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any thoughts? dont usually play 2005 but figured give it a try. dh league young will dh

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If you can get them both, I'd consider a platoon of [b:ef027b55d8]Dejesus [/b:ef027b55d8]+ [b:ef027b55d8]Bocachica [/b:ef027b55d8]in CF. [b:ef027b55d8]T.Hunter[/b:ef027b55d8] is better suited to power hitter's park, but that glove and arm are valuable even if he hits below .200.

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You could use another left-handed bat. I'd consider picking up [b:ef027b55d8]J.T.Snow[/b:ef027b55d8] to play 1B, and moving Pujols to DH.


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I would prefer [b:ef027b55d8]Royce Clayton[/b:ef027b55d8] or [b:ef027b55d8]Furcal [/b:ef027b55d8]to Guzman.

I think that would leave you with something like this...

CA - Kendall
1B - Snow
2B - B.Roberts
3B - Alfonzo / Burroughs
SS - Clayton
OF - Freel
CF - Bocachica / Dejesus - OR - T.Hunter
OF - Ichiro
DH - Pujols

Pretty tasty... 8)

For the pitching, you don't want to mix 5-day and 4-day starters. Also, Leiter is basically a hitter's park pitcher. I just looked at your FA list and the situation for Starting pitching does NOT look good. Here's some guys you might consider...

H.Ramireaz
Clement
J.Williams
J.Piniero
W.Alvarez
Vazquez (on your team now)

For the bullpen, get rid of Looper. You want some combination of Foulke, Linebrink, & Erasmo Ramirez (esp. Ramirez!). Good cheaper relievers include Harikkala, Qualls, Vizcaino, Dohman, Valverde, Eyre, Graves, Brower...

Good Luck!

thank you riggo, taking some of your advice

Torii Hunter was hitting above .300 BA in Petco for me for a couple of weeks. Chances are he could do that for you but even if he doesn't, his D is good to have.

H. Ramirez did extremely well pitching for me as well.