HELP!!!!

[ANDREWLAITURI]

I made the mistake of jumping into a league that will start on Monday but I won't have fulltime net access till Monday which means...I'm gonna have to have one heck of a good waivers. I do have the first overall pick BUT my team has more holes than swiss cheese! I'm not sure what to address first??? Other stadiums in my division are...Coors, Wrigley, and Angels. My home stadium is Skydome. Let me just add that this is my 1st go round in 05. Here's the link to my team...

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2005/team/team_other.html?user_id=15582

Any and all comments are welcome...Thanks guys

[durantjerry]

That's not bad at all. You can always get a bullpen and almost always get some half decent slugs to back up Santana, Glavine, et al. Most of your positional players are usable. Overbay should go, Koskie may be improved upon, ditto Roberts and Hunter, but they are OK. Manram and Varitek are good, as is Texiera. That's very good for having 1st waiver pick IMO, as you must have had Santana and Manram 1 and 2, or very close to it.

[geekor]

Santana is great, but not sure how well those BP HR's will do in Skydome. I think he will still pitch well, but I think just as well as Clemens or Zambrano would, for less $$.

As durant said, Manny, Varitek and Texeria are you for sure keepers. Roberts has good def, and can bat #2 vs righties, but does very little vs lefties. Hunter is all glove no stick (from what I ahve seen of him), I'd rather have Finley, Rowand (available often in auoleagues) instead. you definetly need a lefty that will protect you from RH pitchers in there somewhere, besides Koskie (who has good power but crappy BA usually).

Obviously you need some guys in your pen. On the cheap I'd look at guys like Torres, Shields, Smoltz. Even cheaper I have had good luck with Parrish, brower (vs righties) and Hammond. I have never really seen Drese do well, that whip is so bad it doesn't matter that he has no BP Hr's, just my casual observation. I'd actually think you can get by more with Santana and 4 non * sp's (Rusch + 3 more) than Glavine and Co. Guys like Madstitch, Wright (the expensive one), Hudson, Harden, Arroyo are all guys I've had decent luck with. Even some of those like Bush, or El Duque are usually left. Jus an option, and depending on what is on the wire, who knows. If there is another stud * Sp (oswalt or above) on the wire, I'd just stick with the * guys.

[visick]

You're gonna need a closer.

Also I think you would be better off with a Greene or a Crosby @ SS. I like Wilson, but in a pitchers park.

I don't like having 3 LHSP's unless I'm in Shea.

[ANDREWLAITURI]

Thanks for the help guys. I'm looking into some of those options you guys talked about. The pen, as it is right now, is a mess but I think that is something I can address post waivers. I thought I'd address the SP and offense with the waivers draft. I think this may be the first time I've ever had the first overall pick and my mind was boggled as to which holes needed the immediate attention of the first pick.

I'll for certain be busy Monday doing the fine tuning and whatnot leading up to the deadline and maybe I can tap into the wealth of experience here to give me a leg up.

Thanks again.

[ANDREWLAITURI]

I have noticed the lack of a closer on my team and guys like Gagne and Wagner are out there but I wasn't certain that they were worthy of the first overall pick with the holes in the line-up and SP rotation to be fixed.
Am I right in thinking this way? Or perhaps should I grab one of them with the first overall and fix the other stuff post-waivers?

Thoughts?

[Stoney18]

I think you're right on.

I made that mistake on one of my first teams and took Wags over a big bat. Closers are great and necessary but if you have the opportunity to pick up a stud bat that will play everyday, do it.

Who are the top FA available?

[ANDREWLAITURI]

The top FA are guys like...



