Which 7 to keep

[silentjim]

Just looking for thoughts on who I should keep going into this season. It's a 13 team, 7 keeper, Roto league with the 5x5 cats. I have to pick from the players below:

Bobby Abreu (LAA - OF)
Jason Bartlett (TB - SS)
Jason Bay (NYM - OF)
Andre Ethier (LAD - OF)
Felipe López (Mil - 2B,3B,SS,OF)
A.J. Pierzynski (CWS - C)
Albert Pujols (StL - 1B)
Alexei Ramírez (CWS - 2B,SS,OF)
Aramis Ramírez (ChC - 3B)
Juan Rivera (LAA - OF)
Scott Rolen (Cin - 3B)
Grady Sizemore (Cle - OF)
Freddy Sánchez (SF - 2B)

Chad Billingsley (LAD - SP)
Aaron Cook (Col - SP)
Doug Davis (Mil - SP)
Kelvim Escobar (NYM - SP)
J.A. Happ (Phi - SP,RP)
Rich Harden (Tex - SP)
Ubaldo Jiménez (Col - SP)
Scott Kazmir (LAA - SP)
Matt Lindstrom (Hou - RP)
David Price (TB - SP)

[GreenMtn!]

Just looking for thoughts on who I should keep going into this season. It's a 13 team, 7 keeper, Roto league with the 5x5 cats. I have to pick from the players below:

Bobby Abreu (LAA - OF)
Jason Bartlett (TB - SS)
Jason Bay (NYM - OF)
Andre Ethier (LAD - OF)
Felipe López (Mil - 2B,3B,SS,OF)
A.J. Pierzynski (CWS - C)
Albert Pujols (StL - 1B)
Alexei Ramírez (CWS - 2B,SS,OF)
Aramis Ramírez (ChC - 3B)
Juan Rivera (LAA - OF)
Scott Rolen (Cin - 3B)
Grady Sizemore (Cle - OF)
Freddy Sánchez (SF - 2B)

Chad Billingsley (LAD - SP)
Aaron Cook (Col - SP)
Doug Davis (Mil - SP)
Kelvim Escobar (NYM - SP)
J.A. Happ (Phi - SP,RP)
Rich Harden (Tex - SP)
Ubaldo Jiménez (Col - SP)
Scott Kazmir (LAA - SP)
Matt Lindstrom (Hou - RP)
David Price (TB - SP)

[HOOTIE]

Just looking for thoughts on who I should keep going into this season. It's a 13 team, 7 keeper, Roto league with the 5x5 cats. I have to pick from the players below:

Bobby Abreu (LAA - OF)
Jason Bartlett (TB - SS)
Jason Bay (NYM - OF)
Andre Ethier (LAD - OF)
Felipe López (Mil - 2B,3B,SS,OF)
A.J. Pierzynski (CWS - C)
Albert Pujols (StL - 1B)
Alexei Ramírez (CWS - 2B,SS,OF)
Aramis Ramírez (ChC - 3B)
Juan Rivera (LAA - OF)
Scott Rolen (Cin - 3B)
Grady Sizemore (Cle - OF)
Freddy Sánchez (SF - 2B)

Chad Billingsley (LAD - SP)
Aaron Cook (Col - SP)
Doug Davis (Mil - SP)
Kelvim Escobar (NYM - SP)
J.A. Happ (Phi - SP,RP)
Rich Harden (Tex - SP)
Ubaldo Jiménez (Col - SP)
Scott Kazmir (LAA - SP)
Matt Lindstrom (Hou - RP)
David Price (TB - SP)

[dave knight]

Just looking for thoughts on who I should keep going into this season. It's a 13 team, 7 keeper, Roto league with the 5x5 cats. I have to pick from the players below:

Bobby Abreu (LAA - OF)
Jason Bartlett (TB - SS)
Jason Bay (NYM - OF)
Andre Ethier (LAD - OF)
Felipe López (Mil - 2B,3B,SS,OF)
A.J. Pierzynski (CWS - C)
Albert Pujols (StL - 1B)
Alexei Ramírez (CWS - 2B,SS,OF)
Aramis Ramírez (ChC - 3B)
Juan Rivera (LAA - OF)
Scott Rolen (Cin - 3B)
Grady Sizemore (Cle - OF)
Freddy Sánchez (SF - 2B)

