This post comes from E. Rolf Pleiss. E. Rolf currently writes about the Minnesota Twins for Knuckleballs Blog, is the co-host of a weekly Minnesota Twins podcast, Talk to Contact and his Twitter feed is a hilarious must follow. E. Rolf has been playing fantasy baseball for nearly a decade, but starting in 2012 he started getting serious about his fantasy-swag, and started putting some of the tips he has seen here on Crackerjacks to use. He will be sharing some of his advice for first-time fantasy baseball players with us over the next several weeks.
Almost every year one of the people in our fantasy league will post something on the league message board about how this other league they are in needs an extra player because so-and-so backed out at the last minute. I tend to volunteer for these types of opportunities for two reasons,
I tend to think to MORE fantasy baseball is better than LESS, and if I can join an existing league it will usually be one that I can count on...
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