Three 'News' In Fantasy- The Good, The Bad, and No

[DOUGHBOYS]

Everybody hates bad news. The news we get in fantasy baseball is mostly as harmless as who won at the county fair.
But, as passionate as we are, a major injury hits as hard as a major headline.
We deal with injuries in different ways.
While drafting, we may think of an injury as a chance to get a player at a bargain rate. Personally, I thought of Michael Brantley as a bargain. In my mind, a third or fourth round choice this year, who was being drafted from the sixth to twelth rounds. I know that Brantley is a coach's son, has a great head on those shoulders, and flat loves to play baseball.
In my mind, I was thinking that he would miss two-four weeks of the season. Not the eight to 12 weeks that had been thrown around. In this case, putting more faith in the ball player, rather than medical reports.

Jhonny Peralta had an injury during Spring Training. Prognosis is that he'll miss more than half the season. That his his owners hard and Peralta was seldom drafted in the Main Event because of the draft and hold penalties that a small seven-man bench provides. Fantasy owners know that, for the moment, Peralta is dead to them.
Then we have Jose Reyes. Reyes has seemingly forever, had a suspension looming.
Fantasy owners have absolutely no timeline as to when Reyes will be back.
When there is no timetable, drafters are more willing to take a chance on a player. Reyes was drafted in most Main Events.
There has been no movement with Reyes at all because all parties connected, are happy.
Major League Baseball is happy because they have plenty of time to investigate and come up with the appropriate penalty.
The Rockies are happy in that Reyes was never a match for them and their shortstop of the future is hitting like their everyday shortstop.
The Rockies are happier losing with Story than losing with Reyes.
And Reyes is happy because he is still getting paid.
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I personally feel that Peralta will play baseball before Reyes will. But that is just conjecture on my part.
Reyes has no time limitations as Peralta does. That appeals to some drafters. They'll draft and hope for good news.

Sometimes, no news is worse than bad news. A player will get injured, then seemingly disappear. And we are left wondering just how long he'll be out of our lineups.
Charlie Blackmon, CJ Wilson, Josh Hamilton, and Tyson Ross have all had injuries without true timelines.
Each day without an update is another day of questioning ourselves in what to do with these players.
It's early in the season, so mostly we hold on to them and hope.
We hope for good news.

[TOXIC ASSETS]

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Pour yourself a cold one Dan!