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Top 15 Relief Pitchers (Fantasy Baseball)
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First, an aside and FYI: about a third of the votes for Cole Hamels in the Hamels vs. Verlander poll are mine. King Cole, baby! I don't care if he has a pipe cleaner in his arm, he's going to be my ace for the next ten years, 200 IP or 20. Oh, and I'm drafting Rich Harden again. So much upside! Who cares what Ron Shandler says about health being a skill. Shandler Shmandler. Harden is so dirty! Of course, I won't take him until round 20, but still… So - the top half of the 2008 RP draft class. There are a lot of tasty morsels in here - Joakim Soria and Huston Street, to name two. Street was a man possessed in August '07, as I mention below. I advise against taking any of the top 5 before 60th overall, or the beginning of the sixth round in a 12-team mixed league. According to Mock Draft Central (www.mockdraftcentral.com), Jonathan Papelbon's average draft position (ADP) is 43rd overall. No thanks! Not that I don't love Papelbon, but I'd much rather get a Joakim Soria (ADP: 157) or Matt Capps (ADP: 152) type much later - two players that will likely offer similar ratios with a bit of a drop off in K/9 and a loss of about 10 SV. Look at some of the hitters going around Papelbon: Travis Hafner (ADP: 41), Adam Dunn (ADP: 42), and Bobby Abreu (ADP: 44). Now look at some of the hitters going around Soria and Capps: Ken Griffey Jr. (ADP: 143), Pat Burrell (ADP: 148), and Kosuke Fukodome (ADP: 159). Of course, these are just the drafts done on one site, and each ADP is heavily weighted by Mock Draft Central's own default rankings, but this seems crazy; Hafner was a borderline first-round pick last year! Are you really going to trade him for 15-20 K, 5-15 SV, and Pat "The Bat" Burrell? Come on! The 2008 RP draft class, 1-15, right now:




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