This weekend the League of Alternative Baseball Reality drafts were held. For those unfamilar with that somewhat awkward sounding name, we'll just call it LABR. The full results won't be available until USA Today's Leviathan issue is published in a couple weeks.
However, individual team rosters will dribble out in the mean time. The first I have seen is the one drafted by Derek McCarty of The Hardball Times. Here it is.
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| POS | PLAYER | PRICE |
+-----+------------------+-------+
| C | Ramon Hernandez | $15 |
| C | Carlos Ruiz | $ 2 |
| 1B | James Loney | $25 |
| 2B | Kelly Johnson | $23 |
| 3B | Dallas McPherson | $ 3 |
| SS | Jimmy Rollins | $40 |
| CI | David Freese | $ 1 |
| MI | Clint Barmes | $ 6 |
| OF | Raul Ibanez | $23 |
| OF | Cody Ross | $13 |
| OF | Aaron Rowand | $ 9 |
| OF | Kosuke Fukudome | $ 6 |
| OF | Nyjer Morgan | $ 5 |
| UT | Brandon Moss | $ 5 |
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| P | Javier Vazquez | $25 |
| P | Rich Harden | $19 |
| P | Kenshin Kawakami | $ 7 |
| P | Ben Sheets | $ 1 |
| P | Mike Gonzalez | $11 |
| P | Huston Street | $ 9 |
| P | Manny Corpas | $ 7 |
| P | Mike Adams | $ 2 |
| P | Jeremy Affeldt | $ 2 |
| P | Joe Thatcher | $ 1 |
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| BN | Jorge de la Rosa | RSV-1 |
| BN | Ross Ohlendorf | RSV-2 |
| BN | Brian Moehler | RSV-3 |
| BN | Jeff Suppan | RSV-4 |
| BN | Zach Duke | RSV-5 |
| BN | Jason Marquis | RSV-6
Some things that surprised me, and I am always surprised by auction draft results:
- The focus on ratio-wary pitchers in the reserve rounds.
- Javier Vazquez for $25
- Rich Harden for $19
- The presence of Ben Sheets at all
- $25 on James Loney in a non-inflationary environment
- $23 on Kelly Johnson