MARKET PULSE: Le Sigh

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.

Football season has begun—what does that mean for fantasy baseball? Sadly, it means we're into the final month, when there's little you can do to climb up the standings. Still, we're going to keep trying. This week is mainly for mixed-league folks, as we're taking a look at the best players (by projection) who are owned in 2/3 or fewer of mixed leagues.

Since there's so little time left, it's hard to move the averaging stats (BA, ERA, and WHIP), so we're effectively ignoring them for this exercise. That opens up some potential buying...

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