By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer
I hesitate to write about this because talking about personal drafts does get tiresome, and this will hardly be the last one I mention before Opening Day. However, I actually do think it’s helpful to look at as many drafts as possible, to get a better feel about how things are going down. Anyway, I took part in an industry draft a couple of days ago, and here are the results.
My Team:
C – Joe Mauer
C – Brian McCann
1B – Ryan Howard
2B – B.J. Upton
3B – Edwin Encarnacion
SS – Carlos Guillen
MI – Stephen Drew
CI – James Loney
OF – Johnny Damon
OF – Juan Pierre
OF – Michael Cuddyer
OF – JD Drew
OF – Lastings Milledge
UTIL – Billy Butler
P – Erik Bedard
P – Felix Hernandez
P – Matt Cain
P – Tim Lincecum
P – Yovani Gallardo
P – Pedro Martinez
P – Randy Johnson
P – Barry Zito
P – Orlando Hernandez
Comments: That’s right. I took “Boss Junior” over Johan Santana and Ryan Braun. I also didn’t draft a closer by choice, but I’ll get into that strategy more later on. Honestly, I like this squad a pretty good amount. I mean, I guess I went outside the box by drafting Mauer and McCann pretty early, and like all fantasy teams, I’ll need health to go my way, but I like where I stand in most categories other than saves. I’m not a big fan of the Pierre pick, and Willy Taveras 2-3 rounds later seems like better value, but other than that, these so-called experts are going to be looking up in the standings this year.
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