Rate your Draft, Quest for $100,000

Mankind · Post by **Mankind** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:37 am

SEABASS NATION: LAS VEGAS League #8 Team #2

1. PUJOLS 1B (1)

2. LORETTA 2B (7)

3. O. CABRERA SS (6)

4. BLAYLOCK 3B (3)

5. SHEFFIELD OF (2)

6. C. PATTERSON OF (4)

7. C. JONES OF (5)

8. J. BURNITZ UTIL (16)

9. E. CHAVEZ OF (14)

10. D. DEJESUS OF (15)

11. LODUCA C (13)

12. Y. MOLINA (24)

MIDDLE & CORNER INFIELDERS:

M. BELLHORN (17)

B. MUELLER (20)

C. GUZMAN (26)

J. WILSON (28)

PITCHERS:

M. MULDER (8)

B. ZITO (9)

M. BUEHRLE (10)

OD. PEREZ (11)

D. WELLS (18)

B. LAWRENCE (19)

J. MARQUIS (21)

J. SUPPAN (23)

C. CAPUANO (26)

J. MESA (12)

Y. BRAZOBAN (22)

R. MADSON (25)

B. DONNELY (29)

L. AYALA (30)

LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER, PRAY FOR NO INJURIES, GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE, PLAY BALL. "SEABASS NATION"

JAR · Post by **JAR** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:16 am

Here's mine... 12th pick - CHI LEAGUE 4 -

Slumpbusters -

My offense is yuckky on paper, but has some nice potential in the way of Mauer/Giambi/Sosa/Berkman/Thomas/C.Monroe.. (maybe 1 or 3 too many gambles.. but thats my style)

if Prior can give me 25 quality starters, my pitching should be among the top 3.

C: Joe Mauer

C: Koyie Hill

1B: Jason Giambi

2B: Alfonso Soriano

SS: Omar Vizquel

3B: Russ Branyan

2B/MI: Chase Utley

1B/3B: Matt Stairs

OF: Sammy Sosa

OF: Vernon Wells

OF: Lance Berkman

OF: Ken Griffey Jr.

OF: Brady Clark

DH: Frank Thomas

P: Pedro Martinez

P: Roy Oswalt

P: Mark Prior

P: Fransisco Cordero

P: BJ Ryan

P: Jeremy Affledt

P: Brad Penny

P: Mike Gonzalez

P: JJ Putz

B: Craig Monroe

B: Brandon Lyon

B: Juan Gonzalez

B: Ken Harvey

B: Ryan Howard

B: Ryan Madson

B: Ryan Wagner

PW Express · Post by **PW Express** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:36 pm

The infamous New York League 7 (picking out of the 8 hole)

C Toby Hall

C Jason Phillips

1B Justin Morneau

2B Jose Reyes

3B David Wright

MI Jorge Cantu

CI Travis Lee

OF Bobby Abreu

OF JD Drew

OF Kevin Mench

OF Jeremy Reed

OF Juan Gonzalez

DH Troy Glaus

P Jason Schmidt

P Josh Beckett

P Barry Zito

P Jeremy Bonderman

P Andy Pettitte

P Kris Benson

P Scott Kazmir

P Bob Wickman

P Jeremy Affeldt

R Cliff Lee

R BJ Upton

R Luis Matos

R Prince Fielder

R Latroy Hawkins

R Brandon Lyon

R Craig Counsell

Balticsquids · Post by **Balticsquids** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:29 pm

Not being Rude,but that could be 1 of the worst teams ive seen drafted

PW Express · Post by **PW Express** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:35 pm

Not to be rude, but I probably could care less what you think. Also, feel free to throw up your award winning roster.

Balticsquids · Post by **Balticsquids** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:40 pm

If u dont care what i think,then dont post your team on the board in a quest for 100,000 cat...PS:u have no chance , care to wager on that?

PW Express · Post by **PW Express** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:42 pm

Id love to bet you on who finishes with more points, mine or yours, and thats without even seeing your all stars.

