My Portfolio

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Published on March 26, 2012

Here are my squads so far this baseball season. (I have one left to go - an NFBC satellite league):

League	FSTA	AL LABR	Home	YF&F	Staff	AL Tout
Teams	13	12	15	13	18	12
Type	Draft	Auction	Draft	Draft	Auction	Auction
Quirks	No trade	Limited Act/Res	5x4/No whip or U	1C/1250 IP cap	Keeper	5th OF =U
Date	16-Jan	4-Mar	16-Mar	20-Mar	21-Mar	24-Mar
C	Posey	Wieters 22	Soto	Arencibia	Doumit 4B	Martin 11
C	Pierzynski	Martin 9	Ramos		Wieters 32A	Wieters 22
1B	A. Gonzalez	Morneau 7	Pena	Hosmer	Pujols 63A	Morneau 7
2B	Espinosa	Kinsler 30	Kinsler	Cano	Casilla 2A	Kinsler 33
3B	Lawrie	Arod 24	Wright	A-Rod	Rolen 5A	Figgins 9
SS	D.Gordon	Jeter 20	H.Ramirez	S-Rod	S-Rod 5B	Dozier 1
CI	Encarnacion	Figgins 12	Moreland	Morneau	Smoak 17A	Teixeira 29
MI	Furcal	Izturis 3	T.Greene	Utley	T.Greene 8A	Pedroia 31
OF	Braun	Granderson 29	B.J.Upton	Stanton	Berkman 13B	De Aza 15
OF	Stanton	A.Jackson 16	Heyward	A.Gordon	Bourjos 7B	C.Ross 7
OF	Heyward	L.Cain 13	Maybin	C.Crawford	Reimold 2B	Guyer 1
OF	Ichiro	Viciedo 13	Werth	Maybin	Brantley 3B	C.Wells 1
OF	Bourjos	Snider 5	L.Cain		Ajackson 16A
U	Rasmus	Guyer 1		A.Jackson	I.Stewart 3A	Smoak 14
U				J.Smoak		Dunn 15
P	F.Hernandez	D.Holland 14	F.Hernandez	F.Hernandez	C.Lee 10C	Pineda 14
P	Garza	Buchholz 13	Matt Moore	Latos	Romero 13D13	Jimenez 12
P	Rivera	Porcello 7	Zimmermann	Nathan	Pineda 11B	Buchholz 11
P	Nathan	Ogando 6	Holland	League	Niemann 4B	Peavy 8
P	League	Hughes 6	Hellickson	Francisco	Stauffer 1C	Matusz 7
P	Thornton	Humber 4	Marcum	Thornton	JiJohnson 4B	M.Harrison 6
P	Buchholz	B.Anderson 3	Leake	Chapman	Matusz 2A	Humber 4
P	Hudson	Pavano 2	Matusz	Hellickson	Thornton 7A	Hultzen 1
P	Niemann	T.Ross 1	Porcello	K.Wood	Rivera 28A	T. Ross 1
R	Peavy	J.Paxton	LaHair	Peavy	Helton	Y.Betancourt
R	Buehrle	B.Dozier	S-Rod	Matusz	Samardzija	Cunningham
R	LaHair	D. Axelrod	Snider	T. Greene	M.Harrison	Lindstrom
R	Guyer	Valbuena	Fuentes		Figgins	W.Myers
R	Brantley	C. Phelps	Iwakuma		C.Wells
R	T. Wood	Lobaton	G.Holland		Blackmon
R					T.Wood
M					Tyson Gillies
M					Brett Jackson
M					Nolan Arenado
M					Austin Romine
M					Jared Mitchell
M					Leonys Martin
M					James Darnell
M					Nestor Molina
M					Jose Fernandez
M					A.J. Pollock

As you can see, there is a ton of overlap. I prefer it that way, so I can root for certain guys and am not essentially rooting for and against the entire league. Also, if my more commonly-owned guys pan out, I can have a great season.

Most Commonly Owned:

Four Leagues

Brian Matusz

Three Leagues

Ian Kinsler
Felix Hernandez
Matt Wieters
Justin Smoak
Justin Morneau
Austin Jackson
Matt Thornton
Clay Buchholz
Chone Figgins
Jake Peavy
Brandon Guyer
Sean Rodriguez
Tyler Greene

Two Leagues

Russell Martin
Giancarlo Stanton
Alex Rodriguez
Jason Heyward
Peter Bourjos
Cameron Maybin
Lorenzo Cain
Joe Nathan
Brandon League
Michael Pineda
Jeremy Hellickson
Derek Holland
Travis Snider
Matt Harrison
Mariano Rivera
Phil Humber
Brian Dozier
Tyson Ross
Rick Porcello
Michael Brantley
Bryan LaHair
Casper Wells
Travis Wood

For what it's worth, I already dropped Matusz and Peavy from the YF&F league to pick up Henry Rodriguez and Brad Lidge in case Drew Storen's hurt, as that's a low inning's cap league, and closers are gold there. But these lists reflect my drafts.

There are pretty much two themes at work here: (1) Last year's bums; and (2) Younger upside players who could break out. If a player is both, e.g., Matusz or Smoak, he found his way onto a lot of teams.

Players I don't own who I really wanted to get:

Tim Lincecum
Yu Darvish
Stephen Strasburg
Clayton Kershaw
Brandon Belt
Domonic Brown
Glen Perkins