Tag: Omar Infante

The Kansas City Royals have won ten in a row and Omar Infante has certainly contributed recently. Infante went 2 for 4 Wednesday afternoon against the Detroit Tigers and he currently has a 9 game hitting streak which includes 2 home runs and 11 runs batted in.

Analysis: Omar Infante isn’t a flashy fantasy second baseman but in deeper leagues he is worth consideration. Infante ranks 4th in the majors among second baseman in runs batted in with 34. He is 16th in home runs and 17th in runs scored among second baseman as well. He is hitting .255 at the moment but his BABIP this season is about 50 points below his career mark so there is plenty of room for improvement. He still doesn’t walk much but he puts the ball in play a ton- his contact rate is at 88% which is 19th in all of baseball.

He is more so a deeper league add but Omar Infante is capable of posting top 15 fantasy second baseman numbers going forward. Infante is available in 70-90% of fantasy leagues.

Omar Infante is off to a red hot start in the first week of the 2012 season.

Analysis: Omar Infante is just five games into his year but he already has 3 HR, 5 R and 4 RBI. He’s hitting in such an athletic and deep batting order that he can get away with flying under the radar a bit. His RBI opportunities with be plentiful even if he doesn’t move up in the order. As it stands now, Infante is available in over half of fantasy leagues and he is the trendy pick up on the wire at the moment.

Infante has hit over .290 in three of his last four years in the bigs. He only hit .276 last year but his BABIP was twelve points below his career average. Infante does not strikeout or walk much but that will have little impact on his RBI total and batting average which are his true strengths this year. Right now he makes a perfect sell high option in mixed leagues or a solid “keep for now” second baseman in NL only leagues. Considering he has only reached the double digit mark in homers just once in his career(2004), don’t go expecting twenty bombs.