Online Championship Teams

[mattjb]

Pleased with my draft but i'm sure you lot can pick holes in it.

Share your team in this thread. Mine from the 5 slot.

C: A Avila / S Perez / R Hernandez
1st: J Votto
2nd: D Pedroia
3rd: Aramis Ramirez
SS: Alexei Ramirez / T Pastornicky
CI: M Cuddyer
MI: R Roberts
OF: J Werth / Melky Cabrera / M Prado (3rd) / Y Alonso / A De Aza / J Schafer / A Torres
UTL: M Moreland

SP: F Hernandez / J Weaver / Y Gallardo / E Santana / W Rodriguez / S Baker / D Pomeranz / T Milone
RP: D Storen / H Street / A Reed / V Pestano

[76erfan]

From the 3 spot

C Y.Molina/Ruiz/Barajas
1B Freeman
2B Phillips/Infante
SS Reyes
3B Beltre/Chisenhall
OF Kemp
OF Gordon
OF Victorino
OF Mayberry
OF A.Soriano
CI Carlos Lee
MI Asdrubal Cabrera
U M.Brantley

SP Sabathia, Ricky Romero, Beckett,C.Carpenter,Colby Lewis, Masterson, Dempster, Porcello, R.Wolf
RP Clippard, Farnsworth, A.Bailey

Maybe a tad short on saves..but if i can get a closer at some point during season thru FAAB, should be ok. Thoughts?

[Outlaw]

From the 12 spot. Young and need them youngsters to produce. I will Need some help as year goes on with SP. Also every time i went for speed, the player i wnated went right before me. will have to watch that too. Drew will be key if he can come back healthy by may 1 for a contract run. Fun draft last night and look forward to the season with this group.

Lucroy, Jonathan C MIL
Posey, Buster C SF
Fielder, Prince 1B DET
Cano, Robinson 2B NYY
Zimmerman, Ryan 3B WAS
Hardy, J.J. SS BAL
Bonifacio, Emilio 3B,SS,OF MIA
Crisp, Coco OF OAK
Fowler, Dexter OF COL
Hunter, Torii OF LAA
Reddick, Josh OF OAK
Kendrick, Howie 2B,OF LAA
Hosmer, Eric 1B KC
Montero, Jesus UTL SEA
Alvarez, Henderson P TOR
Bell, Heath P MIA
Fister, Doug P DET
Kimbrel, Craig P ATL
Kuroda, Hiroki P NYY
Leake, Mike P CIN
Nova, Ivan P NYY
Sanchez, Anibal P MIA
Wilson, Brian P SF

BENCH
Drew, Stephen SS ARI
Harang, Aaron P LAD
Jay, Jon OF STL
Moustakas, Mike 3B KC
Raburn, Ryan 2B,OF DET
Tomlin, Josh P CLE
Trout, Mike OF LAA

[BK METS]

Pleased with my draft but i'm sure you lot can pick holes in it.

Share your team in this thread. Mine from the 5 slot.

C: A Avila / S Perez / R Hernandez
1st: J Votto
2nd: D Pedroia
3rd: Aramis Ramirez
SS: Alexei Ramirez / T Pastornicky
CI: M Cuddyer
MI: R Roberts
OF: J Werth / Melky Cabrera / M Prado (3rd) / Y Alonso / A De Aza / J Schafer / A Torres
UTL: M Moreland

SP: F Hernandez / J Weaver / Y Gallardo / E Santana / W Rodriguez / S Baker / D Pomeranz / T Milone
RP: D Storen / H Street / A Reed / V Pestano

I think speed is going to be your downfall. I don't see a burner here other than Torres possibly. Outfield is hoping for a big bounce back from Werth. If not, you will be looking for outfield speed in free agency. I like the pitching and the starting infield is strong. Overall pretty good.... definitely can compete with some outfield help.

[BK METS]

From the 3 spot

C Y.Molina/Ruiz/Barajas
1B Freeman
2B Phillips/Infante
SS Reyes
3B Beltre/Chisenhall
OF Kemp
OF Gordon
OF Victorino
OF Mayberry
OF A.Soriano
CI Carlos Lee
MI Asdrubal Cabrera
U M.Brantley

SP Sabathia, Ricky Romero, Beckett,C.Carpenter,Colby Lewis, Masterson, Dempster, Porcello, R.Wolf
RP Clippard, Farnsworth, A.Bailey

Maybe a tad short on saves..but if i can get a closer at some point during season thru FAAB, should be ok. Thoughts?

I like this team a lot. If Carpenter can stay healthy and/or you get production from the bottom part of your rotation and you can pick up some saves in FAAB, you will be strong across the board. Nice draft.

[mattjb]

Pleased with my draft but i'm sure you lot can pick holes in it.

Share your team in this thread. Mine from the 5 slot.

C: A Avila / S Perez / R Hernandez
1st: J Votto
2nd: D Pedroia
3rd: Aramis Ramirez
SS: Alexei Ramirez / T Pastornicky
CI: M Cuddyer
MI: R Roberts
OF: J Werth / Melky Cabrera / M Prado (3rd) / Y Alonso / A De Aza / J Schafer / A Torres
UTL: M Moreland

SP: F Hernandez / J Weaver / Y Gallardo / E Santana / W Rodriguez / S Baker / D Pomeranz / T Milone
RP: D Storen / H Street / A Reed / V Pestano

I think speed is going to be your downfall. I don't see a burner here other than Torres possibly. Outfield is hoping for a big bounce back from Werth. If not, you will be looking for outfield speed in free agency. I like the pitching and the starting infield is strong. Overall pretty good.... definitely can compete with some outfield help.

