Pablo Sandoval, Giants

In the first part of this two-part series, I dropped the ka-nowledge on all y’all fools, AL-style.  While a lesser (read: lazier) writer would have told you that it was your duty to familiarize yourself with all of those teams that the mainstream sports media chooses to ignore, I decided to become Cliff and dispense my notes on those AL teams.  You can find all of that information here. 

In case you need some catching up, your success will ride largely upon your ability to maximize value on every pick.  While some sap in your league is drafting from the comparatively shallow talent pool of the nine teams that exist within the scope of ESPN’s universe, you need to be maximizing the value of each pick.  What better way to accomplish this than to have intimate knowledge of the other 21 teams? 

I posited the rhetorical question, “How many current Pittsburgh Pirates can you name?”  The answer to that question is probably somewhere in the one to five range, and that is why you need me to separate the wheat from the chaff.  There is more than one Pirate who can bring you fantasy value this season. 

Again, you don’t need me to tell you about the Angels, Cardinals, Cubs, Dodgers, Mets, Phillies, Rays, Red Sox, or Yankees.  They’ve got a whole network that covers them as though they were the only nine teams in baseball. 

Now this is not meant to be a comprehensive study on every player on these teams, but it should at least point you in the right direction while eliminating the riff-raff.  Or, as I alluded to earlier, it is a Cliffs Notes of sorts.

On to the meat and potatoes…