Chad Billingsley (LAD - SP)
Aaron Cook (Col - SP)
Doug Davis (Mil - SP)
Kelvim Escobar (NYM - SP)
J.A. Happ (Phi - SP,RP)
Rich Harden (Tex - SP)
Ubaldo Jiménez (Col - SP)
Scott Kazmir (LAA - SP)
Matt Lindstrom (Hou - RP)
David Price (TB - SP)

[silentjim]

I feel pretty good about keeping Pujols, Sizemore, Bay, Aramis Ramirez, and Jimenez. The last two seem to seem to be between Alexi, Bartlett, Ethier, and Billingsley.

Any additional thoughts on those 4? Is keeping 3 outfielders a bad idea? I feel it pigeon holed me a bit in the draft last season. Billingsley is a big question mark for me based on his last half season.

[silentjim]

Any other additional thoughts on Billingsley?

[HOOTIE]

I feel pretty good about keeping Pujols, Sizemore, Bay, Aramis Ramirez, and Jimenez. The last two seem to seem to be between Alexi, Bartlett, Ethier, and Billingsley.

Any additional thoughts on those 4? Is keeping 3 outfielders a bad idea? I feel it pigeon holed me a bit in the draft last season. Billingsley is a big question mark for me based on his last half season.

I don't know why everybody is scared of Billingsley? He was only 24 last year. He still has a 8.2 K/9. His 2nd half was unlucky, making his season look average. A 13% hr/fb ratio, a 64% strand rate.

Ethier has 35 hr power.

Bartlett had a career year.

[Tenacious D-Store]

Not too big on Bay this season, but I'd go with this. People can say what ever they want about Bartlett, they said the same crap about Aaron Hill and were proved wrong. Bartlett has improved with every season, now he's in his prime and getting everyday at bats. He's a great source of speed and a moderate source of power at a thin position.

Bobby Abreu (LAA - OF)
Jason Bartlett (TB - SS)
Jason Bay (NYM - OF)
Andre Ethier (LAD - OF)
Felipe López (Mil - 2B,3B,SS,OF)
A.J. Pierzynski (CWS - C)
Albert Pujols (StL - 1B)
Alexei Ramírez (CWS - 2B,SS,OF)
Aramis Ramírez (ChC - 3B)
Juan Rivera (LAA - OF)
Scott Rolen (Cin - 3B)
Grady Sizemore (Cle - OF)
Freddy Sánchez (SF - 2B)

Chad Billingsley (LAD - SP)
Aaron Cook (Col - SP)
Doug Davis (Mil - SP)
Kelvim Escobar (NYM - SP)
J.A. Happ (Phi - SP,RP)
Rich Harden (Tex - SP)
Ubaldo Jiménez (Col - SP)
Scott Kazmir (LAA - SP)
Matt Lindstrom (Hou - RP)
David Price (TB - SP)

[higgsboson]

I agree with dave Knight, aramis ramirez over bartlett. Billingsley is a keeper.

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[Grounded Polo]

I feel pretty good about keeping Pujols, Sizemore, Bay, Aramis Ramirez, and Jimenez. The last two seem to seem to be between Alexi, Bartlett, Ethier, and Billingsley.

Any additional thoughts on those 4? Is keeping 3 outfielders a bad idea? I feel it pigeon holed me a bit in the draft last season. Billingsley is a big question mark for me based on his last half season.

I really wouldn't worry about having too much talent at one position. I've made mistakes following that logic. I had Tex, Berkman, and AGon on one team 2 years ago and since I could only keep 6 and only had 1B/UTIL to use, I threw AGon back.

Ethier is a must to me. I don't know about 35 hr power but I think he's a good bet to push 30. He's terrible against lefties but he was pathetically bad last year, he'll do better than .270 in 2010.

Billingsley is a risk and could be tossed back if you had a guy worth it but Bartlett and Alexei are not those guys to me. Both get drafted in around the same place and are not sure things.