On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, I had an auction draft in the first of my four fantasy baseball leagues for the 2012 season. This league is a 5x5 roto league hosted on Yahoo and involves some of the great minds and personalities in the fantasy baseball industry.  Overall I am satisfied with my team, but I admit that I have some deficiencies on my roster that will require tweaking and making some deals down the road.  Host your fantasy baseball league and play Free Fantasy Baseball at Fleaflicker with full commish options and live scoring/stats. I also must disclose that I typically punt on catchers, even with this league requiring two catchers in the starting lineup. The risk of injury is so great and most catchers do not play more than five games a week, so I feel it is not worth spending the extra auction dollars on the position.  Of course guys like Joe Mauer, Buster Posey, Brian McCann and Carlos Santana are the premier options, but I never choose to big high on any of them because it limits what I can do elsewhere. I am not saying that is the right strategy, just that it is mine. Here is my roster and some commentary on each player. C - John Buck-MIA. Because I punt on catchers, the only thing I look for is someone who is a team's primary backstop and isn't completely incompetent.  I have had Buck the past few years and he is a solid producer in terms of homeruns and RBI at the position.  But there is no question he will bring my batting average down.  For $1.00, I can live with whatever he produces. C - Nick Hundley-SD. The same rationale for Buck applies to Hundley except that Hundley...

How Quickly We Forget We have short memories. Most of us can't remember what we had for breakfast on Monday, let alone what baseball players did past last season. In what follows I'll ask you to guess who I'm describing by taking a look at their efforts the past two years. I bet you will be surprised to learn that some of the names you are really down on in 2012 because of poor performances last season were stars, or borderline stars, as recently as 24 months ago. Maybe, just maybe, these guys might all represent nice buy low opportunities for the coming season. * ADP numbers come from MockDraftCentral. 2010 Stats: .298-21-112-77-5 2011 Stats: .268-12-64-54-1 ADP: 231.1 Age in 2012: 26 years old This hitter had the 8th most RBI in baseball in 2010. He was also only two hits from a .300-20-110 season, and those are elite numbers. He floated between two teams last year and the results with both clubs weren't ideal, but he did finish on a pretty good high note. This outfielder had eight homers and 32 RBI over his last 40 games an in so doing you would have thought that his value would be much higher this season than his current ADP and the fact that he is only 26 years old which would seem to point to the fact that his peak years could still be ahead of him. He is Delmon Young. 2010 Stats: .327-9-75-88-1 2011 Stats: .287-3-30-38-0 ADP: 80.0 Age in 2012: 29 years old Hopefully this fella is a pretty obvious one since not many guys rap out .327 batting averages. I'm not even going to waste any time trying to convince you of anything without giving his name -- it's Joe Mauer of the Twins. Mauer is coming off the worst season of his career no doubt, and since he injured about every part of his body at some point...

Yadier Molina is a rich man. Buster Posey is trying to prove he is healthy. Grady Sizemore is on the sidelines yet again. A.J. Burnett needs to learn how to bunt. All this and more in today's article at BaseballGuys.com. For those of you looking to get a draft guide to help you to dominate [...]

I say it every year -- the catcher's position is a field filled with landmines. There are certainly options that are elite when it comes to offensive output, but at the same time there is always an inherent risk with anyone who wears the tools of ignorance (Victor Martinez injured his knee -- a torn [...]

Traditionally, the backstop has been a bitter bane of the fantasy owner's existence. Owners either spent mega-dollars on one of the heavy hitters at the position or contented themselves to spend the season with a Kurt-Suzuki--sized hole in their lineups. The mayhem came to a crescendo a few years back when Joe Mauer's ADP crept [...]