Rate your Draft, Quest for $100,000

eddiejag · Post by **eddiejag** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:46 am

nydownunder You have a very good team. Best ive seem posted to date.Love all your pitchers, robertson is my sleeper pitcher pick. I got him in the 2nd pick in round 21.Were did you get him.Byrd is another great late pick [16 wins on that team.]Tompson 8 and 1 after the all star break. I like a lot of your hitters too, but you have aubry huff in the outfield , he is only 1b and 3b. You can move him to utilety and bench probably NIXON , BECAUSE i love IBANEZ this year with the new lineup.I also got robertson in the newyork a.l. auction for 6. Would have gone 12.Lost him in the ULTIMATE PICK 2 19 ROUND. IN ROUND 18 DIDNT HAVE A 3B AND TOOK ATKINS NEEDED A LITTLE BAVG. GOOD LUCK BAD [ass] ANGELS

nydownunder · Post by **nydownunder** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:51 am

Originally posted by eddiejag:

nydownunder You have a very good team. Best ive seem posted to date.Love all your pitchers, robertson is my sleeper pitcher pick. I got him in the 2nd pick in round 21.Were did you get him.Byrd is another great late pick [16 wins on that team.]Tompson 8 and 1 after the all star break. I like a lot of your hitters too, but you have aubry huff in the outfield , he is only 1b and 3b. You can move him to utilety and bench probably NIXON , BECAUSE i love IBANEZ this year with the new lineup.I also got robertson in the newyork a.l. auction for 6. Would have gone 12.Lost him in the ULTIMATE PICK 2 19 ROUND. IN ROUND 18 DIDNT HAVE A 3B AND TOOK ATKINS NEEDED A LITTLE BAVG. GOOD LUCK BAD [ass] ANGELS Ibanez qualifies for OF, so Huff starts as the Util. I picked Byrd and Robertson back to back, so I think it was #22/23. K. Green in the 16th was a steal. Ibanez and Nixon I think were really high...I think 18 and 20...or 17 and 19. Conservatively (ie Arod batting .298) this team will bat close to .288 with POWER, RUNS, and RBI. I'll get 120-140 SB's. But you never know with the SP's.

DiamondKing · Post by **DiamondKing** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:16 am

Be gentle to a rookie.Like many others closer is my main problem also.I just could not go so high for the closers with warts.

C Closser

C V.Martinez

1B Morneau

2B Reyes

SS Peralta

3B Wright

CO Atkins

MI Bartlett

OF Abreau

OF Sheffield

OF A.Rios

OF Swisher

OF C.Everett

DH Laroche

SP Burnett

SP Halladay

SP Carpenter

SP Bonderman

SP Maddux

SP K.Wells

SP Ponson

RP Brazoban

RP Borowski

B Upton

B L Gonzalez(INF)

B Sizemore

B Jason Repko

B Saloman Torres

B Felix Hernandez

Edwards Kings · Post by **Edwards Kings** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:31 am

Dave, I am certainly not one of the "experts", but you may have the youngest offense I have ever seen. I am not saying good or bad...

DiamondKing · Post by **DiamondKing** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:43 am

Oops left out Josh Phelps.I am sure that changes things.Dave LV league #2

eddiejag · Post by **eddiejag** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:44 am

nOT BAD FOR A ROOKIE. Like your top 6 starting pitching HALLADAY CARPENTER MADDOX K WELLS AND EXPECT HUGE YEARS from AJ BURNETT AND BONDERMAN.hAVE you for 140 steals which is better than the avg team. Thats 80 from ABREU AND REYES. You really need REYES if healthy 50 steals. ALSO like ADKINS and love RIOS another guy who can steal 30.Low on power 2 30 homer guys. I have ABREU 24. GOOD LUCK

edelman24 · Post by **edelman24** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:47 am

I drafted from the #15 spot, what do you think?

