Fantasy Baseball Part 2

After a bit of a mix up with the ESPN draft, I joined a Yahoo league, because I want to have a team that I created and drafted entirely myself -- so I've got noone to blame if I fail, which in all likelihood is an almost certainty. I landed the number 2 draft position, which sounds great except:

• you have to make two picks in a row almost, which is hard with the time limit given
• the person at number one wasn't there, meaning I actually had NO break in between picks
• remember I know nothing about baseball, so it's even harder to find the right players

I won't recap the entire draft, but I wanted to mention one thing. The person drafting at number one (and wasn't in attendance) must have pre-ranked his players, because rather than taking #1 overall (Hanley Ramirez) or even #2 (Albert Pujols) -- neither of which I know anything about by the way -- he went with #7 (Ryan Braun). Big win for me, as now I've got the number one player to get things going. Anyway, my team is listed below, and as usual with drafting I've JUST missed out on a couple of players I was desperately waiting for through 20 other picks (I pick 2nd & 23rd of 24 picks), only to miss by one or two places.

The format this time is -- Draft Position Player Position [Yahoo O-Rank] -- with * meaning injured.

2 Hanley Ramirez SS [1]
23 Prince Fielder 1B [21]
26 Brandon Phillips 2B [27]
47 Cole Hamels SP [45] -- just missed Alexei Ramirez 2B, SS, OF [44]
50 Brian McCann C [48]
71 Chipper Jones 3B [65] -- just missed Chris Davis 1B, 3B [68]
74 Cliff Lee SP [91]
95 Bobby Abreu OF [94]
98 James Shields SP [97]
119 Johnny Damon OF [116]
122 Jose Valverde RP [126]
143 Conor Jackson 1B, OF [136]
146 Brian Fuentes RP [152]
167 Xavier Nady OF [163]
170 Gil Meche SP [202]
191 Pat Burrell OF [166]
194 Jim Thome UTIL [174]
215 Gavin Floyd SP [246]
218 Troy Glaus* 3B [201]
239 Placido Polanco 2B [208] -- just missed George Sherrill RP [293]
242 J.J. Putz RP [316]

Good

• Filled out all positions early
• Best short stop and catcher
  
• People I've heard of: Ramirez, Fielder, Jones, Abreu, Damon, Nady
  

Bad

• Don't know any of the pitchers
• All picks after Nady were just guesses

No need for a big clean out this time, on with the games !