Over this past weekend I participated in my first in-person, live draft. Twelve teams picked 19 players per team for a whopping total of 228 total picks. There are actually 25 total players on each roster. Every team kept 6 players for the previous year's roster.
It was a lot of fun pretending we were each major league GMs that were experts at evaluating talent and acquiring the players we needed to achieve a championship. As a rookie, possibly quite foolishly, I traded away the number one pick (Albert Pujols was the highest rank player available). In return, I received a 3rd, a 6th, and a 10th round pick. That left me with no first rounder and my first pick, Hanley Ramirez, came early in the 2nd.
Later in the draft I took a gamble on Yoenis Cespedes in the 13th round. I wasn't feeling too sure about that until hearing today that he has been named the opening day starting center fielder moving Coco Crisp to left.
It should be fun.
Feeling pretty good about Cespedes so far.
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