C - Johnny Estrada

C - Koyie Hill

1B-Scott Hattenberg

2B-Mark Loretta

3B-Garret Atkins

SS-Michael Young

MI-Ray Durahm

CI-Chad Tracy

OF-Miguel Cabrera

OF-Gary Sheffield

OF-Scott Podsednick

OF-Hideki Matsui

OF-Andrew Jones

UTIL-Marquis Grissom

P-Greg Maddux

P-Mark Buehrle (Not happy about Today's NEWS)

P-Derek Lowe

P-Woody Williams

P-Brett Tomko

P-Al Leiter

P-Horacio Ramierez

P-Keith Foulke

P-Miguel Batista

Bench-Bill Mueller

Bench-Alex Sanchez

Bench-Glendon Rusch

Bench-Joe Blanton

Bench-Tim Worrell

Bench-Jessie Crain

Bench-Justin Speier

fandango · Post by **fandango** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:22 am

Originally posted by eddiejag:

nOT BAD FOR A ROOKIE. Like your top 6 starting pitching HALLADAY CARPENTER MADDOX K WELLS AND EXPECT HUGE YEARS from AJ BURNETT AND BONDERMAN.hAVE you for 140 steals which is better than the avg team. Thats 80 from ABREU AND REYES. You really need REYES if healthy 50 steals. ALSO like ADKINS and love RIOS another guy who can steal 30.Low on power 2 30 homer guys. I have ABREU 24. GOOD LUCK eddie, how ya do in ultmate? you got a shot?

heres my squad from saturday....

P R Johnson

P AJ Burnett

P C Carpenter

P Odalis Perez

P john thompson

P Bobby Madritsh /zach Duke

P Horatio Ramirez / mike macdougal

P Percival / Huston Street

P Benitez

1b THOME (50 hr year) /kotchman

2b Walker

3b Glaus (45 hr Year)

ss Renteria

CI Mueller

MI Cuddyer /gotay

UT Bartlett/ Nakumora

C AJ Pierzynski

c chris snyder

OF Podsednik

OF Rowand

OF ALOU

OF Ibanez

OF B CLark / willy taveras

think i got a chance to compete in my league...

Patsy Dean · Post by **Patsy Dean** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:40 am

C- AJ Pierz

C- Santiago

1- Casey

3- Beltre

CI- Chavez

2- Soriano

SS- Renteria

MI- Vidro

DH- Hafner

OF- C. Lee

OF- Green

OF- Holliday

OF- Sanchez

OF- Monroe

Overbay

Luis Gonzalez Col

Bautista

Radke

Pineiro

Arroyo

K. Wells

L. Hudson

Wakefield

David Williams

Zach Duke

Felix Hernandez

Guardado

Hawkins

Mike Gonzalez

Riske

Pick 9 Vegas League 3

JohnZ · Post by **JohnZ** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:57 am

J.Lopez

G.Zaun

D.Erstad

A.Ramirez

J.Uribe

T.Walker

M.Tejeda

E.Renteria

H.Matsui

R.Winn

J.Reed

E.Chavez

M.Grissom

ut- choice of

L.Rivas

C.Kotchman

L.Nix

A.Kennedy

M.Stairs

D.Bell

Mota

Ryan

Hawkins

Shields

Colon

L.Hernandez

M.Buehele

B.Lawrence

K.Benson

R.Lopez

thought.....

a)I only had a 30% cance on A.Ramirez in 3rd

b)ditto on H.Matsui in 4th

c)I had 0% chance on J.Lopez in 5th. Moved closers to 6/7 from 5/6

d) Buehrle in 11 and R.Lopez in 17 were steals.

e) had to take Erstad for 15 sb's. That could haunt me later.

nydownunder · Post by **nydownunder** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:00 am

UFS,

You may want to rethink that 'Buehrle in 11'. He broke his ankle shagging fly balls.

JohnZ · Post by **JohnZ** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:06 am

Originally posted by nydownunder:

UFS,

You may want to rethink that 'Buehrle in 11'. He broke his ankle shagging fly balls. He'll miss a month..... that same month he sucked last year

1-1 5.93 1.48 April/04

16-10 3.89 165 1.26 all/04

Still have 5 solid starters and Hawkins and Sheilds fill in nicely.

