Picks 20 -30

[JamesH]

I was comparing picks 20-30 in my two big money leagues. In our $1K satellite, I think we did great. Valbuena and Sherrill are the only non-contirbutors and Pettite, Callaspo, Rauch, Braden, Zito, Sanchez, Gio and Gomes are big parts or our team. In the Main Event, we weren't so good. The only players still on our team are Casey Blake and Braden. Unfortunately we dropped Pagan early in the season in both leagues.



Looking back out are Main draft it is no wonder we've struggles so much.



$1,000 Satellite

20-Pettite, 21-Callaspo, 22-Rauch, 23-Valbuena, 24-Zito, 25-Gaby Sanchez, 26-Braden, 27-Gio, 28-Pagan, 29-Gomes, 30-Sherrill.



Main Event

20-Blake, 21-Diaz, 22-Luis Castillo, 23-Rowland-Smith, 24-Ziegler, 25-Pagan, 26-Nady, 27-Braden, 28-Storen, 29-Ryan, 30-Flores



Anybody else want to share the last third of thier draft?



[ June 03, 2010, 07:52 AM: Message edited by: Jules Winnfield ]

[whipsaw]

I have several teams so I'll share my best and worst work rather than bore everyone. These are both 12 teamers.



Best:



20 Magglio Ordonez, 21 Erik Bedard, 22 Kelly Shoppach 23 Mat Latos, 24 Yadier Molina, 25 Milton Bradley, 26 Shaun Marcum, 27 Luis Valbuena, 28 Gio Gonzalez, 29 Kerry Wood, 30 Garrett Atkins



Some definite stinkers in there, but the Maggs/Latos/Marcum/Gio combination has been great, and Molina has been fine as well. Wood is starting to pay off now, and I think Bedard will pay off eventually as well.



Worst:



20 Ian Desmond, 21 Kelly Shoppach, 22 Erik Bedard, 23 Joe Blanton, 24 Shaun Marcum, 25 Orlando Hudson, 26 Casey Blake, 27 Edwin Encarnacion, 28 Milton Bradley, 29 Brandon Lyon, 30 Luis Valbuena



Desmond has been OK, and Marcum great, but otherwise eight complete bombs. It's no wonder this team is in the bottom 50 or so in the DP overall.

[eddiejag]

Here is my late picks in the New Jersey main event.I will add 18 and 19 because they turned out to be great pick's, BANG.



18 Podsednick

19 Marcum

20 Blake he's been decent

21 M Izturis i cut him but got him back this week and played him, 2 homers this week.

22 J Hammel waived him

23 A Kennedy waived him

24 L Gregerson

25 Anibal Sanchez waived him and regret it.

26 Pennington used him early but now waived.

27 J Flores cut week one.

28 Juan Uribe great value.

29 M Aviles cut him but got him back for 92.

30 Wuertz waived

[Top Dawg]

These are both 12 team leagues, but I am currently in second place in each legue and several of the players I drafted in the last 10 rounds are helping me out more than anticipated.



20 237 Hideki Matsui DH

21 244 Nick Swisher OF

22 261 Mike Cameron OF

23 268 Derek Lowe P

24 285 Josh Willingham OF

25 292 Joba Chamberlain P

26 309 Austin Jackson OF

27 316 Ian Kennedy P

28 333 Maicer Izturis 2B

29 340 Casey Blake 3B

30 357 Chris Tillman P



20 230 Kelly Johnson 2B

21 251 Ryan Madson P

22 254 Mike Cameron OF

23 275 Gil Meche P

24 278 Josh Willingham OF

25 299 Erik Bedard P

26 302 Brett Myers P

27 323 Kazuo Matsui 2B

28 326 David DeJesus OF

29 347 Scott Rolen 3B

30 350 Coco Crisp OF



Pete

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here's the ADP of picks 300 to 450 from the main events. What could have been the best values in each round?



