Martin or Bengie Molina?

[TomBrooklyn]

I have Russell Martin but just picked up Bengie Molina on the Wire. (His All-Star brother was there also) I don't think I ought to displace Marco Scaturo out of the Util spot to accomodate him.

Who looks better to start at Catcher, B Molina or R Martin? I lose some SBs with Martin but I'm last in the league in SBs anyway and only have some chance of moving up one spot if anything.

ESPN 10 Tm Std Roto 5x5
C Russell Martin, LAD
1B Youkilis, Bos 1B, 3B
2B Pedroia, Bos, 2B
3B Aramis Ramirez Fla SS
SS H. Ramirez, Fla, SS
2B/SS D Uggla, Fla, 2B
1B/3B Chipper Jones, Atl, 3B
OF Alfonso Soriano, ChC, OF
OF Adam Dunn, Was, OF
OF J Dye, CWS, OF
OF Torii Hunter, LAA, OF DL, Juan Pierre
OF Jay Bruce, Cin, OF
UTIL Marco Scataro, Tor, 2B, 3B, SS

B DL Mark DeRosa

P Cliff Lee, Cle
P Edison Volquez DL15 May21
P Ervin Santana, LAA
P Max Scherzer, Ari
P Spot Starter

RP B. Wilson
RP Brad Lidge
RP George Sherrill
RP Fern. Rodney
RP Carlos Marmol
RP Kevin Gregg
RP Rapheal Soriano

League Points
R 9, HR 9, RBI 8, SB 1, AVE 6-- K4, W1, SV 10, ERA 3, WHIP 1

[NZ Eff]

I have Russell Martin but just picked up Bengie Molina on the Wire. (His All-Star brother was there also) I don't think I ought to displace Marco Scaturo out of the Util spot to accomodate him.

Who looks better to start at Catcher, B Molina or R Martin? I lose some SBs with Martin but I'm last in the league in SBs anyway and only have some chance of moving up one spot if anything.

ESPN 10 Tm Std Roto 5x5
C Russell Martin, LAD
1B Youkilis, Bos 1B, 3B
2B Pedroia, Bos, 2B
3B Aramis Ramirez Fla SS
SS H. Ramirez, Fla, SS
2B/SS D Uggla, Fla, 2B
1B/3B Chipper Jones, Atl, 3B
OF Alfonso Soriano, ChC, OF
OF Adam Dunn, Was, OF
OF J Dye, CWS, OF
OF Torii Hunter, LAA, OF DL, Juan Pierre
OF Jay Bruce, Cin, OF
UTIL Marco Scataro, Tor, 2B, 3B, SS

B DL Mark DeRosa

P Cliff Lee, Cle
P Edison Volquez DL15 May21
P Ervin Santana, LAA
P Max Scherzer, Ari
P Spot Starter

RP B. Wilson
RP Brad Lidge
RP George Sherrill
RP Fern. Rodney
RP Carlos Marmol
RP Kevin Gregg
RP Rapheal Soriano

League Points
R 9, HR 9, RBI 8, SB 1, AVE 6-- K4, W1, SV 10, ERA 3, WHIP 1

Use Martin in your catcher spot and replace Scutaro for Molina in your Util spot. Scutaro has some tough match ups over the next few days. Martin is the best bet for you at catcher going forward.

Tom, you have to make several trades urgently. Having 7 RP is ridiculous. Marmol has minimal value for you and if you can't package him in a deal then drop him. Try making a trade using Molina and your best closer (Lidge or Soriano) for a decent SP. I would also dump Pierre and pick up a SP a.s.a.p. You must have some decent options in FA in a 10 teamer.

[TomBrooklyn]

I've had terrible luck with SPs. I drafted DiceK and E Santana. I dropped Santana to the wire but I was able to get Lidge for DiceK at least.

I just dropped Marmol and traded Lidge for Matt Garza straight up. That should help considerably.

[NZ Eff]

What other SP'S are in FA.

[TomBrooklyn]

Hi NZ,

I don't think their are any SPs in FA that are worth dropping an active closer for. But I listed whoevers on the first page below. I have one slot for spot starters now.

However, I just made another trade. I gave Hanley for Derek Jeter and Johan Santana. I figure this is going to cost me about one point each in average, HR, and RBI but should give me more than that in Ws (which I was going to punt before, but now there's hope), Ks, ERA and WHIP. SBs I'm so far behind I will never leave the basement.

ESPN 10 Tm Std Roto 5x5
C Russell Martin, LAD
1B Youkilis, Bos 1B, 3B
2B Pedroia, Bos, 2B
3B Aramis Ramirez, Chc, 3B
SS Derek Jeter, NYY SS
2B/SS D Uggla, Fla, 2B
1B/3B Chipper Jones, Atl, 3B
OF Alfonso Soriano, ChC, OF
OF Adam Dunn, Was, OF
OF J Dye, CWS, OF
OF Torii Hunter, LAA, OF DL, Denard Span
OF Josh Willington
UTIL Marco Scataro, Tor, 2B, 3B, SS

B Mark DeRosa
DL Torri

P Johan Santana, NYM
P Cliff Lee, Cle
P Max Scherzer, Ari
P Matt Garza
P David Wells
P Spot Starter

RP B. Wilson
RP Kevin Gregg
RP George Sherrill
RP Fern. Rodney
RP Rapheal Soriano

League Points
R9, HR9, RBI 8, SB 1, AVE 7-- K4, W1, SV 10, ERA 3, WHIP 1

With only 97 starts, way behind everyone else, I am on track to get 7-8 and maybe even 9 points in Ks. I was hoping to pick up a couple of points in ERA and WHIP before but with these two new pitchers maybe I can pick up even more points in ERA and WHIP. I may even be able to pick up a couple of points in Ws now, which I had thought earlier was going to be a punt.

I lost my internet connection for 17 days in late June/early July with David Wells on the bench exactly when he went on a 4 start Win streak. I failed to plug in a starter for whatever oversight twice this season and both those starts went for Wins. Just more bad luck on top of my two bad draft picks (Santana and Dice K) and my first SP draftee Lee who has had good periferals but few Ws, which has combined to create a disaster in my SP stats except for Ks.

Aaron Harang
Scott Kazmir
Ryan Dempster
Brandon Webb
Ohlendorf
Edinson Volquez
Ervin Santana
Chris Volstad
Hiroki Kuroda
Brett Myers
Andy Sonnanstine
Joel Hanrahan
Chris Young
Jarrod Washburn
Jason Marquis
Justin Duchscherer
Brandon Morrow
Armando Galarraga
Chien-Ming Wang
Jeremy Guthrie
Randy Wolf
Gavin Floyd
Kyle Lohse
John Maine
Rick Porcello
Nick Blackburn
Paul Maholm
Bronson Arroyo
Joel Pineiro
Brad Penny
Scott Richmond
Kenshin Kawakami
Joe Blanton
Miguel Batista
Jordan Zimmermann
Dallas Braden
Doug Davis
Kyle Davies
Barry Zito
Jose Contreras
Jamie Moyer
Jesse Litsch
Jonathan Sanchez
Mike Pelfrey
Carl Pavano
Jorge De La Rosa
Jeff Niemann
Brett Anderson
Justin Masterson
Brian Bannister
Scott Feldman

[NZ Eff]

David Wells

Gavin Floyd is the only pitcher on that list that should be owned in a 10 teamer.