Not sure if I'll go after McCarthy, although e did look good from Row 6 in Tempe yesterday. Nothing like driving from Vegas to Tempe and walking in during the National Anthem. Giants/A's today...

KJ Duke · Post by **KJ Duke** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:09 am

13th pick in LV. If anyone would like to comment I'll reciprocate if you post your team.

C ...... Johnny Estrada

C ...... Koyie Hill / Matt LeCroy

1B ..... Paul Konerko

3B/CI . Corey Koskie/Garret Atkins

2B ..... Placido Polanco/ Orlando Hudson

SS/MI . Carlos Guillen/ Khalil Greene

OF ..... Carl Crawford

OF ..... Carlos Lee

OF ..... Andruw Jones

OF ..... Pat Burrell

OF ..... Dustan Mohr/ Willy Taveras/ JJ Davis

UT ..... Josh Phelps/ Rob Mackowiak

SP ..... Jason Schmidt

SP ..... Oliver Perez

SP ..... Freddy Garcia

SP ..... Bronson Arroyo

SP ..... Esteban Loaiza

SP ..... Wade Miller/ Bruce Chen

CL ..... Eric Gagne

CL ..... Mike Adams

CL ..... Greg Aquino

eddiejag · Post by **eddiejag** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:10 am

FANDANGO great job. You have a lot of balance. Plenty of speed. Might need a little more power and bavg. BURNETT AND TOMPSON WERE 2 PITCHERS I WAS TRACKING .Was one pick away at BURNETT AND TEAM 1 TOOK HIM AT THE 1ST PICK IN THE 7TH ROUND OUCH. Heres my ultimate. 14TH PICK

1. J SCHIMDT

2.M CABRERA

3.S PODSEDNICK

4. A DUNN

5 OLIVER PEREZ

6. T HAFNER

7. BRETT BOONE

8.RSEXSON BIG SEXY

9.P NEVIN

10.T PERCIVAL

11. MILTON BRADLEY

12.J MESA

13. ANGEL BERROA

14. JAUQUE JONES

15 CHIN HUI TSAO

16. CC SABBATHIA

17. DOUG DAVIS

18. GARRET ATKINS

19.OMAR INFANTE

20. ERIC BEDARD

21. JASON MARQUIS

22. PAUL BYRD

23. JASON WERTH

24.LUIS MATOS

25. KOYIE HILL

26. Y MOLINA

27. R BRANYAN

28.JOSE LIMA

29.V ZAMBRANO

30.CHRIS SNYDER

Dyv · Post by **Dyv** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:19 am

Eddie: DO you have the Ultimate results for 13th pick in the snake draft? I had to leave town early and wasn't able to be at the draft.

I think we ended up starting with Ichiro at #13?

Dave

CherryJo · Post by **CherryJo** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:29 am

Since I may have been a tad unkind to you in a "prior" thread (you asked about Prior's average draft position), I noticed you posted your team here, so I'll take this opportunity to show some love.

1) Do you have an obsession with all things Ryan? Nolan Ryan shrine in your bathtub, I take it? =)

2) That offense is not sexy. Giambi, Frank Thomas, Griffey, Gonzo, Sosa, Berkman (hurt), etc.? Your offense needs an anchor, and instead its full of hope and dreams of years gone by.

3) There are also plenty of doubters this year for Soriano, myself included.

4) You paid a premium for non-sexy tier-B pitchers (sexy tier-B would have been Schilling, Sheets, Peavy, Perez).

5) Did I promise some love? I love BJ Ryan and Mike Gonzalez. Very sexy stuff.

Originally posted by JAR:

Here's mine... 12th pick - CHI LEAGUE 4 -

Slumpbusters -

My offense is yuckky on paper, but has some nice potential in the way of Mauer/Giambi/Sosa/Berkman/Thomas/C.Monroe.. (maybe 1 or 3 too many gambles.. but thats my style)

if Prior can give me 25 quality starters, my pitching should be among the top 3.

C: Joe Mauer

C: Koyie Hill

1B: Jason Giambi

2B: Alfonso Soriano

SS: Omar Vizquel

3B: Russ Branyan

2B/MI: Chase Utley

1B/3B: Matt Stairs

OF: Sammy Sosa

OF: Vernon Wells

OF: Lance Berkman

OF: Ken Griffey Jr.