Orlando Hudson

Brandon Wood

Erik Bedard

Milton Bradley

Ian Kennedy

Carlos Santana

Garrett Atkins

Joba Chamberlain

Brett Myers

Coco Crisp

Bronson Arroyo

Jason Hammel

Kevin Gregg

David DeJesus

Randy Wells

Alberto Callaspo

Justin Duchscherer

Luke Scott

Jarrod Saltalamacchia

Mark Teahen

Brad Penny

John Buck

Ricky Romero

Luis Valbuena

Maicer Izturis

Kazuo Matsui

Travis Hafner

Rod Barajas

Chris Getz

Ivan Rodriguez

Joel Pineiro

Marc Rzepczynski

Russell Branyan

Joe Saunders

Ryan Rowland-Smith

Matt Guerrier

Michael Brantley

Seth Smith

Daniel Bard

Scott Rolen

Barry Zito

Jaime Garcia

John Maine

Scott Feldman

Gil Meche

Carlos Guillen

Brandon League

Carl Pavano

Pedro Alvarez

Fausto Carmona

Colby Lewis

Anibal Sanchez

David Freese

Felipe Lopez

Clayton Richard

Chris Tillman

Vicente Padilla

Adam Moore

Jason Motte

Brandon Morrow

Mark Ellis

Paul Maholm

Gio Gonzalez

Luis Castillo

Adam Kennedy

C.J. Wilson

Jeff Clement

Mike Adams

Ryan Raburn

Daniel Murphy

Fernando Rodney

Jack Cust

Jonny Gomes

Jermaine Dye

Rick Ankiel

J.R. Towles

Luke Gregerson

Madison Bumgarner

Jake Fox

Desmond Jennings

Nick Hundley

Kenshin Kawakami

Kenshin Kawakami

Cliff Pennington

Bud Norris

Skip Schumaker

Drew Storen

Melky Cabrera

Juan Uribe

Gerald Laird

Michael Wuertz

Brandon Inge

Trevor Cahill

Jeremy Hellickson

Aaron Rowand

Rick VandenHurk

Luke Hochevar

Nate Schierholtz

Eric Young

Kris Medlen

Brad Bergesen

Andy LaRoche

Chris Volstad

Nick Blackburn

Gaby Sanchez

Matt Diaz

Alex Avila

J.P. Howell

Akinori Iwamura

Will Venable

Kyle Lohse

Brendan Ryan

David Murphy

Jose Guillen

Andruw Jones

Ryan Sweeney

Felipe Paulino

Mike Stanton

Jon Garland

Randy Ruiz

Mike Aviles

Kosuke Fukudome

Chris Carter OAK

Gregg Zaun

Scott Hairston

Oliver Perez

Ross Ohlendorf

Scott Downs

Takashi Saito

Lou Marson

John Lannan

Jose Bautista

Jim Thome

Jake Westbrook

Casey Kotchman

Brad Ziegler

George Sherrill

Daric Barton

Jonathon Niese

Tony Gwynn

Mike Pelfrey

Dallas Braden

Juan Gutierrez

Manny Parra

Jeff Francis

Derek Holland

Kevin Millwood

Tom Gorzelanny

Pat Burrell

Angel Pagan

Xavier Nady

Mike Lowell

[bjoak]

It'd be hard to top what Pelfrey has done. I was fortunate to get him in the different leagues I play in.

[eddiejag]

Jose Bautista is another guy going at the tail end of drafts and what a start.I drafted him in three or four leagues but waived him after 2 weeks and sick to my stomach.

[High Octane Baseball]

20 230 Brett Gardner OF High Octane Baseball

21 251 Jarrod Saltalamacchia C High Octane Baseball

22 254 Andy Pettitte P High Octane Baseball

23 275 Ricky Romero P High Octane Baseball

24 278 Marco Scutaro SS High Octane Baseball

25 299 Erik Bedard P High Octane Baseball

26 302 Chris Getz 2B High Octane Baseball

27 323 Randy Wells P High Octane Baseball

28 326 Aubrey Huff 1B High Octane Baseball

29 347 Aroldis Chapman P High Octane Baseball

30 350 Ivan Rodriguez C High Octane Baseball



Besides the Salty pick and obviously Bedard..I am happy with the bottom of my draft. Oh ya..Getz is no longer on the team as well.

