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Illowa APBA League Draft: Who went when

 

 

Last weekend was the Illowa APBA League Draft weekend.   After Chuck Lucas (above) and his Northside Hitmen put away the opposition to win the World Series, we commenced with the league meeting and draft on Friday night. 

The essential details:

10 team keeper league

26 players per team

Rookie Draft replacing non-pitchers who didn’t get 125 at-bats and pitchers who pitched 21 gamed OR 50 innings pitched.

Rookies are those players who are officially listed as a rookie and also eligible by the limits standards above. 

 

  Round One Player
1 Highlanders Marauders T-Chicks Soto, G.
2 T-Chicks Marauders Bombers Longoria, E.
3 Bombers Marauders   Volquez, E.
4 Bamm Beano’s     Jurrjens, J.
5 Kernels     Chamberlain, J.
6 Upperdeckers     Votto, J.
7 Hitmen     Bruce, J.
8 Marauders     Ramirez, A.
9 Gamblers     Galarraga, A.
10 Champions     Devine, J.
         
Round Two Player
11 Highlanders     Ziegler, B.
12 T-Chicks     Ellsbury, J.
13 Bombers Marauders   Cueto, J.
14 Bamm Beano’s     Span, D.
15 Kernels     Gallagher, S.
16 Upperdeckers     Kershaw, C.
17 Hitmen     Lowry, J.
18 Marauders Bombers   Perkins, G.
19 Gamblers     Arredondo, J.
20 Champions Hitmen   Kuroda, H.
         
  Round Three Player
21 Highlanders Marauders   Blackburn, N.
22 T-Chicks     Parra, M.
23 Bombers     Aviles, M.
24 Bamm Beano’s     Volstad, C.
25 Kernels     Samardzija, J.
26 Upperdeckers     Scherzer, M.
27 Hitmen Champions   Stewart, I.
28 Marauders     Sandoval, P.
29 Gamblers     Lannan, J.
30 Champions     Wade, C.
         
  Round Four Player
31 Highlanders     Davis, C.
32 T-Chicks     Carlson, J.
33 Bamm Beano’s     Campillo, J.
34 Kernels     Fukudome, K.
35 Upperdeckers     Jones, A.
36 Hitmen     Wood, B.
37 Marauders     Masterson, J.
38 Gamblers     Breslow, C.
39 Champions     Romo, S.
         
  Round Five Player
40 Highlanders     Johnson, J.
41 T-Chicks     Perez, C.
42 Upperdeckers     Gallardo, Y.
43 Hitmen     Buchholz, C.
44 Gamblers     Laffey, A.
45 Champions     Joyce, M.
         
  Round Six Player
46 Highlanders     Hughes, P.
47 T-Chicks     Harrison, M.
48 Gamblers     Veras, J.

 

My second round pick of Ellsbury was met with silence.  And I really didn’t know whether it was right move or not.  Of course the highest compliment anyone can hear during a draft is “Dammit!”.  Later, one manager confided in me that my pick of Jacoby forced him to go to Plan B so that made me feel better. 

Matt Harrison?  Who’s he?  I still don’t know.  It’s slim pickins by the sixth round and I should know better than to take advice from Teddy.  It doesn’t help that he pitches in Texas. 

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as a frequent participant of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

3 Comments:

  1. Rob
    March 18, 2009 at 6:13 am

    Ellsbury is a good pick. The one thing I notice about our draft as opposed to most others is that since we only have 26 man rosters and can only drop players who fall below the eligibility limits , we are forced to draft for need a lot more than most other leagues (this is intentional, as it keeps the power level of the league lower than some others). This is why I was lucky enough to be able to wait for Chris Davis to fall to me in the 4th round. When I took him I was thinking of him as being more useful for the future than this year, but I’m starting to realize that he’ll help me out a lot this year, backing up Beltre and Berkman. The at-bats Robb Quinlan would have gotten will go to Davis, although the difference is that many of the innings Tavarez will have to pitch could have gone to an A reliever.

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  2. The Baseball Zealot
    March 18, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    “we are forced to draft for need a lot more than most other leagues (this is intentional, as it keeps the power level of the league lower than some others”

    I’ve noticed this too, Rob. Some would say we’re masochistic, :)

    But I kind of like it. it forces us to make do with what we have.

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  3. Rob
    March 19, 2009 at 7:53 am

    I also like it for continuity – we dont have players playing a few years, then dropping out of the league for multiple years, and then popping back up. BTW, one other note about draft eligibility: non-rookies who didn’t meet the draft eligibility requirements for previous years are elligible – that’s who Edinson Volquez made it into this year’s draft.

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