Search Results: All Hitters What are these categories?
Name Tm B P Def. AB 2B HR RBI BB SB BA OBP SLG Ij BAL Waivers:
Edmonds, Jim STL L CF 1(-2)e5 498 38 42 111 101 8 .301 .418 .643 1 E 12.74M
Rolen, Scott STL R 3B 1e12 500 32 34 124 72 4 .314 .409 .598 1 2L 11.05M
Ortiz, David BOS L 1B 5e22 582 47 41 139 75 0 .301 .380 .603 1 5R 8.12M
Hafner, Travis CLE L 1B 5e20 482 41 28 109 68 3 .311 .410 .583 1 7R 8.09M
Loretta, Mark SD R 2B 3e11 620 47 16 76 58 5 .335 .391 .495 1 1L 7.41M
Damon, Johnny BOS L CF 2(+2)e6 621 35 20 94 76 19 .304 .380 .477 1 2R 6.18M
Snow, J.T. SF L 1B 1e7 346 32 12 60 58 4 .327 .429 .529 3 3R 5.99M
Lee, Derrek CHC R 1B 1e6 605 39 32 98 68 12 .278 .356 .504 1 1L 5.87M
Broussard, Ben CLE L 1B 2e9 418 28 17 82 52 4 .275 .370 .488 1 3L 5.84M
Castillo, Luis FLA S 2B 1e6 564 12 2 47 75 21 .291 .373 .348 1 3L 5.74M
Rowand, Aaron CHW R CF 2(+1)e10 487 38 24 69 30 17 .310 .361 .544 1 1L 5.47M
Gload, Ross CHW L 1B 3e11 234 16 7 44 20 0 .321 .375 .479 1 3L 5.14M
Mauer, Joe MIN L C 2(-1)e1 107 8 6 17 11 1 .308 .369 .570 6 8R 5.13M
Wilson, Craig PIT R RF 4(+1)e7 561 35 29 82 50 2 .264 .354 .499 1 1L 5.12M
Durazo, Erubiel OAK L 1B 5e30 511 35 22 88 56 3 .321 .396 .523 1 3R 5.07M
Mirabelli, Doug BOS R C 2(+2)e1 160 12 9 32 19 0 .281 .368 .525 2 4L 5.07M
Finley, Steve LA L CF 1(-1)e3 628 28 36 94 61 9 .271 .333 .490 1 1R 5.04M
Pickering, Calvin KC L 1B 4e10 122 8 7 26 18 0 .246 .338 .500 1 4R 5.01M
Konerko, Paul CHW R 1B 3e7 563 22 41 117 69 1 .277 .359 .535 1 1L 4.98M
Nevin, Phil SD R 1B 4e16 547 31 26 105 66 0 .289 .368 .492 1 3L 4.93M
Giles, Marcus ATL R 2B 2e22 379 22 8 48 36 17 .311 .378 .443 4 7L 4.88M
Blake, Casey CLE R 3B 4e28 587 36 28 88 68 5 .271 .354 .486 1 2R 4.79M
Lamb, Mike HOU L 3B 4e41 278 14 14 58 31 1 .288 .356 .511 1 E 4.71M
Mabry, John STL L LF 3(-1)e4 240 11 13 40 26 0 .296 .363 .504 1 1L 4.70M
Alou, Moises CHC R LF 4(+1)e9 601 36 39 106 68 3 .293 .361 .557 1 2R 4.69M
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[geekor]

well you can't afford Edmonds (who would be nice) but there are lots of good bats there.

But first what are the Sp's left. Traditionally in 05 SPing is harder to fix than hitting.

[ANDREWLAITURI]

Here's the list of SP available...




Name Tm T End. W L S IP H ER BB SO ERA WHIP BAL Waivers:
Johnson, Randy ARI L S7* 16 14 0 245.2 177 71 44 290 2.60 .90 3L 11.90M
Schmidt, Jason SF R S7* 18 7 0 225.0 165 80 77 251 3.20 1.08 3L 8.40M
Hernandez, Livan MON R S7* 11 15 0 255.0 234 102 83 186 3.60 1.24 3R 4.19M
Halladay, Roy TOR R S7 8 8 0 133.0 140 62 39 95 4.20 1.35 3R 4.15M
Davis, Doug MIL L S6* 12 12 0 207.1 192 78 79 166 3.39 1.31 E 4.02M
Westbrook, Jake CLE R S7*/R4 14 9 0 215.2 208 81 61 116 3.38 1.25 3R 4.02M
Hudson, Tim OAK R S7 12 6 0 188.2 194 74 44 103 3.53 1.26 5R 3.97M
Webb, Brandon ARI R S6* 7 16 0 208.0 194 83 119 164 3.59 1.50 4R 3.66M
Harden, Rich OAK R S6 11 7 0 189.2 171 84 81 167 3.99 1.33 1R 3.62M
Kennedy, Joe COL L S6 9 7 0 162.1 163 66 67 117 3.66 1.42 6L 3.53M
Buehrle, Mark CHW L S7* 16 10 0 245.1 257 106 51 165 3.89 1.26 2R 3.44M
Wood, Kerry CHC R S7 8 9 0 140.1 127 58 51 144 3.72 1.27 4R 2.49M
Zambrano, Victor NYM R S6 11 7 0 142.0 119 69 102 123 4.37 1.56 1R 2.40M
Thomson, John ATL R S6* 14 8 0 198.1 210 82 52 133 3.72 1.32 E 2.32M
Wright, Jamey COL R S5 2 3 0 78.2 82 36 45 41 4.12 1.61 1L 2.07M
Williams, Jerome SF R S6 10 7 0 129.1 123 61 44 80 4.24 1.29 2R 2.05M
Maddux, Greg CHC R S6* 16 11 0 212.2 218 95 33 151 4.02 1.18 3R 2.03M
Prior, Mark CHC R S5 6 4 0 118.2 112 53 48 139 4.02 1.35 2R 2.01M
Tomko, Brett SF R S6 11 7 0 194.0 196 87 64 108 4.04 1.34 4R 1.99M
Cook, Aaron COL R S6 6 4 0 96.2 112 46 39 40 4.28 1.56 2L 1.77M
Lidle, Cory PHN R S6* 12 12 0 211.1 224 115 61 126 4.90 1.35 1R 1.65M
Lieber, Jon NYY R S7 14 8 0 176.2 216 85 18 102 4.33 1.32 8R 1.64M
Maroth, Mike DET L S7* 11 13 0 217.0 244 104 59 108 4.31 1.40 1L 1.63M
Wells, Kip PIT R S6 5 7 0 138.1 145 70 66 116 4.55 1.53 1R 1.63M
Washburn, Jarrod ANA L S6 11 8 0 149.1 159 77 40 86 4.64 1.33 3L 1.62M
I - currently injured