Come and join my twitter army @TheNLKing Believe it or not, even though the season is a little under a week old and there are a lot of fantasy baseball owners out there already pulling out their hair and in extreme frustration. I am going to be the voice of reason and tell everyone to relax it's early April. The 1998 Yankees started out 1-4 and won 114 games that season. Players get off to slow starts sometimes and you just have to plug your way through it. To me most teams in the month of April should let their teams breath and get a sense of what your team is capable of. Everyone should be paying attention to what's going on in MLB and how it effects your league. In addition you should be combing your league waiver wire - free agency and looking for any kind of player who can help you even in a small way such as middle reliever who can give you great ERA & Ratio and K numbers. The exception to the rule is if you walked out of your draft and said to yourself...I am so short on speed or power, saves or starting pitching, etc, etc. If that's the case you should quietly be reaching out to other owners in your league on players they have that you like that can shore up your team weakness. Other than that my call out to everyone in baseball fantasy land is to relax and enjoy April. Don;t get caught up too much in April standings. Yes getting off to a good start or even a great start is better than a poor one but remember it's a marathon not a sprint. Last season in a 12 team league I was in 9th place in late May and I finished 2nd. So show some patience, don;t make some crazy wild trade because your team had a bad first couple of weeks. Now talking about injuries, Lets start with the Nationals' Mike Morse
and Drew Storen. In the cases of Morse and Storen,
they have hit setbacks and it appears Storen in a major way. Again when a player is hurt it takes time for that injury to heal and many times injuries are very slow healing (any kind of pull is slow hearing, Morse has the lat muscle). In addition teams take a very slow and cautious approach with injuries which delays things further. Morse was suppose to be back by this weekend and now it's looking like late April at the earliest, it'll probably be early May sometime. In Storen case despite countless tests it does appear it has a major situation. The final test results aren't in yet but the early word sounds like Storen could be out until July. Storen owners keep on top of his situation and in the meantime if Storen being out is going to make your team way short in saves you should be doing the research now on trade options with other owners in your league. Do not reach out or make any trade offers until you get the word on what exactly is going on with Storen and when he is expected back. But by doing the analysis and research now when the results are posted and if they are bad and you need to get another closer you will be ready to act immediately. Again when you get an injury to a player always estimate that it's going to take a little bit longer than what you are told. If the player comes back on time great but always prepare for the worse because that's what happens the majority of the time. For instance Tim Hudson is scheduled to come back May 1st but all Tim Hudson owners should understand he could be pushed back as well. NL King - C.Lizza
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