Dan Haren, 7.7M. Will write up more after last pick.

Figured I better get some more innings, albeit, not great innings...

Ryan Sadowski, $402,863  (Final salary = $79,988,399)

Luis Hernandez, $200,000, final salary is $79,978,133

Posted by brianjw on 10/19/2013 1:36:00 PM (view original):
Dan Haren, 7.7M. Will write up more after last pick.

I hope you can explain to Dan why he was picked after CC and Halladay. I think he is going to take this personally ;-)

Batting Stats

bardin	Pos	Bats	PA162	AB162	HR	SB	AVG#	OBP#	SLG#	OPS#	Speed	Defense	Salary
Ruiz, Carlos	C	R	379	322	9	3	0.256	0.354	0.412	0.765	44	A/A+/C-	2,376,324
Hanigan, Ryan	C	R	293	251	3	0	0.265	0.360	0.318	0.678	41	A+/A/A+	2,450,097
Dunn, Adam	1B	L	668	546	38	0	0.269	0.397	0.515	0.912	60	D/C	4,773,223
Izturis, Maicer	2B	S	437	387	8	13	0.297	0.356	0.411	0.767	77	A/C-	3,240,139
Lopez, Felipe	2B	S	297	259	3	0	0.322	0.406	0.434	0.840	64	C/B	2,438,103
Ramirez, Aramis	3B	R	344	307	15	2	0.319	0.388	0.502	0.890	59	C/C-	2,719,119
DeRosa, Mark	3B	R	314	278	13	1	0.267	0.338	0.433	0.772	60	B+/D	1,693,840
Bartlett, Jason	SS	R	567	500	14	30	0.317	0.385	0.466	0.851	86	C/D+	4,503,721
Hernandez, Diory	SS	R	93	85	1	0	0.142	0.197	0.203	0.400	66	A+/D+	232,652
Hernandez, Luis	SS	R	81	73	0	1	0.204	0.253	0.203	0.457	63	A/D-	200,000
Choo, Shin-Soo	OF	L	685	583	20	21	0.298	0.390	0.465	0.855	76	C/B-	5,371,188
Holliday, Matt	OF	R	670	581	24	14	0.315	0.393	0.501	0.894	76	B-/D+	5,299,353
Drew, J.D.	OF	L	539	452	24	2	0.276	0.388	0.498	0.887	71	A-/D	3,973,997
Total / Avg			5367	4624	172	87	0.289	0.376	0.453	0.828	67		39,271,756
brianjw	Pos	Bats	PA162	AB162	HR	SB	AVG#	OBP#	SLG#	OPS#	Speed	Defense	Salary
Martin, Russell	C	R	588	505	7	11	0.251	0.350	0.317	0.667	53	B+/A+/B-	3,589,487
Zaun, Gregg	C	S	99	94	4	0	0.285	0.320	0.466	0.785	49	C+/B+/D-	551,026
Johnson, Nick	1B	L	574	457	8	2	0.293	0.425	0.391	0.816	53	C-/C+	3,780,034
Garko, Ryan	1B	R	273	239	11	0	0.282	0.358	0.441	0.799	53	B/D	1,566,695
Zobrist, Ben	2B	S	599	501	27	17	0.295	0.401	0.519	0.920	78	A-/D	4,669,972
Blanco, Andres	2B	S	138	123	1	0	0.254	0.302	0.329	0.631	66	A+/D-	548,285
Figgins, Chone	3B	S	729	615	5	42	0.295	0.391	0.371	0.762	91	A-/B+	6,727,915
Aybar, Erick	SS	S	556	504	5	14	0.309	0.349	0.400	0.749	77	A/A	5,374,801
Victorino, Shane	OF	S	694	620	10	25	0.294	0.357	0.431	0.788	87	A/B	6,043,846
Fowler, Dexter	OF	S	518	433	4	27	0.267	0.362	0.393	0.755	93	B/C-	3,382,134
