# Fantasy Baseball - AL only **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 28, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-baseball-al-only/576241 "2011-03-28T11:41:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-baseball-al-only/576241/1 "2011-03-28T11:41:28Z")
Anybody else in an AL only league … or willing to help with info about former NL players who haven’t been on my radar screen? Who are the best big hitters that came over to the AL this year… I assume Adrian Gonzalez is #1? Lee Reynolds Dunn Willingham Did I miss any Japanese League players besides Nishioka who I had never heard of until this morning??? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-baseball-al-only/576241/2 "2011-03-28T14:30:12Z")
Gonzalez is absolutely #1. I’d rank the rest of those as: Dunn Reynolds Nishioka Lee Willingham No one else really of note. Most of the talent was exported for prospects (Greinke, Lee, Marcum, Garza). ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-baseball-al-only/576241/3 "2011-03-28T16:48:20Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Gonzalez is absolutely #1. > No one else really of note. Most of the talent was exported for prospects (Greinke, Lee, Marcum, Garza). Gee, **Munch** , are you really saying Melky Cabrera isn’t of note? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-baseball-al-only/576241/4 "2011-03-28T17:03:53Z")
As of yesterday, the top 4 run scorers in Spring Training were all Royals, with Melky at the top. What I think that means is that opposing managers have been waking up, looking at the schedule, and deciding that “today is the day we give the bat boy a chance to throw from the mound”. ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-baseball-al-only/576241/5 "2011-03-28T17:12:20Z")
You also missed Russell Martin. Worth keeping an eye on. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-baseball-al-only/576241/6 "2011-03-28T18:01:00Z")
> [@ReticulatingSplines](#): > > You also missed Russell Martin. Worth keeping an eye on. Well I’m embarrassed I missed him, since I’m a Yankee fan. Others (all well below the initial group) are Alcides Escobar in Kansas City, Brendan Ryan in Seattle, Brad Penny in Detroit, Hisanori Takahashi in Los Angeles and Octavio Dotel in Toronto. The last three are pitchers, of course. Most of these will only be of interest in a REALLY deep AL-only league. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-baseball-al-only/576241/7 "2011-03-29T07:30:22Z")
What do you think of the following … David Murphy … steady but are the Rangers going to play him? Manny Ramirez … who knows??? Justin Smoak … lots of talent but …???