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Alright here's a question. Do I keep Cliff Lee or Adam Wainwright? At first I thought it was a no-brainer (Lee), but the more I think about it I feel I should give Wainwright more consideration.
I should've explained the scenario better, sorry. I get two keepers.... Pujols, Wainwright, Lee, and A-Rod are my candidates. A-Rod isn't keeper worthy anymore, Pujols is a lock, and Wainwright/Lee is the decision. I definitely need an ace pitcher, so I won't be trading either. It's basically who do you think will have the better season on the mound?
Hard to say. Lee didn't perform amazingly in Philly last go round, nor was he lights out in Texas until the end(save for losing the the Giants in the WS ). But all concidering, you could probly grab Wainwright again with a first or second round pick, whereas Lee has name value that would make him go very quickly. I'd try kereping Lee and grabbing Wainwright again.
No chance I can scoop Wainwright again, I have the second last pick in round 1 as per my losing in the finals last year. I'm leaning towards Lee because Philly will give him more win opportunities which is huge points in FB (my league anyway). He also doesn't walk anybody; but my indecision is fueled by my thinking Wainwright is going to get even better.....
Ah, tough choice. Depends greatly on how deep your league is and how many teams you guys have. You have some tough choices ahead. Either would be a good choice, but if this is a deep longterm keeper, I'd probly look at Wainwright. Last 2 seasons he's gotten 19 and 20 wins on mediocre teams, had an awesome ERA and over 100 more K than Lee. Now that I look into it some more, I'd say Wainwright in this case. Let someone else gamble on Lee improving his performance in a much tougher division now that he has his deal.
I appreciate the input. About the K's, in '10 Wainwright had 213 K's and 56 BBs in 230.1 innings. Lee had 185 K's and fuckin 18 BBs in 212.1 innigs. It's pretty much a wash. My league is at 10 teams with 2 keepers per year. Entering year 3. I'm thinking you're right to go with Wainwright though. Since it's such a coin flip, I might as well go with the younger guy.
Where do you guys have Hughes ranked? I'm in a keeper league and he's available on my keeper league draft, but I have Liriano, Brett Anderson and Brandon Morrow ranked slightly ahead with Hughes ahead of Shawn Marcum. But Yahoo has him ranked fairly low. Thoughts?
My thoughts? Wainwright. Lee is not getting younger and I feel he is going to go on the DL at some point this upcoming season. Wainwright was the model of consistency the last 2 years. He actually gave up less hits last year. Lee is also going to play in a bandbox.
Posey, M. Cabrera, Butler, Pedroia, Bautista, H. Ramirez, Kemp, Wainwright One of these 8 I cannot keep. Who gets the boot. And that's right bitches, I have these 8 guys in a 14 team 10th year keeper league.
Kemp is coming off a major down year, I still see him as 30-30 material. Bautista and Butler are my frontrunners to drop. But even dropping from 54HR to 35-40 is still a solid keeper.
Bautista. Butler just gets a little better each year and is very consistent. Bautista came out of nowhere and most likely could be a major flop. I like Kemp without his nemesis Larry Bowa on the team. Im sure he can relate to Mattingly better than Torre as well.
That's pretty damn impressive. gotta go with Bautista though. I am a firm believer that he will be nowhere near his numbers from last year ever again. He found a power swing, but I think he's gonna be more of a 25-35 HR guy. All the other guys have much more of an upside in terms of batting stats.
