Fantasy Baseball 2012: Introductions Are in Order

Hello. My name is Jay Clemons, the newly crowned Lead Fantasy Writer for Bleacher Report. For those familiar with my work with Sports Illustrated and/or National Football Post, it'll be a smooth transition to B/R and the rigors of systematically attacking the baseball and football beats every day.

For those who don't share that contempt of familiarity, no worries, for you'll have plenty of time to develop a loathing of my brutally honest approach to fantasy analysis...before eventually realizing the value in following a 30-something man-child who's charmingly obsessed with sports, politics, Twitter, breakfast cereal, meaningless YouTube clips from the 1970s and '80s and every great line that's ever been executed in an American sitcom.

My daily mission statement here includes five simple tasks:
1. Inform; 2. Enlighten; 3. Entertain; 4. Be accessible; 5. Do everything in my power to help your fantasy baseball or football teams contend for championships—or at the very least, compete for division titles and playoff berths. It's the minimum requirement for a customer base that craves information...and strategies for landing Carl Crawford and Buster Posey sometime after Rounds 6 and 7.

The first week on the beat is all about establishing a template of expectations with the readers, old and new, while helping them prepare for the all-important baseball drafts in the next 20 days or so. It's about putting breaking news items (injuries, trades, positional switches) into the proper fantasy context, as well.

Obviously, I'll have to get used to constructing slideshows for the prime lists, but the formula of success—and pace of creatively doling out beneficial bites from the SI/National Football Post years—remains the same. Preparation will never be an issue. You simply don't meet a lot of people who happily forsake sleep for Baseball Reference page views at 4:30 a.m.

Speaking of which, I can be reached, day or night, on Twitter at @ATL_JayClemons.