(*) FANALYTICS: The truth about hoarding prospects

In my USA Today column this week, I rehashed a piece of advice that we often give here at BaseballHQ.com.

In keeper leagues, when you have the opportunity to win, you have to go all-in, no matter how much you want to protect the future. You can't afford to be sitting on minor leaguers or riding the fence between today and tomorrow. No matter how much you want to protect the long-term, you simply can't count on players being healthy, or performing up to expectation, or the winds of Lady Luck blowing in your direction every year. Stuff happens, so you have to grab for the gold when you can.

For those of you who have players like Jurickson Profar, or Dylan Bundy, or Wil Myers or Gerrit Cole sitting in your farm systems, you have to...

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