Drafting a Dynasty League Roster: The End Result
After 12 posts detailing both the major league and minor league portions of this initial 20-team dynasty draft that I participated in over the course of the off-season, it’s finally time to put it all together and see what the team looks like as a whole. After all, all the draft prep in the world can only get you so far — you need to put a winning team on the field. And I think I did a pretty good job of maximizing my strategy and the value on my roster. But I’ll let you, the readers, be the judge of that.
As always, before we dive back into the roster, a few reminders about the context of the league, as it’s not a straight-forward format. It is a 20-team 7×7 H2H league that uses all of the standard 5×5 categories, plus OPS/Total Bases for hitters and Quality Starts/Holds for pitchers. The active rosters are one player per position (OF are broken out by LF/CF/RF) plus a Utility player on offense, and nine pitchers (2 SP, 2 RP, 5 P). On top of that, there are 7 reserve spots, 3 DL spots and 25 minor league spots (which were all already filled). We were given strict instructions that if you drafted a player already on someone’s minor league roster, we would not be going back to reverse picks, so it would just be considered a party foul and we’d move on. All in all, it’s a very deep league with an active lineup that skews a little towards pitching and deep minor league rosters (500 total prospects will be rostered). Oh, and by the way, I’m the Minnesota Twins.
So here is my fully drafted roster below as of yesterday. The players who are struck through have been dropped since the draft, the players who have an asterisk have been added through free agency and anyone promoted from my minor league roster gets a ^. I never remember what that’s called. Regardless, for your reading enjoyment, your 2013 Minnesota Twins (currently 13-13 through two weeks):
Major League Hitters–
C – Rob Brantly^1B – Joey Votto
2B – Dustin Pedroia
SS – Tyler Greene Cliff Pennington*
3B – Luis Cruz*
LF – Alex Gordon
CF – Shin-Soo Choo
RF – Allen Craig
UT – Nick Swisher
BN – Marlon Byrd*, Tyler Colvin, Alberto Callaspo*
DL – Aramis Ramirez
Major League Pitchers–
SP – Jake Peavy, Mike Minor, Homer Bailey, C.J. Wilson, Josh Beckett, Chris Tillman, Wily Peralta^, Zach Britton
RP – Glen Perkins, Brandon League, Kelvin Herrera, Jake McGee, Octavio Dotel
DL – Ryan Madson, Jeff Niemann
Minor League Hitters–
C – Blake Swihart, BOS
SS – Xander Bogaerts, BOS
SS – Dorssys Paulino, CLE
SS – Adalberto Mondesi, KC
SS – Dawel Lugo, TOR
3B – Nick Castellanos, DET
3B – Jeimer Candelario, CHC
3B – Tyler Goeddel, TB
3B – Rio Ruiz, HOU
3B – Cody Asche, PHI
OF – Drew Vettleson, TB
OF – Kevin Pillar, TOR
OF – Ravel Santana, NYY
OF – Manuel Margot, BOS
Minor League Pitchers–
SP – Casey Kelly, SD
SP – Max Fried, SD
SP – John Lamb, KC
SP – Joe Ross, SD
SP – Jose Campos, NYY
SP – Jimmy Nelson, MLW
SP – C.J. Edwards, TEX
SP – Jordan Swagerty, STL
SP – Luis Mateo, NYM
3 Comments
I REALLY like Mike Minor. Profar is hard to pass up, but I like to win now. I think Profar will be a stud, but I’m almost always in “win now” mode. I just moved Profar (attached to rd 23 forever) for Matt Moore (attached to round 6.. bleh) and a round 6 pick (think someone ranked around 100 in yahoo!’s ranking).. Profar could be special in a few years.. I don’t know if I would make that trade, with a lot of MI depth in the minors.
Any concerns with Peralta yet this season, or is it just a case of ‘needing to work it out’?
He started last season slow as well, so I’m not going to ring any alarm bells yet. Plus, he’s still very inexperienced at the major league level. What he has going for him is that he’d have to be pretty bad to get replaced, given their options at Triple-A.