12 mins agoNew York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor had his best season in Queens last year, continuing a trend of growth since joining the club in 2021. His OPS has grown by roughly 25-50 points each year, with 2024's .844 mark standing as his best since 2019 in Cleveland. The 31-year-old slugged 33 home runs with 29 steals, 107 runs scored, 91 RBI, and a .273 batting average. The power-speed output mirrors 2023's contributions but his average climbing 19 points put him squarely into fantasy's elite circle. This comes on the back of a marked batted-ball surge that supplied a career-high 47.4 percent hard-hit rate and 13.6 percent barrel rate. Both of those rates rose over three percentage points from the prior year. His expected batting average had been around .255 in each of his first three seasons as a Met and blew up to .283 last year thanks to the great contact. The lineup around him will experience some turnover but the addition of Juan Soto alongside the growth of youngsters like Mark Vientos should bump the R+RBI potential up. His RotoBaller rank and aggregate ADP sit around the 14th pick with early ATC projections of 28 home runs and 25 steals, making him a fringe first-rounder. Those who buy into his batted-ball growth and higher batting average will happily scoop him up, perhaps with a top-flight arm to build a teamwide foundation.--Nick Mariano - RotoBaller