Full Disclosure: Do I practice what I preach?

You can draft the perfect team -- one with league-leading pitching and hitting and the depth to weather any unforeseen catastrophe -- and it won't mean a thing if you don't know what to do with it.

No, the decisions don't end on Draft Day. Rarely does your roster look the same then as it does at the end of the year, and with every maneuver over the next six months comes an endless line of second-guessing:

Which players should I drop? Which players should I trade? Which players should I start, and which should I leave on my bench?

Why do I always struggle with these decisions!?

Here's a secret: We all do. The only difference is I get to do it where you all can see it.

So much for the element of surprise.

Yes, with my Full Disclosure piece, the walls have come down, the doors have swung open, and you get an inside look at exactly what I do during the regular season -- from every lineup decision to every waiver claim to every blockbuster trade.

Well, in five of my leagues, anyway.

I've chosen a variety of scoring formats, so hopefully one will come close to your own. You can expect updates every Monday, complete with some of the ideas and rationales I use to set my lineups, which you can then apply to yours.

But first, the introductions. I can't comment on every player, obviously, but I hope to give you a general overview of each team's strengths and weaknesses while providing a few details of what I did during each draft or auction.

12-team mixed Rotisserie

Of the five leagues, this one had its draft the earliest, meaning I made some picks in it I probably wouldn't make today.

One thing's for sure: I have speed. As if Jose B. Reyes in the first round didn't give me enough already, I got Dustin Pedroia in the second round and Shane Victorino in the fifth, not to mention Denard Span and Elijah Dukes late. Of course, by using my first picks on two players who have yet to hit 20 homers in a season, I might have a shortage of power. And oh yeah, I made Kevin Youkilis my third-round pick -- yet another guy I can't trust for 30 homers.

I tried to compensate in the middle rounds, drafting Dan Uggla as my middle infielder, which should help me gain some ground on the Kazuo Matsuis and Placido Polancos of the world. I also made sure to grab two underrated 30-homer types in Ryan Ludwick and Pat Burrell. Hey, I got them relatively late.

If nothing else, I can build up a big lead in steals and then trade some of my speedsters for boppers. Players tend to run more in the first half anyway. Besides, if Aubrey Huff and Shin-Soo Choo do what I expect them to do (play somewhere close to the way they did in the second half last year), I might not end up having any real shortage of power.

Of course, one of those middle-round power guys, Troy Glaus, ended up having shoulder surgery and will miss at least April. I don't want to lose him, but I can't put him in my DL slot until the team officially puts him on the DL. Before the season begins, I plan to pick up Todd Helton, Nick Johnson or Andy LaRoche to fill in for him.

I shouldn't have much trouble competing for saves with Brian Fuentes, Chad Qualls and Mike Gonzalez, and for someone who avoids starting pitching, I ended up with a surprisingly strong top of the rotation in John Lackey, Chad Billingsley and Ryan Dempster. Then again, Lackey might force me to make a roster move if he opens the year on the DL.

My back-end sleeper options, Jair Jurrjens and John Maine, don't make me as comfortable now as they did when I drafted them. Recently, I added Jordan Zimmermann in place of Justin Duchscherer, who I don't trust to return from his arthroscopic elbow surgery anytime soon. Sure, he'll probably come back some time in the first half, but when? I see no reason to use one of only two DL slots on him when he already has a long history of setbacks.

10-team mixed Head-to-Head

My oldest and most familiar league, this one usually ends up my most competitive. It's also a keeper league, and as you might expect, I entered the draft hitter heavy, keeping Hanley Ramirez, Chase Utley, Lance Berkman and Carlos Quentin.

Yup, I'm predestined for domination.

On the eve of the draft, I made the difficult decision to keep Berkman over Alex Rodriguez, which I guess makes Rodriguez no better than a third-round pick in my eyes. I didn't like my chances of finding a third baseman from the remaining options, but low and behold, Kevin Youkilis fell to me with the third overall pick, giving me an elite hitter at every spot on the infield.