Balticsquids · Post by **Balticsquids** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:46 pm

My team is far from all-stars but after your first pick , did u start to drink vodka or toilet water????? again its just my view that u could have drafted 1 of the worst teams ever ,,Bro your starting Toby Hall,and travis Lee ,.........come on man u cant defend that

Balticsquids · Post by **Balticsquids** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:49 pm

i forgot 2 mention u have two(so called closers) that are going to last an inning or 2 if that

PW Express · Post by **PW Express** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:49 pm

I know im probably not nearly as sharp as you but my staff is rock solid and I didnt need to be drinking heavily to draft guys like David Wright and Jose Reyes and the third and fourth round. Those guys have HUGE upside for this year. Like I said, im sure sure your team is much better. You must be one of those "name" guys that doesnt pay attention to lesser known guys like Morneau, Wright, Reyes, Reed, etc.

Balticsquids · Post by **Balticsquids** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:51 pm

Great point LOL , was this a keeper league just curious?????????? the more starters u have the higher your era and whip .and lets not forget u have no closers

PW Express · Post by **PW Express** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:54 pm

LOL! What the hell was I thinming with a front five of Schmidt, Beckett, Zito, Petitte and Bonderman. You are right. Im going to be in bad shape in WHIP, ERA, K's and Wins. LOL!!

Balticsquids · Post by **Balticsquids** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:59 pm

Actually,i only said Era and Whip,,take a look again if need be........and when did Zito-Pett-and bonderman become, Johnson-santana-schilling...i notice u agree with me that u have no closers

PW Express · Post by **PW Express** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:00 pm

You are right. Does not look good!

Balticsquids · Post by **Balticsquids** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:02 pm

Last i looked they all had Eras over 4. and 160 ks or so(nothing to brag about) .....Pett maybe less but we all know(well maybe not u that he will get hurt again) Bonderman as we all have read and seen may be a bargain

bjoak · Post by **bjoak** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:05 pm

Don't pay any attention to Baltic. He had a bad draft and now he's on here trying to take it out on everyone else.

He's also extremely hypocritical since he wrote all over another thread that it doesn't matter how prepared you are or who you have because it's all luck, while here he is making fun of you for how you drafted.

Balticsquids · Post by **Balticsquids** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:10 pm

Bro,how can u defend a team that is starting Toby Hall and Travis Lee, and his Closers are Wick and Affeldt(he has no CHANCE to win his league or the 100,000)............And i had a great draft , i was there to have fun and drink beer(i did one of the two).......and i dont recall ever saying its all luck? could u please direct me to that post

kd.gray · Post by **kd.gray** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:38 pm

Did you guys happen to notice the guy who started this thread was "Mankind" asking to rate his team.

We are on the second page of posts and the poor guy has had no feedback.

So, for Mankind, here you go:

Hard to argue with your top 4 out of the #1 hole. If your young OF's (Chavez and DeJesus) come through, you got a complement of speed. (albeit, a bit early for those two) However, by waiting on pitching, you have a bunch of mid-level starters and iffy RP. So I think you may struggle in all 5 pitching stats.

Good luck

Mankind · Post by **Mankind** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:55 pm

k.d Gray,

Thanks for the feedback, I believe my pitching will be very strong with those pitchers drafted. I agree with you 100% on my closers, make that closer (Mesa). Look at last years winner closer's and it didn't seem to hurt his team. There is a long season ahead with lots of changes to come. Good luck with your team. SEABASS NATION

MGBMARTY · Post by **MGBMARTY** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:21 pm

NY League #5 Wonderful 13th pick

1b Casey

2b Soriano {1}

SS Young {3}

3b Blake

C Inge

C Molina

CI Phelps/Branyan

MI Everett

OF Cabrera {2}

OF Pods {4}

OF Burrell

OF Ibanez

OF Dye

DH Griffey

P Beckett

P Burnett

P Halladay

P Webb

P Lowry

P Loaiza

P Capuano

P Ishii

RP Cordero

RP Wickman

RP MacDougal

RP Riske

RP Worrell

Decent balance weak at Closer spot

Exceeded Median except saves by 10-12% Median #s for last years 192 teams are as follows

