Jed Lowrie is among the leading second basemen in several quickly-stabilizing statistics. What's his forward-looking fantasy baseball value?
When Yonder Alonso started absolutely banging for the Oakland Athletics this year, it warranted plenty of attention from the fantasy-baseball community. This was a guy with 12 dingers through a month and a half, already setting a new career high. Of course that's going to snag some eyeballs.
The best part about Alonso is that this all aligned with a reported change in his philosophy over the offseason. Alonso told FanGraphs' Eno Sarris that he was working to loft the ball more, so when that played out in his early-season results, it was time to leap before others noticed he was a new hitter.