NY $1250 Auction Predictions....

fandango · Post by **fandango** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:50 am

Tom, Another fine job in NY...even with a drafter on the phone, it was a very smooth draft, great job by auctioneer.....

Anyone venture any predictions? i can think of 1, but i dont want to get anyone upset.....

all i can say is that Team Fandango is built on Fundamentals...Pitching and middle of the lineup Players....

1B Fielder (bats 3rd)

2B Utley (bats 3rd)

SS H Ramirez (bats 1st)

3B Teahen (bats 3rd)

UT Aurilia (bats 5th behind Baroid)

OF Cuddyer (bats 4th)

OF Ibanez (bats 4th)

OF Ordonez (bats 5th)

OF Byrnes (bats 4th)

OF Church (bats 2nd)

P Smoltz #1

P Lackey #1

P Harang #1

P Lowe #1

P Bush #3

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

P Looper

P Villanueva

P A Miller

Rp Saito

Rp Gonzalez

Rp Linebrink

Rp Lindstrom

This league will be decided preseason if a couple things happens....Linebrink gets traded (as was reported to me by inside source who jumped the gun), or M Gonzalez (who has never blown a save) overtakes oldman Wickman....

Good Luck to most everyone! This should be a very competitive year......

[ March 20, 2007, 09:02 AM: Message edited by: fandango ]

billywaz · Post by **billywaz** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:04 am

Originally posted by fandango:

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

You trying to pass off Rogers and Washburn as #1's on their teams is HILARIOUS!

Starting opening day doesn't mean you are #1 material, and CERTAINLY not the best pitcher on the team!

That being said, all those "3 and 4 hitters" don't amount to a lot of power.

Add in saves are a ZERO at the moment, and this team will finish anywhere from 5th - 10th (without seeing the other rosters).

Did you draft a Main team Fandango?

[ March 18, 2007, 08:06 AM: Message edited by: billywaz ]

fandango · Post by **fandango** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:18 am

Originally posted by billywaz:

quote:Originally posted by fandango:

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

You trying to pass off Rogers and Washburn as #1's on their teams is HILARIOUS!

Starting opening day doesn't mean you are #1 material, and CERTAINLY not the best pitcher on the team!

That being said, all those "3 and 4 hitters" don't amount to a lot of power.

Add in saves are a ZERO at the moment, and this team will finish anywhere from 5th - 10th (without seeing the other rosters).

Did you draft a Main team Fandango? [/QUOTE]ahmm, that was not the entire team

RP Saito

RP Gonzalez

RP Lindstrom

RP Linebrink

HR are overrated, they usually come with a lower Average...anyone can draft DUNN, Sexton, Giambi etc for HR, at the expense of 4 other categories...

billywaz · Post by **billywaz** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:38 am

Originally posted by fandango:

quote:Originally posted by billywaz:

quote:Originally posted by fandango:

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

You trying to pass off Rogers and Washburn as #1's on their teams is HILARIOUS!

Starting opening day doesn't mean you are #1 material, and CERTAINLY not the best pitcher on the team!

That being said, all those "3 and 4 hitters" don't amount to a lot of power.

Add in saves are a ZERO at the moment, and this team will finish anywhere from 5th - 10th (without seeing the other rosters).

Did you draft a Main team Fandango? [/QUOTE]ahmm, that was not the entire team

RP Saito

RP Gonzalez

RP Lindstrom

RP Linebrink

HR are overrated, they usually come with a lower Average...anyone can draft DUNN, Sexton, Giambi etc for HR, at the expense of 4 other categories... [/QUOTE]Saito won't have a job by midseason IMO, and you are HOPING the other guys pan out.

As for HR's, everytime one is hit, you get a run and AT LEAST one RBI. How they kill your RBI's and even runs (some do) is a mystery to me. There are plenty of other players who hit HR's AND don't kill your average.

HR's and RBI's for you will be 5 or less IMO.

