by rosenthm » Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:55 pm
OK, Thurm. The waivers period has come and gone. What do you think about your team, and particularly our division?
I'm starting with high hopes. Should be very interesting with two hitter's parks and two pitcher's parks. I am playing for the first time with Ricky Henderson on my squad. He's one of five of my starters that is near or over 50 stolen bases. We're going to run, we're going to hit and run and I'm hoping for real small ball...we should hold our own in the hitter's parks, with a little help from hammerin Hank, Stan the Man and Ricky Henderson. Decent four man rotation....Hubbell and Johnson followed by Ames and a guy I picked up on waivers, Leilfield. Happy with my bullpen anchored by Nelson and Staley...Nelson will do well at home but I hold my breath in the hitter's parks. Third base a definite weakness, with Evers patrolling the hot corner, but in a position draft, almost everyone has one of those types of positions. I don't like having 3 position players besides the catcher that have possible 15 game injuries..but that's another thing that happens in position drafts, I believe. Ah, I'm happy with my D...except possibly playing Musial in LF, but Stan the Man will take over at first if by Chance, Frank gets the big 15 game injury. Picked by bench players for defense.
The big hitter's on the other teams in the division scare me, but I'm hoping to score a few more runs than we give up and be there scrambling for the division lead. I don't think anyone in our division will run away with a huge lead......but then I've been wrong before.
So Thurm, what do you think?