Ryan Howard, Zach Britton, John Lamb and Michael Taylor

for

Mark Reynolds and Desmond Jennings?

I’ll definitely have to see a couple of his movies then. Any recommendations?

NOTE: I made this one Yahoo! style to switch it up a bit!

password is pianowmusic.

Hope to see you all there!

Had a chance to see Black Swan yet?

Pretty intense movie. Like crazy intense.

@Steve: Mustaches are wildly underrepresented at the Globes this year.

@LMack: Such a solid team looks like a 10 teamer. I like a lot of the hitters you filled your team with.

12 team, Yahoo! roster settings

C Matt Wieters BAL R14 P4
1B Justin Morneau MIN R3 P9
2B Aaron Hill TOR R11 P9
2B Howie Kendrick ANA R18 P4
SS Stephen Drew ARI R9 P9
3B David Wright NYM R1 P9
3B Pedro Alvarez PIT R8 P4
3B Ty Wigginton COL R19 P9
OF Ryan Braun MIL R2 P4
OF Andrew McCutchen PIT R4 P4
OF Jayson Werth WAS R5 P9
OF Rajai Davis TOR R15 P9
OF Logan Morrison FLA R22 P4
SP Cole Hamels PHI R6 P4
SP Josh Johnson FLA R7 P9
SP Colby Lewis TEX R10 P4
SP Jordan Zimmermann WAS R13 P9
SP Hiroki Kuroda LA R16 P4
SP Kyle Drabek TOR R21 P9
SP Aaron Harang SD R23 P9
RP Jonathan Papelbon BOS R12 P4
RP Drew Storen WAS R17 P9
RP Joel Hanrahan PIT R20 P4

Probably should’ve taken another 1B, but all in all felt I got a lot of value picks here. Early season mock I suppose.

Just did this 10-team mock, how did I do? OF is weaker than I wanted and AVG might be a liability

C Matt Wieters BAL R12 P4 Comment
1B Joey Votto CIN R1 P7 Comment
1B Mark Teixeira NYY R2 P4 Comment
1B Adam Dunn CHW R5 P7 Comment
2B Dustin Pedroia BOS R3 P7 Comment
2B Rickie Weeks MIL R4 P4 Comment
SS Elvis Andrus TEX R7 P7 Comment
3B Mark Reynolds BAL R11 P7 Comment
OF Curtis Granderson NYY R6 P4 Comment
OF Jay Bruce CIN R9 P7 Comment
OF Dexter Fowler COL R19 P7 Comment
OF Brett Gardner NYY R20 P4 Comment
SP Francisco Liriano MIN R8 P4 Comment
SP Mat Latos SD R10 P4 Comment
SP Philip Hughes NYY R13 P7 Comment
SP Jorge De La Rosa COL R14 P4 Comment
SP Shaun Marcum MIL R16 P4 Comment
SP Jhoulys Chacin COL R17 P7 Comment
SP Madison Bumgarner SF R18 P4 Comment
SP Brett Anderson OAK R21 P7 Comment
SP Ted Lilly LA R23 P7 Comment
RP Huston Street COL R15 P7 Comment
RP Craig Kimbrel ATL R22 P4 Comment

@Grey: Someone listed the A’s relievers, and who should be lurking there but Joey Devine!

He’s the closer on that team that has Bills, Alex Gordon and Brandon Allen (emoticon).

steve can tell you more about how to run a slow mock draft ,
he’s in another one that i’m doing .
it’s prolly got sumpin’ to do with opening up a forum page ,
and being able to post everyone’s picks to it , round by round .
the e-mail link has everyone’s addy’s and is sort of like a chain letter ,
so everyone know who picked whom , and whose turn it is .
takes about 8-12 weeks to complete .
allows lots of time for study , comment opportunities , and is good fun .

really like my outfield .
bound to be some weak spots , in a 15-teamer .
drafting on the turn …. maybe i over-reached , some .
nature of the beast .

@big o: Some say commitment, others say OCD. How am I conducting a slow draft? If someone wants to do it, they can. Don’t like your outfield or your middle infield. Love Liriano and Marcum, not crazy about any of your other SPs.

well , what’s attractive about you is not your mustache , rather ,
it’s that you’re not bi-sportual …. which testifies to your level of
commitment .