[ March 18, 2007, 08:40 AM: Message edited by: billywaz ]

Red Sox Nation · Post by **Red Sox Nation** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:08 am

Originally posted by fandango:

Tom, Another fine job in NY...even with a drafter on the phone, it was a very smooth draft, great job by auctioneer.....

Anyone venture any predictions? i can think of 1, but i dont want to get anyone upset.....

all i can say is that Team Fandango is built on Fundamentals...Pitching and middle of the lineup Players....

1B Fielder (bats 3rd)

2B Utley (bats 3rd)

SS H Ramirez (bats 1st)

3B Teahen (bats 3rd)

UT Aurilia (bats 5th behind Baroid)

OF Cuddyer (bats 4th)

OF Ibanez (bats 4th)

OF Ordonez (bats 5th)

OF Byrnes (bats 4th)

OF Church (bats 2nd)

P Smoltz #1

P Lackey #1

P Harang #1

P Lowe #1

P Bush #3

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

P Looper

P Villanueva

P A Miller

This league will be decided preseason if a couple things happens....Linebrink gets traded (as was reported to me by inside source who jumped the gun), or M Gonzalez (who has never blown a save) overtakes oldman Wickman....

Good Luck to most everyone! This should be a very competitive year...... Nice strategy! Gil Meche would have been a nice fit as a #1 with rogers and washburn.

ALL-IN JD · Post by **ALL-IN JD** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:22 am

I too was at the mixed auction. Ran very smoothyly, agreed. My team is built on offense as well. Spent $50 on my staff (which has pretty nice upside:

Johjima

Laird

Shealy

K. Matsui

B. Hall

D. Wright

Vizquel

A. Gordon

Holliday

Sizemore

C.Young

Wilkerson

Duffy

Helms

Harden

Maddux

Snell

Bonser

J. Shields

Loewen

Torres

Weathers

Wheeler

Pedro

Dan Johnson

Sledge

Milledge

K. Wells

Al Reyes

Lincecum

billywaz · Post by **billywaz** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:01 am

Originally posted by fireballs:

I too was at the mixed auction. Ran very smoothyly, agreed. My team is built on offense as well. Spent $50 on my staff (which has pretty nice upside:

Johjima

Laird

Shealy

K. Matsui

B. Hall

D. Wright

Vizquel

A. Gordon

Holliday

Sizemore

C.Young

Wilkerson

Duffy

Helms

Harden

Maddux

Snell

Bonser

J. Shields

Loewen

Torres

Weathers

Wheeler

Pedro

Dan Johnson

Sledge

Milledge

K. Wells

Al Reyes

Lincecum Nice team Fireballs!

Your offense looks really strong.

Starting pitching is OK, but the bullpen is skeptical.

NO ONE has a team with no holes, but overall I like your squad (especially for an auction).

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:21 am

Lots of fun...here is our team (Team #13) we are OK.

V Martinez

J Posada

S Hillenbrand

H Blaylock

J Crede

J Cantu

M Tejada

F Lopez

J Bay

I Suzuki

A Kearns

K Griffey

J Edmonds

C Burke

Hitter reserves - Erstad, S Stewart, Biggio, Olivo, Andy LaRouche

C Zambrano

J Schmidt

B Zito

D Willis

T Hudson

J Suppan

E Gagne

O Dotel

K Gregg (Fla closer)

Pitcher reserves - Wolf, J Rouch (closer when they trade Chad Cordero)

[ March 18, 2007, 10:22 AM: Message edited by: Mark ]

ALL-IN JD · Post by **ALL-IN JD** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:10 am

Thanks Wazz, im pretty happy with it as well. 2 months of Pedro would help. Agree about the closers, thats what my $1000 FAAB is for :--))

Evil Empire · Post by **Evil Empire** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:23 am

[ March 18, 2007, 11:26 AM: Message edited by: Jupiter ]

Evil Empire · Post by **Evil Empire** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:25 am

Definately a good time Friday Night! Even though the drafters in the other room dogged all the food

HR are overrated, they usually come with a lower Average...anyone can draft DUNN, Sexton, Giambi etc for HR, at the expense of 4 other categories... I guess RBI and Runs are overrated too. They come with the HRs. I agree the 3 players above would never be on my team either.I would have to draft Ichiro and Vlad to pull up average. But Hr are not overrated.

