{"id":129,"date":"2008-01-29T20:41:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T03:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-01-29T20:41:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T03:41:55","slug":"abl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"ABL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The big needs going in: starting pitching & a thirdbaseman.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ted Lilly, starter.<\/b> He was my top-rated starter.\n
  2. Hank Blalock, 3B.<\/b> My second choice after Ryan Braun.\n
  3. Troy Percival, short.<\/b> My top-rated reliever. Absolutely kills righty bats.\n
  4. Ramon Castro, C.<\/b> Top-rated catcher by far. +3 throw is a drawback.\n
  5. Ryan Ludwick, LF\/RF.<\/b> Will platoon with Werth in right.\n
  6. Shawn Hill, starter.<\/b> My fourth-rated starter, equivalent to Harang.\n
  7. Mike Timlin, short.<\/b> The best guy left against lefty bats. Neither he nor Percival will be around for long, of course.\n
  8. Xavier Nady, RF\/CF\/LF.<\/b> Utility outfielder with good, balanced hitting.\n
  9. Chris Gomez, 3B\/1B\/SS\/2B.<\/b> Utility infielder.\n
  10. Matt Guerrier, short.<\/b> About the only short left in my top 20.\n
  11. Jose Molina, C.<\/b> Can pinch-hit against lefties, but as third catcher will go down to the taxi team.\n
  12. Orlando Hernandez, starter.<\/b> Despite the age & the 3 injury, he was still rated much higher than my fourth starter at the time, Kendrick, who goes down to the taxi team.\n
  13. Ryan Dempster, closer.<\/b> Not many outstanding closers in the draft.\n
  14. Alan Embree, short.<\/b> Not highly rated, but I didn’t have a single lefty in the pen.\n
  15. Eric Byrnes, LF\/RF\/CF.<\/b> Got him for his speed.\n<\/ol>\n

    I almost thought that Braun might last to the second round, and the bullpen is a bit of a mess, but all in all I’m happy with how Tit made out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The big needs going in: starting pitching & a thirdbaseman. Ted Lilly, starter. He was my top-rated starter. Hank Blalock, 3B. My second choice after Ryan Braun. Troy Percival, short. My top-rated reliever. Absolutely kills righty bats. Ramon Castro, C. Top-rated catcher by far. +3 throw is a drawback. Ryan Ludwick, LF\/RF. Will platoon with … Continue reading ABL Draft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}