How would you rank these 4 outfielders in the order of which you would draft first?

Bruce
Stubbs
Krispie
BJ. Upton

@brad: Yeah, you’re very weak in SP. I’d move Weeks or Reynolds for an SP. Maybe get a Hamels or Oswalt.

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I also took fliers on Wainwright and Strasburg since I can keep them ultra cheap in 2012 and sorta cheap in 2013. Would you drop either for Sergio Romo, Mark Lowe, Alexei Ogando, Octavio Dotel or Sean Burnett? (those are the best saves options on the free agent list, but none are sure things).

C- Martin
1b- Morneau
2b- Weeks
3b- Arod
SS- Hanley
OF- J-Up
OF- C. Lee
OF- CarGo
Util- K. Johnson
B- M. Reynolds
B- C. Beltran
B- B. Allen

SP – J. Sanchez
SP- S. Marcum
SP- Garza
SP- Chacin
SP-Mad Bum
RP- Perez
RP- Putz
RP- Narveson
BE- De La Rosa
BE- Minor

I kinda panicked and reached on SPs when the last of my top targets went off the board (i was drafting at the turn.) I’m obviously weak in the SP department, but I’m thinking I try to move Weeks and or A-Rod/Reynolds to land some pitching early on.

Any thoughts?

No worries! And lucky you got Ramirez to fall. I had a draft where Rollins fell to the 7th and I just couldn’t pass, but part of me wanted to. I’d be all over Ramirez if he fell to the 6th and I didn’t have Hanley/Tulo/Reyes, definitely agree that he’s kind of the Choo of SS. It worked out okay because Castro wound up going way earlier than usual, he might have even gone before Andrus if I remember correctly, so I probably would have been stuck with a SS I was trying to avoid anyway.

@Wilsonian: Ogando

@Calogero: As mentioned in the above post, there’s a closer ranking coming at 11AM PST.

@Wilsonian: Young would be great.

@Martin: There’s rankings for these questions.

Phils might go after Young to replace Utley (who might be out for the season according to Roto Info).

Peavy out until possibly late April.

That is all for now.

He’s got a good SP corps with the Sox, solid setup men who won’t cough up every lead, and a great K-rate and ratios over the past few years.

All the underlying factors put him right on par with Brian Wilson, probably actually a little ahead accounting for regression in Wilson’s ERA and injury concerns. But then again, Wilson has better job security.

I think I’d put Thornton in his own tier, right behind Wilson and in front of Papelbon. His ADP and default rankings are still lagging behind the news that he’ll close in Chicago, so he can be had after K-Rod and Street in a lot of leagues, but put up numbers like the guys going in rounds 7-9

very very good….

If I can get out of the 4th round with the below players, how should I feel about it?

Miggy
Jose Reyes
Matt Kemp
Ryan Zimmerman

12 team, mixed 5×5 H2H keeper league

12 team H2H points weekly lock league favoring power bats…mixed feelings on team. 1pt for R, RBI,1b; 2pt for 2b; 3pt per 3b; 4pt per HR; 2pt per SB…10pt per W; -5pt per L; 7pt per S, 1pt per K,IP; -1pt per ER.

C: Montero
1: Pena (all top tier 1b gone by mid 2nd round)
2: K. Johnson
SS: HanRam
3B: Youk
IF: P. Alvarez
OF: J. Upton
OF: H. Pence
OF: Swisher
UT: Lind
B: Nishioka
B: Tabata

SP: Kershaw
SP: Gallardo
SP: B. Anderson
SP: I. Kennedy
RP: Marmol
RP: C. Perez
B: Vazquez
B: Cueto
B: A. Bailey (sitting there at end of draft)
B: M. Minor
DL: (soon to be Cueto)
DL:

@A Hill o’ Beans: As somebody who is always looking for arbitrage, loopholes and new strategies, I can say I think it’s slightly pathological on my part. It’s like a control thing. If you have a whacked out strategy, you can predict how your draft will go and get a team that matches your blueprint, which is kind of comforting. The truth is that so many people play fantasy sports now and share information on the internet that it’s become a very efficient marketplace in competetive leagues. Out of the box strategies have all been tried and the reason they aren’t the norm is because they generally don’t improve your chances of winning. That being said, it’s always fun to try and win by coming up with your own secret sauce. Just found that it’s usually not as successful as trying to draft good players at each slot, maintain as much balance across hitting/pitching, positions and categories as possible.

I agree, and based on MDC’s ADPs Alexei is probably the guy I target at SS if I miss a big three. I have him ranked ahead of Rollins and basically neck-and-neck with Jeter. In Yahoo! though I think he’s not really going for any kind of bargain, he’s the sixth SS off the board and you really have to take him in the 4th or 5th round if you want to make certain you get him in the drafts and mocks I’ve done. I agree that he’s a nice, stable option with solid power/speed and he won’t hurt you in avg/r/rbi, but he’s still a huge step down from the upsides (and in the former two cases, expectations) of Hanley, Tulo, and Reyes. I don’t entirely ascribe to Grey’s philosophy of punting MI, but this year I’m taking something like that approach with 2B because there’s so much back end depth and taking a sort of stars-or-scrubs mentality with SS. At least this year, I would rather spend my 5th round pick on a 4-5 category outfielder than an MI and then wait another 80 picks on Castro, who should provide overall value that is closish to Ramirez, especially if (as you point out) I have (or plan to have) an Adam Dunn or Mike Stanton on my roster.

@Denys: Seriously?

@joe from point pleasant: Looks good.

@Tony: Gotcha

@Rick: I’d treat the league for the 1st half the year like a regular league then look to see around the mid point if you need to just start throwing a lot more guys.

@A Hill O’ Beans: I’m not sure why you’d want to use a weird strategy just to make your life difficult.

@Eddy: Thanks for the heads up!