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Fantasy baseball: Should injuries to Strasburg, Yelich cause panic?

Things with Washington's Stephen Strasburg just didn't look right, so he joins a growing number of star players to hit the injured list. AP

Injuries to a recent World Series MVP, a pair of National League MVP winners, plus another top-10 hurler and a top-10 outfielder all made for a rough weekend in fantasy baseball. Then, later on Sunday night, perhaps the best player in all of fantasy baseball left his game early with his own malady. Hey, I loved watching the Dodgers-Padres series this weekend and certainly look forward to the next one. Still, it was all of those injuries becoming the overriding story for fantasy purposes this weekend.

Here are my thoughts, along with a determination of how much you should be worried about each one of these situations: