NFBC Champions Mock Draft

[Cornbread Maxwell]

I just came across this on the NFBC message boards. Very interesting draft:

Rd 1
1. Albert Pujols (Dave Cushard)
2. Carlos Beltran (Emmett Ruland)
3. Alex Rodriguez (Ari Benjamin)
4. Vladimir Guerrero (Eddie Gillis)
5. Miguel Tejada (Eric Peden)
6. Todd Helton (Clark Olson)
7. Alfonso Soriano (Karl Mische)
8. Carl Crawford (Shawn Childs)
9. Bobby Abreu (Artie Rastelli)
10. Manny Ramirez (Terry Haney)
11. Randy Johnson (Aaron Seefeldt)
12. Johan Santana (Stanley Kaye)
13. Scott Rolen (Jeff Thomas)
14. Ichiro Suzuki (Joe Thelan)
15. Barry Bonds (Stephen Jupinka)

Rd 2
16. David Ortiz
17. Pedro Martinez
18. Edgar Renteria
19. Adrian Beltre
20. Derek Jeter
21. Gary Sheffield
22. Aramis Ramirez
23. Eric Gagne
24. Jim Thome
25. Jason Schmidt
26. Mark Prior
27. Mark Teixeira
28. Juan Pierre
29. Nomar Garciaparra
30. Curt Schilling

Rd 3
31. Miguel Cabrera
32. Tim Hudson
33. Jimmy Rollins
34. Carlos Delgado
35. Jim Edmonds
36. Ben Sheets
37. Marcus Giles
38. Jeff Kent
39. Eric Chavez
40. Richie Sexson
41. Melvin Mora
42. Michael Young
43. Scott Podsednik
44. Aubrey Huff
45. Hank Blalock

Rd 4
46. Adam Dunn
47. Derrek Lee
48. Brad Lidge
49. Victor Martinez
50. Mariano Rivera
51. Octavio Dotel
52. Vernon Wells
53. Sean Casey
54. Jorge Posada
55. Javy Lopez
56. Billy Wagner
57. Roy Oswalt
58. Kerry Wood
59. Bret Boone
60. Ivan Rodriguez

Rd 5
61. Keith Foulke
62. Rafael Furcal
63. Francisco Rodriguez
64. David Wright
65. Luis Castillo
66. Hideki Matsui
67. Joe Nathan
68. Orlando Cabrera
69. Carlos Guillen
70. Armando Benitez
71. Jose Reyes
72. Francisco Cordero
73. Mike Mussina
74. Mike Piazza
75. Oliver Perez

Rd 6
76. Jake Peavy
77. Brian Roberts
78. Magglio Ordonez
79. Carlos Lee
80. Jason Isringhausen
81. Corey Patterson
82. Jason Bay
83. Edgardo Alfonzo
84. Chipper Jones
85. Trevor Hoffman
86. Shawn Green
87. Carlos Zambrano
88. Johnny Damon
89. Josh Beckett
90. Roger Clemens

Rd 7
91. Justin Morneau
92. Mike Lowell
93. Jason Varitek
94. Chone Figgins
95. Sammy Sosa
96. J.D. Drew
97. Mark Mulder
98. Paul Konerko
99. Rich Harden
100. John Smoltz
101. Travis Hafner
102. Danny Kolb
103. Carl Pavano
104. Brian Giles
105. Mark Loretta


There is plenty of stuff to critique, but this is probably one of the better mock drafts you're likely to see anytime soon.

[raiders_umpire]

thanks for the post

[GreenMonsterGoon]

Very interesting....thanks

[sisyphus]

By no means inclusive, but here are a few that jumped out at me:

28) Juan Pierre
43) Scott Podsednik
53) Sean Casey
59) Bret Boone
69) Carlos Guillen
77) Brian Roberts
83) Edgardo Alfonzo

[Cornbread Maxwell]

By no means inclusive, but here are a few that jumped out at me:

28) Juan Pierre
43) Scott Podsednik
53) Sean Casey
59) Bret Boone
69) Carlos Guillen
77) Brian Roberts
83) Edgardo Alfonzo

do you mean they jumped out at you as bad picks?

why?

I can see Pods being ranked too high there.
Same with Casey - too high.
Boone has dropped significantly since his roid-induced heyday.
Guillen is fair value there - possibly underranked - but not by much. He definitely should go ahead of OCab.
I agree that Brian Roberts is way way too high there - especially considering Ordonez and Patterson were drafted after him.

I see that 6th rd as having tons of value in it.

[J35J]

Rolen at 13 and Renteria at 18 are way to high for me!

Jason

[so0perspam]

Rolen at 13 and Renteria at 18 are way to high for me!

Jason

Also A-Ram at 22, Rollins at 33, and Dotel at 51.

[coachdino]

Very interesting draft...thanx for the post

A couple of the picks that surprised me
54)Posada
61)Foulke
69)Carlos Guillen
82)Bay
94)Figgins
97)Mulder

The reason I am interested in these particular players is I have them all on my roster from last year and the only 1 I am protecting is Mulder. I am doing the wrong thing? My list is Soriano, Tex, M. Cabrerra, Huff/C.Lee (not sure yet), Peavy, Lidge and Mulder.

Other surprises to me were:
95)Sosa (man has he dropped...but that far?)
46)Dunn ( to high I think)
78)Ordonez( thought he would be higher...how's his health?)

[so0perspam]

Oswalt dropped to 47 too.

[sisyphus]

yeah, I mean as bad picks. It seems you agree except for Guillen. I'm not on the Guillen bandwagon. I'm not buying last year as an indicator of future performance. I believe he will fall back to the middle of the pack, nothing special. Who knows, maybe I'll be wrong, but I'm not spending that type of pick to find out. If you buy him then you should be very confident in a repeat performance.