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Pitching $ to batting $ = 29M - 51M (every penny spent as of this post, season yet to begin).

Projected lineups:

vs. L
1. Pierre lf
2. McCoy 2b
3. Pujols 1b
4. VMart c
5. Maxwell cf
6. Cairo 3b
7. Everett ss
8. Heyward rf
9. Bonifacio dh

vs R
1. Jackson cf
2. Heyward rf
3. Pujols 1b
4. D. Ortiz dh
5. Cairo 3b
6. Jaso c
7. Herrera 2b
8. Ryan ss
9. Pierre lf
(Normally I'd lead off with Heyward, but in this case there's that L/R lineup split thing to consider).

The 3 other parks in my division are 6-3, 16-8; 5-11, 10-10; 8-8, 7-7.

Venters will be the middle reliever, Valverde the setup man & closer vs. righties, Fuentes the closer vs. lefties. Holland and the remainder will serve as my LOOGY and ROOGYs.

As an aside, just how valuable do y'all think Holland is as a $1.07 pitcher that not only has a blank card against lefties (LOOGY) but serves as well to fulfill the s/r requirement? IMO Holland is one of the greatest values to be had at the price.

Love all the walks up and down your staff. Pujols AND Ortiz. Your hits are low. Anyone .320 guys out there to replace Ortiz.

nice pop in the middle of lineup

good speed in Pierrre/jackson

starting pitching so-so

relief so-so

players will steal like crazy on ya

lefties will destroy you.

also except for catcher your defense is really good

i would look for a good throwing back up at catcher

I can't decide whether I like Venters or not. I also had him in Petco and this was his line:

Venters, Jonny L R2/C0 8 11 13 13 145.0 113 69 65 100 138 16 4.04 1.47

He obviously gives up a lot of walks which, in Petco you'd think wouldn't hurt you too much, but they can come back and get you.

I absolutely agree about Holland. I have had him on every one of my teams(4) in all different stadiums and has been worth 3-4 times his value in this set.