SPECULATOR: Searching for 2013's surprise teams

Once each pre-season, we make an effort to step back from our primary focus of player analysis, and take a glance at some team-level analysis. For draft prep purposes, there are a couple of reasons why it can help to get a snapshot of the team-level picture: First, good fantasy outcomes tend to congregate on good teams, and bad ones on bad teams. Second, given the unbalanced schedule, sometimes exploitable opportunities value propositions present themselves at a divisional level.

Our favorite draft-day tool, Rotolab makes it easy to break out BaseballHQ.com's projections into team-by-team projections. Let's take a look at all six divisions, starting with the National League:

(First, an explanatory note about how virtually every team is...

Almost!

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