Rounding Third: RotoWire's NL LABR Team

RotoWire's NL LABR Squad

We got together to draft in the 20th annual LABR drafts in Phoenix last weekend; Chris Liss drafted our AL squad, and I drafted the NL squad. You can read Chris's write-up of his team here. This league is a 12-team, NL-only league with a 23-man active roster, and we all had a $260 budget to spend.

One thing that struck me about this draft, compared to the AL draft and compared to many other industry leagues, was the willingness of nearly everyone to spend early and often to build a somewhat top-heavy roster. Glenn Colton and Rick Wolf did their usual thing, but among those that also built their roster in a similar fashion were ESPN.com's Eric Karabell, the Sandlot Shrink's Bob Radomski, the NFBC's Greg Ambrosius, and … me. I've frequently employed a spread-the-risk approach in these leagues in the past, but the last two major expert drafts (AL Tout Wars and

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