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The Draft Day Manifesto

The 2011 edition of Matthew Berry's guide to successful drafting

Updated: February 23, 2011, 1:07 PM ET
By Matthew Berry | ESPN.com

The great Thomas Boswell wrote a book a long time ago called "Why Time Begins on Opening Day." It's a wonderfully written series of essays about baseball that still hold up more than 25 years later, which is not surprising. Boswell writing a grocery list is better than 99 percent of the writers out there, myself certainly included. But it's also because baseball, at its core, is timeless.

We love the tradition, the numbers, the relaxed pace of a game that has been around forever. There's ...

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•  Top 50 prospects for 2011 Insider | 51-100 Insider
•  Tristan H. Cockcroft's Top 250 keepers

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Analysis

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Strategy/Primers

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