Fantasy Baseball: A few weeks in, how do we adjust and adapt?

We are several weeks into the season and, at this point, we can all agree that everything we knew going into the season was thrown out the window as soon as the games started.  That said, there is still a lot of baseball yet to play and for us, as fantasy nerds, a lot of in-season management to navigate.  As we move forward into summer, here are a few things I either have done or am thinking about doing.

Use your FAAB to get the young pitchers and sell them, almost immediately, for impact bats.

Put this one in the category of "shiny new toy."  Sure, I have preyed on our inattentiveness, but in re-draft settings, I see no issue with snagging these higher-end rookie pitchers and then flipping them.  In two different settings, I was able to flip Bibee for Miguel Vargas and then, separately, Mason Miller for Jordan Walker.

Will these trades work out for me?  Probably not, but I have a lot more faith in Vargas and Walker, particularly, than I do in Bibee and Miller.  Find the leverage in your league and use it to your advange

Do not sell low on your studs.

There are more than a few studs struggling to keep pace with their historical performance.  To name a few, Trea Turner, Manny Machado, Starling Marte.  For the sake of completeness, and because you paid a premium price for him, I will add in Julio Rodriguez.  All of these players are struggling mightily compared to their draft price.  That said, these are not the types of players you sell for anything less than 100 percent of their value.  You can nothing by trading these guys for hotter-hands.  Hot hands cool off inevitably.  Trust the veterans that are more capable at adjusting to the game.  

If we are to flip this advice on its head, I would also use this as an opportunity to see if anyone is getting tired of these players.  A simple check-in will suffice and maybe you land a top round value for a lot less than you otherwise would pay for it.

Roto, especially: now is the time to identify your weaknesses.

Now that we are more than a month into the season, we have enough of a sample size to diagnose our team.  Where exactly are you struggling?  

In a few roto leagues, I am hurting in ERA.  I blame Nick Lodolo, and others, but really, it was me.  I gambled on starting pitching being deeper than it really was.  As it turns out, the elite pitchers were even more valuable than before and the mish-mash of mid-tier pitchers were exactly that: mish-mash.  The odds of me getting a high end pitcher, however, are very low -- especially in my leagues where I cannot trade out of a position.  My solution?  High-leverage guys.  I am going to target ratios, in particular.  

Now is the time to take a look at your teams' collective performances over the past few weeks and target their weaknesses.  

Dynasty, especially: gobble up them prospects.

There is a bounty of prospects coming up.  Matt McLain, Jordan Westburg, Endy Rodriguez, and frankly, too many to list.  Now is the time to gobble them up.  If you're already out of contention, I would consider filling your roster with prospect darts as opposed to waiver wire flameouts.  Normally, I have waited on this, but there's a certain tension when you find yourself in the bottom 6 of a dynasty league:  do you resist the urge to compete and think long-term or keep fighting?  The problem with fighting is that you leave yourself in worse shape over the long-term -- if you chase popular waiver wire players, you're potentially missing out on better, higher-end prospects over the long-term.  Also, if you're going to lose, you might as well come in last place and soak up any benefits of being last (be it more draft money or a higher draft slot).  To the extent your rules do not discourage tanking, you should probably tank.