Opinions on my first strat o team please?

[cummings2]

Kings, In My Opinion you have a wee bit much slotted to your pitching. You are close to the 40 Mil, I usually gravitate closer to 30 (28-29).

Have you checked out the "newbie advise thread" over at in the Strategy Forum? Lots of good stuff there that helped me tons getting started.

I think the way you are going about it is the best way, if you have any questions ask away, sure a good ol' fashioned vet will drop by with good input. 8)

All best of luck

[kingsx2003]

Thanks for all the help. Unfortunately I don't see much hitting on the waiver wire at this point that impresses me. Looks like I'll take my chances on pitching and hope my offense can put up a few runs. Thanks again.

[cummings2]

Cool, all best of luck Kings, drop us a note or a PM if you ever have a Q.

8)

[geekor]

no hitting left?

[quote:f5e3e2705f]Helton, Todd COL L 1B 1e6 509 45 20 79 106 3 .320 .445 .534 1 6R 9.37M
Hafner, Travis CLE L 1B 5e20 486 42 33 108 79 0 .305 .408 .595 2 3R 8.54M
Ellis, Mark OAK R 2B 2e8 434 21 13 52 44 1 .316 .384 .477 1 1L 7.92M
Delgado, Carlos FLA L 1B 5e17 521 41 33 115 72 0 .301 .399 .582 1 4R 6.70M
Castillo, Luis FLA S 2B 1e10 439 12 4 30 65 10 .301 .391 .374 2 6L 6.69M
Sizemore, Grady CLE L CF 2(0)e3 640 37 22 81 52 22 .289 .348 .484 1 4R 6.24M
Dunn, Adam CIN L LF 4(0)e7 543 35 40 101 114 4 .247 .387 .540 1 3R 6.16M
Martinez, Victor CLE S C 3(+1)e1 547 33 20 80 63 0 .305 .378 .475 1 3R 6.15M
Jones, Chipper ATL S 3B 4e8 358 30 21 72 72 5 .296 .412 .556 3 3R 6.07M
Shelton, Chris DET R 1B 4e12 388 22 18 59 34 0 .299 .360 .510 1 3R 5.52M
Sweeney, Mike KC R 1B 5e3 470 39 21 83 33 3 .300 .347 .517 2 1R 5.44M
Drew, J.D. LAD L RF 2(-1)e5 252 12 15 36 51 1 .286 .412 .520 5 5R 5.29M
Chavez, Eric OAK L 3B 1e16 625 40 27 101 58 6 .269 .329 .466 1 1R 5.24M
Valentin, Javier CIN S C 3(0)e3 221 11 14 50 30 0 .281 .362 .520 2 5R 5.17M
Alou, Moises SF R RF 4(+1)e12 427 21 19 63 56 5 .321 .400 .518 3 5L 4.91M
Walker, Larry STL L RF 3(-3)e4 315 20 15 52 41 2 .289 .384 .502 3 3R 4.78M
Kotchman, Casey LAA L 1B 2e13 126 5 7 22 15 1 .278 .352 .484 2 4R 4.69M
Crisp, Coco CLE S LF 2(+2)e6 594 42 16 69 44 15 .300 .345 .465 1 3R 4.68M
Guillen, Jose WAS R RF 3(-4)e8 551 32 24 76 31 1 .283 .338 .479 1 4R 4.65M
DeJesus, David KC L CF 2(+1)e6 461 31 9 56 42 5 .293 .359 .445 1 1R 4.58M
Johnson, Dan OAK L 1B 3e10 375 21 15 58 50 0 .275 .355 .451 1 E 4.49M
Crosby, Bobby OAK R SS 2e14 333 25 9 38 35 0 .276 .346 .456 4 3L 4.46M
Sweeney, Mark SD L 1B 4e17 221 12 8 40 40 4 .294 .395 .466 1 5R 4.38M
Hall, Bill MIL R SS 4e17 501 39 17 62 39 18 .291 .342 .495 1 1L 4.36M
Hunter, Torii MIN R CF 1(-3)e5 372 24 14 56 34 23 .269 .337 .452 4 3L 4.34M[/quote:f5e3e2705f]

I'm damn sure there is some hitting left. Really don't waste that money on Harden, get some bigger bats in there!!!

[geekor]

Drop Harden, upgrade Aurilia to L Castillo, and maybe upgrade on of you LF, RF or 1b to someone better (Crisp?).

[rgimbel]

another option is to drop harden and pu mark ellis either way drop harden you have a 4 man staff you are just wasting your money and right now you dont have a 2nd baseman on the team

[rgimbel]

after you drop harden for a 2nd baseman I would also think about dropping some of your starters for cheaper guys and upgrading your of. outside of ortiz you really dont have a lot of pop

[1crazycanuk]

I like Mike Sweeney.

[cummings2]

I agree, I checked the FAs last night in berce after reading your post kings (re:no hitting available). Also thought of Ellis ungrading defense and getting some offense. But Aurilia is your choice, who knows maybe you want him for his clutch, but my point was this: here in the boards you get some really good advise, but ultimately it's your choice and your team, if you really feel like you don't have any offensive choices that really jump at you (I really like Haffner's card BTW, Castillo, Ellis, Mike Sweeney -if you want the +clutch) and you want to shut down the other teams with pitching try getting some really good defense along with it, Castillo would be tons of help there.

But, obviously, you have a pretty good idea of what you are doing, you are doing much better than me with my first team.

Other than the roster, how are you doing with any of the other stuff, are you cool with defense ratings, catcher's arm and pitcher's HLD and all of that? Are you cool with the settings in the player's cards and the manager settings?

Any Qs you have just drop 'em around here.

All best of luck, and welcome to SOM-OL

[cummings2]

Wait a tic, you mentioned waiver wire, was that a figure of speech or are you in pre-waivers? (which would explain why so many good otions there)

If you are in pre-waivers, set 'em good kings because if you think there's nothing out there NOW, wait until about 4-5 hours after waivers run, then you'll really find nothing there.