C Buster Posey R5 P6
1B Paul Konerko R6 P7
CI Ike Davis R18 P7
2B Chase Utley R2 P7
MI Neil Walker R22 P7
SS Troy Tulowitzki R1 P6
3B Pedro Alvarez R7 P6
OF Nelson Cruz R3 P6
OF Justin Upton R4 P7
OF Bobby Abreu R8 P7
OF Carlos Quentin R9 P6
OF Garrett Jones R20 P7
Util Austin Jackson R21 P6
SP Hiroki Kuroda R10 P7
SP Ricky Romero R11 P6
SP Brandon Morrow R12 P7
SP Gio Gonzalez R14 P7
SP Dan Hudson R15 P6
SP Johnny Cueto R17 P6
SP C.J. Wilson R19 P6
RP Neftali Feliz R13 P6
RP David Aardsma R16 P7

Pretty happy with my team. Wanted to prove to Grey you can wait until round 10 to draft your first starter and still end up with a nice staff. Looking back, I think I’d be more comfortable if I would have taken Oswalt as my #1 a round earlier. Outside of that, I’d take this team. Reached a little bit on Alvarez but he was the guy I was targeting after not getting a stud 3B.

I still think we need a term for this. It happening once with Romo was a chance occurence. Now the same thing happening to Kemp, I think that constitutes a full-blown trend!

@Elijah: you’re talking about uribe. yeah. he was pretty much the best power option at SS outside of hanley or tulo’s september last year, so the ongoing total ignore is mystifying to me. i’m so mystified, i’m almost misty-eyed. sure, he has no speed and his average is bad. still. i really think he’s finally figured out how to hack just 5% less and tap into some late-career game power the last couple years.

I drafted him in the penultimate round and was mocked…I like him…on the Dodgers he’s likely to hit in an RBI slot (3-4-5) and donk 20+, whats so bad about that? And he’s more trustable than a flier.

TMZ-ball eh? Guess I didn’t miss much that last few days

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/12/rihanna-and-matt-kemp-call-it-quits-split.html

Maybe we need a term for a player who gets involved with a hot starlet who distracts the player from performing well on the field and causes him to suck (ala Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo)?

Maybe “hump slump”?

@BookieBob: I’m bringing double obnoxiousness tomorrow.

Where’s the sophomoric sex-booze focus I expect from this blog? I keep getting routed here, and am always annoyed by the helpful insight I have to wade through.

Longing for the crass and insensitive old days…….sigh.

Also, the throw-in value of either player in a trade seems to be less than the chance of it being for real. Even if they’re buying, people usually don’t like to get the two players for one because they’d have to drop their own bench favorites.

You might get something small one for one, but that’s probably about it. It could be worth more just to keep the guy to see if he pans out. If you happen to believe the surge is for real, you’re probably better off trading an established player to end up with greater value overall.

@Steve: Yes, Razzball forums are right there with TMZ.

http://razzball.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13879

Top quality first name you have there.

Good. I think Kemp might be draftable now. Get your head in the game, son!

i’m also juan uribe’s biggest fan, apparently, and don’t really understand why nobody but me cares about him, so maybe there’s a pattern here.

hear me out. the point about sean-rod and his platoon split is huge to me. combine that with his playing time uncertainty, it may spell trouble. true that tampa has a lot of PA opening up with the departure of crawford, pena, bartlett. but – he’s not likely to get much of the 1B action, they’ll probably bring someone in or play johnson. left field is liable to be some combination of jennings and joyce (speaking of, i loved ulysses.) and i think brignac plays every day at SS. that last does have the potential to free up some time for our sean, since brignac was his platoon partner at 2B last year most of the time. but i think they’re more likely to bring zobrist back in to the infield and play somebody else in the OF on righty days than they are to play sean all the time. it just feels more like a repeat of last year is the most likely outcome. which is fine, but makes him more of a waiver plug / deep league find than any kind of mixed target. which is basically what grey says in the post – a late-round fleighere.

meanwhile, hall. he’s actually hit 35 home runs in a season before. paced out over 600 AB, he went 31/16 last year – in fenway, granted, and again with the extrapolating small samples. but i think it means more when he actually has done the real thing before at least once in his life over a full season. anyway, it’s definitely a positive sign. he’s only 31 years old. houston signed him to start, so his PT is much more secure. he’s a righty who hit righties better than lefties last year. and, speaking of fenway, he’s a righty going to houston. he fell off the map because he was a righty pull hitter who wound up in seattle, and then had injuries. not the first victim of that, won’t be the last.

so, there’s that. aaron hill is the first mid-round fallback option for power at 2B; raburn’s the second, if he’s eligible. i think i’m going for hall as the third.

testament to the strength of the couch managers’ league .

your larger point is quite correct, i’m just nitpicking you.

@Fanthead: Sandoval, crap, crap…. 2. I’m hoping so.