Target & Avoid: New York Yankees

Target Ichiro Suzuki

 

Last month I completed in my 1^st draft of the year. I was able to get Ichiro in round 23; yes it was when he was still unsigned, but round 23 in a twelve team league? Currently he is the 56^th OF off the board at pick 200. Last week he was being taken at 172 over at MDC.

Target & Avoid Baltimore Orioles

Target: Jim Johnson

 

The O’s veteran will have the Closers role sewed up with no competition as compared to last year. The reason is because he successfully closed out the year with 51 Saves in 12’. Not many will think he can replicate last year’s feat or that the O’s will contend again this year, especially with Toronto’s massive upgrade, that is to your advantage.

Target & Avoid: Toronto Blue Jays

Target: Emilio Bonifacio

You have heard the old adage that you can get speed late in your draft. It is true, but even better is to get Speed with position flexibility.

Target & Avoid Boston Red Sox

Here at FBV will will help you prep for your upcoming drafts. We will contniue with our Target & Avoid series for each MLB team. We will examine and breakdown sleepers, rookies and sophomores from each team and tell you what to expect. We will have our "Fix My Team" segmnets and of course position rankings. Glad to be back for 2013 and thanks for following!!

Target & Avoid: Boston Red Sox

Target: Will Middlebrooks

Third Base is much more concentrated than one may see at first glance. With the emergence of\ Chase Headley (highly overrated) the loss of Jose Bautista to the OF, Chipper retiring and other 3B regulars like Youk, A-Rod and Michael Young all well over their prime comes the next generation.

My Completed Draft Breakdown

Completed my first pert draft of the season a couple of weeks ago; this will be a league where no FA pickups or trades will be made. It’s a 5x5 Roto and you play all year with what you drafted. The team will be 2C, MI, CI, and 5 OF with standard other positions. With that in mind I did not want to take to many chances on Rookies or possible platoon players and wanted studs in the rotation. Here is my team after drafting from the 7^th position. The breakdown of the draft after the break.

C	VICTOR MARTINEZ
C	RUSSELL MARTIN
1B	ADRIAN GONZALEZ
2B	GORDON BECKHAM
3B	RYAN ZIMMERMAN
SS	ALCIDES ESCOBAR
CI	RYAN HOWARD
MI	JEAN  SEGURA
OF	ANDREW MCCUTCHEN
OF	CAMERON MAYBIN
OF	JON JAY
OF	TYLER COLVIN
OF	TORRI HUNTER
UT	ADAM DUNN
SP	FELIX HERNANDEZ
SP	CC SABATHIA
SP	ZACH GREINKE
RP	JOEL HANRAHAN
RP	JJ PUTZ
RP	RAFAEL BETTANCOURT
P	ROY HALLADAY
P	MATT GARZA
P	HOMER BAILEY
B	CARLOS MARMOL
B	ICHIRO SUZUKI
B	JOSH BECKETT
B	OMAR INFANTE
B	LONNIE CHISENHALL

Ready for Baseball

Just finished 1st draft of year and am heading on vacation for a week. When I come back its baseball writing time. Thanks for your support throughout the year as we approach 50k hits on site and my 400th post. Let me know if there are any topics you want me to cover before Spring training.

2013 HOF Ballot

Here is the just released list. Just finishing up 1st draft and will have results by this weekend. Its time to get serious about baseball again. Like Bill Veeck said" There are only two season: Baseball and Winter."
Sandy Alomar Jr.
Jeff Bagwell
Craig Biggio
Barry Bonds
Jeff Cirillo
Royce Clayton
Roger Clemens
Jeff Conine
Steve Finley
Julio Franco
Shawn Green
Roberto Hernandez
Ryan Klesko
Kenny Lofton
Edgar Martinez
Don Mattingly
Fred McGriff
Mark McGwire
Jose Mesa
Jack Morris
Dale Murphy
Rafael Palmeiro
Mike Piazza
Tim Raines
Reggie Sanders
Curt Schilling
Aaron Sele
Lee Smith
Sammy Sosa
Mike Stanton
Alan Trammell
Larry Walker
Todd Walker
David Wells
Rondell White
Bernie Williams
Woody Williams
The holdovers from last year’s ballot are Bagwell, Martinez, Mattingly, McGriff, McGwire, Morris, Murphy, Palmeiro, Raines, Smith, Trammell, Walker and Williams.  All the rest are new.