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I’m sharing a few more questions that I asked of the guys from the Crooked Pitch fantasy baseball league.

What do you think your best pick was?

• Matthew from the Rusty Knutz: Matt Diaz - Round 23: Very late draft pick on someone with an excellent avg to boost my BA challenged hitters and a chance to at least contribute to some other categories.
• Jason from the Tigers: My best pick was probably Sheffield. If he doesn’t miss too many games, he’s still a multi-stat threat.
• Mike from 12th MAN: Its hard but if I must I’d say Eugenio Velez 2B San Francisco in Round 25. The guy is a stolen base machine and led the Majors in SB during the spring. Especially with a team of power, I am going to need stolen bases from somewhere and this pick was huge. Also watch out for Jason Giambi in Round 20.
• Marc from Impish: Hunter Pence - this guy will be an all star 5 category man this year. Next year he’ll be an arguable 1st round pick. He’s that good…
• Mercs: Based off games played through 3/31, my best pick was Ben Sheets in the 11th round. 1 start, 6 innings, no runs 7 K’s. Hope he keeps it up all season. If he can stay relatively healthy, Kerry Wood in round 16 could be a huge steal. Big if, we’ll see how the season plays out.
• James from Shock & Awe: My round 20(230) selection of Rich Harden, If he stays healthy. He shut down Boston in Japan and at that pick number I’ll take the risk.
• Daniel from Da Bomb Cheifs: I think my biggest steal was another catcher with Pudge, I thought he was steal in the 15th round. Pudge has had a great spring and with the rest of the tigers line up should have a pretty solid season.
• Patrick from Library Bats: My best pick has to be Sizemore at 24. I think he’s the 2nd best OF after Holliday, and it wouldn’t shock me if he put up a top 10 season. I was shocked and delighted to see him fall to me. I like Feliz at 264 an awful lot as well. 80/25/90 wouldn’t shock me in that park and lineup.

What do you think your worst pick was?

• Matthew from the Rusty Knutz: Joba Chamberlain - Round 14: For some reason in another draft I had this grand plan where he would give me awesome lights out relief numbers for a bit then become a solid starter by the end of the year. In this league, with a cap of 1250, the Yankees would effectively help me with my own Joba Rules, maximizing how innings limit and his usage. This may still end up being the case and working out well, but Round 14 was too early.
  
• Jason from the Tigers: Worst pick was Pierre. I only took 11 seconds to decide between him and Victorino. I know I’d rather have Victorino, but was hoping he’d come back to me.
  
• Mike from 12th MAN: A couple here as well. Saltalamacchia in Round 13 as he’s gonna be in the minors for a while and Kazmir in Round 7. I love Kazmir but I probably could have gotten a legit healthy starter here instead.
  
• Marc from Impish: Probably Vlady Guerrero, considering the guys I passed on to snag him. His risk is greater than the reward. Lets hope he is just the recipient of some bad fantasy press. But everyone’s acting like he is done. Maybe the Angels will stink and he’ll get traded…
  
• Mercs: Josh Fields in 15th round. Two days later sent to the minors. I still think he was a great pick then, but by being sent to the minors, it pegged it as a wasted draft pick. Could have had Jeremy Bonderman or J.R. Towles.
  
• Patrick from Library Bats: Milledge at 145 was panned by the other managers. He was definitely a reach, though I think he can earn that position and more. My worst pick was absolutely Kelvim Escobar at 169. I had some browser problems and ended up with him and Gallardo at the turn. Whoops. I think Gallardo comes back to earn that value, but Escobar was obviously a waste.
  

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