Team #11

C Piazza

C Montero

1B D Lee

3B Beltre

CI Braun

2B Kendrick

SS S Drew

MI Weeks

OF Vladamir

OF Baldelli

OF Crisp

OF Mathews Jr

OF J Guillen

DH Sosa

P Sheets

P Schilling

P Je Weaver (LAA)

P Patterson

P Thomson

P Greinke

P Valverde

P Benitez

P Tankersley

Bench

C Ruiz

MI A Hill

OF A Sanchez

OF J Baker

3B Koskie (Don't ask)

RP Julio

RP Petit

I definately need pitchers to be healthy and Braun to make the team.

Good Luck to all.

[ March 18, 2007, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: Jupiter ]

GOD Loves You · Post by **GOD Loves You** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:54 am

Originally posted by billywaz:

quote:Originally posted by fandango:

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

You trying to pass off Rogers and Washburn as #1's on their teams is HILARIOUS!

Starting opening day doesn't mean you are #1 material, and CERTAINLY not the best pitcher on the team!

That being said, all those "3 and 4 hitters" don't amount to a lot of power.

Add in saves are a ZERO at the moment, and this team will finish anywhere from 5th - 10th (without seeing the other rosters).

Did you draft a Main team Fandango? [/QUOTE]You're on the wrong boards to be spouting analysis, Billy!!

billywaz · Post by **billywaz** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:12 am

Originally posted by GOD Loves You:

quote:Originally posted by billywaz:

quote:Originally posted by fandango:

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

You trying to pass off Rogers and Washburn as #1's on their teams is HILARIOUS!

Starting opening day doesn't mean you are #1 material, and CERTAINLY not the best pitcher on the team!

That being said, all those "3 and 4 hitters" don't amount to a lot of power.

Add in saves are a ZERO at the moment, and this team will finish anywhere from 5th - 10th (without seeing the other rosters).

Did you draft a Main team Fandango? [/QUOTE]You're on the wrong boards to be spouting analysis, Billy!! [/QUOTE]You're probably right GLY!

Spyhunter · Post by **Spyhunter** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:02 am

Originally posted by fandango:

Tom, Another fine job in NY...even with a drafter on the phone, it was a very smooth draft, great job by auctioneer.....

Anyone venture any predictions? i can think of 1, but i dont want to get anyone upset.....

all i can say is that Team Fandango is built on Fundamentals...Pitching and middle of the lineup Players....

1B Fielder (bats 3rd)

2B Utley (bats 3rd)

SS H Ramirez (bats 1st)

3B Teahen (bats 3rd)

UT Aurilia (bats 5th behind Baroid)

OF Cuddyer (bats 4th)

OF Ibanez (bats 4th)

OF Ordonez (bats 5th)

OF Byrnes (bats 4th)

OF Church (bats 2nd)

P Smoltz #1

P Lackey #1

P Harang #1

P Lowe #1

P Bush #3

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

P Looper

P Villanueva

P A Miller

This league will be decided preseason if a couple things happens....Linebrink gets traded (as was reported to me by inside source who jumped the gun), or M Gonzalez (who has never blown a save) overtakes oldman Wickman....

Good Luck to most everyone! This should be a very competitive year...... Hey Fandango, nice mix of hitting and pitching. One area of concern when I look at your team is your speed. Hanley and Bryne I don't think will carry you to enough points. Otherwise, I still am mad that I let you get Lackey I liked your reserve picks as well.

