For those familiar with the movie Major League, this guy is without question the twin of Pedro Cerrano a player in the movie, who cannot hit any curveballs or slow stuff. Banks is big, and will hit an offspeed pitch if the pitcher makes a mistake out over the plate, but will wave at anything off the plate. Has huge HR potential.

He has and always will get fooled on slow stuff off the outside of the plate. However, what is most disturbing is that during spring training and in the first few games of this young season, he cannot catch up to the fastball, as straight cheese is flying by him belt high. That was stuff he would normally crush. That is a major concern.

Though looking lost at times last year at the plate and still getting fooled with off speed stuff off plate, here is yet another injury prone player who has lost little as far as ability. Most will see a decline in skills, we don’t see that yet. Can still hammer ball, and if lineup around him stays healthy and he gets protection, he is back to 30+ homers. He has already been slated to hit in the 6 spot, which suits him better than leadoff. Looking for nice comeback year.

Until he shows us he can stop his 3 year slide of homers and steals, he will be an incredibly overpriced/overvalued player on draft day, probably going no later than round 4 in most leagues. He basically is Brad Hawpe, with a few more steals, and you can get Hawpe in round 12 or later.

looking for a sleeper guy for steals? Brett Gardner IF full time, will get 40-50 stolen bases. Keep an eye on his development in spring training and yankee depth chart.

As of this writing still unsigned, and not sure what value he has other than as a backup, as his power is done and that’s hard to get back.

Josh Anderson sits with Crawford and Ellsbury as far as base stealing ability. He steals over 40% of the time he gets on base, but there is the catch. He doesn’t get on that often. He needs to be full time and may not get that opportunity if he stays in Kansas City. If he can get on base more often he will be a terror.

Angel Pagan will fly under many a radar due to being part of a poor Met club in 2009. He has the speed to swipe 30 to go along with a short swing which sits well for a leadoff batter.  Has tools for being a consistent .300 hitter.

Travis Snider  will be heavily touted going into 2010 with his power posssibility. However, he doesn’t have a very compact swing and doesn’t have much patience, which will come with time. We just don’t see him at such a young age correcting it over the winter, since the best cure for that is MLB experience with alot of at bats.

Didn’t chase as many bad balls(slow stuff) out of the zone in August and responded with a sharp .371 batting average and a robust .714 slugging percentage. Has 30 home run potential in 2010 with enough at bats and makes enough contact where his average won’t hurt you too much you often get from a power hitter. great keeper.