We are a couple weeks into the new Major League Baseball season so it seems appropriate to introduce you to this year's Coca-Cola Kids Fantasy Baseball Team. Established in 1988 as a National League Rotisserie Baseball Club, but then upgraded to an online team in the mid-1990s on Sandbox, the Kids enter their 34th season of fantasy baseball. The Kids joined their current league, the League of the Gorgeous Rogues, in 2003 and took 7th place. Since then the Kids won the championship twice in 2006 and 2013. In 2021, the Kids shocked everyone in the playoffs to finish third, the only sub .500 team in the playoffs. They have finished last more times than they would like to admit, however. Enough history, it is time to look forward to the 2022 baseball season.
Each year teams in the league may keep up to three players from the past season. The Kids elected to keep: Brian Reynolds, Outfield, Pittsburg; Javier Baez, shortstop, Detroit; Kris Bryant, third base, Colorado. Brian Reynolds quietly put together a good season last year and both Bryant and Baez are with new teams this year with promise to have really good years.
Here is how the remainder roster shakes out after the draft:
C: Eric Haas, Detroit Tigers
1B: Joey Votto, Cincinnati Reds
2B: Jonathan India, Cincinnati Reds
3B: Kris Bryant, Colorado Rockies
SS: Javier Baez, Detroit Tigers
OF1: Luis Robert, Chicago White Sox
OF2: Brian Reynolds, Pittsburg Pirates
OF3: Cedric Mullins, Baltimore Orioles
Utlility: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angels Angels
SP: Lucas Giolito, Chicago White Sox
SP: Robbie Ray, Seattle Mariners
SP: Tyler Mahle, Cincinnati Reds
SP: Yu Darvish, San Diego Padres
RP: Gregory Soto, Detroit Tigers
RP: Michael Kopech, Chicago White Sox
P: Diego Castillo, Tampa Bay Rays
P: Marcus Stroman, Chicago Cubs
Bench: Chris Taylor, 2b, 3b, SS, OF, LA Dodgers; J.P. Crawford, SS, Seattle Mariners; Jarred Kelenic, OF, Seattle Mariners; Austin Meadows, OF, Detroit Tigers; Justin Steele, SP, Chicago Cubs; Yimi Garcia, RP, Toronto Blue Jays; Casey Mize, SP, Detroit Tigers.
If you are counting, there are more players than our 23 man roster. That is because three players are already on the 10-Day Injured List.
At posting, the Kids are currently in 9th place (out of 10 teams) and are looking to use the benefit of a long season to catch up! Anyway it turns out, it will be a great season of baseball.
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