1ST US CELL TEAM

[DAVIDLEE 2]

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This is my first try with Us Cell. Have all week to tinker with. Any advice will be appreciated.
other stadiums in divivsion are; Rogers center,minute maid,yankee

[unesid]

If Soriano is available you might consider him as your DH, particularly vs. RHP. He's less of an injury risk than Ramirez, and you could platoon him with Mohr. Both have BPHR's that would come in handy at US Cellular and Minute Maid.

I have Soriano on a team at Minute Maid - 145 games in he is batting .305 with 30 HR's and 17 SB.

[DAVIDLEE 2]

thanks for the advice. I will try to trade Dunn for Carpenter. I'll look to see what other bats are out there

[NFLed1]

Dunn is perfect for US Cell, I wouldn't get rid of him at all. US Cell is about the #'s and any batter with a lot of both (such as Dunn) is gold. I don't care what sort of outs are on the card whether strikeout or popout or whatever, for US Cell I want #'s and on base and that's all I care about (I also don't care about speed because they score on a HR from 1st the same as they do from 2nd and I don't want to risk outs by trying stolen bases).

Valentin, Glaus, Dunn, and Edmonds are great for US Cell. Piedra/Mohr is a good combo. Abreu is a problem since he doesn't have much # so I would see if there's someone more appropriate available; he has very good on base so I wouldn't just dump him without having someone else good to pick up but he's not going to get the full value a big # hitter would. A.Ramirez is good for US Cell although his high injury chance is a negative so it depends upon what else is available.

Counsel and Reyes are poor for US Cell. However, there are very very few SS's good for US Cell so Reyes is probably fine. There are some 2B good for US Cell (but not that many) so for Counsel it depends upon who else is available. Both of them have good defense so you may just have to settle for them.

As for pitching I would just look at, again, the # and the on base. It looks good although Wang has a few too much # against lefties depending upon what else is available. It's just my own strategy but I don't like to spend nearly that much for relief as you won't get all 3 of those high priced relievers nearly as many innings as starters; but then again it all depends upon what else I could get with the money saved.

[DAVIDLEE 2]

WHAT ABOUT A DUNN FOR KONERKO TRADE?

[DAVIDLEE 2]

Made a few changes. What does it look look now?

[DAVIDLEE 2]

I got Perez for backup to castillo
I'M using reyes 2nd for his steals and low GBA's
I'll use Abreu vs RHP and Bay vs LHP as leadoff
The othe rmanager is still considering Dunn for KOnerko and I will dump Castillo and try to get someone else beside Mondesi

[thegrayman]

[quote:3ad65ae8c8]and strikeouts (I prefer my outs to move runners along)[/quote:3ad65ae8c8]

Yeah, but a K is so much better than a DP. In real life baseball heck yeah put the ball in play. But in Strat play Earl Weaver ball...The 3 run homer.