OF: Brady Clark

DH: Frank Thomas

P: Pedro Martinez

P: Roy Oswalt

P: Mark Prior

P: Fransisco Cordero

P: BJ Ryan

P: Jeremy Affledt

P: Brad Penny

P: Mike Gonzalez

P: JJ Putz

B: Craig Monroe

B: Brandon Lyon

B: Juan Gonzalez

B: Ken Harvey

B: Ryan Howard

B: Ryan Madson

B: Ryan Wagner

crazytown · Post by **crazytown** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:47 am

Well, I am one of those guys with the wacky strategies and here is my team from NY league 7

KENDALL BUCK

BROUSSARD

AROD

GIAMBI

K. MATSUI

CUDDYER

GARCIAPARRA

BONDS

BAY

KEARNS

PRESTON WILSON

DEJESUS

KHALIL GREENE

WERTH

ENSBERG

SWISHER

ADAM EVERETT

REDMAN

ALEX SANCHEZ

TERRERO

GAGNE

RIVERA

MOTA

TRACHSEL

ANKIEL

NENN

3 A BALL PITCHERS

Heffer · Post by **Heffer** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:50 am

NY6

pick #7

C Posada

C Y. Molina

1B Delgado

2B Vidro

SS A Berroa

3B koskie

C/I Palmerio

M/I J.Wilson

OF Abreau

OF Sheffield

OF B Giles

OF Cruz Jr

OF Cameron

DH V Castilla

R F Thomas

R Catallanno

R Spivey

R Swisher

SP Hudson

SP Oliver Perez

SP Mussina

SP Pinerio

SP Kazmir

SP J Washburn

RP S Takasu

RP C cordero

RP Affeldt

R E Loiaza

R M redmond

R W miller

I like my balance maybe a little weak on speed.

eddiejag · Post by **eddiejag** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:57 am

DYV JUST FOR YOU TEAM 13 THE ULTIMATE

I THOUGHT 13 IS ONE OF THE 6 TO 7 TEAMS THAT HAVE A MONEY SHOT.ONLY 6 STARTING PITCHERS , ITS AMUST HUDSON AND SHEETS DONT GET HURT.SPEED WAS ALSO A LITTLE LOW . 90 TO 110 STEALS.FIVE 30 HOMERUN GUYS AND GOOD BAVG. GOOD LUCK

1.ICHIRO

2BEN SHEETS

3.H BLAYLOCK

4. TIM HUDSON

5. C DELGADO GOOD VALUE HERE

6.O DOTEL

7.BRIAN GILES

8. GARRET ANDERSON

9.J MORNEAU GREAT PICK HERE GOT ME HERE

10. JOSE VIDRO

11. RANDY WINN

12.JOR MAUER

13.J AFFELDT HE SCARES ME

14.Z GRENIKE

15. K GREENE

16. SHANNON STEWART DOESNT DO ANYTHING BUT AVG

17JD CLOSSER TO HIGH

18. RAUL IBANEZ LOVE HIM

19.AARON MILES UPSIDE

20. B MADRITSCH LIKE A LOT

21JEROME WILLIAMS

22. V PADILLA

23. BRADY CLARK GOOD VALUE HERE

24. LUIS AYALA

25. J BARTLETT ROOKIE GOOD SPRING

26. S BURROUGHS CAN ONLY GET BETTER

27.RYAN MADSON

28.JUSTIN SPEIR GREAT PICK HERE BATISTA SCAREY

29.BRANDON LEAGUE AND IF SPEIR CANT

30.FREDDIE GUZMAN

Dyv · Post by **Dyv** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:09 am

Originally posted by KJ Duke:

13th pick in LV. If anyone would like to comment I'll reciprocate if you post your team.

