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JCacho
YankeesSuck.com Fantasy League 
3/3/06, 4:45pm
Last night, I took part in <b><i><a href="http://Yankeessuck.com's" target="_blank">Yankeessuck.com's</a></b></i> second annual draft, composed of a grand total of 12 teams. In preparation for the draft I thought of taking a strategic order in my picks; first I would grab one of the 'first-pick' players such as Manny or Pujols and such. I ended up picking Jason Bay, who I believe will only get better. After this pick, I remembered about how catchers were talked about in one of the Podcasts, and I remembered theres only about 4 dependable catchers, Pudge, VTek, Mauer, and Martinez. I looked up their stats. I ruled out Pudge because it looks like he is getting older and weaker by the second. I was left with three catchers. I ruled out VTek because although he is a great catcher his BA didn't last year convinced me to cut him. Then I was stuck between Martinez and Mauer, but decided on Mauer on a hunch he'll have a better year. And so my Catcher position was taken care of. Then I proceeded to attempt to grab a 2B, mainly Chase Utley, but he was taken a couple of rounds before me so I proceeded to picking my other infielders, partially monopolizing the closers, grabbing some good OFers and then some utility infielders [Bill Hall, heh] and leaving pitching for last. Why leave pitching for last? Because this is a daily league and since there are no Max. IP, I will continue performing my daily add/drop strategy every day and that will be my pitching, along with some crafty pitching picks. Without further a do, here is my final team:


Starters:

Catcher: Joe Mauer
1B: Lance Berkman
2B: Mark Loretta [yes, I know he is a risk]
SS: Johnny Peralta
3B: Scott Rolen
OF: Jason Bay, Jim Edmonds, Torri Hunter
Util: Travis Hafner

Bench:

Util: Bill Hall
2B: Brian Roberts [ Believe it or not, I picked this guy up around the 17th round. People just skipped over him for some reason]
OF: Brian Giles [Also skipped over]
1B: Mike Sweeney
C: Yadier Molina


Pitching:

SP: C.C. Sabathia
SP: Livan Hernandez
RP: Billy Wagner
RP: Trevor Hoffman
P: Bobby Jenks
P: Chien-Ming Wang
P: Esteban Loaiza [late pick, I believe Beane picked him up for a reason]
Bench: Kerry Wood [ you never know ]


So that's my team. Any suggestions? 

[JCacho from Guaynabo/OTHER]
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