have been involved with a couple of slow-mock drafts this off-season ….
done via e-mail .
i wish you would consider conducting one for the razzball faithful , next year.********

here’s my 1st one …. a 15-teamer … 6×6 , which includes offensive BB’s and Holds as categories .
i had the 15th pick .
C ….. ruiz … R19
1st … a-gon .. R2
2b …. uggla .. R1 (that’s right !)
3rd … a-ram .. R5
ss …. theriot . R17
mi …. aviles .. R15
ci ….
of …. ethier .. R3
of …. rios .. R4
of …. swisher. R6
of …. quentin .R7
of …. rajai … R12
dh …. crisp … R16
sp …. liriano .. R8
sp …. buchholz.R9
sp …. marcum .R10
sp …. niemann.R21
rp …. street ..R11
rp …. lyon …R13
rp …. franklin .R14
rp/sp. frank2 …R18
rp/sp. guerrier..R20
rp/sp. frasor …R22

at the out-set , my plan was to go with daric barton (about rd.15) as my corner , for the BB’s , but someone drafted him in the 10th as his primary 1st baseman … ugh .
after that , my focus switched to vicideo , but , after 20 rounds
chipper was still there (!) …
and then mlb.com came out with an interview on him ,
2 days ago …. and with 9 picks left to go , chipper got sniped .
now , am thinking about switching up , from vicideo (playing time/batting average) to e.e. (prospects for 25 homers … also limited playing time and average).

i think i’m hurting only in the BB category ,
though if the draft had allowed for a 2 or 3 man bench ,
i would have picked up this kid melancon ….. i think , after the heart-break
of getting kicked out of the big apple , that he will re-bound nicely … and
am high on his prospect and career path .

Same mock here, but I was completely blitzed and cheering on my Packers…Last season in my competitive money league I waited till the 13th for my first SP and ended up 3rd, so I was trying to take a look at what could be had that late…but yeah too many autos

C John Buck R21 P3
1B Miguel Cabrera R1 P3
1B Kevin Youkilis R3 P3
2B Ian Kinsler R4 P10
2B Kelly Johnson R11 P3
SS Alex Gonzalez, ATL R12 P10
3B Adrian Beltre R5 P3
3B Pedro Alvarez R8 P10
OF Matt Kemp R2 P10
OF Hunter Pence R7 P3
OF Delmon Young R9 P3
OF Michael Bourn R10 P10
OF Travis Snider R22 P10
SP Jorge De La Rosa R13 P3
SP Gio Gonzalez R14 P10
SP Johan Santana R15 P3
SP Jeremy Hellickson R16 P10
SP A.J. Burnett R17 P3
SP Ian Kennedy R18 P10
SP Ervin Santana R19 P3
SP Clayton Richard R20 P10
SP Ted Lilly R23 P3
RP Carlos Marmol R6 P10
RP Matt Capps R24 P10
RP Craig Kimbrel R25 P3

Player Team Acquired
1B Adrian Gonzalez BOS R1 P7
1B Aubrey Huff SF R15 P7
1B Gaby Sanchez FLA R18 P6
2B Brandon Phillips CIN R4 P6
2B Sean Rodriguez TB R20 P6
3B Ryan Zimmerman WAS R2 P6
3B Chipper Jones ATL R19 P7
SS Starlin Castro CHC R12 P6
SS Marco Scutaro BOS R21 P7
C Matt Wieters BAL R11 P7
OF Nelson Cruz TEX R3 P7
OF Curtis Granderson NYY R5 P7
OF Drew Stubbs CIN R14 P6
OF Brett Gardner NYY R16 P6
SP Cole Hamels PHI R6 P6
SP Francisco Liriano MIN R7 P7
SP Chad Billingsley LA R9 P7
SP John Danks CHW R10 P6
SP John Lackey BOS R17 P7
RP Joakim Soria KC R8 P6
RP Francisco Rodriguez NYM R13 P7

@big o: More time than I want to admit.

@Tom Thumb: Be brave!

@Earl Battey: Players seem to bounce back fine from concussions.

@Al Swedgin: Andrus

Elvis Andrus or David Price

Morneau might have top 10 upside if healthy, but he has the greatest chance of anyone on this list of giving you absolutely nothing. One more knock to the noggin is all it would take. As a Twins fan, I’m hoping that Morneau can stay healthy, but I wouldn’t be shocked if you told me that Cuddyer would get the most starts at 1B in 2011.

Ha! Yea, I probably would have upped the ante and drafted him after Halladay or something.

how much time do you actually spend compiling these lists ?
is it a gradual thing you spend months on , or is it more of a savant-like
beat the dead-line thing , like a college kid cramming for an exam ?

i read this stuff , and i re-read this stuff …. and sometimes it takes
a long time to sink in .

and as much as i didn’t want it to be true , you’re right about Howard .

kinda early for me to come around .

Killer team. The bad news is that you won’t ever land a team like this in an RCL. The good news is you can definitely land this team in a regular yahoo league lol.

I’ll have the next set razzmock date on Monday.