2010 Fantasy Baseball Thread

[Guest Need4Sheed]

O yeah!

 

This is my first year. Sorta pumped.

 

It will probably help me get into MLB a lot more than usual.

 

I'm in a 12 team league for $200 per team.

 

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Any tips on drafting is greatly appreciated.

Edited March 8, 2010 by Need4Sheed

[Phightins]

Fantasy baseball is the second best fantasy game IMO (after football of course).

 

My only tip is stay away from pitchers in the really early rounds. I guess it all depends on your settings though. Definitely stay away from relief pitchers until the end of the draft, you can always find some late round steals (for example, my closers last year were Jonathan Broxton and Heath Bell, and I got them pretty late). Going for big name closers early on is not the best idea. So just pay attention to the teams with closers jobs up in the air in spring training and see who they settle on.

Edited March 8, 2010 by Phightins

[Guest Need4Sheed]

It's a rotisserie league too.

 

I think I'd rather have head to head since I'm a noobie but I'm paired up with my best friend and he played these leagues b4.

[Phightins]

10-team league drafted last night....

 

C: Geovany Soto

1B: Kendry Morales

2B: Robinson Cano

3B: Aramis Ramirez

SS: Troy Tulowitzki

OF: Ryan Braun

OF: Ichiro Suzuki

OF: Nick Markakis

Util: David Ortiz

Util: Hunter Pence

Util: Clint Barmes

BN: Adrian Beltre

 

SP: Javier Vazquez

SP: Josh Beckett

SP: Chad Billingsley

SP: Jered Weaver

SP: Matt Garza

SP: Randy Wolf

SP Johnny Cueto

RP: Jose Valverde

RP: Trevor Hoffman

 

 

I'm pretty satisfied with it. Some guy in the league took Lincecum, Halladay, and Sabathia with his top 3 picks. I, meanwhile, didn't draft a pitcher until round 8 and I think my staff isn't half bad.

Edited March 29, 2010 by Phightins

[Guest Need4Sheed]

Tulowitzki is badass.

[Phightins]

I find that in Yahoo leagues, lots of good pitchers make it down to the later rounds since people rely only on the Yahoo rankings, which most of the time are terrible. So I think my strategy of avoiding pitchers until late paid off pretty well.

[CaliCurbStomppa]

Did somebody from OTR make a baseball draft and has it already been done if not i'd like to be in one?

[Teletopez]

Eight-team league.

 

C- Yadier Molina

1B- Miguel Cabrera

2B- Howie Kendrick

3B- David Wright

SS- Jose Reyes

OF- Ichiro Suzuki

OF- Jayson Werth

OF- Denard Span

Utility- Aramis Ramirez

Bench- Kendry Morales

Bench- Nick Johnson

Bench- Juan Pierre

 

SP- Zack Greinke

SP- Matt Garza

SP- Ricky Nolasco

SP- Jair Jurrjens

RP- Phil Hughes

RP- Daniel Bard

RP- Rafael Soriano

[KurbyFX]

Hopefully Heyward tears it up. Have him in both my leagues.

[bigdog17k]

I need to pickup a decent 3B player, any advice?

[NomarFachix]

Need to give a little insight as to who's available.

[bigdog17k]

Mark Teahen, Chris Davis, Casey McGehee, Brandon Inge

 

That's about it for this league I'm in, currently using Chase Headley. It's a keeper league, so you're limited on what you can pickup. But I'm basically rollin' with the entire Phillies/Angels roster. Just don't have a good 3B.

[NomarFachix]

Headley has been popping this year, I don't see a reason to replace him until he slows down. When he does, I like Teahen and McGehee the most out of that list. McGehee will provide the better power numbers, Teahen will likely be on base more often.