Every league should have started by now . The bookstore magazines about the Saints and their miraculous run to a Super Bowl Victory over the Colts(You can read more about this subject in my recent article Hallelujah New Orleans!) have been replaced by fantasy baseball draft guides.
Choosing the magazine for your draft is tough so what I do is I try to get the same magazine each year because the rankings change every year and in every book. One has Pujols as number one another has Lincecum another has Hanley and so on. If the book has a grid with names and pictures of sportswriters above it look at it! This is a draft that the experts did see who they picked and how it affected their later picks.
Player Countdown:
34. Jay Bruce
33. Johan Santana
32. Derek Jeter
31. Joey Votto
30. B.J. Upton
Who's on First? Who's on Second? Who's in your Infield?
This legendary, humorous commentary of Abbot and Costello means that through all of the confusion the infield is important. I like taking either a great shortstop and great second baseman with either aging or young first and third baseman or vice versa. If your league depends more on RBIs than runs scored or hits then homeruns this should affect your discretion in the draft. If you can taking a whole infield of outstanding players isn't hard some players end up available. Just never take a whole infield of the same team because slumps are contagious especially if Albert Pujols gets into one it rubs off onto Schumaker which is passed onto Brendan Ryan who could pass it onto Rasmus, Holliday, or Molina which is ruining their entire depth chart.
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