You like Ike?

My buddy Hank is already going crazy on the fantasy baseball waiver wire this season, setting the pace for our league with his 24 moves, making up almost a fourth of the league's total.  Needless to say, that means most of the moves Hank makes are less than noteworthy.  However, he was the first to jump on Ike Davis yesterday, as the news broke that the Mets had DFA'd Mike Jacobs, and were going to turn to the rookie to man first base at Citi Field.

So, the real question here is, is Ike Davis worth anything?  Yes and no.  I didn't include him on my ten prospects list at the beginning of the season because, frankly, there were 10-15 guys I was more confident about for 2010 than Davis, who is a slugger and most certainly not a runner.  Davis is a 2008 first rounder out of Arizona State and is coming off a season in the minors where he hot 20 bombs and posted an OPS of .906, splitting the season between A+/AA.  I like that he has some pop and can take a walk, I hate that he can't hit lefties and that Citi Field plays like a U.S. National Park.

The upside here is probably something short of what Chris Davis was able to accomplish in 2008.  Davis can be a fastball murdering bat that does some damage during his first trip around the league.  The downside is that of Chris Davis circa 2009.  If the book gets out that you can get him out a certain way, does he have enough professional ABs to adjust?  Also, Texas and New York are polar opposites as far as ballparks...

You can take a flier here if you have some trash on your roster to dump...it shouldn't take long to figure out what kind of Davis we're going to get.  He's supposed to play every day and bat sixth.

Oh, and to Hank's credit, he's posted some trash talking material on our league webpage.

Cheers,
TFAM