The easiest way to screw up a fantasy baseball draft is to not do your homework.  The other is to not follow your own advice when it comes time to pick.  After doing plenty of research, I decided that Grady Sizemore was not worth an early first round pick; but when I came up at 5th overall I took him anyway.

The whole point of building out your top 10 or top 20 list is to have a gameplan for your first couple of picks.  This takes all the pressure off trying to make a 2 minute decision.  It’s hard to make a plan beyond the first couple of rounds, but it is easy to to take the pressure off of the first two picks with a pre-made list.