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Best Picks Of The RotoAuthority League Draft
The RotoAuthority draft is in the books; in this post you'll find the rosters as well as a poll to vote for the team you think is strongest. So far based on 144 respondents, the prevailing opinion is that Dizzy Llamas and Miss Behavin' will be battling it out for the title.
Today I'll run through what I feel were the best picks of each round of the draft.
- Round 1: Urine Troubles takes Johan Santana with the 5th pick. A gusty move to be sure, but a typical Johan season would likely return more value than any other player.
- Round 2: Ms. Behavin' takes David Ortiz with the 19th pick. Ms. Behavin' had already snagged Miguel Cabrera in the first; that's two elite four-category hitters.
- Round 3: Dizzy Llamas takes Russell Martin with the 25th pick. Most will say the Llamas reached here. But I truly believe Martin is one of the 15 most valuable position players in the game. The Llamas knew that if they wanted the game's best fantasy catcher, they needed to take him here.
- Round 4: Philly Phliers takes C.C. Sabathia with the 45th pick. His ADP suggested he'd be gone by the time the Phliers picked again. To me, Sabathia is the game's third best pitcher and could provide first-round value.
- Round 5: Greek God Of Walks takes Hunter Pence with the 60th pick. This is right on target with Pence's ADP. Pence is up there with Hart and Markakis for five-category outfielders.
- Round 6: Men With Wood takes Rafael Furcal with the 64th pick. I was going six picks later, and I definitely would've taken Furcal. Tulo and Guillen had left the board in the previous round. I switched to Plan B and grabbed Michael Young, after which there is a massive dropoff at shortstop.
- Round 7: Men With Wood takes Torii Hunter with the 81st pick. Given his 58.5 ADP, Hunter is just incredible value taken here. Not too many big-time five-category OFs hanging around after him, and he's having a big spring. Two gutsy moves I liked in this round: Kemp at #73 by Dizzy Llamas and Lincecum at #79 by Volvo Stationwagons. I think the Llamas knew I'd take Kemp if they didn't.
- Round 8: Greek God Of Walks takes Javier Vazquez with the 85th pick. A case of ignoring ADP when it was necessary. Vazquez (rightfully) went before Carlos Zambrano in this league.
- Round 9: Santa's Magic Janitors takes Ryan Zimmerman with the 98th pick. This pick caused a ripple where Beltre and Encarnacion were snagged earlier than expected to finish off the top tier 3Bs. Nice move by Santa's, who calculated he could miss out on all three if he didn't move on Zimmerman here.
- We'll stop there for now and pick this up tomorrow.
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In the #4 draft slot, I was going to take Zimmerman in the prior round because of the drop off after him... but I looked over at Tim (#3), Santa (#2) and Llamas (1) who all had already drafted a 3B so I passed expecting to get him coming back around but Santa knew value when he saw it and took a second 3B.
Philly Phlier
Posted by: Leagle | March 15, 2008 at 02:02 PM
Tim totally off topic, but could you give me some insight on where i should be looking to get gallardo after the injury??
Posted by: agarthered | March 15, 2008 at 05:30 PM
RotoAuthority Silver League, a.k.a. "RA Junior Varsity" just picked. A very interesting draft where it was clear that the participants read Roto Authority.
Very fun to be a part of.
Signed,
Longoria in the 12th round
Posted by: IowaCubs | March 15, 2008 at 06:25 PM
Oh, and Tim... you and Russell need to get a room.
Posted by: IowaCubs | March 15, 2008 at 06:27 PM
Tim, again your love of russell martin disgusts me. and stop saying he's the best catcher. V-Mart > R-Mart
Posted by: frankie | March 16, 2008 at 03:12 AM
was tejada taken between furcal and young or before furcal?
Posted by: frankie | March 16, 2008 at 03:22 AM
Lets see the other draft
Posted by: Mark | March 16, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Good call on Cabrera/Ortiz, but I'll have to disagree about Santana in the first round. Draft offense first before focusing on pitching. I also agree on Russell Martin: 3rd round is a good round to key on him, especially considering the drop off in talent after him. You could always opt for Posada around the 5th round, but after him, HUGE drop off.
http://www.mlbfantasy.info
Posted by: ZZ | March 16, 2008 at 03:11 PM
Why is llamas doing so well in the vote?
Posted by: walkoffblast | March 16, 2008 at 03:58 PM
Do catchers win championships? I personally would rather take a bopper or an ace in the third round!
Posted by: Leagle | March 16, 2008 at 05:34 PM
sweet, i'm last in the poll. i wasn't too terribly happy with my draft but i don't think my team is THAT bad. having the seventh pick sucked, though.
Posted by: MO Boiler | March 16, 2008 at 07:43 PM
ZZ,
Posada had a career year in 2007... you think he's going to come close to repeating a year older or drop back to his regular numbers? He credits improvement in his footwork but looking at his career average the batting average looks like a fluke. I think the drop off starts before Jorgi.
Posted by: Leagle | March 16, 2008 at 08:43 PM
Vazquez over CZam? Read my comments regarding Vazquez in the Fantasy Baseball Guide.
As far as CZam is concerned, he was the best SP in baseball from May 26 until the wheels fell off in his start on August 8th. In that time, in 89.1 innings, he had an ERA of 2.01, a WHIP of 1.0299, went 10-3 with 86 K's. After a rocky period of 6 weeks, he concluded the season with 2 Ws and no runs allowed in his last two starts. He can be maddeningly frustrating to lead your roto staff, but Vaz has NEVER been the kind of pitcher who can post those kinds of stats over a prolonged period. And, at his age, we've already seen his best. I look for major regression this year.
Posted by: rotomaniac | March 17, 2008 at 12:25 AM