I second your comments, Michael did a nice job, even with a terrible phone connection to deal with

Good luck to you and everyone.

regards,

Spy

[ March 18, 2007, 03:52 PM: Message edited by: Spyhunter ]

Evil Empire · Post by **Evil Empire** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:00 am

I third that. The auctioneer was great!

Nutty Scrats · Post by **Nutty Scrats** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:01 am

Ok Team Nutty Scrats finally made it home from New York to Massachusetts after a very interesting weather weekend in New York! LOL Did my first NFBC auction and went just a tad over board on pitching! LOL

Had a absoluteoy great time this weekend no matter how my drafts turn out! LOL That being said I all ready know that I have absolutely no speed but please let me know how bad this really is. Thanks in adance.

1B - Lyle Overbay

2B - Jose Valentin

3B - Aramis Ramirez

SS - Egar Renteria

MI - Yuniesky Betancourt

CM - Akinori Iwamura

UT - Jim Thome

OF - Adam Dunn

OF - Gary Sheffield

OF - Randy Winn

OF - Moise Alou

OF - Andre Ethier

C - Bengi Molina

C - A.J. Perziski

Pitchers

Johan Santana

Chris Carpenter

B.J. Ryan

Joe Nathan

Jason Jennings

Anibel Sanchez

Kei Igawa

Jeremy Sowers

Nate Robertson

Bench

Kendry Morales

Pedro Feliz

Geoff Jenkins

Mike MacDougal

Rafael Soriano

Phillip Hughes

Duaner Sanchez

Spyhunter · Post by **Spyhunter** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:08 am

Hi Nutty,

It was nice to meet you and welcome to the Auction League. You certainly did go overboard on your first four pitchers and it is going to be tough on offense. BA may also be a challenge with Dunn holding you down. My other concern is after your big 4, your pitching goes downhill fast. I have my fingers crossed for you, but this may be a painful year

Good luck,

Spyhunter (aka Chris)

Nutty Scrats · Post by **Nutty Scrats** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:16 am

Originally posted by Spyhunter:

Hi Nutty,

It was nice to meet you and welcome to the Auction League. You certainly did go overboard on your first four pitchers and it is going to be tough on offense. BA may also be a challenge with Dunn holding you down. My other concern is after your big 4, your pitching goes downhill fast. I have my fingers crossed for you, but this may be a painful year

Good luck,

Spyhunter (aka Chris) Thanks Chris. It was great meeting you and everyone involved with the draft. I really had a great time. Those were my thoughts too. Could be a real challenging year. I have injury prone all over my line up! LOL Hopefully it won't be too ugly! Best of luck to you too! Despite the pain I'll still have fun!

fandango · Post by **fandango** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:08 pm

Originally posted by Spyhunter:

quote:Originally posted by fandango:

Tom, Another fine job in NY...even with a drafter on the phone, it was a very smooth draft, great job by auctioneer.....

Anyone venture any predictions? i can think of 1, but i dont want to get anyone upset.....

all i can say is that Team Fandango is built on Fundamentals...Pitching and middle of the lineup Players....

1B Fielder (bats 3rd)

2B Utley (bats 3rd)

SS H Ramirez (bats 1st)

3B Teahen (bats 3rd)

UT Aurilia (bats 5th behind Baroid)

OF Cuddyer (bats 4th)

OF Ibanez (bats 4th)

OF Ordonez (bats 5th)

OF Byrnes (bats 4th)

OF Church (bats 2nd)

P Smoltz #1

P Lackey #1

P Harang #1

P Lowe #1

P Bush #3

P Rogers #1

P Washburn#1

P Looper

P Villanueva

P A Miller

This league will be decided preseason if a couple things happens....Linebrink gets traded (as was reported to me by inside source who jumped the gun), or M Gonzalez (who has never blown a save) overtakes oldman Wickman....

Good Luck to most everyone! This should be a very competitive year...... Hey Fandango, nice mix of hitting and pitching. One area of concern when I look at your team is your speed. Hanley and Bryne I don't think will carry you to enough points. Otherwise, I still am mad that I let you get Lackey I liked your reserve picks as well.

