In fantasy baseball, much like real life, the best ability is availability.
We often see fantasy baseball managers organizing and setting up their teams in a way to make sure they have roster flexibility and get the most at bats as possible per squad. You'll see some multi-position player being taken rounds ahead of their projections, simply because they give the team manager options to fill in and move throughout the season. The problem though is while that is a good notion to follow so many owners draft teams filled with injury riddled players, who have given us a track record of futility.
No team has more of these players than the Minnesota Twins. At this point the Twins are almost impossible to draft because of their long-standing injuries. Byron Buxton, Royce Lewis and Carlos Correa are supreme talents in baseball, but each player has a long-established timeline of missing a huge chunk of games.
They say that you can't predict injuries, but there is also the argument that often-injured players stay often injured. Let's take a look at these Twins that can kill your team. The three-star players played just 28 games together in 2024. Royce Lewis has played in just 152 games in three seasons, Buxton has played in 102 games or less in each of the last 7 seasons and the healthiest of the bunch, Correa has become a big-time worry missing 76 games last season and has spent at least 3 weeks on the injured list in 9 of his last 10 seasons.
When they are on the field the trio are undeniably good, the problem is each are being drafted for their upside of "if" they stay healthy rather than the reality that they likely won't stay healthy. When you look at their ADP's Correa is being drafted as SS #25 about round 19 in drafts, Buxton is in the same range, and Lewis is going inside the top 10 rounds and top 10 third baseman. Each are being over drafted.
I did mention position earlier and that is somewhere you can grab a Twin that can help you. Willi Castro is being drafted after all three of these players, but he is eligible in most leagues at 2B,3B,SS,LF,and CF, or better said all the positions where the injured trio would need someone to step in. Castro played 158 games last season and was an All Star.
If you are drafting one of the trio, grab Castro in the following round, but even if you stay away from the injured players he can help. But believe what your eyes tell you and that is something isn't right in Minnesota and injured players tend to get injured. There are far better value picks.