Hi everyone, I know absolutely nothing about fantasy baseball, nor have I participated in it since 2001 so I am very behind. I just drafted a team in a money league ($250 buy in) and I was drunk when I drafted the team so I think I made some very bad picks. Please help me figure out what to do with this team... who do I move, what should I try to acquire... who do I keep, etc.... Thanks... here's the team (8 team league): C - Joe Mauer 1B - Mark Teixeira 2B - Rickie Weeks 3B - Chone Figgins SS - Rafael Furcal OF - Carl Crawford OF - Jason Bay OF - Ichiro Suzuki DH - Todd Helton SP - Roy Halladay SP - John Smoltz SP - Mark Prior RP - Mariano Rivera RP - Keith Foulke SP/RP - Curt Schilling B - 3B Troy Glaus B - SS Julio Lugo B - 3B Chipper Jones B - 1B Chad Tracy B - C Jason Kendall B - SS Nomar Garciaparra B - SP AJ Burnett Any help that could be provided would be appreciated... thanks!
To be honest, this is a rather good team. I would drop Nomar and pick up a good starting pitcher. Burnett and Prior will miss their first two starts.
Yeah I just realized both Prior and Burnett are starting the year on the DL so I have to find some decent pitching depth.. Are there any hidden diamonds in the rough this year? Especially at closer?
Justin Velander, Matt Cain, Francisco Liriano, Scott Olsen, Eric Bedard, Oliver Perez could have slipped through the cracks as well. For closers I would say Chris Ray, Mike Gonzalez, Ambiorix Burgos and Joey Devine could be in the waivers bin.
Thats a good team, if I was you I'd start Chipper over Figgins because you'll get more than enough steals with Furcal, Crawford, Ichiro, and Weeks and you need some more power.
Chone is one of the premier picks in any league, it's hard to justify benching him. Out of interest, in the one fantasy baseball draft I managed to attend and not autodraft I wound up with: C: J.Mauer (Min) 1B: P.Fielder (Mil) 2B: C.Figgins (Ana) 3B: N.Garciaparra (LAD) SS: J.Lugo (TB) OF: C.Crawford (TB) OF: A.Jones (ATL) OF: S.Podsednik (CWS) Util: S.Hillenbrand (Tor) (1B/3B) BN: X.Nady (NYM) (1B/OF) BN: C.Barmes (Col) (SS) BN: A.Kearns (Cin) (OF) SP: M.Buerhle (CWS) SP: J.Schmidt (SF) RP: E.Gagne (LAD) RP: R.Dempster (CHC) P: M.Mussina (NYY) P: J.Weaver (Ana) P: E.Loaiza (Oak) BN: D.Lowe (LAD) (SP) BN: K.Rogers (Det) (SP)
Good speed but lacking in power. No way does Jones have the same kind of power output as he did last year. I do not like your pitching staff at all. You really dont what you will get from Schmidt, Mussina or Gagne. Rogers and Loaiza are time bombs that might win some games but there K's will be low and ERA and WHIP high. Sorry man, but you really might be in for a very tough year.
I agree, you have to go younger with your pitching. Try like a Doug Davis or Capauno from Mil - he will have alot of K'S this year. Try and pick up Clint Barnes - he plays ss in col. he is going to have a break out year. Someone with a little risk is Matt Cain from SF - hes a starting pitcher and is supposed to be the next big thing. Your pitching is on the verge of crumbling - make a move
Speed you are set but you are lacking in power, you are strong with your starters if they are healthy but that is very risky with their histories, as for your closers Rivera is a lock but Foulke is a big question mark, so you'll need another closer
Depends on if it is daily or weekly moves. If it is daily moves it is easier to get players in and out. If its weekly you just try to go with who has the best matchups and the hot hand.
What do you think of my team? C AJ Pierzynski 1B Carlos Delgado 2B Alfonso Soriano SS Miguel Tejada 3B Garrett Atkins OF Ken Griffey Jr. OF Lance Berkman OF Brian Giles UTIL Matt Holliday UTIL Mike Sweeney SP Mark Prior (DL) SP Josh Beckett SP Tim Hudson RP Brian Fuentes RP Ryan Dempster P Mark Mulder P CC Sabathia P Derek Lowe BN Fransisco Liriano, Brad Penny, Jarrod Washburn. Starting Washburn now until Prior comes back (if he ever does)
Considering that is an 8-team league, you should be able to finish in the top half and compete for the title.
I had a draft this morning. It is a 14-team league and had 25 rounds. It includes the regular 5x5 stat categories. There are two UTIL slots, five SP slots, two RP slots, and four P slots (I realized all that after the draft). There are 11 pitcher slots and I only drafted 10. My computer froze right after I took Utley and right before I was about to select David Wright. I missed my next three picks. No big deal because Bay, Hafner, and Berkman are good enough. Sugar Moths 1. (14) Chase Utley 2. (15) Jason Bay 3. (42) Travis Hafner 4. (43) Lance Berkman 5. (70) Andy Pettitte 6. (71) Bartolo Colón 7. (98) Cliff Floyd 8. (99) Derrick Turnbow 9. (126) Melvin Mora 10. (127) Jose Contreras 11. (154) Clint Barmes 12. (155) Armando Benítez 13. (182) Jeremy Bonderman 14. (183) Jake Westbrook 15. (210) Mike Jacobs 16. (211) Curtis Granderson 17. (238) Austin Kearns 18. (239) Luis González (Rockies) 19. (266) Jeremy Hermida 20. (267) Craig Biggio 21. (294) Rod Barajas 22. (295) Gustavo Chacín 23. (322) Paul Maholm 24. (323) Orlando Hernández 25. (350) Delmon Young Hopefully, Jacobs will qualify at catcher so I can drop Barajas. I didn't know what to do with the Mr. Irrelevant pick. I would have taken Anderson Hernandez, but I already had three guys who qualified at 2B. I took Young because he's the top prospect in the game and maybe I can stash him on my bench incase he does something good this season.
I have Barmes there... I usually go for power over speed, so took a different approach this year. It's a h2h league, so obviously I'm looking to certain categories over others. Pitching, yeah, not that great, but it was mostly picked up in the later rounds and I've enough there that a couple of trades or sharp pickups of surprise overachievers will leave me solid. I intend to compete in the league.
