When Rickie Weeks went down for the Brew Crew in the midst of a breakout year, fantasy fans groaned.

Granted, his replacement doesn’t have the same all-around game, but Casey McGehee is doing pretty darned well.

McGehee qualifies at both 2nd and 3rd base in Yahoo leagues.  That’s a huge plus.  An even bigger plus is that he’s 9 for his last 16, including his first home run of the year last night.

Now, that does go to show that McGehee doesn’t exactly have Chase Utley-esque power, and with no stolen bases so far, he doesn’t exactly have Brian Roberts-esque speed, nor is he a Brandon Phillips combo of the two.  But if you need somebody who can hit for good average (he’s at .338) in a solid winning lineup, McGehee serves a purpose.

Another infielder that I’m really looking at is Chicago’s Gordon Beckham mainly because I’ve seen him in action @ Fifth Third Field, and this guy is legit.  Beckham was a College World Series beast only a year ago, became a first-round pick (8th overall), and already is up in the big leagues.  When he was at the Triple-A level for about a week, he schooled Toledo pitchers.  The last prospect that I saw dominate Mud Hen pitching to that extent, with serious gap power, was Jay Bruce when he was in Louisville, and while Bruce is enduring a sophomore slump, it’s safe to say that Bruce took fantasy nation by storm last season.  Not even Pittsburgh’s Andrew McCutchen dominated Toledo pitching like Beckham did in his short stint, and now Beckham’s up in the bigs.  He qualifies as both a third baseman and a shortstop.  He’ll get increased playing time.  It took him awhile to get going, but he has 4 RBI in his last 2 games, and he’ll only get better.  Trust me.  He’s too good not to improve on his .114 average.

I will say that now’s not the time to pick him up unless you are truly desperate for an infielder.  But there is the EXTREME potential that he will prove more valuable than a slumping J.J. Hardy, for example.