Fantasy Baseball: Yahoo ADP: 49-72

We're getting into the meat of the draft here, so pay attention. It's hard to screw up Rounds 1-4, but it is the next 5 rounds that can really make or break your entire season. There's a lot of variation, and those poor saps who reach for their favorite average player (moron who took Uribe in Rd. 6, I'm looking at you), need a solid performance playing the free agent market to make up for it.

49. J. Pierre 50.8
50. R. Howard 51.5
51. A. Dunn 52.1
52. B. Lidge 53.6
53. G. Sizemore 53.7
54. M. Ensberg 55.6
55. M. Giles 56.9
56. J. Damon 57.9
57. J. Cantú 58.2
58. F. Hernández 58.6
59. Fr. Rodríguez 59.9
60. H. Matsui 60.6
61. S. Podsednik 61.1
62. J. Mauer 62.5
63. B. Wagner 63.1
64. A. Pettitte 64.5
65. C. Jones 67.0
66. B. Colón 67.1
67. J. Nathan 67.3
68. E. Chávez 69.6
69. M. Buehrle 70.9
70. H. Street 71.6
71. J. Peralta 72.8
72. B. Ryan 73.3

Did someone say "closer run"? 6 closers in 24 picks. (That's 25% for the math-impaired and Uribe-picking mouthbreathers out there). All of these pitchers are very good, but Ryan is certainly a step down from everyone else taken. It would seem that Rd. 5 and 6 is "Get a bat, get an arm".

Matsui really surprises me. There couldn't be a more consistent player, and he's good for 30/100/.290 every single year. Mauer is being taken here, which isn't horrible value, but it's still early for a catcher. The guys available in the final two rounds aren't going to kill your team, and wouldn't you rather have Pettitte, Wagner, Street or Ryan on your team? And whoever these people are who are taking Podsednik here are killing themselves. The Almight Stolen Base isn't worth the hit to every single other category with this guy. Let someone else cripple their team with him, and fill an empty 3B slot or take a top pitcher.