One of our favorite annual pre-season exercises is to take our player projections and see what they can tell us about our expectations at a team level. By looking at the races on a division-by-division basis, we may find some teams (and players) that are not being properly valued in the preseason analysis.

For those new to this annual exercise, our Straight Draft Guide is our attempt to coalesce the wealth of tools and analysis offered here at BaseballHQ.com into a coherent approach to your straight draft.

We continue our review of some pressing early spring questions, this week covering the National League.

In our 2012 debut, we speculate on eight interesting spring questions from around the American League.

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This is the fourth of a 10-column series designed to help owners playing in keeper league (KL) and dynasty formats look ahead over the next few years to address their weak spots. From now through December, we'll be putting forth by-position lists of our favorite low-dollar players and prospects. All could be relatively available in your leagues -- and could earn double-digit dollars sometime over the next three seasons, between 2012 and 2014. Our criterion includes the following:

A look ahead at what you might see covered in our Playing Time Today column on September 16, 2012...

This week, we present eight young hitters with the potential to be 2012's version of Alex Gordon or Cameron Maybin:

Our Annual Straight Draft Guide, 2011 edition.

Our annual Straight Draft Guide, 2010 edition.