10 team H2H league. We keep 6, no penalty. I have the 5th pick in a snake draft this year.
Without boring you with the details,
My 100% keepers: A-Rod Fielder Rollins Crawford
Now, I need 2 more keepers. There are 4 options: Brandon Phillips Hamilton Lind Quentin
I think the smart thing to do is keep Lind and Phillips.
Phillips has position scarcity, spot in the order and years of 20/20 consistency going for him.
Lind looked like a professional hitter last year, consistent power hitter with many years of being a top 10 OF ahead of him, imo.
Now all I need to do is draft a C, OF, DH and pitching. In a 10 team league, I expect there to be more than enough pitching to go around.
Quentin finished the year strong, but I thin he does not factor into this. That leaves Hamilton. Is the potential enough to take the risk of keeping him over Phillips or Lind?
Keepers are due this evening. Please leave me a linkl and I will try and help out on your decisions the best I can.
I would definitely keep Phillips for exactly the same reasons you listed. You know other managers are keeping pedroia, roberts, kinsler, etc. so he is extremely valuable. As for your 6th, I don't really think you would be in terrible shape with any of the three choices and you already have a great stable of power with A-rod and fielder.
If it were me, I would probably be happy with any of those three for my final keeper but I would want to focus on consistency (AVG and OPS). While Lind had a fabulous year, I just love the upside of Carlos. He has proven that (if healthy) he is a great player but he is probably not a 6th round pick. Same goes for Hamilton.
outgolfing26 wrote:KEEP LIND AND PHILLIPS....FOR SURE...
YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOARD.....PHILLIPS AND LIND!!!
Thought I was going to say Carlos Quentin lol....just having some fun. Adam and Brandon are the way to go for sure....with Hamilton 3rd and CQ 4th
+1
Wanted to say Quentin tho honestly. But on further evaluation and thought Lind is the lock, now do I see a repeat for Lind? No. I know there is a learning curve, but before Lind's break out year last year batting on the plus side of .300 he had previously batted .270 in his previous 676 plate appearences. Also the fact that his RBI production jumped from one RBI in ever 7.2 ABs his first 676 plate appearences to 1 in ever 5.2 ABs last year. This kid is a super talent, but I think he will be lucky to bat .295 with 100 RBI this year, I'm prediction more along the lines of .287 with 92 RBI. But with that said it still trounces Quentin because of CQ's injury concerns. Plantar injuries usually don't just curl up and go away, they usually linger and pop up at the first sign of stress even with continued treatment, added to the fact that he also just had surgery not too long ago to remove a pin from his wrist surgery in 2008. The pin surgery may not be big, but its still a surgery.
Sorry through the bable there I say Lind and Phillips are the way to go! Too many injury possibilities with the other 2 OFers.
bazzy_51 wrote:Wanted to say Quentin tho honestly. But on further evaluation and thought Lind is the lock, now do I see a repeat for Lind? No. I know there is a learning curve, but before Lind's break out year last year batting on the plus side of .300 he had previously batted .270 in his previous 676 plate appearences. Also the fact that his RBI production jumped from one RBI in ever 7.2 ABs his first 676 plate appearences to 1 in ever 5.2 ABs last year. This kid is a super talent, but I think he will be lucky to bat .295 with 100 RBI this year
Well, the difference between Lind before 2009 and the Lind that had the big breakout campaign is really better plate discipline. He cut down his outside swing percentage considerably by 10 points. Another related reason is because Lind was a bit clueless at the plate, he was generating really lousy contact. His groundball rate reduced from '08 to '09 by about seven points and he really made good use of his solid power to all fields as well. It's also important to know that this was Lind's first full season on close to a full slate of games and at-bats. Lind is only 26 going on 27 and I can see him repeating last season.
That said, I'd go with Lind and Phillips quite easily.
bazzy_51 wrote:Wanted to say Quentin tho honestly. But on further evaluation and thought Lind is the lock, now do I see a repeat for Lind? No. I know there is a learning curve, but before Lind's break out year last year batting on the plus side of .300 he had previously batted .270 in his previous 676 plate appearences. Also the fact that his RBI production jumped from one RBI in ever 7.2 ABs his first 676 plate appearences to 1 in ever 5.2 ABs last year. This kid is a super talent, but I think he will be lucky to bat .295 with 100 RBI this year
Well, the difference between Lind before 2009 and the Lind that had the big breakout campaign is really better plate discipline. He cut down his outside swing percentage considerably by 10 points. Another related reason is because Lind was a bit clueless at the plate, he was generating really lousy contact. His groundball rate reduced from '08 to '09 by about seven points and he really made good use of his solid power to all fields as well. It's also important to know that this was Lind's first full season on close to a full slate of games and at-bats. Lind is only 26 going on 27 and I can see him repeating last season.
That said, I'd go with Lind and Phillips quite easily.
Another thing too is that Lind was finally shown some confidence in 2008 from Cito Gaston, being recalled after he was brought in to manage and was told "You're playing everyday, just go out and play".
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by Bonger » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:47 am 
You got it right
