Overrated

Looking at the "experts" mock draft over at Fantasy Gameday, some players stuck out to me as being overrated. Here are a few of them:

Chase Utley (1st Round, Pick #3) - I have a fantasy baseball man-crush on Utley, but third overall strikes me as a bit too high. Sure, second base isn't as deep as some positions, but that doesn't warrant Utley being picked ahead of Reyes and probably not ahead of Pujols.

Curtis Granderson (2nd Round, Pick #15) - The guy who took Granderson here must be thinking that he's the next Soriano. I could see Granderson putting up some numbers that get him close to the #15 ranking in 2008 if everything goes right, but there were more sure things available at this point in the draft.

Fausto Carmona (6th Round, Pick #67) - He's a good pitcher on a good team but I just can't get excited about him due to his low K/9 rate (5.73). Truly good groundball pitchers like Carmona can be pretty successful, but at this point in the draft, I want a pitcher who can get some K's. (Felix Hernandez, John Smoltz, Chris Young, and Daisuke Matsuzaka were all still available.)

Aaron Rowand (8th Round, Pick #87) - Career year in 2007, moving from a hitters' park to a pitchers' park, injures himself by crashing into walls. This has disaster written all over it.

Orlando Cabrera (10th Round, Pick #116) - Maybe he'll hit a few more homers in Chicago than he did in Anaheim, but the rest of his numbers are going nowhere but down.