Fantasy baseball report: Asheville’s Ty Wigginton

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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RotoTimes.com has all the info:

2008 PREVIEW
Ty Wigginton has long sought a stable home at the major league level, having played on four teams over six years. The funny thing is that all that movement has helped to obscure a rather productive start to his career. Given a season of 500 AB, here is what his “normal” rate of production would produce: .268-19-70-64-6. Certainly these are far from ideal fantasy numbers, but given the versatility that Wigginton presents, there certainly should be a spot for him on just about everyone’s fantasy roster in 2008, not to mention that his value in NL-only leagues this year is substantially higher than his raw numbers would dictate because of that flexibility.

In addition to the above mentioned data, Wigginton will get to play his home games this year at Minute Maid Park, a park that is a slightly better park for right-handed power hitters than Tropicana Field, his home most of the past two years.

The upshot is that the ballpark should allow Ty to see an up tick in his longball production if he can continue to pepper the Crawford boxes in left field, where he hit all six of his home runs as a member of the Astros last season (he also “pulled” seven of the nine HR he hit at Tropicana Field in 2007). Wigginton is far from a sure-fire bet to produce quality numbers in ’08, and as a result he likely shouldn’t be selected as a starter in shallow mixed leagues. Still, given a full season’s worth of AB and a modicum of improvement, he could prove to be a very valuable member of a fantasy squad.