Your move, Jim Leyland (USAT Images)

Yup, Detroit's bullpen is stuck in committee.

Bruce Rondon and his triple-digit fastball will open the season in Toledo — the 22-year-old had a few nice moments this spring (19 Ks, 12.1 IP), as well as some awful moments (9 BB, 17 H) — leaving the Tigers, at least for now, without an end-game plan.

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Here's manager Jim Leyland discussing his 'pen, via the Detroit Free Press:

"Look for anything, because that's the way it's going to be," manager Jim Leyland said Thursday about using a committee of closers.

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"Any one of the seven can close a game, that's just the way you have to look on it," Leyland said. "I might call on anybody, and I'll have that little meeting with them: 'You've got to be ready to pitch at all times, unless you need a day off.' Any one of them might get the ball to get the third out in the ninth."

So basically it's a fantasy mess.

Just look at Yu. He knows what's up. He's not drafting Elvis, no way (USAT Sports Images)

OK, so maybe "hate" isn't exactly the right word here. I'm fairly sure that no member of the Yahoo! fantasy staff actively hates anyone on the list below (except maybe Evans, with Hosmer. Something's up there). In fact, you might actually be able to field a middle-of-the-pack public league fantasy team from the names below. We're not discussing terrible players here.

But the draft-day price tags? Yup, those we hate. Here's a roster full of guys we're not buying...

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Elvis Andrus – Nothing gets me more more riled up than Andrus' annually overinflated ADP. His power is completely non-existent; he hit six home runs as a rookie, and a combined eight home runs over the following three seasons. His SB% is abysmal, so less running is a logical progression (21 SBs in '12 was his first sub-30 total). And he's nothing special in the other categories.

Frankly, I just don't get the Andrus fascination. -Funston

Dustin Pedroia, $29 fantasy asset (USAT Images)

First, some history: Back in 1887, at the inaugural Tout Wars auction (held at an opium parlor, now defunct), the first player nominated was Pretzels Getzien, staff ace of the Detroit Wolverines. Pretzels was coming off a 30-11 season. He went for $13, sold to Ernie Lanigan of the nascent Sporting News. It wasn't a great buy, but tolerable. Getzien won 29 games in '87, third highest total in the league, but his ratios were merely adequate.

Fortunately for Lanigan, he also spent $24 on right-hander John Clarkson of the White Stockings, who proceeded to lead the N.L. in wins (38), Ks (237), complete games (59) and innings pitched (523.0), posting a WHIP of 1.16. The Pretzels-Clarkson combo proved unbeatable. Lanigan claimed the first Tout title, narrowly edging Hugh Fullerton in a rotisserie race that captured the nation's imagination.

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Today, more than 125 years after that first season, Tout Wars is a mighty global brand. Auction weekend is a huge deal. Biggest event on the fantasy calendar. Media everywhere, squealing groupies, intense security. It's basically like a Zeppelin summer tour meets the ESPYs, times a billion.

Thus, I'm assuming you want to hear about my Tout experience. Of course you do. Here's the deal...

Shhh! (USAT Sports Images)
Sleeper is such a dangerous term, because it's a relative term. It's league-dependent. One person's sleeper is another dude's fifth round pick.

Many of you play in 8-person mixed fantasy leagues with simple rosters and no keepers. Others are involved in 18-team, N.L.-only, two-catcher, five-outfielder dynasty leagues. If we were to construct sleeper lists for each of those two formats, there would basically be zero overlap. In that first league, you won't care about Cardinals prospect Oscar Taveras until 2014. In the second, he was owned two years ago, before his 19th birthday, when he was lighting up the Midwest League.

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Thus, it's always tricky to write these preseason features. Unavoidably, the sleepers we discuss are useless to many of you because they're way too deep, and useless to others because they're much too obvious.

So today we're targeting fantasy owners who occupy the middle ground in terms of roster depth, those who play in leagues that aren't necessarily at either extreme. If you're managing in, say, a competitive 12 or 14-man mixed league with deep-ish rosters, then perhaps the players below will roughly fit your definition of "sleeper." Consider taking a flier on one or two of 'em (but no more than that. These aren't foundation pieces for your fantasy squad, they're ornamentation. High failure rate among sleepers).

As Dock Ellis would have said, let's do the do...

