Never Forget to Always Remember that Fantasy Baseball Is Not Real

Jason Kubel lost in the outfield. Photo courtesy of Lost Town. 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. The name says it all, FANTASY baseball, and yet, year after year, I found myself attempting to run my fantasy baseball team the same way I imagined that real baseball executives were running their own teams.  I was valuing players as if they were playing on my REAL baseball team.  The problem of course, is that fantasy baseball is not real, players have di...