Roaming the Outfield: First Look at Impact Free Agents
Over the course of the off-season, this space is going to look at various free agents whose moves would have an impact on their fantasy statistics and draft position. This is often over-looked, but it has proven to be a difference maker in the past. While not all players will move, the point here will be to look at potential destinations (rumored or pure speculation) and the resulting shifts.

Roaming the Outfield: Lessons of 2009
What better thing to do after a long season than prepare for 2010? It will happen in little bits, and most people will start to get the itch once their fantasy football seasons have come to a close. For those that have started 0-4, that might be sooner rather than later. Until that time, though, it does not hurt to be fed bits of information that help owners understand what happened in 2009.   The outfield, like every other position, taught us several relevant pieces of information. Much of this should be carried forward next year. The question is only how much we account for in our strategies.   Let us review three major pieces

Roaming the Outfield: Roaming Awards
Odds are when you put together your draft list for 2009, you expected a fair amount of outfielders to crack 30 home runs, and a few to be north of 40. No doubt that every one of those was expected to drive in more than 100 runs and score their fair share as well. What we have found this season, though, is that the best laid plans oft go awry.   If 2009 has taught us nothing else, it has shown that there is no such thing as a sure thing. Expectations are simply that, and owners need to understand and take in a large amount of data very quickly in order to adapt to what they are seeing over the course of a season. The outfield was no exception this season.

Roaming the Outfield: Finals Focus
The last two weeks of the season are meant for those that have been lucky enough and diligent enough to be able to participate in the semi-finals and finals. Many leagues work a two-week finals period, and that means that everything is all but over for many teams. Fear not, next year will provide another opportunity.   The few, the lucky few, still have some work to do. The end of the season creates necessary and unnecessary adjustments. Managers start and sit, obviously. Fantasy owners, however, are required to make the call if a player is going to help them the rest of the way. Head-to-head leagues have only one other team clawing at them. Even rotisserie

Roaming the Outfield: The Next Big Thing
  With 2009 closing in on a finale, the start of next season means players changing teams and rookies coming up. This season has given us a taste of a few names we should expect to see when the calendar turns to April. This week, the focus is on a few young players that could make their way into the lineup as every day players across baseball come the start of 2009.