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Where Does One Draft Trout This Year? WHIR


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#1 tonywow

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Posted 11 February 2013 - 03:46 PM

Hey all!,

I'm excited another fantasy baseball season is nearing day by day. I was thinking about one player specifically, Mike Trout and where he shouled be drafted. I got lucky and scooped him up in some leagues I was in, was a great producer across the board and should be productive again especially with Hamilton in the lineup.

So say you have a top 1-5 pick in roud 1, is Trout a must pick?

I'm trying to think who else I'd grab if I had a 1-5 1st rounder. Some noteables, Verlander, Felix, Strausburg, Bautista, Pujols, Kemp, Cabrera, and few others I probably missed make the list. I don't think Trout hits the 2nd round in any draft but I'm having a hard time figuering out who would be must drafts before Trout.

What do you guys think?

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Baseball H2H Cats, Non keeper, 10 team, 27 Minimum Innings Pitched

Cats- Rs, Hs, HRs, RBIs, SBs, BBs, AVG, Ws, SVs, Hs, ERs, BBs, Ks, ERA.

C- Rosario
1B- Butler 2B- Everth 3B- Beltre IF- Agon SS- Desmond
LF- Willingham CF- Adam Jones RF- Choo OF- Pence
BN- Dunn, Bj Upton, Swisher, Kipnis, Victor Martinez
DL- Hill
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SP- Felix, Harvey, Cahill, Miller, Ryu
DL- Cueto, Beachey

RP- Kimbrel, Soriano


Players not always in same order shown in sig!

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Posted 11 February 2013 - 04:43 PM

Id take him at 3-4 at worst. Braun and Miggy are much clearer picks imo. I am not saying however trout cannot put up better stats then them. He certainly can and has a high chance of doing so. Though the first two picks arent meant for highest ceiling player but rather safiest elite option that produces at the utmost level. Thats why Pujols was always the first pick even with the huge threat of Hanley massively out producing him(which he didn't).

I like trout at 3 though.
20 team 8 keepers

C-Posey
1b-Brandon Belt
2b- Solano
3b- Brendan Adam
SS-Dee Gordon
OF-Bautistia, mclouth, Crawford
UTIL-Pierre, cosart, Hafner
DL-Stanton
Bench-Zunio, Myers, Taveras

SP-waino.hudson.ogando.slowey.lackey.cole
DL-Jered Weaver. Grienke

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Posted 11 February 2013 - 05:48 PM

For me...
1. Braun and Miggy are definetly 1-2.
2. I like Cano and might go him if I had the No.3 pick in the right setting.

Then 4 - Trout is a strong consideration, maybe you think about Matt Kemp thinking he might return to 2011 form and Trout might regress, I could see one thinking that way and honestly wouldnt take issue with it.  But after that?  Im not seeing much.

So no later than no.5 for me.
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Posted 13 February 2013 - 03:29 PM

In this draft I ended up 5th and got Braun, so that worked out well. The owner with the first pick took Trout. If I had the first pick I still would have gone with Cabrera or Braun personally, after those two guys it gets much tougher. I'd sure like to be able to pick up Trout in FAs again this year like I did last season haha.
Baseball H2H Cats, Non keeper, 10 team, 27 Minimum Innings Pitched

Cats- Rs, Hs, HRs, RBIs, SBs, BBs, AVG, Ws, SVs, Hs, ERs, BBs, Ks, ERA.

C- Rosario
1B- Butler 2B- Everth 3B- Beltre IF- Agon SS- Desmond
LF- Willingham CF- Adam Jones RF- Choo OF- Pence
BN- Dunn, Bj Upton, Swisher, Kipnis, Victor Martinez
DL- Hill
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SP- Felix, Harvey, Cahill, Miller, Ryu
DL- Cueto, Beachey

RP- Kimbrel, Soriano


Players not always in same order shown in sig!

Remember when people used to actually help in return? Ahh the good ol days!

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 03:33 PM

View Posttonywow, on 13 February 2013 - 03:29 PM, said:

In this draft I ended up 5th and got Braun, so that worked out well.

