Who knows how to get pageviews better than me? I mean, when people see the title Vernon Wells, 2012 Fantasy Sleeper they are bound to click on that. Am I right, or am I right-right?! Shoot, I imagine a lot of people will link to this article and before I know it I’ll have a castle made of all the pennies I earn from people reading this article then people will tour my penny castle in a bus and point out the room where I went mad waiting for Vernon Wells to actually hit. The irony! (If that’s irony, I don’t know. Only British people know what irony is.) Neverthehullabooloo, guys and three girl readers, Vernon Wells really wasn’t bad last year. He was terrible! See what I did there? Clever with a capital K. He hit 25 homers but batted .218 and he just turned 33 years old. Nice sleeper, Grey, did you not want to write about Edgar Renteria? Oh, Random Italicized Voice, you are the ball buster, aren’t you? Yup, that’s my job. And not understanding rhetorical questions. To...
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