With outfielders, we find more value disparities than any other position. One clear rule emerges: others overvalue youth and undervalue reliability. Having so many more roster spots causes outfielders to fall if your leaguemates overvalue positional scarcity.

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

Hanley Ramirez (3B, MIA) would like to forget his 2011 season. A .243 BA with 10 HR and 45 RBI isn't exactly the kind of production we have grown to expect from Ramirez. So what can we expect in 2012?

The hype surrounding names like Matt Moore, Julio Teheran and Addison Reed makes it near-impossible to acquire them in your keeper league without returning an arm or a leg. But if you have a three-year horizon, we’ve identified five under-scrutinized young pitchers that are worth rostering now.

This week we kickoff our annual review of the top prospects in baseball by position. We start with the most demanding position on the diamond, the catcher. This year's crop of top catching prospects remains both thin and relatively unchanged from 2011.

[FREE] BASEBALLHQ RADIO: Part 2 of our interview with BHQ minor-leagues expert Rob Gordon, plus the usual great analysis and comment...

As we move towards spring training, owners in Roto keeper leagues are starting to look at their rosters, weighing which players to keep and which to throw back...

Miguel Cabrera answered critics of his off-field behavior last season by earning his first batting title, producing yet another 30-100-.300+ season. Cabrera is being challenged to shift back to 3B, his primary position in the early years of his career before joining DET. Potential 3B eligibility would further enhance the perceived value of this perennial Triple Crown threat.

Despite all the advanced forecasting models out there, we do a pretty crappy job of projecting player stats. Rather than continuing to bang our heads against walls in quest of a level of precision we can never achieve, the Mayberry Method is designed to simplify our efforts. Mayberry embraces imprecision and invites the wide error bars into the planning process.

After signing a seven-year, $142M contract prior to 2011, Carl Crawford suffered through a miserable first year in Boston. After years of putting up consistently high batting averages and stolen base totals in TAM, he hit just .255 with 18 steals in 506 at-bats. The odds of a full rebound appear to be decreasing.

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