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(*) ROTISSERIE: Tuffy Awards honor 2019's first-week wonders

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Steve Gardner

Apr 4 2019 1:03am

(*) ROTISSERIE: Tuffy Awards honor 2019's first-week wonders

Steve Gardner

Apr 4 2019

(This article appeared in the April 3rd issue of Sports Weekly)

Cheers, baseball fans! The season is here.

No, not the regular season. That began two weeks ago in Japan. After the first week of real games, we’ve moved on to overreaction season. Every year, fantasy owners—many of them in desperate need to replace injured players—will go overboard to jump on the bandwagon of players who may have just enjoyed their best week of the season.

That’s why we have our annual Tuffy Awards—to pay tribute to the little-known players who start the baseball season ridiculously hot, get fantasy owners overly excited to add them to their rosters and, ultimately, let everyone down by returning to their near-replacement level of production.

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