(*) FANALYTICS: Our volatile bullpens

My, how things change in just a few short months.

Back at First Pitch Arizona, the XFL experts league held its annual first stage auction. This is a 15-team mixed keeper league with 40-man rosters. We stock our active rosters at that November event and then hold a 17-player reserve draft in March. That reserve draft was held this past week.

I came out of the auction with a solid bullpen tandem that cost me a total of $18—$12 for Craig Kimbrel and $6 for... Ryan Madson.

Needless to say, last weekend's news that Madson would be undergoing Tommy John surgery came as a blow. It would force me to use my precious first round reserve pick on a replacement, never an easy task.

But this year is different. Between that early November...

Almost!

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