This week brings the debut of the SI.com fantasy baseball Stock Ticker, a weekly column that will cover players moving up and down the fantasy rankings. Two important points to understand about the Stock Ticker before we get going:
First, this column isn’t a weathervane. It won’t respond to the natural vagaries of baseball that force even the likes of Mike Trout into an occasional slump. If a player appears on the Ticker, it means that we believe his rest-of-season outlook must be significantly recalibrated.
Second, this isn’t a waiver wire column. While some players with low ownership rates across the fantasy baseball landscape will appear in the Risers section from time to time, the Ticker will generally consist of players widely owned in fantasy leagues.