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I won't post the rounds that I acquired these guys as to not give away any pertinent information, but welcome thoughts on how this first weekend Main Event team looks. Fire away!

C- Salvador Perez, Rob Brantly
1B - Paul Goldschmidt
2B - Neil Walker
3B - Pablo Sandoval
SS - Jose Reyes
CI - Lance Berkman
MI - Hiroyuki Nakajima
OF - Bryce Harper, Hunter Pence, Alejandro De Aza, Chris Young, Justin Maxwell
UTIL - Jedd Gyorko

SP - Madison Bumgarner, R.A. Dickey, Marco Estrada, Julio Teheran, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Wily Peralta, Carlos Villanueva
RP - Rafael Soriano, John Axford

Bench - Nolan Arenado, Matt Joyce, Mark Teixeira, Daniel Murphy, Luke Gregerson, Jose Quintana, J.D. Martinez

Likewhat17 wrote:I won't post the rounds that I acquired these guys as to not give away any pertinent information, but welcome thoughts on how this first weekend Main Event team looks. Fire away!

C- Salvador Perez, Rob Brantly
1B - Paul Goldschmidt
2B - Neil Walker
3B - Pablo Sandoval
SS - Jose Reyes
CI - Lance Berkman
MI - Hiroyuki Nakajima
OF - Bryce Harper, Hunter Pence, Alejandro De Aza, Chris Young, Justin Maxwell
UTIL - Jedd Gyorko

SP - Madison Bumgarner, R.A. Dickey, Marco Estrada, Julio Teheran, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Wily Peralta, Carlos Villanueva
RP - Rafael Soriano, John Axford

Bench - Nolan Arenado, Matt Joyce, Mark Teixeira, Daniel Murphy, Luke Gregerson, Jose Quintana, J.D. Martinez

Nice job. It will look much nicer in a few weeks when you can move Gyorko to MI and bench Nakaima.

The offense looks a bit short to me.

decent job overall though. If things break right for you it could be a very solid team.

I'll post one too... Let me know what you think.... Really like it if my bench outfielders can come back from injury quickly or Taveras gets called up soon... Not great at baseball so I will take any feedback..


C- Jesus Montero, Yasmani Grandal
1B - Adrian Gonzalez
2B - Jason Kipnis
3B - Mike Moustakas
SS - Troy Tulowitzki
CI - Edwin Encarnacion
MI - Andrelton Simmons
OF - Coco Crisp, Angel Paggan, Gerardo Parra, Justin Ruggiano, Nolan Reimold
UTIL - Freddie Freeman

Bench- O. Taveras, A. Eaton, E. Kratz, L. Morrison, L. Cruz

SP - Stephen Strasburg, Y. Gallardo, Jared Parker, Julio Teheran, Alex Cobb, Andrew Cashner, Vance Worley, S. Kazmir
RP - JJ Putz, Tom Wilhelmsen

Bench - D. Hernandez

Coots wrote:I'll post one too... Let me know what you think.... Really like it if my bench outfielders can come back from injury quickly or Taveras gets called up soon... Not great at baseball so I will take any feedback..


C- Jesus Montero, Yasmani Grandal
1B - Adrian Gonzalez
2B - Jason Kipnis
3B - Mike Moustakas
SS - Troy Tulowitzki
CI - Edwin Encarnacion
MI - Andrelton Simmons
OF - Coco Crisp, Angel Paggan, Gerardo Parra, Justin Ruggiano, Nolan Reimold
UTIL - Freddie Freeman

Bench- O. Taveras, A. Eaton, E. Kratz, L. Morrison, L. Cruz

SP - Stephen Strasburg, Y. Gallardo, Jared Parker, Julio Teheran, Alex Cobb, Andrew Cashner, Vance Worley, S. Kazmir
RP - JJ Putz, Tom Wilhelmsen

Bench - D. Hernandez

Good team, Strasburg/Tulo/A Gon/Encarnacion/Kipnis/Freeman... In whatever order is a very nice beginning, and adding speed in Pagan and Crisp is nice as well. I might have taken an outfielder, if I were you, instead of your 3rd first basemen. Your pitching has a lot of upside as well. My team followed much of the same strategy, but I took a few injured guys. I like your team, especially your starting pitching, better than mine, and I will be low on BA, My OF is obviously better... Very nice.. good luck! Here is mine:

C Arencibia, Salty
1B Cuddyer
2B Weeks
3B Headley (Youkilis)
SS Tulowitzki
MI S Drew (E Young)
CI - Youkilis (G Jones)
OF Holliday, Rios, Revere, Gardner, Granderson (G Jones, Gutierrez)
SP Strasburg, Medlen, Kuroda, E Jackson, Hammel, Marcum, Porcello (Wheeler)
CL Kimbrel, Betancourt (Bailey, Pestano)

BK METS wrote:

Coots wrote:I'll post one too... Let me know what you think.... Really like it if my bench outfielders can come back from injury quickly or Taveras gets called up soon... Not great at baseball so I will take any feedback..


