MARKET PULSE: Excercising excruciating impatience
Apr 20 2013
See the end of the article for an explanation of the ratings used here. And a thousand thanks to the folks at OnRoto.com for providing the oh-so-important league ownership data for this article.
So here's what happens in late April. They're three weeks into the season, which is forever, right? So they get impatient: this guy has an 8.00 ERA, this other guy is batting .184, and they start looking for replacements. I say "they" because "we" certainly don't do things like that, right? Chasing the short-term is a sucker's bet. What "we" do is pick through the castoffs and up-and-comers to find the true gems, with short-term performance just a blip. That's the goal, anyway. So we'll look at some popular castoffs and popular pickups to see...
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