Wins 90

Saves 70

Ks 1105

Whip 1.333

ERA 4.19

Runs 1103

RBIs 1038

Hrs 271

Sbs 127

Avg .2715

Sometimes its better to try to project injuries instead of Stats since injuries will decide who wins League or not In my projections I did not use Griffeys projections Would be happy with 450 abs 26 Hrs 70 runs 78 rbis

MGBMARTY · Post by **MGBMARTY** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:27 pm

By the way Man totally agree with you about closers Last years winner had one I think maybe none If you get 2 and sometimes it does not matter which 2 based on injuries Get backups Last year I had Nathan Hoffman and stopped at those 2 but drafted Lidge and Worrell and ended up in upper echelon overall in category

nydownunder · Post by **nydownunder** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:54 am

NY League #2, Pick #1

C Closser

C Phillips

1B Overbay (#12)

3B ARod (#1)

CI E. Chavez (#2)

2B Spivey/Cantu

SS Greene (#16)

MI Vizquel

OF Huff (#3)

OF Wells (#7)

OF Rowand (#8)

OF Ford

OF Nixon

UT Ibanez

SP Halladay (#4)

SP Bonderman (#9)

SP Escobar (#11)

SP Thomson (#13)

SP Benson (#14)

SP Weaver (#15)

SP Byrd

SP Robertson

RP Dotel (#5)

RP Mota (#7)

Bench

Huston Street

Brandon Lyon

Bob Howry

Craqig Counsell

Victor Diaz

Conservative Estimates have me in the high top 1/3 of all categories except SB and Saves - which should be 7-9 points per category.

Major Risks: Closser being sent down and Nixon getting hurt. Not a perfrect draft, but nonetheless I am pretty happy.

The only disappointments were Vazquez going in the 7th, Crisp 9th, and C. Everett and Ensberg going as early as the 15th or 16th.

Edwards Kings · Post by **Edwards Kings** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:04 am

Here is another draft that looked good while I was doing it but has at least one difficult to fill hole...Speed. Closer is weak as well. Need health and waivers to make a charge. I gave myself a B...

1B Casey (too early 4th pick)

3B Rolen (1st pick)

CM Green, S. (probably too early but gut feel says monster year)

2B Vidro

SS Renteria (2nd pick, number 17 player taken)

MI Lugo

OF Matsui (gift in the fifth round)

OF Millar

OF Ibanez

OF Stewart

OF Cruz, Jr.

C Posada

C Molina, Yadier

UT Vizquel (desparate for anyone who can steal)

R Payton

R Sizemore

R Alfonzo

R Belliard

SP Escobar

SP Millwood

SP Eaton

SP Pineiro (had him last year...you'ld think I would learn)

SP Lowe

SP Capuano

SP Bush

CL Dotel (3rd pick in middle of closer run)

CL Guardado

R Johnson, Jason

R Elarton

R Speier

No speed, questionable closer, and maybe middle of the pack in K's. Gonna be tough, but, hey, it could happen!

Cooperstown · Post by **Cooperstown** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:21 am

Was your strategy to take every guy named Ryan? I think the Pedro plan might have worked better.

Originally posted by JAR:

Here's mine... 12th pick - CHI LEAGUE 4 -

C: Joe Mauer

C: Koyie Hill

1B: Jason Giambi

2B: Alfonso Soriano

SS: Omar Vizquel

3B: Russ Branyan

2B/MI: Chase Utley

1B/3B: Matt Stairs

OF: Sammy Sosa

OF: Vernon Wells

OF: Lance Berkman

OF: Ken Griffey Jr.

OF: Brady Clark

DH: Frank Thomas

P: Pedro Martinez

P: Roy Oswalt

P: Mark Prior

P: Fransisco Cordero

P: BJ Ryan

P: Jeremy Affledt

P: Brad Penny

P: Mike Gonzalez

P: JJ Putz

B: Craig Monroe

B: Brandon Lyon

B: Juan Gonzalez

B: Ken Harvey

B: Ryan Howard

B: Ryan Madson

B: Ryan Wagner