Any open spots in this league for 2014?  Braun 5th?!?!??!

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 05:00 PM

View PostRespectMyAuthority, on 13 February 2013 - 03:33 PM, said:

View Posttonywow, on 13 February 2013 - 03:29 PM, said:

In this draft I ended up 5th and got Braun, so that worked out well.

Any open spots in this league for 2014?  Braun 5th?!?!??!

View Posttonywow, on 13 February 2013 - 03:29 PM, said:

In this draft I ended up 5th and got Braun, so that worked out well. The owner with the first pick took Trout. If I had the first pick I still would have gone with Cabrera or Braun personally, after those two guys it gets much tougher. I'd sure like to be able to pick up Trout in FAs again this year like I did last season haha.
Gotta ask, who else was taken?
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Posted 13 February 2013 - 05:34 PM

Have #1 pick, considering Trout or Braun. Probably leaning towards Trout
12 Team H2H (AVG, OPS, R, HR, RBI, NSB, RC - IP, K, W, QS, ERA, WHIP, K/9, SV)

C:   Salvador Perez
1B: Anthony Rizzo
2B: Chase Utley
3B: Mike Moustakas
SS: Elvis Andrus
OF:   Mike Trout
OF:   Justin Upton
OF:   Yoenis Cespedes
UTIL: Carlos Gomez
Bench : Ryan Howard, Martin Prado, Oscar Taveras

P:   Felix Hernandez, Matt Moore, Jon Lester, Jeff Samardzija, Alex Cobb, Julio Teheran, David Phelps, Andrew Cashner
RP:   Greg Holland, Ernesto Frieri, Bobby Parnell, Heath Bell, David Hernandez
DL:   Michael Pineda, Cory Luebke

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 05:54 PM

View Postparrothead, on 13 February 2013 - 05:00 PM, said:

View PostRespectMyAuthority, on 13 February 2013 - 03:33 PM, said:

View Posttonywow, on 13 February 2013 - 03:29 PM, said:

In this draft I ended up 5th and got Braun, so that worked out well.

Any open spots in this league for 2014?  Braun 5th?!?!??!

View Posttonywow, on 13 February 2013 - 03:29 PM, said:

In this draft I ended up 5th and got Braun, so that worked out well. The owner with the first pick took Trout. If I had the first pick I still would have gone with Cabrera or Braun personally, after those two guys it gets much tougher. I'd sure like to be able to pick up Trout in FAs again this year like I did last season haha.
Gotta ask, who else was taken?

10 team draft.
1. Cano - he explained it by position scarcity
2. Trout
3. Cabrera
4. Kemp
5. Verlander - I still don't understand this, but I think the guy is just a Tiger fan
6.Cargo- To be honest I hadn't quite concentrated yet on the draft and didn't realize Braun had fallen that far. I did want an OF as the league starts 5. The 1st round usually there are no surprises.
7. Braun

So it does happen but it takes a weird set of circumstances.
10 Team H2H Keep 5 Standard categories Record 40-18-2

C-Montero (ARI)
1st-Encarnacion
2nd-Rutledge
SS-Escobar
3rd-Zimmerman
2nd/SS-Gordon
1st/3rd-Fielder
OF-Braun, Morse, Crawford, Saunders,
UTL-Gordon
BN-Jennings, Donaldson, Scutero, Carter
D/L-Hill

SP-Wainwright, Harvey, Medlin, Lynn, Minor, Cobb, Ryu, Lohse, Cingrani, Cashner
RP-None

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 11:04 PM

View Postnovaeagles21, on 13 February 2013 - 05:34 PM, said:

Have #1 pick, considering Trout or Braun. Probably leaning towards Trout
I'll ask you to read the Trout posts in the Fantasy Baseball Talk Forum. I've posted reams of data there why Trout has less than a 15% chance statistically to even put up top-15 numbers this year. I'm not saying it will change your mind, I'm just suggesting you read it so you can get a historical perspective on his chances not of even repeating or regressing a bit, but of him actually not being worth a first round pick. FYI.
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