Zen And The Art Of Fantasy Baseball: Turning Up The Sound Of Silence

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For more borderline players, however, if you're anything like me, you probably watch those guys closely.

When they go through slumps, it feels like they are single-handedly destroying your team.

If a borderline player is slumping, at the very least, he's going to be benched.

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For more borderline players, however, if you're anything like me, you probably watch those guys closely. When they go through slumps, it feels like they are single-handedly destroying your team. If a borderline player is slumping, at the very least, he's going to be benched.

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Quite possibly, he's going to end up on waivers – our faith in those guys is only so big, and our patience with them is often virtually non-existent.
Because skilled players, even if they're not star level players, almost always bounce back.
For those of us who lose faith in borderline players, it's easy to cut them and never look back.
There are plenty of times when, if we could take a moment to parse through the various "noise" of the long season, we might find that those borderline players who so upset us might be producing very strong...

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Unfortunately, we don't notice because we've cut them and moved on.

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