so who drafted the best Fantasy League Baseball team ?

[bigboydan]

lets hear who everyone drafted tonight ?

[presley177]

..i drafted a pretty good team. Still needs some work...but I have about 8 closers as trade bait.

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b2/3653/2/editroster

[imgv94]

I thought I drafted a good team. Picantel said he didnt like my team.
Onlookers team is interesting? Presley is a sharp? I like my team
I think Picantel is full of it. No offense Picantel we are cool.

[onlooker]

I tried for balance.

Winston Smith off the top of my head has a good offensive team. Pitchers arent bad either.

[moses millsap]

Winston has the best team, imo. The auto-drafting by Yahoo kinda cost me some players I had on my list and also forced me to take players early, because I didn't trust Yahoo to draft them for me (and as I can see, for good reason).

[bigboydan]

which one of you guys took a chance with bonds, and when did you grab him ?

[moses millsap]

which one of you guys took a chance with bonds, and when did you grab him ?

Posted the full results BBD. You can be SBR's Mel Kiper and grade us all

[bigboydan]

ok owned, i rate your team the worst

[moses millsap]

ok owned, i rate your team the worst

Me too (I only drafted first 9 rounds and last two though )

[presley177]

Owned, what do you want for Nomar?

[Alamorich]

Fog and Knights look like the class of their division.

[moses millsap]

Owned, what do you want for Nomar?

Not interested in anybody on your team that would make a trade work. Like your outfielders, but I'm sticking with my trio of Crawford, Winn, and Granderson with Kotsay, Kearns, and Jones backing them up.

Pujols is obviously great, but I'm not willing to part with any pieces to get him.

Besides, I've made some offers to other teams for Nomar already.

[presley177]

Not interested in anybody on your team that would make a trade work. Like your outfielders, but I'm sticking with my trio of Crawford, Winn, and Granderson with Kotsay, Kearns, and Jones backing them up.

Pujols is obviously great, but I'm not willing to part with any pieces to get him.

Besides, I've made some offers to other teams for Nomar already.

I've been meaning to ask you...WHY did you take Granderson SO EARLY!?

You could've had him so much later.

[moses millsap]

I've been meaning to ask you...WHY did you take Granderson SO EARLY!?

You could've had him so much later.

Like I said, I was leaving and didn't trust Yahoo to draft him for me. And they totally f'd me over by drafting me players that I do not want at all, bypassing players I had on my board that were taken after they picked up players for me. I didn't want to take Duke or Granderson that early, but the draft was moving painfully slow and I knew I would end up with players I didn't want.

[imgv94]

GV Dodgers is awesome on offense. I have the best Outfield -
Damon,Pierre,Matsui

[imgv94]

Anyone want Rolen?

[presley177]

I think my outfield of Ichiro, Sizemore, Beltran/Podsednik is pretty killer.

[imgv94]

I was set on Ichiro and u took em.

[presley177]

watch out for Sizemore. He'll be an all-star/ possible mvp candidate this year.

[maritime]

2006 Tequila Slammers:

C - J Varitek
1B - T Helton
2B - A Soriano (even though he's an outfield experiment now)
3B - T Glaus
SS - J Peralta
OF - J Bay
OF - R Freel
OF - B Clark
UT - Bobby Crosby
Bench: P Fielder (fat but good for some dingers), J Gathright (dude can run like the wind), C Shelton (probable .300 hitter), JD Drew (can he return to form?), and J Vidro (ditto?)

