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Why we loved Prince Fielder in fantasy baseball

If this is indeed the end for Prince Fielder -- and all indications are that it is -- it'd be a shame if he's remembered more for the neck surgeries that prematurely ended his career than his fantasy prowess spanning the better part of a decade.

Fielder possessed prodigious power, but more importantly (and somewhat forgotten in recent years), he was one of the game's most durable players.

On three occasions -- 2007, 2009 and 2011 -- Fielder finished ranked among the 20 best players in fantasy baseball per our Player Rater. Not coincidentally, those were his three best individual seasons in terms of home runs (50 in 2007, 46 in 2009 and 38 in 2011), RBIs (141 in 2009, 120 in 2011 and 119 in 2007), runs scored (109 in 2007, 103 in 2009 and 95 in 2011) and OPS (1.