For all the good that Rays closer Fernando Rodney did last year -- an 0.60 ERA and 0.78 WHIP with 48 saves -- he still remains somewhat worrisome for me, and I'm avoiding him in all drafts and auctions.
Yes, he looks like he carried that dominance over to this spring, with four WBC saves and no runs allowed in three spring training innings, but can we just forget what he did from 2007 to 2011?
During that five-year span, Rodney had a 4.42 ERA and 1.50 WHIP. I'm all for redemption stories and can totally understand the Rays fixing something flawed with Rodney, but I also have to balance 2012 against his much larger track record. Throw in the fact that he's 36 on Monday, and it adds up to a bunch of red flags and caution tape.
Rodney's ADP of 103 -- putting him ahead of Asdrubal Cabrera, B.J. Upton, and Brett Lawrie -- is way too high for my tastes and makes it look like drafters are putting a lot of faith in 2012, while basically ignoring his flailings in his five previous campaigns.