Who would take at SP? (Draft Srategy? look inside)?

Lee

Verlander

Carpenter

Santana

I woulda listed Carpenter 1st, cept he's risky cause of injury. Lee is gonna be a monster w/ Seattles awesome D behind him. Verlander is a K machine, though HIS injury history and huge number of innings pitched last year is troublesome. Santana's velocity has been declining ever since the mets traded for him.

But I'd say to NOT take a SP in the first round. It's much easier finding good SP later in the draft than good position players.

If ur saying take a pitcher with the 4th pick I would never do that. The one thing that kills every fantasy baseball team is taking pitchers too high. There are only 3 stats in baseball decided by the pitcher and not by forces he can't control, K's, BB's, and Home runs. All the others depend on the team he is playing for and even the stats I have mentioned have a lot of outside forces at work. You want to have a lot of high level Hitters because there stats are usually more consistent year to year and easier to predict. Dealing with pitchers requires you to try and take the most mid level consistent guys u can. Don't be stuck with 3 or 4 great pitchers, crappy rest of pitchers, and average hitters. It only takes 2 injuries or bad years from your great pitchers to ruin a year.

P.S. I had Santana, Webb and Hamels last year so I'm coming from experience when I say don't take too many pitchers in the first 7 rounds, If u get 1 or two pitchers in those rounds ur in good shape. The middle rounds are the best time to take sleeper pitchers and some good names to think about in the late middle rounds are Webb, Hudson, and Sheets who are all coming off of injury and are all top level types pitchers u can get without wasting a top round pick. And if they do get hurt u can drop them and still have other pitchers to chose from