Spring is Here!

The official start of spring every year is the EVOLUTION League Fantasy Baseball Draft, usually held during the weekend before or after spring break. This year's draft was hosted by Randi and had sufficient food to make us all want to nap for the next three days.



Mike had a full color spread sheet to draft from. As the reigning champion, he is under a lot of pressure and was probably the most organized. (Completely unbiased editor's note: Nate took the gold last year and Steve finished with a strong second. Hopefully this error is instead a prediction for this year).

Tammy is in her second year in the league, so she's still getting to know the players. This could be her year.

My brother in law Steve won for best dressed, with a Toledo MudHens jersey and T-shirt. As you can see it was laptop city at the draft. The days of 30 page packets distributed before the draft are gone, luckily (now that I have no easy place to get them xeroxed).









Ann was primed for her last draft as a working stiff. Unfortunately, she lost one of her pitchers to the DL the first week, so she will need to shuffle a little to recover.

 Nate's philosophy this year was to grab some long shots early on - including Justin Upton right away.

My dad was ready and rarely went more than 30 seconds before announcing his pick.  He generally picks Reds (he's an Ohio resident) and this year the Reds are pretty good, so it worked out well.  Joey Votto could carry him a long way.

 Randi grabbed Pujols on the first pick, so she should be in good shape. Thanks for hosting, Randi.

You can see her Yorkies are not as interested in the draft as she is.

 I adopted the "No pitchers in the first rounds" philosophy and ended up with a good hitting lineup. We'll have to see if my mediocre pitchers can come through for me.  After winning in 2005, I haven't come closer than 5th since, so I changed my team name to "I'm Aiming for Third". Seemed like truth in advertising. We had a great time and especially enjoyed the fact that Tammy and Mike flew in from Portland for the draft. That is going above and beyond the call of duty. Next year we're talking about holding the draft somewhere warmer, like Las Vegas or Arizona.  I think it's a great idea.