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BALLER MOVE: Target ~80 (overall draft pick)
CURRENT ADP: ~119 (overall draft pick)
ANALYSIS: Hanley Ramirez hit 10 home runs in April and finished the month with a .999 OPS, helping the Red Sox to a 12-10 record despite awful showings from the pitching staff. A few days into May, he suffered a shoulder injury that appeared to hamper him for the remainder of the year.
He hit just nine homers from that point on, slumping to a .249/.291/.426 overall line. Combined with his disastrous defense in left field, Ramirez was worth nearly two wins below replacement level in the first season of a four-year, $88M contract.
With Pablo Sandoval entrenched at third and David Ortiz refusing to age at DH, they'll have to stick Ramirez at first base unless they can find a trade partner. So he'll be learning a new position for the second straight year and coming off a major injury. Oh, and he's no longer eligible at shortstop. But as awful as he was last season, it seems fair to attribute much of that to the shoulder injury.
Over the prior two seasons, Ramirez put up a .308/.382/.525 line with 33 homers, 24 steals and 254 R+RBI in just 848 plate appearances. Steamer projections don't quite see him getting back to that level, but his 2016 projection (.284/.345/.475, 18 HR, 8 SB) would make him a useful player in most fantasy baseball formats. He is someone worth targeting a couple rounds ahead of his current ADP.
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