{"id":328,"date":"2012-05-01T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2012-05-01T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:26:18","slug":"return-of-the-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-329\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/beltran-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/beltran-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/beltran.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Beltran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kings<\/p>\n<p><strong>Projected Finish<\/strong>: First<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011 Finish:<\/strong> Fourth<\/p>\n<p><strong>AVG<\/strong>: B \u2026 <strong>HR<\/strong>: A \u2026 <strong>R<\/strong>: A \u2026 <strong>RBI<\/strong>: A \u2026 <strong>SB<\/strong>: B \u2026 <strong>W<\/strong>: D \u2026 <strong>ERA<\/strong>: B \u2026 <strong>WHIP<\/strong>: A \u2026 <strong>K<\/strong>: C \u2026 <strong>SV<\/strong>: C<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc\u2019s favorite draft pick<\/strong>: Carlos Beltran, Round 3 \u2013 rebounded nicely last season; great value in what was the 19<sup>th<\/sup> round<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin\u2019s favorite draft pick<\/strong>: Carlos Beltran, Round 3 \u2013 improved hitter&#8217;s situation, in terms of home ballpark and supporting cast gives a boost to a guy already coming off a good bounce-back year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overview: <\/strong>Once the cream of the DTBL crop, the Kings are poised to return not only to DTBL relevance, but to prominence. Just like OOTP, the projection systems love them some Kings.<\/p>\n<p>While pitching carried the Kings in 2011, the projection systems rate the Kings as the best offense in the league, with top scores in the HR, RBI and R categories. The Kings focused on offense most of the first half of the draft with power-hitting Michael Morse, Coors Field native Michael Cuddyer and Beltran, who has found some protection in the order with St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings Projected Finish: First 2011 Finish: Fourth AVG: B \u2026 HR: A \u2026 R: A \u2026 RBI: A \u2026 SB: B \u2026 W: D \u2026 ERA: B \u2026 WHIP: A \u2026 K: C \u2026 SV: C Marc\u2019s favorite draft pick: Carlos Beltran, Round 3 \u2013 rebounded nicely last season; great value in what was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-draft","category-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}