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2021 Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep: 23 players on Chris Towers has drafted the most at ADP

Mar. 25, 2021
2021 Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep: 23 players on Chris Towers has drafted the most at ADP

If you only do one Fantasy baseball draft every year, you've gotta make sure you get your guys. We do dozens of drafts every spring, which allows us to test out different team builds and target players we may not love just to see how a team looks with different names. But, every year, when we get to the last week or so before the season, even "expert" league drafts start to look like your home leagues -- people start throwing away ADP and start reaching for their guys.

But you've gotta figure out who your guys are. Do your research, listen to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast, read our articles to get familiar, but the best way to really know who you want is to actually get out there and draft.

I've done 13 so far, not counting Dynasty or prospect-focused leagues, and I've probably got another five or so left. I'll be playing out around 12 of them, so I've got a lot to keep track of, and I've been putting all of my drafts together in a spreadsheet since the beginning to keep track of everything. Including who I've drafted the most throughout the process.

These are my guys, then. Some of them really are my favorite players to draft this season, but then there are guys like Jose Urquidy, who I've picked in five of 13 drafts so far. I didn't go into draft season thinking I was a big Urquidy fan, but I've picked him five times with an average of around 187 overall -- about a round higher than his ADP.

And the thing is, I do like Urquidy. He has a true four-pitch arsenal with swing-and-miss stuff, and I'm willing to give him something of a pass for 2020 -- Urquidy tested positive for COVID before the season and had to isolate for a month, ultimately making his debut about 10 days later than the rest of his teammates. Home runs will be an issue, but he should have better-than-average strikeout and walk rates, and the Astros obviously know how to get the most out of their pitchers.

And the thing is, the lower you get in the draft, the easier it is to get your guys, because ADP stops really mattering around the 150th pick. Keep that in mind, and go get your guys. Urquidy is one of mine, and here are all the players I've drafted in at least four of my 13 leagues so far:

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Here's 50 words or less about why I like each player here:


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