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We all know Moneyball. Let's call this Money-where-your-mouth-is-ball. The season is underway, but there's another part of baseball that's just getting ready. The independent leagues, those last bastions of Wild West baseball, where dreamers and hangers-on mingle in front of sparse crowds, are getting ready to go. Minor league baseball has become big business, with multi-million dollar stadiums in big cities taking over. It's still a great show and fun for the whole family, but if you'd like to maybe own one of these teams, I hope you hit the MegaMillions. Independent ball? Not cheap, but "reasonable." At least we wouldn't need to ask for government handouts.
The destinations of the top two quarterbacks in the NFL Draft at the end of this month look predetermined, but, as usual, it isn't the quarterbacks we should be focusing on. We need to watch where Alabama running back Trent Richardson and the likes of Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon and Notre Dame WR Michael Floyd are headed.
There are players who are chronically injured (misfortune that never seems to stop), and others who are injured chronically (ones that never go away). Lance Berkman is now both.
The Waiver Wire is here to offer up the choicest cuts of waiver wire goodness, paying attention to mixed, as well as AL- and NL-only leagues. Every league is different, and some players listed here may not be available if you play in a deep mixed league. However, we'll try to address everyone's needs, whether the depth of your league resembles a kiddie pool or the Atlantic Ocean.
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I'm Ray Flowers, co-host of The Drive on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio. Each week I'll be here answering questions that have been sent to me at the BaseballGuys' Twitter account.
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