Pitching As A Priority

As a contrast to my last post, these are the results of using pitching as a priority in your draft. I was going to use my first nine picks as pitchers, but I didn't want to reach too far for guys, making it unrealistic, so I only drafted pitchers when they were within the next 20 probable picks. Four of my first five picks were pitchers. Here is my team:

C J.R. Towles --- C (HOU)
1B Adrian Gonzalez --- 1B (SD)
2B Dan Uggla --- 2B (FL)
3B Adrian Beltre --- 3B (SEA)
SS Jhonny Peralta --- SS (CLE)
OF Eric Byrnes --- OF (ARZ)
OF Chris Young --- OF (ARZ)
OF Raul Ibanez --- OF (SEA)
UTIL David Ortiz --- DH (BOS)

P Johan Santana --- SP (MIN)
P Brandon Webb --- SP (ARZ)
P C.C. Sabathia --- SP (CLE)
P Francisco Rodriguez --- RP (LAA)
P Jonathan Papelbon --- RP (BOS)

Bench Adam Wainwright --- SP (STL)
Bench Rich Hill --- SP (CHC)
Bench Kevin Youkilis --- 1B (BOS)
Bench Josh Willingham --- OF (FL)

To be honest, I'm not as upset with my team as I thought I would be. There is a lot of talent late in the draft this year to make this strrategy actually kind of plausible. This would obviously not be a good idea in roto, but in a head to head, the offense I've assembled could easily win. This is definitely a very sketchy strategy to go with, however, as if you don't know what you are doing, you could end up with Juan Pierre and Doug Mientkiewicz on your starting roster.