{"id":10389,"date":"2015-04-01T11:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10389"},"modified":"2015-04-02T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:19:22","slug":"fantasy-baseball-2015-my-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10389","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Baseball 2015: my team"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If Kershaw goes down, my fantasy season is in trouble. Photo via wiki.<\/p><\/div>\n

Standard disclaimer; I do this post every year.\u00a0 If you don’t play fantasy, you probably won’t care about the 3,000 words contained herein.<\/p>\n

Because of the sheer number of players discussed, i’ll eschew my normal bolding of all names except those picked for my team so this post is more readable.<\/p>\n

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My annual Fantasy Baseball draft was held this week.\u00a0 Here’s a re-cap of my team and my drafting strategy.<\/p>\n

I had the 4th pick in a 12-team snake draft.\u00a0 6×6 head-to-head league (the extra categories are OPS on the hitting side and Losses on the pitching side).\u00a0 I obtained the 4th pick through a new draft order selection wrinkle introduced this year; instead of our typical double blind method of picking the order, we each submitted our choice of which pick we wanted.\u00a0 I selected the 4th pick, thinking that Kershaw would be available here (or if he wasn’t, then i’d get one of the top 3 hitters who had slipped).\u00a0 I won a coin-toss and kept the 4th pick.<\/p>\n

Strategy<\/strong><\/span>: I wanted to be strong in Starting Pitching.\u00a0 I wanted at least two top-notch closers.\u00a0 I did not want to over-book OF positions early.\u00a0 I would wait for 1B and the middle infield positions.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, here was my team, in order of round selected:<\/p>\n

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  1. Clayton Kershaw, LAD<\/li>\n
  2. Stephen Strasburg, Wsh<\/li>\n
  3. Michael Brantley, Cle<\/li>\n
  4. Corey Dickerson, Col<\/li>\n
  5. Aroldis Chapman, Cin<\/li>\n
  6. Matt Harvey, NYM<\/li>\n
  7. Christian Yelich, Mia<\/li>\n
  8. Brian Dozier, Min<\/li>\n
  9. Chris Carter, Hou<\/li>\n
  10. Joaquin Benoit, SD<\/li>\n
  11. Evan Gattis, Hou<\/li>\n
  12. Michael Wacha, StL<\/li>\n
  13. Santiago Casilla, SF<\/li>\n
  14. Phil Hughes, Min<\/li>\n
  15. Lucas Duda, NYM<\/li>\n
  16. Shelby Miller, Atl * (see below)<\/li>\n
  17. Taijuan Walker, Sea<\/li>\n
  18. Jhonny Peralta, StL<\/li>\n
  19. Adam LaRoche, CWS<\/li>\n
  20. Nick Castellanos, Det<\/li>\n
  21. Brandon McCarthy, LAD<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Round by Round thinking<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    (the notation will be Xth overall pick in our draft, and then the Yahoo o-rank and 2014 rank, and then blended average ADP of the guy selected.\u00a0 the Yahoo “o-rank” is Yahoo’s 2015 projected ranking).<\/p>\n