RADIO
BALLER MOVE: Target ~85
CURRENT ADP: 124
ANALYSIS: Adrian Beltre should not be going this late in drafts; this is something that everyone should agree on. His 124 ADP is not outrageously low considering his old age, but this is a guy who hit .312 last year with a 138 wRC+ and .384 wOBA, both of which were top-30 in the league.
Beltre will be 39 in April, and he failed to play in at least 100 games last season for the first time since his rookie year all the way back in 1998. When he was not dealing with multiple leg injuries, he was excellent as usual: .312/.383/.532 with 17 HR and 71 RBI in only 94 contests. The ageless wonder posted the best walk rate of his career, while maintaining his typically low strikeout rate.
Time is, of course, undefeated; eventually Beltre will stop being awesome. There's little reason to believe the bottom will fall out this year, though, given the remarkable steadiness of Beltre's peripherals. Beltre will continue to be a powerhouse in 2018, so why not hop all over that value on draft day?
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