2013 Fantasy Baseball

March 27, 2013

The spring is here and its time for baseball season to start again. 99% of the people that read my blog could care less about baseball, and in reality i could too, but i still love fantasy baseball. I’ve been playing since the early 2000s on a now defunct website called sandlot.com. Back then i didn’t know much about the individual players, but now i can probably name you the utility man sitting on the bench on any team.

bryce-harper — Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals

Most people i know who do play fantasy sports play football which is more of a constant weekly obsession, fantasy baseball is much more of a marathon. Having your first, or second round pick completely bust due to injury or pure worthlessness often has little to do with you year end standing. Its a real marathon of a game that daily you have to monitor who’s gone to the DL, which prospects are being called up from the minors and pick which pitchers you’re going to start.

evan-longoria — Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay Rays

Rotisserie Baseball is my favorite type of baseball league where you gain points based on a total accumulation of specific stats throughout the whole year, rather than a week by week scoring system like head-to-head.

jered-weaver — Jered Weaver, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Last year was a complete failure for my keeper league (a league where you get to keep players from the following year) that i joined with my intern partner Hubert at Shaxon , but after much wheeling and dealing i did what all great managers should do, dump all the players that are performing well enough but aren’t worth keeping for as many studs as you can.

I traded up and got a top 3 player, two CSULB alums, and a rising star to go along with my hold over Joey Votto.

Ryan Braun for Ryan Zimmerman, Shin-Soo Choo, and C.J. Wilson.
Evan Longoria (go beach!) and Bryce Harper for Mark Teixeira and Giancarlo Stanton
Jered Weaver (go beach!) for Ian Kinsler, Adam Jones, and Emilio Bonifacio

I originally went into the draft looking to load up on pitching since i have a tendency to have a weak staff, and luckily found that the reigning AL Cy Young Winner David Price was available to me with the first pick. After that pick i through out my original strategy and went heavy on hitting. Overall i may need to work on my pitching staff once again but at least with two aces it should be a lot easier to deal with. The rest of my drafted as follows: