You have several risky pitchers, and Lugo and Damon are both a bit overrated. You will have to carefully juggle your bench players and Blalock to avoid seeing the BA dip. Holliday and Hafner are good guys to have.
This team scares me. You've got a lot of speed, which is great; unfortunately, you've got too many guys who either don't produce well (Molina), are injured (Drew), haven't proven anything yet (Holliday), or are simply overrated (Damon). Texiera and Hafner can't carry the power for your entire team.
The pitching would be OK if it were a keeper league, but Duke and Cain are going to go through a bunch of rough spots, Schmidt's no longer an ace pitcher, and F. Hernandez is going to be babied by the M's.
I'd try to deal Duke or Cain with one of your current OFs for a more consistent OF. This would be an interesting keeper team, but I think it needs a lot of work as a one-year team.
If Drew (BIG IF) stays healthy he shoud put up some very nice numbers! You will need someone to fall back on when he gets hurt.
Team is fairly solid. I do agree with last post about cain,duke situations. good luck !
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If Drew (BIG IF) stays healthy he shoud put up some very nice numbers! You will need someone to fall back on when he gets hurt.
Team is fairly solid. I do agree with last post about cain,duke situations. good luck !
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I'd drop some bench players for underrated young SPs on the WW. You'll also be middle of the pack with power, as suggested previously. With only 6 SPs, you'd have to start them all 90% of the time (literally, do the math on how you're gonna get to 1250 innings with these guys). And that'd be fine, except you have SPs from Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh, Seattle...
Also, JD Drew should be in nobody's lineup this season. He's on my official 'No 8th Chances List,' with Mark Prior.