DRAFT ADVICE AND POSITION RANK

Draft Josh Bell as a weekly fantasy starter in 2019-2020. His 458.7 projected fantasy points puts him at #11 behind J.D. Martinez and ahead of Rhys Hoskins. He has averaged 3.71 fantasy points in his past 143 games, which is more than our projected per game average. He is projected to average 3.15 fantasy points. His rank based on avg proj (#18) is worse than his rank based on total fantasy points. He is slightly underrated if you compare his ownership based rank with his projection rank. At 93%, he is the #14 most highly owned first baseman. Josh Bell is expected to come up short of last season's #5 fantasy position rank.

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SIT EM ALERT: JOSH BELL WEEK 1 AND 2 FANTASY OUTLOOK

Josh Bell is projected for 7.56 fantasy points in 3 games the rest of the week in week 1 which ranks him as the #32 projected first baseman for the week and a starter for most fantasy teams. This is projected to be a better than average week with more fantasy points per game than he is projected to average per game the rest of the season. He is ranked above Albert Pujols but behind Paul Goldschmidt the rest of the week. Week 2 will be better based on projected rank (#13). He is projected for 16.92 fantasy points.

FANTASY PROJECTIONS AND ACTUAL STATS

The tables below show projected stats (totals and averages) for the rest of the season and upcoming weeks. Below the projection are actual stats from last season.