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Few two-letter combos can be as devastating as the dreaded “DL” in fantasy baseball. Anyone who has played the sport knows that dreams of championship sugarplums can quickly dissolve into nightmares of basement-dwelling dust bunnies thanks to a few badly timed injuries. In one high-stakes 16-team roto league, my team is redder than Santa’s suit on Christmas Eve. Grady Sizemore, Scott Sizemore, Asdrubal Cabrera, Nate McLouth, Maicer Izturis, Jeremy Hermida, and Brandon Webb, among others, have given my squad more DLs than HRs or RBIs. Too bad DL isn’t a roto category. A slumping player has more trade value than one on the DL, and especially more so than a player on an extended DL stint, such as Asdrubal Cabrera. It doesn’t help that teams li ...

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Article written by John Zaktansky