My minor league drafts

by murraygd13 on Jul 12, 2006 10:03 PM EDT Comment 4 comments

Sorry this is similar to another diary but wanted some input from everyone here. Had our minor league drafts tonight and ended up with the following players. Mainly looking at thoughts about when I can expect to see this players help my team out. We can keep 3 minors per team each season I'll list who I drafted tonight and who else is on my roster for rookies.

AL 10 team league 5x5

Drafted tonight:

Round 1: Matt Garza $10
Round 2: Trevor Crowe $5
Round 3: Reid Brignac $2

Kept from before:

BJ Upton (insert into lineup at 3B or SS)
Jerry Owens
Dustin Pedroia
Denard Span

National League 11 team 5x5

Draft tonight:

1st round: Chris Iannetta $10
2nd round: Eric Patterson $5
3rd round: Scott Elbert $2

kept from before

John Maine $2
Travis Ishikawa $2
Scott Thorman $3
Carlos Quentin $10
Tom Gorzelanny $5
Yusmeiro Petit $3
Anibal Sanchez $1
Stephen Drew $10

I fully expect some of these guys to not be rookies by the end of the year just wanted some thoughts. Salaries don't matter until the player is inserted into your lineup then that's his keeper price and price against the salary cap.

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Brignac and Elbert

Getting each at $2 is an absolute steal.

Rays in '08....

by youALREADYknow on Jul 12, 2006 10:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm hoping so

Our league is setup similar to major league baseball as once the player is drafted they are put on your 40 man roster and arbitration starts. So I can have them for this year plus 2 more at $2. If I want to keep them past 3 years I have to increase their salaries up to $7/$12/$17 depending on how long I want to keep them.

by murraygd13 on Jul 12, 2006 10:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

so

basically if you're expecting them to start in the majors next year you don't need to use one of your 3 minors slots on them? that should take care of upton and possibly pedroia on the AL side and quentin, drew, gorzelanny, petit, and maybe anibal on the NL side.

if that's the case, i'd keep the three guys you just drafted on both sides. (you were crazy to take iannetta and patterson over elbert, by the way, but it worked out.)

if pedroia is still down i'd take him over crowe, and if any one of the aforementioned dudes is still in the minors on the NL side i'd lose patterson.

by wily mo on Jul 12, 2006 11:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yes

We have the option of inserting any player into our lineup at the start of our auction. They would go in at the listed salary. We get to keep 3 other rookies who are basically considered ourlast 3 reserve picks.

I took Iannetta 1st since in a 11 team NL only league where you start 2 catchers if you have 2 who can do anything it's a bonus. I also waited on Elbert since I've had bad luck with pitching lately (Prior,Sheets) so I'm trying to keep away from drafting too mcuh pitching. I also already had Sanchez, Petit, Gorzelanny, and Reyes I liked in the NL for young pitchers.

by murraygd13 on Jul 12, 2006 11:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs