On Tuesday, March 22, Sports Illustrated hosted an experts fantasy baseball mock draft on RT Sports.
Some of the brightest minds in fantasy sports drafted alongside myself and Shawn Childs in this standard 5X5 roto league, 12-team, 23- round draft.
Here are the participants, in draft order:
- Scott Engel - The Game Day
- Greg Jewett- The Athletic
- Shawn Childs - Sports Illustrated
- Darik Buchar- NFBC
- Michael Salfino - The Athletic
- Chris Meaney- FTN
- Jeff Erickson - Rotowire
- Scott Pianowski - Yahoo
- Ryan Hallam- Fantasy Alarm
- Jennifer Piacenti- Sports Illustrated
- Jeff Zimmerman - Fangraphs
- Matt Williams- NBC Sports Edge
With most of MLB’s big free agents signed and a week of spring training in the books, here’s how the board turned out:
I asked the participants to break it down in their own words.