How to draw up a fantasy baseball contender in a head -to -head alloy, head each
My biggest league is a high -level head -to -head league on Yahoo He goes from the default settingsWith 11 categories (including Obp and Hitter KS) and very little flexibility of the roster. There are only nine beats: c/1b/2b/3b/ss/of/of/ut-e 10 launchers, with a bench player, a Na slot (minor league), a injury slot and a limit of 40 roster transactions during the season.
Let’s move through my draft and I will tell you what I was thinking with each selection while I was trying to build a contender in this 12 -team format.
The first dilemma was what to do with the overall choice n. 1. I didn’t have the opportunity to choose my slot – it was a randomized draft order.
1.1 – Juan Soto (Di, no: Two of the other considerations with this pick filled the single position slots, costing flexibility in the following choices. Bobby Witt Jr. cost the shorttop slot (there is no medium infield, only nine initial hirts). Shohei Ohtani is the best designated beef, but there is also concern that does not manage as much as in 2024-inolter, the Strikeouts are a category, and it is not good there, and it is not likely to be a manufacturer of differences in OBP. Aaron Judge will surely hurt you in Hitter KS. So that he left Soto, the best bet on the scoreboard, with .415 guaranteed and .460 possible.
2.12 – Bryce Harper (1b, Phi): Wait for choice n. 24 was painful. There is no way to draw up an initial pitcher here, even if it is a format favored by SP. My problem is that I’m not gaining as much as I need one because Beginners are now generally 175 inning, not 215. If you are lucky, they end up among those numbers. Harper is projected only for 28 homers, but it could hit 40. Between him and Soto, I could get 15 stolen. Even more important, an OBP .375 is reasonable. I want to be at about .340 (which would be classified in 35th place among the beats in 2024), so my first two choices give me about 100 excess OBP points to spread in my team, which means that I don’t have to obsess that category for the rest of the draft. And I feel I have about 70 runs at home without exceeding my goal of about 125 ks per batter (which is equivalent to a solid 18-19% K%, which is good).
3.1 – Jazz Chisholm Jr. (3b/of, nyy): His rhythm Yankees was 38 Omers and 63 thefts. I understand that it was a chronic disappointment, but it is a lot of rise shown. I don’t like it that beats the fifth. I wish it was third behind the judge, but it is a more ideal stolen basic point. It is projected for 26 Homer and 36 stolen. He’s hurting me to ks. Now I’m at 132 for slot, but I have about 75 homers and 50 stolen. Chisholm will soon add 2b to its eligibility.
4.12/5.1 – Emmanuel Clase (RP, Cle); Mason Miller (RP, ATH): I am taking these choices as a duo because the The plan here has always had to have at least two dominant closures. Devin Williams was disappeared, or I would take him on class. I could have taken Edwin Díaz, but Clase is safer for the saves, and my plan was to take Smith falls very late to combine Clase, which still gives me about 80 k per rescuer. I guess about a 2.00 was combined with a 0.90 whisk – which is golden. I checked the bailouts and gave my staff a gigantic increase in the relationship with KS expected for the average for closure.
6.12/7.1 – Shota Imanaga (SP, CHC); Bailey Ober (SP, min): My plan was starting the pitcher/beating with the pair of choices in the following rounds, but I felt that I had no value in the queue with the shots. I don’t draw the tail, but respect when the guys I like are buried. The good thing about the shift collection is that you can reach a little, as I did with Ober (the 73rd choice). I chose it to my value, not to the market. I didn’t think it would last up to number 96. Ober has a huge extension, which adds about 3-3.5 mph in perceived speed. Its probable 30% k rate gets little respect because it launches 92 mph.
