Tips for my first fantasy baseball draft

Draft stats, not names.

Have a strategy, and realize that it has to in some way deviate from the strategy that every jerkoff reads on Yahoo.

Roll the dice on people with high upsides.

 

Thanks guys. that's good stuff.

I had been decidedly anti-roto for decades, and I'm still not down with getting all obsessed about it, but i'd like to give myself a reasonable team.

I'm still a little fuzzy on how to rate pitchers vs. position players. Where in teh draft should I be looking at getting good starting pitchers?

Also, it just seems to me that maybe the difference between a good team and a bad team is in the guys you draft down low, because everyone is looking at the same rankings for the premium guys, right? What are some tips for getting the nuggets in the 15th-25th round?

 

Here's another thing: Say that the best available player on my first pick is Albert Pujols, and the best on my 2nd pick is Ryan Howard. Should I take 'em both and put one on the bench and plan on making a trade soon after?

 

Don't draft Pujols at all.

 

It's a long season. The draft is a lot less important than the moves you make over the next few months.

 

A bad draft can definitely hurt you, though.
Really the most important thing is jumping on the young guys that come up or the 27-year-olds who finally fulfill all that promise, before anyone else grabs them.

 

I hope I'm in a league with Angola! and buckweaver so I can take Russell Martin as the fifth catcher selected! ;D

 

I too am doing my first fantasy baseball league.

I've been doing fantasy football for a good 10 years now and I'm the commissioner of both my leagues.

Unfortunately, my football knowledge gets me nowhere here.... so any more sound advice.

Thanks to whoever posted the thing about catchers.... it seems like Catchers are the baseball version of tight ends. If you don't get one of the top 6... just start getting fifth string running backs.

 

With catchers, I might even push it further and say don't draft one until the late rounds.
The only way I'm taking a catcher early on is if it is the 6th round and one of the four Buck and I mentioned is available, otherwise, I'm loading up on pitching.

 

I want in a league where Martin doesn't make the conversation with those four, too.

 

Draft all the top closers you can in the first four rounds. You'll have a bargaining chip with the rest of the league.

 

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