Fantasy Baseball: Who Would You Rather Have-Justin Upton or Carl Crawford??

I suggest Upton should be the third outfielder taken in mixed league, and NL-only league, drafts as he can put up solid performance in 5 categories, while Crawford is more like 3.5 categories. Upton went 26-86-84-20-.300-.366-.532 in just 138 games in 2009, while Crawford went 15-68-96-60-.305-.364-.452 in 2009. If you project Upton out another 10-15 games, he could have approached 30-100 in just his 2nd year in the majors.

For 2010, Bill James projects Crawford to go 12-62-82-41-.295-.346-.439, while he projects Upton to go 28-90-93-19-.293-.371-.534. Crawford’s SBs would be hard to pass up in the second round, but I think Upton is ready to break out in a big way in 2010. I can easily see him hitting 30-35 HRs with 100+ RBI and 20 SBs this year.