And if I hear about this 9,000 times over the next five years I'll fully deserve it.
Gather round and hear ye a tale of sordid, unvarnished greeeed...
1. The week before, in Justin's draft, there were guys like David Ortiz, Jorge Posada (as a C!) and Ricky Nolasco available in rounds 6-10.
2. I'd stuffed my roster with guys I thought were falling 25, 50, 75 slots.
3. And the Yahoo draft "suggester" still had Pineda and Bedard nowhere in sight. 80-90% of picks were players visible in the top 20 lines of the Yahoo auto-picker.
4. So drafting rounds 11-12 (mixed league) I took both Pineda and Bedard around the corner. Had my cake and ate it too.
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In the SSI league, Phil Hughes was the #7 starter overall -- equivalent to guys like Justin Verlander and Jered Weaver, because our points system over-weights W's and QS's, and Hughes pitches for the Yankees. PECOTA also foresaw a big year for Hughes.
I took Hughes in round 6, far later than the other top-10 AL starters went.
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Drafting last in the AL-only league, with double-picking #12/13 etc, rounds 7 and 8 came up and I wanted Pineda/Bedard... but I had no outfielders whatsoever, and took Damon and Nishioka on the turn ..... gambling desperately that I'd again get to have my cake and eat it too.
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With TWO picks left and Matty up at #10 in round 9, both were there for me and for the first time in the draft I was going to draft in two seconds each...
Matt took Pineda and I broke down in hysterical sobbing.
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Did get Bedard and Ka'aihue, who was pegged by PECOTA as a top-25 overall in our points system, and Dallas Braden (LOL) and J.D. Drew even 25 picks after that.
Matt read my blog. That was the last I saw of the 2011 roto championship.
Anybody want to buy a pencil for a nickel?
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It's probably been 5+ leagues since I drafted a Mariner, but in two leagues the BABVAns did wind up with Pineda and Bedard in 3 of 4 opportunities. That 4th one, Matt took my 2011 SSI championship away from me.
:sob:
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