Okay, let's get this Round 2 party started.
Looking at jpeterso's mighty '69 Orioles, they might be as close to a flawless team as any I've seen in this format. They've got two outstanding starting pitchers (Cuellar and Palmer), plus a third who functions as a solid innings eater (McNally). They've got three lights out bullpen arms (Watt, Hall, and Richert), all for under $2.5M apiece. This would be one of the top teams in the draft pool just based on its pitching alone.
But the pitching is just the beginning. Going around the diamond, the O's are littered with studs, as 7 of their 8 regular position players sit right in the $80M salary sweet spot between $4.5M and $7.5M. They're all full-time players, logging 580+ PAs, but they're all relatively affordable since none of them logs a ton of surplus PAs (>685) that would drive up their total cost. Moreover, they're a diverse lot: there are great hitters (Frank Robinson and Boog Powell); great fielders (Davey Johnson, Mark Belanger, and Brooks Robinson); great two-way players (Paul Blair); and a high-OBP switch-hitter who figures to be a perfect leadoff man (Don Buford).
Now we're talking about one of the all-time great Bad Neighbor rosters, but we're still not done, because the O's also have that rare and under-appreciated Bad Neighbor commodity: cheap backups. At 1B, 2B, and OF, they've got filler options that all cost less than $610K, meaning that it will be hard to squeeze them too much on the salary front.
So with such an embarrassment of riches, what's a bad neighbor to do?
Well, I don't think there's a single team in the pool that can really hurt jpeterso, but I can try to make sure they get a team that doesn't help at all. And knowing that I'm getting screwed next, I'm going to pick the team that I most want to avoid getting stuck with:
The 1969 San Diego Padres, losers of 110 games.
Boy, what a pile of yuck. The pitching is pretty bad, but the offense has to rank among the most anemic in all of baseball history. They scored just 468 runs in 162 games (2.89 runs per game), which is the third-fewest of all-time. Their best hitter--1B Nate Colbert--is the only man on the roster to post an OPS over .800, and he does that only just barely (.804). They've got a cheap backup catcher that I'm sure jpeterso will be glad to use, but that's about as good as it gets.
So that's my pick. At least I won't get stuck with these bums. Though I'm not looking forward to finding out which bunch of sad-sacks I have to work around...