Rolling In The Deep: Sorry, Charlie
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Ah, injuries! If you have a single fantasy baseball team that hasn't been hit hard by them already this year, consider yourself lucky. I'm not sure how I forget every off-season just how brutal it feels to finally have baseball up and rolling, only to see players inevitably drop like flies, destroying six months worth of planning, hoping, and dreaming of fantasy glory. I'm not sure which is worse, when a key player that was firing on all cylinders suddenly and unexpectedly officially hits the IL (Lance Lynn, um, what?!) or having to navigate vague reports about top studs without knowing whether they'll miss a game or two, or be down for a huge chunk of the season. I'm getting absolutely crushed with injuries in a few leagues as I'm sure many of you are -- and, as we deep leaguers know all too well, an injury that's a big bummer in a standard league or an RCL-type format, can be an absolutely crippling tummy punch in NL or AL-only, or other ultra deep formats. I already know I'm going to have to play this week seriously short-handed in a few leagues because the weekly waiver deadline has come and gone, and/or there is almost literally no one available in the free agent pool who'll get more than a handful of bats over the course of the week. I'm still going to fight for every counting stat I can, though, because these are the same leagues that often somehow manage to come down to a single steal or a couple RBI making a difference in the final standings come late September. This week, we'll stay true to the RITD spirit by focusing on players that were recently added to teams in some of my deepest leagues or made CBS's "most added" list while still being only a few percent owned -- guys who are off the radar to most of the fantasy baseball world, but might just be able to help fill out a banged-up deep league lineup.