3 hours later and everything had sunk in. The draft was done and I had some idea of what happened. The draft itself took just shy of 2 hours; not bad. I wouldn’t care if it went 3 though. People need to stop complaining when people use their full allotted time to make a pick. All the planning and knowledge in the world can’t prepare you for a completely random draft. That’s what the time’s there for. Anyway, here’s my 2007 Fantasy Baseball Team for Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (ID# 23345). As always, I’m not completely happy with it, but I say that every year. I took a lot of chances in this draft and I need to hope they pay off. I mean every year I take chances such as my 2005 team which ended up being awesome because I had Soriano and then a bunch of guys that blew up like Utley, Michael Young, Mauer, Crawford and Hafner. The staff wasn’t too bad either with Colon winning the Cy Young as my last drafted pitcher. Look at that team.

But this is 2007 and let’s go through this draft. I had my top 10 set as 1. Pujols, 2. Howard, 3. Reyes, 4. Arod, 5. Crawford, 6. Soriano, 7. Utley, 8. Ortiz, 9. Guerrero and 10. Cabrera. The actual draft sort of looked like that, only better for me. Santana went as I expected at 4 which opened up a world of possibilities. I got Arod first with the 5th pick and then managed to get Crawford at 16 with my 2nd pick. 2 in my top 10. Can’t be too angry at that. I mean if Santana didn’t go 4 and Arod went instead, I was gonna have trouble pulling the trigger on Crawford at 5 and probably would have went Soriano or Utley. I didn’t really want Soriano and 5 is too early for Utley. It all worked out though.

Looking at it, Crawford has to be my favorite pick of my draft at 16. I mean the man’s AVG has been improving every year and he’s now batting above .300, his power #s are climbing and he’ll still swipe about 50 bases. My least favorite pick of the draft? My 4th round with Furcal. I’m not a Furcal fan but Young went right before and I wanted a top tier guy at that position. It was probably a mistake taking him that early but I wanted a SS by round 4 and that was what was left.

All in all, I need some help. I need some players to develop and some to bounce back to form. Time to see how this whole thing plays out. It’s a long season boys and girls. See you in October.

What I’m listening to: Silence