[The Mighty Men]

Originally posted by eddiejag:

Jose Bautista is another guy going at the tail end of drafts and what a start.I drafted him in three or four leagues but waived him after 2 weeks and sick to my stomach. You aren't alone Eddie. In our St. Louis main, we had NO 3B after 24 rounds, so we took Bautista in round 25. We dropped him a couple weeks later. So we went from a DUMB result of having no drafted 3B, to having maybe the best one on our team, to dropping him and settling at the time for I think Feliz. We later picked up Wigginton.

[E]

Here was our end picks in Classic Online League 1:



20 295 Brandon Wood 3B

21 306 Brett Myers P

22 325 Seth Smith OF

23 336 Bronson Arroyo P

24 355 Luke Hochevar P

25 366 Brandon Morrow P

26 385 Gio Gonzalez P

27 396 Jeremy Bonderman P

28 415 Scott Rolen 3B

29 426 Gil Meche P

30 445 Felix Pie OF



Wood, Hochevar, Meche and Pie are no longer on our team.

[Scott Boras]

Did anyone draft or pick up Bautista in the first week and not drop him after his pathetic April? I had him on nearly every one of my teams and dropped him from all of them by the time he exploded in May. Same thing with Latos.



[ June 04, 2010, 01:18 PM: Message edited by: Scott Boras ]

[rockitsauce]

nice thread...I think most nfbc vets would tell you that these rd's are where you win yer league.



I believe 12 tm is nowhere near as difficult as 15, so I am only talking about my experience w/ 15 tm's.



Most of my picks in said rd's have been horrible (I mean scratch yer head what the hell was I possibly thinking bad)...so I will give a few of the best over the yrs.



Last yr got Russell Branyan (and his 31 hr's) in the last rd!



In '08 got Ervin Santana in 2 lge's (rd's 21 & 25) he had 16 wins, 214 k's, 3.49 era, and 1.1 whip.



Also in '08 Carlos Quentin (probably best value pick I ever had) 36 hr's, 96 runs, 100 rbi's in rd 28!



I also seemed to have drafted Barry Zito somewhere in the 20's the last 3 yrs and he was terrible. Of course this yr he is not on any of my teams damn you ZITO!



I have to say that I saw an awful lot of Cactus lge ST games back in '08...seeing them in person seemed to help, except for my infatuation w/ Tulo....that guy sucked in '08 and helped bring down my teams, despite some of the great later pks.



This yr I think Callaspo (rd 20) has been best so far, although I have high hopes for Buster (26).

[KJ Duke]

Originally posted by rockitsauce:

nice thread...I think most nfbc vets would tell you that these rd's are where you win yer league.

It's nice to get a late boost from a player or two, but I think leagues are won in the middle rounds where strategic choices weigh heavily and your non-superstar core is drafted.

[rockitsauce]

Originally posted by KJ Duke:

quote:Originally posted by rockitsauce:

nice thread...I think most nfbc vets would tell you that these rd's are where you win yer league.

It's nice to get a late boost from a player or two, but I think leagues are won in the middle rounds where strategic choices weigh heavily and your non-superstar core is drafted. [/QUOTE]after posting my response I knew I was wrong (and you hit the nail on the head KJ) while it's certainly advantageous to land a Bautista in the 29th rd, etc...where you win is in the middle rd's w/ accurate player assessments.



My brother has a top 5 offense, if he took Ubaldo instead of Beckett there's a good chance he's in 1st overall. One player. One player can make a dramatic difference.



btw - 2 more hr's for JB today, where was this power surge 2 yrs ago when I drafted him in 30th rd?