Ellis, Mark

If you pieced together all of Ellis good stats you;d have quite the line. But you have to admire how he has spread them out over all these years. .316 average in 2005, Highs in HR's (19) and RBI (76) in 2006 and 14 steals in 2008. Of course in between these you've had .233 averages, 41 RBI and 9 HRs in various years. So who can tell what to expect except he is likely to miss time and a fair amount too. Ellis has managed 772 games since he became a "full time" player in 2003, so about 129 games per season and those are just the seasons he actually played, he missed all of 2004.

It's a shame really because if you were to take his career rates on this things you'd have a second baseman who hits 15-20 home runs and steals 10-15 bags over the course of 150 games and that would be usable. But he probably won't play 150 games and he might hit .233 again, which makes him hard to use.

The good news is that when Ellis is injured, he's injured and you can make other temporary arrangements and he does enough while he is playing to contribute. .270-65-13-60-14. 475ABs