C- Jesus Montero, Yasmani Grandal
1B - Adrian Gonzalez
2B - Jason Kipnis
3B - Mike Moustakas
SS - Troy Tulowitzki
CI - Edwin Encarnacion
MI - Andrelton Simmons
OF - Coco Crisp, Angel Paggan, Gerardo Parra, Justin Ruggiano, Nolan Reimold
UTIL - Freddie Freeman

Bench- O. Taveras, A. Eaton, E. Kratz, L. Morrison, L. Cruz

SP - Stephen Strasburg, Y. Gallardo, Jared Parker, Julio Teheran, Alex Cobb, Andrew Cashner, Vance Worley, S. Kazmir
RP - JJ Putz, Tom Wilhelmsen

Bench - D. Hernandez

Good team, Strasburg/Tulo/A Gon/Encarnacion/Kipnis/Freeman... In whatever order is a very nice beginning, and adding speed in Pagan and Crisp is nice as well. I might have taken an outfielder, if I were you, instead of your 3rd first basemen. Your pitching has a lot of upside as well. My team followed much of the same strategy, but I took a few injured guys. I like your team, especially your starting pitching, better than mine, and I will be low on BA, My OF is obviously better... Very nice.. good luck! Here is mine:

C Arencibia, Salty
1B Cuddyer
2B Weeks
3B Headley (Youkilis)
SS Tulowitzki
MI S Drew (E Young)
CI - Youkilis (G Jones)
OF Holliday, Rios, Revere, Gardner, Granderson (G Jones, Gutierrez)
SP Strasburg, Medlen, Kuroda, E Jackson, Hammel, Marcum, Porcello (Wheeler)
CL Kimbrel, Betancourt (Bailey, Pestano)

Your outfield is very good once Grandy gets back... I see you started the same way with first two picks.. You have good balance other than BA which you stated.. I like your team...

I never thought that Freeman would make it back in 6th round and at that point I couldn't pass on him.. If I would of known I would have done exactly as you stated and taking an outfielder instead of Encarnacion... If the young guys come back soon my outfield could still be good.. Just holding the spots for them is going to be the tricky part....

Coots wrote:I'll post one too... Let me know what you think.... Really like it if my bench outfielders can come back from injury quickly or Taveras gets called up soon... Not great at baseball so I will take any feedback..


C- Jesus Montero, Yasmani Grandal
1B - Adrian Gonzalez
2B - Jason Kipnis
3B - Mike Moustakas
SS - Troy Tulowitzki
CI - Edwin Encarnacion
MI - Andrelton Simmons
OF - Coco Crisp, Angel Paggan, Gerardo Parra, Justin Ruggiano, Nolan Reimold
UTIL - Freddie Freeman

Bench- O. Taveras, A. Eaton, E. Kratz, L. Morrison, L. Cruz

SP - Stephen Strasburg, Y. Gallardo, Jared Parker, Julio Teheran, Alex Cobb, Andrew Cashner, Vance Worley, S. Kazmir
RP - JJ Putz, Tom Wilhelmsen

Bench - D. Hernandez

What you didn't tell everyone is that this is a 14 team league, not a 15 team league. It makes a difference.

Yes it is a 14 Team ME league.... Makes a very smaill difference I think between the leagues that I have done with 15 teams... This was my first 14 team league.....

Pitching went extremely early in this league and just continued to go early.. Maybe the one extra pick makes a bigger difference than I thought but targets I found to be almost the exact same.... Sorry if I miss led anyone....

Was just looking for feedback, not usually a baseball guy.. Tried it last year and found out its alot harder than it seems...

I didnt know they offered 14 team leagues? Is this part of the Classic?

Big difference if this is a FBPC 14 team league. Not the same competiton. Mine is 15 team.

I personally like the 15 teamer better, and the competition is quite different with over 3x the teams in NFBC.

Coots wrote:Yes it is a 14 Team ME league.... Makes a very smaill difference I think between the leagues that I have done with 15 teams... This was my first 14 team league.....

Pitching went extremely early in this league and just continued to go early.. Maybe the one extra pick makes a bigger difference than I thought but targets I found to be almost the exact same.... Sorry if I miss led anyone....

Was just looking for feedback, not usually a baseball guy.. Tried it last year and found out its alot harder than it seems...

The rules are different, too. Even so, your team looks pretty good.

Likewhat17...I agree with Gromek. Offense looks light. This illustrates the problem with taking a SB guy like Reyes early (presumably round 2). He really doesn't guarantee this team to win SB (de Aza only other reliable SB guy here, although Harper, G-Schmidt, and maybe Young can add some depending on his PT) but he creates a problem by choosing him instead of a HR/RBI guy..

I like your investment in younger players/rookies, but I also think you might be relying on too many unproven players on both offense and pitching.

Find a 3rd RP for saves. Soriano has 2 very good RP in his pen that could replace him if he struggles.

Here's my 15-team main event from SAT.

C.....Wellington Castillo
C.....Tyler Flowers
1B....Ryan Howard (Juan Rivera)
2B....Brandon Phillips
3B....Manny Machado
SS....Alex Gonzalez (Dee Gordon)
CI....Kendrys Morales
MI....Kelly Johnson
OF...Jason Heyward (Gregor Blanco, Jackie Bradley)
Jacoby Ellsbury
Lorenzo Cain
Colby Rasmus
Jordany Valdespin
UT...Garret Jones

P....Clayton Kershaw
Jerred Weaver
Jordan Zimmerman
Ryan Vogelsong
Doug Fister
Addison Reed
Joe Nathan
Glen Perkins
Steve Cishek

(Patrick Corbin, Colby Lewis, Jorge De La Rosa)

Wow this team got ERA and WHIP(and obv saves) on lockdown...what a staff!