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Fantasy baseball stock watch: Carlos Carrasco's injury shuffles the deck

It's going to be some time before Carlos Carrasco gets a chance to pitch in a New York Mets uniform. How much should spring injuries impact your fantasy drafts? AP

Recent injuries to multiple members of the back end of the top-25 starting pitcher ranks might influence fantasy baseball managers towards the tactic of drafting one -- if not two -- members of the "ace" positional class, and then going with a "cheap with upside" approach to the rest of their staff. It's a viable strategy considering the pitching landscape entering 2021. It's also potentially dangerous to significantly swing one's gameplan merely as a reaction to spring news.