Bradley, Milton	OF	S	475	395	12	2	0.259	0.377	0.384	0.760	69	B/D+	2,814,923
Pierre, Juan	OF	L	425	380	0	30	0.310	0.364	0.379	0.743	95	A/D-	2,636,932
Total / Avg			5668	4866	94	170	0.285	0.372	0.401	0.773	75		41,686,050
mensu1954	Pos	Bats	PA162	AB162	HR	SB	AVG#	OBP#	SLG#	OPS#	Speed	Defense	Salary
Rodriguez, Ivan	C	R	448	425	10	1	0.247	0.276	0.361	0.638	45	B/A+/A-	2,794,751
Paulino, Ronny	C	R	266	239	8	1	0.274	0.339	0.409	0.748	41	A/A+/B-	1,952,085
Butler, Billy	1B	R	672	608	21	1	0.299	0.358	0.468	0.826	52	B-/C-	4,504,026
Carp, Mike	1B	L	65	54	1	0	0.312	0.411	0.439	0.851	53	C/C	379,119
Roberts, Brian	2B	S	717	632	16	30	0.281	0.352	0.427	0.780	80	B/D+	4,873,162
Young, Michael	3B	R	593	541	22	8	0.319	0.371	0.494	0.864	62	A-/D-	4,401,341
Vizquel, Omar	SS	S	195	177	1	4	0.263	0.312	0.323	0.636	67	A+/C-	1,113,232
Valdez, Wilson	SS	R	95	86	0	0	0.258	0.325	0.325	0.650	68	A+/D-	402,175
Counsell, Craig	SS	L	459	404	4	3	0.286	0.356	0.395	0.751	66	A+/D	3,409,370
Prado, Martin	OF	R	503	450	11	1	0.309	0.357	0.451	0.807	59	B-/C-	3,674,844
Hairston, Scott	OF	R	216	197	10	8	0.301	0.357	0.519	0.876	82	A-/C	1,902,299
Markakis, Nick	OF	L	711	642	18	6	0.290	0.344	0.430	0.774	70	C+/D+	4,329,799
Abreu, Bobby	OF	L	667	563	15	30	0.291	0.386	0.412	0.798	83	C-/C	4,462,530
Brantley, Michael	OF	L	121	112	0	4	0.310	0.355	0.327	0.682	84	B-/C-	748,060
Total / Avg			5728	5130	137	97	0.290	0.351	0.427	0.778	66		38,946,793
schwarze	Pos	Bats	PA162	AB162	HR	SB	AVG#	OBP#	SLG#	OPS#	Speed	Defense	Salary
Molina, Yadier	C	R	544	481	6	9	0.295	0.365	0.369	0.735	46	A/A+/A+	4,553,598
Miller, Corky	C	R	111	95	1	0	0.188	0.281	0.245	0.526	41	A+/A/D	352,274
Votto, Joey	1B	L	544	469	25	4	0.324	0.412	0.553	0.966	54	C/C	4,828,011
Castillo, Luis	2B	S	580	486	1	20	0.304	0.386	0.333	0.719	77	B/C+	4,109,401
Baker, Jeff	2B	R	225	204	4	0	0.307	0.361	0.435	0.795	60	A/C+	1,786,432
Sandoval, Pablo	3B	S	633	572	25	5	0.332	0.386	0.542	0.928	60	B/D	5,492,985
Scutaro, Marco	SS	R	680	574	12	14	0.280	0.375	0.387	0.762	70	A/C	5,099,536
Swisher, Nick	OF	S	607	498	29	0	0.247	0.367	0.474	0.841	66	C+/D+	3,922,824
Coghlan, Chris	OF	L	565	504	9	8	0.323	0.389	0.446	0.835	74	C/D-	3,871,625
Davis, Rajai	OF	R	432	390	3	41	0.303	0.357	0.400	0.757	94	B/B-	3,361,167
Morgan, Nyjer	OF	L	212	191	1	24	0.353	0.395	0.421	0.816	94	B/A-	2,255,822
Fuld, Sam	OF	L	115	97	1	2	0.301	0.408	0.399	0.806	74	B/D-	714,240
Total / Avg			5248	4561	117	127	0.301	0.378	0.434	0.812	67		40,347,915

