Atomic RoadRunners | Andrew Flynn’s High-Energy Fantasy Baseball

Nate Silver over at Baseball Prospectus makes his picks of players to underperform their PECOTA projections for 2008. 

1B Prince Fielder, Brewers: Something you probably didn’t know, or maybe you did—Fielder became a vegetarian this winter. In the long-run, that is probably a good thing for both his health and his performance. I saw Prince play at Wrigley on Wednesday and at first had the impression that he was bigger than last year, but realized that this was an artifact of his uniform looking baggier (it also might have been that I had much better seats than usual). I actually think that he’s lost some weight, but in the near-term this is potentially a pretty big change in his routine, and the worry I have is that the change was apparently not motivated by health reasons; Prince was persuaded by his wife that it was the right thing to do for ethical reasons. Perhaps worth noting is that Fielder was mediocre in spring training, hitting just one home run in 65 at-bats against Cactus League pitching.

I agree with Silver’s rationale - kidnap Prince and drag him to Morton’s!

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