I drafted an outfield almost as strong, with Shane Victorino and B.J. Upton joining Quentin, and I even ended up with an above-average catcher in Ryan Doumit. And with five sleeper outfielders in Andre Ethier, Ryan Spilborghs, Elijah Dukes, Denard Span and the always worrisome Milton Bradley -- ew, I know -- I shouldn't have much trouble filling my two DH spots. Plus, I know I have plenty of choices to start in place of Upton until his shoulder comes around.

I prefer my starting pitchers heavy on the strikeouts, so I feel a bit uneasy about my starting five of Jon Lester, James Shields, Josh Johnson, Matt Garza and Kevin Slowey. True, those guys would probably win me the WHIP category in Rotisserie play, but in Head-to-Head, I like knowing I can count on strikeouts for fallback points whenever a pitcher loses or takes a no-decision. I'll get them from Johnson, but the others? I can't say for sure. They're not exactly Chien-Ming Wang, though, so I'll probably survive. Besides, I know Lester, Shields and Garza have the upside for more.

At closer, what originally looked like a strength might end up my team's greatest weakness now that Carlos Marmol doesn't have the closer role in Chicago. Fortunately, I didn't reach for him, actually selecting Jonathan Broxton before him in what would amount to Round 11 without keepers. I also have Chris Ray waiting in the wings, but if he doesn't look like a sure bet for saves coming out of spring training, I'll have to scour the waiver wire for someone like -- gulp -- Troy Percival or Brandon Lyon.

I'm still kicking myself for letting the defending champion beat me to Kevin Gregg late. That has to be my biggest blunder of my season so far. Not only do I not have the Chicago closer because of it, but I also have to waste a spot on Marmol just in case Gregg struggles. Eh, I'll probably punt him by May.

12-team AL-only Rotisserie

In this league, I departed from my usual philosophy of relying on sleeper pitchers. I learned my lesson last year: You just can't get it to work in a league this deep.

How deep? Let me do the math for you: Our league has 12 teams with 30-man rosters, meaning 360 active players. The actual American League -- you know, the one with Mike Scioscia and Ozzie Guillen calling the shots -- has 14 teams with 25-man rosters, meaning 350 active players, 10 fewer than the amount we use. Our league is so deep we don't have enough major-league players to go around. It's insane.

My reliance on sleeper pitchers hinges on the likelihood of finding even more sleeper pitchers on waivers after the season begins, but in a league this deep, I won't really find any pitchers on waivers except for middle relievers, who have their uses but won't exactly win me a championship on their own. So this year, I didn't get cheap, shelling out for A.J. Burnett, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Jon Lester.

Of course, I targeted the prices more than the players. Of those three, Dice-K cost me the most at $21, so I didn't exactly pass on all the elite hitters. In fact, this emphasis on starting pitching probably cost me most at closer, where the 10 or 11 players with assured jobs went for ridiculously more than they should. My best chance for saves is ... Fernando Rodney. Yup, he might get me a whole five.

Spending extra money on pitching left me with less margin for error on hitting, and with that in mind, the story of this team's fate will likely begin and end with one player: Alex Rodriguez. Yes, we had our auction right before the news of his hip broke, and I purchased him for a now nauseating $50. Granted, he might end up missing just one month of the season -- like he did last year -- and play fine the rest of the way, but I wouldn't have any reservations about trading him if I could get another near-stud in return, maybe a Kevin Youkilis type. Even if Rodriguez returns by May, I don't know if he'll return at 100 percent, and I'd rather let someone else worry about a possible setback. Obviously, I'll need to trade him soon to make it worth my while, so I'll keep you posted.

I'm strong up the middle with Brian Roberts, Jhonny Peralta and Alexi Casilla, and I have a couple of nice sleepers in Billy Butler and Shin-Soo Choo. Of course, with Ty Wigginton filling in for A-Rod at third base, I don't have much in the outfield other than Gabe Kapler and Jerry Owens. But I have hunch one of two DH-only players, Jeff Larish and Chris C. Carter (Boston), will eventually give me underrated power numbers at a nothing price.

