A Pujols Injury Debate

coryh64 posted 2/25/2008 from mvn.com [flag]

As some of you may have read in Derek’s post below, I selected Albert Pujols 12th overall in Sunday night’s “expert” draft. Mike Bock of Fantasy Hurler and I have been debating the merit of this selection, among others. I thought the discourse informative (or at least entertaining) enough to post it here: [link]

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