by egvrich » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:05 am
Phoebus, Niehaus, Pleis, Candini, Martinez should all go. Maybe Riddle too.
There's not much difference between them and guys like Vance, Speer, Frock, Morehead, Yerkes, Reuther, Hallahan, Phillips, Cvengros or Drucke except that these guys cost alot less.
Used the money saved to rustle up one more quality $3.00+ mill reliever.
Who's playing 2B for you? Gantner?
Who's DH'ing for you? Cobb?
I'd drop Yaz and Gantner, play Cobb in RF, Simmons in LF, keep Speaker in CF and use the money saved to pick up a real 2B who can get on base and hit some HR's (Morgan, Hornsby, Gordon, Avila, even Money) and a value DH or DH platoon (Deron Johnson, Gary Roenicke, Mark Brouhard type vs. LHP's and a Don Mincher, Willie McCovey type vs. RHP's)
Also would look for a better backup to May, someone with "N" rated power otherwise you're missing out on the BP HR's when May is out of the lineup (which he will be from time to time). Terry Kennedy, Steve Lake, Jim Hegan, John Roseboro, Bruce Bochy are all nice options.