If you're anything like a lot of baseball fans, you've spent the offseason doing two things. One, you've been tracking the hot stove rumors like you're a Major League GM, and two, you've sat wallowing in the defeat your fantasy team suffered this past season. You've checked and double-checked the lineup. There's no way you should have lost, right? When you go back over your pitching and your hitting, you have an All-Star cast, but yet you didn't win your league. And that's in a league with, what, maybe nine other teams you're competing against? So what's my point?
No, it's not that you suck at fantasy baseball. Because truth be told, I am horrible at fantasy sports. My point is simply that big names don't win games (even fantasy games). An All-Star roster on paper does not necessarily mean a division championship or World Series crown. We watch the stars come off the trading block and free agent boards with wonder and e...
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