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== The Fantasy 411 ==
The Fantasy 411 is an [[MLB]] [[radio]] [[broadcast]] on MLB.com.  The hosts are primarily Mike Siano and Cory Schwartz, with occasional contributions from Vinny Micucci and Jeffrey Ma.  The show airs Monday through Friday during the MLB [[season]].  The show's main focus is [[fantasy baseball]], although listeners often like to tell [[Chuck Norris Facts]].  Mike and Cory answer [[fans]] questions through [[telephone call|calls]], [[e-mails]] or [[instant messages]].  In the [[off(contracted; show full)

==Strategies and Sayings==

Mike and Cory use many original strategies and sayings in their show as part of the Fantasy 411 Philosophy.

===List of 12=== - A list of [[pitchers]] that Schwartz comes up with at the start of the season, with the theory being that once pitchers reach a certain level of experience, usually around 500 [[innings]] pitched, they tend to improve significantly.  This year's list included [[Brandon Webb]], [[Jeremy Bonderman]], [[Aaron Harang,]] and [[Bronson Arroyo]].

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"[[Batting (baseball)|Hitters]] Hit"=== - Siano and Schwartz use the phrase "hitters hit" when referring to the idea that good hitters tend to balance out poor hitting with good hitting and that performance for hitters is much easier to project than pitching performance.

===[[Pitch]] and Ditch=== - A [[strategy]] that Siano and Schwartz use based on the theory that good pitching is plentiful.  The main components of the strategy are to find pitchers who are avaliable on the waiver wire, watch the matchups and pick up pitchers accordingly.  The benefit of the strategy is that it allows a fantasy player to maximize points in counting [[statistics]] (such as [[wins]] and [[strikeouts]]), provides good roster flexibility and increases the likelihood of finding suprise breakthrough performers such as [[Cliff Lee]] and [[Chris Capuano]] in 2005 and [[Erik Bedard]] and [[Josh Johnson]] in 2006.  Pitch and Ditch can be considered a risky strategy because it increases the likelihood of having a very poor performance, which can severly hurt a fantasy team.  

==="Don't Chase [[Wins]]"=== - A strategy that is tied in with Pitch and Ditch. [[Statistical analysis]] shows that the number of wins, a fundamental [[statistic]] in [[fantasy baseball]], that a pitcher earns are not consistent and that the number of wins that a pitcher earns is not a good reflection of his true skill. Thus, Mike and Cory tell the listeners to focus on improving other pitching statistics, such as [[saves]], [[strikeouts]], [[ERA]], and [[WHIP]] and that accumulating wins requires patience.