8.12/9.1 – Lawrence Butler (of, ATH); Roki Sasaki (SP, Lad): Butler would have been my choice in the previous round, but this League had almost inconceivarly buried him. In his last 60 games of 2024, his rhythm throughout the season was 30 hours/30 SB. I feel that I am getting the best factors of the park (much better?) For free. I could have brought Hunter Greene here (he led the NL to Wating War in 2024), but I feel that Sasaki has a similar advantage and a higher probability of victory in a pitcher park. His projection K/9 of 155 in 133 IP looks like a little light, even if I would take 133 IP. Now I am at 9.72 k/9 with my first five launchers. We can round up to 10. I feel that this is a bit of a problem, but I have no solutions. I’m sorry Clase on Diaz while I make these choices.
10.12/11.1 – Yainer Diaz (C, Hou); Riley Greene (Di, Det): There is really nothing to talk about here. I don’t believe in catcher game, so filling that point at pick n. 120 with a batter like Diaz, who can beat the cleaning, is fantastic. Greene is a MVP candidate for dormant. Greene had an OPS of at least. 837 in four of the six months of last season and produced an .336/.402/.630 line when they fight third, where it is likely to hit this year.
12.12/13.1 – Luis Garcia Jr. (2b, was); Bryson Stot (SS, Phi): I filled the premium positions in the field with an exciting boy in Garcia and a boring one in Stott. I wanted 50-60 steals here. I don’t like STOTT is a platoon on the strong side. However, he is good for 30 stolen and probably 15 Omers (power stained by an injury in 2024). After 1 July, Garcia was .306/.347/.502 with a 26-hour season rhythm of the season/26-SB and a 15.9% K%. He is even 24 years old.
14.12/15.1 – Gavin Williams (SP, Cle); Bowden Francis (SP/RP, TOR): This format has a sp/rp value. Williams had a 38% K rate in spring, with his quick ball at 99 mph. It seems healthy. He is high up. Francis has marked on average six inning in his 13 departures in 2024 with a rate of 25% K, 2.92 Era e .166 Baa. It makes no sense. He is 29 years old and does not launch hard. But you have to respect the statistics at some point, in particular the walks of 5%.
16.12/17.1 – AJ Puk (RP, Ari); Byron Buxton (of, min): Arizona says it is going with a closer commitment, so Puk gives me the opportunity to add 15 parades. It was better in spring, for what is worth, but Justin Martinez has great things, a long -term agreement and control problems that were not much worse than Puk’s in 2024 (although Puk had excellent control in 2023). Buxton is fantastic when he is healthy. Basically it is Mike’s trout for this point: 37 long balls for 162 games since 2022. Maybe there is a 25% probability that remains healthy and wins your league for you (or me).
18.12/19.1 – Max Scherzer (SP, Tor); Smith falls (RP, Cle): Scherzer has a thumb problem but he launched him just before taking this draft. I could not ignore spring (13 inning, five shots, a walk, 18 ks). His fast ball was sitting at 93.3 mph in his latest start and reached the peak at 95 mph. It is difficult as he launched in 2023 when his rate K was 28%. Smith was part of the plan when I took Clase and it is also Clase’s insurance. Yes, he is a one -year sample with him, but there is the weight of the sample in addition to his size (103 ks and 1 hour allowed in 75 inning). Smith’s 7 feet-4 feet adds about 3.0 mph in speed perceived to its 96 mph fast ball.
20.12 – Camilo Doval (RP, SF): Ryan Walker was fantastic last year – this choice doesn’t concern him. Doval had a large spring and is launching 100 mph with a 99 mph cutter. It was an all-star that led the save cycle in 2023. He was really unlucky last year, with a 1.40 worse era of expected. The average expected against him was .187 (Statcast). The giants should be able to exchange it with a team that needs a closer if it is not seriously out of the field (unlikely but possible).
So I am projected for 127 stolen and 210 Homer of my 10 beats with an ESP expected .340 and about 122 ks per batter. I hit my offensive goals, but this is like a league that affects nine teams and a 13 -team pitching league. As much as I like my rescuers, I am not enthusiastic about my launch. I think I am short of about 50 ks, which does not sound like anything, but you don’t want to chase out of the gate. If Scherzer and Williams can make me combine about 28% KS, I will be fine. But it is a probability of 40 to 45%.
(Photo by Juan Soto: Rich Storry / Getty Images)
