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Now, i know what you're thinking. My starters are weak and i should get rid of a reliever for a starter. However, there are no starters in the fa pool, NONE. That's why i went with this stratergy, just get my starters out of the game early and give it to the pen. Any thoughts?[/url]

Your link doesn't work. Go to your league, check the schedules, right click on your team name, and choose "copy shortcut." Then you can paste that in here.

I was actually thinking about going with a "weak rotation, super bullpen" approach with my next team, so once you get the correct link up I would really like to check out your team.

Actually the biggest problem I see with this team may be injuries. It's actually not a bad lineup when all are healthy, but you will need everyone in there for it to click. I don't see that happening all that much with guys like Thomas, Giambi, Giles, and Chavez in your lineup. You may be coming from behind alot and i'm not sure you have the offense to do it.

That's what i thought too, which is why i may try to upgrade there. I had brain roberts at 2nd, but i needed someone to hit lefties and giles was there. Plus he was great for me in my last team, which won a championship.

Keep us posted. I've seen people try this before, but I can't recall if they were successful or not. I would always worry if your strategy is to rely on HAL to put in your relieves. His use of the bullpen has always disgusted me.

But you need at least the non situational RP. otherwise hal will use Guardado and you other heavily slanted RP poorly.

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The problem with this stratgy is that you need a killer offense in an offensive park to come back to win games. Stud relievers can hold a 6-0 deficit after 2 innings at 6-0 for a bit, but you're still losing 6-0.

I'd drop Guardado for a cheaper lefty specialist. (Embree?)

Do you really need Wagner? (Gonzalez?)

Invest the money into a sixth-mix and match starter. No rotation-just get good park matchups. Bonderman? Greinke? Wells? O Perez? (Remember to use Cap against Shea teams and in Safeco-he'll kick their butts)

Use Duchs to soak up innings in mopup relief.

Jaser, like i said before. I had no choice but to go with this stratergy, because ALL the good starters were gone. All that was left was mediocre starters, so why not get a dominat bullpen? As soon as the starter gets in trouble, get him out of there. I don't have wagner and gonzalez is gone, so are all the good lefties. Bonderman is gone, same with greinke and wells. O. perez too, oh and i went 2-1 last night. My first 9 games are on the road.