12-team NL-only Rotisserie

As with the AL-only league, I made sure my best hitters played weaker positions -- Hanley Ramirez, Aramis Ramirez and Stephen Drew -- and as with the AL-only league, I made sure I got three halfway dependable hurlers -- Ryan Dempster, Yovani Gallardo and Brett Myers.

Unlike in the AL-only league, I managed to find bargain back-of-the-rotation types in Micah Owings and J.A. Happ, allowing me to draft a legitimate closer (Jose Valverde) and a reasonable secondary option (Ryan Franklin). I might actually compete in saves.

I also had enough free cash to draft an elite outfielder in Carlos N. Lee, though I have decent depth without him. Elijah Dukes and Garret Anderson -- a free agent at the time of the auction -- join him as my other definite starters. For my final two spots, I somehow have to choose between Nate Schierholtz, Micah Hoffpauir, Joe Mather, Jonny Gomes and Jerry Hairston, all of whom could end up getting 300 at-bats or more, with Hairston offering plus speed and the other four offering plus power. Good luck, right?

My biggest blunder came at second base, where I spent $12 on then-sleeper Blake DeWitt. Obviously, we auctioned before the Dodgers signed Orlando Hudson. I really don't have a backup plan, so I'll just have to hope he makes the most of his 250-300 at-bats. The combined $4 I spent on Travis Ishikawa and Chad Tracy at first base and corner infield should more than make up for DeWitt's losses, though.

With the way my sleeper outfielders and pitchers have come around this spring, I think this team will end up just fine, though I actually felt worse about it than my AL-only team coming out of the auction. Funny what a little A-Rod injury can do.

20-team mixed Head-to-Head

This league is technically mixed, but 10 teams have AL-only rosters and 10 teams have NL-only rosters. I landed on the NL-only side, so please don't mistake my exclusively NL roster for any sort of bias. I just want good players; I don't care where they play.

Fortunately, I got some of those good players with my first two picks, landing Jose B. Reyes and Lance Berkman. I somehow tiptoed away with Carlos N. Lee in the third round, which is a reasonable place to draft him in a 10-team mixed league. Sticking to my usual strategy, I continued to build a stable nucleus of hitters with Brandon Phillips in the fourth round and Shane Victorino in the fifth before giving in and taking my first pitcher, Ryan Dempster, in the sixth.

Both Dempster and my second starting pitcher, Brett Myers, have the potential to pitch like aces. Really, my entire starting five, which also includes Chris R. Young, Randy Johnson and Todd Wellemeyer, has the potential to overachieve, but each pitcher obviously comes with a certain degree of risk. Because I don't have much immediate upside on my bench -- not with the way Anibal Sanchez has pitched this spring -- if more than two of those top five fall short of my expectations, I might need to make a trade.

My bullpen of Chad Qualls and Heath Bell won't scare anybody, but in a league where saves earn only five points, I don't have much reason to care. Besides, at least I got two closers. Some teams got only one.

My starting lineup has more depth than my starting rotation, with value picks Elijah Dukes, Nick Johnson and Randy Winn on my bench. Hey, don't laugh at that last one. He ranked 10th among NL outfielders last season, which might not necessarily mean anything, but it sounds good.

Really, I'd have nothing to worry about on offense if not for one gaping hole at third base, where I currently have Pedro Feliz -- literally the last available player at the position who would get even semi-regular playing time. I certainly didn't intend to draft my third baseman so late, but every time I thought everyone else had the players they wanted at the position, giving me the opportunity to wait even longer, someone jumped in and grabbed a second or third option, neglecting outfielders and starting pitchers in the process. Honestly, who does that? It's like the rest of the league saw I had a hole there and conspired to shut me out completely.

I don't even halfway trust Feliz, so I figure I'll probably make a trade at some point. I already dangled Sanchez for Andy LaRoche, but to no avail.

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