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So this my one and only draft this baseball season as I haven't had the time with another baby imminent. Any feedback welcome and would like to see other peoples teams. As usual the draft plan went out the window when Verlander fell to me at 21. I would have loved to take an OF earlier but there was no value with the likes of Harper and Heyward going at the start of round 2.

C: M Wieters / A AVila
1B: B Butler
2B: R Cano
3B: D Wright
SS: E Andrus
MI: D Uggla
CI: D Freese
OF: M Bourn / M Trumbo / N Swisher / B Gardner / A Pagan
Utility: JJ Hardy

Reserves: C Maybin / M Saunders / T Flowers / C Carter / J Keppinger

SP: J Verlander / F Hernandez / M Moore / M Harrison / T Milone / W Rodriguez / D Gee / C Richard
RP: J Johnson / J Axford / J Veras

I am no expert but this looks like one of the best teams I have seen...How did you get Cano..Wright..Verlander..Hernandez in the same draft..AMAZING

Stan

sandckaye wrote:I am no expert but this looks like one of the best teams I have seen...How did you get Cano..Wright..Verlander..Hernandez in the same draft..AMAZING

Stan

Well remember this is a 12 teamer, you may have been looking at 15 team drafts.

But Cano at 4. I was surprised that Verlander made it to 21 (Kershaw and Strasburg went before him), Wright made it to me in the 3rd. I took Billy Butler in the 4th and couldn't pass Hernandez when he was still there in the 5th.

mattjb wrote:

sandckaye wrote:I am no expert but this looks like one of the best teams I have seen...How did you get Cano..Wright..Verlander..Hernandez in the same draft..AMAZING

Stan

Well remember this is a 12 teamer, you may have been looking at 15 team drafts.

But Cano at 4. I was surprised that Verlander made it to 21 (Kershaw and Straburg went before him), Wright made it to me in the 3rd. I took Billy Butler in the 4th and couldn't pass Hernandez when he was still there in the 5th.

Just kinda looks like Pitching fell a little in this draft, don't see anything really that weird about Wright or Butler in those spots in the 12ers.

CALI CARTEL wrote:

mattjb wrote:

sandckaye wrote:I am no expert but this looks like one of the best teams I have seen...How did you get Cano..Wright..Verlander..Hernandez in the same draft..AMAZING

Stan

Well remember this is a 12 teamer, you may have been looking at 15 team drafts.

But Cano at 4. I was surprised that Verlander made it to 21 (Kershaw and Straburg went before him), Wright made it to me in the 3rd. I took Billy Butler in the 4th and couldn't pass Hernandez when he was still there in the 5th.

Just kinda looks like Pitching fell a little in this draft, don't see anything really that weird about Wright or Butler in those spots in the 12ers.

Felix was the 9th Pitcher taken.

2nd - Kershaw/Strasburg/Verlander
3rd - Price/Hamels
4th - Weaver/Kimbrel/Lee

Was thinking, I was in a league where the pitching fell a little too, turns out I was in this league (I took Hamels at 3.09, however did it because there were enough hitters that I didn't care which one I got after the 3/4 turn, so I went with the SP first).

From the 9 spot

C: Lucroy, Ruiz, Iannetta
CI: Prince, Lawrie, Freeman, Middlebrooks
MI: Kinsler, Aybar, S.Drew
OF: Harper, Cruz, Marte, Bonifacio, Myers, D.Brown, Colvin, L.Martin

SP: Hamels, Gio, Greinke, Samardzija, Minor, Griffin, Maholm, Straily
RP: Holland, Cishek, Broxton, Madson

C Martin, A.J. P
1B Konerko
2B Pedroia
SS Jeter
3B Wright
OF Trout
OF Ethier
OF Crawford
OF Beltran
OF Kubel
CI Aramis
MI Alexi Ramirez
UTL Moreland
Bench Granderson, Ross Nelson, Plouffe, Morrison
SP Dickey, Chapman, Gonzalez, Kuroda, Dumpster, Wandy, Vargas, Richard
RP Marmol, Rondon, Jim Johnson
I think I may be short on steals even with Trout, absolutely hate my closers hope Rondon works out and Marmol keeps his job!

from the 9 spot
c Arencibia, Brantley
1b Pujols
2b Pedroia
3b Middlebrooks
ss Tulowitzki
of Cespedes, Choo, Victorino, Eaton, Rasmus
mi Ackley
ci Konerko
dh Belt
sp Weaver, Shields, Kennedy, Lester, Ogando, E. Jackson
rp Putz, Holland, Grilli
bench Gyorko, Segura, C. Carter, Jay, C. Young (oak), Hanson, W. Chen

Hopefully Pujols will be ok (reports say his knee is wobbled). Gyorko should be MI in 10 games and carter is OF eligible as well. Also, I hope Tulo, Lester and Hanson have bounce back years.