The rest of the fantasy baseball community seems to be subscribing to the Santana Plan. Here's the 2014 version.

No surprise that Cole Hamels (pictured) made the 2013 list for the "Santana Plan," the strategy that adjusts LIMA to add a high-quality ace. But who else made the list?

The Santana Plan is a fantasy baseball roster construction strategy. The Santana Plan is similar to the LIMA Plan except that it advocates that one purchases an elite starter or "Santana Plan anchor." In this article, we will review the Santana Plan strategy. We now have a three-year track record at identifying Santana Plan anchors, so we will revisit how well it has worked in practice, and conclude by identifying the Santana Plan anchors for 2012.

In short, should we use the new, highly complex version of xERA or switch to a simpler metric?

We compare pitchers' 2010 and 2011 year-to-date performances with swing strike percentages, looking for pitchers where the change in SS% indicates a change in Dom different from what has happened so far.

The baseball positions (other than pitcher) may be laid along a defensive spectrum. For players with long careers, they often tend to shift positions during their careers, but the defensive shifts are predominantly in the direction from more difficult to easier positions. Shifts in the other direction are less common for good reason: they "almost never work."