I am going to be providing you with a great strategy to ensure you are taking the right players during your fantasy baseball draft. I will give you some suggestions on what I think the best way is to go about drafting your first 5 picks. Your first few rounds you should only be looking to draft proven players who have had a great 3 year statistical trend. This should be the best available player available from your own player rankings. Definitely stay away from even tempting on drafting one of your sleepers or prospects. Once you get to your 4th or 5th round you want to start looking at position scarcity. These rounds you could pass over a guy who is more proven and has a high player ranking. An example would be if Derek Jeter is available and all your ranked shorts stops that are ranked higher then him are gone you might want to take Derek Jeter because of the drop off at the Short Stop position. Meaning the next available player after Derek Jeter has an extremely lower output. Therefore, if you don’t take Jeter now your fantasy baseball team will be crippled at the Short Stop position. This is the whole concept of being aware of position scarcity.
A key strategy that I use with my first 5 round picks is that I look to build up a great infield. The reason why that is, is because there is an abundance of Outfielders to choose from. I look at it like this, the numbers are so close between lets say my 14th ranked outfielder and my 5th ranked outfielder it really pays off if you can sustain from drafting a outfielder to later on in the draft. So don’t worry about if you are passing up on great outfielders in the first few rounds of your fantasy draft you can easily make that up in later rounds.
Based on my projections I am able to come with a list of players that will allow me to make these decisions much easier than if I was drafting of the top of my head. Basically, if you can set up your player rankings by position you will be able to see what your player scarcity is and what round you should start taking certain players. I have come up with a special system which helps me to produce a list very quickly and is also simple to follow during my fantasy draft day.
I hope this advice has helped you with your fantasy baseball draft strategy. I thought I would give you some of my ideas which have helped me have a number of great fantasy drafts in the past.

Today I am going to give you my 3 easy steps that I take before I start my fantasy baseball mock draft. These are my very personal secret steps that I have been doing for years and years to help me be successful in what really counts, draft day.

To find out what the strategy is that I use to prepare for a fantasy baseball Mock Draft then you need to keep reading. Be very careful when reading and take notes on what I am about to tell you because this could change your fortune in fantasy baseball. Using this strategy I can almost guarantee that you will stop being that guy that everybody laughs at around the water cooler!
Are you ready? Here we go.

Step #1 – Rankings
Setup all your fantasy baseball rankings before entering your fantasy baseball mock draft however don’t be like those enormous websites that pump out over hundreds and hundreds of rankings for each position. You need narrow your rankings for you Mock Draft to just the top 15 players at each infield position and then the top 50 pitchers and outfielders. THAT IS IT!!! There is no need to go beyond this because for goodness sakes there are usually only around 10 to 12 teams in any given fantasy baseball league. Therefore if you only rank the number of players I have suggested for each position then you will automatically be ahead of the curve.

Step #2 – Research
This may be the most important part to success not only in your fantasy baseball mock draft but to victory on the real draft day as well.

After you come to grips with only ranking the amount I have suggested in step #1. You will now need to compile all the information that you have TIME to analyze. This may be hard for some of you to handle because I do understand that Fantasy Baseball can become very addictive. Nonetheless, fight this urge and only gather as much information has you candle because too much information is not necessarily helpful. You can have all information in the world but if you can’t view it all and pull what things are important then it is all worthless to you.

What I do to help me out with this BEAST of a problem is that I break it down into segments. First, I look at the infield minus pitchers, then I move to outfielders and finally I look pitchers including starters and relievers. This brings me to another major problem people generally mess up on, statistics. What are you supposed to look for when examining each player’s statistics? Well, I could talk about this for another 3 or 4 articles, so lets stay away from this for purpose of this article and move on to step three.

Step #3 – Organization
This is key to having a good draft. First let me tell you what you don’t want to do. Please do not show up to your fantasy baseball mock draft with 20 different magazines and a notebook full of handwritten mumbo jumbo. This will only make you confused and discombobulated. Fumbling around for players to draft when it comes to your turn is not a good thing and in all the confusion you could screw up and pick someone that you may not even have in your personal rankings.

My solution to this is dilemma is to TYPE UP and print out your rankings. YES, I said TYPE, you will be surprised when draft day comes most people can’t even read their own handwriting! When you type up your rankings be sure to have bold headings for each position and make it simple keep one position on a page. This will keep you organized and calm. Also pay close attention to who is being drafted and cross them off of your rankings because, duh, they are no longer available to you.

So to sum up this step, type up and print out your rankings, this is all you need on the day of your fantasy baseball mock draft day. Stay away from all those tantalizing fantasy baseball magazines and stick to your plain old typed pages. My motto is KISS… KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID.

I hope that you took notes and really took to heart some of the thing I have talked about here. If you follow these three steps you will definitely have success in your Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft and ultimately on in your real Fantasy Baseball Draft, which will carry over to success in your Fantasy League.

