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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.

Top 10 Fantasy Baseball Duds of 2008

AP Photo

As the fantasy baseball season comes to an end and the MLB playoffs are in full swing, here’s a look at 10 key players that fantasy managers began their seasons with high hopes for, only to be disappointed in the end.  In order of the potential (negative) impact to one’s fantasy baseball roster:

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.

Big Void Without Big Papi: 5 Injury Replacements

The news is out that Red Sox Designated Hitter David Ortiz is out at least a month and may need season ending surgery on his injured wrist. The team already placed Ortiz on the disabled list and will wait it out to determine whether the injury can heal on its own. If there is little to no improvement, the verdict may be grim.

Source: AP Photo/ Steve Ruark

Pronk: Powerless At The Plate & On Your Fantasy Roster

I’ve given up on Travis Hafner. The recent news that Hafner’s lingering shoulder problem is still bothering him, coupled by the news that he won’t play until at least Friday (after receiving a cortisone shot Tuesday) and may need a trip to the DL sealed the deal.

Any sort of arm or leg problem usually leads to one result over the course of a fantasy baseball season: a lack of power at the plate.

Just look at Gary Sheffield’s season thus far for another shoulder injury example.