San Quentin Tarantinos
SL '95a
Draft
*****
This season I definitely went into the draft prepared-or so I
thought. The two hour train rides back and forth to work every day
provided the ideal venue for scouting. Looking back, I did enough
scouting-just scouted the wrong things. I definitely put a high premium
on extra-base hits, but certainly not nearly enough on walks. These
deficiencies had to be made up in the free-agent draft and by trade, but
at that point I was too far back already to make up the ground. Here is
my probable end of season starting lineup:
1. Justice DH
2. RAlomar 2B
3. Bonds LF
4. Griffey CF
5. Galarraga 1B
6. MWilliams 3B
7. Mondesi RF
8. Trammell (?) SS
9. Karkovice C
Season
*******
I think I started off 7-3, then totally flopped. Early in the
season I had Gibson/Carter at DH, Fermin at SS, and Junior Felix Jose
were my big pinch-hitters. At the time of the free agent draft I was
last in the league in walks, and nobody was getting on for the big guns
Griffey and Williams. I then picked up David Justice (.427 OBP) to bat
leadoff for me. Then I traded Larry Walker and Chuck Knoblauch for Barry
Bonds and Robbie Alomar (there were other guys involved in the trade, but
these were the major players). Felix Fermin (aka "the ferminator" or "the
detective") was a huge bust at SS, and I dont even remember who finished
the season for me there, but I know it wasn’t him. My starting rotation
was poor at best, but I had a decent bullpen that certainly led in drug
arrests (Howe).
All in all, I certainly had high expectations for this team,
but we fell short in more ways than one. But I still considered it a
learning experience, as it was probably my first draft in over ten years,
and I was still getting acclimated to the nuances of the computer game.