C: Soto
1B: Teixeira
2B: A. Ramirez
SS: H. Ramirez
3B: Cantu/Zimmerman
OF1: Beltran
OF2: Hunter
OF3: Burrell/Murphy/Bradley
Bench:
Burrell/Murphy/Bradley
Cantu/Zimmerman
Y. Betancourt
J. Baker
Pitching Staff:
CHW/NYM
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C: Soto
1B: Teixeira
2B: A. Ramirez
SS: H. Ramirez
3B: Cantu/Zimmerman
OF1: Beltran
OF2: Hunter
OF3: Burrell/Murphy/Bradley
Bench:
Burrell/Murphy/Bradley
Cantu/Zimmerman
Y. Betancourt
J. Baker
Pitching Staff:
CHW/NYM
I have never before seen a 'pitching staff by team' system...that's actually kinda neat.
You got Hanley, Tex AND Beltran? Were your co-drafters a 3rd Grade Special Needs class? :eek:
Pretty good. I'd probably start Bradley over Hunter, actually, since he's probably a solid bet to put up some nice numbers (before the inevitable injury). Your relief pitching stats could be sick with the Mets and White Sox.
It's a good team but as already mentioned who were you drafting against and how deep is the league? If the league is only like 6 teams deep then this team, while still impressive, loses some of its 'shine'.
12 team league with a live draft. Most of the GM's weren't there but still a great team.
And yes it is the MLB Open so hopefully I win some money.
Teixeira, Beltran, and Hanley should all be first/second round picks in standard 12 team drafts...how the hell did you manage to nab all 3?
While pondering that, here's my most recent team. This is a casual league, with male and female players, including my sister and daughter; there are nine teams drafting from all available players, and we redraft every year. There are 15 position players, 10 pitchers, and 5 (non-counted) bench. So the stakes aren't too high, nor are the hurdles...
C: Geovany Soto, Chris Snyder
1B: Mark Teixeira
2B: Chase Utley
SS: Jose Reyes
3B: Ryan Zimmerman
CI: Carlos Guillen
MI: J.J. Hardy
OF: Carl Crawford, Manny Ramirez, Magglio Ordonez, Jermaine Dye, Ryan Ludwick
UT: Justin Upton, Pat Burrell
SP: Scott Kazmir, Felix Hernandez, Matt Cain, Edinson Volquez, Jeremy Guthrie
P: Hiroki Kuroda, Jair Jurrjens
RP: Jonathan Papelbon, B.J. Ryan, Kerry Wood
Bench: Travis Snyder, Hong-Chih Kuo, Fausto Carmona, Troy Glaus, Pedro Feliciano
That team's offense is off-the-charts.
oriole : If you don't end up with the best offense in your league, I'll be shocked.
Thank you! Yeah, like I said, it's a casual, no-pressure, fun league; we had people making homer picks, just drafting players they liked. One guy used the Mitchell Report and Canseco's book as his draft strategy. :) So there was a lot of talent lying around - I was astonished at how low Maggie Ordonez slid, Ludwick went even further down, and I nearly snapped up Matt Holliday instead of Manny.
The pitching is a bit more chancy, but it's serviceable, barring any major injuries. Wins will be a difficult category - I'm going to need one of the quartet of King Felix-Volquez-Guthrie-Cain to really have a big season and reel off 17 wins...or all of them to end up with 12-14 wins and a combined WHIP that isn't over 1.3. That's not impossible, but it's a challenge.
OH, by the way, I would try and trade Yuniesky Betancourt or at the very least keep an eye on Ronny Cedeno. I highly doubt Betancourt starts out the season as the starter and if he does I doubt he keeps it very long.