NFBC Draft Champions - RJ entry

[frae]

since then, Pham, Seager, Murphy, Suarez. If Clevinger or Taillon or Flaherty gets back to us I will be thrilled. Eight picks to go.

Tailon goes, but next two guys have 2 SP's so let's assume they don't take SP's so 5 picks. to go. Someone will probably bite on Stras, I guess my question that we didn't talk about much since I think we assumed Stras would go is where do we rank him?

By ADP they have it has Flaherty, Stras, Clev, and Greinke. If they were all to go I am not sure we take Berrios yet, maybe we look at getting the closer of our choice. Anyway the picks will probably help tell us what to do.

[mjl]

for what it's worth, Sporer has them Clevinger, Price, Strasburg, (gap), Greinke, Wheeler, Berrios, Flaherty; Nick Pollack (pitcherlist) has them Clevinger, Wheeler, Strasburg, Greinke, Flaherty, Price, Berrios.

[Pauly]

Im not a Price lover....seems too high for Berrios where we are. I also dont want to be married to the NY Mets (Wheeler). I hate having to root for them (I know, I know). Holding out hope for Clev/Flaherty.

[frae]

Springer and Cain go to the guys with 2 SP's. 4 picks before us now and all 3 are built as 3 hitters and 1 SP. They could go closer, SP, or load up on hitting.

[Pauly]

Stras vs. Greinke. I feel like Greinke is the safer of the two. A Thor/Stras 1-2 carries so much risk. I guess we are dead if we lose either one anyway, but I would lean Greinke. Everyone forgets how solid he is year-in, year-out. I'd still rather have Flaherty than both.

[Hornsby]

Stras vs. Greinke. I feel like Greinke is the safer of the two. A Thor/Stras 1-2 carries so much risk. I guess we are dead if we lose either one anyway, but I would lean Greinke. Everyone forgets how solid he is year-in, year-out. I'd still rather have Flaherty than both.

Just an FYI, Greinke hasn't reported to camp yet...he's supposedly healthy, but IIRC, his velocity was down last year, and Arizona is going to be worse as a team.

[Pauly]

Just an FYI, Greinke hasn't reported to camp yet...he's supposedly healthy, but IIRC, his velocity was down last year, and Arizona is going to be worse as a team.

Other than the team being bad, this is the same old story for Greinke. Every year he reports late, every year his velo is down in ST and every year he slips in drafts because of it. Ive made a lot of profit off of his spring velocity in the past 3 years. All that said, he went before we had the chance.

[Ken]

Stras vs. Greinke. I feel like Greinke is the safer of the two. A Thor/Stras 1-2 carries so much risk. I guess we are dead if we lose either one anyway, but I would lean Greinke. Everyone forgets how solid he is year-in, year-out. I'd still rather have Flaherty than both.

We’re not “dead” due to a lower than planned sp2 if it plays out like that. We should avoid picks due to panic like that. Really good base has been built for this team. May require more pitching hits later but this team is not “dead” based on a 5th round pick.

[Pauly]

We’re not “dead” due to a lower than planned sp2 if it plays out like that. We should avoid picks due to panic like that. Really good base has been built for this team. May require more pitching hits later but this team is not “dead” based on a 5th round pick.

I meant if we lose Thor or Stras in-season we would be dead...or in big trouble.

[frae]

Well everyone in front of us avoided the closer run and put us to a tough choice. With three guys behind us who only have 1 pitcher between them we know pitching will go. Only 2 of the elite closers are gone and we see 3 more elite closers (Kimbrel, Jansen, and Chapman) and we also agree on Vazquez or Osuna as a good fall back plan if all 3 go. So after some debate if we wanted to gamble on an SP coming back we decided to take Berrios and see what the back end does with closer. Even in a dooms day scencario where someone doubles up with closer we should still get one of our guys and hopefully that pressures the front half of the draft to panic on closers.

So our sp 2 at 5.12 is Jose Berrios and the plan is to take a closer coming back around at 6.4.

[frae]

The back end of the draft continue to ignore pitching. After us they took

Villar
Rosario
Peraza
Castellanos
Dahl
Price

So between the 3 teams they now have 2 total pitchers. Gonna be interesting to see how it goes there. So all 3 closers came back to us. We settled on Jansen.

SS Lindor
OF Yelich
UT K Davis

SP Thor
SP Berrios
CL Jansen

Now to wait and see what comes back around.

[Big Tymer]

Nice start!

[mjl]

The teams in slots 13-15 still have very few pitchers so our default plan is to take pitcher in the odd numbered rounds and hitters in the even. That combined with most of the interesting multipositional players around our ADP going right before us (Myers, Carpenter, Shaw in the four picks before us) and one of the last SPs we really liked still being available worked out.

SS Lindor
OF Yelich
UT K Davis

SP Thor
SP Berrios
SP Mikolas
CL Jansen

we're discussing Haniger vs Upton for our next pick.

[Ken]

Madbum and Folty, the two pitchers we were discussing along with Mikolas, went in the 2 picks immediately after us.

[Pauly]

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The latest draft board. Most are on board with best offensive player available at this point, although the drop-off at 1B and 2B are concerns. If anyone wants to take a stab at the thought process of team 15, that would be interesting. We are team 12.