03/18: My Team in the Yankees Bloggers League
Posted by: Patrick
The other night, the Yankees Bloggers League had it's draft. We had 14 teams and 21 rounds, making for a total of 294 players drafted. I drew the 4th pick overall and selected David Wright, after A-Rod, Hanley Ramirez and Ryan Howard had been taken off the board. Over the next four rounds, I selected Derek Jeter at 25, Robinson Cano at 32, Dan Hared at 53 and Bobby Abreu at 60.
Here are my hitters:
C - Jorge Posada (7, 88)
1B - Adrian Gonzalez (9, 116)
2B - Robinson Cano (3, 32)
3B - David Wright (1, 4)
SS - Derek Jeter (2, 25)
OF - Bobby Abreu (5, 60)
OF - Kosuke Fukudome (13, 172)
OF - Aaron Rowand (15, 200)
UTIL - Jose Guillen (OF) (16, 221)
OF - Michael Bourn
1B/2B/3B - Ty Wigginton
1B/3B - Aubrey Huff
With Fukudome in the 13th, I was looking at my team and with over half the draft done, I only had one outfielder (Abreu). You can fit what I know about Kosuke on a quarter of a sticky note, but I did some quick research and decided to give him a try. In the final two rounds, I saw that I already had 9 pitchers and only one bench player - and no bench infielders - so I looked for players with multi-position eligability. I ended up drafting Wigginton and Huff.
The pitchers:
SP - Dan Haren (4, 53)
SP - Fausto Carmona (6, 81)
SP - Chad Billingsley (10, 137)
SP - Chien-Ming Wang (11, 144)
SP - Andy Pettitte (14, 193)
SP - Kyle Kendrick (19, 256)
RP - Mariano Rivera (8, 109)
RP - Jason Isringhausen (12, 165)
RP - Brandon Lyon (17, 228)
I was a little surprised to see Mariano hang around as long as he did. Yahoo! shows that he is drafted, on average, at 90.8 in their leagues. In a league of Yankees bloggers, he falls to 109. I was glad to pick him up, of course, as my first closer. I'm pretty happy with my team. Though, that always tends to be the case before the season. We'll see what happens after it gets started.
Here are my hitters:
C - Jorge Posada (7, 88)
1B - Adrian Gonzalez (9, 116)
2B - Robinson Cano (3, 32)
3B - David Wright (1, 4)
SS - Derek Jeter (2, 25)
OF - Bobby Abreu (5, 60)
OF - Kosuke Fukudome (13, 172)
OF - Aaron Rowand (15, 200)
UTIL - Jose Guillen (OF) (16, 221)
OF - Michael Bourn
1B/2B/3B - Ty Wigginton
1B/3B - Aubrey Huff
With Fukudome in the 13th, I was looking at my team and with over half the draft done, I only had one outfielder (Abreu). You can fit what I know about Kosuke on a quarter of a sticky note, but I did some quick research and decided to give him a try. In the final two rounds, I saw that I already had 9 pitchers and only one bench player - and no bench infielders - so I looked for players with multi-position eligability. I ended up drafting Wigginton and Huff.
The pitchers:
SP - Dan Haren (4, 53)
SP - Fausto Carmona (6, 81)
SP - Chad Billingsley (10, 137)
SP - Chien-Ming Wang (11, 144)
SP - Andy Pettitte (14, 193)
SP - Kyle Kendrick (19, 256)
RP - Mariano Rivera (8, 109)
RP - Jason Isringhausen (12, 165)
RP - Brandon Lyon (17, 228)
I was a little surprised to see Mariano hang around as long as he did. Yahoo! shows that he is drafted, on average, at 90.8 in their leagues. In a league of Yankees bloggers, he falls to 109. I was glad to pick him up, of course, as my first closer. I'm pretty happy with my team. Though, that always tends to be the case before the season. We'll see what happens after it gets started.
