Well this week kicks off baseball season, this year I’m participating in two leagues- a more manageable plate than the three I did last year.
Yahoo! Keeper League – A-Roid’s Cousin
This is the regular league I drafted earlier last month with a bunch of people over at Am I Dreaming. It looks like a good group has been assembled but I don’t know what to say about the team I drafted. It looks ok in terms of power and batter average, but my pitching is an absolute mess:
- Chris Iannetta – C: He’s entering his prime and appear to be picking up some pop with his bat, I see him with double digit homers and an average that won’t hurt ya. For the price of a 12th round pick I love his potential upside- this is the pick I loved most in that draft.
- Albert Pujols – 1B: What can I not like about him? He’s the man. He’s going to hit around 40 homers, drive in 120+ RBIs, and hit for way over .300. Somebody just hand him the triple crown right now.
- Alexei Ramirez – 2B: He’s a little bit of an unknown given that this will only be his second year in the majors after defecting from Cuba but he shows some glimpses of contributing in contact, power, and speed. For a position as thin as second base, the added shortstop eligibility makes me feel good about this potential breakout.
- Mike Aviles – SS: It looks like I went with the young, untested talent for my middle infield. Like Ramirez, Aviles is also coming into his second season after doing great in his first season in KC. Who knows what I can get expect for him-he could easily take a step back from last year, however his hot spring is telling me he may work out.
- Chipper Jones – 3B: Sure he’s 37 and a guarantee for spending some days on the DL, but I couldn’t pass him up in the 7th round. When he’s healthy he’s going to get lots of hits and if I handcuff him with a power hitter I’m going to get some production at the position.
- Carlos Lee, Manny Ramirez, Jason Werth – OF: Lee & Ramirez will both give me 30 HRs and .300 BA, Werth will do a little less than that but will contribute in steals. A solid outfield in my mind.
- Torii Hunter, Joey Votto, Adrian Beltre, Fred Lewis, Juan Pierre – Util/BN: Votto and Beltre are great bench corners to have and will provide some pop. Pierre, Lewis, and Hunter are my speed guys.
- Cole Hamels, John Lackey, Gil Meche, Wandy Rodriguez, Hiroki Kuroda, Brad Penny – SP: What bothers me about this group is the lack of power pitching. Besides Meche and WayRod (power pitchers that will also give my WHIP a hit), I have a collection of contact hitters that should do well in the ratios but we’ll see how I do in Ks. I’m not happy about Lackey’s injury status as well as Hamel’s elbow woes. Penny is a gamble- his skills are on the decline so he may be on his way off my team if I can find a solid arm.
- Matt Capps, Brian Wilson, Fernado Rodney, Takashi Saito – RP: I’m excited to have Capps, a closer I wanted to target late because I think he’s going to have another excellent year. Wilson is shaky but he’ll close games. Rodney and Saito were waiver wire pickups after Chris Perez and Joey Devine fell out of the saves picture. An ok group but it looks like holds are in the scoring system so I want to make sure I have someone that’ll keep me competitive in that category.
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