[Westheim]

I can't draft for my life so bad, it's a bit of a running gag in my dynasty thread. My way is to wait for my current bid for glory to fall apart, then trade for all the good high-minors prospects I can shake off the AI. Then rinse-repeat until I have another winning product. Takes between one and ten years. My system is not very refined...

Of the guys that got their numbers retired in my signature, I drafted three, one was a #2 pick and one a #3 pick (so they were kinda obvious), and one a #293 in a 360-strong pool, a crap shot in the penultimate round. I traded for the other four. I can't even sign free agents.

While I can't draft even first-rounders that become All Stars, I can definitely confirm that the overall numeric value or the star ratings are complete BS in this game. The game will merrily give five stars to excellent defensive leftfielders even if they can't hit a barn from the inside, while... (see below)

Two stars, really? Really??

As everything on this team falls apart, I tried to trade him, too. He has no trade value. The AI wants no piece of him and considers him a vastly overpaid veteran (that salary in this league would amount to about $15m current MLB $). Probably better this way. Maybe I can squeeze him into the Hall of Fame by keeping him away from centerfield, which used to eat him alive.

And no, I didn't draft him. He was the main reward of a late-April type-A free agent-signing gamble turned into a July this-ain't-working-gimme-prospects deal - so in a way he was the equivalent of a first round pick... but not quite.