The Ray’s Ramblings article in the 2016 Fantasy Alarm Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide is all about taking a look at what went wrong and what went right during the 2015 season based off the predictions from the previous year’s article as well as making some predictions for the upcoming fantasy baseball season on which players you want and which players you will want to avoid.

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Draft Guide Sampler: Ray’s Ramblings

By: Ray Flowers

What better way to kick off the 2016 Fantasy Alarm Draft Guide than reading the ramblings of a lunatic nicknamed the Oracle…

WHAT WENT RIGHT IN 2015

Here are some of the things written in the 2015 MLB Draft Guide that turned out to be dead on.

http://www.fantasyalarm.com/Writer-Images/images/Abreu%20-%20Rays%20Ramble.jpg“Jose Abreu won’t sustain the level of success he had [in 2014]… another run at a .300 season seems a stretch at this point, given his overall game… his ground ball rate was massive and that should be a yellow flag waving to alert you to the perils of counting on a homer repeat in 2015.”

Abreu saw his average drop .027 points to .290, his OBP went to down .036 points, his SLG went down .079 points, he lost six homers (down to 30), he lost six RBIs and his OPS went from .964 to .850 even though he had 46 more plate appearances. There wasn’t a single other source I’m aware of who got this one right. I said he wasn’t a top-five first baseman (he finished sixth). Everyone else had him as a top-10 player overall.

“It’s rather unlikely that Jose Altuve will get a hit every three at-bats in 2015 or steal 50-plus bases again… there really wasn’t any appreciable growth with Altuve last year to support the significant batting average increase… Is it fair to think his stolen base success rate will remain as high as it was in 2014?”

Altuve lost .028 points in batting average (.313) and 19 steals (38).

“Billy Hamilton cannot hit. Not a lick… it’s not just the average that’s an issue, it’s his total inability to get on base… Billy Hamilton cannot hit, at all.”

Hamilton hit .226 with a .274 OBP and .289 SLG leading to a .563 OPS. He scored all of 56 runs. Who cares if he stole 57 bases?

There are 10,000 different species of ants in the world. Meanwhile the desert locust could cover 1/5th of the world’s land mass surface.

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