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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich
When and if your team is good you tend to draft towards the end of the round.
So often if there is not a better option I will take the best RP a round or two ahead of where the AI would take them.
You can grab fantastic relievers year after year at the end of the 1st or second round.
The current market inefficiency in baseball is a bullpen. My teams tend to have a very strong one. I keep them for their minimums and arbitration years and then trade them if I can or let them go to FA. Half of the time if they hit FA they are an A or B type and I get a compensation pick and I can simply draft yet more!
I have also found that they tend to develop faster in my minors than just about any other player. Maybe due to them only knowing 2 or 3 pitches?
And in the draft you can often find them already pretty well developed and begin them in AA or AAA.
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The compensation picks are nice.
Another thing is that sometimes (playing real players) there's a starter available late in round 1 who is going to take 5 years or so to develop. Which is OK for a team that is usually winning.