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Home  Sexy Pick Alert!!  Sexy Pick Alert: Brad Hawpe
Sexy Pick Alert: Brad Hawpe
Written by The GNUru   
Apr 03, 2007 at 11:50 AM

Despite the fact that the season has started and lineups have been penciled in, Sexy Pick Syndrome (SPS) can still hurt your fantasy ball club.  For some, foolish trades will be made to acquire said sexy pick.  Others, will drop a useful player to snag the next big thing.  The smart ones will hype up their sexy picks in hopes of dealing them to the fantasy baseball sheep- the fantasy baseball owners who don't read the GNUru.  In today's feature, the GNUru will examine Brad Hawpe.  Mr. Hawpe gained fantasy baseball notoriety after a hot start to the 2006 season.  Although he cooled off as the season continued on, Hawpe has been a popular sleeper candidate of the Fantasy Baseball Hype Network (CBS, ESPN, FOX, Yahoo).  To confuse matters more, Hawpe is 27 years old so that must mean he is bound to do big things in 2007, right? To determine that, let's have a look at Hawpe's career numbers.


Brad HawpeProper Name: Bradley Bonte Hawpe
Born: June 22, 1979
Fort Worth, TX
Height: 6-3
Weight: 205 lbs.
Age: 27

SEASON

AB

HR

RBI

BB

SO

SB

CS

AVG

OBP

SLG

OPS

2004

105

3

9

11

34

1

1

0.248

0.322

0.400

0.722

2005

305

9

47

43

70

2

2

0.262

0.350

0.403

0.753

2006

499

22

84

74

123

5

5

0.293

0.383

0.515

0.898

SPLIT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bitmap Away

469

22

69

68

119

3

4

0.284

0.374

0.495

0.869

Day

254

7

35

44

62

2

3

0.252

0.361

0.421

0.782

Dome

58

2

7

4

11

0

1

0.190

0.242

0.362

0.604

Grass

899

34

139

127

225

8

8

0.275

0.363

0.462

0.825

Home

440

12

71

60

108

5

4

0.270

0.355

0.432

0.787

Night

655

27

105

84

165

6

5

0.287

0.366

0.481

0.847

Open

851

32

133

124

216

8

7

0.283

0.373

0.471

0.844

Turf

10

0

1

1

2

0

0

0.500

0.545

0.700

1.245

vs. Left

110

4

15

12

41

0

1

0.227

0.309

0.400

0.709

vs. Right

799

30

125

116

186

8

7

0.284

0.372

0.473

0.845

While Hawpe's numbers show his potential to be an impact fantasy baseball player, there really isn't anything behind the numbers to suggest he is in store for a big, breakout season.  Much of the optimism surrounding Hawpe this year is due to 2 popular myths.  One (1), Hawpe is turning 27 and the baseball fairies sprinkle their magical pixie dust on all 27 year old players and two (2) numbers in limited action can predict how a player will do in a full season.

I really don't think I need to explain how silly the age 27 myth truly is as I have touched on the subject numerous times.  So that leaves the GNUru to tackle the attempt by many to extrapolate numbers produce in limited action, over an entire season.  It just plain doesn't work.  I could answer that by using a few examples:  Craig Wilson, Tony Clark, or Wily Mo Pena.  Their power numbers are up there with the best when considering HRs per at bat.  However, when these players get full time playing duties, their numbers rapidly decline.  Hawpe offers further proof of this as he got off to a blazing start but quickly cooled down.


SPLIT

AB

HR

RBI

BB

SO

SB

CS

AVG

OBP

SLG

OPS

April

94

7

18

13

24

1

3

0.362

0.439

0.670

1.109

May

90

4

15

12

23

1

0

0.289

0.373

0.511

0.884

June

73

4

13

12

21

0

0

0.260

0.365

0.493

0.858

July

84

0

5

12

23

0

1

0.274

0.361

0.369

0.730

August

82

4

13

13

19

2

0

0.293

0.389

0.500

0.889

September

73

3

18

11

12

1

1

0.260

0.353

0.521

0.874

October

3

0

2

1

1

0

0

0.333

0.500

0.667

1.167

Pre-All Star

290

15

49

39

77

2

3

0.310

0.392

0.562

0.954


As you can see by the above stats, the league caught up with Hawpe.  After a fantastic April, Hawpe was nothing more than an average fantasy outfielder.

So the GNUru's take home message is that Hawpe is a solid fantasy outfielder to own but keep your projections realistic and temper your level of investment!

Comments

Hawpe will hit 30-35 HRs and drive in 100+ RBIs- bank on it!

Posted by Steve, on 04/05/2007 at 21:37

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