Rookie Owner: Any help/suggestions appreciated

[bhultz]

OK...I feel I might have overdone the pitching/defense gambit in the draft, but this is the hand I've dealt myself. First off, I would like some imput on my batting order vs. rhp.

1. Randolph 2b
2. W. Clark DH (maybe odd, but at least he's not a GDP machine)
3. Bradley CF
4. Parker RF
5. O'Brien 1b
6. Pena C
7. Maldanado LF
8. Griffin SS
9. Oberkfell 3B

Bench is: Mookie, T Phillips, T Kennedy, Garvey, Flannerry, Presley, B Butler, and Brunansky.

I'm plannning on riding my rotation of Scott, Welch, Knepper and Morris as far as I can, with the exception of maybe plugging Guidry in for Morris in homer friendly parks and lh hitting lineups.

Bullpen is Olwine (closer), Dayley (lh setup), Clear (rh setup) plus Dipino, Snell and Havens for mop-up.

Also thinking that I really don't need Havens and could drop him for a lh hitter off the bench....Chambliss, D Clark etc, types.

Also have some interesting questions on vs lhp, but I'll save most of those for when I get closer to facing one. The #1 thing I wonder is it worth to sit Griffin (.282 obp vs lhp) in favor of Phillips (.443 obp vs lhp) and bite the bullet defensively at SS?

Edit: Leaning towards Astrodome or Expo Park. Comments?

[DONALDFOSCOE]

Posting a link will help you get more of a response, but a start is that you have too much into your bench. As a general rule of thumb you want to put as much money into the guys playing everyday as possible, and have as few backups as possible. I'd try to lose some of those bench players and put the money into your starters.

Just for the record I've not seen bradley perform up to his 8 mil tag yet. Keep Butler for CF and use the 8 mil elsewhere. If you post a link I'll bet you get more help though. Good luck.

[bhultz]

Thanks DZ...I'll try this again. It's a non-salaried league.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=86141

Questions are:

A. vs. RHP batting order of,

1. Randolph 2b
2. W. Clark DH (maybe odd, but at least he's not a GDP machine)
3. Bradley CF
4. Parker RF
5. O'Brien 1b
6. Pena C
7. Maldanado LF
8. Griffin SS
9. Oberkfell 3B

B. Also thinking that I really don't need Havens and could drop him for a lh hitter off the bench....Chambliss, D Clark etc, types. Correct??

C. Also have some interesting questions on vs lhp, but I'll save most of those for when I get closer to facing one. The #1 thing I wonder is it worth to sit Griffin (.282 obp vs lhp) in favor of Phillips (.443 obp vs lhp) and bite the bullet defensively at SS?

D. Astrodome, Expo Park, Royals Stadium viable choices?

[chasenally]

I love them. Have them in some of my leagues and they have been great. Scott is a rock. Good Luck.

[216 Stitches]

I am using Guidry as a spot starter against lefty line-ups in one league.

He has held serve (4-4) and allowed me to move around the rest of my rotation, so I'm happy with that.

(A) Observation on your lineup:
you are alternating between faster and slower runners.
Bradley has very few DP on his card vrs RHP and only at low probability rolls (2 and 3). Why don't you swap Clark and Bradley?