People are drafting Fantasy Baseball teams right now. As we speak. You might recoil in horror at such things, knowing we have an entire offseason's worth of signings, trades, and injuries that will inevitably render countless picks made in November totally worthless.

That's the pessimist's argument against drafting right now. Here's the optimist's: You can draft Konnor Griffin , Kevin McGonigle , and JJ Wetherholt maybe 100 picks or more later than they'll eventually cost this spring, once it becomes clear they are going to make the Opening Day roster. There are other arbitrage opportunities to be found in these early drafts – specifically around current free agents, who almost always have a depressed price this time of year, as if … they may never sign at all? – but the biggest one

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