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| Who can argue with that? |
Now that baseball season is officially over and some team I despise will win the World Series title once again, it seems to be time to take a final look back at the 2019 FBLG season. It might be too soon, I guess we'll see. (Spoiler alert)
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Final scoreboard
2. The Rookies 4787.2
3. Hassey's Girl 4655.4
4. Yari's Autonomics 4618.8
5. When the Ledee Breaks 4597.3
6. Arbitration Losers 4474.1
7. Fresh Fish 4428.8
8. Project Mayhem 4292.4
9. Lumber Co Lumber 4197.8
10. The Misfits 3810.4
Next year's draft order
1. Reid
2. John
3. Bill
4. Rick
5. Tim
6. Matt
7. Adam
8. Rich/Brian
9. Henry
10. Ray
Leading hitters
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1. Cody Bellinger (R) 542.5
2. Ronald Acuna Jr. (WLB) 530
3. Anthony Rendon (YA) 532
4. Freddie Freeman (LCL) 518.5
5. Juan Soto (WLB) 510
6. Christian Yelich (HG) 497
7. Nolan Arenado (R) 493
8. Ketel Marte (PM) 490.5
9. Ozzie Albies (R) 490
10. Bryce Harper (LCL) 485.5
11. Eduardo Escobar (R) 482
T12. Trevor Story (WLB) 478
T12. Charlie Blackmon (CB) 478
T12. Peter Alonso (HG) 478
15. Josh Bell (YA) 448
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| You bastards have no idea how hard this is for me. |
Leading pitchers
1. Stephen Strasburg (CB) 455
2. Jacob deGrom (FF) 435
3. Patrick Corbin (R) 416
4. Zack Greinke (YA) 399.7
5. Jack Flaherty (M) 398.3
6. Luis Castillo (FF) 394.7
7. Max Scherzer (YA) 394.3
8. Walker Buehler (PM) 389.3
9. Aaron Nola (HG) 383.3
10. Clayton Kershaw (FF) 371.3
11. Robbie Ray (R) 361.3
12. Sonny Gray (AL) 355.3
13. Hyun-Jin Ryu (HG) 351.7
14. Madison Bumgarner (AL) 339.7
15. Zack Wheeler (R) 335.3
Overview
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| Woe be unto he who drafteth Jeff McNeil next year. His Metsing is imminent. |
1. Clemente's Bucs
Unsurprisingly, our champion nailed the draft, starting with Trea Turner, Charlie Blackmon, Stephen Strasburg and Starling Marte. An 11th round Max Muncy and 14th round Jeff McNeil were huge pieces of the championship team as well. Strasburg led the NL in innings and wins and led FBLG in pitching points. Blackmon, Marte, Turner and Muncy all scored more than 400 points, and McNeil fell just short. It was just enough to overcome the offense of our second-place team.
2. The Rookies
It seems doubtful we've ever seen a draft this good in FBLG... at least one that didn't win the title. After snagging Nolan Arenado and Cody Bellinger - who combined for more than 1,000 points - with his first two picks, Henry grabbed two top-15 pitchers (Patrick Corbin and Zack Wheeler), then snagged Ozzie Albies, Robbie Ray, Kyle Hendricks and Eduardo Escobar. Seven of his first eight picks are on one of the above lists. Amazing! That, uh, will not be true of our third-place team.
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| This is like a photo of a master chef making his signature dish. |
3. Hassey's Girl
After snagging Aaron Nola and Christian Yelich with the first two picks - hey good start, guys! - let's take a quick look at some other picks. Jameson Taillon (51 points before season-ending injury), Matt Carpenter (LOL), Jesus Aguilar (LOL), Travis Shaw (LOLOLOL), Chris Taylor, Gregory Polanco, David Robertson (5.7 points before season-ending injury), Matt Strahm, Austin Barnes and Scott Schebler. That is an EMBARRASSING list of garbage. Half that list spent time in Triple-A! Yada yada, they signed Fernando Tatis right before the season started, Hyun-Jin Ryu in the 13th round worked out well, and eventually an offense was scraped together that was sorta decent.
