Ray Guilfoyle over at Fake Teams talks about position scarcity and how it affects fantasy baseball owners. While a valid point — that some owners overreact and make poor decisions based on fear of ‘missing out’ — positions do need to be considered.

There’s a balance to be struck between production, upside and a player’s position. Going into a draft dead set on filling scarce positions immediately is just as bad as completely disregarding position for the sake of stockpiling top talent. The best balance is found when an owner fluidly navigates a draft, identifying the best value for his particular situation.

Baseball Professor looks at off-season moves that have had the biggest impact in fantasy. Benefactors, according to their panel of writers, included Roy Halladay, who was traded to Philadelphia; Curtis Granderson, trade to the Yankees; and the Boston Red Sox pitching staff, boosted by management’s approach to team defense.

Lester’s Legends likes Colorado Rockies’ ace Ubaldo Jimenez as a No. 2 starting pitcher in fantasy. Jimenez has come a long way in two seasons, and he’s certainly distanced himself from the Coors Field factor. Last season, Jimenez improved in virtually all areas and, as Lester’s Legends points out, groundballs were again a key to his success. Jimenez had a hearty 1.26 groundball-to-flyball ratio, inducing 344 grounders to 274 fly outs.

Roto Professor Eric Stashin makes the case for Tampa Bay Rays’ prospect Desmond Jennings as the best rookie prospect in fantasy this season. Jennings is a virtual clone of talented, do-it-all Rays’ outfielders Carl Crawford and B.J. Upton, and he brings the same type of power/speed combination to the table. He is a starting job away from fantasy relevance, an opportunity that Stashin says will come by the All-Star break.

Seattle Mariners’ third baseman Chone Figgins checks in at No. 57 on Fantasy Baseball Hot Stove’s preseason player rankings. Figgins moves to Seattle, but expectations shouldn’t drastically change. The dilemma with Figgins is, what to do with his extreme lack of power at a corner infield position?