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<div>DRAFT DAY STRATEGY</div>
<div>-Wake up in time for draft and stay awake for duration.</div>
<div>- Pump up the price on big name players, acknowledging I could afford to "get stuck" with them</div>
<div>- Draft Phil Hughes</div>
<div>- Stay long enough to complete the auction, but leave early enough to have Sensei Winick complete my rotation while I overexert myself playing basketball</div>
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<div>WHAT WENT RIGHT</div>
<div>- Nerves and anxiety kept me up almost the entire night, so made it to draft with Dunkin Donuts</div>
<div>- "Got stuck" with Puojls at $46. Was actually hoping to pump him higher and not get him, but I like that price for him.</div>
<div>- Drafted Phil Hughes for less than $15. Also noteworthy: V-Mart ($10), Brett Anderson ($5), and Mike Adams ($8)</div>
<div>- Stayed long enough to complete the auction, showed up at halftime of my first bball game and dropped a quick 12 points en route to the first of 2 victories for the Attractive Nuisances.</div>
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<div>WHAT WENT WRONG<br>- Nerves and anxiety kept me up almost the entire night, so I was fueld by about an hour of sleep, donuts, soda and cookies.</div>
<div>- Got stuck with Gavin Floyd at $15 and fell out too soon on bidding for Cruz, Andrus, Sal Perez and Miggy Cabrera.</div>
<div>- I drafted Phil Hughes for $14 due to homerism and inexplicable man crush.</div>
<div>- Leaving my team at the mercy of Winick after bidding him out on players he wanted left me with a few revenge selections (see: Vazquez, Javier and Dice-K.) Otherwise, great job though.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Andy Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anrklein@gmail.com">anrklein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">I'll try, too ...<br><br>DRAFT DAY STRATEGY<br><br>*Dog Blocker as much as possible in retaliation for the 2010 Wieters Trade.<br>
*After dealing Sabathiato to Winick, spend less money on my entire pitching staff than CC's salary.<br>*Get outfielders who are likely to play every day.<br>*Limit myself to two cups of coffee so as not to spend half the draft in pain because I had to take a piss.<br>
<br>WHAT WENT RIGHT<br><br>*Succeeded in annoying Blocker and bidding up enough of his guys to ensure that the Bombers won't compete in 2012.<br>*Sabathia's salary $34. Klein Nine pitching staff $32. Check.<br>*Got every day outfielders.<br>
*Limited coffee intake to two cups.<br><br>WHAT WENT WRONG<br><br>*In bidding up Blocker, I got stuck with some bums myself. (Seth Smith at $12?)<br>*Used the biggest coffee mug in Winick's office, so two cups of coffee felt like five.<br>
*Ended up buying Carl Crawford when I had no intention of doing so. Crawford was a "Winick Pick," and the magazine said to bid with confidence up to $30. I was blithely moving things along, and then everyone else just stopped.<br>
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<div class="h5">On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Brad Jansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bljansen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bljansen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div class="h5">Great to see everyone. Dennis, welcome my friend to the show that never ends. Jim B, congrats and all the best to your wife and you. And to everybody else, it was great to see everyone looking so moderately healthy.<br>
<br>Now, let me propose something. This proposal certainly is not intended to displace Jeffrey's typically self-serving analysis of the draft, but I ask each team to consider posting its <i>own</i> critical and objective analysis of its draft day performance. <br>
<br>I will begin:<br><br>DRAFT DAY STRATEGY:<br> * Avoid drafting Shoppach and Cervelli again.<br> * Corner the market on SB by getting one more impact SB guy.<br> * Draft decent SP for under $20.<br> * Draft one reasonably priced thumper. <br>
* Pick up enough sleepers and keepers via auction and rotation draft to shop to Winick when his team crashes and burns in June.<br><br>WHAT WENT RIGHT<br> * Arrived too late to gorge on doughnuts.<br> * Personally escorted to draft by always affable Mark Kerber.<br>
* Elvis at 27, nice SPs from 7 to 17.<br> * Restocked the Prospect Parade (Segura-1, yes!!).<br><br>WHAT WENT WRONG<br> * Arrived too late to gorge on doughnuts.<br> * Personally escorted to draft by always affable Mark Kerber.<br>
* Lind-21, Smoak-12, no thumpers and Andrus surrounded by the likes of Getz and Brignac.<br><br><br>OK--who's next??<br> <br><br><br></div></div>
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