MARKET PULSE: 2012 BaseballHQ.com All-Avoid Team

While you want to identify draft values, having a list of overrated players helps you call out auction names to get money off the table. If any of these players come up on your draft list, you better take them because they won't last long. More than avoiding these players, as the name suggests, recognize these as players others value more highly than we do.

Here is the 2012 BaseballHQ.com All-Avoid Team:

Pos-Player          Cost        Proj        Loss
=================   ====        ====       ======
C   Buster Posey     $20         $16          $4
1B  Mark Trumbo       11           5           6
2B  Dustin Ackley     12           2          10
SS  Hanley Ramírez    26          20           6
MI  Dan Uggla         20          14 ...

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