With the draft a few days away, it's time to take a look at the strongest teams heading into the draft. Typically, in the past, I have used my "biased" rating system to give each team a grade and say where I feel they are, but this year, I'm going to leave it to the experts.
No, I didn't fly Choo into town to lend me his Spillanotrometer, and no, I didn't hack Parker's computer to use his spreadsheets. I actually was planning on doing the latter, but as soon as I found out his rating on Ivan Nova, I decided it was best to instead go with ESPN's Top 250 list.
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ESPN Top 250 Average Breakdown
(1.) 149.12 You're Freaking Out
(2.) 144.53 Chief Otto Parts
(3.) 143.29 Vandelay Industries
(4.) 140.76 N.J. Bombers
(5.) 137.29 JimmyJam Slammers
(6.) 137.18 Big League Choo
(7.) 131.29 Philly Cheese Steaks
(8.) 126.00 Gameday Gamblers
(9.) 123.41 Steroid.ERA
(10.) 115.65 Jerkin My Kurkjian
(11.) 76.59 Michael Coldsmith III
(12.) 69.24 Sex Panthers
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Then, I divide the total points by 17 — the number of players on the roster — to give your team the average rating in the Top 250.
As you can imagine, Otto Parts ranks very high, but he wasn't the highest.
That goes to the Outs. He just cracked the Top 10 with Adrian Beltre, and his 10 players in the Top 100 helped him lead this preseason ranking system.
In fact, this further proves the speculation that the National League is going to dominate Interleague play this year. Four NL teams make up four of the top five, and five make up the top seven.
Jerkin', Coldsmith and Sex Panthers are hanging on the caboose of the Choo Choo train that Choo is engineering from the front. Gameday is hanging out in the second-to-last passenger car.
Believe it or not, Jerk had the most players in the Top 250 with 16, but to get there, his highest ranked player is Greinke at 50. To get to where he's at right now, he traded three in the Top 50 and dropped a fourth. Ouch.
The Outs, Otto Parts and Big League Choo all had 15 in the Top 250, while the Slammers is behind them with 14. Steroid and Vandelay are at 13, Philly Cheese and Bombers are at 12, Gamblers are at 11, and lastly, Sex Panthers and Coldsmith are at 10.
So, what does this all mean?
I'm sure Parker would say nothing.
I'd say it's a decent judge on how strong your team is heading into the draft, but it's definitely not an exact science on how the season will pan out because there's a lot out there in the draft.
"No there's not, just Tanaka!"
Wrong. Only 158 of the Top 250 are being kept, and they're not all at the end of the Top 250 list. So, get back to your spreadsheets. There's research to be done!
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