elfudge35
06-07-2005, 11:19 PM
In my first entry of June I will discuss my new fantasy team. Just yesterday I signed up for another league. I set it as an auto-pick league as to not draw my drafting “strategy” into question. I ended up with the first pick and with my first pick I selected:
Raul Chavez
Yeah, Raul Chavez. Followed by Chad Moeller and Willie Bloomquist and Brandon Duckworth and Jason Smith and Joe McEwing and BJ Upton and Gavin Floyd and so on and so on. I think you get the picture. I mentioned recently that I might try to see how well I could do with a team of pickup guys totally void of stars. Well here it is. My entire team was drafted from guys ranked 1000 or higher in Yahoo’s rankings. Of course, I will drop everybody who I drafted and begin picking up the leftovers of the league.
With an initial waiver period of three days, I will have to stick with this team until Friday, but as soon as the waiver period clears I have a string of moves already set up. As long as nobody else puts in a waiver request for any of these players (getting the first pick gave me last waiver priority) this is how my team should shape up:
C A.J. Pierzynski
1b Tino Martinez
2b Craig Biggio
3b Morgan Ensberg
ss Felipe Lopez
of Damon Hollins
of Richard Hidalgo
of Ryan Klesko
ut Nick Johnson
bn Rob Mackowiak
bn Yadier Molina
bn David Eckstein
sp Cory Lidle
sp Scott Kazmir
rp Todd Jones
rp Ryan Dempster
p Dan Kolb
p Ryan Wagner
p Huston Street
p Brett Tomko
p Kyle Davies
I was quite surprised to see so many closers available after the draft, but they are all guys who are ranked well below their value as they were not perceived as closer options until recently. Other closers available: Brian Bruney, Tyler Walker, Brian Fuentes and whoever is closing for the Royals.
I think my starting pitching will shape up nicely. I think Kazmir is a stud and will be around for a while. I haven’t decided whether or not I will try to make this the best it can be or stick with my initial idea of keeping just the players readily available in most leagues. I have decided to keep my pitcher picks constricted to pitchers making two starts in a given week and this would be an interesting idea for this team. I'm going to keep a specific number of relief pitchers on the team to balance the staff and that would be a strict reflection on who’s available in my particular league. If I can get the five relievers I chose I think my bullpen will be formidable.
I’ve decided to keep my lineup as the top player at each position over the past month. I think I should have decent numbers. I will probably use my bench just for the purpose of getting as full of a lineup in there I can each day, getting players on Monday and Thursday to fill in for whoever is off that day.
This will be an ongoing column with updates at least once a week on who I have picked up and where I stand in the league.
Raul Chavez
Yeah, Raul Chavez. Followed by Chad Moeller and Willie Bloomquist and Brandon Duckworth and Jason Smith and Joe McEwing and BJ Upton and Gavin Floyd and so on and so on. I think you get the picture. I mentioned recently that I might try to see how well I could do with a team of pickup guys totally void of stars. Well here it is. My entire team was drafted from guys ranked 1000 or higher in Yahoo’s rankings. Of course, I will drop everybody who I drafted and begin picking up the leftovers of the league.
With an initial waiver period of three days, I will have to stick with this team until Friday, but as soon as the waiver period clears I have a string of moves already set up. As long as nobody else puts in a waiver request for any of these players (getting the first pick gave me last waiver priority) this is how my team should shape up:
C A.J. Pierzynski
1b Tino Martinez
2b Craig Biggio
3b Morgan Ensberg
ss Felipe Lopez
of Damon Hollins
of Richard Hidalgo
of Ryan Klesko
ut Nick Johnson
bn Rob Mackowiak
bn Yadier Molina
bn David Eckstein
sp Cory Lidle
sp Scott Kazmir
rp Todd Jones
rp Ryan Dempster
p Dan Kolb
p Ryan Wagner
p Huston Street
p Brett Tomko
p Kyle Davies
I was quite surprised to see so many closers available after the draft, but they are all guys who are ranked well below their value as they were not perceived as closer options until recently. Other closers available: Brian Bruney, Tyler Walker, Brian Fuentes and whoever is closing for the Royals.
I think my starting pitching will shape up nicely. I think Kazmir is a stud and will be around for a while. I haven’t decided whether or not I will try to make this the best it can be or stick with my initial idea of keeping just the players readily available in most leagues. I have decided to keep my pitcher picks constricted to pitchers making two starts in a given week and this would be an interesting idea for this team. I'm going to keep a specific number of relief pitchers on the team to balance the staff and that would be a strict reflection on who’s available in my particular league. If I can get the five relievers I chose I think my bullpen will be formidable.
I’ve decided to keep my lineup as the top player at each position over the past month. I think I should have decent numbers. I will probably use my bench just for the purpose of getting as full of a lineup in there I can each day, getting players on Monday and Thursday to fill in for whoever is off that day.
This will be an ongoing column with updates at least once a week on who I have picked up and where I stand in the league.