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Fantasy Cheat Codes

While preparing for your upcoming fantasy baseball draft, I’m sure you will have to go through an incomprehensible amount of lists rating each player at his according position.  In this sports bloggers opinion, if you’ve read one, you’ve read them all.  Each list is cut and dry and lacks a certain “je ne sais qua.”  Over the next week we will be evaluating a few chosen players at each position that can offer you the best fantasy advantage of all:  a good team name.

 Catchers:

Joe Mauer – Having Mauer on your squad doesn’t just provide you with a .300 hitter with pop; it also provides you with a slew of usable Fantasy team names.

Chosen ones:  Go-Go Mauer Rangers.  Mauer Hour.  Mauer Patch Kids.

Middle of the pack:  Mauer Wheels.  Mauer Steering.

Situational:  If you wind up drafting a team deprived of power or if Mauer gets hurt:  Mauer Outage.

Brian McCann - McCann is one of the more consistent catchers you’ll see in the league, averaging over .280-20-85 in his past four seasons.  His name also gives us a laundry list of music inspired names to use for a fantasy team.

Chosen ones:  McCann’t Stop, Won’t Stop, McCann’t Buy Me Love.  McCann I Kick it?

Middle of the pack:  McCann I Borrow a Feeling?

Situational:  If you just want to do “hood rat stuff with your friends”:  McCann I hit it in the mornin’?

Miguel Montero - After being sidelined for a few months of the season last year with a torn meniscus, Montero is finally healthy.  Thank god, because he gives us a good amount of material here.  Also, he’s got a good amount of upside with .270-20-75 potential.