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By Tim Dierkes [August 27, 2008 at 5:32pm CST]
Let's create a fantasy team entirely from undrafted players. For our purposes, let's say anyone drafted 277th or later on average in March. If nothing else, this shows the extreme importance of free agency in fantasy leagues. How many of...
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By Tim Dierkes [August 26, 2008 at 10:06am CST]
This feature is written by Jeff, owner of the Volvo Stationwagons. Jeff has been moving and preparing to go back to graduate school for the past few weeks, so he's barely been able to follow his team, let alone write...
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By Tim Dierkes [August 25, 2008 at 1:08pm CST]
Fantasy leaguers have short memories, and often seem to expect pitchers to repeat the previous year's performance (right down to the win total). Readers of this site know it usually doesn't work that way. Let's take a look at this...
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By Tim Dierkes [August 22, 2008 at 2:13pm CST]
In this week's roundtable, we were asked to name our top ten pitchers for 2010. This was quite difficult for me, and I left many great pitchers out. For some reason my answer was not included at that link, so...
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By Tim Dierkes [August 20, 2008 at 2:49pm CST]
Desperate for saves? Consider picking up Al Reyes, just signed by the Mets. Baltimore's Jim Johnson and Arizona's Jon Rauch are a couple more to consider.
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By Tim Dierkes [August 19, 2008 at 9:48am CST]
September call-ups are coming in a few weeks. Hitters are unlikely to have a large impact in September, because they often do not have a starting role. But let's take a look at some possibilities. Feel free to add names...
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By Tim Dierkes [August 15, 2008 at 3:44pm CST]
Here are some position players who are available in at least one of my fantasy leagues. C: Catcher is a barren wasteland in many leagues that require two. Florida's John Baker has been OK, and you could do worse than...
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By Tim Dierkes [August 14, 2008 at 11:43pm CST]
FRIDAY: Percival is headed to the DL. THURSDAY: It's time to move on Rays' reliever Grant Balfour if he's still available in your league. Troy Percival left the game tonight with a knee sprain. It's said to be day-to-day, but...
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By Tim Dierkes [August 13, 2008 at 10:40am CST]
As more and more owners lose interest, waiver wire saves are becoming plentiful. In some leagues I am rostering 5 or 6 closers. That's crazy since there are only 30 at a given time. Sometimes I will pick a guy...
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By Tim Dierkes [August 13, 2008 at 9:20am CST]
This week's roundtable was designed for everyone to cherry-pick some players they suggested everyone avoid back in March. The question: Which player(s) did you deliberately not draft on any of your teams because you thought they were overrated and your...
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