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id like some advice on my lineup please
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im playing in safeco

Your starting pitching is surely impressive, but you may feel the weakness of your pen as the season drags on...

I'm going into game 5 of the playoffs tonight with a Wrigley team, and Mohr has been surprisingly unimpressive for me this season, even against righties in Wrigley, a righthanded batting park. He walks and gets HBP a lot, so his OBP is pretty good, but his average is mediocre and his power is so-so. Funny thing about his card is he's listed as a rightfielder, but his range is 2 instead of 3 in LF - I've wondered if that is a misprint or something, but he's been in LF for my team all season. But you may wish to look for a better power bat instead of Mohr, as he and Hafner appear to be the intended meat of your order against righthanded pitching, right? You are loaded with hitters that should be effective against lefthanded pitching, and you've got a good number of lefthanded bats to complement your park. Since your park favors lefty bats, you may be more disappointed in Mohr than I've been.

Just a few observations...

im not expecting much power form mohr........

koskie should give me some HR in my park and hafner should be a stud.....and yes i need another sold reliever .. so i may look to dump mohr... and pick up a solid set up man....

i have never used him... but ev ery league i am in he NEVER gets picked

I've been batting Mohr last against lefties, as his average was under .200 with OBP of 314 and SLG of only 294. Against righties he batted only .254, with OBP of 388 and SLG of 423 - like I said, not great. I had him leadoff against righties because of that OBP and the lack of anyone else who would do better...hitting him 2nd was no good because most of his OBP was due to his high walk and HBP totals...frankly, I'd have preferred to utilize that $$ in a better way, but kept him because I didn't want to take the salary hit. If you can get Jose Guillen, now THAT is a valuable guy!

i actually tihnk im going to drop him for alexis rios, not because i have ANY interest in rios... its just if i can pick up maybe lidge/nathan/ or even benitez and pair them with gagne!!!!!!

that bullpen with RJ/santana/livan should kick ass