Pitching Stats

bardin	Throws	IP162	ERC#	OAV#	WHIP#	HR9#	BB9#	K9#	Salary
Vazquez, Javier	R	219	2.32	0.225	1.02	0.65	1.7	6.7	7,285,545
Jurrjens, Jair	R	215	2.92	0.238	1.21	0.49	3.0	5.0	5,831,498
Wolf, Randy	L	214	2.78	0.229	1.09	0.81	2.3	5.2	6,016,603
Carpenter, Chris	R	193	2.06	0.228	1.00	0.25	1.7	5.2	6,972,134
Washburn, Jarrod	L	133	2.35	0.221	1.05	0.55	2.2	4.4	3,997,826
Hanson, Tommy	R	128	2.90	0.227	1.18	0.56	3.1	5.9	3,431,729
Masset, Nick	R	76	2.15	0.205	1.02	0.56	2.7	6.0	2,413,741
Frasor, Jason	R	58	2.04	0.206	1.00	0.45	2.4	6.3	1,924,126
Vargas, Claudio	R	42	1.88	0.179	0.95	0.51	3.1	5.0	1,373,600
Kensing, Logan	R	35	8.62	0.359	2.00	1.76	4.2	4.0	209,137
Mortensen, Clayton	R	28	6.75	0.317	1.75	1.29	3.8	3.2	200,000
Betancourt, Rafael	R	25	1.36	0.191	0.86	0.27	1.7	6.9	1,050,438
Total / Avg		1366	2.71	0.230	1.11	0.59	2.4	5.4	40,706,377
Exlcuding mopups		1303	2.46	0.224	1.07	0.55	2.3	5.5	40,297,240
brianjw	Throws	IP162	ERC#	OAV#	WHIP#	HR9#	BB9#	K9#	Salary
Halladay, Roy	R	239	2.83	0.254	1.11	0.61	1.3	5.9	6,438,312
Sabathia, C.C.	L	230	2.67	0.230	1.13	0.52	2.6	5.8	6,705,939
Haren, Danny	R	229	2.40	0.226	1.00	0.86	1.4	6.2	7,722,470
Lilly, Ted	L	178	2.64	0.232	1.05	0.91	1.7	5.7	5,020,233
Aceves, Alfredo	R	84	2.45	0.218	0.99	0.81	1.7	5.6	2,464,152
Guerrier, Matt	R	75	2.25	0.205	0.95	0.90	1.8	4.5	2,303,449
Baez, Danys	R	72	2.83	0.219	1.11	0.75	2.7	4.2	1,811,985
Breslow, Craig	L	55	2.03	0.188	0.98	0.60	2.9	5.5	1,815,785
Penny, Brad	R	42	2.14	0.206	0.95	0.88	1.9	3.7	1,166,447
Choate, Randy	L	36	2.34	0.211	1.05	0.74	2.7	5.4	961,583
Ni, Fu-Te	L	31	1.95	0.185	0.97	0.64	3.1	4.8	942,968
Gray, Jeff	R	26	3.79	0.276	1.27	0.77	1.3	5.1	410,871
Herges, Matt	R	25	2.94	0.238	1.17	0.80	2.1	5.1	506,752
Total / Avg		1323	2.58	0.229	1.06	0.73	1.9	5.6	38,270,946
mensu1954	Throws	IP162	ERC#	OAV#	WHIP#	HR9#	BB9#	K9#	Salary
Hernandez, Felix	R	239	2.51	0.225	1.12	0.41	2.6	6.1	7,477,806
Verlander, Justin	R	238	2.83	0.240	1.16	0.55	2.3	7.0	6,775,663
Greinke, Zack	R	229	2.21	0.227	1.05	0.31	2.0	6.7	7,969,016
Lester, Jon	L	203	3.10	0.240	1.21	0.66	2.8	6.9	5,345,003
Peavy, Jake	R	102	2.53	0.218	1.11	0.56	2.9	6.7	3,038,361
Rowland-Smith, Ryan	L	96	2.96	0.237	1.16	0.62	2.5	4.1	2,399,019
O'Day, Darren	R	56	1.79	0.185	0.93	0.35	2.7	6.3	2,095,853
Hoffman, Trevor	R	54	1.46	0.185	0.90	0.26	2.2	5.9	2,292,067
Soria, Joakim	R	53	2.59	0.217	1.11	0.63	2.7	7.7	1,549,149
Mathis, Doug	R	43	2.96	0.241	1.13	0.63	2.1	4.4	940,268
Sherrill, George	L	41	2.51	0.217	1.12	0.48	2.8	6.2	1,150,691
Total / Avg		1354	2.58	0.228	1.11	0.49	2.5	6.4	41,032,896
schwarze	Throws	IP162	ERC#	OAV#	WHIP#	HR9#	BB9#	K9#	Salary
Lee, Cliff	L	232	3.19	0.270	1.22	0.48	1.6	5.4	5,774,723
Lincecum, Tim	R	225	2.05	0.208	1.04	0.31	2.6	7.0	8,586,876
Jimenez, Ubaldo	R	218	2.92	0.231	1.22	0.42	3.4	5.9	6,518,505
Pineiro, Joel	R	214	2.89	0.270	1.14	0.36	1.1	3.7	5,618,259
Bailey, Andrew	R	83	1.32	0.164	0.86	0.39	2.5	6.9	3,904,495
Bedard, Erik	L	83	2.85	0.209	1.17	0.64	3.6	6.8	2,302,642
White, Sean	R	64	2.15	0.212	1.07	0.30	2.7	3.4	2,042,890
Garcia, Freddy	R	56	2.98	0.257	1.19	0.47	1.9	4.8	1,301,408
Adams, Mike	R	37	0.62	0.112	0.59	0.19	1.9	7.2	2,569,430
Martinez, Joe	R	30	7.32	0.352	1.93	0.98	3.5	4.6	214,351
Sadowski, Ryan	R	28	4.51	0.266	1.58	0.50	5.2	4.4	402,863
Tazawa, Junichi	R	25	8.82	0.373	2.04	1.11	3.1	3.9	200,000
Gosling, Mike	L	25	5.75	0.289	1.62	1.45	3.9	4.0	204,042
Total / Avg		1322	2.91	0.242	1.17	0.45	2.4	5.5	39,640,484
Excluding mopups		1242	2.63	0.234	1.13	0.40	2.4	5.6	39,022,091

