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Alex Rios (OF) Chicago White Sox
Rios is on a 10-game hitting streak, and his OPS sits at .907 for the season. A 20/30 clubber in '10, Rios is coming off his worst full season campaign of his career, though his batted ball profile shows that he was a victim of an unhealthy amount of bad luck – his Batting Average on Balls in Play (BABIP) was 80 points lower (.237) than his career average (.317). As his Yahoo! ownership rate shows, last season's detour through hell has made Rios an easy player to get your hands on this season. That shouldn't be the case for a 31-year-old with three seasons of top 60 fantasy production in the past five years.
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