F/F SPOTLIGHT: Tim Anderson
Jul 20 2018
Tim Anderson (SS, CHW) is a player to whom fantasy players might successfully apply any number of descriptors. He is intriguing. He is disappointing. He is productive. He is underperforming. He is all of those things. This Facts & Flukes Spotlight shines the bright light on Anderson, to assess his intrigue, his disappointments, his productiveness, his underperformance. And by comparing him to another AL shortstop whose descriptors are much more uniformly positive, we see that he is like a cut-rate diamond—plenty of shiny facets, but with one big flaw that limits his value, and which he seems unlikely to fix.
Background
Anderson is from Tuscaloosa, AL. He turned 25 on June 23. The White Sox drafted him in the first round of the 2013...
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