Draft Strategy

Coming in with the #2 pick, I knew that my pick would be a solid starting pitcher.  Having allotted $41M max for the pitching staff and wanting at least 1330 non mopup innings I knew I couldn't spend a lot more than $35,000/IP on more than a very few pitchers.  I usually like a solid bullpen, but after looking at the possibilities I knew that wasn't going to happen.

I wanted Molina at catcher, but was hoping to get him in round 3.  When that couldn't happen, I didn't think about that position until well into the draft.  I like Paulino but IRod is there because his arm isn't terrible and he has plenty of PA's.

Butler at 1B was someone I had looked at from the beginning because of his doubles and low cost.  But 1B had several useful options that were cheaper so I didn't worry about that until late.

Roberts at 2b was also someone I wanted early as he has decent speed , average, and can hit doubles.  Plus he has over 700 PA for under $5M.

Love Michael Young at 3B except that he can't play everyday.  I wanted him all along.

SS is a position that I really concentrate on, but the selections were either too expensive for my tastes or the fielding wasn't what I wanted.  I had to shift gears here somewhat in midstream, but I'm not too worried about the position.

OF...whew!  I thought Abreu was a bargain because he has somewhat decent speed, draws some walks, doesn't kill you on defense, and full time for under $4.5M.  I might have taken him too early, but still glad I got him.  Makakis is every day with over 700 PA and can hit doubles for under $4.4M.  Prado will play there for most of his PA, but will help at 3B.  I loved getting Hairston and Brantley to finish out my PA in the OF, plus can PH.  Speaking of PH, I love Carp for the price.

Pitching Staff - Boy, do we give up the long ball!  I am happy to have 1350+ IP of non mopup, but will have to micro manage the staff a bit off and on.  

THE GOOD:  I was pretty happy with my team until I saw the stats that schwarze put up for each team.  The good:  decent average, pretty decent fielding, plenty of PA, most hitters can hit doubles.  Pitching...the WHIP is decent, but the HRA is worse than I had hoped. (But hey, it was 2009!)

The BAD:  Lack of OBP, plus not as much speed as I like, range isn't very good, plus the bullpen is thin. 

W-L prediction:  This is a very solid group of owners...I'm going to be optimistic and say 82-80.

It was a fun and quick draft for not being on the clock...great job everyone!