KJ, I think I like the Crawford play at #13, but it seems like you had to pound some more sluggers to offset the far far below normal number from Carl for HR and RBI. I would have liked to see you with a better/more solid #5 OF and a better Corner Infielder. Your pitching is strong, though - so perhaps you built in the right spots and one of your fliers at OF will come through. For my sake, I hope it's Taveras as I have him, too - but for your sake I hope it's one of the heavy hitters instead. Obviously if you hit the waivers the right way you could fill your holes rather easily.

I actually think Mike Adams could be superb to round out your nasty bullpen.

My squad:

C: Olivo, T. Greene

1b: Delgado

2b: Jimenez

3b: Lowell

SS: C. Guillen

OF: Abreu, Sheffield, Hidalgo, Luis Gonzalez, Ibanez

1b/3b: Casey Blake

2b/ss: Some scrub (I can't remember who I got here.. had to leave Vegas on an emergency and forgot all my papers)

Util: Biggio

SP: Halladay, Garcia, J. Marquis, O. Hernandez, Runelvys Hernandez

RP: Takatsu, Guardado, Ayala, League

Bench: Mark Prior, Barry Bonds, Lance Berkman, Wily Mo Pena, Wily Taveras, Vinny Castilla, Dave Williams

Dyv · Post by **Dyv** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:11 am

Originally posted by edelman24:

I drafted from the #15 spot, what do you think?

Edelman, your 1b/3b/CI gambits scare me. Your OF is phenomenal, though - so maybe it balances out.

Your pitching staff is full of sleepers and guys who could be solidly productive - I worry about k's for you, though?

Good luck,

Dyv

LB Big Richards · Post by **LB Big Richards** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:15 am

LV #4, 5th pick:

C - Hall (24)

C - Snyder (30)

1B - Dmitri Young (12)

2B - Boone (7)

3B - Beltre (2)

SS - Lugo (14)

CI - Palmeiro (16)

MI - Feliz (13)

DH - Juan Gone (19)

OF - Abreu (1)

OF - Pierre (3)

OF - C. Lee (4)

OF - Mench (11)

OF - Monroe (21)

SP - Clemens (5)

SP - Clement (8)

SP - Colon (10)

SP - Eaton (15)

SP - Lowry (17)

SP - Ramon Ortiz (27)

RP - Izzy (6)

RP - Percival (9)

RP - Julio (25)

B - McPherson (18)

B - C. Everett (20)

B - Phelps (22)

B - Bartlett (23)

B - Cantu (26)

B - Branyan (29)

B - Fuentes (28)

Little lite on SPs, starting lineup not set in stone considering strong bench.

JP or anyone else, can you run projections for our optimum starters? Thanks.

Opinions appreciated.

Hojin

Rey · Post by **Rey** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:15 am

OK...I'll bite...Hoping to hear constructive critisism =)

C - Barrett

C - Hall

1B - Delgado

2B - Miles

3B - Chavez

SS - Jeter

OF - Crawford

OF - Jenkins

OF - Griffey

OF - A. Rios

OF - J. Lane

DH - Klesko

MI - Iguchi/Ginter

CI - Bagwell

B - Iguchi/Ginter

B - Baldelli

SP - Halladay

SP - Harden

SP - K. Wood

SP - Bonderman

SP - Wolf

SP - Padilla

SP - Byrd

SP - Chacin

RP - M. Rivera

RP - Aquino

RP - L. Ayala

RP - Alfonseca

Dyv · Post by **Dyv** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:16 am

Originally posted by Patsy Dean:

Pick 9 Vegas League 3 Patsy: I like your batting lineup just fine - only real 'not solid' play is at Benito Santiago for #2 catcher. Your speed numbers look excellent, and power isn't half bad. Quite a nice mix. Boy if you could catch Matt Holliday and Craig Monroe on a breakout 30+ HR season you'll be tough on offense.

Your pitching has some holes... super sleepers that may pop just right. Arroyo may not even be a starter, Pineiro.. enough said. Wakefield may make your WHIP cry a bit. I took David Williams as well, love his makeup. Luke Hudson could explode. If you get some of those pitchers to come through... nice job. I like the mix - overall very very solid draft. We all need some things to happen, the art (I think) is putting the risk in areas you can manage. I think you did that nicely.

Dave

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