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ILLZ's 2nd draft results



I actually had two drafts yesterday, one at 11 AM and the other at 5 PM.  This league is my favorite, and longest running league.  Standard 5x5 roto, 10 teams with 7 keepers, no snake draft.  It has a bit of an interesting pitching setup, however.  Intending to simulate a real pitching rotation, you can only have 5 SP's accumulating stats for you at any one time.  If you want to remove one of your starters from the rotation, he has to be either traded or dropped, and he has to make 3 starts for you before you can do anything with him at all.  He CANNOT just be moved to the bench and replaced by a different pitcher.  This rule makes starting pitching very important, as a bad pitcher can really set you back.

I did very well in this league from '05 to '08, coming in 4th, 1st, 3rd, and 1st respectively, and then last year had pretty much everything go wrong that possibly could, and came in dead last.  My keepers are Arod, Crawford, Granderson, Bruce, Pedroia, Felix, and Jubaldo JImenez.  I had no 2nd round pick and an additional 8th round pick as a result of various trades.  On to the results:

1 - Wandy Rodriguez

2 - No pick

3 - Broxton

4 - Pena

5 - A. Soriano

6 - Edwin Jackson

7 - Webb

8 - R. Soriano 

8 - Kazmir

9 - S. Drew

10 - Heyward

11 - G. Jones

12 - Soto

13 - Maybin

14 - J. Rivera

15 - Wagner

16 - Hughes

17 - Dye

All in all, I think I did well.  My one worry is that I don't have any bench players that aren't OF'ers.  Towards the end of the draft there just wasn't much available and there was still value in the outfield.  I'll have to explore trading some of these OF'ers once the injury bug starts hitting people.

Poll
WIll I get a good starter out of either Kazmir or Webb?
Yes
35 votes
No
15 votes

50 votes | Poll has closed

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Webb

seems a little high to be taking him?

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by Ray Guilfoyle on Mar 15, 2010 8:43 PM EDT reply actions  

The pitchers taken immediately after Webb were Lilly, J. Sanchez, de la Rosa, Kazmir, Matusz, Floyd, etc. I think you can make the case that some of those guys should’ve gone off before Webb, but I guess I was just after upside at that point, with my staff already consisting of Felix, Ubaldo, Wandy, and Edwin Jackson.

by ILLZ on Mar 15, 2010 10:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’d take Webb over Edwin Jackson, that’s for sure

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by Ian, yo on Mar 15, 2010 11:06 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

I think that’s negotiable. Jackson took a nice step forward last year and now enters his age 26 season in the NL. I’m pretty high on him this year.

by ILLZ on Mar 16, 2010 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

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