The Fantasy Baseball Addict is a 28 year old male, married to a beatiful wife, with an adorable 2 year old son, and another little bun in the oven.
He spends a lot of time on fantasy baseball, hours a day. Many people around him, think he has a problem, but chances are if you are reading this, you know it is not a problem at all. It’s a passion.
The Fantasy Baseball Addict has various philosophies and mantras and those are:
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Always stay ahead of the game and be the guy with the most info. The more info you have, the better the chance of you knowing more than your opponent. While luck certainly plays a role in the outcome of league’s, the guys who are the most prepared and have the most knowledge are almost always in the mix.
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Ask questions. If you can’t make up your mind on a trade or roster decision, talk it out with others. The power of a dissenting view or unique perspective can be great!
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It’s all about the numbers. Make decisions with your brain and your gut, not your heart.
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A powerful offense wins championships. Think about it. If a guy hits a lot of homeruns, it generally means they also drive in and score a lot too. The more boppers you have, the better you’ll be in the other categories as well. Draft offense early and you’ll be a force!
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Draft pitching late. See above reasoning and also note that pitching is much more inconsistent from year to year, and better value can be found later in drafts and off the waiver wire. See the following examples of pitchers taken in the early rounds in 2007 who ended up having mediocre at best seasons (Halladay, Oswalt, Carpenter, Zambrano, Sheets).
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Talk Trash! No one likes to be in a league where no ones makes fun of the other guys’ sexual orientations, genital size, lack of prowess, etc.
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Hey, I was reading you stuff and really liked it. I am a fellow hard core baseball addict and I was wondering if I could get you take on a few topics.
1. I was on that same mock draft software you have and drafted Markakis in the 5th round and Bay in the 8th. On guy was giving me a hard time about drafting both too early in a ten man league. I think Markakis can go something like .300 and very close to 30-30 and Bay can very easily return to .300 30 100 and 10 steals. In a ten man league, are those right around where these players should be drafted?
2. What are your thoughts on Ryan Zimmerman. A Baseball Prospectus writer said that he will be better than David Wright in 2008, which I find very hard to believe. Can Zimmerman hit 30-35 home runs and steal even 20 bases this year in a new ball park.
3. Whats your user name on MDC? We should do a mock draft sometime, my user name is dlin2 and my team name is usually sox.
As far as Markakis and Bay go, whoever told you that is a jackass.
I don’t know about Markakis going 30-30, I think 25-15 is what I’d expect of him to go with a .300 average and and about 100 RBI and 90 Runs. He also has plenty of upside from there, which makes the 5th round a decent projection for him in a 10 team league.
Bay in the 8th is a steal. I’m seeing him go very late, but before last year he was a 2nd/3rd rounder. I think 2007 was jsut a bad year and Bay is going to be one of this year’s biggest bouncebacks. I think it’s reasonable to expect .290-30-100-90-10 from him.
I also read the BP article on Zimmerman vs. Wright (I believe I saw it on CNNSI.com). Remember, a major factor in contributing to RFK’s reputation as a pitcher’s park was the fact that their team has stunk in each of the years they have played there, and thus, not a lot of homers were hit or runs scored. While I think the new ballpark will certainly help Zimmerman’s overall numbers, we don’t know that for sure and he still hits in a relatively weak lineup. He only stole 4 bags last year, and 11 the year before, so nothing there seems to indicate to me he can swipe 20. I think 30 homers is probably his ceiling, but another thing to keep in mind is that he only hit .267 last year (as opposed to .287 in 2006), and his RBI’s declined as well. I think a safe projection for him would be .280-24-95-90-5.
On MDC, I usually go by http://www.fbbaddict.com (a little free advertising never hurt anyone. If you would like to mock with me, let me know which one you have signed up for, and I will try to make it. Email me at fbbaddict@gmail.com, and I will let you know of any that I sign up for as well.
By the way, I’d take Bay before I’d take Markakis.