Start Your Franchise Draft I

[Eyedea]

Detroit Tigers select Jonathan Lucroy, C, 29

Core:
Josh Donaldson
Corey Kluber
Jose Quintana
Jonathan Lucroy

 

[Voight]

KC Royals

SP Michael Wacha
SP Kevin Gausman
OF Michael Conforto
SS Xander Bogaerts

Probably would have gone position player over Gausman, but it was a bit of a knee jerk pick.

 

[SabresSociety]

Atlanta Braves select Alex Bregman, SS, 22

 

[MurrayBannerman]

Atlanta Braves select Alex Bregman, SS, 22

That's a fantastic pick. My opinion of him has skyrocketed so far this season.

 

[SabresSociety]

That's a fantastic pick. My opinion of him has skyrocketed so far this season.

In the last two young I was looking at guys that would help the team in long term and valuing it a lot more than short term success

 

[YNWA14]

The Texas Rangers will take, with their last pick, Masahiro Tanaka.

He seems to be a bit of a forgotten man because of his season last year with arm pain, but he's still super young, is adjusting really well to the arm scare and seems to be healing. He's not throwing as hard but his command and arsenal are great. Under control until 2020.

Texas Rangers
Corey Seager
Yoenis Cespedes
Dee Gordon (looooooool)
Masahiro Tanaka

 

[Pwnasaurus]

The Arizona Diamondbacks select Blake Snell - SP

Arizona

Clayton Kershaw
Salvador Perez
Matt Carpenter
Blake Snell

 

[MurrayBannerman]

The Arizona Diamondbacks select Blake Snell - SP

Arizona

Clayton Kershaw
Salvador Perez
Matt Carpenter
Blake Snell

Your face. I hate it.

 

[Pwnasaurus]

Ironically I took 3 (somewhat) vets and a young pitcher with both of my assignments. I've been extremely impressed with Nola's fastball command in the starts I've seen this year, whereas the sky's the limit with Snell if he can continue to improve his. I thought it was a fun mix for both rosters. Thanks for putting this together Murray, I enjoyed it.

 

[MurrayBannerman]

Ironically I took 3 (somewhat) vets and a young pitcher with both of my assignments. I've been extremely impressed with Nola's fastball command in the starts I've seen this year, whereas the sky's the limit with Snell if he can continue to improve his. I thought it was a fun mix for both rosters. Thanks for putting this together Murray, I enjoyed it.

Yea, I thought this would be a fun one. Gotta figure out a way now to see who "won".

 

[darko]

I thought Tigers did really well.

MVP, top of the rotation SP, another very good arm and a premium backstop.

 

[Pwnasaurus]

Yea, I thought this would be a fun one. Gotta figure out a way now to see who "won".

Maybe separate it out into 3 classes of organization. The upper, middle and lower in terms of resources since that really affected strategy.

 

[darko]

Just realised Dodgers drafted 3 aces and another young potentially very good pitcher haha. Good luck getting a hit of that rotation.

 

[Pwnasaurus]

Just realised Dodgers drafted 3 aces and another young potentially very good pitcher haha. Good luck getting a hit of that rotation.

I thought it'd be fun to just give them a playoff rotation and punt everything else

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

Maybe separate it out into 3 classes of organization. The upper, middle and lower in terms of resources since that really affected strategy.

This. Not a level playing field at all if you are taking organizational resources into play. Honestly rather than ranking them in order (which would also be fine) it might be more insightful for the drafter to post something touching on their strategy and motivation behind the picks and then open it up to analysis and discussion.

 

[Pwnasaurus]

Honestly rather than ranking them in order (which would also be fine) it might be more insightful for the drafter to post something touching on their strategy and motivation behind the picks and then open it up to analysis and discussion.

Good call. I'd be interested in that as well.

 

[darko]

This. Not a level playing field at all if you are taking organizational resources into play. Honestly rather than ranking them in order (which would also be fine) it might be more insightful for the drafter to post something touching on their strategy and motivation behind the picks and then open it up to analysis and discussion.

Agree.

Lot of people have already touched on that while making their picks too.

 

[darko]

I thought it'd be fun to just give them a playoff rotation and punt everything else

Yeah but Price sucks in postseason bro.

 

[Pwnasaurus]

Yeah but Price sucks in postseason bro.

I've heard that.

Maybe we can sit him for April and October? Should still help us get there and then we can replace him in the rotation with 2008 ALCS MVP Matt Garza.

 

[darko]

I've heard that.

Maybe we can sit him for April and October? Should still help us get there and then we can replace him in the rotation with 2008 ALCS MVP Matt Garza.

0-7, prone to giving up long ball etc.

 

[MurrayBannerman]

Maybe separate it out into 3 classes of organization. The upper, middle and lower in terms of resources since that really affected strategy.

That would work. Then we can rank by number.

Also would like to do everyone's top 5 or 10 picks by value.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

That would work. Then we can rank by number.

Also would like to do everyone's top 5 or 10 picks by value.

I wonder if it would have been better to separate them into categories before the draft. I feel like it should be fairly obvious which teams fall into which category but some people might have differing opinions on this.

 

[MurrayBannerman]

I wonder if it would have been better to separate them into categories before the draft. I feel like it should be fairly obvious which teams fall into which category but some people might have differing opinions on this.

I can just make an executive decision on this.

 

[YNWA14]

I'm good with whatever. I can do a little writeup summarizing each of my teams, my picks and my strategy (and how that strategy shifted based on other peoples' picks).

 

[MurrayBannerman]

I'm good with whatever. I can do a little writeup summarizing each of my teams, my picks and my strategy (and how that strategy shifted based on other peoples' picks).

I think that's how we'll do it. I'll probably make a whole new thread for it.