At the risk of tearing down the entire "fantasy expert" scam, we begin today with an admission: Occasionally, fantasy gurus get stuff wrong.

It's rare, but it happens. Back in March, it's possible that some of us led you to believe Roy Halladay was salvageable and that Adam Dunn was not terrible at baseball. We apologize for these misunderstandings.

With six weeks of MLB data in the books, it's time to reassess the player pool. We've assembled a group of 10 experts for an in-season baseball draft. The league settings are fairly standard: 5x5, mixed player pool, CI & MI, head-to-head, weekly lineups. Nothing too exotic.

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These were our participants, listed in draft order with industry affiliation:

1. Alex Kantecki, Fake Teams

2. Dalton Del Don, Yahoo!

3. Andy Behrens, Yahoo!

4. Paul Singman, Baseball Prospectus

5. Brad Evans, Cat Fancy

6. Patrick Daugherty, Rotoworld

7. Michael Salfino, Wall Street Journal

8. Scott Pianowski, Glamour

9. Derek VanRiper, RotoWire

10. Brandon Funston, Golf Digest

You can find full draft results right here. Or you can keep scrolling for a round-by-round review, with commentary from our experts. Rounds 1 and 2 really didn't look all that unusual. The reaching began in the third...

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Rounds 1-3: Nothing too crazy about the first round. Justin Upton slugged his way into the first pass, and apparently Joey Votto hasn't unslugged his way out. Everyone knows well enough to wait on pitching. The top-5 had a consensus feel to me, but maybe not in that particular order. Season to taste.

It takes a special kind of stomach to take a Matt Kemp or Albert Pujols in the second round. Is Kemp's shoulder going to come around? Is Pujols going to hobble around like Fred G. Sanford all year? Yu Darvish's wicked slider and strikeout upside make sense with the 18th pick.

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Round 3 is where the owners let their hair down. Shin-Soo Choo's collection of skills pushed him to the 21st overall pick. Chris Davis, one of the X-factors of this experiment, goes at 3.03. Two positions of eligibility and reliable pop sounds good to me. Justin Verlander slides to 3.04 because if you can't find starting pitching in 2013, you're not trying. Stephen Strasburg is an interesting play at 3.07; I'd like to see him get someone out in an eighth inning someday before I'm scribbling that one down. But hey, it's a game of opinions. Yoenis Cespedes hasn't run (or hit a lot), but he was going in the top-4 rounds no matter what, and 3.09 doesn't seem out of place.

Top 30 breakdown: 13 infielders, 11 outfielders, four pitchers, one catcher, one 1B/OF. With only three outfielders required, I thought the infield slant might be a little heavier. -Pianowski





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Rounds 4-6: We could talk about Giancarlo Stanton’s rough April and gimpy hamstring knocking him from a near unanimous top-15 preseason pick to the fourth round, but let’s start with a pair of Brewers: Jean Segura and Carlos Gomez. They were spring-time afterthoughts. Gomez the third outfielder you begrudgingly took, Segura the shortstop you threw a dart at in the 22nd round to handcuff Troy Tulowitzki. Flash-forward two months, and they’re being drafted as top-50 fantasy studs. That’s because they’ve produced like top-ten fantasy studs. Whether they can sustain it is anyone’s guess (read: probably not), but this is the kind of draft where actions must speak louder than words written in March.

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