2010 Mock Draft #1

Written by Charlie Saponara on Jan 06, 2010 02:53.

Last night I participated in my first mock draft of the new year. Bob Sikon of Fantasy Baseball Trade Market was kind enough to host the event. Rosters we C (2), 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF (5), CI, MI, UT, P (9). Here is the breakdown round-by-round.

Round	Team	Player	Pos
R1 P1	FishBiscuits	Pujols, Albert	1B
R1 P2	Ivar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Ramirez,Hanley	SS
R1 P3	UrLF'sSuk	Rodriguez, Alex	3B
R1 P4	Soup 2 Nuts	Utley, Chase	2B
R1 P5	BobSikon,FantasyBaseballTradeMarket.com	Braun, Ryan	OF
R1 P6	10-2-Drew	Kemp, Matt	OF
R1 P7	Charlie Saponara - FB365	Cabrera, Miguel	1B
R1 P8	Cannot Cantu	Crawford, Carl	OF
R1 P9	Yooooooo Adriannnnnnn	Mauer, Joe	C
R1 P10	STEVE B	Fielder, Prince	1B
R1 P11	Andreasoxfan	Teixeira, Mark	1B
R1 P12	Durham Bulls	Howard, Ryan	1B

I still think Miguel Cabrera has a .320, 40 home run season in him. It is the robust AVG that gives him the edge over Teixeira and Fielder for me. There is power to be found later on, but .320 hitters don't grow on trees.

The one surprise could be Joe Mauer going in round one ahead of the power trio of Tex, Howard and Fielder.

R2 P1	Durham Bulls	Longoria, Evan	3B
R2 P2	Andreasoxfan	Ellsbury, Jacoby	OF
R2 P3	STEVE B	Kinsler, Ian	2B
R2 P4	Yooooooo Adriannnnnnn	Gonzalez,Adrian	1B
R2 P5	Cannot Cantu	Holliday, Matt	OF
R2 P6	Charlie Saponara - FB365	Wright, David	3B
R2 P7	10-2-Drew	Reynolds, Mark	3B,1B
R2 P8	BobSikon,FantasyBaseballTradeMarket.com	Tulowitzki, Troy	SS
R2 P9	Soup 2 Nuts	Lincecum, Tim	SP
R2P10	UrLF'sSuk	Sizemore,Grady	OF
R2P11	Ivar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Dunn, Adam	OF,1B
R2P12	FishBiscuits	Morneau, Justin	1B

I guess this answers the question of whether I think David Wright's power numbers return or not. While I think Wright should bounce back to around 20-25 home runs, I do think his 30-plus home runs days are behind him as long as he plays in Citi Field. The biggest reason is that Wright used to hit a good amount of his home runs to right-center and right, which is the deepest part of Citi Field. Nonetheless, I get a high AVG 20/30 potential player at a very thin position.