Second Chance Draft

Second Chance Draft

Author: RotoWire.com May 1, 2024 Duration: 1:10:15

If you could re-draft today, where would Corbin Carroll go? How about Ranger Suárez? Would Ronald Acuña Jr. still go first? We resolved to find these questions out in the Yahoo! Friends & Family draft on Monday night. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson review the results and the shifting player values.

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Full draft results: https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/84482/draftresults

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00:00 - Recapping the Yahoo! F&F Draft

04:25 - Mookie Betts 1.1

06:30 - Elly De La Cruz 1.5

09:00 - Fred takes Corbin Burnes 1.8

11:00 - Jeff takes Gunnar Henderson 1.11

13:00 - First-round recap

16:30 - Yordan Alvarez 2.16

17:30 - Tarik Skubal 2.19, 3rd pitcher taken

19:00 - Cooling off on early pitchers

22:30 - Corbin Carroll 2.25

30:15 - Adolis Garcia 2.26

33:00 - Two more aces for Fred (Freddy Peralta, Aaron Nola)

34:20 - When to take closers?

36:20 - Mike Trout 3.32

39:00 - Slumping Blue Jays hitters

41:45 - Early positive outliers - Shota Imanaga, Marcell Ozuna, Ronel Blanco

48:15 - Fred’s Full Team

53:15 - Jeff’s Full Team

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