I second your comments, Michael did a nice job, even with a terrible phone connection to deal with

Good luck to you and everyone.

regards,

Spy [/QUOTE]SPY good assessment on the speed, but i believe teahen will steal 20, church 15, fielder 10, utley 15, which gives me about 140 SB's which is enough for top 1/3....

Spyhunter · Post by **Spyhunter** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:29 pm

Hi there,

I have to disagree with you on all your projections except Utes I think more like 120 for you, but, hey, we will see.

good luck and nice draft

Spy

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:35 pm

Seeing some other rosters, I'm beginning to think my team is a little better than I thought. I only have to worry about injuries (Griffey/Edmonds) and saves. The rest of my team is solid compared to what I have seen so far. Agree??

V Martinez

J Posada

S Hillenbrand

H Blaylock

J Crede

J Cantu

M Tejada

F Lopez

J Bay

I Suzuki

A Kearns

K Griffey

J Edmonds

C Burke

Hitter reserves - Erstad, S Stewart, Biggio, Olivo, Andy LaRouche

C Zambrano

J Schmidt

B Zito

D Willis

T Hudson

J Suppan

E Gagne

O Dotel

K Gregg (Fla closer)

Pitcher reserves - Wolf, J Rouch (closer when they trade Chad Cordero)

ALL-IN JD · Post by **ALL-IN JD** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:46 pm

Mark, even with Lopez and Suzuki steals might be a little thin if Bay doesnt run and Burke loses his job to Pence. You could have problems with your staff and not much in the way of help from your reserves.

Spyhunter · Post by **Spyhunter** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:47 pm

Originally posted by Mark:

Seeing some other rosters, I'm beginning to think my team is a little better than I thought. I only have to worry about injuries (Griffey/Edmonds) and saves. The rest of my team is solid compared to what I have seen so far. Agree??

V Martinez

J Posada

S Hillenbrand

H Blaylock

J Crede

J Cantu

M Tejada

F Lopez

J Bay

I Suzuki

A Kearns

K Griffey

J Edmonds

C Burke

Hitter reserves - Erstad, S Stewart, Biggio, Olivo, Andy LaRouche

C Zambrano

J Schmidt

B Zito

D Willis

T Hudson

J Suppan

E Gagne

O Dotel

K Gregg (Fla closer)

Pitcher reserves - Wolf, J Rouch (closer when they trade Chad Cordero) Hi Mark,

I like your core SP, very solid. On your offense, I do think that you have a solid core of offense, but will Cantu rebound? Will Blaylock? Your speed looks like about 100-110 sb off the top of my head. will get you points, but not top 5.

good luck and nice to be playing with you

Spy

Red Sox Nation · Post by **Red Sox Nation** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:55 am

C Michael Barrett

C Varitek Jason

1B Mike Jacobs

2B Orlando Hudson

3B Wigginton, Ty

SS Jimmy Rollins

M/I Young Michael

C/I Youkilis, Kevin

OF Ramirez Manny

OF Andruw Jones

OF Mike Cameron

OF Shane Victorino

OF Aaron Rowand

U Upton B.J.

P Brett Myers

P Josh Beckett

P Dan Haren

P Ervin Santana

P Zach Duke

P Freddy Garcia

P Jonathan Broxton

P Francisco Cordero

P Ryan Dempster

Bench:

Sweeney, Mike

Thames, Marcus

Pedroia, Dustin

James Loney

Brian Wilson

Tim Wakefield

Julian Tavarez

Spyhunter · Post by **Spyhunter** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:06 am

Red Sox Nation,

How did we let you put together that team? Ouch, we are all in trouble. Anyway, nice job. Only issues I really see are BA (cameron, jones, etc...) could hurt a bit and speed if Upton goesn't get a job. Hopefully for the rest of us Jacobs will also do poorly

Spy