for the past 17 years and has finished in the money 14 times with 8 First place finishes and over $260,000 in total winnings over the 17 year period. While the world is full of institutions and people that come with disclaimers on how past performance is no guarantee of future results, Jim is brazen enough to claim that it will be in your best interest to follow his advice going forward. He’ll write it, we’ll publish it and we shall see………