Results of my Fantasy Draft

The draft went quickly - there were ten teams and it was done in just over an hour. I'm happy overall and I think I scored a couple of really good picks. By the end, though, things had started to deteriorate (including my concentration) and I spent the last 3 picks on home town favorites that are due for good seasons. I have 5 bench spots so there's not a lot of risk involved in doing that. Here are my picks, in order.

Jose Reyes
Mark Teixeira
Chris Carpenter
Bobby Abreu
Joe Nathan
Juan Pierre
Dan Uggla
Jeremy Bonderman
Adam Dunn
Chipper Jones
Jered Weaver
Prince Fielder
Francisco Cordero
Ramon Hernandez
Todd Jones
Joe Crede
Adam Wainwright
Joe Borowski
Curtis Granderson
Brandon Inge
Nate Robertson

As you can see I was focused on power and saves with as much speed as I could get. In the past I've tried drafted a team of players that had balanced stats and it didn't work out very well - this time I didn't care if a player had a low average if he had a lot of power or speed. I'll take the hit in the average category (although not much of one looking at which batters I ended up with) over giving up Home Runs and RBIs. As to saves, you can never, ever have enough saves. So I went for them, even picking up Todd Jones when I wasn't planning on it. Weird things happen during the draft - sometimes you change strategy without even realizing it.

The only thing I didn't do during this draft that I usually do was draft my sentimental favorite - Jeff Weaver. If he puts together a couple of good starts in April I will pick him up before the others start to pay any attention to him. For now I'm content with having drafted his brother.

There were a couple of disappointments. I was planning on drafting Joel Zumaya and he was snatched right before I was going to select him. Others that I wanted and didn't get include Ryan Howard and Justin Verlander. The Verlander thing might be a good thing, though... I wasn't going to draft him very high. I'm concerned about fatigue from him this year.

If this was your team would you be confident going into the season or would you be looking to dump someone right away? I generally stick with my selections for at least a couple of weeks unless something went terribly awry during the draft.