What to look for in Fantasy Baseball Player Rankings
When you are looking to draft or add players to your fantasy
baseball team, you'll want to refer to the fantasy
baseball player rankings. These are usually available by web site or magazines.
When you look at the fantasy baseball player rankings, there are five
basic stats for pitchers and hitters that you will want to take into
consideration.
Fantasy baseball player rankings are used to determine how
much of an impact he will have on your fantasy baseball team.
With the hitters, the categories generally used in
the fantasy baseball league are:
- Batting average
- Runs scored
- Runs batted in (RBIs)
- Home runs
- Stolen bases.
The player that can post solid numbers in each category has
a better chance to be higher up on the fantasy
baseball player rankings. Players such as the New York Yankees'
Alex Rodriquez and the New York Mets' David Wright
are fantasy baseball players that will contribute across the board.
On the pitching side for your fantasy baseball player rankings,
you can't have a player that will add to each category.
The five basic pitching categories in a fantasy baseball league are:
- Wins
- Earned run average (ERA)
- Strikeouts
- Saves
- WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched).
Even though your closer, or saves guy, may pick up an occasional
victory, he is not on your roster to get 10-12 wins. This should help to add
to ERA and WHIP plus a couple of strikeouts. Your starting pitchers ideally
would help your team in all the categories except saves. The Minnesota
Twins' Johan Santana and the Toronto Blue Jays' Roy Halladay
are two starters that will help you with those four stat totals.
Using your fantasy
baseball player rankings will assist you and your team in getting ready
for your draft and the regular season. Once you have drafted your roster, refer
often to Fantasy Baseball Starters.com and the fantasy
baseball software, or the "Analyzers". These tools for pitching
and hitting are available now.
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