Need advice for yahoo 5x5 auto-draft private league

[titanut]

Last year(first year) I had great pitching and nice batting average
and finished 8th in a 10 team league. Gotta do better this year.
Using ESPN average draft picks as a guide(good idea ?)
I am considering passing on Randy,Schilling and Pedro so I
can get 3 more bats in the first 12 picks. For the next 12 I am
torn between 2 strategies- ignore pitching again and hope for the
best or plug Zito in at 13, Gagne and Smoltz in at, say 16 and 17.
Advice much appreciated.
Thanks

[The Jury]

Don't sacrifice those pitchers for bats. If you can get Pedro, RJ, or Schilling, take him and then go easy on the pitchers and take bats.

[dnelms]

I took Pedro first (7th overall) since Randy and Curt were gone and the big bats were gone too. So I took Pedro and went on to the bats.