8.5 Danny Duffy

Bryce Harper
Carlos Correa
JD Martinez
Ian Desmond
Jon Lester
Jean Segura
Jose Bautista
Danny Duffy

I have Davis as my #4 closer

8.6 Seung-Hwan Oh

Loading on up on closers with high K/9ip. Between him and Britton I can get 160-180 Ks and 80 saves, plus the ratios are incredible.

C Buster Posey
2B DJ LeMahieu
3B Kris Bryant
OF Nelson Cruz
OF Charlie Blackmon
SP Chris Archer
RP Zach Britton
RP Seung Hwan Oh

We should just enter this draft into a free yahoo league and see what happens.

gary where u at

Agreed

if you need a proxy since a person's not around, and don't want to skip, let me know

It's only been a few hours, but agree we should in general try to be 4 hours max during the day time

This is usually a busy time, commute home, dinner, etc.

Sorry guys, just woke from an unplanned 4-hour fever nap. Give me a few.

I'm going to take Matt Kemp. Reports are he's lost a bunch of weight and is feeling refocused, which is exciting considering the year he had last year. Not counting on a 35/190 repeat necessarily, but he did half of that in the worst possible park, he's out of there and he's batting cleanup.

Tempting to take a closer here, but figure I'll probably get in on the end of the run with my next pick. I don't see much difference between the next bunch of guys, so happy to take the dregs at the end of the tier.

1B: Freddie Freeman
2B: Roughned Odor
3B: Molan Arenado
SS: Francisco Lindor
OF: Gregory Polanco
OF: Matt Kemp

SP: Kyle Hendricks.
SP: Jacob DeGrom

8.8 Jose Quintana

1B - Goldy
2B - Carp
SS - Seager
OF - springer
OF - yelich
OF - Bham

SP - Carrasco
SP - Quintana

Going back to Bautista, this article was really interesting and has a lot of data suggesting he was a good pick:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jose-...-of-the-light/

8.9 Masahiro Tanaka, SP NYY

Im somewhat torn on how many pitchers I should have at this point, but Tanaka is pretty good value here.

C Jonathan Lucroy
1B Joey Votto
2B Dee Gordon
SS Trevor Story
OF Mookie Betts
OF Yoenis Cespedes

SP Justin Verlander
SP Masahiro Tanaka

Seems like a fine time to pick up a 2nd pitcher.

Ya, Dee Gordon put me a little behind where id like to be in HR/RBI at this point, so eager to catch up there.

ugh this spot really sucks for me right now.... hang on

8.10 Edwin Diaz RP-SEA

I wanted Kemp or Tanaka. I got neither so here we are. I need an SS but none of the remaining options work here, and I don't like any of the SP options right now. Same with OF, I can wait and get one of the next tier. So my best option is to grab the best remaining closer, and I believe that's Diaz. Projections love him. Pundits love him. I love him. So he's mine.

C Gary Sanchez
1B Edwin Encarnacion
2B Jose Altuve
3B Kyle Seager
OF Starling Marte
UTIL Chris Davis

SP Jake Arrieta

RP Edwin Diaz

8.11 Craig Kimbrel, RP

the best hitters and pitchers i have in mind aren't worth taking here and i don't want to be stuck holding the bag during the closer run so i'll take the best one on the board

not going to lie, his walk rate is concerning, but whatever. i have kershaw, my whip and era can take the slight bump

1.2 Clayton Kershaw (SP)
2.11 Jonathan Villar (SS)
3.2 Robinson Cano (2B)
4.11 Wil Myers (1B)
5.2 Andrew McCutchen (OF)
6.11 Alex Bregman (3B)
7.2 Anthony Rendon (UTIL)
8.11 Craig Kimbrel (RP)

Going to take a pair of Indians. *shudders*

8.12 Jason Kipnis (2B)

Not super happy about Kipnis as my starting 2B but he is a threat to go 20/20 and I'm hoping to at least get 15/15 out of him, which is alright I guess. It looks like a pretty big drop in quality down from Kipnis to the next 2B. His batted ball profile in 2016 was closer to his 2013 batted ball profile, where he hit 17 HR, so hopefully that version of Kipnis comes back this year. He is pretty tough to gauge performance wise though because his numbers all over the place from season to season.

9.1 Carlos Santana (1B)

Projections don't buy Santana's burst in power last year, but I think he has the right ingredient to hit 35 HR again this year. FB% up in 2016, HR/FB % up in 2016, Hard hit % way up in 2016 - all the ingredients are there to repeat his performance. I don't think it was a fluke at all. he is a steal this late in a draft (even if it isn't an OBP league)

Team
C - Kyle Schwarber (5.1)
1B - Carlos Santana (9.1)
2B - Jason Kipnis (8.12)
SS -
3B - Todd Frazier (7.1)
OF - Mike Trout (1.1)
OF - Mark Trumbo (6.12)
OF -
UTIL -
UTIL -
SP - Chris Sale (2.12)
SP - Corey Kluber (3.1)
RP -
RP -
P - Yu Darvish (4.12)
P -
P -
P -
BN -
BN -
BN -
BN -

9.2 Rich Hill (SP)

those who follow the fbb thread know how well documented my mancrush on hill is. putting that aside for a second, his k/9 and his ratios will be among the best in baseball (holy ****ing **** at the numbers he put up with the dodgers last year). in a h2h this is probably a reach considering the likelihood he actually plays a full season without getting hurt isn't exactly high. in a roto with an innings cap his value jumps significantly and he's a perfect pairing for kershaw

1.2 Clayton Kershaw (SP)
2.11 Jonathan Villar (2B, 3B, SS)
3.2 Robinson Cano (2B)
4.11 Wil Myers (1B)
5.2 Andrew McCutchen (OF)
6.11 Alex Bregman (3B)
7.2 Anthony Rendon (3B)
8.11 Craig Kimbrel (RP)
9.2 Rich Hill (SP)

Team
C -
1B - Wil Myers
2B - Robinson Cano
SS - Jonathan Villar
3B - Alex Bregman
OF - Andrew McCutchen
OF -
OF -
UTIL - Anthony Rendon
UTIL -
SP - Clayton Kershaw
SP - Rich Hill
RP - Craig Kimbrel
RP -
P -
P -
P -
P -
BN -
BN -
BN -
BN -

Good old Rich "The Blister" Hill

Anyone around to leave a pick with?

sorrry guys passed out on the couch watching tv... looking now