Draft Review (Part V)

Apologies to all for the delay, especially to The Consummate Bastards and Slipstream Starlings. As a measure of making amends, you will both be awarded wins for week 1. Now, onto the conclusion of Draft Review 2008.

The Consummate Bastards

In some sort of lapse, oversight, or misunderstanding, The Consummate Bastards find themselves with David Ortiz, Rafael Betancourt and Troy Percival on their roster. This will surely have to be rectified by the end of the season, one would think. What's the signficance, you might ask? They're over 30 years old, the only 3 such cottontops gumming it up on the roster. Soon enough, perhaps, the DH duties will be handed over full-time to Billy Butler and Ortiz will be traded, for a pair of young relievers who weren't even around in 1982 to be poisoned by tainted Tylenol capsules, to complete the cycle.

Best Pick: Corey C. Hart

Worst Pick: Troy Percival
Steal: Billy Butler

Slipstream Starlings

To the victors go the 10th pick of the odd-numbered rounds and the 1st pick of the even-numbered round. As an expansion team busting through to the championship in only their second year of existence, they're the DCBA equivalent of the Marlins, or maybe the Diamondbacks, or perhaps even the Rockies (except for the winning at the end part). What was the key to their victory: the players or the management? This year will go a ways toward answering that question, as 2/3 of this year's squad has changed from last year's. For my part, though, I'm going to say it was management last year. That's right folks, your players didn't fail you, you failed your players.

Best Pick: Troy Tulowitzki
Worst Pick: Homer Bailey
Steal: Kosuke Fukudome