(*) NFBC: Do We Really Need to Draft Two Catchers?
Feb 12 2012
One of the hardest chores of putting together a winning fantasy baseball team is finding two serviceable catchers. Notice that I didn’t say two good catchers, but two serviceable catchers.
Every year we all curse the Founding Fathers of Rotisserie Baseball for creating a game that requires you to not only carry, but start two catchers for the entire season. Damn you Daniel Okrent! Damn you Glenn Waggoner! Why, oh why, did you have to add that wrinkle to this challenging pastime of ours?
The answer is simple: No MLB team can make it through a whole season with just one catcher, and thus every fantasy team must carry two catchers and find a way to not have it affect its total offensive numbers. It’s never easy, but it’s part of the...
Almost!
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