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Just for shits and giggles and basically boredom, I have built myself an all under $2mil team. For my ball park I will choose Petco. There are better hiiters than some of the guys I have picked up, but in order to compete I felt I would have to focus more on DEF. (this is all hypothetical as I'm not going to waist $30[Canadian] to see how they'd do). All palyers cost under 2mil

VS Left
Eckstein ss
Johnson lf
Alfonzo 3b
Sosa dh
Olerud 1b
Cruz rf
Matheny ca
Sanchez 2b
Chavez cf

VS Right
Roberts lf
Eckstein ss
Olerud 1b
Sosa dh
Higginson rf
Alfonzo 3b
Schneider ca
Chavez cf
Sanchez 2b

bench players not shown Hill, J. Cabrera

Starters
Vazquez
Milton
Eaton
Zito

Bullpen
Percival -Closer
M. Miller -set up vs r
T. Miller- set up vs left
Embree
Timlin
Gregg
Lima -long relief/spot starter

Anybody care to discuss?

I'd choose a park that has higher SI rating but still low BPHR, somethibg like SBC.

Then my rotation would be of 5 non*, probably:

Greinke
Washburn
Bonderman
K. Brown
Capuano

My Pen I'd go with 6, non-SP, probably:

Percival
Gregg
Embree
Duchscherer
Parrish
J. Witasick

Now for my players:

MIF:
2B Pokey Reese
SS Rey Sanchez
BU Amezega (If Pokey goes down Sanchez moves to 2B and Amezega SS)

3B
Alfonzo
Burroughs

1B
Olerud

CF
Endy Chavez
D. Glanville starting vs. LHP and as defensive replacement (chavez's e7 is a bit suspect to me)

LF/RF

Kielty (L)/ K.Robinson (R)
R. Johnson (L)/ D.Roberts (R)

C
Schneider/ Matheny

DH
David Segui
with a Backup platoon of M. Sweeney (Col) vs R and E. Young vs L

Since this would bring the total players to 17 position players I'd probably leave R. Johnson out.

I'd look for a way to have J.Cabrera and Podsednik though so maybe Endy Chavez would go too

I think one can field a fairly competitive team all under 2Mil, but I'd only try it in a freebie.