A new baseball season means, of course, a new fantasy baseball season. Our league this year fell from seven teams to only four, meaning every team is overloaded with all-stars. Our league does an autodraft instead of a live draft, and I ended up getting a few players back from last season: Victor Martinez, Alfonso Soriano, Alex Rodriguez, and Jake Peavy. My team is top-heavy with corner infielders, including: Mark Teixeira, David Wright, Carlos Delgado, Ryan Howard, Troy Glaus, Miguel Cabrera (also outfield eligible), Lance Berkman (also outfield eligible), and A-Rod. On the other hand, just like last year, I received no cover in the draft at second base or shortstop. My second baseman is Soriano (who will, of course, be outfield eligible shortly), and my shortstop is Jose Reyes. And our teams are so overloaded that I haven't even mentioned my other two outfielders yet: Manny Ramirez and Grady Sizemore. Oh, and I picked up Barry Bonds off waivers today as well, so he'll be available for me tomorrow.

As for pitchers, we're all pretty loaded there as well. In addition to the aforementioned Jake Peavy, my other starters include Rich Harden, Felix Rodriguez, Mark Buehrle, and Mark Prior. (Prior is on the DL, so it was his open spot on the roster that I utilized to snag Bonds.) I also have Brandon Webb, who is getting the start tonight for Arizona, but he gets dropped tomorrow in favor of Jason Schmidt. I'm a little worried about my closers BJ Ryan and Eric Gagne. I'm convinced that Ryan was a one-year wonder, and I'm going to get burned by him just like I did with Keith Foulke last year. As for Gagne, I'm not convinced that he's fully recovered from elbow surgery, and he could turn out to be a liability as well. I'm not too worried, since my closers sucked last year as well, and that didn't stop me from doing well in the league.

So, the season starts today. Other than the moves I already made (acquiring Bonds and Schmidt, putting Prior on the DL, and dropping Webb), I'll probably be sitting tight at the moment, because I don't want to make a mistake like last year when I dropped Chris Carpenter.

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