Just a note that I’ll be going on vacation tomorrow, so I don’t think I’ll be posting anything for the next couple of days.
Anyway, I was bored the other night, and I had a couple hours free, so I went to Mock Draft Central.
The results of the draft can be found here .
Some notes:
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I was fairly happy with my squad. As always, I focused on offense early, taking Holliday, Ortiz, Morneau, Hafner, Cano, Bay, and Figgins with my first 7 picks, before shifiting my attention to pitching, and I was able to put together a very solid rotation (Haren, Smoltz, Cain, Liriano, Schilling, Snell, Pettitte, Blanton)
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Getting Wagner in the 9 and Mariano in 11 round I thought were great value picks. They are not in the top 4 closers(Putz, Papelbon, KRod, Nathan) but both are on very good teams who should win a lot a games, and thus get plenty of save opps)
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Normally, I’m not a big Figgins guy, but I basically ignored speed in the early rounds, so I needed to get a specialist. Getting him the 7th was a great value. Let’s also not forget he did hit .330 last year.
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Someone else got Byrnes in the 7th, right before I took Figgins. I think that was the steal of this draft. He should go before Chris B Young (which was not the case here)
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I’m not as high on him as some others (due to his ballpark, lineup, inconsistency) but Adrian Gonzalez at the end of the 9th round was a nice pick too.
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I got some flak for taking Liriano in the 13th, but I am fine with gambling on my #4 SP with #1 upside there.
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Someone took Russell Martin before V-Mart. I don’t like that. I know Martin runs, but it’s not like he is Vince Coleman. V-Mart is better.
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I was surprised to see Peavy go before Johan, but in speaking with others in the draft room, there were a lot of people who agreed. That’s fine. They are all wrong though.
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