Wednesday, Aug. 20 marked the fourth annual Too Early Meatball Draft hosted by Rob DiPietro in which 15 high-stakes fantasy baseball players, including myself, draft the first 11 rounds of a NFBC Draft Champions league. This is a real 50-round draft-and-hold standard roto league with and we’ll draft the final 39 rounds early in the offseason.

Bubba won the first year of the league and Steve Weimer is poised to win for a second year in a row this year. 

We did KDS based on the standings last Saturday and I had the sixth choice of where to draft, and I could have picked as high as fifth, or slotted myself in the middle, but I opted to draft 15th because I thought it would be fun to see who falls and there’s a competitive edge to consider, as I will get the first pick when we start round 12 and there will obviously be some players rising in value between now and then. 

I previewed the draft with Dominic Rello a few hours before the draft:

Here’s the draft board:

I am currently working on next week’s big update to the top 400 prospect rankings, so I won’t be able to provide a full break down of the draft, but I provided the positional ranks and projected positional eligibility for each player. What stands out? Who were the most surprising picks? Which of my picks do you like/dislike? Who do you think has the best team? Let me

Wednesday, Aug. 20 marked the fourth annual Too Early Meatball Draft hosted by Rob DiPietro in which 15 high-stakes fantasy baseball players, including myself, draft the first 11 rounds of a NFBC Draft Champions league. This is a real 50-round draft-and-hold standard roto league with and we’ll draft the final 39 rounds early in the offseason.

Bubba won the first year of the league and Steve Weimer is poised to win for a second year in a row this year. 

We did KDS based on the standings last Saturday and I had the sixth choice of where to draft, and I could have picked as high as fifth, or slotted myself in the middle, but I opted to draft 15th because I thought it would be fun to see who falls and there’s a competitive edge to consider, as I will get the first pick when we start round 12 and there will obviously be some players rising in value between now and then. 

I previewed the draft with Dominic Rello a few hours before the draft:

Here’s the draft board:

I am currently working on next week’s big update to the top 400 prospect rankings, so I won’t be able to provide a full break down of the draft, but I provided the positional ranks and projected positional eligibility for each player. What stands out? Who were the most surprising picks? Which of my picks do you like/dislike? Who do you think has the best team? Let me know in the comments or on Discord.

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