If you plan on having 10 teams on ESPN already, you won’t want to do it for sure.

Just an added contest which won’t take up any of your time during the season.

It is open to the public.

Roto 12-team, 13 hitters, 9 pitchers, 180 GS max, 750 IP min

ESPN
Title: Draft Challenge
Wednesday, Feb 23 7:30 PM ET.

Thing for me is that I am in a $260 5×5 Mixed League auction where we are allowed to keep three players.

I have Votto for $1 and Stanton for $1.

My last keeper is a $4 Weeks or a $1 Carlos Santana. My thinking is that Weeks will command $20 and Santana $12. For that reason, I feel like I need to keep Weeks. Additionally, Santana is coming off a nasty injury.

I’ve asked before, but I am curious. Do you agree that I should keep Weeks for $4 instead of Santana for $1?

Note: If Santana absolutely crushes in Spring Training, all bets are off.

@Cole: Yeah, it’s hard to team Gallardo with Scherzer.

@Kid ‘n Play: Thanks! Yeah, I’d be hesitant about going with Weeks even in the 7th round, unless it’s a 15 team league and the 7th round is further back.

@Kazmere: I just wrote the post today, will put it up on the site sometime in the next week or so.

in my league you can keep a guy in the round they were drafted inthe prior year. so the owner of weeks thinks its a no brainer to keep weeks in the 7 th rd. im of the opinion that’s still too high.please tell me you back me on that shizz.

Injury risk should get its own post.people don’t respect it!

BN:Juan Rivera
BN: Mike Aviles
BN: Felipe Lopez
BN: Jason Kendall

C- John Jaso
1B – Billy Butler
2B- Aaron Hill
3B- Alberto Callaspo
SS- Derek Jeter
OF- Shin Choo Soo
OF- Coco Crisp
OF- Johnny Damon
Util- David Dejesus
SP- Jon Lester
SP- Dan Haren
RP- Joakim Soria
RP- Fernando Rodney

@chata: It is a bench spot. But I’d grab closer handcuffs for bench spots. Might get some trade saves/trade bait.

How did I maul this draft so easily. I think I’d end up with 105 points in an 12-team roto league with this. My weakest hitter is Drew or Hill, but they’re above average for their positions and my pitching staff would easily average around 1 K/IP.

i know what you’re saying , and i’ve fallen into that same “trap” , myself ,
but , theoretically , it should be just as easy to drop a sitting borbon
(for a hot bautista) as it is to drop an extra pitcher .

i reconcile it by rationalizing that , at the time of the draft , i don’t
know which extra pitcher will get off to a fast start and which will not ,
and focusing on the added “flexibility” of this future decision … besides ,
who wouldn’t want more pitching ? (trade-ability) .

but , i think i’m just kidding myself .
better to let an unproductive borbon sit on someone else’s bench .

“a bench spot is a bench spot is a bench spot .”
that’s what i’m going to say to myself this year .

Any insight? (12 man league; 5×5 stats)

@Jonesy: I’d believe in punting any categories. One closer could win you saves, no reason to punt it.

@Bobby Nice: It’s part of the reason why I don’t take bench bats. You end up waiting for Borbon for a month and meanwhile a guy like Bautista’s hitting 30 homers in April.

I’m with your strategy to stock up on pitching for bench spots. I guess as I was writing this I answered my own question, but here it is. When you’re a couple weeks in and Luke Scott has hit 3 home runs in 2 games and is obviously on a streak, do you recommend dropping a fringe starter for him, plugging him into your lineup, and then drop him for another pitcher when he cools out? I always get drafter’s lock when a offensive guy starts out slow. I don’t want to drop them. But if you don’t have a filled up bench with offensive guys you can be flexible with pitching instead. Is that the idea? Sometimes it’s hard for me to pass up on big upside offensive guys at the end of the draft and just stock up on pitching. This issue gets me every year because you write blurbs about picking up certain hot players for the week and I don’t have any room because I’ve spent a middle to end draft pick on Julio Bourbon and I can’t bring myself to drop him because I know he’s going to heat up at some point and I don’t want it to be on someone else’s team.
I’m gonna try going with 0 – 2 offensive bench spots and then the rest pitching. This way you can be more flexible as the season wares on. Does that sound about right?

In an OBP league, do you prefer The Dread Pirate in the 3rd or J.Reyes in the 3rd?

@byrone: Thanks, you too!