SP - C Schilling
SP - J Beckett
SP - M Mussina
SP - D Haren
SP - J Blanton
SP - M Morris
SP - D Wells

RP - C Cordero
RP - E Guardado
RP - C Ray (soon to be Baltimore closer)
RP - J Devine (soon to be Atlanta closer)

[moses millsap]

The Bad News Bums

C- Joe Mauer
1B- Ryan Howard
2B- Marcus Giles
SS- Nomar Garciaparra
3B- Chipper Jones
OF- Carl Crawford
OF- Curtis Granderson
OF- Randy Winn
UT- Mark Kotsay
Bench- Austin Kearns, Placido Polanco, Tony Clark, and Matt Murton

SP- Jake Peavy
SP- Felix Hernandez
SP- Zach Duke
SP- Tim Hudson
SP- Matt Cain
SP- Francisco Liriano (Long relief/LH Specialist if not starting)
SP- Ervin Santana
SP- Greg Maddux
SP- Shawn Chacon
SP- Jae Seo
RP- Neal Cotts
RP- Cliff Politte

On the trading block:
SS- Nomar Garciaparra
3B- Chipper Jones
SP- Tim Hudson
SP- Greg Maddux

Untouchables in bold

[presley177]

2006 Tequila Slammers:

C - J Varitek
1B - T Helton
2B - A Soriano (even though he's an outfield experiment now)
3B - T Glaus
SS - J Peralta
OF - J Bay
OF - R Freel
OF - B Clark
UT - B Crosby
Bench: P Fielder (fat but good for some dingers), J Gathright (dude can run like the wind), C Shelton (probable .300 hitter), JD Drew (can he return to form?), and J Vidro (ditto?)

SP - C Schilling
SP - J Beckett
SP - M Mussina
SP - D Haren
SP - J Blanton
SP - M Morris
SP - D Wells

RP - C Cordero
RP - E Guardado
RP - C Ray (soon to be Baltimore closer)
RP - J Devine (soon to be Atlanta closer)

if Schilling is back to normal that's a really good staff.

[maritime]

Thanks Pres, your outfield is killah

[presley177]

The Bad News Bums

C- Joe Mauer
1B- Ryan Howard
2B- Marcus Giles
SS- Nomar Garciaparra
3B- Chipper Jones
OF- Carl Crawford
OF- Curtis Granderson
OF- Randy Winn
UT- Mark Kotsay
Bench- Austin Kearns, Placido Polanco, Tony Clark, and Jacque Jones

SP- Jake Peavy
SP- Felix Hernandez
SP- Zach Duke
SP- Tim Hudson
SP- Matt Cain
SP- Francisco Liriano (Long relief/LH Specialist if not starting)
SP- Ervin Santana
SP- Greg Maddux
SP- Shawn Chacon
SP- Jae Seo
RP- Neal Cotts
RP- Cliff Politte

On the trading block:
SS- Nomar Garciaparra
3B- Chipper Jones
OF- Jacque Jones
SP- Tim Hudson
SP- Greg Maddux

Untouchables in bold

you really are banking on a lot of rookies

[moses millsap]

you really are banking on a lot of rookies

Just learning bud. Have never done fantasy type stuff, like I was telling somebody else, felt like I was trying to draft for a real franchise and the future, lol.

[presley177]

Just learning bud. Have never done fantasy type stuff, like I was telling somebody else, felt like I was trying to draft for a real franchise and the future, lol.

lol if this was a franchise league(3 years or so) i'd take your team over everyone's in a heartbeat. It really does look like you tried to build off of the young players...but i'm not sure if some of them will put up the monster numbers to win a fantasy league in their year. They might. we'll see

[moses millsap]

lol if this was a franchise league(3 years or so) i'd take your team over everyone's in a heartbeat. It really does look like you tried to build off of the young players...but i'm not sure if some of them will put up the monster numbers to win a fantasy league in their year. They might. we'll see

How far do you think Crawford would've fell if I didn't take him 3rd? I really wanted the 7th or 8th pick in round 1 and think I could've nabbed him there.

[presley177]

Crawford probably would've been mid 2nd.

Felix Hernandez would've gone a few rounds later

[Winston Smith]

Holy shit, do I need pitching.



I'm stacked on offense, so plenty of trades available. Let me know.

[Willie Bee]

you really are banking on a lot of rookies

Actually, he's banking on a lot of sophomores.

First and foremost, I saw a post at the Yahoo! site that was something about the draft time changing. What was that about? I never changed the draft time from the day I signed the league up.

