My fantasy draft is finally coming up(tomorrow) and I was looking for opinions of everybody on strategy and potential undervalued players.  I meant to do this earlier and have a giant fantasy diary where everybody could chime but never got around to it(hopefully it isn't too late).  I love fantasy baseball and figured a lot of you love it too.

So first, skip over unless you enjoy analyzing leagues to find weaknesses in the stats.  The stats are the following (8x8): Hitters R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, TB, AVG pitchers:  W, SV, H, HR, K, ERA, WHIP, K/BB.  I look at the pitching and see the value in either elite closers or elite setup men.  With the setup men being undervalued a lot and should be easily had later in the draft.  For hitters I see the advantage of power hitters more than speed players, with players like Reyes and Crawford being overvalued.  I normally just punt saves and SB and try to maximize my offense with sluggers.  

Onto the good part, so what players does everybody think are undervalued in their league?  There are always the obvious injured stars from last year who have dropped in the draft (D Lee and Harden for example).  Here are some more I think might be undervalued Zack Greinke, Anibal Sanchez(who will progress regress a little), Scott Olsen and then some relief pitchers, Neshek, Meredith, Duchschereer.

As you can see I have mostly be looking at pitchers right now and doing more research on the hitters tonight.  So what is everybody's opinion and or views.

Didn't want to just completely hijack the Clemens thread.  I have played a couple of version of Baseball Mogul and enjoyed them.  I have been addicted to SIGames Football/Championship Manager series and I found out today they make Out Of The Park Baseballseries(just release today).  My brother mentioned to me PureSim 2007 which he was going to buy for my dad.

I know there are probably more out there, but what won do people like the best?  

So I have one extra bench spot right now(or will once I drop a player) and can't decide who to pick up.

My M's fan in me says Soriano in a heartbeat.  The fantasy me says Putz has the much better 19/2 k's/bb and is doing a lot better now with his splitter?

I'm figuring eddie gets the closer spot for another month, then if he is still sucking gets dumped.  I don't see the m's making the boston move and ditching the proven closer so quick since I believe bavasi wants to be able to trade him come june/july.

So who would everybody pick up.  I'm leaning towards Soriano, but I'm not 100% sure he will become the closer.  I might just pick them both up if I can swing a 2 for 1 for Felix.

Saw this on espn....

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2005/columns/story?columnist=klapisch_bob&id=2205331

I personally think it would be a great idea(that is if the Mariners didn't get sweeped in four games and pouned 10-2 every game).  It would be interesting to see how it would go.

I would watch it and be a lot more interested in it then I was the World Series.

Was reading the chat over on Baseball America and saw this nice little QA on King Felix...

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/chat/050715jm.html

"Q:       mike from NY asks:
how long do you think it will take Felix to completely recover from his shoulder problems and will this have any influence on how long it takes for the Mariners to bring him up
 A:     

John Manuel: I believe we just had this in Daily Dish, about how Felix Hernandez is coming back in the bullpen and struck out four in two perfect innings last night. He'll be up this September as long as his arm is fine, but everything we've heard describes his arm soreness as minor. The Mariners are being cautious with him, with good reason. Jim Callis was telling me he's had scouts call Felix the best pitching prospect they've ever scouted, and one scout I talked to in Detroit said he's seen Felix's slider this year and it was as dirty as advertised."

Mmmmmmmm Dirty as advertised, I don't know why but that makes me smile.