Help with a US Cell team please...

[MICHAELTARBELL]

[quote:a218ec1eab="akindian"]well in us cell you will want to play hardy vs lhp... rather than uribe.[/quote:a218ec1eab]

Good pick up on Hardy, and a nice call by FM! :wink:

[MICHAELTARBELL]

Thames is "DA BOMB" in Cell, and would look nice in LF...problem is how to afford him.

Again, I would look at downgrading Sanchez to Garland, freeing up much needed Cash for Thames. That would leave you enough $$ to upgrade your rp's and add someone like Crane, Jenks, Ramirez or the like...

[teamnasty]

Morneau has ranked 7/12, 8/12, 9/12, and 10/12 among 1b in OPS in my leagues this year. If we boost him upwards somewhat because of the DH rule we're still looking at a middle pack performance. I'd rather spend 7+ mil on Mussina or Halladay. For me at least its not a close call. The guy's good but the position is loaded this year.

[michael_kofsky]

Here is the link to the current configuration of my team. All comments/suggestions appreciated. Thanks.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2007/team/team_other.html?user_id=11177

[emart]

Dalinoth,

I don't care for Giles in the Cell, and I would check for Guiel to platoon with Kielty.

I think might do better than Ledezma with a pure RP. Don't need him as a SP.

Can't access the wire so I can't look around.


Not trying to take sides on the Morneau debate, but couldn't help looking for myself. Here is what I found, condensed:

Morneau in 16 2007 leagues I've been in that are complete:

Underperformed his card only twice, and in those cases he was in Comerica and AT&T. When ranked with the other league 1B in the stats area, almost always ranked below those with higher salaries and above those with lower salaries, except as said below.

In neutral and hitters parks, he was only outperformed by those 1B with lower salaries (than his) 5 times; twice by Swisher, twice by Giambi and once by Konerko. His OPS was on average .920-.960. He almost always outperformed Johnson and regularly outperformed (OPS) Berkman.

My two pennies worth.

[teamnasty]

Dal: This team is much much better after your tinkering. Clemens and Street were excellent values, and Dunn is a tremendous cheap DH in Cell. I agree about Ledezma, he's overrated and overrpriced, one more righty rel would do. Giles is similar to Gross so I think you're ok platooning him. The only remaining suggestion is dont leadoff Carroll vs. righties, especially in the Cell. Its preferable to put your 4 best hitters in the 4 top spots even if that gives you a leadoff guy with power. Want those extra at bats going to McCann and the like. Nice tinkering overall though, Street is excellent at that price in this park. Good luck.

[Palmtana]

[quote:58ba612748]Dunn is a tremendous cheap DH in Cell[/quote:58ba612748]

I can't say since I haven't used him. But with this team:

If you're DH'ing Dunn with Ward then that leaves you with Giles/Kielty-Sheff in left and Sheff or Kielty in right all by their lonesome. That would be OK if Andy Pettitte and the Clones made up your division foes staffs, but as of now you are facing 10 righties and only 5 lefties.

I assume you are DH'ing Sheff/Ward, Giles/Kielty in RF and Dunn in LF. What happens when Sheff gets hurt, which he will. Someone like Monroe (he's a 1R with 7 natural and 8 BPHR vs. RHP) instead of Ward (who is kind of pricey to sit on the bench for 1/3 of your games) would give you a fighting chance against LHP when Sheff is on the IR.

Monroe is "w" powered against LHP though so you could let Frank Thomas DH all by himself. He is also available and would get rid of one of your platoons which you said you would like to do.

Either of these moves would give you enough to afford the already mentioned Thames, who is a preeminent Cell player, from Dunn (who is really, really bad vs. RHP), for LF.

As far as leafoff, Carroll (obvious leadoff vs. LHP) also has 42 OB vs. RHP so he would do well against his "bad" side also. Giles has 44 vs. RHP but he doesn't have the *.

[michael_kofsky]

I have only two issues with all of the suggestions made. First, they would leave me with only 3 LH bats in my lineup, which in my experience, is at least 2 too few. Second, two of the teams in my division would MUCH rather see RH starters, so having Ledezma as an extra LH starter/mop-up is why I took him. Feel free to suggest someone better if you like but there really wasn't any other LH starter who also relieved available.

Please comment on the above. Thanks.

[michael_kofsky]

Bump for answers to my queries please. Thanks.

[Rant]

Not sure I have any great wisdom, but having only 3 lefthanded bats leaves you open to an extreme right. It's a risk, certainly. You can look for a bench lefty with bp power.

I don't like carrying spot starters that aren't close to .50. Hard to guarantee that Ledezma won't be used as a reliever [i:e830c4a156]just [/i:e830c4a156]when you don't want him to be if he's not in the rotation.