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Originally Posted by mrbaseball
Thanks for all the support! I know everyone here is hitter oriented but that just doesn't work so well in roto. I have another draft tomorrow and will be employing a different strategy (heavy bats/speed and closers). But loading the boat with slow power hitters is a losing strategy. The team I am most worried about is the guy who took RPs in rounds 3 through 7. Hendricks a reach? Probably but when you are at the end there was no way an SP I wanted was getting back to me. There are worse things than an absolute stellar whip/era on a winning team That's if he can even be close to last year and stays healthy but you can say that about anyone.
Any cobbled together pitching staff will suck in roto. It just will. And you cannot ignore steals. If you punt any category you lose.
Year in and year out this sentiment proves to be completely false. Can you build a rotation that will top the pitching rankings if you don't take one in the first 10? Maybe not, but you can very easily build one that's at worst average which coupled with an elite offense will get you to the top
The problem with your sentiment relative to your draft is that you used the 15th overall pick on a guy with a fractured knuckle in his pitching hand who's using a brand new grip this season. There's a chance he pitches well enough to justify the pick in spite of that but there's a greater chance he doesn't
And even if he does you failed to supplement this pick with a single other 9 k/9 starter, so the hypothetical 250 ks scherzer gets you are watered down quickly. You ratios SHOULD be close to the top but the other 3 volume categories are in trouble already
I can't adequately express how bad 1. Blackmon in light of what you followed it up with. I agree with your premise that you need steals in a roto but you have so much more than you need and nothing in power/RBI. You don't even have high upside late round fliers cuz you wasted those picks on middle relievers who might be closers or will be middle relievers. You don't have starters with upside for the same reason