CHASING THE 2014 NFBC: An HQ-centric swing for the title

In this column's introductory article two weeks ago, we briefly discussed some of the BaseballHQ.com principles ignored last season that helped condemn this team to its disappointing finish.  An over-reliance on injured players and those without redeeming skills but with a redeeming role did not yield the results we had hoped.  Instead, Cory Hart, Carlos Marmol and others with similar circumstances provided us no (or, in some cases, negative) production.

In hindsight, these were obviously bad choices.  So why did we make these decisions at the time?  One word.... Value.  In Hart's case, a power/average bat who was scheduled at draft time to only miss a few weeks, coming at a 10-round discount, could have turned a huge profit if his...

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