Dude is on pace to hit .333/81/405. Those # are sick?

Will answer yours.

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Call me biased, since I'm from Boston...but he looks dialed-in this year and should have a monster year. Ortiz should also be much improved, with out the knee injury, and should be on base more. I would hold on to him. One other note...some say he's in a contract year...but the Sox have 2 club option years. Good luck.

trade him and someone for miguel cabrera

yeah do this, boom king is a genius!

thanks!

Thanks for the insights of someone who follows him/the sox a little closer than I do. I'll probably hold on to him now

Championship

Straight up trade for Emil Brown

It's not a stretch to think he can keep up this pace.

I'd say .342/49/165 is within reason

Well i traded for Manny just before the opener for Beltran and Arroyo. Many people were pretty skeptical about the trade but i thought he'd have a very Manny-like year (our league has 10 cats where OPS rules and steals really are diminished). Guess we shall see. Looks good so far though.

Why did you draft him if you intended on selling him after two good games?

It's a contract year no matter how you look at it. Whether its the Sox deciding to pay him 20 million or someone else deciding if he's worth that money.

The thing I don't understand is why most fantasy crackheads from coast to coast think Manny's numbers are going to nosedive this year.

Across the board, all you read is that Manny was going to be a disappointment.

I can understand a few people thinking this but never to the degree that I have been hearing it.

The guy is about as professional hitter as you are going to find. He has one of the best swings in baseball. His eye is tremendous. He is consistent year after year and seeing that to his standards he just had a subpar year last year, why do so many think it would happen two years in a row? If anything, expect him to bounce back and be strong this year, no reason to think last year was anything but an anomaly.

Barring injury, he will be solid. I wouldn't be in a rush to trade him. Who are you going to get for him that would make it worthwhile?

I'm with you on this. He's playing for the rest of his professional life, whether the Sox pick up his options/he gets an extension, or the Sox let him go and he gets one final big deal.

People will be forced to go after Ortiz because Manny will be hot this year. Not necessarily a bad thing since Ortiz is on the decline.

Ortiz posted career highs in Average and OPS last year while playing through a knee injury that required surgery. The injury turned some of his HRs (down to "only" 35) into 2B's (nearly doubled to 52). He had surgery in the offseason to repair the knee and by all accounts he's healthy.