2008 Fantasy Baseball

The Ultimate 2008 Fantasy Baseball Draft

Based off of Yahoo Sports’ average draft positions, imagine if this was the fantasy baseball team drafted at the beginning of the 2008 MLB season.  Assume a standard 5×5 rotisserie scoring system.

Fantasy Baseball All-Star Injury Lineup

The 2008 baseball season certainly has been an interesting year with a large percentage of prominent ball players “hitting” the disabled list with all kinds of injuries. Injuries of course, are one of the major unknowns in baseball that can kill a fantasy baseball season.

(Source: AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Depending on how you come up with rankings, at least 7 of the top 25 players in spring training are on or have spent time on the DL thus far this season. Unfortunately, the trend of injuries to key players hasn’t gone down in numbers (and probably won’t as the season rolls on).

2 Baseball Injuries That Never Seem To Go Away

There are injuries that cost a player the entire season. There are injuries that make the casual baseball fan laugh in amusement.

Ryan Zimmerman (Photo: The Canadian Press)

And then there are injuries that end up lingering through the season, never seeming to heal and always impairing the performance a fantasy manager hopes for.

• For hitters, it’s a shoulder injury.
• For pitchers, the elbow is the culprit.

5 Key Elements for Winning at Fantasy Baseball

Just like the real major league baseball season fantasy baseball is a marathon. The fantasy baseball season spans 6 months of actual play and probably 1 – 2 months of spring training analysis and preparation. Competitive managers are always scouring statistics and looking for trends to take advantage of.

Time and volume are what allow fantasy managers to identify the numbers needed to make calculated decisions and the depth of roster makes it less likely that any 1 player will be essential for your season’s success.