Keeper Rounds:
Best Pick: Weiters. One of the few players on the Board who could be a top 50 player next year.
Worst pick: Pence/Dice-K Will Pence be any better than Milledge this year? Probably not. And Dice-K sucks. Maybe it's the slanty eyes(sorry Minch) but that gook can't find the zone for shit. (End of racist rant)
First Round:
Best Pick: Lastings Milledge. Already a serviceable 3rd OF with some major upside. Great pick here for Busby.
Worst pick: Jones/Maybin. Eww. Way too early, especially for a team that with a good draft could have separated itself from the rest of the league. Gross.
Second Round:
Best Pick: Raul Ibanez. Awful signing for the Phils, great draft pick for Dunne. Could have a career year, likely to be a solid 2/3 OF.
Worst pick: Pablo Sandoval. I love me some Pablo, but he's not worth a 2nd round pick. Could have been had in the 4th.
Third Round:
Best Pick: Carpenter. You have to love the upside, and he's been healthy this spring.
Worst pick: Harang. He's a 4th starter at best in real baseball. No reason to expect numbers much better than last year.
Fourth Round:
Best Pick: Randy Johnson. Great park, great division, great upside. Love it.
Worst pick: Marmol. Not going to start the year as a closer. I like him, but he could be had after the 7th. Poor value.
Fifth Round:
Best Pick: Ankiel. 30 HR power. Contract year. Only switched to hitting a few years ago. Tons to love.
Worst pick: D Young. Too early. His GB% is awful. Lack of patience at the plate as well. I'm calling him a BUST. Bad pick for a team that wants to contend.
Sixth Round:
Best Pick: Wang. Great value this late. Plus Plus contributer in 3 categories. Steal this late in the draft. I mean he was kept last year.................Mancari Sucks.
Worst pick: NONE. Well done with this round team. When the worst pick is a guy who has the closing job for the Brewers it's a pretty good round.
Seventh Round:
Best Pick: Pat Burrel. Pat the Bat is the shit. Great mid season trade bait for Busby or possibly the piece that puts him over the top.
Worst pick: Adam Laroche. Always starts like shit. Nobody else would have drafted him at all. Waiver wire fodder.
Eighth Round:
Best Pick: Xaiver Nady. Great pick this late. Numbers should increase a bit in his first full season in Pinstripes.
Worst pick: Brandon Wood. Probably too early. I don't care. I still got all the guys I wanted after. He's only 23 and the Angels have NO power. Suck it.
Ninth Round:
Best Pick: J. Posada. Top 3 catcher in fantasy in 2007. No risk this late in the draft and HUGE upside for a 9th round pick. Even if he DH more, it doesn't matter in fantasy. Nor does his dead arm.
Worst pick: Smoltz. Doesn't have a spot in the rotation even if he is healthy. Moving from AAAA to the best division in baseball. Not a great gamble here. Also he's a Red Sock. Penny would have been a better pick.
Tenth Round:
Best Pick: Bronson! Had a crazy second half. Nice value in the 10th.
Worst pick: JD Drew. Cock Sucker.
Eleventh Round:
Best Pick: Fred Lewis. Nice upside, good 4th OF even if he doesn't get any better.
Worst pick: Not really any. Too late for any picks to be bad really.
12, 13, 14th Round:s
Best Picks: Cust, Husdon, Snell, Percival, Jordan Zimmerman, Shoppach, Dejesus, Putz.
Worst pick: Snyder sucks. What a lame Mr. Irrelevant. Busby should have went with Strasburg.
Best Worst
Monzo Carpenter D Young
Busby Milledge/Burrel/Weiters Snyder
Kevin
Dunne Ibanez JD Drew
Rory Posada B. Wood
Ziph
Tom R. Johnson/Fred Lewis/Bronson
Wigs Smoltz/Marmol
Greeley Nady LaRoche/Sandoval
Big John Harang
Nick Jones/Maybin
Stro Ankiel/Wang
Top 3 Drafts:
#1: Mike Busby
Great draft. Clearly improved his team for the future while putting himself in position to slip into the playoffs. Plenty to trade if he's a seller at the deadline.
