NotGraphantasy Draft Recap

As many of you know, over the past week, we at the NotGraphs Convalescent Home and Headquarters engaged in a thought exercise. Our goal: to build a team of avatars representing the NotGraphs aesthetic. Our results: more glorious than our collective and somewhat hyperbolic expectations. And now, urbane and attractive readership, it’s your turn to voice your opinions and witty rebuttals.

First, for the sake of reference, here are all of the authorial rationalizations for their picks:

Bradley Woodrum
Carson Cistulli
Robert J. Baumann
Jeremy Blachman
David G. Temple
Michael Bates
Patrick Dubuque
Navin Vaswani
Eno Sarris

Beneath the cut is a breakdown of the draft (fictional player denoted with asterisk):

Pick	Team	Player
1.1	Woodrum	Mordecai Brown
1.2	Cistulli	Dick Allen
1.3	Baumann	Rickey Henderson
1.4	Blachman	Joe McEwing
1.5	Temple	Bo Jackson
1.6	Bates	Babe Ruth
1.7	Dubuque	Miguel Batista
1.8	Vaswani	Roy Halladay
1.9	Sarris	Barry Bonds
2.1	Sarris	David Eckstein
2.2	Vaswani	Jose Canseco
2.3	Dubuque	Ross Barnes
2.4	Bates	Sylvester Coddmyer III*
2.5	Temple	Bugs Bunny*
2.6	Blachman	David Wright
2.7	Baumann	Mark Fidrych
2.8	Cistulli	Mark Bellhorn
2.9	Woodrum	Old Hoss Radborn
3.1	Woodrum	Domingo Ayala*
3.2	Cistulli	Aparicio Rodriguez*
3.3	Baumann	Pedro Martinez
3.4	Blachman	Sam Fuld
3.5	Temple	Rube Waddell
3.6	Bates	Jack Glasscock
3.7	Dubuque	Sadaharu Oh
3.8	Vaswani	Mark Eichhorn
3.9	Sarris	Roberto Clemente
4.1	Sarris	R.A. Dickey
4.2	Vaswani	Ted Williams
4.3	Dubuque	Jim Brosnan
4.4	Bates	Satchel Paige
4.5	Temple	Yoenis Cespedes
4.6	Blachman	Fernando Perez
4.7	Baumann	Gary Carter
4.8	Cistulli	Dazzy Vance
4.9	Woodrum	Munenori Kawasaki
5.1	Woodrum	Moe Berg
5.2	Cistulli	JR Richard
5.3	Baumann	Joey Votto
5.4	Blachman	Henry Rowengartner*
5.5	Temple	Jose Altuve
5.6	Bates	Wally Moon
5.7	Dubuque	Chris Sabo
5.8	Vaswani	Ozzie Smith
5.9	Sarris	Rick Vaughn*
6.1	Sarris	Rey Ordonez
6.2	Vaswani	Ham Porter*
6.3	Dubuque	Reggie Smith
6.4	Bates	Steve Balboni
6.5	Temple	Mike Schmidt
6.6	Blachman	Craig Breslow
6.7	Baumann	Bill Lee
6.8	Cistulli	Glenn Burke
6.9	Woodrum	Eddie Gaedel
7.1	Woodrum	Rollie Fingers
7.2	Cistulli	Tony Conigliaro
7.3	Baumann	Joe Morgan
7.4	Blachman	Royce Clayton
7.5	Temple	Thurman Munson
7.6	Bates	Bid McPhee
7.7	Dubuque	Paul Molitor
7.8	Vaswani	Roberto Alomar
7.9	Sarris	Mike Piazza
8.1	Sarris	Sal Fasano
8.2	Vaswani	Scott Rolen
8.3	Dubuque	Digital Ken Griffey, Jr.*
8.4	Bates	Ernie Lombardi
8.5	Temple	Pete Rose
8.6	Blachman	Billy Beane
8.7	Baumann	Reggie Jackson
8.8	Cistulli	Candy Cummings
8.9	Woodrum	Josh Reddick
9.1	Woodrum	Jayson Werth
9.2	Cistulli	German Mesa
9.3	Baumann	Henry Skrimshander*
9.4	Blachman	Hector Villanueva
9.5	Temple	Joe Tinker
9.6	Bates	Dock Ellis
9.7	Dubuque	Gregg Jefferies
9.8	Vaswani	Mark McGwire
9.9	Sarris	Carlos Beltran
10.1	Sarris	Tsuyoshi Shinjo
10.2	Vaswani	Jim Edmonds
10.3	Dubuque	George Plimpton
10.4	Bates	Arlie Latham
10.5	Temple	Oscar Gamble
10.6	Blachman	Keith Hernandez
10.7	Baumann	Glen Gorbous
10.8	Cistulli	Mike O’Neill
10.9	Woodrum	Jackie Robinson
11.1	Woodrum	Yuniesky Betancourt
11.2	Cistulli	Jeremy Brown
11.3	Baumann	John  Stearns
11.4	Blachman	Sandy Koufax
11.5	Temple	Jim Abbott
11.6	Bates	Randy Johnson
11.7	Dubuque	Frank Fernandez
11.8	Vaswani	Manny Ramirez
11.9	Sarris	Matt Harvey
12.1	Sarris	Branch Rickey
12.2	Vaswani	Sparky Anderson
12.3	Dubuque	Bill Veeck
12.4	Bates	Mike Veeck
12.5	Temple	Connie Mack
12.6	Blachman	Joe Maddon
12.7	Baumann	Billy Beane
12.8	Cistulli	Oscar Wilde*
12.9	Woodrum	George Knox*
13.1	Woodrum	Koshien Stadium
13.2	Cistulli	Alexander Cartwright
13.3	Baumann	The Sandlot*
13.4	Blachman	Steve Phillips
13.5	Temple	Earl Weaver
13.6	Bates	Malachai Kittridge
13.7	Dubuque	Clark Field
13.8	Vaswani	Navin Field
13.9	Sarris	This field in Maracay
14.1	Sarris	Ozzie Guillen*
14.2	Vaswani	Pat Gillick
14.3	Dubuque	Joe Schultz
14.4	Bates	Childhood Backyard *
14.5	Temple	The Polo Grounds
14.6	Blachman	Wrigley Field
14.7	Baumann	Ron Washington
14.8	Cistulli	Driving Park
14.9	Woodrum	Rube Foster

For those interested in such trivia, here are the cumulative WAR totals for each team:

Team	WAR
Vaswani	653.7
Bates	541.7
Baumann	509.6
Sarris	409.6
Temple	400.1
Dubuque	231.1
Cistulli	215.8
Woodrum	198.9
Blachman	190

And now we turn to you, our faceless overseers, Scofieldian judges of our souls. Who “won” the Notgraphantasy Draft? Who lost? Who made the best or more questionable pick, and which players were snubbed? Make your voice heard, or your words read. Do something with your words.