{"id":322,"date":"2012-04-30T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2012-04-30T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:47:31","slug":"jackalope-remain-darkhorses-return-to-elite-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Jackalope remain, Darkhorses return to elite status"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike Moustakas, 3B<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jackalope<\/p>\n

Projected Finish<\/strong>: Third<\/p>\n

2011 Finish: <\/strong>First<\/p>\n

AVG<\/strong>: C \u2026 HR<\/strong>: A \u2026 R<\/strong>: C \u2026 RBI<\/strong>: B \u2026 SB<\/strong>: B \u2026 W<\/strong>: A \u2026 ERA<\/strong>: F \u2026 WHIP<\/strong>: F \u2026 K<\/strong>: B \u2026 SV<\/strong>: A<\/p>\n

Marc\u2019s favorite draft pick<\/strong>: Sean Marshall, Round 12 \u2013 Mr. Irrelevant could be a gem with the injury to Ryan Madson<\/p>\n

Jay\u2019s favorite draft picks<\/strong>: Mike Moustakas, Round 3 \/ Paul Goldschmidt, Round 4 \u2013 A pair to tidy up the corners as well as provide some pop while Ryan Howard nurses his Achilles.<\/p>\n

Overview: <\/strong>The Jackalope broke through last year from being a team with a great SP staff to simply a great team. The addition of Mike Stanton provided a much-needed power boost to move the Jackalope to the fourth-best offense and top overall team in the league in 2011.<\/p>\n

The 2012 Jackalope are ready to pick up where the 2011 squad left off. Howie Kendrick (Round 1) and Chris Young (Round 2) were among the best veteran DTBL players in the draft pool. By drafting every RP with ties to the Reds, the Jackalope ensured they will get any save opportunity to emerge from the Queen City \u2013 unless the Red lose, of course.<\/p>\n

Darkhorses<\/p>\n

Projected Finish<\/strong>: Second<\/p>\n

2011 Finish: <\/strong>Seventh<\/p>\n

AVG<\/strong>: A \u2026 HR<\/strong>: D \u2026 R<\/strong>: B \u2026 RBI<\/strong>: C \u2026 SB<\/strong>: A \u2026 W<\/strong>: B \u2026 ERA<\/strong>: A \u2026 WHIP<\/strong>: C \u2026 K<\/strong>: C \u2026 SV<\/strong>: A<\/p>\n

Marc\u2019s favorite draft pick<\/strong>: Zack Cozart, Round 10 \u2013 seemed like a lot of publications were down on him following surgery on his non-throwing arm<\/p>\n

Dave\u2019s favorite draft pick<\/strong>: Matt Moore, Round 1 \u2013 An expected ace who could help drive the Darkhorses\u2019 SP staff back to prominence; Moore and Strasburg stood a tier above the rest of the SP pool<\/p>\n

Overview:<\/strong> After four consecutive DTBL titles (including one tie), the Darkhorses finally took a step back in 2011.<\/p>\n

Other than in the first round, the 2012 draft saw the Darkhorses follow their regular blueprint of drafting more established players rather than splurging on DTBL rookies. Among the rookies drafted by the D\u2019horses, Jordan Walden entered the year looking like one of the top up-and-coming firemen in the league.<\/p>\n

(note: Injuries have taken a serious toll on the Darkhorses already this year, with the losses of Jacoby Ellsbury, Chris Carpenter and Brian Wilson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jackalope Projected Finish: Third 2011 Finish: First AVG: C \u2026 HR: A \u2026 R: C \u2026 RBI: B \u2026 SB: B \u2026 W: A \u2026 ERA: F \u2026 WHIP: F \u2026 K: B \u2026 SV: A Marc\u2019s favorite draft pick: Sean Marshall, Round 12 \u2013 Mr. Irrelevant could be a gem with the injury to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkhorses","category-draft","category-jackalope","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}