#2: Dunne
Before the draft his team could have gone either way this season. A good draft put his team solidly in the playoff discussion with perhaps even a shot at the regular season title.
#3: Stro/Barenek
Left a sizable hole at 3rd, but thats pretty easy to fill on waivers. A very solid draft overall. Barenek did a great job for Stro.
Honorable Mentions:
Rory and Big John.
Worst 3 Drafts:
#1: Wigs
Was really hurt by a lack of picks, but didn't do much with the picks he had. A disappointment for CrispBlueYanksFitted fans, especially with Arod out.
#2: Monzo
With the crazy abundance of picks Monzo had, he really should have had a better draft. His pitching has a ton of upside but little stability and his closers are underwhelming. With the huge pick advantage he had his draft should have been the best by far. It wasn't.
#3: Tom
Mediocre is the only way to describe his team. His draft didn't really address any of the teams needs. It also left the team needing closers and starters. Not awful, but definitely poor. However with a few breaks his draft could end up as one of the best. I just don't see it.
Honorable Mentions:
Kevin and Nick
That concludes our draft roundup. Team previews will be done this week unless I go out to the bar every night.
For those who are wondering how I have enough time to write this. I don't go to school. My job is a joke. I have no girlfriend. I suck at life.
I really didn't have a huge pick advantage by the time all was said and done. I had 4 picks in the first 4 rounds, just like anyone else, but I also had one less keeper spot than anyone else. Yes, I did have 10 picks between the 5th and 7th rounds, but at that point 25 starting pitchers or more were already off the board, and its tough to find this "stability" that you demand after 60 starters are gone. Without a legit ace or even a high-end #2 at this time, I needed to draft some #4-8 starters with upside in order to compensate. Also, Chris R Young is one year removed from being a keeper quality pitcher, and his major injury last year were unrelated to his throwing arm. If he pitches a full season (which shouldn't be a huge if b/c his injury last year was taking a line drive to the face), sure wins may be hard to come by, but he had a great ERA and WHIP and some pretty solid K numbers at every other point in his career.
ReplyDeleteIf it wasn't for Carlos Marmol, Mark Buehrle would have been the worst pick of the 4th. There is no upside with that pick, and even if there is "consistency", the only consistent part about him is that he is a mediocre fantasy starter at best, who doesn't strike anyone out, and doesn't consistently dominate in the ratios, and doesn't consistently win 12 games or more. Buehrle is another one of those much better in real life than fantasy players. Also Gil Meche is far from a model of consistency, only breaking 156 K's once in his career (last year, but its tough to imagine too much upside at age 31). And finally, Josh Johnson and Adam Wainwright have both had major arm troubles in the recent past, so it is tough to call them consistent or even reliable. Yes, you got solid consistent production from Ted Lilly, but if that was going to be your theme this year then you should have drafted Derek Lowe, Randy Johnson, Hiroki Kuroda, Jeremy Guthrie, or even Jered Weaver. Not to mention the fact that you have George Sherrill who is already on the verge of getting bounced from the closer job by Chris Ray and a player who has never started a major league game before in Brett Anderson, and I think it's pretty evident that you missed out on the "consistency" boat as well, unless you are talking about the consistent crap production of Mark Buehrle in the 4th round. I would much rather have the upside of Chris R Young, Ubaldo Jimenez, Jonathan Sanchez, Manny Parra over the "consistency" of Mark Buehrle or George Sherrill.
Also, Youkilis qualifies at 3B and it is better to play him there than 1B so there actually is no hole for Stro.
I also disagree on the Stro draft because if you play Youk at 3rd and Dunn at 1st, then the OF is Pence, Ankiel, DeRosa, with Crisp at utility, which is gross and should not be commended for having a solid draft especially after winning the league. I think too many eggs are being placed into the Francoeur basket and the Mark DeRosa 2008 numbers basket. Matter of fact, with Joe Mauer on the shelf for a month or so and Youk possibly coming down from a career year that no one could have projected, I would say that this squad is thoroughly unimpressive.
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