(*) FANALYTICS: Rosterability

There are players who we like and players who we don't like. There are also players who we really don't like. It may be someone who's burned us in the past and we swear we'd never roster again. It might be someone who exceeds our personal risk tolerance level. It's all good.

For me, I won't roster a player like Matt Moore. Now, he might well be everything the hype purports him to be, but he will be far too expensive to own. I won't pay upwards of $20 or a 7th round pick for a guy whose total major league experience is nine innings. Nine terrific innings, but still just nine innings. I don't have to think back too far to 2007 when Clay Buchholz was similarly hyped—even pitched a no-hitter during his late season, 23-inning trial. In...

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