Draft Day

[billroper]

Our annual APBA baseball draft is over. I was expecting to have a rebuilding year (and still am), finishing fourth in the computer half of the season.

It was sad to cut Jeff Bagwell, Ken Griffey Jr., and Chipper Jones, but the team was getting a bit long in the tooth. I added Francisco Rodriguez, Juan Uribe, B.J. Upton, Jeremy Bonderman, Justin Morneau, Alexis Rios, Luis Rivas, Phil Nevin, and J.D. Closser in the draft.

Now we'll see if I can keep the team over .500.

Comments

[jennlk]

As long as Bonderman doesn't pitch against the Indians, you're fine. :)

But isn't Nevin getting a little long in the tooth himself?

[billroper]

Yeah, I saw he had a bad day today. But one bad outing does not a season break.

Nevin is quite long in the tooth, but he's a one-season expedient I grabbed with my last pick as a backup catcher behind Paul LoDuca and he'll also pick up at bats at first base, since he's got a more useful card this year than either Teixeira or Morneau. It did mean that I was happy to grab Closser as a catcher prospect in the XB round, since Mauer went to the fellow with the first pick there. (We don't play with the "extra" cards that APBA issues, but we allow you to take one player from that group as a futures pick.)

[jennlk]

Historically (hah! just over 2 seasons, but 8 decisions already) he doesn't do well against the Indians (2-6, ERA over 7). Then again, it was only one bad inning.

[billroper]

Maybe he's starting a new trend, given that the bad inning was the first one.