The Hardball Times Fantasy  This isn’t fantasy baseball, Joe  by
Derek Ambrosino February 03, 2010  When dismissing the skills or
impact of a player with an impressive statistical profile,
mainstream baseball pundits often like to quip: “This isn’t
fantasy baseball.” Such an inane rambling is usually followed by
some nebulously baseball-relevant and platitudinal comment
indicating David Eckstein’s superiority to Adam Dunn, to take an
arbitrary example. (These commentators fail to realize that
indomitable will to achieve mediocrity is a category in my
league, and that Darren Erstad is also kicker-eligible in my
fantasy football league.) Though it is true that some players
are more valuable assets to a fantasy team than they are to an
actual baseball, this door swings both ways.  The mainstream
media often acts like we fantasy junkies are the only ones
beholden to stats. However, it wasn’t the fantasy community who
clamored for Jimmy Rollins to be chosen as the 2007 NL MVP, when
he posted an OBP only .01 above