Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market - AL

April 13, 2010 @ 14:00:00

By Bryce McRae
Edited by Tim Heaney

Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market - NL

Fantasy baseball waivers and the acquisition of fantasy baseball free agents can make or break your season. Your fantasy baseball cheat sheets won't help you after spring training. If your team remains the same after opening day, you will have trouble competing in your rotisserie baseball league.

Do you need to replace your fantasy baseball busts? Which fantasy baseball players can you ignore? KFFL.com's Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market gives you fantasy baseball tips and insight to sort through the masses quickly.

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Middle infielders

Alex Gonzalez, SS, Toronto Blue Jays

Expand your mind: Pavano has talent

Signed for his defense, Gonzalez has provided a spark offensively with a .333 average, four homers and six runs in his first 306 at-bats. It's hard to keep up that pace, but buying into him, at least in deeper leagues where the cost isn't so much, is a risk worth taking. He hit 16 homers in '07 before a knee injury ruined his 2008, so the pop has been there before.

Shallow mixed: Pass

Deep mixed: Watch

AL-only: Acquire

Pitchers

Carl Pavano, SP, Cleveland Indians

Pavano has turned in two strong starts to open the season; he has allowed only two runs in 13 innings (1.38 ERA). More importantly, his command has been exquisite with just one walk to 10 strikeouts. Pavano pounds the strike zone, keeping his walk total down, and has a solid defense behind him. It's tough to imagine him keeping up a pace even close to this, but a low ERA and WHIP aren't completely foreign to him (2004: 3.00 ERA, 1.17 WHIP). He can round out a deep pitching roster.

Shallow mixed: Pass

Deep mixed: Watch

AL-only: Acquire

Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market - NL

KFFLians are saying....

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Gator, at 02:44 on 04/18/10, says: As a lifelong Bay Stater & Red Sox fan, Alex Gonzalez is & will be sorely missed. The Gorilla suited one has botched up big time as this addition of the Hose gets Scut'd, Beltre'd & Cam'd. Bay should have been kept as the David issue remained a huge ???????mark.

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Bryce McRae
Bryce McRae is a Managing Editor with KFFL and has been involved in fantasy sports since 1999. He joined KFFL as a volunteer writer in March 2005 before becoming a Hot off the Wire Analyst in March 2006. He began working in his current capacity in September 2008. His work has appeared on fantasy sports sites such as Yahoo! and CBS Sportsline as well as in print. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2008 with a B.A. in History and U.S. Studies.

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