4. Yari's Autonomics
Adam's Nationals-centric team is my very favorite thing to write about today, lemme tell you. Adam drafted Max Scherzer first and MVP candidate Anthony Rendon in the third round, snagging Zack Greinke, Jean Segura, Cole Hamels and Josh Bell as well. He signed wunderkind Peter Alonso before trading him, given his embarrassing wealth at first base. Scherzer wasn't quite "second overall pick" good this year but he, Greinke and Rendon fueled Adam's season.
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| "Monaghan! Get outta there!" |
5. When the Ledee Breaks
As is his custom, Matt didn't draft a pitcher until the 85th overall pick in the 9th round. Before that, he stocked up on a powerful bunch including Ronald Acuna, Trevor Story, Juan Soto, Michael Conforto, Mike Moustakas and Yasmani Grandal. As he predicted on draft day, his team hit a whole bunch o' dingers (236 to lead the league) but the pitching didn't do a whole lot (743 strikeouts, least in the league). We're all for Matt building his team like a slow-pitch softball team and pulling random strangers off the street to pitch. (At least that's what he tells the cops when they ask why he's pulling random strangers off the street.)
6. Arbitration Losers
Tim had a pretty solid overall draft, but we're here to compliment him for finding one of the two closers who didn't suck this year: Kirby Yates, your favorite Hawaiian pitcher, was a helluva 13th-round pick. Somehow Javier Baez fell to the mid-second round, and Tim took him along with Manny Machado, Eugenio Suarez (49 homers!), and noted former fat man Kyle Schwarber to build a pretty solid offense. Once Yu Darvish figured things out, he and Madison Bumgarner formed a pretty decent top of the rotation as well. We are fervently refusing to give Adam Eaton in the 11th round any credit.
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| THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT. |
7. Fresh Fish
Rick can blame the stupid Cubs for his downfall this year - neither second-round pick Anthony "Fat Tony" Rizzo or third-round Kris Bryant were as good as hoped, and that doomed Rick's season. The rest of us can blame the stupid Cubs for letting the Cardinals in the postseason. No wonder they fired Crazy Joe Maddon. Rick had probably the league's best rotation with Jacob deGrom, Clayton Kershaw, Luis Castillo and Sonny Gray, but his offense was disappointing. We're worried Rick is too influenced by Derek Jeter's whims... your team doesn't have to underachieve just because his does, man.
8. Project Mayhem
Bill's draft was... rough. And I say that as someone who drafted Travis Shaw, so I know what I'm talking about. Lorenzo Cain (second round) was brutal, JT Realmuto wasn't third-round good, Miles Mikolas was not the No. 2 starter you dream about (he was a... different kind of No. 2, mostly), Chris Archer was bad, etc., etc. And yet. Bill got Paul DeJong in the 7th round, and he was great. He got Ketel Marte in the 9th and he outscored Bryce Harper. He even took the perfect platoon of Franmil Reyes and Joc Pederson late, and they combined for 73 bombs. Problem is, the pitching never stood a chance.
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| Live look at Robinson Cano and Brandon Nimmo. |
9. Lumber Co Lumber
Our newest owner drafted a closer before he drafted any starters, employing Matt's strategy of "what's even the point of a pitcher, anyway?" Problem is, among the first 8 hitters he took were Wil Myers, Robinson Cano and Brandon Nimmo. That is WAY too many Mets... it's shocking the number of IL days those guys had. Anyway, having 2019 Jon Lester as your ace is probably not a great idea, and as good as the offense was to start, it couldn't last. Plus Josh Hader wasn't the unhittable relief ace that was maybe hoped, though he did strike out 130 dudes. A special shutout to this year's inductee to the "why the hell did I draft Jake Lamb" club from a charter member. I feel ya, John.
10. The Misfits
Our league's senior member (the only guy in the league who watched Lefty Grove pitch in person!) took a bunch of old dudes, as usual, and had mixed results, as usual. The biggest issue for Reid was Paul Goldschmidt's "down" year - he was great, but not the first-round horse Reid needed. Noah Syndergaard was frustrating, Edwin Diaz got totally Mets'd, Jose Peraza lost his job, so did Sean Newcomb, so did Odubel Herrera... not a great season for Reid's draftees. Jack Flaherty looks like a bonafide ace but otherwise this team mostly disappointed.
Enjoy football season, everyone. See you in the spring.
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| At least I don't have to listen to Joe Buck and John Smoltz this year. |
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