Hanley Ramirez, pre-thumb tweak (USAT Sports Images)

We begin with a news item that is unambiguously good: Zack Greinke is pitching again, and he's not in terrible pain.

[Related: Dodgers' Zack Greinke erases doubt in return to mound]

Greinke tossed four scoreless frames against a collection of minor leaguers on Wednesday, allowing just one hit, then offered this assessment:

"My arm felt really good today," he said. "It felt strong."

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"I wasn't perfect," he said. "You saw me upset with several pitches. But for the first outing in two weeks, that's kind of expected."

Good to hear — especially if you already drafted the guy. Greinke has been dealing with elbow soreness and inflammation. He received an injection of platelet-rich plasma last week, which obviously raised his midichlorian count to pre-injury levels. (Don't make me explain medicine to you. It's hard).

The tentative plan for Greinke is to make two additional spring starts, leaving him on track to face Pittsburgh on April 5.

"I want to pitch 34 starts," he says, "the whole regular season."

So there you go. Now for some not-so-great Dodgers news...

Julio Teheran (Getty Images)A year ago, Atlanta right-hander Julio Teheran entered spring training as a high-buzz pitching prospect, a 21-year-old seeking a spot in the Braves' starting rotation. Teheran was coming off a dominant season at Triple-A Gwinnett, where he went 15-3 with an ERA of 2.55. Baseball America rated him as the No. 5 prospect in the game, behind only Bryce Harper, Matt Moore, Mike Trout and Yu Darvish.

And then this happened: 2.0 IP, 6 H, 7 ER, 6 HR, 1 BB, 1 K.

That was the stat line from Teheran's disastrous 2012 spring debut. The Tigers absolutely lit him up, banging out six homers in just two innings on a windy day in Lakeland.

Teheran made four additional Grapefruit League appearances for the Braves last year, allowing multiple runs in three of them. He finished the spring with an ERA of 9.37, then was shipped back to the International League.

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Instead of thriving at Gwinnett, as he had the previous year, Teheran struggled badly. His velocity dipped, his K-rate fell, his ERA rose to 5.08, and he allowed as many home runs as he'd given up in his three prior minor league seasons (18). Not surprisingly, Teheran also fell a few dozen spots in everyone's prospect rankings.

But entering spring training in 2013, Teheran again found himself battling for a big league rotation spot. Here's how his five exhibition appearances have gone:

Kris Medlen, dealing (Getty Images)

If your fantasy pitching staff seems unfinished at the conclusion of your draft, don't panic.

In nearly all leagues, a significant percentage of ownable pitching talent will go un-drafted. This is true for both starters and relievers. Every pitching category can be addressed in-season if you play in a standard fantasy format.

Last year, during the second half of the season, there was no more valuable pitcher in our game than Kris Medlen. He went 9-0 after the break, striking out 95 batters in 95.1 innings, walking just 14. His second-half fantasy ratios were straight from the Dead Ball era: 0.94 ERA, 0.82 WHIP. But in most leagues, Medlen wasn't added until early-August.

RA Dickey actually finished as the top-ranked fantasy starter last year in terms of full-season value, and he was still available in a majority of Yahoo! leagues as late as May 23, following an 11-K win at Pittsburgh. Dickey went un-drafted in the Friends & Family League in 2012, so it's not as if the experts were all over him.

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So there's a new name atop the OF ranks in 2013 (USAT Images)

Last season, the players who ranked first, second, fourth and sixth in terms of overall fantasy value were all outfielders. This spot gave us one player who went 30/40 in home runs and stolen bases (Mike Trout), and another who went 40/30 (Ryan Braun). Seven different outfielders gave us 20/20 seasons. Thirty-seven outfielders finished with at least 35 homers-plus-steals.

Simply put, this position is a smorgasbord of stats. Among the outfielders, you'll find several of our game's most useful multi-category contributors — guys like Trout, Braun, Kemp, McCutchen, Heyward, Harper, both Uptons and both Car-Gos. You'll also find a collection of high-quality category specialists in the outfield — burners like Ben Revere and Michael Bourn, power hitters like Adam Dunn and Chris Davis.

Whatever you need, you can get it at this position. Don't let the scarcity crowd talk you out of the upper-tier outfielders, because the elite players at this spot are beasts, fantasy's most productive assets.

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