Matt Kemp finished as the MVP runner up, Clayton Kershaw won the pitching triple crown and a Cy Young award, and the team's top prospect headed into 2011, Dee Gordon, made his debut. That's essentially where the positives end for the Dodgers. The team is still up for sale, which will put to end the ugly tenure of Frank McCourt. The effects of McCourt will be felt for at least a few years after his departure, as the farm system is lacking both superstar potential at the top, and depth. That's not to say there aren't interesting prospects, but these aren't the days of Kemp, Kershaw and Ethier.

Key Stats: Last season was certainly a disappointing year for Jayson Werth, but more eyebrows were raised after he signed his 7 year $126 million contract than they were when he fell 195 spots in the rankings. Werth was supposed to come apart a little last year because of the pressure of the contract and his inflated 2010 season by the numbers. That 2010 season saw him have a .352 BABIP (about 30 points higher than his career BABIP) and saw him finish with a career high 45% fly ball rate as he moved from an above average home run hitting park to an average one.

Skeptics Say: Werth will be 33 in May. That’s officially past your prime as a ball player, so he will never come close to being a top twenty kind of player again. There also wasn’t really a stretch where Werth demonstrated he was capable of carrying a fantasy team last year. He did not hit over .300 in any month and did not hit more than 4 home runs in any month. If he gets hurt even for a two week time period this year, he will have a hard time achieving this preseason ranking. no comments

Yesterday, MLB Trade Rumors passed along some links that helped answer some questions regarding the lineup the Phillies plan to use to start to season.

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Yu Darvish has reportedly officially inked a long-term deal with the Texas Rangers. Now that all of the speculation and assumption has come to fruition, we can officially focus on what this means for your fantasy team. There have been a number of pitchers who have come over from Japan to pitch in the major leagues, so we have a decent sample size of data on such transitions.

Unfortunately, Darvish is far from any pitcher that has been imported from Japan. He is, in many ways, in a class of his own.

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Key Stats: The Atlanta Braves have a history of churning out quality pitchers and Hanson is no exception. He doesn't have the win total you would expect from an ace pitcher, but at 25, and not yet having pitched 3 full seasons in the majors, you have to be blown away at the other numbers Hanson has put up. His career 3.28 ERA is backed up by a career 3.46 FIP. His K/9 each season (8.18, 7.68, 9.83) has never been bouyed by an obscenely high BABIP. Even his walk 2011 walk rate, which was almost 2% higher than his 2010 number, wasn't outside the norms of his major and minor league careers. There is just one thing...

2012 is well underway and FB365 is poised and ready to be your number one source of fantasy baseball analysis as we have been all year round since 2008. You’ll see many sites pop up over the next couple of months, some will re-launch in hopes of putting together enough content to satisfy the draft-prep crowd, but here at FB365, we’ve never slowed down, shut down, re-launched or succumb to any mode of complacency. We’ve been here for you non-stop since 2008. This is who we are: fantasy baseball, all year long.

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We’re currently cranking out player projections, prospect and keeper rankings as well as chiming in on any breaking hot stove news. Come February, we will begin pouring out our comprehensive positional rankings, providing multiple mock draft analysis articles and begin to look at some in-depth draft day strategy.

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Key Stats: There is no disputing that Josh Johnson is a star when healthy. A career 2.98 ERA (3.15 FIP!) and 8.28 K/9 with a 48-23 record turn heads. But health has been the problem. Four starts in 2007 then in 2008 he didn't pitch until July, healthy 2009 and 2010 led to 2011, where he made 9 starts then missed the rest of the season. The good news? He didn't need shoulder surgery. The bad news? We don't know if the problem is behind him.

The somewhat surprising National League West Champions in 2011 have done some moving and shaking this offseason. Even after dealing Jarrod Parker, the team is brimming with high ceiling arms. The bulk of those arms aren't far from making their major league debuts.