Martins Maulers, A 2013 Fantasy Baseball Draft Diary

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Round 42
Team #15- RP Darren Oliver
Team #14- SP Felipe Paulino
Team #13- RP Wesley Wright
Team #12- SP Tim Stauffer
Team #11- SP Scott Feldman
Team #10- OF Tyler Moore
Team #09- OF Alex Presley
Team #08- RP Phil Coke
Team #07- SP Daisuke Matsuzaka
Team #06- OF Eric Thames
Team #05- RP Jim Henderson
Team #04- 1B Joe Mahoney
Team #03- C George Kottaras
Team #02- SP Jake Odorizzi
Team #01- RP Joel Peralta

Round 43
Team #01- C Gerald Laird
Team #02- SP Brad Peacock
Team #03- RP Jose Arredondo
Team #04- SP Philip Humber
Team #05- SP Josh D. Fields
Team #06- OF Casper Wells
Team #07- OF Shane Robinson
Team #08- RP Kyle Farnsworth
Team #09- OF Jason Bourgeois
Team #10- 1B Casey Kotchman
Team #11- OF Tony Campana
Team #12- OF George Springer
Team #13- SS Brian Dozier
Team #14- RP Rex Brothers
Team #15- C Jose Molina

Grabbing a MR flyer, though now that Chapman is closing again, Jose is that much further away from sniffing the closer job. Kotteras was just insurance in case anything happens to Perez.

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Round 44
Team #15- 2B Jonathan Schoop
Team #14- C Austin Romine
Team #13- SP Liam Hendricks
Team #12- OF Gary Brown
Team #11- RP Matt Thornton
Team #10- 2B D.J. LeMahiue
Team #09- RP Aaron Crow
Team #08- SS Grant Green
Team #07- SS Marwin Gonzalez
Team #06- 3B Luis Valbuena
Team #05- OF Jake Marisnick
Team #04- SP Anthony Bass
Team #03- RP Jesse Crain
Team #02- 3B Ryan Wheeler
Team #01- CF DeWayne Wise

Round 45
Team #01- 3B Matt Davidson
Team #02- C Hector Gimenez
Team #03- SP Roberto Hernandez
Team #04- SS Pedro Florimon
Team #05- SP Jeremy Hefner
Team #06- SP Martin Perez
Team #07- RP Tim Collins
Team #08- 2B Carlos Sanchez
Team #09- C Martin Maldanado
Team #10- 1B Lyle Overbay
Team #11- SP Zach Britton
Team #12- C Hank Conger
Team #13- OF Chris Denorfia
Team #14- SS Brenden Ryan
Team #15- RP Ronald Belisario

Well, as speculative picks go,Arredondo and Crain aren't looking too good. Hernandez looks like he's gonna win the 5th spot in TB so that's a decent pick for the moment.

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Round 46
Team #15- SP Mike Pelfrey
Team #14- SP Blake Beavan
Team #13- 3B Kevin Kouzmanoff
Team #12- OF Gorkys Hernandez
Team #11- RP Antonio Bastardo
Team #10- C Miguel Olivo
Team #09- 3B Alex Liddi
Team #08- SP Jair Jurjens
Team #07- 3B Elliot Johnson
Team #06- SP Rich Harden
Team #05- SP Carlos Martinez
Team #04- SP Neftali Feliz
Team #03- SS Hak-Ju Lee
Team #02- SP Luke Hochever
Team #01- RP Stephen Pryor

Round 47
Team #01- RP Franklin Morales
Team #02- SP Jonathon Sanchez
Team #03- SP Allen Webster
Team #04- OF Jonathon Singleton
Team #05- SP Alex White
Team #06- OF Brandon Barnes
Team #07- SP James Paxton
Team #08- OF Jordan Schaefer
Team #09- 3B Miguel Sano
Team #10- RP Christian Garcia
Team #11- SP Jarred Cosart
Team #12- RP Joba Chamberlain
Team #13- 1B Carlos Lee
Team #14- C Josh Thole
Team #15- SP Taijuan Walker

I drafted Lee in this format last year and I don't think he got above AA. If he gets the call this year he'll likely play and provide some speed. Don't know much about Webster except Gammons was tweeting good things about him the day I made this pick. He's first in line if anything happens to any of the starting 5.

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Round 48
Team #15- RP Brad Ziegler
Team #14- 1B Bryan LaHair
Team #13- RP Charlie Furbush
Team #12- SP Carlos Carrasco
Team #11- C Tony Cruz
Team #10- 2B Freddy Galvis
Team #09- RP Alfredo Aceves
Team #08- 3B Josh Vitters
Team #07- OF Michael Choice
Team #06- SS Tyler Patronicky
Team #05- RP Bryan Morris
Team #04- 3B Connor Gillaspie
Team #03- OF Charlie Blackmon
Team #02- 3B Chipper Jones
Team #01- 2B Robert Andino

I don't know if Blackmon will get a chance to play, but I believe he'll be quality if he does.

Round 49
Team #01- SP Daniel Bard
Team #02- OF Jorge Soler
Team #03- SP Chris Young
Team #04- RP Steve Delabar
Team #05- C Christian Bethancourt
Team #06- OF Ezequiel Carrera
Team #07- SP Garrtt Richards
Team #08- 1B Laynce Nix
Team #09- OF Jerry Sands
Team #10- SP Michael Olmsted
Team #11- SS Jose Iglesias
Team #12- SP Kevin Gausman
Team #13- SP Tyler Cloyd
Team #14- RP Brad Lincoln
Team #15- RP Sean Burnett

I've had a Chris Young crush his whole career, and I feel bad every year when he gets hurt, for him and me. But I'm guessing he gets a chance to start somewhere and he'll be pretty decent. Until he gets hurt.

