I run a fantasy league that’s verrrry deep. It’s a keeper league in which 14 owners keep 26 players from year to year. In previous drafts we’ve seen college players go, no problem. In our inaugural season of 2001, one team picked up South Carolina pitcher Kip Bouknight, who the previous year had gone 17-1 with a 2.81 ERA as a junior Gamecock and won the Golden Spikes award. Gaudy statistics indeed. However, Bouknight didn’t have great “stuff,” slipped a little in his senior year at college (despite tying Jeff Brantley for the most wins of any SEC pitcher ever), and slid to the Rockies in the 13th round of the 2001 amateur draft, three months after our GM took him in the 35th round. Bouknight has yet to pitch in the majors.
One round later, however, another GM snatched up Georgia Tech third baseman Mark Teixiera. That worked out significantly better. (more…)
