2010 NL LABR Draft Results: Greg Ambrosius/Shawn Childs From NFBC

by Ray Guilfoyle on Mar 9, 2010 8:00 AM EST in Baseball

The AL and NL LABR experts draft results are slowly being published with Greg Ambrosius and Shawn Cholds publishing both their AL and NL draft results yesterday. Here are their NL draft results with some commentary:

POS	Name	$$
C	Jason Castro	3
C	J.R. Towles	2
1B	Ryan Howard	35
2B	Rickie Weeks	16
3B	Pedro Alvarez	3
SS	Tory Tulowitzki	31
COR	Juan Uribe	6
MID	Jose Reyes	26
OF	Matt Holliday	32
OF	Chris Young	14
OF	Melky Cabrera	10
OF	Ryan Spilborghs	1
OF	Jermaine Dye	1
UT	Mike Jacobs	2
P	Tim Lincecum	36
P	Edwin Jackson	11
P	J.A. Happ	10
P	Homer Bailey	5
P	Chris Volstad	2
P	James McDonald	2
P	Kyle McClellan	1
P	Juan Gutierrez	3
P	Ryan Madson	6
R	Rich Hill
R	Ryan Hanigan
R	Gary Matthews
R	Chad Tracy
R	Freddie Freeman
R	Aaron Poreda

When you spend more than half of your $260 budget on 4 players-Howard, Tulo, Holliday and Lincecum, you end up with no closers, and starting pitchers like Happ, Bailey, Volstadt and McDonald.

He has several high risk hitters in Reyes and Chris Young, along with a couple minor leaguers-catcher Jason Castro and third baseman Pedro Alvarez. Both could be up by June, or sooner. Castro has an outside shot of being the starter in Houston.

He also took a risk drafting Mike Jacobs, who could end up in AAA, and Jermaine Dye, who has yet to sign with any team as of this writing. Ryan Spilborgh will be the Rockies 5th outfielder barring injury to one of Seth Smith, Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler and Brad Hawpe, but he is the only right handed hitter of the bunch. Well, Fowler is a switch hitter, but hits better left-handed than right-handed.

Poll

Would you spend $26 on Jose Reyes in an auction draft?

Yes, he will be fine and be ready to steal 40+ bases in 2010.

41 votes

No, too risky for me.

85 votes

126 votes | Poll has closed

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Young

$14 seems too much. His likelihood of being a player who cannot hit seems very high. At that price, you’re assuming he has a 75% chance of hitting .270.

(So the math works out to a $19-20 player).

by faketeams on Mar 9, 2010 8:27 AM EST reply actions

I agree

but I think he is paying for the power and speed, no? I think it is assumed he will never hit higher than in the .240 range.

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by Ray Guilfoyle on Mar 9, 2010 9:37 AM EST up reply actions

ditto

That’s what I was thinking, and was surprised. Maybe because I’ve owned him and have soured on him. My gut feel was maybe $7. I’d love to know what people thinks he should go for in NL only.

by Recon on Mar 9, 2010 10:34 PM EST up reply actions