Secondly, I'm pleased with the team that my stand-in GM put together. A few picks I wouldn't have made, and a few that I'm glad he made for me. Bottom line, the only real difference if I had been there would be taking 11 pitchers instead of just 10. So if anyone wants to offer up a second line pitcher for one of my equally second line hitters, bring it on.

Also had a question from Owned in my PM box this morning about trades. Once a trade has been ACCEPTED by both teams, I should get an e-mail and the trade should then be visible. The only trade that I see that has been dually agreed upon so far is between the GV Dodgers (R.Weeks) and Presley's Killahs (R.Dempster).

Everyone should be able to see these trades at their MY TEAM page. Click on details to view specific players involved. Every team has the power to vote NO on the trade and if you do vote NO, it will send an e-mail to me that such-&-such team voted NO. If I get five (5) or more NO's (50% of league not involved in trade), I will reject it without question. Any trade that involves my team, onlooker will act as commish; any deal between myself and onlooker, Illusion will act as commish if that sounds ok with all of you.

I will do my best to post every pending trade as soon as possible in some 'Fantasy Bases Pending Trades' thread here in this Forum. I will also post any updates and other info crucial to the league at both the Yahoo! site and here in the Bases Forum.

Best of luck to everyone........should be a real gas!

[Alamorich]

I drafted for chemistry and intangibles.

[picantel]

My team. Not sure why it is not getting much love considering this is kinda like a H2H roto league.

C- Jeff Mathis. starter for angels. showing great stats spring training.
1- Adam Dunn. Obviously drafted him mid rounds for his homers.
2- R. Cano. A yankee and is pretty good.
3-C. Figgins. Steals(62) and runs.
SS-Tejada. well duh he does it all in a shallow position.
OF-Francoeur. he was great last year and will be awesome this year. lights out in spring training
OF-B. Giles. Tailing down but got him in later rounds and he is still good all around.
OF-Dye. Got him for homers. Had 31 last season
U-Dellucci. homers once again. Had 29 last season.
Bench:
Sweeney. Is great when healthy. A big if.
E. Encarnacion. Have a fantastic spring. got very late to see if it carries over.
Delmon Young. In minors but drafted for 2nd half run. Will be lights out.
R. Adams. Underrated SS having a nice spring training. Gives me tradebait in tejada.
Matos. Having great spring training. Big power numbers so far.
Gibbons. Last pick of draft. Can show power at times.

Pitching:
F. Cordero. Saves
F. Rodriguez. Saves
T. Jones. Saves
C. Carpenter. Need I say more. Wins, ERA, WHIP, Ks
Smoltz. Was awesome last year and just added to more pitches. Near unhittable spring training.
J. Lackey. Improved throughout the year. Puts up monster strikeouts.
Bedard. Great 1st half but got injured and not so great 2nd half. We all know who Balt just hired as pitching coach.
Oliver Perez. Strikeout master but was hurt much of last year. Got him late in a steal.
Byrd. Having nice spring training.
Duchscherer. Striking out everyone in spring training. good for ERA and Whip and if street goes down will be great 4th closer.

Only 1 pitcher was over 4 ERA last year and that was Perez who was hurt. I have 122 saves between my main 3 closers. Figgins will be a stealing machine but could use one more good base thief. Always up for trades.

[Willie Bee]

I have 122 saves between my main 3 closers.

Correction: You had 122 saves. New season and no way in H-E-double hockey sticks Jones saves 40+ again. I do like the Encarnacion and Gibbons picks you made late, however.

[picantel]

yah but look at the awesome players Detroit has. They have that one guy and umm that other guy and you know that one guy. I am playing 2 RPs and 4 SPs anyway unless they are 1 start that week.

[maritime]

I like your team picantel. You beat me to Oliver Perez that round.
I have lots of speed in Bay, Soriano, Freel, and Gathright. Would possibly trade Freel or Gathright as season progresses.