Thanks - would rather chase speed than anything else...

But my approach is to try and chip away at speed rather than go for out and out speed guys.

Votto & Alexei Ramirez should both steal 8-10, Roberts, Weth & Cabrera 15-20, Pedroia & De Aza (or Torres / Scahfer) 20-25

It adds up I think...

[ALL-IN JD]

Matt,

Like this team a lot. If Addison runs with the closers job that is an excellent staff top to bottom. I actually thinks are not going to be a huge problem for you. I do think you have some potential BA drains but other than that, a very well balanced team, in my humble opinion. I did the first OC and came away with:

Salty
Ramos
Morse
Kinsler
Aybar
Sandoval
Daniel Murphy
Freeman
Braun
BJ Upton
Gardner
Morrison
Tabata
Goldschmidt
Bench - Offense - Joyce, Pena, Soriano, Viciedo (nice Bench to have, got Pena in the 30th round)

Weaver
Strasburg
Romero
Cueto
C. Lewis
Lilly
Motte
Santos
Reed
Bench - Pitchers - Liriano, Thornton, Capuano

[CALI CARTEL]

Pleased with my draft but i'm sure you lot can pick holes in it.

Share your team in this thread. Mine from the 5 slot.

C: A Avila / S Perez / R Hernandez
1st: J Votto
2nd: D Pedroia
3rd: Aramis Ramirez
SS: Alexei Ramirez / T Pastornicky
CI: M Cuddyer
MI: R Roberts
OF: J Werth / Melky Cabrera / M Prado (3rd) / Y Alonso / A De Aza / J Schafer / A Torres
UTL: M Moreland

SP: F Hernandez / J Weaver / Y Gallardo / E Santana / W Rodriguez / S Baker / D Pomeranz / T Milone
RP: D Storen / H Street / A Reed / V Pestano

I think speed is going to be your downfall. I don't see a burner here other than Torres possibly. Outfield is hoping for a big bounce back from Werth. If not, you will be looking for outfield speed in free agency. I like the pitching and the starting infield is strong. Overall pretty good.... definitely can compete with some outfield help.

Thanks - would rather chase speed than anything else...

But my approach is to try and chip away at speed rather than go for out and out speed guys.

Votto & Alexei Ramirez should both steal 8-10, Roberts, Weth & Cabrera 15-20, Pedroia & De Aza (or Torres / Scahfer) 20-25

It adds up I think...

I think the speed is light, but within reach of targets. The problem I see is a huge lack of power, in a 12-teamer Votto/Werth/Aramis isn't gonna cut it IMO. Yonder Alonso and Mitch Moreland won't save the power deficit I see on this roster. Probably went a little too big at SP, could've used another hitter instead of the 3rd Felix/Weaver/Yovani. Good bullpen.

[mattjb]

Thanks for the feed back. It projects to 250 HRs which would have been just outside the top 25% last year in HRs

[CALI CARTEL]

Thanks for the feed back. It projects to 250 HRs which would have been just outside the top 25% last year in HRs

That's a tad low, I'm aiming for 85% of each category to be in contention for the Overall.

[mattjb]

Thanks for the feed back. It projects to 250 HRs which would have been just outside the top 25% last year in HRs

That's a tad low, I'm aiming for 85% of each category to be in contention for the Overall.

Agreed. Hopefully they will either out perform their projections or FA will help. I was middle of the road in HRs last year until I picked up the likes of Joyce & Francoeur and ended with 270+ HRs

[BK METS]

From the 12 spot. Young and need them youngsters to produce. I will Need some help as year goes on with SP. Also every time i went for speed, the player i wnated went right before me. will have to watch that too. Drew will be key if he can come back healthy by may 1 for a contract run. Fun draft last night and look forward to the season with this group.

Lucroy, Jonathan C MIL
Posey, Buster C SF
Fielder, Prince 1B DET
Cano, Robinson 2B NYY
Zimmerman, Ryan 3B WAS
Hardy, J.J. SS BAL
Bonifacio, Emilio 3B,SS,OF MIA
Crisp, Coco OF OAK
Fowler, Dexter OF COL
Hunter, Torii OF LAA
Reddick, Josh OF OAK
Kendrick, Howie 2B,OF LAA
Hosmer, Eric 1B KC
Montero, Jesus UTL SEA
Alvarez, Henderson P TOR
Bell, Heath P MIA
Fister, Doug P DET
Kimbrel, Craig P ATL
Kuroda, Hiroki P NYY
Leake, Mike P CIN
Nova, Ivan P NYY
Sanchez, Anibal P MIA
Wilson, Brian P SF

BENCH
Drew, Stephen SS ARI
Harang, Aaron P LAD
Jay, Jon OF STL
Moustakas, Mike 3B KC
Raburn, Ryan 2B,OF DET
Tomlin, Josh P CLE
Trout, Mike OF LAA

Same strategy as the last OC, I see... Except SP is a little better and OF is worse. Breaking the mold again.. If Alvarez, Nova, and Leake have big seasons, you are golden in both leagues!!

[King Ken]

Just curious if anyone can shed any light on about how long these online championship drafts are taking. Thanks.

[76erfan]

about 3.5 hours