General fantasy baseball talk

[Dr. Tom 0]

My money league (AL-only, going to 5x5 this year after 18 years of 4x4) had its roster freeze last night. I kept 9 players:

 

C Ben Molina, $8, 2nd year

1B Scott Spiezio, $11, 2nd year

3B Bill Mueller, $3, 2nd year

P Tim Hudson, $39, 2nd year

P Mike Mussina, $36, 2nd year

P Eric Dubose, $6, 2nd year

P Damaso Marte, $10, 2nd year

P Brendan Donnelly, $1, 2nd year (Currently on DL)

P Joel Piniero, $11, X-2

 

Potentially keepable gentleman I threw back: CI Ken Harvey (2nd year @$6), OF Hideki Matsui (2nd year @$25), DH Ruben Sierra (2nd year @$5). I also declined a trade for Shiggy Hasegawa (2nd year @$4) just before the freeze, since his K numbers are not strong.

 

I've won this league the last two years. No one's ever won three years in a row before, so I'm trying to be the first. I have three solid starters, and a potentially good one in DuBose, who finished last year strong. I'm going to try and get Javier Vasquez, since I think he'll go for less than Schilling. I traded Carl Crawford this offseason (to get Mussina and Marte), so my speed is negligible. Now that the league is 5x5, I can afford to "punt" a category. That will either have to be speed or saves, and I can get saves from one guy, so punting speeds seems more likely at this point.

 

Discuss my team, or your own team and league.

[razazteca 0]

The public team

 

C J. Kendall (Pit - C)

1B T. Helton (Col - 1B)

2B L. Castillo (Fla - 2B)

3B D. Young (Det - 3B,LF,DH)

SS R. Furcal (Atl - SS)

OF A. Jones (Atl - CF)

OF C. Jones (Atl - LF)

OF D. Roberts (LA - CF)

Util A. Béltre (LA - 3B)

BN R. Winn (Sea - LF,CF)

BN S. Finley (Ari - CF)

BN B. Wilkerson (Mon - 1B,LF,CF,RF)

 

J. Schmidt (SF - SP)

B. Wagner (Phi - RP)

R. Ortiz (Atl - SP)

S. Ponson (Bal - SP)

T. Worrell (Phi - RP)

S. Trachsel (NYM - SP)

B. Anderson (KC - SP)

L. Carter (TB - RP)

L. Ayala (Mon - RP)

 

I think my only weakness here is the catcher.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I think Kendall's far from being a weakness at catcher.

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

I am uh...somewhat worried about my team this year. 5x5 Head to Head. 12 teams.

 

C - Ivan Rodriguez (DET)

1B - Richie Sexson (ARI)

2B - Marcus Giles (ATL)

3B - Aramis Ramirez (CHC)

SS - Jimmy Rollins (PHI)

OF - Magglio Ordonez (CWS)

OF - Shawn Green (LA)

OF - Alex Sanchez (DET)

UTIL - Milton Bradley (CLE)

BENCH - Nick Johnson (MTL)

BENCH - D'Angelo Jimenez (CIN)

BENCH - Jacque Jones (MIN)

DL - Trot Nixon (BOS)

 

SP - Tim Hudson (OAK)

SP - Roy Oswalt (HOU)

RP - Eric Gagne (LA)

RP - Octavio Dotel (HOU)

P - Danny Baez (TB)

P - Francisco Rodriguez (SF)

P - Jose Contreras (NYY)

BENCH - Kip Wells (PIT)

BENCH - Jeremy Affeldt (KC)

[KanadianKrusty 0]

My roster for the SNKT league:

 

 

C I. Rodríguez (Det - C) C

1B T. Martínez (TB - 1B) 1B

2B J. Vidro (Mon - 2B) 2B

3B T. Batista (Mon - 3B) 3B

SS J. Lugo (TB - SS) SS

OF G. Sheffield (NYY - RF) OF

OF M. Alou (ChC - LF) OF

OF S. Finley (Ari - CF) OF

Util K. Lofton (NYY - CF) OF

BN J. Jones (Min - LF,DH) OF

BN R. Simon (Pit - 1B) 1B

BN S. Alomar Jr. (CWS - C) C

BN M. Loretta (SD - 2B)

 

SP A. Pettitte (Hou - SP) SP

SP J. Schmidt (SF - SP) SP

SP R. Clemens (Hou - SP) SP

SP G. Maddux (ChC - SP) SP

SP T. Lilly (Tor - SP) SP

RP P. Quantrill (NYY - RP) RP

RP S. Hasegawa (Sea - RP) RP

BN T. Glavine (NYM - SP)

 

 

As you can see my team is like one huge weakness but I guess I could've done worse as I didn't prepare at all for the draft.

[razazteca 0]

Get rid of Sandy Alomar Jr. as soon as possible and find Closer.

[KanadianKrusty 0]

Just replaced Alomar with Marquis Grissom and dropped Quantrill for Billy Koch, now my infield is still a mess but hey it's not like I'm expecting to win anything here...

[razazteca 0]

I dropped Roberts for Mauer. Good, bad, or just plain crazy? The Milton Bradley trade got me scared and Mauer is being hyped to be the Rookie of the Year so I had to pick him up.

[KingPK 0]

Here's my SKNT team:

 

C J. Kendall (Pit - C)

1B R. Palmeiro (Bal - 1B,DH)

2B D. Jiménez (Cin - 2B)

3B A. Béltre (LA - 3B)

SS D. Jeter (NYY - SS)

OF J. Damon (Bos - CF)

OF C. Biggio (Hou - CF)

OF J. Guillén (Ana - LF,RF)

Util H. Blalock (Tex - 3B)

BN P. Polanco (Phi - 2B,3B)

BN A. Ramírez (ChC - 3B)

BN S. Casey (Cin - 1B)

BN M. Ordóñez (CWS - RF)

 

SP M. Mussina (NYY - SP)

SP P. Martínez (Bos - SP)

SP V. Padilla (Phi - SP)

SP J. Washburn (Ana - SP)

SP B. Penny (Fla - SP)

RP T. Hoffman (SD - RP)

RP B. Looper (NYM - RP)

BN R. Franklin (Sea - SP)

 

I had Larry Walker, but he's starting the season on the DL and all I've read is that he's washed up and very injury prone, so I dumped him since I have plenty of OFs.

 

I probably could use a better closer though.