Actually, I would have taken Pujols, but that doesn't matter.

As I said several weeks ago, though I think that going into the draft we all underestimated the value of the half a dozen or so top notch SPs.

This is a very general statement, so don't hold me to it exactly, but I think that the difference between A Rod or Pujols and the second or third best player at 1B or 3B is not nearly as great as the difference between the top two SPs and the 3rd and 4th best SPs.

In retrospect, picking where I did, I probably would have been better off taking Santana, and Carpenter (who knew he'd get injured?) or Schmidt or Halladay instead of Tejeda or any other offensive player.