Draft Strategy

Things went mostly as I expected, so there wasn't a huge amount to report. The aim was to get a fairly boring team - lots of OBP, pitchers who don't give up walks, and don't spend too much money on HR that will be wasted against the 1909 teams. And I mostly did that. There were a handful of setbacks.

Like everyone, I guess, I wanted Molina at C. The fallback options are OK, but not great. Really thought about Victor Martinez at C, but his arm is so weak, that it would have been scary, especially against the 1909 teams. So Martin is fine; B arm looks OK for this league.

I was hoping to get Jarred Washburn so I'd only have to draft 3 SP. When that didn't happen I had to juggle a little bit.

Aybar and Zobrist is a really nice middle infield, but they are both a bit short of PAs. That's OK I thought, there's a great Omar Vizquel season, and no one will take a backup middle IF particularly early. Oops. Andres Blanco is an OK fallback, but not what I'd planned.

And the Vizquel pick led to a run on $6M pitchers. So I had to juggle a bit. My first plan was to slip back to get one of Lester or Becket, but I couldn't see how to spend enough $ to get to the salary cap if I did that. So I cut back a little on my plans - I had thought about taking the super-expensive Beltran - and budget for Haren. It was pretty clear by that time that no one else was going to take him, so I figured I'd leave him for round 25, and move to the top of the draft board.

Haren isn't great value, but he might be OK. The big thing is his hitting. If he ends up with 8 more hits than the average pitcher, it will be a bad deal for me. If he ends up with 20 more, it will be great. The final number will probably be closer to 8 than 20, but you never know.

I think most people take too many IP in high K leagues. If I'd been brave, I would have tried to get by with 1250 IP, which I think would be enough. As it is, I'll avoid micromanaging, and hopefully be able to get the matchups I want.

There are really only 2 things I dislike about the team, and they go together a bit. One is the high HR rate. I don't think with the hitters in this league that will kill me, but I'll clearly lose a few games that way. And I have a little worse outfield defense than I like. But otherwise, this is basically the kind of team I usually run, which isn't what I always get in a draft league. I even ended up with platoons in 1B and LF, which means I'll have good hitters off the bench without wasting a roster spot. So that could have been worse.

My idea behind picking 2009 was that it had lots and lots of good players, at every position, without having many great players who could distort the draft. I think that's basically how it has played out. I'm hoping this division collectively ends up well above .500, because we'll be playing teams who have really bad players in key roles.

Draft Strategy:

Actually, I don't want to give up some nuggets of info, because it might actually apply to the franchise draft too. However, I think I can divulge most of my strategy. In general, I wanted a team that had balance on offense, with no weaknesses anywhere. I believed there would be more homers than usual, but I didn't want to sell out on homers (although I really did consider taking Uggla at 2B and Reynolds at 3B), because, as brianjw said, the 1909 league was going to depress homers somewhat. However... in our own division and in the other modern league division, I think there will be more homers than usual, so I wanted to be part of that. And conversely, I wanted to keep the homers given up by my pitchers to a reasonable minimum.

I didn't really want Molina at all. I wanted all along a part-time catching situation with one guy who has a great arm, and the other who can hit somewhat, but doesn't have a noodle arm. Hannigan was the perfect 1st half of that, and I had targeted Wieters as the 2nd half, but as it turned out, I could afford Ruiz, who is a bit better.

I felt Adam Dunn was a significant bargain at 1B, although for obvious reasons, but I wanted those homers, walks, and ABs for a price under 5mil so I took him early. It looks like I could have probably waited on that pick.

After my first pick of Carpenter, I employed the only time when I used the gambit of drafting someone low-priced to move to the front of the draft; I drafted Washburn, allowing me to draft Vasquez (or King Felix, either was fine with me). Then, I didn't worry too much about pitching for awhile.

In general, I like my team. It definitely has balance. I clearly have more homers than anyone in the division, but I have several players who can run too, including Choo who is an excellent percentage base-stealer. My AVG and OBP are good, I think. My pitchers collectively have numbers that I'm satisfied with, including the homers allowed.

I will probably update this post later, after the franchise draft is more underway. There are some other strategies I didn't mention.

I do appreciate that we drafted 2009, after looking at some of the other drafts. Thanks for that brianjw!