The All-Draft-Day Team

Erik has been kind enough to grace this league's blog with thoughts of his own (how cute!). Erik (of The Zou fame) breaks down his All-Draft Team in his first post of the season. His words (mostly) after the jump.

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Note: Keepers and free agent pick-ups couldn’t be selected. This accounts for the omission of first-half studs like Volquez, Quentin and McLouth. Also, the exact rounds players were drafted might be off by a round or two as I took them from our league’s draft results page that is slightly skewed because of keepers.

Editors Note: Erik's blog reminds me that I need to post the actual draft transcript so that people are aware of keepers and such. I'll post that later this week.

C – Bengie Molina – BGTD – 22nd Round – Currently the fifth best catcher in our league

1B – Jason Giambi – Krunk Smurfs – 21st – Ranks eighth among first basemen after recent surge

2B – Ian Kinsler – Springfield KC – 9th – Utley is amazing and Kinsler has outscored him by FORTY points … I guess that’s how the Mizzou guys play

3B – Aubrey Huff – BGTD – 25th – Picked in the 25th round and yet he’s in one of the top five third basemen so far

SS – Yunel Escobar – Krunk Smufs – 25th – Only the 11th- best shortstop, but the first not to be a high draft pick or free-agent pick-up

LF – Jason Bay – Springfield Rasmus’s – 20th – Of the four best LF’s, two were undrafted and one (Bay) was taken in the 20th round

CF – Josh Hamilton – Springfield KC – 18th – Possibly the steal of the draft as Hamilton has hit over .300 with 19 HR and 80+ RBI

RF – JD Drew – Springfield KC – 20th – Springfield KC is starting to take over this list and controls three of the top five RF’s. Wanna trade?

SP – Cliff Lee – Phantom Menaces – 28th – Sorry Hamilton, this is the steal of the draft so far SP – Ervin Santana – Clemens’ Roid Needles – 27th – It almost hurts to see what players were there when I passed them up for the likes of Kevin Kouzmanoff, Mark Prior, etc.
SP – Rich Harden – Zou – 17th – He will now proceed to break his pinky finger and be out for the remainder of the year
SP – Shaun Marcum – Hancock’s Halos – 21st – So he’s hurt right now … still wouldn’t mind getting 259 points from my 21st round pick in the first half of the season
SP – John Lester – Hancock’s Halos – 18th – He’s been good, but two amazing starts have propelled him to top-30 status among starting pitchers … why did you drop him again?

RP – Joakim Soria – Inoculators – 18th – An ERA under 1.50, a WHIP under 0.75 and 23 first-half saves on a bad team
RP – Kerry Wood – Inoculators – 21st – Hey Ben, you wanna draft my relief pitchers next year?