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How To Draft Mike Trout In Round 3

By Ron Shandler | February 10, 2020 at 10:00am CDT

In 2019, BABSbaseball.com said we could draft…

  • Charlie Morton (ADP 119) instead of Blake Snell (30)
  • Ketel Marte (220) instead of Lorenzo Cain (66)
  • Matt Olson (109) instead of Khris Davis (45)
  • Austin Meadows (186) instead of Tommy Pham (61)
  • Eloy Jimenez (117) instead of Vlad Guerrero Jr. (46)
  • Zack Greinke (66) instead of Aaron Nola (25)
  • DJ LeMahieu (265) instead of Robinson Cano (123)
  • Mitch Garver (435) instead of Francisco Mejia (249)
  • and on and on…

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This is a sponsored post from Ron Shandler.

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59 Comments

  1. Metso Ball Soup

    6 years ago

    Is this a new policy of not identifying sponsored posts in the title?

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    • Tim Dierkes

      6 years ago

      No, here’s a similar post from over seven years ago:

      mlbtraderumors.com/2012/07/enter-the-draftstreet-m…

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      • Metso Ball Soup

        6 years ago

        Ahh, ok. I know I’ve seen it identified in the title in the past, but I’ve been reading you guys for years and I guess it all blurs together at this point. Either way, I figured it was a sponsored post after the first 2 seconds of reading. Thanks for the clarification!

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  2. PapiElf

    6 years ago

    What is this?

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    • Ironman_4life

      6 years ago

      This is called nerds sucking the fun outta baseball.

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      • racosun

        6 years ago

        Baseball would be dead if it weren’t for nerds.

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        • DarkSide830

          6 years ago

          that is just completely untrue. this sort of thing really should – and probably does – have no effect on the game

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        • parx

          6 years ago

          Sometimes people enjoy reading fantasy baseball articles, sometimes people call people nerds for enjoying things like reading fantasy baseball articles, if your fun has been sucked out of baseball because of other people reading an article I think it certainly says more about the commenter than it does the nerd reading the article

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    • beknighted

      6 years ago

      clickbait

      Reply
  3. calrippen

    6 years ago

    ew

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  4. servix

    6 years ago

    Is this an ad displayed as actual content?

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    • Nick

      6 years ago

      I mean… if you’ve been here for years, this Ron Shandler stuff has made an annual appearance at the start of fantasy baseball season. It’s not like this is anything new.

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      Reply
  5. cyyoung24

    6 years ago

    This a hack?

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  6. cjelepis

    6 years ago

    First, they hack our election. And now this. What could possibly be next?

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    • Ironman_4life

      6 years ago

      Greenland collusion !!!

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    • A'sfaninLondonUK

      6 years ago

      @cjelpis

      What next?

      How to explain to an English area manager why I spat coffee at my screen, please?

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  7. Kayrall

    6 years ago

    ew

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  8. nats3256

    6 years ago

    I’m all for you guys making money. Capitalism is great. But at least give me “this is an add” on the thumbnail.

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  9. Badfinger

    6 years ago

    Poor babies. Subjected to an ad on a free site.

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    • DarkSide830

      6 years ago

      its like thinking Google is completely free. that’s not how anything online works.

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  10. Frisco500

    6 years ago

    Wtf? Yea I will definitely erase mlbtr if they start posting sponsored ads and disguising them as actual content.

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    • californiaangels

      6 years ago

      damn you’re salty lol. sad

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    • rangerslegend34107

      6 years ago

      Ads are how they make money. It’s how any “free” site makes money. Good luck finding any site that doesn’t have ads.

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    • KermitJagger

      6 years ago

      To each their own. I find the information here to be the best free baseball info on the internet. Easily worth ads, whatever else.

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    • Vanilla Good

      6 years ago

      Goodbye!!!!

      Reply
    • vtadave

      6 years ago

      Bye Felicia!

      Reply
  11. Link182 2

    6 years ago

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  12. Veteran presents

    6 years ago

    Love this site. That however, caught me off guard.

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  13. Cincyfan85

    6 years ago

    Quit whining! This site is FREE. It’s not like every other post is an ad. Get over it!

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    • KermitJagger

      6 years ago

      Everyone feels so entitled anymore.

