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Sorry, this is not the main event, it's the event just below that made up of 12 team roto leagues drafting both live and online.
I heard 2-8 weeks, which could mean late May?
Doctors cleared him today. He has an outside chance of making opening day.
This is a sound strategy this season. I might tend to concentrate a little more on power early because there is a lot of late speed available in this draft. The pitching in the mid rounds is good...like you said Gallardo/Hamels/Jiminez/Hanson/W. Rodriguez/Nolasco. You can get guys like Garza/Billingsly/Baker a few rounds later.
I thought about this too - waiting on speed. Problem I'm having is a lot of late speed guys this year are relative unknowns - J. Borbon, A. Escobar, even R. Davis (can he repeat second half?). A bit worried about having to rely on a few of these guys.
You also have N. Morgan, Bourne and J. Pierre. Pierre may be your safest bet. You know he can hit around .300 and swipe 40 plus bags and hitting leadoff for the Sox he should be able to score over 100 runs. I'd still look for those 5 tool players but if you have to take a guy like A. Lind who may pop 35-40 with little SBs I wouldn't pass that up. Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback.I probably am short on SB's, but have a bunch of guys that will steal between 10-25, which should land me mid-pack in SB's. Closers started flying off the board and I wanted to make sure I had 3 good ones - I don't like spending early picks on closers and don't want the ERA/WHIP killers that are left at the end, so I sacrificed and got 3 solid ones in the mid rounds. Thought I got good offensive value after that which helped offset the 3 straight rounds of closers. Also, I disagree about the 6th SP - Joba should be good for 6-8 wins for the Yanks as the primary late innings setup guy, and will have a great ERA/WHIP & K total. To me this is much more valuable than a SP6 that might get me 10 wins, but will have an ERA over 4 and WHIP of at least 1.3 with low K's. I always like having a guy like Joba in roto.Love the start of your draft, but worried Peavy in Chitown. Petco can shave a run off of a SP's ERA but time will tell. Hope I'm wrong for your sake.
Not a bad team. I like that you waited on pitching and still got a pretty sound staff. I may have looked to draft a solid 3B (Zimmerman, Youk or Sandoval) with my 3rd round pick there and probably went maybe Zobrit at 2B instead of Grandy at OF in the 5th. Not that I don't like Grandy but there was such good value at OF later in this years draft that you could have waited and still gotten a very solid 3rd OF. Matter of fact Pence would have been fine. I also probably would have looked to get a little better at C (not sure who was there in the 13 at C). But overall, you did a nice job. Good luck!
Thanks. I really wanted to snag Youk for 3B in round 3 but he got taken 2 picks in front of me. I went Phillips there cause I didn't want to pass up 20/20 at 2B, and I felt there was a dropoff with Zimm/Sandoval after Youkilis. Honestly I just don't trust Zimmerman with a 3rd rd pick, but that's personal preference. I agree that OF is deep this year, but guys I wanted at other positions kept getting taken in front of me, so I wasn't going to reach at other positions just for the sake of position scarcity. I was thinking of taking Beckett instead of Grandy in the 5th, but passed in hopes that he or Gallardo would be there for me in the 6th. Didn't happen, but as you said I think I still put together a decent enough staff regardless of that. As for C, they went earlier than I like. I was targeting Soto as my C1 but he got snagged in the 12th. After that, I decided to wait. I actually like Molina - hits for avg and stole 9 bases last year. Valuable in Roto. I hope one of the Colorado catchers pans out.The feedback is appreciated..
Thanks. It was a tough draft, I could tell there were a lot of vets in the room. The rake in this event (not the main event) is --12-tm league -- $2,000 first, $750 second300-player live draft pool -- $25,000 first thru $5,000 fifth (300 tm roto)1,000 player live/online draft pool -- $60,000 thru $350 tenth (1000 tm roto)So someone could come away with $87,000 if they hit the jackpot.
There are flaws with the team, but power is not one of them. I project a minimum of 275 HR's for this team which would put me solidly in the top third of the league.
