anyone do any yet?

i did one here is the team i drafted in a 12-team roto league (i had last pick):

C A.J. Pierzynski (CWS - C)
1B Ryan Howard (Phi - 1B)
2B Ben Zobrist (TB - 2B,SS,OF)
3B Michael Young (Tex - 3B)
SS Troy Tulowitzki (Col - SS)
OF B.J. Upton (TB - OF)
OF Manny Ramírez (LAD - OF)
OF Josh Hamilton (Tex - OF)
UTIL Alfonso Soriano (ChC - OF)
UTIL Chris Davis (Tex - 1B,3B)

SP Justin Verlander (Det - SP)
SP Jake Peavy (CWS - SP)
RP Huston Street (Col - RP)
RP Billy Wagner (Atl - RP)
P Brandon Webb (Ari - SP)
P Roy Oswalt (Hou - SP)
P Stephen Strasburg (Was - SP)
P Scott Kazmir (LAA - SP)

BN Rich Harden (Tex - SP)
BN David Price (TB - SP)
BN Brad Lidge (Phi - RP)
BN Bobby Jenks (CWS - RP)
BN Matt Capps (Was - RP)


not a bad team considering i totally didn't give a shit after the team before me took longoria in the first round and i ended up drafting howard-tulo-zobrist-upton in that order for the first 4 rounds which is god awful drafting, but most of the people were on autopick so there were too many good players available
i didn't draft any bench players on offense because i don't care it's just a mock draft

what i did notice is that manny fell to me all the way in the 8th/9th round
that could be a nice steal for some people assuming manny actually cares about playing anymore
soriano was available in the 10th round... don't know how he will do but in the past he has had huge upside in fantasy
and guys like brandon webb, roy oswalt, scott kazmir, rich harden, and david price were all ranked really low in yahoo's rankings
there is always good pitching late in drafts anyways, thats never a position you should draft that early aside from 1 or maybe 2, at most, top knotch aces

other then CC lee verlander and doc i usually let pitching wait im fine with getting guys like lester in the 3-4 rounds

i don't think i drafted a pitcher until the 5th or 6th round in that draft
but guys like lincecum, grienke, and felix won't be around that late in the draft
lucky for me i already have king felix as one of my keepers in my real league


i think i drafted my catcher in that mock draft with my last or 2nd to last pick hah, i hate catchers

ditto unless it mauer i just wait. granted that didnt work out too well for two years ago

i wish i knew that sandoval was going to play 3b but was listed as a catcher last year, anytime that happens thats HUGE

i think the only acceptable catchers to be taken early are probably mauer and victor martinez
only other exceptions is when a player is listed as catcher but he will really play the field or has eligibility in the field, last year guys like that were sandoval, brandon inge, and victor martinez i think
if you can get one of those dudes DEFINITELY do it, thats the only trick to drafting a catcher.... if he's not really a catcher lol

i always hate drafting catcher because they miss so many games, so more games should = more stats, otherwise i just look for a catcher that can hit maybe 20 hrs or hit for a .300 average, every other stats is pretty much worthless
russell martin stealing bases is cool and all but you can't always count on that and it's not like he's going to steal 30 or more... maybe he's stolen in the 20s but realistically he's probably only good for 10-15 which isn't that big of a deal, not big enough to draft him early and miss out on a good position player or pitcher

did another mock draft... same thing 12-team roto, i had 7th pick:

14. C Jorge Posada (NYY - C)
3. 1B Kendry Morales (LAA - 1B)
4. 2B Brandon Phillips (Cin - 2B)
1. 3B Evan Longoria (TB - 3B)
2. SS Jimmy Rollins (Phi - SS)
5. OF Curtis Granderson (NYY - OF)
6. OF Manny Ramírez (LAD - OF)
9. OF Alfonso Soriano (ChC - OF)
12. UTIL Álex Ríos (CWS - OF)
13. UTIL Carlos Beltrán (NYM - OF)

17. BN Vladimir Guerrero (Tex - Util)
21. BN Hideki Matsui (LAA - Util)
23. BN Nick Johnson (NYY - 1B)

10. SP Jake Peavy (CWS - SP)
15. SP A.J. Burnett (NYY - SP)
7. RP Mariano Rivera (NYY - RP)
8. RP Joe Nathan (Min - RP)
11. P Francisco Rodríguez (NYM - RP)
16. P Stephen Strasburg (Was - SP)
18. P Scott Kazmir (LAA - SP)
19. P J.A. Happ (Phi - SP,RP)

20. BN Aroldis Chapman (Cin - SP)
22. BN Joba Chamberlain (NYY - SP)


check out those closers lol, fucking stacked
my starting pitching is pretty weak in that draft probably because i draft a pitcher until the 10th round since i decided to draft good closers instead, plus all those starters are pretty sketchy right now, not sure what any of them are going to do this year
and then i fucked myself by drafting vlad in the 17th round instead of just taking kazmir and then harden or bedard, when round 19 came around harden and bedard were gone so that was stupid of me to draft a bench player before a starter
so i had to find other starters and i remembered chapman, i think he is going to start for the reds all year? anyways he was ranked like #600 so that could be a real nice sleeper in fantasy if he's legit

oh and i drafted nick johnson with my last pick lolz
he's also ranked really really low
that offense i drafted is pretty stacked though, pretty decent balance of power and speed, i drafted a bunch of guys that have both (brandon phillips, jimmy rollins, curtis granderson, soriano, rios, beltran)
beltran was also ranked really low, same with rios

Beltran was a steal but I don't get getting Rollins so early.

maybe the most overrated player in the league

i like taking 3b, ss, and 1b in the first 3 rounds, and after i picked longoria the other good firstbasemen i wanted were taken (miggy, teixeira) and i didn't want to use my 2nd pick on adrian gonzalez when i knew i could get kendry in the 3rd round, so i looked at shortstops, and even though rollins was ranked lower i picked him anyways because he was probably the next best shortstop available plus i wanted someone who could hit a decent amount of homeruns and still steal some bases
a lot of the players that were ranked near my 2nd round pick were like outfielders and stuff... just positions i didn't want to draft with my 2nd pick so i took rollins instead
i know jeter and reyes would have been available later but whatever...

p.s.
even though reyes will be ranked low this year, seeing as how citifield is a pitchers park i could see reyes's value going down... you know because david wright had to change his approach and went from a 30 hr guy to 10

In the 2nd, I would've just taken a bona fide ace... King Felix, Greinke, Halladay, CC, Lee... someone of that ilk.

Not only that, but the little punk is injured right now--he's been injured for almost a year now. He really screwed me last year... I took him with my first pick and he missed the vast majority of the season. Fuck that little shit.

who is injured that you took in the first round last year? rollins?
anyways yeah in hindsight it might have been better to take an ace if i could have waited another round to pick up rollins or someone else


i gotta start thinking of some sleepers/steals to draft... right now off the top of my head i'm thinking of chapman and wade davis
i hope my boy lidge falls really low in the draft i'm going to try and take him again, he was perfect for me in 08

No... Reyes. Fuckin' prick. Mets should've moved his ass when he had value. Now they're stuck and fucked with his injury-prone ass.

oh lol
yeah he's hurt again hahaha