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High Fives: Middle Infielders

yahoo! sports staff

Each Monday during the 2012 regular season, the Yahoo! fantasy experts will offer their quick hitters on certain positions in fantasy baseball. This week, Andy Behrens, Brad Evans and Scott Pianowski offer their top-5 takes on middle infielders. Topics include middle objects of affection and derision, and players to target for both the shallow- and deep-league crowds.

Top 5 middles you are loving right now?

  • Elvis Andrus – Hitting over .370 the past two weeks with 14 runs scored; still just 23 years old

  • J.J. Hardy

  • Kelly Johnson

  • Daniel Murphy

  • Jose Altuve

Top 5 middles you are hating right now?

  • The Weeks family – Rickie and Jemile are batting a combined .177 this season, with something like 8,000 strikeouts (mostly Rickie).

  • Dee Gordon

  • Neil Walker

  • Zack Cozart

  • Orlando Hudson

Top 5 middles to target on the waiver wire?

  • Elliot Johnson – Smorgasbord of stats – .385-1-5-6-4 over the past 14 days and SS eligible.

  • Kyle Seager

  • Alcides Escobar

  • Jemile Weeks

  • Erick Aybar

  • Kyle Seager – Enjoyed weekend in Colorado - 5-for-10 with 3 R, 5 RBI, 1 HR, 1 3B and 1 SB.

  • Erick Aybar

  • Aaron Hill

  • Elliot Johnson

  • Alcides Escobar

Top 5 middles to target on the wire for deep leaguers?

  • Taylor Pastronicky – Hit safely in eight straight games and finally starting to steal bases

  • Sean Rodriguez

  • Brian Dozier

  • Freddy Galvis

  • Marco Scutaro

  • Brian Dozier – Working on a 6-game hitting streak (which admittedly isn't much of a streak) and hit .320 in minors last year with 24 steals.

  • Marco Scutaro

  • Tyler Greene

  • Josh Harrison

  • Sean Rodriguez

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