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The following players were all available in the rounds shown, and were all players that I had highlighted as potential Cooperstown candidates. For one reason or another I chose different players, but I really wasn't that far off from having this team. I came up with this list by looking through my pre-draft notes and only choosing names that I had marked to consider.



If this was the team I drafted, I would currently be in 4th place overall, assuming no roster changes at all.



I know most of you think, "anyone can look back now and pick a perfect team". But that's not the way I did it. My old notes show that I could have very easily gone this way.



1st M Cabrera

2nd Lincecom

3rd Ellsbury

4th Rivera

5th Dunn

6th N Cruz

7th Harden

8th Grienke

9th H Bell

10th Wainwright

11th Theriot

12th Reynolds

13th Danks

14th Sherrill

15th Choo

16th Bourne

17th Y Molina

18th Hill

19th Wolf

20th Barmes

21st K Morales

22nd Lind

23rd Montero



Biggest mistakes:

Sizemore instead of Cabrerra

Holliday instead of Lincecom

(My notes show to take Ellsbury in the 3rd if get Cabrerra instead of Sizemore.)

Conor Jackson & Kouzmanoff instead of Reynolds & Morales

Kelly Johnson instead of Hill



Hopefully I can learn something.

I bet your notes also show that you could have very easily gone Reyes, Soriano, Aramis, and Chris Davis in the first four rounds. Everyone can pull three guys out of their lineup and say where would I be if I didn't get him, and everyone can look at three guys they liked but didn't take that could have won them the 100K. That is just luck. Being consistently good from year to year means you are avoiding all the wrong turns and building correctly, not that you have all the best players pegged.

I drafted those 4 in one of my league's. A KJ Duke league, 14th place.