Live Chat With Greg & Tom, Friday 2 pm ET

[Greg Ambrosius]

Hi fellas, thanks for taking the time. This year I'll be entering my first Draft Champion leagues. Any advice on the best roster construction methods to combat attrition as the year progresses?

Welcome aboard and good luck in the DCs. Others can give you advice on this better than me, but I will say that you need depth, depth, depth and more depth at all positions. It's great to find minor-leaguers who eventually excel, but don't take too many of them. Get MLB depth if at all possible. But again, others can tell you more about these than I can. Enjoy and good luck.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Better buy and hold in DC leagues:
Mark Appel, Kevin Gausman or yordano Ventura

Appel. Why wouldn't they call him up early and watch him succeed? Appel and Cosart could be the aces needed to turn this franchise around and they can build upon that with George Springer and Singleton. I like what the Astros have coming up more than teams like the Brewers.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Greg, Go back to work! We need more money!

This sounds like my wife at lunch today.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Football Playoff Predictions? Do you have an opinion on how to go about winning the NFFC post season contest?

Can you believe there are teams out there taking Trout over Cabrera?

The last three Super Bowl champions have played in the Wild Card game: Green Bay as a 6th seed in 2010, Giants as a 6th seed in 2011, Ravens as a 4 seed last year. As great as Seattle and Denver look this year, history tells us that some team is going to get on a roll starting this weekend and win it all. It could be San Francisco, it could be Cincinnati, but I'll pick Denver vs. the winner of Sunday's game at Lambeau!!!

A SB XXXII rematch sounds good to me.

We should have knocked Elway out on that helicopter ride in the first half!!! That loss still hurts for Packer Nation. They played so poorly as Holmgren used the two weeks to sell himself as an upcoming free agent head coach. And that was a good team. But it was a good win for Elway and the Broncos, no doubt.

[Yah Mule]

Do you see Billy Hamilton hitting well enough to justify his ADP? Already going in rounds 5-6 of DC drafts. I expect he will rocket up the board if he hits in the spring and looks like he has the leadoff spot locked down.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Do you see Billy Hamilton hitting well enough to justify his ADP? Already going in rounds 5-6 of DC drafts. I expect he will rocket up the board if he hits in the spring and looks like he has the leadoff spot locked down.

I wanted him in the 6th round last night and he was gone by then. The potential for a guy who can steal this many bases is too tempting to ignore. I think the Reds will give him every chance to succeed offensively as long as he can do it defensively. And I think he will do fine defensively. I like him and I can't blame anyone for taking him in the 6th round.

[Yah Mule]

Do you see Billy Hamilton hitting well enough to justify his ADP? Already going in rounds 5-6 of DC drafts. I expect he will rocket up the board if he hits in the spring and looks like he has the leadoff spot locked down.

I wanted him in the 6th round last night and he was gone by then. The potential for a guy who can steal this many bases is too tempting to ignore. I think the Reds will give him every chance to succeed offensively as long as he can do it defensively. And I think he will do fine defensively. I like him and I can't blame anyone for taking him in the 6th round.

I think there is a comfort zone in that the floor level of his production could still be the difference of several points in SBs. If he approaches his ceiling, he's definitely a game changer.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Thanks all for today's Chat. Feel free to post more questions and we'll answer throughout the day and night.

Good luck to all of our NFBC Draft Champions Express owners tonight and let's make the Friday Night Special a weekly DC.

Also, if you haven't signed up for the NFFC Post-Season contest, check it out. The ROI for the $200 game is sure looking good right now. Jump on in. The $100 prize pool will expand as demand has exceeded expectations there. Good stuff all. Thanks.

[sek729]

My 50-round advice would be to draft predominantly veteran players in the first half of the draft. Avoid single category specialists. Don't draft a guy who might just give you 50 SBs and not much else. I'll take a whole squad of .268, 19 HR, 10 SB guys. I like guys with atleast 3 solid years under their belts. Hot sophomores are particularly risky. Second half of the draft requires you to know the depth of every organization in baseball. You should know their starting rotations, closer, setup guy and likely lineups. You should also take the time to learn the top 3 pitchers and top 3 position players on every single teams AAA squad.

Lots of hard work, but its what it takes to win. I see an OF that is going in the 13th-15th rounds ADP that is 95% likely going to start the season as a 4th outfielder and will need injuries to get anything more than 150-200 PAs this year. It blows my mind where he's getting drafted. This is the stuff you need to know.

[Yah Mule]

My 50-round advice would be to draft predominantly veteran players in the first half of the draft. Avoid single category specialists. Don't draft a guy who might just give you 50 SBs and not much else. I'll take a whole squad of .268, 19 HR, 10 SB guys. I like guys with atleast 3 solid years under their belts. Hot sophomores are particularly risky. Second half of the draft requires you to know the depth of every organization in baseball. You should know their starting rotations, closer, setup guy and likely lineups. You should also take the time to learn the top 3 pitchers and top 3 position players on every single teams AAA squad.

Lots of hard work, but its what it takes to win. I see an OF that is going in the 13th-15th rounds ADP that is 95% likely going to start the season as a 4th outfielder and will need injuries to get anything more than 150-200 PAs this year. It blows my mind where he's getting drafted. This is the stuff you need to know.

Thanks for the response. Do you bump guys up a little with proven durability like AJones and Cano? Conversely, would you be a little more reluctant to draft CarGon or Hanley in this format?

[poopytooth]

This is all you have for us?? Nobody asking about the weather in Wisconsin?? Or our predictions for Sunday's game?? C'mon, I'm disappointed. Bring it on!!!

The high temp on Monday is going to be minus 15 and the wind chill could be anywhere from 55 below zero to 75 below zero. I've never experienced that before.

When you and Tom are running around in the backyard throwing snowballs at each other and drinking Coronas, and you stop to write your name in the snow...does your pee freeze before it even hits the ground?

Does Matt Kemp come back there? What do you see him doing?

How does playing time get split with Barnes and Stubbs in Colorado?

How does Reuben Amaro still have a job?

How many games played and how many HR for Howard?

[Greg Ambrosius]

Nice to be on the other side of this for a change...

Let's start easy with Brewers stuff...

Is Juan Francisco really Plan A at 1B?

Is it a ST battle with Scooter and Weeks or does one have the edge for 2B?

Khris Davis, over/under 25 HR?

Is Jim Henderson really the closer?

Do they know there are 29 other teams that have already made moves to fill holes and there isn't a whole lot left?

The Brewers are the only club without a free agent acquisition, yet Doug Melvin thinks that the Brewers have improved this off-season. Here's your answer Todd on how the Brewers will be returning to the World Series!!!

http://brewersbeat.mlblogs.com/2014/01/ ... et-winter/