After a somewhat disappointing season and a constant battle with the injury bug, the Re-Tods find themselves in an optimal spot this offseason heading into the draft. With possible first round keepers and the first choice in the D.O.S.O., it makes sense for the Re-Tods to keep players of later round ADP and simply use the first pick to just snatch up whichever Round 1 keeper he decides to let re-enter the free agent pool with his Round 1 pick.
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Via multiple trades, the Pucketteers put together a squad poised to make a strong playoff push in 2011, but the go-for-broke style trading is now catching up with the "win-now" manager. After assembling a bevy of big names with Round 1 ADP, the Pucketteers left themselves with a depleted stockpile of 2012 draft picks. The lack of a Round 3 pick assures that either Halladay, Pujols, or love interest Ryan Braun must be let go (so long Roy). This makes Justin Upton with an ADP of 4 the most likely candidate to fill keeper slot #3 for the team. Add to this the fact that the Pucketteers also traded away 2012 draft pick #5, and it looks like we have ourselves a beer bitch until Round 6.
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Another year, another Shitface Dickfarts championship. In a bold move leading up to the 2011 draft, Shitface Dickfarts kept 3 pitchers, effectively putting the rest of the league into panic mode on draft day in search of new hurlers. With the low ADP of 6, you can guarantee that 2011 Cy Young winner Justin Verlander will have a "k" next to his name come draft time. Following the mantra of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", there is a good chance that Felix Hernandez and Jared Weaver are adorned with "k's" as well to round out the klan for the reigning champ.
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Being faced with the second overall pick of the 2011 draft, Pinstripe Pirates was also faced with the age old dilemma of taking the best player available or taking a good player at a position with absolutely no depth. Spoiler Alert: Pinstripe Pirates opted for choice B to take A-Rod and decided to leave Robinson Cano to slide further down in the draft. Does he regret it? I can't say for certain because all therapy files have to remain confidential due to law, but I'd bet my non-dominant thumb that it still keeps him up at night. The effects of this past draft day event may definitely be lingering in the air of the war room for the San Antonio based club. It's almost nightly that I receive updated keeper thoughts from the manager. After Kemp, you can pretty much just throw a dart at last year's roster of the GQ Buccaneers to pin-point who the other two klansmen will be entering 2012.............scary thought, after typing that last sentence, I may have given the exact methodology to be used this year by the shell-schocked veteran.
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After a multi-year hiatus, the club formerly known as the Cowhide Joyride decided to kickoff his second stint with what has evolved into the Backstop Boys Fantasy Baseball League. But in his brief time away from the league, it changed in ways that his brain couldn't even fathom. It reminded me a lot of Brooks from "Shawshank Redemption". Finally he is re-introduced into society armed solely with the memories of a simpler time, a time when he was last involved in this magical world, only to find that now the world "went off and got itself into a damn hurry". No longer were highlighters and gas station receipts suitable to put together a team, it now required research and spreadsheets. After stumbling out of the gates when the season kicked-off, The Grease Missiles were able to put together a slew of high profile pieces down the stretch that will provide very solid building blocks heading into 2012. Now if he shows up this year with a 24-color pack of Crayolas and dry-erase board, look out.
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