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Home Park: Cel
other division parks: Yankees, Montreal, Tropicana

Other league parks: Jacobs, Ameriquest, Angels, Coors, Miller, Shea, Yankee, and Angels.

Weakness 1: Asking how many weakness this team has.

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i think u lose batista and give up a starter who doesnt match your division foes better...the 3r or 3l but love wise and randy....those moves for some more offense and diversity in lineup,backups,big bat vs RHP...u face considerably more rhp then lhp over the course of the season. wagner always does well but he can use some help ..also halsey could be dropped for maybe a mesa who will get u 30 goood innings in crunch time,often.maybe back up C could be more all bat rathe then Defensive oriented.

Doug Mientkiewicz (THAT is correct! Woo hoo) hits like a girl. Other than that, I think your team looks pretty good. One thing that I usually recommend to anyone with Billy Wagner is this - he's might have a 1 inning rating, but he's good enough to be used as the set up and closer against both sides. Even tired, Wags is better than most of the closers in the set.

The projected starting 8:

C Rodriguez (on draft card)
1b Huff (on draft card)
2b Belliard (FA)
SS Renteria (AD) [grr if i went for Cesar in draft, would have got him]
3b Castilla (on draft card)
LF Cabrera (FA)
CF Hunter (waivers)
RF Guillen (AD)

pr: Gathright (on draft card)
no def replacements so the 1b 1 and 2b 1 stay on the bench.

Other than Randy Johnson as #1 starter, haven't decided on the other 4 regular starters unless I mix and match depeninding on park.

2 big weaknesses bullpen as Wagner is the only 1 I can use both ways. Acquired via waivers. For sure was going to use him as closer both ways and set up vs lefties, haven't decided about vs righties yet. Hopefully he will get lots of rest when ever Johnson pitches. :)

Other big weakness of course is the overload of righty bats. Not much on FA market though. Looking at all the parks in play that lefties do better in this is of course understandable. Mabry is there if I want to gamble on him in LF instead but that darn 15 game injury worries me.

I open at Yankess vs a team that this points is also over loaded with righty bats. Though not as bad as me. I guess Johnson, Wise, and Herandez for my starters?

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