Round 50
Team #15- RP Jerry Blevins
Team #14- SP Randall Delgado
Team #13- SP Hector Santiago
Team #12- RP Arodys Vizcaino
Team #11- RP Jason Frasor
Team #10- 3B Jack Hannahan
Team #09- C Taylor Teagarden
Team #08- SP Roy Oswalt
Team #07- SP Bruce Chen
Team #06- C Brayan Pena
Team #05- OF Trayvon Robinson
Team #04- OF Brandon Guyer
Team #03- C Tim Federowicz
Team #02- 2B Jimmy Paredes
Team #01- SP Kevin Slowey

Eh, top Dodgers catching prospect, supposed to be good with the bat but not a lot of power or speed, whatevs.

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Martins Maulers

Hitters
C- Salvador Perez
C- Carlos Ruiz
1B- Adam LaRoche
2B- Jose Altuve
SS- Alcides Escobar
3B- Miguel Cabrera
MI- Everth Cabrera
CI- Pedro Alvarez
OF- Jason Heyward
OF- Nick Swisher
OF- Carlos Quentin
OF- Will Venable
OF- Jonny Gomes
UT- Kendrys Morales

Pitchers
P- David Price
P- Gio Gonzalez
P- R.A. Dickey
P- Ian Kennedy
P- Jaime Garcia
P- Chad Billingsley
P- Shelby Miller
P- Jose Veras
P- Frank Francisco

BENCH
C- Eric Kratz
C- George Kottaras
C- Tim Federowicz
1B- Chris Parmelee
2B- Jemile Weeks
SS- Jamey Carroll
SS- Hak-Ju Lee
3B- Scott Sizemore
3B- Greg Dobbs
OF- Skip Schumaker
OF- Oscar Taveras
OF- Yasiel Puig
OF- Roger Bernadina
OF- Charlie Blackmon
SP- Vance Worley
SP- Cory Luebke
SP- Lucas Harrell
SP- Johan Santana
SP- Roberto Hernandez
SP- Allen Webster
SP- Chris Young
RP- Luke Gregerson
RP- Brian Wilson
RP- Koji Uehara
RP- Octavio Dotel
RP- Jose Arredondo
RP- Jesse Crain

Francisco will probably start the season on the DL so I'll swap someone in. I kind of like this team.

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God do I look the fool. How bad was this team in week 1? 15th out of 15, that's how bad. A good 105 points out of 1st place. Huzzah. Last in BA, Runs and HR as well as saves.

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Hitters
Starters	Pos	AB	BA	R	HR	RBI	SB
Adam LaRoche	1B	13	.000	0	0	0	0
Kendrys Morales	1B	28	.321	2	1	6	0
Jose Altuve	2B	28	.286	0	0	2	0
Greg Dobbs	3B	3	.000	0	0	0	0
Miguel Cabrera	3B	23	.304	5	0	6	0
Pedro Alvarez	3B	25	.080	0	0	1	0
Erik Kratz	C	21	.190	3	1	3	0
Salvador Perez	C	30	.200	1	0	0	0
Carlos Quentin	LF	13	.308	2	0	3	0
Jonny Gomes	LF	11	.273	2	0	0	0
Jason Heyward	RF	24	.083	5	1	2	1
Nick Swisher	RF	25	.200	3	0	1	0
Will Venable	RF	15	.133	1	0	0	0
Alcides Escobar	SS	28	.250	4	1	4	3
Everth Cabrera	SS	22	.182	3	0	0	2
Totals		309	.204	31	4	28	6

Pitchers
Starters	Pos	IP	ERA	W	WHIP	K	SV
David Price	SP	11.0	8.182	0	2.000	7	0
Gio Gonzalez	SP	6.0	.000	1	.667	5	0
Ian Kennedy	SP	13.0	4.154	1	1.077	12	0
Jaime Garcia	SP	12.1	2.919	1	1.216	14	0
R.A. Dickey	SP	10.2	8.438	0	1.969	9	0
Vance Worley	SP	11.0	5.727	0	1.818	5	0
Jose Veras	MR	3.0	9.000	0	2.333	3	0
Octavio Dotel	MR	1.2	10.800	0	2.400	1	0
Shelby Miller	MR	5.1	3.375	1	1.500	4	0
Totals		74.0	5.351	4	1.554	60	0

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That's just some crazy awful stuff right there.

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update on how shitty you are doing please

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And now for some reason it wont let me save the copying of stats

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Let's put it this way, I'm bottom 4 in every category except wins, k's, rbi's and steals. I'm awful. Martin has disavowed co-ownership of this team.

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The Maulers have climbed into 11th place. Huzzah!

Our hitting is actually 5th best in the league. It's the abtrocious pitching that has done me in. Dickey, Price and Kennedy all have ERA's over 5. Not what you want from 3 of your top 4 pitching picks. Worley is unstartable. I have no idea what happened to him. People forget that JA Haap had two really stellar seasons in Philly but turned into something else entirely when he was traded. I think Worley is suffering the same fate. I have no idea what to call this syndrome.

A few weeks ago I decided to just put Gregerson and Uehara into the starting lineup just to try and save some semblence of ERA and WHIP and i've been decent. But yeah. At some point I'll go over my abysmal draft but I can tell you right now that David Price and Jason Heyward in rounds 2 and 3 pretty much sums up how bad this team is.

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We've climbed into 8th place on the heels of Yasil Puig and a pitching staff that is actually competent. I'm still averaging less than 5 points per pitching category but I have two closers now in Veras and Koji, and Dickey & Price are poised to start throwing some gems. I'm 15 points out of 7th place but if I can finish in the top half of the league I'd be more than happy.