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So, I did my usual post draft recap last year (title: LV AL Draft Recap), and was in love with the squad. I followed up on the post in May, when I first hit a perfect 80pts (10 team AL 4x4). I tried not to follow up with too many posts about it, as I continued on at 80 pts for (most of) the rest of the season. I think I had a total of a couple of weeks worth of days in the middle of the season at 78-79pts. The team was sick, and everything broke right for me. Health was (generally) very good, pickups were great, players performed. It was a helluva a ride. Final roster:
C - Garver $10 (pickup)
C - Narveaz 10 (pickup)
1 - Olson 7 (keeper)
3 - Ramirez 11 (keeper)
CI - Cron 1 (drafted)
2B - open
SS - Semien 10 (keeper)
MI - Mondesi 10 (pickup)
DH - Palka 5 (pickup)
OF - Trout 53 (drafted)
OF - Betts 44 (drafted)
OF - Benintendi 29 (drafted)
OF - Castellanos 11 (keeper)
OF - Teoscar 10 (pickup)
P - Severino 10 (keeper)
P - Morton 1 (keeper)
P - Paxton 6 (keeper)
P - Glasnow 5 (pickup)
P - Manaea 7 (drafted)
P - Giles 8 (pickup)
P - Leclerc 7 (pickup)
P - Treinan 7 (keeper)
P - Diaz 11 (keeper)
I didnt talk much about the team - with anyone - for the obvious superstitious reasons, as well as not wanting to sound overly braggadocios. But damn. 80 friggin points. Second place finished with 50. Most categories were uncontested, with the pitching ratios the only ones within shouting distance. I've never even heard about a perfect roto season being talked about before. This is a very mature league (24 seasons) and we'd never had a team hit 80 after the first week, let alone an entire season. I still havent really talked it up with league members, although the couple that I've seen since have spoken in awe and reverence. Waiting to see how it's received when we all get together for the draft.
So - have you? Have you ever seen it?
I decided sometime around June that this team was good enough to make a 3 year run, through 2020. I can keep the big three sticks together that long at current price, and have some very good moving parts around them. I had planned on extending Severino a year to keep til '20, but the injury has me scared of that. I'll bold my '19 keepers, and I plan to extend Olson to 12 ('20) to stay with the core. I've also internally debated extending Treinan and Morton, but think both are unlikely.
C - Garver $10 (pickup)
C - Narveaz 10 (pickup)
1 - Olson 7 (keeper)
3 - Ramirez 11 (keeper)
CI - Cron 1 (drafted)
2B - open
SS - Semien 10 (keeper)
MI - Mondesi 10 (pickup)
DH - Palka 5 (pickup)
OF - Trout 53 (drafted)
OF - Betts 44 (drafted)
OF - Benintendi 29 (drafted)
OF - Castellanos 11 (keeper)
OF - Teoscar 10 (pickup)
P - Severino 10 (keeper)
P - Morton 1 (keeper)
P - Paxton 6 (keeper)
P - Glasnow 5 (pickup)
P - Manaea 7 (drafted)
P - Giles 8 (pickup)
P - Leclerc 7 (pickup)
P - Treinan 7 (keeper)
P - Diaz 11 (keeper)
I didnt talk much about the team - with anyone - for the obvious superstitious reasons, as well as not wanting to sound overly braggadocios. But damn. 80 friggin points. Second place finished with 50. Most categories were uncontested, with the pitching ratios the only ones within shouting distance. I've never even heard about a perfect roto season being talked about before. This is a very mature league (24 seasons) and we'd never had a team hit 80 after the first week, let alone an entire season. I still havent really talked it up with league members, although the couple that I've seen since have spoken in awe and reverence. Waiting to see how it's received when we all get together for the draft.
So - have you? Have you ever seen it?
I decided sometime around June that this team was good enough to make a 3 year run, through 2020. I can keep the big three sticks together that long at current price, and have some very good moving parts around them. I had planned on extending Severino a year to keep til '20, but the injury has me scared of that. I'll bold my '19 keepers, and I plan to extend Olson to 12 ('20) to stay with the core. I've also internally debated extending Treinan and Morton, but think both are unlikely.
- Wonderboy
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