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  14. Theghostoftycobb

    6 years ago

    Just because of how this was set up, I promised myself I’d never go to baseball or whatever this is.

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  15. antibelt

    6 years ago

    I think the most insulting part was some of the suggestions were obvious. Try to sell me something that’s completely useless.

    Reply
  16. bbatardo

    6 years ago

    Title is stupid because you can’t draft Trout in round 3 in any league.. I get that it is intended to be click baity but at least find a better title.

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    • DarkSide830

      6 years ago

      the only reason id see it is in a very small league and each player is afraid of Trout getting injured. (because he has been more injured in recent seasons)

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      • bjsguess

        6 years ago

        The article does NOT say you can draft Trout in the third round (title is click bait). What they are saying is that you can find someone who has similar value to Trout in the 3rd round.

        Of course, that is silly unless Trout gets hurt or suffers major regression. Even with Trout missing 40 games he produces about as much value as any other player that goes the whole 162.

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        • lazorko

          6 years ago

          I created a one team league last year and drafted Trout in the *fourth* round!

          And I won the league!

          And I draft first again this year!

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        • Joe Kerr

          6 years ago

          I thought what is was saying is that you can make up for not getting Trout by gaining the amount of points Trout will get by selecting the right players in other rounds.

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  17. Rallyshirt

    6 years ago

    Tim, next time release a thread like this while you have max participation like in yesterday’s Mookie deal. Then you make more money.

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  18. heinie manush

    6 years ago

    Tim Dierkes name fronts this article-that’s simply wrong.

    “How To Draft Mike Trout In Round 3
    By Tim Dierkes | February 10, 2020 at 10:00am CDT”

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  19. brucenewton

    6 years ago

    I’d whip old Ronny in any league.

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    • vtadave

      6 years ago

      Doubtful.

      Reply
  20. amk3510

    6 years ago

    I don’t know a thing about fantasy sports but anything that has Mike Trout in round 3 is a croc of bs.

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  21. falconsball1993

    6 years ago

    To be fair, Ron Shandler is one of the brightest minds in baseball. He doesn’t just do fantasy. He’s been in front offices. To write this off as some nerd idiot ad post….is simply ignorant.

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  22. Four4fore

    6 years ago

    At least they got rid of the down vote.

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  23. 24TheKid

    6 years ago

    For all of the guys you predicted correct, who did you get wrong?

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  24. ChiSoxCity

    6 years ago

    Cham-pion-shiiiip!

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  25. yamsi1912

    6 years ago

    Trout is overrated.

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    • mlb1225

      6 years ago

      lol no

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      • Eatdust666

        6 years ago

        Maybe he said that because despite being the best player in baseball, he has just as many playoff victories as Marvin Lewis did as the Bengals head coach.

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        • mlb1225

          6 years ago

          Dang, I didn’t know that one baseball player could carry an entire 25 man roster.

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  26. Tim Dierkes

    6 years ago

    So is the complaint here in the headline, or in the existence of the sponsored post at all? If the headline was Sponsored Post: How To Draft Mike Trout In Round 3, would most of you be fine with it?

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    • Rangers29

      6 years ago

      Don’t fret it, if people don’t like it, they don’t have to read it, nobody is forcing them. I guess saying sponsored post would help though. I just think that the issue is since MLBTR doesn’t post articles like this very often (or ever), people are freaking out about it. Like I said, don’t fret, but I would put Sponsored Post.

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    • heinie manush

      6 years ago

      Sure Tim, we get you have a right to make a buck,it was just seeing your name (by Tim Dierkes) up front, seemed wrong.

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      • mlb1225

        6 years ago

        To be fair, they probably have to put a name down to put up something on the website. It’s probably something they can’t control.

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      • antibelt

        6 years ago

        You realize that’s not the real Tim right?

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    • jdgoat

      6 years ago

      Some people will complain about anything and everything, and those people should be ignored.

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  27. milkman

    6 years ago

    People complaining about this are likely just complainers in general life

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  28. thetruth 2

    6 years ago

    Now how about they post all their wrong predictions from 2019.

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  29. weaselpuppy

    6 years ago

    How DARE Tim and the other contributors want to EAT!!!!

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