This year I did one team and it's a 12 team public league where I had some really awesome competitors.

 

Anyway, my studs:

 

Cabrera - 8th round

Konerko - waiver wire

Nathan - waiver wire

Burnitz - waiver wire

Benitez - 11th round

Burnett - waiver wire

Pavano - 12th round

Lidge - waiver wire

Estrada - waiver wire

 

Duds:

 

Barry Zito - 5th round

Bartolo Colon - 6th round

Delgado (pre-ASB) - 3rd round

studs

pavano - waiver wire

ajb - waiver wire

beltre - waiver wire

nathan - waiver wire

schmidt - 4th round

benitez - 15th round

 

duds

pre ASB delgado - 3rd round

bret boone

Keeper league with a bunch of friends.. I'm in first right now.. winner gets about 200 bucks

 

 

Good:

 

Miguel Cabrera, 7th round

David Ortiz, 8th round

Al Leiter, 18th round

Moises Alou, 20th round

Carl Pavano, 22nd round

 

 

Bad:

 

Brandon Webb, 6th

Arthur Rhodes, 9th

Jose Contreras, 11th

No one's mentioned Loaiza or Halladay yet. I'm surprised.

I took Loiaza and Halladay in leagues... I did pick up Beltre from FA in atleast 2 leagues... and I had drafted Sean Casey in 2 of my leagues... Pavano off FA. Drafted Palmeiro and Giambi in one league... those were busts. Picked Mariano Rivera in one league... leads MLB in saves.

12 team, private league

Busts:

Round 7 - SS Kaz Matsui

Round 12 - INF Placido Polanco

Round 23 - INF Mark DeRosa

Round 24 - P Ryan Wagner

 

Good:

Round 14 - P Armando Benitez

Round 16 - OF Jeromy Burnitz

Round 20 - P Francisco Cordero

 

Good FA Pickups this Year: C Victor Martinez is the best

Stupidest Move of the Year: Dropping Johan Santana. Had that horribly start, I figured hitters had finally started to figure out his pitching, so I dumped him. Bad mistake.

 

My trade of the year was trading Aubrey Huff for Ichiro Suzuki and Brett Myers. I had power set with Burnitz, Pujols, Bagwell, Cabrera, etc., so Suzuki was a huge pickup for me.

 

Even with those big busts (and dropping Santana), Im in the finals right now. Pretty close race.

I only did one trade and it was: Jeff Kent for Jason Marquis.

 

I got Kent and right after I got him he got real hot and the Astros went on their 11 game win streak.

Good Picks

12th pick Cabrera

13th pick Odalis Perez

14th pick Corey Patterson

15th pick Pavano

16th pick Ben Sheets

17th pick J.D. Drew

 

Those were my steals and they all came back to back

 

Bad Picks

 

3rd Pick B. Wagner

4th Pick P. Wilson

9th Pick Berroa

10th Pick Nomo

 

I had two awesome trades the first was Huff and B. Giles for Sexson and Santana, I made this trade just before the season began.

 

The Second trade was Lowell and Grissom for Abreu and Sean Casey, I traded Lowell when he was red red hot and Abreu was still slumping in the beginning of the year. I had to make a trade for a 1st Baseman because this is when Sexson went down.

 

My best free agent pick up was Melvin Mora

 

I did win my League, I won on a technicality because we were tied at the end of the match up and I had the lower ERA, but whatever my team rocked !

This was my team at the end of the season through various trades and pick ups

 

Hitters

C. Wilson (Pit - C,1B,LF,RF)

D. Lee (ChC - 1B)

O. Hudson (Tor - 2B)

M. Mora (Bal - 3B,LF)

R. Furcal (Atl - SS)

C. Beltr?n (Hou - CF)

B. Abreu (Phi - RF)

A. Huff (TB - 1B,3B,RF,DH)

J. Drew (Atl - CF,RF)

C. Patterson (ChC - CF)

 

Pitchers

J. Westbrook (Cle - SP)

J. Halama (TB - SP,RP)

J. Patterson (Mon - SP,RP)

E. Gagne (LA - RP)

B. Wagner (Phi - RP)

S. Chac?n (Col - SP,RP)

J. Affeldt (KC - SP,RP)

B. Sheets (Mil - SP)

B. Zito (Oak - SP)

B. Col?n (Ana - SP)

J. Santana (Min - SP,RP)

C. Pavano (Fla - SP)

C. Sabathia (Cle - SP)

 

This is a link to my leagues draft, my team is Big Mikeys Ballers

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/584/draftresults