Y'all better be ready. (Gotta love some fantasy baseball puns that involve some Cypress Hill.) Well, even if you didn't like it, I did. So there's that. So A.A. Ron Hicks hit the DL with an oblique injury... but I have to ask: Why is it so oblique if we actually know what it is? If anything, it's an un-oblique injury because we know what the injury is. Regardless, and I am dropping the "ir" because it is not a word, though it should be. Jacoby Ellsbury has returned like a stallion on a white stallion. Unfortunately for fantasy, Jacoby hasn't been such since dunkaroos were still a cool snack. As a Yankee rooter, Hicks' injury hurts because he is versatile and Ellsbury is just a DL nightmare. The rewards that you reaped from the waiver wire add of Hicks aren't lost though, because it is a substitute by substitute principle. It's like walking through the store and finding a 20 dollar bill. Only to realize that a month later it was your money to begin with. So reinvest that sorta found money to the waiver wire and keep digging. The expectations for Ellsbury should remain limited, but are boosted by where he bats in the Yankee lineup. Though in his SAGNOF defense, he did have 8 steals in just 149 plate appearances, so he does have some value as it relates to steals and such. And with the scuppering Yankees in a fall from fantasy grace, minus Judge, he could ease out some OF 4-5 value. Stay glued to that chair, more goodies after the jump on swipes, thievery and save-dom.
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