Okay, as I promised you guys I was going to talk about the offensive side of the baseball and some of my opinions on Carlos Gonzalez and a few other sleepers. So, here we go lets get started. Let me first talk about my general opinion on how to find good fantasy baseball sleepers. I like to look at how guys finished the previous season, post all-star break and those players who excelled in every 5×5 and 6×6 category. In this article I will be giving you my opinion how I find my fantasy baseball sleepers. I will be talking about 2 of my favorite fantasy baseball sleepers in 2010, one will be from the outfield and another from the infield.
Like I noted in my early post Carlos Gonzalez is one of my favorite fantasy baseball sleepers. I like him because if you look at his power to speed combinations. He had 12 homeruns and 11 stolen bases and his on base percentage was .384 all post all-star break. This all means he has a promising fantasy baseball season in 2010. If he can produce like he did post all-star break you might be looking at a 30 homeruns and 30 stolen bases. These are surprising very good numbers for someone who will be going in late 11th or 12th round, which is demonstrated on most fantasy mock draft sites across the internet.
As I promised here is another, Howie Kendrick, is another one of my special hits for a sleeper in the 2010 fantasy baseball season. I believe he will be a great player for the up coming season because if you look at his batting average and his on base percentage he has above average statistics with a .358 and a .391 respectively. Again if he can just carry this over in this season he will be one of the top performers at second base this year. Hence, become of the most sought after fantasy baseball sleepers for 2010. Another Key thing Kendrick is where he will be batting in Angels lineup considering they lost the Chone Figgins and Vladimir Guerrero.
These are some of the key things I look for when I am doing my research on the most wanted fantasy baseball sleepers . Beyond these key indicators I have noted in this article, I do look at a number of other things as well, which I will be going into much better detail on my membership site.

Good morning fantasy baseball nation today will be part 1 of my advice for fantasy baseball sleepers. I will be talking about my favorite 2010 fantasy baseball sleepers that are pitchers. The key way that I determine what a fantasy sleeper is, is by looking at their BAA which is Batting Average Against. First let me explain why I feel that this is one of the most important statistics took watch when you are searching for Fantasy Baseball Sleepers. When a pitcher has a low BAA this means that it is very hard for batters to get hits off of them. Now, this statistic does not take into consideration the walks or pasted balls and things like this. This is the very reason why the small amount of pitchers with a low Batting Average Against are not being talked about in the top fantasy baseball rankings anywhere.

However, this brings me to what I can say is one of my specialties, that is, finding fantasy baseball sleepers which I determine using this strategy of looking at the BAA. One of my top sleeper pitchers is Clayton Kershaw. Clayton had a Batting Average Against of .200 in 2009. If you are saying okay what does that mean, let us compare this number to the number one ranked fantasy pitcher in baseball for 2010, Tim Lincecum, he had a BAA of .206 last year. So this proves batters had a much harder time hitting pitches thrown from Kershaw then from Lincecum. The problem here is that Kershaw does have a high tendency to walk a lot of batters. However, if he can cut down on the amount of free passes he gives up during his season I believe he has a great opportunity to become one of the elite pitchers in baseball, hence one of my top fantasy baseball sleepers for this up coming 2010 baseball season.

This concludes part one of my fantasy baseball sleepers on the pitching side. Tomorrow I will be talking about the offensive side of baseball. Like what is all the hype about Carlos Gonzalez? Why is he on all the top sleeper boards across the internet and plastered all over the fantasy baseball magazines? I will explain some of my reasons why I think Gonzalez is exploding into the fantasy baseball sleepers scene. You may be surprised by some of things I have to say about him and some of the other top sleepers that are being talked about this early in the 2010 fantasy baseball season! Don’t hesitate to read some of my other posts to see where I am coming from.

Hello folks, fantasy Mike here today to speak with you about fantasy baseball player rankings for the 2010 fantasy baseball season. I believe my way is the best way to setup your 2010 rankings because it took me ten years of trial and error while competing in tough leagues to put together an extremely successful ranking system.

My website talks more about my very important key indicators that I look for which help me setup my one of kind fantasy baseball player rankings. The way in which I depict what is important will enable you to draft that superstar in the 5th round while he still will be putting up those 1st round numbers for your fantasy baseball team. I don’t want to go into great detail telling you what my key indicators are that I look at when I am putting together my fantasy baseball player rankings because that is one of the key features I will be going over on the forums of my website.

Fantasy baseball player rankings in magazines are not always set in stone and once you buy the magazines they will be outdated. The great thing about my fantasy baseball player rankings is that I will be updating the rankings until APRIL 4TH which is baseballs opening day. One of the main things I look for during spring training is guys coming off surgeries. I’m looking for guys that might have hurt their hamstring, example Jose Reyes or other pitchers that didn’t pitch a full season. Another example is last years Brandon Webb. If these players perform well they could get moved up in my fantasy baseball player rankings. This great fantasy baseball advice and much more including sleepers and projections will be available in the following days to come.