Matthew Berry's personal rankings

By Matthew Berry

So these are my rankings. As in mine. As in … they have my personal biases and strategy built into them. They reflect the fact that I devalue closers quite a bit. That I think Chad Billingsley is hurt and a serious risk to your WHIP. That speed is more scarce than power and that I value guys with production in multiple categories over guys who produce huge in a few. That I don't believe Joba gets to the rotation before the All-Star break, if at all. They also reflect where I think I need to take a guy to get...Matthew Berry's personal rankings

Deep Sleepers: Finding value in single leagues

By Jason Grey

Earlier this week, the staff posted its list of sleepers for various league formats.

But it's time to go even deeper.

Here are various players that I am keeping an eye on that could have what I call "sneaky" value. They are not being given a ton of attention right now, but are just the kind of players that I am interested in for picking in the endgame, or stashing on your reserve lists to see how well they pan out.

The word "sleeper" is always a relative definition. One league's reserve list player goes for $6 in another league because...Deep Sleepers: Finding value in single leagues

Sleepers: Names to know for any depth of league

By ESPN.com Fantasy

Rick Ankiel, OF, Cardinals: Ankiel is a special athlete and one who is not yet a finished product. And what makes Ankiel's achievements so hard to believe for many of us -- a former pitcher hitting all these home runs -- is also a reason to worry less about his propensity to strike out. Don't forget, he just started focusing on this whole hitting thing in 2005, and lost all of 2006 to injury. He has had a grand total of 882 at-bats, from Class A to the majors, since the conversion....Sleepers: Names to know for any depth of league

Mock Draft Review: Pujols, Beckett fall

By Christopher Harris

I shook up the world by taking Matt Holliday second. Matt Berry shook up the world by taking 11 first basemen.

OK, one of those statements is true, and one is an exaggeration. But, as we all went about the business of drafting imaginary versions of our imaginary teams, I couldn't help thinking: Mock drafts are funny. I mean, in one way, they're hugely useful in ways that pre-prepared positional rankings can't be: they reflect the state-of-the-art on players and echo the most current news available. And in other ways, they're unbelievably useless: one wrong move (hello, Holliday at No....March 14 Mock Draft review

AL-Only LABR Review: Risk and Rich Harden

By Christopher Harris

My blood sugar was low. The sun was in my eyes. Brandon Funston of Yahoo is a practiced ventriloquist.

How else can I explain spending $14 on Rich Harden in the AL-only version of LABR?

For the uninitiated, "LABR" is the "League of Alternate Baseball Reality," the first "superstar" experts' fantasy baseball league. Once upon a time, it included Peter Gammons and Keith Olbermann, among others. Think of it as the Asia ("Heat of the Moment," "Only Time Will Tell") of fantasy horsehide.

And yeah, now I'm in it. Our cultural notion of "celebrity" certainly has come down a long way.

The draft fell...Draft Kit: AL-Only LABR Review