First Look: My 2008 Rankings

1B
1. Pujols
2. Fielder
3. Ortiz
4. Howard
5. Texiera
6. Morneau
7. Berkman
8. Hafner
9. Pena
10.Martinez (C)
11.D. Lee
12.Atkins (3b)
13.A. Gonzalez
14.Delgado
15.Konerko
16.Laroche
17.Overbay
18.Garko
19.Giambi
20.Youkilis

2B
1.Upton
2.Utley
3.Phillips
4.Roberts
5.Cano
6.Kendrick
7.Polanco
8.Pedroia
9.Weeks
10.Kinsler
11.Uggla
12.Kent
13.F. Sanchez
14.Johnson
15.Matsui
16.Castillo
17.Cabrera
18.Hill
19.Theriot
20.Frandsden

Free Plug

As champions are crowned in fantasy football and the new year aproaches, it is time to start thinking about fantasy baseball. But where to start?

First of all i would absolutly encoruage listening to The Fantasy Man's podcasts and utilizing any resources that he can offer you. However if your're looking for my personal recomendation of where to find an inside edge that not everyone has or is willing to dig for, then i would suggest buying Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster 2008. I have been using this guide for the past few years, and i owe the sucess i have had to do.

I wont go into too much detail, but basically it uses sabermetrics to predict player performance. And i am still shocked at how accurate it is. They were right about just about everything last year....creepy.

So here is a link to it http://www.baseballhq.com/books/bf.shtml .

On another note, Shandler's website www.baseballhq.com is also probably worth subscribing to. However it is a bit pricy...especially for someone playing in numerous money leagues.

Happy Holidays!