Comments on: Fantasy Baseball Writers League – Draft Recap

By: Rudy’s Expert League Teams - Status Report

Rudy’s Expert League Teams - Status Report — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:47:32 +0000

[...] didn’t think my draft for this team was much different than the BrockforBroglio league and still don’t. The [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:37:30 +0000

My feeling is that you reached a bit on many of your early picks, but got great value in the middle. Overall, I think you ended up with a competitive team.

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:37:17 +0000

If Artie’s reading this, we need a guest blog, “Why ‘pert bloggers suck?”

By: Patrick DiCaprio

Patrick DiCaprio — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:28:32 +0000

With that lineup, my money is on the regular guy, Artie..... seriously though looks like a good league, sorry I passed on it. Good Luck! Patrick DiCaprio's last blog post..My (Mike's) Points League Draft

By: Rudy Gamble

Rudy Gamble — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:03:49 +0000

josh -
great analysis. i’ve just got fingers crossed my two aces stay healthy. b/w their stats and the relievers, i’m hoping i could afford to throw a mediocre innings eater to help with Ws and Ks. i think derek lowe is great for that. i drafted pettitte with that in mind – though i have a feeling i won’t be starting him on some matchups (e.g, i wouldn’t start him against Detroit).

i’m a big fan of having two top 10 starters (http://razzball.com/groaning-at-bad-punditry-%e2%80%93-drafting-starting-pitchers-in-the-first-3-rounds/) as i feel that near guarantees me top 3 in ERA/WHIP. This means more to me than, say, drafting Reyes and Crawford to dominate SB. You can always find SB late in the draft (Pierre, Velez) but reliable ERA/WHIP is real hard to find. And if you’re willing to sacrifice MI speed, there’s quite a few MI candidates w/ power that can be bought low (Greene, Peralta, Wiggington, Drew)….

hoping this team will bring back a blogger league pennant for Razzball. it’s going to be harder for us to claim ‘expertise’ if we don’t do pretty good in these leagues…

rudy

By: josh

josh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:40:06 +0000

nice squad. hopefully velez pans out and he and pierre can make up for the lack of MI speed. you noted that you lack SP depth, but with a pretty ridiculous trio of closers, plus betancourt and okajimi, plus 2 NL aces, plus pedro who will likely make the most of however innings he can pitch, a couple of mediocre innings eaters to fill out the innings shouldn’t prevent your pitching from dominating. you have a pretty damn nice offense considering how many pitchers you took in the first 10-12 rounds. just scanning over it, i’d guess your biggest weakness is HR and to a lesser extent R/RBI, but hopefully wiggy and peralta will help bridge the gap where other people have lugo or bartlett hitting single digit HR’s. and i love that OF. loaded with upside considering where you drafted everyone. i think those 5 have the potential to make your offense among the best.

i wish i saw this before my draft, because it really shows how different draft styles can work. i’d have passed on haren myself after going johan #1, but you managed to mostly make up for that by getting hitting in the middle rounds. if it was my team i’d be pretty tempted to see what i could get for haren from someone desperate for sp, but scanning though these drafts, i see only 1 or 2 teams that might be on the same level as yours. gl with it.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:33:04 +0000

Well since he’s never done that before they are projecting that he has a career year one year after having his career year. Other than last year, he’s only surpassed 25 hrs/100rbis once in his career and that was in 2003. He also hit .250 that year and stole 6 bases…

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:19:43 +0000

Next year for Double I: Projections: 85/25/100/.275/20 as culled from here:
http://razzball.com/top-hundred-overall-for-2008/

The Angels are a run and gun team so steals are inflated, but the homers don’t reach 30. Though he’s not quite the average drain as Cameron.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:06:38 +0000

I’m kinda thinking the same thing Grey…he’s 32-33 years old now and doubles in the Metrodome do not necessarily translate into HR’s in Anaheim. As far as SB’s are concerned, I think his best years were little more than 20 steals and that was a few years ago. He has never been a high average guy, a high power guy or a high steals guy. At some point, perhaps soon, he becomes a very highly paid Mike Cameron.

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:54:44 +0000

At 32, Hunter’s challenging 30 homers when he’s only reached it once in his life? He did hit more doubles last year than ever before but he also had one of his best seasons last year. He’s colliding with Figgins at some point and gonna miss 15 games.