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This is my second team, the first one was 03 (soriano's defense killed me). I'm experimenting with the following lineup (aganist righties and lefties).

1. Jimmy Rollins-SS (S)
2. Vlad Guerrero-RF (R)
3. David Ortiz-DH (L)
4. Aramis Ramirez-3B (R)
5. Victor Martinez-C (S)
6. Shawn Green-1B (L)
7. Milton Bradley-CF (S)
8. Juan Uribe-2B (R)
9. David Dellucci-LF (L)

I'm at US Cellular field, so walks and homers are important. Most managers of actual baseball teams would put milton bradley or someone like that second and move the power hitters down, but my thinking is that vlad and ortiz will get more at bats in the 2nd and 3rd hole and thus more chances to hit homers. Should I make any changes based on lefty/righty starting pitchers?

Rollins [b:31fdb85dd1]does not [/b:31fdb85dd1]have enough OB to be leading off.

Traditionally, you want your best hitter in the 3 slot.

I think you may see alot of 1 run HR's with this team.

See if you can get a better OB guy at the top of the lineup. (Cheapies are Davanon, Clark etc...)

i sold delucci for brady clark (by downgrading bj ryan to eddie guardado) and put rollins 9th. is bradley ok at #2?

Little too many GbA's for my liking to be a 2 hitter.

I like the Clark move, though. He's your leadoff guy.


Rollins could hit 2nd. now...

I'd go:

Clark
Rollins
Vlad
Ortiz
Martinez (+ clutch spot)
Ramirez
Green
Bradley
Uribe

vs. LH's, I'd move Uribe into the 7 spot because of his + clutch.