Nationals Park success?

[AeroDave10]

Yeah, maybe holding on to Pujols isn't so bad with all of those pitcher parks. However, I would go for a much cheaper and effective platoon than Milton Bradley. He basically costs you almost $6M (his 5.21M plus a bench guy who's at least $.5M), when you can get a great platoon for $4M-$5M. Anderson / Christian can actually be that platoon, and then you can find a better guy in LF (assuming you keep Morgan to play CF).

Remember to save every penny, as they will add up. If you keep Reyes (you might want to downgrade to save $$), then you have to realize that any guy with 680+ PAs will never miss more than the rest of the game, so you don't have to have a backup for him (like Erick Aybar).

[AeroDave10]

[quote:9bebfd62bc="old__toriihunter"]Wow, I couldn't have said it any better myself. AeroDave's advice has been 100% on the mark...I just caught up on this thread and I have nothing new to add.[/quote:9bebfd62bc]

OTH, please remove your nose before I develop a severe case of hemorrhoids :lol:

[Rant]

I like Chipper anywhere.

Agree with Dave on Uncle Milty. I've seen very mixed results for him and his high injury risk makes him expendable.

My initial concern is that you have a park advantage for righthand batters (for hrs), and you have only one righthand batter versus righthand pitchers. A couple of RH DH options would be Vlad and Carlos Lee. I might opt for Lee, assume Amezaga (or a replacement like Snider) will get a decent number of ABs, and use the leftover cash to upgrade RF (you have good OB guys, I'd risk some more TBs in RF). That's a really nice top of the order something (vs. R) like Reyes, Anderson, Pujols, Chipper, Lee, RF, Baker, Burriss, Morgan.

Good luck.

[AeroDave10]

A few suggestions for right-handed hitting RF or LF

Craig Monroe
Joe Mather
Marlon Byrd