We really have no choice. Especially us fantasy leaguers. Drafts are coming up in a matter of weeks, and there are hundreds of names to sort through, list, and prioritize. I’m not saying forget the A-Roid debacle. Just let’s try to back burner it for now, at the least. It will all bubble to the surface in a few months when the unauthorized biography about A-Roid comes out.
Preparing for these fantasy baseball drafts is fun…but by the end your brain starts to hurt with all the names, numbers, and player positions crammed in your head. This takes HOURS. I will sit up til 1 or 2am for countless nights, reading fantasy baseball guides, scanning the Internet…and going over my roster from the previous year. Just ask my wife. There’s probably a few more home projects that would get done this time of the year were it not for the fantasy baseball drafts!
So I have two drafts I’m studying for. One is in a continuous league, where we get to keep up to 18 of the 25 players on our roster during the offseason. So the guys we are drafting March 14th are the bottom of the barrel, to a degree, but still can make or break a fantasy baseball season. For example, last year I picked up White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski, a solid hitter who plays nearly every day, for a very hard to fill fantasy baseball position. He remains on my roster to this day.
The other league starts fresh every year, so that draft is on the one hand easier, and on the other, more challenging. Yes, I’ll have superstars to choose from, but the question is which one will have a great year, and which one will just have an okay campaign.
And there’s always the question of …which one might be coming off the juice?
