An unfortunate fact of life is that players sometimes change positions from year to year. Sometimes it’s beneficial, but usually it means that you won’t get quite as much value out of the player. We will try to maintain a list here of changes as reported in the media, to give you a leg up on draft day. As always, you should check your league rules to make sure.
Should you pay more for a catcher who hits 20 HR than a first baseman who hits 25 HR? Sure. How much more is the question. You’ll find all kinds of fantasy advice out there, from “get Joe Mauer in the 3rd round” to “punt catchers altogether”. My take? Know the positional premiums you gotta pay, based on who’s available. Let me explain… Read more…
There are a lot of fantasy gurus out there telling you not to waste your early draft picks on pitching. They’re injury-prone, they’re unpredictable, go for the sure thing in position players. That might hold true for the first round, but I’d like to give you some reasons why drafting pitchers earlier than others is not always such a bad idea.
Don’t we all? Steals is one of those tricky categories, because just a few players are responsible for the lion’s share of stolen bases in baseball. For example, of the 2,799 bases stolen in 2008, 467 of those (or 16.7%) were by the same ten players. Expand that to twenty players, and they pilfered 784 bases, or 28.0%. Every fantasy buff knows that that can make for some slim pickins come draft day. Here are a couple of suggestions on who to get and who to avoid this year (projected 2009 steals in parentheses).
