Fantasy Dork 

My AL-only fantasy baseball auction is tomorrow. I'm, sadly, incredibly excited. Auction leagues are so much more fun than straight drafts because you can go in with very different strategies than the normal "pick the best player at a position I need" strategy.

Strategies include:

• "Suggest the hometown players early so people over pay"
• "Suggest young, intriguing players early so people over pay"
• "Bid up the last good shortstop/second baseman/catcher so that someone wastes a bunch of money on Ian Kinsler/Derek Jeter/Jason Varitek"
• "Save all your money to the end of the draft and clean up on the guys everyone forgot about"

Basically, it's open season to be a dick. For my "keepers," I'm keeping 5 guys from last year who I got cheaply and save me money versus what they would cost me this season (Jered Weaver and Clay Buchholz are probably 2 of the top 10 or 12 pitchers available and I've got them for a combined $20 auction dollars).

Giddy up. Baseball season is here (just in time for the Celtics to go into their normal end of season hibernation).

--Ryan