The Beardmen are back. Dropped the 10th, 11th, 12th place finishers from last year and replaced with some new Razzball blood! Should be a good season.

http://games.espn.go.com/flb/leagueoffi ... ueId=19371

Draft went down last night with only one autodrafter.

Here is my team coming out of the draft... The Bushwood Varmint Cong with the 6th pick.

C - Martin (25)
1B - Cabrera (1)
2B - Beckham (10)
SS - Desmond (12)
3B - Alvarez (9)
MI - Gonzalez (24)
CI - Howard (2)
OF - J Upton (3)
OF - Pence (4)
OF - Ellsbury (5)
OF - D Young (7)
OF - Span (17)
U - Soriano (23)

SP - Liriano (6)
SP -Billingsly (8)
SP - B Anderson (11)
SP - Hellickson (13)
SP - Bumgarner (15)
SP - Zimmerman (16)
RP - Thornton (14)
RP - Nunez (18)
RP - McGee (19)
RP - Capps (20)
RP - Bard (21)
RP - Rauch (22)

My least favorite picks are Delmon Young in the 7th and Hellickson in the 13th. My strategy going in was to get 2 stud corners in the first 2 rounds. Longoria and Wright went 1st round, Arod and Zimmerman both went ahead of me in the 2nd, so I flipped a coin for Howard or Prince to double up at 1B and figured I would grab, Pablo, Alvarez or Reynolds later for 3B.

Team looks low on average and power because you have Ellsbury and Span. Can't play both of them.

Thanks Grey...

The war room spreadsheet projections have me at
Run - 1042 (80)
HR - 269 (21)
RBI - 1042 (80)
SB - 164 (13)
AVG - .280

but I don't expect Soriano and Gonzalez to be on my team too long which will hurt my HR numbers even more but help my AVG. And if Martin isn't cutting it I'll drop him and grab one of the 15 HR catchers on WW. Need big power years from Howard, Cabrera, Upton and decent numbers from Pence, Young, Alvarez. Also hoping that relative increase in power from my MI can offset the Ells and Span.

SPs on war room projection:
ERA - 3.44
WHIP - 1.20
W - 70 (12 per starter)
K - 975 (163 per starter)

But Liriano and Anderson are both on Rudy's list.

RP are weak for sure but hopefully I'll get lucky and/or grab some saves from the WW.

Lind was dropped and with the 6th waiver spot I was able to claim him. That should fix my power. I dropped R. Martin to pick up Lind and now have a few days to try to trade Soriano for a C or cut him and pick up Martin, Arencibia, Salty, Ruiz, Buck, etc.