Welcome to another season of PressBox's fantasy baseball coverage. Throughout the next month, I will help fantasy owners get ready for drafts and prepare for the upcoming season, so they can become champions. There were many lessons learned in 2016 that we can implement to hopefully make us better during the next several months.
Throughout March, I will dive deep into fantasy baseball draft strategies and reveal my bounce-back candidates, breakout players and sleepers, along with those players who are being overvalued.
Although different league formats are used in fantasy baseball, the most popular is the five-by-five rotisserie format. For those unfamiliar with that format, there are five hitting categories -- batting average, home runs, runs scored, RBIs and stolen bases. For pitching, the categories consist of wins, strikeouts, ERA, walks plus hits per innings pitched (WHIP) and saves. On-base percentage (OBP) continues to become more popular as a replacement to batting average, so I will refer to that stat as well, since it could change how we evaluate certain players.
