How to Find Fantasy Baseball Sleepers

As the baseball season approaches, everyone involved in fantasy leagues is doing what they can to find the best possible players that nobody else knows about. These are called "sleepers" and can truly help a team because they do not merit high draft picks and sometimes even go undrafted--this allows you to wait on them a while and not sacrifice an earlier than necessary pick. Here are tips for seeking out sleepers.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Look for rookies who have posted great minor league numbers or rocketed through a farm system to the major leagues. This didn't happen out of luck.

2. Study the pitchers' BABIP (Batting Average of Balls in Play). This helps to determine if they were lucky or unlucky. If a pitcher posts similar BABIPs in a 3-year span, but has a bad W-L and ERA, it was likely a fluke.

3. Look for those who signed onto a new team; pitchers in pitcher-friendly ballparks or batters in hitter-friendly ones.

4. Look for those traded in accordance with Step 3.

5. Look for players coming off of injuries; they will be avoided, but could prove to be high-reward players.

6. Study the injury history of players as a prerequisite to Step 4. The trade could have been made due to something in the player's history that is undesirable, injury-wise.

7. Study the strategy of certain managers; new managers may want more SBs or a different lineup that is more beneficial to certain players.