[USML Announce] 2012 Draft Day Self-Analysis: Riptorns

[Dennis Adams]

Here goes...

DRAFT DAY STRATEGY
-Wake up in time for draft and stay awake for duration.
- Pump up the price on big name players, acknowledging I could afford to
"get stuck" with them
- Draft Phil Hughes
- Stay long enough to complete the auction, but leave early enough to have
Sensei Winick complete my rotation while I overexert myself playing
basketball

WHAT WENT RIGHT
- Nerves and anxiety kept me up almost the entire night, so made it to
draft with Dunkin Donuts
- "Got stuck" with Puojls at $46.  Was actually hoping to pump him higher
and not get him, but I like that price for him.
- Drafted Phil Hughes for less than $15.  Also noteworthy:  V-Mart ($10),
Brett Anderson ($5), and Mike Adams ($8)
- 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.

WHAT WENT WRONG
- Nerves and anxiety kept me up almost the entire night, so I was fueld by
about an hour of sleep, donuts, soda and cookies.
- Got stuck with Gavin Floyd at $15 and fell out too soon on bidding for
Cruz, Andrus, Sal Perez and Miggy Cabrera.
- I drafted Phil Hughes for $14 due to homerism and inexplicable man crush.
- 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.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Andy Klein <anrklein at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll try, too ...
>
> DRAFT DAY STRATEGY
>
> *Dog Blocker as much as possible in retaliation for the 2010 Wieters Trade.
> *After dealing Sabathiato to Winick, spend less money on my entire
> pitching staff than CC's salary.
> *Get outfielders who are likely to play every day.
> *Limit myself to two cups of coffee so as not to spend half the draft in
> pain because I had to take a piss.
>
> WHAT WENT RIGHT
>
> *Succeeded in annoying Blocker and bidding up enough of his guys to ensure
> that the Bombers won't compete in 2012.
> *Sabathia's salary $34.  Klein Nine pitching staff $32.  Check.
> *Got every day outfielders.
> *Limited coffee intake to two cups.
>
> WHAT WENT WRONG
>
> *In bidding up Blocker, I got stuck with some bums myself.  (Seth Smith at
> $12?)
> *Used the biggest coffee mug in Winick's office, so two cups of coffee
> felt like five.
> *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.
>
> -Andy
>
>
>   On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>> 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 *own* critical and objective analysis
>> of its draft day performance.
>>
>> I will begin:
>>
>> DRAFT DAY STRATEGY:
>>    * Avoid drafting Shoppach and Cervelli again.
>>    * Corner the market on SB by getting one more impact SB guy.
>>    * Draft decent SP for under $20.
>>    * Draft one reasonably priced thumper.
>>    * Pick up enough sleepers and keepers via auction and rotation draft
>> to shop to Winick when his team crashes and burns in June.
>>
>> WHAT WENT RIGHT
>>    * Arrived too late to gorge on doughnuts.
>>    * Personally escorted to draft by always affable Mark Kerber.
>>    * Elvis at 27, nice SPs from 7 to 17.
>>    * Restocked the Prospect Parade (Segura-1, yes!!).
>>
>> WHAT WENT WRONG
>>    * Arrived too late to gorge on doughnuts.
>>    * Personally escorted to draft by always affable Mark Kerber.
>>    * Lind-21, Smoak-12, no thumpers and Andrus surrounded by the likes of
>> Getz and Brignac.
>>
>>
>> OK--who's next??
>>
>>
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-- 
Dennis F. Adams III
Candidate, Juris Doctor 2013
Northwestern University School of Law
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