By Ryan Roach

The Future Stars of The Cage is expanding!

In the past, our Future Stars of The Cage section centered around a 50 Player listing of minor league players who were rising toward a call-up to the Majors.

Fast forward to today...

Top 100 Fantasy Baseball Prospects: Within the week, we'll be adding an additional 50 players to the list, with bonus commentary on the Top 50 Fantasy Baseball Prospects.

Add to that, this valuable list of "25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects Who Should Hit The MLB in 2009", and you have all the makings of a unique Fantasy Baseball tool, sure to put you ahead of your competition this season.

25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects
Who Should Hit The MLB in 2009 

1. Gio Gonzalez – SP (OAK)

2. Nick Adenhart – SP (LAA)

3. David Huff – SP (CLE)

4. Jeff Samardzija – RP (CHC)

5. Taylor Teagarden – C ( TEX )

6. Chris Perez – RP (STL)

7. Elvis Andrus – SS ( TEX )

8. James McDonald – SP (LAD)

9. Brett Cecil – SP (TOR)

10. Aaron Poreda – SP (CWS)

11. Kila Ka’aihue – 1B (KC)

12. Jeff Niemann – SP (TB)

13. Adam Miller – SP (CLE)

14. Michael Saunders – OF (SEA)

15. Lou Marson – C (PHI)

16. Matt Antonelli – 2B (SD)

17. Jordan Zimmerman – SP (WSH)

18. Ryan Perry – RP (DET)

19. Max Ramirez – C ( TEX )

20. Jonathan Meloan – RP (CLE)

21. J.P. Arenciba – C (TOR)

22. Jaime Garcia – SP (STL)

23. Will Inman – SP (SD)

24. Brent Lillibridge – SS (CWS)

25. Jason Donald – 2B/SS (PHI)

As we FAST approach the 2009 Major League Baseball season, we wanted to give you a preview of our NEW 2009 daily waiver wire pick-up feature, THE SHALLOW & THE DEEP.

What’s changed?

No more complicated “Tier System”!

We had a riot conjuring up a Shark themed grading system last season, to represent player pick-ups, but it became, as the French say: Tres Difficile! And it was confusing for our readers to try to remember all of the different levels of Sharks each player fell under.

Updating THE CAGE was a bit of a nightmare, and constantly moving players around cut into the meat and potatoes information we want to get out to you.

So now what? Well…

FIRST UP:

WaiverSharks.com writers, Ryan Roach (on the left) and Scott Woodall, will be featuring SLEEPERS for ALL 30 MLB teams, prior to the kick off of the 2009 Fantasy Baseball season.

One SHALLOW pick-up suggestion, and one DEEP pick-up suggestion - which will usually be an up and coming prospect, or a real long shot!

We’ll run down TWO Sleepers for each team in alphabetical order, starting with the Angels, followed by the Astros, and so on…until we polish off THE SHALLOW & THE DEEP sleepers with the Yankees towards the end of March.

Then we get down to brass tacks!

Once we’ve wrapped up ALL 30 teams shallow and deep sleepers, the 2009 MLB season will be just about set to kick off!

AND SO too will our DAILY version of:

THE SHALLOW & THE DEEP....Whoohooo!

Our DAILY pick-up suggestions will be exclusive content to waiversharks.com each day*, presented in a similar format as our preseason sleepers.

(*Except Saturdays – Sorry we had to pick one day to do our laundry!)

As the season progresses, we will archive ALL of our DAILY suggestions into a section we refer to as: THE CAGE (Consider it a new & improved version of THE CAGE). THE CAGE will be an at-a-glance summary of the daily pick-ups. Simply click a player's name to see why we chose him!

We will still honor each month's BEST waiver wire pick-up with WaiverSharks' Megalodon of the Month Award.

AND lastly, we intend to have our faithful video staple “Bones”, who will continue to do his Pick-Ups of the Week, beginning in April. (We are currently negotiating BONES 2009 contract, and he’s being more stubborn than Manny Ramirez!)

We want to thank everyone for all the comments you’ve sent our way since WaiverSharks' inception, and hope you enjoy all the changes we’ve instituted for the 2009 Fantasy Baseball season!

Make sure you check out The Cage today, for the 15 latest sleepers and keepers to add to your fantasy baseball team!  We've also added the top 12 Baby Sharks (consisting mainly of Minor League Prospects, or those who have just been called up) to The Cage, including write-ups and stats.  Check it out!

Check out WaiverSharks.com's newest update to the Top 50 Prospects of 2008 on the Baby Sharks page!

If you haven't checked out WaiverSharks.com's- The Ultimate Red Sock, or Spirit of Detroit Blogs yet, now's the time!

With the Red Sox vs Tigers battling it out in a series this week, WaiverSharks writers Ryan Roach and Adam Forsyth, are sure to have some interesting insights on this week's games!

VS

Go Sox!... err... Go Tigers! Hmm...you decide!