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Week 2 Already Upon Us

By Tristan H. Cockcroft (archive)

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I love Week 2 of the Baseball Challenge.

It's as simple as this: Without a full, seven-day week of statistics in the books, salaries go unchanged, at least until lineups lock Monday at 2:59 a.m. ET. In essence, you're getting a second chance to lock in your studs for cheap -- one on Opening Day, one now. Consider it a "safety net" of sorts if you mucked up your first-week lineup and missed out on a bargain you liked, because at no other point all season will you get such an opportunity.

How I'm choosing to play this second chance is loading up on studs, while selecting one dirt-cheap sleeper to help keep me under the cap. The reasoning is simple: With a salary cap of $50.0, you're allowed effectively an average of $5.0 per position (counting the pitching staff). Right now, the top hitters by position cost exactly that average, $5.0, but only three pitching staffs cost that little: the Orioles, Pirates and Rangers. Bleagh.

So, in order to afford a top pitching staff -- the Dodgers, as you'll read why below -- I'm shedding $1.5 in salary at one other selected position. This early in the season, it shouldn't be tough to find a bargain priced $3.5 or cheaper. It's later in the year that such dirt-cheap bargains will be as rare as a Corky Miller single. … MORE

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