"Best Picks for your Fantasy Baseball Team"

Every single year, numerous sports fans and hooligans get off their Lazyboy chairs, and decide to make their own fantasy baseball team. A Fantasy Sports league is where you compete with other owners of fantasy teams, and compete for the division. The idea behind it is based on what type of league you're playing. There's primarily 2 different types of leagues. The first one is Rotisserie, which you must gain the most stats in each particular category. There's usually 5 or 6 categories your league competes for, most range from HR, RBIs, ERA, Ks, and so on. Rotisserie leagues are designed to get the best players. The other type of league is Head-to-Head, which pits you versus another manager in a weekly race. The winner is the person with the best stats compared to your opponent. Head-to-Head leagues are based around consistency, and players who tend to play the best on average, rather than heating up once or twice during the year.

Now, most teams are picked by doing a live draft, or autopick draft. A live draft is where players gather in a chatroom, and pick who they want. Then the administrator will pick those players for that team, and everyone is usually happy with who they get. Of course, you have to be online, and you must be able to wait around for a good 5 hours. The autopick draft is much simpler. You simply "rank" your players, and the CPU picks the teams automatically based on the rankings. Either way, both methods are fun. Now I'm going to tell you my 'picks' based on the high/low ends. If you're looking for top-notch, that's high-end. Low notch/economically saving is low end.

My Picks:

- Catcher -
High-End: Mike Piazza (Consistent Power-Hitting catcher)
Low-End: Paul LoDuca (Ready for a comeback year)

- 1st Base -
High-End: Jim Thome (Extremely powerful hitter, healthy as a horse)
Low-End: Mike Sweeney (Rising to stardom, few years from perfection)

- 2nd Base -
High-End: Jeff Kent (Consistent offensive hitter, can heat up easily)
Low-End: Junior Spivey (Leadoff man for the Diamondbacks, underrated pick-up)

- 3rd Base -
High-End: Albert Pujols (One of the best/utility men in the game, Prime Youth)
Low-End: Edgardo Alfonzo (Batting 4th in SF's lineup, imagine the possibilities)

- Shortstop -
High-End: Alex Rodriguez (Best player in baseball as of right now, the Mike Tyson of MLB)
Low-End: Jimmy Rollins (Ready for a comeback year, Possesses speed on the bases for SBs)

- Left Field -
High-End: Manny Ramirez (Powerhouse hitter, Ready to bang 50 out of the park)
Low-End: Pat Burrell (This guy's the real thing, potential to hit 50 HRs, Rising Stardom)

- Center Field -
High-End: Carlos Beltran (Can hit, steal, HR, do just about anything you want, and he's young)
Low-End: Torii Hunter (All-Star Caliber, the defensive plays just make you want to cry)

- Right Field -
High-End: Vladimir Guerrero (This guy can do it all, like Terminator and Superman combined)
Low-End: Magglio Ordonez (Young, Consistent, the kind of stuff we're looking for)

- Starting Pitcher -
High-End: Curt Schilling (KOs tons of people, wins a lot, VERY consistent)
Low-End: Ramon Ortiz (On the rise to 20 game winner, highly underrated)

- Closer -
High-End: Troy Percival (Consistent for the past years, takes the pressure and deals with it)
Low-End: Jose Mesa (He's going to get run support from the Phillies, easy saves)

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