I joined a new fantasy baseball league this year, supremely confident that I could manage two baseball teams provided I only ignore the rest of my life (I have no idea how NYC does three leagues).  With the draft coming up, we had a discussion of rules, specifically, what stats should count.  A few of us felt that walks were undervalued, and suggested some combination of BB or OBP to account for this.  However, the response from the rest of the league was that walks are boring, and thus have no place in fantasy baseball.  I’m on board with the walks are boring sentiment, but it got me to thinking, what would a fantasy baseball league look like if it were composed of the most exciting stats?

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