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Is Down Economy Hurting Fantasy Baseball Teams?

 
Today Steve from Senior Circuit (follow him at @seniorcircuit ) shares some insight into how your NL-only auction strategy might have to change because so many big named free agents are still unsigned. With a majority of my leagues being of the National League format I find that this season has been more difficult to plan for than others.  With the economic struggles of America not only affecting myself, and also family and friends, it is also causing teams in Major League Baseball to take a wait and see approach to signing “big name, big dollar” free agents. This has caused some frustration amongst fantasy owners who do not want to spend big or draft early a player who may not even play in their league format.  As of right now the biggest names may not sign until the beginning of spring training or perhaps the middle of spring training or later.  This causes concern in that taking a risk on an unsigned player, who would greatly help your fantasy team, may leave ... (link)

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